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Display this standing polar bear all winter to cheer up the dark nights.
The Konstsmide Acrylic LED Standing Polar Bear would be an adorable addition to any Christmas display; be it at home, in the office, a hotel reception or retail business. Complete with a 64 white LED lights, this standing polar bear would be the star of the show. Of exceptional quality, with no expense spared on attention to detail, with its cute black eyes and button nose, this figure is a shimmering eye catcher which will appeal to any age group and would catch everyones attention.
Standing at 30cm high, and measuring 41cm across, this mains operated polar bear is on a 500cm cable. A spectacular addition to any garden Christmas display, capturing the heart of the neighbourhood, you could even leave this polar bear out all winter to cheer up the dreary months.


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Public school teacher, education activist, PhD
David Coleman's College Board: Failing at "Problems Grounded in Real-world Contexts"
The College Board under David Coleman seems to be an increasingly bumbling operation.
The October 2015 PSAT was a major frustration for many who trusted the College Board to deliver scores in a timely manner. (I have written two posts on this botch job, one on January 08, 2016, and another, on January 13, 2016. The College Board first said that scores would be available online in December 2015. Then, it delayed that date to January 08, 2016, and then, it still had not delivered as delayed-promised in many states.)
That same month, January 2016, the College Board canceled testing in China and Macau due to rampant yet sophisticated cheating.
In short, the College Board is working overtime to establish its reputation as unable to manage its own operation.
And now, there's more.
Since March 05, 2014, the College Board has been promoting its redesigned SAT. And since September 2015, it has featured details about the redesigned SAT on its website.
This smatch caught my attention:
Problems Grounded in Real-World Contexts
Throughout the SAT, you'll be asked questions grounded in the real world, directly related to work performed in college and career.
'Real-world contexts." Hold that thought.
What had not changed according to the College Board is who would be allowed to register for the new SAT. And surely Coleman, Rhodes Scholar and Common Core lead architect, should have anticipated that the debut of the new SAT- the March 2016 administration- would have an unusually high number of test takers from the test prep industry.
Such anticipation would have been a "problem grounded in real-world context" (that ironic terminology used by the College Board to describe its new test). But it the real world, Coleman has indeed failed again; his College Board decided only a week before the March 05, 2016, debut of its redesigned SAT to deny test registrants over the age of 21 access to the test without being subject to a selective, eleventh-hour appeals process.
The College Board sent out this email, compliments of College Confidential:
Dear Test-Taker,
Due to a new test security measure, your registration for the March 5, 2016, administration of the SAT® has been transferred to the administration on May 7, 2016. This change was implemented to ensure that everyone taking the test is doing so for its intended purpose: to apply to and attend a college or university undergraduate program, or to apply for scholarships, financial aid, or other programs that require a college admission test.
If you are taking the SAT for any of the purposes above and you have a deadline that requires you to take the test in March, please call 866-704-0192 (toll free in the U.S.) or +1 703-297-3965 (international), or email satsupport@collegeboard.org by 5 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 2. Please be prepared to provide information about the program you are applying to along with the deadline. We will review your request and determine if your registration can be reinstated. If you choose not to take the test in May or are already registered for the May test, please call the number above and your March registration fee will be refunded.
The College Board is committed to providing a fair and secure testing environment for all students. We recognize and apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding in this matter.
The SAT Program
As College Confidential aptly notes, the College Board is failing at the real-world task of smooth operation:
Many of those affected are tutors and teachers, who have registered and paid for the new SAT for work purposes (test prep, college counseling, etc.) that support the College Board and its products. Some of these tutors/teachers are from outside the U.S. and now have non-refundable flight and hotel bookings to the U.S. West Coast. They made these bookings on the apparently erroneous assumption that College Board could supply consistent and reliable information about its own products (again, the organization states that adults can take the test) and honor its own agreements (i.e., paid and confirmed test registrations).
Others affected are non-traditional students. Discussions on Reddit and LinkedIn mention people in their twenties who are trying to return to school and military members who need SAT or ACT scores for advancement purposes. Even if these people are able to win the "appeal process" that College Board is offering, they will still have had their registrations cancelled with less than a week's notice and they will have spent their final week trying to get their registrations reinstated rather than studying effectively-what a needless waste of study time.
In sum, the SAT wing of the College Board has yet again show itself baffling unable to handle the basics of pretty much its only job-properly administering the SAT. Large numbers of people who registered and paid months ago based on College Board's own information (i.e., adults can take the test, and the March test date is open for registration) and then received confirmations and admission tickets have had their lives disrupted (study time misused, travel expenses lost, application deadlines missed) because of an unexplained decision to cancel these paid and confirmed registrations with only about five days' notice.
Both students and teachers are likely to leave this experience with a diminished opinion of College Board and its products at precisely the time the organization is trying to promote its new test format and recapture market share.
The College Board is in the high-stakes testing game. Part of that game is the creation of an ever-growing test prep industry as well as an increasingly sophisticated SAT black market.
As the College Board CEO, Coleman's principal task is to anticipate problems and confront them before they happen.
And oh, how he is failing at that task.
Will the College Board honor its decision to reschedule those March 2016 over-21 test takers for the May 2016 test, or will there be yet another last-minute email to those whose lives have already been disrupted as a result of poor planning on the part of the College Board?
The next administration of the *new* SAT is scheduled for May 07, 2016.
I guess we'll have to wait until around April 30, 2016, to find out.
Originally posted 03-12-16 at deutsch29.wordpress.com
Schneider is a southern Louisiana native, career teacher, trained researcher, and author of the ed reform whistle blower, A Chronicle of Echoes: Who's Who In the Implosion of American Public Education.
She also has a second book, Common Core Dilemma: Who Owns Our Schools?.
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I Can't Stop Looking at These Photos of Donald Trump Bidding Hope Hicks Farewell
By Gabriella Paiella@GMPaiella
"That's Hope Hicks." Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Soon, Hope Hicks will join the long list of people who have left the Trump administration behind them. But unlike others — who were reportedly physically removed from the premises or, say, found out they were fired while they were on the toilet — Hicks received a warm good-bye from the president. The outgoing White House communications director was one of Trump's most trusted confidantes, so it's only fitting that he bid her an over-the-top good-bye as he headed out to board Marine One for a trip to Ohio. It took place in front of the White House — and, crucially, in front of a bunch of cameras.
Here's the classic and natural "point directly at the person you're saying bye to" gesture we all know and love:
Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A handshake and a cheek kiss:
Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
And a dramatic pivot to her new life, a.k.a. her parents' house in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
What Hope Hicks Learned in Washington
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Life After Life
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?
Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her latest novel Life After Life was the winner of the Costa Novel Award and the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List, and was voted Waterstones UK Author of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards.
We enjoyed the author's writing style and her witty turn of phrase. She also uses an interesting narrative device that sees the drama retold with slightly different scenarios, meaning we get both sad and happy endings.
"What would you do if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?" Kate Atkinson poses and answers this question in her masterful, structurally complex, and vividly realized novel about the many deaths and lives of Ursula Todd. In each iteration of Ursula's life we see how her various identities and destinies – and by extension ours as well – are shaped by contingency, by the great and the small external forces of history, and by our own conscious choices.
"What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?" This is the hope for everyone in the world. People will get to know they should do it right today before it's too late.
Kate Atkinson's Life After Life is one of those books that takes you on a journey that you didn't realise you wanted to take. It grips you from the first page and tips you headfirst into asking questions about your own life. A great read.
A compassionate and thought provoking book, highly inventive and suprising. This is a novel that we think deserves to be read and enjoyed.
This grips the imagination from the first page and never lets go! The author takes an ingenious idea and weaves it into a novel that explores one person's life from many angles. It is perceptive and funny. The author manages to maintain a complex plot while still delivering a great read.
An extraordinary piece of work; clever, engaging and wonderfully written.
Ursula Todd is born in England in 1910, and in this unusual and superbly written novel she lives her life again and again form various stages. The writing is beautifully descriptive, witty, poignant and occasionally dark. The characters are believably and finely drawn.
Life After Life is a well written, beautifully constructed novel, that merges family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level. With wit and compassion, the author finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments.
In this exceptionally original novel the purely fantastic concept (one may name it "plurality of potential lives") is in absolute harmony with its artistic realization: in the course of narration the protagonist parts with her life for a number of times – just to start it anew, and each time her existence is trailed from birth to the moment of death. Only very slight, almost imperceptible differences hint that it may not be the same life as before. The overall impression is that life is a boon and a great mystery. The idea and structure are a real tour de force.
The story of Ursula Todd, born in 1910, but doomed to die and be reborn over and over again.
This novel has a truly creative structure. It is about Ursula Todd as she dies, is reborn, and then dies again and again allowing full exploration of truly human characters and an intricately planned plot. Beginning in 1910 the story covers difficult times in history, but avoids becoming too dark and instead takes a fresh look at the course of a life.
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Splendid Hospitality Group appoints James Clarke as General Manager for Hilton London Bankside
The Splendid Hospitality Group has appointed James Clarke as General Manager for the new Hilton London Bankside hotel which is set to open this summer. James brings with him over 20 years of experience within the hospitality industry and joins from the London Hilton on Park Lane where he was Director of Operations.
James Clarke, General Manager of the Hilton London Bankside Hotel says: "I am thrilled to be playing a pivotal role in opening the Hilton London Bankside. The construction phase is always interesting but I can't wait to be checking in our first guests at the end of the summer."
