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Did you know that Lara Croft started life as a man? 'Scandal!' we hear you scream! Well, there's no need for all that - we only mean that the original design for the now mega-famous Tomb Raider was that of a man, and was based on Harrison Ford's most adventurous role, Indiana Jones. Needless to say, the digital sex-change seemed to have the desired effect - Lara became hugely popular and remains so today, while Indy has, until now, only been able to bask in the reflected glory of days gone by on the silver screen. But all that has changed now, thanks to Jones' re-appearance in his latest adventure, Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, which obviously, you can play on PlayStation 2.
As ever, Indiana jet-sets around the globe in his attempts to accumulate the three scattered pieces of the Dragon Seal, the key needed to unlock the crypt of China's first emperor, also home to the Heart of the Dragon, a black pearl with the power to mould minds, which he has to locate before an evil underground coalition find it and are left to their own fiendish devices (and... breathe). It's some plot, and is reminiscent of some of Lara's own adventures. Similarly, The Emperor's Tomb is an action game played from a third-person perspective, and you get the chance to go on an expedition into the wild and wonderful environs of a 15th century Czech castle, a Chinese mountaintop fortress and an intriguing underwater palace in Istanbul. These exotic locations are beautifully rendered, thanks to the Collective's proprietary 3D engine. The game is set some 70 years ago and is comprised on ten huge levels, in which you can engage in hand-to-hand combat, sharp-shoot with your pistol or whip out your... whip. Furthermore, improvised weapons such as shovels, chairs and table-legs can be used should you find yourself short on ammo. The game boasts a (predictably) cinematic feel too, with action sequences staged on moving gondolas and rickshaws.
If you were a fan of the Tomb Raider series, then there's a fair chance you may enjoy Indiana Jones and the emperor's Tomb. Similarly, if you were an Indy fanatic when it came to the movies, then this is definitely worth a look. In short, it's a narrative-driven melange of combat and puzzle-solving. So there.
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Senators propose retirement pay tax exemptions
Nebraska lawmakers are proposing tax exemptions for Social Security income and military retirement benefits.
Four measures were introduced in the Legislature on Thursday during the first day of bill introductions.
Omaha Sen. Bob Krist proposed a bill that would exclude military retirement pay and Social Security benefits from state income taxes.
Omaha Sen. Jeremy Nordquist introduced a bill that would eliminate state income taxes on Social Security benefits for lower- and middle-income Nebraska residents. Nordquist says his proposal is targeted at married households with an income of $80,000 or less and individuals who make $60,000 or less. The exemption would be set to keep pace with inflation.
Fremont Sen. Charlie Janssen introduced two tax exemption measures, one aimed at Social Security benefits and one aimed at military pensions.

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Shooter Who Stopped Robbery Wants Gun Back
The man who shot a would-be robber at a grocery store is upset police won't give him his gun back.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney cleared Nazir Al-Mujaahid of any criminal wrongdoing.
Al-Mujaahid fired inside the Milwaukee Aldi on Jan. 30th.
Police took his gun during the investigation.
Al-Mujaahid said three times he's asked police to return the weapon.
"Not only is it frustrating -- it's disheartening, because now I'm feeling like the legal system is coming down on me for some reason," Al-Mujaahid said.
In a statement, Milwaukee Police spokeswoman Anne Schwartz wrote, "Milwaukee Police continue to investigate the armed robbery of a north side grocery store on Jan. 30, 2012.
The robbery suspects were arrested and charged. A customer who discharged his personal firearm and struck one of the suspects was cleared by the DA's office in the shooting.
The gun used by that customer is still considered evidence in the armed robbery case."


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I recently gave a presentation at the National Central Library in Taiwan at a symposium on digital publishing and international standards that they hosted. It was a tremendous meeting and I am grateful to my hosts, Director General Karl Min Ku and his staff for a terrific visit. One of the topics that I discussed was the issue of the identification of ebooks. This is increasingly becoming an important issue in our community and I am serving on a BISG Working Group to explore thes issues. Below are some notes from one slide that I gave during that presentation, which covers one of the core questions: At what point do changes in a digital file qualify it as a new product? The full slide deck is here. I'll be expanding on these ideas in other forums in the near future, but here are some initial thoughts on this question.
In a print world, what made one item different from another was generally it's physical form. Was the binding hardcover or soft-cover? Was the type regular or large-size for the visually impaired, or even was it printed using Braille instead of ink? Was the item a book or a reading of the book, i.e. an audio book, was about as far afield as the form question had gone prior to the rise of the internet in the mid 1990s. In a digital environment, what constitutes a new item is considerably more complex. This poses tremendous issues regarding the supply chain, identification, and collections management in libraries.
This is a list of some of the defining characteristics for a digital text that are distinct from those in a print environment. Each poses a unique challenge to the management and identification of digital items.
- Encoding structure possibilities (file formats)
- Platform dependencies (different devices)
- Reflowable (resize)
- Mutable (easily changed/updated)
- Chunked (the entire item or only elements)
- Networkable (location isn't applicable)
- Actionable/interactive
- Linkable (to other content)
- Transformable (text to speech)
- Multimedia capable
- Extensible (not constrained by page)
- Operate under license terms (not copyright)
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Just some of these examples pose tremendous issues for the supply chain of ebooks when it comes to fitting our current business practices, such as ISBN into this environment.
One question is whether the form of the ebook which needs a new identifier is the file format. If the publisher is distributing a single file format, say an epub file, but then in order for that item go get displayed onto a Kindle, it needs to be transformed into a different file format, that of the Kindle, at what point does the transformation of that file become a new thing? Similarly, if you wrap that same epub file with a specific form of digital rights management, does that create a new thing? From an end-user perspective, the existence and type of DRM could render a file as useless to the users as it would be if you supplied a Braille version to someone who can't read Braille.
To take another, even thornier question, let's consider location. What does location mean in a network environment. While I was in Taiwan, if I wanted to buy a book using my Kindle from there, where "am I" and where is the transaction taking place? Now in the supply chain, this makes a tremendous amount of difference. A book in Taiwan likely has a different ISBN number, assigned to a different publishers, because the original publisher might not have worldwide distribution rights. The price might be different, even the content of the book might be slightly different-based on cultural or legal sensitivities. But while I may have been physically located in Taiwan, my Amazon account is based in Maryland, where I live and where my Kindle is registered. Will Amazon recognize me as the account holder in the US or the fact of my present physical location in Taiwan, despite the fact that I traveled back home a week later and live in the US? Now, this isn't even considering where the actual transaction is taking place, which could be a server farm somewhere in California, Iceland or Tokyo. The complexity and potential challenges for rights holders and rights management could be tremendous.
These questions about when is a new thing a new thing are critically important question in the identification of objects and the registration and systems that underlie them. How we manage this information and the decisions we take now about what is important, what we should track, and how should we distinguish between these items will have profound impacts on how we distribute information decades into the future.


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HTC and Verizon have started rolling out a new software update for their first ever 4G LTE capable smartphone the Thunderbolt. No, this is not the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update, which Thunderbolt owners are expecting.
Instead, this OTA update is aimed at improving the 4G connectivity issues along with the random reboot issue, from which most of the Thunderbolt owners suffer. The OTA update carries the version number 1.70.605.0, and weighs in at 74MB.
Below is the official change-log of the update from Verizon :
- Improved data connectivity.
- Enhanced Call History view.
- Reduced number of device power cycles and resets.
- Improved Bluetooth ® Discovery Mode pop-up window.
- View App Menu in tabbed layout.
- People search function enabled.
- Backup Assistant has been added to the All Apps menu.
- Preloaded My Verizon, V CAST Music and V CAST Videos.
- Desktop cradle App is now available, showing clock in landscape mode.
- NY Times site has been added into the browser bookmarks.
