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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In the 1930s, Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson and Harriet Nelson became famous on the radio show, The Baker's Broadcast. In 1944, they launched their own radio show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet which later became a well-known sitcom by the same name that ran on television from 1952 to 1966. The house on the set was modeled after their real home, which would eventually develop a reputation for being haunted.
The house is located on 1822 Camino Palmero Street in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills. It was built in 1916, for a prominent Los Angeles businessman Harold G. Feraud on a sloping half-acre parcel in the exclusive Las Colinas Heights subdivision. Architects Frank Kegley and H. Scott Gerity designed it in a colonial revival style.
In 1937, the bank put it up for sale for $16,500.
Then cowboy actor Dick Foran lived at the house with his wife, Madeleine Piper Hollingsworth and their two children. In 1940, as part of their divorce agreement she gave up the claim to the house, and he stayed there. She had charged him with cruelty during the divorce suit. Things didn't go good for Dick. A few months later he was arrested pleading guilty to a drunk charge after fighting the arresting officers.
The Nelsons purchased the two-story property in 1941, and the exterior shots of the The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet show featured the actual house.
The family lived there until 1975, when Ozzie died from liver cancer in the house. Harriet moved to another house they owned in Laguna Beach. She died in 1994.
According to the real estate agency that handled the sale of the house three times, paranormal occurrences were reported not only by those who have lived there, but workmen as well.
The apparition of Ozzie, is seen walking throughout the house. He's been seen eating ice cream in the kitchen, which was something he like to do when living. The occupants would wake in the early morning to find the drawer containing the ice cream scooper pulled ajar. He also visits the pub room where he had a model train set that would run on its own.
Renovations throughout the years have changed the layout of the house as it was during the time the Nelsons lived there, however the exterior is much the same as when it was built over a hundred years ago.
The family that occupied the house in the late 1970s, complained of lights and faucets turning on and off by themselves, hearing footsteps and witnessing doors opening and closing without anyone being around them. There were times when the smell of rose-scented perfume wafted through the air.
A woman who lived there during this time describe feeling a spirit pull back the bed sheet, and something kiss her neck and breasts.
In 1994, a painter described seeing a white misty form near him, and hearing footsteps as well.
Despite the persona Ozzie Nelson cultivated for his TV character, historians have described him as being an authoritarian figure, that micro-managed his family's life, especially those of his two sons David and Ricky. He quashed plans for them to attend college insisting that they continue to work in show business. As a workaholic he no doubt loved his children, but the family business came first.
Rick Nelson went on to have his own musical career. He died in a plane crash on Dec. 31, 1985, at the age of 45, on the way to a concert in Texas, at a time when he was struggling to revive his singing career.
The house was featured as Ari Gold's house in Entourage.
In 2014, actor Christopher Meloni purchased the home, which despite having been the abode of a "wholesome" family, had acquired the reputation of being very haunted.
In May, 2022, according to Dirt, the house was sold in an off-market deal to director Rawson Marshall Thurber for 5.9 million. It had gone on the market originally in 2020 for $6.5 million. It was removed from the open-market shortly thereafter and rented out for $29,500/month.
Question is, does the house still deserve its reputation as being haunted? Does Ozzie Nelson still walk throughout the house checking out the renovations, and wondering where his train set went, or has he gone on to the greatest adventure of them all?
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Two Black Youths Assault Aurora Man AND His 2 Year-Old Godson During Attempted Robbery
Two black youths assaulted and attempted to rob an Aurora man and his two year-old godson.
Who beats up a two year-old?
The Chicago Tribune reported:
Aurora man and his 2-year-old godson were assaulted by two men Sunday afternoon during a robbery attempt.
Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said the incident occurred at 3:15 p.m. near Galena Boulevard and Hopkins Avenue. Two men approached the 28-year-old and demanded he hand over his valuables.
Ferrelli said the men began to punch the man and the 2-year-old child.
Police said one of the men tried to pull a chain from the Aurora man’s neck but was unsuccessful.
Ferrelli said passers-by began to yell at the men, who ran south into a gas station parking lot, entered a red Chevrolet Monte Carlo and sped away.
Police said the man and toddler had scrapes and bruises.
The Aurora man said the attackers were black men between 16 and 20 years old. One was about 6 feet tall and skinny. He was wearing a white shirt and had small braids in his hair. The second was described as shorter and wearing a red shirt.
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Pina Bausch, creator of Germany’s legendary Tanztheater in the Wuppertal, the icon of contemporary dance, died suddenly in 2009. Director Peter Brook, 86-years old, recently left the management of the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris which he created. As for Peter Stein, the legendary manager of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, directing is a hobby for him these days. And stage director and playwright Robert Wilson no longer sets the tone. But nature hates a vacuum and, in response to political and social changes, newcomers are taking the old masters’ place.
The first master to emerge from the new Europe is the Lithuanian Eimuntas Nekrosius. Born in 1952 and trained in Moscow, he has managed to create his own style – an in-depth reading of the text while remaining faithful to the author. In his stagings, the plays of Chekov, Shakespeare or Goethe’s Faust have become contemporary myths. In 1994, he was awarded the prestigious New Theatre Reality Prize of the Taormina Arts Committee, a prize for the most interesting creators of the European Theatre.
Several years later, the world discovered another Lithuanian, a 17-year old named Oskaras Korsunovas, also a New Theatre Reality prize-winner. He introduced Russian theatre of the absurd to European theatre audiences. He also raised questions about absurdity in human existence and about the role of fate in life. He introduced the Lithuanian theatre repertoire to a new European dramatic art; to a sense of brutality.
The aim of the theatre created in Vilnius by Oskaras Korsunovas is to “present classical authors in a contemporary performance and the contemporary authors in a classical performance”. This recipe has been successful on the stages of old Europe, including at the Comédie Française in Paris.
Since the Berlin Wall fell, a new generation of German directors has emerged. Among them are the managers of two of Berlin’s major theatres, Frank Castorf (1951) at the Volksbühne and Thomas Ostermeier (1968) at the Schaubühne. Both have set the tone for theatre throughout Europe over the last three decades.
They have breathed new life into theatre, breaking down classical plays, criticising consumerism and capitalism, whipping the audience psychologically and even sometimes physically. They berated the dictatorship of the audience, denounced hypocrisy and false modesty. “Frank Castorf’s best shows are wearing, long, complicated, loud, exalted, often illogical. They lack a linear story-line and an understandable conclusion,” the critics note, but joyfully.
Breaking the rules is the motto of Castorf’s theatre. In contrast, Ostermeier prefers to stage contemporary English or German playwrights who describe brutal social relations. These are stories about losers, dropouts, outsiders. In the staging of classical plays, he uses décors typical of the new bourgeoisie and links these to common references culled from TV series, films or songs.
In Poland, artists who dominate the theatre scene and who have also made a name abroad are Krzysztof Warlikowski (1962) or Grzegorz Jarzyna (1968), followed by the younger generation: Jan Klata, Maja Kleczowska or the collaborators Monika Strzepka and Pawel Demirski.
European theatre was stimulated by a small region of northern Europe and Belgium: Flanders. Artists from Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels created their own theatrical language. Their strength is their training and experience in another artistic field, be it dance, performance art, visual arts or architecture that they transpose to the stage.
