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45). 27 Western Marxism, edited by New Left Review. 28 Gillian Rose, ‘The Antinomies of Sociological Reason’, Hegel Contra Sociology (London: Athlone, 1981), pp. 1–47. 29 Rose, Hegel Contra Sociology, p. 14. 30 Goetschel, Constituting Critique, p. 143. 31 Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, trans. Alan Sheridan-Smith (London: New Left Books, 1976); Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason, trans. Michael Eldred (London: Verso, 1988); and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
S. Harris (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 2000). See Pinkard, German Philosophy 1760–1860. Garbis Kortian, Metacritique: The Philosophical Argument of Ju¨rgen Habermas, trans. John Raffan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p. 34. Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950 (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1973); and Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, trans. Michael Robertson (Cambridge: Polity, 1994).
Practical Philosophy, trans. Mary J. Gregor, ed. Allen Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 15–22 (p. 17). ’, The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), pp. 32–50 (p. 45). 27 Western Marxism, edited by New Left Review. 28 Gillian Rose, ‘The Antinomies of Sociological Reason’, Hegel Contra Sociology (London: Athlone, 1981), pp. 1–47. 29 Rose, Hegel Contra Sociology, p. 14. 30 Goetschel, Constituting Critique, p. 143. 31 Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, trans.

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Greetings from Paris! I had a chance to visit the Musée des Arts Décoratifs where they have a beautiful museum boutique called 107 Rivoli.
They had a jewelry display that I thought was just amazing!
The jewelry was displayed on the cool and creepy dolls!
That larger naked doll is modeling the Macy Necklace in Signal Red, Snow White, and Frost. She looks very content being draped in the jewels!
The little naked doll is wearing the Macy Necklace in Grey. The Plump O Ring with the diamond is also in the display case. If you are wearing Tina Frey Jewelry, why would you need to wear anything else?!
More baby dolls wearing the Pointed Collar Necklace, Peter Pan Collar Necklace, and the Demi-Lune Necklace.
You can also find a selection of the Homewares at 107 Rivoli too!

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As captured by Emma Lazarus, the torch of the Statute of Liberty lights the path for “the poor,” “the homeless, tempest-tossed,” welcoming them to this land, to the United States. Yet this administration’s basest instincts, so harsh towards those “yearning to breath free,” already seeking to block those who are fleeing persecution and remove who are seeking the American dream but lack proper documentation, has also turned its focus tp immigrants who are here with legal documentation and who seek to enter through lawful channels, yet happen to be in times of or are likely to experience economic hardship.
A proposed new rule that affects who may become lawful permanent residents (and thus, potentially, citizens) and otherwise receive certain visas, even though it has yet to be finalized or take effect, is already harming the health and well-being of some of the most vulnerable members of the American family. Time is running out – in particular, until December 10, 2018 – for you to go on the official public record opposing this change in policy.
At issue is a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (sec. 212(a)(4)) that makes people applying for admission into the United States inadmissible, and who are seeking to adjust their visa status unable to do so, if they are “likely to become a public charge.” That is, people who are seeking to immigrate to the United States or receive certain non-immigrant visas, or who are here and seeking a green card (to be a permanent resident), will be denied if they are so deemed. The proposal would also affect nonimmigrant visa-holders who seek to extend their stay.
The legislation does not define what constitutes a public charge. Presently, only two groups of people are included – those who receive cash assistance and those who are under long-term institutionalization at government expense. The administration has proposed vastly expanding the benefits considered. Under the proposed rule, “public charge” would be interpreted to also include most Medicaid benefits and a Medicare low-income subsidy, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, public housing, and Section 8 housing benefits. The Department of Homeland Security, which is proposing the rule, is also considering whether to include the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) among the benefits considered.
Congress has exempted several groups from the public charge provision, such as trafficking victims and refugees, something that would not change.
Another change (among still more) that would harm immigrants and would-be immigrants: their income will be directly considered, with low income weighing against them. In the past, income levels figured into the “public charge” consideration only indirectly. Some immigrants – those seeking certain family-based visas or employment-based visas (in particularly, where the immigrant works for a relative of their company) – must file an affidavit of support, where the sponsor was legislatively required to affirm that they could support the immigrant at an income level of at least 125% of the federal poverty line. Under the proposed change, an annual household income below this threshold would now directly count against the immigrant’s application (unless they had a specified level of assets, namely enough to cover five times the difference between their actual household income and the 125% threshold). That’s currently 7.5 million non-citizen residents who would have their income considered negatively.
By one estimate, 2.1-4.9 million people would disenroll from Medicaid or CHIP. That’s 15-35% of all beneficiaries of these programs who live in a household with a non-citizen. This would add to the extensive health harms that the administration’s policies are already causing immigrants.
Notably, when the Justice Department first defined the term “public charge” in 1999, it did so in large measure because many immigrants were not seeking public benefits because they feared the immigration consequences. This led state and federal agencies to themselves report that the confusion over what “public charge” encompassed was “creating significant, negative public health consequences across the country.” The situation was particularly “acute” regarding “the provision of emergency and other medical assistance, children’s immunizations, and basic nutrition programs, as well as the treatment of communicable diseases,” with the harms falling both on immigrants and their families and on the public overall, with the risk of increased spread of infectious diseases. Imagine what would happen if programs that provide many of these benefits really will have the feared immigration consequences.
Beyond the health harms through disenrollment or immigrants not signing up for benefits to which immigrants are legally entitled, another consequence of the proposed rule would be that quite possibly millions of immigrants would lose the opportunity to continue on the pathway towards U.S. citizenship, may not be allowed to legally remain in the United States, and may not be allowed to come in the first place. This is one of this administration’s broadest assaults on immigrants.
In October, the Department of Homeland Security issued the proposed new rule, with a 60-day window for public comment. It is a cruel irony that the last day for comment that will undermine people’s right to health and other rights is this Monday, December 10, Human Rights Day. I urge you to comment by that date. You can find the rule with the option to comment here and the comment form itself here.
While it may seem fruitless given the administration’s view of immigrants, public reaction can make a difference. A leaked version of an earlier proposed “public charge” rule was even more expansive, such as including receiving the Earned Income Tax Credit among the benefits considered, yet received a hash reception and was scaled back.
Every dollar saved directly if this proposed rule takes effect would come at the cost of the health of some of our country’s most vulnerable people. Every dollar saved directly comes at the cost of people who are and who would contribute to the vitality – and the economy – of these United States. And every dollar saved directly comes at the cost of the very meaning of America. The land of opportunity risks becoming decidedly less so.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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In Origins, Amin Maalouf recounts the family history of the generation of his paternal grandfather, Botros Maalouf. Maalouf sets out to discover the truth about why Botros, a poet and educator in Lebanon, traveled across the globe to rescue his younger brother, Gebrayal, who had settled in Havana.
Here I am in Cuba to find Gebrayel; in my diary is his last known address: the Colon Cemetery in Havana. I know I'll recognize his residence among all the others and decipher its inscriptions easily. A name engraved on stone isn't much, I have to admit, but it is the name of my relatives and the missing proof of their transatlantic dream.
We nomadic souls have a cult for vestiges and pilgrimages. We may not build anything durable, but we leave traces. And a few persistent noises. On the advice of all my friends who know this island, I resolved to stay far away from tourist routes and official channels, in order to move about, ferret around, and live as I pleased. I found accommodations in Vedado, a large neighborhood in the northwest of the city, at the home of a woman whose name is Betty. Her house is slightly less posh than some others in the area, but also markedly less dilapidated. On the colonnaded veranda are a welcoming table and plastic chairs. The legs of the chairs are attached to the legs of the table, so the chairs won't be tempted to run away with just any old petty thief. In the evening the smell of gasoline and jasmine hangs in the air. In the small courtyard, two bougainvilleas, a gardenia, and, under a sheet metal carport, a nice green car manufactured in the days of the Soviet Union.
Soon I plan to buy the home that the government built eight years ago for General Máximo Gómez. It is located at the corner of Prado and Monte avenues.
These words had instantly aroused the longings for a treasure hunt that date back to my earliest childhood reading. Longings that I believe I share with many of my kind, but that adulthood, jealous of our childhood dreams, tries to stifle. I don't think I'll be able to fall asleep tonight without having set eyes on this house, which Gebrayel called "the Gómez palace" in some of his letters and which used to be ours.
