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The best PDF readers for Android
PDF reader apps have always been a pain in the neck. Generally speaking, there are two major use cases for PDF files. The first is for business, where you can create forms in PDF format and have people fill them out. The second is for reading e-books. The PDF is an easily accessible file that works well for reading. Usually, PDF reader apps only cater to one of two of these use cases and in this list, we've compiled a selection of the best PDF reader apps on Android for both. You can also check out the best PDF reader apps on other platforms by clicking here.
We'd also like to give an honorable mention to MJ PDF Reader (Google Play). It's a simple FOSS reader that does things pretty well. It was also featured on our best Android apps of 2022 list.
The best PDF reader apps for Android
A bit about PDF reader apps
There are two dominant types of PDF reader apps. The first is for business and professional use. These let you do things like open PDFs, fill it out if it's a form, sign your name, annotate, and other similar features. They're most useful for business professionals, students, or anyone who fills out forms and sends them back over email or otherwise online. Some typical examples of this include Adobe Acrobat Reader and DocuSign. Some apps, like CamScanner, add in things like document scanning and fax features for additional functionality and usability.
The other type of PDF reader is for recreational use. A lot of people format ebooks into PDF format. A proper PDF reader for books includes features like support for chapters, a reading mode, various scrolling modes, and other similar features. Apps on this list like that include Google Play Books, and Moon+ Reader. These apps almost always support other ebook types as well. This list has PDF reader apps for both types.
There is a third, less common type of PDF reader app as well. All-in-one style apps include PDF support along with other, non-PDF productivity features. For instance, CamScanner and Fast Scanner are actually document scanner apps with PDF reader functionality built-in. These apps are great for killing two birds with one stone and are also excellent for people who don't want or need to carry around a bunch of apps when they can combine the functionality into a single app. We have a few of these types of apps on the list as well.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Price: Free / $12.99-$14.99 per month
Adobe Acrobat Reader is the default choice for a lot of people. Most of the time it just works. The app also has other features, including the ability to annotate and take notes on PDFs, fill out forms, some cloud storage support, and sign your signature. You also get a full Material Design experience and support for 18:9 displays along with other aspect ratios. This is obviously more for business or professional use than for reading PDF books or anything like that, so we only recommend it for that use case. There is a subscription cost that unlocks features along with Adobe's Creative Cloud storage option. It's not bad for your basic stuff.
Price: Free / $4.99-$6.99 per month / Additional in-app purchases
CamScanner is one of the most powerful PDF readers and creators. It can import PDFs. That's just the tip of the iceberg. It can also scan physical documents into PDF files on your phone. It has a variety of features to improve the scanning process which helps make some clean, crisp documents. You can annotate PDFs, share them with anyone, or even fax them for a nominal fee. The paid route brings additional features such as 10GB of cloud space, some editing features, and more. The free version should do well enough for simple stuff, though.
Price: Free / $10-$40 per month (three plans)
DocuSign is a PDF reader for business use. The app's primary function is to open documents, allow you to fill them out, sign them, and send them where they need to go. That part of the app is free. There are also a few subscription plans. $10 per month gives you a few additional features. The $25- and $40-per-month subscriptions simply build on that. Frankly, you don't really need to worry about subscriptions unless you do stuff like this professionally.
Fast Scanner
Price: Free / $2.99
Fast Scanner is another PDF scanner app, but it isn't as heavy as CamScanner. This nifty, simple app will scan documents using your smartphone camera and turn them into either JPEG or PDF files for future use. It comes with a variety of features to help sharpen and clean the scan as much as possible before finalizing anything. You can then use any PDF reader app to view it yourself. Most of the features, and all of the important ones, are available in the free version. You can also get the premium version free with Google Play Pass.
Foxit PDF Reader
Price: Free / $0.99
Foxit is a lot like ezPDF. Both boast all-in-one solutions for PDF use. It features an organization system to keep your PDF files inline. You'll also get ConnectedPDF support, the ability to fill out PDFs, and support for PDF files with certificates, passwords, and Microsoft's RMS. It's a good all-around option when you factor in the reading features as well. It's mostly for business use whereas ezPDF is more for pleasure reading, but it works great for reading too. Foxit also has offers an app specifically for business use, which costs $15.99. This version only costs $0.99.
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Google PDF Reader
Price: Free
Google PDF Reader is a plug-in for Google Drive. The plugin gives native PDF support for Google Drive users. This isn't the most powerful PDF reader app. However, you can open and view PDFs as needed. You can also print, search, and copy from PDF files. This also works as a standalone application for those who need something very simple but don't use Google Drive exclusively. There isn't much else about it, honestly. It opens and lets you read through PDFs and that's all it does. The app works perfectly for simple use cases.
Google Play Books
Price: Free
Google Play Books is Google's answer to Amazon's Kindle. You can buy a variety of books from the store and read them wherever. It can also read PDF files. There is no business use here — this is just for pleasure reading. You can also upload the PDF (and EPUB) files to the cloud to access across devices. The books become a part of your library like any other book. It's a great way to consolidate a large collection behind a service that lets you buy more books. The app is free but you can spend money on the books in the store, obviously. Google has another PDF reader that works with its Google Drive suite called Google PDF Viewer. That's not a bad one for super basic use cases.
Price: Free (with ads)
Librera is one of the more interesting PDF reader apps. It seems to change dramatically every time we update this list. These days, the app bills itself as an all-in-one e-book reader. It supports well over a dozen formats, including PDF, EPUB, EPUB3, MOBI, DJVU, ZIP, TXT, and others. It also features a modern design, a night and day mode for easier reading at night, and more. You can even listen to books using Text-To-Speech if you really want to. The app is a bit buggier than most others on this list, but it's also completely free (with advertising). They also have another PDF reader in Google Play. It goes by the boring name PDF Reader and also works pretty well.
Microsoft Word
Price: Free / $6.99-$9.99 per month
Microsoft Word is one of the most powerful word processors on mobile or on desktop. The app also supports PDF files. You can create PDF files and save them as that file type or you can open PDFs and view them through the app. Of course, Word does a host of other things as well including word processing, stuff like resume building, and more. Additionally, it even has features for ebook reading and other such PDF use cases. It's a decent all-in-one solution for those who need a PDF reader as well as a word processor.
MiXplorer Silver
Price: $4.49
MiXplorer Silver is an all-in-one file explorer. It does all of your usual file browser stuff. That includes browsing files, opening various types of files, dealing with archives, and support for most types of media sources. What makes this one special is that it supports all types of stuff via plugins. It has support for ebook formats along with PDF. A separate (free) plugin adds PDF reader support to MiXplorer Silver and a decent ebook reader experience with it. It's not the most elegant solution for ebook reading, but it's a good way to kill several birds with one stone. The main app is $4.49. The PDF add-on (and all of the other add-ons) are free.
