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WHO's On First… & Second… & Third: Another Flip Flop By World Health Organization 'Asympotmatic COVID-19 Carriers Not Very Infectious'
Written by: Tim Brown
Published on: June 8, 2020
I'm wondering how YouTube CEO can juggle all the mental gymnastics and strings attached to her by her masters over her unlawful removal of videos by myself and others who challenged the official narrative, going against the flip-flopping, pair propagandists at the World Health Organization (WHO). I guess we'll be finding out shortly as WHO has not only flip-flopped on mask-wearing by healthy people, but also on "carriers" of COVID-19. Now, apparently, they are not very infectious, but we told you this all along. In fact, no one can spread a virus. See? We're not conspiracy theorists, we're truth-tellers, and don't tell me there wasn't a conspiracy in the middle of all this.
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Tyler Durden has the story at Zero Hedge:
WHO says asymptomatic carriers actually not that infectious
Cali reports statewide decline in cases while LA County cases near 64k
NY State reports 0.2% jump in new cases as NYC reopens
Cuomo says central NY region ready to enter 'Phase 2'
India reports another record jump in new cases with ~10k
Pakistan hospitals running out of beds as cases pass 100k
Cuomo holds briefing at 1130amET
Florida reports slowdown following last week's spike in new cases
NYC enters 'Phase 1' reopening
New Zealand declared 'coronavirus free' by PM
Global coronavirus infections near 7mil; US outbreak nears 2 mil
Update (1436ET): Following a report in today's WSJ noting new data showing SARS-CoV-2 spreads more quickly in sparsely populated areas where homes are more crowded (perhaps because more extended family members live together) than densely populated but affluent areas like Manhattan and North Brooklyn, the World Health Organization has just announced another epic flip flop.
In an announcement that highlights once again how little scientists understand about the new coronavirus (as the NYT's Nick Kristoff once noted, viruses are "full of puzzles"), the WHO announced that asymptomatic carriers of the virus apparently don't infect nearly as many others as we once thought.
Early evidence indicated that the virus could spread via person-to-person contact, even if the carrier didn't have symptoms. But WHO officials now say that while asymptomatic spread is certainly possible, it's not the main route of transmission.
"From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual," Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said during a Monday briefing from the WHO's Geneva headquarters. "It's very rare."
Of course, if scientists continue to see data showing asymptomatic spread isn't a main factor in transmission, it could have dramatic implications for containment policy, including diminishing the need for social distancing, and allowing students and workers to return to the workplace in much larger numbers.
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove
The data cited by the WHO was apparently gleaned from early contact tracing work. If it's true that asymptomatic spread isn't a major factor, than the importance of contact tracing has been vastly overstated. To be sure, more research and data are needed to "truly answer" the question, Van Kerkhove added.
"We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing," she said. "They're following asymptomatic cases. They're following contacts. And they're not finding secondary transmission onward. It's very rare."
Kayleigh McEnany, meanwhile, insisted that the US is heading in a "positive direction" when it comes to the coronavirus. Shortly afterward, California reported a statewide decline in new infections on Monday, though the number of new cases in LA County neared 64k, as the economic reopening has caused new cases to spike – a spike that experts who spoke to the LATimes say likely predated the anti-police brutality demonstrations.
Update (1145ET): Cuomo has released the daily coronavirus data for Monday, claiming that the number of deaths reported in the state was fewer than 100 once again, and that much of central NY state is will soon enter 'Phase 2' of the reopening plan. Cases climbed just 0.2%, compared with a 7-day average of 0.3%.
Source: NYT
With central NY ready to enter Phase 2, Cuomo also shared 15 sites around the state for protesters to get tested, while claiming that "we don't know" whether the demonstrations will cause a resurgence of new cases.
Cuomo laid out the data in a series of slides shared during his daily briefing:
Regarding his earlier ride on the 7 train (which we mentioned below), Cuomo says he wouldn't ask New Yorkers to ride the trains if he didn't feel comfortable riding them.
Finally, Cuomo warned NYers to "stay smart" after the reopening "because if you don't, you can see a spike…and that is the last thing we want to see".
"Stay smart…stay smart…look at facts around us – other states, the spike is going up, California, the numbers are going up, Florida, the numebrs are going up, Texas the numbers are going up…look at the reopening date and look at what happened after they reopened…that is the cautionary tale my friends," Cuomo said.
Ask if he expected a spike in the coming weeks, Cuomo replied "are you a cynic, my friend?" before adding that subways have been opened this entire time, and that a rebound isn't guaranteed "if we stay as smart and disciplined as we have for the past 100 days".
Update (1120ET): After crossing the 200k-case threshold over the weekend, India has reported yet another record jump in new cases on Monday as it continues to ease its restrictive lockdown conditions in preparation for it to finally expire later this monht.
Monday marked the biggest unwind of lockdown restrictions so far, as malls, restaurants, hotels and places of worship were allowed to reopen, most for the first time since March 25, when India's lockdown began.
However, the easing has been marred by a surge in infections, leading India to overtake Italy and Spain to become the fifth worst-hit nation in the pandemic, as we noted a few days back. But on Monday, nearly 10k new cases were reported, about even with the number of new cases being reported in Russia, where the outbreak continues to spread uncontrolled.
India has a total of 256,611 confirmed cases following the latest daily spike of 9,983. The country has recorded 7,135 deaths, according to India's Health Ministry, although some suspect the true number could be much higher. Domestic flights and trains were allowed to restart in May, along with manufacturing activity, which re-started soon after.
Some restrictions will remain in New Delhi and Mumbai, among India's worst-hit cities. In Delhi, local authorities have allowed private offices, restaurants and shopping complexes to reopen (though social distancing guidelines must be followed). But hotels and metro lines remain shuttered.
In Florida, Monday's reported coronavirus cases and deaths declined slightly after a week where the most positive cases yet were reported.
The update from the state Department of Health showed 966 new positive cases of the virus, bringing Fla's total to 64,904 cases to date, along with 12 new deaths, bringing the statewide total to 2,712.
In NY, Gov Cuomo will begin his daily press briefing at 1130amET, as per usual.
During the opening minutes of the briefing, Cuomo declared "we're back, baby" while reporters mocked an earlier "socially distant" subway ride for a governor whose loathing for the subway is well known.
Guess the image of riding the subway finally "aligns with the governor's can-do persona."https://t.co/QBHX223zwU https://t.co/6cmypI12NT
— Jessica Pressler (@jpressler) June 8, 2020
Circling back to India's outbreak, the country isn't alone in West Asia: Across its heavily militarized border (where sectarian violence has flared again in recent days), Pakistan warns that hospitals are running out of beds to treat coronavirus patients as the number of confirmed cases passes 100,000, with ~2k deaths.
Following nearly 2 weeks of peaceful protests pockmarked by violence and looting – killings and shootings skyrocketed across NYC last week as the summer 'killing season' begins – America's biggest "hot zone" kicked off "Phase 1" of its plan to reopen its economy on Monday, exactly 100 days after the first case of the virus was confirmed.