To the wave of socially relevant German theatre, they added a little fresh air, a little levity, poetry (but also often some brutality) and a very personal way of telling stories. Jan Lauwers’ Needcompany is a group of performers, dancers, singers, and actors. Jan Fabre uses the same methods – performance, drama, dance – but in a more sombre and more brutal way, not hesitating to use bodies, even bodily fluids. These are universal stories that testify to the state of European civilisation.
There is also Luc Perceval, who is based in Germany and who is currently the manager of Hamburg’s Thalia Theatre and the Swiss Christoph Marthaler, a musician by training whose plays oscillate between a concert and a performance. Very sensitive to the social climate, his style is situated somewhere between the German and Flemish styles.
The Italian Romeo Castelucci, one of the greatest visionaries of the European theatre today, is closer to the visual art of Jan Fabre. Castelucci works with the family troupe Societas Raffaello Sanzio. Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, his triptych “Hell”, “Purgatory” and “Paradise” won great international acclaim: he was the invited artist at the Avignon Theatre Festival in 2008.

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Mapping the complex biogeography of microbial communities in situ with high taxonomic and spatial resolution poses a major challenge because of the high density1 and rich diversity2 of species in environmental microbiomes and the limitations of optical imaging technology3,4,5,6. Here we introduce high-phylogenetic-resolution microbiome mapping by fluorescence in situ hybridization (HiPR-FISH), a versatile technology that uses binary encoding, spectral imaging and decoding based on machine learning to create micrometre-scale maps of the locations and identities of hundreds of microbial species in complex communities. We show that 10-bit HiPR-FISH can distinguish between 1,023 isolates of Escherichia coli, each fluorescently labelled with a unique binary barcode. HiPR-FISH, in conjunction with custom algorithms for automated probe design and analysis of single-cell images, reveals the disruption of spatial networks in the mouse gut microbiome in response to treatment with antibiotics, and the longitudinal stability of spatial architectures in the human oral plaque microbiome. Combined with super-resolution imaging, HiPR-FISH shows the diverse strategies of ribosome organization that are exhibited by taxa in the human oral microbiome. HiPR-FISH provides a framework for analysing the spatial ecology of environmental microbial communities at single-cell resolution.
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We thank R. M. Williams and J. M. Dela Cruz for assistance with microscopy; A. Douglas, J. McMullen, T. Doerr, J. Peters and M. Petassi for providing materials; and P. S. Burnham, A. P. Cheng, T. Lan and E. Michel for discussions and feedback. This work was supported by an instrumentation grant from the Kavli Institute at Cornell and by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants 1DP2AI138242 to I.D.V. and 1R33CA235302 to I.D.V., W.Z. and I.L.B. Imaging data were acquired in the Cornell Biotechnology Resource Center Imaging Facility using the shared, NYSTEM (CO29155)- and NIH (S10OD018516)-funded Zeiss LSM880 confocal and multiphoton microscope.
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Environmental microbial consortia are first split into two samples. One sample is used to generate full-length 16S amplicon sequences using PCR and PacBio sequencing. The resulting sequence file is used to generate a list of probes, which are purchased from a commercial vendor. The other sample is used for imaging experiments. Fixed samples are hybridized using an encoding hybridization buffer containing the amplified complex probes and read out using a readout hybridization buffer containing fluorescently labelled readout probes. Samples are then embedded and imaged on a standard confocal microscope in the spectral imaging mode. Resulting raw images are registered and segmented. The spectra of individual cells are measured using the raw image and the segmentation image and classified using a machine learning algorithm. Finally, classified images are used for downstream quantitative measurements of microbial spatial associations.
a, Fluorescence spectra measured using each laser are concatenated for classification. b, Example spectra for two different barcodes. The combined spectra can contain distinct peaks or broad peaks, depending on the fluorophores used for each barcode. c, Spectra for the 10 fluorophores used in this study. d, Classification algorithm for barcode assignment. Concatenated spectra are projected using UMAP before classified using support vector machines.
a, Classification frequency as a function of Hamming distance for all 1,023 barcodes. Insets show barcodes with detectable error (in orange) and an example of a barcode with no detectable error (in blue). b, c, Photon counting measurements for Alexa 488 for each pixel (b) and across each cell (c). d, Signal-to-noise ratio calculated using Poisson statistics for the E. coli cells under nominal experimental imaging conditions. e, Simulated classification error as a function of ribosomal density within individual cells. In box plots (b, c), the centre lines show the median value, the bounds of the boxes correspond to the 25th and 75th percentiles and the whiskers extend to 1.5 × IQR.
a, Full-length 16S sequences are first grouped by taxa. The consensus sequence for each taxon is used to design probes. Each probe within each taxon is then blasted against the database of full-length 16S sequences. Several probe quality metrics are calculated on the basis of the blast results and are used to select probes. All selected probes are conjugated to the appropriate readout sequences and blasted against the database of full-length 16S sequences to remove probes with any potential mis-hybridization sites owing to the conjugation of the readout sequences. b, Schematic for probe synthesis. Complex oligo pools are amplified using limited-cycle PCR. The T7 promoter introduced during PCR allows the templates to be in-vitro-transcribed. Reverse transcription then converts RNA to cDNA. Finally, alkaline hydrolysis removes the RNA strand to generate the final single-stranded DNA probe pool.
Classification accuracy as a function of Hamming distance for each species of bacteria measured using different barcodes.
a, A typical raw image of a human plaque biofilm sample averaged along the spectral axis was enhanced using the LNE algorithm before segmentation using the watershed algorithm. Spectra of segmented cells were then used to generate the identification image. Scale bars, 25 μm. b, Examples of segmentation comparisons between LNE and existing methods. Scale bars, 25 μm. c, Enlarged views highlight advantages of LNE over existing methods at segmenting closely packed cells. Scale bars, 5 μm.
Extended Data Fig. 7 LNE can segment objects with diverse shapes in images collected using different modalities.
a, Raw (left) and segmented (right) images of a longitudinal section of a km fibre37 in a partially contracted Stentor coeruleus cell imaged using transmission electron microscopy. b, Raw (left) and segmented (right) images of fluorescently labelled actin bundles from chicken muscle imaged using total internal reflection microscopy. Source images are from the Cell Image Library.
a, Heat map of merger detection rates across all 10-bit barcode combinations. Barcode–neighbour combinations not detected in the 1,023-plex E. coli mixing experiment are shown in orange. The diagonal corresponds to the correct identification of merged objects with the same barcode as single objects. b, Merger detection rate as a function of Hamming distance. The spatio-spectral deconvolution approach can detect 99.6% of all objects with spatially varying barcodes that are more than 1 bit away.
a, Heat map of the Pearson correlation between maximum average intensity for all detected barcodes from different FFPE sections of the same mouse gut, with 15 FOVs per FFPE section. b, Heat map of Pearson correlation between maximum average intensity for all detected barcodes from different mice, with 14 to 15 FOVs per mouse. c, Comparison of imaging and sequencing measurements on mouse gut FFPE tissue sections. d, Phylum abundance measurements from images of a clindamycin-treated mouse compared to a control mouse. The clindamycin-treated mouse shows a lower Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes ratio than the control mouse. e, Measured Shannon diversity is lower in the clindamycin-treated mouse than the control mouse. The centre lines show the median value, the bounds of the boxes correspond to the 25th and 75th percentiles and the whiskers extend to 1.5 × IQR. f, β-diversity as a function of patch size shows similar trends in the clindamycin-treated mouse and the control mouse. The boxes correspond to 25th and 75th quartile, and the whiskers extend to the most extreme data points. g, Bray–Curtis dissimilarity increases as a function of intra-patch distance in both the clindamycin-treated and the control mice. h, Volcano plot of significance versus spatial association fold change between ciprofloxacin-treated mice and control mice. Altered spatial associations that are statistically significant after Bonferroni correction are listed.
a, Clusters of Lautropia cells observed using different panels of probes. b. Two-dimensional UMAP projections of the physical properties of Lautropia cells observed using different probe panels overlap in the reduced dimensions. c, Additional observed instances of the Pseudopropionibacterium–Cardiobacterium–Schwartzia consortium.