HTC Thunderbolt owners can already download and install the update on their phone. To do so, go to Settings-> About Phone-> Software Update, and select the Check for updates option. The handset will then automatically download and install the update.


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If you thought Shia LaBeouf's behavior in Berlin was the pinnacle of how weird he can get, guess what, you were wrong. Because now, immediately on the heels of whatever that was in Berlin, The Beef is back in Los Angeles, where he is doing something he claims is performance art but which I call stunting. Beginning yesterday and running through Sunday, LaBeouf will be at the Cohen Gallery from eleven to six, available "in situ" to the public. Admission is free. There will be "implements".
The performance/stunt is titled "#IAMSORRY" and is being staged in collaboration with performance artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Turner. The Beef is dressed in a tuxedo and his "I am not famous anymore" bag, and visitors are admitted to see him one at a time. He isn't verbally responding to attendees, but he has apparently been crying. TMZ got a picture of him, sans bag, and they also took a picture of the implements. But for the implements, it bears a striking resemblance to Marina Abramovic's famous "The Artist is Here",which was performed at MOMA in 2010. Abramovic even cried several times throughout her performance (so did some of her visitors).
It's tempting to just sit back and revel in the lunacy, but LaBeouf is still a plagiarist who has not offered a sincere apology for doing what he did. Instead he's engaged in a series of increasingly bizarre stunts, from tweeting plagiarized apologies to sky-writing and now performance art. I guess we're supposed to believe this has been some kind of meta-commentary on fame and/or celebrity culture all along, but I'm still confused as to how knowingly stealing someone else's work fits into that.
If LaBeouf wants to go full-Franco and start doing weird art sh*t all the time, fine. But I'd still like to see one sincere apology for ripping off Daniel Clowes. Instead we get yet another bullsh*t non-apology that once again eclipses the fact that all of this started after LaBeouf got called out as a plagiarist. Sitting in a gallery with a bag on your head having staring contests is not an apology, no matter what words you put in the window. It's a self-aggrandizing stunt that gets people debating which phase of your nervous breakdown we're in, and not dwelling on the part where you're a liar and a thief. This is taking the patented celebrity "I'm sorry you're upset" non-apology to new heights.
Shia LaBeouf has officially been upgraded from asshole to full-blown twat.


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Maryland, EPA, Chesapeake Bay Trust Provide $3.4 Million for Green Infrastructure Program
Release Date: 09/04/2013
Contact Information: EPA: David Sternberg at 215-814-5548, firstname.lastname@example.com; Chesapeake Bay Trust: Molly Alton Mullins at 410-271-3469, firstname.lastname@example.com; Maryland DNR: Karis King at 410-260-8001, firstname.lastname@example.com
BALTIMORE – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley today announced an expansion of the Green Streets, Green Towns, Green Jobs Initiative (G3) thanks to a joint investment of $3.4 million by the State of Maryland, EPA, and the Chesapeake Bay Trust.
The G3 grant program, which is administered by the Chesapeake Bay Trust, helps support President Obama's Executive Order for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay. Its purpose is to help municipalities and nonprofit organizations support projects that add green space and reduce stormwater runoff by using green infrastructure practices that increase tree canopy, capture and filter rainwater, and improve watershed protection, community livability, and economic vitality.
"Supporting investments in green jobs and green infrastructure is critical in our effort to help our economy, protect the environment, and reduce carbon pollution," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "EPA's expanded partnership with the State of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Trust will support projects to improve water quality and economic vitality in the region through the G3 program. This funding provides another example of Governor O'Malley's innovative leadership when it comes to meeting the State's commitments to restoring local waters and the Bay."
"We are very pleased to partner with the EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Trust in the G3 Initiative, which supports local greening efforts that improve our neighborhoods and our environment, and create green jobs," said Governor O'Malley. "Through this partnership we are making a significant investment in Maryland communities that will further our progress toward three critical goals: restoring our Bay, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and expanding our forest cover."
"Through the G3 initiative, the Chesapeake Bay Trust has been able to work with cities and towns throughout the region to implement meaningful stormwater management and greening projects that improve water quality and better local communities," said Jana Davis, executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Trust. "We are so pleased that the state of Maryland has joined as a partner in this initiative at such a strong scale, and look forward to working with them and the EPA to expand the scope of the program and its results."
"Stormwater is the fastest-growing water quality problem, for the Chesapeake Bay and across the country. We know that there are some useful approaches to the problem," said Senator Cardin, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Water Subcommittee. "Instead of relying only on the old, gray infrastructure, we can build our roads and cities to include permeable materials, non-structural alternatives, and other green infrastructure solutions. The grants being announced today support exactly these kinds of proactive solutions that can only be accomplished through strong federal-state and local partnerships."
"This partnership between the State of Maryland, the Chesapeake Bay Trust, and the EPA to expand the G3 program means that communities throughout the Bay watershed will have a helping hand in their efforts to become greener and more environmentally friendly," said Congressman Sarbanes. "Investing in innovative solutions that improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay is good for our environment and our economy."
EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Trust created G3 in 2011 to support projects that reduce stormwater runoff through the creation of "green streets." A green street is one that minimizes the environmental impact of a roadway by practices such as reducing the amount of water that is piped directly into streams and rivers; creating rain gardens; installing urban tree canopy; using energy efficient lighting; and encouraging pedestrian and bicycle access. Green streets also provide aesthetic and economic benefits.
G3 projects increase stormwater management and treatment, empowering communities and states to better meet water quality goals, improving livability and walkability of communities, increasing tree canopy and air quality, and contributing to the economic well-being of communities through adding green elements to business districts and creating green jobs.
The Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns grant program is open to local governments and nonprofit organizations interested in pursuing urban green stormwater infrastructure and green jobs as part of an integrated community or watershed plan.
For more information on the Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns Grant Program, please visit www.cbtrust.org
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Finally registered: Monroe Hill makes national list
The only building on Grounds that predates the University has just been named to the National Register of Historic Places.
Monroe Hill, home of James Monroe before he moved to Highland (now Ash Lawn-Highland), won the National Park Service's blessing June 18.
According to the application for the Register, Monroe's home and subsequent additions were the core of an 800-acre Albemarle County farm that the newly elected U.S. senator called his "lower plantation." The first building was a law office built for James Monroe in 1790, the year he was elected to the U.S. Senate. A one-story house followed.
In 1814, two years before his election as America's fifth president, Monroe sold the property to John Perry, one of Jefferson's builders, who promptly enlarged the house to its current Greek Revival appearance. Perry sold the property to the University, which opened in March 1825 with 68 students, according to The Corner, a history by Coy Barefoot.
"They took Perry's forty acres, at $12 per acre," Jefferson's overseer is quoted in Barefoot's book.
Two six-room little ranges– not unlike Thomas Jefferson's more famous nearby Range– were added in 1848 as student housing.
UVA now calls the complex, which includes an array of 1920s brick dorms facing Emmet Street, "Brown College at Monroe Hill." Modeled on the colleges and clubs of Harvard and Princeton, Brown College has its own dining hall, and its "principal" lives in the main house.
The Register, an honorary designation for the nation's most historically significant properties, does not tell the owner what it can do with its property.
Monroe Hill as John Perry enlarged it.


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Concealed: Acrylic Painting by Stephen Kline
Surrealism: Dream and Fantasy Paintings by Artist Stephen Kline
These works reflect the universe as I see it: a kaleidoscope of wonder and possibility, yet filled with complex challenges, just as the human psyche. There are points in our lives when we just don't feel connected, as in "Unplugged", or we feel the need to hide or disguise our feelings as in "Concealed". We all have "Rainy Days and Mondays" or feel fragile and breakable as reflected in "Cracked".
