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Colin Kaepernick Proves He's A Fraud
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How the Left is Trashing the Constitution to Fight Trump
Attorney General William Barr recently delivered a lecture at the Federalist Society's 2019 National Lawyers Convention. The New York Post published excerpts of his remarks as a column last night.
"I deeply admire the American presidency as a political and constitutional institution. I believe it is one of the great and remarkable innovations in our Constitution. More than any other branch, it has fulfilled the expectations of the Framers," Attorney General William Barr says.
"Unfortunately, over the past several decades, we have seen steady encroachment on presidential authority by the other branches of government. This process, I think, has substantially weakened the functioning of the executive branch, to the detriment of the nation."
The left is "willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications."
"The scariest aspect of [Alexander] Vindman's testimony is his insistence that US foreign policy should be made by unelected bureaucrats like himself. He says he and his colleagues have formulated 'the best, most informed judgment' about Ukraine, and it was not 'appropriate for government officials' like Trump's ambassadors to act 'counter' to it. What arrogance," Betsy McCaughey writes in the New York Post.
"At the very least, House Democrats and the media should spare us the sanctimonious narrative that every impeachment witness is a selfless hero whose credibility is above questioning and whose every statement must be taken at face value. After all, we need look no further than the appalling display of other 'deep state' bureaucrats connected to the Russia collusion hoax—former FBI director James Comey, his deputy Andrew McCabe, and the sneering former FBI agent Pete Strzok," for examples of craven dishonesty and self-interest, John Daniel Davidson writes in The Federalist.
At Google's D.C. office last week, Ivanka Trump talked about how implementing paid family leave is a top issue for the Trump Administration. "She noted that her father is 'the first president, Republican or Democrat, to call for a national [paid-parental–leave] plan in every single budget," Alexandra DeSanctis writes in National Review.
U.S. stocks hit new records again yesterday. "The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 28,000 for the second straight session after hitting that level for the first time on Friday. The move from 27,000 was the 10th shortest 1,000-point gain in history, taking 90 days. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq... are also notched new highs," Fox Business reports.
Rep. Eric Swalwell appears to fart on live TV
Here's one act he had no problem passing.
A congressman from California became the butt of everyone's joke for appearing to fart on live television Monday night.
Rep. Eric Swalwell was mid-sentence on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" when it sounded like he let 'er rip.
"Chris, so far the evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to help him cheat —" Swalwell says with a pause, as the noise is clearly heard, "— an election."
But the 39-year-old Democrat, who's been in Congress since 2013 and sits on the House Judiciary Committee, was quick to deny the apparent tummy troubles.
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Kim Foxx to run for re-election as state's attorney despite being hammered for Jussie Smollett case
Kim Foxx, the controversial Cook County state's attorney who has come under fire for her handling of the Jussie Smollett case, announced Tuesday she is running for re-election.
Foxx felt the ire of the Chicago police department and the city's former mayor after her office abruptly dropped a 16-count indictment against Smollett, who authorities claimed faked a hate crime against himself in order to gin up publicity for his acting career. Smollett has denied the allegations.
Foxx tweeted her announcement Tuesday morning.
"I ran for Cook County State's Attorney four years ago because we needed to change criminal justice in our county. Today, I'm officially running for re-election. We've gotten a lot done, and we can't go back now."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kim-foxx-election-state-attorney-jussie-smollett
Criminal alien, wanted for killing motorist, flees after local law enforcement ignores immigration detainer
PORTLAND, Ore. – On July 12, Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies announced they had responded to a crash involving Alejandro Maldonado-Hernandez, as well as Patrick Ator and his wife, Janace Ator, who were traveling in another vehicle. Maldonado-Hernandez, who was in the United States illegally and allegedly responsible for the crash, was transported to the local hospital with only minor injuries. Mr. Ator was taken to the hospital where he was treated for severe injuries while his wife, Janace, lost her life as a result of the injuries sustained in the crash.
Maldonado-Hernandez was arrested by local authorities the same day and booked into the Washington County jail on charges of felony manslaughter in the second degree, felony assault in the third degree, and misdemeanor reckless driving.
On July 16, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers encountered Maldonado-Hernandez while he was being held at the Washington County jail and lodged an immigration detainer.
On August 8, the jail failed to honor the detainer and released Maldonado-Hernandez back into the community he had previously victimized.
TikTok Considers Re-branding to Hide Chinese Ownership
The Chinese-based tech firm ByteDance is reportedly considering a U.S. re-brand of its short-form video-sharing app TikTok as it attempts to distance the app from its Chinese roots, according to the Wall Street Journal. TikTok has come under fire recently from U.S. politicians worried that the app may actually pose a threat to national security.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, recently to investigate the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to determine if it poses "national security risks."
"With over 110 million downloads in the U.S. alone, TikTok is a potential counter-intelligence threat we cannot ignore," wrote Schumer and Cotton, who currently sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. "Given these concerns, we ask that the Intelligence Community conduct an assessment of the national security risks posed by TikTok and other China-based content platforms operating in the U.S. and brief Congress on these findings."
Salvation Army Leaders 'Saddened' by Chick-fil-A Decision to Drop Charity
Salvation Army leaders said Monday that they are "saddened" by Chick-fil-A's decision to stop donating to the charitable organization, arguing that the 154-year-old group has been the target of misinformation regarding its stance on LGBT individuals.
Chick-fil-A, which has also faced years of criticism from LGBT activists, announced this week that its foundation would give money to a smaller number of charities, focusing exclusively on education, homelessness, and hunger.
The decision comes as Chick-fil-A is seeking to open more restaurants and expand its geographical reach, encountering mounting resistance from activists in the process. As a result, it has cut ties with several Christian organizations, including the Salvation Army, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, as well as a number of Christian schools.
"We're saddened to learn that a corporate partner has felt it necessary to divert funding to other hunger, education and homelessness organizations — areas in which The Salvation Army, as the largest social services provider in the world, is already fully committed," the organization said in a statement Monday afternoon.
"When misinformation is perpetuated without fact, our ability to serve those in need, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or any other factor, is at risk. We urge the public to seek the truth before rushing to ill-informed judgment."
Known for its Christmas-season bell ringers soliciting donations on city street corners, the Salvation Army has faced criticism from LGBT activists for years. But the attacks have increased in recent days after singer Ellie Goulding threatened to withdraw from a planned Thanksgiving halftime performance that was to serve as the start of the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign fundraising drive, unless the group pledged to support the LGBT community.
Teens charged in fatal assault at Great Frederick Fair to remain in detention