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Moon+ Reader
Price: Free / $4.99 with in-app purchases
Moon+ Reader is one of the most popular e-book readers. It has a boatload of features like theming support, tons of visual options, auto-scroll, intelligent paragraphs, dual page mode (for landscape), and more. The app also supports a bunch of formats like EPUB, EPUB3, and, of course, PDF. It has the occasional rough edge, but it's among the best options for those who read books in PDF format.
Price: Free / $29.99+
OfficeSuite is one of the most popular office apps on mobile. It can do a lot of things. There is support for documents (including from Microsoft Office), spreadsheets, presentations, and even PDF files. The PDF functionality is pretty much just business-focused. You can fill out forms, sign them, and add/access security features. This is a good option for those who need a traditional office app with PDF support. The premium version is fairly expensive, though.
PDF Viewer Pro
Price: Free
PDF Viewer is a simple, basic PDF reader app. It carries all of the basic features, including annotations, cloud support, zoom, bookmarks, and more. The pro version adds themes, multiple customization options, and document merging into a single PDF. You also get Material Design and a somewhat easy UI overall. We didn't have any problems during our testing. However, some have reported the occasional performance bug. Thankfully, the free version is free, obviously, so you can try it without paying anything. It's above average, but more powerful options are available.
WPS Office
Price: Free / $29.99 per year
WPS Office (formerly Kingsoft Office) is another all-in-one office solution. It's mostly an office app and deals with various documents, spreadsheets, and the like, but also comes with PDF features. You can convert various documents to PDF and view PDF files natively. This is useful if you have a form or something that needs to be in a more official format. It's not too heavy on PDF features, but if you need an office app and a PDF reader, this is a good way to kill two birds with one stone. The subscription adds a few additional, useful features and removes ads. It's not wholly necessary, though.
Xodo PDF Reader
Price: Free
Xodo is probably the best completely free PDF reader. It boasts quick loading and smooth navigation. You can also fill out PDF forms, sign them, and save your signature for future use. It also has support for note-taking, bookmarking, cloud storage, file management, and more. You can even take notes on blank PDFs if you really want to. It has a surprisingly good number of features considering it's free with no in-app purchases. We also like that it works for both business and recreational use. There doesn't appear to be advertising either. Honestly, we can't find a lot wrong with it. However, you can find more features for either business or ebook reading with a dedicated app.
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It's fair to say that LG G Flex 2 has impressed us all more than we had expected. Unveiled at the CES 2015 over a week ago, the G Flex 2 was recently listed on Amazon Germany, and at very surprising price of 599 Euros, which translates to $700 approx, or INR 44,000. That's a Snapdragon 810 processor for you, right there, along with the new 5.5″ 1080p curved-display capable of self-healing in just 10 seconds. Looks like LG is hoping to make you more inclined towards delightfully curved G Flex 2 with a reasonable pricing strategy.
If you're wondering a why a phone that could be selling for as much as $700 is making us happy, consider this: the arrogant and original G Flex is still selling here in India for around INR40,000 ($640 approx) while it launched for whopping INR 70,000 ($1,120). Now that $700 price makes sense, right?
As much as we're impressed by the G Flex 2, its price was what making us pray for a reasonable strategy and looks like good lords reigning over at LG have heard. In fact, the whole of G Flex 2 proves that LG is giving users a good ear, and sorting things out accordingly. In G Flex 2, LG reduced the massive 6-inch display from original G Flex to more manageable 5.5-inch, while cranking up the resolution to kind-of-minimum-for-large-display to Full HD. The back heals way faster now, and it's loaded with Snapdragon 810 processor, thus making it future-proof even 4-six months and later, when the likes of Galaxy S6, HTC Hima (One M9), LG's own G4, etc. would launch with same processor.
$700 price for G Flex 2 is a nice gesture from LG, and here's a hoping that LG sees similar success with G Flex 2 that G3 gave it.
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli
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- AnonymousApril 18, 2011 at 11:53 PM
This sounds fascinating! I have not heard of the saga so I must read that first and then dig into this book! I do have a weakness for lovey-dovey happy endings, but I am willing to overlook the harshness of this book to read! Fabulous review :)ReplyDelete
I haven't read this one yet. I've read a lot of Napoli (obviously) but this one is new to me. I think I'll familiarize myself with the original first, and then pick this one up.ReplyDelete
There's not much to familiarize yourself with. The Melkorka in the saga is basically a footnote. She's the mute concubine/wife of a lord (?), and one day he hears her talking to their son, and she tells him that she is really an Irish princess who was kidnapped and sold as a slave. That's all there is to her story. The only reason she's there is because she's the mother of one of the famous historical figures (a real person, seemingly, though greatly exaggerated, I'm sure).ReplyDelete
Napoli took this tidbit and fleshed it out.
And thanks, Katelyn!
My enjoyment of a book does not depend on a happy ending at all, so this might eb soemthign that I'd like. Plus, who could resist that cover?!ReplyDelete
I really liked this novel by Napoli. I liked that it wasn't a clean cut "and then they lived happily ever after." It's harsh and gritty, but so very good. I had a lot of trouble putting this down. I can see why Napoli took the path she did.ReplyDelete
Im gonna read this! 3 bucks? Thats incredible!ReplyDelete
If you liked this one, you should read Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, This is my all time favourite book, and Hush sounds very similar :)ReplyDelete
Oh, Shannon. Shannon, Shannon, Shannon.ReplyDelete
My dear, I've read DOTF on more than one occasion. I simply saved the best for last!
:D YAY! I think if anyone hasnt read this book yet, then they are seirously missing out!ReplyDelete
:D YAY! I think if anyone hasnt read this book yet, then they are seirously missing out!ReplyDelete
Seriously! I love it. It's one of my favorite books, let alone fairy tales.ReplyDelete
Lol same, It doesn't matter how many other fantastic books I read, Daughter of the Forest (and Son of the Shadows, and a few of her others) remain at the ver top of my favourties list. She is just an amazing author, Im really looking forward to her new series :-)ReplyDelete


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In March 2013 the Cuming Museum (Southwark, London) suffered a bad fire that destroyed some of the galleries. In addition to the fire, much material that wasn't burnt had been soaked by firehoses and liberally sprinkled with tiny glass splinters from breaking cases. See:
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Just such an example was the macaque mounted as a clerk (below left). His fur had been liberally sprinkled with glass plus areas of his skin were very dry and his 'desk' had to be repaired. This image shows Simon Moore repairing the macaque's quill nib (which had split about 2 cms to above the normal area) with fine Gampi tissue and dilute PVA.