Since the outbreak began, more than 205,000 New Yorkers who have tested positive for the virus, while another 22,000 succumbed to the virus.
Exactly 100 days since its first case of coronavirus was confirmed, New York City, which weathered extensive hardship as an epicenter of the worldwide outbreak, is set to take the first tentative steps toward reopening its doors on Monday.
According to the NYT, as many as 400,000 workers will return to construction jobs, manufacturing sites and retail stores in the city's first phase of reopening as the number of COVID-19 deaths recorded across the US continues to fall, with fewer than 1,000 deaths reported each day (remember when the NYT claimed that deaths would be north of 3,000/day by June 1?).
It's a far cry from the 'peak' of the outbreak, when 800 NYC residents were dying from the virus every day.
The city ran more than 60k tests a day over the weekend, Gov Cuomo claimed.
NYC enters Phase 1 of reopening tomorrow.
New Yorkers bent the curve by being smart.
Let's keep being smart. #NYTough
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 7, 2020
That is low enough for New York City's corps of contract tracers, who began work last week, to try to track every close interaction and, officials hope, stop a resurgence of the virus.
"You want to talk about a turnaround — this one, my friends, is going to go in the history books," Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Saturday.
Of course, it could be months before office workers return en masse, as the world waits to see how the city's public transit will handle social distancing concerns. And for many retailers in the city, the conditions in 'Phase 1' are still too restrictive. Simply reopening doesn't mean customers will return, and curbside pickup doesn't make a lot of sense for many retailers either, according to the NYT. Business groups in the city say many retailers are waiting for the next phase to venture out, when outdoor dining is allowed, office workers are permitted to return and shoppers are allowed to take their time and browse. The earliest these shops might be able to reopen would be later this month.
Some employers have developed new technological solutions to this problem. When more than 100 workers return to Newlab, a "technology hub" in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, they will be offered a device that buzzes whenever they get too close to another worker. The essential workers that have remained in the office this entire time have already been wearing the devices.
The city's army of thousands of contact tracers officially started their work last week, and will continue aiding in efforts to quash a rebound in infections. Meanwhile, city officials will be closely monitoring a suite of metrics, from emergency room admission data to new case numbers, for signs of a potentially crippling resurgence.
On the other side of the world, New Zealand lifted all social and economic restrictions except for its border controls on Monday after declaring that the small island nation is "coronavirus free", making it one of the first nations to return to normalcy after the outbreak. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she "danced for joy". Restaurants, retailers, transit and virtually everywhere else reopened without mandatory social distancing. It has been 17 days since the country recorded a new case of the virus.
"While the job is not done, there is no denying this is a milestone … Thank you, New Zealand," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference, saying she had danced for joy at the news.
"We are confident we have eliminated transmission of the virus in New Zealand for now, but elimination is not a point in time, it is a sustained effort."
Globally, the total case count topped 7 million late last night, while the number of deaths passed 400k over the weekend, as Brazil, Mexico, Russia and possibly India struggle to bring the outbreak to heel. In the US, the number of confirmed cases have surpassed 1.9 million, and the 2 million mark draws ever-nearer, with ~1.94 million as of Monday morning. At the current rate of ~20k cases a day, the US is on track to pass its next grim pandemic milestone by Thursday.
Let's add on the following hypocrisy by WHO.
In April: There's some evidence that caretakers of infected people can protect their health by wearing masks, the WHO guidance said, but "there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19."
In June: The World Health Organization has changed its guidance on face coverings and is now encouraging people to wear them when they can't socially distance. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement on Friday and said that the change in guidance was prompted by recent studies on the effectiveness of face coverings during the coronavirus pandemic. Tedros said that "in light of evolving evidence, the WHO advises that governments should encourage the general public to wear masks where there is widespread transmission and physical distancing is difficult, such as on public transport, in shops, or in other confined or crowded environments," according to the BBC.
Thanks, I'll just keep living my life without being in fear of a non-existent contagious virus.
Oh, the lies they weave when they practice to deceive, and it isn't just WHO and Democrats. Republicans and President Trump and his charlatans in his coronavirus taskforce failed to be forthright about all of this too.
Lots of politicians, bureaucrats and doctors and nurses need to be removed from office, their position of practice and have their pants sued off for this mess.
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Aussies hand Malaysia seven-goal advantage..
WORLD NO 1 Australia started off slowly, but went on to beat South Korea 5-1 to cement their spot in the final of the Azlan Shah Cup in Ipoh yesterday.
And now, Malaysia need to keep the score low when they play Australia on Saturday, and hope South Korea does not hammer South Africa in their last match to move into the final on goal difference.
The Koreans scored nine and let in nine, while Malaysia have a seven goal cushion going into the Australian match and they must no blow it.
Australia were given the run around by Asian champions South Korea, who defended stoutly until a silly mistake made all the difference in the 10th minute.
Off a goalmouth melee, Trent Mitton slotted in the ball for the lead.
However, the Koreans refused to be intimidated by that goal and kept defending while only moving forward a handful of times in the first half. And if paid off when they won their first penalty corner in the 32nd minute and Jang Jong Hyun nailed the equaliser with a low push which sounded the board.
But the Australians came back strongly into the match again, and just as the clock showed seconds left to the half-time, Nicholas Budgeon scored and made it 2-1.
In the second half, goals by Jeremy Hayward (59th), Matt Gohdes (63rd, 69th) made it a comfortable 5-1 win for the Aussies.
Meanwhile, Malaysia had a well deserved two-day rest period after whipping China 7-3 on Wednesday and will only meet tournament raging favourites Australia on Saturday.
Seasoned striker Tengku Ahmad Tajuddin, who is playing in his eigtht Azlan Shah Cup likes the improvement shown by the seven juniors drafted for the tournament, and feels they can only become better is given more exposure.
"Seven players without caps were included by the coach, and they showed some good promise in all the matches, and I believe that with more exposure, Malaysia will have a very strong team as these players mature further," said the 28-year-old who scored his first tournament goal against China.
Tengku Ahmad Tajuddin made his mark in the 2005 Junior World Cup in Rotterdam, and has since been a permanent fixture in the Malaysian strike-force.
With beating Australia almost an impossible dream, the task as hand for Malaysia would be to stop the Aussies from scoring too many goals and have a rematch with the World No 1 in the final on Sunday.
RESULTS: Canada 4 China 3, South Korea 1 Australia 5.
AUSTRALIA 4 4 0 0 25 1 12
MALAYSIA 4 3 1 0 15 8 10
CHINA 5 1 0 4 13 21 3
CANADA 5 1 0 4 7 18 3
S AFRICA 4 1 0 3 5 17 3
March 21: REST DAY.
March 22: Australia v Malaysia (6pm), South Africa v South Korea (8pm).

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Brussels is not the first city to come to mind when thinking about summer shows. When all the world is in Venice, it seems more likely to imagine oneself there, or at least, a little bit closer to sand and surf.
Yet, despite its propensity for slate streets and gray skies, I returned to this windless and landlocked city one weekend in August to visit a few of the shows opening up there.