In all my work, I strive to let my true feelings expose themselves through color, form, and substance. Sometimes frail hues collide with immovable shapes; in others, crisp bold colors collaborate with intangible, weightless images. Color can have a profound effect on how we feel both mentally and physically, and in these pieces my palette reflects light and warmth, creating a health-promoting environment in which a young Monet would have been comfortable.
23"x31" Acrylic on canvas
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November 14, 2011
"Everybody needs people to care for them. Sometimes they don't want it."
Old Jerry Sandusky interviews.
22 comments:
- Chip Ahoy said...
A wooden watch is following me around wherever I go.
- edutcher said...
He was strict, apparently.
This guy gets worse and worse.
- Curious George said...
"He ruined Penn State".
Bullshit. Sandusky is a sick fuck. But Penn State ruined Penn State.
- rhhardin said...
John and Ken interviews of various pedophiles ("all outrage all the time") turned that the pedo's usually thought of themselves as sensitive and caring with the child's interest at heart.
I'd say the working feature was that they could sustain an interest in the child where normal guys cannot.
That from a line by Guggenbuhl-Craig, that borderline pedophiles make good teachers.
So the connection is not surprising.
Good rule: normal guys don't hang out with boys, except perhaps taking their son and his friends on an outing, which is for another reason than hanging out with boys.
- Known Unknown said...
I hope he doesn't off himself before prison.
He needs someone to "care" for him, too, whether he wants it or not.
Good rule: normal guys don't hang out with boys, except perhaps taking their son and his friends on an outing, which is for another reason than hanging out with boys.
This is so true. It is, properly, something that you do things an obligation. If it's your own son, you do things because you realize how much joy and goodness they are getting out of it, and because you realize that it will feel so very, very good later, both because you have done the right thing and when nostalgia sets in.
But a man hanging out with boys because he enjoys it should send up red flags.
- Carol_Herman said...
Sports, on the one hand, is a gold mine. And, on the other? It's run like the best PR machinery in the world!
It's good now that people are looking at old tapes, WITH NEW EYES!
Joe Paterno played his last hand, when he tried to outfox the Board of Trustees at PENN STATE. That's why you have Paterno, without qualms, setting the stage that "he'd retire at the end of the season." As if he could call the shots.
While the Board of Trustees at Penn State were meeting to finally get him out of their system!
You know, in 2006. When Paterno was 79. He was in Wisconsin. The game? Between Wisconsin and Penn State. When a Wisconsin player tripped over the old man. And, Paterno's left leg was broken.
How did the PR machinery work back then? Screens went up around "Beaver" Stadium ... Ya gotta love these names. So that no one would see Joe Paterno wheeled into a home game, sitting in a wheel chair.
Did Paterno's broken leg escape comment in Wisconsin papers? Or did people not think it was a big deal that a 79 year old man was too old to be on the field? Who was the Wisconsin player? Whatever happened to this kid?
Back in Happy Valley, where the news reporters were blocked from taking any pictures of Paterno, one local photographer. Knowing his way around, did get a picture of the wheel chair bound Peterno, sitting in the "press box."
But Penn State couldn't get him to retire! Do you know why?
Successful sports teams, like charities, are GOLD MINES. And, Paterno had no intention of walking away from (Sandusky's) gold mine, either!
How much gold? A shitload full.
And, powerful, too.
- Carol_Herman said...
Shortly after OJ killed Nicole, and the Goldman kid, I was given a tour at USC. I was shown the expensive gym that went up on campus. That used to house OJ's Heisman Trophy. (It was absent. The lady giving me the tour of this super-duper sports facility ... on the campus of USC ... mentioned the powers that be at the university had come and taken it away.
In sports that's what happens to trophies earned in their day. That become embarrassments.
How much do you want to bet that lots of people in Happy Valley; and, on campus of Penn State ... have read every word of the 23 page indictment?
Sandusky, by the way, not only ruined Penn State. He CONTINUED to have keys to the locker room, there. Coming and going whenever he wanted to. Because taking victims (and donors) into the showers was a PERK of the GOLD MINE.
Somebody killed the DA! That's also a hidden power available in the GOLD MINE.
Penn State doesn't recover.
Will there be a run at the library on the Wisconsin campus ... go looking for the "event" at the football game back in 1979. When a player accidently bumped into Penn State's coach and broke his leg?
Will anyone be curious how a man of 79 ... who can't move out of the way of football plays ... remain on as coach?
Is PR that good!
After a football career, didn't OJ make it in the movies?
You think OJ's temper was unknown?
You know what pisses me off? The Boy Scouts of America have been sued up the ying-yang by queers who complained they couldn't "help" the boys. When all they wanted to do is "volunteer."
Volunteer my ass!
- Carol_Herman said...
The Wisconsin football game (against Penn State), occurred in 2006. (Not 1979.)
I wonder if the librarian on Wisconsin's campus has had anyone asking about that event. And, if anyone questioned WHY Penn State's 79 year old coach ... who couldn't get out of the way of a play ... Was actually still coaching?
Yeah. (Cough. Cough.) I'm curious.
- Carol_Herman said...
Sandusky admits to showering with the young victims. Nothing more. Just "horseplay."
Oh. And, the victim that McQueery, the red head saw ... was a boy who for fun ... turned on all the shower heads ... and was slipping and sliding on the shower's floor. Having a very good time.
Maybe? Maybe, Sandusky was "clapping" ... because he was so entertained by the horseplay?
Can you believe that?
I guess Sandusky has no intention of committing suicide.
But the game's up just the same.
The GOLD MINE of the sporting arena (and the charity it bloomed), have gone down the toilet.
Not that the perverts don't have PR experience.
You know, I'm not even sure it's smart for a dad to shower with his son. (Unless they've just completed swimming at the YMCA. In which case there is some showering to take off the chlorinated water.)
I just don't think most parents bathe with their own children, naked.
And, I think if you've got a controlling interest in a GOLD MINE, you don't walk away from "coaching." Instead? You protect your personal wealth and interests like the mafia.
Okay. I'll bet. I'll bet not enough people will buy this song and dance.
- rcommal said...
Nothing like a Carol Herman for discouraging the very notion of paying attention. Perhaps Penn State could have delayed, even longer, attention being paid, if only they'd hired Carol Herman to do their PR.
From what I can tell, w/r/t to the Penn State Football situation, almost everyone involved over the past *at least* 15ish years welcomed both 1) being encouraged not to pay attention and 2) any port in the storm that they could use to justify not paying attention.
From what I can tell, they got what they wanted, and it even worked ...
... until it didn't.
wv: sayst
- Carol_Herman said...
How serious is it to murder a DA?
The same DA that "shut the case down against Sandusky, back in 1998?
That's the time the mom blew the whistle. Her son came home with wet hair. Which roused her suspicions.
And, the DA. With two police officers listening in a nearby room; overheard Sandusky say he was sorry. "And, wanted to be dead."
Sure, a "thin blue line." Cops can keep a secret. Especially if there's a local mafia in town. With big time PR savvy. And, connections.
Then? Comes 2005. And, another victim. And, the DA is "asked" to re-open his case.
Whom does he call?
Is he worried?
Does he have anything on his laptop that he wants to discuss with someone very high up the perverted fruit tree?
He never makes it home, again.
The missing DA's car is found 50 miles away. And, his laptop is retrieved from the Susquehanna River. Takes people to investigate this much, no?
Followed by the sound of crickets.
Go ahead, admit you didn't think of the Catholic Church's pedophilia epidemic that finally got exposed. With plenty of Catholics saying "nothing like that happened." And, the current pope having a record of hiding evidence.
Didn't leave a stain on the Catholic Church? Didn't have a pedophilia scandal erupt in Ireland as well? (Oh, you didn't know?)
- Carol_Herman said...
You know, when the Board of Trustees at Penn State met, Joe Paterno went on TV with his own presser.
