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Before I begin, I'd like to thank the person who made it possible for me to be here with you all today. President Bill Clinton. By scheduling his trip to Moscow just so, I had enough of a pause between my trips to Japan and Oklahoma city and Russia that it was possible to make it to Hartford today. I'd also like to thank John Boyer. Somehow he got it into his head that I like Twain — which I do — and that I might know something about him — which I don't. At least I am honest about it. However, you may want to consider that Mark Twain and I share certain unshakable philosphical similarities.
We both lived in Connecticut for a while. We both like to fish. We both like to play hooky. We both like cigars. But Mark Twain's wife allowed him to light his cigars. (You can only imagine the sort of career I might've had if my wife let me light my cigars. owever, like the President, I am only permitted to chew mine. ) I'm not unaware that the giving of lectures on Mark Twain is more commonly the sphere of academics. To be enjoyed by other academics. Academics can ask questions such as, "Was Huck black? " To which the rest of us would merely reply, "No. " Academics prefer debate over simple questions.
Academics aren't like you and me. At least, they're not like me. Such things are way over my head. I am a proud graduate of Sam Houston State Teachers College Huntsville, Texas. While those of us who went there know it to be the Yale or UConn of our part of the world, we're perfectly well aware that most people this far north have never heard of the place. Sam Houston State has about as much ivy growing on it as your average Burger King or McDonald's. I say all these things to underscore one thing. There may be great experts on the work of Mark Twain — perhaps there are several in this room.
But very few if any such great experts are graduates of Sam Houston State Teachers College. And I am not such a one. It's with that understanding that I proceed today. I don't pretend any expertise in the works of Mark Twain. I tend not to interpret much. I enjoy. In preparing for my visit I did a lot of reading and re-reading, and I did a lot of laughing out loud. I gulped with surprise when I'd be reminded that Mark Twain met the Tsar or read Italian or (published) the autobiography of Ulysses Grant or performed any of his other less celebrated miracles.
I even found myself blinking back a few tears. I wondered how I could justify devoting my time and energy to anything other than Mark Twain. I'm not alone in enjoying Mark Twain. People come up to you and talk to you when you're reading Mark Twain. They feel a warm affection almost as if they knew the old boy personally. And I daresay very few of the flight attendants on my trip from Saipan to the Sandwich Islands actually did know Mark Twain personally. I doubt more than two of them have even met Hal Holbrook. So here we are, galloping toward the centennial of Twain's death.
Mark Twain has become something like Benjamin Franklin to us, an almost huggable icon, a catch-all for national pride and school day memories. And Mark Twain has become something like an old relative. We still enjoy his company, and feel nostalgia for the times we've spent with him in the past. But we keep saying to ourselves that we just don't see enough of him. He rewards the time spent. He is full of surprises. He is tricky. He is always springing things on you. He keeps you on your toes. This is good exercise. It is also good for the character. It teaches you something.
We may be surprised to realize that Mark Twain was a newspaperman — a reporter — something as conventional as that. After all, he was himself so singular that we feel he ought to have held singular jobs, if any jobs at all. Something like Lecturer. Or Commentator. These jobs he did hold. But it's my contention that Mark Twain could not have been all the things he was without having first been a reporter. We must first consider what kind of reporter Mark Twain was. I don't mean whether he wrote hard news or features — he wrote both. I mean, was he good or bad?
The answer is that, as a reporter, Mark Twain was not very good. And ther reason is, he lied a lot. Well, lying is a strong word. Let's just say, he exaggerated. Let me take an example, from a piece of journalism he wrote — the reports back from the first American package tour to Europe and the Middle East, which we now know as "The Innocents Abroad. " Unlike Mark Twain, I am not kidding when I seem to be a rough and unsophisticated American who speaks no language other than country-and-western. So I won't try to pronounce the name of the Italian neighborhood — near Rome — which Mark Twain describes in this passage:
The people here live in alleys two yards wide, which have a smell about them which is peculiar — but not entertaining. It is well the alleys are not wider, because they hold as much smell now as a peson could stand. And of course, if they were wider, they would hold more. And then the people would die. These alleys are paved with stone, and carpeted with deceased cats, and decayed rags, and decomposed vegetable-tops, and remnants of old boots (all soaked with dishwater). And the people sit around on stools. And enjoy it. They are indolent, as a general thing, and yet have a few pastimes.
They work two or three hours at a time, but not hard, and then they knock off and catch flies. This does not require any talent, because they only (need) to grab — if they do not get the one they are after, they get another. It is all the same to them. They have no partialities. Which ever one they get is the kind they want. They have other kinds of insects, too, but it does not make them arrogant. They are very quiet, unpretending people. They have more of these kinds of things than other communities, but they do not boast. You see what I mean.
This is excellent observation — if more reporters brought to work every day the powers of observation of a Mark Twain, you would see ratings and subscription figures rise like rockets. The best among us have always known this. My late teacher, mentor, and friend, Eric Sevareid, used to get letters from viewers praising the beauty of his language — how many reporters today do you expect receive such letters? What a paltry thing a television camera is, compared to such language — for taking you there, letting you see it, hear it, feel it, smell it, The one wee, small catch in this particular case is, it isn't true.
Mark Twain is committing the worst of all journalistic sins. He isn't telling the truth. Now, you may well be saying to yourselves, "Dan, how do you know it isn't true? You weren't alive in 1869. Mark Twain may be exaggerating — surely he is. But you don't know that he's lying. " Anticipating exactly this question, I did what any CBS News reporter would do under the circumstances. I asked Andy Rooney. Andy Rooney knows everything. If you don't believe that, just ask him. He will tell you. He is the world's leading expert on every subject.
Especially on how I do my job. Rooney informs me that, without question, the worst-smelling street in world history is right by his house. So there you have it. Mark Twain is aware of his liabilities. In "Roughing It," he confesses: I moralize well, but I did not always practice well. I let fancy get the upper hand of fact too often when there was a dearth of news. I can never forget my first day's experience as a reporter. I wandered about town questioning everybody, boring everybody, and finding out that nobody knew anything.
On that first day, Twain finds some settlers coming through town and hears that they've had trouble in hostile Indian country. Finding some settlers who are certain not to be in town when the next edition comes out, Twain promptly reports that they've been massacred. My two columns were filled. When I read them over in the morning I felt that I had found my legitimate occupation at last. I reasoned within myself that news, and stirring news, too, was what a paper needed, and I felt that I was peculiarly endowed with the ability to furnish it.
Mr. Goodman said that I was as good a reporter as Dan. I desired no higher commendation. With encouragement like that, I felt that I could take my pen and murder all the immigrants on the plains — if need be — and the interest of the paper demanded it. I didn't invent that stuff about "Dan" — you can look it up. It is not for me to speculate that, although I may not be the brightest network anchor in the world, I may be the only one cited as an inspiration, a professional role model, to Mark Twain. As Mark Twain once said, "I was born modest — but it wore off. "
For Twain as an author of Literature, a sometime lack of truthfulness isn't a failing. Mostly because Twain somehow manages to be accurate even when he isn't being truthful. We know exactly what that little street near Rome was like, even though Twain exaggerated. We suspect he's even exaggerating the degree to which he exaggerated when he reported. It's the rare man whose lies inspire confidence. I think the only time we even begin to regret Twain's tendency to tell whoppers is when he's describing a real event of which we otherwise would have limited or no knowledge.