Both teens charged in the fatal assault of a man at the Great Frederick Fair in September will remain in juvenile detention as the investigation into whether they will be tried as adults continues, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The teens, brothers aged 15 and 16, both appeared for a petition for waiver hearing before Frederick County Circuit Court Judge Julie Stevenson Solt. Frederick County Assistant State's Attorney Laura Wilt testified that the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services needs more time to complete its investigation, indicating the investigation may not be complete even before the teens' next scheduled hearing on Dec. 18.
Wilt also argued that the teens should remain in custody for the duration of the investigation, citing the serious and violent nature of the crime.
Both teens have remained in juvenile detention since Sept. 20, when Frederick County sheriff's deputies responded to an assault in the midway area of the fairgrounds at 5:36 p.m. and found 59-year-old Mount Airy resident John Weed suffering from serious injuries. Weed was flown to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, but died from his injuries the following day, according to previous stories published in The Frederick News-Post.
Franklin Graham Thrilled Kanye West Is Letting God Use Him to Spread the Gospel
Appearing Monday on Fox & Friends, Christian evangelist Franklin Graham said he was "proud" of hip-hop superstar and fashion designer Kanye West for embracing Christianity, with the rapper's latest Sunday Service concert taking place in Joel Osteen's mega-church to an audience of millions.
A partial transcript is as follows:
STEVE DOOCY: "What do you make of what's going on not only in Houston, but with Kanye West's movement?"
REV. FRANKLIN GRAHAM: "First of all, I always like to see when God works on a person's life and changes them and Kanye's is a life that's been changed by the power of almighty God through his faith in Jesus Christ. I'm just thrilled about what's happened in his life. This is what Christmas is all about. Christmas is about God's love sending his Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to change our lives and to save us from our sins.
"Here at Christmas, Kanye is out in churches. Who would have thought he would have been in a church? And who would have thought a year ago that God would be using him to touch another generation of young people with the gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm proud of him, I pray for him, and I hope he'll be very successful. And as he's going around to churches doing this, I say more power to him."
KANYE: 'PROTECT YOUR KIDS FROM BEING INDOCTRINATED BY HOLLYWOOD & THE MEDIA'
Kanye West says that parents need to protect their children from being 'indoctrinated' into embracing lives of vapid meaninglessness by the media and the entertainment industry.
The music icon was speaking to an audience at Joel Osteen's church in Houston during one of his Sunday Service events.
He began by pointing out that many famous people are in service to Satan and not God because they value money and power above all else.
"You start to feel like Satan is the most powerful and you start to feel that if you service God in life it means you will not prosper and the only way to prosper is in service to fame," said Kanye.
Freedom vs Liberty
DOJ Details Peter Strzok's Security Violations, Releases More Texts
Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok committed a multitude of security violations during his time at the bureau related to communications with his mistress and the mishandling of classified information, according to records released by the Department of Justice.
The documents made public Monday include several text messages between Strzok and Page, who worked on the FBI's Hillary Clinton and Russia investigations before being fired in August 2018, and other pieces of evidence that are part of an internal investigation of his conduct.
According to the documents, which are part of a case labeled "Strzok vs. Barr/DOJ," Strzok's wife got hold of his personal cell phone and discovered evidence of the affair he was having with FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Warren targets white nationalist crime in rollout of new plan
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has targeted white nationalist crime in the rollout of a plan released Tuesday.
The presidential candidate vowed to make the prosecution and investigation of white nationalist crime a top priority for the departments of Justice and Homeland Security.
In the plan, she said she would make those crimes federal cases instead of local or state cases so that more resources could be devoted to combatting white nationalist groups both domestically and internationally.
"The Trump administration has ignored the threat posed by white nationalists and violent extremists—and Trump himself has stoked the flames," she tweeted. "In a Warren administration, we will use every tool we have to defeat domestic terrorism."
BREAKING NEWS: Salisbury Bypass Closed Down: UPDATE
Update: Traffic is now flowing again. If you are at business Rt. 13 around the mall area wanting to head towards Fruitland on the Bypass, it is shut down. More to come...
Missing Pet In Salisbury
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Ocean City, Companies Submit Comments On Wind Turbines After PSC Begins Review
OCEAN CITY — Potential changes to the original approval of two offshore wind energy projects off the coast of Ocean City are now under further scrutiny after state officials re-opened the public comment period earlier this month.
In 2017, the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) approved two offshore wind energy projects off the coast of Ocean City. Technically, the PSC awarded Offshore Renewable Energy Credits (ORECs) to the two companies seeking to develop wind farms off the coast of the resort including the US Wind project and the Skipjack project. The awarding of ORECs was a necessary first step in what has become a lengthy approval process.
However, with advancements in technology, the height of the proposed turbines has increased exponentially since the original PSC approval in 2017, prompting Ocean City officials and the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to request a re-opening of the original approval proceedings. For example, Orsted's Skipjack project has now committed to using 12-megawatt wind turbines described as the "world's largest offshore wind turbine."
Armed Citizen Stopped Oklahoma Walmart Shooter
A report by the Daily Mail indicates that Monday's shooting outside a Duncan, Oklahoma, Walmart was cut short by an armed citizen who confronted the gunman.
Breitbart News reported that three deaths resulted from a shooting outside the Walmart around 10 a.m. Two individuals were fatally shot while sitting in a car, and a third person died outside the vehicle when police arrived.
The Daily Mail reported that the deceased individual outside the car was the gunman, and that he allegedly took his own life after being confronted by an armed citizen.
China used academic recruitment programs to steal U.S. research: Senate report
China-backed researchers deployed to American universities have been siphoning off taxpayer funding for their own research, giving their Chinese overseers first look at their work and stealing intellectual property from their U.S. employers, a bipartisan Senate report revealed Monday.
Beijing's interest in stealing U.S. military and economic secrets has long been known, but the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says American officials were slow to act — and in fact likely paid for the research operatives were conducting here, then taking back home with them.
Along the way researchers lied about their ties to China, the eight-month investigation concluded, but took advantage of the openness and transparency that characterizes American research.
"American taxpayers have been unwittingly funding the rise of China's economy and military over the last two decades," said Senator Rob Portman, Ohio Republican and chairman of the investigative subcommittee, adding that "our own federal agencies have done little to stop their actions despite being aware of China's talent plans."
In one case a professor at an American university working in a dual-use science field found a way to circumvent U.S. export rules.
Investigators said he was paid by federal agencies to do research while also running a China-based lab, and he sponsored visiting Chinese students to come to the U.S. He then used them to transfer his research back to China without himself ever having to travel.
The federal agency that investigated the case said many of the visiting students were "directly affiliated with research and development organizations involved in China's military modernization efforts."
Column: With ludicrous workout, NFL, Colin Kaepernick both lose
Fall Saturdays typically belong to college football. When it comes to the NFL and its dysfunctional relationship with Colin Kaepernick, however, nothing is typical.