At Jan Mot on Saturday August 6, an exhibition at curated by Heidi Ballet around a Levinas-inspired theme of 'the Encounter' served up warm-blooded philosophy. New works by Nina Beier, Karin Schneider and Francisco Camacho, joined existing works by Jiri Kovanda , Tino Sehgal and the surprising inclusion of Yoko Ono's 'Telephone' piece, (1964/2011), which was being revived in a back room.
Like Beier's shoe, which held the gallery door open, Sehgal's performance 'This is About,' was as unexpected as it was activating. After having each of the works in the room described by the exhibitions curator, visitors were asked what they thought the show was about in a precise zombie-like voice, working Sehgal's proposal for a guided tour, originally conceived of in 2003 for a museum setting, into the concept of the exhibition. It was chilling to hear it performed in such a minimal setting.
Though it was never quite clear exactly what kind of encounter this exhibition was aimed at, as in the end, it seemed to evoke several, the thoughtfulness with which each of the works was selected only benefited from this levity. There were no pious pieces here, only works that like Ono's had to be lived out in some way, in real time.
The evening before I'd been to see a curious three person show at dépendance gallery, where the title of the exhibition in an email announcement had somehow been miscommunicated to me as a participant, so I arrived expecting to see works by a new collective formed by three artists: Francois Curlet, Gerald Domenig, and Harald Thys called 'La Ricotta'. No such thing. But rather, a screening of the Pasolini film (1962) that accompanied watercolours by Curlet, black and white photographs by Domenig and an installation of tires filling the gallery which made for an interesting walk around as well as walk-thru of the space.
Earlier in the day 'Text Me Faster', by Shelly Nadashi and guests at Etablissement d'en Face projects was so crowded that about thirty or so people had to stand on the sidewalk watching what could be seen of the evenings performances through the storefront window from the street outside. As Giles Bailey, Cliff Laine and Nadashi performed three distinct original works, two of which either incorporated or worked directly with historic performance material, the storefront, and the performances unfolding inside it, provided an invigorating backdrop for several conversations. I peeked in once and saw a bucket of water being tossed from a ladder (Laine's re-enactment of George Brecht's, 'Drip Music').
The following day brought the weekends highlight: a presentation of work by the collective Jochen Schmith at the Brussels Mariott Hotel, featuring an intervention by the artist-run WCW gallery of Hamburg. This was one of several presentations WCW will host in Brussels in the coming months. On this particular occasion visitors were greeted by twice: once upon arriving in the hotel lobby by an actor that introduced himself as Johnny Rotten, and then again after exiting the elevator, by an actor who presented himself as Tino Sehgal. This minimal performance involved brief choreographed gestures as visitors were first given access to the lift with a room pass, and then met as the elevator doors opened on the correct floor to be guided to the room containing works by Jochen Schmith—the final gesture of which involved spelling out the letters of the gallery's name (W-C-W) on one hand.
Like the view from its windows, the suite was old world Brussels-elegant with a few modern updates, and looked out onto le Bourse, the city's old stock-exchange. A look around the room would reveal a small reproduction of William Morris-like design framed and hung over the hotel's existing wallpaper, from which it was not completely dissimilar. Beneath this, a small sculpture of cigars collected from various art fairs and cast in bronze on the night stand, a pair of paint splattered Ralph Lauren 'Painter Pants' on the bed, along with one of WCW's gallerists / artists who seemed to be doing everything he could not to recline there to the left of all this, a sound piece emanating from a flat-screen on a small piece of furniture, pieced together from several conversations with official advisors at the city of Hamburg's employment office (the Agency of Labour). The difficulty and confusion in offering advice to collective producers ('three artistic painters' as the agency describes them) was at times humorous and revealing to listen to as was the collective's assertion that they are not unemployed but self-employed.
As part of WCW's project involves the dissolution of a traditional gallery space and its operations into something virtual, it seemed fitting to stage this presentation of work in a temporary location of rest and retreat, a space well-suited to a collaboration that used as its tender the working relationship between galleries and artists.
Though it was not intentional, the weekend seemed marked by re-visited figures and works. The interchangeable figures of Rotten and Sehgal, along with this understated, 'from out of town' presentation evoked the image of exhibition as traveling theater with Brussels as the perfect host.
The weekend of openings ended with a sort of politically inspired, 'fight the tyranny that is European immigration' party thrown by Steinar Haga Kristiansen and myself at D.O.R gallery, where a version of Gordon Matta-Clark's bone soup was made. There had been an allusion to nationalism as a 'great big dinosaur' in there at one point, that got lost in the dancing, which was also the point. Though I doubt it would have happened if we were on Wooster street where Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden's restaurant 'Food' was, the music was repeatedly interrupted by calls coming in to Skype on the computer the playlist ran from.
As Kristiansen played Ono's 'Why?' for entranced but still dining attendees who were promised they could wear their bones home, (and some did) Nick Oberthaler, Zin Taylor and Sophie Nys danced with several former residents of the city who has recently relocated to Berlin, including Boy Vereecken of Slavs and Tartars and artist Jürgen Ots. Seeing that several like myself several émigré's like myelf had returned for these shows after a small exodus out of the city – I was reminded me of a sentiment that I'd had when I first moved here: having a city so gray and tense as a backdrop makes it that much easier to see and appreciate what is happening at the forefront.
(i) Jiri Kovanda, 'XXX I asked a woman artist to participate in a performance with me: I was seated with my back facing her camera so that I could not see her and she photographed me while she was naked. January 19th, 2011, Le Plateau, Paris'


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The rebrand is part of Eldorado Resorts, Inc.'s over $100 million investment in renovated rooms and suites, new restaurants and remodeled event spaces and common areas — showcasing northern Nevada's most expansive and modern option for integrated hospitality.
Eldorado Resorts, Inc. acquired Silver Legacy Resort Casino and Circus Circus Reno in 2015. With three interconnected properties, and with the implementation of unified guest services, the overarching brand was imminent. Now, with 20 properties nationwide, the prestige and progressive brand of Eldorado Resorts, Inc. is reflected within the burgeoning growth of Reno.
As members of the ONE Club — the casino player's club — guests of THE ROW can earn points and redeem awards across all three resorts with one, single reward program. With universal reciprocity in gaming, dining and entertainment, guests can also enjoy the convenience of restaurant-to-room charges across all resorts.
As THE ROW enters phase II of its master renovation plan, guests can expect added amenities through 2019. New to THE ROW later this year is Ruth's Chris Steak House, adding to last year's culinary additions of Canter's Delicatessen, Kanpai Sushi, El Jefe's Cantina, Madame Butterwork's Curious Cafe, The Habit Burger Grill, Piezzetta Pizza Kitchen and Panda Express.
The iconic Eldorado Showroom recently underwent renovations, and continues to host nationally acclaimed performances, including its current show, "Cirque Paris." The casino floor expanded its gaming options with the addition of the Poker Room at Silver Legacy. With new dining options, remodeled event spaces and renovated rooms and suites, THE ROW offers Reno's newest luxury and modern hospitality to accommodate every traveler.
