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Every woman has a sexy inner Sophia that shows her the way back to her own hidden wholeness and freedom.
Body of Bliss is a transformational training and small-group coaching program for women who feel a connection to the holy spirit and the divine feminine and want to experience the wholeness and bliss their body is made for.
From January until March we will meet in our virtual retreat space twice a week for in-depth mentorship, coaching and guided practices.
Utilizing the age-old practices of the Jade Egg for sexual healing and greater vitality, sensuality, and connection, as well as effective breath work practices to help you uncover unconscious blocks, and loving guidance and mentorship by Morgan to help you bring compassionate light to dark places within, you will learn how to belong to yourself as a woman, body and soul.
Look forward to...
You will learn...
The structure of the program will be high-touch. We will meet every week for breath work sessions to take you deeper into your body, and coaching sessions to work through any obstacles.
This isn't a course. This is transformational cohort where you will be intimately lead into how to become embodied and whole as a woman.
If being able to trust yourself and feel at home in your body and soul is what you want, and you are someone who loves proven tools and thrives when you are compassionately encouraged and highly supported, Body of Bliss may be just what you have been praying for.
Enroll by Dec. 1st and receive $2,144 in bonuses (scroll down to see them all)! Plus $300 saving off the full program price. Body of Bliss becomes $1297 after Dec. 1
And I want you to know there is no reason why you can't have all these things. If I have found out how, you can too.
The answer is already with you, as you:
Religion and the new age movement has encouraged a kind "spiritual bi-passing" that focuses on denying our bodies and "opening our hearts." This leads to a stuffing of emotion and a congestion of energy that can cause emotional and sensual numbness. And these are just some of the consequences:
Instead of being given the knowledge and tools to intimately connect with our own body, we were conditioned from the beginning to give all our good stuff away, before we've fully owned it and enjoyed it ourselves.
Instead of being taught how to keep passion and desire alive after the honeymoon is over and our lifestyle changes (ahem, kids!) we were left to silently drift apart and fall out of love.
Instead of being told stories about the sacred feminine and how to connect to the soft, gentle divine within our own female bodies, we heard only only male pronouns and it left us with a sense that our experience was of less value than a man's.
In fact, they told us just the opposite. No wonder why it feels so hard to even know what it means to feel sexy on our own terms.
It's the key to our confidence and emotional well-being.
It's the key to our deepest levels of connection and intimacy in relationship.
It's the key to feeling alive and fulfilled as women.
Take a moment to slow down your breath and check-in with your body...
Is this resonating with you?
Your own inner wisdom isn't completely silent and deep in your bones you may already feel it:
It's the end of the rabbit trail of self-help.
It's true transformation.
It's the holy grail of freedom and life to the full.
It's the secret code to true intimacy in your sacred relationship and feeling divinity in all things.
Because our sexuality is at the core of who we are. We are creative beings.
How safe and free we feel in our own bodies at this deep level affects everything-- from how we give and receive love, to how we express ourselves and honor our gifts; from how we embody our values and our faith and how worthy we feel to create the kind of life that inspires us.
Let me tell you how I know...
I grew up believing everyone found their own love story and lived happily ever after.
In my heart, I was always a hopeless romantic.
But in my body, I was often shut-down and afraid.
Out in the world I felt unsafe: men with their wanting eyes; women with their judgement.
I got the message that the best thing I could be as a woman was pretty and nice.
Pretty for the boys, because my value was dependent on my looks...
And nice for the girls, because my worth was dependent on being liked.
Striving to fit in to those perfect little boxes all the time hurt.
I felt empty, lost, and so disconnected from who I really was.
At 15 I was raped and never grieved it with anyone. I believed it was my fault.
The boys that raped me were the same boys that brought me to their Youth Group. I remember feeling like such a fool.
I didn't grow up in the church and even though my heart longed to belong to God, this experience made it clear that I was not worthy.
All I felt was shame for having a woman's body.
I buried that shame deep and life went on, but my heart was broken and for the next 15 years I searched everywhere to find the part of me that was lost.
I slept around carelessly, because it was easier to betray my own body than to stand up for myself.
I self-sabotaged at every turn.
I didn't know why I acted the way I did or why I felt so lost and unworthy of everything-- even a relationship with God.
Then I became a mother and I committed to becoming a stronger, healthier version of myself for my son, because it was just going to be me raising him.
Motherhood was the beginning of my redemption because it restored a sense of sacredness and goodness to my body.
My flesh wasn't all shame, it was also life! It gave life to a little boy!
I believed that our redemption story would rescue me from my past and save me from that haunting sense of unworthiness.
But it only took me so far.
When I first found my faith through my husband, I thru myself into church and becoming a "Godly Woman."
My relationship with Jesus felt so good, but I never could get on board with all of the religious messaging I began to hear around sex, sexuality and the roles of a woman.
I still carried the memory of what happened to me at 15 and how I was the one who wore the Scarlet Letter, because they were "good Christians" and I was just a girl who wanted attention.