According to the research I did on the day before leaving on this trip, the Monte Avenue mentioned by my great-uncle is now called Máximo Gómez, no less, while Prado Avenue bears the name of Jose Martí. As I write these names, now familiar and practically like family, I have the usurped feeling of being among relatives in an America that my ancestors secretly rediscovered and reconquered.
My nighttime exploration has been a sobering experience. I didn't see the Gómez house. Or if I saw it, I didn't recognize it. Yet I scrupulously followed the procedure I had set for myself in Paris.
At the beginning of the evening I took a short walk in the neighborhood to a main road I had located on the map. I hailed a taxi and self-confidently asked the driver to take me to the center of the city, "Avenida Máximo Gómez." First surprise, the man hesitates. Did I mispronounce? I repeat the words, articulating clearly. How can a Havana taxi driver not know one of the main thoroughfares in the city? I unfold the map and point to "Maximo." The man looks. Thinks. Pouts. Finally, he smiles with relief. "Claro, si, si! Avenida Monte!" I should have suspected as much: as often happens, in all climes, it is the old name that the natives still use . . .
After starting up the car, the man asks me to tell him the exact spot where I wanted to be dropped off. I say, "At the corner of Prado and Monte." He says nothing, but I sense that we still don't understand each other. And as soon as he has to stop for a traffic light, he swivels around with his entire upper body and points at the map with all five fingers: "What corner? There is no corner!"
In fact, there is no real intersection between Prado and Monte. Not that the two avenues are parallel. One crosses the city from north to south and the other from west to east; it is therefore not "geometrically" absurd to speak of a corner. Except these are two huge thoroughfares that connect at one point, or rather merge, like two rivers flowing into the same lake, in this instance a square so vast and with such irregular contours that a person standing in the middle of it could never encompass its different sides simultaneously in one glance.
I had to face the facts: Gebrayal's aim in writing wasn't to provide an address; he just wanted to blow his own trumpet and let his relatives know that he had acquired a sumptuous building in the heart of the city. As for the exact location, he didn't give it to "us"; it was up to me to find it. But not tonight. I didn't find anything tonight. I just wandered in the area and studied several old buildings that might originally have been conceived as residential palaces. I tried to convince myself that it might be the astonishing chalet with brown and bright red walls, which is now a hotel; or the white building there at the corner; or the one across the street, even though the initials engraved on it, J and E, don't match any of my relatives' names—they might have been added at a later date.
No, what was the point of speculating or coaxing the facts? When I looked around, it seemed to me that this part of the city hadn't undergone too many barbaric renovations. There are still, thank God, countless old buildings; though tonight I still don't know which one was Gebrayel's property, I'll know tomorrow or the next day. It was best not to dig my heels in.
JANA SUM PACIS, says an inscription at the top of the monumental entrance to the Colon necropolis: "I am the gateway to peace."
With a glance I assessed the immense size of the mortuary city, the endless rows of proud and flat tomb structures crisscrossed with paths, walks, and avenues as far as the eye can see. I also assessed the impact of the Havana sun beating down on my brow and immediately rejected the idea of strolling about. I walked straight over to the administrative buildings, where, in the most prosaic way possible, I asked for the information that had led me to cross the Atlantic Ocean: "A member of my family was buried here in 1918 . . ."
I am handed a notebook in which I write down Gebrayel's full name in block letters.
A good sign: they don't seem to be at all fazed by the remote date of death; nor does my initiative seem at all incongruous to them. The official at the reception desk opens a register, recopies the names and dates in the appropriate columns, then closes the register and invites me to take a seat.
I hardly wait. She appears almost instantaneously. She is my heroine of the day—I feel like calling her Black Angel. Not only because of the location, where everywhere you look there are stone angels; not only because of her African origins, which she shares with over half the Cuban population; not because of her name, Maria de los Angeles, but because of her wide, cunning, reassuring smile, which instantly convinces me that a miracle will occur.
A miracle? The word is probably too strong. In boarding the plane to come to this island and in visiting this necropolis, I suspected that I had a good chance of finding traces of Gebrayel, particularly his grave. But not necessarily today, on the very first day after my arrival!
I began by explaining to Maria in my labored Castilian Spanish that my great-uncle had died in Cuba. "Su abuelo?"
I almost corrected her to clarify things and explain that he wasn't exactly my grandfather. But what was the point of going into detail? It was better to simplify matters. Yes, my grandfather . . . Gabriel M. . . . Yes, in 1918. No, I didn't know the month: no earlier than June 16, and no later than December. Maybe, at the very latest, in the very first days of the following year. Should we look in the 1919 register? No, actually, it seemed very improbable to me. Nineteen eighteen should suffice . . .
She asked me to follow her and wait outside the door of the archives office. I sat down on a window ledge. At times I watched the comings and goings of visitors in the cemetery paths; at times, through the half-open door, I watched the comings and goings of Maria and the two other archivists—elderly men in overalls who climbed up on stepladders and reached for tan leather registers.
Book of burials number 96, page 397, registration number 1588. On June 21, 1918, burial was given at this Cristobal Colon Cemetery, in crypt number thirty-three, acquired by Alicia, Widow M., to the body of Gabriel M., native of Syria, 42 years of age, married, deceased as a result of the traumatism of crushing, according to the certificate delivered by Dr. P. Perdomo. He was sent to us by the parish of Jesus del Monte, with permission from the municipal judge of the San Miguel del Padron district . . .
I listen reverently and then take the register in my moist hands to read it myself and get some abbreviations and opaque figures explained to me. I experience a filial emotion that brings tears to my eyes, but also, simultaneously, a researcher's joy hardly appropriate to the event recorded in the register, or to the place where I am, even if, for me, this sunny cemetery summons a mood of serenity rather than desolation, and permanence rather than death.
What particularly strikes me in this short, dry text is the date. If Gebrayel was buried on June 21, he must have died a day or two before, yet the last photo I have of him was taken during the great Masonic meeting for Alice's "coronation," which was held on the sixteenth. There was a four-day interval at most between the moment of triumph and the moment of death.
I ask Maria if I can see the tomb. She replies that there were actually two successive graves; the first, rented in haste, where "su abuelo" rested temporarily; the second acquired in September of the same year, a permanent burial plot located in the most expensive section of the cemetery, where national figures and wealthy Havana merchants are buried.
Actually, the first is an anonymous, rectangular, gray slab in the midst of dozens of other identical numbered slabs—its particular reference number is 333—whereas the second is a veritable mortuary residence, not quite the sumptuous mausoleum described by the Orator, but nevertheless a beautiful white marble structure.
Apparently our vault at the Christopher Columbus Cemetery has been used for many other mortal remains throughout the last century. There are epitaphs for several individuals, some clearly of Levantine origin, others bearing Hispanic or Slavic family names. On the marble rooftop are funerary statuettes—seven or eight, that look like the Tables of the Law, or lecterns, or angels' wings.Not far from the grave is a bush that I can't identify, with wine-colored flowers; it was either planted or grew there on its own. A bit farther away, there is a kind of midget cypress tree. Then, a few steps away, in the same section, there is a mausoleum, a real one, the sanctuary for the ashes of Jose Martí's parents—a proximity that would have flattered Gebrayel. As we sat at the foot of the vault in the only triangle of shade, I took the time to tell Maria who Gebrayel was, what I had heard about him in my childhood, and what I knew about him now. She asked me whether he has descendants in Cuba, adding that she is a trained genealogist and would be glad to help me track them down. I gladly provided her with the few pieces of information and family rumors I have, and she jotted them down diligently. I mentioned Alfred's name, and also the puzzling name of Arnaldo, whom my friend Luis Domingo said was an influential person here. No reaction on her part . . .Before I set off, she asked me if I would like to have a word-for-word transcription of the register entry, duly signed by the cemetery authorities. I said yes, of course. She promised to take care of it in the course of the day and told me I could have the document tomorrow if I stopped by to see her.It wasn't quite noon when I left the cemetery. Giddy, I must admit. Giddy from having been able to commune at Gebrayel's grave less than twenty-four hours after landing on this island.In the wake of this miracle, why not try to find General G6mez's house again, since I had been frustrated last night? I therefore set off for the city center, toward that elusive intersection of "Prado" and "Monte," and I started to wander, building up convenient theories. But this time no angel came from heaven to guide me, and I discovered nothing to justify adding more lines to this paragraph. I returned to Vedado, to my landlady's house, to rest from the sun and take a few notes. But two hours later, egged on, as so often, solely by my impatience, I decided to set off again for the center of the old city with a completely different idea in mind. Instead of groping in the dark for a house whose exact address I didn't know, why not go to the one address that is explicitly mentioned in the family letters? Hadn't Gebrayel had "Egido 5 and 7" printed on his 1912 envelopes and stationery? This was where the La Verdad stores were located before he bought the Máximo Gómez residence and expanded his business. This is also where Alice and he had their Havana apartment, as proved by the christening announcement of their eldest son in 1911. It is even probable that it was at this address that my grandfather Botros had lived during his stay in Havana, when he had to sleep in an attic.You might wonder why I didn't go there first thing, last night. There are two reasons why, though I am aware of them only now as I write these lines. The first is that I was eager to see the palace before anything else, for in my imaginative world it best represents the fulfillment of "our" Cuban dream. The second reason is that Luis Domingo had warned me that this address was going to be hard to find.