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Shi, H., Shi, Q., Grodner, B. et al. Highly multiplexed spatial mapping of microbial communities. Nature 588, 676–681 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2983-4

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- How do you cure low self esteem?
- Is there medication for low self esteem?
- Is insecurity a mental illness?
- What do you say to someone with low self esteem?
- How do I rebuild my self esteem?
- What are the signs of low self esteem?
- How do you overcome low self esteem and insecurity?
- Is there a mental disorder for low self esteem?
- How do you fix low self esteem in a relationship?
- What is the best therapy for low self esteem?
- How do I stop being insecure and jealous?
- What is the root cause of low self esteem?
- How does a person with low self esteem feel about mistakes?
- How does low self esteem affect relationships?
- Why do I always feel insecure?
How do you cure low self esteem?
Accept your thoughtsTake care of yourself.
Follow good health guidelines.
Try to exercise at least 30 minutes a day most days of the week.
Do things you enjoy.
Start by making a list of things you like to do.
Spend time with people who make you happy.
Don’t waste time on people who don’t treat you well..
Is there medication for low self esteem?
If you have GAD and struggle with low self-esteem, talk to your therapist. There are many treatment options, including cognitive-behavioral therapy and medication, that can help manage low self-esteem and help you reach your full potential.
Is insecurity a mental illness?
Working as a therapist for the past five years, I’ve learned how insecurities negatively impact a person’s mental health. Insecurities feed mental health issues like depression, low self-esteem, and anxiety. They are also often a contributing factor to eating disorders and substance use disorders.
What do you say to someone with low self esteem?
Let’s get started with things not to say.You’re pretty. You’re beautiful. … Don’t be stupid, yes you are. Again, this doesn’t work. … Say something you don’t like about yourself. … Love yourself. … It’s ok not to like yourself. … Find one tiny thing you like about yourself. … It’s really just up to you what to tell yourself.
How do I rebuild my self esteem?
10 tips for improving your self-esteemBe nice to yourself. That little voice that tells you you’re killin’ it (or not) is way more powerful than you might think. … You do you. … Get movin’ … Nobody’s perfect. … Remember that everyone makes mistakes. … Focus on what you can change. … Do what makes you happy. … Celebrate the small stuff.More items…
What are the signs of low self esteem?
Signs of low self-esteem include:saying negative things and being critical about yourself.focusing on your negatives and ignoring your achievements.thinking other people are better than you.not accepting compliments.feeling sad, depressed, anxious, ashamed or angry.
How do you overcome low self esteem and insecurity?
How to Stop Being Insecure and Build Self-EsteemAffirm your value.Prioritize your needs.Embrace the awkward.Challenge your thoughts.Keep good company.Step away.Reflect on the good.Make time for joy.More items…•
Is there a mental disorder for low self esteem?
Whilst low self-esteem does not make up a condition alone, in combination with other symptoms it can point to conditions including (but not limited to) anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and personality disorders.
How do you fix low self esteem in a relationship?
Building Self-Esteem and Improving RelationshipsAvoid criticizing, blaming, and shaming.Accept the other person as they are; don’t try to change them.Offer genuine praise and appreciation for the traits that you value in each other.Avoid perfectionism in yourself and in others. Accept mistakes as part of humanity.
What is the best therapy for low self esteem?
Cognitive behavioral therapy is effective in the treatment of low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. It helps you recognize the cause and monitor negative beliefs, doubt, and anxiety in order to alleviate painful feelings and enables you to take constructive action.
How do I stop being insecure and jealous?
Here’s a look at some ways to cope with jealousy and examine what’s at the root of your feelings.Trace it back to its source. … Voice your concerns. … Talk to a trusted friend. … Put a different spin on jealousy. … Consider the full picture. … Practice gratitude for what you have. … Practice in-the-moment coping techniques.More items…•
What is the root cause of low self esteem?
Some of the many causes of low self-esteem may include: Unhappy childhood where parents (or other significant people such as teachers) were extremely critical. Poor academic performance in school resulting in a lack of confidence.
How does a person with low self esteem feel about mistakes?
Low self-esteem makes us believe we’re inherently worthless, bad or wrong as people. So when we’re wrong about something, it feels like reinforcement; it feels like we really are wrong in ourselves. So we guard against admitting we’re wrong, even to ourselves.
How does low self esteem affect relationships?
Low self-esteem can give rise to jealousy and insecurity in a relationship. You may question your worthiness to your partner, and believe it is a fluke they like you. As such, it is normal for people with low self-esteem to expect their partner may be attracted to someone else or fear they will leave the relationship.
Why do I always feel insecure?
Most of us feel insecure sometimes, but some of us feel insecure most of the time. The kind of childhood you had, past traumas, recent experiences of failure or rejection, loneliness, social anxiety, negative beliefs about yourself, perfectionism, or having a critical parent or partner can all contribute to insecurity.

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The parents of five year-old Chloe Johnson have spoken to ITV London about the tragedy.
Chloe was found dead after going to play in a pool at the resort in Sharm-El-Sheikh.
Her parents say they were not given any professional help and were left for hours before an ambulance came to take her body away.
More top news
Stamp duty is to be abolished for first-time buyers on properties up to £300,000, Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced in his Budget.
The money will help pay for mental health and counselling services, regeneration in the west London neighbourhood and a new community space.
The small device was hidden in a grate in the ceiling in the only customer toilet at a Starbucks coffee shop.


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New York Times
Updated December 3, 2022
The New York Times is an American news media organization. The Times has been accused of breaching its own professed journalistic ethics, engaging in deceptive practices to push far-left propaganda, and attempting to silence or censor viewpoint diversity.
On July 14, 2020, columnist Bari Weiss resigned from the New York Times, citing “unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge” arising from “constant bullying” by colleagues with the inaction and complicity of the paper’s administration.(1) Weiss pointedly observed:
“The truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times....Lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else…
“What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity. If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets...Standing up for principle at the paper does not win plaudits. It puts a target on your back.”
Following a “fact-check” by the New York Times regarding the Trump impeachment trial that nonpartisan research institute Just Facts noted to contain “flagrant falsehoods propagated by [reporter Linda] Qui and the Times,”(2) Just Facts performed a more detailed evaluation of the New York Times reporting.
Just Facts found that “The New York Times regularly publishes falsehoods that spur violent unrest and civic dysfunction.”(3) The group wrote that “this includes but is not limited to hoaxes, lies and collective delusions that spur violence against police, incite class warfare, stagnate the economy, slander the United States, sow racial animosity, empower criminals by disarming their victims, cover up corruption and fraud, harm the nation’s education system, demonize elected officials...distort science… drive the U.S. deeper into debt” and conceal negative consequences of illegal immigration. The group demonstrated multiple factual discrepancies with claims by the New York Times on each item.