Despite trying everything that church-culture, pop-culture, and self-help gave me as answers, I still carried so much shame inside and it was starting to affect everything, including my marriage.
So I decided to ask a very simple question:
What does it take to be free from shame?
Free from fear?
Free from relentless self-doubt and the pain of never feeling like who I am and what I do is enough?
One day I thought I heard an answer from high above and deep within:
Those four words were all I got, but they were enough to catapult me on a new embodied approach to my own healing that would guide me toward wholeness and true freedom.
What I didn't know then but know now after years of study, application, and training in the field of mind-body-spirit integration, is this:
Our body holds our secrets and waits for us to return to find what we lost.
Through ancient breathwork techniques and modern embodiment practices, combined with and a new understanding of how to nourish myself with compassion and pleasure, I was able to recover my hidden wholeness and develop real self-love and freedom.
It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen:
The dark shame I lived with all my life was alchemized into joyful light.
4 things became crystal clear:
All this wisdom had always been within me, I just didn't know how to access it before because no one taught me how.
Through simple breath work, sensual healing movements, and powerful 5-sense activation and Jade Egg practices, I met my own inner Sophia, and the more I embodied her, the freer I became.
a 9-week cohort of transformational training and group coaching in the Art & Power of Belonging to Yourself as a Woman
We will meet 2x per week for Breathwork and Coaching. All trainings will be live and interactive.
The heart of the program will be the Jade Egg, a powerful ancient tool for feminine health, wellness, and optimal well-being.
You will learn how to safely and effectively use the Jade Egg for sexual healing, enhanced pleasure and sensuality, greater vitality and connection.
To take you to the places where healing and integration become more accessible to us, every week I will guide you in live breathwork practices to help you learn how to drop into the body and understand it's language and wisdom.
Every week we will meet live as a small-group. The odd weeks you will receive new teaching and training. The even weeks you will be coached through any and every obstacle you face along the way.
Once upon a time there was courtesans. And the courtesans were trained in the arts of being a woman by a woman who could offer education, guidance, encouragement, and support because of her own intimate experience with those same arts.
In the spirit of that tradition, Body of Bliss offers you personal transformation in the sacred space of small cohort where you will be known and empowered to become the Queen of Wholeness in your own life.
You will Master Your Mind, Body & Emotions
If you are ready to learn how to experience wholeness and bliss in your own body I invite you to enroll now.
The Jade Egg for one!
The Jade Egg was once a secret of Chinese royalty in antiquity—queens and concubines used them to stay vibrant, radiant, youthful and beautiful.
I've personally used the Jade Egg for intentional healing of stored trauma; to awaken greater pleasure and connection to my body; to feel more empowered and sexy.
I've found it to be way more effective and enjoyable than kegals to help restore my pelvic floor back to strength and good health after baby (both born sunny side up!)
It's okay if you are nervous about the Jade Egg and how to use it safely. I'll teach you everything you need to know step-by-step.
And if the Jade Egg isn't for you, you can still get tremendous benefit out of the practices and the Body of Bliss program because:
Body of Bliss gives you access to the education, practices, mentorship generally only available to my 1-on-1 clients.
It's not an online course. You won't be left to fend for yourself week after week as you attempt to stay accountable to the material.
You will be held and seen the whole way.
And unlike traditional counseling or therapy, Body of Bliss takes you deep into your body where your unconscious and subconscious mind store all your memory, emotion, limiting beliefs and patterns of behavior.
Working with the deepest layers of the primal brain we are able to get to the root of the issues quicker and bring you results faster than cognitive approaches alone.
Through ancient practices of transmission and compassionate presence, cutting-edge trauma healing techniques, and transformational neuroscience principles, the old residue of fear, guilt, and shame gets integrated into love.
In all the work I do, from the Sophia Embodied 1-on-1 program to the Body of Bliss Cohort, my approach treats healing as a love-story, not a battle.
The process gentle, loving, soft, deep and everlasting.
We will meet twice a week for dedicated breath work/sensual movement practices and small group training on the Jade Egg and coaching on the four womanly arts of Body of Bliss.
January 13 Celebration Circle & Embodiment Workshop
January 15-28 The Womanly Art of Permission (Embodying Self-Acceptance and Love)
January 29-February 11 The Womanly Art of Presence (Embodying Tenderness & Healing)
February 12- February 25 The Womanly Art of Pleasure (Embodying Passion & Delight)
February 26- March 9 The Womanly Art of Power (Embodying Freedom & Sacred Calling)
March 10 Closing Circle & Embodied Blessing Workshop
Self-acceptance and love is the foundation of all healing. This inner journey doesn't have to feel like a battle anymore. With the right tools, healing can become a romance.
Limiting beliefs are keeping you from experiencing wholeness. Most of these beliefs live in the unconscious mind and create blocks to freedom. Good news: We can clear these!
Your empowered presence is needed in your life. It's time to activate your true-self confidence for the good of the world (and happiness in your own life). Your sacred destiny is waiting for you to embody everything you are as a woman.
