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Sodom, Condemnation, Conversion and Sanctification
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate (molles), nor sodomites (masculorum concubitores), nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.
And such some of you were: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:10-11, The Haydock Bible, 1859.
Homosexualism is a Sin Against Faith
Summa Sermon Notes 6
Here are the Summa references for the EF for the 1st Sunday of Lent.
1st Sunday of Lent
EPISTLE (2 Cor. 6:1-10)
"We exhort you"
Perseverance II-II Q.138.
Does Perseverance need the help of grace? II-II Q.138, a.4.
"That you receive not the grace of God in vain"
Can works of virtue done in charity become dead? III Q.89, a.4
Can works deadened by sin be revived again by penance? III Q.89, a.5
"Behold now is the acceptable time"
Was Christ born at a time suitable for the salvation of the human race? I-II Q.106, a.3
"Giving no offense to any man"
Is scandal a sin and how grievous? II-II Q.43, a.1-4.
Should temporal goods be given away to avoid scandal? II-II Q.43, a.8.
"In much patience"
In what does patience consist? II-II Q. 136, a.1
Is it the same as longanimity? II-II Q. 136, a.5
GOSPEL (Matthew 4:1-11)
"Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert"
Why did Christ wish to be tempted in the desert? III Q.41, a.2
Should He have been tempted publicly? III Q. 41, a.2, ad.1
"To be tempted" (by the devil)
Why did Christ wish to be tempted? III Q.41, a.1
The nature of the temptation II-II Q.97, a.1; a.2; a.4
Why Christ after His fasting should wish to be tempted III Q.41, a.3
Since Christ came to destroy the works of the devil, why did He tolerate them? III Q.41, a.1, ad.2
"By the devil"
Why did Christ prefer to be tempted by the devil, rather than by the flesh? III Q.41, a.1, ad.3
"And then He had fasted"
What is fasting? II-II Q.147, a.2; a.1, ad.3; a.3
Are all obliged to fast under the Church's precept? II-II Q.147, a.3
Are sinners obliged to fast under precept? II-II Q.147, a.4, ad.5
When must fasting be observed? II-II Q.147, a.5
Is excessive fasting sinful? II-II Q.88, a.2, ad.3
How is fasting violated? II-II Q.147, a.6
Why do we fast until the ninth hour and the Jews fasted until the evening? II-II Q.147, a.7, ad.1
Why did Christ wish to fast 40 days and nights since it was not necessary for Him? III Q.41, a.3, ad.2
"Afterwards he was hungry"
Why was Christ after 40 days' fasting more hungry than before? III Q.41, a.3
"And the tempter coming"
Was Christ ever tempted within the 40 days? III Q.41, a.3, ad.2
"If Thou be the Son of God"
Why did the devil use these words, "If Thou be," etc.? III Q.41, a.1, ad.1
"Command that these stones be made bread"
Was this a temptation to gluttony? III Q.41, a.4
Would Christ have committed gluttony if He changed the stone into bread to satisfy nature? III Q.41, a.4, ad.1
"Who answered and said"
Why did not Christ, as God and man, overcome and lay the devil prostrate? III Q.41, a.4
"And set Him upon the pinnacle of the temple"
Did the devil set Christ there so that all could see Him? III Q.41, a.4, ad.7
"Cast Thyself don"
Whether this temptation is one of vainglory III Q.41, a.4
Since the vainglorious are ever striving to get up, why did the devil tell Christ to throw Himself down? III Q.41, a.4, ad.2
"He hath given His angels charge over Thee"
The guardian angels I Q.113
Since man by free will can guard himself why have an angel guardian? I Q.113, a.1, ad.1
If angels are assigned to guard us, why do men perish? I Q.113, a.1, ad.3
Is an angel guardian assigned to each one? I Q.113, a.2
Why not one angel to guard many men? I Q.113, a.2, ad.1
When is an angel guardian assigned to us? I Q.113, a.5
Do the angels weep at the sins of those for whom they are guardians? I Q.113, a.7
"Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God"
Is tempting God a sin? II-II Q.97, a.2
"And showed Him all the kingdoms of the world"
Was there any mountain so high from which Christ could have seen all this? III Q.41, a.4, ad.7
"All these will I give to Thee if falling down Thou wilt adore me"
Why did not the devil say here, "If Thou be the Son of God," s previously? III Q.41, a.4
Was this last temptation of cupidity? III Q.41, a.4, ad.3
Was this last a temptation of idolatry? III Q.41, a.4, ad.4
Since there are seven capital sins, why was Christ tempted by only three of them? III Q.41, a.4, ad.4
"Begone, Satan"
Why did not Christ repulse the devil in the first two temptations, as He did so emphatically in the third? III Q.41, a.4, ad.6
"The the devil left Him"
Did the devil completely leave Him? III Q.41, a.3, ad.1
"And behold angels came and ministered to Him"
When did the angels come and minister to Him? III Q.41, a.3, ad.2
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A Homily on Fasting --Saint Thomas Aquinas
CHRIST AN EXAMPLE OF FASTING
THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT. --(FROM THE GOSPEL)
"When He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungered." — Matt. 4:2.
S. AUGUSTINE says that it is the highest religion to imitate what we worship, so that, when Our Lord fasted, we ought to imitate Him in fasting. There are four reasons which ought to move us to fasting — firstly, the command of God; secondly, the example of Christ; thirdly, the manifold harm which befalls those who do not fast; fourthly, the manifold benefits which come to them from fasting.
I. On the first head it is to be noted, that the Lord commanded us to fast in a fourfold manner — (1) By Himself, to Adam and Eve in Paradise, when He commanded that they should fast i.e., abstain from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and eat it not. (2) He commanded it by the Law of Moses: Lev. 16:31, "It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever." (3) God commanded it by the Prophets: Joel 2:15, "Sanctify a fast." (4) God commanded it by the Apostles: 2 Cor. 11:27, "In hunger and thirst, in fastings often" — whence he is a manifest transgressor of the precepts of grace who is unwilling to fast.
II. On the second head it is to be noted, that Our Lord taught us that there were four things necessary in fasting — (1) That we should be cleansed from all sin. (2) That we should conceal our fasting from the applause of men. (3) That we should fast with long-suffering and perseverance. (4) That we should overcome the temptations of the Devil. The first He taught in this, that He fasted when He was baptized; so also he who wishes to fast well ought first to be cleansed by penitence and confession: S. Matt. 6:17, "But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head and wash thy face." The second He taught because He sought the desert when about to fast; whence He showed to us that when we fast and do good works we must hide ourselves from the praises of men: S. Matt. 6:16, "When ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance ….. that thou appear not unto men to fast." The third He taught in this, that He fasted forty days and forty nights: S. Austine, "Subdue your flesh with abstinence from meat and drink as far as your health will permit." The fourth He taught in this, that He did not give way to the temptation of the Devil: "Man shall not live by bread alone ….. Get thee hence, Satan;" Ecclus. 2:1, "Son, when thou comest to the service of God prepare thy soul for temptation."
III. On the third head it is to be noted, that four evils come upon those who are unwilling to fast when they ought — (1) The evil of iniquity: Ezek. 16:49, "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread." (2) The evil of loss, for he who is not willing to fast will have to fast for ever from the fruit of eternal life; and this is indicated in Gen. iii. 17, where it is recorded that Adam would not abstain from the forbidden fruit; wherefore the Lord said, "Now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life ….. the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden." (3) The evil of present punishment: Ecclus. 37:34, "By surfeiting many have perished." (4) The evil of the punishment of perpetual hunger and thirst in the lower world: Isa. 65:13, "Behold, My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, My servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty" — which relates to the "heavenly feast," from which they who do not fast now, but "fare sumptuously every day, shall not have a drop of water even" (see S.Luke 16:9-24).
IV. On the fourth head it is to be noted, that a fourfold profit flows from fasting — (1) The mortification of vices. (2) An elevation of the mind towards God. (3) The acquisition of virtue, (4) The reward of eternal blessedness. Of these four S. Gregory says: "If thou represseth vices by bodily fasting," behold the first; "though elevatest the mind," behold the second; "thou increaseth virtue," behold the third; "thou grantest rewards," behold the fourth.
St Thomas Aquinas, Homilies on Lent #2
Age-Old Lenten Fast: One Meal a Day and Total Abstinence
Communism's Violence and Intolerance, Irrationality
"The political moralism of the 1970s, the roots of which are far from dead, was a moralism that succeeded in fascinating even young people who were full of ideals. But it was a moralism that took the wrong direction, since it lacked the serenity born of rationality. In the last analysis, it attached a higher value to the political utopia than to the dignity of the individual and it showed itself capable of despising man in the name of great objectives,... forgetting about God,... [leaving] in his place big words (and values) that are open to every kind of abuse."
Joseph Ratzinger, Subiaco Address, April 1, 2005, in Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures, San Francisco: Ignatius, 2006, 28, also published in The Essential Pope Benedict XVI, New York: HarperOne, 2008, 326 and in Joseph Ratzinger in Communio: Volume 2, Anthropology and Culture, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013, 189.
This wrongly-directed "political moralism," mentioned by Ratzinger, is very evident in today's contempt for chastity, the contempt for the sanctity and reverence of the human body (especially that of the female), and the contempt for marriage, for the marital/procreative act and for the nuclear family, and in the consequent murder of the unborn and in a general confusion regarding gender. Contraception and reproduction sterilizations are deemed "healthy" while virginity and celibacy are derided and condemned as draconian repressions of "nature," but human nature is supposedly denied. This new elite morality has abandoned basic intelligence and rational argument in favor of raw violence in the violation of the weak and defenseless person in the name of "rights," "freedom," "tolerance" and "women's health." In the name of free-speech and tolerance, this new elite forbids all discourse which might challenge its irrational politically-correct agenda.
A Harvard Professor's Conversion to Catholicism
O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui confugimus ad te
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Racist USA
The ubiquitous anti-immigration rhetoric causes me to raise a question. Why not create a legal path for the illegal immigrant to become legal? Why not create a just amnesty program, e.g. $10,000 dollar fine to regularize immigrant status for those who have been living and working here for over five years? That would solve the artificial need for a wall. The problem with that is it would eliminate the white control of the ethnically diverse nation. There are myriad towns of the nation which have a significant hispanic population but they cannot vote or hold any political office, though they are involved and exemplary in every other aspect of the life of the town! That cripples the improvement of the nation because the inhabitants thereof are not allowed to freely determine their own lives.
Another huge area in which you clearly see the racism operative in America is in real estate. There are tens of thousands of neighborhoods in America which are controlled by whites and have a policy of preferential option for whites. If you are not white the real estate agents don't want to sell to you. "For sale by owner" should be made much more commonplace to eliminate this wrongful discrimination. Federal and State law enforcement should go into towns and break up the local racist real estate policies which artificially separate our cities and our nation. There are still many places where the proverbial railroad tracks form racial barriers. If you don't want a boarder wall, the place to start is to eliminate the real estate racism.
The racist white American is a man who lives in a neighborhood with mostly white people and would frown on a black family or a Mexican family buying the houses in his block, even though they be of presumably the same socio-economic status as himself. That is racism. He would not want his white son to marry a black wife, or, what is considered even worse, his white daughter to marry a black man.
Pornography and every manner of sexual immorality, contraception, and abortion are doing to the noble Catholic hispanic immigrant family what it has already done to the American black: genocide in America. When they abort themselves to social insignificance the problem is solved by genocide. Just get them to take the pill and you exterminate them. Notice that the morning after pill has been approved for sale over-the-counter sale for over a decade. And they say abortions are down! They are not down, they are being induced earlier, by pills.
Civil Anarchy is the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
6th Century Byzantine Monastery Identified in Spain
El Pais reported the recent findings on January 18, 2020. Below is a report in English from eu.greekreporter.com.
Byzantine Monastery Discovered in Spain
By Ola Goroveci January 22, 2020
Archaeological experts from the University of Alicante in Spain have recently identified the first Byzantine monastery ever found on the Iberian peninsula. They first came across several round metal objects at the archaeological site, which is located in the area of Elda, Alicante. The exact identification of these objects had proven to be a mystery since the 19th century.
In the 6th century, Emperor Justinian forced people to keep a cache of state-minted coins in the main churches of each city. In this way, merchants could show that the coinage they used in economic transactions corresponded with the official money that the Emperor had minted. The churches used to work as guarantors that buyers of precious metals were not cheated and that the coins in general use had the actual value that they were meant to have. If the operations were fraudulent, the tax revenue was lower — something the Emperor kept close tabs on. "This apparently is how the monastery of "El Monastil" functioned as a Byzantine administrative and fiscal headquarters by order of the emperor," explains Antonio Manuel Poveda, a professor of Ancient History and director of the Archaeological Museum of Elda.
The painstaking research at Elda lasted almost 25 years due to the difficulties of identifying the architectural remains. Many different clues had been found during this time, but nothing had proven conclusive. But now, the results of the latest research have proven that what had been thought to be a Roman or Visigoth site on the highest part of a hill on the outskirts of Elda, was in fact a Byzantine basilica, the first ever built in Spain — and it functioned as an important center for fiscal administration in those times.
The first to point out the presence of possible remains at the monastery site was local municipal archivist Lamberto Amat in 1873, although he could not verify the exact date of its construction. However, 50 years ago, the organization El Centro Excursionista Eldense discovered a large number of archaeological materials, but it still was unable to identify them categorically and put them into any specific time frame. It wasn't until the 1980s when archaeologist Enrique Llobregat could confirm what he called the "existence of a Christian monastery" at the top. He related that he had discovered some marble fragments made according to the Greek style.
Now, in addition to the set of coins with descriptions in Greek, in the last excavations, directed by Antonio Manuel Poveda, a large octagonal column base has also been found, which is typical of Byzantine architecture and unique to date throughout the Peninsula. A pyxide, or cylindrical ivory box, decorated with a scene of Hercules capturing the Cerinea deer was also found at the Elda site. Pyxides were common objects throughout the Greek world and often contained small objects. This seems to be indicative of an attempt by the Byzantines to fuse their Greco-Eastern ancestry with Western Christianity. The convent church occupied an area of about 84 square meters (904 square feet) in this hilltop religious center. Various metal items from Byzantine-era liturgical rituals have now also been found and identified, including a tiny knife (lancia), used in the preparation of the sacred bread before Communion, as well as a teaspoon (cochlear), which is still used in the Communion rite today throughout Orthodoxy. Poveda asserts "These objects constitute the only Hispanic group belonging to the Byzantine Christian ritual in Spain. In addition, North African, Oriental and local ceramic materials have also been documented, dating from the second half of the 6th century."
The archaeologist added that in 1991, when the A-31 highway was built in this same area, a total of ten graves with 16 bodies were unearthed during construction works. Four of the people had been wearing rings engraved with the Greek letter sigma, and one of them even had a Greek cross.
Haydn for Four Hands Delight
The American Elite Democratic Front Runners
A homosexual, a communist, a bad Catholic and a white woman. All are pro-abortion homosexualists in the name of freedom, rights and decency.
11 Ways for Bishops to Reform the Clergy
1. Eliminate communion in the hand, including "the cup." For rare occasions of both species make intinction the norm.
2. Orient all Masses.
3. Have a weekly Extraordinary Form High Mass in the Cathedral.
4. Enforce clerical dress (Roman collar with cassock/clerical suit) with a $500 fine.
5. Confession/spiritual direction of women/children must be in a traditional confessional, with a wall between priest and penitent.
6. Enforce priestly celibacy law according to Canon 1395, with strict penalties for external sins against the 6th commandment.
7. Promote and encourage the norms for recitation of the Breviary as per Vatican II, to be chanted in common, in Latin (SC, 99-101). Have Latin Vespers chanted daily, especially on Sundays and Solemnities, in the Cathedral, by all the clergy and staff of the chancery and Cathedral rectory.
8. Promote the traditional fasts and penances, according to the pre-Vatican II norms, e.g. Fridays, Lent, Feast Day Vigils, Ember Days.
9. Have annual diocesan-wide Cathedral patron feast pilgrimage with a Solemn High Extraordinary Form Mass, encouraging all the parishes to walk in procession, in prayer and penance, in testimony.
10 Have annual diocesan-wide Corpus Christi processions for reparation, again culminating at the Cathedral Solemn High Extraordinary Form Mass.
11. Make altar boys/men the diocesan norm. The girls/women may form female scholae, serve as ushers, hospitality, etc.
I emphasize the Extraordinary Form of the Liturgy for its lack of ambiguity and because the common language and Rites of the Church are a great instrument of unity. Of course the homily would be in the vernacular(s). The language barrier is overcome by familiarity with the sacred rites and by providing worship resources in the pews with the necessary texts and translations. Besides, many people have pocket phones through which to access all relevant materials. The greatest obstacle to Latin in the liturgy is ideological and wrong-headed and must be overcome.
The Cassock Fine: Clergy Reform 101
Deus Providebit: The Present Moment
One of the principle obstacles to the interior life is lack of peace. We are never entirely in the present moment. We are groaning over what has happened, or agitating ourselves over what is about to happen or could happen. We erect a pyramid of the difficulties we have already had and those which we foresee. And then this mountain crushes us...
..."God will provide!"...
..."Seek God within yourself. Be the repose of God, and God will be your Repose."...
... Abandon the past to Mercy, the future to Providence, the present to Love. God asks only one thing of us: to love Him fully in the duty of the present moment with its joy, its labor, its suffering; to lend oneself to it with all the living forces of the soul; to open the soul wide to the overwhelming and urgent grace it bring; to yield one's soul up to it, pliant, and, at the same time, active; "to be completely faithful to the action of love in order to give each portion of grace its maximum return for His glory."...
Raoul Plus, Toward the Eternal Priesthood, New York: Pustet, 1946, 281.
Super Bowl Halftime Occult Porno Pelvic-Gyration Show
The halftime show last night was the worst I have seen. Shameful! It was most degrading of women to have women performing scantly clad on a stage on all major television networks center-staging their crotches and butts and incessantly gyrating them to the spectator throughout the show. I've never gone to a strip club but those gestures must surely be common there. The show was also filled with Satanic ritual imagery, which is brought out in the viral video below.
What is most appalling is the main-stream nature of the show and how the media are unanimously raving over it as if it were something good, as if a performance of excellence, in fact.
Which virtues, one might ask, are they praising? Is it praiseworthy for girls to show their bodies to the whole world, and not just their bodies, but the most shameful parts of their bodies, the parts that all decent people cover with the greatest decorum, and insist on keeping hidden and protected. Or is it praiseworthy to seduce men and boys to look at such lowly parts with gratification? Both actions are vices, not virtues: immodesty, lewdness, voyeurism and lust.
But in an age in which social-media nude images have become commonplace, "sexting," even for minors (which is against the law); and every manner of sexual immorality is condoned and praised; fornication in all its forms is decriminalized and promoted; and consequently condoms, contraceptive/abortifacient poisons and abortions are deemed healthy, good and necessary, it should be no wonder that pornographic cabaret has the day, and everyone seems to be OK with it.
Where are the true feminists in America (both men and women) who will stand up for the defense of the dignity of women and children, and fight back against this beastly sensationalism of the female orifices? It is a corrupt age which complacently tolerates the abuse of its women, children and...minorities. The immigrant Latin-American women of my lifetime have hitherto been renowned for their purity and modesty, in every sense, consistent with their deep and sincere Catholic Christian faith. There has been a decades-long assault also on that, the results of which were showcased last night.
Mark 9:42 ...whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me; it were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Cf. The treatise on the political movement in America which promotes sexual immorality as a tool for power is E. Michael Jones, Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, North Bend Indiana: Fidelity Press, 2018. See also Donald T. Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999; and Randy Engel, The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church, Export, Pennsylvania: New Engel Publishing, 2006.
"The Sex Education Movement ...has, as one of its key objectives, the promotion of a pansexual or bisexual agenda in which homosexuality and pedophilia play a key and pivotal role. The growing number of homosexual and pedophile priests and brothers, including homosexual bishops, as well as lesbian nuns, have formed a sixth column within the Church in the United States..."
1987 Randy Engel article quoted in The Rite of Sodomy, ix.
N.B. Superbowl Child Prostitution is a notorious reality finally receiving some attention, but with lewd halftime shows, there is a contradictory message. The show will glamorizes lap-dancing, but then outside we say "don't try that at home!"
Here is the video on the occult imagery.
This video shows an unmistakable masonic influence. The enemies of the Catholic Church enlist Catholic women to misrepresent and trash womanhood to make women into dogs and attempt to make that glamorous. They love to take Catholic virgins and turn them into whore icons. It is similar to what they do with politicians, e.g. Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, John Kerry... and what they have done now even with the Pope. They make a Pontiff of a confused Prelate from the most Catholic part of the globe to misrepresent and confuse the Catholic faith through deliberate ambiguity, to promote their agenda, the agenda of Satan, the father of Lies.
I call them "whore icons" because the one lives unwed in open concubinage for decades, now with her second lover who has fathered her children, and the other is now on her fifth "marriage," at least. It is no wonder that these idols of unstable homes are linked to freemasonry.
https://stream.org/an-open-letter-to-jennifer-lopez-and-shakira/
Not Made of Wood or Stone
Justices will review scope of McGirt decision, but won't consider whether to overturn it