Stuart Bailey, CEO of Splendid Hospitality Group says: "We are delighted to have James on board to manage Hilton London Bankside which is an exciting new addition to our portfolio. With 292 stylishly decorated rooms, it will be one of the largest hotels within the Splendid Hospitality Group. James also brings with him a good understanding of the Hilton ethos."
James studied in both the UK and USA and one of his prestigious early jobs included working at the Waldorf Astoria in New York as Director of Room Service and Hospitality Operations.
Always striving for the best throughout his career, James has been recognised with two Hotel Cateys while at the Grosvenor House Hotel; the UK Conference and Banqueting Department of the Year 2009 and Food & Beverage Manager of the Year in 2010.
More recently James was acknowledged for his work at Hilton scooping both Hotel of the Year Award and Director of Operations of the Year in 2013. Last year he was awarded a scholarship by the Master Innholders to complete a General Manager Programme at Cornell University in the USA.
When not running the hotel James can be found tucked away in one of the City's many museums or reading about history. He is a passionate foodie and enjoys sampling the latest restaurants and spotting the latest gastronomic trends. James loves to burn off any remaining energy with a good game of rugby.
The Hilton London Bankside hotel, located close to the Shard, Tate Modern and Borough Market is in the heart of London's newest destination dedicated to all things art and food. The hotel's sumptuous Ballroom will have all the very latest high tech facilities and will be one of the larger venues in London hosting up to 750 guests.
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If you're looking to kick-start your weight loss journey, this 7-day weight loss plan for women is the perfect place to start. We want to fuel your body with good, healthy ingredients. That includes healthy fats, lean proteins, energy-rich carbs, and lots and lots of vegetables. Oh, did we forget to mention flavor? These meals are going to be delicious, too!
We know that it's sometimes hard to kickstart a new routine, so we wanted to take the guesswork out of it. We included five amazing workouts and meal plans for this all-inclusive 7-day weight loss plan for women. So get ready to get fit and lose some weight!
Before we move into the workouts and the meals, let's talk about a few things that will set you up for success this week.
Don't forget to drink water. Dehydration can majorly derail you from your weight loss journey. Sometimes drinking water will remind our brain that we're not actually hungry, and it will certainly give you a boost of energy to get through the day.
Be realistic about your goals. You're not going to get to your goal weight after this 7 day weight loss plan for women, so don't be upset if the scale hasn't moved that much in a week. It takes a 3,500 deficit to lose one pound, so don't expect to lose more than a few pounds after this week.
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Story: Providence
Author: Branwyn
Author's Summary: Not all the monsters in the TARDIS are locked safely in the attic.
Characters/Pairings: Ten, Martha, Ace, Seven
Warnings: None.
Recced because: Lots of fics have dealt with the Tenth Doctor as the lonely god, bringer of cosmic vengeance, all shall love him and despair etc, but few have done so with such intellectual detachment, or such a neat plot. "Providence" acts as a missing scene in "Family of Blood", examining the punishment of the Brother and its implications for the Doctor's past. Branwyn's Doctor is firmly steeped in the Cartmel era -- The Doctor knows exactly what he's seeing when he looks into a mirror. This body he shaped for Rose's benefit, it doesn't hide him from himself. According to the myths, Merlin had aged in reverse. One day he will be Merlin. Perhaps one day soon---it's there on his to-do list, somewhere, and it feels like the right time, he'll have to ask Martha how she'd feel about playing Nimue for a bit -- but with the extra twist of darkness and awful (awesome) power that the Doctor has acquired in his tenth incarnation.
But this is also a story about Martha, and the Doctor's respect and admiration for her simply burns through every line. And it's a story about Ace, and about myths, and coming full circle. And I don't know if it's intentional, but the final sentence rings with the echo of things to come, the Master and the Year That Never Was. All constructed in Branwyn's careful, lyrical prose.
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The Semiconductor Shortage and Broadband: What You Need To Know
The semiconductor shortage in the United States is real, ongoing, and painful for the economy. These chips are used in broadband network equipment and in the modems, routers, and network devices found in our home to enable seamless broadband connectivity. A shortage of chips could mean a delay in expanding broadband access across America.
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Behind the Scenes of Broadband:
Hidden Benefits, Hidden Heroes
Every day, through our computers and mobile phones, our televisions and smart devices, broadband keeps us connected, working, and entertained. During the COVID-19 crisis, it has been a lifeline, allowing schools to operate, families to keep in touch, businesses to keep selling, and the public to stay informed. It seems virtually impossible to imagine how we would have weathered the pandemic without it. But behind the obvious benefits brought to us by blazing fast internet, broadband provides other fundamental gains – ones that are no less important for being less visible. Thanks to the recently released Investing in America report, let's take a look at three of broadband's hidden advantages.
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Bridging the Digital Divide: How Broadband Kept Us Learning During COVID
While the COVID pandemic disrupted every facet of our lives, few areas were as affected as education. After the onset of the pandemic, over a hundred thousand schools across the United States were forced to close their doors long term, leaving some 55 million teachers and students scrambling to keep vital lines of communication open. This unprecedented situation threatened to wreak havoc on our education system and cause harm to students who didn't have an internet connection at home.
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What is Broadband And How Does it Work?
Around here we talk a lot about broadband. From its promising uses for distance learning and home offices to gaming and streaming a diverse range of entertainment, broadband has become entwined in all our lives.
The Infrastructure Behind Telehealth
The COVID pandemic has been a once-in-a-century health crisis, upending lives and livelihoods worldwide. With the need for safe access to healthcare during the crisis came a renewed focus on an emerging phenomenon: telehealth, or the use of the internet to provide quality care at a distance. According to a new study, the use of telehealth to treat Medicare patients rose some 10,000% in the first six weeks of the pandemic. This exponential rise underscored a fundamental truth: the life-or-death importance of having a reliable broadband connection. Telehealth, then, is the crossroads between innovation and infrastructure. Let's explore the latest telehealth trends, and how its advanced technology is being supported by a powerful broadband network.
What is Telehealth and How Will it Change the Future of Healthcare?
The current pandemic has been a once-in-a-century health crisis, upending lives and livelihoods worldwide. With the need for safe access to healthcare during the crisis came a renewed focus on an emerging phenomenon: telehealth, or the use of the internet to provide quality care at a distance.
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Twenty years ago, the idea that videoconferencing, streaming-on-demand, and mobile phones would become such an integral part of our lives would have been hard to imagine. Today, an internet connection is essential for education, work, communication, and entertainment in ways previous generations would have found hard to imagine.
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These policies and procedures are instituted to support the purpose of the Freedom and may be changed at any time as the Maryland Freedom Athletics Board of Directors may deem necessary.
Health. Each player must have been examined by a competent medical professional and deemed capable of participation without significant risk to his health and physical well-being. Additionally, the player's parent or guardian must have attested that the player has no known pre-existing conditions, prior injuries or congenital problems that may create a significant risk to his health and physical well-being while participating.
Registration. Participants must complete the program registration online.
Fee Payment. Any participant in Team sporting events must be current with any and all relevant fees prior to participation.
Only the Board of Directors may waive any of these requirements and they will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
The Maryland Freedom incurs significant expenses in preparing for the inclusion of each registered participant. These expenses include logistics, equipment and facilities. These costs do not significantly diminish upon withdrawal of a player. Consequently, all registration and other fees are non-refundable.
Considerable funds are invested in providing safe, modern sports equipment for each player. Fortunately, this equipment can generally be used for multiple seasons, requiring only minor repair or refurbishment, reducing expenses significantly. Consequently, it is important for the Team to recover all equipment at the end of the season that it has issued to players. The parent or guardian will be responsible for ensuring that all equipment issued to a player is returned.
If a player wishes to purchase his jersey at the end of the season, he may do so for the full replacement cost. No other team equipment is available for sale.
The Maryland Freedom is a "Play at Your Own Risk" program and assumes no responsibility for any medical cost related to any injury sustained while participating as a member of any MFA team.
The Maryland Freedom is an all-volunteer organization. Player's parents who would like to volunteer are welcome contact the programs Athletic Director to determine where you are best suited to support the program.
At games, only the team staff are allowed on the sideline. For the benefit of both your son as well as the entire team, please refrain from coming to the sideline to talk to your son. During the games, allow the coaches to coach and you be your son's greatest fan.
As loving parents, we recognize your desire to attend to your son should he be injured; however, we request that you remain in the stands unless called for by a team representative.
The Maryland Freedom will look to resolve all issues with a spirit of love, truth, and humility with the goal of restoration. All complaints and issues need to be directed to the programs Player/Personnel Director. The PPD will notify the appropriate BOD members to review the registered complaint/issue. The team will work with all parties involved and present a recommendation for resolution to the programs Athletic Director. All decisions by the Athletic Director are final.
The Maryland Freedom and it's meitss are sensitive to individual desires to keep personal information private. The Team will make every reasonable effort to keep individual identification information secure. However, in conducting team business, there is the need to disseminate certain information of the team to related organizations. The Team will not release any personal information of parents or players without the express written consent of the parents except to similar organizations and academic institutions for the purpose of conducting Team business.
The player's likeness may be used by the Team without prior consent for the purposes of recruiting, promoting of the Team and public relations through media outlets.
It is the policy of the Maryland Freedom that all adults connected with the Team in any capacity shall present the best character as is possible both on and off the field. The Maryland Freedom are a Christian based organization and will follow Christian doctrine. Volunteers are not required to profess their faith, but will be held to follow and respect the programs goals, foundation and format.
Background Check. It is the policy of the Maryland Freedom that all adults in leadership positions must authorize the Team to conduct a formal check of any and all legal records pertaining to the adult candidate for youth leadership. The Team will conduct these criminal background and other legal checks at the time and in the manner of the Team's choosing.


