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by Patsy Newitt and Sahi Padmanabhan
We can't escape bombastic national election coverage. However, the national election is often not the most impactful election to your daily life.
"Local government oftentimes has more to do with your life than national power," said DePaul political science professor Wayne Steger, listing functional infrastructure, safe and reliable public transportation, clean water, education quality and racial court disparities as examples of the instrumental role local government plays in citizens' day-to-day.
We're sure you're aware of the national Democratic primary and the contested and massively expensive Cook County State's Attorney bonanza between Kim Foxx and DePaul business professor Bill Conway, but check out some lesser-known, but equally as important, races on the ballot.
How we reported this story:
When reporting this story, we selected races that we determined to be especially relevant for DePaul University students based on our own knowledge of Illinois politics as reporters and the advice of the 14 East staff.
Once we determined which elections were most useful for DePaul students, we went through and contacted every single candidate for whom we could find contact information. Candidates Kina Collins and Craig Cameron of the 7th district were unavailable for comment after attempts at interviews via email for Collins and Twitter for Cameron. Candidates Justice P. Scott Neville Jr., Richard Boykin and Congressman Mike Quigley were unavailable after attempts at interviews via phone and email. Candidates Shelly Harris, Nathaniel Howse and the Green Party Candidates were unavailable for comment after attempts to contact via email. Tommy Hanson was unavailable after attempts to contact via phone. Shundar Lin's contact information could not be located.
Clerk of the Circuit Court:
After 20 years of disarray under Dorothy Brown, the Clerk of the Circuit Court is finally up for grabs.
While in many cities this position is appointed, the Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court is an elected administrative position. The clerk is the official keeper of records for judicial matters in the Circuit Court of Cook County, one of the largest unified court systems in the country. The office retains every court record in Cook County and makes those records accessible to judges, lawyers and the public.
Under Brown's leadership, the office has seen a fair share of controversy. It has been criticized for a slow modernization process in digitizing court case files, federal investigations and accusations of patronage and gift accepting.
All four candidates are running on the same basic principles – corruption and patronage needs to cease, the office needs to be digitized and services need to be more accessible to the public.
According to Steger, candidates also need to balance the press for automation with the fact that many of the more than 1,400 employees could be eliminated and that it's expensive to automate.
And because of these paper files, documents can get lost.
"Not having technology in place means that prisoners' paperwork gets lost regularly and they end up spending days and weeks in jail," said court clerk candidate and attorney Jacob Meister.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court oversees a $124 million budget and racks up roughly $70 million in fees and fines. The winner of the primary will face Republican Barbara Bellar, attorney and physician running unopposed, in the November general election.
The Candidates
Richard Boykin
Danny K. Davis's former chief of staff and legislative director, 2014-2018 Cook County Commissioner for the 1st District, current attorney
Expanding automatic expungement plan to include criminal records for minor criminal charges dropped or dismissed within 120 days at no cost
Eliminating corruption and patronage
Better case management: increasing remote access to documents
Michael Cabonargi
Current commissioner of the Cook County Board of Review, which reviews property assessment appeals in Cook County, where he worked to modernize their practices by digitizing and expanding language options on appeal forms
Former prosecutor for the Securities and Exchange Commission
Endorsed by Cook County Democratic Party, Sun-Times, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and State Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago)
In 2018, Cook County Board of Ethics said he exceeded caps on political contributions from people or businesses that sought rulings from the Board of Review and ordered Cabonargi to return $68,950 worth of donations. Donations are limited to $1,500 in an election year.
Reducing the cash bail the office receives to the minimum of $5 per case
Expanding office to be subject to the Freedom of Information Act
"I am the best candidate for younger voters, I have a proven track record of progressive policies and have actually taken an office from the 20th century and moved it into the 21st century. When I first took over the office taxpayers had to complete a paper form and submit any evidence in hard copy in order to submit a complaint and supporting evidence to the Board."
Iris Martinez
17-year tenure as the 20th District State Senator, Assistant Majority Leader of Democratic Caucus
First Hispanic Woman in the state senate
Respecting union contracts
Introducing online payments of court costs and filing fees
Introducing legislation to make the office subject to FOIA
Plans on firing employees she feels contributed to mismanagement
"Since 2003, I am the Illinois State Senator for the 20th District, but I spent most of my adult life fighting for and helping people, fighting for working families and breaking barriers for women and people of color. I will end the neglect, mismanagement, and corruption that has plagued the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk's Office for decades and help usher in a new era rooted in government reforms. I'll bring that same passion, dedication, and ability to produce results to the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk's Office."
Jacob Meister
Practicing attorney for 29 years, ran against Brown in 2016
Founder and chairman of civil rights law nonprofit The Civil Rights Agenda, which fights in court for LGBTQ individuals.
Proposing "access-to-justice" program to increase accessibility for litigants representing themselves in court
Expediting expungement process for residents eligible under Illinois' Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act
Working towards removing the clerk position from the ballot in future because he believes it's an administrative office that needs efficiency not politics
"Social justice is on the ballot and what the clerk's office does is impact social justice. That's what I'm all about. I want to make the courts accessible and transparent to everyone."
"I'm certainly the most progressive candidate in the field with pretty progressive ideas that will have our courts operating so that people like you will completely understand."
(All images either provided by candidate or from their campaign website)
Supreme Court Vacancy First District:
The Supreme Court of Illinois is the highest judicial body in the state of Illinois made up of seven members from five appellate districts of Illinois, with three justices from the First District, which contains Cook County. They each serve for 10 years. With this vacancy in the First District, the winner will be replacing the first Black justice elected to the Supreme Court, the late Chief Justice Charles E. Freeman, who retired in 2018. The 5th Judicial District in southern Illinois also has a vacancy with the retirement of Republican Justice Lloyd Karmeier.
The First District seat has been held since 2018 by candidate Justice P. Scott Neville Jr., the second Black justice, who was appointed to fill the vacancy. Because there is no Republican primary candidate running for the First District, this vote will determine who will take the seat. Diversity on the court has been a prominent issue in this race. Freeman was the only Black Justice, so the Supreme Court of Illinois has the potential of an all-white panel for the first time since 1990.
The court is the final decision maker on important issues. Candidate Cynthia Cobbs listed marriage, divorce, sales and consumer service contracts, landlord-tenant matters, traffic rules and regulations, driving under the influence, driver's license suspensions/revocations and debt collections as some examples. Recently, the court decided to not drop charges against Jussie Smollett, and last year they rejected a prosecutor's bid to re-sentence Jason Van Dyke.
"The Illinois Supreme Court does more than just decide cases," attorney and candidate Daniel Epstein said. "It writes all the rules of procedure, evidence, and ethics that control how our courts operate. In other words, the Illinois Supreme Court is a policy maker…"
Candidate Margaret McBride emphasizes how the Supreme Court doesn't necessarily have a constituency. This makes it difficult to run a campaign or, in many cases, have a set platform, so they run on their (typically very extensive) credentials which can be explained in much greater detail than we can manage on their website.
"Judges really impact everyone's lives and you don't realize until you go into the court," McBride said. "The Supreme Court of Illinois decides important issues that affect all of us all the time, but we're at the bottom of the ballot."
P. Scott Neville Jr. (incumbent)
Current Supreme Court justice by appointment
Worked as an attorney, an appellate court judge and a circuit court judge, and with public and private entities (including the CTA)
President of the Cook County Bar Association 1997 to 1999
Endorsed by the Cook County Democratic Party, the Chicago Federation of Labor, U.S. Representatives Danny Davis and Bobby Rush
Faced criticism when it was uncovered he was receiving tax exemptions for a home he didn't own
Issued "Highly Qualified" ratings by the Chicago Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association and "Well Qualified" by Chicago Council of Lawyers
Cynthia Cobbs
Currently serving the Illinois Appellate Court, she was appointed in 2015
Former Director of the Illinois Courts where she managed the administrative office
If elected, Cobbs would be the first Black woman to hold the position
"Qualified" ratings from the Chicago Bar Association, Chicago Council of Lawyers and Illinois Bar Association
"I think I am a good candidate for young voters because I care about young people; and I have first-hand experience with them. After I graduated from college, I received my Master's degree in clinical social work from the University of Maryland. I worked as a social worker, advocating and protecting allegedly abused and neglected children in courtrooms and handled many difficult cases."
Daniel Epstein
Attorney at firm Jenner & Block until he left to campaign
Focused his campaign not on opinion-making duties of court but instead potential to accomplish progressive reform like ending cash bail and mass incarceration, advocating for restorative justice, and ending the practice of letting judges determine their own conflicts of interest