The strange looking ray-type fish (below middle) was dried out in an early 19th century handblown museum jar. These strange fish were often brought back as souvenirs of voyages by sailors and were known as Jenny Hanivers. Some also had additional arms and legs added and others were turned into mermaids. This specimen's jar had survived the fire but the specimen was quite brittle and it was decided to rehydrate and re-preserve it (below right).
The knotted wood specimen shown below was another biological curio showing a monocotyledinous stem (like a small palm tree) that had become naturally twisted into a knot. The stem was rapidly delaminating and its vascular bundles were extremely brittle (left) and falling out everywhere. The specimen was consolidated using 5% and 10% paraloid B-72 and then finally using aqueous diluted and full strength PVA. Despite some expected darkening the specimen is now stable once more (right).
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World-renowned lawyer and vehement defender of Israel Alan Dershowitz spoke to an enthusiastic crowd in an "informal conversation" held on Wednesday in the University of Miami School of Law student lounge.
Sponsored by the Jewish Collegiate Learning Exchange, the event was moderated by Rabbi Shlomo Sprung, who estimated that around 150 students and interested community members attended.
Dershowitz, one of Israel's most passionate and high-profile supporters, is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and served as an appellate advisor to O.J. Simpson's defense team. He is also a respected political commentator and authority on the Arab-Israeli conflict, which was the overarching topic of Wednesday's appearance.
Encouraging "belligerent" questions from audience members, Dershowitz was funny, candid and well-informed, even playfully imploring one attendee not to "hide behind [his] yarmulke" during a debate over Jewish narrative. He attributed Israel's status as the perennial underdog to his defense of Israel, which he supports "not in spite of, but because of his commitment to human rights." He slammed Hamas's double standard of claiming victim status yet still utilizing Palestinian civilians as human shields, citing a Hamas legislator who bragged of that tactic.
"Hamas is the same organization that has strapped bombs on 12-year-old children," said Dershowitz, who referred to that controversial tactic as its "dead baby strategy."
He was also highly critical of "lefty radicals," whose recent high-profile protests against Israel in major world cities were likened to the Nuremburg rallies.
"[They] never marched when Russia killed 30,000 civilians in Chechnya… No one cried 'war crime,'" Dershowitz said. "The concept of 'war crime' is reserved solely for Israel" and the worst tragedies, such as Rwanda, he continued. Dershowitz also condemned former president Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu – who he called a "bigot and anti-Semite" – and the United Nations, which he accused of "holding Israel to a higher standard."
Formerly an advisor for President Bill Clinton and former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Dershowitz has high hopes for President Obama, who, prior to his inauguration, stated that the United States' support of Israel will not falter. However, despite his criticism of Israel's occupation and settlement of the Palestinian, Dershowitz strongly believes in Israel's right to defend itself against attack.
"One of the things we learned from the Holocaust is that Israel's going to have to do it on its own," he said.
Dershowitz urged the audience to continue making the case for Israel.
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Found On The Web - Amazon Announces New Android Tablet The Kindle Fire
Ok... so... a $199/£130(?) 7" Android-based tablet with unlimited streaming from Amazon's cloud really is cool news. Suddenly the iPad seems really expensive. I can see a lot of people wanting one for Christmas! The Silk browser sounds interesting too. Altogether I'm still not sure that I need a tablet but this one might be the best of the bunch so far.
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The Signature of Colon Cancer
Cancerous colon cells have a distinctive genetic signature, which could be used to develop personalised treatments, or identify those at risk of developing the disease.
Writing in the journal Science, Case Western Reserve University researcher Peter Scacheri explains how colon cancer cells, from different people at different stages of the disease, all showed certain epigenetic changes - alterations in the proteins that bind to and control expression of DNA. They coined the term Variant Enhancer Loci or "VELs" to describe them.
These VELs are interesting because the actual genes involved in colon cancer vary enormously between patients, and because epigenetic changes such as these should be reversible, providing valuable targets for treatments.
Looking at colon cells known as crypt cells, the researchers took samples of from healthy volunteers, as well as from early & late stage tumours, and labelled the genetic material with a marker that indicates the presence of gene enhancer elements. This allowed them to identify thousands of VELs in cancerous cells that are either lost or gained when compared with healthy cells. They also looked into gene expression to determine if these markers truly represented a change in the function of the cell, and found that the majority of common VELs did translate into up- or down-regulation of gene expression, with lost VELs having a more significant impact on cell function than those gained.
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Green algae is still working its way down the Caloosahatchee River.
Places 30 to 40 miles upstream from the Gulf are still seeing the green slime working its way down.
Our Michael Raimondi spent Friday afternoon on the water, stopping at multiple spots north of the Franklin Locks.
There was plenty of algae in Alva, as well as Port of Labelle.
"I think the river looks like a toilet right now," Fort Myers resident Bill love said.
He has been boating on the river for 40 years.
"As you look around, this looks like a sewage retaining pool," he said.
Raimondi filled up a water bottle in an area with algae in Port Labelle, and it was brown with green particles inside.
"It's turning into the same green sludge as the rest of the Caloosahatchee River," Love said.
Algae this far upriver is a bad sign for the places downstream.
Places like Cape Coral and Fort Myers should expect to see more algae making its way down the river.
Copyright 2018 WBBH/WZVN (Waterman Broadcasting). All rights reserved.


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Finished October 21
Getting Started with Evaluation by Peter Hernon, Robert E. Dugan, and Joseph R. Matthews
This book starts with a definition of evaluation, looking at different ways to measure, benchmarking, and best practices. EBLIP, evidence-based library and information practice is discussed. There is a chapter on library metrics, looking at where we get the data we use. Following chapters look at subsets of this data.
Internal Evaluation for Planning and Decision Making includes a road map and a discussion of the three different types of data to collection: input, process, and output. External Evaluation to Inform Stakeholders and to Guide Continuous Improvement talks about the importance of thinking first about what and how you want to show the data, and about the quality of the data you collect. Types of data here include partnerships, customer satisfaction, supporting education and reputation.
There is a chapter dedicated to measuring satisfaction, looking at the different gap models that can be used, methods of data collection, and some samples. Measuring service quality is differentiated and gets its own chapter, looking at the two components: what is provided and how it is delivered. This discussion includes e-services.
The authors then move to ROI, looking at the economic benefits of direct use, indirect use, and non-use. It also includes ways to look at the cumulative impact on the community in areas such as community development, social inclusiveness, and an open democratic society. Measuring the value of the library and its service is also differentiated, and split into many categories: cognitive results, affective results, meeting expectations, accomplishments in relation to tasks, time aspects and money aspects. There is specific mention of the public library here with its role both as a traditional library, and as a community member.