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Jan Świderski (ur. 15 grudnia 1904 w Łowiczu, zm. 7 lutego 1988 w Warszawie) – polski chemik, prof. dr hab., badacz cukrów, substancji o działaniu fizjologicznym i barwników uczulających do emulsji fotograficznych (sensybilizatory).

Życiorys
Jan Świderski ukończył studia chemiczne na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim w 1932 roku, w roku 1936 na tej samej uczelni uzyskał doktorat, a w roku 1945 – habilitację. Był wieloletnim pracownikiem Uniwersytetu: w latach 1945–1947 adiunktem, w 1947 roku – zastępcą profesora, a od roku 1947 profesorem nadzwyczajnym na Wydziale Farmaceutycznym i Wydziale Matematyczno-Fizyczno-Chemicznym (potem na Wydziale Chemii). Pełnił m.in. funkcję prodziekana Wydziału Matematyczno-Fizyczno-Chemicznego (1953–1954) i dziekana Wydziału Chemii (1956–1969), a w latach 1953–1956 był prorektorem uczelni. Kierował Katedrą Chemii Organicznej i Pracownią Węglowodanów. Był też pracownikiem Akademii Medycznej w Warszawie (od 1950 roku). W latach 60. był kierownikiem Katedry Chemii Organicznej Wydziału Farmacji Akademii Medycznej w Warszawie, który mieścił się na kampusie Lindleya przy ul. Oczki 3. W latach 1951–1960 pełnił obowiązki doradcy ministra zdrowia ds. nauki.

Był autorem podręczników akademickich dotyczących chemii organicznej oraz nauczycielem i wychowawcą wielu polskich chemików. Był promotorem 9 prac doktorskich (m.in. Anny Piskorskiej-Chlebowskiej) i patronował 3 przewodom habilitacyjnym. Od 1933 roku należał do Polskiego Towarzystwa Chemicznego, którego w latach 50. był wiceprezesem.

Niektóre publikacje

Odznaczenia
 Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (1954)
 Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (22 lipca 1951, za wybitną działalność naukową w dziedzinie medycyny)
 Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej (13 stycznia 1955)
 Odznaka honorowa "Za wzorową pracę w służbie zdrowia"

Był też laureatem nagrody Ministra Szkolnictwa Wyższego I stopnia w 1964 roku.

Życie rodzinne
Jan Świderski był synem Tomasza, administratora majątku rodziny Ostrowskich na Podlasiu, i Bronisławy z Bańkowskich. W 1933 roku ożenił się z Marią Modzelewską (1904–1984), również chemiczką. Mieli córkę Bożenę (ur. w 1938).

Został pochowany na cmentarzu ewangelicko-reformowanym przy ul. Żytniej w Warszawie (kwatera 14, rząd 3, grób 16).

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Absolwenci Wydziału Chemii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Ludzie urodzeni w Łowiczu
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Komandorskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (Polska Ludowa)
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (Polska Ludowa)
Odznaczeni Medalem 10-lecia Polski Ludowej
Odznaczeni odznaką honorową "Za wzorową pracę w służbie zdrowia"
Pochowani na cmentarzu ewangelicko-reformowanym w Warszawie
Polscy chemicy
Urodzeni w 1904
Wykładowcy Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego
Wykładowcy Wydziału Farmaceutycznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Zmarli w 1988

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Picture this: a President and his First Lady. They've been married a long time, almost thirty years. On the surface, it seems like a perfect match, but theirs is not a love match by any means. It's a partnership rooted in shared ambitions. Throw in affairs on both sides, machinations that would have made Machiavelli proud, and you have...no, not the Clintons. But it does sound a little like them, doesn't it?
Actually, it's Francis and Claire Underwood, the political power couple from the Netflix series House of Cards.
The series had already completed four seasons by the time Collin and I discovered it a couple of weeks ago, while he was off work recovering from a stress fracture in his left ankle. We binged our way through all four seasons in a matter of days and are now anxiously awaiting Season 5--which, unfortunately, won't come until next year.
It all starts with House Majority Whip Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a South Carolina Democrat who's been promised the Secretary of State position by the newly-elected President. When the President decides Underwood is more useful to his political agenda in Congress, Frank hatches a plot to rise to power by manipulating the players in the political game like pieces on a chess board. Among those stepped on in his climb up the political ladder are Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara), an ambitious young political reporter to whom Frank feeds information she in turn leaks when it will most benefit Frank; Peter Russo (Corey Stoll), an alcoholic congressman from Pennsylvania; Rachel Posner (Rachel Brosnahan), a Washington call girl; Zoe's colleagues Janine Skorsky (Constance Zimmer) and Lucas Goodwin (Sebastian Arcelus); and Secretary of State Catherine Durant (Jayne Atkinson). One by one, Frank eliminates everyone who stands between him and the Presidency.
Claire's (Robin Wright) own political ambitions eventually threaten Frank's, first when she demands he appoint her US Ambassador to the United Nations, even after Congress has rejected her nomination, and later when she wants to be his running mate in the 2016 election. When she announces she's leaving him, Frank agrees to make her his Vice-President.
The pair will stop at nothing to get what they want. Murder? Not above them at all. Using the beheading of a hostage held by Islamic terrorists to gain public approval? No problem. Facing off with a Putin-like Russian President (Lars Mikkelsen), Viktor Petrov? Certainly! Starting a war? Why not!
We enjoyed the series tremendously, but it made both of us think. If behind-the-scenes Washington DC is really this bad, is there anyone there worth voting for?
I say vote Grumpy Cat 2016.
Kevin Spacey looks and sounds like Grumpy Cat!
Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright make this a compelling series - even if they behave very badly!
It feels so real, doesn't it? Great writing.
Oh, yes! And it's easy to get hooked on the show.
FU? Pretty much what government an politicians do. Sorry to sound so glum.
I suspect that's why the writers gave him those initials. There's a message there.
Sorry for the bad new but it is worst.
The x knew someone that worked for Clinton since Arkansas. In fact her office was right next door to the Oval Office. If you think you know what was going on then you are so sadly mistaken. You should hear some of what went on. Just awful.
Remember Clinton was in the WH when the first bombing of the World Trade Center happened. Remember ?
That is one reason why I don't want the lying money grubbing Clintons back in the White House. Plus Hillary as Secretary of State was a fiasco with Bill following her around collecting lots of money.
If they get back in the WH when Bill isn't chasing anything in a skirt he will be holding his hand out for more money. Hillary will just lie lie lie and then lie some more. The selling of the White House.
Then there is Benghazi, Hillary Clinton repeatedly ignored urgent requests to provide security for the compound. Ambassor Stevens Agent Strickland And Agent Smith. Hours before their death the Daily Mail a paper in the UK reported that Stevens sent a cable describing the trouble coming. But Hillary and Obama did nothing. These men died of fire and smoke.
Both should be begging for forgiveness . Instead Hillary blamed someone else and laughed through the hearings.
I don't think the Clintons know anymore what is a lie, everything is a lie.
opps sorry when on a rant.
I'm not surprised by anything those two did or will do. I think Hillary will resort to anything to be the first woman president.
I'd love to have a woman president. Just not her.
If she thinks she'll get Bernie Sanders' supporters, I think she's going to be sorely disappointed. Most of us aren't registered Democrats, party people. I've seen a lot of calls for a write-in vote.
So agree with you. she expected to sail into the White House.
I am a registered Democrat but I have had it.... anything even the bonkers Republicans is better than Hillary's party.
I voted for Bernie but it was a vote against Hillary.
She acts like the Presidency is owed to her. My mantra is "Anybody But Hillary."
I haven't seen this show. Will ask Tim if he has.
Life imitates art, or the other way around.
In this case, I'm not such which it is!
Entertaining show with some really good writing! I'm sure there's a great deal of truth behind the fiction; there always is!
I must admit I always wonder the same thing whenever I watch something like this Norma, that goes for English shows too. Let's hope not but I wouldn't be surprised!
I used to love to fly, but the necessary security procedures took the fun out of it. They won't let me scare people anymore!