Unlike other candidates, his platform is bolstered less by his background and more by ideas
34, youngest candidate in the race
Endorsed by progressive organizations Personal PAC, Our Revolution and Action Now
"Not recommended" by the Chicago Bar Association, Chicago Council of Lawyers and Illinois Bar Association citing his lack of judicial experience
"The fairest judge cannot achieve justice in an unfair system. We need a fair system. I am the only candidate proposing reforms that address the systemic root of problems we are experiencing in our justice system...If you want a better justice system tomorrow than the one we have today, then vote for the only candidate who has laid out a plan for change."
Shelly Harris
Currently serving as a Justice the Illinois Appellate Court, elected in 2010, 30 years of experience as a trial lawyer, 10 years as a Circuit Court Trial Judge
Emphasizes his common sense, fairness and equality in his decisions like denying gun permits based on prior police reports
According to Injustice Watch, he loaned his own campaign $2 million. His sons also gave $25,000 each to support the campaign of former Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, the daughter of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan
As reported by the Chicago Tribune, he received criticism when seeking Democratic backing in August for saying a voters shouldn't consider candidate's race
"Qualified" ratings from Chicago Bar Association and Chicago Council of Lawyers. "Not Qualified" rating by Illinois State Bar Association
Jesse Reyes
First Latinx man serving as a Justice of Illinois Appellate Court, appointed in 2012
President and Co-founder of the Diversity Scholarship Foundation in 2002 to help young people of color financially after seeing a lack of diversity in the profession
Supports bail reform and more lenient stance on criminals with mental illnesses
If elected, would be the first Latino Justice on the Illinois Supreme Court
Endorsed by the Daily Herald, Congressmen Jesús "Chuy" Garcia and Citizens in Action
Ranked "Highly Qualified" by the Chicago Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association and "Qualified" by the Chicago Council of Lawyers
"I've always had a progressive agenda in terms of trying to push issues that need to be addressed. For example with the diversity scholarship foundation, when we established that it wasn't popular to talk about or promote diversity."
Margaret McBride
DePaul alumnus, Chair of the DePaul Law School Alumni Judges Committee
Served as a Justice for the Illinois Appellate Court for 20 years, a judge for more than 32 years, and Assistant State's Attorney for 10 years
As a Circuit Court judge, McBride was named the first-ever domestic violence coordinator for the Cook County Circuit Court, where she created uniform policies for domestic violence cases and helped to make domestic courts more child-friendly
Rated "Highly Qualified" by the Chicago Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association and "Well Qualified" by the Chicago Council of Lawyers
"I'm the most qualified. I've tried more cases than any of the judges probably combined because I sat in the trial courts for 12 years...I'm not a political person, I've always run on my record. I've run on my qualifications. I'm doing that again. In 200 years, there hasn't been a single branch of government at the state or federal level where we've had a majority of women… If I'm elected, it will be the first time in the court's 200-year history that we would actually have a majority of women on the Illinois Supreme Court."
"The most important is that [voters] have to educate themselves because the difficult thing about judges is that we have a code of conduct so we cannot say we are for this or for that because we must always remain neutral."
Nathaniel Howse
Justice of the Appellate Court since 2009, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County for two 6-year terms, former attorney
Former Lead Attorney for the Harold Washington Party, a party founded in the late 1980s to represent Black citizens who were dissatisfied by the Democratic Party
Endorsed by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Rated "Qualified" by the Chicago Bar Association, "Highly Qualified" by Illinois State Bar Association and "Well Qualified" by the Chicago Council of Lawyers
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioners
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) oversees water-based infrastructure for the metropolitan Chicago and 128 suburban communities. The nine elected commissioners are in charge of safeguarding waterways and Lake Michigan, treating wastewater and providing stormwater and flooding management.
Commissioners serve on the board for six years, with three commissioners getting elected or re-elected every two years. On March 17, voters will elect three board seats currently held by MWRD Chairman of Finance Frank Avila, Cameron Davis and Kimberly DuBuclet. The Republican primary MWRD race was canceled this year so one Republican candidate, Shundar Lin, is running as a Democrat.
Founded in 1889, the district has been deeply rooted in Chicago's aquatic history. In the early 1900s, MWRD, then known as the Sanitary District of Chicago, reversed the flow of the Chicago and Calumet rivers so waste wouldn't dump into Lake Michigan. They also constructed the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, designed to reduce flooding and improve water quality by capturing and storing rain water and sewage.
"We're not a part of the city, county or state. We are a separate agency created to protect the health and welfare of the citizens of Cook County," Avila said. "We're not a judge that sentences people. We're not a legislator that passes laws. We're an operational agency to protect the health and welfare of the public."
Twenty percent of the world's surface fresh water comes from the Great Lakes, and with climate change increasing stormwater levels in Illinois, this special-purpose district is critical to ensure infrastructure remains intact.
"The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District is bearing the brunt of climate change in our region… and Black and Brown communities are disproportionately impacted by flooding in the region," candidate Eira Corral Sepulveda said, referencing a study by the Center for Neighborhood Technology.
But much like the lead pipes beneath our feet, the MWRD isn't untarnished. In 2014, the district lost millions of dollars after being sued over a construction dispute that was upheld at the Illinois Appellate Court. In 2017, two MWRD cops were fired after a video tape was released of them bragging about sleeping on the job and using racial slurs. As of 2016, MWRD employees are some of the highest-paid city workers, averaging salaries of nearly $98,000 a year, according to the Better Government Association.
Frank Avila (incumbent)
Elected to MWRD Board in 2002, 2008 and 2014
Chairman of Finance at MWRD, member of American Society of Civil Engineers, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Only professional civil engineer running, professional land surveyor
"I'm the only one that could design and build anything that we do at the district to protect the health and welfare of the public."
Cameron Davis (incumbent)
Former President Barack Obama's liaison to Congress for the Great Lakes, where he advocated for an annual $300 million program to fund Great Lakes restoration. Former President and CEO of the non-profit Alliance for the Great Lakes
Endorsed by MWRD, the Cook County Democratic Party, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Senator Dick Durbin, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley and the Chicago Federation of Labor
Led campaign with the Alliance for the Great Lakes to ban oil and gas drilling under Lake Michigan
"Young voters are the first to fully feel the impacts of climate change and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District has a tremendous role to play in fighting climate change with the right leadership. For example, the agency (meaning we as Cook County residents) pay about $40 million in energy bills every year. Much of our payments go to burning coal, so we are paying to pollute our own air, contribute to climate change, and contribute to childhood asthma."
Kimberly Neely DuBuclet (incumbent)
MWRD commissioner since 2018, appointed 26th District Illinois State Representative District 2011 to 2013
Endorsed by Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Times, the Chicago Federation of Labor, Sierra Club Illinois, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, City Clerk Anna Valencia, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle
"Having diversity on the board and having a woman's perspective is crucial. She grew up in a home that flooded and understands the issues for low income communities and so that's important," said Dean Alonistiotis, volunteer for DuBuclet's campaign. "She has a track record for the work she's done."
Heather Boyle
Works on engineering projects and public works for Des Plaines department of Public Works and Engineering
Formerly managed a sewer and water firm
Worked for local races along with Citizens in Action for Better Government
"I am a good candidate for young voters because I can relate to them being the youngest candidate on the ballot. I know they care deeply about the future and our environment as much as I do… We need to be proactive and the young voters are the voice of the future."
Mike Cashman
High school teacher and coach, former Junior Board Member at the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls
Wants to focus on impacts of stormwater and education in schools to help the public understand "what is actually happening"
Hopes to partner with the EPA and the Department of Education to implement green technology education programs in elementary school-aged children
"My vision for this office is [that] of an educator. I believe the MWRD can be the leader in the fight against climate change in our region and I think it all starts with community outreach. I would like to initiate a massive public relations campaign to educate the public on the impact of stormwater on our area's sewage, flood control and water systems."
Eira Corral Sepulveda
Clerk of Hanover Park, former Media Relations and Field Coordinator for the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, board member of the Greater Elgin Family Care Center, appointed member of the Illinois Census Commission
Endorsed by the MWRD, the Cook County Democratic Party, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Herald, the Sun-Times, U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, and Congressman Mike Quigley
DePaul alumnus
"I'm a leader that represents a future that is inclusive of Cook County's diverse communities and I have a track record of building community across racial and class lines...I believe that we have an opportunity to fight climate change….We are bearing the brunt of climate change in our region so I'm committed in engaging our neighborhoods equitably and protecting residents from floods and fighting for clean water."