In "Roughing It," there's a wonderful account of a meeting with Brigham Young, who comes across as every bit the dynamic, charismatic leder who really could found a new nation in a desert — and who is also a humorous, cantankerous old character. But it isn't real — Twain doesn't even claim to have conducted the interview. He blames a fellow named Mr. Johnson. Wouldn't we love to know that this rich comic portrait of a historic American was true? But we don't and can't. There are similar instnaces of the liability of dishonesty in Twain's reporting.
Having covered a few earthquakes, I'd love to know that the tall tales were true in his account of an earthquake in San Francisco — also remembered from "Roughing It. " There's a lesson here for reporters, but I don't want to make too much of it. Exaggeration and invention make for more interesting copy, but they will catch up with any reporter. Even a reporter named Mark Twain. However, we should give Twain credit for his sensitivities. I don't intend to go into it, but I hear a lot of debate now as to whether Twain was racist, much of it holding him accountable for contemporary standards.
Whether you like his racial attitudes or not, I think you can agree that he was remarkably attuned to the ways in which groups of Americans did and didn't get along. It's for this reason especially that I miss him today. He'd have been in high clover with the O. J. Simpson trial. He wouldn't have missed a trick. And we'd all have learned from his reporting. Let's also give Twain the Reporter some credit for his instincts, for having a good nose for news — a certain notion of what a story is and needs, and how to report it.
An example: Early in his career with the Sacramento Union, he was dispatched to Hawaii for a time, as Special Correspondent to the Sandwich Islands. There was not a great deal going on, there being very little government or politics to report. So young Sam Clemens hired a horse and went out in search of news. Nowadays he'd probably use a van or a helicopter with a minicam and satellite transmission capability. But a horse was all Twain had. Nevertheless, he immediately identified the lead story in the area: he found some local girls bathing in the sea. Naked. This was the sort of local color he was after.
For his newspaper. It was a heartwarming spectacle. When he turned to go, he found his horse was asleep. Which shows there is some difference between a man and a horse. You cannot rely on a horse to gather news. I persist in maintaining that it was absolutely essential that Mark Twain be a reporter. I believe that reporting is the most American of professions. Think of it — do you know the name of one non-American reporter prior to our times? From Benjamin Franklin and John Peter Zenger through Horace Greeley and Mark Sullivan, ours has been a nation most distinguished by good journalists. It's in our Constitution.
America was the first nation to experiment with that most dangerous object, a free press, and thus we were the first to find it liberating and necessary. Mark Twain was our most American author; of course he would be attracted to our most American institution. Mark Twain is consumed — perhaps even obsessed — by the question of what it means to be an American. That's a question Americans used to ask themselves a great deal, when this country was newer. Now that we are an older country, I don't believe we ask it as often. It's rare even for our politicians to put forward any kind of philosophical vision of who we are as Americans.
Speaker Gingrich has come close to expressing who the American government ought to be. For Mark Twain, the question of Americanness extends to politics — he was adamantly anti-imperialist, for example — but also to art. Twain observed that American art was less pretentious than European art, and that it communicated more because it was not hired by wealthy benefactors, as European art was. But art, especially literature, is only as good as the philosophy it expresses. Without philosophy, "Moby Dick" would be another fish story, "The Great Gatsby" would be just a book about a guy who wasn't really that great.
Philosophically, Mark Twain's study of Americanness concentrated especially on moral character. For Twain, the American character was open, honest, and above all energetic — but that energy can be corrupted, turned away from good and abused by greed, violence, and ignorance. Twain's American is always an individual who takes an active role in the world around him — in the history that takes place around him. "Forrest Gump" would never have been written by Mark Twain: he would have been offended by the notion that an American could be present at so many great moments of history, yet have no effect on that history.
Twain's Americans even have an effect on other people's history — most notable demonstrated in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. " I'm not the first person to compare Twain with Henry James. James was also consumed by what it meant to be an American. He wanted to show that Americans could be as good as Europeans. He flaunted his erudition, his cultivation, and ultimately he became a British citizen. Twain played the frontiersman, disguising the fact that he spoke several foreign languages, wrote poetry, and read widely.
His aim was to show that the American wasn't merely as good as the European — he knew he could show that the American was different from the European, and he hoped to show that the American was better. That kind of advocacy meant a turn away from reporting on the news pages and toward writing editorials and features — which is another indication of Mark Twain's signal wisdom. Life being what it is, I don't doubt that most of you could — and may — run home to your Collected Works and cite me sixteen different instances of Twain's dislike of reporters.
I don't doubt that they were deserved. Bad reporters deserve as much scorn as sanctimonious spinsters of phony dukes; it makes sense that Twain would take aim at them as he did at any purveyors of cant and superstition and injustice. But good reporting is a free voice, offered freely, heard freely. It is free because it has responsibilities, not restraints. It is independent. We heed it because we trust it, whether the news is good or bad. So, too, is the voice of Mark Twain. It's my firm conviction that you couldn't have great reporting if you hadn't first had the United States.
I believe equally that Mark Twain and good reporting are quintessentially American. I suggest that Mark Twain knew these things and held to them as devoutly as did Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid, or Russell Baker, or any other great American reporter; I suggest that, whether he was writing fiction or essay or (publishing) the autobiography of Ulysses Grant, Mark Twain was reporting. It's up to us to read his reports, to treat them as dispatches from our own past — not musty headlines but urgent bulletins, speaking not of our ancestors, but of ourselves.


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cant believe this hasn't been posted yet. Noose found in Bubbas garage and somebody paid to have a plane fly over Talladega flying a huge confederate flag.
NASCAR said late Sunday night that a noose was found in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Talladega and said it had launched an investigation to find out who put it there.
Wallace is the only Black driver who races full-time in NASCAR's top three series and has been outspoken about racial injustice in the wake of George Floyd's killing on May 25. Wallace was a strong advocate for NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate flag from its properties on June 10 and Sunday's postponed race is the first race in the state of Alabama since the flag ban.
The noose was found before the race was set to begin at 3 p.m. ET.
"Late this afternoon, NASCAR was made aware that a noose was found in the garage stall of the 43 team. We are angry and outraged and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act. We have launched an immediate investigation and will do everything we can to identify the person(s) responsible and eliminate them from the sport. As we have stated unequivocally, there is no place for racism in NASCAR and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all."
The infield area at Talladega was not open to any of the 5,000 fans able to attend the race delayed to 3 p.m. Monday because of rain. Anyone with approved access to the garage would be someone with a NASCAR credential at the race for work-related reasons.
NASCAR restricted fan access for the race to the grandstand area and the camping area outside of the backstretch and garage access for those approved to be in the infield areas has been modified because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Wallace responded on Twitter after NASCAR's statement.
"Today's despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and how persistent we must be in the fight against racism," Wallace wrote on Twitter. "Over the last several weeks I have been overwhelmed by the support from people across the NASCAR industry including other drivers and team members in the garage. Together our sport has made a commitment to driving real change and championing a community that is accepting and welcoming of everyone. Nothing is more important and we will not be deterred by the reprehensible actions of those who seek to spread hate. As my mother told me today, 'They are just trying to scare you.' This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in."
Not long after Wallace posted his statement, LeBron James tweeted his support.
