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By the time I was 12 years old, I was highly proficient with both rifles and handguns as a result of time spent learning to shoot at a camp I attended over several summers. My father belonged to the NRA and had a subscription to at least one gun magazine. We had guns in the house: two rifles and at least one handgun. Safety was paramount, and both my brother and I learned to respect firearms and the risk they presented if handled carelessly.

I didn’t give much thought to the societal impact of widespread gun possession until that awful day, November 22, 1963. I was a senior in high school and in my second period gym class when the teacher called us together and said – I remember his words precisely: “The President has been shot. Go take your shower and get dressed with dignity.”

Shortly after, the announcement came that President Kennedy had been fatally wounded. School was dismissed and my mother came to pick me up. When we arrived home, I went immediately to my bedroom, where I lay down and cried. If you are part of a generation that has followed mine, this may be difficult for you to imagine. But for us it was the sudden and devastating end to an era of idealism connected to the Kennedy Presidency that we had come to call “Camelot”. For my generation and even that of our parents, the world changed on that day and has not been the same since.

Over the four days that followed the assassination, the country sat, riveted to television, as the shocking aftermath played out with the killing of  the murderer, Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. We watched in grief the funeral of the slain President. Lyndon Johnson, who bore no love for the Kennedys, was respectful and did his best to reassure a shocked nation that our country would all get through the ordeal. Many of us weren’t so sure.

It was then that I decided I would never shoot a firearm again — ever. I was 17, idealistic and impressionable when Kennedy was assassinated. Now I am 71 and in many ways much the same person I was in 1963.  I have remained true to the vow I made back then. Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, innumerable killings and mass shootings later – all of these have served to reinforce my resolve over the use of firearms as well as my disappointment over our collective, ongoing failure to deal with guns and the price we pay for misinterpretation of the Second Amendment.

The Second Amendment of the Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The NRA and its members and supporters conveniently ignore the “well regulated militia” specification of the amendment, stressing only “the right to keep and bear Arms”. In other words, few or, preferably, no, restrictions on gun ownership is the policy pushed  by a powerful lobbying organization and supported by a large segment of its members and sympathizers  The influence of the NRA and its gang of aspiring vigilantes has quite effectively stymied reasonable efforts at firearms regulation and, in so doing, has done much to enable both individual and mass murder in the U.S.

What can be done? It is abundantly clear that all the tears and hand wringing, prayers and speechifying after each new violent episode are useless in bringing action by  a Congress that has been bought by the NRA. In fact, there really is only one solution, one that will, in fact, work. In the words of our deranged President, “Believe me.” But it’s not likely to happen anytime soon, unfortunately. That’s because what it will take is for an overwhelming public expression at the ballot box, electing candidates who stand for placing reasonable limits on gun ownership and, very specifically, the processes associated with acquiring guns and ammunition. Put simply, national policy won’t change until elected representatives in Congress – both the House and the Senate — are voted out of office and replaced by individuals who can’t be either intimidated or bought by the NRA. Those of us who vote simply aren’t a big enough group to produce the change without help from the largely apathetic segment of the population that doesn’t seem to care. Can they be mobilized? Today, it seems like a longshot.

I’m old enough, with my youthful idealism now tempered by a slightly cynical dose of realism, to understand that it probably won’t happen in my lifetime. Still, I can hope. After all and if it’s any indication, a lot of folks in Las Vegas may have changed their mind about speaking up after this past weekend’s mass killings.

President Donald Trump, E.D.

OK, here it is up front: President Trump is an Evil Doofus.

Every day it’s something new as he stumbles ever onward in his malignantly ignorant, incompetent, unethical, and immoral crusade to destroy the country and everything it has, admittedly imperfectly but at least aspirationally, stood for since its founding.

You know the particulars, so this won’t be a litany of his greatest (?) hits. No, let’s just look at this from a thirty thousand foot level to see where we are and where we might be going.

Trump has become like a marooned shipwreck victim, the only soul on an otherwise deserted island. He’s alienated much of Congress including ranking members whose support he would need for his agenda if he had one. He’s also losing support from independents who voted for him and even beginning to see erosion of his base, although not a hard core of low information voters so ignorant of what’s going on (Fox News rots the brain) that they don’t even know who Robert Mueller is or what he’s doing. He fired soulmate and Chief Yeti Bannon (who’s now cozying up to the Neanderthal Congressional Freedom Caucus) and it may not be long before the Executive Wing’s resident ghoul, Stephen Miller goes, too. Not much heard from Jared and Ivanka lately. Maybe they’re not too comfortable with Trump’s embrace of white supremacist, anti-Semitic neo-Nazis. But, then Jared’s an Orthodox Jew and Ivanka converted. It’ll likely make for some interesting family gatherings over the High Holidays. And finally, his just-made deal with Pelosi and Schumer, an act reeking of revenge against Congressional Republicans, won’t really endear him in any long term way to Democrats. In fact, he was snookered by Nancy and Chuck, who’ll be right back at him in 90 days.

So here we have poor, lonely, angry, stupid, malevolent Trump, the Evil Doofus, all alone except for his greatest object of worship: himself. One wonders, what is it that rattles around in his largely empty head as what might generously be said to pass for thought? Does he have any insight into his total lack of fitness, ability, and temperament for the Presidency? Does he have any sense of how empty a shell he really is? That he has no higher purposes in life than sating his own personal ego and pursuing more and more filthy lucre? Is it actually all just unmitigated narcissism? We don’t know but we certainly know how it looks. On the other hand, does it matter?

At base, I’m a behaviorist, so what might be flitting around inside the man’s cranium is of little to no importance to me. What is important to me is what spews out of that idiotically hair-pieced excrescence atop his neck. And on nearly a daily basis, each new government-by-tweeted pronouncement adds itself to a collection of what most likely will go down in history as the most idiotic body of work ever authored by a U.S. President.

So, where to from here? September is upon us, and it’s going to be a doozy of a month as Congress continues to fume impotently over his debt limit deal linked with hurricane Harvey relief. And then there’s the new hurricane on its way, and Trump’s cynical dumping of responsibility for a final DACA disposition on Congress with implied if not overt pressure to attach it to funding for his ridiculous border wall, which Congress probably won’t support. This could lead in December to an epic standoff with Trump threatening again to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t allocate wall funding and Congress telling him to go fuck himself. Bear in mind that a government shutdown would preclude provision of further Federal aid for hurricane recovery. The extreme right wing would gloat while victims continue to suffer.

It has become apparent that Trump doesn’t really care about much of anything. Willing to turn on staff, to abandon prior positions and even deny that he ever held them, and supportive of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, he is attempting to take us headlong into an Orwellian world of newspeak, where language and truth are malleable and mean only what is intended by him and a sycophantic entourage too dumb to realize that loyalty with the man is a one way street. Trump’s vision, if one dares to call it such, is of fascistic autocracy and Nazi-like national expulsion of those he sees as non-white, non-Christian, and not loyal either to him or to the police state he would oversee as Exalted Poobah, a man with unlimited power and authority, a mad barbarian and a philistine to boot.