"I think it's unique to our generation to have urgency about climate change, and to have a millennial mom look to the future as a Latina with 10 years of elected experience."
Deyon Dean
CEO and President of Olympian Security Solutions Corporation, former Mayor of the Village of Riverdale, former Associate Director for the Department of Human Services' Division of Community Health
Running on platform of reducing lead poisoning and cost of water bills and furthering green projects
Accused of conducting personal and village business while getting paid for state work when mayor of Village of Riverdale. He resigned from his state job and issued a statement that did not acknowledge the allegations.
"The area I'm in is a big void and there's no one there to represent our water conditions. We have more flooding issues, contamination issues and I can better help in the future by making sure the 1.1 billion dollar budget of funding is allocated appropriately."
Patricia Theresa Flynn
Third-term Trustee of the Village of Crestwood, member of Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza's Advisory Collection, current medical assistant in a private practice dermatology clinic, worked in MWRD Calumet Plant Lab/ Pollution Control
Union endorsement, Bricklayers local, a Plumbers local, IBEW Local and Chicago Federation of Labor, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White
"Running for office was never on my 'bucket list,' but when a drinking water scandal emerged in Crestwood about 10 years ago, I ran a door-knocking grassroots campaign to change my local government and be a part of the Board. I ran as an angry mom, taxpayer and consumer. I succeeded and became the first woman on the Board of Trustees, now the longest serving. Legislation changed in Springfield due to this water case. Felony charges were filed. Lawsuits ensued. Voters cared...My goal is clear, clean water, clean environment. I believe that my passion for public service is evident, proven in my role as a current elected official."
"Young voters are more aware than ever of climate change — despite the refute of science by our President, the MWRD has witnessed issues with the 50-year flood and the 100-year flood occurring at much shorter intervals. We need to protect the present and prepare for the future with early intervention."
Michael Grace
Former Vice President, Current President Trustee of the South Lyons Township Sanitary District where he worked to modernize an old sewer system in South Lyons, said role is smaller version of what the MWRD does
Business owner of fire and mitigation company, active member of the Chicago Board of Trade
Endorsed by the ItalianAmerican Political Coalition
"I'm running as an independent because I stand behind term limits and reform. I'm not a politician and I don't think anyone should make a career out of it."
"I do have the experience and want to make a change, but we need more young people involved with politics. You guys are the future and, while you can't just take the reins, we want to walk you through it."
Shundar Lin
Retired sanitary engineer, Ph.D. in sanitary engineering, Board member of the Illinois Pollution Control Board
Ran several times as a Republican
Green Party MWRD Candidates
Chris Anthony
Real Estate worker who has been involved with community development
Karen Roothaan
South Side resident
Mathematics professor at Purdue University Northwest
Tammie Vinson
West Side native, CPS Teacher, CTU member
Quigley v. Burns – 5th congressional district
DePaul's Lincoln Park campus sits right in the middle of the 5th congressional district, which includes parts of Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Uptown and Rogers Park.
The seat has been held by former Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley since a special election in 2009, when Rahm Emanuel became President Obama's chief of staff, leaving the seat vacant. As a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Quigley has contributed to the Russia and impeachment investigations and helped secure funding to protect local elections.
His highest priorities are holding the president accountable, infrastructure development and gun violence prevention.
According to FiveThirtyEight, there is a 99.9 percent chance that Mike Quigley will win the seat. He won in 2018 with over 76 percent of the vote.
His opponent, Brian Burns, graduated from DePaul in 2009 and is running on a progressive platform of Medicare for All, infrastructure investment and attacking climate change with acts like subsidizing green building practices. He considers himself a political outsider, and has criticized Quigley's ties to the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Candidates
Quigley (incumbent):
Five-term incumbent
Endorsed by the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times, the Daily Herald and U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin
Burns:
Previously worked at FEC and CFTC in Washington, D.C.
Recently received criticism from politicians like Illinois State Representative Kelly Cassidy for a since-deleted homophobic tweet. He acknowledged that the tweet was offensive and apologized.
"We need leaders who are focused on the future and for me that means taking care of the environment and taking care of people … Literally every bill that gets passed needs to be seen through a climate lens and I'd go as far as to refuse funding for government programs if they don't do a climate analysis and we don't determine that what they're doing is going to benefit our fight on carbon."
"There're so many young people in the 5th district… if we want to have more progressive politics which also benefit young people the most then we should be pushing a hard progressive agenda instead of having a centrist there."
The Republican Candidates
Tommy Hanson:
Commercial Real Estate agent
Ran for same position in 2018
Running on platform of anti-corruption, local pension removal and provision of school vouchers
Told the Sun-Times he draws inspiration from Rod Blagojevich and that "CLIMATE CHANGE IS ABOUT AS REAL AS THE EASTER BUNNY AND SANTA"
Kimball Ladien:
Physician and scientist
Running on platform of creating a strong economy, security at home and abroad, and ending gridlock through bipartisan decision making
"In terms of why they should vote – democracy doesn't work in the absence of participation. That's how you get machines, of which Chicago is a perfect example. Chicago is a machine, not a democracy."
7th Congressional District
The race has been heating up in the 7th congressional district—where DePaul's Loop campus is located—as incumbent Danny K. Davis faces off against three challengers in the Democratic primary.
Davis, who has held his seat since being elected in 1996, has won by large margins in previous years; in the 2018 primary, he won over 70% of the vote before getting elected back into office. Davis spokesperson Ira Cohen, Director of Issues and Communications in his congressional office, said that Davis is the candidate for young voters.
"The issues that Congressman Davis has supported throughout his career with his vote are consistent with what young voters care about in terms of healthcare, you know, Medicare for all, bringing troops home from over 150 locations around the world, [and] environmental issues," Cohen said.
Recently, Davis has voted in favor of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, the No War Against Iran Act, Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act and in favor of impeachment in the recent proceedings against Donald Trump.
One of the primary challengers for this seat is Anthony Clark, Oak Park native and teacher at Oak Park and River Forest High School. He ran in 2018 as well, garnering 26 percent of the primary vote. He is running on a platform of radical reform; at a forum in Austin, Clark emphasized the interconnectedness of issues in Chicago and wanting to educate voters on the issues so they can make informed decisions.
"College debt, homelessness, unaffordable healthcare, lack of livable wages, climate change, inequality and gun violence continue to disproportionately impact the futures of young voters," Clark said. "Young voters are born into the struggle, grow up in the struggle and graduate from college to live their adult lives in the struggle."
Clark has openly campaigned for federal legalization of cannabis, Medicare for All, gun control reform—including reform regarding donations to congressional representatives from gun lobbies—and the Green New Deal, which have all been hot-button issues for progressive candidates.
Austin native Kina Collins has been a community organizer since 2015, working first in Louisiana before founding the Chicago Neighborhood Alliance. She also worked as a staffer for now-governor J.B. Pritzker's 2018 campaign before quitting over racially-insensitive comments.
Collins's focus has been on gun violence and criminal justice reform, as well as health care reform—she supports Medicare for All—and environmental reforms in the form of the Green New Deal. Collins said in the Chicago Tribune that if elected, she will remain in the Austin neighborhood, because "those closest to pain should also be closest to power."
The fourth candidate in the Democratic primary for the 7th district is Kristine Schanbacher, attorney and human rights advocate. Her pro bono work as an attorney has included reinstating wrongfully terminated SNAP benefits, getting asylum for a transgender woman fleeing from Mexico and overturning a statute that would have shut down all abortion clinics in Wisconsin.
According to Schanbacher, in the 7th district, which is the 8th-most Democratic district in the country, it is imperative for the representative to be a backstop against the GOP.
"This is the district where we need a sledgehammer for the Democratic cause, and it's an opportunity we're not using," Schanbacher said. "Young voters can change that."
Some of Schanbacher's main issues include criminal justice reform, including federally legalizing cannabis, implicit bias training for police officers and increasing gun control, raising the minimum wage to a living wage, the Green New Deal, and student loan reform.
Republican Candidate:
Also on the ballot is Craig Cameron, running for the GOP. In a questionnaire with the Chicago Sun-Times, he emphasized financial reform, citing wanting to lower taxes, promote infrastructure development and identify funding sources for inner city schools. His website is currently populated with filler text.
On the ballot for the general election Tracy Jennings, a public service administrator in various state agencies and founder of Total Christian Life Ministry, running as an independent.
On his website, Jennings says that he wants to pursue community conversations in the 7th district to find out what constituents want, create jobs through a pro-market approach, protect and increase funding for public schools and curb violence through grassroots approaches.