Chapter 10 looks at what to do with the data we collection, including both how to use it and how to communicate it. This is split into sections of who to communicate to, what to communicate, and how to communicate it. It discusses the importance of aligning the three parts so that the what and the how are appropriate to the intended audience. Raw data should never be used, and libraries should be selective in the use of graphics. If a paragraph has more than five numbers in it, a table would be preferred to text. graphics are best with minimal text, and simple is always better than complex. Libraries should do test runs to ensure that the tool communicates the message that was intended. Another good reminder here is that colour can also play a subtle role, and choosing the appropriate type of chart for the message is important. An example of this is the guideline that pie charts show proportions, bar charts show relationships, and time series charts show change.
Any communication is to influence a particular group or groups of stakeholders. The timing of communication relates to the method. Libraries can be creative in the use of human interest stories placed in newspaper articles, written reports should always include an executive summary, presentations should be thought of in terms of visual appeal and good design, and newsletters should include information on progress towards goals.
The final chapter is a look at how evaluation leads to positive organizational change.
Every chapter has exercises, so this book would work well for classes in library school as well.


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Horrific mass shootings, like Dylann Roof's church rampage in Charleston and Vester Flanagan's on-air murders in Roanoke, Virginia grab headlines, but when David Conley broke into his ex-girlfriend Valerie Jackson's home in Houston, Texas on August 8 and allegedly shot her and her six children to death, it was treated as an act of domestic violence, and got considerably less attention. But it was by any definition a mass shooting.
This is the untold story behind many mass shootings. Fifty-seven percent of mass shootings in America between 2009 and July 2015 involved a family member or intimate partner; 81 percent of the victims were women and children, the Huffington Post recently found.
There is no standard definition of a mass shooting, but generally it is understood to be a shooting of four or more people. Even under this definition, domestic violence killings make up the majority of mass shootings.
For years, we've come to consider a mass shooter as a gun-toting suspect, almost always male, who enters a public space and kills many people, most of them strangers. In fact, most shootings occur in private place where the victims know their murderer, and his violent propensities, all too well. And the killings are rarely random.
Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, says the reason Americans aren't drawing a connection between domestic violence and mass shootings is because most state legislatures and our Congress are made up of men who are failing to see the link. There is also the insidious victim-blaming that says women can and should avoid knowing or becoming involved with violent men.
"They're not making the policies that protect our communities and our families and our sisters and mothers and daughters," Watts told AlterNet. "Those policies are being made mainly by people who aren't being impacted by domestic violence. "
Watts says the dearth of women making policy decisions gives gun advocates free rein to lobby for laws that support gun ownership, even for people who clearly shouldn't be in possession of firearms. Women make up fewer than 25 percent of all state legislatures, despite being 50 percent of the U.S. population.
Federal law bars domestic abusers who have been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from owning guns. But these laws are far from adequate. The law generally protects spouses, co-parents or intimate partners who live together, not dating partners. Though 69 percent of intimate partner homicides were committed by a spouse in 1980, the number of murders committed by a dating partner rose to nearly 50 percent by 2008. Only 10 states have gun bans against misdemeanor domestic violence abusers who have attacked women they've dated, according to the Center for American Progress.
Therein lies the loophole.
The federal ban on domestic abusers is limited because its definition of an abuser excludes acts of violence such as stalking, harassment and other forms of intimidation. Many abusers stalk their victims before harming them. Even if someone is convicted of stalking, he or she can still legally purchase a gun. The National Center for Victims of Crimes reports that 7.5 million people were stalked in 2011; 61 percent of those people were women.
David Conley allegedly threatened his ex-girlfriend, Valerie Jackson, with violence at least three times prior to the August 8 shooting. Abusers are eight times more likely to kill their victims if they have access to a gun.
Due in part to all of these loopholes, women and children make up the majority of mass shooting victims. A closer look at the Huffington Post data reveals that between 2009 and July 2015, 70 percent of mass shootings took place at homes. In those cases, 42 percent of the incidents involved a former or current intimate partner.
The close correlation between mass shootings and domestic violence is not new. In 2013, AlterNet reported that 57 percent of mass shootings dating back to 2009 involved a shooter who killed a spouse or family member; at least eight of the shooters had a prior domestic violence charge.
Shannon Watts says these figures should serve as a wakeup call to the nation that loose gun laws are enabling abusers to kill innocent women and children.
"That is why it is so important for women to realize that we are being victimized by mass shootings," she said. "We need to use our voices and our votes to change the laws and close the loopholes that allow online [gun] sales to dangerous people. We need to use our voices and votes to redefine what a domestic abuser is and to make sure we are keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people."


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Jon Katchen, a well-regarded lawyer familiar with Alaska land, access, and oil and gas issues, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the U.S. District Court for Alaska. He was nominated by President Trump for a judgeship on April 12.
Katchen was a law clerk for President Donald Trump's sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who is now retired from the Third Circuit. Katchen is not saying why he withdrew his name, but the political process for confirmation is a known deterrent for nominees.
In private practice in Anchorage at the office of Holland & Hart, Katchen has represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal District Court of Alaska, the Alaska Supreme Court, the Alaska Superior Court, the Office of Administrative Hearings, and the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
For the State of Alaska, he served as senior counsel to Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan; and special assistant to then-Attorney General Sullivan.
He earned his J.D. at the prestigious University of California Hastings College of Law, and has both a bachelor's and master's degree from Boston College. He was key to the resolution of the Point Thomson decision, one that Gov. Bill Walker fought when he was not yet governor.


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Seattle Seahawks receiver Golden Tate has yet to live up to the hype of a second-round draft pick in 2010. But if the 2012 season has foretold his future, then Pete Carroll and company will accept the wait.
Tate has become a consistent threat for the Seahawks in his third season, and the 25 catches for 486 yards this year is already bettering the numbers from his first two seasons out of Notre Dame. Carroll told MyNorthwest.com that Seattle always saw the promise and talent of the young receiver, but it's his recent attention to detail that's pushing him to new heights.
"The marvelous athleticism and the natural ability that so many of these kids have, it gets in the way sometimes of the discipline that it takes," Carroll said. "Right now we have a fantastic football player in Golden. He is creative, he's really though, he's got tremendous hand-eye coordination and sense, he's got great confidence, too."
In Tate's rookie year, he played in 11 games but only caught 21 catches for 227 yards and no scores. He improved a bit in his second season with 35 catches for 382 yards and three touchdowns. Now, he's on pace to better those two seasons combined.
And Tate is still growing this year. Twenty-two of his catches have come after Week 7. That included four of his seven touchdowns, which is tied for the team lead with top Seattle receiver Sidney Rice.


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The Applications Technology Satellite (ATS) series was conceived of as a follow-on to the successful experimental communications satellites of the early 1960s with the addition of other technology demonstrations, such as weather observation and investigation of the space environment.
