EX VICTORY OUTREACH SANTA ROSA MEMBER TELLS ALL.
I am an ex member of Victory Outreach Santa Rosa. I am going to divulge information if you will on the things that I and others have experienced while at Victory Outreach Santa Rosa.
About 6 years ago Victory Outreach Santa Rosa lost key leaders. They lost 3 ministerial couples, and their worship leader/head church administrator. The ministerial couples left because of the misappropiation of funds. When they asked Pastor Jose questions, his response was that he was he charge and not to question his decisions with the finances. See in Victory Outrach, especially VOSR, the Pastor is not accountable to anybody. There is no church council, church board or a group of elders to keep him accountable. Pastor Jose claims that his accountability is Rick Alanis all the way in San Bernardino.
One of the ministers tried to explain to Jose that he over fleecing the people in the church and that he needed to let up on the offerings and the pledges. He tried to explain to Jose that the church would not be able to afford to stay afloat. Jose never listened. So these families left and everything stayed business as usual. I was in the men's rehab home during this time and boy was I busy. After I worked 10-12 hours a day helping build the church, as did the rest of the men's home I would have to go do a moving job or help cook dinner. Then I had to take a 3 minute shower and do house chores. If I was lucky I would be forced to sign up for General Assistance and earn welfare money to help support the home also. If I complained I was "not loyal" or I was "not dedicated to the cause."
So the church was built and everybody was happy, well kind of. See everybody had given so much money that people in the church had to get food stamps and go on welfare. Then came the part of supporting the new church. Everyweek there would be a new pledge for the church building. People were already giving a 10% tithe to the church and then pledging 100, 200, 500, 1000 and even 2000 and beyond dollars to have paid with 6 months. Being in VOSR everybody had dreams to something great for God. Pastor Jose is really charasmatic and is awesome in increasing your faith to be a preacher, a leader, a pastor, an evangelist or a Pastor's Wife someday. But if you are in leadership you have to lead by example and give first. If you are really serious for God and want to see the vision of Sonny Arguinzoni Sr come to pass you better give. I would hear things all the time like, "put your money where your mouth is," or my personal favorite, "you use to spend all your money on your dope but you can't spend it on God?" There was times where Pastor Jose wouldn't let anyone leave the building until they pledged money. Former Assistant Pastor Richard Contreras even joked about putting a ATM machine in the foyer.
One couple went to Cape Town, SA to help start up the worship team for the new Pastors James and Anna Brady. Before they left, the church picked up a huge offering for musical instruments. When they got there all of the money had already been spent on other things. When they asked where the money was James Brady said that he decided to use it on something else. There was a couple that sold everything they had, and gave up jobs to go start a womens rehab in Cape Town. When they came home they had no support from the church. A man was sent to Santa Rosa to be a missionary in Cape Town. A huge offering was picked up for him to go. A year and a half later he still hasn't gone. When asked Pastor Jose said that the Lord hasn't given him the green light yet. When an ex member called the church office about the $100 that she she gave for the missionary and if she culd get it back, she was told that they would look in to it. That was 3 months ago.
Pastor Jose drives a beautiful Chrysler 300 with 20 inch chromed out rims. He wear the best clothes, has the best watch and has all of his and his wifes needs taken care of by the church. His wife is on payroll also, but mysteriously never works a day in the office and is never available to talk to anybody. His wife even sells knock off purses. When she was confronted about it by a female member of the church, she was ostricized by the church, and treated like an amish kid that left the farm.
Between 2004 and 2006 there was a Pastor by the name of Richard Contreras from the South Asia area that came to VOSR on a sabatical. He was having his own problems with women and money that he needed a break. The congregation at VOSR was told by Pastor Jose that he was here to recuperate and get his health in order. So Richard fit in well. He was very loved and embraced by VOSR. He was a big time Pastor in VO so he had a lot of influence. Richard started to work for a millionaire by the name of Giovanni from the VO in Las vegas. This guy was a Real Estate developer and also made a living on getting people that would never stand a chance a loan. Pastor Jose loved him so much that he had him come to VOSR and preach to the congregation. The sermon was basically about prosperity and how God wants to bless you. Then Richard started wanting people in the church to own their own home. He pumped it up to the point that everyone would have a chance to own theor own home. So tons of people bought in to it including Pastor Jose. The big gimmick was get a home and $10,000 back in cash. Richard pulled strings and got Pastor Jose, Assistance Pastor Elias Gaitan and a lot others their chance to buy a home. He even made it possible for the church to purchase the womens rehab home.
Then it all came crumbling down. Everyone's home became forclosed and Richard was nowhere to be found. He even left left his wife without telling her. Since then business has been usual for Victory Outreach. Lot's of key leaders have left along with other congreation members. If you were to go in to a service or ask somebody you would here them say that the devill got the best of them or that they were not loyal to the vision. or you would here them say that vo isn't for everybody.