Before taking off for Cuba, I had had several exchanges, by phone and mail, with my diplomat friend—who, as I think I mentioned, had been posted to Cuba for a long period of time—and he had lavished advice on me. Among other things, I had mentioned Egido Street to him, and he had kindly asked one of his good friends in Havana, a historian, if he could go by that street one day and report to us what the facades of numbers 5 and 7 looked like—and possibly even take a photo.
My Cuban friend tells me that small numbers don't exist on Egido, for the simple reason that since the thirties, this street has become an extension of Las Misiones Avenue, which runs from the Malecon, the seafront, and of Monserrate, which runs to the train terminal, facing the Martí house. By a town-planning quirk that he can't explain—nor can I!—the Egido numbers take up where the Monserrate numbers end, and the Monserrate numbers take up where the Las Misiones numbers end—go figure! The only possible hypothesis: the numbers 5 and 7 where your grandfather lived are presently the 5 and 7 on Las Misiones Avenue . . .
It is easy to see why I didn't feel encouraged by this muddle to rush to that address first thing last night. However I did go there today and was very conscientious. First I went to Egido Street and found that sure enough, the lowest number was 501. In the 400 range, the name of the street changes to Avenida de Belgica; then, at 200 and some odd, to Monserrate; and finally, for the lowest numbers, to Avenida de las Misiones. Meanwhile, I had already walked for three-quarters of an hour. There, a few steps away from the sea, I see a building bearing the double number "5 y 7" on its front, as if to cut short any further hesitation. Watchmen are on patrol at the door, which discourages me from lingering nearby. In any case, there is nothing to see. Instead of the old building resembling the drawing on the 1912 letters, there now stands a very recent building whose dominant color is electric blue, probably one of the least aesthetic structures in this beautiful capital. It is the headquarters of revolutionary youth, or some such thing. On the wall there is a long quotation from the Great Leader: "Eso es que lo queremos de las futures generaciones, que sepan ser consecuentes"— "What we ask of future generations is that they know how to be consistent." I should like to take advantage of the serenity of nighttime to clarify a point I left unexplained in recording the events of the day. When I reproduced the tombstone inscription, I wrote only "Gabriel M. M." These initials, which I've already used time and again instead of real names, warrant an explanation.
No one will be surprised if I mention here that my family name, like the village of my origins and my country, is both identifiable and fluid. Identifiable because all of us who bear the name feel a kind of tribal solidarity at the mention of it that reaches beyond languages, continents, and generations. Contrary to most family names, it is not derived from a profession, a geographical location, a moral or bodily characteristic, or a first name; it is a clan name, which links us all, at least in theory, to a common trajectory, originating somewhere near Yemen and whose traces are lost in the night of legends.
An identifiable family name, therefore, and yet, as I said, fluid. First of all, because of the very structure of Semitic languages, in which only the consonants are stable and the vowels unstable. Though the M, the central l, and the final f are found in all the transcriptions, there are countless variants. I know of about thirty: double or single a in the first syllable, or e sometimes and more rarely o; ou, 0, or oo in the second syllable; as well as some more unexpected permutations resulting in Slavic, Greek, or North African sounds. To be thorough, I should also mention an added difficulty: my family name includes another consonant, ayn, the secret consonant of Semitic languages, the one that is never transliterated into other languages. In Arabic, this consonant precedes the A in the word "Arabi" and the I in "Ibri"—"Hebrew"; it is an imperceptible guttural consonant that nonnatives have difficulty pronouncing, let alone hearing. It was already present in my country's oldest name, between the two twin a's in "Canaan," and it is also hidden between the two a's in my family name, making all transcriptions approximate.
I hardly dare mention the added complication, which is that no one in my village ever called me by that family name. Neither I nor Botros nor Gebrayel, nor any of my relatives. I don this family name, so to speak, to go into town or out into the world, but I don't use it in Machrah, or in any of the neighboring villages, and no one uses it to refer to me. This is easy to understand: when most of the inhabitants of a village share the same family name, it is of no use. Some other, more specific name is needed. To refer to the different family branches, the term "ajebb" is used, which has the literal meaning of "well," or, more simply, the term "beit," which means "house." Thus, Botros and his brothers belonged to beit Mokhtara, a branch of the family whose name derives from a grandmother with that first name. Nowadays, when my grandfather is recalled in the village, he is never referred to by any other name than Botros Mokhtara.
People who never left the small world of the village had no reason to ever use another name. In our day, this is seldom true, but in the past this was most often the case. Sometimes, when they were asked to give their family name by an Ottoman, French, or Lebanese official, they spontaneously gave the name of their branch, and that name was recorded on their identity papers. Today, more often, the opposite occurs: the everyday name isn't included on official papers, only the name of the large "tribe." As might be expected, this can give rise to comical situations, such as the one of the elderly cousin waiting in line whose "official" name was called out ten times in a row without his realizing it referred to him. No one had ever called him by that name . . .
As for Botros and his brothers, they had become accustomed to using the two family names simultaneously. Especially when they were "in the American countries," where it is common to insert a middle initial between the first name and last—Mokhtara being transformed into a discreet, cryptic M.
From Origins . Copyright 2004 by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle. Translation copyright 2008 by Catherine Temerson. Published 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. By arrangement with the author. All rights reserved.


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Mission San Rafael Arcangel is just 11 miles south of Novato and is one of the Bay Area’s most interesting California Missions. Built as a hospital to treat sick Native Americans who had converted to Christianity, Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga of the San Francisco Presidio had recommended the location for its sunny slope and shelter from winds and fog by the rolling hills. Located across the bay from Mission Dolores, the first group showed surprising improvement in health.
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The mission is open daily 11am-4pm, Sunday 10am-4pm.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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No, no… we’re not here to give a preschool lesson on color names or identification, so you can put away your text books! Today, we wanna talk about what colors mean, and what their meanings mean. (Tongue twister, we know!).
Does Facial Jewelry Mean Something Special To YOU?
For centuries (ever since the beginning of human civilizations, in fact), cultures have implemented unique physical attributes to differentiate their tribe members from others. They also used different attributes to distinguish between the different ranks and statuses within their own tribes. But this is probably something most of you already know.
However, did you know that SOME of this is still relevant today?

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Charles Bronson | Don't read this blog….if you hate the sound of laughter.
It was 18 years ago today that my Dad passed away. He was on my mind all day and this evening. Perhaps that is why I could not sleep and now find my self pounding away at my keyboard (it sounds better than clicking away on my laptop doesn’t it). In memory of him I am republishing a post from my old site that I wrote for fathers day last year. I hope you enjoy it.
I was really alone for the first time in my life. I was living in Maryland while doing a student coop for the Bureau of Census. Eighteen hundred miles from my family and a girlfriend and renting a room from a total stranger. I found myself channel surfing one evening and stumbled upon an old Charles Bronson movie from his early days. When he appeared on screen I was taken aback by how much he resembled my father when he was young. It must have been a Charles Bronson marathon because later on I caught a more recent movie of his and damn if he did not mirror my father in later life also. I missed him than as much as I do now. Thinking about him now I realize that much like Charles Bronson’s characters my dad was an old school man. The archetype of the strong silent hero. He was not a man of words but of action. Of course his actions were a little more sedate then vigilante justice , well except for the time he popped out of the family station wagon with his shotgun to confront some neighborhood vandals , but just as important none the less.