NASA and Hughes had hoped to continue the success of the Syncom project with an Advanced Syncom. They met resistance from some members of Congress who feared that NASA was developing technology for the benefit of a private company, namely Comsat. So the project's objectives were broadened and it became ATS. The Department of Defense (DoD) influenced NASA to include technology for gravity-gradient stabilization (on ATS-2, ATS-4, and ATS-5) and for medium-altitude orbits (ATS-2). All five of the first generation ATS spacecraft carried a C-band transponder with 25 MHz bandwidth capable of relaying 1200 one-way voice circuits or one color television signal.
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Having recently purchased a new MBP laptop, I was going through the usual new computer activities and installing one of my favorite apps, the iTerm2 terminal program. This program really shines for managing multiple terminal windows, and recently they added the ability to easily import and export color themes for sharing. I, of course, got […]


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The Monogamish Marriage: What If It's Not Cheating to Cheat?
"There have always been non-monogamous marriages."
Posted July 3, 2011
The front cover of the New York Times Magazine section bears a startling headline, "Married with Infidelities" by Mark Oppenheimer which is the first time the gray lady has truly taken off the gloves in exploring that state of the monogamous marriage and infidelity in the United States.
Of course there are the studies, The New York Times cites several:
"There have always been nonmonogamous marriages. In 2001, The Journal of Family Psychology summarized earlier research, finding that "infidelity occurs in a reliable minority of American marriages." Estimates that "between 20 and 25 percent of all Americans will have sex with someone other than their spouse while they are married" are conservative, the authors wrote. In 2010, NORC, a research center at the University of Chicago, found that, among those who had ever been married, 14 percent of women and 20 percent of men admitted to affairs."
Infidelity, straying, or cheating is not news. As the article points out over and over again all you have to do is turn on the television on any given day to see the political sex scandal du jour. So what is up?
Perhaps, what is up is the fact that we simply cannot escape the cold hard fact that the dream of the perfect happily ever after story book monogamous marriage is simply not a reality for a great many people. Instead we have incredibly high divorce rates, and families with little stability left in it's wake. Is there another answer?
While the paradiam of straight monogamy may be perfect for many couples, for others it is simply so difficult that it creates bad behaviors such as Weiner- like "Sexting Scandals because for many - long term monogamy can become sexually boring, stagnant and create the sexual death bed.
For some people in monogamous long term marriages - their pent up sexual energy can leak out in odd ways - as they look for some kind of sexual boost and excitement to their lives. As the article states - perhaps that is why many of us were repulsed by Anthony Weiner's sexting - not because he was so weird - but because it was too close to some of our own desperateness to find a way to play outside of our own monogamous relationships in some kind of "safe way".
For me, this subject hits incredibly close to home as I will be celebrating 30 years of marriage this August. And as the famed Annie Sprinkle said in her reviewer highlight in The New York Times Art Section (Annie Sprinkle on Sex, Art and Activism) of my memior this weekend (Shameless: How I Ditched The Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure and Somehow Got Home in Time to Cook Dinner ), that it is perhaps the first book of a woman talking about paying for sexual healing and experiences as a way to understand herself sexually AND as a way of saving a monogamous long term marriage.
I believe that being "monogamish" as famed sex columnist Dan Savage would call it - and having sexual agreements in place that felt safe to both my husband and myself has been the key to saving my flourishing 30 year marriage.
I think that Dan Savage of Savage Love gets it right when he talks about marriage being about stability and love first. Critics of Savage say that he is working on a gay male model of partnership - but there is nothing gay in my marriage to my very straight military background husband. We just have really gotten to the understanding that we are Two Unique Sexual Beings in One Marriage - and that means that we can't always meet the other's sexual needs. I love it when Savage talks about the three G's - quoted from the New York Times article:
"Dan has always said if you have different tastes, you have to be good, giving and game, and if you are not G.G.G. for those tastes, then you have to give your partner the out."
Eventually, that is what happened in my own marriage - and we are happy, thriving and in our own private rules of engagement - we don't cheat, we eat! Taken from my fellow Psychology Today blogger - Rachel Clark who wrote a fabulous piece called "Shameful: What if It's Eating Not Cheating".
I am finding this new openness and discussion about the state of marriage and monogamy incredibly exciting. Perhaps it is the array of books on the subjects that have been making appearances at bookstores near you that have helped The New York Times, and the rest of us finally begin to have open conversations about the state of sexuality, marriage and monogamy in the United States and around the world.
If you want a really good reading list on this subject check out the following titles:
Mating In Captivity By Ester Perel
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
Jack into the Savage Love columns that are syndicated across the country - or listen to Dan Savages Pod Casts.
"Paying For It" Chester Brown
The floor is now open for this discussion to really hit the main stream. As for me - this is a huge relief. I always knew that I was not alone in needing more - I just didn't have a paradigm or language to help me out. I knew that I didn't want to "Cheat".
Along the way, my husband and I learned that by bringing extended monogamy into our lives by allowing me to attend sexuality workshops and work with trained hands on sexual practitioners was our answer to a happy, stable marriage. Everyone has to create their own way - but now at the very least the discussion is open.
Won't you join it? What do you think about being "monogamish"? Could you imagine having such a conversation with your partner? Are you doing this already in your life?


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Ivan O'Shaughnessy
Ivan commenced his studies in the Dublin Dental Hospital in 1990. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1993 with a Diploma in Dental Technology. He joined the team in Burlington Road the same year under Dr. Aidan O'Reilly and Dr. Gerard McKenna. Ivan specialised in crown and bridge work while also undertaking the role of Laboratory Supervisor which included the training and development of Dental Students from Trinity College Dublin. He continued his role in the Burlington Dental Clinic when Dr. O'Reilly and Dr. McKenna retired. He has many years of experience specialising in Dental Implantology and Ceramics in the Burlington Dental Clinic.
Ivan has taken numerous continuing education courses in all aspects of laboratory work practices to keep his skills up to-date so as to provide a high standard of work a patient and Dentist would expect.


