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I'm Worried People Might Get The Wrong Impression From My Satanist Tattoo
2:11 PM EDT on Jun 1, 2021
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Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And preorder Drew's next book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you're at it. Today, we're talking about glasses, Satan, extreme old man shit, bad nicknames for nicknames, and more.
Your letters:
Edward:
During this pandemic, I began to learn more about Satanism, and now I identify as a Satanist.
Go on.
In a fit of what can now be best described as a stupidly naive 'embracing my new belief system moment', I went out and got a tattoo.
As one does when they've embraced the devil.
I feel great with my choice and definitely not something I'm gonna regret and it's hidden enough on my body and like a not obvious symbol for those who don't know occult symbols, but I'm now facing having to enter The After and I know people that I haven't seen since the before times are gonna ask me about my tattoo and I'm gonna have to clumsily explain it and that no, we don't eat babies.
You don't eat babies? Kind of a letdown.
While a little stoned, I started to think how many other people have made some big appearance changes in their life during the pandemic that they're going to have to explain all the time to people? How many people have drastically changed their facial hair, got a random face tattoo, way too into tank tops now, etc.?
I won't lie, Edward. Usually the big twist comes at the end of the email and not the other way around. So I commend you for not burying the lede, but sad you tried to bury it with a broader question after the fact. Let's talk about your Satanism first, because that's what I'd prefer to do. Here's a true story: When I was at GQ, I once pitched my editor the idea of sending my kids to an After School Satan Club sponsored by the Satanic Temple. I read up on the club and it seemed harmless, especially given that my wife and I aren't all that religious to begin with. But the story died because the flack for the Satanic Temple would only give me access to its leader if GQ put him on the cover. GQ, as you might have guessed, wasn't amenable to that. And so when I think of Satanism, I mostly think about how the Satanic Temple guy GROSSLY overestimated his Q rating.
In general, I don't think of Satanists as evil, but more as agnostics who have a really ornate sense of humor. If you showed me your new tattoo, I wouldn't think you ate babies. It'd make a fine icebreaker between us, even. The assorted Amys in your area will likely not react similarly. You can explain the ink to them exhaustively and they'll still think that you're a serial killer or, even worse to them, a Democrat. In that way, your new tattoo will help you weed out unworthy social prospects in the after. But you're gonna have to work VERY hard to convince the rest of us that you're not into Nazi shit.
As to your actual question, I don't think anyone really gives a shit about new looks in The After. We just had a pandemic. Of course people are gonna look a little different once they're out of hiding. It's like going back to school all over again. OH WOW DREW GOT SO HOT OVER QUARANTINE WOW.
Zac:
At what age does a human baby become smarter than an adult cat?
No later than two. Newborn human babies are helpless, useless little creatures. They can't even see properly, that's how underdeveloped they are. But they catch on quick. No new parent ever feels this way while raising a baby in realtime, but it's true. Within the first two years of its lifespan, the average human baby learns to walk, talk, eat, recognize patterns, identify things and people, and piss in a toilet without assistance. I know every cat owner thinks their asshole cat is a genius, but this is a hilarious lie. All a cat knows how to do is hide, eat, and scratch things. A human can do all that by the time it's just a year old, if not sooner. This is all to say: fuck cats.
Austin:
Will SNL ever get cancelled?
Not while Lorne Michaels is still alive, no. I could run through all the reasons why SNL is a creative wasteland that deserves to be kicked off the air, but that's all been covered before, definitively. The fact is that SNL still has a huge, demographically attractive audience. I wanna pretend that audience consists entirely of boomers tuning in while three brandy snifters deep, but it doesn't. That shitty Elon Musk episode? Third-highest ratings for SNL this season. Lorne Michaels wanted people to be just pissed off enough about Musk's invitation that they would be curious enough to tune in, and they did.
SNL is one of the most reliable profit centers that NBC has. They pay their staff nothing. They work them like they're running a fucking ant colony. They force every performer to write for no credit. And Michaels and the network come out the other end with millions of dollars every year. It's a fine-tuned machine. There's no incentive for NBC to cancel SNL and spend their money on fucking Chicago Us or some other more costly, less-profitable venture. You've met my industry. Anything that makes actual money in media is like finding a fucking vein of coal under your patio. None of these moneymakers are under any obligation to be good, and they rarely are. The Today Show made NBC over $400 million in 2019 alone, and that show was presided over by a sex creep as recently as four years ago. SNL, part of a late night portfolio at NBC that basically functions as "Today, but on later," is similarly lucrative and shitty in equal measure.
The only way any of these shows go away is if they become money pits. And yeah, that could happen to SNL if enough Americans stop watching any network TV of any kind in the coming decades. Or if there's a nuclear war. Then again, I've lived through the advent of cable television, which itself was designed to make network TV obsolete and, instead, is currently getting buttfucked by the advent of the internet and streaming TV.
So I can act like the existence of Amazon Prime means ol' Lorney won't be able to wiggle out of this jam, but he's as entrenched as the Senate filibuster is. I wish the show was still good. I wish all of late night was still good, but as someone on Twitter noted last week, no one in charge of late night TV anymore has any real, genuine contempt for the institutions they serve. They ARE the institutions. SNL now is basically a safe harbor where all of Lorne's rich dickhead friends can read anodyne jokes about themselves off a cue card and pretend that somehow makes them likable to the general public. But it still makes money and it's dependably lacking in teeth, which makes it not a relic, but rather an example that all new shows are forced by their financiers to aspire to.
The Wilf family just bought my soccer team. What do I need to know?
You'll be fine. The Wilfs belong in jail, but for actual crimes and not crimes against their own fanbase. I have many complaints about the Vikings—you rarely hear any of them, but I do—but I've never had a beef with the Wilfs as owners. Before that, the Vikings were owned by Red McCombs, who had an everlasting boner to move the franchise to San Antonio. Before that, they were owned by like a dozen guys, which prompted the NFL to establish a rule that teams had to be owned by one person, instead of operating as a co-op. They don't want every NFL team to be like some underdog at the Belmont Stakes that was purchased by eight Goldman Sachs bros who were all groomsmen at each other's weddings. Also, teams don't run all that efficiently when they're owned by 97 people instead of just one. (Packers fans, now is the time for you to shut the fuck up). So I've had problems with Vikings owners in the past.
The Wilfs, by contrast, have run the team pretty much the way I'd hope any owner would. They kept the Vikings in Minnesota (not without fucking over the state, of course, but that's SOP now). They spend money. They let the GM and the head coach operate without interference, almost to a fault. They've had more winning seasons than losing ones, and they've presided over two trips to the NFC title game, both of which the Vikings WON. And in spectacular fashion! Everyone remembers it like it was yesterday!
Anyway, that's all you can ask for from an NFL owner. As for you, I doubt the Wilfs even know that Orlando City SC is a soccer team. They might be under the impression that the SC stands for Shipping Company. I dunno. MLS owners aren't even owners anyway. Every team in MLS is owned by a central Borg, so your team is safe from the Wilfs' potential idiocy. It's Don Garber who'll fuck you good.
Evan:
Why is Pels the nickname for the Pelicans? Who got to decide that? This bothers me more than it should.
It's sportscasters being economical, or simply lazy. They have 150 seconds to get through the highlight package, so sounding out "-icans" adds too much fat to the proceedings for them to allow it.
