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Ismirle, J., Xu, E., & Swierenga, S. J. (2018, December 21). Sparrow Senior Health "My Resource Network" website: High-Level UI Review. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Ismirle, J., Xu, E., & Swierenga, S. J. (2018, December 21). Sparrow Senior Health "My Resource Network" Website: Pilot Study Exit Interviews Report. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
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Pierce, G. L. (2018, November 16). Readex America's Historical Newspapers high-level accessibility evaluation for the Big Ten Academic Alliance. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
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Ismirle, J., & Swierenga, S. J. (2018, September 28). Medical Marihuana Background Check (MMBC) User Interface Heuristic Evaluation Report. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L. (2018, October 5). Brill E-Books high-level accessibility evaluation for the Big Ten Academic Alliance. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Ismirle, J., Xu, E., & Swierenga, S. J. (2018, October 3). [Pizza Chain*] Consumer Website: Mobile High-Level User Interface Review. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
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Pierce, G. L. (2018, September 28). Michigan Medical Marihuana Background Check high-level accessibility evaluation. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L., & Krantz, A. (2018, September 28). [National Restaurant Chain 2*] consumer website: Mobile accessibility compliance evaluation report. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L. (2018, September 12). [Financial Institution Rewards Shopping System*] high-level desktop accessibility evaluation. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L. (2018, September 12). [Financial Institution Rewards Shopping System*] high-level mobile accessibility evaluation. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L. (2018, August 28). Taylor & Francis eBooks high-level accessibility evaluation for the Big Ten Academic Alliance. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L. (2018, August 8). [Financial Institution Rewards System*] high-level mobile accessibility evaluation. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L., & Jones, S. (2018, July 31). [Regional Health Insurance Organization]: Accessibility compliance evaluation report. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L. (2018, July 24). [Financial Institution Rewards System*] high-level desktop accessibility evaluation. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L. (2018, July 11). Films on Demand high-level accessibility evaluation for the Big Ten Academic Alliance. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
Pierce, G. L. (2018, July 9). SpringerLink high-level accessibility evaluation for the Big Ten Academic Alliance. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting.
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Had a good night's sleep. Dreamed about monks and the Dalai Lama, although nothing earth-shattering or remarkable that I can remember... Just peaceful sleep.
Today I was back to work, teaching verbals and verb phrases to my advanced class. The same cute 12-year-old boys showed up for both lessons. By this time, they and I felt that classes were going more smoothly and that the lessons were more relevant than they were before. This made me less nervous too. (Planning ahead is the key!)
I went through my normal "routine" teach English, take lunch, teach more English and then have conversation class from 4-5PM. Before my conversation class I stopped by the Oasis Cafe (which is right by my hotel) for a chai.
After conversation class I planned to go see a film about the 2008 uprising in Tibet, which was being screened at a local restaurant by the Tibet Center for Human Rights and Democracy. The film attracted many foreigners, and it was graphic but powerful. It's amazing to think about how much suffering, cruelty and insanity is unfolding in Chinese-occupied Tibet each day. (The same thing with the situation just across the border in northern Pakistan...)
The film really hit the point home and revealed a lot of information that the Western press didn't cover during the 2008 uprising. (I got a free copy of the DVD and plan to leave it in Japan for other JETs to watch, if they're interested. If you're interested, click here to watch it over the Internet.)
After the film there was a Q&A with the director of the Tibet Center for Human Rights and Democracy. He gave some personal perspectives on the uprising, plus outlined the need for the world to become more aware of the Tibet situation.
A note about the Tibet situation: it's the No. 1 topic of discussion here, and it's always on Tibetans' minds. Life in exile is supposed to be temporary, so I get the feeling that most people are just living temporarily (which isn't a bad way to exist, after all...) But it leads to more suffering, because many exiles are just waiting to go home and often don't want to put down roots anywhere. Sadly, this had driven some exiles into alcoholism, drugs and suicide.
During my English conversation lessons each evening, the topic invariably comes back to "Free Tibet." I explained to the students that I already know all about the Tibet situation. (I even taught them what the idiom "You're preaching to the choir" means!) But they like to talk about this topic anyway, and they love to hear my opinions.
I have maintained that I believe Tibet will reach freedom only when China does too. I remind them that the Chinese do terrible things to their own people as well, and that there are millions of Chinese that want freedom and democracy too.
So if China becomes free, I tell them, Tibet has a chance at becoming free too. Or, if Tibetans so wished, Tibet could remain part of a free China as a truly autonomous province. Then Tibetans could share in the economic benefits of the world's fastest-growing economy, and truly exercise their so-called "autonomy" within the free Chinese republic. But ultimately that would be a decision for future generations to make. A lot needs to happen before then!
Freeing China would be a monumental (and probably bloody) undertaking that could take many years to unfold. And it would have to happen from within. But people thought the same thing about the Soviet Union. That country fell within a person's lifetime. Anything is possible, and I wish for freedom not only for Tibetans, but also for the Chinese.
A lot of people in the crowd agreed with me. But waiting on China to change is not a very appealing option for most young Tibetans, who are eager to return home. In fact, there's a generation gap forming between Tibetans who witnessed the Chinese invasion in the 1950s and those who grew up (or are now growing up) in exile. The Dalai Lama, who belongs to the former group, says Tibetans should be patient and work towards autonomy within China - not outright independence from China. (In essence, he seeks a true, autonomous region within greater China. And only through peaceful means.)
Younger people tend to advocate outright independence - restoring Tibet's status as a separate nation. They want to kick out the Chinese settlers and re-form a Tibetan defense force. The young people are frustrated with the status quo, but most are too pious to go against the Dalai Lama's way of dealing with the issue. Still, this gap makes for rigorous debate within the Tibetan exile community. And it will likely grow as time goes by and the exile generation, along with the Dalai Lama, gets older.
After a few times of hearing the same viewpoints from my students, and offering my" Free China/Free Tibet" model, I asked if this topic was something they wanted to continue discussing at conversation class. They eagerly said yes, and I later came to realize that they like talking about this topic with foreigners. By talking with foreigners like me, I think they feel like they're "getting the word out" about Tibet to the rest of the world. Also, I realized that talking about this issue is somehow cathartic and maybe even therapeutic for them, so I allowed the topic to come up during every conversation class. No one got bored, especially me.
I also prepared a few conversation starters, which always turn into very interesting discussions. For example, I asked each student to describe a strong or meaningful memory. Most of the memories described were tragic recounts of escapes across the Himalaya into India. I heard about escapes at night, dodging Chinese border guards and army patrols, frostbit, relatives stuck on both side of the border, etc.
But not all the memories revolved around this theme. One monk told me a story about when he was a boy. He was living in the monastery at that time, and an older monk gave him a really nice pair of fur-lined boots. The boy loved the boots because they kept his feet warm in the winter. But the boy also loved to skip class and play with his friends down by the river...
One day, instead of studying, he skipped class and went down to the river to play with his friends. Without thinking about it, he went into the river - wearing the boots! The water ruined the boots. He was scared that the older monk would find out, so he threw the boots into the river and bought a cheap pair of sandals. He was less concerned with ruining the boots, and more concerned with being caught skipping class. (Apparently he'd gotten away with it for a while.)
A day later, the older monk found out about the boy skipping class. He confronted the boy, and the boy lied. Caught in his lie, the boy was punished by the older monk. But in the end, the boy had learned a valuable lesson about lying and skipping class.
I like these kinds of stories - especially from monks - because they're something we all can relate too. (Also it brought my lofty notions about monks down to reality, but in a good way.) I was impressed by students' abilities to tell stories like these in English. There were lots of things in the previous story to set up and explain to the audience, which isn't an easy task to complete in any language!
Later that evening I decided to go shopping for some gifts and stock up on some water and snacks for the weekend. I had my usual dinner at Shang-ri La and then bought some things for friends and family back home. I went to the Internet cafe to check some e-mails and say hello to folks back home, in Japan, and elsewhere in the world. Then it was lights out for another good night's sleep.