Delight and pleasure is the most ancient feminine spiritual practice and it's an art that most women have lost touch with. To bring bliss back to the body is to bring joy back to the soul. Understanding the many ways to experience pleasure and how delight and pleasure can be used to nourish ourselves and those we love is core to fully embodying yourself as a woman.
Body of Bliss is hands on training in the Art and Power of Belonging to Yourself as a Woman.
I am amazed at the power I now have to love and care for myself, and love my partner better, from my own wholeness. This is priceless.
Barbara G.
Morgan has equipped me with the tools I need to experience peace at any moment, despite my circumstances, and also to find the wisdom I desperately have been searching for to heal from the wounds I have been carrying around with me for over half of my lifetime.
She taught me how to drop into my body and my own deep wisdom through the breath and find answers when I am feeling stuck or there is conflict in my relationship. This is something I will practice my whole life long!
I am amazed at the power I now have to love and care for myself and then love my partner better, from my own wholeness. This is priceless.
I have let go of the belief that my partner needs to change or heal in the way I imagined he did in order for me to feel whole, vibrant and alive.
-Barbara G.
...just what I needed to begin finding and loving my true self and to enter into a life of freedom.
Alisha H.
Working with Morgan kick started my healing journey. I definitely grew up in a culture of shame. It wasn't intentionally shaming, but a lot of things were never talked about which created shame through silence. I feel like I put shame on myself in a lot of ways because I didn't know better.
Morgan provided a safe, loving environment for me to begin connecting with myself and healing old wounds and past shame, which gave me the freedom to pursue the kinds of sex and intimacy I wanted.
The practices she taught me and the guiding she gave me was just what I needed to begin finding and loving my true self and to enter into a life of freedom.
-Alisha H.
I used to believe that my body is broken, doomed to never enjoy sex. I thought it would always be painful. So not true!
Kristina G.
I've used to believe that my body is broken, doomed to not enjoy sex. I thought it would always be painful. So not true! I know now that my desires are indeed okay and wonderful, and that I can live healthily and happily, enjoying sex and intimacy with my husband (and self pleasure!!) I recommend one-on-one coaching with Morgan to anyone who needs a guide for navigating the field of healthy sexuality. She is so full of understanding and love and the space she holds for all the tricky sticky stuff is so healing.
-Kristina G.
9 weeks of high-touch training and small group coaching is an investment of time and resources.
Most women don't ever make this level of investment in themselves, even when they acknowledge that shame is shutting them down in the bedroom, and their lack of self-love is affecting the quality of their life.
So what's going to change?
If you only did coaching for yourself, it would be more than worth it.
And if you are married and your relationship is lacking the connection and intimacy it once had, the coaching you do on your own is a gift to both of you.
A better question is...
What will it cost you if you don't invest?
Add up how much you spend on fast fashion, Target trips for toilet paper that turn into mini-shopping sprees, and eating out and you may be shocked at how much money you are spending on things that aren't changing anything deep down.
Investing in inner-work can feel scary because we are so conditioned for quick fixes. We struggle to believe things can actually be different for us so we keep choosing the quick hits as temporary relief from our pain.
But we know where that gets us...
So if the "normal" ways of doing things aren't working for you anymore, and you're ready for a better solution, coaching may be the best investment you make all year.
I fought feeling like a didn't deserve the investment in myself. However, I am so glad I did. Morgan is absolutely authentic and her passion is contagious. She is a gifted teacher, sincere in her words and I would gladly make the investment al over again.
Kate P.
I knew something needed to change, but I wasn't completely sure how to begin...I began realizing how many places in my heart (& body) I had neglected. I avoided anything sensual and allowed past hurts to become so deeply buried I had begun to accept them as simply a part of who I would always be.
I fought feeling like I didn't deserve the investment in myself. However, I'm so glad I did. Morgan is absolutely authentic and her passion is contagious. She is a gifted teacher, sincere in her words and I would gladly make the investment all over again
My session with Morgan allowed me to experience practices that cultivated the delight and feminine wholeness I so deeply craved. Morgan created a beautiful, nurturing environment for me to feel supported, loved, and free. I can't wait for you to experience these amazing truths with her!
-Kate P.
(Because I want to make this a NO BRAINER for you to enroll I'm packing it full of crazy big value to you. We'll even begin before the official program starts to give you a jump start on the New Year and making 2018 your year of wholeness!
We will meet via live video for never-before shared teachings. Each coaching call will be 60- 90 min to offer time for learning and interactive processing with Morgan.
Coaching Call #1: The 12 Fundamentals of Love (Nov 25)
Coaching Call #2: Divine Feminine & Masculine in Sacred Relationships (Dec 16)
Coaching Call #3: Worthiness & Wealth Consciousness (Dec 30)
Coaching Call #4: How Lasting Transformation Works (Jan 6)
The Romance & Adventure Sutras take a holistic approach to sexual well-being. Taught by both Ron and Morgan Cecil, each module offers male and female perspectives for richer discussion and deeper understanding.