According to NASCAR's weekend schedule, Cup Series team haulers began entering the infield at Talladega at 5:30 p.m. CT. The garage opened for health screenings for personnel at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning.
Wallace was born in Mobile, Alabama. He wore a shirt that said "I can't breathe" and "Black Lives Matter" ahead of multiple races after Floyd's death and drove a car in support of the Black Lives Matter movement at Martinsville.
The BLM car came less than two weeks after NASCAR president Steve Phelps spoke out against racial injustice in a pre-race speech ahead of the Atlanta race. The sanctioning body hosted a moment of silence ahead of the race and multiple drivers teamed up to film a video standing up for equality.
Wallace has said that he's encouraged others to speak out after Floyd's death and has found his voice as a champion of social issues over the past month. He's also been well aware of the pushback he's received for being a vocal proponent for NASCAR's flag ban. Wallace said last week that he'd have to be more careful going into the infield when fans return to races.
NASCAR's Confederate flag ban came five years after the sport asked fans to refrain from flying the flag. While the Confederate flag's prominence had dissipated in recent years, it could still be spotted flying from vehicles at NASCAR tracks, especially those in the south.

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Hands up if you remember the days when Facebook allowed you to reach your entire audience without putting in your credit card details? I certainly do. It was Summer 2014, and I had recently moved my newly set up business into a swanky office near Great Portland Street in Fitzrovia. I'd built a really strong Facebook following for a number of clients, and organic reach was high. I'd barely even considered using the platform for ads at this point; organic allowed me to reach all of the fans I'd built up on each client's page. Then something changed; the amount of content on the platform meant that the Facebook algorithm had to become more and more selective with the kind of content it showed to each user. Perhaps understandably, the decision makers at Facebook prioritised paid over organic. Organic reach started to drop across the board, and – over time – paid became an integral part of any successful Facebook strategy.
How is this relevant to LinkedIn, you may be asking. Well, LinkedIn in 2019 has a lot of similarities to Facebook before the 2014 algorithm update. If you're not using LinkedIn as part of your organic social strategy, you're quite simply missing out on plenty of organic traffic.
The state of LinkedIn in 2019
On LinkedIn in 2019, engagement is king. The single biggest factor that determines whether or not your content keeps showing up in people's news feeds or not is engagement. Of course, this can be easier said than done, but if you create a great piece of content that people keep consistently liking, sharing, and commenting on, you're going to get plenty of organic reach.
So, with that in mind, here's how to make LinkedIn work for you in 2019.
Write articles
If you want to get reach on LinkedIn, you should be writing articles. If you scroll through the LinkedIn news feed on your phone or desktop, it won't be too long before you come across an article posted via LinkedIn's native Publisher tool. Naturally, the LinkedIn algorithm prioritises these native posts over links to external sites, such as your company's blog. Make sure to post links to your company's website or blog at the bottom of the article, but don't be too blatant or overly salesy about it. After all this is essentially PR
If you write an article that really takes off, it can mean an increase in your LinkedIn audience, an increase in enquiries and an increase in visits to your website. But to do so, it has to be great quality, topical and valuable content that people are going to want to share with their colleagues after they've finished reading it.
Engage with the community
A good way to build a following on LinkedIn is to engage with other people who work in your industry. For example for someone dealing with r&d tax credits simply find content created by people who work in your industry, consume it, and leave a well thought out comment, or share it with your own followers. This kind of carefully considered, well reasoned engagement can help you build a following. Let's say you find a great piece of content related to your industry, and take the time to leave a thoughtful and interesting comment. The content creator replies with some thoughts of their own, and you get a bit of a back and forth going. At this point, you can send them a connection request, and they're likely to accept. After all, wouldn't you be more likely to accept a request from someone who you had a meaningful exchange with, than someone who is in your industry but you've never spoken to before?
This can be a time consuming endeavour, but trust me – it's well worth it. If you put 15 minutes into this every day, over time you'll start to build up a massive following of highly engaged people in your industry.
Post often (but not too often!)
As with any social network, there's loads of content on LinkedIn, and if you're not posting frequently you'll be left behind. Just like other social platforms, you need to create a schedule of posts ahead of time, while leaving space in the schedule for reactive content that you create to be in line with big news stories from your industry.
However, one great thing about LinkedIn is that once a piece of content takes off and starts getting a lot of engagement, it will continue to show up in people's news feeds over and over again (even if they've seen it already). This means that once your posts start regularly getting a lot of engagement, you can take your foot off the gas a little bit and start posting slightly less regularly. After all, if you've had a really successful post, you don't want to distract attention from it by posting something new immediately afterwards.
Don't spam people
This should be really obvious and shouldn't have to be said, but you really shouldn't spam people with cold sells on LinkedIn. I have never met anyone who got anything of value out of either sending or receiving a cold sales email on LinkedIn, it is just not a great way of creating value out of LinkedIn. Let's say you're an employer looking for a new member of staff. Rather than spamming potential candidates with private messages, why not post a public status update? Letting any potential candidates come to you, rather than popping up into their inbox uninvited is a far better way of kicking off a professional relationship.
No matter what you want to achieve through your LinkedIn strategy, creating good quality content and engaging with like-minded individuals is the way to go. No to spam, yes to quality content!
Those are my tips for maximising the potential of your LinkedIn marketing. Do you agree? How do you make LinkedIn work for your business? Post your ideas in the comments section below!


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Black Light Ping Pong with Shepard Fairey Spinning–RSVP
Black light! Ping pong! Shepard Fairey DJ-ing! Plus Ryan McGinness' new book, Women: New (Re)Presentations! All of this at the Standard Hotel Downtown! What a way to spend a Thursday evening! RSVP is a must (firstname.lastname@example.com) for extreme revel which begins at 8pm. Eschew basic black and go for for the glow!
CARTWHEEL Preview: Red Bull Curates sends Lydia Emily and Gregory Siff to Miami
For L.A. artist Lydia Emily, "the road to Art Basel" began April 5, 2012 when she competed in and won the Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project at Lab Art, along with fellow L.A. artists Gregory Siff and Hans Haveron. Now it's time to reap the rewards of winning a spot with the highly…


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Xiaomi launched the 12S and 12S Pro camera-centric smartphones in China, today, alongside the Xiaomi 12S Ultra with a massive 1-inch Sony IMX989 sensor. The 12S Ultra may have stolen all the limelight, but the 12S and 12S Pro, are flagship phones no less. The 12S and 12S Pro essentially build on the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro (review) phones and try to offer an even more compelling photography experience on the back of Xiaomi's ongoing partnership with German optics brand Leica.
The 12S and 12S Pro, both, have the same large 50MP Sony IMX707 primary sensor. The other two cameras are different. The pro model has two more 50MP sensors, one behind a 14mm ultrawide-angle with 115-degree field-pf-view and another behind a 50mm telephoto lens for 2x optical zoom. The vanilla 12S has a 13MP ultrawide and 5MP telemacro.
As for the rest of the hardware, while the 12S Pro has a 6.73-inch E5 AMOLED display with a 1080p resolution and up to 120Hz refresh rate, the 12S has a smaller 6.28-inch non-LTPO AMOLED screen with a 1080p resolution and 120Hz refresh rate.
Under the hood, you get a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip paired with up to 12GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage. Software is MIUI 13 based on Android 12.