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Wilde Sehnsucht (Alternativer Titel: Wilde Alice) ist ein TV-Drama von Diane Keaton und eine Literaturverfilmung des Romans Alice von 1988 der US-amerikanische Autorin Sara Flanigan. Der Film ermöglichte der damals fünfzehnjährigen Reese Witherspoon ihre erste Fernsehrolle.

Handlung
Die Geschichte spielt im ländlichen Süden der Vereinigten Staaten in den 1930er Jahren und erzählt, wie sich die Jugendlichen Sammy und Ellie mit dem Mädchen Alice anfreunden, welche unter Epilepsie leidet. Ihr gewalttätiger Stiefvater glaubt, dass ihre Anfälle das Werk des Teufels sind, deshalb wird sie hinter dem Haus in einem abgelegenen Schuppen wie ein Stück Vieh gefangen gehalten. Alice wirkt geistig zurückgeblieben, es stellt sich aber heraus, dass sie keineswegs zurückgeblieben, sondern lediglich schwerhörig ist.

Die Jugendlichen treffen sich heimlich mit Alice, und Alice beginnt durch den Kontakt mit Ellie und Sammy aufzublühen. Als der Stiefvater die heimliche Freundschaft bemerkt, kommt es zur Konfrontation, doch mit Hilfe der beiden Jugendlichen schafft es die junge Alice, sich allmählich in die Alltagsgesellschaft zu integrieren.

Kritik

Sonstiges
Der Film lief am 4. Juni 1996 im ZDF. Im Vereinigten Königreich und den Vereinigten Staaten erschien der Film auf DVD.

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 1991
Filmdrama
Liebesfilm
Literaturverfilmung
US-amerikanischer Film
Fernsehfilm

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When you install MicroStation the AutoCAD Real DWG library is also installed. The Real DWG library allows MicroStation to work with AutoCAD drawings in their native format and to be recognized as genuine Autodesk dwg files when opened in AutoCAD. The chart below shows the versions of Real DWG supported by the MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries) releases.
Note that Real DWG 2010 is not supported by MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 3). There is a conflict with the library that does not allow for this mode.
The default operation in MicroStation is to work the latest Real DWG version. That means by default MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 3) will open all DWG files using Real DWG 2013 compatibility. Any earlier version DWG files will be automatically upgraded to the 2013 format. This can present a problem when your client is running an earlier version of AutoCAD. To remedy this set the MS_REALDWG_VERSION configuration variable to the required DWG compatibility mode.
In the example below MicroStation is being set to use Real DWG 2009 compatibility.
MicroStation will not be able to open any DWG files newer than the version specified by the MS_REALDWG_VERSION variable.


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Film dylan skolnick | November 22, 2015
Stock up on popcorn, this year's best films have so much grit, heart and imagination you'll be clamoring for more.
Gorgeous assassins, real life horrors and puppet sex were just a few of the year's cinematic highlights. As 2015 glides off into the sunset, it's time to look back at the year's 10 best films.
Charlie Kaufman is famous for his eccentric films like Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. However, it is the deep emotions beneath the stories' bizarre surfaces that resonate with his audience. The latest is this bittersweet stop-motion animated tale of a burnt-out motivational speaker whose life is turned upside down by a one-night-stand.
Hou Hsiao-hsien's mesmerizing martial arts drama is about a young female assassin who must choose between blind obedience to her master and independence. It is one of the most stunningly beautiful movies of this year—or any other year.
Jennifer Kent's terrifying tale of a single mother trying to protect her son from a demon hidden in a seemingly harmless pop-up book, perfectly evokes the anxieties of parenthood. Where many recent horror films seem to be about other horror films, The Babadook skillfully taps into the power of fear.
Todd Haynes' exquisite adaption of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel about the growing passion between a wealthy housewife and a bohemian shop girl (wonderfully played by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara) captures the awkward but exhilarating experience of falling in love in an oppressively homophobic 1950s America.
Guy Maddin's dazzling new movie could be a Ten Best list all by itself. Maddin's whirlwind dream of a movie propels viewers at breakneck speed through a seemingly endless series of outrageously melodramatic stories-inside-of-other-stories. The result is a delightful, singular celebration of the power of cinema.
Examining the essential role of emotions in the human brain sounds more like a Nova documentary than a big-screen animated blockbuster, but Pete Docter and his Pixar team have turned this unlikely premise into the year's smartest, funniest movie.
Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing was a jaw-dropping self-portrait of the killers behind the Indonesian genocide. His quiet sequel, focusing on the victims this time, is an unbearably intimate exploration of the people who must live next door to their unrepentant murderers.
George Miller, legendary director of Mad Max and The Road Warrior, returns with a thrilling post-apocalyptic epic that will show everyone what a real action movie is. The classic use of real stunts instead of CGI adds a level of eye-popping realism, something that's sorely lacking in most current action flicks.
In the Nazi concentration camps, the Sonderkommandos were Jewish prisoners who were forced to operate the gas chambers and crematoriums. László Nemes' unforgettable drama focuses on Saul, an Auschwitz Sonderkommando, as he desperately attempts to provide a proper Jewish burial for a young boy that might be his son.
Tom McCarthy's gripping portrait of the Boston Globe reporters who exposed the truth about the Catholic Church pedophilia scandal is both a searing drama and a vivid argument for the importance of a free press.
dylan skolnick
Dylan Skolnick lives in the East, but loves a good western. He can be found most days and many evenings at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, where he is co-director (www.cinemaartscentre.org).