Through each module you will be guided via audio lessons, video exercises and downloadable and printable PDF workbooks for journal prompts and personal processing. Go at your own pace. Spend a week, a month or a year on each module. Whatever serves you best! As part of the Sophia Embodied one-on-one coaching program you get access!
The Art of Paying Attention (+Foreplay)
The Art of Being Known (+Turn Ons)
The Art of Coming Home (+Intimate Touch)
The Art of Fighting the Good Fight (+ Shagging)
The Art of Daring and Dreaming (+ Oral Sex)
The Art of Ultimate Fulfillment (+Orgasms)
Plus Bonus Video: Yoga for Authentic Sensuality
Deepen your inner feminine wisdom with 12+ hours of Sophia Session teachings.
Loving Yourself Into Wholeness
Owning Your S.H.E. (Sexy Holy Energy) Power
3 Pillars of Self-Care
Understanding the Divine Feminine
Becoming the Best Steward of Your Emotional Destiny
5 Pillars of Sexy Wholeness
Befriending Your Beautiful Mind & Brilliant Body
Love & Respect for Your Lady Parts
The Art of the Sexy Selfie
+ More
Get access to the virtual retreat happening Dec 30th and be guided through a sensual intention setting process that is both nourishing and inspiring. You'll leave with a map of your deepest intentions to guide you into the best year yet.
Every woman needs someone who believes in her...
...someone who will be there without fail to offer her professional accountability and loving support.
Let me do this for you so you can finally achieve what you deeply desire, and remember who you already are.
I'm here to deliver you results and lasting transformation.
If that's not what you are getting from our work together, I want you to be able to get it somewhere else. So, if having shown up for yourself 100% percent, as I promise to show up for you, and using the tools and at-home practices I give you to help you, you don't feel any different, I will give you 100% of your investment back.
I'm finally embodying the truth I have always know.
April H.
Something profoundly resonated in my heart when I stumbled across Morgan and her work. It felt felt like a breathe of fresh air just as I was about to dive into a season of profound change and upheaval in my life. I have always had an unwavering faith, and a ton of head knowledge, but have struggled with a real disconnect between my head and my heart. I've known for a long time that shame and fear were hurting me, despite believing and saying all the "right" things. I just started my coaching adventure with Morgan after attending one of her Sophia Retreats. Doing the hard and vulnerable work through one-on-one coaching is helping me physically, mentally, and spiritually to finally shift shame and fear from my soul and embody the truth I have always known. - April
I used to think I wasn't "allowed" to wear a two piece...I am the wife of a pastor and I am learning to embrace my sexuality, to own my needs and wants, to enjoy the playfulness and intimacy I have avoided
Carly B.
I used to think I wasn't "allowed" to wear a two piece, stomach baring swimsuit because I hadn't worked out enough to "earn" the right. I used to think my soft and squishy places, laden with stretch marks, veins and other skin "imperfections" should be covered up. I used to think my body was weak and girl-ish. Through working with Morgan one-one-one (I could go on and on about what an angel Morgan is, how she listens with grace and challenges with love and joy), I am embracing new ways of thinking, new patterns of behavior. I am treating myself with tenderness, compassion, awe and wonder.
My body is soft AND strong. I have carried four babies in my belly, and three additional loves in my arms as their foster Mama. My marks and scars show where I've been, my wrinkles show years of laughter and joy. My body is feminine, wonderful and mature. I am the wife of a pastor and I am learning to embrace my sexuality, to own my needs and wants, to enjoy the playfulness and intimacy I have avoided. I am learning to accept the dark and hurtful places of my past, understanding they have shaped me profoundly, YET I am bravely swinging wide the door of my soul to let light and love saturate.
If Morgan announces openings for one-on-one coaching with her again, JUMP on it.
-Carly B.
Enroll before December 1st and receive $2,144 in bonuses!
As an Integrated Sex, Love and Relationship coach I am trained to work with mind, body and energy in a tri-part system that makes this process of developing real self-love and total freedom holistic and effective for deep and lasting transformation.
Unlike most counselors and therapist, many of whom haven't ever done this level of transformative work around their own sexuality and who carry (without realizing it) their own judgements and shame, I've personally gone through every single process I'll be sharing with you.
My personal dedication to this work is also my dedication to you.
As your coach, I can be completely transparent with you and share candidly and vulnerably from my own story about how to overcome any challenges and obstacles you may face along the way to achieving your goal.
I am for you.
I wholeheartedly believe this because I've experienced it as a living reality in myself and in the women I've partnered with in 1-on-1 coaching.
If you are done with the old beliefs that are keeping you stuck in the same old patterns, and you are ready to embody real self love for total freedom, I invite you to join us in Body of Bliss.


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Qur'an Program Auditor
A 3.5 year diploma program for students who wish to learn the translation and commentary of the entire Qur'an. The course is based on authentic hadith, classical sources of scholarly tafsir, and the lives and teachings of the virtuous believers who were the embodiment of the Qur'an. The emphasis is on understanding the depths of Qur'anic wisdom and to highlight spiritual insights and practical advice from the meanings of the Qur'an with the purpose of increasing our heartfelt connection with Allah.