There are a lot of needlessly shortened team names like this. Lemme run a few of them down for you to make myself angry:
Bucs (Pirates)
'Zards (Wizards; I swear that bastardization gets used on TV here on occasion)
Avs (Avalanche; not as bad as "The 'Lanche" but still awful)
'Stros (Astros)
Phils (Phillies)
Raps (Raptors)
'Ning (Lightning)
Isles (Islanders; this one is borderline acceptable)
Sabes (Sabres)
Then there are a lot of perfectly normal shortened names that fans themselves use: Fins, 'Hawks, Cards, Yanks, Sox, Pack, Jags, Nats, D-Backs, etc. But Pels? Get the fuck out of the building with that lazyass shit.
Also, Boston fans who call the Celtics the Cs and the Bruins the Bs can eat a dick.
I watched the classic 90s documentary When We Were Kings and with Ali, James Brown, Don King, Norman Mailer I thought this has to be the ultimate DEAD OR CANCELLED FILM. Is there a more on the nose Dead or Cancelled Film ever made?
You go back far enough and you'll probably find that everyone in every movie has either died or been canceled since they made it. That's especially true if the movie, itself, has been canceled. I worshipped Revenge of the Nerds when I was 11. You ask Anthony Edwards about that movie now and he'll probably tie his limbs into a knot in his attempt to answer you without making a misstep.
But yeah, When We Were Kings is notable not only because it was a great movie, but because its depth chart of canceled people is so diverse and lustrous. You got James Brown, a legendary singer who was a wife beater. You got Jim Brown, a legendary football player who threw a woman off a balcony. You got Mailer, a legendary (and insanely overrated) writer who stabbed his wife at a PARTY. You got Don King, who is Don King. You got Ali, who was unjustly and truly canceled for refusing to serve in Vietnam. And you got a fight that was funded by a genocidal dictator. And it's all a documentary. They didn't even have to clumsily work any of that character background into a script. Incredible. Five stars out of five to When We Were Kings.
HALFTIME!
Devin:
You get the phone call that they're making The Night the Lights Went Out into a big Netflix movie. They're making this movie with or without you, but they want you to make the final casting decision for who plays you. They give you only five possible options: Tim Allen, Kid Rock, Andy Dick, James Woods, or Steven Seagal. Who do you pick? PS Roth's cameo will be played by DJ Qualls.
Oh, James Woods. Not even close. James Woods was one of my favorite actors of all time, and it's not like he got cast out of Hollywood because he doesn't know how to act anymore. It's because he's a psychotic asshole. But if I threw on The Hard Way right now and watched it front to back—something I've done many, many times in my life—I can guarantee that I'd forget about James Woods being James Woods, if only for a moment. I've enjoyed the work of many certifiably fuckheaded actors/musicians/writers in the past, and I can do it again.
That's not as easy to do today with regards to James Woods, but he's still a better performer than any of the other four options. Steven Seagal can't act. Kid Rock doesn't have enough muscle to play the role. Tim Allen is best left to voice acting now. And I'm not even certain that Andy Dick is still alive. Only Woods would do the material justice, and then he'd fuck it all up on the press tour and I'd get canceled by osmosis. BUT WHAT A RIDE IT WOULD BE.
Durumdog:
Of all the people who were thrust into working from home for the last year or so, what percentage do you think have spent at least two afternoons a week getting some degree of drunk? I say minimum 60%.
Going by the industry-wide spike in alcohol sales over the past year, your initial 60 percent estimate is low. I have friends who unexpectedly developed healthier lifestyle habits during the pandemic, but that's not a representative sample size. For thousands of years, mankind has gotten drunk to get by. There's no reason to believe that the past year, let alone the past five, would curtail that habit in any meaningful way.
And frankly, if some people are taking advantage of the WFH setup and starting cocktail hour at 3 p.m. Friday instead of right after work, I don't have much of a problem with it. Long as you're not drinking yourself to death and/or whipping your dick out on a Zoom call, I have general faith in Americans to be the functional, professional alcoholics they've always been. Can you blame anyone for wanting to drink their way through all this shit?
Of course, we're talking strictly about alcohol here. I'm guessing that pills are no small factor in all this. And then you've got SPICE. Remember people freaking out about spice? I bet spice is gonna make a big comeback if it hasn't already. You watch! Mmmmm … delicious, wonderful spice.
Something my friends probably all wish that I would shut up about is discussing original Queensrÿche guitarists Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton, who I maintain are the most underappreciated rock guitarists of all time. (Such creative duo rhythm playing aside from all the memorable and kick-ass solos!) I feel a personal responsibility to evangelize their awesomeness despite literally nobody I know giving a shit. Do you have a similarly arcane pop culture take that you feel a need to share with uninterested friends and family because if you don't, nobody else will?
You're familiar with my work at this website, yeah? You just heard me rhapsodize about The Hard Way, which none of you will watch as a result of my recommendation. You see all the halftime songs I post that no one else ever listens to. You know that I never shut the fuck up about The Struts. I don't die on oddly chosen hills so much as I live alone on them. The good news for you is that I have even MORE niche boomer takes on my person, and that Andy here just gave me permission to unleash them upon you. So let's get started! Please read all of these following bullets in the voice of Larry King.
Top Secret! was better than Airplane and deserves to be mentioned alongside it as one of the greatest comedies of all time.
I've only understood the meaning behind certain song lyrics NOW, decades after the fact, and they have deepened my enjoyment of said songs. Like, I didn't realize "Policy of Truth" was about a guy telling his girlfriend that she shouldn't have admitted to cheating on him and just kept it hidden for both their sake. I thought it was just a song about how cool lying is in general.
I should re-watch Amadeus more often.
I love songs with lyrical twists. Like "What A Fool Believes." It's already a good song thanks to the melody, but the lyrics really ARE brilliant. "What a fool believes he sees/No wise man has the power to reason away"? That's fantastic shit! And to cap it off, turns out Michael McDonald was singing about himself the whole time. HE was the fool! You gotta tip your cap to him and to Kenny Loggins…
…the latter of which also co-wrote "I'll Wait" by Van Halen! Are we, as a society, really appreciating Kenny Loggins enough? I say no.
I'm thinking of starting a message board devoted solely to Everybody's Golf.
Adele has a REALLY good drummer. The guy can absolutely fucking pummel that snare.
I love the now-dormant British band A and I hope they get discovered by some fancy director guy who throws one of their songs into a hit movie and their back catalog blows the fuck up.
My favorite U2 song is the William Orbit remix of "Electrical Storm."
I don't know why shrimp toast hasn't crossed over to regular bar menus. It deserves to. Let's get on that.
Plenty more inconsequential takes where THAT came from. Check them out on my Twitter feed every Saturday night!
Will:
I have worn glasses since I was 10, and up until recently always preferred contacts. More recently I have found frames that fit my face well and have decided (and my wife agreed) that I like the way I look with glasses better, so have been not wearing the contacts as much. Lately I have been considering Lasik so I don't really have to mess with either, but I am going to miss the way glasses made my face look. Am I a huge doofus if I get Lasik and then continue wearing glasses that offer no vision correction just for vanity reasons?
You're not, no. Plenty of people wear glasses out of vanity. My wife owns a couple of junky nonprescription pairs that she occasionally wears with her contacts still in, to give off the full Lisa Loeb effect. So yeah, go for it.
I'm getting to the age where I'll throw on my glasses at the end of the day and be like, "Oh wow, I look so much more stately with these on!" I think that happens to a lot of people as they age. When you wear glasses in grade school, you feel like a nerd and a brown noser. When you wear them at 40, you feel INTELLECTUAL. Look at how those tortoise shell frames match your graying temples! You're a guy who puts real thought into what you do and what you say! Women want to fuck you for your BRAIN. Nothing like a midlife crisis to think a pair of Warby Parkers make you look 30 percent more elegant. But hey, when you feel good about your looks, you feel good in general. That's not the behavior of a doofus. That's just human nature in action.