Of course, it’s possible that he’ll be impeached before the end of his term, but the wheels of justice turn slowly so breath holding is not recommended. Our best hope at this time is for Democratic party dominance in the 2018 midterm elections, with enough power gained in Congress to restrain both him and the far right wing in their efforts to dismantle every humane program and every agency dedicated to the protection of our environment, health and welfare, and national security. Of course, the Democrats have a stellar history of being unable to get it together but, who knows? Maybe after 2018 Congress will even be able to force the Evil Doofus finally to name an ambassador to South Korea. Go Dems, and keep up the good work, Nancy and Chuck!

Political Keystone Cops

I’ve said it before and, unfortunately, I’m saying it once more: it’s hard to know where to begin. In fact, I had to force myself to sit down and write about the current political situation yet again but, as in the case of train wrecks, it’s horrble but impossible to look away.

The sheer incompetence of Trump and his coterie of Keystone Cops, aided and abetted by a cowardly and self-interested Congress, seems bent on destroying what’s left of our country’s grand democratic experiment. How, in just over 100 days, Trump has inflicted such severe damage to our political system is simply breathtaking. Worse, there is a substantial segment of the American population that is still cheering him on. Last evening, for example, I attended a meeting of a non-political organization I have belonged to for over twenty years, and one guy actually showed up wearing the infamous red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap. There is no arguing with this guy. Trump could be an ax murderer and the fellow would still be a totally devoted member of the cult.

And so, to the subject at hand: the crisis in the wake of James Comey’s abrupt firing. And if ever there was an example of confusion and incompetence, this has to be its epitome. Let’s begin with the ludicrous assertion by Trump and minions that the firing was because of Comey’s fumbled treatment of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. Trump’s inconsistent behavior about this was – is — jaw-dropping.

Last July, he railed against Comey for not pursuing prosecution against Clinton. Then, eleven days before the November election, when Comey announced re-opening of the e-mail investigation, Trump lauded the FBI Director for his action. Finally, as his rationale for firing Comey, Trump cited Comey’s arguably incompetent management of the matter. In support of this, he cited a memo which he had requested from nominally recused Attorney General Lawn Gnome Sessions and his un-recused Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. Transparently ridiculous, this “justification” wasn’t (isn’t) accepted by anyone with an IQ above idiot level. Timing and circumstance were clear. The firing was because of Comey’s failure to swear allegiance to self-appointed deity Trump and his pursuit of the investigation into possible Russian interference on Trump’s behalf in the November election. Furthermore, shortly before the firing, Comey had requested additional resources to pursue the Russian investigation, perhaps the final straw that precipitated Trump’s abrupt action.

Now, while Trump’s loyal robots were out on their tightly held extension cords promoting the laughable idea that the firing was because of Comey’s mistreatment of Clinton, Trump decided to give an interview to Lester Holt on NBC. And guess what? Trump threw his entire staff under the figurative speeding campaign bus (you’d think it would have gone into storage after November, but you’d be wrong) by saying that he was going to fire Comey regardless of what the memo from Rosenstein said. In other words, he discounted his own initially stated reason for the firing. This is a guy who not only knows nothing. He also can’t remember anything he says or thinks from one day to the next.

So, cutting to the chase, what we now have is a clear case of obstruction of justice, and this is a sufficient reason to consider impeachment. Still don’t see it? Well, here it is in simple terms: Trump and lackey Devin Nunes initially prevented Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates from testifying before the House Committee chaired by Nunes regarding what she told the Trump administration (on three occasions) about concerns regarding General Michael Flynn’s contact with the Russian ambassador and participation in a discussion regarding sanctions reduction. Then, Trump, obviously afraid of where the investigation would lead, fired Comey in a clear attempt to derail it. None of Trump’s bleating about fake news and the “hoax” of Russian intervention rings true in the slightest, and every contradictory  pronouncement simply increases the impression of an incompetently executed cover-up. And this attempted cover up, despite it’s clumsiness and failure to convince anyone, constitutes obstruction of justice.

We have now arrived at a point at which ongoing damage caused by this imbecilic demagogue with no moral or ethical center can no longer be tolerated. It’s clear that Congress isn’t ready to act yet, but I believe that he must be removed from the Presidency with all due haste. I say this with the full knowledge that in doing so we will then be stuck with a President Pence. This will constitute an awful outcome, but “awful” somehow still seems better than “intolerable”.

Will the Republicans in Congress grow cojones and do what’s right? Maybe, if we demand it, but as of today I’m not taking any bets. Write to your Congressional representatives. If we stay silent, we’ll deserve the dictatorship we’ll get.

The Tragedy of Sean Spicer

As anyone who’s been watching the news this past week knows, Sean Spicer had a terrible week, as did those of us who unfortunately were exposed to the utterings of this empty-headed, moronic, Trump sycophant spout his ignorant comments about Hitler and the Holocaust, all garnished with the mangling of Bashar al-Assad’s name not once, but multiple times. It is commonly known that when in a hole, the best way to get out is first to stop digging, a lesson Mr. Spicer should not have had to learn at such a late stage in his career.

Of course, Spicer has had zero credibility ever since his infamous inauguration attendance lie in support of President (urp!) Trump, but the difference between that outright lie and the ignorant misstatement he spouted regarding Hitler’s use of poison gas in what he amazingly called “holocaust centers” took him to a new level of incompetent buffoonery.

One may(?) be tempted to ask, how the President’s Press Secretary could be possessed of such ineptness. Was it ignorance? Stupidity? Born of Holocaust denial?

Well, here’s my theory, at least.

Spicer was born in 1971. He’s neither a member of Tom Brokaw’s “greatest generation” nor a baby boomer. In other words, he’s two generations removed from World War II. He’s a product of the combination of a failing American education system, contemporary Republican ignorance and misunderstanding of history, and the ongoing, virtually endemic racial and religious bigotry that’s come to reside at the core of the Republican Party. These multiple forces have come together in Spicer to create a person who, unfortunately, is not a one-off in contemporary American society but has become one of its outstanding exponents. I strongly doubt that Spicer is willfully malevolent. More, he’s simply naïve, ignorant, and oblivious, and it’s a problem we will likely face increasingly in the future. “Sad.”

Many of us who pride ourselves on being liberal and progressive are justly horrified by what we see happening in and to our country. Those ideals we have grown up respecting seem to be getting trampled (Trumpled?) with ever-increasing frequency and an almost vengeful intensity. As the three branches of government, all now controlled by a party that would take us back to days of Jim Crow, isolationism, and a world that they erroneously believe was somehow idyllic, we face the real possibility that the minority in our country, soon to be a minority-majority, will revolt. And this is how revolutions, often violent, happen.

It is imperative that the majority of Americans, whom we know to disagree with the direction in which we are now being taken – remember that Clinton won the popular vote – become vocal and politically active. And we must express ourselves at the polls. Millennials, who stood on idealistic principle for Bernie Sanders and refused to vote for Clinton, sacrificed a view of the possible for the unattainable perfect. If they do not come out with other minorities and liberal progressives and vote in 2018 to help take back the Senate and chip away at the Republican margin in the House, the reactionary headlong rush to the Dark Ages will continue, and women’s rights, science and medicine, the environment, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, separation of church and state, and the living conditions of the poor will all suffer as the Constitution continues to be trampled in the name of creating a more “Christian America” run by robber barons and right wing religious fanatics.