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By Chris Stevens on February 13, 2016 in Arts, Lifestyle, Local News, U.S. News, Uncategorized, World News
CruzJunky is proud to announce the arrival of a new contributor to our site, Chris J. Stevens.
We will follow his turbulent journey from the streets of Santa Cruz, multiple incarcerations, right to the steps of the White House standing next to the President of the United States….
Born and raised in Santa Cruz, CA. Chris was convicted of his first of 39 crimes at age 11 and became a ward of the Santa Cruz County Court. He was incarcerated and placed in multiple group homes between the ages of 11 and 15.
He ended his string of crime after four-time UFC World Champion, Frank Shamrock, and martial artist Jeremy Corbell visited juvenile hall and took Stevens under their wing, inspiring him to spend the next six years training in martial arts. Because his criminal record was sealed at age 18, Stevens was able to join the U.S. Army at 21, where he maintained a secret security clearance, became a noncommissioned officer, received multiple awards, and completed hundreds of ceremonial missions in Washington, D.C.
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Through the story of my own experience, I hope to shine some light on this issue so others won't have to hide their pasts from society the way I did, and can stand proudly as Americans. "
A spinal injury ended his five-year military career in 2013, and he was honorably discharged with a medical retirement. He is now 28 years old, in his third year of undergraduate studies at Arizona State University, where he's studying U.S. Policy, Justice & Law. Stevens is also the founder of a think tank, and is writing a book about his journey.
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At Moortown, we also believe that primary school education is an experience that all children should enjoy to the full. We therefore offer a broad and balanced curriculum: drama and health are strengths in our school. The multi-cultural dimension of our school's community is another strength: we celebrate our many diverse backgrounds. This helps our children to become positive and active citizens.
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Global coffee franchise Costa Coffee has opened three new stores in the Merseyside area following a £1m investment by Yorkshire Bank into existing franchisee Optimum Coffee Group.
Optimum, who has been a franchisee of the coffee chain for seven years, will be opening the new outlets in St Paul's Square and Allerton in Liverpool as well as Sale in Manchester.
It claims the expansion will increase its £6m turnover by £1m and will create over 50 new jobs.
Running 17 Costa stores across the Merseyside area, the new sites follow the franchisee's aim to open further outlets in the region over the next year.
Launched in 1971, Costa now has 1,300 stores across the UK with continual plans for expansion. The coffee brand is looking to grow its market presence with corporate and international franchising opportunities available.
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Nimesulide-induced acute renal failure
Syed Ahmed Zaki1, Angadi R Nilofer2, Syed Ahmed Taqi3
1 Department of Pediatrics, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, J.J.M. Medical College, Davangere, Karnataka, India
3 Department of Oral Pathology, Bhartiya Vidyapeeth Dental College, Mumbai, India
Zaki SA, Nilofer AR, Taqi SA. Nimesulide-induced acute renal failure. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl 2012;23:1294-6
Zaki SA, Nilofer AR, Taqi SA. Nimesulide-induced acute renal failure. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl [serial online] 2012 [cited 2022 Jan 16];23:1294-6. Available from: https://www.sjkdt.org/text.asp?2012/23/6/1294/103581
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the most widely prescribed drugs in the treatment of pain and inflammation. [1] The two main adverse drug reactions associated with NSAIDs relate to gastrointestinal effects and adverse renal effects of the agents. Nimesulide is a new-generation NSAID that differs from conventional NSAID in its structure and pharmacological profile, claiming fewer side-effects and at least being equally efficacious. [2],[3] We describe a patient presenting with acute renal failure (ARF) following the administration of nimesulide.
A 6-year-old boy presented with complaints of fever and vomiting for 2 days and anuria for 1 day. Vomiting was non-bilious and non-projectile, containing ingested food particles. Fever was high grade and continuous, and was not associated with chills. There was no history of loose motions, cough, breathlessness or bleeding manifestation. His birth history, past history and family history were all normal. There was no history of urinary complaints or hospitalization in the past. Initially, the patient was shown to a private practitioner for fever and was started on a NSAID preparation containing nimesulide. On the second day of fever, he developed anuria. On examination, he was afebrile, with a heart rate of 98/min, respiratory rate of 23/min and blood pressure of 96/62 mmHg. His height and weight were normal for his age. There was no evidence of pallor, petechiae or rash. His investigations on the second day of illness revealed: hemoglobin 12.6 gm/dL, total leucocyte count 8600/mm 3 (neutrophils 56%, lymphocytes 44%), platelet count 3.6 lac/mm 3 , serum sodium 139 mEq/L and serum potassium 6.8 mEq/L. His arterial blood gas study was normal. His blood urea nitrogen was 34 and serum creatinine was 2.1 mg/dL. Urine culture was negative and urine microscopy revealed 1+ proteinuria, 4 RBC/ high-power field and 2 pus cells/high-power field. Ultrasonography revealed normal kidneys and bladder. The patient's relatives refused hospitalization for personal reasons and were followed-up on an outdoor basis. Nimesulide was stopped on the second day of illness when the child presented to us. On the third day, the patient started passing urine. His investigations done serially are shown in [Table 1]. His renal parameters and serum potassium became normal on the fifth day. A diagnosis of nimesulide-induced acute renal failure was made in this case considering the event as possible adverse drug reaction as per the Naranjo causality scale assessment for adverse drug reaction. The patient is remaining well on follow-up without any urinary complaints after six months.
Table 1: Investigations done serially in the patient.
Analgesic nephropathy was first described in 1950. [4],[5] Phenacetin was subsequently identified as the chief culprit, and was withdrawn from the market. [5] Since the early 1980s, several case control studies have reported association between renal failure and use of various analgesics including acetaminophen and aspirin. [1],[5],[6],[7] Renal adverse effects are mainly due to inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis, and include acute reversible "vasomotor" renal failure and disorders of water, sodium and potassium balance. [1],[3],[7] Hemodynamically mediated ARF develops almost exclusively in predisposed patients, like those with impairment of renal, cardiac and hepatic function as well as in elderly individuals. [1] NSAIDs can provoke ARF in such conditions where an increased action of vasodilating prostaglandins is required to maintain a sufficient renal perfusion. Fortunately, it is not associated with structural damage, and is usually reversible. [1],[8],[9] Acute tubular, interstitial or tubulointerstitial nephritis, chronic interstitial nephritis with papillary necrosis, nephrotic syndrome, acute tubular necrosis, papillary necrosis, acute glomerulitis or vasculitis and chronic renal injury are other renal complications of these drugs. [1],[7],[8],[10]
First-generation NSAIDs are non-specific inhibitors of both COX-1 and COX-2 forms of cyclo-oxygenase enzyme. [3] New-generation NSAIDs are supposed to have fewer side-effects due to the specificity for the COX-2 enzyme. [3] However, recent studies in humans have detected COX-2 in the macula densa and medullary interstitial cells. [6],[11] COX-2 is induced by pro-inflammatory cytokines, and is responsible for the increased production of prostaglandins in inflammatory tissues. [11] Nimesulide, a selective COX-2 inhibitor, is claimed to have few renal side-effects compared with the non-selective NSAIDS. [2],[3] However, recent studies have found that after repeated doses of nimesulide, there is an increase of urinary Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein and beta-N-acetyl glucosamindase. [12] This suggests that nimesulide is potentially nephrotoxic. Nimesulide has also been found to induce an acute transient fall of renal blood flow in healthy men when furesemide is concomitantly given. When the glomerular filtration rate becomes dependent on prostaglandins, the administration of nimesulide may attenuate the diuretic, kaliuretic and natriuretic effects of furosemide. [13]
Management of NSAID nephropathy is to discontinue treatment with the offending drug. Supportive treatment in the form of fluid and electrolyte balance and dialysis should be initiated when required. A search of the literature found very few cases of nimesulide-induced renal failure being reported. [1],[3] To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of nimesulide-induced renal failure reported in the pediatric age group. We did not perform a renal biopsy as the patient had improved and it would not have changed the management of the disease. In conclusion, we wish to highlight that nimesulide can provoke acute renal failure and a history of NSAID use should be sought in all patients presenting with unexplained renal failure.