That said, if I ever got Lasik, I would never wear glasses (non-shades division) again. I'd burn every last pair I own (two), get high on the plastic fumes, and then attend a Zoom meeting at 2 p.m.
Dan:
Now that the pandemic is wrapping up, fingers crossed tightly, who has the most right to complain about the lost year? For me (forty-something with a stable job that can easily be done at home), I can't complain too much. I missed some live sports and going out to dinner, but I generally dislike people so no real loss. My daughter, a middle schooler, didn't seem to be too put out about learning from home, with the exception of not learning much. She got to play with the neighborhood kids and avoid all the kids she didn't get along with. My parents, however, seem to think their retirement has been entirely ruined. They claim they weren't able to go to places they never really seemed interested in to begin with. If I had to choose, I would say high school students got it the worst, even though high school is objectively awful. I think I just buy into the cultural weight of high school — prom, graduation, parties, whatever. What age group got it the worst?
So much of it depends on where you live and how much money you make, etc. Like yeah, the pandemic was survivable for work-from-home types like me and Dan. But if you were working a job that didn't let you leave, and fired you if you did? And you got kids to feed and bills to pay, etc? You got FUCKED. You got fucked way harder than some poor high schooler who had to put off their first kegstand for a calendar year. If any kid demo got insanely fucked over, it's probably 4-year-olds. They're too young to really understand any of this but also old enough to remember the trauma. That's the exact wrong combination. Kids are adaptable, which is what makes them cool. But four-year-olds are the least adaptable of the bunch. All of our current ones are gonna grow up pissed.
Outside of them, my vote is for single people in their 20s. They just spent a year getting laid off, living alone, developing lifelong alcoholism, and forced to risk getting infected for a lay. If this pandemic had happened when I was 23, I'd be a serial arsonist right now.
What is the most forgotten-about state? The one you randomly hear someone mention that makes you go "Oh yeah, that's a state isn't it?" I think it has to be West Virginia, right? What in the world goes on in West Virginia?
It's Corkessetta. Not even close. They don't even have a vote in Congress, they're so routinely ignored! If I lived in the mid-central-Pacific, I'd be livid.
Email of the week!
Last week I had my worst mask experience of the pandemic thus far. I was eating a baby carrot, and one of my employees came to ask me a question. I put my mask back on while I was still chewing the carrot so I could speak without spewing rona all over the place. I immediately got the tickle in my sinuses, and let loose a hurricane-force sneeze inside my mask. Bits of baby carrot went everywhere; all over inside my mask and even ejected out of my mask and up into my glasses. I had to wash the orange bits from my face/glasses, and replace the mask.
You poor bastard.


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Tue 8th December 2020
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Real Madrid to beat Borussia Monchengladbach – Money Line and both teams to score (+188), 3:00 p.m ET
There should be an exciting finale to Group B of the Champions League with all four teams still in with a chance of qualifying for the knockout stages.
Real Madrid is expected to win the group but the 13-time European champions cannot be considered a lock against dangerous Bundesliga outfit Borussia Monchengladbach.
The Germans are averaging more than three goals per game in the Champions League this season and an offensive unit featuring France national team players Alassane Plea and Marcus Thuram could get on the scoresheet at the Bernabeu.
Gladbach's defense is less secure, conceding seven times in three group games against Real and Inter Milan. Spanish champions Real should get the win they need but it may not be straightforward for Zinedine Zidane's men.
Inter Milan vs. Shakhtar Donetsk – Both teams to score (-137), 3:00 p.m ET
Inter Milan kept alive their hopes of qualifying with a dramatic 3-2 win at Gladbach on matchday five and they must take maximum points at home to Shakhtar Donetsk if they are to reach the knockout stage.
However, the Ukrainians should have no inferiority complex after beating Real at home and away and they can take advantage of Inter's defensive generosity.
Inter has claimed only one shutout in their last eight Champions League matches and they are sure to feel the pressure of the situation against Shakhtar, who were 3-0 up at half-time on their trip to the Bernabeu in October.
Shakhtar was brushed aside 5-0 by Inter at the San Siro in last season's Europa League but they should get more opportunities against their desperate hosts this time around.
Porto not to lose vs. Olympiakos – Double chance (+106), 3:00 p.m ET
Unlike in Group B, there is little to play for in Group C but runners-up Porto is a nice play to avoid defeat away to Olympiakos.
Manchester City and Porto have been a cut above Olympiakos and Marseille in this section and even if Porto rests some of their senior players they should be competitive in Greece.
The Portuguese champions lost 3-1 to City on matchday one but their defense has kept four straight shutouts since then and Olympiakos has scored only two goals in five Champions League matches this season.
The Greeks need to at least match Marseille's result in Manchester to qualify for the Europa League but their limited offense may not have an easy night against Porto.
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"I have heard Beethoven's Symphony 9 more than 30 times now, but never before have I been moved as much as this performance by the Asian Youth Orchestra," wrote a member of the audience at the final performance of Asian Youth Orchestra's 25th anniversary tour at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall on August 29, 2015.
At the concert, talented young musicians from twelve different nations and territories across Asia delivered an inspired performance to a packed house. After they played the final notes of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, many of the audience members were on their feet, shouting out "Bravo." For the encore, the conductor led the orchestra in the Nimrod movement from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, a majestic piece played with deep emotion. As the young musicians performed, tears welled up in their eyes and many of them began to sniffle. Even the audience had trouble holding back tears. For the students, this moment was the culmination of a life-changing experience that would be forever etched in their memories.
The Asian Youth Orchestra was founded in 1987 by legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin and artistic director and conductor Richard Pontzious. "We launched with great spirit," recalls Pontzious. "I spoke to Yehudi Menuhin and he was immediately taken by the notion of this project to create an Asian youth orchestra." Before founding the orchestra, Pontzious, who was born in New York, had worked as a music teacher in Shanghai, Taipei, and Tokyo. He was impressed with the talent of young musicians in Asia and wanted to find a way to shine the international spotlight on them.
Participants in the program are carefully selected through rigorous auditions held throughout Asia. In the summer, the musicians, aged 17 to 27, assemble in Hong Kong for three weeks of intensive training followed by an international tour. Past soloists performing with the orchestra have included such renowned musicians as cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Akiko Suwanai.
Unlike many other regional youth orchestras, the Asian Youth Orchestra doesn't set quotas for the number of students from each country or region when selecting participants. The selections are based solely on musical skill, reflecting the uncompromising standards of Maestro Pontzious. Over the years, the breakdown of nationalities represented in the orchestra has shifted to reflect changes in Asia. In the beginning, says Pontzious, "Japan had a major role. The numbers were big from Japan in the early years of the orchestra." In recent years, the ratio has balanced out and there are fewer Japanese musicians and more participants from other countries in the region. In this year's Asian Youth Orchestra, 13 of the 103 members were from Japan.
During the tour, the students sometimes stay with host families. One Chinese student told Pontzious she felt uncomfortable staying at the home of a Japanese family. "How do you think I feel?" she asked him. But after two days, she was completely at ease, holding the Japanese family's baby in her arms and lamenting the fact that she had to say goodbye so soon.
How does Pontzious manage to generate such deep feelings of camaraderie among young musicians with vastly different backgrounds in just six weeks? Perhaps one factor is that he's an American, so he doesn't have as much cultural baggage as somebody from the region might.


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El Sitio Arqueológico Bear Valley (en inglés: Bear Valley Archeological Site) es un sitio histórico que data entre 1499 a. C.-1000 a. C., se encuentra ubicado en Pine Valley en el estado estadounidense de California. El Sitio Arqueológico Bear Valley se encuentra inscrito  en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos desde el .