I can probably count on both hands the number of times I remember that he told me he loved me. The number of times he showed me however would take a super computer to calculate. The only regret I have involves something I told him when he was helping me move to DC after college. I thought I was grown up enough not to be called Danny anymore and I kindly asked him to call me Dan or Daniel. I wish I would have kept my mouth shut. I would let him call me anything he wants to just to have him back. I have gradually tried let the guilt go as time has gone by, besides that doesn’t seem the kind of thing that Charles Bronson would have let bother him and my dad continued to show me how to live , how to love and how to battle through life.
I am still a little repentant these days and actually like it when people call me Danny. I would like to continue writing this but well there seems to be something in my eye. Instead I will raise a glass of Scotch. To Casey and Charles Bronson.
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I can wiggle my ears one at a time.
Like 8 out of every 10 persons I can curl my tongue.
I have no other magic physical qualities I would like to share with the general public.
I don’t look my age and I do not have a hideous portrait of myself in my attic.
I was asked by my professor in a sophomore composition class If I ever thought about being a writer. I thought about it and decided I needed to wait until I had lived a little. Ten years ago I decided I had lived enough to give it a shot.
I began writing as an outlet for my sense of humor and that has driven my writing ever since.
Someone once seriously offered to set me up with Lorena Bobbit (post bobbing). I politely declined. People I have shared this with, all of them men, have expressed the thought that I should have agreed so I could have had an “interesting” tale to tell. I expressed the thought that anything more interesting would have been more of an experience than anyone one man should have in one lifetime.
I am a proud geek, as a kid I once read an entire set of encyclopedias front to back.
In school I balanced both sports and science. In my 9th grade year my entry in the football program listed science as one of my interests. Opposing players were terrified…..of science.
My father bore an uncanny resemblance to Charles Bronson, I was a well behaved child. My father passed before Mr. Bronson, I cried for both departures.
My day is complete if I have made one person laugh.
2)Sleep with insects in your bed (ie, bedbugs) aware of their presence ALL night?
1) Hands down, How can you sleep knowing you are sharing your bed with bugs that will chew on you during the night? Besides you didn’t say I couldn’t doctor up the larvae with condiments, habenero peppers anyone?
2)Get 12 vaccines in 30 days?
1)I solve problems for a living so 1 would be fun and 2 not so much unless I can count acupuncture . I might be willing to give that a shot.
2. Indulge in an American binge drinking “ceremony” at Boston College?
1.)I have never been to Japan let alone take part in a Tea Ceremony. Besides I went to college , not Boston , but at some point during college drinking binges you can convince yourself you’re anywhere.
2.Be a camera/lighting assistant in a domestic-cat documentary (think day in the life)?
1) I am a dog person so I could only do #2 If I was under the influence of a drinking binge I partook of in Boston. Besides, number one was only “near death” and again need I mention habenero peppers.
2. Stand humbled by the vast openness of the Sahara Desert?
1)I live in Colorado so I really enjoy the feeling I get around tall constructs of nature. Besides, I am fair skinned and there is no indication of SPF 45 in number 2.
2. Travel in a country experiencing rapid change and instability?
2) For me #1 is more predictable. I can predict that I could not abide by forced silence and after a violation the state would insure my safety in my new 8×8 windowless room. I will take my chances with instability, the odds are better.
1 ) How do you eat an Oreo Cookie?
2) Your down in the dumps , what is your go to song/band/artist for elevation?
3) What motivated you to blog?
4) Your alone and in a good mood. Do you , whistle, hum or sing? Any particular tune?
5) Of any skill you currently do not have , what one would you like pick up and cultivate?
6) Where do you ponder life, liberty and your navel ? : 1) At the ocean , 2) In the mountains, 3) Down by the river, or 4) A field with no natural features.
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Did you know that YaHuWaH HATES pagan singing, worship and holidays?
We hear the big time love and prosperity preachers on TV and in local churches saying that “God” (they use the pagan titles and NOT His real name) is ALL about love and that His love covers a multitude of sins. We have asked a few people to give us their thoughts on this statement and the responses we received were all over the place. The most common answer we got back was that “God” knows we are NOT perfect and through Jesus He will cover every sin, EVEN the ones we willingly make, until we get it right. THIS is the problem with most of today's preachers, they bring smooth, candy coated, watered down messages that they know the masses will accept. Hardly any preachers in our modern day churches preach HARD against people’s sinful lifestyles. We know if preachers REALLY taught the truth, the churches would be empty. NO more 7 figure preacher salaries, NO more 8 figure monthly tithing incomes, NO more million dollar homes, NO more multiple church locations and NO more worldly status and gain. If we take a trip back down through time and look the life of YaHuWShuWA and the 12, how they lived is the exact opposite of what the pastors preach! The true YaHuW’s (NOT Christians) were despised by the masses because they preached against the pagan traditions and idol worship of the masses. NEVER did they teach worldly gain of THIS life but focused on obedience to YaHuWaH and the world to come. Preachers today make it seem like “God” is giving Christians a license to sin because there is NO challenge that brings change! Let’s take a look at the word “Multitude”.
The scriptures tell the story in YaShaYaHuW (Isaiah) of how YaHuWaH hates the ways of a disobedient nation. We read that the nation of Israel was keeping all these traditions of men, calling on and praising false names, practicing pagan acts and taking tithes and offerings. The bible reads that ALL these things were meaningless and a burden in YaHuWaH’s eyes because it was ALL corrupt! Israel KNEW the real name of the Father, KNEW He forbid pagan worship and yet they continued in their traditions of men. It reads that they were stretching their hands up to pray to YaHuWaH but he would NOT listen because their hands were full of blood. The scripture states that ALL these things Israel were doing provoked YaHuWaH to anger! These disobedient traditions STILL take place in the modern day pagan christian churches of today! We see on TV or read about how all these mega churches help the poor, give backpacks and haircuts to under privilege kids and feeding the hungry. That’s great and admiral in mans eyes but in YaHuWaH’s eyes, what good is it if it’s ALL corrupt! NOT ONCE are the true QaDaSh (set apart) Hebrew names being preached, taught or praised n these hell houses. Pagan idols, objects and traditions all still being used or practiced in most (if not all) churches today, and people are still told to give their 10% TITHES every SUN-day in order to be blessed. The tithing was fulfilled after YaHuWShuWA gave his life on the tree so again, WHY do churches ask for peoples tithes?
This proves that when we learn or KNOW the Fathers true name and CHOOSE to continue profaning / blaspheming His name (by using generic titles like LORD / God, or false names like Yeshua, Jesus, etc), HE WILL NO LONGER hear us! This may sound BOLD but its the 100% pure RAW truth! Israel was creating new pagan traditions, new feast and were singing worship to YaHuWaH, but scripture clearly says in AMuWS 5:20-27 (Amos) that YaHuWaH HATED ALL their pagan ways! This is a direct reflection of the modern day churches, NOT once is His set apart name being uplifted in today's churches. NOT once on SUN-day do you hear the Fathers or sons true name worshiped in church, NO but WE DO hear everyone worshiping "The LORD" (BaAL). YaHuWaH said ALL of Israel's worship was NOISE to him, and that they could raise there hands up as far as they could in prayer and he would still NOT hear them. We see the churches of today joining in with the pagan HELL-idays traditions of this world, and yet they KNOW its pagan, they proudly justify it saying "its OK god knows my heart". YES, YaHuWaH does know your heart and He does NOT like what he see's in it (Proverbs 21:2)! The Creator DOES NOT want to be put in the same category as ALL the other false gods of this world. The Creator wants to be separated, distinguished and QaDaSh (set apart) from the lies. The Creator ALWAYS had a name and HIS NAME is same throughout ALL generations (ShaMuWTh 3:15 "Exodus") and changes NOT (Malachi 3:6). Since His son is the expressed image of his Father and is unchanging, so is their names and ways, UNCHANGING! It's the devil working through mans wickedness that changed the set apart names. If the Heavenly Father HATED the pagan lifestyle back then, then he for sure STILL HATES it NOW! YaHuWaH did NOT send His son YaHuWShuWA to die on the tree so that people can go on profaning / blaspheming His name and justify committing spiritual adultery (pagan worship via the holidays) against Him (YaHuWChaNaN 4:24 "John").