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China Mobile Will Help Alcatel Build Next-gen Base Stations
By Mikael Ricknäs
China Mobile will help Alcatel-Lucent develop its next generation of mobile networks, the French network equipment vendor said on Wednesday.
In February, Alcatel-Lucent announced a new approach to building mobile networks, lightRadio, in which some traditional base station functions are virtualized in processing centers linked to a large number of small base stations. Key to Alcatel's concept is the lightRadio Cube, a block 6 centimeters on a side containing an antenna and a signal amplifier. Its small size will allow operators to put it almost anywhere, including on lamp posts and the side of buildings, as well as in more traditional places such as on rooftops, Alcatel-Lucent said.
For users, the smaller base stations have the potential to improve coverage and mobile broadband performance. For the operator, centralization of some base station functions could lower management and maintenance costs, and cut the electricity bill and carbon dioxide emissions, according to Alcatel-Lucent.
But for that to work, network operators will need to use optical fiber to link the cubes to the centralized functions in the network.
China Mobile's network has some attributes that makes it good fit for the lightRadio architecture, including an extensive use of fiber backhaul, according to Gee Rittenhouse, who heads up research at Alcatel-Lucent. Testing the technology in a network the size of China Mobile's will also be good for its continued development, he said.
Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only vendor pushing the use of smaller base stations. Ericsson has a similar vision of how future mobile networks should be constructed.
Getting China Mobile's stamp of approval and some development help from the world's largest carrier should give Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio concept a boost. The two companies will also work together to adopt alternative power sources, including solar and wind, for smaller base stations.
"You don't want to have a tiny cube and then this huge battery or a tiny cube and a huge windmill, so we have to think about non-traditional approaches to sustainable energy for the cube architecture, as well," said Rittenhouse.
This is the second announcement Alcatel-Lucent has made with China Mobile in the last month. The equipment vendor also said it will participate in China Mobile's LTE TDD (Long-Term Evolution Time-Division Duplex) trial. The companies haven't yet decided whether they will work together on a TDD LTE version of the lightRadio Cube, Rittenhouse said.
China Mobile may like the idea of smaller base stations, but executives at U.S. carriers Verizon and Sprint seemed unconvinced by the idea last month at the CTIA Wireless conference.
Send news tips and comments to mikael_ricknas@idg.com


DFFB members during the donation drive.
Members of the group pack donated items in boxes.
FILIPINOS in Bahrain have been urged to extend a helping hand to families caught in a battle between government troops and pro-Islamic State militants for the control of a southern Philippines town. More than 300,000 civilians have been displaced after militants from a faction known as the Maute group seized Marawi on May 23 and are resisting daily assaults by government forces using aircraft and artillery, and with help from allies, the US and Australia .


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Rob Clayton (born 1963 in Dayton, Ohio) and Christian Clayton (born 1967 in Denver, Colorado) are painters based in California.

Both Rob and Christian Clayton hold BFA degrees from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (1989 and 1991 respectively).

Their work has been exhibited widely throughout America and Europe, and has been featured in several important shows including The Armory Show in New York. In 2004, Rob and Christian Clayton were invited to participate with a solo exhibition in the Art Statements section of Art Basel Miami.

Their work was featured in FUEL TV's Signature Series ID #21. This animated piece also features the music of Daniel Johnston.

Select solo exhibitions
 2014 "Open to the Public", Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 2013 "Clayton Brothers - I'm Ok", Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Malan, IT
 2012 "Clayton Brothers: Inside Out", Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
 2011 "Clayton Brothers: Inside Out", Pasadena Museum Of Contemporary Art, Pasadena, CA
 2010 "Clayton Brothers: Inside Out", Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
 2009 "Jumbo Fruit", Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, CA
 2008 "AS IS", Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, TX
 2007 "Patient", F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
 2006 "Wishy Washy", Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
 2004 "Art Statements", Mackey Gallery, Art Basel Miami, FL
 2003 "Six Foot Eleven", LA Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 2001 "Green Pastures", LA Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 1995 "Lucky 13", La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Select group exhibitions
 2018 "Black Mirror: Art as a Social Satire", Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
 2017 "Abstract Figurative Portrait Painters", Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA; "The Clayton Brothers: Your Most Special Day - A Painting Survey", ARTSY, Mark Moore Fine Art, Culver City, CA
 2016 "MOAH 30th Anniversary Acquisitions Exhibition", Museum of Art History, Lancaster, CA; "Skateborts", Curated by Robert Hak and Jürgen Knubben, FORUM KUNST, Rottweil Germany
 2015 "Golden State", Bunsen Goetz Galerie, Nuremberg Germany; "Damn Everything But the Circus, honoring the legacy of artist Sister Corita Kent", PMCA, Pasadena, CA; "Pulse Art Fair", Antonio Colombo Art Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, Miami, FL; "MANIFEST: JUSTICE", Sons & Brothers and Arts for Amnesty, Los Angeles, CA; "Artefiera Bologna", Antonio Colombo Art Contemporanea, Bologna, Italia; "???: AHAF Seoul", Keumsan Gallery, Seoul Korea; "The Duck Show in LA", Minotaur Projects, Los Angeles, CA; "Incognito", Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; "In Bloom", Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA; "Clayton Brothers Studio Lecture Series and Workshop", Fashion Institute of Technology, La Crescenta, CA
 2014 "Miami Projects", Miami, FL. Mark Moore Gallery; "Artissimo Art Fair", Milan, IT. Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea; "The Cat Art Show", Sloan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; "Dime Bag 4", Curated by Jordin Isip, The End is Near Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 2008 "In the Land of Retinal Delights", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

External links
The Clayton Brothers - Saatchi Gallery - Paintings
Tim House (In Green Pastures), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

Living people
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
Art Center College of Design alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
ArtistShare artists
20th-century American male artists


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Q: Converting SQL to LINQ query Hi I'm new to LINQ and got a requirement to convert below SQL into LINQ.
Can someone help me how to write it?
select emp.id, emp.name from employee emp
left join department dept on dept.id = emp.deptid
and (emp.managerid = '001' or (emp.manager in (select managerid from manager where location Contains('l001','l002','l003') and state =1)))

Thanks

A: Maybe something like this:
var locationIds = new List<string> {"l001", "l002", "l003"};
var ls=(
    from emp in db.employee
    from dept in db.department
        .Where(a=>a.id == emp.deptid).DefaultIfEmpty()
    where (emp.managerid == "001"
        || db.manager.Where(w=>locationIds.Contains(w.location) && w.state == 1)
                     .Select(s=>s.managerid).Contains(emp.manager))
    select new
        {
            emp.id,
            emp.name
        }
).ToList();

Where db is the linq data context

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Reboot all servers after changes (nginx, gunicorn) when in doubt.
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Biotech giants Monsanto were awarded a victory by lawmakers in Washington this week after a congressional panel voted to let farmers plant genetically modified crops made by the agriculture company despite pending legal proceedings.
A committee made up of members of the US House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday this week to allow genetically modified crops manufactured by the Monsanto corporation and other biotech companies, including competitors Dupont Co., to continue to be used on American farmlands. The ruling comes despite a trove of legal challenges that have hindered full-fledged approval of some genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Although the USDA has previously authorized Monsanto-created biocrops to be planted, an array of legal appeals have left the major agriculture company combating with opponents as of late. Questions over the safety of the lab-made crops on human health and the environment, as well as opposition from small time farmers constantly being fought by Monsanto, has slowed the federal agency from fully approving some crops. Now after the latest vote, Monsanto and its competitors will be able to offer seeds even as the Justice Department determines the legitimacy of the appeals.
Nine major agricultural associations asking for Congress to let the biocrops be planted sent a letter to Washington this week, saying that opponents of the industry giants were purposely hindering the approval process.
The groups behind the letter, which includes the American Soybean Association (ASA) among others, had urged Congress to support a provision in the Fiscal Year 2013 Appropriations bill that would let growers use biotech crops that have already been approved by USDA even if appeals are still being heard and further litigation is all but certain.
"The inclusion of Section 733 is a positive step to ensure that US farmers and our food chain are shielded from supply disruptions caused by litigation over procedural issues unrelated to sound science or the safety of biotech crops. This legislative solution ensures that national agricultural policy is not being decided by the court system while providing a level of certainty that is critical to ensure that our agricultural producers continue to lead the world," they write.
Responding to the bill, long-time opponents of the biotech company The Center for Food Safety call the legislation a"Monsanto profit assurance provision."
Monsanto has garnered their fair share of opponents as of late, a result that many will argue comes from the company's heated stance against small-time farmers. The corporation has threatened lesser farms with hundreds of lawsuits for using genetically modified crops patented by Monsanto that have been carried onto their farms by wind and other elements of nature. Recently, the corporation threatened to sue the entire state of Vermont because lawmakers there were considering a bill that would force manufacturers to label products that are created either partially or in full from a GMO.