Finally, it never ceases to amaze me how so many people who are the victims of Republican policies continue to support the party. Trump, both directly and aided by his spokespeople, continue to lie and then act in ways damaging to those who elected him. Which brings me back to Sean Spicer, a man whose time should never have come but has, and should be given the boot immediately. The man has no credibility and is nothing more than a simple, ignorant, Trump toady, afraid and probably unable to stand up to the boss and speak intelligently to the press and American public. He needs to go, and he needs to go now.

Subversion of Purpose: Subversion of Country

When I began this blog a little over two years ago (yes, this is entry #104), I stated its main purpose as a literary one. Partly it was to flack my own writing, and partly it was to discuss writing, publishing, and culture in general. The turn taken since then in national politics, however, has led me to write much more about social and political trends and, in particular in recent times, my concerns over the willfully ignorant, bullying, narcissistic, misogynistic, science denying, and generally incompetent Neanderthal who now occupies the White House. Oh, and his coterie of fellow moral degenerates, ignoramuses, and incompetents.

It seems as if we are being assaulted on a daily basis with mean-spirited and potentially dangerous actions and pronouncements of this group of evil clowns, and there is little evidence that anyone has either the courage or the wherewithal to bring them to heel. Of equal and even greater concern is the fact that the extremism of the administration has served to unmask the true nature of the more extended Republican mindset and the heretofore somewhat repressed racism and religious bigotry of much of the American public, some 35% of which (as of today) remains solidly behind Trump and the Republicans.

What is the ugliness that has been set free upon us? The spectrum, unfortunately, is a broad one. Here are a few elements of the current American deconstruction.  The list is far from complete, as new ones appear every day and some that we aren’t even learning about until well beyond the tweets and Executive Orders:

  • The Trump-Ryan American Health Care bill: This, of course, was a doozy. Trump probably never read the bill, of course, since he doesn’t like to read. And so, while promising “terrific” health care for everyone, he backed a bill written by Speaker Ryan that would kick 14 million souls off the insurance roll within a year, and 24 million within ten years. When it appeared that it would fail because of the no votes of the wildly misnamed “Freedom Caucus” (29 angry white males) and some moderate Republicans, the proponents offered to make it better. How? By attacking such things as pre-existing condition coverage and the creation of an excluded diagnosis list. Yes, terrific for everyone. In the end, of course, it didn’t please anyone. It wasn’t mean enough for the Freedom guys and it wasn’t generous enough for the moderates or, of course, the Democrats. Trump tried to blame Democrats, in part, for the failure of passage. But, then, maybe he forgot that the Democrats already have a health care bill, the ACA (Obamacare). Now, Trump has hinted that he might actually try to sabotage the ACA in order to get what he really wants.
  • The Trump immigration ban: The first attempt was blocked by a judge, as was the “improved” bill. Several aspects of this are quite noteworthy. First, the original seven countries, all predominantly Muslim, have no Trump business interests. Other predominantly Muslim countries in the region do and, of course, were left off the list. Second, the ban was overtly religious in nature and therefore in violation of the first amendment. Put simply, you can’t ban a whole religion for no reason other than pure bigotry. Third, the original ban was written so poorly, was so sloppy, that it banned people with legitimate visas and green cards from entering the country. Duh. Fourth, there was no evidence that the ban would do anything to prevent acts of domestic terrorism. The U.S. already conducts extensive vetting activities, and immigration is limited to those who can and do pass careful review. Furthermore, it is simply unreasonable to impose a blanket ban upon a group of people because some lone terrorist might be among them. And, in case Trump hasn’t noticed, there have been no terrorist acts committed in the U.S. by immigrants from any of the initial seven banned countries.
  • Trump’s appointments: What the hell is it with Trump’s appointments? Flynn is out as the first casualty of the Russian affair. Bannon was just pulled from his seat on the National Security Council because, the administration says, he’s no longer needed there to oversee Flynn. Wait a minute. Trump put someone on the NSC that he didn’t trust? Yikes!!! And now Bannon is apparently pissed over being pulled, so maybe Flynn’s departure wasn’t the real reason Bannon was yanked. Will we ever know? Not from Trump, and certainly not from Spicer, who’s got about as much credibility as Trump, himself, being as he is Trump’s ass-kissing lackey. And then there’s Rick Perry. I don’t even know what to say about this guy, who wanted to get rid of the agency he now heads and, as it turns out, had no idea of what the agency actually does. Ben Carson for HUD Secretary? The man who thinks the pyramids were built as grain storage facilities? And this man was a practicing brain surgeon. Maybe he was just on a career search for his own.
  • And speaking of appointments, there’s perhaps the biggest doozy of all: Betsy DeVos, a person so ignorant about education that she’s both horrifying and a laughingstock among everyone except religious nuts, those who oppose the fundamental American value placed upon public education, and those who don’t actually think guns in classrooms are necessary for the prevention of bear attacks. DeVos is the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live, except that she’s frightening instead of funny. Now, isn’t that special? (My apologies to Dana Carvey.)
  • And, although the list could go on and on, say, to deal with efforts to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, build the “beautiful” wall, the wiretapping allegation against former President Obama, and more, we shouldn’t leave out foreign relations: Russian hacking, North Korean nuclear saber rattling, relations with China, issues surrounding the administration’s attitude toward NATO… It’s never-ending, and too much to get into in this piece.

So, I’ll bring it to a close with a few questions. When is enough going cross into too much? When will the conflicts of interest, the lying and the gross incompetence lead either to impeachment or removal through the 25th amendment. When will the Republicans grow a set and realize that they’ve become the party of angry, mean-spirited, and bigoted tolerance? When will they have the courage to take action against a demagogue? And when will American citizens finally stand up and say we’re angry and depressed, and revolted by what we see, and we’re not going to take it anymore?

NOTE: As I was finishing writing the entry above, the airfield attack with Tomahawk missiles ordered by President Trump was being carried out. As some toadying politicians of both parties congratulated him for his bold action, others, including myself, were not so thrilled. What the President did was unconstitutional. The constitution does not permit the President to initiate an act of war against a foreign government and, especially, one posing no immediate threat to the safety and security of the United States. What President Dumpkof should have done was seek authorization from Congress for the action. The precedent set by his failure to do so, one that reeks of power-mad dictatorship, is horrifying. If the President can do this, what other country might he, on his own and without advice and consent, attack? What weapons might he unleash without restraint? And yet even more questions present themselves. Why did the Generals proceed with implementation of a clearly illegal order? Are we facing the unholy alliance of a dictator with the military? And what is to be said of a Congress that is not only complicit in its own developing impotence, but is even cheering its support as it is being thrust into irrelevancy?

Donald Trump, Deconstructed

Here are a few questions about Donald Trump:

  • Why does he avoid teleprompters?
  • Why does he love the poorly educated? (He said so, remember?)
  • Why did he not realize that he had signed an executive order placing Steve Bannon on the National Security Council?
  • Why does he not type most (or at least many) of his own tweets but, rather, dictate them to staff to type?
  • Why has he refused to take daily briefings from intelligence and national security staffs?
  • Why does he not read lease agreements?
  • Why does he not read books?
  • Why does he speak at no greater than a fourth grade level?
  • Why does he surround himself so closely with Don, Eric, and Ivanka?