Saturday was the day Kaepernick had, in theory, been waiting for — the first day of the rest of his NFL career. Earlier in the week, the league set up a workout for multiple teams to come see what the 32-year-old former San Francisco 49ers star quarterback had in the tank after nearly three seasons out of the league.
To Kaepernick (and anyone who's paid attention to the NFL's clumsy handling of any and all complicated, high-profile issues) the whole thing stunk from the beginning. Why was this rushed workout happening now, out of the blue, in the middle of the season?
Why on a Saturday, not on a Tuesday — the off-day for NFL teams — when all 32 teams could attend? We were finally past the point of uttering "Colin Kaepernick is still available" every time a starting quarterback either went down with injury or played ineffectively.
American Psychological Association now requires authors to use singular 'they'
The American Psychological Association is helping make grammar fluid to accommodate current gender fluidity trends, and a statement from a Modern Language Association of America spokesperson indicated the group may soon follow suit.
The APA recently announced scholars in some cases must use "they" as a singular pronoun to refer to individuals who identify as non-binary.
In a recent post, Chelsea Lee, content development manager for APA style, explained the change.
"When readers see a gendered pronoun, they make assumptions about the gender of the person being described," Lee wrote. "APA advocates for the singular 'they' because it is inclusive of all people and helps writers avoid making assumptions about gender."
According to Lee, "Writers should use the singular 'they' in two main cases: (a) when referring to a generic person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant to the context and (b) when referring to a specific, known person who uses 'they' as their pronoun."
WCSO Press Release - Nov. 18, 2019
Bratten and Jones
Incident: Possession of Heroin
Date of Incident: 13 November 2019
Location: 100 block of Truitt Street, Salisbury, MD
Suspects:
Calvin G. Bratten, 32, Pittsville, MD
Daronte L. Jones, 29, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 13 November 2019 at 4:17 PM, a deputy stopped a vehicle operated by Calvin Bratten for an equipment violation in the 100 block of Truitt Street in Salisbury. During the stop, the deputy learned that Bratten's privilege to drive had been suspended and the registration plates for Bratten's vehicle belonged on another car. A passenger in the vehicle, Daronte Jones, handed over marijuana to the deputy upon stepping from the vehicle.
Following a subsequent search of the vehicle, the deputy recovered what was identified as heroin along with four used syringes.
The deputy placed both Bratten and Jones under arrest and transported them to the Central Booking Unit where they were processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner released both on Personal Recognizance.
Charges: Possession of Heroin
Incident: Burglary
Location: 800 block of Snow Hill Road, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Philip Morris Johnson, 43, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 11 November 2019 a deputy arrested Phillip Morris in connection with a burglary that occurred in the 800 block of Snow Hill Road in Salisbury. During the investigation the deputy learned that a subject had thrown a cinder block through the window of a church before making entry and stealing a Yamaha Keyboard. The purloined keyboard appeared in a local store in Salisbury for sale and the deputy was able to identify Philip Johnson as the individual who pawned the purloined keyboard.
The deputy obtained a warrant for Johnson's arrest and upon being taken into custody he was transported to the Central Booking Unit. Following an initial appearance in front of the District Court Commissioner, Johnson was detained without bond.
Charges: Burglary 2nd Degree, Theft $1,500.00 to $25,000.00 and Malicious Destruction of Property
Mark Kelly Receives Thousands of Dollars Through Corporate PAC Loophole
Arizona Senate candidate Mark Kelly (D.) has pledged not to accept donations from corporate PACs but received tens of thousands of dollars from Democrat leadership PACs heavily funded by corporate entities.
Kelly, who faced scrutiny earlier this year for financially benefiting from corporate speaking gigs, received more than $55,000 from Democrat leadership PACs financially backed by corporate entities during the third quarter, according to his campaign's most recent filing.
"I think Washington, D.C., is failing the state of Arizona on these things, and there's structural problems with the way our system is set up," Kelly said during a Fox 10 interview in early November. "As an example, corporate PAC money in our political system makes it so hard for people to get elected to Congress to do what they think is right instead of doing what some company wants. That's why I'm not taking corporate PAC money."
Kelly sent out several tweets from his official Twitter account over the last few months criticizing corporate PACs, calling them "one of the biggest problems in our politics today."
Ilhan Omar paid another $147,000 to married lover's consultant group in addition to hundreds of thousands for other services previously reported amid calls for a federal election probe
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar paid her political consultant and lover almost $147,000 more for services than had previously been known, according to reports.
The payments were in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars she gave to the company which had already been reported.
Omar's campaign funneled $146,713 into finance chief Tim Mynett's consulting firm, 'The E Street Group' for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and video production, records show, reports the New York Post.
That's how much more the 38-year-old Minnesota lawmaker's campaign pumped into Mynett's firm since Peter Flaherty, chairman of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center in October filed an an amended complaint into Omar's campaign spending with the Federal Election Commission.
A record 5.7 billion robocalls in October alone
Americans were flooded with a record 5.7 billion robocalls last month — more than 17 per person in October — even as federal regulators try to crack down on the onslaught of prerecorded messages.
The all-time monthly high not only represents a 25% jump from the month prior, but puts the U.S. on track for a blockbuster year in robocalls, according to a report from robocall-blocking app YouMail. With 49 billion robocalls tracked thus far this year, Americans have already received more robocalls than all of last year.
"October's record robocall volume reminds us there's a long way to go before the robocall problem is solved," Alex Quilici, YouMail CEO, said in a statement. "It's hard to imagine, but we are still on pace to wind up with nearly 60 billion calls to U.S. consumers this year."
WCSAO: Eugene Baugh Sentenced For Possession With Intent To Distribute
Enough Calm, Where's the Storm?
For the past several years, most of us who have been following the seditious Deep State activities against President Trump and many of his close associates have been eagerly awaiting a reckoning. A presidential campaign, then administration, was spied upon by the previous administration, using fabricated domestic and foreign intelligence, with the willing assistance of the mainstream media.
President Trump has been accused of being a Russian agent, a Putin stooge, and a traitor by high level executives of ex-President Obama's justice and intelligence agencies. A two-year $30 million special counsel investigation, that we were told would unearth "mountains of evidence" of Trump-Russia collusion, was a big dud, exonerating the president of his supposed treason.
Meanwhile these accusations and investigations have ruined the reputations and finances of many Trump associates. Now it's on to so-called "impeachment inquiry" hearings, attempting to remove a duly elected president based on third-hand hearsay and disagreement with foreign policy approaches that are totally under the purview of the president, not the unelected administrative State Department apparatchiks.
Americans Ignore Democrats' Demands To Watch Their Impeachment Farce
Does anyone really believe the conclusion of Democrats' impeachment "inquiry" isn't predetermined? President Trump was guilty the moment he won the 2016 election — guilty of denying Democrats the massive spoils of federal power. Every moment since has just been searching for a pretext to remove him from office without an actual election. First Spygate, now the "impeachment inquiry."