1. Apostolou T, Sotsiou F, Yfanti G, et al. Acute renal failure induced by nimesulide in a patient suffering from temporal arteritis. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1997;12:1493-6.
2. Davis R, Brogden RN. Nimesulide, an update of its pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties, and therapeutic efficacy. Drugs 1994;48:431-54.
3. Van der Niepen P, Janssen van Doorn K, Van den Houte K, Verbeelen D. Nimesulide and acute renal failure caused by oxalate precipitation. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2002;17:315-62.
4. Spuhler O, Zollinger HU. Die chronischinterstitielle nephritis. Z Klin Med 1953;151:1-50.
5. Perneger TV, Whelton PK, Klag MJ. Risk of kidney failure associated with the use of acetaminophen, aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. N Engl J Med 1994;331: 1675-9.
6. Breyer MD, Harris RC. Cyclooxygeanse 2 and the kidney. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 2001;10:89-98.
7. Ravnskov U. Glomerular, tubular and interstitial nephritis associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Evidence of a common mechanism. Br J Clin Pharmacol 1998; 47:203-10.
8. Schlondor D. Renal complications of NSAIDs. Kidney Intern 1993;44:643-53.
9. Dubose Jr, Molony DA. Grand round. Nephrotoxicity of NSAIDs. Lancet 1994;344:515-8.
10. Pirson Y, van Ypersele de Strihou C. Renal side effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: Clinical relevance. Am J Kidney Dis 1986;8:338-44.
11. Venturini CM, Isakson P, Needleman Ph. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug induced renal failure: A brief review of the role of cyclooxygenase isoforms. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 1998;7:79-82.
12. Warrington SJ, Ravic M, Dawnay A. Renal and general tolerability of repeated doses of nimesulide in normal subjects. Drugs 1993;46: S263-9.
13. Steinhauslin F, Munafo A, Buelin T, Macciocchi A, Biollaz J. Renal effects of nimesulide in furisemide treated subjects. Drugs 1993;46: S257-62.
Syed Ahmed Zaki
Department of Pediatrics, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai
Zaki SA
Nilofer AR
Taqi SA


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Swift Prepared Foods Plans Columbia, Missouri, Meats Production Facility
Cold Storage Is Hotter Than Ever
Finding the Sweet Spot in Food Plant Location Decisions
Workforce: A Primary Ingredient in the Evolution of the Food Industry
Swift Prepared Foods, a consumer packaged goods company and subsidiary of JBS USA, will Invest $200 million to build a new Italian meats and charcuterie production facility in Columbia, Missouri. The company plans to create 251 jobs.
A 275,000-square-foot plant is scheduled to open next year, followed a few years later by an additional 50,000-square-foot building costing $35 million. The location is 80 acres along Paris Road, next to Schneider Electric and 3M and near Kraft Heinz, Aurora Organic Dairy and Quaker.
"We are excited to join the Columbia community and to bring good-paying jobs and innovation to the area with the addition of this new, state-of-the-art facility," said Thomas Lopez, president and COO, Swift Prepared Foods. "After an extensive review of potential locations, we are confident that Columbia is a great fit for our company, and this decision supports the continued growth we are focused on achieving."
For their expansion, Swift Prepared Foods used the Missouri Works program, an incentive tool to help companies expand and retain workers by providing access to capital through withholdings or tax credits for job creation. The company is also partnering with Missouri One Start to provide tailored recruitment assistance to meet the company's specific workforce needs. Missouri One Start's professional training network ensures companies have the right workforce with the right skillset when they need it.
"We're excited to welcome Swift Prepared Foods to Columbia," Governor Mike Parson said. "Missouri is a great place for the company to grow its business and develop a world-class workforce. This investment and the jobs it will create will provide many new opportunities for the mid-Missouri region, and we look forward to seeing the company succeed for years to come."
As an incentive, Boone County, through Chapter 100 Revenue Bonds, approved 75% property tax forgiveness for the company for 10 years. With the 75% property tax forgiveness, it still would produce property tax revenue of $3.7 million, including $3.2 million for the Columbia School District and $213,747 for the City of Columbia. The state also offered incentives to the company.
"This project will further solidify Columbia's standing in the food manufacturing industry, complementing other great Columbia employers like Aurora Organic Dairy, Kraft Heinz, Quaker Oats and Beyond Meat," said Columbia Mayor Brian Treece. "Having Swift Prepared Foods in our community will bring new living-wage jobs and career opportunities for Columbia families."
According to state officials, the company chose Columbia for its strategic location, business-friendly environment, the ability to access raw material, and leverage partnerships with their existing assets.


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Real Science Radio COVID-19 Update from Crawford Broadcasting
* As a Public Service for the Coronavirus Pandemic: and brought to you by the Crawford family of radio stations, RSR host Bob Enyart interviews the director of the Van Andel Research Center in Chino Valley, Arizona, molecular biologist Dr. Kevin Anderson. We discuss the origin of this SARS-CoV-2 virus with the evidence against it being created in a lab as a biological weapon and why COVID-19 is far more deadly than the common cold. Bob co-hosts with Fred Williams the Denver-based long-running Real Science Radio broadcast with its home on Crawford's AM 670 KLT, a new affiliate Portland's KKPZ in Oregon, another in much of northern California via San Francisco's KCBC 770 AM and our podcast home at rsr.org. (Conspiracy hobbyists, please see the "Stunning Reports" just below.)
* RSR's COVID Science Interviews: Molecular biologist Kevin Anderson (above & 3 antibodies), NIH scientist emeritus Bruce Patterson (Rantes & leronlimab), Biochemist Michael Behe, & nanotechnologist and synthetic chemist James Tour.
* RSR's Public Policy and Update Shows: Stunning Report 1; SR 2; SR 3; SR 4; and 25 Ways the Shutdown Kills
* Dec. 12, 2020: Contrary to the imagined hospital strain HHS (referred to by Biden as the Department of Health and Education), reports that at the peak of the pandemic hospitals today are at only 75% capacity (ICUs at 63%), with under 15% of all patients covid positive. As for particular states, New York for instance is at 76% (ICUs 61%) and California is at 76% (ICUs 79%). Meanwhile, as Just the News reports, remember that Chicago spent $120 milllion to create temporary facilities to treat a total of 38 patients."
* Johns Hopkins University Economist Stands By the Missing COVID Death Numbers: The university's newsletter had its Twitter account deactivated and then its student editor retracted their report of the Johns Hopkins economist Genevieve Briand on US COVID deaths. Finding a shocking lack of excess mortality, the report has reappeared and is available right here. The bizarre "explanation" for why it was disappeared is here. Briand's numbers have come directly from the CDC (aka the Seedy See from their years misrepresenting the spread of HIV).
* Nov. 28, 2020: Published peer-reviewed paper from Rutgers scientists, consistent with economomist Briand's, shows that 89% of COVID deaths in two New Jersey hospitals had prior DNR (do not resuscitate) orders. That's just under the percent of deaths of DNR patients who died without COVID!
* NY Catholic Win Cites DBC Case: Six times Brooklyn New York's Roman Catholic Diocese cited our Denver Bible Church lawsuit in their victorious suit against NY Governor Andrew Cuomo.
* 12/8/20 Update: We just "won" our case, but the details haven't been made public. Tune in to BEL here on KGOV for an update, perhaps on Monday!
Pastor Bob and Pastor Joey Rhoad's lawsuit and fleeting injunction victory has been reported by dozens of outlets including the Denver Post, CNN, Breitbart, LifeSiteNews, 7News, News 4 2nd, 1st, Telemundo Denver, Charisma News, Christian Headlines, 700 Club, @1776Stonewall, One America News, Thomas More Society, the Washington Times. While many have thanked us many others have been critical and even, sadly but as expected, filthy. The 10th Circuit has temporarily issued an administrative STAY so until the case proceeds, legally, we're back where we were a few weeks ago except that now we have a win under our belt!