The 12S Pro has a 4,600mAh battery and supports 120W fast charging. The 12S comes with a smaller 4,500mAh battery and supports 67W fast charging. Both phones support 50W fast wireless charging.
Xiaomi 12S Pro starts at CNY 4,700 (roughly RSs 55,400) for a version with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. You can also get it in 8/256GB, 12/256GB, and 12/512GB for CNY 5,000 (roughly Rs 59,000), CNY 5,400 (roughly Rs 63,700), and CNY 5,900 (roughly Rs 69,600) respectively.
Xiaomi 12S starts at CNY 4,000 (roughly Rs 47,200) for a version with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. You can also get it in 8/256GB, 12/256GB, and 12/512GB for CNY 4,300 (roughly Rs 50,700), CNY 4,700 (roughly Rs 55,500), and CNY 5,200 (roughly Rs 61,300) respectively.
Both phones are exclusive to China at the time of writing. Global availability and pricing are yet to be announced.


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Brewers Get A Steal In Drew Rasmussen
The Brewers believe they drafted a first-round talent in the sixth round when they selected righthander Drew Rasmussen in 2018.
The Rays drafted Rasmussen out of Oregon State in the supplemental first round in 2017, but a physical indicated the Tommy John surgery performed on his elbow in March had come undone, for lack of a better term. He had a second Tommy John procedure and sat out his entire senior season with the Beavers.
The Brewers decided it was worth the risk to draft Rasmussen after performing a detailed examination of his medical records, led by medical director Roger Caplinger and team surgeon William Raasch. The club knew he would not take the mound until 2019.
"Our area scout, Shawn Whalen, and (supervisor) Corey Rodriguez stayed in touch with (Rasmussen) before the draft and still liked him a lot," scouting director Tod Johnson said.
"Rasmussen's representative was forthcoming with his medical information. We had the information we needed to make our decisions. We saw the reports from the second surgery and felt he would be able to return to pitching."
Rasmussen signed for $135,000 and reported to instructional league to throw bullpens, but it wasn't until he faced hitters this spring that the Brewers knew for sure they were on to something.
Rasmussen touched 100 mph in one live BP session, creating great excitement in minor league camp.
Rasmussen's pro debut was specifically orchestrated to take place at Miller Park on April 12, where low Class A Wisconsin was playing a Midwest League game in the Brewers' home park. He pitched two shutout innings and immediately was promoted to high Class A Carolina, where he pitched three shutout innings with six strikeouts in his first outing.
"He was extremely diligent with his rehab, really worked hard," Johnson said. "He threw in the mid-to-high 90s before his surgeries, with a good slider, so his stuff was not a surprise.
"We consider him a first-round talent. We were looking at him in that (late-round) range the year before. We were happy to get him where we did."
— Shortstop Mauricio Dubon, who missed most of 2018 with a torn ACL in his knee, celebrated his return to action with walk-off, game-winning hits in the bottom of the ninth inning of the first two home games for the Brewers' new Triple-A San Antonio affiliate.
— Shortstop Brice Turang, the 2018 first-round pick, was assigned to low Class A Wisconsin, a sign of his readiness to play a full season at age 19.
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The EdChoice research team talks about their list of the 25 most significant research findings over the last 25 years.
Mike McShane: Hi, welcome back to another edition of EdChoice Chats. This is Mike McShane, director of national research at EdChoice, and we have a cracker of a podcast for you all today. We are going to be talking about 25 pieces of education research. And I know as soon as you hear that, you're saying I'm flipping to something else. Does Serial have a new episode out? Maybe Joe Rogan is going to talk about COVID cures or something. I think you're going to want to stick through this one. And it's funny that we bring this up because obviously this is part of our 25th anniversary celebration. I'm joined on the line today by other members of the research team, my colleagues, Paul DiPerna, Drew Catt, Marty Leuken, and John Christoff. And we're talking about a post that all of you can see on our blog at EdChoice, where we highlight for the past 25 years of our time at EdChoice, 25 great and important pieces of education research, school choice research.
Now, picking these things is always a difficult task. It's so funny that we are recording this in the middle of September and just yesterday Rolling Stone… And I don't know if anyone else saw this. I'm springing this on my colleagues right now. And I know all of you are listening to this, but you can't see the looks on their faces when this comes out, came out with a new ranking of the top 500 songs ever. Right? And I won't do the top 25, but the top 10 songs in history, which they're saying, and obviously can't be in history because, I don't know, Schubert isn't included, but number 10, Outcast, Hey Ya. I think it's all right. Number nine, Fleetwood Mac, Dreams.
Number eight, Missy Elliott's Get Your Freak On. Wasn't expecting that one, but great tune. Number seven, the Beatles, Strawberry Fields Forever. Number six, Marvin Gayes What's Going On. Classic tune. Number five, Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Number four, Bob Dylans, Like A Rolling Stone. Number three, Sam Cooke, A Change Is Going To Come. Number two, Public Enemy, Fight the Power. And number one, R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Respect by Aretha Franklin. So as tempted as I am to throw it to my colleagues and discuss whether we think that is in fact the proper top 10 of songs of all time, I guess we'll talk about education research though. I will throw it out to any of my colleagues if one of those 10, if you heard a song that you think shouldn't be in the top 10 or you think a different song should be in the top 10, please feel free to put that as you talk about education research, but I've done enough yammering here.
I want to ask my colleague Drew Kat, who spearheaded this effort. Can you talk just a little bit about the process of how we arrived? I don't actually know how Rolling Stone came to their 500 greatest hits. I will probably disagree with however they did it, but something that I won't disagree with is how you chose to do this. So how did you come across these 25 research studies?
Drew Catt: So that's a great question. Knowing that it was our 25th anniversary kind of had this idea of, oh, let's do like top 25 research findings and then the question was all right, how do we do it? Like, do we want to be at all internally and be like this is what we at EdChoice think. And I'm a big picture kind of person. I want to make the tent as big as possible. So I figured, hey, let's ask our great network of amazing academics and researchers. Let's ask the people that actually researched this themselves, what do you think the most important things were over the last 25 years? So that's what we did. I probably emailed a good 50 to 60 different people. This was back in early January, around National School Choice Week. So not everyone responded because I guess when you're a professor and that's the beginning of a new semester in the midst of COVID, you have some other things to do.
But the responses that we did get were amazing. The fact that there were multiple people that said the exact same report, that was great. So many different people said the line of research by David Figley with competitive effects, which we can get into, but really the hard work was then just narrowing it down. And John Kristof really helped with helping break things out into categories. And then there were one or two that we ourselves, especially Paul DiPerna said, we have to make sure that these are included. So yes, we did add one or two ourselves, but I would say other than that, for the most part, these were all externally sourced by the experts themselves because what I view as the most important research is one thing. But to say that, hey, the top researchers in this field, these are what they said.
Mike McShane: Sure. Now, Paul, you just celebrated recently 15 illustrious years here at EdChoice. Before this, obviously with your work at the Brookings Institution and others you've really had an opportunity to follow the trajectory of education choice research for some time now. So I would love to give you the sort of first stab at this. So of these 25 studies, is there one or two that really stood out to you as particularly meaningful?