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Spill a glass of water on the floor? Notice a scuff mark over in the corner? Don't wait to clean up. The longer you wait to do something about that scuff mark or spill, the more damage it will do to your wood floor. Spills are especially bad for floors, because wood and moisture don't mix.
To clean up a spill, first blot it with a cloth, then use a damp paper towel to remove any residue. Finish off with a dry paper towel. Many scuffs can be buffed out with a sock. If that doesn't work, use a damp cloth with a little baking soda to buff it out. Again, follow it up with a damp paper towel to remove residue, and a dry one to finish.
Never wet mop your wood floor. Moisture will dull the finish, and if it penetrates it, moisture will damage the wood. Use a dust cloth on your wood floor once a week, and vacuum on a regular basis as well. Vacuums are especially good at pulling up debris from places where a dust cloth can't go. Ideally, you'll use a canister vacuum with the floor brush attachment. If you use an upright vacuum, make sure you turn off the rotating brush first! You don't want to scratch the wood with those bristles.
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The Liberals are now the party of racism
Now, following their defence of Justin Trudeau despite his repeated—and rapidly adding up—instances of wearing racist blackface, the Liberals are now the party of racism.
Spencer Fernando Winnipeg, MB
September 19, 2019 3:29 PM 2 mins reading
This article was published more than 1 year ago, information might not be accurate.
"Racist Party."
That's how the Liberals were hoping to brand the Conservatives.
But now, that Liberal fever-dream is over.
Now, following their defence of Justin Trudeau despite his repeated—and rapidly adding up— instances of wearing racist blackface, the Liberals are now the party of racism.
Of course, there were growing hints of this elitist and prejudicial attitude already in the Liberals.
Consider how Justin Trudeau treated Jody Wilson-Raybould.
He was glad to use her appointment to boost his own 'woke' credentials, but the moment she actually spoke up and wanted to do her job, he and his cronies tried to demonize her, destroy her reputation, and then kicked her out of the party, replacing her with someone who just so happened to have gone to the same university he did.
Consider what Trudeau said when Grassy Narrows protestors demanded action at a fundraiser.
Instead of acknowledging their concerns, Trudeau arrogantly dismissed them and said "thank you for your donation."
And now, we learn that Justin Trudeau has repeatedly worn blackface – not only in high school when it could potentially be written off as being a dumb kid – but as a nearly 30-year-old high school teacher.
In fact, at his recent press conference, Justin Trudeau was forced to admit that he doesn't even know how many times he may have worn blackface, and it seems there may be even more instances of Trudeau in racist blackface yet to emerge.
Now, some may say it's mean to call the Liberals the "Racist Party."
But the Liberals have said far worse about Patriotic Conservative Canadians, and have repeatedly demonized anyone who opposes the government as somehow being a bigot, a racist, "un-Canadian," and more.
The Liberals have disgustingly insinuated that Andrew Scheer is "pandering to white supremacists," and repeatedly ripped into him because he happened to speak at an event where controversial people also spoke, even though Scheer didn't say anything controversial and never even stood on the stage with the people the Liberals mentioned.
Yet, those same Liberals, so glad to always claim everyone else is racist, are now claiming that Justin Trudeau should still be PM despite his repeated racist blackface incidents.
Even though no other candidate would be allowed to get away with it, even though the Liberals would repeatedly demand that Andrew Scheer resign if it had been him in the photos, and even though countless numbers of regular Canadians have lost their careers for far less, the Liberals have decided that Justin Trudeau gets a free pass.
In effect, they are defending racism, so long as it's someone on their own team doing it. As a result, under the leadership of Justin Trudeau, the Liberals are The Party of Racism.