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Sitio Arqueológico Bear Valley se encuentra dentro del condado de San Diego en las coordenadas .

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 Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos en el condado de San Diego

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It is not known whether or not the following family has any connection with the Gresleys of Gresley.
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BE1883 (Gresley) identifies the father of Lord Thomas, and wife of Hawyse de Burgh, as Thomas and shows him as son of the Sir Thomas above who died c1261. We follow TCP.
Assuming that TCP is correct, BE1883 appears to confuse the marriage of this Ralph with those of his son, not naming his son's wife/wives but naming this Ralph's 1st wife as Johanna and his 2nd wife as A. de Clinton by whom he was mother of 3 daughters. We follow TCP which confirms that the 3 daughters were half-sisters of the next Ralph. This leaves no definite place for Joane de Grendon, shown by BE1883 to have been sister of Ralph, 2nd Lord, and married to John Rochford (by whom she had Sir Ralph, father of Margery). TCP mentions an Isabel, wife of John de Rochford, as claiming a dower from Robert de Grendon so she may have been a sister of this Ralph.
BE1883 reports that Ralph was "a person of weak intellect" but TCP reports that he was "a soft and esy mon" but did act as a Sheriff of Stafford.
Shown by BE1883 as a generation earlier but this is presumed to be the Alice who married John, apparently brother of the Joan shown above as married to her brother.
It is not known (by us) what connection if any there was between the following family and Gubbins of Maidstone Castle. co Limerick (see Temp26).


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It's time to unite behind next-generation clean car standards
By Jim Dennison / Published: December 21, 2020
The broad coalition defending America's clean car standards is gaining key allies as Americans unite to build a pollution-free transportation future.
Led by Ford, automakers representing nearly half of the U.S. market have committed to working with California and the incoming Biden-Harris administration to enact ambitious policies that will create high-quality domestic jobs, protect our health, and confront the climate crisis. This is a good start, but we need all automakers to ditch the Trump administration's clean cars rollback and advocate for next-generation standards that will make new light duty vehicles 100% pollution-free by 2035.
America's clean car standards are among our most effective policies for reducing pollution exposure, cutting climate emissions, and creating good jobs. By driving innovation and cutting fuel costs, the model year 2017-to-2025 Clean Car Standards were projected to add hundreds of thousands of jobs and save Americans tens of billions of dollars at the gas pump each year. But the Trump administration rolled back the national standards and undermined longstanding state authority to set more protective standards. The Trump administration's rollback would cost jobs and have devastating public health and environmental impacts, including an additional 18,500 premature deaths, 250,000 asthma attacks, and 1.5 billion tons of climate pollution — as much as running 68 coal plants for five years — by mid-century.
This is not what Americans want. A recent Pew Research Center poll showed that 71% of Americans support strengthening vehicle standards, not rolling them back.
EDF has joined a broad coalition of businesses, states, cities, experts, and environmental and public health groups in defending our clean car standards in court. We filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's attack on state authority and a second suit challenging its rollback of the national standards. (You can find all the legal briefs in the clean cars cases on our website.) Leading transportation companies such as Lyft, Tesla, and Rivian have formed a key part of our coalition. But some automakers, including Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, GM, and Nissan, entered the litigation on the Trump administration's side.
GM and Nissan have recently withdrawn their support of the administration's attack on state authority, and GM has expressed its support for President-elect Biden's vision of a zero emission transportation future. This is a welcome development, but it's just a start. We need the entire industry to embrace ambitious policies, such as next-generation clean car standards that will create a million jobs and equitably transition the U.S. to 100% pollution-free new cars by 2035. These policies must prioritize eliminating pollution in environmental justice communities, and ensure that pollution-free vehicles and charging infrastructure are available to people of all colors and income levels.
And the automakers who are still backing Trump's attack on state authority — looking at you, Toyota and Fiat Chrysler — need to follow their peers' lead, for the sake of the climate, their customers, their employees, and their bottom line. Customer opinions of Toyota have dropped sharply in response to its stance on the clean car standards. This could have a big impact on sales if the company doesn't shift out of reverse soon. Over 200 state and local officials from 26 states, and over 285,000 petitioners, have called on Toyota and Fiat Chrysler to do just that by investing in clean transport innovation, not litigation trying to prop up the Trump administration's rollback.
If automakers need an example to follow, they should look no further than Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, BMW, and Volvo, who have been out in front supporting strong clean car standards and states' authority to adopt them. In August, these five manufacturers entered bilateral agreements with California that recognize the state's clean car authority and will prevent hundreds of millions of tons of climate pollution. The agreements earned the highest possible rating in EDF's new Climate Authenticity Meter. One company that has taken its commitment a step further is Ford, which recently supported California's bold commitment to make all new cars sold in the state zero-emitting by 2035.
As the growing support for transformative clean car standards shows, we face an incredible opportunity. Together, we can put a million Americans to work building the pollution-free cars that will make our air safer to breathe and steer us away from the climate cliff. We hope that all automakers will join us in pursuit of these shared goals.
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An insurance policy for cutting emissions: New research strengthens the case for climate backstops
By Susanne Brooks / Bio / Published: August 10, 2020
Climate backstops are a critical part of a carbon fee that help ensure expected emissions reductions actually occur. More federal climate proposals are using them, including the new America's Clean Future Fund Act from Senator Richard Durbin. New research on these innovative mechanisms can help advance our understanding of different design options and implications for environmental performance.
Protecting lives during the COVID-19 crisis, confronting systemic racism, and providing much-needed economic relief to workers and businesses should be the top priorities for federal policymakers right now. As attention turns to recovery and rebuilding, we must use the opportunity to act swiftly to tackle the climate crisis, another significant threat to our nation's health that exacerbates racial and economic inequality.
The policies and programs designed to stimulate the economy must also dramatically cut climate and air pollution – a goal underscored by the new report from the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, which outlines a range of bold solutions to climate change. Within the suite of climate and air pollution solutions needed, it will be critical that lawmakers include an economy-wide mechanism that puts an enforceable limit on climate pollution. There are several options for such a mechanism – one is a carbon fee that covers the vast majority of emissions across the economy. Such a fee can and should be designed to distribute costs and benefits in a way that promotes equity. That includes protecting the communities most vulnerable to climate impacts, air pollution and the transition to a clean economy through the use of targeted revenue.
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More confirmation that the Trump administration has been disregarding the true costs of climate pollution
By Susanne Brooks / Bio / Published: July 22, 2020
A new report highlights the Trump administration's dangerous efforts to obscure the real costs of climate change, while a major court decision firmly rejects the administration's approach.
Costly flooding in a Houston area neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent agency tasked with providing objective nonpartisan information to policymakers, confirms what we've known for years: that the Trump administration has been ignoring the enormous costs of climate change. By ignoring these damages, the administration is turning its back on communities across the nation who are footing the bill for those impacts today.
In addition, a federal court recently issued a clear-cut rejection of the administration's deceptive math on the cost of methane pollution, another greenhouse gas that is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20 year time period. This ruling reinforces the fact that the administration has been blatantly disregarding widely accepted science and economics when it comes to the costs of climate change.
All of this comes amid a raging and widespread pandemic that underscores the absolute necessity of relying on experts and scientific data when crafting policy. With unchecked climate change fueling more devastating storms, droughts, and other public health impacts — all of which hit vulnerable communities the hardest — incorporating accurate costs of climate change in policy decision-making matters now more than ever.