The Auditor option is designed for students who wish to learn the translation and commentary of the entire Qur'an but do not want to attempt any assessments or exams due to the lack of time required or due to any other reason. Students will hence be able to benefit from the classes but will not receive any certificate of completion at the end of the course.
Spring Term Begins: Jan. 9 2018
Spring Term Ends: TBA
Qur'an Class: Mondays & Wednesdays
Time: 12-1:30 PM New York | 7-8:30 PM Johannesburg | 5-6:30 PM London | 10-11:30 PM Islamabad
End of term assessments: No
Time Commitment: 3 hours/week Qur'an class.
Cost: Free
*Recordings will be available for those who can't join live session.
Classes are conducted via an online learning tool called WizIQ. Some of the features of our virtual classroom include:
- Live Audio Streaming
- Content sharing via the White Board
- Chat Box for live interaction with the Instructor
- Availability of class Recordings
Learning Management System:
Our classes also feature an interactive Learning Management System. Some of the features of the LMS include:
- Discussion Forums for interacting with class mates and Teaching Assistants
- Announcement Board
- Assignment Submission
- Downloading Class Presentations and Slides
- Online Quizzes and Exams
- Online Calender
- Instant Messages
- Student Grade Cards
Ans: All courses offered by Zaynab Academy Online are free of charge.
Ans: 3 hours/week Qur'an class.
Ans: Recordings are available for those students who miss classes for genuine reasons or just to listen to any class again.
Ans: You can contact ZAO by emailing at email@example.com. They might send you back the Course Co-ordinator's email or forward your query to her.
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Commentary: Abortion is an individual's choice
Hours of emotional testimony before a House committee in Austin last week showed, to no one's surprise, that the debate over abortion in Texas has lost none of its intensity in the 38 years since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
If anything, it has become harder to decide which side is right in the many branches of argument that the debate has taken over the years. Careful thought and reflection help, but it never gets easy.
The Legislature is considering whether a doctor who is about to do an abortion should first be required to perform a sonogram on the pregnant woman and whether she must listen to the doctor's description of her embryo or fetus, including its measurements and whether it has a heartbeat, arms, legs or internal organs.
Proponents say the purpose is to give the woman information to help her decide whether to have the abortion or carry the baby to term. Others say lawmakers are setting up roadblocks designed to make life harder for abortion providers and women who, in most cases, have already chosen what they feel is right for them.
Although the Supreme Court has ruled on other abortion cases in the years since Roe v. Wade, none have changed its central tenet. The court refined and restated that central finding in a 1992 case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey: "These matters, involving the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime, choices central to personal dignity and autonomy, are central to the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State."
It's an individual's choice. Still, the Casey decision placed great emphasis on a counterpoint: "To promote the State's profound interest in potential life, throughout pregnancy the State may take measures to ensure that the woman's choice is informed, and measures designed to advance this interest will not be invalidated as long as their purpose is to persuade the woman to choose childbirth over abortion."
To read the complete editorial, visit www.star-telegram.com.


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Political promotions from Hollywood
This political season has been a rough ride. From debates filled with name calling and finger pointing to a heavy dose of negative advertisements, the race for president of the U.S. has definitely been unique.
One aspect to the campaign season has been the public opinion of the candidates. Although this is nothing new, the difference is the importance and sheer volume of celebrity endorsements for each side. Celebrities are well-known and often utilize their heightened presence to promote charities, causes and political candidates.
Here are a few notable cases of the latter.
For Hillary Clinton, many A-list celebrities are voicing their support, citing her femininity and support of women's rights as a main reason. Another is her history and experience. Jamie Lee Curtis, from "Freaky Friday" and other major films, said, "Hillary Clinton is the merit-based candidate in this election."
"She's paid her dues," Robert DeNiro told The Daily Beast during an interview. "She has earned the right to be president and the head of the country at this point."
Pop culture is even on board. International pop star Katy Perry commented, "I do believe this woman believes in unconditional love. She sees equally, all parts."
Probably taking large precedent over these promotions is the presidential endorsement. President Barack Obama and the First Lady have both vocalized their support of Hillary. At the Democratic National Convention in July, President Obama sang high praises of the presidential candidate. "Even in the midst of crisis, she listens to people. And she keeps her cool," he said. "And no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits. That is the Hillary I know."
Donald Trump, despite the swirling negativity he's currently entrenched in, has staunch supporters. Kirstie Alley, spokeswoman for Jenny Craig, tweeted, "HELLO BOYS! this is my formal endorsement of @realDonaldTrump & I'm a woman!"
It's refreshing to know that supporters aren't blind to their candidates' faults. Athlete and TV personality, Curt Schiling said, "I do want Mr. Trump to stop the name calling, I do want him to start being much more specific. But … I love that he gets it."