The answer may be as simple as it is shocking: President Trump can barely read. Whether it’s dyslexia, ADHD, or just simply that he never learned to read above lower grade school level, all indications are that it’s not just that he doesn’t read. It’s that he literally can’t read.

Inability to read explains much of what we saw during the campaign and, certainly, what we’ve been seeing in the weeks since his inauguration. And I am totally serious, here – this is not a joke. I think the man is functionally illiterate. How else can we explain what we’ve seen? His grown children stay close because they are clearly aware of their father’s inability to read. They protect him by filtering all that goes in and out. They know, and they cover for him.

It accounts for why he doesn’t read his briefing documents, newspapers, or other materials. He simply can’t assimilate them, and so he is totally dependent upon his staff and television to give him what is ultimately highly filtered and potentially biased input. Thus, he is easily manipulated by those around him, accounting for how Steve Bannon ended up on the NSC. Bannon simply had him sign the order, knowing that it would not be read before the signature was affixed. The proof of this is that Trump now says he “wasn’t briefed” about what he was signing. The ugly and frightening truth is that Steve Bannon is more the President than is Trump, a fact terrifyingly satirized by Saturday Night Live, when the actor playing Bannon (dressed as the grim reaper) took over the President’s role, relegating an infantile Trump played by Alec Baldwin to the side, where he sat at a child’s desk and played like an idiot with a toy.

Trump, the real estate mogul, has stated that he does not read lease agreements and, on one occasion documented on video, when challenged to do so he was unable to interpret one. Trump, the politician, disparages teleprompters because he can’t read them. And Trump, the ersatz everyman, says he loves the poorly educated. Of course he does: he’s one of them.

The man elected to the Presidency of the United States is an ignorant, arrogant, bullying, misogynistic, impulsive, functionally illiterate dolt who is at risk of, and is likely already a victim of, manipulation by those around him, Steve Bannon being arguably the most dangerous. He has appointed a Cabinet of the most unqualified, individuals imaginable, and the team as a whole is committed to a vision of America that will only do grave damage to those who gave him his greatest support but are too blind to see what they’ve done and what is about to befall them.

There is an old saying: the fish stinks from the head. Look no further here. It’s that guy who can’t read the handwriting on the wall. I almost, but not quite, feel sorry for him. I do feel sorry for those of us who know what’s coming.

Where, Oh Where, Do We Begin?

It’s been less than two weeks and it’s already hard to know where to begin. The irrational, executive order on immigration and refugees? The firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates (instantly making her a martyr), the firing of the ICE Director, the directive to start building the wall, threatening to send U.S. troops into Mexico, hanging up on the Australian Prime Minister? Well, these among other travesties and incompetent acts are all worthy of discussion, but for now I’d like to say a few words about President Lout’s appointment of the man likely to be our newest Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch.

First, a bit of review. In the presence of a vacancy on the Court, it is the Constitutional duty of the President to make a nomination, following which it is the responsibility of the Judicial Committee of the Senate to vet the nominee and of the full Senate to confirm or not confirm the nominee, as the case may be.

In the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death last year, President Obama fulfilled his Constitutional duty by nominating Judge Merrick Garland, a universally respected, highly qualified, moderate jurist to take the deceased Scalia’s seat on the Court. Senator Mitch McConnell, aka “The Turtle”, vowed that no nomination made in the final year of President Obama’s term of office would receive any consideration by the Judicial Committee. In doing so, he excused his raw and unconstitutional action by citing what he called the “Biden rule”, a nonexistent rule based solely upon something Joseph Biden said several years ago but having no basis in legislative law. McConnell. thus laid the groundwork blocking any fair and required action on the nomination. This disgraceful act resulted in the theft of the nomination from President Obama, and left the Court one justice short of its normal complement of nine individuals. The Court responded by failing to take on a number of cases that it otherwise might have considered.

So now, Presidential Lout, fulfilling a campaign promise to pick someone acceptable to the far and evangelical right, has nominated an extreme conservative to fill the empty slot, and Republicans are gloating over their unconstitutional triumph. Worse, it should be noted that the Lout’s gang is accusing Democrats of being obstructive by threatening to filibuster the nomination. This, of course, is utter hypocrisy given prior Republican behavior.

It seems inevitable that Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed, although the Democrats may be able to delay confirmation to some minimal extent. But I do believe that an additional protest is warranted. I suggest that when the roll is called for confirmation, EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD, INSTEAD OF VOTING “NO” OR BOYCOTTING THE VOTE, LOUDLY PROCLAIM A VOICE A VOTE FOR MERRICK GARLAND. This will do nothing to change the outcome, but at least it will get the attention of the public and remind everyone of the disgusting and obstructive behavior of Senate Majority Leader Turtle and his cohorts in governmental crime.

As a final comment regarding Neil Gorsuch, there are those who have suggested that the Lout might not be getting quite what he is expecting with the appointment. Gorsuch is a strict constructionist, yes, and a far right conservative, yes, and takes a radical view of religious rights (the Hobby Lobby decision) and, consequently, is no friend of women’s rights, but because of his belief in strict adherence to established principles embodied within the Constitution and legislation, there is a glimmer of hope that he at least will not mindlessly support the wild decrees of the Lout. If true, this would be at least one positive in what so far seems an abysmal turn of affairs in our beloved country. Not enough to justify, in my mind, his confirmation to the Supreme Court, but the simple fact is that he will be confirmed, so we need to take whatever small hope there may be that he won’t be the disaster we’re nevertheless expecting.


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Sepior Encryption Technology Protects Online Documents for eSignature Company Penneo

Groundbreaking Key Management-As-A-Service (KMaaS) technology enables Key and Lock Separation For Secure Document Transactions

Aarhus, Denmark (March 31, 2017)

Penneo, a digital signature platform used to validate electronic documents, announced the integration of Sepior KMaaS technology to protect its clients’ documents on the cloud. The feature, being rolled out to selected customers, allows them to encrypt and protect documents stored online in Penneo’s managed archive.

Sepior’s patented technology, based on the use of secure multi-party computation for encryption key management, encrypts data using strong keys, and makes the keys inaccessible to any single third party. The keys are distributed across different cloud servers, preventing any unauthorized parties from assembling them to access the documents, whether it be a Penneo employee, a hacker, or a government entity.

High-level architecture

When a Penneo user wishes to protect a signed agreement or contract with Sepior keys, he or she simply selects this option from the Penneo web user interface. A Sepior SDK provided in JavaScript and integrated with the Penneo application in the browser then authenticates the user and manages the creation of key shares that reside in distributed key servers. The SDK then recombines the key shares into the cryptographic key used to encrypt the document. The encrypted document is then copied to the Penneo cloud for secure storage and sharing. The encryption key is not known to Penneo and does not exist in any single server in the cloud. Similarly, when a Penneo user wishes to access a signed and encrypted document from the online archive, the Sepior SDK receives the encrypted document from the Penneo application, authenticates the user, and acquires the cryptographic key needed to decrypt the document from Sepior’s KMaaS or distributed key servers. Using these two pieces of information, the archived document can be presented to the user in a readable format.