The UK Government is cooperating with US President Donald Trump in his unlawful assassinations programme.
For years, the UK has been instrumental in helping the US carry out its covert drone wars. At places like Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, UK intelligence officers run programmes with names like GHOSTHUNTER and GHOSTWOLF to help the US pinpoint the locations of targets in countries where the US and the UK are not at war, such as Yemen and Pakistan.
These drone strikes are unlawful – they have killed hundreds of innocent people in Yemen and Pakistan, including women and children, without any form of due process or accountability. While the families of two Western hostages killed in a strike have received an apology, no Yemeni or Pakistani ever has.
The UK Government should not be supporting this kind of unlawful action. Sign our petition demanding that the UK Government immediately end their involvement in this unlawful and lethal programme now.
We, the undersigned, call on you to end UK involvement in the United States' illegal lethal drone programme, operating in countries where Parliament has not authorised UK military action.
We also call on you shed light on the UK's involvement in the programme to date and to publish any and all policies, agreements and memoranda that relate to UK support for the US drone programme. This includes, but is not limited to, the UK's own legal framework for taking and assisting in such strikes.
The US' assassinations programme is inconsistent with the fundamental rights to life and due process and enables President Trump to carry out killings without accountability. Investigations by legal charity Reprieve show that countless innocent people, including many children, have been killed by US drone strikes.
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Fultondale (Ala.) coach Richie Busby explained 10 ways an assistant coach can add value to his program.
Richie Busby was promoted to the head coaching position at Fultondale High (Ala.) four seasons ago after 16 years as an assistant. He now has eight assistants on his staff. Seven are teachers at Fultondale and one is a volunteer.
Busby explained 10 ways an assistant coach can add value to his program.
LOYALTY: "No matter what you're doing, whether it's scheme or discipline, things need to stay within the program. You need guys that are going to be loyal to the head coach and the program," he said.
RELATING TO KIDS: Busby has a good variety of ages throughout his staff. Some assistants are just out of college, while others have been in the game for a while. "You need guys who can pull you aside, who can relate to the kids so they can teach us older guys how to get on Twitter, I guess," Busby said.
POSITION KNOWLEDGE: Busby wants his linebackers coach to be an expert on the linebacker position. "When we go to the Alabama clinic, I want you to spend as much time as you can with Jeremy Pruitt or Kirby Smart – or whoever it is at the time – learning how they are doing things, and then be able to bring it back to our campus and relate it to a high school player," Busby said.