Just like ancient Greeks in Athens who voted directly on the issues in their city, ballot initiatives are the way that the average voter can directly vote on issues in their communities. While many of us may go into voting booths without paying much attention to the long questions on referenda, these initiatives can change the way a city is run, the local government is structured and much more.
This year in Burr Ridge, Lynnwood and Westchester, there is a ballot initiative to make each community a home rule unit. Home rule units in Illinois are municipalities or counties that either exceed a population of 25,000 or have passed a referendum to make that community a home rule unit.
Once home rule status is granted, the municipality or county can elect a chief executive officer and govern over local issues with autonomy, rather than having to go through state-level governing bodies. There are 217 Illinois municipalities with home rule, but Cook County is the only county in the state that is a home rule unit as an entire county, and as a result, can impose taxes and initiatives county-wide without approval from state-level governance.
Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso is a strong proponent of the referendum as a way to supplement the police pension fund and make sure that young people do not get stuck with footing the bill later.
"We're only 66-68 percent funded in our police pension fund," Grasso said. "If we become home-ruled, we can use $700,000 that would be used for tourism to beef up our pension fund and improve infrastructure."
Without the referendum, Grasso said that in 7-10 years, Burr Ridge residents will be faced with making up the gap in the pension fund that this referendum would fill in.
Burr Ridge Trustee Anita Mital opposes the referendum—she said it places too much power in the hands of a small group.
"I am not for it simply because I don't think it makes sense to give the power to the board to raise taxes," Mital said. "Once Burr Ridge becomes a home rule unit, you'll give a lot of power to the board, but I don't think they should have so much."
Mital said there are other revenue streams the Board of Trustees can pursue that would be better than raising taxes.
"There are other ways of generating revenue, which we need to look at," Mital said. "We have some real estate which we can use maybe for sale or build some facilities that can be rented out and generate revenue. That's something the board would have to research."
In Blue Island this year, a different kind of ballot initiative is up for a vote: they want to cut the number of aldermen they have in half. The city is split into seven wards, with each ward represented by two aldermen. If this initiative passes, each ward will be represented by one alderman moving forward. Citizens will also be asked if the city should establish a fund dedicated solely for road maintenance, and if the savings from halving their number of aldermen should be funneled into that fund.
Fred Bilotto, 2nd Ward Alderman in Blue Island, opposes the referendum because it fundamentally alters the type of representation that Blue Island residents will get in their city council.
"The town is majority-minority, but there are only three minority aldermen on city council," Bilotto said.
According to Census data, Blue Island is 28.2 percent African American or Black alone and 49.1 percent Hispanic or Latino alone, compared to 20.1 percent white alone. The 1st Ward in Blue Island is represented by two African American aldermen.
"This ward would automatically lose a voice that represents them," Bilotto said.
Both Mital and Bilotto stressed the importance of being educated about referendums.
"[Referendums] fundamentally change things, things have been done for years," Bilotto said. "Referendums that are binding, like [the Blue Island referendum] will drastically change things, for better or for worse."
Mital said the long-term changes from referendums are not often talked about.
"Referendums make long standing changes," Mital said. "They're really important, but people need to understand the long-term ramifications of referendums."
Bilotto, a government teacher at Thornwood High School, stressed the general necessity of being educated about local politics and being an active voter in local elections.
"In general, I always say, local people that you elect that you can shake their hand, are more important to your daily life than Congress," Bilotto said. "You want your streets fixed, local issues heard, the local politicians are the ones who will affect your Monday through Friday. Referendums are directly tied to that."
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Biographical Note of President Joseph Jenkins Roberts
Joseph Jenkins Roberts was born at Norfolk, Virginia, March 15, 1809. He was free born and received a liberal education in his native State. Accompanied by two younger brothers, one of whom later became bishop and the other a physician, he sailed on the Harriet and arrived at Monrovia, March 24, 1829. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and his trading firm became one of the most prosperous in the Colony, owning its own vessels and trading posts on the Coast and in the interior. From the outset of his career in Liberia he took a keen interest in the affairs of the Colony. In 1833, scarcely four years after his arrival, Roberts was appointed High Sheriff, and was one of a committee sent to the United States to present a memorial of the colonists to the Society.In succeeding year Roberts addressed a communication to the Society accusing certain prominent Liberians of being engaged in the slave trade, which resulted in the enactment of stringent laws against the trade. In 1839 Governor Buchanan appointed Roberts to lead the expedition against Gatoomba, a mission that was carried out in a brilliant manner. Upon the death of Buchanan (September 3, 1841) Roberts, as Lieutenant Governor became the Chief of State. On January 20, 1842, Roberts was appointed Governor, which office he held until 1848 when he became President of the Republic. He was re-elected President in 1849, 1851 and 1853, and was again elected in 1871 and 1873, serving until 1876. He declined the nomination for a new term on the ground of age and enfeebled health. Upon the termination of his fourth term the Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia appointed him President of Liberia College (1856) and later (1861) Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law which position he held until the time of his death. It was one of the great ambitions of Roberts to establish in Liberia an institution of higher learning, and he succeeded in having the Legislation pass the necessary legislation and grant a site for College. Of his work as Governor and President, Sir Harry Johnston (Liberia I, 236) says: "Roberts had rendered great services to the Liberian Republic, only to be matched by those of Ashmun. It is possible that but for his vigorous management the State might never have had any independent existence at all, but have drifted into such a condition as to render annexation by Sierra Leone a necessity for the welfare of West Africa."Roberts' public services as Governor are dealt with in the book: Political and Legislative History of Liberia. Of his services as first President and in the succeeding years may be mentioned the brilliant work of guiding the Republic in the first decade of its existence, his success in obtaining the recognition of the Republic by some of the Great Powers of Europe, due largely to his rare tact in negotiation and his charm of manner and vigorous convincing personality. Roberts continued his public services after the expiration of his first eight years' incumbency of the presidential office. He led the expedition sent in aid of Maryland in Liberia and was largely instrumental in bringing about the incorporation of that State in the Republic. Roberts married Jane Rose, the daughter of C.M. Waring. Roberts died in Monrovia, February 24, 1876, a few weeks after the termination of his last term of office.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
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Reggae Boyz stun Chile
Jamaica's Reggae Boyz had the perfect warm-up for next month's Copa Centenario Cup when they stunned World number three ranked Chile 2-1 in Santiago last night.The Boyz produced a disciplined and resolute performance over the defending Copa America champions and now appear ready to surprise some of the big guns when the Copa Centenario kicks off in the United States.Clayton Donaldson fired the Reggae Boyz in front after 36 minutes and Joel Grant made it 2-0 on 53 minutes, before Nicholas Castillo pulled a goal back for the home team eight minutes from time.Jamaica led at half-time when Je-Vaughn Watson slipped a pass to the wily Gareth McCleary down the right and the tricky winger's low cross found the Donaldson, who didn't get the best first touch but reacted sharply to toe the ball past the advancing Chilean goalkeeper from six yards.The Chileans, who also had their chances in the half kept the Jamaicans under constant pressure for the last five minutes but the Boyz held their lead to the breakAfter the break, the hosts had the Boyz under siege with wave after wave of attacks but the Boyz caught them on the counter and Grant headed home from Giles Barnes' cross on 53 minutes to make it 2-0. The home team increased their intensity afterwards and created but squandered numerous opportunities. But they eventually got a goal back. Kemar Lawrence's attempted clearance hit Nicolas Castillo and went into the net.The Chileans tried desperately to get an equaliser but the Winfried Schafer-coached team held firm in defence to come away with a famous victory.
Murray, Hield, lead World past US
NEW ORLEANS (AP): Jamal Murray and Buddy Hield each had moments when they caught the ball in the low post, only to dribble right out to the corner, turn and let fly a 3-point shot. Maybe not the most fundamental approach, but the way they were scoring in the Rising Stars Challenge, no one seemed to mind – certainly not the fans. Murray had 36 points and 11 assists as the World squad beat the US 150-141 on Friday night. Hield, a New Orleans Pelicans rookie, added 28 points to the delight of the locals, who'll want to see more of that when the regular season resumes. "I was feeling it. I was just playing within the game, and I wasn't trying to force it," Murray said. The game, featuring top rookies and second-year pros, is the main event on the first night of NBA All-Star weekend. While the final score demonstrated the sport's global gains, both teams had their fair share of highlights. Murray, a Canadian and Denver Nuggets rookie out of Kentucky, went 9 of 14 on 3-pointers and was voted the game's MVP. "He got hot. Coach is like, 'Give Jamal the ball,'" Hield said. Hield, a Bahamian, was 11-of-22 shooting overall, but just 3 of 12 from deep. Hield's regular season high is 21 points, but he's averaged fewer than nine points in an inconsistent first season out of Oklahoma.