The overall architecture delivers a true Key-and-Lock-Separation environment that may be necessary for compliance in regulated sectors. Since encryption is performed at the client device running the Penneo application, all documents are protected end-to-end, without relying on any additional perimeter or cloud security layers.

Penneo’s application also utilizes the Danish public key infrastructure (PKI) known as NemID, used by all Danish citizens over the age of 13 for secure online banking transactions. Federated authentication is used  for both Penneo and Sepior, streamlining the process.

Sepior is rolling out the Sepior KMaaS service to security-conscious businesses worldwide. The company offers an SDK for integration with any SaaS application and a plugin for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3).. Additional plugins for popular IaaS service providers such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are also available. A Sepior customer can use the same Sepior KMaaS to manage keys for multiple clouds, eliminating the pain of implementing Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) scenarios with any cloud service provider.

About Sepior

Founded in 2014 as a spinout from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, Sepior develops key management solutions for encrypting data on the public cloud. Using patented cryptographic protocols, Sepior’s RSA award-winning team of cryptography experts have developed a practical virtual Key Management Service (KMS) using secure multi-party computation (MPC), a technique for splitting cryptographic keys between different providers that results in distributed trust.  As the industry’s first true cloud-native KMS based on MPC, Sepior gives businesses full control over the encryption keys used by their SaaS-providers without relying on any single SaaS-provider, and at SaaS economics.

The company is partially funded by a grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Technology program.

About Penneo

Copenhagen, Denmark-based Penneo develops a popular eSignature platform that helps companies get their documents signed digitally - easier, faster and more securely. Once a document has been signed by the verified recipient, it’s stored for later access in a document archive managed by Penneo and hosted in the cloud. With many customers in the financial sector, security and compliance is of the highest priority.

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Sewing My Life Together

New Projects for Summer

Since I’ve been famously indecisive about what to sew, and unhappy at what I felt was the drudgery of trying to sew clothes, I decided to order (online) a lap quilt set. It’s comprised of a jellyroll pack, extra fabric for backing and assorted borders, and directions. I thought this would be an easy jump-start to my procrastination. I still have to cut, but the jelly rolls simplify that job.

Summer Jewels

 These colors in reality are more bluish-teal and brown/blue. The name for this kit is “Summer Jewels” and these colors really do sparkle. Here is a copy of the pattern:

Summer Jewels Lap Quilt-2

Then, I took a leap of faith. I had in my possession a Charm Pack. I think I got it as a gift. I checked online for patterns that use charm packs, and frankly, could not find one i really liked. And I know people often talk about using their ‘stash’, but I did not have a single thing in my stash that fit the colors or style or simply was not enough yardage. So I am taking this basic, baby quilt pattern and experimenting with it. I am going to try to make it bigger, with different colors and shapes. I took the charm pack to my local fabric store and bought green, yellow and white for the backing and the other colors:

simple charm quilt

Here is a slightly skewed photo of the charm pack; the colors are more reddish and greenish than this shows. TO the right are the coordinating fabrics I chose:

coordinating white, green print and yellow

coordinating white, green print and yellow

charm pack

charm pack

So, now I am awash in a sew of fabrics that need to be ironed, cut, and then  sewing can commence. So now I am at peace; I’ve got something to sew!

Oh, and here is my latest little find at a flew market; a 1957 vintage Singer Sewing Machine, portable, all shiny and in perfect working order! I was so excited when my husband pointed it out to me at the Todd Farm Flea Market in Rowley, MA yesterday, and we bargained the guy down from $80.00 to $50.00. WHen I got home, I checked on eBay to see what these are selling for,  and the cheapest was $89.99 with a shipping charge of $39.00! I am so excited. Now I have to decide how to display it.

vintage Singer sewing machine

vintage Singer sewing machine

It is so interesting how unsettled I was the past few weeks with no projects in mind. I was able to get a lot of reading done, however, and watched one Craftsy online class on sewing.

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  1. Excited for you. Sometimes we need to have some of the decisions taken away to proceed… Love the machine. I’m so sorry I didn’t keep any of my mother’s or grandmother’s machines.

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Play Arts Kai Roxas O.XIII ver.

There was a Spring sale at Square-Enix Store and I got myself Play Arts Kai Kingdom Hearts II – Roxas N0.5 Organization XIII Version, for £79.99 ($114 USD). 20% off.

Will I ever open it? No… Never. I love me toys to be in packaging.

Who do I hope they release next? Xion. I like the character. Such a mystery. I’m still baffled that some people see her as Xion and some see her as Sora, Ventus, or still the faceless puppet.

Tofugu contest entry

Entry for Tofugu sticker contest. took me about 2-3 hours.
Come up with a couple of sketch ideas, choose one I’m content with, corrections, lineart, corrections, colour…

Tofugu fanart

Its been a long time since I fully coloured something in. : )

Did I win? no. But its okay, I had fun and it got me to try and be a little bit creative.

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get that many views.

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Wow, the last of the triple digits we see until the next cycle of triple numbers accur again.

And here’s another WIP I did for LN. In the Eureka Seven Universe.

Piyomon by Savvi

New piece :3

Biyomon/Piyomon girl. A Digimon related art :3

HobbyLink.TV Competition

Gonna be doing some HobbyLink.TV competition, which is to traditionally colour in a car, the Lambo Aventador.

Here’s what the lineart from a plastic kit Syd and Ryan want coloured in. Oh, its not just any colour, it has to be Gundam related. It must resemble a Gundam, favourite Gundam or such.

I modded the scan so that the junk bits are not there, leaving in the important bits. :)

Aventador-lineart-cut PDF

For me, it may just be a red Gundam… Justice? Aegis? Zaku II? who knows!

Leuel, from Lamentable Nights. Though shes not suppose to be a “A”, shes actaully a “C”. (Learnt that today from the pro’s). It’s cos shes kid like in nature >_>;; yah.

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Designers Originals Fur Collar Sweater-Size XL

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Beautiful fake fur collar black sweater, long sleeved sweater

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Tag Archives: Love

Book Review: What Love Is and What It Could Be by Carrie Jenkins

I had the delight to get back to my original interests and read some metaphysics of love. Jenkins project investigates the possibilities of what love can do and accept the conclusions thereafter. However, she does not give a precise conclusion … Continue reading

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Casual/Committed Sex/Love

There’s a concept called casual sex. Is there such thing as casual love? Continue reading

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Love: From Qualities to the Person

Imagine a set list of qualities that you want in a potential intimate partner.  Most of these qualities, I would imagine, would include intelligence, good sense of humor, attractiveness, kind, loyal, respectful, and so on. This list can be as … Continue reading

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Dealbreakers and Gamechangers

Quite some time ago, I went to a dance club. At some point, I got off the dance floor and took a break and sat on some couches.  These couches just happened to be near the ladies’ room. There were … Continue reading

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The Glass Slipper Effect and Gender Roles

In a recent article, authors Laurie A. Rudman and Jessica B. Heppen introduce a new concept called the “Glass Slipper Effect.”  This is how the authors describe it: Romantic fairy tales… can be summed up as, “Once upon a time, … Continue reading

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Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Sept. 21, 2015)