Two years ago I contacted the Hayward Victory Outreach and spoke with Pastor Joesy Pineda. Joesy and her husband Steve (who went home to be with the Lord) sent out Pastor jose and Kimberly Guadarrama to Santa Rosa. They were to replace a fallen Pastor named Victor Carrillo who misused money for personal gain and had an affair with a women in the church. I let Joesy know by telephone all that I had seen and heard from other viable sources. She then put me in contact with Pastor Saul Garcia who is the Founder Sonny Arguinzoni, Sr's right hand guy. Saul assured me that they would send a team to investigate the problem and then thanked me for coming to him first. Two years later Pastor Saul has yet to send a team to investigate.
I hope that this information has been usefull to someone. Victory Outreach Santa Rosa as well as Victory Outreach Intl are nothing more than ex gang member, drug addicts who have a very warped sense of power and of what Jesus Christ and the Ministry of the Body of Christ is all about. They are a cult. There agenda is nothing more than to train passionate, loyal converts who will give of time and money to fulfill the greedy desires of its leadership. I love the friends that I once called family at VO and I pray that they get out soon.
Re: EX VICTORY OUTREACH SANTA ROSA MEMBER TELLS ALL.
I would also like to know if you have any information on Victory Outreach of Riverside or Corona? Let me know, asap!
First I want to apologize to Victory Outreach Santa Rosa and especially to the Senior Pastors Jose and Kimberly Guadarrama. Back in October 2009 I posted something on this website that accused them of all kinds of things that I should not have said. Everything I said was and is not true. At the time I was very hurt by the way I had left the church and was looking at any way to pay them back for my hurt feelings. I acted irrationally and emotionally and that was wrong. I cannot be the spokesperson for everyone that leaves VOSR. Everything that I heard from other people who left is strictly heresay and has never been proven true.
Even though my departure from VOSR was like a bad divorce it doesn't mean they are a bad church or a "cult" for that matter. From the time I entered through their doors till I left there wasn't one person that wouldn't give me the shirt of their back if I needed it. They are good people. They were like family to me at one point. I do regret the things that I said and I sincerely apologize for my actions. One thing that you learn in Christianity is that there isn't a perfect church. I am thakful for VOSR and all that they deposited in me while I was there.
Since the posting I have contacted Pastor Jose and confessed that it was I who posted the comment on this website. I thoroughly apologized and asked for his forgiveness in the matter. Pastor Jose was gracious enough to accept my apology and even extended warm wishes and blessings for me and my family. I figured the least I could do in regards to all of the horrible things I had said about VOSR and the Pastor's was to retract what I have said before to be untrue and let everyone else who see's this on the world wide web that VOSR is a good healthy church, and that Pastor Jose and his wife Kim are awesome Pastors. Anyone who goes to that church will be blessed.
I have to tell you, brother, as a man in recovery for nearly 20 years I am so in love with the truth. I see the truth in your first post. Your last post looks as if you were (a) stricken with a guilty conscience about telling the truth about Santa Rosa Victory Outreach or (b) perhaps you were asked to post the recision as a condition when you tried to get back in the program.
There was too much detail in your first post for it not to be true. The truth is that I've been saved and walking with the Lord and very much involved with the Christian community - many churches - for 13 years. What you've described is no surprise to me. Many of the pastors of big denominations in Sonoma County have been found to be involved in sin of all kinds, including infidelity, long-time infidelity (years and years), misappropriation of finances, etc.
With no real accountability, it's no surprise to read that a pastor has stumbled and/or fallen. He knows better than to be walking a Christian leadership path without accountability. That means that it was a conscious decision on his part to disconnect from any real accountability, and so it's no wonder that so much bad has been going on at SRVO.
It took you two years to post a recision. Give me a break, my friend. You told the truth the first time. Anyone who is in love with, and walking in the truth for any length of time can see that.
Rather than demand that you post a recision, I'm sorry that the Pastor didn't step down and confess what's been going on. No one will buy your recision...because it's probably not true.
Rigorous honesty, my friend. Walk it. Talk it. Live it. Don't let the devil make you lie again.
Thanks doctordad for your insight and wisdom. You are speaking from a true place. In response to your post I was stricken with the guilty conscience of wearing a monkey on my back that I didn't want no more. I was carrying unforgiveness and anger. It has been tearing me up inside. Being in recovery yourself I am sure you and attest to what unforgiveness can do to somebody. I didn't post the recision to get back into the Men's Home. I have been clean and sober for 7 years now.
A Pastor recently told me that I am to honor my fellow brother and sister not because they deserve it but because I am to act as a honorable man of God. What I said about VOSR and the Pastor of the church was the farthest thing from honoring. Despite the differences that Pastor Jose and I have with each other I still honor him as someone that poured into my life. The Lord still used him and others in that church to sharpen me into the man I am today. Now in recovery we always say, "eat the meat and spit out the bones." I received a lot of good and experienced some negative, but I am choosing to not live in the negative anymore.
Everything in that posting were things that other people that had left the church had told me. All of those things I never personally witnessed. In a court of law that would be considered heresay and thrown out as any type of solid substantial evidence. Whether they are true or not yet remains to be seen. I guess it is a matter of opinion. In my opinion, if it were true, instead of gossiping and telling everybody things that supposedly happened why not take it to the authorities and to VO international? If it's such a big deal then why haven't they made some noise about it?