So it's no surprise that just 13 million viewers tuned in for the first day of televised impeachment hearings last Wednesday, many fewer than for the Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford hearings last fall (20 million viewers) and for James Comey's Russiagate testimony (19.5 million), according to early Nielsen ratings reported by Axios.
Since an estimated 304.5 million Americans have a television set at home, that means about 4.3 percent of them watched. For another comparison, a record 137.5 million Americans voted in 2016 and many millions more Americans are watching NFL games this fall (game viewership ranges between 10 and 23 million, with most at 13 million and up).
CNN legal analyst Jim Baker shook his finger at these naughty Americans on Twitter, insisting it's our solemn obligation to watch Democrat-rigged impeachment theater as if we live in "1984" with Big Brother's televisions always drilling into us what to think.
Students demand UNCC fire former Gitmo commander campus security chief, claim they 'do not feel safe'
Chalking and posters declaring "#FireJohnBogdan." Poems by Guantanamo Bay detainees touted and spread on social media. Demands that all future administrative hires be vetted by students and faculty.
These are just some of the actions underway at the University of North Carolina Charlotte against retired U.S. Army Colonel John Bogdan, a decorated vet with a 34-year career in the Army who once served as brigade commander at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay and is now security chief for UNC Charlotte.
An organization called the Coalition to Remove John Bogdan was former earlier this fall semester and its members are waging a campaign to get the associate vice chancellor for safety and security at UNC Charlotte fired. They call him an alleged war criminal and claim he oversaw multiple human rights violations when commander at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
We do not feel safe with an accused human rights violator on our campus! We do not feel safe with the warden of Guantanamo on our campus! We are concerned, we are scared, we do not feel safe! #FireJohnBogdan pic.twitter.com/pH2KOZXUeG
— Coalition to Remove John Bogdan (@RemoveBogdan) November 8, 2019
'Schiff Show' Roundup: Yovanovitch, Intimidation, Guilty Until...
Before we kick things off today, a reminder: Upon taking office in 2009, Barack Obama fired all of George W. Bush's politically appointed ambassadors. At the time, The Washington Post observed, "Political ambassadors sometimes are permitted to stay on briefly during a new administration, but the sweeping nature of the directive suggests that Obama has little interest in retaining any of Bush's ambassadorial appointees." Funny how times change.
On Friday, former Ukraine Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch testified before the House Intelligence Committee in the Democrats' ongoing impeachment charade. She claimed that she was "kneecapped" by President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, leading to her being recalled from Ukraine. Democrats sought to paint Yovanovitch as a nonpartisan civil servant and a casualty of Trump's alleged attempt to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, irrespective of the fact that she was removed from her posting months prior to Trump's now-infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Sullivan: Transgenders Target Gays, Lesbians
Transgender activists are increasingly smearing gays and lesbians as 'transphobic,' says Andrew Sullivan, the partway conservative gay author at New York Magazine.
"Slowly but surely, the term 'sex' has slowly drifted in meaning and become muddled with gender … that has major consequences for what homosexuality actually is, consequences that are only beginning to be properly understood," Sullivan wrote November 15, adding:
If a gay man doesn't want to have sex with someone who has a vagina and a lesbian doesn't want to have sex with someone who has a d!ck, they are not being transphobic. They're being — how shall I put this? — gay.
Transgender advocates argue that men who say they are women really are women, each complete with a "woman's pen!s." They also argue that heterosexual men who refuse to have sex with a man who says he is a woman with a pen!s are either "bigots" or are mentally ill "transphobes." Similarly, these activists claim that lesbians are "transphobes" if they refuse to have sex with men who say they are lesbian women.
[But we are assured by the American Psychiatric Association that none of these people are mentally ill. --Editor]
Professor: Academia Increasing Efforts to 'Eliminate Conservatives'
Professor Richard Vatz of Towson University in Towson, Maryland, says that despite academic world priding itself on "supporting the marketplace of ideas and academic freedom," there has been "an increasing and unremitting effort to eliminate conservatives" in areas of higher education.
The professor added that when he brought up his concerns with the National Communication Association, "they couldn't care less."
"There has been an increasing and unremitting effort to eliminate conservatives and conservative thought in the humanities and social sciences in the American academy," wrote professor Vatz in his recent Baltimore Sun op-ed, entitled, "Towson professor: Higher ed discriminates against conservatives."
"Higher education prides itself on two overarching values: supporting the marketplace of ideas and academic freedom," said Vatz. "Channeling the late civil rights advocate President John F. Kennedy, who said 'Are we to say to the world — and much more importantly, to each other — that this is the land of the free, except for the Negro?'"
"Today, he would have said of colleges and universities, 'Are we to say to the world — and much more importantly, to each other — higher education today is for diversity and equity except for conservatives?'" he added.
Professor Vatz, who has taught at Towson University for the past 45 years, said that he is also familiar with universities around the country, as he has been invited to speak at many of them, and has been on the Legislative Assembly at the National Communication Association (NCA), as well as involved with the Eastern Communication Association.
"The anti-conservatism is increasing at most national education venues," said Vatz.
[And the taxpayers of this and other states are forced to fund and support this? --Editor]
'It Was Clearly Criminal': How A Massachusetts Judge Allegedly Helped An Illegal Alien Escape ICE
A Massachusetts judge, indicted for allegedly helping sneak an illegal alien out of a courtroom in order to avoid an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is opting to fight the charges instead of accepting a plea deal.
Federal prosecutors charged Shelley Joseph, a Newton District Court judge, with obstruction of justice in April for allegedly helping an illegal alien sneak through the backdoor of a courthouse, allowing him to evade an ICE officer who was waiting to apprehend him. Instead of taking a plea deal that would allow her to avoid prosecution, Joseph is preparing to go to trial.
The case has divided many in the Massachusetts legal community and has become a symbol of the growing tension between federal immigration authorities and local officials in liberal enclaves. Massachusetts has aggressively fought to restrict ICE's ability to enforce immigration law in recent, a backlash against the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.
The prosecution, nonetheless, is arguing that Joseph's actions clearly broke the law.
Tuesday Morning Funnies
It Snowed Last Night
8:00 am: I made a snowman.
8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.
8:15 - So, I made a snow woman.
8:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.
8:20 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.
8:22 - The transgender man..woman...person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts.
8:25 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.
8:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.
8:31 - The Muslim gent across the road demanded the snow woman wear a burqa.
8:40 - The police arrived saying someone had been offended
8:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.
8:43 - The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.
8:45 - TV news crew from ABC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women. I replied "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist.
9:00 - I was on the news as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.
9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.
9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be beheaded.
Moral: There is no moral to this story. It is what we have become.
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### grep -e est utile si le motif commence par -
### pour acccéder à toutes les options de grep : egrep ou grep -E
### cf feuille numéro pour grep