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2D/3D Laser Profiler
LJ-X8000 series
2D/3D controller LJ-X8000SO(55209)
Head input
Up to 2 head units
Sampling cycle (trigger interval)
[2D mode] Maximum speed of 1 kHz (1 ms) *1
Number of registered inspection settings
Up to 1000 (depending on SD card capacity and setting contents) for each of SD cards 1 and 2. External switching is possible
Master profile / number of reference images
[2D mode] Maximum 200 per setting per head (depends on SD card capacity)
Memory card
• SD card slot × 2
Number of tools
[2D mode] 100/setting (of those, 20 are for misalignment correction)
Control input
20 points (input terminal block: 5 points, parallel I/O: 15 points)
Control output
28 points (output terminal block: 6 points, parallel I/O: 22 points)
• Value output and control I/O (exclusive use with PLC link using an RS-232C port)
PLC link
• Value output using Ethernet port or RS-232C port, and control I/O
• Value output and control I/O
• Can output values (3D mode only), upload/download inspection settings, perform various simulations, send/receive various data including profile and image data, and be used with remote connection programmes via KEYENCE PC application software
• Value I/O and control I/O using Ethernet port (exclusive use with PLC link)
• Value input and control input/output using Ethernet port (when this is in use, PLC-Link and EtherNet/IP® cannot be used)
• Can output numerical values and perform control I/O by connecting the optional EtherCAT® unit CB-NEC20E
Various menus can be controlled via the dedicated mouse (included with the controller)
Automatic correction of date and time for this unit is possible by connecting to an SNTP server
By connecting an HDD (max. 2 TB) to the dedicated USB port (supports USB 3.0, bus-powered, rated output: 900 mA), profile, image and other data can be output
Monitor output
Analogue RGB output, XGA 1024 × 768 (24-bit colour, 60 Hz)
Encoder input
1 port: combination RS-422 line-driver output (with 5 V output: maximum 150 mA) open collector output (compatible with 5 V, 12 V, 24 V)
Response frequency
Single phase / Z phase: 1.6 MHz, 2 phase / 1x: 1.6 MHz, 2 phase / 2x: 3.2 MHz, 2 phase / 4x: 6.4 MHz
Open collector (OC)
Single phase / Z phase: 100 kHz, 2 phase / 1x: 100 kHz, 2 phase / 2x: 200 kHz, 2 phase / 4x: 400 kHz
Laser ON input
Non-voltage input (Shorted with short pin when shipped from factory)
Cooling fan
Minimum display unit
[2D mode] 0.1 µm, 0.01°, 0.00001 mm2
Switchable between English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, German, French, Italian, Thai, Czech, Hungarian, and Polish
Power voltage
Maximum current consumption
Environmental resistance
Ambient temperature
0 to +45°C (DIN rail mounting) / 0 to +40°C (base surface mounting)
Relative humidity
85% RH or less (no condensation)
Approx. 2500 g
*1 For LJ-X8080 and LJ-X8200 connection, when binning (Z) is ON, or when the measurement range (Z) is set to 1/2. LJ-X8900 when the measurement range (Z) is set to 1/2.


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2 February 2022, 11:46
Florence Price was the first African American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra – in 1933. Here's her story…
On 15 June 1933 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed a brand new piece by an unknown composer. The work had won first prize in a competition and the music critic of the Chicago Daily News declared it "a faultless work, a work that speaks its own message with restraint and yet with passion… worthy of a place in the regular symphonic repertoire."
Nothing particularly unusual in that.
But the unknown composer was one Florence Price and she was Black.
Read more: 10 of Florence Price's all-time best pieces of music
Florence was born in 1887 in Arkansas to a music teacher mother and a dentist father. Her mother encouraged her talented daughter in her musical studies and Florence eventually went on to study at the new England Conservatory of Music, majoring in piano and organ.
She graduated with honors – and by 1910 she was the head of the music department at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1912 she married Thomas J Price and they moved back to her home town of Little Rock, Arkansas until racial tension in the city escalated to the point that there was a lynching near Thomas's office.
The family moved to Chicago in 1927, but throughout this period Florence had continued studying composition and in 1928 she published four pieces for piano.
Read more: 9 Black composers who changed the course of classical music history
Picture: Florence Price is seated on the far right. National Association of Negro Musicians board members. L-r: Blanche K. Thompson, Josephine Inness, Henry L. Grant, Mary Cardwell Dawson, Clarence Hayden Wilson, and Florence B. January 1941. Charles 'Teenie' Harris/Teenie Harris Archive/Carnegie Museum of Art/Getty Images
In 1931 Florence and Thomas divorced, leaving Florence with two daughters to look after. She began working as an organist for silent film screenings and composing songs for radio ads, to make ends meet.
In 1932 she and her housemate – fellow composer Margaret Bonds – entered the Wanamaker Foundation Awards.
Florence not only took first prize for her Symphony in E minor, she also took the third prize. (Bonds, meanwhile took first place in the song category).
Her Symphony was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and she was catapulted into her life as a composer.
Read more: How William Grant Still, the 'Dean of Afro-American composers', changed American classical music forever
Florence's music brings together the European classical tradition in which she was trained and the haunting melodies of African American spirituals and folk tunes.
Listen to her Five Folksongs in Counterpoint for string quartet to hear how she used some of the most famous spirituals. (At 13.30 you'll hear perhaps the most famous spirituals ever written…)
She was a deeply religious person, so brought the music of the African American church into her music, as well as influences from the likes of Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and other European Romantic composers.
Her Symphony in E minor is a thrilling four-movement work packed with soaring melodies, inventive writing (a second movement almost entirely for the brass section!) and gorgeous harmonies.
Here's the whole thing. Sit down, set aside everything else for 25 minutes and enjoy this wonderful piece:
One of her most famous songs, 'My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord', was performed in one of the most important concerts ever held in America.
On Easter Sunday, 1939, a concert was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The star performer was the contralto Marian Anderson. But because she was black she wasn't allowed to perform in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Hall.
Washington D.C. was a segregated city at the time and the rules of the hall said that only white performers could appear there. The audience in the hall would also be segregated.
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of America at the time, stepped in and the result was an outdoor concert, held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Anderson chose to close the evening with Price's haunting song. The concert was also broadcast on the radio, meaning that Price's music reached hundreds of thousands of people across America that evening.
There's only a small amount of Florence Price's music available on recordings. But there are many more available in filmed performances online.
Try some of her other songs here and here, and the Concerto in One Movement here.


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Travels: Isles of Scilly
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PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1/8/2013 – The Red and Blue split a double-header with the women's team winning 79 – 73 over Morgan State while the men fell 85 – 83 against Lafayette. Both games were close battles. The women's team got 28 points from Alyssa Baron leading Penn to the win. The men fell behind by 15 points before mounting a furious comeback to tie the game at 81. Trailing by two, Penn guard Steve Rennard had an open look from the left corner that bounced away giving Lafayette its first win at the Palestra under Coach Fran O'Hanlon.