* RSR's Promising Breakthroughs: Nature Comm 5/4 blocking antibody; HCQ and 4/27/20 per AAPS; 10/25/19 Science 3 antibodies.
* 25 Ways Alleged Journalists Kill People: Alleged journalists who recklessly use the term "cases" conflate antibody tests, viral tests, and those who are sick with the actual disease, as if there were no difference between the virus, SARS-CoV-2, and the COVID-19 disease that it may or may not cause. Such irresponsible reporting in and of itself can kill people because ideas have consequences and there are, remember, 25 Ways the Shutdown Kills People...
* COVID Vaccines: Our friends over at cogforlife.org list the COVID vaccines under development being produced morally, that is, without using fetal tissue, including those from Merck, Sanofi, and from Novavax, which on July 7th received a $1.6 billion dollar U.S. vaccine contract. The Charlotte Lozier Institute reports other COVID vaccines made without fetal tissue include those from Pfizer, Inovio, and BioNTech. Those producing vaccines immorally include Moderna and Johnson & Johnson which use fetal tissue. We strongly urge everyone to boycott vaccines developed using tissue harvested from unborn children. (Remember, many institutions and celebrities who have been "pro-choice" all along are now also calling to legalize infanticide, what they call after-birth abortion.) Related: Recently, pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur discontinued using fetal tissue for its polio vaccine! While many parents have other vaccine concerns this development is an important step toward moral and socially sustainable medicine. (Hear also our vaccine interview with microbiologist Dr. Clem Persaud.)
* RSR's 25 Christian COVID Conspiracies: Bob presents a list of conspiracies vs. actual pandemic insights.
* When Deaths Peaked: From mid-April to the first week in May when fatalities averaged over 1,800 deaths daily, for that duration COVID-19 was the #1 cause of death in America.
* "Cases Spiking" Fake News through June & July: (July Update) All of the breathless national media reporting on "spikes" in cases through June and July are nothing but fake news when delivered without context. The mainstream media, and even Fox News and many on their network including Neil Cavuto, report "spikes" without putting that data within the needed context of increased testing and especially, the long-term steady reduction in deaths. Later though deaths did rise again...
If only New York and New Jersey were not so cavalier and reckless in their pandemic response and had the much lower death rates of Florida and Texas, America would have had 30,000 fewer COVID deaths.
Compiled by: Real Science Radio
* Fake News on "Spike" in "Cases": (June Update) Bob reports on the media's COVID Fake News which includes every headline of an "Increase" or "Spike" in coronavirus "cases" that does not put the results within the context of increased testing. Fake, for example, would be counting someone who tests positive for HIV but does not have AIDS symptoms as another "AIDS" case. There's an enormous difference between having the virus and having the disease. To report what's actually happening while minimizing confusion the media should focus on death, which, of all the various coronavirus statistics provides the greatest big-picture insight. See the six weeks worth of steadily declining U.S. Covid Deaths in the chart (right) and consider this accurate headline from yesterday: COVID-19 cases rise as hospitalizations remain low in Colorado. And see kgov.com/covid.
Today's Resource: Nicer Than God
* Testing Our Concerns: Thomas Sowell and others have observed, "Blaming an economic crisis on greed is like blaming a plane crash on gravity." Dear listener, if you come across a program in February or March when Bob said, "The cure may be worse than the disease", we would like to identify those instances so if you would, please email Bob@kgov.com the date and timestamp of the statement. Meanwhile of course, here at BEL we've aired our 25 Ways the Shutdown Kills People, which list implies that more people may die from COVID mitigation itself than may have died if we had done nothing at all to impede the spread of the coronavirus. Regardless of this though and in line with Sowell's point, just because a government can exploit their own action to further injustice does not prove that action itself was unjust. (I've noticed many people struggle to understand the previous sentence. If you do, awesome! If you don't, and you don't want to make false judgments, you might want to re-read and ponder it.) Further, of course, it is wrong to believe every rumored accusation including those against immoral politicians, whether against Donald Trump, New York's Governor Cuomo, or whomever. God's enduring command, Do not bear false witness against your neighbor, still applies. Fake news promoted by Christians has included Liberty Councel's Mat Staver egregiously claiming that Kansas City, Missouri was requiring churches to submit their membership roles, and others delusionally claiming that Bill Gates (who advocates killing unborn children, wickedly opposes biblical principles, and rejects the person of Jesus Christ) is creating a vaccine designed to kill people.
* Bob Enyart's Quarantine Sermons: From the pulpit of Denver Bible Church...
* COVID-19 Deaths: Updated for April 5, 2020. See InformationIsBeautiful.net for the latest.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Denver Bible Church <denverbiblechurch@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:44 AM
Subject: Dear DBC, we're not re-opening Sunday. I had a long talk with a government staffer, and here's what we're fighting...
To: Pastor Bob <Bob@kgov.com>
Denver Bible Church, we're not re-opening this Sunday, for Mother's Day, as we had hoped to. :( Moms, please know that we love you and can't wait to see you all again soon! DBC is the little church that could and we continue to fight the great spiritual battles of our day. But even though America and the world has now crossed over to where it appears that the quarantine may kill more people than COVID-19, under my pastorage we're not going to fight for the right to be the congregational Typhoid Mary of the coronavirus. We do passionately share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and defend the Scriptures. And we continue to fight fiercely against:
- the killing of the unborn
- the diminishing of marriage
- the lie of atheism that robs hope
- the church's embrace of sexual perversion
- the catastrophe which is government school
- the attributing of all wickedness to the decrees of God
- and the Christian acceptance of socialism if from our own politicians.
... [DBC email posted here for our wider circle of friends]
* Wuhan Flu: Those who seek to hold the Chinese communist government accountable for the lies and cover-up behavior that ignited the pandemic can use this map of China coated with the widely-recognized SARS-CoV-2 virus graphic...
* HCQ Notes: On the phone on March 18, 2020 with renowned scientist Temple Grandin Bob Enyart and Temple were talking about the report just out in the Nature journal Cell Discovery, Hydroxychloroquine, a less toxic derivative of chloroquine, is effective in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro. Grandin said she wanted everyone to know about this. See more in the NY Times and in the paper. (This was a day before Donald Trump mentioned HCQ in his daily coronavirus press conference and hours before FNC's Tucker Carlson first reported this nationally.) Bias affects even peer reviewed "science". A 2016 survey published in Nature reports that 90% of 1,576 respondents from a variety of STEM fields including medicine believe there is a crisis in scientific literature with about 400 claiming less than half of published papers could be trusted. The following positive results papers add evidence that the negative HCQ reports are intensely politically biased (as we ourselves have seen in some cases).
11/26/20 A study in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents for December 2020 found that for those who received HCQ, "the odds of hospitalisation of treated patients was 84% less than in the untreated patients." Further, one patient died from the group of 141 being treated with hydroxychloroquine, zinc and azithromycin compared to 13 deaths in the untreated group of 377 unfortunate souls.
8/4/20 RSR's own NY vs India Calculation: Governor Cuomo all but banned HCQ and New York has seen 1,700 COVID deaths per million. India, with its population of 1.3 billion and densities for a large percent of the population far in excess of any NY overcrowding, has widely dispensed hydroxychloroquine and has seen 29 deaths per million.
7/2/20 Int'l Society of Infectious Diseases: HCQ cut the death rate by half in a Henry Ford Health System study of 2,541 hospitalized patients, without heart-related side-effects, as published in the ISID journal. UPDATE: A Medical News Today "caution" on the HFHS study got their own criticism exactly backwards. Blacks and other minorities have a higher fatality rate from C19. So MNT was confused to claim that the imbalance in race (more blacks and other minorities receiving HCQ) undermines the HFHS study results. That magnifies the results.