He was gonna pull the ball out of the hands of the Penn State administrators. But he forgot to show any sorrow for the victims.
Joe Paterno was FINALLY fired!
Will you ever find out what kind of a GOLD MINE existed between the Penn State's football fortune, and Sandusky's "charity?"
What about the dead DA?
Can't the DA's office also pursue this case to the conclusions you know see. By going about it with great care?
Between the cops and the DA, how many people in Happy Valley knew the truth?
James Joyce knew the truth about the Catholic priests predilections for ass fucking young boys. In his book, the Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, he "alludes to it." But only in ways ... wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you'd have to have been familiar by what he meant when two young boys see a priest in the park ... When they are cutting school. And, the "priest is doing something disgusting."
Turns out the Internet is amazing. It takes a very difficult subject for people to talk about ... and, it lays it bare.
TV must have been better in the days when Larry King, himself, boldly threw open the doors on the abuse that ran rampant in the Catholic Church.
Try not to think about it.
But people still do.
Meanwhile, the dead DA didn't just disappear.
Carol -- Your conspiracy theories would be more believable if you didn't have such a love of conspiracy. Remember your bloviating over Strauss-Kahn?
Tell us about the World Trade Center. The Freemasons, too. Is there a relationship?
- Carol_Herman said...
How come nobody learned WHO the person was that the DA went out to speak to the night he disappeared?
Could he have called Sandusky, himself? And, then, part of this conversation got Sandusky so riled up he killed the DA?
The DA sure did go out to speak to someone important.
And, there must have been a big effor (in a small town, no less), to find him. Were the first rumors about the DA is that he "ran somewhere?" And, is hiding out in Venezuela? Or on a Polynesian Island?
How come the Susquehanna River was "dredged?" Coming up with the DA's laptop (which was missing its hard drive), must have been a clue to some detectives, no?
But the trail went cold.
Did Sandusky do any "kid screwing" around that time? Fox News says now there are close to 20 victims. Any being questioned about that night? April 15, 2002, I believe?
Did Sandusky ever use force with anybody?
We're seeing the tip of the iceberg. There's a huge mountain just below the surface.
And, a story that has a long shelf life.
Football, like politics, should never become a religion for anyone!
- Carol_Herman said...
7 Natchos,DSK raped the maid.
And, they're still discussing him in france. Where he is now threatening to sue newspapers for what he calls "an invasion of privacy."
Among the things said? His wife wants to receive back a huge sum of money that she had to run through ... while this creep defended and bought his way out of the NYC case.
Pedophilia also involves very rich creeps.
This is not the story of one lone man standing around kids and opening his raincoat.
Not even the perverts who try to get kids at parks. And, use the park's toilets to have anal sex. (Kids, in those cases, usually aren't the victims.)
But I'd bet lots of homosexual males got their first taste of rectal sex when they were as young as 8 or 10.
Perhaps, Sandusky thinks he can accuse his accusers of being very bad boys. Just what did Governor Corbett mean when he said the Second Mile charity "groomed" all the victims. But not all the participants were victims.
There was a front to the charity that required helping boys in lots of trouble. Not all of them got stuck with Sandusky's penis up their asses.
The charity was a GOLD MINE!
Will people get turned off when they realize many charities don't deliver anything to the people they claim they are gonna help?
The March of Dimes never gave a nickel to the research being done by Salk. And, Sabin. BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT A VACCINE THAT WOULD PREVENT POLIO. Where the victims were their ticket to getting people to give money.
And, yes. The DA met with foul play. He didn't commit suicide. He wasn't eaten by the fishes.
And, his laptop's computer, which was recovered, had had its hard drive removed. Professional job. No fingerprints.
Why was it thought that "removing the DA" ... would close the case?
You'd think it would have made law enforcement angry enough to keep digging. Sure seems possible great care was used in getting to the heart of two organizations. Penn State. And, this "charity" that recruited distressed young boys.
- carrie said...
This too will pass. Penn State is not ruined. Hopefully this will cause every youth group to think about this issue. The Boy Scouts have strict rules about adults and children--requiring a minimum two adult leaders for every function and then prohibiting any adult to be alone with a youth (other than his son) in an isolated place--if an adult is in the bathroom alone and a youth walks in, the adult has to leave immediately. The same is true for catholic schools, in our diocese anyway--every adult volunteer has to take child protection training or they aren't allowed to volunteer, including providing transportation to events. I think the same is true for all of the coaches in local youth rec leagues. Every youth group should have rules and training like that and I think that parents should be leery of any youth group that doesn't have similar rules and training.
- Sorun said...
...if an adult is in the bathroom alone and a youth walks in, the adult has to leave immediately.
That's creepy too. It assumes the adult is a potential perv. And if the kids know about rules like that, the little bastards will think of ways to exploit it.
- ndspinelli said...
It would appear Carol Herman no longer serves a purpose. One down..two to go.
- carrie said...
I have taken youth protection training for the Boy Scouts and for the catholic school that my children attended and you are taught that you need to think of every adult as a potential perv. I would think that the programs that are harmed the most by these fears are the one-on-one mentoring programs like Big Brothers and Big Sisters--adults because they are at risk of being wrongly accused of wrongful acts, and kids because fewer adults are willing to assume the risks that come with one-on-one mentoring programs. But then maybe these programs have changed and don't allow one-on-one mentoring anymore.
- jamboree said...
Finally getting around to reading the Steve Jobs' bio, I'm struck by how much of a "Dad Thing" the early years of the Silicon Valley wonders were. They basically not only hung out and learned from their own dads, but all the dads on the block.
Can't see that happening today.
There is one scene with young, and probably quite cute, Steve Jobs hanging out with some older, cranky guy who says, "Come here let me show you something."
I involuntarily tense up... and it is a rock tumbler from which he draws all kinds of collaborative metaphors for life.
Just sayin' that if that were a modern scene in a TV mini series, I doubt it that's how it would be written.
Too bad. I'm still curious if there's been an explosion of sex abuse since about the 70s, or if it was always there and hidden and the numbers were just as high as today.
- Ralph L said...
Jamboree, there is a big jump in violent crime rates starting about 1965. The causes? I'd guess partly demographic (more young men, urbanization), partly legal (shorter sentences/Miranda/less powerful/aggressive cops), partly social (more drug use, more fatherless boys).
Many more homes with out an adult man to scare away predators would indicate the rate of sex abuse is higher.


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The Massive Prison Industry In The United States: Big Business & Slavery
Despite the fact that various social, political, and human rights organizations have condemned the United States' prison system, it remains one of the biggest businesses in existence today. Did you know that America has four percent of the world's population, yet still carries approximately twenty five percent of the world's prison population? That is a staggering number. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world and it is increasing exponentially each year. Almost half of American juveniles will have been arrested before they reach their 23rd birthday, and children as young as 13 years old have been sentenced to die in prison. The cost of this system? Approximately $75,000,000,000 a year…
These are just a few startling statistics outlined in the video below. Check it out.
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Big Business or Slavery? The Massive Incarceration Industry
One thing we may not realize about prison is the fact that millions of people within America's prison populations, predominantly Black and Hispanic, are working for several different industries in exchange for practically nothing. Is this not another form of slavery? Like the cheap labour and child slave labor practices we condemn overseas, the American prison system is simply another form of slavery — to the benefit of corporations, at almost no cost — that has been disguised as a necessary and favourable part of society. Prison is a gold mine of human capital for massive corporations whose unethical business practices are leading to the destruction of our planet, and whose unmitigated influence in the political sphere has given them nearly free reign to dictate government policy.
The truth is, there is a massive contracting of prisoners for work happening right now, and this only provides more incentive to lock people up. This is the income that prisons depend upon, and the prison industry is actually one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States. Its investors are on Wall Street.