Click on photo below to read the WOTR Facebook post regarding false pagan praise and worship!
Research reveals that the Nicolaitans were people who followed the traditions and customs of a Babylonian Saint named “Nicolaus”. Nicolaus was a Bishop of Asia Minor that held a seat at the counsel of Nicaea in 325 AD. He and his followers (The Nicolaitans) practiced idolatry and lawlessness. Saint Nicolaus & KRAMPUS (aka SANTA CLAUS) was patterned after him. The Nicolaitans (mentioned in KhaZuWaN 2:6-15 "Revelation") were charged with worshiping BAAL (BaAL H1167 means - “the Lord”). The Nicolaitans took the liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols as well as committing fornication when they were victorious over people. This caused a huge stumbling block before the church of YaHuWaH.
“Niko” means conquer in Greek and “lati” refers to the lay people or laity. So “Nicolaitans” the word, means “lay conquerors” or “conquerors of the lay people.” The Council of Laodicea was a regional synod of approximately thirty clerics from Asia Minor that assembled about 363–364 AD in Laodicea. The council took place soon after the conclusion of the war between the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire, waged by Emperor Julian. Julian, the last empire of CONSTANTINE attempted a revival of paganism and resumed discrimination against the Hebrews. The Catholic Religion and all of its corresponding false gods and beliefs are meant to conquer and destroy your soul! YaHuWaH HATES his people taking part in ANY pagan idol traditions or theology. Scripture states that YaHuWaH is a jealous ALaHiYM, and celebrating pagan traditions is spiritual adultery against our Creator. KhaZuWaN 2:5-15 "Revelation"
16 There are six things that YaHuWaH HATES, seven that are an abomination to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, 19 a false witness who breathes out lies and one who sows discord among brothers.
As we read in Proverbs all these things are happening on the earth, but in today's day and age, its has gotten terribly worst. Whats right is wrong and whats wrong is right in the worlds eyes. Christians who are given this truth (in love) make hast and run towards the lies they love to keep it. Christians who are suppose to be all about love, publicly and proudly bash those who stand for truth. Christians arrogantly say that those who defend the Creators true name YaHuWaH (that was disrespected over 7000 times in scripture) are in a cult! Sadly all these accusations are made because 1) they don't want to talk about the truth because it exposes that they are NOT living according to scripture and 2) it allows them to continue justifying in their minds that what they are doing for the Creator is right!
Studying, research and digging deep in scripture (beyond the surface) for ourselves is what YaHuWaH wants us to do. In these last of the last days, YaHuWaH is calling out of Babylon His messengers to wake up His people (NOT everyone is His people) YaHuWChaNaN 10:25-27 "John" . We all have free will, and just like many times before, YaHuWaH will AGAIN give people a final chance to stand for the truth before he brings judgement. YaHuWaH will soon charge His son YaHuWShuWA to crack the sky and grab His elect right before the destruction of the earth begins. When YaHuWaH decides (in HIS timing) to give us the truth, let us be thankful for the opportunity, humble and lets react just like the Berean’s mentioned in Acts.


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Is It Possible to Collect Ventriloquist Figures Today?
A question I am asked over and over again is how can I purchase a Frank Marshall figure or a McElroy Brothers ventriloquist figure and I have a very hard time telling folks that it is not that easy. It took many many years before I was able to purchase my first Frank Marshall figure. I can say it just does not happen, you have to make it happen.
Years ago if you went to the Vent Haven Convention all the tables were covered with Hard figures and there was always a Marshall or two that would show up for sale. Unfortunately times change and as soft figures took hold, less and less hard figures show up at the convention. There are still a few dealers that come with hard figures such as Tim Selberg, Albert Alfaro and David Deneen (Mr. Dead Guy).
The older figures just don’t seem to appear at the convention any longer. I myself have set up with a table a couple times with antique figures but the attendees were looking for the soft figures. The few I did sell I could have sold without taking them to the convention but it was fun setting up and meeting everyone and of course showing some of the older figures seldom seen anymore.
So you must scour the antique world looking for the coveted antique ventriloquist figures. They do still show up every so often in antique shops or malls, flea markets and of course eBay. On line buying is more than likely where you are going to find older figures because antique dealers today reach the whole world rather than just the few that go antiquing on the Saturday or Sunday drive.
As a matter of fact going antiquing in your car has also, for the most part, become a thing of the past. I can remember being able to drive through just about any city and seeing a street with all the antique shops but now that seems to be a thing of the past.
I also subscribe to a few antique newspapers which list the auctions that are taking place and look for ventriloquist figures that may be listed in the sale. I have been lucky a few times this way too.
So will you find a Marshall or McElroy you ask?? The Marshall you should be able to find but I am not so sure about the McElroy. The McElroy Brothers say in the audio interview that they produced over 100 figures but I don’t believe that number. I think they may have produced upwards of fifty and to date only around twenty five are known. I would think if you were in the Cincinnati area you would have the best chance to find a McElroy that is as yet undiscovered as that is where they brothers were from.
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Do you feel that the trend for soft figures continues today?
If so your chances of finding antique hard figures may increase due to fewer persons seeking them out.
James I do think the trend is still for the soft figures without question but I am not sure that would cause a rise in antique figures to be found. As matter of fact the number of antique figures I have found in antique stores or flea markets is rather small. Most of the figures in the Ventriloquist Central Collection have come because of persoanl contact. I have been able to purchase some through my antique connections but they are rare to find in the antique world.
Ya Bob wishfull thinking for sure!!


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Despite it’s imperfections, I’m fast becoming a steemvangelical. I’m still also loving tikkit.co.uk. Proper, full reviews will be forthcoming, imminently.
I wrote and published this on steemit.com 4 days ago and it’s been upvoted 74 times, earning the equivalent of $2.07. Already. Despite the market currently being low. It’ll keep accumulating upvotes for another 3 days and at that point, I’ll be able to claim it.
The monetary aspect is a welcome and potentially paradigm shifting bonus, but what’s been more significant for me has been the steemit community; the quality of the interactions and discourse there. It’s been a dramatic change from the tiny little filter bubbles that I had previously been trapped in. I was getting nowhere near this much interaction on my old channels, which supposedly have a greater number of followers and reach. This is particularly striking when you consider that steemit’s user base is significantly smaller than the old channels…and I’ve only been there a week.
It’s not all peachy and utopian of course but I’ll leave the more challenging aspects aside for now. So far, I’ve only met friendly and helpful people on steemit. @elamental has invited me to write about the Extinction Rebellion for their ‘Earth Deeds’ project and that little bit of scribbling has already stimulated some interesting discussions, (including the mandatory token flat earther, who was very nice and reasonable actually). It’s been so refreshing not to be constantly bombarded with adverts and to be able to see and hear some views which I viscerally disagree with. The only channels I’ve had to mute so far (for my own sanity) have been the Alex Jones ones.
The fact that you also get paid, not just for creating content but for finding, ‘curating’, liking, sharing and commenting on quality content is still blowing my mind. The implications of a mass migrate to steemit really would be immense, if I’m understanding it correctly.
Caveat: I’ve only been there for a week and am still figuring it all out.
There’s a 1-3 week queue for new accounts at the moment, so I’d strongly encourage everybody to apply for one NOW! I know some of you have applied already, I’m looking forward to seeing you there.
Anyway, here’s that blog what I wrote. If you’re interested, you can read the full context and the comments on the original post, here.
Determined to rise to the challenge though, I read Kenny’s articles and was pleasantly surprised, not just by how thorough they were but also by how much I agreed with their analysis.
GLOBAL COOLING! No, wait… GLOBAL WARMING!! Ah, um… CLIMATE CHANGE!!! Just be afraid & give us more power!
So, we’ve seen that most #ClimateChange “science” is complete BS… Why is the agenda being pushed? And by whom?
Before I begin, it bears mentioning that there have been calls recently to ‘no-platform’ all climate science deniers, refusing to debate with them at all. Some of my personal heroes and sheroes, including the incredible Dr Caroline Lucas MP have signed an open letter in which they explain why they are refusing to lend their credibility to debating climate change skeptics. I can understand where they’re coming from. In my lifetime the debates around climate change have been unbearably frustrating; biased in favour of the skeptic perspective against all reason. The signatories to the letter claim that there is nothing substantive to debate with the skeptics, whose position is funded by the fossil fuel lobby.