6/4/20 Lancet: Widely quoted anti-HCQ 5/22 Lancet paper retracted. Why? See our 6/3 note...
6/3/20 WHO: The WHO withdraws stop order and resumes HCQ study after Lancet warns about apparent bogus data in their anti-HCQ study. See the Guardian investigation (which has exposed bizarre data fraud, a stripper, etc.), and note the World Health Organization resuming their study, and see the extraordinary Lancet statement, which all weirdly parallels Hillary and the DNC getting found out actually paying Russia to influence the election by spending millions on a foreign spy who compiled Moscow's bogus anonymous dirt on Trump. WHO then quickly again quit their study, but for medical or political reasons?
6/3/20 NEJM: The journal study gave HCQ or a placebo to 821 people after exposure to the virus with results reported as negative by the authors whereas the COVID-19 disease developed in 49 of 414 patients (11.8%) who had received HCQ as compared to 58 of 407 (14.3%) who received a placebo.
5/8/2020 Brazilian Journal of Health: HCQ "has shown results of interest in reducing viral load. ... However further studies" are needed.
5/7/2020 NEJM: "HCQ-treated patients were more severely ill at baseline than those who did not receive hydroxychloroquine... HCQ... was not associated with a greatly lowered risk... Randomized, controlled trials... needed".
4/27/20 Assoc. of American Physicians and Surgeons: HCQ helps 90% of COVID-19 patients.
4/2/20 Leftists Hoping Against Hope: Liberals are hoping against hope that a drug will fail to save lives. RSR recommends, out of concern for their mental health, that Democrats, college administrators, and alleged journalists avoid reading this reporter's summary on the encouraging hydroxycloroquine studies, misreporting on the negative studies (which is what RSR found also), and on the hope that a drug will fail to save thousands of lives.
3/20/20 Int'l Journal of Antimicrobial Agents: Small study concludes HCQ is "significantly associated with viral load reduction/disappearance"; See also in Cell Research: CQ inhibits coronavirus; IJAA HCQ fights COVID-19.
3/18/20 Cell Discovery: A Nature journal reports HCQ effective in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2.
2/4/20 Cell Research: A Nature journal reports that Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged coronavirus.


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Over and Over and Over – Jack White
Boarding House Reach – Jack White
Jack White has announced the release of his eagerly anticipated new album, Boarding House Reach. The 12-time GRAMMY® Award-winner's third solo LP and first all-new album in nearly four years, Boarding House Reach will arrive everywhere on Friday, March 23.
Written and conceived while holed up in a spartan apartment with no outside distractions, Jack replicated the identical environment and used the same gear as when he was a 15-year-old (a quarter-inch four-track tape recorder, a simple mixer, and the most basic of instrumentation) to pen sketches of the album's songs. The album explores a remarkable range of sonic terrain — crunching rock 'n' roll, electro and hard funk, proto-punk, hip-hop, gospel blues, and even country — all remapped and born anew to fit White's matchless vision and sense of restless experimentation.
Jack White's concert for the release of his third studio album, Boarding House Reach, will be live-streaming for free this Friday, exclusively on Twitter.
The stream is scheduled to start at 10 p.m. ET on Friday, March 23, available exclusively on Twitter at live.twitter.com/jackwhite. White's show, at the Warsaw in Brooklyn, is part of the Live Nation Concert Series on Twitter.
Posted on September 10, 2016 May 7, 2017
Jack White – Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
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I was very moved by Jack White's performance last night. My interpretation of his raw emotions was that he was thinking about Meg. An honest expression of the solo acoustic medley of White Stripes hits "Love Is the Truth" and "You've Got Her in Your Pocket".
Listen To Jack White's Acoustic Version Of The Raconteurs Track "Carolina Drama"
Stream: Jack White's new rarities collection Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016
Posted on August 11, 2016 May 7, 2017
Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016
Jack White announces a career-spanning new release: Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016, out September 9 on double CD, double LP, and digitally via Third Man/Columbia. It's a 26-track compilation that features album tracks, B-sides, and alternate takes of songs by the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, as well as selections from White's solo catalog. Acoustic Recordings also includes the unreleased White Stripes song "City Lights."
The song was originally written for The White Stripes album, Get Behind Me Satan, but wasn't finished until this year. According to a press release, "The track is the first new, worldwide commercially released White Stripes song since 2008."
Acoustic Recordings also comes with liner notes by noted music journalist, Greil Marcus. The track list is in chronological order.
This is another must have for my collection.
Third Man Books Announces Definitive Book About The Stooges As Told By Iggy Pop
Jack White's publishing company, Third Man Books will release a much-anticipated book, TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told By Iggy Pop sometime this winter.
It was a rare privilege to sit with Iggy as he downloaded the story of The Stooges. He's an incredible storyteller with a fantastic memory and a great sense of humor, and he held nothing back. The Stooges were pioneers in sound, look, and live presentation, and along the way invented a genre-punk rock-and influenced countless others that followed. There was no precedent in rock music for what they did. They're definitely the only group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who started out playing an amplified Waring blender, a vacuum cleaner, spring water bottles and a 200 gallon oil drum. – Jeff Gold, Author of 101 Essential Rock Records
The author team Jeff Gold, Johan Kugelberg and editor/contributor Jon Savage are among the most respected music authors and historians working today. Total Chaos will also feature contributions from Jack White, Joan Jett, Johnny Marr and Third Man's Ben Blackwell. Now that's what I call curation!
I can't wait to get my hands on this essential rock book! Where is the pre-order link, Third Man Books? 😉
Iggy Pop to Recount Stooges Story in New Bio for Third Man Books
Jack White to release new biography on The Stooges as told by Iggy Pop
See Iggy Pop, Josh Homme Tear Through 'Lust for Life' on 'Kimmel'
I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) – The Dead Weather
A TIDAL Video Exclusive. I just watched it as a TIDAL subscriber. I was blown away 😉
It's also available via The Dead Weather VEVO Channel on YouTube.
Looks like it was filmed in Nashville near Third Man Records…
The Dead Weather – Dodge & Burn
The Dead Weather – Alison Mosshart, Jack White, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence
Dodge & Burn, the band's third LP will be released in September via Third Man Records and will feature eight new songs and four previously released (but now remixed and remastered) tracks.
A limited-edition version of the new album, called "Vault Package #25," will be released the same week as the standard album release in September. It'll include the following:
– A limited-edition Dodge & Burn LP on "yellow vinyl with black debris" in a soft-touch embossed sleeve, a Vault-exclusive alternate cover designed by Rob Jones, and a limited-edition bonus poster
– The only physical version of the new Dead Weather 7-inch and single from Dodge & Burn on yellow vinyl with black debris
– A deck of custom Dead Weather playing cards designed by Silent Giants featuring the band members as the King, Queen, Jack, and Joker
Subscribe to the Vault Package #25 here.


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I am always looking for yummy dessert ideas. I figured if I was looking for them, you were too! So I put together this amazing list of 17 delectable dessert ideas. You're not going to make just one, but I bet you make many from this list!
I'm not sure about you, but I am a big fan of desserts. Whether it's for a birthday or holiday, it seems like every month there is a reason to celebrate "dessert season". If you love sweets as much as I do, then you will love this awesome list of 17 Delectable Dessert Ideas.
I host a fun party for bloggers on the weekends and these were some of the most recent links that were shared. I am always amazed at the beautiful photos and the downright delicious dessert ideas that are shared. I need to create a book with all of these amazing desserts so I can have them at my fingertips at a moments notice!
Check out these amazing desserts and just TRY to pick ONE as a favorite. You will probably find it hard to do!
Did you check out each and every one of these desserts? Which one did you choose as YOUR favorite? It was hard to pick just one, wasn't it? I feel your pain. That's why I made this awesome list of 17 Delectable Dessert Ideas…I couldn't pick just ONE, either.