Economics A plea for a welfare state because according to the latest studies, it increases overall happiness. Thomas Aquinas: Ethics and Anti-capitalism Emotions Acting happy when you’re not feeling it, particularly known in some jobs, can actually be detrimental to … Continue reading

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Aziz Ansari, Helen Fisher, and others Discuss Romantic Love in Modern Times

Last June, comedian Aziz Ansari and sociologist Eric Klinenberg wrote a book together called Modern Romance.  The book discusses how technology has rapidly changed the way we view love and relationships such as breaking up over texts, emojis as ways of (mis)expressing … Continue reading

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Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Apr. 20, 2015)

Aesthetics Every noise ever! Economics The Ontology of Money Education Studies show that to retain what you just studied, go to the gym right after studying. Alice Dreger sat in her son’s sex-ed class in high school.  This is what … Continue reading

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Gender Are you a slut? History The original Monopoly game was made to condemn monopolies. Love Some interesting facts about love from the latest research.  Good thing a philosopher has taken the time to investigate this stuff. I mentioned before … Continue reading

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Triggering to Fall in Love

Is it possible to fall in love with someone by going through a sequence of activities by asking questions and then stare at each other in the eyes for four minutes?  Sounds implausible right?  In an article titled, “To Fall … Continue reading

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EFT Training Sydney September 2012

Jenny Johnston, EFT Universe Trainer, is coming to Sydney in September 2012 to conduct a number of EFT training workshops.

Jenny Johnston is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Emotional Freedom Techniques Trainer with EFT Universe, Occupational Therapist and Past Life Regression Therapist.

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Gary Jones Lecture 3rd of September

September 1, 2015

The next event will by a lecture from Gary Jones on Thursday the 3rd of September.  Free to paid up members and only £10 for guests.  Lecture starts at the Magick Lounge, Broad Street, Sheffield at 7.30.

Gary has a wealth of experience in magic, he is an Inner member of the Magic Circle with Gold Star and has consulted for a number of TV shows.  More details can be found at his website http://www.garyjonesmagic.com/ .  The evening will include something for everyone.


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The Crystal Core | Player Avatar

This is the animation cycles for the player character avatar for the game The Crystal Core.

Acted as principal 3D Animator and Rigger for the educational video game The Crystal Core by BitLoft. This is the Female Player Avatar. The top down angle is reflective of the in-gmae player camera. The character was rigged and animated for Unity Game Engine use. Used Autodesk Maya and Adobe After Effects to create appealing animations.


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Violet Flame

Empathy – An Introduction to the Violet Flame

The reason I feel this has everything to do with helping the empath is because the violet flame is transmuting and has the ability to affect change and turn the negative into positive. That’s got EMPATH HELP written all over it. lol.

The Violet Flame comes forth from the violet ray. The violet ray is one of freedom, mercy, forgiveness and transmutation. The ascended master St. Germain, who attained ascension in 1684, bring to us the gift of the violet flame. I think that it is also important to know that because at anytime you can call on St. Germain for help in using the violet flame. St. Germain, serving on the seventh ray, also is known as the “Lord of the Seventh Ray” and is the seventh angel prophesied in Revelation 10:7 who, “when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets”.

How wonderful is the violet flame? Well you tell me. The violet flame raises your level of consciousness and heals body, mind, spirit and soul. Yes, this also means illness, disease and psychological problems. But hey…don’t get the idea to ditch your doctor thinking you can attain mastery of the violet flame over night. After all, St. Germain lived many lifetimes working on attaining ascension embodied as the prophet Samuel, Saint Joseph, protector of Jesus, Saint Alban, Merlin, Roger Bacon, Christopher Columbus, and Francis Bacon. The violet flame is transmuting of the negative into positive and is a way to accelerate spiritual growth. It is a tool to help in you physical, spiritual, maternal and emotional life. Remember that nasty “K” word – Karma? The violet flame has the power to TRANSMUTE cause, effect and often the memory of our past mistakes. All that should by now have you thinking “Wow! What do I do next and where can I find this violet flame?”

I think that before beginning to use the violet flame that it is important to understand it completely. Reason is that then when it is used it is in the back of your mind all that it can and is doing for you and this ties a little bit into the POWER OF THOUGHT. Through the POWER (or SCIENCE) OF THE SPOKEN WORD you may see, feel, and feel the violet flame when it is called forth/invoked correctly.Watch Full Movie Streaming Online and Download

The POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD combines prayer, meditation and visualization – what is called dynamic decrees. Dynamic decrees work to affect permanent and positive change because they are designed to invoke the fires of Fifty Shades Darker 2017 movie

I am going to end this port here because basically what comes next is how to use the Violet Flame and that as you can imagine is a whole post in itself. I am trying really hard to not make my posts too long so the reading is easier and quicker but alas I seem to be having a hard time doing that. lol. So, thank you so much for reading and I will try hard to cut down on the lengths when I can.

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Unbalanced Friendships

Should You Keep That Friend in Your Life?

I have been asked so many times during readings and coaching sessions about peoples existing friendships. By most it does not go un-noticed when there is a lack of balance in their relationships. Sometimes the question is whether or not to keep that friend in your life. It’s a good question to have because that means you are staying vigil when is comes to continually checking to see what in your life needs to go that no longer serves you or is not in balance with where you are, who you are or where you are going.

It is not uncommon for givers to attract takers. It is also not uncommon for those who are overly positive to attract those who are overly negative. There is a gravitation towards what you are lacking on an unconscious level and sometimes it is that natural born healer within yourself that has you constantly attracting those who have deficits. Many have to remember that you have to think outside yourselves sometimes. It is not just about the one person. It is not just about you. The relationship might be great for you but is it what best serves the person across from you? Maybe not, but that is not the end of things. Possibly the person that is at a lower level or lesser vibration can bring themselves up. Sometimes this does happen and sometimes it does not because the person is so stubborn and set in their ways that nothing and no one is going to budge them from the place they are at. Not your problem and you can’t worry about that. We don’t go along our paths in pairs, the journey is solitary. On your way to your destination if you are always busy trying to take a friend with you then you may just never get there because they don’t want to go and won’t let you go either.

It is very rare that a friend changes their behavior to adjust to the friend they are dealing with. An overly negative person does not clean up their act when they are around an overly positive person. There is sometimes a time in a persons life when they realize that they haven’t been being a very good person and makes the decision to work on themselves and improve. Then there are those who sincerely think they are constantly working to improve but all they are really doing is running in place like on a treadmill being so unaware that they are actually not moving forward.watch full Fist Fight 2017 filmmovie trailer

Everything is where it is in life for a reason. It is not up to you to question why but to accept in the now how things are now. Things are always in a state of change, true, but I did not say they were always in a state of changing and heading to a better place.

Many people have baggage. Things that they have experienced in life that has made them into the people they are today. The experiences they learned from and gained triggers from that effect their behavior. It is not up to you to heal a person. It is their lesson and maybe they will learn it in this lifetime and maybe they won’t. You have to accept the way things work. Accept the way the Universe works and its laws. It you are in an unbalanced relationships then you are out of balance because of it. You will not be spiritually moving forward until you rid your life of the things that cause unbalance.