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How a group of online sleuths are helping the FBI track down Jan. 6 rioters
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're approaching the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot. The insurrection has led to what my guest, Ryan Reilly, calls an unprecedented probe reshaping the federal government's approach to domestic terrorism. He says the FBI has arrested over 700 people, and that represents only about a quarter of the total number of individuals who engaged in chargeable criminal conduct that day. The FBI is still looking for more than 350 members of the mob who engaged in violence, including more than 250 still wanted for assaulting law enforcement.
The FBI has gotten a lot of assistance from a loose network of amateur online sleuths known as Sedition Hunters, who have used videos taken that day, social media posts, facial recognition software and Google to identify many of the rioters, including ones who assaulted police. Reilly has kept in touch with members of this network, as well as doing some of his own investigative work, and has publicly revealed some of the rioters' identities in his articles. He's also been reporting on the trials and sentences of the rioters and what the judges have had to say. He's senior justice correspondent for HuffPost.
Ryan Reilly, welcome to FRESH AIR. In what way is the FBI's manhunt unprecedented?
RYAN REILLY: The scope of it, first of all, is just enormous. It's nothing like the FBI has ever done before. In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, the FBI started putting out images of people who are wanted in connection with the attack. And I don't think that we had a sense in those early days of just how wide this could possibly go because it was sort of chaotic that day. We didn't really have a sense of how many people exactly entered the Capitol Building, how many people attacked officers outside.
But now, almost a year out, we're starting to get a better sense of that - of those numbers, and it's really pretty extraordinary. Some of the techniques that some of the different Sedition Hunters have used have shown that there are upwards of 2,500 people who entered the Capitol Building. And then on top of that, there's additional people who never entered the Capitol Building but attacked officers outside of it. So the total scope of this we're talking about is nearly 3,000 people. And right now we're at 700 arrests, but there's a far, really long path to go, even as these cases work their way through a system that is frankly overwhelmed already.
GROSS: In some ways, it seems like, oh, but it should be simple for the FBI to track these people down because they've been captured on video. So what are some of the obstacles the FBI faces in spite of that?
REILLY: I think that just the sheer magnitude of it is really a major challenge here. When the FBI opened up their tip line in those early days, they received 200,000 - over 200,000 tips. So they're literally dealing with hundreds of thousands of tips. And prioritizing those and sort of triaging those tips as they came in was a major challenge for the bureau. I think one of the early indications I saw of that was when, a month after a really high-profile defendant or future defendant was identified by online sleuths, and one of the sleuths had reached out to me, I told the FBI and I called through their Public Affairs Office or rather sent an email through their Public Affairs Office flagging the fact that we were reporting on this, that there is this video out there online that identified this individual who electroshocked an officer in the neck. And that was Officer Mike Fanone, who subsequently testified before Congress and we've heard a lot of in the past year.
And the person who Tased him in the neck was this individual named Danny Rodriguez, who wore a MAGA hat and was a major Trump supporter who had appeared all at these rallies in California and subsequently traveled to D.C. with a group of his friends from California and came to find himself on the front lines of that battle and Tased an officer in the neck and nearly killed an officer. And when I contacted the FBI about that, initially I got through - the Public Affairs Office, I got a call back very quickly. And then actually one of the witnesses who we had talked to, someone who knew Danny Rodriguez individually, just hours later received a call from the FBI. So it was pretty clear, I think, that they were pretty overwhelmed at that moment because the tip about Danny Rodriguez came into the FBI a month before we got on the story. So it was really just something that was sort of buried in the bureaucracy until we sort of lifted it up.
GROSS: How often have you been the conduit between the digital sleuths and the FBI?
REILLY: In a few cases, I've - we've definitely sort of played a role. There's the Danny Rodriguez case. And then with Robert Scott Palmer, that was a case - he's actually at this moment the defendant who's been sentenced the longest period of time. In the early days, he was an individual who was nicknamed Florida Flag Jacket, and that's because he was wearing an American flag jacket with Trump's name on the front and back When he approached the police line with a fire extinguisher, emptied the fire extinguisher canister into the line of officers that was under assault by a mob, then chucked the canister at the line and then retreated.
Hours later, as it turned out, as some sleuths figured out, he was actually on a livestream and was speaking to someone who was livestreaming from the scene that evening and gave his name to the camera. So the real power of the crowd and being able to connect all these little dots really shone through in that case, because that was an instance where there is this individual piece of evidence that identified this and this person, but it was only because we had all of these sleuths sort of scouring all of this information online and finding that livestream video and then realizing that's the same person who attacked officers earlier in the day and was able to connect that information, that that's how that - that's how that case came about.
So in that instance, we actually contacted the FBI, but we also contacted the defendant, myself and my colleague of mine, Jesselyn Cook, worked on that story. And she actually called up the defendant and the future defendant in that case, Robert Scott Palmer, got him to admit he was at the Capitol. And then he actually hung up the phone when he was asked about the fire extinguisher. But that's not before he told her that the Biden administration was trying to, quote, "vilify the patriots who took part in the attack that day."
GROSS: So a lot of information about who the Capitol rioters were and who assaulted police, a lot of information is coming from this network of amateur online digital sleuths loosely going under the name Sedition Hunters. Tell us more about that network and how it was formed.
REILLY: A lot of this kicked off actually around this image, this very sort of grabbing image that was snapped from above the tunnel, the tunnel on the side of the - on the west side of the Capitol. At the top of the stairs where Joe Biden would be inaugurated, there is this tunnel - actually, one of the judges referred to it as the Lady Gaga tunnel because that's where Lady Gaga came out of before she gave her performance at the inauguration. But it's this - it's the centerpiece of any inauguration. There's this tunnel right there at the door, and that's where this battle took place, this really brutal battle. Some of the most violent scenes at the Capitol took place at that tunnel as the mob of thousands of people were trying to get through those doors and into the Capitol Building.
And there is this photo snapped from above that shows an officer face down, being dragged down the stairs by a group of people. It's just this really grabbing image that, you know, it's very difficult to look away from. And thankfully, that officer survived. But it was - this just - this really image that really disturbed people. So what happened off of that initial image is that some people got together on Twitter and came up with nicknames for all of the people in that photo, all the people who are involved in violence in that photo. One of them who was seen flipping off the cops at the moment that officer was being dragged down the stairs was nicknamed Fingerman, for example.
There is another person who was wearing a Caterpillar construction company sweatshirt who was named CatSweat. But what was really interesting about CatSweat was that he had his face covered for a lot of this. He had sunglasses on, so you couldn't really get a full image of his face. But months later, as they processed all of these videos, sleuths came across a video of him at Trump's speech. And when he was at Trump's speech, his sunglasses weren't on. They were in his shirt. So you got a full face shot of him. And what happened, when they ran that through facial recognition, was that a lot of images started popping up, including images of him as a bodybuilder and including images of him on the cover of romance novels. He was a cover model for a lot of romance novels. He was a very fit dude, obviously a bodybuilder. And that was his sort of side gig. In addition to being a construction worker, he was doing a lot of this modeling for romance novels.
And that's how they - that's how they found him, because of that facial recognition hit, and then were able to subsequently confirm his identity. Because facial recognition isn't - you know, isn't always 100% accurate, what they were able to do is confirm his identity by looking at his Instagram page and finding the individual items of clothing that he was wearing that day. So he was wearing, you know, a hat. And then, oh, here's a photo of him from a year and a half ago wearing that same hat. There's a video of him actually at the gym punching a punching bag, and he was wearing that same Caterpillar sweatshirt that he was wearing the day that he attacked officers at the Capitol.
GROSS: So tell us more about how these amateur detectives online are using facial recognition software.
REILLY: Yeah. You know, facial recognition is a component of this. But it's sort of - the way that they've thought about it is that it's a good lead to follow. So you have to confirm it through other methods. You have to find other verifiable facts that then make sure that that is this person. Often, with a lot of these cases, January 6 cases, that has been relatively easy because sometimes they'll be some sort of indication that they were there. By the point that sleuths have found some of these individuals, some of them have been - sort of scoured their social media and made sure that there's nothing referencing January 6. But often, they haven't. They might have some post about how they're going there. They might have images from that day, even if they don't show them engaged in some sort of unlawful activity. But anything that can essentially place someone in D.C. that day or any other verifiable fact, whether it be - or just either verifiable component of their look. Sometimes that's a mole on one part of their face or a freckle on one part of their face that they can really zoom in and confirm. It depends upon how high-quality these images are.
But it's played a major role on this side of it in the - with the amateur sort of investigators. And it's also played a role for the FBI. But I would say that, based on the cases that we've seen come forward so far, we've definitely seen more cases on the amateur side where that's given them a lead than we have from the FBI. In some of the more violent cases, the FBI has acknowledged using facial recognition technology, but they also use another way to confirm it. There is an individual who is attacking cops very early on in the day and breaching one of these initial sort of bike barricades that was set up around the Capitol. He actually pushed forward and pushed down a female Capitol Police officer who struck her head on the step behind her and suffered a concussion. And he was identified through facial recognition technology. But what the FBI actually did there was send in two undercover FBI special agents to the convenience store where he worked and just sort of talked him up and eventually got him to talk about being there on January 6 and acknowledging his presence there.
GROSS: Well, let's take a short break here, and then we'll talk some more. If you're just joining us, my guest is Ryan Reilly, and he's the senior justice correspondent for HuffPost. We'll be right back. This is FRESH AIR.
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to the interview I recorded yesterday with Ryan Reilly, senior justice correspondent for HuffPost. He's been reporting on the loose network of amateur online sleuths who have been tracking down the identities of insurrectionists who breached the Capitol and assaulted police on January 6. He's also done his own investigative work tracking down rioters. He's publicly revealed the identities of some of them. He's also been reporting on the trials and sentences of the insurrectionists and the opinions of the judges.