Many Trump endorsers appreciate Trump's honesty. In a public appearance, Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor, announced to a crowd, "He is from the private sector, not a politician, can I get a Hallelujah?"
Wayne Newton, famous singer and entertainer from Las Vegas, gave Trump a shout-out on a TV show last year. "Number one: he tells the truth," he said. "Number two: he's been where most of these guys want to be […] most of all, most important for Mr. Trump is: he tells it like it is."
With elections just around the corner, the world will lose its primary source of entertainment from the last few months. But this presidential election has changed the nature of campaign season and the norm for promotion and endorsements, especially regarding celebrities. The results of that will last long beyond Nov. 8.
Sources: Time Magazine, AM New York, Rolling Stone, L.A. Times.
Katie Morrison is a senior studying business administration


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This face painting party is great when there are other activities going on at a party or where there are adults available to supervise the kids, as a lot of the activities are carried out 'one-on-one.'
Face Painting
Add a touch of fun to your day as we turn the kids into a range of cool characters AND animals!
Balloon Modelling
A sword, a hat, a mouse…let our balloon modeller make all kinds of super designs for the kids!
Super transfer tattoos. All child-friendly and CE approved.
Art Make 'n' Do
- Bookmarkers and Bedroom Signs:The children personalise and take home their very own bookmarker or personalized bedroom sign, by choosing and creating from a selection of multi-coloured stick-on foam shapes, characters & letters!
- Beaded Wristbands/Necklaces:The girls and boys will love making their very own beaded wristbands and necklaces. From funky designs, to their football or rugby team colours…with hundreds of beads to choose from, there's something for everyone!


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Question 8-8 in Lee's Introduction to smooth manifolds asks us to show that if $M \subset N$ is an embedded submanifold then it is closed iff the inclusion map is proper. Equivalently, a smooth embedding $g:M \to N$ is proper iff its image is closed.
Do we really need embedding for this -or even the smoothness? It seems to me, that the only relevant hypothesis is that the topologies on $M,N$ are metrizable, and that $g$ is a homeomorphism onto its image.
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Please rate this app! Please rate this app! Please rate this app!
If you use third party iOS apps, i'm quite sure you will have seen something like this dialog. It was probably pretty annoying.
It sensible to wonder why developers would put such a user hostile interruption into an app, could it be that important for them to have their ego stroked by people telling them how wonderful their design and programming is?
Lets look at some data, here is what happened to RSSRadio downloads after the 4.0.1 release and the app rating was reset to zero:
Downloads dropped dramatically.
Now thats not ideal from a revenue point of view, but its actually a lot worse if it continues for any length of time. The App Store® uses downloads and ratings not only to place apps in top lists but also to place apps in search results, a prolonged period of low downloads will cause the app to drop in search results which will cause downloads to drop further which will... well, you get the idea...
Not having that magic 5 ratings which get your stars to appear could easily turn a viable app into a not viable one. Not a great incentive for developers to release a new version is it?
So, when you rate or review an app, you doing so will help keep an app you use (and maybe rely on) developed and maintained on the App Store® and it only costs you 20 seconds of your day. Thats not such a bad deal.


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Neck Lift Photos
*Disclaimer: Results are not guaranteed and may vary from person to person.
Neck Lift
A neck lift can take a series of steps to achieve your desired look. At San Francisco Plastic Surgery and Laser Center, Dr. Rajacopal will go over exactly what you would like to achieve.
Are you desiring to improve the contour of the neck and jaw line (or jowls)?
We have several procedures that can help. If the neck is an area that your body tends to store fat, then microsuction of the neck may be recommended. If the skin and muscle in the neck and jaw line have become weak over time, then a neck lift may be recommended.
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The neck lift is performed to significantly reduce the appearance of sagging skin under the jaw. The procedure may take from one to one and a half hours.
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Our Vision
Impact every city, neighborhood & person in the South Puget Sound with the Gospel.
Our Mission
Go make disciples.
Our Values
What We Believe
The gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ and that his kingdom has come to earth. The message of the gospel declares that Jesus, who is God, came in fulfillment of the scriptures to be the King and Savior of the world.
Jesus lived a sinless life, died a substitutionary death on the cross for our sins, and rose from the grave on the third day, revealing the power of God and conquering Satan, sin, and death. It is through Jesus' life, death, and resurrection that we are forgiven of our sins, given salvation, reconciled to God, and rewarded with eternal life.
We believe all people have value, dignity, significance, and purpose. We want to help you discover the person God has called and created you to be in Christ Jesus.
We don't expect you to be perfect because we are not perfect. So, no matter who you are, who you were, or where you've been, we invite you to take the next step and join us for one of our gatherings.
The church is not a building or an event; it's a people who are loving, learning, and growing together in grace and truth. As a family, we gather in two different settings: big and small.
Our larger gatherings happen on Sundays, while our small gatherings, called Discipleship Groups, happen throughout the week at various times and locations around the South Sound.