cat $FICHIER_NORM | grep -e $MOTIF 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null && echo OK || echo KO

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I work for the Internets shirt now available in the U.S.
A little while ago, MT and I launched a little side project, a t-shirt series that says "I work for the Internets". We've only sold a few, but we've also been asked a few times if we shipped outside Europe which had been quite expensive due to the way our German Spreadshirt shop was set up.
Good news: If you live in the U.S. or Canada, we can now print and ship the shirts to you much cheaper through our new U.S. Spreadshirt shop.
Nearly all of the shirts are American Apparel. (Except the German girl tee with black on black print: for some strange reason there seems to be no black American Apparel shirt for girls in the German store.) We stuck to American Apparel so you know what quality and cut to expect, and I've been quite happy with it.
On a side note, we were thrilled to see the shirt in the wild, too, as you can see in the picture below. It was taken at Communia Conference.
Photo by Juan Carlos De Martin, (jdcm on Flickr), released under Creative Commons (by 2.0).


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This Week On World Cafe: November 19-23
Here's what's coming up this week on World Cafe :
Monday, November 19 – Encore: Chick Corea
Listen back to our session with one of the greatest living piano players, Chick Corea. He tells stories about performing with Miles Davis, watching Thelonious Monk play and collaborating with legendary drummer Steve Gadd.
Tuesday, November 20 – Celebrating The White Album
This week in history, The Beatles put out the double album that became known as The White Album, 50 years ago. This episode of World Cafe celebrates that revolutionary recording by listening to some of the demos, outtakes and rehearsals that shaped it.
Wednesday, November 21 – Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves grew up singing traditional country and western music, yodelling and wearing fringe. Listen as Kasey visits the World Cafe to perform songs from her latest album Golden Hour, laughing about her yodelling past, reflects on her rebel spirit and discusses the unexpected ways she has helped shape the music of the "new Nashville."
Thursday, November 22 – Ruston Kelly
Ruston Kelly was a teenage figure skater in Michigan before he started writing songs. At the age of 17, he moved to Nashville and began writing songs — eventually co-writing a Tim McGraw song. Kelly suffered a drug overdose in 2016, but eventually cleaned up and met the love of his life and now wife, fellow musician Kacey Musgraves. He opens up about this time in his life, and plays live on this episode of World Cafe.
Friday, November 23 – Best Music of 2018
With 2018 coming to a close, it's time to look back on some of our favorite songs and records of the year. Talia and Kallao co-host this edition, where we celebrate music from Janelle Monáe, John Prine, Neko Case, Young Fathers, Natalie Prass, Gorillaz and more!
Listen to World Cafe every Monday-Friday at 11pm on KXT!
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Q: Throwing an exception in afterAll disrupts the display in intellij I'm writing a scalatest suite the is using the BeforeAndAfterAll mixin.
When running the tests in intellij, if an exception if thrown in the afterAll function, the result panel becomes class hierarchy becomes incorrect.
here is a sample code to recreate
import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfterAll, FunSuite}