I see (you didn't want the monkey on your back). I understand (unforgiveness and anger tearing you up inside). I agree with your Pastor about honoring one another, but allowing someone to live like Hell without speaking up honors no one. "Acting" like an honorable man isn't the same as honoring the Truth above all else. There is always a way to tell the truth with love, even as one man sharpens another.
I read your original testimony (above). Some of your experience is in there, too. It's not all hearsay, brother, is it? Your schedule was your schedule, and the chores you did were your experience. I've worked for several programs. I know it can get the way you described sometimes, although with good leadership it would not get that way, where anyone is overworked, ever.
To answer your last question: Because people are afraid to speak up. That's why. Why are they afraid to speak up? Because they are afraid...period.
Those of us who aren't afraid speak up.
This guy was threatened thats why he apoligized. I went through it with Pittsburg.
I currently an a member of VO Portland in Oregon.
In many ways I respect the Portland church and our leader, Pastor Max. He and his wife genuinely care for the recovery homes and do allot for them.
I know this because I served as Head Staff of the Portland Home.
I was not raised in the VO church, I came from the streets. VO opened their doors for me and gave me hope.
Unlike my predessor who made our guys work, I demanded to my director that we cut the hours to 8 hr's, 5 days a week and he agreed. I expected respect, and tho I didn't believe in discipline,I disciplined my guys when I felt they needed it. On Fridays, I rewarded my guys with a movie and on Sundays we ate a big meal after church.I refused to kick people out on first offenses, and I allowed them to dance and sing during worship services.
I was much loved and respected because I treated my guys well and didn't follow the protocals of the church. Unlike any head staff before or after me, I didn't lose one single guy during my tenure as head staff.
However the leadership in the church thought I was too lenient and eventually I was ousted from my position in favor of someone much tougher. I remained in the home until graduation and oddly enough on staff, but it went downhill quick after my successor went back to the 6 day a week work week.
Currently I am in the church and serve as assistant Head usher. As a graduate and former staff, I still visit the home when I can.
Although its changed over the years, I see great changes and sometimes I wonder if this church is operating for its own benifit or for the benifit of the people who they are attempting to help.
However I agree that money is a big issue in the church. They like to focus on raising money like crazy. Although most don't complain, there are many of us (including some lower level leaders, me included), that wonder where it all goes.
Does the group issue an annual budget distributed to all contributors and staff that discloses its finances in meaningful detail?
This must include salaries, compensation and expenses paid out from church funds so that everyone will know how the money is handled.
The overwhelming majority of churches in the United Stated do this.
Most churches also have elected boards. The board is elected to fixed terms by the general church membership. The board oversees finances and can fire and hire staff, including the pastor.


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Reflections grant us a perspective on that to which we are too close to see on our own.
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Glen Brook — The Final Piece?
How has my experience at Glen Brook been? To say that it was incredible would be a total understatement. To call it life changing would be equally meaningless.
Life changing is defined by Cambridge dictionary as " having an effect that is strong enough to change someone's life". Aren't all our experiences life changing? We constantly change our life. When we put on our clothes in the morning we change the course of our life, when we skip breakfast we change how our life will be. Yet, we would never use the term "life changing" to describe putting on clothes or skipping breakfast.
We use the term "life changing" to describe something that was profound in our lives, but the term just doesn't have the weight that I would like to give to the time at Glen Brook. One of the greatest ideas that I learned here at Glen Brook is that our words have weight, and that we should be conscious of what we say in order to become people of consequence. I would rather call my time at Glen Brook Illuminating. Maybe the Sam who came to Glen Brook 2 Months and 2 weeks ago wouldn't hesitate to use the term "life changing" when describing how he thought he would feel when Glen Brook would draw to a close, but I don't think the weight of that term would be totally understood by him.
Illuminate is defined by Random House Webster's College dictionary as : 1. To supply with light or to brighten up, 2. To make lucid ; clarify, 4. To Enlighten. I would say that all of those definitions work well with my belief that my time at Glen Brook was Illuminating. My time at Glen Brook shone light on pieces of myself that I didn't know were there before getting here. I learned more about myself, and honed in my beliefs, clarifying who I believe I am. Without a doubt I feel enlightened, I know so much more about every part of life than I did before coming here. The wind certainly smells sweeter, and the grass seems greener all around as I prepare to leave Glen Brook.
One of the most profound pieces of my experience at Glen Brook was my solo. Being on solo was one of the best experiences of my whole life. Staying up all day and all night long around a fire, with nothing but my thoughts was a massive awakening for me. The greatest part about the solo was the simplicity of it. Sitting around a fire, thinking, keeping it going. Feeding the fire wood, fuel, as it feeds me warmth, and comfort. So simple, but so complex as well. I could think about my solo for hours and find new ways that it tells me something about myself. I thought about language, and the solo's lack thereof. I wondered about how people 10,000 years ago sat around fires and spoke to one another. I contemplated why fire is so essential and so universal as a symbol to all people. I struggled to understand what we were like without fire. Were we even Human? Is fire what sets us apart from the other creatures we share this world with? But then I started to wonder about my wonder-ings. Could I ever have had those thoughts or ideas sitting at home surrounded by comfort and luxury, the likes of which have not been seen in Human history? Sometimes you need to get out and into the cold to start the real fire, and I believe that my fire was started at my solo, and has not yet gone out.