Paul DiPerna: I know. Time flies when you're having fun and it has been a great ride here at EdChoice. I mean, I think some of this ties into the personal and just kind of like how I got interested in choice research and on the topics that we all study and lean on so many others externally than what they do. And so there are a couple that come to mind. And so one is the randomized control trial experimental research that was conducted by Paul Peterson and his co-authors that included William How, Patrick Wolf, and others over time. But those were experimental studies that were conducted in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, Washington, DC in the mid to late nineties. And then they really started to publish in earnest in the late 90s and then in early 2000s and culminating in the book that Paul Peterson and William How co-authored, the Education Gap: Vouchers In Urban Schools that was published by Brookings.
And so that published in 2002. And then there were, I believe at least one or two more editions that followed that, but that I think really to me, and actually just on the personal side, I was able to see that released and see Paul Peterson and William How talk about the research and including others who were discussing at Brookings, but when they published the book. And it just really seemed to be so rigorous methodologically and the investment of time and effort and the teamwork that really went into those kinds of studies. And that continued on later on with Pat Wolf's evaluation of the DC school voucher program. It also just set the table for further research, experimental research down the road, and it showed those positive impacts, at least for some groups of students that these privately funded voucher programs in DC, New York, and Dayton, what they could do. And then that would lead to those experiment research of publicly funded programs too, like there at DC.
So that one really stands out to me. It left a really strong impression on me and also Jay Green's work that he published in the journal, Urban Society too on Milwaukee. And those were really instrumental like in my kind of understanding of how school choice research was going and like the innovations that were happening in terms of the design and methods of research.
Mike McShane: Yeah, no, I think that's right. And it's interesting to see how even other fields of study within political science and economics. I mean, how influential so much of that school choice research was done and using randomized control trials and others where both in education and outside of it, there was so much work done before then that had the very selection bias issues that we would be worried about with something like a school voucher program, but didn't use as rigorous methods. So you're right. I mean, I think all of that stuff was so important, both for understanding school choice, understanding education policy and public policy in general. So Marty, fellow Arkansas Razorback graduate of the PhD education policy PhD program there, I would love to know what your picks are, what study stood out to you?
Marty Leuken: Yeah, well, first, I can come up with my own top 500 of the greatest songs of all time, Mike, but I'll leave that for another podcast. But to me, one study that really stands out is Cecilia Rouse's 1998 paper of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. That's just a historically important paper, I think, as it's the first paper published to employ random assignment and it's research designed to study a school choice program. And really the first rigorous study of the oldest modern day voucher program in the country as well. This was published at a time when that program was expanding to allow religious schools to participate. And I'm not sure like what role, if any, Rouse's study had in that particular expansion, but the program certainly had a lot of room to grow and to improve. I got to agree. And Wisconsin needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the program in the years to come to help it evolve in a positive direction. And I think Rouse's study certainly played an important role in that.
Mike McShane: No, I think that's right. And it's so interesting that she publishes that study in 1998 and has gone on to a series of incredibly prestigious places. Marty, am I right? Is she the president of the Council of Economic Advisors for President Biden? She's on the Council of Economic Advisors or is she in charge of the whole shebang?
Marty Leuken: I believe she is in charge of it.
Mike McShane: Yes. And that's being backed up by nods in other places. Yeah. So that's great to see someone who did such a seminal piece of work in this field go on to such important and lofty post. Drew, I would love to know your pick. So we've got some randomized control trial fanatics here. What did you see?
Drew Catt: Honestly, for me and a lot of this is coming from my background and philanthropic studies and working for a… Having education and youth development under my grantee portfolio and what seems like a previous life from now. But the thing that really funders cared about was graduation and going to college. Could schools do that? If so, yeah. We'll throw them more money. Can programs do that? If so, yeah. Okay. Let's throw them more money. So what about school choice?
John Kristof: For me, it was Matt Chingos and Paul Peterson really looking at school vouchers on college enrollment and degree attainment. Really, it was starting to look at New York City, which is a privately funded program, but Matt has gone on to do the same thing, looking at Florida, looking at Milwaukee. I mean, the results are the same and same again. Low and behold, do test scores matter? Questionable, Ben Scafidi has a nice survey piece on that about 'Do they matter to parents?' which is also included in the list.
Sorry, if I stole that from anyone else that was going to reply with that one. That's also influenced my parent survey work, but really it's showing that, Hey, these programs actually impact students and the levels at which they graduate from high school and the levels of which they go on to college and depending on whether it's full sample or some subgroups, impact how soon they get their bachelor's degree or whether or not they receive a bachelor's degree. And I think at the end of the day, most people can agree that when you look at salary metrics or anything, the differentiation is whether or not you have a diploma. So I think the fact that Matt and Paul were able to do this work and to see it replicated in other places is fantastic and is amazing for the movement.
Mike McShane: Agreed. So John, you are perhaps the most recent addition to our Merry band here. And so I'd be interested to sort of… You kind of came into this out of a different kind of generation of researchers. Obviously, we came from our particular backgrounds and training. So I would love to know you as someone who's come at this a bit more recently, what stood out to you? What was meaningful for you?
John Kristof: Yeah. Drew mentioned this a little bit earlier, but I'm going to throw a shout out to David Figlio and company and his kind of initial line of research on the competitive effects of private school choice. My background in academic thought is in economics. So I have my background with knowing Milton Friedman and his impact on economics and education policy and economic history, plenty of things. And so, market design has always been very interesting to me and what school choice argues and what Milton Friedman argued when he was promoting this idea of school vouchers decades ago, was that the education market, which certainly at his time, no one was thinking of education as a market will be more efficient if you allow students to move different places, to go to attend different schools, including private schools that would charge tuition. And if the market theory is correct, that competitive pressures will encourage schools to… Whether it's be more efficient with their resources, be more intentional about curriculum, et cetera.
Then we should see positive effects, not only for students who are able to take a school voucher or some other form of private school choice and apply it to a private school, but we also should see benefits for public school students who don't use vouchers for whatever reason, because in theory, the public schools should be responding to this idea of competition. And Figlio and Hart's 2014 competitive effects study of the Florida tax credit scholarship program found this fairly convincingly in a couple ways. First, they found that the effects of competition were immediate and at least part of the effect had nothing to do with selection of students moving from one school to another, because there was a delay in when students could move schools, actually use the vouchers. So the very year that the Florida tax credit scholarship program passed, again, no students had used any scholarships yet.
There was a 0.01 to 0.02 of standard deviation improvement that was statistically significant in public school student test scores. So, that's not world changing, but after one year there is… That would translate into a month or two of extra learning that a public school student got. Again, without the private school choice program even happening, just the very presence of competition and the promise of future competition seemed to spur public schools to serve their students a little better or respond, in a way. And the second thing that Figlio and Hart found was that the higher the degree of competition a public school faced, the stronger these competitive effects were. So Figlio and Hart used five different measures of private school competition because, I'll speak from personal experience, it's very difficult to measure in a lot of ways.
So you often see researchers in this field using a lot of different measures to get the best guess of competition that they can. And in short, basically, for example, the closer a private school was to a public school, you might see that as it is more likely that parents would see that as a viable alternative, because transportation is less of a concern. So considering a measure like that, the more competition, the closer and the more direct competition a private school provided, the stronger the competitive effects were. In other words, the more threatening a private school was to attract students from a public school, the better public school students did.