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Sleepover Surprises
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September 27 2014: Illyana drops in on Nancy and Bobby. At an awkward moment, of course.
Bobby's Flat
An inexpensive two bedroom flat in M-Town
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Cuddling under the covers, Nancy has a smile on her face that tends to imply one thing. She rests her head on Bobby's shoulder, getting ready to sleep, now that she's a happy ball of goo. "I love you, Bobby Drake," she tells him as she starts to drift off.
"Love you too Nancy O'Neal." Bobby murmurs. He's quite content. The two of them are taking up half the bed. They could, if they tried, take up the whole bed, but they're way to close right now for that. Which suits the ice nerd just fine. This close there's no escaping Nancy's null field, so his body temperature is actually normal (wonder of wonders), which at least means the poor reformed goth won't be catching a cold any time soon. Well, not from Bobby. It's getting properly cold in New York these days and while it doesn't bother Drake any, he does keep the windows shut and the heater on so that the apartment doesn't get too chilly. In the past, it did a limited amount of good but since Mike re-insulated the place and replaced the heating system, it works like one of Illyana's magic spells. Just flick the switch and enjoy the controlled climate.
Here the couple is all settling in for sleep when the darkness is broken by the flare of eldritch light which, for eyes adjusted to the gloom is downright blinding. Then there's the sudden weight that, were Nancy and Bobby not snuggled up so very tight wouldn't be a big deal. But given that they are, Illyana ends up half on Nancy and half on Bobby. Apparently they're not a very comfortable bed either, as the blonde wiggles a bit, trying to wedge herself between the pair. "Who do you two manage to not smother yourselves? Are you glued together?!" She demands.
At least she's not wearing her boots. Or even jeans. She's got on low-riding soft cotton yoga pants and a tank top. It's like she's decided to come over for a sleepover or something.
Nancy sighs happily. She's pretty sure she doesn't deserve to be this happy and is going to end up losing Bobby someday, but till then she is just going to let herself have these moments of joy. "So, it's a good thing I decided to practice caprice 24 all summer. The fingering was good practice for the piece they are wanting for my midterm."
She's about to say more when the flare from the familiar teleportation disks appear. She wriggles herself when Illy ends up sitting on her shins. "Dammit woman! Points for good timing, but you have a real boney butt." She laughs softly, rolling her eyes as she is made to seperate from cuddling with her boyfriend. "Okay, what's with the outfit? Did K'nert eat all your clothes? No. Can't be that, you magick your clothes into existance. So, that means you chose to wear that and I can't figure out for the life of me why."
Bobby jumps. He's not nearly as used as some to teleportation flares and not used at all to having a third person on the bed with him. Nancy moves and the blonde ends up between the two of them, which is good because that much motion for Bobby would have put him off the edge. "Yikes! What the- oh. Illyana." He peers up at his ceiling as though that were the source of the stepping disk and not the sorceress next to him.
"Er, hi there. Make yourself comfortable?" It's not sarcastic. He'd probably offer anyway. But it's veeeeeeeery confused.
Illyana makes an approving sound as Nancy scoots over, thereby allowing her the place snuggled in between the pair of them. She looks over to Bobby and grins, something that on most people is a disarming gesture but on Illyana seems just a bit too feral to be anything but worrisome. She ruffles his hair and wedges herself right in against him as though he were her boyfriend instead of Nancy's. Of course, she's wedged in against Nancy like the other girl is her girlfriend but that's neither here nor there. The blankets are tugged at so Illyana can get her feet in under them as well. "I took a shower and I didn't want to get changed *again* before bed." She explains. "I don't conjure PJs. It ends up being weird fetish lingerie and it's just not comfortable at all." Hence the soft cotton and short tank top.
Speaking of which, she tugs at the blankets again to see what Nancy's wearing now that she's under the covers with them. "But. I hadn't dropped in on you, and I remembered when it wasn't like, three in the morning so I figured I'd drop in." Does this mean she's planning on said sleepover?
If it were anyone other then Illyana cuddling up to Bobby like that, she'd likely be cateloging the many places she could hide their body. Illyana just gets a smirk and a shake of her head. Do not give the troll the food she wants. It only makes her enjoy herself. She twists onto her side, propping her head on a palm, her elbow on the bed.
Under the blankets, Nancy is wearing absolutely nothing considering what she was doing not even ten minutes ago. She grabs the blankets and pulls them back down on herself. "If you wanted the free show, you should have been here earlier, goof. So, you hungry? Thirsty? We don't have vodka, but we have beer. And icecream."
Ten minutes is enough for Bobby to have been asked to get Nan something to drink, and hence, enough to have put something on. Which saves the ice nerd a terminal case of embarrassment. As it is, he turns a bit red. More than a bit. Hey, he's not Warm-Twin. Really the only person whose seen that much of him (prior to now) is Nancy. "Errrrr, um…" He coughs. "I, yeah, I can go… get you something?"
Illyana slaps a hand over her eyes as Nancy works on pulling the blankets back down. "By the black abyss I've gone blind!!"
Then her fingers part a bit and she peeks at Nancy with one eye through them. "Are you sure I missed the show? Or maybe I just waited until it was done so my MST3K approach wouldn't throw off loverboy's stride." Illyana deadpans. Does Bobby know about Illyana's ability to scry? If he does he probably wishes he didn't know… She waves off Bobby's offer. "Nah." Besides, she knows he'd love to run away. So she won't give him the excuse. "I'd end up with a beer float and that just sounds gross."
"Hardy har har. It is to laugh," says Nan as she reaches under the pillow to grab her nightshirt. She pulls it on over her head and wriggles iwth it under the covers till she's covered. "Nah, if you had scried on us first, you would have totally said something by now," the dark haired ex-goth points out. She leans passed Illy to give Bobby a kiss. "You know, I could really use a glass of water. With ice," she says, giving him an excuse to leave the room and put more clothes on, ignoring the glass of water she has sitting on her bedside.
Most of Bobby's clothes are in the room with them, but he could at least throw a shirt on. Bobby gives Nan a kiss back and Illyana a… well it's not a comfortable smile. It's not an 'ohcrapdemon' smile either. It's just the smile of someone who had an extra woman dropped onto his bed during cuddles. Which is to say it's a fairly unique one. He starts to climb out of bed… well if he doesn't get tangled up in the covers or otherwise mischeviously prevented. "Sure. Water. With ice." Which he could do now for her actually if her field weren't nulling him.
"Hey! I'm in bed with you! *I* don't get a kiss?" Illyana mock-pouts at Bobby, crossing her arms in front of her chest. The sad puppy routine is rather ruined by the dark clint to her eye and well, the fact that those blue eyes seem so empty and colder than the snowcone himself.
Nan gives Illyana a shove when she teases Bobby for a kiss. "If you want kisses, go ask warm Bobby. Besides, you get enough canoodling with Jer." She sits up now that she's at least presentable, fingers running through her hair to make it a little less ruffled. "So, you just hear for a social call or is something up?"
She gives Bobby an apologetic shrug. She's explained this before. Illy has no concept of boundaries. Correction, she has no concept of *other people's* boundaries. Telling her to stop would fall on deaf ears, so it's best to just go with the flow. And that usually means fun things happen anyway.
Bobby shrugs back. Do not feed a troll is good advice to apply to someone who likes to push buttons.
It's also good advice to apply to Bobby. He winks at Nan and looks over at the blonde. "Oh! You're sooo right. I'm sorry. I'm new to this." Quick as can be he leans in and gives the blonde a short but rather thorogh kiss and then moves at speed to the kitchen with a smirk. Nan asked for some water after all.
He's so dead.
Well. Bobby does rather manage to shut Illyana up for a moment as she's left blinking in surprise. Her tongue licks out over the center of her top lip as she looks in the direction that Bobby's already scampered off through and huhs before turning back to Nancy with a dismissive shake of her head. "Eh, just a social call. I tend to loose track of time." Literally. Limbo's time is all skewed. It's how she lost touch with Kitty for so long. She just… didn't realize how much time had gone by and kept putting it off until 'a better time'. She wiggles over into Bobby's vacated space and rolls onto one hip so she's facing Nancy amidst the rumpled covers. She works on pulling her long hair out of the way of limbs and blankets and everything else it likes to get into, causing her tank top to rise up a bit and making the dark smudges on her hip visible. "Jericho tell you he got jumped the other day?" Then she pauses. "Last week?" She frowns, brow furrowing. How long has it been now?
Nan is about to say something when… she simply stares. Did Bobby just kiss Illyana? He has stunned not just Illy with that kiss but Nan too as the pair of them watch him leave the room. She starts to laugh as he leaves. His quirky sense of humor is one of the reasons why she likes him so much.
"I was just thinking to myself how I haven't seen you in ages. Not since just after that whole HYDRA thing. Been missing you. Oh, did you get my text yesterday?"
Noticing the dark smudges on the hip, Nancy leans in to have a closer look. "What have you been up to? And the snipers? When he met Big Red? Yeah, he told me that."
Bobby comes back in with that water, and a shirt. There was one on the couch in the living room. There's ice in the water too though the ice cubes are all words. What's. Going. On. And a question mark. Way to be subtle there, Bobby.
At least he knows it can't be anything too awful and he hasn't been dropped into Limbo mostly naked for kissing Illyana so… there's that. He does come back in time to hear about snipers though and… "Are those bruises?"
Instantly, Bobby's somewhat worried. "Illy, are you okay?"
"Mmmmaaaaaybe." Illyana replies, smirking at Nancy. Why does she think she got company in bed just after happyfuntimes! At least she didn't show up during the pre-game and interrupt the fun.
Illyana did say she'd just taken a shower (and smells all freshly scrubbed!), so it's not durt. The lighting isn't great but Nancy can make out the faint bruising and the sharper line that is the imprint of teeth that didn't quite break the skin.
The blonde swats Nancy away absently and frowns at Bobby in a sort of confused way. "Of course I'm OK." Wouldn't she have said she wasn't if she wasn't? "No, this was in Limbo. K'nert was hurt pretty bad, sounds like Jericho got a pretty bad knock on the head."
Teeth on hip.. Nancy looks up at Illyana and arches a brow. "Are those what I think are?" she asks. She then sits back and rolls her eyes. "Don't worry about it, babe. That's just some leftovers of her and my brother… doing… stuff." She makes a face, as if somehow Illy and Jericho doing what she and Bobby were just doing is somehow grosser.
When told that the problem was in Limbo, Nancy looks sharply at her friend. "What happened? Is K'nert okay? How bad are Jer's burns this time?"
Bobby looks over at Illyana. She's on his part of the bed now which is fine. He'll just get behind Na- dang it. No, she's scooted too far back too. Internally rolling his eyes he gets back down onto the bed between Nancy and Illyana, which is to say, the only place there's any room the way the two women are sprawled out. "Something bad happen?" Teeth on the hip. And she doesn't seem upset. That's… something that normally people do the neck isn't it?
"I'm not a telepath, which I thank my not-so-lucky stars for constantly because I'm fairly sure that your mind is a cesspool." Illyana says, sticking her tongue out at Nancy. Maybe people normally do that on the neck, but it also tends to be nips. Not something that leaves a ring of bruises and the imprint of teeth however much later.
"Not really. I'm going to have to resort to magic to pull him out of the coma-equivalent he's in." She says with a frown. "I keep hoping that he'll come out on his own but…" She shakes her head. Magic that's so… invasive to another living being tends to be something Illyana avoids for fear of corrupting them. In K'nert's case, further. Yeah, he's a demon, but she still remembers her little pet squib she ended up turning into a monster… "A bunch of demons caught him out on the edges of the green and attacked. He got back OK though."
Nancy smirks over at her bestie when Illyana describes her mind as a cesspool. True, Bobby has done a lot to make her nicer to be around, but her mind is as dirty as ever. No amount of work will ever clean that up again. "That's why ya love me."
Nancy's Limbo corruption has been a double edged sword. Being attractive to demons is great when they are 'friends' like K'nert or Big Red. If Nan knew she was a demon magnet now, she'd likely avoid Limbo like the plague. As it is, she doesn't. And so… "How can I help. What do you need me to do."
"Need us, to do." Bobby amends as he wedges himself back down on the bed. "Really Illyana, you're Nancy's best friend and we're team mates." Even if she did just drop into his bed post… eh. Well, like Nancy says, that's how she is. He's doing his very best not to be weirded out. Creeped out, that doesn't seem to be an issue but it's safe and fair to say that Bobby's never met anyone like Illyana before and really doesn't quite know what to do with her on some levels.
Most people would scoot back, give Bobby some space. You know, observe that whole 'personal bubble' thing. Illyana shifts a bit so he can fit in better, and then promptly flumfs down on him a bit like he were a body pillow. She also nips his shoulder once, kinda hard. That was for kissing her! Setting her chin on that same abused spot though, she seems to mentally move on from the oral assault on her best friend's boyfriend. In their bed. "He seems OK, just watch yourself. Some of them do know how to slip through to this side and demons aren't mutants." So she can't level the playing field with them with her power.
Before, she might have brought up the luminescent quality Jericho's eyes have picked up and that it worries her. But it's too late to tell Jericho to stay away from her, so she doesn't bother to mention it. "Something about it seems.. suspicious. They should have killed K'nert, or K'nert should have woken up already."
Nancy reaches over to flick Illyana's hip when she bites Bobby. "Oi! Not the Bobby I'm willing to share," she teases before deciding that using Bobby as a pillow looks pretty good. It was, after all, what she was using him for when Illyana arrived. Soon, Bobby has two women leaning on him, one of them being far more affectionate with nuzzles as well. "Big Red isn't one of yours. He told me as much. I explained to him why coming to Limbo wasn't a good thing. He seemed to like my answer better then Jer's. And if a demon shows up, I'll see if the blaster Star's crew gave me will work on them."