Whether it be winning your favorite prizes on one of numerous carnival games, to catching the free, daily cirque-style acts, to playing new and classic video games at the XP Arcade or celebrating a birthday at the all-new party rooms, the completely re-imagined and transformed Circus Circus Carnival Midway offers fun for all ages.
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AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests Failing to Rollback in MySQL?
Ok so today I was working on some JUnit tests within Spring using AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests (yes, wow what a long class name). For those of you unfamiliar with this class, basically if you extend your unit test class from this class, every @Test annotated test method will run within a transaction, with the default behavior being that a rollback is called after each @Test method's execution (unless you declare so otherwise). Pretty convenient.
on Ubuntu. Is there something else I need to do?
I'm not using Hibernate to create the actual tables. That's done with a script from ant. could that be my problem?


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The Ghost of Christmas-Future
by Peter Hannaford
WASHINGTON, D.C, December 22, 2009 — Both houses of Congress passed the Freedom From Religion Act last night just in time to adjourn for what is now being called the Winter Solstice recess. President Hillary Rodham Clinton says she will sign the bill "as soon as it gets to my desk."
"This is historic legislation," she said in a statement. "It finally clears up the confusion and controversy over the place of religion in modern America and it spells out the details that make separation of church and state such an important part of our Constitution."
The bill goes into effect as soon as it is signed and, when Congress returns in January, some of the legislation's effects will be felt on Capitol Hill. For example, there will be no more chaplains in either Senate or House, and daily sessions will no longer begin with a prayer. By law, Congress will now expunge the word "Christmas" from its vocabulary. The bill denotes that the federal holiday heretofore described as "Christmas Day" will henceforth be called "Winter Solstice Holiday."
"If we had not made this change, non-Christians might have had to work on what was essentially a religious holiday," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In the military, members of the chaplain corps will be reassigned to non-religious duties, with the exception of Muslims. "They are a special case," said Senator Ted Kennedy.
The sweeping legislation will make life easier for town and school administrators. Nativity scenes and crosses are prohibited on public property; however, miniature minarets and statues of Gaia, the Earth Mother, are permitted. representing what the bill describes as "cultural diversity." There will be no more Santa Clauses allowed in town festivities because, as Pelosi put is, "He is based upon a Third Century Middle Eastern nobleman who dispensed gifts and later became St. Nicholas, clearly a religious figure." During the "holiday" or "Winter Solstice" season (either term is permissible) school children may not sing any songs with the word "Christmas" in them. "'Kumbaya' is okay as are such things as 'Om mane patme hum' [a Tibetan prayer chant]," said Pelosi, because they don't imply that the season is a Christian one.
Referring to the provision of the bill that drops "In God We Trust" from U.S. currency and the nationwide removal of "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, Michael Newdow said, "This is the culmination of a long battle for equal rights under the law." Mr. Newdow, who gained fame in 2002 when he successfully pursued, in the 9th Federal District Court, a suit to prohibit "under God" from the Pledge, is today chairman of Atheists Working For Unlimited License (AWFUL).
The group's spokesman, Jonathan Selldog said, "For years, we had to endure being offended and intimidated because we were not part of the majority. Now, instead of being offended, we can be offensive."
What is next on AWFUL's agenda? Mr. Selldog says they will now go after the "outrageous proposition" that churches are tax exempt and receive tax-deductible contributions. "This means that those of us who do not believe in their superstitions are forced to subsidize their cult-like activities. We contend this is unconstitutional and we are going to ask the American Civil Liberties Union to take our case" he added.
"The Freedom From Religion Act gets religion off the streets, out of sight and into the churches where it belongs," said Sally Ecular, spokeswoman for the ACLU. "Getting it off the public dole is the next step," she added.
Ms. Ecular went on: "We haven't decided what to do about the Salvation Army people on public streets in front of department stores during the holiday season or the Boy Scouts who meet in church basements and community halls,. We definitely want the first off the streets and the second out of those places, but we'll wait to see the regulations that are written to flesh out the bill."
The bill was not without opposition. Former President George W. Bush said, "This is a sad day for America. Our founders all believed in God; about ninety percent of our citizens do to this day. Christians make up a great majority of those. We also honor other religions. But the growing secularization of Christmas — a Christian event–has been driven by the atheists. Here is a case where a tiny group, pretending to be 'offended,' is pushing everyone else around. It's a case of the tail wagging the dog."
The Associated Press reported today that Mary Mulligan, a parishioner at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, insisted that she saw the statue of the Virgin Mary weep.


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Grain Farmers of Ontario Hopeful for a Quick Resolution to China-US Trade Dispute
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GUELPH, ON (April 5, 2018) – Grain Farmers of Ontario, the province's largest commodity organization, representing Ontario's 28,000 barley, corn, oat, soybean, and wheat farmers, is suggesting that although a trade dispute between China and the United States may offer some opportunities for Canadian soybeans given U.S. sanctions, ultimately the dispute could have a negative impact on the Canadian soybean industry.
The proposed Chinese tariff on U.S. soybeans of 25 percent could impact Ontario grain farmers through increased competition in global markets and an increased volume of soybeans coming into Canada.
"Any disruption in trade is potentially negative for Canada," said Markus Haerle, Chair, Grain Farmers of Ontario. "We are hopeful that all parties will continue to work toward a solution. Although there is no way to be sure what the outcome of the dispute will be, this kind of uncertainty will not benefit anyone long term."
As of 2016, the United States was shipping at least 35 million tons of soybeans to China, while Canada ships closer to two million tons each year.
"Our production in Canada is not large enough to fill this type of demand, and any opportunities that increased Chinese demand might have are offset by the possibility of an influx of U.S. soybeans into Canadian markets, including Ontario," said Haerle.
Grain Farmers of Ontario continues to watch trade negotiations and urges the Canadian government to continue its own talks with China. In January of this year, the Canadian government successfully negotiated Canada's inclusion in the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) with 10 other countries across the Pacific region.
Grain Farmers of Ontario is the province's largest commodity organization, representing Ontario's 28,000 barley, corn, oat, soybean and wheat farmers. The crops they grow cover 6 million acres of farm land across the province, generate over $2.5 billion in farm gate receipts, result in over $9 billion in economic output and are responsible for over 40,000 jobs in the province.
Victoria Berry, Manager, Communications – (226) 820-6641; vberry@gfo.ca
Markus Haerle, Chair – 613-229-8336; marhaerle@gmail.com
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We have stated this time and again that 2015 is the year for the entry-level smartphone war. At a time when customers in India are being treated with superior performance, big bangs for your buck smartphones from Micromax, Xiaomi, Lenovo and Karbonn, Lava has launched a new competitor that pales in comparison to its opponents. The Lava Iris Atom 2 starts off great with its Rs. 4949 price tag and eye-catching iPhone-esqe looks but falls apart on closer inspection. For starters unlike its contemporaries which offer 5 inch 720p HD resolution displays, the Lava Iris Atom 2 sports a rather modest 4.5 inch FWVGA (854 x480 pixels) TFT panel display.