trait BaseBrokenTest extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
    test("test 1") {
      println("test")
    }

  override protected def afterAll(): Unit = {
    println("afterAll")
    ???
  }
}

trait BasePassingTest extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
    test("test 1") {
      println("test")
    }
}

class Test1 extends BaseBrokenTest
class Test2 extends BaseBrokenTest
class Test3 extends BaseBrokenTest
class Test4 extends BaseBrokenTest
class Test5 extends BasePassingTest
class Test6 extends BasePassingTest

When I run all tests, it will look like this:

When there are a lot of test suites, it becomes very difficult to track the failed and succeed tests in that way
is there a way to fix it?
the versions I use:
scala: 2.11.11
scalatest: 3.0.4
intellij: 2017.2.3 community edition

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Be aware how many people will approach you in life and especially when you are successful there will be always a crowd following you to make sure to get their part out of your success. It's sometimes your intuition that warns you not to be close, connected or trusting someone. Make sure that you listen! Sometimes you ignore the signals being in love or impressed by someone stories, actions or material wealth. Remember that what people make trustworthy is simply about how they follow up with their words, do what has to be done with a clear conscious, having the best intentions with their actions as honesty is the most significant quality in being a true leader, a good friend and a brilliant partner.


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Adrienne Rich, Poet of Change
Robert Leleux
Few literary luminaries succeed in melding a passion for social justice with a love of language.
Adrienne Rich, a poet and essayist whose righteous, resonant voice transformed American literature and consciousness, passed away last Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, California. Beloved by the feminist and LGBT communities, Rich's career spanned seven decades and more than 30 books. Though honored with a bevy of prizes (including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant), she remained resolutely outside the establishment, her radicalism seeming only to gather steam over time. When President Bill Clinton, for instance, offered her the National Medal of Arts in 1997, she famously declined. Taking heroic advantage of the ensuing press, she criticized the cynicism of an administration willing to honor a handful of token artists while slashing funding for the arts. "Art," she said, "means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner-table of power which holds it hostage."
Rich was born in Baltimore in 1929, to a milieu of scholarship and comfort. Her father was an esteemed professor at Johns Hopkins, her mother an erstwhile musician. At 21, while still a senior at Radcliffe, Rich's first collection of poems was bestowed with the Yale Younger Poets Prize by W.H. Auden. In his notoriously paternalistic introduction to that volume, Auden wrote, "Miss Rich's poems … are neatly and modestly dressed, speak quietly but do not mumble, respect their elders but are not cowed by them." Such genteel misogyny was, of course, endemic to the time and place: Though a published author, Rich, as a woman, couldn't enter Harvard's Widener Library unescorted. In 1953, she married economist Arthur Conrad, with whom she had three sons.
The 1970s proved pivotal to Rich's life and career. In that decade, she was widowed, declared herself as a lesbian, and met her longtime partner, the writer Michelle Cliff. She also began to write and publish the poems that would establish her not merely as a major poet, but also as a leader of the burgeoning feminist movement.
Throughout the '70s, Rich entered that uncrowded pantheon of American artists whose work actually drives political discourse. The poet and memoirist Honor Moore describes Rich's poems and readings as revelatory to the women of her generation, and definitive in her own development as an artist. "Her poems led me to my voice," Moore says. "In the middle '70s, right into the '80s, you heard that Adrienne was giving a reading, and you'd go, and it was an event. You'd hear, for the very first time, some magnificent, iconic, life-changing poem, like "Diving into the Wreck." And those rooms were packed with women and men, there to hear her extraordinary voice, so direct and un-stylized, with the slightest, almost indiscernible tinge of a Southern accent, and that face gleaming into, say, the 92nd St. Y."
At a time when American women were casting aside antiquated modes of being, Rich crafted a language of change, articulating a gleaming vision of a future transformed by feminism. "She made us feel," says Moore, "that we were moving forward together. For instance, in those lines from 'Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev' that go, A cable of blue fire ropes our bodies/burning together … We stream/into the unfinished the unbegun/the possible. At that time, many of us felt monstrous and uncertain, and she made us feel that we were these constellations of something coming into being."
Such transformation was, to Rich, among the ultimate ambitions of her art. Her landmark poem, "Planetarium," ends with the following lines:
I am an instrument in the shape
of a woman trying to translate pulsations
into images for the relief of the body
and the reconstruction of the mind.
"Adrienne Rich," says the poet Suzanne Gardinier, "found a love for language and a thirst for justice to be inextricable." This rare pairing of passions resulted in poems that never sank to the level of mere agit-prop, and inspired generations of readers with a belief in the potential revolutionary power of their most intimate truths.
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Real Spellers - comparison: What is the suffix?
comparison: What is the suffix?
My freind Craig was analyzing the word <comparison> -- a word that I thought would be straight forward and we stumbled onto an interesting question.
Certainly this analysis uses attested morphemes, so the analysis is structurally possible, so Craig's analysis seems to pass the structure test. Now for the meaning test.
Well that seems fairly conclusive. The reference for <comparison> tells me to go to <pare> and when I do, I find the same root, the Latin, parare.
late 14c., from Old French comparer (12c., Modern French comparer), from Late Latin comparare "to liken, to compare" (seecomparison). Related: Compared; comparing. To compare notes is from 1708. Phrase without compare (attested from 1620s, but similar phrasing dates to 1530s) seems to be altered by folk etymology from compeer "rival."
to form in pairs," from com- "with" (see com-) + parare "prepare" (see pare).
I'm interested in the fact that the denotation I get for the complex Latin root 'comparare' is "to liken, to compare". But when I go deeper to the simple Latin root 'parare' I get the denotation "make ready, furnish, provide, arrange, order,". I'm not clear on how "make ready, furnish, provide, arrange, order" is related ot the idea of "liken".
Hmm. Clearly I should look at some more references on this one. However, from my investigation so far, I am quite confident that continued searching will allow me to conclude with good confidence that the base of <comparison> is <pare> as Craig worked out.
However, I am still left with a morphological structure question. Does this word use an <-ise> plus an <-on> suffix, or might this in fact be a suffix <-ison> and how can I sort this out?
-onsuffixPhysics, Biochemistry, & Chemistryforming nouns:1 denoting subatomic particles or quanta: neutron | photon.2 denoting molecular units: codon.3 denoting substances: interferon.ORIGIN Sense 1 originally in electron, from ion, influenced (as in sense 2) by Greek ōn 'being'; sense 3 is on the pattern of words such as cottonor from German -on .
If this is a full description of the role of the <-on> suffix, I have a hard time accepting this analysis of <ison> into two suffixes including <-ion>.
-isonsuffix(forming nouns) equivalent to -ation (as in comparison, jettison).ORIGIN from Old French -aison, -eison, etc., from Latin -atio(n)- .
Ha! Now this is interesting. I am confident that this dictionary is wrong about <-ation> as a suffix. I've long worked out examples showing that this really is a combination of two suffixes <-ate> and <-ion>. But that is not necessarily evidence that it is wrong about <-ison>.
Perhaps the "orison" is a helpful signal, but I've not reached the edge of what I can conclude.
If this analysis holds, it's exciting for me as it would mean the encountering of a new suffix. I'm amazed that its taken me this long to encounter this question. So thanks to Craig on that one!


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Q: Is it possible to make a BLE HID without a microcontroller like an Arduino? I am in a vocational highschool. I have a project where I have to make a HID like a keyboard or a mouse (wired) into Bluetooth wireless.
I've read many articles before like using an Arduino Pro Mini 3.3V with an HC-05 or 06 as Bluetooth module and USB RS232 to flash the Bluetooth module program.
Source:
https://github.com/juancgarcia/HID-Relay
My question:

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*Is it possible to just flash the Bluetooth module and connect it into the keyboard PCB to make it happen?

*Is there any like 2 in 1 BLE and microcontroller all together as one part?
If there any, is it more recommended than buying an Arduino and Bluetooth module separately? How to make it?

*I've also found that the newest model of HC-05 is the HM-10 or 11.  Can I just swap it and do the same like instructed in source just to replace the old HT-05/06 to the newer version?

*Regarding master or slave type of Bluetooth module, for HID to BLE, which one will do the job?

I also found this source which makes me confused which one I should try because I have a limited budget. I live in south east asia so it is kind of hard to get BLE modules and stuff.
Here another source:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=62236.0#top
I'm trying to make itlike that one ( the second source link ) but didn't understand it fully.
Is there anyone who has tried to make HID to BLE before? Can you share how to do it?

A: 1 - HC-05 / HC-06 are not standalone modules it won't work (there are configured with the famous AT commands, someone needs to send those)
2 - I was using an Arduino Nano coupled with a Adafruit Bluefruit LE SPI Friend Product webpage now I only use an ESP32 with the library ESP 32 BLE Keyboard
3 - I don't know, I will look into it
4 - BLE HID is always a slave
I think you misunderstood something the HC-05 is not "programmed" it is configured, I guess what you mean is that HID is not native in the module so they replace the firmware to add the HID functionality.


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Q: How to teach my ML model to extract needed information from text? I have Python code that train my ML model to recognize command like:

Turn on thi light
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or

Turn off the music
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this is my small dataset:
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And also this is what i used in my code:
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/text_analytics/working_with_text_data.html
Parameter tuning using grid search
The problem is that this model is classifier, while i need it to extract needed text from string, and to change them based on a context, for example:
if i load this dataset:training_data, i want it to recognize my other command in the same way:

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Home » Audio Forensic Expert Blog » Audio Forensic Synchronization: What Happened When?
Audio Forensic Synchronization: What Happened When?
Post category:Audio Enhancement / Audio Forensic Expert
Generally speaking, any device that captures video is also capable of simultaneously capturing audio. This audio can be crucial to the Forensic Expert, as it can show the expert more clearly what happened when, when it comes to a crime scene.
Picture this: a young man has just assaulted an older woman, and a police officer is in pursuit. As the young man begins to run from the police, another man on the street begins shooting video from his smartphone. The police officer is recording from both the police-car dash-cam, along with a body-worn camera, which he switched on when he began his pursuit.
As the young man continues to run, the officer announces 'Taser!' and fires, activating the camera built into the officer's stun gun. After sprinting around a corner, the young man is found dead. How did this happen? Who was responsible? When did the death occur? This is where audio can come in major handy.
As the appointed Audio Forensic Expert, you are tasked with determining what you believe happened in this situation. The evidence available to you includes the smartphone video from the witness, the police officer's dash-cam, the on-board camera from the taser, and the body-worn camera.
This is where the video, as well as audio, is valuable to the investigation. An audio forensic expert can synchronize the audio in chronological order. Forensic audio enhancement can help hear the events that occurred and remove any unwanted sounds to help synchronize the recordings. Begin with the event that took place the earliest. In this case, it would be the police officer's dash-cam, as it is always running. Next, find the portion of audio that starts the witness footage. Listen for a certain sound or yelled phrase for reference, and when you find that sound source from the officer's dash-cam video, you'll know that this is where the witness began recording.
This can also be done by visually inspecting the waveform. Large, quick spikes in the level can make it very easy to quickly sync the audio. Most software will also allow you to zoom in closely on the waveform so you can line the waveform up as closely as possible.
Next, you'll want to find the point where the bodycam began recording. Again, this will require critical listening and visual analysis to align the sounds from the body-cam evidence and the witness video to get an idea of when the officer began recording.
From there comes the last piece of evidence: the taser camera. Remember when the police officer announced 'Taser?' Well, the second the trigger on that stun gun is pulled, the in-board camera kicks on. The body-camera audio will give you an idea as to when the officer announced his taser use, along with when the video clip begins.
This will give you the most accurate occurrence of events. The actions of the taser camera are the most recent recording of the event, and in it you notice a loud sound that couldn't be heard in the other recordings. That sound was the sound of a pistol, which another officer around the corner pulled out to shoot in an attempt to detain the criminal. This is what the body-camera, witness video, and dash-cam did not see. However, due to the alignment of the audio, the expert is able to see, in chronological order, the events as they occurred.
Synchronization does not always go so smoothly. Sometimes different frame rates are used in different videos, which can alter the speed of how the different videos playback. Most modern digital recording technology is self-resolving and does not have this issue, but there are still devices that do not. These can cause the video and audio to be in sync at one point but slowly drift apart throughout the video. It's important to be aware of these so scientific adjustments can be made to make sure that all the events are synchronized as accurately as possible.
The audio makes it much easier to synchronize all of the pieces of evidence together. Some of the time the audio must be forensically enhanced in order to better hear the events as they occurred. The audio can provide both auditory and visual cues, through viewing the waveform, to use as reference points so accurate sync can be completed. With only video, the different perspectives and qualities would make it extremely difficult to find exact reference points to line up.
Not all cases will give the expert this much to work with, but when working with multiple clips of the same occurrence, having a critical ear can be invaluable to understanding the timeline of the situation. Video can be powerful, but its direct counterpart, audio, can be essential to finding the cause of confusing and misleading investigations.
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CM Punk Names His Dream WrestleMania Opponent & More
CM Punk was part of a brief chat at TheState.com today to promote tonight's Smackdown taping in Columbia, South Carolina. Punk was his humorous self, delivering mostly sarcastic answers during chat. You can read a full transcript here. Some highlights:
His dream Wrestlemania opponent:
"Last year, before I was in the MITB match, it was Rey.  This year, it's still Rey.  Mania is a long ways aways right now, so it's hard to say where i'll end up….but I do need a haircut…."
Who he wants to wrestle in WWE:
"If you think about it, you haven't really even seen me warm up….Cena, hbk, hhh…."
How long he plans to wrestle:
"I've been wrestling 12 years now non stop with a little pit stop for a fractured skull.  It's hard to say when i'll stop, but I don't want to wear out my welcome OR do this forever.  There is life after wrestling."
If he could wrestle anyone from the past, who would it be:
"Harley Race.  And he would kill me.  But I would come back from the dead."