Our Leaders
Bubba Jennings
Lead Pastor
Bubba serves our church family as our lead and preaching pastor, opening the Bible with us each week and preaching the Gospel. His heart is to see people meet Jesus and be built up to build the Kingdom of God.
Bubba, an Oklahoma native, moved out to the Puget Sound region in 2001 soon after marrying his wife, Shelly. They began serving in ministry in 2002. They live in the west end of Tacoma with their two boys. Bubba has a BA in Religion, Masters of Missional Leadership from the Resurgence Training Center and a Masters in Leadership from Faith Seminary.
Joel Brown
Associate Pastor
Joel serves Resurrection Church as our associate pastor. Joel has a heart to see people worship and glorify God everyday.
Born in Jerusalem to missionary parents, Joel is a northwest transplant by way of California. He moved to Seattle to pursue music professionally, but along the way became a Christian and after touring the club circuit, began to serve the church with his gifts. He and his wife Emily live in North Tacoma with their twin daughters and son.
Daniel Bingham
Shepherding Pastor
Daniel serves our church family as a shepherding pastor, counseling members of our church family and teaching classes throughout the year. He serves our church family as a volunteer pastor, while working as a software engineer. Daniel has a heart to see people grow deeper in their faith through prayer and studying the Word.
Daniel and his wife, Mary met on a church trip while going to College in Texas. They married in 2005 and moved to the Northwest in 2010. They have three young boys and live in the West Tacoma area.
Tim Chavira
Small Groups Pastor
Tim oversees our Discipleship Groups ministry. He is focused on training up and equipping leaders and the body to be disciples who make disciples. His heart is to see our church be a people that incarnate the love of Jesus to one another and others.
Tim grew up in the Northwest. He previously was in the visual communications industry for 18 years before serving our church full-time. He and his wife Amanda have been married for fourteen years. They have three young boys and live in South Tacoma.
Lewis Messex
Shepherding Pastor
Lewis serves as a teaching pastor for different equipping classes for Resurrection Church. Lewis is passionate about seeing people grow as disciples of Jesus both in community and in their knowledge of the Bible. Lewis generously serves our church family as a volunteer pastor while also working for Boeing.
Lewis and his wife Geneva live in the Federal Way area. He and his wife have six children and three grandchildren.
Jim VanVliet
Executive Pastor
Jim serves the church as our executive pastor. Jim is passionate about seeing young families and singles build foundations for legacy that honors God in their lives.
Jim grew up in the Chicago area. After decades of working in marketing and owning his own businesses, he and his wife Kathy made a leap to the Northwest to be apart of the ministry of Resurrection Church. Jim and Kathy live in the North Tacoma area and have two adult sons.
Dmitriy Spatarel
Worship & Production
Dmitriy leads our band and production teams. He's passionate about communicating God's truth through the songs that we sing in our corporate gatherings. He hopes that through singing the truth about who God is and what He's done for us we would grow in our knowledge of and affection for Him. Dmitriy immigrated to the United States at the age of 4. His family of 10 moved to the state of Washington where he has remained as a resident. Music became an integral part of Dmitriy's conversion to the Christian faith later in his teenage years.
Currently, Dmitriy resides in the city of Kent with his beautiful wife, Mary, and their three boys - Jonathan, Judah, and James.
Janelle Dutcher
R Kids
Janelle leads our Kid's Ministry, R Kids. She leads the teachers and volunteers that serve our families by teaching the kids of Resurrection Church all about Jesus and the Gospel. Janelle loves the kids and families at our church and has a heart to see them meet and grow closer to Jesus.
Janelle and her husband Chad grew up in California and are high school sweethearts. They married in 2010 and moved to the northwest where Chad served in the military.
Nick Francis
Nick serves as our director of discipleship. His primary role has him focused on developing and coordinating a pathway that encourages growth to spiritual maturity and equipping for Christians to do the work of Jesus in the South Puget Sound.
Cameron Cowles
Media & Communication
Cameron supports Sunday services and ministries with media, communication and creative projects. Born in Tacoma, Cameron grew up in the South Puget Sound, studying Communication at Pacific Lutheran University. He and his wife, Katie live in the Stadium District of Tacoma with their toddler son.
Barry Gorsuch
Barry leads our Student ministry, investing in students that are in middle and senior high school. His hope is to see the next generation of Resurrection Church become disciples and join the life that God is calling them to. He grew up all around Washington state before moving to the Tacoma area. Barry graduated from Cedarville University with a degree in Student Ministries and is pursuing a graduate degree.
Drew Dawson
Operations Director
Jabin Cameron
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HANGOUT WITH LEXI NOVITSKE – PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT OFFICER, SINGULARITY INVESTMENTS – JUNE 7 | 3.00PM – at bit.ly/biztorials
According to their website, Singularity Investments believe that Africa holds immense untapped potential being a continent with substantially underutilised natural resources and a large population with expanding investments in infrastructure and technology.
Singularity's investments in Africa focuses on leveraging its current geographic presence and position as market leader its portfolio companies.