The Times has also been caught up in false reporting scandals. In December 2020, the paper acknowledged that a twelve-part series it had promoted in 2018 about a Canadian man who had claimed to have been a member of ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), a violent jihadi group designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, was based on fabricated claims and did not meet journalistic standards.(4) The Times, accused of pursuing sensationalism at the expense of journalistic integrity, "returned an award and had another withdrawn" for the reporting. The fraudulent nature of the Times' podcast series had been raised much earlier, yet the paper failed to retract the reporting until after their source was arrested in Canada and charged with a terrorist hoax.(5)
Critics have alleged the episode is symptomatic of "what has happened to the Times since it abandoned its standards of fairness and accuracy to pursue a far-left political and cultural agenda," and that the New York Times has never withdrawn or apologized for a litany of politically-motivated hoaxes and false reports.(ibid)
The New York Times has been called out for extreme partisan bias transgressing ethical boundaries, such as its recommendation that the investigation of sexual assault allegations against then-presidential candidate Joe Biden should be led by the Democratic National Committee. Then-White House press secretary Sarah Sanders responded, stating: "The idea that the DNC should take the lead on an investigation against one of its own candidates is laughable. I thought it was an Onion headline, not a New York Times headline."(6) Even the DNC stated that the Times' recommendation was "an absurd suggestion."(ibid)
New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood ruled in March 2021 that the New York Times may have spread deceptive claims about nonprofit journalism group Project Veritas in injecting opinions in articles represented as news pieces. Wood wrote that “the dictionary definitions of ‘disinformation’ and ‘deceptive’ provided by defendants’ counsel certainly apply to [New York Times journalist] Astor’s and Hsu’s failure to note that they injected their opinions in news articles, as they now claim.”(7)
Judge Wood continued, writing that the lawsuit by Veritas against the Times would proceed: “Here there is a substantial basis in law and fact that Defendants acted with actual malice, that is, with knowledge that the statements in the Articles were false or made with reckless disregard of whether they were false or not.”
The New York Times has continued to serve as a propaganda organ for the Biden administration,(8) employing the full range of propaganda techniques. In September 2021, Steven Miller observed on Twitter:
“Jen Psaki goes missing the day the Pentagon announces the Biden admin drones 7 kids, France recalls it's ambassador, 12,000 people are being stored under a bridge in Texas and the FDA just rejected Biden booster plan.. but we have another glowing puff profile. Great work everyone.” (9)
In July 2020, reporting by the New York Post exposed the New York Times' racist history even as the Times incited race-based riots and violence.(10) The extended Ochs-Sulzberger family, which has owned the New York Times since 1896, included multiple slave owners, the superintendent of the Charleston workhouse where slaves were subjected to corporal punishment, and a Democratic politician who enforced Jim Crow segregation laws. Employing extreme racist language, a paper owned by Adolph Ochs demanded the death penalty for nine African-American men falsely accused of rape by two white women. The Daughters of the Confederacy sent a “sent a pillow embroidered with the Confederate flag to be placed in [the] coffin” of NYT owner Ochs when he died in 1935.
Propagandists for Mass Murder and Totalitarianism
Long before Russian propagandists Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan, the New York Times was propagandizing for Soviet totalitarianism. During Stalin’s genocide against the Ukrainian people through the Holodomor in the early 1930s that killed millions, New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty spread Soviet propaganda and acted as an apologist for the Soviet regime.
A British diplomat had recorded in 1933 that Duranty was well aware of the massive human catastrophe caused by the Communist regime, telling him that “as many as 10 million people may have died directly or indirectly from lack of food in the past year.” Duranty never "let the great American public into the secret," although the Times' own editors were aware that "the present food situation is mainly the direct result of the Five-Year Plan and of the methods employed in putting it through." Instead, Duranty used euphemisms such as “malnutrition” instead of “famine” while justifying the genocide, writing: “To put it brutally, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs."
Duranty told egregious lies and engaged in deception in his vocal defense of Soviet premier and mass murderer Josef Stalin, but received a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting which the Times has not returned. Activist Oksana Piaseckyj stated: "He [Duranty] is the personification of evil in journalism. We think he was like the originator of fake news."
In “How ‘The New York Times’ Helped Hide Stalin’s Mass Murders in Ukraine,” Izabella Tabarovsky wrote:
“Stalin’s crime was only one face of the story. The other face was the extraordinary failure on the part of the world to report and acknowledge the facts. Many were complicit in this failure, but the starring role undoubtedly belonged to the Moscow-based Western journalists, who misreported, underreported, and failed to report about what was plainly happening under their noses. Walter Duranty, the New York Times’ man in Moscow, outright lied about the events, deliberately misleading his readers.”
Taborovsky added: “Journalism doesn’t have to stifle the truth in the service of fashionable causes and personal narcissism. It’s a choice.” Sadly, time and again, the New York Times has chosen to push disinformation and propaganda to serve its own political agenda to the detriment of the public.
1. Weiss, Bari. “Resignation Letter.” July 14, 2020. https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
2. Agresti, James D. "The New York Times’ Brazenly False 'Fact Check' About Trump’s Impeachment Trial." Just Facts Daily, February 17, 2021. https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-new-york-times-brazenly-false-fact-check-about-trumps-impeachment-trial
3. Agresti, James D. "The New York Times Regularly Publishes Falsehoods That Spur Violent Unrest and Civic Dysfunction." Just Facts Daily, February 2021. https://www.justfactsdaily.com/new-york-times-falsehoods-spur-violent-unrest-civic-dysfunction
4. "Caliphate: NY Times loses awards for Islamic State podcast over false reporting." BBC News, December 19, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55375277
5. Goodwin, Michael. “New York Times admits to major blunder – but these errors go uncorrected.” Fox News, 21 December 2020.
6. Concha, Joe. "Sanders mocks NY Times urging DNC to investigate Biden allegations: 'I thought it was an Onion headline.'" The Hill, May 4, 2020. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/495989-sanders-mocks-ny-times-urging-dnc-to-investigate-biden-allegations-i-thought
7. Wood, Charles D. “Order denying motion to dismiss.” Supreme Court of the State of New York, March 18, 2021. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20518694-order_denying_motion_to_dismiss
8. Kornick, Lindsay. “New York Times pens Psaki puff piece after bad week for the Biden administration.” Fox News, September 19, 2021. https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyt-pens-psaki-puff-piece-bad-week-for-biden-administration
9. Miller, Stephen L. Twitter [@redsteeze], September 17, 2021. https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1438988891747336193
10. Goodwin, Michael. “Why New York Times praises ‘cancel culture’ but skips over its own racist history.” New York Post, 11 July 2020. https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/ny-times-praises-cancel-culture-but-skips-its-own-racist-history-goodwin/
11. Carynnyk, Marco, Lubomyr Y. Luciuk and Bohdan S. Kordan, eds. "The Foreign Office and The Famine: British Documents on Ukraine and the Great Famine of 1932-1933.
Kingston, Ontario: Limestone Press, 1988. xxxii.