Recently my thoughts have turned to the past, and I think about what I was like before coming to Glen Brook. I think about the Ship of Theseus. If you build a boat, and all the parts of a boat are replaced, is it still the same boat you first built? When I came to Glen Brook, I did not know nearly as much as I do now. I didn't know much about Permaculture in practice, I didn't know much about eco-philosophy, and I didn't much about the deeper more real relationship to the Earth. So I wonder, now that I know more about these ideas and practices, am I still the same person who came to Glen Brook months ago? If you refine and replace the ideas that make up a person, is that still the same person?
Something that constantly controls our lives today is time. Everything is based around time. How long is that going to take, when will that be done, what time is our thing? We have built a society that is so obsessed with time, that we can't stop and take a break. That is what I love about Glen Brook. Glen Brook is a place out of time. Not to mean that at Glen Brook time doesn't move, or that at Glen Brook time moves differently, but meaning that Glen Brook is one of the few places where you are able to step back and look "in" at time. Being at Glen Brook allowed me to take a look at my past from a perspective that I was unable to see before I got here. I have not had more concise and concrete meditations looking back on my life so far, than the first time I went out into the Glen Brook woods alone. It was as if I had entered another world. The air of the forest and the sounds of the streams allowed me to step out of time and look in. But this doesn't just happen in the Glen Brook forest, this happens in the whole of Glen Brook. It was this feeling of being outside of time that truly made me feel illuminated during my time at Glen Brook. I will stick by my definition of Glen Brook as illuminating, and I hope that I always remember my time here as such.


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Desperados 3 is currently in development for PS4, PC and Xbox One, ahead of its 2019 release.
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New Numbers: IL Child Poverty Rises But Most Kids Have Health Care
child poverty graphic Courtesy of: Voices for Illinois Children
CHICAGO - New Census Bureau numbers have shown the number of Illinois children living in poverty in 2011 to be higher than expected. The Bureau's American Community Survey found 660,000 children living below the poverty line, about two percent more than the year before. One in four under the age of five lives in poverty.
Larry Joseph, director of Fiscal Policy at Voices for Illinois Children, says research has shown that poverty affects young children for years to come.
"Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to experience harmful levels of stress. They are more likely to struggle in school. They're more likely to experience behavioral, social and emotional problems."
In 2011, the child poverty rate in Illinois increased to just over 21.5 percent from just under 19.5 percent the year before. That's about a percentage point below the national average.
Joseph blames the recession and says he understands that it will take time for the state to recover.
"There is intense pressure to cut spending, and we understand that, but we need to be smart about what we cut."
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We have enemies and lovers, intentionally or not, damage our hearts.
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Distancing from the anger, the fear and the abysmal. Letting it go.
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Aug 29, 2015 at 04:55 PM
Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton said if it had been the regular season, he would have stayed in Saturday night's game. But since it was the third pre-season game and his neck had just awkwardly turned under about two tons of humanity at the goal line on his fourth-and-one touchdown sneak, the Bengals gave him the rest of the night off in the 21-10 victory over the Bears.
"I was just sitting at the bottom of the pile," Dalton said. "I really couldn't move and my head was in an awkward position . . .I threw well on the sideline and was just honest with them about how I felt and they said, 'Let's just not worry about it and get it right.' " . . .
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AJ McCarron's first TD ball was safely tucked in his locker with the inscription written on tape: "No. 5 to No. 82 vs. Bears." After taking the 31-yard pass all the way, wide receiver Marvin Jones gave the ball to McCarron as they congratulated each other.
McCarron hit Jones on a deep in on the right side, and he led him well enough at the 10-yard line that Jones kept running across the middle and then cut it back for the touchdown.
"I told him, 'You're a bad man,' "Jones said . . .
All McCarron could say about Jones' gesture was "unbelievable." . . .
With the Bengals dodging a bullet on Dalton and the starters not expected to play in the pre-season finale Thursday in Indianapolis, they look extremely healthy heading into Oakland for the Sept. 13 opener. Left tackle Andrew Whitworth feels good about where they sit because they got back some of their identity after the struggles in Tampa Monday night.
"This is who we want to be," Whitworth said. "Play good defense, be able to run it and throw it and do what we want. We feel good about that." . . .
Whitworth's holding call wiped out McCarron's 43-yard pass to Jones early in the second quarter.
"They're going to call it close either way this time of year. I'm sure I can do better," Whitworth said. "Getting used to him and where he's going to be in the pocket and those kinds of things. It's just kind of different. Every quarterback is a little different and that's what I told him. I just have to get to know him and where he's going to be. It's not his fault at all." . . .
Asked to comment on Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones' five-year $71 million extension, Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green said, "Well deserved." Asked if it will speed up his extension bid Green said, "I don't know. It's not my team." . . .