Women's Basketball
Penn 79 Morgan State 73 – Penn junior guard Alyssa Baron filled the stat sheet for the Red and Blue scoring 28 points (9 -13 field goal attempts, 3 – 4 three-pointers), handing out 5 assists, garnering 2 steals, and taking down 6 rebounds leading the Quakers. They needed almost every point as Morgan State guard Bianca Jarrett scored a game-high 32 points and 11 rebounds. In the end the Red and Blue made 10 of 12 free throws down the stretch to hold off Morgan State. The 79 point outburst for Penn was their season-high as a team, and Baron also scored her season best. It was a close game featuring 10 lead changes and 6 ties. Midway through the second half Penn led 57 – 55, then went on a 12 – 5 run moving in front 69 – 60 on a jumper by Courtney Wilson at the 5:25 mark. Morgan Sate scored the next 8 points over a two-minute span to move to within one at 69 – 68. The Quakers put the game away at the free throw line.Sophomore forward Kara Bonenberger scored 15 points, and fellow forward Katy Allen had double figures in rebounds with 10 to go along with 10 points. For Morgan State guard Tracey Carrington had 13 points and Whitney Southerland had 11 points.behind 75 – 60.
Penn made 23 of 54 field goal attempts (42.6%), but 3 of 12 from beyond the arc. The Quakers made 30 of 46 free throws. The Red and Blue was credited with 18 assists on their 23 baskets. Morgan State shot 25 of 67 (37.3%), and were good on 12 of 29 threes. Jarrett went 8 fo 13 from distance.
Penn improves to 7 – 5 on the season. The Red and Blue prepares to meet Villanova on January 16. The Wildcats will be gunning for another Big Five championship.
Men's Basketball
Lafayette 85 Penn 83 – Lafayette and Penn were hot in the first half. Penn shot 60.7%, but Lafayette shot 69.6%. Lafayette stayed hot in the second half, Penn did not early falling behind 75 – 60 with 7:47 to play. Lafayette guard Tony Johnson scored 23 of his 25 points to give the Leopards their largest lead. Penn began a comeback. Over the next five minutes Lafayette only scored at the foul line. Freshman guard Tony Hicks scored on a layup to tie the game at 81 capping a 21 – 6 Penn run. The Red and Blue could not get the lead. Bryce Scott hit a three for Lafayette that proved to be the game-winner at the 1:55 mark. The Quakers had one last chance trailing by two. Penn guard Steve Rennard had an open look from the left corner for a potential game-winner, but it hit the rim and bounced away giving Lafayette its first Palestra win under Coach Fran O'Hanlon, and their first road win of the season.
Lafayette made 30 of 49 free throw attempts, a 61.2% clip. In addition to Johnson five other Lafayette players scored in double figures. Dan Trist had 17 points, Bryce Scott 11, and Joey Ptasinski, Seth Hinrichs, and Levi Giese had 10 each. For Penn junior guard Dau Jok had a career-high 18 points. Freshman forward Darien Nelson-Henry also set a career scoring mark with 17 points. Freshman forward Greg Louis, junior guard Miles Cartwright, and freshman guard Tony Hicks scored 10 points each. Penn shot 59.6 % for the game (31-52).
The Red and Blue fall to 2 – 12 on the season and prepare for a game at Princeton on January 12, 2013.
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To work the abdominals practices the turned out leg position. To challenge co-ordination.
Lie supine on the floor in the relaxation position with the knees bent and feet and knees hip width apart. The arms are down by the sides of the body on the floor. Inhale to prepare and exhale to engage the core abdominals and raise one foot at a time off the floor until the knees are bent at around 90 degrees above the hips. The legs are together and the toes are slightly pointed.
Inhale - To prepare
Exhale, - To engage the core abdominals, and curl the head and upper back off the floor
Inhale - To place the right hand down the side of the right shin as close to the right ankle as possible. Place the left hand on the inside of the right knee
Exhale - Maintaining core engagement and straighten the left leg away from the body at an angle between 80-30 degrees (depending upon stability of the pelvis - the lower the leg, the more challenging). As the leg pushes away, turn the leg out in the hip socket and softly point the toes. Inhale - As the leg bends back in and simultaneously straighten the right leg (so that the legs pass each other). The left hand will now be down the side of the left shin as close to the ankle as possible. The right hand will be on the inside of the left knee.
Continue swapping legs.
Rectus abdominis, core abdominals, external rotators
Ensure that the pelvis remains in a neutral position throughout
If the legs cannot straighten due to tight hamstrings or if the back starts to arch, then only straighten the legs as far as the body allows
Ensure that the neck stays long and shoulders stay away from the ears
Keep the feet long and softly pointed and avoid curling the toes
This exercise may be unsuitable for those with sciatica since the turned out position may aggravate this condition. Variation One should be used as a suitable alternative.
This exercise may be unsuitable for those with neck problems in which case, the head may remain on the floor. A curled-up position may not be suitable for those with osteoporosis or certain disc-related back problems.
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In this generative seminar, we will discuss how folklore, myths, legends, and deities can be active forces that shape our fictional worlds. Though folklore is typically seen or belittled as simplistic and "of the past," I argue that they can become tools for imagining new futures. I will explore and examine figures from Chinese mythology and folklore (and how other artists have incorporated folklore in various ways into their creative work) in order to present different ways of retelling and subverting "big" stories and creation myths as they interact with our daily lives. We will blur the binary between the fantastic and the everyday and generate new writing based on myths and stories that seem familiar or fixed.
The magic of place in storytelling is in its ability to use facts to offer context and nuance. As such, place should never be discredited or underestimated in its effect on characters. In Ivelisse Rodriguez's short story, Holyoke, Mass.: An Ethnography, she interweaves the history (going back to 1850) of Holyoke into the coming of age story of a teenage Puerto Rican girl. In the majority of Jesmyn Ward's stories, she interprets and interrupts the world, emotional and physical, of DeLisle, Mississippi. With these stories and American History in mind, we'll discuss how place has an effect on us all, and when written into real or imagined places, how deeply flawed and intrinsically beautiful characters come alive.
JENNIFER BAKER was named the 2019 Publishers Weekly Star Watch "SuperStar" because her "varied work championing diversity in publishing has made her an indispensable fixture in the book business." She is the recipient of a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship and a 2017 Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant (as well as the QCA Jr. Board Artistic Excellence Award) in Nonfiction Literature for her WIP essay collection. Her essay "What We Aren't" was also listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018. With almost 20 years' experience in publishing in a range of roles, Jennifer currently works as a managing editor, is a contributing editor to Electric Literature , and is the creator and host of the podcast Minorities in Publishing (a finalist for the 2018 and 2019 Digital Book World Best Use of Podcasting in Book Marketing). Jennifer is the editor of Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology with Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Her short story "The Pursuit of Happiness" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2017 by Newtown Literary Journal . Most recently, she's had an essay featured on Longreads' Fine Lines section, been featured on The Other Stories podcast and had a visual story posted on The Offing's Enumerate section. In December 2013, her young adult manuscript, The Facility, won the SCBWI On-the-Verge Emerging Voices Award for underrepresented voices in children's literature.