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About Reverend Theophilus Caviness
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Renowned pastor and civic leader the Reverend Emmitt Theophilus Caviness was born on May 23, 1928 in Marshall Texas. His parents were Lula Page and Will Stone Caviness. Reverend Caviness earned a bachelor's of arts degree from Bishop College in Dallas, Texas. He also holds a bachelor's of divinity from Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Grove, Missouri; an honorary doctorate of divinity from Virginia Seminary and College, and an honorary doctorate in law from Central State University in Ohio.
Caviness has served as the spiritual leader of several congregations, including St. Mark's Baptist Church in Picton, Texas; Mount Nebo Baptist Church in Madison, Illinois; and St. Paul Baptist Church in East St. Louis, Illinois. Since 1961, he has served as senior pastor of the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio's Glenville Community. He has also been a both a member and officer in the Baptist Minister's Conference of Cleveland and Vicinity, the Baptist Pastor's Council, the Planning Board of the Inter-Church Council, the Ohio Baptist General Convention, and the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
Caviness has a long history of involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. He currently serves as the president of the Cleveland Branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and is a former member of the Board of Directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.
In addition to his work in the religious community, he served on the Executive Board of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, the Zoning Board of Appeals for the City of Cleveland, the Planning Board of the Glenville Area Council, and the Sewer Board of Cleveland. He also worked as the executive assistant to George V. Voinovich, former mayor of Cleveland.
Reverend Caviness was married for forty-one years to concert recording artist and minister of music, James ("Jamie") Pitts Caviness. He currently resides in Bratenahl, Ohio.
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Reverend Theophilus Caviness lists his siblings
Reverend Theophilus Caviness describes his mother
Reverend Theophilus Caviness describes his father
Reverend Theophilus Caviness describes his hometown of Marshall, Texas
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about his father's various jobs
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls the schools in Marshall, Texas
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls his educational experience in Marshall, Texas and his mentors Melvin J. Banks and Dorothy Beatrice Godspeed
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about the educational motivation he received from teachers in his early life
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls the sights, sounds and smells of growing up in Marshall, Texas
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls preaching his first sermon in 1946 at the Galilee Baptist Church in Marshall, Texas
Reverend Theophilus Caviness lists the various colleges he attended and the dates of graduation
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls his initial experience in Illinois and lists the various places he lived in while there
Reverend Theophilus Caviness explains how he met his wife
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about his children and godchild
Reverend Theophilus Caviness explains how his interest in history as a student led to his later political activism
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls the early influences that led to his vocation in the ministry
Reverend Theophilus Caviness explains his drive to focus on studying given the lack of other opportunities during the 1950s in Marshall, Texas
Reverend Theophilus Caviness explains the distinct independent nature of the Baptist Church compared to other denominations
Reverend Theophilus Caviness describes the evolution of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. Inc. and its various offshoots
Reverend Theophilus Caviness lists the various presidents of Baptist organizations that graduated from Bishop College in Marshall, Texas
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls various leaders of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
Reverend Theophilus Caviness lists the various positions he has held as a member of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
Reverend Theophilus Caviness explains how he came to pastor at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls helping his friend Dr. Albert T. Rowan become pastor at Bethany Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about the decline in East St. Louis, Illinois from the 1950s until the present
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls what he enjoyed about Chicago, Illinois
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls his early impressions of Cleveland, Ohio in 1961
Reverend Theophilus Caviness remembers hosting Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in 1967
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about his roles in local government in Cleveland, Ohio
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about finding the balance between civil and religious authority
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about his role model Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., pt. 1
Reverend Theophilus Caviness explains nonpartisan political philosophy
Reverend Theophilus Caviness remembers Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls the riots in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio in 1968
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls the aftermath of the 1968 riots in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls HistoryMaker the Honorable George Forbes
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls his peacemaking role while the executive assistant to Mayor George Voinovich of Cleveland, Ohio
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls paying HistoryMaker The Honorable George Forbes's water bill
Reverend Theophilus Caviness describes the partnership that HistoryMaker The Honorable George Forbes and George Voinovich
Reverend Theophilus Caviness reflects upon his commitment to service
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls his positions during Michael White's mayoral tenure in Cleveland, Ohio
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls his accomplishments with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission during the 1990s
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about receiving publicity for his flamboyant style during his time on the Ohio Civil Rights Commission
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about endorsing Marvin McMickle's, Stephanie Tubbs Jones', and Jeff Johnson's congressional campaigns
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about his support for U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Reverend Theophilus Caviness recalls his initial involvement with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in East St. Louis, Illinois
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about his involvement with the Cleveland Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about the contribution of women leaders in the Civil Rights Movement
Reverend Theophilus Caviness explains the Baptist churches' philosophy towards Biblical interpretation
Reverend Theophilus Caviness shares his perspective on gay marriage
Reverend Theophilus Caviness explains why human rights is the great challenge of the 21st century
Reverend Theophilus Caviness shares his philosophy of doing the best you can to help others
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about his family
Reverend Theophilus Caviness lists the various scholarships started at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about the students helped by scholarships sponsored by the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Children's Choir
Reverend Theophilus Caviness talks about the funding for the various scholarships sponsored by the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church
Reverend Theophilus Caviness reflects upon his legacy
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BMA Presents 130 Rarely Seen Artists' Books by Picasso, Miro, Hockney, Hartigan, and Others
Installation view of Off the Shelf: Modern & Contemporary Artists' Books. Photo by Maximilian Franz.
Exhibition casts light on little-known works by many renowned artists
BALTIMORE, MD (February 10, 2017)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced today that the museum's most anticipated exhibition of the spring, Off the Shelf: Modern & Contemporary Artists' Books, will be on view March 12- June 25, 2017. The exhibition presents more than 130 artists' books—artworks conceived of and produced in book form—and prints by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Kiki Smith, David Hockney, and Ed Ruscha. Stephen King, Frank O'Hara, and Robert Creeley are among the 30+ authors represented. More than half of the artists' books and related prints in the exhibition have never before been on view at the BMA.
"This exhibition is an extraordinary opportunity to see how giants of the literary, publishing, and visual arts worlds often combined their talents to create artworks that unfold page by page as text and image harmonize," said Rena Hoisington, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs. "Artists' books played a significant role in 20th-century art, and yet, the medium isn't as widely known as it should be. This exhibition will hopefully increase visitors' understanding of the unique art form."
Off the Shelf explores a variety of subjects from animals and classic children's tales such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to works by specific artists, such as Pierre Bonnard, Wassily Kandinsky, and Dieter Roth. Among the many notable collaborations highlighted in the exhibition are My Pretty Pony (1988) by Stephen King and Barbara Kruger; The Departure of the Argonaut (1986), an enormous volume—more than 4 feet wide when opened—of color lithographs by Francesco Clemente and letterpress text by Albert Salvinio; 1¢ Life (1964), more than 60 vibrant color lithographs by Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and others that accompany poems by Walasse Ting; Ready for Anything (1958), Joan Miró's whimsical color woodcuts with text by Paul Éluard; and Bestiary, or The Parade of Orpheus (1911), a book of elaborate animal woodcuts by Raoul Dufy with poems by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Digital images of several of the artist's books and related videos, including a recording of a self-playing piano using Michalis Pichler's A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance (2008) as sheet music, will be available for visitors on iPads in the exhibition. Facsimiles of some of the books, as well as English translations of some of the foreign language texts, will also be available.
Off the Shelf: Modern & Contemporary Artists' Books was organized in collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University's Program in Museums and Society, and supported by The Johns Hopkins University through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Trust U/W of Helen M. Hughes.
In the spring of 2016, Rena Hoisington taught the course Paper Museums: Exhibiting Artists' Books at The Baltimore Museum of Art for 11 undergraduates from The Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University Maryland, and the Maryland Institute College of Art: Taylor Alessio, Helena Arose, Alaina Arthur, Sarah Braver, Elizabeth Glass, Grace Golden, Jovan Ivezic, Elena Kuivila, Amelia Powell, Julia Raphael, and Mary Turner. These students helped to determine the checklist and thematic organization of the exhibition, as well as write the label texts for the books and prints.


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Ministry of Internal Affairs apologizes to residents of Orenburg for tortures in department 10 years later
According to the detainees, the policemen would put gas masks on them and blow cigarette smoke into the breathing hose. Apart from that, they were strangled and beaten with batons.
The head of the MIA City Directorate in Orenburg, Alexander Nyrov, made an official apology to local residents Vyacheslav Sadovsky, Anton Ferapontov and Maxim Nimatov for tortures the Dzerzhinsky Regional MIA Department in 2008, Committee Against Torture reported.
As the human rights activists note, the police apologized three months after the conviction of the policemen came into force and after the appeal of Committee's lawyers.
On August 25, 2008, Vyacheslav Sadovsky, Maxim Nimatov and Anton Ferapontov were taken to the Dzerzhinsky Regional MIA Department in Orenburg. They said that for a day they were severely tortured in order to obtain confessions in several cases.
As the detainees told, the pol were put on gas masks and put smoke from cigarettes into the breathing hose. In addition, they were strangled and beaten with clubs.
Lawyers were allowed to meet the detainees only by the evening of August 26. They said that they were forced to incriminate themselves under torture. All the victims were officially diagnosed with bruises, abrasions, dislocations of joints among, and one of them – with a brain concussion. Mediazona wrote in detail about the detention and torture of Sadovsky, Nimatov and Ferapontov.
In September 2017, the court sentenced MIA officers Albert Akmanov and Vasily Zubikhin to a year of imprisonment. Both of them were immediately released from serving their penalties due to the expiry of the statute of limitations. Later, the punishment was reduced to 11 months in a penal colony-settlement.
At first, the policemen were accused of abuse of office with the use of violence and special means (clauses 'a' and 'b' of part 3 of Article 286 CCRF). However, the court decided that there is not enough evidence confirming that it was the officers who inflicted bodily harm on the detainees. Akmanov and Zubihin were found guilty of abuse of office without any further charges. For delaying the investigation of the torture case, the residents of Orenburg were granted a compensation of 200,000 rubles ($ 3,000) each.
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