For example, let’s say you have a friend that is controlling and harsh. Maybe you often hold back and don’t speak your mind, be your true self, because you are avoiding the bad negative reaction from your friend. This causes your throat chakra to block eventually. You could start suffering from throat problems, common colds on a regular basis, congestion and need to clear your throat all the time, ringing in the ears, etc. Those are just some of the results of a blocked throat chakra. Yes, I am saying being in a relationship with someone who is not in balance with you could literally make you sick. Eventually you will need to make the choice to stay with them being just a resemblance of your true self or to free yourself and move on, putting yourself first with you which is what you should always do. The choice may seem hard but time will prove to you that you made the right decision.

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Melanie Velarde - Parcel

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Cerberus spirit of the temporal, Melanie Velarde forages and fertilizes the fragility of human experience. With one foot on earth and the other on its satellite of memory, Velarde brings an affable anachronism to her work where other archivists agitate authority.

Velarde’s process, both panoramic and microscopic, embraces the methodology of record-keeping, but permits all documentation to disintegrate. She listens to our world kindly, chronicling awesome and unforgivable terrains, abandoned emblems of progress, and chance encounters as stories we remember, but have not yet lived.

Tomes evoked and bespoke, Velarde pairs field recordings from her immediate and traveled surroundings with found (or lost?) musical objects, layering the two into improvisatory analog music under the moniker TEMPORARYARCHIVES. For the third exchange in the Commend See series, Velarde fashions ten anthropological sensory excursions as Parcel, the aural component to Christin Ripley’s metaphysical marble dye practice.

Parcel enlightens like a sun shower over a dry, yellow terrain. Softly but abruptly, Velarde’s motions lull trepidation into tenderness, revealing a loop’s essence as an archeologist would sweep dust from a fragile find - quickly, almost unnoticed, before disappearing with the wind. Sometimes the uncrumpled memories remain coarse, and sometimes they glow pristine in rebirth.

Velarde invokes the lonely spaces where transcendent collections of objects sit in wait. From within and outside of this spiritual storage space, Velarde animates the infinite clutter through intense momentary interactions with her surroundings. This parcel, another from Velarde’s intimate archive, remains at risk of being swallowed back into an immense time and space, but finds physicality for this loving moment.

An artist edition of twelve unique LPs featuring marble dyed, silkscreened sleeves by Ripley will be available at Commend, alongside a cassette edition of Parcel. An exhibition celebrating the collaboration and exhibiting new pieces by Ripley and projections and performance by Velarde will take place on Thursday, December 15.


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RVNG Of The NRDS Vol. 10 - Pilooski

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Release Date: January 26th, 2010

In the end there were ten. On the final installment in our Rvng of the Nrds 12" series, Parisian patriarch of the edit Pilooski wanders into the dark heart of a Jamaican jungle jam. Birds of paradise squawk and squeak over a ghostly female lament while an echo chambered guitar riff crescendos into haunting hammond swells and a bouncy bass dirge. The one-sided 12" locks on a tumbling tabla and mystic's moan. The b-side features an etching inspired by the whip cream pie scene in Revenge of the Nerds. It's a joke that five people will get. But that's ok, because in the end, the joke was on us. S'ank you, very much.

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From the 3rd Annual Shorty Social Good Awards

US Open Art Courts x Chase

Finalist in Sports, Live Streaming, Corporate-Community, Youth & Family

Entered in Multi-Platform Campaign, Storytelling, Video, Video Series

About this entry

5 cities. 5 artists. 5 NJTLs. 50 years.

From Arthur Ashe to Venus and Serena Williams, public courts have nurtured and built US Open champions. The USTA partnered with Chase and built upon its shared mission to strengthen communities through tennis by restoring public court facilities in Miami, Chicago, LA, Cincinnati, and NYC.

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This 5-month initiative (April to August 2018) saw local artists turn tennis courts into their canvas in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the US Open. Youth tennis players from the USTA Foundation's National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) network were immersed into an experience where they got the opportunity to paint and play on a court of art.

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Video in particularly aerial drone footage and live social media content was essential to the storytelling of the Art Courts Project.

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2017 US Open Semifinalist CoCo Vandeweghe went from playing on California public tennis courts to Top 10 in the WTA rankings! The American tennis star shared her inspiring story with the youth from the Pete Brown Junior Tennis chapter while painting alongside artist Charlie Edmiston at the Harvard Park Tennis Courts in Los Angeles.

In Riverdale, retired NFL stars and Chicago Bear teammates Matt Forte and Anthony 'Spice' Adams demonstrated that tennis is a gateway sport for all by putting their skills to the test at Ivanhoe Park Art Courts.

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Since the launch of #USOpenArtCourtsxChase, the campaign has reached 85.2M people, receiving 260M impressions, 20.6M views, and 298.5K engagements (likes/comments/shares).

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Featured artists included:

April: Norman & Jean Reach Park in Hialeah, FL/North Miami- art by KiiK Create benefiting First Serve Miami.

May: Jackie Tatum Havard Recreation Center in Harvard Park, Los Angeles - art by Charlie Edmiston benefiting the Pete Brown Junior Tennis.

June: Ivanhoe Park in Riverdale, IL/South of Chicago - art by Justus Roe benefiting the ACE Project.

July: Losantville Tennis Courts in Cincinnati - art by Xylene Project benefiting the Inner City Tennis Project.

August: Highland Park Tennis Courts in Brooklyn - art by Sen2 Figueroa and James Sexer Rodriguez benefiting Highland Park Tennis Association.

Video for US Open Art Courts x Chase

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United States Tennis Association

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About the Shorty Awards

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So you are saying that just pointing out the ACTUAL FACTS of what the CAIR, ISNA, the Interfaith Groups, et. al. are doing, it's Fitnah & they can harm or kill you?

Would that be true of just quoting the Quran, Sunnah & Hadith?

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Just quoting is not enough. The context has to be critical of Islam.

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WeddingI got married last year; within nine months of marriage I started suffering serious depression ? including feeling suicidal ? and one day my husband left me at my parent?s doorstep saying ?I needed a break?. He never contacted me again, never responded to my calls or messages. He started telling his family that our marriage was over without even telling me. He completely abandoned me when I was at the lowest point in my life.

I was devastated at the time and felt that it was somehow my fault. However, in the weeks that followed, I opened up to my family and my therapist about my husband?s behaviour whilst we were married. It became apparent that during our marriage I had been subjected to emotional, physical, financial and sexual abuse which I had learnt to become passive to.

Emotional abuse

Emotional abuse is also known as psychological abuse and often leads to depression and suicidal feelings. As Domestic Violence London explains: ?Its aim is to chip away at the confidence and independence of victims with the intention of making her compliant and limiting her ability to leave. I wish I had known about emotional abuse before I got married because then I might have been able to recognise what was happening to me. Emotional abuse includes verbal abuse such as yelling, name-calling, blaming and shaming. Isolation, intimidation, threats of violence and controlling behaviour.?

I was victim to all of these things. My husband would say ?I love you bandari,? call me a majj (cow) and call me ?dipsh*t?. He would tell me to shut up in front of other family members, saying my opinion doesn?t count and that no one cares for what I have to say. As my depression worsened he started to withdraw affection from me, leaving me crying in the bedroom whilst he watched TV downstairs. I would ask him to hug me but he refused. He used to say ?you don?t fear me.? I was told off for speaking to a man in his presence and that if he?s around I do not need to speak to other men directly.