I’ve never supported no-platforming and don’t think I ever will. The only circumstances in which it’s appropriate are to prevent the incitement of violence and hatred. There is the argument that climate change denial does incite violence to the planet, by advocating more burning of CO2. What is problematic about this argument is that the perceived violence is now so widespread and normalised that it requires no incitement. Indeed, the only way to stop it is to ‘win’, (or resolve) the debate.
No-platforming stinks of intellectual cowardice and prevents learning, so when I received this challenge today, I knew I had a responsibility to respond to it as fully as I possibly could.
One of the most significant points from Kenny’s first article is how the focus on ‘scientific consensus’ is absurd, given that consensus is not by itself a scientific method. “the scientific consensus used to be that the earth was flat”. Pretty much every scientific breakthrough ever has, by definition, required a rejection of consensus by an individual, or a small minority of rebels. Furthermore, the #CimateGate emails, the doctoring of data, and the ‘hockey stick’ graph do all lend themselves to the notion that the ‘consensus’ might be illusory and that some sort of conspiracy is probably at play.
I’ve been tracking fossil fuel industry (military industrial complex) propaganda for years now. Exxon publicly pioneered climate science back in the day but stopped publishing their findings in the 70s, once it became clear (to them at least) that the industrial scale of CO2 emissions would likely lead to the abrupt and dramatic changes to Earth’s climate which we are witnessing today. They deployed the same PR firm and the same tactics as Big Tobacco had done, namely sowing seeds of doubt in consumer’s minds about the certainty of the science. A recent analysis conducted by Carbon Brief investigated 900 recently published scientific papers, all of which cast doubts on climate change or speak against it. They found 9/10 of the most prolific authors were in some way connected with Exxon Mobil.
The net effect of this decades long PR campaign has been to keep industrial society dependent on the oil wells pumping and the coal fires burning, while preventing the growth of sustainable, renewable energy technology and markets.
For these reasons and many more, I believe that CO2 is most likely a pollutant, which is not only accelerating climate chaos but which is also ruining people’s health by making the air so toxic that it’s causing instances of respiratory disease to rise and life expectancy to fall, dramatically, in all the world’s major industrialised cities.
Apart from this though, I thought the rest of Kenny’s analysis was pretty much spot on. In spite of disagreeing with their conclusion on CO2 emissions I found the reasoning behind it very interesting, if not entirely persuasive.
If the scientific consensus on CO2 is correct, (as I believe it probably is) it doesn’t make any of the rest of Kenny’s observations any less correct. Particularly prescient is their research on methane, which is one of a great number of factors which could yet prove more significant in the long term. Some of the projections regarding the potential release of methane that had until recently been trapped in arctic permafrost are particularly dire.
I can agree to disagree with Kenny regarding CO2 emissions, given that I agree with so much of the rest of their analysis. I find it extremely interesting that we should have so much parity on green issues, yet fall into opposing camps because we generally disagree on this one aspect. It makes me wonder if the CO2 angle has been deliberately exploited to create unnecessary disagreements and schisms amongst greenies who might otherwise have been natural allies.
Whether or not these schisms are deliberate, I feel both our camps are left weaker for it.
I’m glad I took the time to read @kennyskitchen ‘s articles. I hope this response to them was useful.
Here’s a short documentary I made last year, articulating the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity, A Second Notice. CO2 emissions are just one of many aspects covered in it.


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Indictments found and returned in the Superior Court Department on April 18, 2014.
A proceeding for revocation of probation was had before Cornelius J. Moriarty, II, J.
Robert A. O’Meara for the defendant.
SACKS, J. The defendant appeals from a Superior Court order, entered after hearing, that revoked her probation. The judge found that the defendant had violated her probation conditions by failing to make required weekly restitution payments and violating a no-contact condition by contacting a newspaper to make a threat against the victim, who then saw it published in an article in the newspaper. The judge sentenced her to from three and one-half to five years in State prison. We affirm.
Background. On July 17, 2015, the defendant pleaded guilty to one count of larceny over $ 250, involving embezzlement from her brother’s (victim) construction business in Brockton, where she had worked as a bookkeeper. The defendant had been indicted on sixteen charges; at the time of her guilty plea, the remaining fifteen charges were dismissed. The judge sentenced her to five years of probation, with conditions, among others, that she: (1) make restitution to the victim of $ 103,753.64, which the judge stated was “a substantial break off of what was . . . allegedly stolen,” to be paid at the rate of $ 1000 per week; (2) stay away from the victim’s residence and place of employment, and have no “direct or indirect contact” with him, his wife, or their children; and (3) execute a financial affidavit “stating that there are no available funds remaining from [her 2012] lottery winnings and no other funds or monies available.” After having been given a weekend to consider this disposition, the defendant had represented to the judge that she was able to pay the $ 1000 weekly amount. The defendant signed, thereby agreeing to obey, the order of probation conditions.
Four days later, on July 21, the defendant filed her financial affidavit, in which she stated that she had exhausted her $ 455,000 in lottery winnings. In the affidavit the defendant failed, however, to account for $ 81,000 of those winnings, and did not assert any inability to pay the restitution as ordered and agreed.
On August 14, the defendant was issued a notice of surrender and hearing for alleged violations of probation (notice of probation violation) alleging that she had violated two probation conditions: failure to make restitution payments and violation of the no-contact condition.
At an initial probation violation hearing on August 17, a probation officer represented that the defendant had made the first restitution payment, due July 24, but had missed the payments due July 31 and August 7, and made only a partial payment on August 15. The probation officer further represented that the defendant had violated the no-contact condition by making comments about the victim in an article that appeared on July 28 in a local newspaper, the Enterprise. Defense counsel then informed the judge that the defendant had lost her job. The judge (who had been the sentencing judge) expressed concern that the defendant, so soon after receiving a relatively lenient disposition of which the carefully-considered and agreed-upon restitution condition was a significant component, had apparently violated that condition. He ordered the defendant held without bail pending a final probation violation hearing.
The probation officer then represented to the judge that, before the defendant signed the probation conditions, he had reviewed them with her “starting from the first condition all the way to the final signature.” He had also “specifically instructed [her], no contact with the victim, direct or indirect,” and advised her that she “[could not] have a friend talk for her, have a letter written to another person and have that letter find its way back to the [victim]. It was very clear what third party [indirect] contact was.” The probation officer had also represented, again, that the defendant had not made all required restitution payments.
At that point in the hearing, the judge stated that he was treating the probation officer’s statements as evidence and asked defense counsel if he wished to cross-examine the probation officer or offer any evidence for the defendant. Defense counsel declined both invitations. He limited his closing argument to asserting that the defendant had a constitutional right to make comments about the victim in the newspaper, in order to defend her reputation against his prior remarks about her in the same newspaper.
The judge rejected the defendant’s free speech argument and found that she had violated the no-contact condition of her probation by “issuing [the victim] a threat.” With respect to restitution, the judge found: “[S]he has not paid the money that she promised to pay. And I have no evidence before me that it is impossible for her to pay the money.” Consequently, he vacated the order of probation and asked for the probation officer’s recommendation as to disposition.
“[T]he court was quite clear with its concern with regarding this order. That the court wanted to make the [victim] whole and was going to take any attempt to make him whole. . . . And as the article suggests, [the defendant] didn’t accept responsibility. And if that’s the case, Your Honor, placing her on probation again is not going to drive that point home any clearer than it would have been on the day that contract was signed.
Defense counsel asked that the defendant be reprobated.
The judge then reviewed the defendant’s record, which included being placed on probation in 1999 for an attempted larceny conviction; in 2005 after charges of larceny over $ 250, uttering, and forgery were continued without a finding; in 2013 for two larceny by check convictions; and for a different larceny over $ 250 conviction. The judge stated, “She’s been placed on probation quite a few times . . .[and] it was very compassionate of her brother[,] who has been the victim of this, not to request jail time.” Yet, he continued, after she had been given time to carefully consider her plea and had agreed that she could make the required weekly payment, she “makes one payment and that’s it . . . [a]nd then takes it to the press, which is what she did, to threaten her brother.” The judge sentenced the defendant to a term of three and one-half to five years in State prison.