If you thought that 512MB RAM equipped smartphones were a relic of the past, you would receive an unwelcome jolt if you buy a Lava Iris Atom 2. Underneath the hood of the Lava Iris Atom 2, the disappointment continues as we discover an unspecified 1.3GHz quad core processor along with 512 MB of RAM entrusted with the task of running Android KitKat 4.4 which the company promises is upgradable to Android Lollipop 5.0 in the future. Karbonn, the parent company of Lava should take note that Android 6.0 is on the horizon and try to bring this on their new smartphone. Moving on to the camera department, we find an underwhelming 5MP camera on the rear with Largan Lens and LED flash and a pathetic VGA sensor on the front.
The sensor list gets a little worrisome as you find that the Lava Iris Atom 2 is missing GPS and has to make do with a dated Bluetooth 2.0. The saving grace here is that the Lava Iris Atom 2 Dual-SIM smartphone with 3G connectivity. The Lava Iris Atom 2 measures 134mm X 66mm X 9.15mm and weighs 130 grams and will be sold Black and White colour variant at retail as well as online stores. Our verdict on the Lava Iris Atom 2, stay away and go Micromax Canvas Spark, Xiaomi Redmi 2, Lenovo A6000 Plus or the Karbonn Titanium Mach Five. They are a tad expensive but worth the price.


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NICE backs Lilly's JAK inhibitor Olumiant for RA
A novel treatment option for some patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) could soon be routinely available on the NHS, after cost regulators ruled Eli Lilly's Olumiant to be cost-effective.
Draft guidelines by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommend Olumiant (baricitinib) as an option for treating severe active RA in adults whose disease has responded inadequately to intensive therapy with conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).
The drug is also recommended in adults who have had an inadequate response to, or who cannot have other DMARDs, including at least one biological DMARD.
Olumiant was approved earlier this year as the first JAK inhibitor to treat rheumatoid arthritis, after clinical trials showed a significant improvement in the signs and symptoms of disease compared to standard of care therapies.
Data from the Phase III RA-BEAM trial showed that baricitinib scored significantly better than placebo on the ACR20 response, a standard clinical measure that represents at least a 20 percent improvement in RA disease activity, as well as demonstrating superiority to AbbVie's multi-billion-dollar blockbuster Humira (adalimumab), the world's biggest selling drug.
After 24 weeks, the drug was also superior to placebo in preventing progressive radiographic structural joint damage, and its treatment benefits were maintained through 52 weeks of therapy.
In the RA-BEGIN trial, the drug also outperformed methotrexate on the ACR20 measure while, elsewhere, data showed efficacy in RA patients with inadequate responses to traditional disease-modifiying anti-rheumatic drugs (in the RA-BUILD trial) and biological therapies (in RA-BEACON).
RA affects around 450,000 people in the UK, of whom around 15 percent have the severe form of the disease.
The average cost of Olumiant per patient per year is estimated at £10,501 based on the list price, but its cost to the NHS will be reduced through a confidential patient access scheme.
Lilly/Incyte's Olumiant bags first approval with EU nod
Lilly, Incyte file baricitinib in the US for rheumatoid arthritis
Lilly/Incyte unveil more PhIII success for RA drug baricitinib


On this week's Carroll Hospital Health Chat, Terry Mapp, R.N., discusses cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation and the upcoming Cardiac and Pulmonary Education Day. Join us on Monday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Shauck Auditorium for this free educational event!
On this week's Carroll Hospital Health Chat, registered nurses Jennifer Ballas and Joanna Van Eckenhorn discuss advance care planning and National Healthcare Decisions Day.
Two opportunities are available to receive help with completing an advance directive and talk one-on-one with a palliative care professional: Tuesday, April 16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday, April 18 from 7 to 9:30 a.m.
On this week's Carroll Hospital Health Chat, Taste of Carroll chair Robbin Nolen and co-chair Ann Bollinger discuss the 20th Annual Taste of Carroll event to benefit Carroll Hospice during a radio interview on WTTR.
On this week's Carroll Hospital Health Chat, Yatin Patel, M.D., of Carroll Health Group Orthopaedics, discusses hip pain in young individuals.
On this week's Carroll Hospital Health Chat, Karen Durilla, president of the Carroll Hospital Auxiliary, discussed the 59th annual Auxiliary Fashion Show & Luncheon. Tickets are still available!
On this week's Carroll Hospital Health Chat, Mary Richards, director of volunteer services, discusses the junior volunteer program for high school students.


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October 25, 2007 News & Features » News
OPERATION MBI SHAME
By Orlando Weekly Staff
On Oct. 19, just as affairs were winding down at the Orlando Weekly Job Fair on the second floor of the Orlando Downtown Marriott, the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation decided to act on its two-year investigation dubbed "Operation Weekly Shame."
The day had been going well, with more than 350 job-seekers visiting 17 vendors in hopes of a better career. But just before 1 p.m., a group of five men in black shirts, with "sheriff" printed in yellow down their long sleeves, barged in.
Outside the Marriott local TV news crews hurried to set up their shots. They had been tipped off by the MBI and told when and where to show up. Inside the officers started asking for Weekly classified director Jarrell Martin, who goes by the name Brian, and account executives Katherine Miller and Christopher Whiting. Officers reportedly pointed at the arrest warrants, then stuck them back in their pockets, before coming around the entry tables to grab and handcuff the three newspaper employees. In five minutes they were gone. (All three refused to comment for this story on the advice of counsel.)
"They arrested all three of them," says Weekly classified account executive Erica Dudley. "There were vendors out there looking, job seekers out there looking."
Account executive Jon Strubel says there were at least 40 people in the lobby who witnessed the fracas.
Miller, Whiting and Martin were each charged with counts of deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution and aiding in the commission of prostitution. All three work selling classified ads.
After the MBI left with their targets, reporters approached the remaining account executives – Dudley, Strubel and Sean Stewart – with insistent questions about their alleged support of prostitution. They did not comment.
"Were you told to say 'no comment'?" asked Robert Maxwell, a WFTV-Channel 9 reporter. "Off the record, do you condone prostitution?"
"No, we just have no comment," they replied.
Maxwell dispensed with journalistic ethics altogether and pronounced Martin guilty on the spot. "So why are you selling ads for prostitution when you know it's illegal?" he shouted as Martin was led to a waiting car. "Care to comment? Anything to say at all?" (Channel 9 managing editor Joel Davis did not respond to calls for comment on Maxwell's interviewing techniques for this story.)
It was television Orlando viewers have seen again and again: the MBI making a splashy bust, the culmination of an undercover investigation with a catchy name – in this case "Operation Weekly Shame" – with the bad guys led away in handcuffs.
On TV it appears that the men and women of this multi-agency task force spend their days and nights trying to rid Central Florida of sex crimes and drugs. But the reality of the agency doesn't live up to the televised image – it's not even close.
Orlando Weekly's newest official statement (.pdf)
Orlando Weekly's questions for the MBI (.pdf)
The MBI has a jaw-dropping list of transgressions stretching back to its inception in 1978. A short list of the agency's early misdeeds includes getting a gang member and drug dealer released from prison early to serve as a snitch; allowing a teenage informant to turn tricks and deal drugs under their watch; and having sex with informants. More recently, undercover MBI agents have sexually harassed strippers, destroyed evidence, orchestrated and videotaped live sex shows, and jailed women for selling commonly available porno videos.