Second-round pick Jake Fisher, the left tackle from Oregon, made his debut Saturday after missing the first two games with a shouder issue. Offensive coordinator Hue Jackson didn't hesitate and employed him as the extra tackle in the heavy package on the second snap. He did that maybe ten or 12 times or so with the first group before playing left tackle with the second group.
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In the case of Marine Products Corp ( MPX - Get Report), the total short interest at the 08/15/2017 settlement date was 289,340 shares, which compares to the average daily trading volume of just 46,703 shares, for a "days to cover" ratio of 6.20.
When short sellers eventually cover their positions, by definition there must be buying activity because a share that is currently sold short must be purchased to be covered. At the present levels of short interest, if from this point forward every single MPX share traded represented a short position being closed, then at the average daily volume of 46,703 shares it would only be during the 7th trading day that every short position would be closed.
So it would stand to reason that should some unexpectedly good news come out, and short sellers did not have 7 days of patience but instead wanted to cover their short positions very suddenly, that situation could result in sending the stock higher until the higher price produces enough sellers to generate the necessary volume to close out those positions quickly.
And looking at the chart below, MPX's low point in its 52 week range is $8.76 per share, with $16.25 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $15.14.
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Mom and dad had to go to work, that thing they regularly curse about, the day we left so we didn't end up leaving for camp until nearly dinnertime! I wasn't too sure about getting in the truck without my kibble, but Porter hopped right in, always afraid he'll be left behind. The true disaster was that mom and dad were in such a hurry to get on the road they didn't even give us our daily "we're home" cookie. I could feel my stomach rumbling before we even left the driveway!
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Palej is a census town in the Bharuch district, Gujarat, India.  Cotton is a major product of the industrial area surrounding the town. Palej supports the daily needs of many small nearby villages.

History
Palej acts as a central hub for many small and big villages of Bharuch and Vadodara district. Being connected by both, a highway and a railway station Palej has become the main source for the frequent as well as the rare commuters. It has witnessed a drastic development in the past decade in all sectors.

People of Hindu, Muslim and Jain religion are the prominent resident of Palej. The beauty of Palej has attracted many migrants who have settled here. Palej also has a lake and few religious shrines.

In the feudal and British raj past, Palej (also spelled Palaj) was among the numerous petty princely states of Gujarat in the Mahi Kantha Agency and ruled by Makwana Koli chieftains.

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Cities and towns in Bharuch district

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Singapore-Based Ride-Hailing Firm Grab Said to Have Invested $100 Million in Oyo
By Reuters | Updated: 4 December 2018 14:26 IST
Grab has invested $100 million in Indian hotel-reservations startup OYO
Both companies are backed by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp
The investment by Grab is part of the $1 billion fund raise OYO announced
Singapore-based ride-hailing firm Grab has invested $100 million (roughly Rs. 704 crores) in Indian hotel-reservations startup Oyo, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday.
Both companies are backed by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp.
The investment by Grab is part of the $1 billion (around Rs. 7,040 crores) fund raise Oyo announced in September in a bid to grow its business in India and China, and expand into new international markets.
Grab's investment takes capital raised by the fast-growing hotel room aggregator in the funding round to up to $900 million (about Rs. 6,300 crores). Of this, $800 million (approximately Rs. 5,600 crores) came from SoftBank and others.
While it was not immediately clear what the funds would be used for, the deal could be similar to Grab's technology collaboration deal with Microsoft, the source said.
Grab, known as the Uber of Southeast Asia, was valued at around $11 billion (roughly Rs. 77,400 crores) at its last funding round in August, sources have told Reuters.
Grab declined to comment, while Oyo did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
The Economic Times earlier reported that Grab was in advanced talks to invest $100 million in Oyo.
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Mr. McDevitt attended law school at UC Hastings, where he served as Executive Production Editor of the Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal. He was also a member of the Hastings Trial Team. Andrew helped lead the team to a First Place finish in the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Mock Trial Competition and to the semi-finals the California Association for Criminal Justice tournament. During his final semester of law school, Mr. McDevitt served as a judicial extern to the Honorable A. James Robertson II of the San Francisco Superior Court.
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Flashlight beating by Colorado Springs police officer prompts ACLU lawsuit
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Denver today, ACLU lawyers alleged that a Colorado Springs police officer used his heavy police-issued metal flashlight to administer a vicious beating to the ACLU's client, Delvikio Faulkner, a young African American who was riding with two other young men in a car that was initially stopped for a minor traffic violation.
According to the suit, Officer D.K. Hardy delivered six blows from the flashlight, including three to Mr. Faulkner's head. The blows continued long after it was clear that Mr. Faulkner was not resisting. Faulkner required hospital treatment, including eight staples to close the head wounds.
"A blow to the head from a police flashlight poses a substantial risk of serious bodily injury and even death," said Mark Silverstein, ACLU Legal Director. "It is the equivalent of deadly force. Police officers are not justified in clubbing a suspect in the head with a flashlight unless they would also be justified in pulling out a gun and shooting, which certainly was not the case here."