12. Carynnyk, ibid, xxx.
13. Folkenflik, David. "'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize." National Public Radio, Morning Edition, May 8, 2022. https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097097620/new-york-times-pulitzer-ukraine-walter-duranty
14. Tabarovsky, Izabella. “How ‘The New York Times’ Helped Hide Stalin’s Mass Murders in Ukraine.” Tablet Mag, October 22, 2020. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/walter-duranty-ukraine-new-york-times-mr-jones-agnieszka-holland
Other Critiques of the New York Times
A few other critiques of the New York Times with references are below. While several of items come from one of NYT’s journalistic competitors (we prefer to use diverse sources from across the spectrum), some key points appear substantiated from the Times' own pages.
McGinnis, John O. “The Founders were Better than Trump and Clinton.” Law and Liberty, October 19, 2016.
The New York Times “op-ed is misleading and flawed in many respects.”
Goodwin, Michael. “Michael Goodwin: New York Times admits to major blunder – but these errors go uncorrected.” Fox News, 21 December 2020. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-york-times-caliphate-errors-uncorrected-michael-goodwin
The Times “eliminated [key journalistic standards] in 2016” which “brought increased revenues, the more enduring result is a collapse of public trust in the Times.
Graham, Tim. "'Anonymous,' the New York Times and the jaw-dropping hypocrisy of America's liberal media.” Fox News, October 30, 2020. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/anonymous-new-york-times-liberal-media-tim-graham
The Times’ “idea of ethics has wrapped itself around a mission” based on its political agenda and “whatever helps that mission has been defined as what is ethical….The victory of liberalism equals journalism. The victory of Democrats defines democracy.”
Flood, Brian. "New York Times reporter mocked for justification of Kavanaugh, Biden allegations being handled differently." Fox News, 16 April 2020.
Puff pieces boosting leftists, hit pieces against conservatives.
Flood, Brian. “New York Times accused of 'glorifying' cancel culture, 'celebrating teenage revenge narratives.'” Fox News, 28 December 2020. https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-cancel-culture-teenage-revenge-cheerleader-racial-slur-video
Flood, Brian. “Babylon Bee CEO says liberals are ‘threatened by the effectiveness of satire’ so they attempt to silence it.” Fox News, October 26, 2020. https://www.foxnews.com/media/babylon-bee-liberals-satire-silence
"The claim that we're pretending to be satire so we can spread disinformation with impunity on social media is false and defamatory," (Babylon Bee founder) Dillon told Fox News. "And it's the falsity of the claim that highlights a great irony here: It is, in fact, The New York Times that is trafficking in misinformation, and they're doing it under the guise of ‘journalism.'"
De Lea, Brittany. “Nikole Hannah-Jones said Cuba is among 'most equal' countries because of socialism.” Fox News, July 18, 2021 https://www.foxnews.com/us/nikole-hannah-jones-said-cuba-most-equal-countries-socialism
The Times is still pushing communist propaganda today - over 100 years and 100 million deaths later.


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What John Cleese does to Trump fans who walk out of his shows
‘Escape to Margaritaville’ review: Jimmy Buffett Broadway jukebox
La Bruja’s new brew is an adult comedy cabaret show
Harper Lee’s estate sues over Aaron Sorkin’s 'Mockingbird'
‘The Cher Show’ sews up costume designer Bob Mackie
‘Admissions’ review: Lincoln Center diversity drama lacks shading
Irish-Americans offer tales of inspiring Emerald Isle immigrants

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SCRANTON - Officials in Pennsylvania's sixth-largest city say they don't have the money to meet payroll after a judge nixed Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty's plan to slash city workers' pay to minimum wage.
The Times-Tribune of Scranton reported Thursday that Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse granted an injunction sought by employee unions. Another hearing is set for Friday.
Solicitor Paul Kelly Jr. says Scranton has just $5,000 left over after setting aside enough money to meet payroll for almost 400 workers at the minimum wage rate of $7.25 per hour.
Doherty says the plan is the only way for Scranton to survive its cash-flow crisis.
City business administrator Ryan McGowan says officials are trying to determine how they can avoid being overdrawn. He says the city's $71 million spending plan includes a $17 million deficit.

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“Great course, thank you! So many ideas for new functional musical activities.”
“Could we have more please!!!”
What a day!
We could not be more delighted by the feedback from our participants. Quotes like these really make all the hard work worthwhile. Just seeing these fantastic teachers and practitioners enjoying themselves, playing music together using Figurenotes and swapping creative ideas is what CPD is all about. But don’t just take our word for it, check out what some of our participants had to say.
Our sessions focused on First Figurenotes and how best to introduce Figurenotes to new users. We held creative composition sessions inspired by BBC Ten Pieces, using pieces of modern art as stimuli. We played games and told an interactive story about Mr. Whale. All of this fun culminated in a huge Play Together session where we paid tribute to the Ben E. King classic ‘Stand By Me’.
Thanks again to everyone involved and we cannot wait to do it all over again on the 23rd of November 2019! Keep an eye on the Figurenotes website for more information and updates on the next Music Teachers Toolbox. You can also sign up to our mailing list to get regular updates on all things Figurenotes.
We understand how isolating it can be as a teacher or practitioner and hope these events help to form new ideas for using Figurenotes and facilitating music making in general.
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My second cousin, Beureguard Robichaux, from Natchitoches, LA, has
recently purchased a large cat ranch near Hermosillo, Mexico. Over
the past eight months, he has collected over 700,000 cats for
breeding stock purposes. Each cat averages about twelve kittens per
year and skins can be sold for about $0.20 for the white ones and up
to $0.40 for the black. This will give Robichaux 12,000,000 skins
per year to sell at an average of $0.32, making gross revenues of
about $4,000,000 per year, or over $10,000 per day. A good Mexican
cat man can skin about fifty cats per day at a wage of $3.15 per
day. It will take only 663 men to operate the ranch. The net profit
will be over $8200 per day.
Now the cats would be fed a diet of rats exclusively. Rats multiply
four times as fast as cats. Robichaux has purchased a small rat
ranch adjacent to the cat farm. Starting with 1,000,000 rats, we
have four rats per cat each day. The rats will be fed from the cat
carcasses that we skin. This will give each rat a quarter of a cat
I have rarely seen an operation as clean and self-supporting as
this. The cats will eat the rats and the rats will eat the cats and
cousin Robichaux will get the skins.
Let me know if you are interested in this unusual opportunity.
Incidently, Robichaux feels that in time he will be able to cross
the cats with snakes and they will skin themselves twice a year.
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So it looks like a serious fraud has been committed at Barnet Council. While they don't want to reveal the details we must understand how this can have been allowed to happen. Was an outsourced finance department and flawed BACS payment system to blame? We need answers ASAP. pic.twitter.com/iP6voWLLmr— Mr Reasonable (@ReasonableNB) April 12, 2018
John Dix also notes that after five years of the One Barnet outsourcing BACS processing is also experiencing serious problems. It looks like next week's audit committee meeting might be quite "interesting"
Problems with the BACS payment system highlights no clear segregation of duties. This should not be happening nearly five years into the Capita contract and why wasn't it identified earlier? Expect some awkward questions at Barnet Audit Committee. pic.twitter.com/qMoLfOXr1N— Mr Reasonable (@ReasonableNB) April 12, 2018
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The 2008 BET Hip Hop Awards virtually TOOK OVER Atlanta this past weekend. ? Streets were shut down and midtown residents were pissssssed off! ?Me? ?I was in heaven as all my favorite hip hop honorees were in one spot and although the awards SHOW took over Atlanta, Atlanta artists took over the show! ?I came, I saw, I wrote about it…check out a few of my favorite moments from the show:
…the set was ended with Ludacris joining Tip onstage for a performance of “On Top of the World”.