Nan frowns at the mention of K'nert. "Have you tried ice cream?"
"Ow!" Bobby says softly as Illyana nips at him. No boundries indeed. Well… he did kind of ask for that. After she kind of asked for it. Whatever. Nancy's got his back. Er, well apparently she's got his front and he's not going to be going anywhere any time soon.
"It's pretty nifty, actually. I think it'd probably be a lot more impressive if Nancy hadn't told them to lock it on stun." He looks over. "Did you tell them to leave a way to unlock it?"
Illyana just gives Nancy a Look as she asks about the ice cream. "Trust me. It's unnatural. After I catch a nap later I'm gonna see about waking him up and see if he's got anything to share."
The flicking just gets a smirk from the blonde and that wicked glint in her blue eyes. At least Bobby doesn't get bitten again though.
She nods in agreement with Bobby on the whole 'stun' thing. "Depending on how it works? You might need a lethal level to even get the attention of some things."
Taking a deep breath, the way Nancy's brow is furrowed is enough to say that she's worried for the little demon. Considering how much she used to hate it, she's come a long way. "Just… do what you can for him. And yeah, I know how to switch it. Cause, yeah, like Illyana said, some things won't even feel it on full blast, let alone stun."
Bobby grins. "You should ask them for a jetpack or something next time." It's a joke but seriously. If Nancy's going by hanging around the Outsiders, she needs to be able to keep up with superpowered badasses like Starfire. And nutjobs like Skaar. Also, conundrum: Where the hell is he supposed to put his hands?
"Anyway, you stayin' over tonight Illy?" Mostly he has to know if he's gonna sleep like this. There are worse things, he supposes… though not less awkward ones.
"Nah. I'm not big on company when I sleep." Illyana replies. Not like she's big on sleep in general. But she really can't get away from having to do so once a week or so. She gives Bobby a patpat and pushes herself up to a sitting position. "But. I should let you two go back to your regularly scheduled snuggling."
Laughing, Nancy sits up as well and hugs Illyana. "Hey, keep me posted about K'nert. And say hi to Jer for me. The kind of hi that *I* would say to him, no hip nibbles, thank you. And when K'nert is better, you and I need to go out and do something. I don't know, like torment the FoH at one of their protests or something."
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* Sox sweep Pirates and have now won eight of 10–and are only three games under .500.
* South Siders brace for Stephen Strasberg and the Nationals tomorrow night. It'll be Gavin Floyd for the Sox.
* Jake Peavy will go Saturday in D.C. The MRI showed no structural damage so he's only being held back two days.
* And maybe the most intriguing bit of news is that the Sox have just designated Jayson Nix for assignment and promoted 1B-3B-DH Dayan Viciedo (pictured above) from AAA Charlotte. He was hitting .290 with 14 homers and 34 RBI in 62 games for the Knights. We could certainly use his bat and Nix was really a non-factor.
A week ago, when the White Sox embarked on their seven-game road trip to Cleveland and Tampa Bay, it's safe to say that we would have been happy with what now has happened–a series win over the Tribe and a split with the Rays.
Of course more would have been better, but the way this season is going a 4-3 mark is satisfactory–with the hope that June will be the time for the turnaround.
The finale in Tampa Bay yesterday, an 8-5 triumph over baseball's best team, had a lot of heroes. Jayson Nix, who replaced Mark Teahen (injury to right middle finger) at third in the middle of the game, gave the Sox the lead for good in the sixth with a grand slam (pictured above). Alex Rios went 3 for 5 with his 11th homer and a pair of RBI and Juan Pierre made two spectacular catches.
On the pitching side Jake Peavy was nothing special, but got the win. Sergio Santos lowered his ERA to 0.48, Matt Thornton pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings and Tony Pena finished the game by retiring Evan Longoria and Carlos Pena.
Now it's back to Chicago to face the Rangers, Indians and Tigers. No time to waste.
After failing to get a sniff of the major leagues as an infielder with five organizations, Sergio Santos is finally a big-leaguer–as a relief pitcher. He earned that distinction with a fine spring and today the 2002 No. 1 draft pick of the Diamondbacks was named to the White Sox 25-man roster heading into Opening Day. And he's only been pitching since last year.
The other roster question was also answered as Jayson Nix made the team as a utility infielder/outfielder.
The final cuts were infielder/outfielder Brent Lillibridge, outfielder Alejandro De Aza, pitcher Dan Hudson (Charlotte) and hurlers Greg Aquino, Erick Threets and Charlie Leesman plus catcher Donny Lucy (assigned to minor league camp).
You wouldn't know it by the 8-15-4 spring record or the fact the White Sox lost both ends of a split-squad doubleheader yesterday to the Rangers and Royals, but Ozzie Guillen is happy with the team he and GM Kenny Williams have put together.
The truth is that spring training records mean little. Of course any time they're keeping score you want to win, but getting the regulars ready for the season and the liberal use of secondary players and youngsters to see what they can do is the main purpose. And there is really no proof that a winning record in Arizona or Florida will mean a winning season or vice versa. For the record, the Sox went 14-18 in the spring of 2005.
The Sox brass is reportedly meeting today to make decisions on the 25-man roster. The big issue appears to be whether or not they keep 12 or 13 pitchers or an extra infielder. It seems like Sergio Santos would be the 12th pitcher with Greg Aquino and Dan Hudson vying for the 13th spot. If 13 hurlers go north, it could spell the end of Jayson Nix in a Sox uniform since he's out of options.
Sox notes of note: Despite yesterday's two losses, there were some bright spots. In the 10-8 loss to the Royals at Camelback Ranch, Mark Teahen continued his resurgence. He went 2 for 4 with an RBI, lifting his spring average to .277…Scott Linebrink, Matt Thornton and J.J. Putz each pitched a scoreless inning against K.C….The Sox were blanked 5-0 by the Rangers in Surprise, but Paul Konerko's two hits brought his spring average to .327 and Gavin Floyd gave up only a pair of runs with six strikeouts in six innings of work…John Danks makes the start tonight at home against the Angels.
* After receiving an alert on my BlackBerry yesterday that Brent Lillibridge (above) smashed a home run in the Sox 5-3 loss to the Padres, it dawned on me that I couldn't remember the last time a home run was a negative for the player hitting it. There certainly have been times when a home run meant nothing–for instance, in a blowout game–but this was rare. Why? because Ozzie has been preaching to Lilli that he shouldn't try to be a power hitter and he's much more suited to play small ball. So, instead of the Sox brass liking what they saw, it very well could have been the straw that broke the camel's back in Brent's quest to win a roster spot in his tug of war with Jayson Nix.
* Speaking of Nix, it looks like he's won the battle. Earlier in the spring Ozzie expressed his disappointment in both Lillibridge and Nix, but in Jayson's defense he has hit .345 to Brent's 214. A negative for both is their strikeout totals. Nix has K'd nine times, Lillibridge eight.
* Sergio Santos, the much-ballyhooed "out of options" converted infielder who is making a bid as a reliever on the 25-man roster, had his scoreless spring halted yesterday. He gave up two runs, two hits and a walk in one inning of work. Reading comments from Ozzie, it doesn't appear this blip will affect Santos' chances.
* While Santos struggled against San Diego, both J.J. Putz and Scott Linebrink pitched scoreless baseball.
* In the category of small victories, after his two-run homer on Wednesday Mark Teahen doubled against the Padres–hopefully showing he's on his way back.
* Freddy Garcia and the Sox face the Diamondbacks today at their former spring home in Tucson.
* A — A big plus for me was to see both Andruw Jones and Alex Rios off to great starts. Jones has hit two home runs, eight RBI and is hitting .385 with a .467 on base percentage. Rios has been nursing an injury, but is hitting .304 with a pair of homers, six RBI and a .346 OBP.
* B — The Natural, Gordon Beckham (pictured below), doesn't look like he's going to suffer from the sophomore jinx. So far in the spring, he's hitting .333 with five doubles and a homer and is getting on base 43 percent of the time. He's also been making every play at second base.
* C — is for the catching situation. A.J. Pierzynski is hitting at a .345 clip and shows no signs of slowing down. Ramon Castro is a capable backup. There was never any question that Tyler Flowers would begin the season at Charlotte, but it is a bit troubling he's off to such a slow start.
* D — One of the highlights of Sox spring training has been the play of former Florida Marlin, outfielder Alejandro De Aza. Despite being destined to begin the year with Charlotte, he is hitting .333 with seven RBI. He's an exciting player who very well might be up in Chicago at some time during the season.
* E — is for errors, which I'm happy to say will hopefully occur much less in 2010. The Sox will be a more versatile and fundamentally sound team so there will likely be fewer miscues and brain cramps.
distraction. Luckily Ozzie stopped it before it really impacted the team.
* G — Our old friend Freddy Garcia (pictured below) takes the hill this season as the fifth starter. He seems a lot older because he's been around so long, but Freddy is just shy of 34 and should give us the necessary push at the No. 5 spot in an outstanding rotation.
* H — If Freddy doesn't come through the Sox are well-protected with Dan Hudson, who pitched at every level of baseball last season and did a creditable job with the Sox in September. He looks like the real deal.
* I — I predict that the Sox will win the AL Central with the Twins, Tigers, Royals and Indians finishing in that order.
* J — Bobby Jenks has been struggling with his calf, but he says he'll be ready to go Opening Day. The Sox have some depth in the bullpen, but losing Jenks would definitely be a big blow.
* K — We need Paul Konerko to have a big year, especially with the departure of Jim Thome and Jermaine Dye. It could be Paulie's last season in Chicago, but let's hope it's one of his best.
* L — Scott Linebrink has proven himself to be a capable reliever, but you wouldn't know it from his performance a year ago. He's been up and down this spring, but he needs to rebound to max out our pen.
* M — As THE lefty in the bullpen, Matt Thornton (pictured below) is indispensible. While I was in Arizona he was perfect. The other half of the main DH platoon with Jones, Mark Kotsay, is on fire this spring, hitting .433 with a .514 on base percentage and a .500 slugging mark.
* N — Will Jayson Nix, Brent Lillibridge or a perhaps a late spring pickup win the last remaining spot among position players? Since it's listed under "N," my choice is naturally Nix.
* O — Brought to the Sox to back up and mentor Alexei Ramirez and Beckham, Omar Vizquel, who will be 43 in April, still looks perfectly capable of contributing.
* P — Jake Peavy, entering his first Sox season, J.J. Putz and Juan Pierre (pictured below) all have key roles. From what I witnessed in Glendale, Peavy's in mid-season form, Putz was up and down and it's obvious what positives Pierre is going to give us from the leadoff spot. Another "P" is Tony Pena, a member of the relief corps who has compiled a 1.59 ERA in five appearances in Arizona.
* Q — Carlos Quentin looks ready to go, even though his spring stats aren't gaudy. Health is the key here and CQ looks like he's ready for the long haul.
* R — With the help of Vizquel, Ramirez will be better defensively and that may make him more relaxed at the plate.
* S — A converted infielder and former No. 1 draft choice of the Diamondbacks, Sergio Santos has been a revelation and a real candidate for the final spot in the bullpen. He's been very impressive and brings a lot of heat. The fact he's out of options may force the Sox to bring him North.
* T — If I have one major concern, it's Mark Teahen. He's been awful so far in spring training, presumably putting a lot pressure on himself. I don't even want to think about what happens if he flops.
* U — U stands for the Sox being underrated. Haven't seen any of the so-called experts throwing compliments our way, let alone picking the Sox to win the AL Central. Hopefully I'm right and they're wrong.
* V — I've thrown around the word versatile when writing and talking about the Sox. It was certainly apparent to me that they'll be more running and bunting on this team–with players that can actually execute.
* W — Randy Williams, the journeyman reliever who has pretty much locked up the role as the second lefty in the pen, has pitched eight scoreless innings this spring.
* X — Saw a few ex-Sox in Florida, including Orlando Cabrera, Nick Masset (Reds), Josh Fields, Chris Getz and Scott Podsednik (Royals) plus former farmhand Aaron Cunningham (Padres). I saw that Brian Anderson hit for the cyle for KC and went 5 for 5 in a game during that time, but I wasn't there to witness it.
* Y — Why is Jordan Danks listed here? Because I had to find some place to give him his due, that's Y. He's big, strong, fast and will be a major element to the Sox fortunes for many years to come. We'll likely see him in Chicago with his big bro some time this season.
* Z — Z stands for the many zeroes our starting staff will throw this season. The strength of the club is definitely our rotation with Peavy (pictured below, top), Garcia, John Danks, Gavin Floyd and last but not least Mr. Perfect, Mark Buehrle (pictured below, bottom).
GOODYEAR, AZ–My wife Bonnie and I landed in Phoenix yesterday, checked into the hotel and rushed over to catch the first pitch of Sox-Reds in beautiful "no clouds in the sky" weather.
Through eight innings, the Sox found themselves down 5-1 as the Reds got to John Danks and J.J. Putz, who had both been perfect entering the game. Up until then, Gordon Beckham doing his Robbie Alomar impression on a play at second, an RBI single by Alexei Ramirez and strong performances on the mound by Sergio Santos, Matt Thornton and Scott Linebrink highlighted the action for Sox fans.
In the top of the ninth the fireworks began. The Good Guys scored four runs to tie the game, including an Alejandro De Aza triple to drive in a run, and it ended 5-5–not such a bad fate under the circumstances.
Sox things to think about: De Aza's 2 for 2 day against Cincinnati, including a double, triple and an RBI, gives him a .500 batting average for the spring. Whatever the outcome, he's certainly making the case for a spot on the 25-man roster…Ozzie is on record now as saying he's disappointed with both Jayson Nix and Brent Lillibridge, candidates for a backup spot. What makes it interesting is that the skipper is lauding the hustling C.J. Retherford, who just may be in the picture to go north at the end of the month…Ozzie has also been singing the praises of Jordan Danks.
It's Mark Buehrle vs. Zack Greinke tonight at Camelback Ranch as the Sox face the Royals, who are loaded with former Sox–Scott Podsednik, Chris Getz, Josh Fields and Brian Anderson. Wonder how many of them will be in Glendale.
C.J. Retherford: A Birmingham Baron in 2009, a White Sox backup in 2010?