So there are some interesting stories about how people became online digital detectives looking for the identities of people who breached the Capitol and assaulted officers on January 6. Tell us a story of one of them. In particular, I'm going to ask you about somebody who goes by the name Amy for the purposes of your article 'cause she wants to remain anonymous. And she was not a professional at this by any means. How did she start doing this?
REILLY: Yeah. So actually, Amy was home sick with COVID last January during the Capitol attack and was watching this unfold and was obviously very disturbed by what she saw unfolding on her television screen and online. So she jumped in to this community and spent a lot of time logging information and being part of that group that was being able to sort of compile this information into a digestible and usable format. And Amy really zoomed in on the individual we later learned was Robert Scott Palmer because it was just such an identifiable jacket he was wearing. It was that American flag jacket with Trump on the front and back, and he really just stood out from the crowd. And it also just was a sort of brutal attack on officers who were under assault from this mob. He was spraying, you know, them with a fire extinguisher and blinding them to the objects that were being thrown at them and then chucked it at the police line.
So she spent a lot of time hunting him down and then was sort of waiting around for the FBI to do something about it and was watching his Facebook page as he was back at home. And he was continuing to post all of these memes and make all these posts about the Biden administration. And he was just sort of going about his life online and didn't seem to have any indication that he was going to be hunted down. I think that's how a lot of people felt that day. Subsequently and in the months afterwards, they might realize that, yeah, I'm not away from this scot-free yet. But there were a lot of people who just thought that they were going to get away with it that day. And frankly, I think some of the officers thought that they were - that the individuals who assaulted them were going to get away. You know, I talked to Mike Fanone last month, and he was saying that he thought that that was it. He thought that the people who got away had escaped. And he is really, really sort of blown away by sort of the way that this digital manhunt has unfolded and people have been identified through all of these various factors and the online footprint that they left after the Capitol attack.
GROSS: Well, I could see why they might have thought they'd get away with it because no one was arrested. I mean, everybody who breached the Capitol - they committed a crime, but they were allowed to just walk out and go home or go wherever. And I - my understanding is that's because the police just wanted them out of there before things got worse and that the idea of getting them out seemed to take priority over the idea of arresting them. Just, like, get them out of there, straighten things out in the Capitol, protect the people who are there, protect the building itself. Do I have that right?
REILLY: Yeah, that's right. There were really only a handful of arrests that day, and it really is just, I mean, sheer manpower. There were individuals who were actually placed into custody and then released because the police were so overwhelmed. So they had people in handcuffs who they identified that day, and then they had to sort of release them on the side because they didn't have the manpower to process them. And then subsequently, some of those individuals were arrested months down the line.
There is actually someone that day - it was a young man who also used a fire extinguisher on officers and had sort of sprayed the police line. He subsequently was caught by an officer, and the - and they actually have him identifying himself by name on body camera, but because they didn't have the manpower to arrest him, they had to let him go. Months later, the FBI put out a video looking for this individual. They didn't realize that they had him on body camera, identifying himself. So then behind the scenes, finally, when someone processed that video, they recognized, oh, this guy actually was taken into custody briefly and identified himself and were able to identify him that way. But that sort of shows how overwhelming and sort of bureaucratic this investigation got just by - it was just overwhelming both police that day and the FBI in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
GROSS: Now, let me get back to Robert Scott Palmer. Palmer is the guy who sprayed police with a fire extinguisher and then threw the empty canister at them. He was sentenced to 63 months, the longest sentence so far. What did the judge have to say at the sentencing?
REILLY: Yeah, you know, Robert Scott Palmer sort of expressed this idea that he was sorry for what he did. He actually wrote a letter to the judge and said that he realized now that he had been tricked by Trump. He actually referred to the Trump administration as tyrannical. He said that he thought that he was fighting tyranny but realized that they were actually the tyrannical ones trying to hold on to power. And it's tough, I think, for a lot of these judges to decide what's legitimate and what's not, because obviously he's facing down a significant sentence. Saying these things to the judge and saying he's seen the error of his ways and that he was mistaken is obviously going to benefit him and give him a shorter sentence.
So I think judges are very aware of the fact that they might be being fed stuff that's just basically to try to get a shorter sentence. And it's tough to sort of decide whether or not someone is expressing legitimate remorse or whether they're just sort of saying what they think the judge wants to hear, especially in the lower level cases. I think that's been true because, you know, in the lower level cases, basically being sorry has a very big effect on your sentence, and expressing that really impacts it. Judges have a lot of discretion in those lower level cases.
In Robert Scott Palmer's case, there was sort of a mandatory minimum, in effect. There is a sentencing guidelines that would say how long he would have to be sentenced to. And once the judge decided that this sentencing guideline applied, while she wasn't completely bound to it, it gave a really firm sense of what the sentence was going to be. So Robert Scott Palmer ultimately got at the very low end of that sentencing guideline, but it's still a significant period in jail and is the longest - in prison, rather - and is the longest sentence that we've seen in the Capitol attack to this point, of more than five years.
GROSS: What was he convicted of?
REILLY: He was convicted of assaulting an officer, a federal officer, with a deadly weapon. That canister was considered a deadly weapon. So we had seen another case where there was an assault on an officer. That was actually an individual who was the brother of a Secret Service agent. He was from New Jersey and owned a gym in New Jersey and then came down to the Capitol, where he attacked an officer, actually - punched an officer in the helmet. And he got 41 months in prison.
GROSS: Let's take a short break here. If you're just joining us, my guest is Ryan Reilly, senior justice correspondent for HuffPost. We'll be right back after a short break. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to the interview I recorded yesterday with Ryan Reilly, senior justice correspondent for HuffPost. He's been reporting on the loose network of amateur online sleuths who have been tracking down the identities of insurrectionists who breached the Capitol and assaulted police officers on January 6. He's also done his own investigative work tracking down rioters. He's publicly revealed the identities of some of them. He's also been reporting on the trials and sentences of the insurrectionists and the rulings of judges.
How has the FBI been using tech companies, including phone companies, social media companies - has the FBI asked them to cooperate in the FBI investigation?
REILLY: Yeah. So the FBI has issued a number of subpoenas to tech companies and phone companies that have been very useful in this investigation. Essentially, what they've done is they've drawn this sort of geofence around the Capitol Building so that anyone who entered the Capitol Building and was on a cellphone or had their Gmail application open, for instance, that's been a very beneficial search warrant that was issued has now - is now on a government list.
GROSS: What is a geofence?
REILLY: So a geofence is essentially a digital guide that's basically encircling the Capitol, but just specifically the very limits of the Capitol Building. So they'll be able to distinguish between someone who actually went inside and someone who actually stayed outside of the Capitol Building. I think that it's only really available in this instance that they're able to get that specific because the Capitol Building is a pretty dense building. It's a, you know, a building made mostly of marble. So there's a lot of actually cellphone towers within the building and that actually they've been able to pin down very specifically where people are within the Capitol Building and say this is where this person was, this is where that person was. They've actually been able to identify them pretty closely.
GROSS: So my understanding from what you're saying is that the FBI is only asking for information from tech companies of people who clearly breached that geofence. In other words, people who clearly entered the Capitol and by doing so committed a crime. Have the tech companies been cooperating with the FBI so far?
REILLY: Yeah, the tech companies have. They've been providing information. You know, Google provided a lot of information through whoever had their Gmail application open within the Capitol - that building that day. Facebook, anyone who livestreamed within the Capitol, they also turned over a list. Facebook has been one of the most beneficial things for investigators here. It's often where a lot of people posted evidence of their own crimes on, so just those geofence information as well was beneficial here, too.
GROSS: So is this use of tech companies setting any precedents that are likely to be applied in the future?
REILLY: I think that this investigation could have broader implications going forward, just in terms of normalizing the use of facial recognition, for example. I think that because of its success rate in this investigation, there might be more broader acceptance of it. And that could be troubling because if you don't have these failsafes set up, if you don't have extra methods of confirming someone's identity, that could become really dangerous and we could see some bad identifications made based off of that.
But yeah, I mean, in terms of the public support for this investigation, I think that that is something that is going to happen going forward. They're going to realize that you can seize the power of the crowd in a lot of ways in these massive investigations to help put the pieces together. In many ways, I think that, you know, these, quote-unquote, "amateurs" are a step ahead of the FBI, despite the FBI's sort of reputation in media and in Hollywood as sort of being this ultimate crime fighting bureau. They're a very advanced bureau, but in many ways, they're a little bit behind the times.
One thing that really sticks out at me is just how difficult of a time that they've had collecting some of this information that is readily available online. And the way that they've organized this through email and just the way that they've had to organize this behind the scenes at the FBI has shown some sort of creaks showing up in the process here. We've seen a little bit of the aging bureaucracy that is the FBI show up in this investigation.
GROSS: One of the digital sleuths who you spoke to is a woman who's going by the name Claire (ph) - again, she wants to remain anonymous. She used the dating app Bumble to track someone down. What was - tell us about what distinguishes Bumble as a dating app and how she used it to try to search for insurrectionists.
REILLY: Yeah. So Bumble, what makes Bumble unique about - as a dating app - and this is something that I have to know from my single friends because I haven't ever been on any of these dating apps - but Bumble essentially allows the woman to make the first move and make the decision. So the woman has to make - send the first message in any exchange. So what she did is actually hop onto Bumble. Claire - well, first of all, Claire was sitting at home. She lived near a hotel where a lot of Trump supporters were staying on January 6 and was watching what was unfolding on TV and then was watching all of these people flow back and go to their hotel and was sitting there, like, thinking she wanted to contribute in some way, saw that the FBI was looking for some folks, so decided that she was going to help out.