So in this initial study, and this has been confirmed through other studies from Dr. Figlio and it started a line of private school choice research in this area that I know Drew contributed to suggests that this idea of market competition really does improve the education experience for students everywhere, whether or not they choose to or are able to take advantage of vouchers. It just improves all options, even more so. And these effects roll over and continue year after year, which is another finding of his line of research. So, big fan of Figlio's work. I'm happy to see it included in this report.
Mike McShane: Yeah. So I guess I'm going to bat cleanup here. I will add just continuing on the Rolling Stone theme, I probably have my quibbles with the top 10, but the single most objectionable thing that I see in that list at number 19… Supposedly 19th best song ever is John Lennon's Imagine. John Lennon's Imagine is sandwiched between at number 20 is, I believe, Robin's Dancing on my Own, a dance kind of disco classic. And number 18 is Prince's Purple Rain, which could have easily been a top 10 hit. And you have John Lennon's Imagine, which shouldn't even be in the top 500, because it's one of the worst songs that was ever written. It is a terrible song and if I never heard it ever again, it would be a blessing. But yeah, so that's my-
John Kristof: At least I know that our list is not going to be the most controversial list to be released this time of year.
Mike McShane: Thank you. That's exactly right. So we're just going to be in the slip stream of Rolling Stone as they make such an objectionable decision is that one there. But anyway, I will, since you all named so many great studies, the one that I will highlight and it's as much for one of the people that was involved in it and just sort of a personal connection, but Pat Wolf at all's study of the DC voucher program. I have a particular sort of connection to this because I was Pat Wolf's research assistant when I was in graduate school and Pat Wolf has done some of the most important research on private school choice around the country. So he was parts of the teams in Milwaukee, in Washington, DC, eventually in Louisiana, and so all of these things that he really pushed doing randomized control trials, he worked with the federal government, he worked with IES and others.
So really went through all of these hurdles to, I think in many ways to really legitimize school choice research and dotted every I, crossed every T, did everything that he needed and with the sort of imprimatur of the federal government and others. So I think obviously that was a really important the DC evaluation that was done by the Institute for Education Studies and had to go through all of these. And I just remember I played the tiniest of tiny roles in that, but I sat in on a whole lot of conference calls of all of the steps that had to be taken and all of the review and everything that had to be done for the federal government to release a report. And so, having someone who was willing to take that on and took the science so seriously and thought it was so important what he and his team were doing, I just really value that.
And I think Pat Wolf really deserves a shout out because I think… And it's demonstrated by the results of the studies that he's published. He's just one of the most honest, forthright researchers that we have in this space. So when he found results in places that were positive, that's the results that he reported. When he found results that were neutral, those are the results that he reported. And when, in places, he found results that were negative, those are the results that he reported. And he really subordinated his own particular views to the truth, and it was really something that he instilled in a lot of us when we were his graduate students, that he said, "One of the best ways you can make the world a better place is to just tell the truth," because that's what we're here to do as researchers.
So I think that it's one of the reasons we can trust the research that's included in the list that he's done, because he's obviously shown himself to be such a person of such incredible integrity. And I think is really a role model for all of us that are involved in research, whether we're at EdChoice or elsewhere. So friends… Yeah, go ahead, Paul.
Paul DiPerna: Yeah. I 100% agree. I think, yeah, I mean, we owe a lot to Pat and the work he's done and he's really blazed the trail on school choice research for so long. The only thing I was going to add and this really can connect you and to Marty as well, but it's interesting to see on that list how many of the students who have come out of Arkansas and from the department of education reform there who have gone on to publish in their own right, whether they're reviews of the research like Danny Shakeel has done so well with, Caitlin Anderson, and Pat very recently. There's a global study, looking at private school choice in a number of different countries, including the US. But yeah, I guess for lack of a better reference, but there's a coaching tree.
Mike McShane: I was just going to bring that up.
Paul DiPerna: Very impressive that I think Pat has. And also of course, with Paul Peterson.
Mike McShane: That was connection I was going to make was, if you really think about it, this is all a big Paul Peterson coaching tree, where you had… I mean, it would be interesting and I don't know if we did this, but in this list of 25 people of all of those things that are somehow connected back to Paul, because it was, I mean, I just know so many of us. Yes, and I think Drew brought up as well and David Figlio as well. I mean, so there's a couple of these… Yeah, borrowing from the NFL, the coaching trees, but many of these roads lead back to Paul Peterson and Pat G. at Harvard.
Paul DiPerna: Yep. Yes. Yeah. It's really interesting just to see that and it's a real true testament to them as not only scholars who are very impressive in their own right, but also as mentors and building and supporting students in all the right ways, and to help them publish and advance in their careers and lives.
Mike McShane: Okay. So we've talked about our favorites, but were there any others, maybe other ones on the list that stood out to you or maybe some honorable mentions that just missed the list? But Paul, were there any other ones that stood out to you?
Paul DiPerna: So yeah, there are a couple. So Terry Moe's book, a public opinion book, that really was focused on vouchers and this was published back in 2000, but it still… I think it was hugely influential on me just thinking about public opinion around school choice and K-12. So I just want to make sure that we mentioned his book, Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public.
Mike McShane: Cool. I'll definitely shout out the folks that really work to try and do either meta-analyses or combinations of things. There's so much work that's been done on that. So the folks who did really careful work, there's a couple on the list there, but I certainly appreciate trying to make sense of all of the work that's out there.
Marty Leuken: And I'd like to point to Susan Aud's fiscal study for the, at the time, the Friedman Foundation. That was the first national scope fiscal study done, which spawned a lot of other fiscal analyses of which I am part of and doing right now. But that was really the first one, which to address what we all, I think, agree is the most pernicious argument against choice, which is drains resources and harms public schools.
Mike McShane: Yeah, I think that's a great point, Marty. It's something we probably should have said already that I know at least I feel as a school choice researcher, and I know you specifically with all the great work you do on education finance, but really is a situation where we stand on the shoulders of giants. We are able to do the work that we do because of methodological advances that folks before us made, questions that they asked and answered, that we were able to learn from and that we're trying to build on what they had to do. But that's a really good point. I'm glad you highlighted Susan's paper because that really is a foundational thing that so many folks have built off of. Drew, and then I think John.
Drew Catt: Yeah, real quick. This is one that I mentioned, Ben Scafidi's More Than Scores, really looking at asking the parents of the students participating in these programs, "Hey, why'd you choose the school that you did? Why'd you choose this program?" And then Paul building onto that and doing more of the participant versus private school comparison, which then led to me opening up the can of worms and saying, "Hey, let's just ask all types of school families and let's see what the comparative advantages are and if there are similarities or differences, regardless if the parents are choosing traditional public, charter, private, or through a program homeschool, whatnot."
John Kristof: Yeah. Drew stole mine a little bit, but I'll add on why I think it's important to me and that's that the research community and oftentimes people more broadly, they ask, "Does private school choice work?" And what they often think of is test scores. But when you look at what parents actually want, one of the lowest scores for reasons that parents in this Scafidi study, one of the least common reasons that parents exercised a voucher and chose a private school was test scores. Much more important things were things like student safety and student discipline, and just an overall better learning environment.
And if those are things that parents are actually more interested in and those are the kinds of things that contribute to much higher parental satisfaction rates, then we also have to consider that when we're asking these big philosophical questions of, "Does school choice work?" And I think that's something that we, as researchers who obsess over numbers and things like that can often be reminded of and be helped by that.