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So much is happening. I don't even know where to start. In my last entry, I spoke about the company's offer to relocate me. They formally invited me to apply and accept the same job, but in Atlanta. As politely as I could, I declined the position.
Atlanta is (arguably) no better than Louisville for a transgender woman. Much like Louisville, Atlanta is a liberal enclave within a very conservative state. The majority of people in the state are voting for people who want to make my public existence illegal. Statistically speaking, there would be any number of these people working along side me.
If I went there, I would be going stealth. I wouldn't be disclosing my trans status to anyone in the building. However, my ability to be stealth would be totally dependent on management being able to keep my personal business private. Based on my experience with local management, I don't see how that's possible.
A "voluntary" relocation would require me to stay in that position for 24 months. I asked, rhetorically, "What happens when this starts all over again?" I'd be trapped.
Atlanta has a higher cost of living, but my rate of pay would be the same.
The company has no obligation to provide any relocation budget.
There's other reasons too. Like the fact that going further into the deep south to get away from discrimination seems ludicrous. The company asked me where I wanted to go, and that short list did not include any of the South East states. I felt like I was better off staying where I was, because at least I knew what to expect.
The impression that I got from the conference call I had on Tuesday was that the company took my decline as a rebuff. I say that because all of the sudden, they're talking about my 2015 year-end performance and the not yet finalized 2016 year-end data. My argument was that my performance was impacted by the harassment throughout 2015 and up until April of 2016. I missed half of April, all of May, and the majority of June. They said that if I don't accept the job in Atlanta that I may not be able to be considered for other positions within the company because of my performance numbers. This is not unlike what I was told in 2015. That because I had discipline in my file for performance, I couldn't transfer. At this point, I've been able to get all active discipline out of my personnel file. Now the company comes up with a new excuse.
What the company doesn't seem to understand is that you can't use my workplace performance results as a qualifier for allowing or disallowing harassment. That is, I'm an employee and they have an obligation to protect all employees. Regardless of their metrics. The conversation was very disheartening. I'm looking into pursuing other external avenues in which I might be able to gain the company's captive attention. Going to the media or filing an actual lawsuit. I'm waiting on some responses on some leads I contacted.
Today is world mental health day. Which is fitting, because it feels like my mental health has reached the Mariana Trench. I just feel numb. I feel blank. I feel like I'm just occupying space, taking up the free oxygen in this room. Yesterday seemed ok. I had fun last night. But I think the reality of the situation caught up with me today and I hit a wall.
That one hit me right in the feels. It was one of those times where we couldn't quite draw Joey out of the house. So I was trying to give him a little crap because, well, that's what we did to each other. Such is such and so and so and whatever..
Earlier in the day, Kayla and I had gone to a wedding. Megan was there as well, with the kids. It was supposed to be a happy occasion, but with it being so close to my divorce, it just sort of stung. It's like, I'm glad that it's over, because it drug on too long. However, at the same time, I'm still sad and angry that it had to be that way. While I love the new life that I'm building with Kayla, I still miss my family. I miss tucking Grayson in each night and saying the same old corny stuff we've been saying for years. I miss Hunter running around here like a madman, even if he has been a big grump for the last couple weeks. I have so much in front of me, but as is normal with me, I spend a lot of time dwelling on the past. It's what I do. My mind is basically just one huge flowchart where every stop is a "What if" question. It's dumb.
Anyway, I sit at my desk and pretend to be chipper to my customers, lying that I'm doing great. Trying to not let my soul get any more dings in it than it already has. At this point, it looks like my old samurai. Rusty and not a undamaged surface to be found.
I keep thinking about the cocktail of medications that I take on a daily basis. I wonder which, if any, are helping me feel better. Or more likely, which are exacerbating the situation. Having also just changed dosage and method of delivery on my estrogen, I consider if that has anything to do with it.
I think I've said enough at this point. If I keep going, it's just going to devolve into a drivel.