The MBI is an inept, inefficient police organization answerable to no one. Its managers will not return phone calls. It dodges records requests. The agency's website and official letterhead don't even say where its own offices are located.
And if you dare confront the agency on their appalling record, they will try to put you out of business.
SWINGS AND MISSES
The MBI was founded in December 1978, and began using legally questionable tactics shortly thereafter.
The first decade of misdeeds was chronicled by the Orlando Sentinel in the late 1980s. In 1981, the MBI arrested 10 men on charges of running a football gambling ring, but much of the evidence against the 10 was thrown out because of an MBI screw-up – a judge had granted the MBI permission to tap one phone as part of the investigation, but the MBI tapped two. None of the defendants went to jail.
Between 1981 and 1986, the MBI paid an informant $30,000 to rat out drug dealers, but while on the agency's payroll, the man routinely supplied drugs to a teenage girl, wrote bad checks, was charged with aggravated assault and sold drugs to an undercover MBI agent.
In 1983, the MBI infiltrated a nuclear protest group of teachers and religious leaders.
In May 1984, a teenager set up a client who sold her an ounce of cocaine, but a judge tossed the charges after ruling that she had entrapped him with free sex the night before. The teenager told the Sentinel that the MBI used her only to bust small-time dealers.
In 1988, an Orange County circuit judge accused MBI agents of lying and covering up an informant's burglary to get evidence for what was at the time one of the agency's largest pot busts – a 400-pound marijuana seizure captured by MBI-alerted local TV news cameras.
In 1984, the MBI also petitioned a judge to release Outlaws motorcycle gang member and major drug dealer Robert "Bad Bob" Bennett early from a 20-year prison sentence to help them nab small-time dealers. In September 1985 a judge threw out drug-related charges against five defendants based on Bennett's information, because the MBI's deal lessened Bennett's jail sentence in exchange for "productivity," which, according to a judge, would lead the MBI to "manufacture rather than detect crime."
In 1985, the agency enlisted Donna Jean Gallagher, an alleged drug dealer, as an informant. She later claimed that she stole cocaine during MBI investigations to feed a habit agents knew about but did nothing to stop, was gang-raped by drug dealers while working for the agency and had sex with two of her supervising agents. The agents were later fired.
In 1986, as then-MBI director Dennis Dayle stepped down, the Sentinel reported that his two-year tenure the agency "failed to obtain any major results" from drug investigations. Under Dayle's tenure, however, the MBI did put resources into investigating gambling at a golf tournament that benefited a college scholarship fund. The agency also recruited two 14-year-olds to buy lewd greeting cards from the Infinite Mushroom.
Bill Lutz, the current director who also served in that position in the late 1980s, didn't fare much better. He dedicated 25 agents and $20,000 to a four-month investigation of escort services that netted 16 misdemeanor arrests and no jail time in 1986. A judge did shut down two escort agencies' telephones, and the MBI declared victory. Comparatively, in 1977 the Orlando Police Department, using half the number of officers, shut down two escort services in one night, according to the Sentinel. The Lutz-led MBI also botched an investigation into a gay prostitution ring. Rather than making arrests after the johns paid for sex, the MBI encouraged the gay prostitutes to have sex while they videotaped. But prosecutors dropped the charges in January 1988 because, in Lutz's words, the tape "had no jury appeal and was traumatic for agents to sit through."
Since the MBI's funding comes from Orlando and Orange County – although the agency's personnel is derived from local, state and federal police agencies – the MBI must continually prove its worth. And it does that with highly publicized arrests. Around Christmas 2001, hooded MBI agents publicly raided Cleo's nightclub on South Orange Blossom Trail based on a sting and the sketchy testimony of a 21-year-old stripper who had sold undercover agents cocaine. The stripper, Pallis May Paulk, snitched on other girls and accused the club's manager of attempting to sell $1.5 million in heroin, all to avoid a lengthy prison sentence. Then she contradicted herself – the manager "didn't let anybody too much touch his heroin." Later, Paulk signed an affidavit saying she made everything up under MBI pressure, and then she vanished. The MBI tried to use her testimony to get the club closed. It failed, and in August 2003 the agency ended up settling with Cleo's for $35,000, a slap on the wrist for owner Gerald Uranick.
But the MBI doesn't take its repeated failures lightly, and it's nothing if not vindictive, as the owners of Jerry's General Store on East Colonial Drive discovered.
In 1987, the MBI arrested Jerry's founder Jerry Cooper, who died in 2000, for selling adult material. The charges were dropped in 1990. Cooper was outraged, and responded by producing a poster depicting then-MBI director Joe Cocchiarella poring over seized pornographic material alongside a shot of Nazis doing the same thing 60 years earlier. Cooper also encouraged his customers to call Cocchiarella and complain about the MBI's attempted censorship.
In November 2002, two days before Thanksgiving, agents arrested three women who worked at Jerry's. The women, one of whom was 75 years old, were charged with distributing obscenity and racketeering and were hit with bonds of $50,000 each, a figure 25 to 50 times higher than that typically assessed burglars or car thieves. The agency went to great lengths to ensure that the three remained in jail over Thanksgiving; the MBI attorney didn't inform the store's attorney which judge would hear the bail-reduction hearing, and they produced a seven-page memo arguing that the women needed to stay in jail.
Once again, the MBI lost. In June 2003, a judge threw out charges of operating an adult business without a license, in part because the law is so vague. (Under county law, a store can sell adult material without a license as long as non-adult materials constitute a "substantial portion" of the business' sales. But the county doesn't specify what comprises a "substantial portion.")
After the MBI took a drubbing in the local media for arresting the three, it dropped the charges against Eileen Hart, the 75-year-old woman. But the agency wasn't done with Jerry's. It took the unprecedented step of filing tax evasion charges against the store, even though that is typically the Florida Department of Revenue's terrain. The Revenue Department typically works with businesses to settle tax discrepancies. Owner Roxie Hanna eventually pleaded guilty to not paying $3,000 in sales taxes.
The MBI still wasn't done. In December 2004, Hanna announced that Jerry's was closing. According to Hanna, the MBI contacted the sister of the property owner from whom Jerry's rented space, threatening legal action if the property owner didn't terminate the lease.
Between 1994 and 2003, the MBI worked tirelessly to shut down Valentine's Escort Service under the claim that it was a front for prostitution, eventually bringing charges against proprietor Vicky Gallas for racketeering and deriving profits from prostitution. But in December 2003, after a two-week trial, a jury found her not guilty. MBI director Lutz blamed the jury for not understanding "what goes on in a vice subculture."
Gallas filed a lawsuit claiming malicious prosecution. She said MBI agents lied on their arrest affidavit and used threats and coercion to extract confessions and plea deals from targets. Her lawsuit was dismissed in January 2004. Interestingly enough, Gallas' criminal case file has vanished from Orange County records; all that's left is the prosecution's version of events.