"Prison labor based in private prisons is a multimillion-dollar industry with its own trade exhibitions, conventions, websites, and mail-order/Internet catalogs (Pelaez 2008). . . . The industry also has direct advertising campaigns, architecture companies, construction companies, investment houses on Wall Street, plumbing supply companies, food supply companies, armed security, and padded cell manufacturing, all of which rival those of any other private industry (Pelaez 2008). Furthermore, private prisoners at the state level produce a variety of goods and services, from clothing to toys to telemarketing and customer service (Erlich 2005). The private federal prison industry also produces nearly all military goods, from uniform helmet to ammunition, along with durable goods ranging from paint to office furniture (Pelaez 2008)." (source)
Did you know that corporate stockholders who make money off of prison labor lobby for longer sentences? They do this to expand their workforce, and so, according to a study done by the Progressive Labor Party, "the system feeds itself." They accuse the prison system of being "an imitation of Nazi Germany" with regards to forced slave labor and concentration camps.
If we look at the history of prison labour in the United States, it becomes immediately apparent that the entire system is birthed out of racism. After the civil wars of the mid to late 18th century, the system of hiring prisoners was established in order to continue the slavery that had dominated previous years. This was, of course, a time when racial segregation was legal across the United States.
"Prison labor has its roots in slavery. After the 1861-1865 Civil War, a system of 'hiring out prisoners' was introduced in order to continue the slavery tradition. Freed slaves were charged with not carrying out their sharecropping commitments (cultivating someone else's land in exchange for part of the harvest) or petty thievery – which were almost never proven – and were then 'hired out' for cotton picking, working in mines and building railroads. From 1870 until 1910 in the state of Georgia, 88% of hired-out convicts were Black. In Alabama, 93% of 'hired-out'miners were Black. In Mississippi, a huge prison farm similar to the old slave plantations replaced the system of hiring out convicts. The notorious Parchman plantation existed until 1972." (source)
Vicky Pelaez, a Peruvian journalist and columnist for The Moscow News, points out that dozens of states have legalized the contracting of prison labor to corporations, which include such names as: IMB, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Dell, and many more. Some of these inmates are getting approximately $2 a hour. She also outlines how inmates are commonly imported and exported.
Below is a clip taken from the THRIVE movement of an interview with Van Jones, who brings up some important points.
Prisons Do Not 'Rehabilitate' People
Again, prison is a business, and given the horrible conditions, poor food, and various other human rights abuses prisoners face, it's quite clear that something needs to change here.
First of all, if you want to 'rehabilitate' and help somebody, locking them up for hours every single day for large portions of their life is, as I am sure most of you reading this would agree, not a solution.
Prison does not address why people are committing these crimes and it certainly does not do anything to help them deal with those issues. Moreover, the punishments rarely fit the crimes; prison sentences are often disproportionately long in relation to the crime being addressed. We are not acknowledging or dealing with the fact that governments have brought drugs into their countries and glorified crime in order to drive up the prison population. There are a number of factors that go into the business of prison, and helping people better themselves as human beings is not one of them.
There are children and men in there who have been locked up for more than a decade… for stealing. Is that really rehabilitation? Solitary confinement, commonly used in prison, is a form of punishment that is regarded as torture (and should be). The Center For Constitutional Rights states:
Researchers have demonstrated that prolonged solitary confinement causes a persistent and heightened state of anxiety and nervousness, headaches, insomnia, lethargy or chronic tiredness, nightmares, heart palpitations, fear of impending nervous breakdowns and higher rates of hypertension and early morbidity. Other documented effects include obsessive ruminations, confused thought processes, an oversensitivity to stimuli, irrational anger, social withdrawal, hallucinations, violent fantasies, emotional flatness, mood swings, chronic depression, feelings of overall deterioration, as well as suicidal ideation. (source)
As the first video in this article outlines, sure, measures have to be taken against certain individuals to keep others safe, but what is happening here is not a solution.
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Rudy Giuliani's Claim of Inappropriate Pics of Children On Hunter Biden's Laptop Deemed Fake News. Is It?
In Brief
- The Facts:
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani has been outspoken about inappropriate pictures and messages of children that have supposedly been found on Hunter Biden's laptop. These allegations are being deemed a "conspiracy theory" by mainstream media.
- Reflect On:
Why is there so much censorship of information without appropriate investigation? Should people not have the right to view information openly, freely and transparently?
What Happened: A few days ago, a top Republican senator mentioned the possibility that the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated whether there was child pornography on a laptop and hard drive that supposedly belonged to Hunter Biden. He did so when Journalist Maria Bartiromo asked Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about a Business Insider report that described faint handwriting on a subpoena served last year to a Delaware business that was given a water-damaged MacBook Pro to repair but was never retrieved along with a hard drive. The hardware purportedly contained data about foreign business dealings and other matters related to the son of former Vice President Joe Biden. You can watch a clip of that interview here.
On October 16th, American attorney, cybersecurity advisor and politician Rudy Giuliani, who also served as Mayer of New York City from 1994 to 2001 claimed on his Youtube Channel that he has come across evidence that this laptop and hard drive do belong to Hunter Biden, and that there's a signature to prove it which he has in his possession. He also thoroughly explains the story about Hunter's supposed laptop and how it came into the possession of the Delaware business. Furthermore, he claimed that there were photos of activity on the laptop that anyone "would have a hard time describing, and really should be left to more private discussion."
Giuliani has since mentioned that Hunter Biden had numerous pictures of girls, who were just children, on the laptop as well as inappropriate messages, and that he has turned this evidence over the the Delaware State Police. He has expressed that the Chinese government may have access to this kind of thing in order to blackmail the Biden family into doing whatever they want.
Andrii Derkach, a politician the US Treasury believes to be a "Russian agent," claimed on Friday that another device belonging to Hunter was given to Ukrainian police.
We saw this perspective with Jeffrey Epstein, where multiple sources, including a high ranking intelligence official, claimed that part of his job was to blackmail high level politicians and businessman by having compromising videos and pictures of them with children. Christopher Mason, a TV host and journalist/reporter who has known Ghislaine Maxwell for decades has gone on record and said he was told that Epstein rigged his multiple homes with cameras and kept tapes of everyone/everything. He says Maxwell has access to this footage. You can read more about that here.
Approximately one month ago Hunter Biden, the son of presidential candidate Joe Biden, apparently sent thousands of dollars to individuals allegedly involved in sex trafficking, according to a report recently released by Senate Republicans. According the report, Biden "has sent funds to non-resident alien women in the United States who are citizens of Russia and Ukraine and who have subsequently wired funds they have received from Hunter Biden to individuals located in Russia and Ukraine…The records also note that some of these transactions are linked to what "appears to be an Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring."
Facebook Fact-Checker Politifact Weighs In: According to Politifact, a Facebook Fact Checker, "There is no evidence that a laptop previously belonging to Hunter Biden contains child pornography. The allegation originated on an anonymous internet forum that's a known source of online disinformation."
They mention that a rumour quickly emerged that "Hunter Biden has 25,000 pics of him torturing and raping children under age 10 in China on his laptop."
These allegations seems to have stemmed from multiple tweets by radio host Wayne Root claimed ,without evidence, stating that he has that Hunter Biden's laptop contains videos of him sexually abusing and torturing Chinese children.
CBS News interviewed the owner of the computer store, John Paul MacIsaac, and they state that he was "unable and unwilling to answer key questions about how the laptop supposedly arrived in his store, and eventually, how the data was shared with Giuliani. CBS News interviewed MacIsaac for almost two hours on Wednesday and throughout the interview he contradicted himself about his motivations, raising questions about the truthfulness of one of the central figures in the story."
The New York Post also interviewed him, you can listen to that entire interview here.