Here is what this new report and court decision reveal about the administration's backwards and harmful approach to decisions on climate change — and how experts and the courts are wholly rejecting it.
Why undervaluing the cost of climate change is dangerous
To justify its own political agenda, the Trump administration has manipulated the calculations behind the estimated impact of emissions to allow for more climate pollution from major sources like power plants and cars. The new GAO report outlines the steps the administration has taken to drastically underestimate the "Social Cost of Carbon" — a measure of the economic harm from climate impacts that is used to inform policy and government decision-making. These impacts include extreme weather events like flooding and deadly storms, the spread of disease, and sea level rise, increased food insecurity, and more.
After a 2008 court decision requiring the federal government to account for the economic effects of climate change in regulatory benefit-cost analysis, an Interagency Working Group (IWG) comprised of experts across a dozen federal agencies began in 2009 to develop robust estimates of the social costs of carbon that could be used consistently by agencies across the government. These estimates were developed through a transparent and rigorous process based on peer-reviewed science and economics that included input from the National Academy of Sciences and the public — and were periodically updated over time to account for the latest science. More recently, the NAS conducted a thorough assessment to provide guidance on updating the social cost of carbon estimates and suggestions for continuing to build on and strengthen it.
The GAO report underscores the importance of implementing those recommendations, while pointing to the fact that the federal government has done absolutely nothing to follow through. In fact, in 2017 the Trump administration recklessly disbanded the IWG — the very federal entity that already had the mandate to take on this task.
Since then, federal agencies like the EPA have been relying on an "interim cost" to inform important regulatory decisions that is seven times lower than the IWG's estimate — a move that dramatically underestimates the profound impacts climate change has on families, businesses, taxpayers and local governments. To make matters worse, the administration is dramatically reducing the IWG figure even though it is widely recognized to be an underestimate of the true costs. There is wide consensus that the true costs are much likely significantly higher.
The Trump administration substantially reduces estimates through two key flaws in its calculations, both of which fly in the face of established science and economic principles. First, the reduced estimates ignore that carbon emissions are a global pollutant, omitting important categories of climate change impacts on the United States. Second, they undervalue the harm to our children and future generations by significantly over-discounting future climate impacts.
By vastly undervaluing the costs of climate change — and thus, the benefits of acting on climate — the administration has been able to justify rolling back critical protections such as the landmark federal Clean Car Standards. These important rules offer critical public health benefits and fuel savings for consumers.
A court ruling refutes the administration's deceptive math on pollution costs
In encouraging news, a recent court decision outright rejected the administration's deceptive math on a similar metric, the 'Social Cost of Methane,' used to estimate the impacts of methane pollution. The Bureau of Land Management, under former Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, has been using an interim social cost of methane that is more than 25 times less than the estimate from the IWG. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently overturned the BLM's attempt to ease protections from dangerous methane leaking, venting and discharging from oil and gas activities on public and tribal lands, where it used a distorted social cost of methane as justification. EDF joined the states of California and New Mexico and a broad coalition of health, environmental, tribal citizen and Western groups to challenge in court the rescission of these vital safeguards.
In the opinion, the judge ruled that the BLM's decision to rely on a lower interim estimate for the social cost of methane was "arbitrary" and "capricious," and therefore, "failed to quantify accurately the forgone methane emissions and the resulting environmental impacts." In addition, the court underscored that "the President did not alter by fiat what constitutes the best available science" on the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions. This is a major win for not only the broad coalition involved in the case, but for the basic principle of science-based decision-making on climate change. The court's meticulous critique of the flaws in the interim social cost of methane — and the process used to develop it — could be influential in future cases involving the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions. Such a critical ruling like this opens the possibility that the Trump administration and future administrations could be required to properly account for the costs of climate change.
The Trump administration's unwavering, politically motivated attempts at twisting facts and discrediting experts is putting Americans' lives, health and financial well-being at risk. Unfortunately, its effort to skew the costs of climate change is far more than a political game. It is already causing real harm to communities across the country suffering from climate impacts — and it will only add to the mounting costs our children and grandchildren will pay. That is why ongoing efforts to uncover and overturn unjust climate decisions are all the more essential.
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By the numbers: Colorado Zero Emission Vehicle Program will cut climate pollution and save Coloradans money
By EDF Blogs / Bio / Published: August 14, 2019
(This post was written by EDF Attorney Laura Shields)
The numbers are in for Colorado's proposed Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program – it will cut climate pollution and save Coloradans millions of dollars.
This week, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission is formally considering adoption of the ZEV program for model year 2023 through 2025 vehicles. (Colorado already adopted state Low Emission Vehicle standards last year).
What's at stake for Coloradans?
This important clean air program means that, while no Coloradan has any obligation to buy or choose a zero-polluting vehicle, ALL Coloradans will have more models of zero-emitting vehicles to choose from if they want a cleaner car.
These clean vehicles will save Coloradans hard-earned money at the gas pump and will reduce dangerous climate pollution. They will also help reduce smog-forming pollution in all communities across Colorado, clean up Denver's brown cloud, and lift the veil of haze pollution in our world-class national parks and wilderness areas.
In short, Colorado's proposed ZEV program will mean healthier air, fuel cost savings, more vehicle choice and a safer climate for all Coloradans.
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The Status Quo is not an Option for Oregon or the Planet
By Erica Morehouse / Bio / Published: June 20, 2019
Authored by Erica Morehouse, Senior Attorney, U.S. Climate Policy and Analysis
Oregon is the current bellwether for climate action in the United States thanks to its effort to place an ambitious, firm limit on all major sources of climate pollution in the state. HB 2020, Oregon's "Cap and Invest" bill has passed three major legislative hurdles this year and has the final and most challenging – passage in the state Senate – left to clear before the end of session on June 30. We are expecting a vote today.
The status quo is not an option
Oregon is already seeing the devastating effects of climate change; the question is only how much worse it is going to get before we transition to the clean economy we need. It's time to be honest with ourselves, the status quo is not an option. HB 2020 lays out a solution to address climate pollution while providing a smooth transition for Oregonians directly impacted by this bold initiative. These features include assistance for low-income Oregonians, investments in worker transition programs, compliance cost reductions for many manufacturers designed to protect jobs, and a novel investment set aside for tribes.
The two most critical components of Oregon's policy
In the final weeks of Oregon's legislative session, opponents tried and failed to make amendments to the bill that would have gutted the core of what makes Oregon's effort so ambitious and critical—and a true model for other states to follow: the interim 2035 target and Day 1 coverage of the transportation sector.
The 2035 interim target ensures reductions over the next decade on the timescale that science demands. The IPCC report tells us we have just over a decade to significantly reduce climate pollution and avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change. Setting ambitious targets for the 2030s is essential for getting reductions on track now, and achieving the critical early emission reductions people and the planet need. Also, having an ambitious target in the 2030s is almost certainly a non-negotiable prerequisite for linking with the California-Quebec WCI market – a stated priority for the architects of Oregon's policy. Moreover, this level of ambition is consistent with Colorado's recently passed statutory requirement to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions 50% below 2005 levels by 2030.
Coverage of the transportation sector means the largest source of Oregon's pollution is included. Exempting the rising emissions of this sector means smaller industries would have to do even more to reduce emissions to meet Oregon's goals, while giving the biggest polluters a free pass. Without the transportation sector in the program from day one, Cap and Invest will not have the power or reach to drive the transformational change that we literally cannot live without.