Discussion. 1. Failure to make restitution. The judge, who had also accepted the defendant’s guilty plea, had ample evidence to support his finding, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the defendant did not make the required restitution payments and thus had violated that condition of her probation. See Commonwealth v. Durling, 407 Mass. 108, 111-112 (1990). We reject the defendant’s argument, under Commonwealth v. Henry, 475 Mass. 117 (2016), that the judge abused his discretion by failing to consider, at the final probation violation hearing, the defendant’s claimed inability — unsupported by any evidence — to make the payments. Under Henry, at a restitution hearing, “[w]here a defendant claims that he or she is unable to pay the full amount of the victim’s economic loss, the defendant bears the burden of proving an inability to pay.” Id. at 121. Nothing in Henry, which requires that a judge determine the extent of a defendant’s ability to make restitution, required the judge here, in the absence of any new evidence on the point, to look behind the defendant’s own original representation and agreement that she was able to pay the specified amounts. See id. at 118, 121.
Under Henry, “[t]he defendant may be required to report to his or her probation officer any change in the defendant’s ability to pay, and the probation officer may petition the judge to modify the condition of probation . . . based on any material change in the probationer’s financial circumstances.” Id. at 126. Here, however, instead of reporting any changed circumstance to her probation officer pursuant to Henry, or seeking modification of probation conditions, the defendant simply failed to make the payments that she had agreed a few weeks earlier she could make, and then, once charged with the violation of that probation condition, she offered no actual evidence of her inability to make the payments. See Commonwealth v. Avram A., 83 Mass. App. Ct. 208, 210, 211-214 (2013) (affirming finding that juvenile had violated restitution condition of probation, where juvenile offered no evidence of inability to pay, other than evidence of small bank account, out of which he had made no payments).
We do not agree with the defendant’s claim that she presented such evidence by means of her previously-filed financial affidavit; nowhere within it did she state that she was unable to make the payments. Nor did the defendant support her motion to modify probation conditions, which she filed more than two weeks after the notice of probation violation had issued and which was denied on September 11, with any affidavit or other evidence of inability to pay; the assertions of her counsel are not evidence. See id. at 212.
Section 6(B) of the Guidelines for Probation Violation Proceedings in the Superior Court (2016), http://www.mass.gov/service-details/guidelines-for-probation-violation-proceedings-in-the-superior-court [https://perma.cc/FP63-D6UE], governing final probation violation hearings, codifies preexisting practice by calling for an evidentiary hearing. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Ventura, 465 Mass. 202, 203-204 (2013). A judge conducting such a hearing, no less than the probationer, is entitled to require evidence of an alleged violation, as well as evidence of any defense thereto. Here the defendant offered no evidence at all in support of her defense of inability to pay restitution.
We therefore see no error in the judge’s finding that the defendant violated the restitution condition of probation, including his implicit finding that the nonpayment was wilful, as is required for the nonpayment to warrant revocation. See Henry, 475 Mass. at 121, 124 n.6.
Violation of no-contact condition. The defendant argues that the judge violated the defendant’s free speech rights under the Federal and State constitutions when he found that she had violated the no-contact condition by making statements about the victim in an article published in a newspaper. She contends that she was not attempting to contact the victim, but was merely exercising her right to free speech in a public forum by responding to the victim’s disparaging remarks that appeared in an earlier article in the same newspaper. On these specific facts, we disagree.
The defendant’s constitutional argument is that her statements to the newspaper, because they did not constitute a constitutionally unprotected “true threat,” could not be viewed as violating the no-contact condition. Although the defendant is correct that her remarks were not a “true threat,” she overlooks an important principle governing a probation condition such as hers.
“Judges are permitted significant latitude in imposing conditions of probation, . . . and ‘[a] probation condition is not necessarily invalid simply because it affects a probationer’s ability to exercise constitutionally protected rights.’” Commonwealth v. Rousseau, 465 Mass. 372, 389-390 (2013) (quotation omitted). Courts have previously upheld conditions of probation that affect First Amendment rights so long as they are “reasonably related to a valid probation purpose.” Commonwealth v. Power, 420 Mass. 410, 417 (1995), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 1042 (1996). See Commonwealth v. Obi, 475 Mass. 541, 547-548 (2016). “The principal goals of probation are rehabilitation of the defendant and protection of the public.” Commonwealth v. Lapointe, 435 Mass. 455, 459 (2001). Accord Rousseau, 465 Mass. at 390. A probation condition forbidding contact with, including threats to, the victim has a clear rational relationship to both of these goals: encouraging the defendant’s acceptance of responsibility for the crime and protecting the victim, as a member of the public, from further harm, whether emotional, physical, or financial, at the hands of the defendant. The defendant does not argue that these are not valid goals, or that the no-contact condition, as applied here, trenched more broadly on her free speech rights than necessary to achieve these goals.
Conclusion. The judge did not err in revoking the defendant’s probation based on his well-supported findings that the defendant had violated her probation conditions by failing to adhere to the restitution payment schedule and the terms of the no-contact condition.
 Based on the defendant’s unrebutted representation that, while incarcerated, she had deposited her notice of appeal with prison authorities for mailing within the time to appeal, we conclude that her appeal is timely. See Commonwealth v. Hartsgrove, 407 Mass. 441, 446-447 (1990).
 In 2012, the defendant had won the Massachusetts lottery and received, after taxes, a check for $ 455,000.
 Earlier in the hearing, defense counsel repeated his assertion that the defendant had lost her job, but he never introduced any evidence to that effect or stated that it had occurred before she failed to make two of her weekly restitution payments. The assistant district attorney assisting the probation officer stated in his closing argument: “[Y]ou may recall during the course of the sentencing hearing [following the plea], she represented that she worked for N&J Bookkeeping, which is her own company, not a company that she could conceivably be fired from. And now she’s claiming that’s why she can’t pay the money that she’s promised to pay.” Defense counsel responded, “[M]y client informs me that she does not own the business which she was fired from.” The judge did not make a finding on the issue, nor does the record contain a transcript of the plea or sentencing hearing.
 On appeal, the defendant challenges only the findings of violations, not the resulting disposition. Once a violation is found, “[h]ow best to deal with the probationer is within the judge’s discretion.” Commonwealth v. Durling, 407 Mass. 108, 111 (1990).
“A final violation hearing shall consist of two parts: (1) an evidentiary hearing to adjudicate whether the alleged violation has occurred; and (2) upon a finding of violation, a dispositional hearing. . . .
 As the Supreme Judicial Court has recently observed, “wilfulness” does not “have a consistent meaning in our jurisprudence.” Millis Pub. Schs. v. M.P., 478 Mass. 767, 776 (2018). “[S]ome definitions focus on the actor’s purpose, while others focus only on whether the actor’s conduct was voluntary or intentional.” Ibid. We read Henry, and the decisions it relies upon, as indicating that violation of a probation condition involving the payment of money is wilful where the probationer has not shown an inability to pay or that the nonpayment was without fault or otherwise justified. Henry, 475 Mass. at 121-122, citing Bearden v. Georgia, 461 U.S. 660, 669 n.10 (1983). See Commonwealth v. Gomes, 407 Mass. 206, 212-213 (1990). See also Commonwealth v. Canadyan, 458 Mass. 574, 578-579 (2010). The Henry court also cited Avram A., 83 Mass. App. Ct. at 212-213, as a case involving a wilful violation. Henry, 475 Mass. at 124 n.6. In short, as stated in Henry, “the defendant bears the burden of proving an inability to pay.” Id. at 121.
 “The United States Supreme Court has defined ‘true threats’ as ‘those statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals.’” Commonwealth v. Walters, 472 Mass. 680, 690-691 (2015), quoting from Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343, 359 (2003) (Black). O’Brien v. Borowski, 461 Mass. 415, 423-424 (2012). The First Amendment “permits a State to ban a ‘true threat.’” Black, 538 U.S. at 359, citing Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705, 708 (1969) (per curiam).
 If, for example, a reporter had randomly stopped the defendant on the street to ask her view on some unrelated matter of public interest, and the defendant’s response had been published in a newspaper and thereby come to the victim’s attention, even foreseeably, a different case would be presented.