Giuliani claimed "dangerous people" are involved in the Hunter Biden laptop scandal – leaving the Mackbook repairman who leaked it fearing for his life.
According to Politico,
More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden's son "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
The letter, signed on Monday, centers around a batch of documents released by the New York Post last week that purport to tie the Democratic nominee to his son Hunter's business dealings. Under the banner headline "Biden Secret E-mails," the Post reported it was given a copy of Hunter Biden's laptop hard drive by President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said he got it from a Mac shop owner in Delaware who also alerted the FBI.
Biden has of course denied all allegations.
Regardless of What You Believe About This Story, Child Trafficking and Sexual Abuse in places of power exists, and persists.
There are a number of examples of child sexual abuse in places of power. The Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell cases are a great example of that, both involved and implicated in trafficking children for sexual purposes, and possible blackmail purposes as well.
Not long ago, As The Hill reports, "The Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service subsequently identified hundreds of DOD-affiliated individuals as suspects involved in accessing child pornography, several of whom used government devices to use and share the images." You can read more about that here.
There are many credible examples from Royal Families, the Vatican, big finance, big politics, Hollywood and more. If you'd like to go a bit more in depth and see some of this evidence, you can refer to this article I published last year.
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Anneke Lucas is an author, speaker, advocate for child sex trafficking victims, founder of the non-profit organization Liberation Prison Yoga, and creator of the Unconditional Model.
Her work is based off her 30-year journey to restore her mental and physical wellbeing after surviving some of the worst atrocities known to humankind before the age of 12. Sold as a young child into a murderous pedophile network by her family, she was rescued after nearly six years of abuse and torture.
We recently conducted an interview with her. Below is a clip from the four part series, as it was a very long and detailed interview. You can access the full interview and start your free trial HERE on CETV, a platform we created to help combat internet censorship and allow us to continue to do our work and get the word out about various issues and topics.
The Takeaway
Right now the citizenry is completely separated in their beliefs with regard to what's happening, especially in big politics. Stories today are instantly jumped on and deemed false by 'fact-checkers' even when there is legitimate evidence behind the claims. Should people not have the right to examine information, opinions and evidence and decide for themselves what is and what isn't? The amount of information censorship happening today is truly unprecedented.
This type of states is simply a reflection of an evolving human consciousness. We are becoming more aware, and we are questioning actions taken by governments that do not resonate. We are living in times where truth tellers, like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, are exiled and thrown in jail for simply exposing unethical and immoral actions by powerful governments and corporations. What does it say about our world if we've come to the point where activists exposing harmful actions are completely silenced and ridiculed? What's going on here? How did we get to this point and how do we change it? Why do we continue to rely and ask governments to make meaningful changes on our planet? Does voting simply hold up and perpetuate a system that's no longer capable of helping the human race and our planet move forward in the direction it needs to take?
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World Doctors Alliance: "We Do Not Have A Medical Pandemic." Fake News?
In Brief
- The Facts:
Formed under the "Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee," an alliance of hundreds of doctors and scientists, the "World Doctors Alliance recently held a press conference sharing their views about the coronavirus.
- Reflect On:
Why are tens of thousands of doctors and scientists all over the world being ridiculed and in many cases censored for sharing their research and opinions?
Update/correction: The scientific community has determined that the virus that causes COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, not a strain of seasonal flu, and it is far more deadly than the flu.
What Happened: Once again, doctors and scientists are and have been sharing the opinion that COVID-19 should not be classified as a pandemic virus due to the fact that it's, in their opinion, nowhere near as dangerous as big media is making it out to be.
An organization made up of well over 500 German doctors and scientists called "Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee" who share the same perception discussed in this article have also created the "World Doctors Alliance." Not long ago they held a press sharing their perspective.
Below is a clip of one of the members, Dr. Elke De Klerk, founder of Doctors for Truth from the Netherlands sharing her thoughts. Below that you will find the press conference recently held by the alliance.
Many expert have been emphasizing that we are dealing with something no more dangerous than the flu. For example, approximately 40,000 scientists, doctors and more than half a million concerned citizens have now signed The Great Barrington Declaration. The declaration explains that "Covid-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza."
The CDC also released new infection/fatality estimates that show numbers on par with seasonal flu. This recent release also has many people and experts calling into question the severity of the virus, this was well after John P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford University said that the infection fatality rate is close to 0 percent for people under the age of 45 years old.
The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) recently published a report titled "Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods." According to them, the infection/fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.26%. You can read more about that and access their resources and reasoning here.
Then there is the controversy surrounding the PCR tests and the idea that a large majority of cases may actually be false positives. You can read more about that here and here. This as been coupled with the fact that many COVID deaths may not have actually been the result of COVID. You can read more about that here and here.
These groups are made up of veteran experts in the field, Nobel Laureates, Professors of Medicine, Doctors and more, yet all it takes is for an Anthony Fauci like figure to oppose their opinion, and this is the perspective that gets beamed across mainstream media outlets, radio and television while the opposing view is nothing but ridiculed and "debunked." This is very bizarre to say the least, mainstream media alone has the power to make the majority seem like the minority, and the minority seem like the majority. They have a huge reach when it comes to regulating the perception of the masses.
The exampels listed above are a few of many.
Right now, the Great Barrington Declaration mentioned above and the idea of "heard immunity" is being heavily ridiculed in the mainstream, without any of the renowned scientists who support the declaration having an opportunity to share their opinion via mainstream media.
For the other side of the coin, here's a perspective you can read from Health Feedback, a Facebook Fact-Checker, with regards to infection fatality rate. According to them it's much higher than the flu, and COVID is very dangerous.
Below is a recent full press conference held by the alliance.
Is This Fake News? Nothing in this article is fake, these opinions are actually being shared by doctors and scientists around the world, and a lot of them. As far as what they are saying and the opinions expressed above, this is what's come under the scrutiny of Facebook Fact-Checkers. It's been emphasized during this pandemic that any type of information that does not come straight from federal health regulatory agencies and the World Health Organization is not to be trusted.
Here's an article from Health Feedback, for example, explaining why low infection fatality numbers do not mean that the virus is not dangerous.
The organizations above have been speaking up regarding the censorship they've experienced from social media giants, and this has also been a common theme throughout this pandemic. Michael Levitt, a Biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, criticized the WHO as well as Facebook for censoring different information and informed perspectives regarding the Coronavirus. According to him, "the level of stupidity" going on here is amazing.
According to Fact-Check.org:
A video posted by a European-based group called World Doctors Alliance falsely claims the novel coronavirus is "a normal flu virus" and there is no COVID-19 pandemic. Actually, COVID-19 is deadlier than the seasonal flu, and some European nations are combatting a second wave of cases.
According to the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we remain in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic, with an uptick in case numbers and hospitalizations straining the ability of medical centers in some areas to cope. Some European governments have imposed more restrictions to fight another wave of cases.
Yet on Oct. 10, Heiko Schöning, a German physician and head of a group known by the German acronym ACU2020, announced formation of an organization called World Doctors Alliance to challenge the veracity of the COVID-19 pandemic. The alliance website claims it is "abundantly clear that the 'pandemic' is basically over and has been since June 2020."
An 18-minute video announcing the group's formation was posted on the ACU2020 website but has since been taken down by YouTube for violating its terms of service. Still, portions of the video featuring two doctors challenging the science behind the pandemic are circulating on Facebook with false assertions and statistics.
Staking out the group's position, Elke De Klerk, a Dutch general practitioner, says on the video, "We do not have a pandemic" and calls COVID-19 a "normal flu virus" – claims flatly rejected by the WHO, CDC, and other experts.
De Klerk claims the pandemic designation was based on poor testing, with the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, molecular test returning false positive results in "89 to 94%" of the cases. That's not true.