Climate action under attack
After failing to push their disastrous amendments, opponents are now set on undermining this bill altogether and are asking legislators to vote "no". Leading the charge against HB 2020 are Boeing and AAA. AAA claims to be the travelers "most trusted advocate", but it is unlikely that their members across Oregon who rely on them for towing services and roadside assistance understand that they are working actively in Salem to undermine an effort to get cleaner cars on the road and to diversify transportation options for Oregonians. Boeing's opposition is also particularly hard to understand. Final amendments to the bill put Boeing in the enviable position of being guaranteed valuable free allowances for their facility in Gresham that will significantly, if not completely, reduce costs the company might have seen from the program while creating a critical market-based incentive to improve efficiency and reduce emissions associated with their production practices while protecting incentives to increase output. Yet, the company is lobbying against climate policy that is in line with corporate sustainability commitments they have already made. Many companies have taken on ambitious voluntary, climate commitments and vocally supported climate action including in Oregon. Companies that are stuck in the past and insist on obfuscating, misleading, and outright obstructing to derail climate action should be held accountable.
A diverse coalition of stakeholders reflects a fine-tuned policy
As demoralizing as myopic opposition can be, Oregon has a winning coalition that can provide lessons on how to win on climate in the U.S. and around the world:
Legislative leaders and Governor Kate Brown have provided their full throated support for Cap and Invest for well over a year and have been diligently putting the pieces in place to pass a policy that can deliver the environmental outcomes the climate needs while ensuring the provisions are carefully tailored for Oregon communities.
Local environmental, environmental justice, and health leaders have been working hard for the better part of a decade to pass companion legislation and lay the groundwork for such an overarching policy like HB2020 that will provide the certainty around pollution outcomes and harness the power of the market to drive investment and innovation in clean technologies.
Over 100 forward-looking businesses, including major companies like Nike and Uber, have been supporting the policy through several legislative iterations.
Major electric and gas utilities—those that power and heat Oregon's homes and businesses—are supporting the legislation, including Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, and Northwest Natural, citing key consumer-protection provisions.
Oregon's Native American tribes have played a critical role in developing and advocating for the policy and have secured a novel set aside from carbon revenue that will directly benefit tribes.
Key labor unions such as the building trades also support Cap and Invest, after securing the inclusion of prevailing wage provisions.
Time for the Senate To Act
Oregon has all of the ingredients for success, but the political fight is still a bitter one. HB2020 will create tangible benefits for Oregonians and the state's economy—while laying out a clear policy template for other states who are now committing to strong reduction targets but don't yet have the regulations or policies in place to actually achieve the reductions in climate pollution that we know are necessary. It's imperative that Oregon shows the way toward a real solution that can drive action now— and such a framework will not only chart a path for other states, but provide a real roadmap for future federal action.
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Wheeler's Clean Power Plan rollback misses a huge opportunity for cost-effective pollution reduction
By Rama Zakaria / Bio / Published: June 18, 2019
Co-authored by Laura Supple and Rama Zakaria
The Trump administration is expected to soon finalize a rule that will throw out the Clean Power Plan – the first and only nation-wide limit on carbon pollution from existing power plants – and replace it with a "do-nothing" rule. Unlike the common-sense, market-based approach of the Clean Power Plan, the final rule is expected to mirror Wheeler's proposed replacement–which contains no binding limits on carbon pollution, leaving it to the states to establish standards based on only a narrow and ineffective menu of operational efficiency tweaks for coal-fired power plants.
EPA's own analysis has shown that this proposed replacement would increase climate pollution and dangerous soot and smog pollution, causing thousands of additional deaths and childhood asthma attacks every year compared to the Clean Power Plan, and may even increase pollution in several states compared to having no policy at all. In addition to disregarding the health and wellbeing of Americans, the proposed rule represents a tragic lost opportunity to achieve the deep, cost-effective reductions in pollution that are needed to address the urgent threat of climate change – and move the U.S. forward into a clean energy economy.
Here are four reasons why:
Power companies are making bold commitments to cut pollution, investing in cleaner technologies that deliver high-quality power at low cost to consumers
Power companies are setting ambitious goals to reduce pollution and increase the share of renewable technologies in their energy mix. Some of the largest power providers in the country have recognized the long-term economic value of renewable power and cleaner energy, setting their own targets to reduce pollution well below what the Clean Power Plan requires.
Xcel Energy, a utility serving 3.6 million customers across 8 Midwestern states, has already reduced carbon pollution by about 38% below 2005 levels while keeping costs low for its consumers. According to Xcel, its residential customer electric bill has decreased 3% in the past five years and is on average $28 lower per month than the national average. Xcel also recently ramped up its own ambitions, committing to cut carbon pollution 80% below 2005 levels by 2030, and achieve 100% clean power by 2050.
Other companies are also joining the trend towards decarbonizing their electricity mix, including Idaho Power, which has committed to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045, and Platte River Power Authority, which aims to provide 100% renewable energy by 2030.
States and cities across the country are also setting bold targets to reduce pollution and expand the use of renewable energy. Seven states, 11 counties, and 125 U.S. cities have committed to 100% renewable energy, and at least 27 states have long-term policies establishing quantitative energy savings targets. These initiatives are making energy supplies more robust, reliable, and affordable, demonstrating that ambitious pollution reduction strategies can be good for the environment, good for business, and good for consumers.
Power sector trends have made deeper reductions achievable and cost-effective
Thanks in part to the ongoing market shift towards a cleaner electricity resource mix, the power sector is decarbonizing faster than was predicted just a few years ago.
In 2015, when the Clean Power Plan was finalized, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected baseline power sector carbon dioxide pollution would drop 10% from 2005 levels by 2030. Based on recent trends and technological developments, however, EIA's most recent projections estimate that power sector carbon pollution would be at 34% below 2005 levels by 2030 – surpassing Clean Power Plan targets – even without federal climate regulation.
To be clear, we need the long-term regulatory signal established by meaningful federal regulation to ensure these trends continue and secure pollution reductions. Now more than ever, it is imperative that EPA use this momentum to set even greater climate protection targets in order to achieve the rapid reductions in carbon pollution that scientists say are necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Plummeting costs of clean energy technologies are making pollution reduction more affordable and economical than ever
Targets for the Clean Power Plan relied on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) 2015 Annual Technology Baseline projections of renewable energy costs. In its latest 2018 report, NREL predicted that the costs of onshore wind in 2030 would be 28% lower than 2015 projections, and utility-scale solar PV costs could be up to 68% lower.
These projections match trends we see on the ground. Recent filings from Xcel Energy to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission include proposals for wind power between $11 to $18/MWh – cheaper than the operating cost of all existing coal plants in Colorado – and solar-plus-storage bids not much higher than standalone solar. Last year, NV Energy reported even lower bids, setting record-low prices in its solar and solar-plus-storage request for proposals.
Overall, electricity from renewables is already cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels in many parts of the country. PacifiCorp, a majority-coal power provider, recently found it could save money by retiring 60% of its coal fleet by 2022 and replacing those units with renewables. In a 2019 analysis, Energy Innovation reported that the U.S. has officially entered the "coal cost crossover," finding that local (within 35 miles) wind and solar generation could replace 74% of U.S. coal plants at an immediate cost savings to customers. By 2025, 86% of coal power plants could be replaced with local renewable generation.
Recent modeling shows far more ambitious and cost-effective pollution reductions can be achieved
Several studies demonstrate just how ambitious climate targets could be – with the right set of regulatory and market-based strategies. A range of analyses show that far greater reductions in carbon pollution can be achieved at low cost.
In 2015, EPA estimated the cost of achieving the Clean Power Plan targets to be in the range of $24 to $37 per ton of carbon over the 2022 to 2030 compliance period. Recent updated analysis using the same power sector model, however, found that much more ambitious carbon pollution reductions of more than 50% below 2005 levels are possible at similar costs to the Clean Power Plan.