Then there's Rachel's Gentlemen's Club, perhaps the agency's biggest debacle to date. Over six months, the MBI spent $193,000 pursuing racketeering charges against the owners of the three strip bars. Ultimately they only managed to coax low-level employees into breaking club rules.
MBI agents paid strippers $7,000 each to make out, perform cunnilingus and penetrate each other with a strap-on dildo in a limousine outside the club, a performance they recorded, and paid bouncers $400 to look the other way. But the agency was unable to prove that the brothers who owned Rachel's, Jim and Charlie Veigle, knew about and condoned illegal activity. Strippers even told agents they feared the Veigles would find out.
An MBI officer poses for a quick photo. Paul Winsett was suspended for 32 hours for taking this picture on an MBI phone.
During the investigation, MBI agent Paul Winsett was videotaped rubbing the inside of a stripper's thigh. Then he gushed to a fellow agent, on tape, "I'm going to end up fucking this girl. If not here, somewhere else." He also bragged on surveillance tapes recorded during the investigation that he had an erection that he didn't think would ever go away. He boasted that working strip clubs was "one of the benefits of the job."
On July 20, 2000, the MBI raided the two Rachel's clubs within its jurisdiction (the third is in Palm Bay). As is MBI practice, the media was alerted ahead of time so cameras could be stationed outside. Thirty Rachel's employees were arrested and convicted. Only one served prison time.
The MBI charged Jim Veigle with racketeering and deriving profits from prostitution. The Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco tried to take Rachel's liquor license. The city of Casselberry suspended its business license for two years. In July 2003, Veigle accepted a plea agreement. The two corporations that owned Rachel's were fined $620,000. Veigle, the target of the MBI's investigation, was exonerated. The $700,000 that the state attorney general's office seized from Rachel's had to be returned, because the MBI was unable to link the Veigles to ill-gotten profits.
In early 2002, the Casselberry Rachel's reopened. It is thriving today.
Evidence emerged that while prosecuting the case in October 2001, the MBI's prosecutor, Kellie Tomeo, and Winsett breached a suspect's attorney-client privilege by illegally videotaping a meeting between him and his lawyer. The prosecutor resigned in November 2001. MBI director Lutz blamed Winsett for the screw-up; Winsett said the illegal move was discussed in vice meetings that included Lutz and Cocchiarella, who has since left the MBI.
(Winsett made news again in February 2007 when this newspaper reported that he took pictures of his penis on an MBI-issued cell phone and sent it to two different women with whom he was involved. One found out about the other, got upset and ratted him out to internal affairs. Even though one woman told investigators she felt threatened for going public, the MBI only gave Winsett a reprimand and 32 hours of unpaid leave.)
In 2004 the MBI went after Cleo's again. For six months, MBI agents James Carlies and James McGriff, assigned to the MBI from the Orlando Police Department, went undercover at the strip club, becoming its most frequent patrons and dropping hundreds of dollars a night. They would give dancers $25 to sit and talk, and got the strippers drunk on shots of Hennessey and a drink called "Where the Fuck Is My Car." Once they gained the dancers' trust, they bought small amounts of drugs and rewarded strippers who arranged deals with huge tips. In November 2004, agents arrested 52 employees and patrons on charges that ranged from public nudity to drug dealing. After the media blitz subsided, most of those arrested got off with minor infractions. Cleo's remains open today. The MBI spent $27,562 on the operation.
But as only Orlando Weekly reported, the investigation opened a window into the agency's unethical tactics. According to one stripper's sworn statement, one of the agents showed her his penis, which she described in remarkable detail. The agents admitted to blowing on stripper's vaginas – in a deposition they said that was because the vaginas smelled – and to drinking during the investigation, though they claimed to remain sober. The dancers said Carlies and McGriff would put their hands on their crotches, grab their breasts and buttocks, pull on the entertainers' panties and trip the dancers so that they fell into the agents' laps.
Two dancers passed lie detector tests supporting their stories. OPD's internal affairs department dismissed the tests, and refused club attorney Steve Mason's request that the agency do its own lie detector test if it didn't trust the original results. (Full disclosure: Mason has been retained to represent the three Orlando Weekly employees.) OPD ruled that the agents' conduct was not improper. Mason took the case the Orlando's Citizens Police Review Board in December 2006. The CPRB ruled that OPD's investigation was deficient and asked the agency to perform lie detector tests on the girls and to reopen the investigation. OPD declined. In a January 2007 memo, an assistant city attorney decided that boys will be boys and any further investigation would be a waste of time.
The MBI also destroyed records that it may have been required to keep, although no one except this newspaper and Cleo's attorney Mason has pursued this issue. Their case was built around reports Carlies and McGriff wrote, describing in detail what they saw at Cleo's. Those reports were compiled from voicemail messages the agents left themselves while at Cleo's.
But the club is extraordinarily loud; so loud, in fact, that the MBI opted against using the audio tapes during the investigation because they couldn't make out what was being said. Also, Carlies and McGriff admitted to drinking beer and liquor in an effort to fit in. Thus, the entire case was built around audio messages that may or may not have been discernible, left by agents who may or may not have been drunk. It's reasonable to think that the club's attorney would want to hear the tapes to get a picture of the case against his client. But the MBI decided they were irrelevant and destroyed them, despite the fact that Florida law mandates any voicemail messages related to the substance of an investigation must be preserved for four years.
Further, the MBI also refused to turn over videotapes of the investigation to Cleo's attorneys without first editing them at a cost of $175 per hour. That prompted a public records lawsuit, which is still pending. Cleo's also filed and won a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of Orange County's adult-entertainment code.
Orlando Weekly first reported on the Cleo's investigation Sept. 22, 2005. According to media reports, the agency initiated Operation Weekly Shame two years ago, which would date it to October 2005. Lutz told the Orlando Sentinel, "I don't see a First Amendment issue here. This is strictly an advertising company making money off of prostitution."
WHY THE WEEKLY?
Lutz told the media that Orlando Weekly had ceased being cooperative with the agency in its requests to purge alleged prostitutes from the paper's classified advertisements. According to Lutz, during the two-year investigation MBI agents posed as prostitutes and sought to place ads explicitly offering illegal prostitution services. The MBI claims that it recorded those conversations, and that those conversations reveal that Weekly employees knew the ads were for prostitution and changed the ads' language to obscure that fact.
Massage advertising on the WFTV website. Click on the image for a larger version.
Martin, Whiting and Miller were charged with deriving proceeds from prostitution and aiding and abetting prostitution. The MBI also got a grand-jury indictment for criminal racketeering against the newspaper.
The MBI had obtained the indictment at some point prior to Sept. 28, according to a letter agency commander Paul Zambouros sent Craigslist.org asking the Internet company to remove its Erotic Services section. The agency, however, waited three weeks, until Orlando Weekly employees were attending a public function on Oct. 19, before making the arrests and serving the paper with a notice of the racketeering charges.
"This is outrageous," says local free-speech attorney Marc Randazza of the firm Weston, Garrou, DeWitt & Walters. "This is bad if the state gets away with it."