While the false positive rate remains an area of continued examination, preliminary studies show the test's false positive rate is far less than De Klerk claims. A recent article in the British medical publication The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, said estimates in the U.K. place the false positive rate in the 0.8 to 4% range, while false negatives could run as high as 33%.
As for the virus that causes COVID-19, scientists universally agree it is a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, not a strain of influenza.
While the death rate for COVID-19 remains uncertain, as we have reported, evidence suggests it is higher than for seasonal influenza.
In De Klerk's own country, the Netherlands, there have been more than 6,800 deaths attributed to COVID-19 so far this year, compared to 2,900 due to flu and pneumonia in 2018-19.
In the U.S., where COVID-19 has caused more than 220,000 deaths, the worst flu season in the past decade killed an estimated 61,000 people in 2017-18, as we've reported. In fact, COVID-19 so far has killed more people in the U.S. than the past five flu seasons combined, and hundreds more die each day.
In addition, a CDC study released Oct. 20 found hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in the Veterans Health Administration had a five times higher risk of death than patients with the flu.
You can read more from them here.
The Takeaway: It's been quite intriguing to see so many scientists and doctors completely oppose the recommendations and claims made by the World Health Organization (WHO) since the beginning of this pandemic. What's even more shocking for lots of people is the fact that many scientists and doctors have been completely censored for sharing their research and opinion regarding anything to do with COVID if it opposes the information and recommendations set out by the WHO.
It's not hard to see why so many people are confused and so many of us have beliefs that completely differ from one another.
Should people not have the right to examine information and opinions and decide for themselves what is and what isn't Should there be a digital fact checker patrolling the internet limiting peoples ability to see certain information? Do organizations like the WHO and our governments really make decisions that are in and for our best interests, or are there other interests being served here?
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Trump Says COVID-19 Vaccine Won't Be Mandatory, Biden Says It Should Be
In Brief
- The Facts:
It doesn't seem likely that a COVID vaccine will be mandatory under the Trump administration, but Joe Biden recently shared that he believes it should be.
- Reflect On:
If the vaccine did become mandatory, would you take it? Will there be too much of a backlash if the vaccine is made mandatory, or mandatory to travel for example?
What Happened: US President Donald Trump told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Network's 'Varney &Co' that he doesn't plan to make the coronavirus vaccine mandatory for American citizens, because "there are some people who feel strongly about the whole situation,' alluding to the idea that people should still have freedom of choice when it comes to what they choose to do with their own body.
On the other hand, presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would urge all state representatives, governors, mayors and council members to make the vaccine mandatory, just like some have done with masks. He acknowledged that such a mandate would be difficult to enforce, but stated that "we should be thinking about making it mandatory."
Trump has long been promoting alternative therapies for COVID, many have come under scrutiny by mainstream media. The scientific and medical community have both promoted these therapies as well as criticized them, the only difference seems to be that those who support them don't seem to receive much media attention, while simultaneously become subjected to a censorship campaign by media and social media outlets.
Scientists who share opinions that contradict the World Health Organization (WHO) have also been heavily censored. Michael Levitt, a Biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University is one of many who have criticized the WHO as well as Facebook for censoring different information and informed perspectives regarding the Coronavirus.
The Great Barrington Declaration is experiencing the same thing for questioning lockdown measures, it's now been signed by nearly 40,000 doctors and scientists.
A paper recently published in Global Advances in Health and Medicine titled Ascorbate as Prophylaxis and Therapy for COVID-19—Update From Shanghai and U.S. Medical Institutions points out:
A recent consensus statement from a group of renowned infectious disease clinicians observed that vaccine programs have proven ill-suited to the fast-changing viruses underlying these illnesses, with efficacy ranging from 19% to 54% in the past few years.
The paper also promotes the use of alternate therapies like intravenous vitamin C and provides evidence showing its success in COVID patients. It's one of multiple studies to do so, but vitamin C has been heavily ridiculed and censored by mainstream media and social media for being able to provide any help when it comes to healing from COVID, or to help prevent it.
We are being made to believe that a vaccine is the only answer. No other suggestions seem to be acceptable. Why?
Why This Is Important
Why is there an authoritarian 'fact-checker' patrolling the internet and censoring information? Sure, a lot of stories may be completely false and irresponsibly written, especially ones that don't provide any sources for their claims, but a lot of legitimate information is also being censored. Should people not have the right to examine information and opinions that go against the grain and decide for themselves what is, and what isn't? Are we not capable of this? Can the mainstream media make the minority feel like the majority and the majority feel like the minority?
I've emphasized in many of my articles how vaccine hesitancy continues to grow. That's no big secret. This is occurring not only with much of the general population, but doctors and scientists as well.
Professor Heidi Larson, a Professor of Anthropology and the Risk and Decision Scientist Director at the Vaccine Confidence Project stated at a World Health Organization (WHO) conference that:
The other thing that's a trend, and an issue, is not just confidence in providers but confidence of health care providers, we have a very wobbly health professional frontline that is starting to question vaccines and the safety of vaccines. That's a huge problem, because to this day any study I've seen… still, the most trusted person on any study I've seen globally is the health care provider…
Many people are asking why doesn't mainstream media or Bill Gates actually addresses the concerns that are being raised by scientists and doctors? Why is ridicule and terms like "conspiracy theory" always used instead?
What are the concerns? Vaccine injury is one of them. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has paid more than $4 billion to families of vaccine injured children. A 2010 HHS pilot study by the Federal Agency for Health Care Research (AHCR) found that 1 in every 39 vaccines causes injury, a shocking comparison to the claims from the CDC of 1 in every million.
There are several concers.
If you'd like to access more of articles that are properly sourced regarding vaccine concerns, there is a link to a few at the bottom of this article I recently published.
Big Politics: Every single year big politics, in my opinion, continues to be exposed as a system that's no longer capable of dealing with and appropriately handling big issues our planet faces today. I often ask myself, does voting simply uphold a system that's no longer capable of creating any meaningful change? Big politics is filled with an enormous amount of corruption, and many would say that corporations now dictate policy, not government.
When it comes to health policy, there are many conflicts of interests to be concerned about, scientists from within federal health regulatory agencies have been bringing awareness to this fact for many years. For example, few years ago more than a dozen scientists from within the CDC put out public statement detailing the influence corporations have within the CDC, how corrupt things are, how it happens in all departments how many high ranking people within the CDC condone this behaviour. They were referred to as the Spider Papers.
Award winning medical investigator Jeanne Lenzer also made this quite clear in a 2015 paper published in the British Medical Journal.
The CDC's image as an independent watchdog over the public health has given it enormous prestige, and its recommendations are occasionally enforced by law. Despite the agency's disclaimer, the CDC does receive millions of dollars in industry gifts and funding, both directly and indirectly, and several recent CDC actions and recommendations have raised questions about the science it cites, the clinical guidelines it promotes, and the money it is taking.
This is a huge problem, and it's one that seems to plague all industries, not just the medical industry.
The Takeaway
We are pitted against each other like never before these days, and it doesn't seem that politics helps us find common ground. It's about belittling and ridiculing every move an opponent makes, and does not in any way shape or for represent a system of people who are willing to pool their resources and work together for meaningful change. So why do we continue to be captured by it? Why do we even pay attention? How can we change things and take matters into our own hands? Why do we live the way we do?
Power has corrupted our political process, and decisions today are made for politicians, corporations and those who seem to control these entities in order to gain more power from and profit off of.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today – Theodore Roosevelt
Honesty, morality, empathy, and an overall unawareness regarding the interconnectedness of life is severely lacking, and I do believe human beings are capable of creating a human experience where all life can thrive. We have the solutions, but many of them never see the light of day or receive any attention, so ask yourself, if we have the solutions, what's preventing them from being implemented?