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William McVey, Sculptor, 1904–1995
1964 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS
Few artists have left as many monuments on the American landscape as sculptor William Mozart McVey. His nine-foot bronze Winston Churchill (1966) greets visitors to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. Not far away, six statues sculpted by McVey between 1967 and 1974 can be found in the porch and crypt of the National Cathedral. His memorials to Davey Crockett, Jim Bowie and the heroes of the Alamo were the centerpieces of Texas's centennial in 1936. His stone and cast bronze animals that reside in many of the nation's zoos are as beloved as any of the caged ones.
But it was in northeastern Ohio that McVey left the greatest body of his work. Among his 48 pieces of public sculpture: the 16-foot Long Road aluminum wall relief (1962) for the now-defunct Jewish Community Center in Cleveland Heights; Man Helping Man (1974), on which the sculptor is working in the photograph at the right and which became a logo of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; the seven-foot bronze Jesse Owens (1982) on Lakeside Avenue in Cleveland; and the bronze monument to his own wire-haired terrier, McDog (1985), at the Cleveland Botanical Garden.
McVey, who was born in Boston, moved to Cleveland as a teenager and graduated from Shaw High School in 1922. He enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (which later became the Cleveland Institute of Art), but soon seized another opportunity that took advantage of his athletic, six-foot-4-inch frame. He played football for Rice University's Coach John Heisman, on a full scholarship. After three years (and several nose realignments) he returned to Cleveland to complete his degree.
He went next to Paris for three years to study sculpture, learning from such luminaries as Charles Despiau, who had worked with Rodin. Although he was exposed to modernism in the City of Light, McVey preferred a more natural style for his own work. Early McVey sculpture tended to be honest, expressive and simple, inspired by primitive art. A skilled illustrator, he soon mastered representational sculpture. Later, he would embrace modern styles, as well as the humor that would characterize much of his work.
While in Paris, he supported himself by guiding Americans through the Louvre, a task made simple because, as he later recounted, Yanks' interest generally waned after seeing the Venus de Milo, Winged Victory and Mona Lisa.
When he returned to Cleveland in 1932, he received a Works Progress Administration commission to create a sculpture for the new Museum of Natural History. From a six-ton block of limestone emerged a four-ton grizzly bear, affectionately known as "Bruno," who has survived more than seven decades of children's affection. It was also in 1932 that McVey married potter Leza Marie Sullivan and landed his first teaching job, at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
From 1935 through 1953, McVey taught at the University of Texas and at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art. He interrupted his art career for four years during World War II to train combat troops in plane and ship identification. He returned to Cleveland in 1953, this time, for good.
His achievements in sculpture were surpassed only by his achievements as a teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Many artists call him their spiritual father, including John Clague, who as a fourth-year painting student signed up for McVey's sculpture course in the fall of 1953. During the first class, McVey articulated his definition of the scope and limitations of sculpture, Clague recalls. "It was a definition broader, richer and more expansive than anything I had ever heard before."
McVey next spoke of art as the reflection of the nature of the artist's character, "simultaneously defining the grandest possibilities of sculpture as art form, and the grandest possibilities of sculptor as human being." By the time Clague finished the course, McVey had changed his major to sculpture.
Bill McVey, as professor and artist, aimed for accessibility. His goal, he said, was "the presentation of the sculptural idea in a form acceptable and meaningful to the intelligent layman, without sacrificing quality." He succeeded on both counts. The Cleveland Museum of Art began collecting his work in 1932. In time McVey's work was represented in collections from the Smithsonian to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was invited into the prestigious 300-member National Academy of Design and became a fellow of the National Sculpture Society. His Bauhaus-style studio/home in Pepper Pike was yet another monument to this one-of-a-kind artist.
For those who knew him, however, Bill McVey's greatest legacy was the gift of laughter, which permeated every aspect of his life and art. Churchill's bronze cigar sat in an ashtray; a terra cotta bird struggled to hatch from a ceramic egg McVey had fashioned; and a handmade sign over the door read:
BE ALERT. WE NEED MORE LERTS.
—Faye Sholiton
Click here to see more of McVey's work.
Cleveland Arts Prize
P.O. Box 21126 • Cleveland, OH 44121 • 440-523-9889 • info@clevelandartsprize.org