In an unexpected twist, T-Pain took the stage as host for the awards, explaining that he got the call at 2am the night before. ?Murmurs?could be herd throughout the crowd as everyone was trying to figure out what happened to Katt Williams (host of the previous two awards). ?Word quickly spread during the 3 minute break that Katt had lost a bet with T-Pain. (Side Note: ?The truth we may never know, but I heard another story that Katt got into with BET producers and they?abruptly?booted him from this year’s show).
Keyshia Cole and Big Boi presented the first award for the evening.?
The “A”‘s own Shawty Lo won an award for MySpace Music Rookie of the Year. ?Not sure where they had Lo sitting but when they announced his name he came running in from the back. ?Maybe he’d just gotten there…I dunno? ?He was joined onstage by all of Bankhead and Lil Wayne as he accepted his award:
“It’s a blessing and an honor to be able to win this BET award and I hope this shows people that you can definitely turn a negative situation into a positive one if you keep God first and stay focused.”
OK…I know that sounds positive and all, but Lo also ended his lil speach by shouting “Wassup T.I. ~ BANK-HEAD!” ?They say the Beef is over but I’m still not sure if that was a digg or a celebratory shout out.
My Favorite Performances:
Young Jeezy in a suit will do it to me every time! ?Jeezy took the stage looking rather presidential as he performed “Crazy World” with a live band. ?He made me even more ?excited when he chucked the suit and donned his signature black tee and sunglasses:
He was then joined onstage with what I called “the Black Panther Party” in my Live Twitter. ?LOL!?
The leather clad dancers then began to march and step to Jeezy’s “Crazy World” reminiscent of Public Enemy + Professor Griff.
Ne-Yo and Plies performing “Bust It Baby”
Ludacris joining T-Pain and Lil Wayne on stage for “Chopped & Screwed” was another highlight of my night. At the end of this set, Wayne dropped an impromptu freestyle about Sara Palin, McCain and adding 4 “F”s to his name. ?Since he dropped the “F” Bomb this may or may not get edited out of the show, but I’m hoping they find a way to make it fit.
I know I may be a bit biased to all things “A” but the ladies of hip hop set was amazing!! ?Salt, Pepa AND Spinderella had the audience crunk as we all sang along to “Shoop” and “Push it.” ?They also performed “What a Man” and dedicated it to Barack Obama.
Yo-Yo was DOIN IT in her black catsuit! ?She is just beautiful…almost how Lil Kim would look without plastic surgery, but I digress. ?We were all screaming?”you can’t play with my yo-yo!” as she took us back in time.
I don’t know where they found Lady of Rage but she still rocks them dayum afro puffs! ?
MC Lyte still knows how to work the crowd too! She performed several songs that had the crowd hyped. ?When “RuffNeck” came on, everyone was screaming…but she only performed about 2 seconds of it.?
BET definitely showed VH1 how their hip hop honors SHOULDA been done!
Lastly, my homie NecoleBitchie did her take on the show with?The Good, The Bad & The Gossip, but I need to add an ugly to that…
Lil Ike’s Bow Wow’s outfit. ?WTF is this? 😯
Bow Wow and Soulja boy closed out the show by performing “Marco Polo.” ?Don’t ask me why…you’ll have to take that up with BET. ?But all in all the show was definitely worth attending and I may even experience it again once it airs. ?The one thing that I noticed was that most of the performers wore Black. ?I don’t know if this was a consolidated effort in support of the upcoming election or not. ?But I basically decided in my own mind that it was and that the theme of the awards show, “Game On” was symbolic of “you gotta play to win” as in ….y’all need to get your “A”zzzzez out and VOTE!
As Ice Cube said at the end of his set….VOTE Black!
The show airs?Thursday night (October 23rd) at 8:00pm. ?Game on bishes!


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Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. The "valley" in its name refers to the Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns. San Jose's location within the booming local high tech industry earned the city the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley".
The word "silicon" originally referred to the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the region, but the area is now the home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of 39 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. Silicon Valley also accounts for one-third of all of the venture capital investment in the United States, which has helped it to become a leading hub and startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation and scientific development. It was in the Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other key technologies, were developed. As of 2013, the region employed about a quarter of a million information technology workers.
As more high-tech companies were established across the Santa Clara Valley, and then north towards the Bay Area's two other major cities, San Francisco and Oakland, the "Silicon Valley" name eventually came to refer to all high-tech businesses in the region. The term is now generally used as a synecdoche for the American high-technology economic sector. The name also became a global synonym for leading high-tech research and enterprises, and thus inspired similar named locations, as well as research parks and technology centers with a comparable structure all around the world.
San Jose is the third-largest city by population in California, the tenth-largest by population in the United States, and the county seat of Santa Clara County. San Jose is the largest city in the Bay Area and the largest city in Northern California.
By the 1990s, San Jose's location within the booming local high tech industry earned the city the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley". San Jose is now considered to be a global city, and notable for its affluence and high cost of living. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population of the city to be 1,015,785 as of July 1, 2014.
The large concentration of high-technology engineering, computer, and microprocessor companies around San Jose has led the area to be known as Silicon Valley. As the largest city in the valley, San Jose has billed itself "the capital of Silicon Valley." Area schools such as the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, California State University, East Bay, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University pump thousands of engineering and computer science graduates into the local economy every year.
San Jose lists many companies with 1,000 employees or more, including the headquarters of Adobe, Altera, Brocade Communications Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Lee's Sandwiches, Lumileds, PayPal, Rosendin Electric, Sanmina-SCI, and Xilinx, as well as major facilities for Becton Dickinson, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, KLA Tencor, Lockheed Martin, Nippon Sheet Glass, Qualcomm, and AF Media Group. The North American headquarters of Samsung Semiconductor are located in San Jose. Approximately 2000 employees will work at the new Samsung campus which opened in 2015. Other large companies based in San Jose include Altera, Atmel, CEVA, Cypress Semiconductor, Echelon, Extreme Networks, Harmonic, Integrated Device Technology, Maxim Integrated, Micrel, Move, Netgear, Novellus Systems, Oclaro, OCZ, Online Trading Academy, Quantum, SunPower, Sharks Sports and Entertainment, Supermicro, Tessera Technologies, TiVo, Ultratech, and VeriFone. Sizable government employers include the city government, Santa Clara County, and San Jose State University. Acer's United States division has its offices in San Jose. Prior to its closing, Netcom had its headquarters in San Jose.

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Valladolid: Dani Hernández; Rukavina,
Jesús Rueda, Marc Valiente, Balenziaga (Peña 83'); Alvaro Rubio,
Lluis Sastre; Ebert, Larsson (Víctor Pérez 85'), Oscar; Manucho
(Javi Guerra 64'). 4-2-3-1.
Getafe: Codina; Valera, Lopo, Fede Fernández, Alexis; Xavi Torres (Lacen 61'), Borja (Gavilán 74'); Diego Castro, Abdel Barrada, Lafita; Paco Alcácer (Alvaro Vázquez 70'). 4-2-3-1.
0-1. 45. Paco Alcácer. Steered back-header past Dani from Borja's lobbed pass.