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You're visiting a client's home when UPS drops off a package. Your client excitedly unpacks it and removes an ornately designed jewelry box. It's early 19th Century from Austria, she explains, and it was a steal for $5,000 at an online auction.
Collectors used to bid for auction items via telephone. Of course, the Internet has changed all that. All the major auction houses have online-bidding services and websites. Some websites, like 1stdibs.com and curatorseye.com, specialize in online sales of high-end items, including antiques.
Ed Beardsley, vice-president and managing director, Fine & Decorative Arts with Heritage Auctions in Dallas, estimates that over 50% of the company's business is now done online.
"It allows the sophisticated collector to find pieces that they've been looking for throughout the world. I mean we do business with I think 182 countries or similar. And, that's what we look for," Beardsley (right) says. "The people who are serious collectors, who want to put something into their collection that they haven't found. The Internet makes it a smaller world and, as such, they're willing to look around online at the major sites and in fact ship it to wherever they are."
That doesn't mean all categories are drawing top prices, though. As in other collectibles markets, it appears that higher-priced items are drawing more attention than those with lower prices.
Karen Knapstein, editor of Antique Trader magazine in Iola, Wis., says some markets, like that for lower-quality furniture, continue to be soft. Beardsley says interest in 20th Century design is growing, and prices are strong at many of the major sites.
Nineteenth Century continental decorative art has some strong results, but it also has some niches that are "a little bit tricky," he adds.
Smart Shopping
Just because an item's available online doesn't mean it's a good deal, of course. As with any dealer-based market, an uninformed customer is at a serious disadvantage to industry insiders.
That means clients need to study the items and markets that interest them to better understand pricing and valuation trends.
Auction houses' online databases of transactions are an excellent place to start the research, experts say.
Heritage Auction's online archives, for instance, go back 30 years, notes Beardsley: "Look at the archives, look at similar items, see what we've gotten for them, look at what the estimate was and you get a feel if we're getting between low and high, if we're getting higher than high."
Knapstein (left) adds an important caveat: It's not enough to just scratch the surface of a market. "Doing your homework is very, very important, not just by learning a little bit and then using that," she says. "Just learning a little bit, you learn just enough to be dangerous. You get your confidence up and you think you know what you're doing and then you might be more likely to get burned."
Additionally, Knapstein stresses, part of the collector's background research should consider the dealers whom they're considering. This is critical in cases where an item is sold as-is and the buyer have limited recourse.
"Another pitfall of buying online is an item may not be represented as accurately as you would have liked," she says. "Condition is king when you're dealing with antiques and you see a lot of descriptions say, you know, it looks great for its age. Well, no, really not. When you're looking at buying and investing it really does need to be – every scratch counts, I should say."


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A second Oxfam relief team has arrived in Qinghai and has delivered supplies to 2,000 earthquake survivors.
"People in remote areas are in urgent need of supplies according to the local government. Oxfam teams are providing blankets and other aid to 2,000 people in three of the outer lying towns. All are at high altitude," said Aman Yee, Deputy Program Manager of the Rural Development and Disaster Management Team of Oxfam Hong Kong.
"The sanitation is deteriorating in the temporary camp set up in the town of Jiegu. People have to defecate in the open, litter is piling up, and there is a real risk of disease. To help reduce the risk Oxfam will be helping with public hygiene information campaigns," said Yee.
In addition to its aid that has already arrived, Oxfam will be flying in 600 tents which are expected to arrive in the remote affected areas later today (19 April).
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Why You May Need to Look Outside of HR27 February, 2012 | (01 hr)
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When companies decide to launch a Strategic Workforce Planning initiative, they face an immediate challenge: Who can lead this effort? Should they look within Human Resources or elsewhere in the organization? If they need to search externally, where?
Throughout the latter half of 2011, The Conference Board has seen a dramatic spike in the number of queries we've received from companies and headhunters asking exactly these questions. Because SWP is still a new methodology, there's no profile of what it takes to lead SWP successfully and no well worn path that companies follow to find such a person. Those determined to find a seasoned SWP leader are diving into the shallow end of the talent pool. Only a handful people have already led a successful SWP implementation and stuck with the process over the three-to-five years it takes to reach maturity.
The shortage of experienced SWP leaders is part of a much larger issue. Human Resources is not the only function scouring the landscape in search of bright, analytic talent. In industries ranging from logistics to retail, the sheer volume of data and the emergence of so called "big data" are creating new products, business models and competitive strategies— and a new job category, "data scientists."
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Anyway, my wedding schedule is abit plump & twisted. Had the dinner 1st, then a buffet at my place, only then had the actual day, and then moved to Ipoh to entertain those relatives there. All in a space of 3 weeks, weekend after weekend starting from 27th Sept to 10th October.
In the end, I felt like I got married 3 times, 3 weekends in a row. But luckily only 1 ring on my finger ;)
So I wonder who's next……..?
Bride and Groom welcomes you to our KL dinner!!!
A white bachelor party/buffet @ my crib. No, that's not my personal stash of Grade A coke, it's flour, and LOTS of them. But maybe I got my coke mixed with the flour somehow. See how high that girl is?
Soaking up the cool pool (private, no less) @ Ritz-Garden hotel for my Ipoh dinner. Looks calm and chilled-out at the pool? Well, LOTS more happened after this was taken...
With some good friends at the wedding dinner @ Ipoh.
Out and about in Ipoh and stop-over in Gopeng. Gua Tumpurung that is, and our usual cam-whoring devils were let out to play. And proud off it, mind you. ;)
Well, would like to show more, but not in an open medium like a blog ;) Hop on to my facebook page for more scandalous moments to wet any grimy tastebuds. Rwwwrrrrr!!!!


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Goodby Alumni Launch Argonaut in S.F.
New shop is backed by Project Worldwide
Meet Argonaut, the latest San Francisco agency to be launched by alumni of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
The shop, which opens this week, is led by chief creative officers Rick Condos and Hunter Hindman and president Jordan Warren. Condos and Hindman were most recently executive creative directors at Goodby.
Warren is a former president of West Coast operations for the now-defunct Agency.com, which Omnicom rebranded as Signal to Noise in 2010 and shuttered in 2011. Warren also co-founded San Francisco agency Eleven in 1999.
Argonaut has yet to sign any clients. The agency, though, is financially backed by Project Worldwide, a small but growing holding company that includes events marketing shops like George P. Johnson and has expanded through the acquisition of agencies such as Partners + Napier in Rochester, N.Y.
The new venture's initial team of six also includes lead technologist Robbie Whiting, head of strategy Max Heilbron and new business chief Conal O'Doherty.
At Goodby, Condos and Hindman worked on brands like Cisco and Chevrolet. Before that, they partnered at Wieden + Kennedy in Amsterdam on Coca-Cola, helping to create ads such as "Happiness Factory."
Argonaut follows on a long line of Bay Area startups founded by Goodby expats. In 2012, former partner and ecd Jamie Barrett launched barrettSF with Patrick Kelly. Other Bay area shops with Goodby roots include Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners, Venables Bell & Partners and Eleven.
"It really feels like the right time for us," Hindman said. "It's something we've been thinking about for a long time. But we ultimately know that it comes down to the people we surround ourselves with who will create the success that we'll have. I think it was that right moment where we ran across the right group of people."
When asked about the name, Condos said Argonaut "both signaled our kind of feeling going out to do this, the adventure we were undertaking [and] the type of people that we want to attract and the kind of clients that we want to work with."
Condos added that "there's a certain amount of quest for the unknown here and courage and striking out for unknown futures is exciting."


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To use our Movers Guide most effectively, please carefully look over the relevant articles below in order while keeping the inventory list at hand and using the cubic calculator when necessary.
The first and, some might say, most important article to read. You'll learn essential things about packing such as proper labelling, keeping track of your items, packing fragile items or carpets, etc
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