In March and June of this year, the MBI sent Orlando Weekly a list of about 80 classified advertisers whom the MBI alleged to be involved in prostitution. Some of the arrests made in these cases date back to February 2003. Most involved massage parlors, although a few fell into the category "adult services."
No matter where the ads fall in the paper, they aren't illegal, says Orlando Weekly publisher Rick Schreiber. "We will only publish ads that contain lawful content."
Schreiber says the Weekly cooperated with the MBI and pulled all ads that the agency had flagged. "We went through the paper and made sure not to run ads in the adult services section that were on the list the MBI provided," he says.
The three Orlando Weekly employees who were arrested declined to discuss the specifics of their cases, and much of the evidence against them has yet to become public. However, a cursory two-day investigation by Orlando Weekly revealed that many local publications and websites carry similar ads. In fact, some of the exact same companies that appear on the list of advertisers the MBI claimed were involved in prostitution still advertise in other publications.
Massage and adult services advertisements on the Orlando Sentinel's website. Click the images for larger versions.
Since at least September, a company called Natural Therapies has placed line advertisements in the Orlando Sentinel. Since 2005, three of its employees have been arrested for prostitution and performing unlicensed massages, according to MBI records. That company is still open for business, and Orlando Weekly still runs its ads because it still holds a license, says Schreiber.
Avalon Massage, a company that had one employee arrested for giving an unlicensed massage, continues to advertise in the BellSouth and Embarq business directories. Its advertisements tout "showers" and promise a "female staff." BellSouth's business directory also runs ads from Aloha Massage, which has had two employees arrested by the MBI since 2003 (one for giving an unlicensed massage, another for prostitution).
The Sentinel typically has between three and eight certified massage line ads daily. On Oct. 5, the paper ran an ad promising "Massage – ebony hands, out calls only." On Oct. 19, the Sentinel ran an ad for "AAA Massage – female staff. FL Mall area."
Sentinel spokeswoman Lisa Jacobsen says the paper has strict policies regarding such ads. "We would never knowingly accept advertising which violates any municipal, state or federal law," Jacobsen wrote in an e-mail. "In addition, the Sentinel will not accept any advertisement which, in our judgment, is indecent, salacious, suggestive or offensive. It's clearly stated in our rate card that we reserve the right to accept or reject any advertisement.
"The Orlando Sentinel does not accept advertisements for escorts or escort services. With respect to massage-related advertising, an ad placed by an individual or business that offers massage services must present to the Sentinel a copy of its license from the State of Florida before an advertisement will publish."
Adult services advertising in the Watermark. Click image for larger version.
The gay biweekly Watermark features explicit ads under its "personal services" section, including: "BODY RUBS BY SMOOTH HOT BOI – Get a Body rub by slim, tan, smooth, boi in the buff. See my happy trail to make you happy" and "HOT STUD 2 HELP YOU RELEASE." Publisher Tom Dyer did not return a phone call asking if he's been contacted by the MBI.
The Sept. 28-Oct. 5 issue of the Orlando Post features a classified ad in the adult services section headlined, "PLEASURE NEEDED? Hot tanned sweet beauty waiting to tease and please YOU!" And another: "FORGET THE rest … call the best! … Stripper, dancing, fantasies, modeling, role-playing. Generous gentleman, Discreet encounters." No one could be reached at the Post for comment.
In its Aug. 23-Sept. 5 issue, the Orlando Tribune published an adult services ad reading, "Sensual brunette would love for you to treat your self to a soft relaxation session. OUT CALLS ONLY!!!" As of Oct. 22, the Orlando Tribune's phone number had been disconnected.
WFTV-Channel 9's website aggregates classified ads from across the Internet; as of Oct. 22, the site shows a classified ad for a "drive-through massage parlour" and another from a man selling himself as an "unselfish massage toy for your pleasure."
Similarly, the Orlando Sentinel's website aggregates ads, some of which are racy, such as one advertising a male escort from New Jersey who, for $150 an hour, offers "transsexuals and bottoms and tops, curious straight all the above." Another bears the headline, "Looking for a young escort girl in ORLANDO." It promises "good payment." Orlandosentinel.com also features ads from Natural Therapies and several other massage services.
The BellSouth business directory has 17 listings and two display ads under its "Entertainment – Adult" category. It has dozens more listings and 20 display ads under the "massage therapist" category, including three companies who were on the flag list the MBI provided to Orlando Weekly.
The Embarq business directory has 44 listings and 16 ads in its "entertainment – other" category. One promises "Orlando's most beautiful and sophisticated female entertainers." Another promises dancers and adult entertainment. Under Embarq's "massage" category, there are 14 listings with such names as "A Bodyrub by Brittney." The licensed massage category has dozens of listings and 40 paid ads. The category "massage therapy" has 33 listings from such businesses as "A Always Available Private Body Rubs and More" and "Absolute Pleasure Massage."
Neither BellSouth nor Embarq returned phone calls seeking comment on their adult ad policies or whether or not they'd been contacted by the MBI.
There is no indication that any of the companies listed above have any connection to prostitution. But the fact that the MBI has pursued charges against Orlando Weekly, which has written critically of the agency in recent years, but has not gone after other publications and websites that carry the same types of advertising lends credence to the idea that the MBI is engaged in retaliation. It wouldn't be the first time. (MBI director Lutz declined to answer questions sent to his office for this story, saying it would be inappropriate to do so because the agency is prosecuting the newspaper.)
Of course, what runs in the back of this publication is demonstrably tame compared to what a quick search of Craigslist turns up. "Full service, tell me your needs wants and desires100 hr," one says. Another, a "White Hot Boy for your manly pleasures," is "wide open for incalls " for $250 an hour. Yet another promises, "50 Kisses get your oral on (have your toes curling and you reaching for things that ain't even there.)" One hundred "kisses" gets you full service.
The MBI has told local media that they cannot prosecute Craigslist because that site operates out of San Francisco. Instead of brandishing handcuffs, Zambouros asked nicely: "It would be a great example of corporate stewardship on your behalf if I could point out that Craigslist Incorporated did the right thing … and denied the escort service industry their main source of advertising by removing a category that was supporting criminal activity."
Craigslist has not answered the MBI's request.
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«Урожай» () — первый полнометражный фильм режиссёра и сценариста венгерского происхождения Беньямина Канту, короткая история любви двух парней, обучающихся фермерскому делу.
В 2011 году на Берлинском кинофестивале картина получила приз читателей журнала «Зигесзойле», присуждаемый в рамках кинопремии Тедди.

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Действие фильма происходит на сельскохозяйственной ферме в Германии недалеко от Берлина. Марко и Якоб обучаются здесь фермерскому делу. В свободное от работы время они ведут беседы и купаются в местном пруду. В заброшенном автомобиле парни обсуждают свои возможные будущие поездки. Якоб набирается смелости, чтобы поцеловать Марко, но Марко тут же уходит и на следующий день отказывается общаться с приятелем. Потом следует примирение. Герои отправляются на автомобиле в ночную поездку по Берлину.

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