"According to police reports, Mr. Faulkner was suspected of nothing more than failing to provide his correct name when asked to identify himself," said Reid Neureiter, who, along with his colleagues, Elizabeth Harris and Kathryn Reilly of the Jacobs Chase firm in Denver, is litigating the case as an ACLU Cooperating Attorney. "He was not armed and Officer Hardy's partner acknowledged that Mr. Faulkner posed no physical threat whatsoever. Even if Mr. Faulkner initially pulled away when he was placed under arrest, as Officer Hardy believed, the officer responded with grossly excessive and disproportionate force, and he continued beating Mr. Faulkner even after it was clear that he was compliant."
The incident, which took place exactly two years ago, prompted the Colorado Springs Police Department to conduct an internal investigation into Hardy's action. When the ACLU asked the City for documents created in the course of that investigation, the City refused. Colorado Springs then sued the ACLU and asked the state district court to declare that the police department's internal affairs file was not subject to disclosure under the Colorado open records laws. The ACLU won that suit earlier this year, and it obtained the full investigative file on the beating of Mr. Faulkner.
"The investigative file shows that Hardy's partner, Jackson Andrews, witnessed the incident and believed that Hardy's beating of Faulkner was unnecessary, uncalled-for, and excessive," Silverstein said. Although the investigators recommended that Hardy be disciplined, Hardy appealed. Before the appeal could be decided, however, Hardy was fired for his role in a different incident.
"The Colorado Springs Police Department deserves credit for recognizing that Officer Hardy was out of line," Silverstein said. "Although Hardy is no longer working as a Colorado Springs police officer, our client has not received any compensation for his serious injuries or for the egregious violation of his constitutional rights. This lawsuit seeks that compensation."
According to Silverstein, the internal affairs file also revealed that Officer Hardy's unit was assigned that night to engage in deliberately aggressive and provocative policing tactics. "The officers were told to stop as many cars as they could and to 'toss' the cars, meaning they should conduct searches and rummage through the passengers' belongings," Silverstein said. "This assignment is a recipe for harassment, pretext stops, and racial profiling. It is unfortunate that the Colorado Springs internal investigation did not criticize this instruction or even find it noteworthy."


Monday 24th of April, the launch of 'Snake Like Charms' by Amanda Joy @ Voicebox!
Voicebox is hosting the launch of 'Snake Like Charms' by Amanda Joy!
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A Window in the Vatican - John Singer Sargent was an American painter by birth-right, and a leading portrait painter of his era. He loved his country yet he spent most of his life in Europe. He was the most celebrated portraitist of his time but left it at the very height of his fame to devote full time to landscape painting, water colors and public art.
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John Singer Sargent was a painter especially known for his fine portraits. He is usually considered an American artist, although he spent most of his life in Europe. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to USA parents. He studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Carolus Duran.
His portraits are remarkable for subtly capturing the individuality and personality of the sitters; his most ardent admirers think he is equaled in this only by Velázquez. Sargent's Portrait of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), done in 1884, is now considered one of his finest works, but it aroused so much negative reaction in Paris at the time that it prompted Sargent to move to London.
Although Sargent spent less than one year in the United States, some of his finest work is there, especially his decorations for the Boston Public Library. Sargent is usually not considered an impressionist, but he sometimes used impressionistic techniques to great effect, and his Claude Monet Painting at the Edge of a Wood is beautifully rendered in an impressionist style.
Around 1910 Sargent largely abandoned portraits, focusing mostly on landscapes in his later years.
In an era when the mainstream of art was focused on Impressionism and emphasizing artistic individuality, Sargent emphasized his own form of Realism and regularly worked doing commissioned portraits of the rich. This caused him to be dismissed as an anachronism at the time, but appreciation of him as a great artist has grown since his death.


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The Cinco-Cinco , set for 8:30 a.m. Saturday, May 7, is one of the oldest races in Fort Collins and celebrates the life of former CSU ombudsman Gil Gutierrez, an avid runner who was killed by a drunk driver while running in 1993. Proceeds from the race help support CSU scholarships in honor of Gutierrez. More than 100 scholarships have been funded by race proceeds.
The race begins and ends on the historic CSU Oval. The fast, flat course often attracts top runners from around the area. The race also serves as an official qualifier for the upcoming Bolder Boulder on May 30.
Registration is $25 for individuals; $22 for students and teams of 3 or more; and $19 for CSU students living on campus and participants age 65 and older. All categories cost $30 on race day. All registered participants receive a uniquely designed T-shirt.
A free kids fun run follows the 5K.
Register at the CSU Student Recreation Center service desk, Altitude Running (150 E. Harmony Road) or Runner's Roost (2720 Council Tree Ave. #112). You can also register online at Active.com, RunningGuru.com or SimpleRaceReg2.com.


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Links of the day
I'm mulling over some thoughts about the press, fake news, Silicon Valley, and values, but they're still cooking. In the meantime, here are some interesting things I've found.