Mike McShane: For sure. Well look, gentlemen, this has been a pleasure. Oh, Drew, you wanted to say something? Since you put all of this together, I'll give you the last word.
Drew Catt: No, it's just fascinating. So we have the Goodnight, whatever Moon. There's a series. Since my wife is a chemistry teacher, somebody gifted us Goodnight Lab. And one of the things is goodnight professor that's saying publish. And my niece was reading my three year old this book the other day and my instant reply was, "Yeah, publish or die." And he's like, "What does publish mean?" So it was really going into like, "Okay, what does this actually mean? Why do people do this?"
And just the fact that there are people out there who, regardless of whether or not it's part of their job requirement, they want to do high quality research and they want to study these things and get it out there. So I'm just so appreciative of everyone that one, wants to study school choice. And two, wants to do it in a rigorous enough way that it gets placed in top publications or is put out by amazing organizations. And yeah, just getting it out into the world and increasing the awareness that not only what school choice is, but hey, school choice works.
Mike McShane: Well said, Drew. And you know what? Y'all, here's for another 25 years. Here's for another 25 years of EdChoice. Here's for another 25 years of interesting education research, interesting education choice research. There are so many bright people trying to tackle a new generation of questions that are out there and I know we are all excited to continue to learn from them. As always, please like and subscribe to this podcast. Drew has a great series where he interviews interesting education researchers. And so if you're interested in the folks that are in this field, that's part of this podcast series. Our colleague, Jason Bedrick does this Big Ideas series where some of these folks are specifically school choice researchers and other people are just interesting folks in the education space. So I think both of those are a reason to subscribe to the podcast because you can hear more about that.
You can also hear we talk every month about our monthly polling that comes out. We talk about our Schooling in America survey every year when it comes out. So lots of great stuff. So please like and subscribe to this podcast. As always, I want to give a big shout out to Jacob Vinson who edits these things and makes us sound more coherent than we actually are. And I appreciate all of you for joining us and listening to us talk about research for half an hour. And if you're still listening at this point, which I imagine that you are, I hope you learned something. We really enjoyed talking about this and I look forward to talking to you again on another addition of EdChoice Chats.


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10624. Upon the thirds and upon the fourths. That this signifies the condemnation of falsities and of the derivative evils, is evident from the signification of "sons," as being the falsities of evil (of which just above, n. 10623). The reason why it is said "upon the thirds and upon the fourths," is that "three" is predicated of truths or falsities, and "four" is predicated of goods or evils. For in the Word all numbers signify things, some numbers belonging to the spiritual class, and some to the celestial class. The numbers three, six, and twelve belong to the spiritual class, and the numbers two, four, and eight to the celestial class. The numbers which belong to the spiritual class are predicated of truths or of falsities; and those which belong to the celestial class are predicated of goods or of evils. By "three" is also signified all truth in the complex; and by "four," all good in the complex. From this it is that by "sons the thirds and the fourths" are signified falsities and the derivative evils. But this sense of these words is the celestial sense, because it arises from the fact that they are predicated of these falsities and evils. (What evils and the derivative falsities are, and what falsities and the derivative evils are, may be seen at the places cited in n. 10109.) Here also something shall be said about evils and the derivative falsities, and about falsities and the derivative evils. Evils are the sources of all falsities, because falsities are what confirm evils, and evils and falsities act in a man as do the will and the understanding, for what a man wishes to do he also wishes to understand, because it is by means of the understanding that he forms his evil before himself in thought, and before others in speech. From this it is evident what evil and the derivative falsity are, that is, the falsity of evil. But the evil of falsity is when man has confirmed evil with himself, and has concluded that it is not evil, and consequently does it. In this case he does evil from falsity. For example, he who has confirmed with himself that adulteries are not evils, and from this does them, is in the evil of falsity, because he does them from a false principle. The evils of falsity are chiefly to be found in religious matters, for from the falsities of doctrine a man persuades himself that a thing is good, which nevertheless is evil; and sometimes that a thing is evil, which nevertheless is good.
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The week-long tournament held to commemorate the UAE National Day was concluded with two exciting matches on the grounds of Al Habtoor Polo Resort and Club.
The subsidiary final kicked off with a promising start as Green Gates Polo team gained a fast lead over Habtoor Polo, 3 – 1. Both teams scored goals during the next chukker, and after half time the teams were tied at 6 – 6. JJ Diaz Alberdi took the lead that was seconded by a goal from Habtoor Al Habtoor that primed Habtoor Polo for the win. JJ scored another goal and closed the match at 9 goals to 8.
Before the final, the UAE National anthem was played followed by the presentation of the players of AM Polo and Bangash/Mahra Polo teams.
The first chukker ended with a 1.5 goal advantage for Bangash/Mahra. The succeeding chukkers were a flurry of goals from both teams with Bangash/Mahra still with the lead by the end of the third chukker. The excitement went up a notch as AM Polo tried to catch up to its opponent as Bangash/Mahra strongly defended its position with 2 more goals making its victory imminent.
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In a separate attack a few minutes' drive south of that location, Israeli drivers came under a barrage of stones hurled by Arab terrorists as they drove pasts the village of El Aroub on Highway 60.
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A man who was tasered to the ground after allegedly confronting police with a knife in Sydney's west this morning, has been charged over the incident.
Just before 8am, two inspectors were walking towards the front doors of Granville Police Station when they were allegedly approached by a man wielding a knife.
In footage obtained exclusively by the Nine Network, the 38-year-old Sudanese national can be seen surrounded by officers outside the Carlton Street location.
The man, dressed in a blue hooded jumper, can be seen advancing towards a policeman.
"He didn't come with aggression but you could see anger in his face," witness Hannah Malti told 9News.
I was really scared, my car was literally right next to him so I was worried if something happened or he tried to run, he'd get in my car."
He is ordered several times by police to drop an item in his hands before the taser is fired.
After being hit by the taser a group of police disarm the man and drag him into the station.
"The officers drew their weapons and covered the man as they repeatedly instructed him to drop the weapon," a NSW Police spokesperson said.
"It's alleged when the man refused to comply and kept walking towards the officers, one deployed his Taser and effected the arrest.
"The man will be taken to Westmead Hospital for assessment."
The man was taken back to Granville Police Station after being released from hospital and was charged with use of an offensive weapon with intent to commit an indictable offence.
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We all have a story to tell and a legacy to leave. What, when, and how we give makes a difference—both to us and to the loved ones we care for.
Planned Giving options provide income or potential savings now and in the future. We invite you to explore your options below:
Hospice Toronto recommends that you seek professional advice form your financial advisor to determine the method of giving that will be most tax-effective for you.
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A planned gift is any major gift made in a donor's lifetime or at death as part of their overall financial and/or estate planning. There are many ways to support Hospice Toronto through Planned Giving Options:
- Bequest: This is a notice of a gift that has been left in someone's will to a person or a charity.
- Insurance: This is the act of taking out a life insurance policy naming a charity as the beneficiary.
- RRSP / RRIF: This is an option whereby charities can be added as the beneficiary of the balance of an RRSP or RRIF. Please note that this money does NOT go through probate.
Please be sure to let us know if you have included Hospice Toronto in your will or intend to make a legacy gift by sending us a letter of your intentions, or by contacting our development team at 416.364.1666 ext. 242.
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A drug dealer caught driving in the City days before Christmas with 30 bags of cocaine and false ID documents has been jailed for more than two years.