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Guidance is the key for adapting DevOps to big business
by Gauthier Deschamps - Consulting Director, Sopra Steria Feb 21, 2019 | minutes read
DevOps is revolutionising agile transformation for big business. The method was initially focussed on software building but by automating production, it frees up resources so as to better resolve organisational and human malfunctions. It resolves the conflict between developers (the "Dev" part) and operations ("Ops"), by lowering the time to market without sacrificing the quality of the end product.
But DevOps is finding applications that go far beyond its original domain: it's a springboard towards evolving the organisation of big businesses. By proving the real efficiency of collective governance and horizontal organisation at team level, DevOps is paving the way towards changing the cultural paradigm.
Large companies need to take the risk of working differently, although such self-reflection is not a given for all companies. But certified and experienced DevOps experts are at hand, ready to guide organisations in this transformative adventure. Supported by their peers, they are accustomed to driving forward change and are well-versed in digital professions. They have chosen to adapt the general principles of DevOps to the particular situation of each company. To initiate a full transformation, they are starting with a new mindset. The DevOps transition goes through three stages, and its success relies on collective decision-making.
1. Diagnose the company maturity
There can be no evolution without a starting point. Digital transformation is a continuous process; but measuring results is at the heart of DevOps' principles. DevOps experts start off by making an assessment. The aim is to identify the particular set of challenges facing the company. The analysis is focussed on the practices, tools, governance, performance, and processes within the company. Beyond a company audit, DevOps experts gather their information from interviews with the teams. These focus on the team's working environment, its position within the product delivery chain, its understanding of the company's DevOps policy, its own agile practices, and on the self-assessment of its performance.
The assessment helps to locate the organisation on a pre-established maturity scale:
Level 1 "Initial": poor levels of standardisation and documentation, the organisation essentially relies on the skills of individual key employees.
Level 2 "Basic": each process is documented and updated at each iteration.
Level 3: "Intermediate": standardised and centralised processes, feedback-based improvements made, long-term objective alignment.
Level 4 "Advanced": Processes managed using ability and performance indicators.
Level 5 "Continuous improvement": standardisation, centralisation, continuous improvement based on feedback and long-term objectives.
A surprising number of otherwise sophisticated companies are failing when it comes to monitoring their performance and standardising their processes. But for the vast majority of candidates for agile transformation, the difficulty lies in unequal levels of maturity. Skilled work, for example, will be performed to a high level but governance will be lacking. More generally, large companies share in these structural difficulties with rigid, siloed organisations and are resistant to change: but in spite of these cultural and organisational matters, the main principles of DevOps – namely, industrialising production, collective governance, integrating teams – can be adapted to any structure and much to their advantage.
To ensure that the level of maturity is indicative of the key factors for shifting to DevOps, three main points are taken in account:
Organisation and culture;
Measures, governance, methods;
Practice and tools.
An organisation may therefore have a culture that is well-disposed towards DevOps without having the right tool capital. As such, the company's strong points can be used to guide any suggested improvements.
2. Define the DevOps target in co-design
Once the diagnosis has been reached and shared with the agile transformation sponsor and the managers of concerned departments, it is now time to look towards the future. For the change to take place, teams must use their initiative. DevOps experts will perform their role as a guide in this second stage of transformation. They transmit the vision and the DevOps working principles, and mark out the pathway towards the collective development of a new organisation for each team.
Each organisation has to set its own objectives. The DevOps organisation relies on simple principles which must be adapted to specific contexts. To resolve internal conflicts and follow market expectations without sacrificing quality, the organisation must be (re)organised according to:
Product-oriented logic. This adopts a working method with small, manageable, multi-skilled teams, semi-autonomous and responsible for their own production. In practice, this usually takes place through the creation of specific job titles. As well as Product Owner and Scrum Master, resulting from agile methods, there is also Ops Master responsible for communicating with operations;
Agile practices, based on rigorous performance measurements and regular, product management meetings;
A dedicated management force to bring about cultural change. DevOps Squads are responsible for heading up the DevOps process within each product team;
Above all, co-design or participatory governance. DevOps complements horizontal management, which gives top priority to each team's accountability and brings them together through common values. To evolve, large companies must abandon their top-down impulses and prioritise coaching teams under their guidance.
At company level, the DevOps vision is one that is driven and implemented by dedicated teams. Core Teams are made up of approximately 10 representatives from skilled and supporting teams. Guided by a DevOps coach, they rethink the company's way of working. Strategic thinking is organised around co-design workshops, stimulating collective creativity thanks to gamification methods and close collaboration.
Still in a horizontal management mindset, Core Teams are afforded decision-making power. Their conclusions should be translated into concrete measures and with company-wide application.
Remember, results have to be measured! Reaching agile transformation targets must be checked concretely, using indicators chosen according to the objectives specific to each organisation. These are based on 5 levers for action and are the same across each production chain:
The final objective is therefore to reach a co-designed collective and accountable management structure, whose mission can be facilitated through industrialising production.
3. Move towards full transformation
Once collective governance has been initiated, it is vital to get on with building the new organisation straight away. The co-design decisions taken must come with solid and visible results: this is crucial for adopting change at all levels within in the company.
DevOps experts design the DevOps transformation roadmap. This is divided into:
7 levers for action: management, training, coaching, tools, KPI, communication, and documentation management;
4 phases: spread out over an average of 9 months and systematically opened up to a pilot roll-out.
This makes it possible to prove the viability of transformation and its advantages for teams, and is a great way of getting them to adopt change. It also makes it quicker to detect problems that will appear on a larger scale deployment.
Phase 1 – prepare pilot project launch. The Core Team members as well as the pilot manager are chosen and trained. They will collectively define (co-design), the performance indicators that the pilot will be assessed on. At the same time, the group becomes more aware of DevOps.
Phase 2 – pilot launch. This focusses on good organisation practices and includes the deployment of shared IT toolkit. A dedicated team is responsible for its governance, in particular measuring its performance from the first few weeks.
Phase 3 – Pilot evaluation. The objective is to examine its roll-out and to validate the recurring elements that will be used to for a large-scale deployment. The most relevant indicators will also feature in the balance scorecard, the DevOps transformation dashboard.
Phase 4 – Deployment. Specific practices, as well as new toolkits and indicators, will be included in the process depending on the context.
The transition is a delicate one. Despite useful pilots, many companies fail to make their whole company agile. To avoid evolution at surface-level only, DevOps project managers not only tackle the organisation but also the culture of large companies. All along the roadmap, the company initiates its change in the cultural paradigm. The evolution towards a coaching-inspired horizontal management style is a third key factor for success by DevOps experts and complements collective governance. To bring them both together, it is crucial that company management respects collective decisions and is involved in putting them into action.
Horizontal management is also one of the main factors in the resistance to change. It involves several middle managers, and senior managers are essentially calling into question their managerial skills, making them obsolete in the new organisation. These team members must benefit from close guidance, and be offered new perspectives for professional fulfilment.
In the wake of agile methods, DevOps is opening up big business to collective management. It delivers quick results and fosters a continuous agile transformation; it is a matter of radical paradigmatic change. For this change to take place completely, it is crucial that teams benefit from expert and dedicated guidance; personalised DevOps that responds to their issues. These suggestions will lead employees to think about the solution collectively across four different areas: the DevOps vision; the organisation model and governance target; performance management through the establishment of KPIs; tool sharing and driving change.
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Creating Congregational Covenants
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General Assembly 2008 Event 3035
Presenters: Eunice Milton Benton, Connie Goodbread
What is a congregational covenant? Eunice Benton, District Executive of the Mid-South District, and Connie Goodbread, Program Consultant for the Florida District, answered this question, and gave some tips for creating a congregational covenant.
"It's about making respectful behavior the norm," said Benton, describing a congregational covenant in plain language. "It's about good manners, what your momma taught you when you were small.... It's about valuing your religious community."
Benton added, "It's a good investment" in helping maintain the individuals and the whole community.
"We've struggled with this word [covenant] for a long time," said Goodbread. "Why is this so?" Because Unitarian Universalists come out of the Abrahamic religious traditions, the idea of covenant can be traced back to the story of Abraham and Isaac in the Hebrew Bible. "We don't like this story," she said, because Abraham offers to sacrifice his son Isaac to Yahweh in order to maintain the covenant with Yahweh. "We don't want to be submissive in this way," she said.
But the definition of covenant has changed considerably in the thousands of years since the Hebrew Bible was written. Goodbread said that Unitarian Universalists directly inherit the definition of covenant set forth in The Cambridge Platform, a document drawn up by Puritans in Massachusetts in 1648. The Cambridge Platform is available in a contemporary reader's edition through the Unitarian Universalist Association bookstore.
"The piece we understand completely," said Goodbread, speaking of the definition of covenant set forth in the Cambridge Platform, "is that you're not the boss of me." But the Cambridge Platform also defined covenant to include promises for mutual support. Goodbread said that means that covenant also means "We are all in this together, building a better world."
Today, Unitarian Universalists also understand covenant to mean that each Unitarian Universalist congregation is in covenant with all other Unitarian Universalist congregations. The Principles and Purposes of the bylaws of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) explicitly state this, according to Goodbread.
"Covenant is a promise, not a statement of belief," Goodbread said. Unfortunately, the children's versions of the UUA Principles and Purposes often begin with the statement "We believe...", but this is incorrect wording which tends to make the Principles and Purposes sound like a creed. Instead, the Principles and Purposes are "a spiritual path we try to follow," according to Goodbread, "and when we fail to live up to them, we beg forgiveness and begin again."
After defining covenant, Benton and Goodbread then turned tips for implementing a covenant in a local congregation. Benton suggested that the first step to implementing a congregation-wide covenant is to begin by implementing a covenant among church leaders, specifically the governing board and staff. She suggested that church leadership start by naming "common values." She said that it is important to come to a common understanding of values, before putting a covenant into writing.
"A board and staff can practice and maintain a covenant," Goodbread said, setting an example for the rest of the congregation. Goodbread said that it is important to include newcomers who join the board or staff after a written covenant is implemented. "Read the covenant together regularly," she said.
Both Goodbread and Benton emphasized that establishing cultural norms takes time. Congregational leadership has to understand and practice covenant before the whole congregation can do it. "It ain't the finished document," said Benton ."It's the talking about it and the practicing it."
"This is a sacred document," Benton added. "Talk about is as new folks come join your congregation." Revisit a written covenant every five years or so, to be sure it still applies to the congregation.
After the congregational leadership has worked on establishing a covenant for a time, the rest of the congregation can be included in the process. Benton said that congregations should expect the whole process to take plenty of time. "People may feel that this is just a document to beat them over the head with, and that is not the point," she said. "Take time to do this."
Reported by Dan Harper; edited by Jone Johnson Lewis.
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If everybody had an ocean
Across the U.S.A.
Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like Californ-I-A
You'd see 'em wearin' their baggies
Huarachi sandals, too
A bushy bushy blonde hairdo
Surfin' U.S.A.
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We're gonna take real soon
We're waxin' down our surfboards
We can't wait for June
We'll all be gone for the summer
We're on safari to stay
Tell the teacher we're surfin'
Everybody's gone surfin'
Surfin U.S.A.*
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Is there a song about, um, the headless horseman? Because that was my first thought when I saw that I'd caught this picture of Grant about to dive under a wave.
And then, just a second later, all we could see were a few toes.
BREAKING NEWS: I Googled it, and there is, in fact, a song titled "The Headless Horseman" that was featured in the Disney film The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. But it's kind of gruesome:
With a hip-hip and a clippity-clop
He's out looking for a head to swap
So don't try to figure out a plan
You can't reason with a headless man.
So we're just gonna pretend I didn't find it.
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Parallax Scrolls
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# Parallax ListView and ScrollView for Android