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Producer Marijus Adomaitis, otherwise known as Ten Walls has been removed from several DJ line-ups he was originally planned to attend. Best known for his 2014 single Walking with Elephants, the UK producer made various comments comparing gay people to paedophiles in a Facebook post that has since been removed.
Electronic Festivals like Creamfields, Pitch Festival, Sonar, and Urban Art Forms have removed the producer from their line-up. Electronic artist Fort Romeau also cancelled his slot supporting Ten Walls at the upcoming Koko London festival.
Creamfields spoke up about why they decided to remove Ten Walls from their line-up, expressing: "Whilst we respect freedom of speech, we find his defamatory and prejudiced comments about the gay community extremely offensive and feel that this is not in line with the spirit of Creamfields or an opinion that we support". Fort Romeau added: "While cancelling one gig is hardly going to change the world, it does stand as a personal rejection of bigotry, fear and intolerance." with Barcelona's Sonar festival stating that they saw the comments as "at odds with the naure and ethos" or their event.
On top of the cancelled events, Phonica Records has cancelled all pre-orders of the artist's upcoming album Sparta, providing a statement on their website that reads: ""We wont be stocking this record anymore due to Mario Basanov aka Ten Walls' homophobic comments over the weekend. If you have pre-ordered it, your pre-order has been cancelled and money refunded." Many fellow DJs also denounced Adomaitis, applauding the festivals' decisions to cut him from their line-ups. Many fans and listeners alike also made their feelings clear saying they have since deleted every song they have by Ten Walls.


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UNPO General Secretary Congratulates Biram Dah Abeid of Mauritania with Front LIne Award
A bit more on awards: here is an indirect way to announce the 2013 Front Line Defenders award: with the letter of congratulations published by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), which shows how recognizing a single individual HRD can lift a wider movement:
Brussels, 3 May 2013 – On behalf of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, I would like to warmly congratulate Mr. Biram Dah Abeid for receiving the prestigious Human Rights Defenders at Risk Award, presented by Front Line Defenders, in Dublin. Mr. Abeid was selected amongst 100 nominees and six finalists for his outstanding work over the past years as President of IRA (Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement).
Mr. Abeid has worked tirelessly in his home country, Mauritania, defending the rights of the Haratin and campaigning for the abolition of slavery. It is estimated that between 10 to 20% of Mauritania's population if affected by slavery, despite the government's official and legal abolition of slavery. Committed to raising awareness on contemporary slavery, UNPO has worked closely with IRA in the past, ensuring that injustices do not remain unnoticed in international fora, especially the European Parliament.
Mr. Abeid and his colleagues at IRA have shown tremendous bravery in their battle to free the Haratin, facing repeated harassment and threats. Mr. Abeid, despite having spent several months in jail without notice of his whereabouts, continues to defend his cause and is instrumental in raising global awareness on the matter – something Front Line Defenders has taken the opportunity to recognize through awarding Mr. Abeid their prize.
I would also like to express my thanks to Front Line Defenders for focusing this year's award on an emblematic figure of peaceful and nonviolent civil action.
UNPO looks forward to a continued close collaboration with its member IRA and its partners in Mauritania to ensure that the momentum built up by this prize is used well to ensure the improvement of the human rights situation in Mauritania.
via UNPO: UNPO General Secretary Congratulates Biram Dah Abeid For Human Rights Defender Award.
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MCB 150 Frequently Asked Questions - Who exactly is MCB 151 appropriate for?
Pre-health profession students are generally expected to complete a year of introductory biology with lab in order to meet admissions requirements. MCB and IB majors will be taking upper-level lab courses, and these are happily substituted for freshman-level labs. But a non-biology major who never takes those upper-level lab courses needs a lab experience in biology to be competitive. MCB 151 and IB 151 provide that lab experience.
It's also worth noting that any student who takes MCB 151 and later completes MCB 251 (a required course in the major and minor) will not get to use the hour of credit for 151 towards graduation, so it's a reasonable question to ask yourself: are you likely to graduate as an MCB major or minor? If so, don't take MCB 151. If not, it's a great class to fulfill an admissions requirement.


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Adam Driver Says Kylo Ren Will Survive 'Episode 8'
Kylo Ren may or may not turn back to the light side of the Force in Star Wars Episode VIII, but Adam Driver says the "humanity" of his character will be central to the themes and feeling of the next installment in the ongoing trilogy.
Speaking on Larry King Now, Driver revealed that certain plot points in The Force Awakens and Episode VIII will "…make both of them make sense" in the next movie. This teases the idea that Kylo Ren may have had a myriad of motivations for his actions in The Force Awakens. Does referencing Kylo Ren's "humanity" mean the character might help out the good guys again, and even go by his previous name, Ben Solo? Either way, Adam Driver makes it clear that Kylo Ren/Ben Solo doesn't think of himself as wrong.
"It was a frustrating thing getting ready for [The Force Awakens]. Everyone liked telling you that you were the bad guy, but I definitely didn't think of him like that."
Kylo Ren will also probably survive Star Wars: Episode VIII, at least technically. When Larry King asked Adam Driver specifically if Kylo lives through the film, Driver responded playfully with "it depends on your definition of living."
Obviously, this could cut several ways. Kylo Ren could die but return as a Force ghost. Kylo Ren could become wounded in a way similar to Darth Vader, and be kept alive by the Dark Side and crazy technology. Or, Kylo Ren could do more terrible things, which make it hard to live with his choices.
Watch the full interview with Adam Driver here.


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Johnson named DBO at Tennessee Martin
Ric Johnson, who has experienced championship success at every level of his basketball career, has been named as the director of men's basketball operations at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
Johnson, a part of a record-setting class who played under Skyhawk head coach Anthony Stewart when he was an assistant at Ohio University, brings five years of basketball administrative experience to UT Martin.
Johnson spent last season as an assistant coach under Gerad Good at Manchester University, a NCAA Division III school located in North Manchester, Ind. Johnson worked closely with All-Heartland Conference Athletic Conference first team guard Adrian Johnson, who ranked in the top-three in the league in scoring (19.8 points per game), assists (5.0 per game) and steals (2.0 per game). Johnson concluded his storied career as the school's fourth all-time leading scorer with 1,854 points.
Prior to his stint at Manchester, Johnson was a graduate assistant for two years under head coach Chris Mack at Xavier University. Johnson played an integral role in player and team development for the Musketeers, who reached the Elite Eight round of the 2017 NCAA Tournament and earned the 2017-18 Big East Conference regular season championship. During Johnson's tenure, Xavier spent a combined 58 weeks in the Associated Press top-25 rankings while posting a 53-20 overall record.
Johnson was a volunteer assistant coach at Panola College in 2015-16, working under head coach Grant McMillan at the junior college located in Carthage, Texas. The Ponies finished with a 24-9 record and finished as runner-up in NJCAA Region XIV with Johnson on the sidelines. He also served as freshman boy's head coach at his alma mater Holmes High School for one year following his collegiate playing career.
A Covington, Ky. native, Johnson was part of an unprecedented era of Ohio basketball success, as he was part of the all-time winningest class (97 victories) in Bobcat history. He helped Ohio capture three Mid-American Conference championships and advance to the postseason in all four years as a student-athlete, playing in 118 career games under head coaches John Groce and Jim Christian from 2010-14. That included the Bobcats' extended run during the 2012 NCAA Tournament, as Ohio eventually fell to No. 1 seed North Carolina in overtime of the Sweet 16 round.
A decorated prep standout in the Bluegrass State, Johnson guided Holmes High School to the 2009 state championship in Rupp Arena. He was named Kentucky's Region 9 Player of the Year and was crowned as the KHSAA Sweet 16 Most Valuable Player during his junior season.
Johnson graduated with a bachelor of science degree in communications from Ohio in 2014. He completed his Master's degree in sports administration from Xavier in 2018.
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Perception is something that affects our lives every single day. Everything you see, feel, touch, or hear is translated into your understanding or impression of the world. That perception causes you to form an opinion, a feeling, and judgement whether you're aware of it or not. Often in the mainstream media, stereotypes are perpetuated through… Continue reading Auntie Says…You may need to take a closer look.


Far from merely outlining routes and providing directions, this guide constitutes one of the best-researched and richly detailed walking guides available for the park. Each walk section includes a route description and is accompanied by an explanatory text, providing an extraordinary amount of information on the park's rich history of human activity. An introduction on the parks landscape and appendices on the park's flora, the deer, it's ponds and bird life are included. It also describes how the impact of present human activity and its implications for the park's future. This wonderful guide contains many hand-drawn black and white illustrations, diagrams and maps to supplement the text.


Overcast with showers at times. Low 52F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%..
Overcast with showers at times. Low 52F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%.
For Rent: Senior Property, 1 bd, $463, income restrictions apply. Call Mike at Ex Springs Properties 816-637-8711.
Details for For Rent: Senior Property, 1 bd, $463, income restrictions apply. Call Mike at Ex Springs Properties 816-637-8711.