 The defendant nevertheless argues that there was insufficient proof of her intent to make a threat; she notes that a conviction under the threat component of the criminal stalking statute, G. L. c. 265, § 43(a)(2), requires proof of intent both to place the victim in fear and to communicate a threat to the victim. See Walters, 472 Mass. at 692-693. But the defendant does not explain why those intent requirements, which serve in part to confine the reach of the stalking statute to constitutionally-unprotected “true threats,” id. at 691-692, should apply in the context of an alleged violation of a no-contact condition of probation, where a defendant’s constitutional rights are subject to reasonable restrictions. We think the cases concerning no-contact provisions of G. L. c. 209A orders are a better source of guidance. See, e.g., Kendrick, 446 Mass. at 76 (defendant violates no-contact provision of G. L. c. 209A order by communicating by any means with protected person; proof of intent to violate order is not required, but defendant could not be found in violation if he neither knew nor reasonably should have known that his conduct would result in contact with protected person). See also Commonwealth v. Silva, 431 Mass. 194, 200 (2000) (proof of intent to violate G. L. c. 209A order not required; proof that act constituting violation was voluntary suffices).


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I am absolutely thrilled to read the FOUR STAR REVIEWS that “Cracks in the Sidewalk” has been receiving. The latest was from a reviewer in Utah and is now on Amazon. This was a gut-wrenching story to write and it is so rewarding to see that readers are enjoying it. In case you don’t remember, the book is based on a true story – the names and a few of the details have been changed to avoid recriminations from the guilty, but it’s mostly true – which is a scary thought.
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It’s a Twitter thread from David Rothkopf. It’s not hopeful, but it’s important to read and digest.
Something broke in America this week. We have been spiraling downward since Trump's election, but this week, we crossed a line. The President and his men began asserting that they were above the law–and effectively no one in our system did anything to stop them.
Rothkopf is CEO of the Rothkopf Group, a high-level consulting firm on international and world problems, based in Alexandria, Virginia.
At the same time, the Secretary of the Treasury and the head of the IRS determined to violate a law that required in no uncertain terms for them to provide the president’s tax returns to the chairman of the House Ways and Means committee.
to those who break the law, encouraging a crime and abetting it. We learned that they considered an egregious abuse of power that would involve releasing illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities controlled by Democrats.
It is the stuff of the world’s most dysfunctional governments. But rather than generating a response from within our system commensurate with the threat, nothing occurred. The GOP leaders in the Senate circled round the president and supported his abuses.
I have long thought our system was better than this–more resilient. But candidly, I’m no longer sure. I remain hopeful…hopeful that the next election cycle can redress this manifold wrongs. But it will not be easy. It will be too close. Trump may be with us for six more yrs.
Their crimes will only grow more egregious and their ways will only grow more ingrained in our system. Their violations will in fact become the system itself. Corruption will be the norm-greater corruption,to be sure,since it it was corruption that got us here in the first place.
Here is how some others responded on Twitter.
Most high school history students don’t know about it. Most high school history students in Texas don’t know about it.
I wonder, sometimes, how many Texans remember at all.
I wonder, too, if there are lessons to be learned from the New London tragedy, while the nation debates what to do to prevent recurrences of school shootings.
No one in New London, Texas, bore ill-will towards children, or schools, or other New Londoners. Some good came of the disaster, but as we’ve seen, with animosity towards schools and school safety in Texas today, and a lackadaisical approach to dangerous substance control and accident prevention in West, Texas, and other places, lessons learned were not learned well.
The deadliest disaster ever to hit a public school in the U.S. struck on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas explosion destroyed the new school building at New London, Texas, killing about 300 people — 79 years ago today.
Noise from the blast alerted the town, and many people in the oilfields for many miles. Telephone and telegraph communication got word out. Oil companies dismissed their employees, with their tools, to assist rescue and recovery efforts. Notably, 20-year-old Walter Cronkite came to town to report the news for a wire service.
Investigation determined that a leak in a newly-installed tap into the waste gas pipe coming from nearby oil fields probably allowed natural gas to accumulate under the building. A spark from a sander started a fire in gas-filled air, and that in turn exploded the cavern under the school. School officials approved the tap to the waste gas line to save money. (Hello, Flint, Michigan!) Natural gas is odorless. One result of the disaster was a Texas law requiring all utility natural gas to be odorized with ethyl mercaptan.
Though the Great Depression still gripped the nation, wealth flowed in New London from oil extraction from nearby oil fields. The school district completed construction on a new building in 1939, just two years later — with a pink granite memorial cenotaph in front.
Today, disasters produce a wealth of litigation, tort suits trying to get money to make the injured whole, and to sting those at fault to change to prevent later disasters. In 1937 official work cut off such lawsuits.
Three days after the explosion, inquiries were held to determine the cause of the disaster. The state of Texas and the Bureau of Mines sent experts to the scene. Hearings were conducted. From these investigations, researchers learned that until January 18, 1937, the school had received its gas from the United Gas Company. To save gas expenses of $300 a month, plumbers, with the knowledge and approval of the school board and superintendent, had tapped a residue gas line of Parade Gasoline Company. School officials saw nothing wrong because the use of “green” or “wet” gas was a frequent money-saving practice for homes, schools, and churches in the oilfield. The researchers concluded that gas had escaped from a faulty connection and accumulated beneath the building. Green gas has no smell; no one knew it was accumulating beneath the building, although on other days there had been evidence of leaking gas. No school officials were found liable.
Of about 500 students, more than 50% of them died. Once the new school and memorial were built, and the law passed requiring utilities to odorize natural gas so leaks could be detected earlier, survivors and rescuers rather shut down telling the history. A 1977 reunion of survivors was the first in 40 years.
New London School shortly after the March 18, 1937, explosion. Photo from the New London Museum.
Because of that scarring silence, the story slipped from the pages of most history books.
Trinity Mother Frances Hospital treated the victims; a 2012 film from the hospital offers one of the best short histories of the events available today.
Now, more than 75 years later, the London Museum, across the highway from where the original school was destroyed, keeps alive the memory of much of a generation who died on that terrible day.
the spring of 2013. . . .
What are the lessons of the New London Disaster? We learned to remember safety, when dealing with natural gas. A solution was found to alert people to the presence of otherwise-odorless, explosive gases, a solution now required by law throughout the U.S. Natural gas explosions decreased in number, and in damages and deaths. Wealthy schools districts, cutting corners, can create unintended, even disastrous and deadly consequences. Quick rebuilding covers the wounds, but does not heal them.
Remembering history takes work; history not remembered through the work of witnesses, victims and survivors, is quickly forgotten — to the detriment of history, and to the pain of the witnesses, victims and survivors.
New, New London School and granite cenotaph memorial to the victims of the 1937 explosion. Photo from Texas Bob Travels.
With 1000-year flooding having killed two in Ellicott City, Maryland, over the weekend, we should be reminded that delugic rains may increase with global warming.
Hiking in the area recently, in a different canyon, I reflected on the tremendous changes in weather forecasting in the past 40 years. A lot of warnings about flash floods, and paths to climb up the canyon in emergencies. Plus, we had constant weather updates. Big Thompson was just one of several flood disasters in the 1970s, Masters notes. It’s worth reading his full post.
139 bodies were recovered from the flood, but many other bodies were never recovered. People died from injuries of being tossed about by the flood, and colliding with rocks and trees. Few died of drowning.
How do we prepare to survive and avoid such disasters in the future?
Some do work to keep the history alive. Good on them.
Have we learned? How do we explain the explosion in West, Texas? How do we explain the general lack of attention to school facilities nationally?
Much as the GOP Caucus and other climate-change deniers, Roman officials in Pompeii and Herculaneum refused to be alarmed at the ground shaking, and obvious eruptions from Mount Vesuvius, on August 24, 79 C.E.
In the past week we have earthquakes in California, Nepal, British Columbia, and other places. The old Earth keeps rumbling.
Oddly, we now pay more attention to earthquakes than to other things that can cause greater, rolling disasters.
Santayana’s Ghost wonders if we ever learn from history.
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One of the two or three works for which Blake was most generally known during his lifetime, Night Thoughts is by one of the widely admired Graveyard poets. Blake painted 537 watercolors for the poem, of which he engraved forty-three for this first, and only, volume. The volume was so expensive to produce that no more were published. It is open to Night the Second on Time, Death, and Friendship, where Time, reaching high, tries to divert the arrow of Death from the two friends. On the left, the soul struggles upward for immortality while confined to the earth by a chain. Mrs. Blake was her husband's assistant for some illuminated works, but for this large project he may have set a pattern for professional colorists to follow.