## This project includes
* ScrollView with one or more parallaxed views.
* ListView with parallaxed header.
* Complete parallaxed ListView.
* ExpandableListView with parallaxed header.
* Complete parallaxed ExpandableListView.
* Support Android 1.6 and above.

## Usage
### See demo app for best practice - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nirhart.parallaxscrollexample
* parallax_factor - For ScrollView and ListView, the first view's parallax facto
* inner_parallax_factor - For ScrollView only - the parallax factor between each view and view.
* parallax_views_num - For ScrollView only - the number of parallaxed views.
* circular_parallax - For ListView only - whether all of the list is parallaxed or not.

## Building

### Using gradle to build.

 This project uses the gradle wrapper to build the library and example app

#### assemble the library

`./gradlew :ParallaxScroll:assembleDebug`

#### install the example

`./gradlew :ParallaxScrollExample:installDebug`

*note:* on windows use `gradlew.bat` instead of `./gradlew`

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FITCHBURG -- First Church of God in Christ will celebrate a weekend of Founders Day 2018 from Thursday, Feb. 22, through Sunday, Feb. 25, at 82 Snow St.
Guest speakers include Superintendent Pastor Thomas Hughes of New Creation Church of God in Christ on Thursday at 7 p.m.; Pastor Robert L. Webbs Jr., of New Horizon Church of God in Christ on Friday at 7 p.m.; and Superintendent Pastor Dr. Bernard Reese of Framingham Church of God in Christ on Sunday at 5 p.m.
The theme is "The Many Sons of Bishop Bryant Robinson, Sr." I John 2:13. All are welcome. For more information, call the church at 978-342-2977.


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DRUG REPORT RATTLES MONTANA
Williamsburg-James City County reports 1,088 confirmed COVID cases, 456 students in quarantine
Insurers have seen jumps in working-age adult deaths during the pandemic — but not all because of COVID
With VMI and Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums, Williamsburg siblings to march in inaugural parade
Letter to the editor: What tyranny are Americans facing?
Poinsettias can be restored to re-bloom another year
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Region/state roundup: CNU again advances to NCAA D-III women's soccer semifinals
Riley Cook scored twice more as unbeaten Christopher Newport earned its way back to the NCAA Division III semifinals, defeating Chicago 2-1 Sunday on Case Western Reserve's field in chilly, rainy Cleveland, Ohio.
Cook, the Captains' all-time leading scorer, intercepted a pass to set up a breakaway situation and passed the ball to Jessica Zimmermann, who returned it to her for a point-blank goal in the fifth minute.
CNU (20-0-1), ranked fifth in the last coaches' poll before the tournament, made it to 2-0 with five minutes remaining in the half. Cook took a free kick that was stopped by the 16th-ranked Maroons (15-3-4), but the ball bounced to her and she knocked it in the goal's left side.
It was Cook's 88th CNU goal and her 33rd game-winner, tying the NCAA all-divisions record for men's and women's soccer. Aurora women's standout Nicci Bermudes set the mark from 2012-15.
CNU yielded a goal for the first time in the NCAA tourney when Annie Mitchell scored with three minutes remaining off Adriana Shutler's corner kick. But CNU held on to set a school-record 21-game unbeaten streak and earn a berth in Greensboro, North Carolina, at 11 a.m. Dec. 3 against ninth-ranked Loras (21-0-2) of Dubuque, Iowa.
CNU made the semifinals in the fall of 2018, losing 2-0 to Williams. Jamie Gunderson took over as coach in 2020, when there wasn't an NCAA tourney because of the pandemic, and still hasn't lost a game.
West Virginia ousts Hokies in PK shootout
West Virginia won a five-round penalty-kick shootout 4-3 to eliminate Virginia Tech in the NCAA round of 32. The visiting Hokies had played the 11th-seeded Mountaineers to a 1-1 tie through 110 minutes.
Ike Swiger gave WVU a 1-0 lead just 6:21 into the game with an unassisted goal. Jacob Labovitz pulled Tech (11-6-3) even in the 56th minute by scoring from outside the box.
Steven Tekesky made two saves for WVU (12-3-4) in the shootout. His sprawling, left-handed deflection of a shot by Daniel Starr in the fourth round proved decisive. Albelda Jimenez sent the Morgantown crowd into a celebration by firing the final shot into the upper right corner, well out of Tech goalie Ben Martino's reach.
During the 110 minutes of play, Martino made three saves — including an acrobatic stop of a bicycle kick in extra time — to Tekesky's two. WVU outshot Tech 15-10 and took nine corner kicks to the Hokies' four.
West Virginia advanced to a round-of-16 clash against No. 6 Tulsa, which beat Creighton 1-0 Sunday night.
Northwestern shuts out Liberty to win NCAA title
Northwestern defeated Liberty 2-0 for the NCAA championship Sunday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, scoring twice in the third quarter.
Alia Marshall and Maddie Zimmer scored in the 36th and 45th minutes, respectively. The Wildcats (17-5) took their first title as they snapped a 17-game winning streak of the Flames (20-3). It was the first time since 1987 that two programs that never had reached the championship game played each other.
Sunday's college basketball roundup: Charleston women zoom past William & Mary in fourth quarter
Region/state roundup: Former Cox player Jack Camper to compete in football as graduate transfer for U.Va.
Old Dominion rallies to take the lead but collapses late in regulation in overtime loss to UTEP
Norfolk State men go to 2-0 in MEAC with close victory at Howard
Timely baskets enable Hokies to beat Notre Dame, gain first ACC victory
The Flames, who were outshot 15-10, pulled their goalie for an extra attacker with 6:50 remaining but managed just one shot in that span.
Bethany Dykema of Newport News took two shots for LU. Her sisters Ashley and Emily also played.
WKU wins conference tourney in Norfolk
Western Kentucky defeated Rice 3-1 (16-25, 25-14, 25-22, 25-20) Sunday before 519 at the ODU Volleyball Center to win Conference USA's eight-team tournament and capture an automatic NCAA bid.
C-USA Player of the Year Lauren Matthews had 21 kills and four blocks for the Hilltoppers (27-1), whose only loss has been to Mississippi on Sept. 10. Nadia Dieudonne had 55 assists.
For the Owls (19-6), Nicole Lennon had 17 kills and five digs, while Carly Graham had 48 assists and nine digs.
No indication officer in Capitol attack by former CNU football player was stabbed, shot
Capitol attack by former CNU football player raises questions of security vs. public access
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NBA news: Kevin Durant admits he chose to leave the Warriors during season
Feb 16, 2019; Charlotte, NC, USA; Team Lebron forward Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warrior (35) handles the ball against Team Lebron guard Kyrie Irving of the Boston Celtics (11) during NBA All-Star Game practice at the Bojangles Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports
Early during the 2018-19 NBA season, there was a very public spat between then-teammates Kevin Durant and Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors.
It took place during a game against the conference-rival Los Angeles Clippers. In the end, Green was suspended one game by the then two-time defending champs in an attempt to mitigate the fallout.
This never came to fruition. From that point on, Durant seemingly had one foot out the door in Northern California. An impending free agent, it seemed to be a foregone conclusion that the future Hall of Famer would depart the Warriors after leading them two consecutive titles.
Durant pretty much confirmed that on a recent podcast.
Kevin Durant admits he decided to team up with Kyrie Irving during final season with the Warriors
"The All-Star game video where they caught us in the hallway. That's when it was solidified that we were going somewhere. They didn't know for a fact where it was, but it was somewhere."
This is interesting in that teaming up would never have included the Warriors. They have their own multi-time champion at point guard in that of Stephen Curry and didn't boast anywhere near the financial ability to sign Irving.
What's interesting here is that Irving pushed back against speculation during the above-mentioned All-Star Game that the interaction between him and Durant was anything more than two best buds hanging out.
"It's a video of me and one of my best friends talking," Irving said at the time. "And then it turns out to be a dissection of a free-agency meeting? Do you get that? Like, do you get that? And then I'm asked questions about that? That's what disconnects me from all that s***."
Kevin Durant and NBA free agency
After Golden State dropped the 2019 NBA Finals to the Toronto Raptors, a series in which Durant suffered a torn Achilles, he met with several suitors. Again, it was seemingly a foregone conclusion that he would leave the Warriors.
Then-teammate Stephen Curry was overseas during the process and got on to a flight back home to the states in order to meet with Durant. Before Curry landed, Durant had already made his decision.
One of the game's best small forwards signed with the Brooklyn Nets to team up with Irving. It was not a surprise that the two chose the Big Apple. However, the New York Knicks' inability to even be competitive in the sweepstakes for Durant and Irving was much talked about at that time.
It's one of the things rarely talked about around the NBA. Players recruiting other stars to join them while going up against said rivals during the season. It's what ultimately led to Durant joining the Warriors.
Add in the spat with Green, and that's what led to his departure from the Warriors and the break up of the NBA's most-recent dynasty. Durant now admits as much.