The Bloomberg Jealousy List for 2016 is out, stories so good they wish they'd done them. The green background is awful, but the stories are good. One of my favorites from the list is this WSJ article about the Theranos whistleblower, who just happens to be the grandson of George Schultz.
This FiveThirtyEight article about the Waffle House Index is really about supply chains, one of those wonky infrastructure things nobody thinks about until they fail. Modern supply chains are long and complex, and if we're going to take simplistic approaches to trade, for example, we ought to learn more about them.
Crony capitalism. Good thing so much effort was spent investigating the Clinton Foundation.
Nope, not gonna pretend Trump's win isn't about race.
This WaPo article about the right wing crazies who believed Clinton was running a child trafficking ring out of a DC pizza place is just nuts.
Author sherrinicholsPosted on December 6, 2016 December 7, 2016 1 Comment on Links of the day
Whither the Church?
In the wake of an election in which a majority of white Christians voted for a candidate who ran an explicitly racist, misogynistic, xenophobic campaign, what is the role of the church? What is the responsibility of a Christian in a Trump presidency?
My Episcopal diocese has addressed an open letter to Trump, urging him to denounce acts of violence and hate. There's nothing I disagree with in the letter, but it's pretty weak tea. Our bishop posted this on his blog after the election, reminding us that we are not enemies but friends. Again, it's not that there's anything to disagree with, but I feel like there's something essential missing.
Where is the call to consider our actions and choices, things done and left undone? How can there be reconciliation if we simply ignore what happened, or pretend that a normal campaign happened? What is our responsibility? What are the moral consequences of our vote?
Some may argue that a vote for Clinton was an immoral vote because of her support for reproductive rights. I agree that a choice about reproductive rights is a moral one; I just disagree that supporting a woman's agency and autonomy over medical choices is immoral. Because I think that it is a moral choice to support a woman in that choice, I accept other consequences of that decision. I support sex education that enables women to make informed decisions. I support birth control access so that women will find themselves with an unwanted pregnancy less often. I support aid for families and children and support for quality child care, so that terminating a pregnancy doesn't become an economic choice. I accept that supporting reproductive rights entails responsibility for more than just support for a decision made at one point in time.
I believe a vote for Trump at the very least is a tacit acceptance of racism and bigotry. This was no dog-whistle campaign; Trump began by calling Mexicans rapists, questioned the integrity of a judge of Mexican descent, spoke disparagingly and disrespectfully of women, and consistently scapegoating the vulnerable, going so far as to mock a disabled reporter. None of this was hidden or exaggerated by the media; we all saw Trump do these things. A majority of white Christians voted for him anyway.
In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King calls out the white church, writing
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
I feel like I'm watching a church that prefers the absence of tension to the presence of justice, that's happy to send letters and urge action outside its walls, but unwilling to risk the self-examination necessary for real change, and the upheaval that causes. It is a risk. It is raw and it is painful and nobody ever wants to do it. I just don't see what reconciliation means without it, and I'm having a hard time sitting in church right now because it feels like nobody sees that.
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
On my last day in DC, I decided to try to see the NMAAHC. As part of the Smithsonian, entrance is free, but entry is via timed tickets because of the popularity of the museum. Advance timed entry tickets are all gone through March 2017, but if you walk up, there may be some same day tickets available. Luckily, I had no trouble getting in.
I didn't have time to see everything at the museum, so I decided to focus on the three floors of history and skip the culture floors on this trip. Even so, I couldn't really take in all the history, both because of time and because of the volume of information. The history exhibits are designed in a way I like, where you are taken along a path that tells a story, with artifacts, text, and multimedia support to inform you along the way. I think I could go along that path 4-5 times and still be digging in at new depths.
The artifacts that moved me the most were from the wreck of a Spanish ship that had carried Africans to be sold as slaves. On display were some big pieces of iron, shaped vaguely like railroad ties. These were ballast; human beings were lighter than other types of cargo, and so iron ballast was needed to balance the weight of the ship. Humans reduced to a logistical problem.
The most compelling, disturbing, and emotional multimedia exhibit included an interview with Emmitt Till's mother discussing seeing her son's body. He had been badly beaten, and his face was grotesquely damaged. She chose to have an open casket funeral, so everyone would see what she had seen, and see the atrocities committed on her son. There was no picture of the body, but hearing her describe the injuries was stomach-turning. Emmitt Till was 14 years old when he was murdered because he had spoken to a 21 year old white woman while visiting Mississippi.
The majority of my fellow visitors to the museum were African American. I hope more whites visit the museum as well, to gain a better understanding of how deeply race is embedded in our system. We are not a post-racial society, we are not a color blind society, and never will be as long as we refuse to face how big an impact slavery has had on every aspect of our country. The effects continue to reverberate, because so many choices in our constitution were compromises about slavery. We can't "get past race" by ignoring our history.
Author sherrinicholsPosted on December 2, 2016 3 Comments on National Museum of African American History and Culture
Thanks to the ACLU (please donate!), I attended an argument at the US Supreme Court today. The case was Moore v. Texas, a death penalty case. The Texas Tribune has a good summary of the case here.