I was never accepted as part of my marital family; I was never given a house key and expected to wait outside the house in the cold until my in laws returned home. When I went to my in-laws begging for a chance after they left me, my father-in-law told me I was beyond help, people like me never get better and that he?s made his final decision and makes no U-turns. I was pleading with them for help, to support me through counselling to help my depression. Practically on my knees crying and begging them for a chance but no one helped me. At this stage I was consciously unaware I had been abused and thought it was all my fault.

Constant criticism

The abuse started on the flight en-route to our honeymoon, when he began criticising me, saying that my hair stank. This became typical of his behaviour. He would constantly criticise me to crush my confidence. He made me feel like I was a child, that I couldn?t do anything, right. When we were out in public, he would control my every move ? for example, telling me to walk straight, not drag my feet and not step where it was wet. He also made derogatory remarks about my weight even though I shrank to a size 6 whilst we were married. If my stomach stuck out he would tuck it in with his hand and squeeze my nose to make it look smaller.

His parents and cousin sister would also regularly criticise me - further breaking down my confidence. My father in law had asked me to empty all my bank accounts, so he could buy another property. To complicate the situation, my husband also suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and I was expected to follow his OCD rituals including: showering twice a day, being recalled into bathroom if towel wasn?t perfectly straight, must flick my toothbrush three times and follow a specific ritual for taking off shoes. I was not allowed to put my handbag on the bed; plug when taken out of the socket must be placed on the carpet in specific way. Had to follow rules about which lights can be on and grocery shopping bags must be folded in a certain way. He wouldn?t let me hold onto train or escalator side bars or sit on the train seats. He would make me get off the train at every stop on the way home. I was expected to wash my feet when we come from people houses and from the gurdwara. I was not allowed to pull down the sun visor or the car windows without his permission.sikhhelpline girl sad

Another aspect of the abuse was that my husband exerted extensive control over my life. He wouldn?t allow me to drive or book annual leave off work without his permission. He would regularly read my phone messages, banned me from making cash withdrawals and even set up a new email address for me, registered my oyster card and set up online banking ? then kept all of the passwords.

Physical and sexual abuse

My husband would constantly ogle other women and make lewd comments about them. He would ask me to invite women from work home for a ?threesome? and graphically describe what he would to do them. He regularly watched porn in front of me. At times, the abuse became physical. He would slap me in the bedroom for his own entertainment, hitting me with a belt on my leg, punching me in the stomach on the train when he thought I may be pregnant, regularly holding me by the arm like a prisoner in public and dragging me by my legs during intimate relations. As my depression deepened, the mental stress was affecting my sleep and I would often wake up crying or subconsciously grinding my teeth whilst sleeping. My husband would then forcefully grab my jaw to wake me up so I would stop this, as it was disturbing his sleep.

I wanted to share my story with you; I never want anyone to go through what I did and be able to recognise the signs much earlier on. I was manipulated in such a way that I couldn?t recognise his behaviour as abuse. I thought he loved me, because he would say he?s protecting me and making me a better person and I naively fell for it. I spent most of the nine months crying myself to sleep, crying in the shower or in the disabled toilets at work.

My advice would be if it feels wrong it's wrong. Sometimes without knowing our confidence and self-esteem is shattered and we become desperate for love. Allowing ourselves to be mistreated by others in the hope for love and acceptance in return. Never let it get this far, if someone is constantly putting you down don't let them, eventually they will break you so far you won't know what's happening to you. Speak to someone like Sikh Helpline, sometimes we don't know what's happening to us and need someone from the outside to spell it out for us. It's all confidential and could be the answer to getting saved before it's too late.

Sikh helpline has been very helpful and supportive, I?ve turned to sikhi and keeping faith in Waheguru, this is helping me get through this difficult time. By a DV victim

Talking to the Sikh Helpline can help to give you a better understanding of the problem and how to best deal with it. We can help by supporting and getting you in touch with the right agencies. The Sikh Helpline is here for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help and you can contact us anytime.

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Wednesday, November 14

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

High-school junior Aza, who struggles with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, reconnects with childhood friend Davis after his billionaire father disappears, on the run from the police. But can Aza and her friends help Davis cope with being parentless when she’s having trouble managing her own downward-spiraling thoughts?

Monday, December 17

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Starr Carter is a black girl caught between two worlds: her poor, black neighborhood, and her suburban, mostly white high school. Occupying this liminal space becomes nearly impossible when Starr witnesses, and is forced to speak out about, the fatal shooting of her unarmed friend by a white cop.

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Will's brother has been shot. In this free-verse novel, Will steps into an elevator ready to head downstairs and to follow the rules he’s been taught and avenge his brother's death, when he encounters the ghosts of victims of a chain reaction caused by a shooting.

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Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

Tuesday, February 12

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

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Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from her "caregiver," and she is on the verge of being thrown into the streets . . . until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything--except a friend. Victor is her escape from misery. Elizabeth does everything she can to make herself indispensable--and it works. She is taken in by the Frankenstein family and rewarded with a warm bed, delicious food, and dresses of the finest silk. Soon she and Victor are inseparable.

Monday, March 18

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice

by Bryan Stevenson

In this very personal work—proceeds of which will go to charity—Bryan Stevenson recounts many and varied stories of his work as a lawyer in the U.S. criminal justice system on behalf of those in society who have experienced some type of discrimination and/or have been wrongly accused of a crime and who deserve a powerful advocate and due justice under the law.

Wednesday, April 17

Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival. The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life—and the life of her brother—is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.

Thursday, May 16

Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle

Set between Christmas and New Year’s in New York City, this novel centers on friends Kendall, Max, and Jamie who witness a quarrel that turns into an accident in which a woman is severely injured. Kendall and Max continue to stay in New York—Kendall with her brother and his boyfriend, who may be on the brink of a breakup, and Max with Big E, his curmudgeonly grandfather, who has scared away yet another caregiver. Feeling guilty over witnessing the quarrel and doing nothing, Kendall and Max accept a kindness challenge in which they will perform seven random acts of kindness by New Year’s Day. Separately and together, the pair start looking at situations in terms of how they can positively intervene. The work is told in alternating chapters and readers are privy to not only the main characters’ actions, thoughts, and emotions, but also to those of the people they are helping.

Monday, June 10

Bull by David Elliott

The myth of Theseus and the Minotaur is given a modern spin in this darkly humorous novel in verse. Minos' thirst for power gets him into trouble with Poseidon. It's Pasiphae, Minos' wife, who pays the price, birthing a son who is half man and half bull.


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Polar 2018

This week in Davos (Switzerland) about 2000 people are gathering to talk about Polar Sciences!

I (Lucie Vignes) am here to listen to a lot of talk about ocean dynamics, ocean-ice interactions but also talks about sciences-policy issues and women’s perspectives on Polar research! I came with a poster a well, speaking about both data from the Weddell Sea and our experiments in Grenoble. It was a good occasion to meet very interesting people and to share my research. This is my first big conference!

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