To relieve lower back pain it's not only essential to improve flexibility of the back muscles, but to improve flexibility of the whole body.
When our energy is liberated from being drained away by muscular tightness, we can feel better about every aspect of our lives.
When our bodies are not locked up by chronic muscular tightness, it inevitably leads to much greater overall energy. We no longer feel like we're dragging through the day, continually reaching for caffeine to get us through.
In my clinical practice over a 20 year period I've observed that upwards of 85% of all the lower back pain cases are markedly improved by simply employing a regime of regular stretching supplemented by some core strengthening.
My clients never cease to be surprised by how much better they can feel once they get really stretched out, head to toe. It's an unfortunate common belief that aches and pains are just a fact of aging. This is only true when flexibility is ignored.
By the same token that tension in our bodies contributes to tension in our minds, releasing bodily tension has the power to relax the mind and peel stress away.
By virtue of the fact that our limbs and joints can move more easily and fluidly when our flexibility improves, it can no longer be a chore to turn your head to back the car out or bend down to play with your children.
Top athletes know that they could not continue perform at a high level without stretching. It's the rest of us who don't always take advantage of the fact that we are much more durable and ready for the next workout when we thoroughly stretch after exercise.
If our muscles are able to contract and relax fully, then they possess their maximum potential to perform. If, for example, a muscle is 25% chronically contracted going into a workout, it possesses only 75% of its potential to perform.
Tight, short, stuck muscles are not prepared for action. If you've ever bent over and tweaked your back, you've experienced back muscles that are not prepared for bending.
One of the biggest contributors to moodiness is exhaustion. Liberate the body's muscles from their imprisoned state of tightness and moodiness is replaced by a lightness of spirit.
It cannot be overstated how much of our energy is sapped away by moving through the world with tight, short muscles.
If your legs are stiff, then every step in walking is taxed by the body struggling against muscular tightness.
If your shoulders are inflexible, then the simple act of reaching for a box of cereal on the shelf requires much more effort.
Even the act of breathing can sap our energy if the intercostal muscles between our ribs are so tight that the expansion of our ribcage during an in-breath is constricted. And we take over 20,000 breaths in a 24 hour period!
Even if one doesn't experience pain while performing simple movements with a tight body, one does experience the accumulated energy drain of the body working too hard.
Physical inflexibility greatly increases our overall expenditure of energy during the simple tasks of daily living.
Once we really appreciate the truth of this it's not hard to see how much energy — how much exuberance! — is available to us if we take seriously the goal of improving overall flexibility.
If you observe the movement of a healthy child, what you see is the fluidity and flexibility which is natural to us all from birth. What you see is exuberant movement.
Children hop, jump, skip, and roll on the floor. They jerk this way and that, snapping their joints in every possible direction. They reach, lunge, crawl, run, spin, etc.
Children naturally gain the benefits of stretching due to near-continual movement. When muscles maintain a healthy resting length they are ready for action the next time we call on them.
If, on the other hand, muscles do not maintain a healthy resting length — if they become chronically tight and short — then flexibility is impaired.
Are You Convinced Yet of the Benefits of Stretching?
If so, please recommend this page!
Proceed directly to Stretching Exercises to get started experiencing the benefits of stretching! I'm adding new videos each week.


incorrectly translated to Russian (which is the system language on my phone).
it says "turned ON" (in Russian) when it is turned OFF, and vise versa.
i can't turn it on nor turn off completely, even with power button.
pressing all three buttons or pulling out the battery.
Something is seriously wrong here. Could you get me dmesg logs?
Thanks for the hard work. Ive been wanting this feature ever since i saw the youtube video months ago. Unfortunately i cant find a kernel to work with this. Ive tried pretty much all of them in the cdma section on xda. Do you know if there are any resources online anywhere on how to add the required edits you listed to a kernel? Im decently tech savvy i just need to be pointed in the right direction. Anyways thanks for the awesome work and i hope you enjoy whatever new phone you end up with!
It would be nice to get this on the photon. Or at least the source code. Its a great idea.
ponury wrote: Something is seriously wrong here. Could you get me dmesg logs?
(without a pause) few times, it doesn't matter, with gesture or power button.
Thanks for the great work! Thought it stoped after the thread was locked in xda.
I think I found a bug, if not, please regard it as a feature request.
As I slide to lock, before the screen shuts, I can see the back or the search key actually functions before lock.
I.e. starts searching or goes back before the screen locks.
I wonder if this can be avoided during sliding.
also, the switching itself became... somehow smoother. thank you a lot!
I'm a GSM user, I use to use anthrax kernel r100a, and I installed gesture 1.3 and had no bugs at all.
I updated to 1.4 to avoid deadlock using the proper procedure u instructed. However, I started experiencing deadlock instead.
I then reflashed Lee's rom and installed gesture 1.4 straight on lee's kernel and still experiencing deadlock.
I then downgraded to 1.3 and still the same.
I really wonder if anyone else is experiencing the same issue I have. Hope u can fix it.
Thanx for the great work tho!


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Alfred Banze (* 29. September 1958 in Kirchbauna) ist ein deutscher Künstler.

Leben
Banze schloss sein Studium der Freien Kunst an der Gesamthochschule Kassel 1987 mit Diplom ab. 1995 folgte sein Diplom nach einem Postgraduierten Studium AV Medien an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln. Seit 2001 realisiert er partizipative Videoprojekte in Berliner Kinder- und Jugendeinrichtungen. Banze gab Workshops und Präsentationen unter anderem in Berlin, Potsdam, Münster, Paderborn, Wien, Bangkok, Kunming, Accra, Hanoi, Suva, Georgetown, Papeete, Varanasi, Kinshasa, Dumaguete, Lijiang, Guangzhou, Port Moresby, Jatiwangi, Jayapura und Yangon.

Werke
Alfred Banzes Werk beinhaltet Filme, Performances, Installationen und  Zeichnungen. Seit 2001 arbeitet er an künstlerischen Partizipations-Projekten, bei denen Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene, Laien, Künstler und Spezialisten verschiedener Bereiche in die künstlerische Produktion einbezogen werden.

Ausstellungen (Auswahl)

 1999 "Deutsch Trainierte Künstler" Galerie Koch & Kesslau, Berlin (G). "Marae Taputapuatea" AKI Enschede, NL  (E).
 2000 "Stein der Weisen" Former Bundestag Bonn. "Rundgang" Kunstwerk Köln (G).
 2002 "Eine Reise nach Jerusalem" City Galerie Böblingen (G).
 2005 "Pacific Plastic" Kunstraum Parkstrasse Berlin (E).
 2006 "Banyan Works" Galerie Haferkamp Köln (E). "In the Heights" Dragon Street Studio Shangri La + Haidong Art Center Lijiang, China  (E).
 2007 "Banyan Works" Metahouse Cambodia, Galerie im Körnerpark Berlin  (E). "Anonyme Zeichner" Berlin, Hamburg. "Kopi Kaputa" Scotty Enterprise Berlin (G).
 2009 "Banyan Works" Gauguin Museum Tahiti  (E).
 2010 "Artone" Tone-Town, Japan (G). "Gullivers 6. Reise" Neue Sächsische Galerie Chemnitz (G). "Vidart" Silpakorn University Bkk Thailand (G).
 2011: "Pattern & Signs" Jamuree Gallery Bkk Thailand (G). "Pattern & Signs" KV Tiergarten Berlin (G). "Landscape/2D" Zentrifuge Nürnberg (G).
 2012: "H-O-P-E" YouYou Gallery, Sabaki Art Space Guangzhou, China  (E) + IMA Festival Yangon, Myanmar  (G). "Crossing the Line" Bahay ng Sining Art Center Tacloban, Philippines (G). "Point of View"  (G) art in public space at the Metro, NGBK Berlin.
 2013 "Exotika 2013″ SAL Thailand, KV Tiergarten + Galerie M Berlin-Marzahn (GA). "United Nations Revisited" Galerie M Berlin (G).
 2014 "German Small Lane"  (E) Sabaki Art Space Guangzhou, China.
 2015 "Public Colours / Privat Lines"  (G) Kersan Artspace Yogyakarta, Indonesia. + Takt Art Space Berlin."United Nations Extended" MQ 21 Museumsquartier Wien (G). "Es gibt kein Geheimnis"  (E) Oberwelt Stuttgart. "Cargo" + "Reisen" Projektraum Group Global 3000 Berlin (G).
 2016 "2.5 Street"  (E) Sammaki Artspace Battambang + Metahouse Phnom Penh, Cambodia. "Wir sind die Wilden" Galerie M, Berlin (G). "Silent Night"  (G) Espace apART, Dietrich, Luxembourg. Espace Bateau Lavoir, Paris, France (GA).
 2017 "Sorong 1962"  (G) with Tanya von Barnau Sythoff & Wendela de Vries, Zagreus Project, Berlin. "Lieder über Liebe und Tod"  (G) mit Kopi Kaputa, MP43 Berlin. "Cambodian Berlin"  (E) mit Sokuntevy Oeur, Schillerpallais Berlin.  "365 Day Life Muse"  (G) Silpakorn Artcenter Bangkok, Thailand (GA).
 2018 "Public Colors / Private Lines"  (E) Gotisches Haus Berlin-Spandau. "Der Gesang verschwindender Arten" Projektraum GG 3000 Berlin (GA). "In the Neighbourhood" Kunstpunkt Berlin (GA).
 2019 "Bangkok by Bus / Berlin by Bus" (E) Goethe-Institut Thailand. "Try & Error" Prolog – Zeitschrift für Zeichnung & Text, Kunstpunkt Berlin (G). "Elbsandsteingebirge" (G) Berlin.
 2020  "Bangkok by Bus / Berlin by Bus" (E) Schloss Biesdorf Berlin. "It's Now" (G) Kommunale Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof Berlin. "International School" (E) Offspace Io Lux Berlin.
 2021 "Artspring 2021" Berlin (G). "Lost & Found" Haus der Statistik Berlin (G).