Court begins at 10, but we had to be there between 9 and 9:30. There's a line out front of people hoping to get a seat, but since we had reserved seating, we bypassed that line. We entered to the left of the big steps, and went through the first level of security. Then we were directed to another guard, who showed us to lockers where we could store our belongings. The only things you can take into the court are a pad of paper and a writing instrument. After we put our stuff in a locker, we were sent to the Marshall, who checked off our name, put us through another security check, and directed us to the nice young women who were seating people. We had to wait there until there were enough people to fill a row, and then we were all led into the courtroom to be seated.
The courtroom is appropriately awesome. Probably 50 feet high, with 8 columns on each side and 4 in front and back, marvelous friezes carved above the columns and rosettes in the ceiling, quiet was required at all times in the room. If the sound got about the barest whisper, a frowning man with a buzz cut, and earpiece, and a wrist mic asked us all to keep our voices down, please. Members of the bar sit in seats behind the attorneys arguing the case, the press sits on the left, and guests of the justices sit on the right. There were a number of attorneys being admitted to the bar today, so that section was fairly full.
At 9:45, the attorneys arguing the case came in, and around this time, aides were bringing in papers and drinks for the justices and arranging things to their liking. (Justice Breyer drinks tea.) At 10, we all rise, the justices come in, and we're off.
Today, Justice Ginsburg first read an unanimous opinion from the court in Bravo-Fernandez. RBG looked really frail to my eyes, and her voice was hoarse. Her jabot was quite sparkly, though. After Ginsburg read the opinion, the attorneys being admitted to the SCOTUS bar were presented and sworn in, then it was time for argument.
Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court…
The issue in Moore v. Texas concerns the criteria used by Texas to determine whether someone is too intellectually disabled to be executed. In Atkins v. Virginia, the court had determined that intellectually disabled people could not be executed, and in Hall v. Florida, the court had ruled that the determination of intellectually disability should be informed by medical standards. Texas, instead, uses a standard from Briseno, which claims that medical standards are too subjective, and seems to allow for a standard based on what Texas citizens would judge to be intellectually disabled.
Sloan, the attorney for Moore, was making the case that Texas didn't use clinical standards to determine intellectually disability, instead relying on a framework that depended on stereotype and vagueness and in fact, was counter to clinical standards. A defendant could be determined by experts to be intellectually disabled and still not meet the standards in Texas. Keller, the Solicitor General of Texas, argued that Texas did use a system consistent with the SC opinions because the court had given the states leeway in how to apply the opinion and because Texas used a three prong test as laid out by the court. In effect, he was arguing that we do use modern clinical standards, and even if we don't, it doesn't matter.
The challenge in this case, as highlighted by Justice Breyer, is that it involves a defendant of mild intellectual disability. It's a borderline case; how do we set the border? Justice Sotomayor asked Keller if Texas had found any mildly disabled defendant unworthy of being executed, and Keller didn't really have an answer for her.
Justice Alito was pretty hostile to Sloan, CJ Roberts didn't say much but seems unlikely to be friendly, and Justice Thomas, of course, didn't say a word. He spent a lot of time leaned back in his chair (the justices have chairs that rock back), looking up at the ceiling, or talking to an aide about something. Justices Kennedy, Breyer, Ginsberg, Kagan, and Sotomayor all seemed friendlier to Sloan than to Keller, for what that's worth, so it seems possible at least that Moore's death penalty will be overturned and Texas' criteria will be forced to modernize some. Had the election turned out differently, the end of the death penalty might be in sight, but I don't think Kennedy can be pushed that far now.
On a gossipy note, I saw Nina Totenberg in the courtroom, and Eliot Spitzer was there for some reason. I had lunch afterwards with an ACLU attorney, and got to meet the retiring legal director of the ACLU, Steve Shapiro, before he caught the train to NY. This was his last time at the court as the legal director; his last day is Friday. He's done a lot of great work for the ACLU, and I'll miss him on the end of term conference calls the ACLU does wrapping up the SC cases.
Author sherrinicholsPosted on November 29, 2016 4 Comments on SCOTUS
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Richard Berent was musical director of the Colony's 2000 revival of Dandelion Wine.
He is very active as a musical director and pianist in the Los Angeles area. His work includes musical direction of Dale Kristien/Bill Hutton Xmas Show, Blame It On the Movies at the La Mirada Playhouse, Falsettos at the St. Genesius Theatre, and Olympus On My Mind at the Odyssey Theater.
As a musical theater composer, Mr. Berent�s scores include As Time Crawls By, premiered in Moorpark CA, Cheering Up a Princess, an opera for children�s audiences premiered by Michigan Opera Theater, and Holiday Cabaret, a Christmas musical premiered by the Attic Theater in Detroit. His musical, Daughter of Beijing, which concerns a family in China living through the Tienanmen Square uprising, was presented at the Disney/ASCAP Music Theater Workshop hosted by Stephen Schwartz.
Mr. Berent has also written extensively for dance and dramatic theater, and works as an arranger and composer of music utilizing computer and synthesizer technology. He is a staff accompanist at UCLA and Santa Monica College, and is musical director of the Unity Church of Hollywood.