RACQUEL HENRY is a Trinidadian writer, editor, and writing coach who earned her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She co-founded Black Fox Literary Magazine in 2011 and remains an active co-editor. In 2014, she founded the writing studio, Writer's Atelier in Maitland, FL, and was recently appointed as Editor-in-Chief at Voyage YA. Racquel's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been published in Lotus-eater Literary Magazine, Moko Caribbean Arts & Letters, Reaching Beyond the Saguaros: A Collaborative Prosimetric Travelogue (Serving House Books, 2017), Thrill of the Hunt Anthology: Welcome to Whitebridge (Palmas Press, 2017), and We Can't Help it if We're From Florida (Burrow Press, 2017), among others. She is the author of the novelette, Holiday on Park, and The Writer's Atelier Little Book of Writing Affirmations (Writer's Atelier Books, 2018).
LAUREN FRANCIS-SHARMA is the author of Book of the Little Axe (May, 2020) and 'Til the Well Runs Dry, which debuted in 2014 and was short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize, awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. 'Til the Well Runs Dry was also chosen as an O, The Oprah Magazine Summer Reading Pick and lauded by the New York Times, USA Today, Essence Magazine, and People Magazine amongst other publications.
BENJAMIN GARCIA's debut collection, Thrown in the Throat, was selected by Kazim Ali for the 2019 National Poetry Series (Milkweed Editions, August 2020). He is the son of Mexican immigrants and originally from New Mexico, raised in Texas, and currently lives in New York. He received his BA from the University of New Mexico and his MFA from Cornell University. His poems have recently appeared in The Missouri Review, American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, and New England Review, among others. His essays have appeared in the Kenyon Review.
MAISY CARD is a writer and a public librarian. Her writing has appeared in Lenny Letter, School Library Journal, Agni, Sycamore Review, Liars' League NYC, and Ampersand Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Maisy was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica, but was raised in Jamaica, New York. Maisy earned an MLIS from Rutgers University and a BA in English and American Studies from Wesleyan University. She is the author of These Ghosts Are Family.
MELISSA FALIVENO is a writer, editor, musician, teacher, and Wisconsinite in New York City. Her debut essay collection, TOMBOYLAND, about gender, class, and the American Midwest, is forthcoming from Jill Soloway's Topple Books on August 4, 2020. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Prairie Schooner, DIAGRAM, Essay Daily, Green Mountains Review, Lumina, and Midwestern Gothic, among others, and received a notable selection in Best American Essays 2016. She has profiled USWNT star Megan Rapinoe and musicians Valerie June and Jason Isbell; and an essay about her life as a former roller derby skater (moniker: Harlot Brontë) was published in the anthology Derby Life (Gutpunch Press, 2015).
NAZELAH JAMISON is a performance poet, actor, vocalist, and emcee. She is an East Coast transplant, former organizer of the Oakland Poetry Slam and sometimes reluctant superhero. Her first book of poetry, Evolutionary Heart, was released in Fall of 2016 on Nomadic Press. Nazelah gives the best hugs in the Bay Area.


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Attorney Janice Bellucci and the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the "unique identifier" being added to the passports of registered child sex offenders. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in the Central District of the U.S. District Court of California.
Bellucci estimated that the requirement could affect more than 500,000 Americans and their families. She said it is having "a dramatic chilling effect," causing some sex offenders to avoid traveling overseas or to avoid applying for a passport.
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I design gardens with a theatrical celebratory sense of place. Designs are built on formal principles of sacred geometry and iconic imagery imbued with a sense of playfulness, contemplation, discovery, surprise and sanctuary.
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Opponents of Capital Punishment often put forward the proposition that it doesn't deter murder. That proposition is unprovable. But more than that it disregards the reason for Capital Punishment persisting throughout history: the need for retributive justice.
Inasmuch as a concern to prevent crime is noble, it being the reason for not executing murderers, minimizes the gravity of murder; and it denies the survivors of victims the psychic satisfaction that condign punishment has been suffered for their loss. To me that isn't justice.
So what is justice? Russel Kirk, writing for the Heritage Foundation in 1993 gave this as the classical definition of justice: "The classical definition, which comes to us through Plato, Aristotle, Saint Ambrose, and Saint Augustine of Hippo, is expressed in a single phrase: suum cuique, or "to each his own." As this is put in Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis, "Justice is a habit whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will." (The Meaning of Justice).
This means that justice must be constant, being 'a habit'; and it is about punishing the offender, not deterring crime orrehabilitating the offender. That kind of justice, is obvious and retributive. It validates the enduring maxim from Chief Justice Lord Hewart that, "It is not merely of some importance, but of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should be manifestly and undoubtedly seen to be done."
Those who insist that executing a man for murder doesn't deter other men from committing murder, because murders continue despite executions, should tell us why should we punish people for any crime. For crimes continue despite punishment. People are punished everyday for theft, child abuse, fraud and a host of other crimes yet other people continue to do them, well knowing of the punishment.
To argue that the death penalty doesn't deter murder, and insist on giving life sentence instead, implies that life sentence is a deterrent; but despite life sentences murder continues. Since life sentence is a deterrent — in the view of those who who oppose execution on the ground that it isn't a deterrent— why don't we just catch a bunch of people and lock them up for life, toprevent murder? C.S Lewis British thinker and apologist said of the deterrence argument: "If deterrence is all that matters, the execution of an innocent man, provided the public think him guilty, would be fully justified."
Another argument against the death penalty is that it is cruel and unusual punishment. That is it too severe for a human being. But is it cruel and unusual for a man who has taken the life of another human being, in a most brutal fashion, as is murder, to be given the same or equivalent treatment he gave to his victim?
I believe there is an element of mercy in the application of the death penalty, especially today in the Western world. Convicts are no longer, drawn and quartered, devoured by animals, crucified ,burned at the stake, stoned, and have their heads choppedoff by the guillotine, as done in former times. Lethal injection and electrocution are clean and efficient methods: the convict gets his desert in minutes, not suffering the agonizing ordeal to which he subjected his victim or victims.
And a man who knows he will be executed at a set time has the opportunity to make things right between himself and his maker before his execution. In light of this, execution could be an instant passage into eternal bliss.
Contrast that with having a man in prison for life, sometimes for decades, in the most inhuman conditions, where he is denied contact with the outside world. That is cruel and unusual punishment.
Finally to those who insist that DNA has shown that sometimes innocent people have been executed I say that since DNA is soprecise it means the chance of executing an innocent person, where DNA evidence is available, is almost nil. That is even more reason for executions.
Following the reasoning that since innocent people have been executed we should not have capital punishment, we should thendispense with all types of punishment; for innocent people are mistakenly punished for crime everyday.
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