EIA also found that even greater reductions of 68% below 2005 levels could be achieved by 2030 at modest cost. A 2016 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists showed that in a "Mid-Cost Case", power sector carbon pollution limits of 76% below 2005 levels by 2030 could be cost-effectively achieved. Modeling by Columbia University Center and Rhodium Group also suggest that similar strategies could cut power sector carbon pollution by 72 to 76% below 2005 levels by 2030.
At a time when the threats of climate change have never been more apparent, EPA must move forward on climate action with emission reduction targets that surpass the ambition of the Clean Power Plan and protect human health and the environment from dangerous pollution. Instead, Wheeler's proposed replacement misses a tremendous opportunity to secure deep reductions in carbon pollution and propel the U.S. into a clean energy future.
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Jeep's Twitter got hacked today.
Like the Burger King hacking yesterday, the hackers included some McDonald's images. The avatar photo was changed to the Cadillac symbol (which has since been taken down).
One of the tweets read: "We just got sold to @Cadillac because we caught our employees doing this in the bathroom" and showed a man with a prescription pill bottle.
Another says "Sorry guys, no more Jeep production because we caught our CEO doing this," and shows a man who appears to be smoking a joint.
The Burger King tweets featured the hashtag "#OPMadCow." So far, it's unclear why Jeep was targeted.


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'Recy Taylor's Rape Still Haunts Us'
By Michel Martin
In a speech at the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey told the story of Recy Taylor's violent rape by six white men in 1944. Taylor, pictured above, died last month at age 97. Her attackers were never prosecuted.
Last week, Oprah Winfrey's speech at the Golden Globes brought many in the audience to tears and to their feet. She was accepting an award for contributions to the world of entertainment, but the billionaire broadcaster and philanthropist decided to use her moment to tell the story of a far less celebrated woman: Recy Taylor.
"In 1944 Recy Taylor was a young wife and mother, she was just walking home from a church service she'd attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road coming home from church," Winfrey recounted on stage.
Later, a colleague reminded me that I had spoken with Taylor myself, with the help of historian Danielle McGuire, back in 2011. Taylor told me the story of that rape in her own words.
"They got me in the car and carried me straight through the woods," she said. Afterward, they told her that if she told anyone they would kill her.
In her speech, Winfrey added another important element to the story.
"Her story was reported to the NAACP where a young worker by the name of Rosa Parks became the lead investigator on her case, and together they sought justice. But justice wasn't an option in the era of Jim Crow. The men who tried to destroy her were never prosecuted," Winfrey said.
In 2011, I asked Taylor how that felt — never getting justice.
"They didn't try to do nothing about it. I just get upset because I do my best to be nice to people, because I don't want people to mistreat me and do me any kind of way," she said.
Let me add a few more details that Winfrey did not have time to tell, such as how the local sheriff knew who had kidnapped Taylor but never arrested them. Or that one of the seven accomplices admitted he was there, but claimed he was just a bystander. Or the fact that eventually four of the accomplices admitted what they had done but claimed the rape was — wait for it — consensual.
There is also the way that some of the major Southern newspapers at the time all but ignored the crime against Taylor until national pressure forced their hands, or, just as evil, were complicit in passing along the false story that she was a prostitute or a willing participant.
Is it any wonder that when, after a campaign of local and national pressure finally led authorities to act, two all-white male grand juries refused to hold anyone accountable?
Taylor's story haunts us — in part because of how she carried her pain with a strength we could still hear in her voice, but also because it is the story of many women whose names we will never know. But we know her name because she would not be kept silent. And also because another woman, Rosa Parks, along with many men, amplified her voice.
Can I just tell you, Taylor's story also haunts us because it is the story of many others, a few of whose names we now know and many we do not. It is the story of the men who raped her and the community and the country who raised them and shaped them.
I wonder about those young men. Did they hold doors open for their white mothers and sisters? Did they call them "ma'am" and "sister?" Did they marry and have daughters and dance at their weddings and worry about them when they came home late? I bet they did. I bet they had friends and jobs and people who spoke nice words about them at their funerals. Made excuses. Said everybody did it. It's how we were raised. It's just what we thought. We didn't know it was wrong.
But they did know. At their core they had to know, because they, like Taylor, were human beings. And in treating Taylor as less than human, in refusing to recognize her as human, they left a piece of themselves on the floor of those woods where they attacked her. I would venture to say that all those who dehumanize others for the sake of their own pleasure or to protect their own power leave a piece of themselves behind as well.
To my knowledge, Taylor, who died last month just a few days shy of her 98th birthday, outlived her attackers. She died with her humanity intact. How many others will be able to say the same?
Michel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered,where she draws on her deep reporting and interviewing experience to dig in to the week's news. Outside the studio, she has also hosted "Michel Martin: Going There," an ambitious live event series in collaboration with Member Stations.
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Golden jubilee: Sander marks 50 years with same company
Not many people work at the same company for 50 years. William "Shorty" Sander reached that rare distinction on Tuesday, July 24.
Golden jubilee: Sander marks 50 years with same company Not many people work at the same company for 50 years. William "Shorty" Sander reached that rare distinction on Tuesday, July 24. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/communities/collier-citizen/2018/08/03/golden-jubilee-sanders-marks-50-years-same-company/889162002/
Lance Shearer, Correspondent Published 12:11 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2018 | Updated 2:44 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2018
William "Shorty" Sander keeps up a busy schedule troubleshooting and mentoring younger workers. Sander celebrated 50 years working for Conditioned Air Corp. on July 24.(Photo: Lance Shearer/Correspondent)
Not many people work at the same company for 50 years. William "Shorty" Sander reached that rare distinction on Tuesday, July 24, when his tenure at Conditioned Air reached the 50-year mark, what is known as a golden jubilee.
He shares the distinction with Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, who also has worked in the same job over a half century, although she is ahead of him, having served as monarch since 1952.
When Sander started his career in the Service Department at Conditioned Air on July 24, 1968, he earned $1.75 per hour and was one of only a dozen employees. Today, Conditioned Air is one of the area's largest air-conditioning contracting and service firm, with nearly 350 employees throughout Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Sarasota and Manatee counties.
"I found something young in life that I love to do," he said. "I like doing this and experiencing something different almost every day. That's why I've stayed here so long."
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Born in 1947 in Fort Myers, Sander is a descendant of the pioneering Hendry family. He recalls getting the nickname "Shorty" as a teenager from a neighbor who commented on his stature at 5 feet, 1 inch tall. His height would change after joining the U.S. Navy, where he grew an additional 11 inches in three years. Nevertheless, the nickname stuck.
After Sander was mustered out of the Navy in 1968, a friend encouraged him to join Conditioned Air as an apprentice, doing "whatever needed to be done."
"I thought I would take some time off, and then go to work. Charlie Weeks told me, 'you be there Monday morning or they'll find somebody else.' Back then, $1.75 was pretty good money. You were just lucky to have a job."
Sander noted that in the 1960s, cooling technology was much more basic than it is today, and employees now have to obtain technical training before going out into the field. "Back then, if it blew cold air, it was doing all it could," he said.
Sander stays up to date on current technology and ever-evolving government regulations by working 12-hour days and continuously studying online at home. He credits the job with keeping him physically and mentally fit and insists he has no plans to retire just yet.
William "Shorty" Sander, right, and company chairman Theo Etzel III. Sander celebrated 50 years working for Conditioned Air Corp. on July 24. (Photo: Lance Shearer/Correspondent)
"Climbing into an attic in July doesn't bother me. It's part of the job," he said. "I'm not one of those guys you can put in an office. I'm always out in the field."