So what Claire did was she logged on to Bumble. She changed out her profile images because she previously had an image of her wearing a pink pussy hat at the Women's March. And obviously, that wasn't going to fly if she was trying to connect with people who supported Trump. So she took that photo away, sort of put up a more generic photo of her doing what she described as a recreational activity. I think it was snapped at a brewery or something. And she changed her political preferences to conservative. And then she just sort of got to swiping. She ended up matching with about a dozen men and started conversations with them. At least three of them, she got to admit, were on the property of the Capitol that day. And one of them that she zoomed in on actually and had this ongoing discussion with admitted that he was on the front lines, had been pepper sprayed and exchanged a bunch of images with her.
But as it turned out, after she sent that information into the FBI, the FBI was able to match that up with someone they were looking for who assaulted officers not only with pepper spray, but in fact with a metal whip. And he lived in Texas. And they were able to match up that information. And basically, Claire was able to use the information she found on Bumble, which was, I believe, you know, a first name and maybe a last initial and a town to search around Facebook, find his real identity, just as she had done with potential suitors before. It was a skill that she sort of picked up on these dating apps that she was able to apply in this case to the insurrection.
GROSS: Well, let me reintroduce you again. If you're just joining us, my guest is Ryan Reilly, senior justice correspondent for HuffPost. We'll be right back. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to my interview with Ryan Reilly, senior justice correspondent for HuffPost. He's been reporting on the loose network of amateur online sleuths who have been tracking down the identities of insurrectionists who breached the Capitol and assaulted police on January 6. He's also been reporting on the trials and sentences of the insurrectionists and the rulings of the judges.
So the stories of how some of the digital detectives found insurrectionists are so interesting. I want to get to another story about how a digital detective found someone who had breached the Capitol. And the person who breached the Capitol in this case is Brent Bozell IV, who goes by the name Zeeker. He is the son of Brent Bozell III, who's a prominent right-wing activist who founded several organizations opposing what he calls liberal media bias, including NewsBusters and the Media Research Center. So the son, Brent Bozell IV - aka Zeeker - was charged with three federal offenses. What were those offenses?
REILLY: He was charged with some offenses - more serious offenses because he entered the well of the Senate. They've sort of escalated any charges against people who actually entered that chamber, that Senate chamber, and shut down things there. So if you only entered the Capitol building, you might only be looking at misdemeanors. But if you actually entered into the Senate chamber and went onto the floor of the Senate, then you're looking at some higher, more felony, more serious charges.
GROSS: So how did a digital detective track him down? What were his identifying characteristics on videos?
REILLY: Yeah. So Zeeker Bozell was wearing this sweatshirt with his children's school on it. So basically, someone was able to use that information, go onto Facebook and go through every person who had liked any post on that school's page. It was a relatively small school. So she was able to go through pretty thoroughly, and eventually found someone had liked a photo on there. And they were named Zeeker Bozell. Their image was just, I believe, of them with a - was just an image of a snowman. So it wasn't anything immediately identifying. But then she was subsequently able to find images of him that were tagged by other people. So then she was able to match that person with the person who was on the floor of the Senate there.
So it was pretty impressive Facebook sleuthing work. She actually joked with me that, you know, some people have other hobbies like, you know, crocheting. But her thing was looking up people on Facebook. And that's something that she had done for a lot of her friends when they were in the dating world. She would basically research and find out what she could about them on Facebook.
GROSS: Before Zeeker was arrested, his father, Brent Bozell III, denounced the rioters on Fox. And he said, I am heartsick about that element that has been so destructive and has done so much damage to a very noble cause. But the damage they have done to conservatives like me is profound. At that point, I presume he didn't know that his son was one of those rioters that he had denounced. Did he make any statements after his son's arrest?
REILLY: Not that I know of. I think it's something that they've just sort of ignored. But I think that that is certainly something that's going to come up down the line in his son's case, in Zeeker Bozell's case, because this wasn't someone who was really politically naive, you know? A lot of people who were in the Senate have basically told judges that they didn't even know where they were. Some actually thought that they were at the White House when they were at the Capitol. There's this really famous video of this individual who is a QAnon believer putting his hand on the Capitol building and saying, here we are at the White House.
So there were people who were very naive, didn't know what they were doing, didn't really know anything about how the system of government works, obviously couldn't even distinguish the legislative branch from the executive branch. But Zeeker Bozell isn't in that category. This is someone who's grown up immersed in politics. He knew exactly what he was doing that day. And yet, there he is, smashing in a window at the Capitol and going onto the floor of the Senate and trying to disrupt this process. So it really is this sort of unique case of - and that's going to be something that I don't think is going to benefit him down the line, just how much, you know, knowledge he should have had about how all this works and what exactly he was doing.
GROSS: I think, the most distinctive-looking person who really, like, stood out from the crowd on January 6 was Jacob Chansley - aka the QAnon Shaman. And he's stood trial. What's his status now?
REILLY: Yeah. So he actually was sentenced. He got, I believe, 41 months in federal prison. And, I think, in comparison to some of the other cases, he's probably got the most - the harshest penalty for someone who did not engage in any violence that day. He did bring in a spear to the Capitol that day, which would be considered a deadly weapon. He did enter into the Senate chamber. And he did leave a note for Mike Pence that was somewhat threatening. But in terms of actual physical violence, he didn't engage in what some other defendants have. But I think that, you know, just because of how prominent the QAnon Shaman was and the fact that he was sort of this poster boy or this - you know, this image of the insurrection and the attack, I think that that certainly played a role here, because he tried to make himself out to be the sort of mascot of this stop the steal movement. And he was sort of trying to ride that wave and benefit from it. So I think that that obviously backfired for him when it came time for sentencing.
GROSS: So with the QAnon Shaman, his defense argued that he had serious mental health problems. Did the judge take that into account? And I wonder if any of the other prominent people in the assault on the Capitol had mental health problems, too?
REILLY: Yeah. I mean, mental health problems are definitely an ongoing issue here, which is really, I think, what is so scary about these conspiracy theories about the stolen election floating out there, because some people can't make that distinction and can't recognize that this is somewhat of a ploy. They actually believe that the election was stolen. And because they actually believe that the election was stolen, they are taking what they think as - they see as justifiable action. It doesn't make sense for a lot of these people that they're just being lied to or being used as pawns in this game. They think that they are being told the truth. They think that Trump is telling them that the election is stolen. The election is obviously stolen. And what do you do when an election is stolen? They're taking the action that they see as justified. So it makes sense sort of in their head, which is why this idea that the election was stolen is so inherently troublesome and so inherently dangerous.
As I spoke to people, you know, over a year ago now ahead of - or in the aftermath of the 2020 were sort of telling me at that point this is what's going to make this dangerous. But yeah, mental health issues are going to be an ongoing issue in these cases going forward. And there's going to be this sort of breakdown between the way that individuals presented themselves on January 6 as sort of these really macho tough guys who are taking on the power and this was 1776 2.0 and they were ready to fight with how they're presenting themselves in court and how they're presenting themselves when it comes time for sentencing and sort of talking about all the hardships that they've gone through and how they aren't that smart, often, they're talking about and how they didn't understand and how they were fooled and tricked and, you know, just went along with the crowd and were, you know, sort of present themselves as lemmings who just went along with everything. So there's this huge discrepancy between the way that they acted that day and the way that they're presenting themselves when it comes time for the consequences.
GROSS: So one of the men who breached the Capitol was in tears when he was questioned by the FBI, and one of the things he was worried about was that his mother would find out.
REILLY: Yeah. So Danny Rodriguez, who was the individual who drove that stun gun into Officer Mike Fanone's neck on January 6, he was arrested back in March. And we've now seen the videotape of his confession to the FBI. And he talks about being worried that his mother was going to find out what he did. If you just sort of contrast the messages that we saw Danny Rodriguez send to his group and the messages that he, you know, yelled that day and the expressions that he had that day on January 6 to then him sort of breaking down kind of pathetically during his FBI interview, it's just this huge contrast. There's this huge break.
He, you know, really - he called himself so stupid and said that they were so stupid to believe that they were going to be able to take over the Capitol and sort of take over the government and that Trump was going to stay president. He, you know, he comes across, you know, as thinking of himself as pretty pathetic and calls himself a bunch of names, a bunch of disparaging names during that interview. So it really is this just - this breakdown of what they presented that day versus what happened when sort of the chickens came home to roost.
GROSS: How did you decide that you were going to really focus on the insurrectionists, identifying them, following their cases in the courts?
REILLY: Yeah, you know, I mean, as soon as this happened, I realized that it was going to take over my beat. And as soon as this FBI investigation popped up, I was pursuing that. I don't think in those early days I even recognized the extent of this and just how overwhelming of an investigation it was going to be. When you talk about the total scope of assaults that happened that day and when you talked about the ability of online sleuths to identify these people, there wasn't necessarily this sense in the early days that this many people would be able to be identified. A lot of the early cases that we saw were sort of the really easy layup sort of easy cases that were built off of social media posts.
What we've seen subsequently is those tougher cases, the cases that take more work, take more investigation, take more resources to be able to actually bring about, it's going to be a longer path for these tougher ones. And there's still hundreds of these cases to come. We're nowhere near the end of this because, even based off of what sleuths alone have identified, there's a long, long, long way to go. There are a bunch of cases that are sitting out there right now that are just waiting for the FBI's final stamp to move forward. And that comes at a time when already the court system is pretty overwhelmed. So it's going to be a busy two, three, four years for the federal courtroom in D.C.
GROSS: Ryan Reilly, thank you so much for talking with us. And I wish you Happy Holidays and a healthy 2022.
REILLY: Thanks so much.
GROSS: Ryan Reilly is senior justice correspondent for HuffPost. After we take a short break, Justin Chang will review the new film "The Tragedy of Macbeth," starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. This is FRESH AIR.


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