Filme und Performances
 1993 "Zwischen blauer Wellenberge" mit Egbert Mittelstädt, 4 min.
 1988 "Dämmer der Idioten" mit Raymond Ley, 70 min.
 1994 "Eurospiriti" Medienperformance, 70 min. "Ufoflieger" mit Markus Käch, 4 min.
 1996 "Kon-Tiki / Bodhisattva", 77 min.
 1997 "Die Loreley – Ein Gesang über die Heimat und ihre Bewohnerinnen" 15 min.
 2001 "Ein Lehrpfad der Kontemplation (Camping-Akademie I)" 30 min.
 2003 "Eine Reise nach Jerusalem – Ein Kinderspiel vom heiligen Krieg" 45 min. "Wir Anderen und Ich" 1 min.
 2006 "In The Heights" 35 min.
 2009 "Banyan" 250 min. 2011 "Exotica" 6.30 min.
 2012 "Wie der Tiger von Eschnapur nach Weissensee kam" 25 min.
 2013 "Zucchini Interkulturelle Projekte" 15 min. "Ich Tarzan du Jane" 11 min.
 2014 "Flat Land" 25 min. "Hallstatt 2" 10 min. "Schule des Grauens" 7 min.
 2015 "Kurz nach Europa" 5 min.
 2016 "2,5 Street" 33 min. "Dog Eyes" 5 min. "Kaosan Theme Park" 5 min.
 2017 "Dinge Mythen Piktogramme" 30 min. "Gelandet in Berlin" 32 min. "The Good Losers" 13 min.
 2018 "Däniken´s Wake" 34 min.
 2019 "Social Plastic" 3 Filme, je 10 min. "Raumschiff Erde" 25 min. "Magical Music Bus" Music-Performances mit Kopi Kaputa, Metahouse, Cambodia, Goethe-Institut Thailand, Performance Festival Myanmar.
 2020 "German Sausage" Performance mit Kopi Kaputa, Video 23 min. "International School" Performance, Io Lux Berlin, video 45 min. "Boomerang Pop" mit Kopi Kaputa, Performance 48h Neukölln Festival Berlin, Video 38 min. "Offenes Onlineatelier" Performance mit Kopi Kaputa, Artspring Festival Berlin, Video 28 min.
 2021 "Autopoiesis" Performance mit Kopi Kaputa, Artspring Festival Berlin. "Süss & Sauerstoff" Video, mit Kopi Kaputa, 48h Neukölln Festival. "Spiralen - 12 Songs in Open D" Videoclips.

Projekte, Aktionen, Performances

 2001 "Ein Lehrpfad der Kontemplation" bei "Kunstkur" Lohmen, MVP.
 2002 "Camp der Storyteller u.a.", performances, talks, events "Kunst am Fluss" in and around Kassel.
 2003 "Layers of Water" Video Art Camp, Split Filmfestival
 2004–09 "Banyan Project" workshops + talks in Tahiti, Cook Isl., Fiji, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, China, Myanmar, Indien, Kambodscha, Togo, Benin, Ghana, Guyana, Nl., Germany.
 2007 "Ein Service für junge Gangster" video project in Berlin youth centers + youth jail.
 2008 "Bozkurt – Graue Wölfe in Neukölln?" video project in Berlin-Neukölln youth centers.
 2009 "Another China" exhibition, workshops, performances, talks – KV Tiergarten Berlin, with artists from China, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, USA, Nl., Germany.
 2009–11 "The Banyan Tree – Art + Encounters", exhibitions + workshops: National Gallery Thailand, Metahouse Cambodia, Galerie im Körnerpark Berlin, Centre d´Metiers + Gauguin Museum Tahiti, National Museum Cook Islands, Fiji National Museum, Kunstgalerie Fürth, USP University Varanasi India, TCG Nordica Kunming China, Kas Art, Kinshasa, R.D. Congo.
 2011 "H-O-P-E – United Nations Revisited" in R. D. Congo, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Myanmar, Germany.
 2013 "Exotika 2013" exhibitions, workshops, talks – SAL Thailand, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Galerie M B.-Marzahn, with artists from China, USA, Tahiti, R.D.Congo, France, Germany.
 2014 "Rokoko Wunderkammer" participatory projekt mit with children + elders, Bischoff-Kettler-Seniorenheim Berlin.
 2014/15 "Deutsch 1914 / Papua Niugini 2014" workshops, talks, exhibitions with artists from Papua New Guinea, West-Papua + Germany, National Museum PNG, Projektraum Alte Feuerwache Berlin.
 2016 "2.5 Street" Rise and Fall of a Community Art Space in Battambang, Cambodia, participatory drawing & video project. "Invisible" participatory drawing project at "365 Days : Life Muse" project, Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture, Thailand. "Zukunftsmusik" participatory video project at Jugendklub Feuerwache Berlin-Neukölln. "Kopi Kaputa" Media Performance Group.
 2017 "Letters from Utopia" website with drawings & texts from Sorong, West-Papua. "The Good Losers" video project at Jatiwangi Art Factory, Indonesia. "Gelandet in Berlin" participatory video project with children in Berlin. "Dinge, Mythen, Piktogramme" participatory video project in Lijiang, China.
 2018 "Social Plastic" Bangkok Biennial, Baan Noorg Art & Culture Thailand. "Mittag für Alle" Film project with kids & elders, Berlin-Weißensee. Symposium "Art / Community / Art", Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin. "About colors & lines" Silliman University, Fine Arts Department, Dumaguete, Philippines.
 2019 "Social Plastic" Jatiwangi Art Factory, Indonesia. "Social Plastic" Ortstermin Festival Berlin.
 2020 "German Sausage – Das Schicksal kennt keine Paragraphen" Medien-Performance mit Kopi Kaputa. "International School" Media Performance. "Boomerang Pop" Media Performance mit AV Gruppe Kopi Kaputa. "Begegnung im Weltraum" Kids-Project, FiPP e.V. Berlin. "Raumschiff Erde – Die Rettung" Kidsproject, R.-Reinick-Schule, Berlin.

Publikationen
 Spiralen – 12 Songs in Open D Audio-CD, Bandcamp.com, 2021.
 Berlin by Bus / Bangkok by Bus Schloss Biesdorf Berlin, Alfred Banze + Christine Falk, 2020.
 Bangkok by Bus / Berlin by Bus Goethe-Institut Thailand, Alfred Banze + Christine Falk, 2019.
 Deutsch 1914 / Papua Niugini 2014 Projektraum Alte Feuerwache Berlin 2014.
 Exotika 2013 Katalog SAL Thailand, KV Tiergarten, Galerie M, Alfred Banze + Christine Falk, 2013.
 Point of View Art Kunst im Untergrund NGBK, 2012.
 Banyan Katalog der Ausstellung "The Banyan Tree – Art + Encounters", Alfred Banze + Christine Falk, Berlin 2009.
 Banyan Works Katalog der Ausstellung bei Scotty Enterprises, Berlin 2008.
 Another China Katalog der Ausstellung im Kunstverein Tiergarten Berlin, Alfred Banze + Christine Falk, Berlin 2008.

Weblinks
 Homepage von Alfred Banze
 Camping Akademie e.V.
 AV-Gruppe Kopi Kaputa

Maler (Deutschland)
Deutscher
Geboren 1958
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