By staying with the same company for 50 years, Sander is defying the odds. According to a 2016 survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median number of years wage and salary workers had been with their current employer was 4.2 years. It is further estimated that the average person changes jobs 10 to 15 times during their entire career.
Most days, you will find Sander out in the field mentoring and teaching younger employees. He also is out interacting with customers who specifically request "Shorty." It is estimated that Sander has handled more than 100,000 customer calls during his tenure. In many cases, those customers are the sons and daughters of original property owners.
"If you travel around the more established parts of town, Port Royal and Old Naples, everyone there knows him," said Theo Etzel, III, Chairman of Conditioned Air. "He has built a tremendous reputation and they know they can trust him to be honest with them."
Sander cites his daily interaction with customers as a primary reason for staying in his job well beyond what many consider the traditional age for retirement, and mentioned the stability of Conditioned Air, founded in 1962, for his longevity with the organization. Among the many industry honors and recognition Sander has earned over the years are the Pioneer Award from the Southwest Florida Air Conditioning Contractors Association.
"I have never been a quitter," he said. "I look at this job like a marriage. I made a commitment to this company and I still love what I do. Why would I want to change?"
Along with the growth of Conditioned Air, Sander has seen a lot of changes in Naples over the years.
"I remember when there was no Goodlette Road, and Pine Ridge was a dirt road." One time while he was working on a job in Immokalee, a cow crawled inside his van and refused to come out, he reminisced.
Etzel wrote a letter to Sander to commemorate his tenure with the company, saying "today is a milestone by anybody's standard. You have a servant's heart to teach people what you know, treat all people with respect, state what is true and honest, and you go quietly about this mission every day. Thank you, Shorty, for 50 great years shaping who and what Conditioned Air has become. Congratulations!"
"He made my wife cry," said Sander – Shorty is married to Angelyn and they have three sons between them.
Etzel also sent a company-wide email urging his fellow employees to congratulate Sander, which Sander said kept him from getting his work done.
"I couldn't get off the phone all day," he said.
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    var path = require('jsdoc/path');

    var docSet;
    var parser = jasmine.createParser();
    var pluginPath = 'plugins/overloadHelper';
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    it('should exist', function() {
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    it('should export handlers', function() {
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            var soup1 = docSet.getByLongname('Soup()');
            var soup2 = docSet.getByLongname('Soup(spiciness)');

            expect(soup.length).toBe(2);
            expect(soup1.length).toBe(0);
            expect(soup2.length).toBe(0);
        });

        it('should add unique longnames to methods', function() {
            var slurp = docSet.getByLongname('Soup#slurp');
            var slurp1 = docSet.getByLongname('Soup#slurp()');
            var slurp2 = docSet.getByLongname('Soup#slurp(dBA)');

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        it('should update the "variation" property of the method', function() {
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            expect(slurp1.variation).toBe('');
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        it('should not add to or change existing variations that are unique', function() {
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            expect(salt1.length).toBe(1);
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        it('should not duplicate the names of existing numeric variations', function() {
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            var heat3 = docSet.getByLongname('Soup#heat(3)');

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        it('should replace identical variations with new, unique variations', function() {
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In the Heart of the Sea
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. "In the Heart of the Sea" reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.
Paula Weinstein, Joe Roth, William Ward, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Sarah Bradshaw, Palak Patel, Bruce Berman, Erica Huggins, David Bergstein, William M. Connor
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Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Jordi Molla
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Thor and Spider-Man fight a whale.
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There is certainly that sense of adventure into the unknown, and Hemsworth once again reminds us he's a movie star.
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It ends up just feeling really bland and boring and slow.
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Tori Brazier
In the Heart of the Sea doesn't break new ground, but it's relatively diverting. There's satisfaction in watching newer British talent...
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Despite the best efforts of the filmmakers, In the Heart of the Sea is a few knots away from being the transformative cinema experience intended.
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Howard wants his film to be so much more than a mere battle between men and a giant fish, and, at times, you can feel him getting that across. Unfortunately, the characters and sense of danger are too watered down.
Riveting historical story has great action but uneven drama.
Parents need to know that In the Heart of the Sea is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's best-selling nonfiction book about the 19th-century maritime disaster that inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. There's quite a bit of violence in the film: The whale damages the characters' ship so completely that lives are lost (men drown and are burned, crushed, and more), and others spend three months stranded. During that time, the survivors commit cannibalism (discussed but not shown) and suicide/self sacrifice so that the others might eat. Characters also use guns and drink, and a couple are alcoholics (one recovering, one who uses alcohol to numb painful memories).
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Dear to the heart of the British public, Alfie is Britain's biggest-selling tenor. He has sold more than a million albums, had four top 10 albums and in 2016 had a Number 1 album with Together (in collaboration with Michael Ball).
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He also performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace and the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations at Windsor Castle. An charismatic performer and entertainer, 2017 will be another busy year for Alfie – he will be performing opposite Katherine Jenkins in Carousel at the London Coliseum, and touring the UK with Michael Ball performing songs from their new album.
As a young boy, Lancashire-born Alfie (from the fishing port of Fleetwood) dreamed of a career as a singer. He began his studies at the Royal College of Music as an opera singer, entering into a love affair with arias that has cemented him as one of the most successful classical singers of his generation. After joining the D'Oyly Carte Touring Opera Company and graduating from the Royal College, he joined the National Opera Studio and went on to the Villar Young Artists Programme at The Royal Opera House.
Alfie's first big break came when Baz Luhrmann cast him as one of the main leads in his controversial production of Puccini's La Boheme, having spent two years looking for the right man to fill the role. His performance on Broadway earned him a Tony Award which sits comfortably next to his John McCormack Young Voice Award and Lyric Tenor of the World Audience Award.
He signed to the Classic FM label in 2006 and issued his debut album, Classic FM Presents Alfie Boe, that year; it peaked at number three on the U.K. classical chart.
Late in 2006, Alfie moved to EMI Classics and the following spring his second album, Onward, arrived. Alfie explored his love of folk music with La Passione, a collection of Italian folk songs that was released in 2007. Performances in Kismet, Richard Strauss' Elektra, La Traviata, and other operas ensured that his roots as a stage performer were well balanced with his recording career.
In 2010, Alfie took on the role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables at the O2 Arena, London to commemorate the show's 25th anniversary. He also continued this role throughout 2011 with performances as Valjean at the Queen Theatre in London. During the latter part of the year, he performed at the Last Night of the Proms and began his nationwide concert tour entitled "Alfie Boe Bring Him Home UK Concert Tour." 2012 was packed with more concert performances, including the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace.
Alfie continued releasing albums: Storyteller in December 2012 and Trust in 2013. 2013 also saw the release of his best-selling autobiography, My Story and he appeared on our small screens, starring in one of ITV's Mr Selfridge, as music-hall singer Richard Chapman.
His album Serenata, a beautiful collection of romantic Italian songs, was released in 2014 and he also featured on the album Classic Quadrophenia in 2015 (the rock opera is performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with Alfie filling the shoes of Jeff Daniels).
Alfie continues to be in great demand on both the concert and operatic stages with sold-out Tours across the UK (including the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall).
His most recent album, Together, a collaboration with Michael Ball, reached Number 1 in the official album charts in December 2016. The album is a collection of the pair's favourite songs from film and Broadway shows, recorded in New York and Prague (with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra) and a tour is scheduled for later in 2017.
Alfie divides his time between Utah and London.
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