1-1. 68. Oscar González. Ran in to head Alvaro Rubio cross wide of Codina.
2-1. 72. Javi Guerra. Chested on Oscar centre and turned low shot past keeper.
Yellow cards: Alvaro Rubio 05', Codina 53', Lopo 62', Lluis Sastre 86' / red cards: Alexis 75'.
Valladolid are just about safe for another season after they came from behind to beat Getafe 2-1 on Saturday afternoon. Djukic's side were well motivated after their controversial defeat at Valencia last week, and Codina had to be at his best to keep out Oscar, Ebert and Larsson in the opening minutes. Manucho also wasted a couple of chances, but with the first half coming to a close Luis García's side took the lead with their first real attack, Spanish youth international Paco Alcácer heading Borja's chipped centre wide of Dani Hernández. Manucho and Oscar both went close after the restart though, and midway through the first half Oscar got on the end of Alvaro Rubio's pass to head the equaliser, the first goal that Getafe had let in for six games. Just four minutes later though Oscar set up substitute Javi Guerra for the second, and any hope that the visitors had of a comeback ended when Alexis was sent off for catching Ebert with a loose elbow.

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Description of the book:
Have you ever wondered how experts train a gorilla? Or what design features make a great gorilla habitat? Did you know that some gorillas can solve problems on giant touch-screen computers?
Filled with facts and photos, Gorillas Up Close takes us into the world of gorillas. Explore the differences between gorillas in zoos and in the wild with the gorilla family troop in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Readers will delight in the similarities gorillas share with humans while finding out more about these incredible animals.
Thoughts on the book:
At 176 pages this is clearly not a typical picture book, but to be fair, GORILLAS UP CLOSE has pages and pages of photographs of gorillas. Along with all of those fabulous photographs, Nippert-Eng has provided readers with accessible facts, information, and stories of gorillas. I found the choice of sharing about gorilla development, and behavior in the context of actual gorillas was effective in helping to better understand about the life and relationships and behaviors within a gorilla troop. Readers also learn about how zoo gorillas can differ some from gorillas in the wild.
Though one book cannot provide readers with all the facts about a given subject, GORILLAS UP CLOSE does a good job with this. Young readers upon finishing the book will have a strong understanding of gorillas. For those wanting to know even more about gorillas, this book is an excellent starting place. Additional resources, websites, and information follow at the end of the book.
Readers can check out the Lincoln Park Zoo for more information about some of the gorillas referenced in the book and to follow their blog posts on gorillas. This is definitely a book to add to a classroom or school library. Look for a copy of GORILLAS UP CLOSE at your local independent bookstore or public library.
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A pair of Korean companies is showing what their technology can do to help local firefighters.
HoyaRobot and DRB have built robots used to fight fires.
HoyaRobot’s device is a small one that uses a camera to help find people trapped in a burning building. DRB’s is designed to go into a blaze and spray water to reduce the risk for firefighters.
Lafayette Fire Chief Richard Doyle says the technology has great potential for the department in the future, particularly to fight larger fires.
He says the department currently has some infrared technology, but it can only be used when a firefighter is holding a camera inside a blaze.
Members of the department got a first-hand look at the robots Tuesday during a demonstration.
Purdue researchers are collaborating with the two companies to bring the technology to the United States and possibly for use locally.
The robots are currently being used in Korea.


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Who is conducting the study?
The study is being conducted by the iConquerMS research team in collaboration with Dr. Farren Briggs (Case Western Reserve University) and Dr. Farrah Mateen (Massachusetts General Hospital). A steering committee that includes people with MS is guiding and overseeing the study.
What is the purpose of the study?
We want to learn about the effects of the COVID-19 vaccines in people with MS. We do not know how many people in the vaccine clinical trials had MS, so data on the experiences of people with MS who have received these vaccines is not yet available.
The current guidance on COVID-19 vaccination for people with MS from organizations, such as the National MS Society, is based on data from the general population in the vaccine clinical trials and data from studies of other vaccines administered to people with MS.
Real-world data from COVER-MS will complement the available guidance and provide additional assurance for those with MS who are planning to get vaccinated.
What will happen in the study? How will people with MS be involved?
All people affected by MS are eligible and welcome to participate. To enroll in the study, people affected by MS are invited to join iConquerMS if they are not already a member. We will ask participants to answer a few surveys on the iConquerMS portal at different timepoints. The surveys ask about:
- Details of the vaccine that was received (e.g., date received and vaccine manufacturer)
- Short-term reactions to the vaccine (e.g., arm soreness)
- MS symptoms (type of symptom and severity) before and after receiving the vaccine
- COVID-19 infection (for anyone who becomes infected with COVID-19 after vaccination)
- Demographics (e.g., date of birth, race, ethnicity)
- MS characteristics (e.g., MS subtype, MS therapies)
Each survey is short and requires only a few minutes to complete.
A subset of COVER-MS participants will also be invited to donate blood samples to help study the immune response to COVID-19 vaccinations.
How could the results benefit people with MS?
We will analyze the information provided by participants to understand the short-term and longer-term effects of the vaccines. We will continue to analyze the data over time as more people become vaccinated and as new vaccines become available.
We will share our findings, and updates to those findings, with study participants and the entire iConquerMS community, as well as with other individuals and organizations including the National MS Society. Results will be posted on the iConquerMS website where it will be available to the public. Currently there are no known issues regarding COVID-19 vaccinations in people with MS, but if we find that there is an issue regarding safety or effectiveness of one or more of the vaccines, we will work to alert people with MS and their healthcare providers about the issue.
Who is funding the COVER-MS Project?
The project is being funded by the National MS Society.
How can someone participate in COVER-MS?

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(CBS) Beyonce walked the red carpet at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards with a very newsworthy accessory - a baby bump.
The singer, who posed for photos while holding her belly, confirmed that she's expecting her first child with husband Jay-Z.
"OMG Beyonce just made a huge announcement on the #vma carpet! #baby!!!!!" MTV tweeted.
The singer-actress, 29, and the rapper, 41, married in 2008. Since the pair tied the knot, she has often been the subject of pregnancy rumors.


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Bay Area Headlines: Wednesday, 4/15/20, AM
Sheltering SF's Unhoused People / San Francisco Pride Canceled
Sheltering SF's Unhoused People
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an emergency ordinance that requires the city to secure over 8,000 hotel rooms in the next two weeks to help people shelter-in-place. Most of those rooms are for people experiencing homelessness.
The ordinance passed unanimously yesterday evening after a long meeting. But weeks ago, a concerned group of Supervisors began calling for Mayor London Breed to proactively move all unhoused people, regardless of their symptoms or where they are staying, into hotel rooms. They say so far, only a fraction of the city’s unhoused residents have been moved, and the city has been slow to act, even after a huge outbreak at a homeless shelter.
Partly in response to this pressure and the outbreak, the City has increased the number of hotel rooms they hope to make available for the homeless population. But the Supervisors who sponsored this legislation - Hillary Ronen, Dean Preston, Matt Haney, Aaron Peskin and Shamaan Walton - still think the City can act more urgently, and more broadly. Some of them even started raising money and moved shelters on their own. Supervisor Dean Preston addressing unhoused residents at the meeting:
"I am sorry, deeply sorry that after weeks of warnings, that only the confirmed outbreaks in your shelters spurred the city to move and to move faster. We need to do better, all of us, and there’s no excuse for you having to wait an extra month to be able to follow your city’s shelter in place order ... San Francisco can do amazing things when we want to, and I think we need to show our unhoused residents that we can and will do everything necessary to protect them and everyones health by moving forward with a robust plan to house the unhouse during hotels during this crisis."