If you are looking for more desserts, check out these 10 Spring Dessert Ideas, or this list of over 25 no bake dessert ideas.
Thanks so much for including my White Chocolate Gingersnaps. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
I'm a sucker for muddy buddies, but those snicker pretzel bites look like something I have to try. I'm also a bit partial to my chocolate dipped spritz. Thanks so much for the feature!
Thank you for including my Lemon Blossom Cupcakes! Have a terrific weekend!
I think I've pinned each one.
And I adore Valentine desserts. I can't seem to stop pinning those!
Thanks for including my Snickers Pretzel Bites – everything looks delicous!


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Criminal Investigator FAQS
What is a Criminal Investigator?
A criminal investigator is a type of law enforcement professional who attempts to solve felony crimes, identify and detain suspects in hopes of preventing future criminal activity. A criminal investigator, to accomplish these various responsibilities, may work alone or as part of an investigative team to uncover facts about a particular case.
To accomplish the goals of the field, a criminal investigator may specialize in analyzing information and evidence from a crime scene, performing surveillance, or conducting interviews and searches. The responsibilities and requirements of a criminal investigator and the function of the specific job are dependent on the person's background and specialty.
Various Roles of a Criminal Investigator
Those experts who specialize in crime scene investigation are typically laboratory technicians and technologists who work to elucidate the details of a crime. A crime scene investigator may carefully examine a crime scene to collect evidence such as clothing samples, weapons and fingerprints.
The evidence gathered is then delivered to a laboratory for intensive studies and experimentation. Among the many tasks delivered by the crime investigator lab technician, these enforcement professionals must also determine ballistics information by performing firearm evaluations and confirming identities through the extraction of DNA from clothing samples.
Those crime scene investigators who write and issue reports based on the evidence gathered will frequently appear in courts as expert witnesses. These individuals will possess expertise in a specific field. The opinions of an expert witness are viewed as influential testimony in a court hearing. Such evidences must be considered by your criminal lawyer to build your case.
A criminal investigator may also engage in a covert surveillance operation. This type of criminal investigator acts as an undercover agent. Conducting covert surveillance operations attempt to expose criminal activity through the means of advanced technology. To carry out this function, a criminal investigator will install and subsequently monitor surveillance equipment to reveal details concerning a suspicious individual or organization.
In addition to using equipment, a criminal investigator conducting a surveillance operation may also don disguises and follow suspects to document their conversations and whereabouts. Regardless of their means to conduct the surveillance, a criminal investigator will invariably trace phone calls and perform exhaustive background checks on the individual in question.
Criminal Investigator and Detaining Suspects
When a suspect is detained, the criminal investigator may interrogate the individual to reveal more facts about the particular case. A criminal investigator may also interview witnesses and other individuals who possess knowledge about the underlying suspect or crime scene.
After the criminal investigator obtains a search warrant, the legal professional may explore a suspect's home, their business, or property. The search process will frequently reveal new pieces of evidence, such as money, weapons or stolen items, that ultimately confirm the suspect's role in the crime.
How to become a Criminal Investigator?
To become a criminal investigator, an individual must possess at least a high school diploma or GED equivalent. That being said, the majority of police agencies at the various levels of Government in the United States will prefer to hire those candidates with bachelor's degrees and experience in the particular field.
Since the majority of crime scene investigators perform laboratory research, an individual should possess a degree in computer science, chemistry, or biology. Degrees in police science or criminal justice are also preferred by hiring agencies.
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Geoengineered NZ Earthquake Revealed, Hillary Knew
conspiracy, Experiments, geoengineering, NASA, revisionist history, Scientism November 15, 2016 Leave a comment
\This from Jana Dixon on FB…
The World's Biggest Seismic Testing Ship – The US "Amazon Warrior" – Parked On Top Of New Zealand Fault Line:
The evil empire are after New Zealand's unobtainium. First shake up the locals, destroy infrastructure, weaken the economy and then extort deals to rape the resources of the country.
If you were planning to do seismic blasting off the coast of a Country, the best time to do it would be with the super full moon wouldn't it? So that people only discuss that as the possible reason.
The World's biggest seismic blasting ship the Amazon Warrior was photographed off Rarangi Beach in Cloudy Bay last night. Right on top of a major fault line. The ship was met with protests when it arrived on the 13th!
Kaikoura was clearly the target – now destroyed, and that basin is full of the precious oil for the foreign bankers and the only thing stopping them was the people of Kaikoura – now homeless and to be relocated by NZ Navy ship. Kaikoura is also known for its whale populations!
And I guess we now know why John Kerry was making a short notice / unexplained trip to NZ right in the middle of a fierce US 'elitecon'…He went to Antarctica, which has a HAARP at the US base.
Jana Dixon's blog: http://jana-sovereignstate.blogspot.com/
http://metaphysicalmusing.com/blog/2016/11/13/earthquakes-in-new-zealand-worldview-screenshot-of-new-zealand-macquarie-island-guadalupe-island-nova-scotia-nov-13-2016/embed/#?secret=4kfRifPbgf
The World's Biggest Seismic Testing Ship – The US "Amazon Warrior" – Parked On Top Of New Zealand Fault Line during the November 13, 2016 Earthquake!
The World's biggest seismic blasting ship the Amazon Warrior was photographed off Rarangi Beach in Cloudy Bay last night. Right on top of a major fault line. The ship was met with protests when it arrived on the 13th! It was seen off the Coast of Kaikoura on Nov. 13th, but its ETA from Panama was 10 am on Nov 14th in Wellington.
The Amazon Warrior came from Panama, was seen off of Kaikoura on the 13th and then went to anchor off of Cloudy Bay at the top of the South Island, across the channel from Wellington. If you are steaming to NZ from Panama, and your destination is Wellington, then there is no need to go an extra 95 miles south before arriving at your charted destination; after a long sea journey of 7,353 miles. This fact alone shows that there was something very fishy going on in the state of Aotearoa.
If their scheduled arrival was for 10am on the 14th in Wellington, then their trip to Kaikoura was already calculated into their original ETA. The AW's estimated project-to-project transit speed is 17 knots or 19.5633 mph. Thus traveling the 7353 miles to NZ will take around 16 days, and the last report in Vessel Finder was Oct 25, 2016 17:52 UTC which was probably the departure time from Panama. Roughly Oct 26 to Oct 13 is 19 days, so they left plenty of leeway to ensure they could make it to Kaikoura before heading to Wellington…however rather than 3 days leeway, it is only 2 days because NZ is one day ahead of Panama.
On a ship like the Amazon Warrior… to travel 95 miles distance from Kaikoura to Wellington it takes around 5 hours, so they have 1.75 days to engage in their seismic mayhem. The ship only pulled into Cloudy Bay to avoid the protesters at Wellington. Yea, rather obvious isn't it. By their deeds shall they shall be known
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/AMAZON-WARRIOR-IMO-9662394-MMSI-372757000
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/are-microwave-transmission-weapons-of-mass-destruction-being-used-to-trigger-catastrophic-earthquakes/
Spacecraft Saw ULF Radio Emissions over Haiti before January Quake
A French satellite observed a dramatic increase in ultra low frequency radio waves over Haiti in the month before the M7.0 earthquake earlier this year.
DEMETER's is an unusual mission. Its job is to monitor low frequency radio waves generated by earthquakes.
Today, a group of geoscientists release the data associated with the M 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti in January. They say that DEMETER saw a clear increase in ultralow frequency radio waves being emitted from the Earth's the crust in that region in the build up to the quake.
The anecdotal evidence of electromagnetic effects associated with earthquakes is legion. Various accounts link earthquakes with mysterious light and heating effects.
After the Haiti quake, the US military moved in and occupied the country. In addition, the long drawn-out Clinton Foundation reconstruction debacle began. The following year a deadly earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand. Many circumstances surrounding this disaster were also troubling. Did US officials know the earthquake was coming? Some excerpts from a report on the disaster are below.