Admir Palushi, 23, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to 32 months in prison at Inner London Crown Court after admitting possession of a class A drug with intent to supply.
The court heard how Palushi was stopped on Friday 16 December shortly after 8pm while driving a grey Audi A6 in the Aldgate area. They spotted he was balancing an iPhone on his leg and hiding another mobile phone under his lap and subsequently searched the car and Palushi under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
Officers discovered 30 bags of cocaine hidden in two socks and a large amount of cash concealed in the car. Despite originally claiming to be Greek, and showing officers a Greek driving license in the name of Andi Haroku, he soon admitted his nationality was actually Albanian.
He was promptly arrested for drug offences, as well as driving without insurance, thanks to insurance documents and a logbook found in the car which did not match his identity. Palushi answered no comment to all questions put to him in interview, while also telling officers that he "could not remember" where he lived.
Expert analysis of the ID documents handed to police later proved them to be fraudulent, while examination of the two phones found a total of 18 messages containing post codes and estimated times of arrival, a common approach for people buying and selling cocaine.
Along with his 32-month sentence Palushi was also handed a concurrent eight-month jail stint for holding false ID documents. He also received six penalty points for driving without insurance, while an order was made for the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs, with the car and cash also seized.
Detective Constable Vincent Baughan from the City's police force said: "I hope this sentence acts as a warning to anyone engaged in this sort of criminality that the City is a hostile environment for them – it's just not worth the risk.
"We have officers out on the streets to keep the Square Mile a safe place to live, work and visit. "If you're involved in this kind of offending, we will find you, and we'll do everything in our power to bring you before the courts."
Palushi is the second Albanian national to be convicted of drug dealing operations in the Square Mile in a matter of weeks after Elton Qosja was sentenced to three years and deportation just before Christmas. An accomplice of Qosja, again of Albanian heritage, was also placed in the custody of immigration services following his arrest.


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A Kenai Grand Jury on Oct. 17 indicted two Homer men who were previously charged with burglary and theft in a spree of home and vehicle break-ins in August.
Travis K. Catron, 25, was indicted on two counts of first-degree burglary and three counts of second-degree theft. Niko E. Mogar, 27, was indicted on three counts of first-degree burglary and two counts of second-degree theft. All the charges are felonies. The theft charges include theft of a firearm.
Homer Police officers arrested the two men on suspicion of a crime spree Aug. 21-27 involving stolen cars, stolen guns, East End Road burglaries, and numerous petty thefts from vehicles in downtown Homer and on the Homer Spit. As part of the indictment, Catron had charges dismissed of first-degree burglary, second-degree theft, second-degree criminal trespass, violating conditions of release, fourth-degree theft and third-degree theft. Mogar had charges of first-degree burglary, second-degree theft and third-degree theft dismissed by the prosecution. All of the previous felony charges were submitted to the grand jury and indictments returned. The new felony cases were transferred to Kenai Superior Court.
Kenai District Attorney Scot Leaders explained in an email that when cases are consolidated like that and indictments filed, the original court cases are dismissed.
"The conduct/charges are prosecuted in the surviving case," he wrote. "… My office understands and respects the high interest these cases have to the Homer community, and will continue to diligently do our best to prosecute the conduct in the furtherance of justice for all involved."
A trial for Catron has been set for the week of Nov. 26. No trial date has been set for Mogar, who was also found guilty on a charge of unlawful conduct in a jury trial held last week in Homer. Mogar is in custody at Wildwood Pretrial Facility in Kenai. Catron is in supervised custody.
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If you are a mother looking to establish a paternity claim for your child, it is important to act as soon after the birth of your child as possible. Paternity is critical in establishing child support payments that you may need to meet the living expenses of your child. If you think you may be the father of a child, you need to establish paternity in order to obtain parenting time (visitation) and decision-making authority. If you doubt that you are the father of a child born into your marriage, you may face substantial legal obstacles if you want to avoid supporting the child.
With fatherhood comes rights and obligations. Once established, paternity, also known as parentage under Illinois law, means that the father has the right to see the child and become meaningfully involved in the child's life. Regardless of whether the father chooses to exercise his parenting time, he is still obligated to support the child under Illinois law.
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Building Community in the time of COVID-19
Join us this Thursday for our second, and now weekly, ASMPNY virtual town hall!
Our last call was absolutely amazing – we got to hear from you, and building community and sharing support during this time, when we all need it most.We also created this crowdsourced resource list here that we invite you to share, use, and add to.
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This will not be a place to get legal questions answered – for that, please join ASMP Executive Director Tom Kennedy and ASMP General Counsel Tom Maddrey this Friday, March 20th, 2020 @ 3:00pm EST for the first in a series of National "Click Here to find the next national town hall". At our next National Town hall, Tom & Tom will answer your legal questions.
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One of the most important steps to follow when taking care of your duvet covers is to change your bedding often. Bedding should be changed at least once a week to reduce the risk of over wear. When you leave the bedding on the bed for too long, it begins to wear and fray, which means it will last a shorter time than you were probably hoping for. If necessary, set a reminder in your diary of when you put the bedding on the bed with a note to remove it a week later.
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Holography is the science of recording interference pattern of light in space specific to an object.
Hologram is the result of recording interference patterns of light for a specific object on a photo – sensitive plate. A laser light beam generated by a single laser is used to make the hologram; the beam is split into two – one half of the beam, is called the reference beam and this is shone directly onto the photo – sensitive recording plate.
The second half, known as the object beam is shone onto the object to be recorded. The light reflected from the object strikes the recording plate, causing an interference pattern with the reference beam and the interference pattern created is specific to the object being recorded.
The exposed plate is developed in a similar manner to that employed for photographic process. The hologram is replayed by illuminating the developed plate with a beam at the same angle as the reference beam. When viewing the hologram, one sees a three dimensional image of the recorded object.
Moving holograms can also be made with specially filmed motion pictures of 3 to 10 second lengths that can be used to create animated holographic images. This process is known as stereogram and the resultant image can ideally be viewed under point source light.


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U.S. President Joe Biden made a plea for unity, hitting the key theme of his inaugural address early in his speech, asking people to "start afresh" and not let politics be a "raging fire" that causes division.
"My whole soul is in this – bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation and I ask every American to join me in this cause," Biden said in his speech.
"Stop the shouting and lower the temperature.
"For without unity, there is no peace, no progress. Only exhausting outrage," Biden said.
"In the work ahead of us we are going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter," he added.
"I promise you this, as the Bible says: 'Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.'
"We will get through this together, together," Biden said, quoting a verse from the Book of Psalms.
He insisted the country needs to deal with real facts and not manipulated truths.
Biden denounced those who would use lies to gain power, as he vowed to be a president for all citizens, with governance based on facts and truth.
"There are truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit.
"We can still disagree," Biden said, noting: "That's democracy."
Biden concluded his inaugural address by focusing on a message of unity, empathy, democracy and overcoming challenges.
"Together, we shall write an American story of hope, not fear; of unity, not division; of light, not darkness.
"A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness," he said.
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- Georgia Southern lecture series is "Breaking Gendered Boundaries"
- Author discusses the effects of religion based homophobia
- Eagles break 28-year drought in Atlanta with a win over State
- Georgia Southern drops four games at Auburn Invitational, holds their own against top competitors
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