While there were some concerns about how the City would afford these rooms while entering a a huge budget deficit, the Supervisors are hopeful that up to 93% of the cost of this could be reimbursed, with help from federal and state sources.
Mayor London Breed needs to sign the ordinance for it to become a law. If she vetoes it, the supervisors can overturn the veto with eight votes.
San Francisco Pride Canceled
San Francisco Pride has announced that it is canceling this year’s Parade and Celebration.
Pride usually takes place in June — it draws over half-a-million people annually, and distributes about two-and-a-half million dollars to regional non-profits and partners after.
In a live-streamed conversation, yesterday, SF Pride President Carolyn Wysinger told Manny Yekutiel that it was one of the saddest and hardest decisions that she’s made in her adult life. "I was definitely, into the idea of postponing. Well, it's back to the city once we were post COVID but we don't know when that's gonna it really be. So, yeah, I mean, there were a lot of things that went into the decision, but also believe holding the community health at heart, um, was the best thing to do."
Instead of an in-person celebration for its 50th anniversary, SF Pride plans to participate in a global virtual pride event on June 27th as well as other celebrations in the spring and summer.
KALW’s David Boyer contributed to that story.
You can hear KALW’s broadcast of one of Manny’s Super Civic Cyber Conversations this Friday at 5 p.m.


Anyone who has been to the Bell Soccer Complex recently to watch the Kentucky women’s soccer team play has probably thought at least once, "Wow, that No. 22 in blue is fast."
No. 22 is indeed very fast. According to her head coach Ian Carry, her fastest 40-yard dash time, 4.8 seconds, is faster than a majority of the Kentucky men’s soccer players.
The girl zooming across the pitch in the No. 22 jersey is Abby Steiner, a freshman soccer player from Dublin, Ohio. Steiner’s combo of speed and technical soccer skills makes it easy for her to get past defenders and set up opportunities for goals, which has earned her a large amount of minutes on UK’s young team.
In the spring, when soccer season is over, Steiner will continue showing her bursts of speed in a different facility, wearing a different jersey and doing a different sport entirely, as Steiner will be chasing down competitors for the Kentucky track and field team.
“I think it’s really special that I have gotten the opportunity to do both,” Steiner said of being a multi-sport athlete at UK.
Steiner’s unique blend of speed, athleticism and soccer skills have given her the opportunity to play two sports at a division one college, something not many athletes can say.
Many athletes in high school often play two sports, but eventually figure out which one they are better at or enjoy more. For Steiner, she’s good at both sports and loves them both, so why choose?
“That was a big thing with school, I was definitely looking for a place that was open to letting me do both because I know some schools wouldn’t have been,” Steiner said.
Soccer was Steiner’s first love at the age of four. She quickly picked up the sport and eventually joined Ohio Premier, one of the best club teams in the nation.
While playing soccer, Steiner discovered that she had another athletic talent in running when she joined her middle school track team in eighth grade.
“Everyone at my middle school ran track and it was more like a social type of thing and all my friends were like, ‘you should do this and try this,’” Steiner said.
It did not take long for Steiner to realize that she had a future in track. In 2015, as a freshman in high school, Steiner won the 60-meter and 200-meter dash at the Ohio Indoor State Track and Field Championships. It was then that Steiner’s love for soccer was joined by her love for track.
It was not long after Steiner’s victories at the Indoor Championships that she took a visit to UK as a soccer player. In high school, soccer players are recruited early while track athletes are not recruited till senior year since the body is still developing at that age.
While visiting UK, Steiner met with the then track head coach Edrick Floreal to find out if she could run track while playing soccer at UK.
“I had run some times, I met with the track coach [Floreal] and asked him if that was – if he was open to that idea and he said yes, and it just took off from there,” Steiner said.
Steiner committed to UK in 2015, the fall of her sophomore year, as a dual-sport athlete. She would finish her track career with many titles and accolades, including two Ohio Outdoor State Track & Field Championship meet records her senior year.
Steiner’s senior year times certainly have her new track coach excited, as she would have placed third in the 100-meter dash and first in the 200-meter dash at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
What makes her times even more impressed was the fact that Steiner tore her ACL about a year and a half before her senior year state meet. It’s difficult for an athlete to regain their speed after a torn ACL, but Steiner never once thought about losing her speed, and instead focused on coming back a stronger athlete.
“There is always that kind of underlying fear but I never really let myself go down that road where I would be like, ‘I’m never going to be that fast,’” Steiner said. “I knew if I came back, I would have that like kind of a roadblock and I didn’t want that to happen.”
As for Steiner on the soccer pitch, the injury forced her to miss the entire 2016 season. Steiner fully recovered for her senior season in 2017, but decided to not rush back into soccer games since she was coming off such a tough injury and had just wrapped up her junior season of track.
Instead of playing in games, Steiner focused on her game and worked to make her technical skills better.
That season spent working on her game has paid off for Steiner at UK, as she’s not just a speedster anymore in her coach’s eyes.
“She’s added so many tools and so many pieces to her game that – not that we were surprised, but we were like, ‘hey, this is who she can be,’” and if she continues to work in the vein that she’s working at right now, Abby’s going to be a huge threat,” Carry said.
Steiner’s speedy and technical skillset makes it near impossible for Carry to take her off the field. However, since Steiner is a freshman and has a track season ahead of her, Steiner can’t always be on the field, even if she wants to be.
“As a staff, we just got to continue to monitor where she is, just make sure we’re not pushing her top hard and she’s not overdoing it,” Carry said.
In order to keep Steiner at a proper fitness level and not push her too far, Carry works closely with the UK Performance Science Department to make sure that Steiner is at an optimal fitness level for certain points of the season.
When Steiner ended her track career with her two state meet records, she took two weeks off before beginning a special prescribed program from Dr. Chris Morris of the Performance Science Department. The program was designed to send Steiner to preseason in optimal fitness level, knowing that they were going to build on it.
Also before the season, Carry met with new UK track head coach Lonnie Greene to figure out how UK Athletics was going to handle its dual-sport athlete.
Carry admitted to being nervous about balancing Steiner on the soccer field and track before the meeting, but afterward, it was a different story.
“I walked away from that meeting with Lonnie and I’m like, ‘She’s in the best position she could ever be,’” Carry said. “I can’t wait till the spring to watch her compete for Kentucky and wear the blue with track and field.”
Steiner continues to wear a GPS and a heart rate monitor in practice so Steiner is efficiently prepared for each game, and setup well for her future on the track.
“The guidance that we have from the performance science department is making sure that when she finishes soccer season, she’s in great shape, take care of her body and she just walks straight into a track & field season,” Carry said. “… I can’t imagine how good she’s going to be when she actually steps into the coaching environment that she’s going to step in to here at Kentucky under Lonnie’s [Greene] guidance.”
Before she begins track, Steiner will finish her soccer season, which she said she is fully focused on right now, even though she occasionally daydreams about her upcoming track season.
It’s hard for Steiner to fully focus on one sport when she loves both, which is why she plans to play both sports as long as she can.
“It’s different in so many ways, it’s hard to compare, I like them both,” Steiner said.