Was the Christchurch earthquake a terrible natural disaster, or was it a terrible MAN MADE disaster?
9 members of US Congress were in Christchurch for a summit meeting on Feb 21 & 22 but left Christchurch 2.5 hours before the earthquake hit and relocated to Wellington even though the meeting was not due to finish until the evening of Feb 22nd.
The US Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, was supposed to be visiting Christchurch and speaking at the summit meeting on Feb 22, but on Feb 18 announced she was cancelling her visit 3. The Deputy Administrator of FEMA (US Federal Emergency Management Agency), Timothy Manning, just happened to be in Christchurch at the time with a US delegation.
All of the rest of the delegation left Christchurch shortly before the quake hit except for Mr Manning who stayed behind, and then after the quake hit he assisted with directing the emergency response. Exactly the same thing happened with FEMA delegates with the Haiti earthquake. In Haiti , the FEMA delegates just happened to be there at the time conducting training exercises for responding to major earthquakes.
Recent releases from Wikileaks resulted in the headline below:
Hillary Clinton Emails Show Advanced Warning of Christchurch Earthquake.
In the days before the catastrophic Japanese Earthquake (that occurred on March 11, 2016), world renowned research institution, MIT, yet again, noted extremely profound and anomalous atmospheric heating directly over the quake epicenter. MIT published the following report:
Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
Infrared emissions above the epicenter increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in Japan, say scientists.
They say that before the M9 earthquake, the total electron content of the ionosphere increased dramatically over the epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck.
At the same time, satellite observations showed a big increase in infrared emissions from above the epicentre, which peaked in the hours before the quake. In other words, the atmosphere was heating up.
Though the science community is desperately trying to link pre-quake atmospheric heating to some unknown phenomenon of an atmospheric coupling with the pressure buildup in the strata, is this a rational conclusion? The much more logical and straightforward conclusion is this, the atmospheric heating is being intentionally created by the global network of ionosphere heaters as immense microwave signals are bounced off of the atmosphere and back down into the planet. Unfortunately, the science community is not allowed to even consider this possibility, let alone talk about it. In the period preceding the decimating Japanese earthquake, US Japanese relations were very strained. The post-quake scenario of US/Japanese relations seemed to suddenly be unquestionable, was there a connection? Was the catastrophic quake just a natural event? Or an engineered warning to Japan?
On the 13th of November, 2016, another catastrophic earthquake struck near Christchurch, New Zealand. The list of troubling questions surrounding this earthquake is long and growing. Below are some quotes from seismologist Anna Kaiser (who is investigating the latest New Zealand earthquake activity):
We don't know what we are dealing with right now but it may be … it involves potentially more than one fault … we need to figure out what was going on before and after the 7.5 magnitude quake…
Kaiser went on to say this:
We're working very hard … this is looking quite complex. The epicenter was possibly just south of the Hope fault, but it did look like "something else was going on.
The seismologist statements are only the beginning, there are many more concerning factors surrounding the latest New Zealand Earthquake that should be considered.
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Frankenstein 1970
by Martin | Apr 20, 2019 | movies, reviews | 0 comments
This begins generically but effectively with a screaming girl being pursued across the (German, it turns out) countryside by a nightmarishly-contorted Frankenstein's monster whose face we never see; this proves, however, to be part of a TV programme being shot in the real Frankenstein's castle to celebrate the 230th anniversary of Frankenstein creating his monster. Which, in case there should be any doubt about this, really happened, it wasn't just a book and a film, etc.. Though obviously it is now a TV programme.
The last of the Frankenstein line, world-weary and disfigured, is played by Boris Karloff, grudgingly permitting the TV crew to use his property because he needs the money in order to buy an atomic reactor. The apparent ease with which one can get an atomic reactor home-delivered is presumably a sign of the 'futuristic' nature of this enterprise, set twelve years after it was made – though it is one of the few, the film taking place largely inside the kind of gloomy Gothic castle with which we are already familiar.
Although there is the secret underground laboratory, accessed via the original Frankenstein's tomb – a nice touch (though we might wonder how Karloff manages to get an atomic reactor down there unassisted).
This gleaming lab offers none of the fizzing, flashing, bubbling excitement to be found in mad scientist's laboratories of old, leaving Karloff with little to do but (at one point) repeatedly hit his monster on the skull with a wooden mallet, while intoning into a microphone the findings this procedure apparently yields ('Continuity between the medulla and the spinal cord restored.') Then he goes over to the fridge for a jar of eyes, which he unfortunately drops.
It really is Karloff's film. As with Peter Bogdanovich's 1968 film Targets, where he plays aged horror movie star Byron Orlok, you might almost say that it's about Karloff, and his inability to escape the creature he played three times in the 30's. Included on this (Italian) DVD is the original trailer – 'Karloff is back!' it proclaims, adding, for good measure: 'Karloff, Karloff, Karloff!' A better title for the film might have been Frankenstein Created Karloff.
He gives the kind of exaggerated performance which normally prompts one to say that the actor is 'enjoying himself', except he really doesn't look like he is. He seems as depressed as his character, a man who was forced by the Nazis to perform medical experiments in Belsen and now tells his (as far as we can tell, only) friend that he hardly sees himself as a man at all.
No, his performance is perhaps best described as sarcastic. We see him removing the TV director's overly chummy hand from his shoulder with elaborate fastidiousness, then deliberately creeping out the leading lady (Jana Lund) by kissing her hand, before walking off, cackling, to play the organ, as if he were the Phantom of the Opera.
Which in a sense, forced to haunt the scenario of his former glories, he is.
Later, he delivers a prologue for the TV programme which lays on the Gothic clichés with bitter relish, as he explains how his ancestor created a monster which becomes 'the very image of the devil incarnate.' At least his acting is colourful, which is more than can be said for that of the rest of the cast.
The TV crew don't amount to much, though they have their share of relationship issues. We see the director's ex-wife (Charlotte Austin) drily observing him trying his luck with the leading lady, while herself fending off the advances of another crew member. Perhaps this is a glimpse into a cynical loveless future or maybe it was just the kind of behaviour that was expected from showbiz folks. The ex-wife even makes a joke about finding someone dead in Karloff's oven. Is this a holocaust joke? – never mind 1970, even 2019 is 'too soon' for that one.*
As for the monster, he's more like the mummy (a character also once played by Karloff), swathed as he is entirely in bandages; he shuffles around the castle looking (if that is the right word) for a suitable pair of eyes, eventually discovering them in Frankenstein's friend. A close shot of the latter's eyes fades into a shot of the same eyes peering out from the bandages – a nice touch from director Howard W. Koch, but not enough to save the film.
Karloff stopped playing the monster after 1938's Son of Frankenstein because he couldn't see that there was anywhere for the character to go. This aimless creature offers little to contradict his assessment, but after it stumbles, despite numerous warnings from Karloff, into the path of some radioactive steam and expires, there's a twist: the monster proves to have been given a disfigurement-free version of its creator's face.
The DVD also features the first version of Frankenstein, made by Thomas Edison's company in 1910 and directed by J. Searle Dawley. I must admit I'd had the idea that this version was lost. If so, I've found it.
Though only about 15 minutes long and claiming to be a 'liberal adaptation' it is in some ways truer to the essence of Mary Shelley's original novel than anything that came later. The shot of the monster looming over his creator as he lies on his bed in a swoon, or the later scene where the monster briefly supplants Frankenstein's reflection in the mirror evoke the uneasy intimacy between man and monster that runs through Shelley's book – I will be with you on your wedding night and all that.
It's made clear that the creature, a bizarre scarecrow played by Charles Ogle, manifests something already lurking inside its creator – something which the intertitles simply call 'evil' – and the very fact that the film lacks the resources to open the story out necessarily brings the central relationships (Frankenstein's bride-to-be included) to the fore.
The notion of a compromised or tainted identity was less apparent in later film versions: Universal's approach to the story was to run with the monster as the dominant figure, whether it was played by Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr. or Glenn Strange, while Hammer ran with Peter Cushing's ruthless scientist, presiding over a variety of 'creatures'. Ambiguity is a hard sell.
Karloff was, however, partly responsible for the popular confusion between Frankenstein and his creator – his 'iconic' image appearing on posters for James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein was too strong not to claim the splendidly ominous name for itself (and the title of the 1935 sequel The Bride Of Frankenstein only perpetuated the confusion). In this way the ambiguity of the original text has found a way to survive.
With the creature's 'unmasking' at the end of Frankenstein 1970 the confusion finally comes home to roost – Karloff is now both creator and creature. This is nothing like the blurring of identities in Shelley's novel, with its murky overtones of (sexual?) guilt. It's more like branding.
Karloff was already a brand. His real name, after all, was William Henry Pratt, whereas his adopted one was effective enough to be get into the title of one of his films (1949's Abbott and Costello Meet The Killer, Boris Karloff).
The ending of Frankenstein 1970 does not have much impact on the viewer beyond maybe a glimmer of surprise, or maybe just bemusement – Karloff had previously been addressing the monster as 'Shuter', the name of his manservant (and unwilling brain donor) so that is the face we have been expecting. In terms of Karloff's career, however, it feels like the brand has closed in on him, effecting a kind of premature burial. The horror is reserved for Karloff alone – his face is now 'the very image of the devil incarnate' and there is no escape from it.
But perhaps he would have greeted this fate with a wry smile – of course I have no idea what 'the real Karloff' would have thought. This 'premature burial' is one of many things shutting us off from 'the real Karloff', another being his actual burial – in fact, cremation – in 1969. He missed the real 1970, but I like to think that he didn't mind. The fake one was bad enough.
*Or maybe not. There's an oven joke in this year's Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, in which the lovably obnoxious Jewish character Markowitz (Nelson Franklin) slams a Nazi puppet (a plastic baby with Hitler's hair and scowling face) into an oven with the words: 'See how you like it!'
Funnily enough it's one of the few moments where the film finds the right tone, or any sort of tone really. Despite S. Craig Zahler providing above average dialogue (and typically nudging the violence into the realms of the psychotic), flaccid direction, a dearth of plot and a glut of characters all work together to ensure that it falls desperately flat.
It features its own horror icon in the form of Udo Kier as the puppet master himself, Andre Toulon – he has sufficient presence that you wonder if he might have saved the project, but he disappears after the first five minutes, returning only in the form of a generic CGI demon at the end. To quote Brawl In Cell Block 99, disappointing.


These cookies are très chocolatey, and when I noticed how little flour it involved, I decided to swap it out entirely for gluten-free flour. Unfortunately I think it made my cookies too crumbly. That's the downside to using gluten-free flour, it doesn't seem to have the stretchy, bond-y properties that gluten protein has. Oh well.
Unlike the recipe I adapted from, I didn't have salted chocolate around, so I just used regular chocolate. The salt doesn't seem to hold up too well in the recipe – I think sprinkling it before baking would result in a better contrast. I just forgot to =/ Try to use actual flaky sea salt; it'll look much prettier on your cookies and I've found that it just tastes better.
Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F) and line trays with baking paper.
Place the chopped chocolate and butter in a large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring between each burst, until chocolate and butter are melted, smooth and combined.
Whisk in the sugar. Whisk in the eggs, one at a time, until incorporated.
Add the flour, baking powder and salt, stirring to combine.
Allow the dough to cool a little, then stir in the chocolate chips.
Chill the dough in the fridge until slightly hardened.
Use a cookie scoop to drop balls of dough onto the prepared trays. Sprinkle each cookie with a little sea salt (optional and to taste).
Bake for 8 – 10 minutes, until the edges of the cookies are slightly cracked.
Allow to cool before removing from trays. Makes about 20 cookies.


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Parents and Community Members Urge Tennessee Court to Stop Rushed Voucher Rollout
by Article submitted July 26, 2022 July 26, 2022
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Following Tennessee Governor Bill Lee's announcement that the state immediately will begin implementing its controversial private school voucher program for the school year starting in just a few weeks, public school parents and community members in the targeted counties are going back to court to stop this sudden and unprecedented rollout.
The plaintiffs in McEwen v. Lee, a pending 2020 lawsuit filed by Shelby and Davidson County residents that challenges the constitutionality of Tennessee's Education Savings Account (ESA) voucher law, filed an urgent motion Friday asking the Davidson County Chancery Court to block the state from rolling out vouchers for the 2022-2023 school year.
"This unconstitutional program will drain resources from our public schools, and our lawsuit challenging it has not yet been decided," said plaintiff Roxanne McEwen, whose child is a student in Metro Nashville Public Schools. "Rushing to implement the voucher program before the court has spoken will only create needless chaos for our public schools and for Tennessee families."
Friday's motion explains the immediate and irreparable harm that would result from the state's extremely rushed plan to hand out vouchers for the coming school year. Disbursing those funds, which are drawn from public school district budgets, would throw public schools into chaos weeks before the school year begins. And handing out vouchers that could be declared unconstitutional shortly thereafter would leave families that used them to enroll in private schools mired in uncertainty.
"The state cannot be permitted to recklessly barrel ahead with an unconstitutional program at the expense of Nashville and Memphis public schools that desperately need more, not less, funding and resources," said Chris Wood, partner at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP. "We are again asking the court to enjoin the voucher program while the judges rule on the numerous constitutional and statutory violations asserted by the plaintiffs."
This is the second time the McEwen plaintiffs have called on the chancery court to halt implementation of the voucher program before the state diverts taxpayer funds to unaccountable private schools. In 2020, the chancery court ruled in a companion case challenging the voucher law, Metro Government v. Tennessee Department of Education, that it violated the Home Rule provision of the Tennessee Constitution by targeting only Shelby and Davidson Counties without their local approval and prohibited the state from starting the program.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld that ruling, but the state Supreme Court reversed it earlier this year in a split decision, sending the case back to the chancery court. The chancery court lifted its 2020 injunction of the voucher law on July 13 as a result of the Supreme Court decision. The state initially told the court that it had not decided on a course of action, but Governor Lee released a statement just hours later declaring that implementation would proceed immediately.
The plaintiffs in McEwen v. Lee are represented by the law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, the ACLU of Tennessee, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Education Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law Center and Education Law Center collaborate on the national Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) campaign.
"There are numerous unresolved legal claims in both the McEwen and Metro Government lawsuits," said Jessica Levin, senior attorney at Education Law Center and director of PFPS. "The temporary injunction motion filed by the McEwen plaintiffs on Friday focuses on their claim that the voucher law violates the Education Clause of the Tennessee Constitution – which requires the state to provide education solely through a system of public schools – by funding private schools outside that system."
Private schools participating in the voucher program are not obligated to comply with the academic, accountability, and governance standards that apply to public schools. And unlike public schools, they can discriminate against students on the basis of religion, LGBTQ+ status, and other characteristics, as well as refuse to provide services such as special education for students with disabilities.
"Defunding public schools through voucher schemes like this one also disproportionately harms Black and brown children and children experiencing poverty, who have been overrepresented in public schools since private segregation academies were first funded by segregationist lawmakers across the South," explained Bacardi Jackson, interim deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. "Children with the greatest needs, who are welcomed and served by our public schools, are left with fewer resources when the state acts to deplete the funds intended to educate all children. So not only is this law unconstitutional, it funds discrimination, and it is racially and economically unjust."
"Taking money away from already underfunded public school districts and sending taxpayer dollars to private schools, many of which are religious, hurts Tennessee students," said Lindsay Kee, interim director of the ACLU of Tennessee. "We will continue to stand with public school parents and students to fight this unconstitutional program until it is struck down for good."
More information about McEwen v. Lee is available here.
This statement is available online at: https://www.aclu-tn.org/parents-community-members-urge-tennessee-court-stop-rushed-voucher-rollout/


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