Lexi joined Singularity in 2014 and is responsible for managing investments in the firm's African portfolio. Prior to joining Singularity, Lexi worked for Verod Capital Management, a Nigerian based private equity firm. Lexi has also spent her career developing an expertise in financial services through her time at York's Sandler O'Neill Asset Management.
Lexi was at #StartupSouth and talked about Singularity's Investments. The team at Biztorials think we could deepen that conversation to really xray and understand further the structure of their deals. Hangout with us later today, June 7, 2016 by 3PM. Go here bit.ly/biztorials to set your reminders.


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When Zomato arranges for a Masterclass on Cocktail mixology on International Women's Day, and you have Chef Sambit Banik sharing some of his exclusive tips and tricks, you just know you are in there for some real good stuff! The event was impeccably arranged by Zomato, with Samridhi Singhvi being her ever gracious self, as we gathered up at SpiceKraft on the evening of 8th March.
The show started off with Chef Sambit churning up the most perfect glass of Mulled wine. It was sheer bliss as we sipped into our glasses of warm wine and watch the Chef cruise through the Classic Cosmopolitan, Apple Wood Smoked Guava Mary and the Utterly Butterly Jameson (a dessert cocktail conceptualized by the Chef himself). The audience was at awe as the Chef mixed, churned, shaked and even smoked up one cocktail after another. The session became all the more fun and interactive as fellow foodies shared their "drunken secrets" and some volunteered to shake that shaker!
All this while, we had mouth-watering plates of nibbles accompanying each round of cocktail. A personal favourite was the Kele ke phool ke Croque Monsiuer and the Lebanese Dajaj Chermoula.
As this high-spirited evening came to an end, we were all swooning (quite literally)! There could not have been a better way to celebrate ourselves on the eve of Women's Day. Hic!
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Shirley Ann (Kok) Bishop
|Visitation: Wednesday, October 3 at Gun Lake Community Church from 5 - 8 pm and Thursday, October 4 from 10 - 11 am followed by the service at 11 am
Service: 11 am Thursday, October 4 at Gun Lake Community Church, 12200 West M 179 Hwy, Wayland, MI 49348
Cemetery: Robbins
Memorials: Gun Lake Community Church
Shirley Ann (Kok) Bishop, age 74, of Gun Lake, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, September 25, 2018, surrounded by her family and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dale; sisters, Lucille Swaagman and Glenda Kok; and brother, Ron Kok. Shirley will be lovingly remembered by her children, Darrin (Amy) Bishop, Darcy (Jimmy) Van Dyke, Jennifer (Ryan) Hulst; seven grandchildren, Hayley (Mark) Davidson, Logan, Rease Bishop, Colton, Tanner Van Dyke, Kayd, Oakleigh Hulst; great granddaughter, Piper Quinn Davidson; brothers, Sam (Carol) Kok, Julius (Arlette) Kok; sister-in-law, Harlene Driesenga, and her nieces, nephews, and friends. As she requested, cremation has taken place. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, October 3, at Gun Lake Community Church, 12200 West M 179 Hwy, Wayland, from 5 - 8 pm and Thursday, October 4, from 10 - 11 am with a celebration of life service following at 11 am, Pastor Dan Beyer officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Gun Lake Community Church.
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My mom is 91 this year and she has Alzheimer's. She lives with my sister and sometimes I have mom stay with me to give my sister a break.
When I was growing up, my mom had a side business making hats for her clients. I remember watching her gluing down the flowers and trimmings. I loved to smell the white glue and to smear it on the palm of my hand, wait for it to dry and peel it off. (Wait, that didn't sound right. I wasn't into sniffing glue like an addict. I swear!)
When she was with me I had to give her something to do. Since I was sewing, she started sewing. She loves sewing buttons and I noticed that she went for the colorful ones.
I have to be careful when she's at my desk. She is very neat and will organize my beads, put things in bags, put stuff in her pocket… THIEF!!!One time I could not find a project that I was working on. It was months later when I was looking for something else that it popped up.
We've been in two exhibitions together and at receptions, no one can tell her she is not an artist. The first exhibit, she pulled people to her art and started talking to them. Her conversations can be jumbled but her cheerfulness shines through.
The below video was an announcement of our first show together when she was 88 yrs old.


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High-speed content transfer and managementMediaCorp uses Aspera to quickly and efficiently transfer real-time news stories and content throughout its global media distribution network
MediaCorp, Singapore's leading media company, has deployed Aspera's high-speed transfer platform as the core to their new digital asset distribution infrastructure.
Operating 7 television and 13 radio channels, MediaCorp offers the most complete range of platforms, spanning television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies, digital and out-of-home media. MediaCorp needed a flexible platform for the real-time collection and distribution of global news stories, as well as a means to quickly and efficiently transfer content with their global media distribution network.
The web-based Aspera Connect Server file transfer software was selected to provide journalists with a simple, self-installing browser plug-in that initiates high speed transfers from the field to MediaCorp headquarters, as well enable server to server media transfers with the 1700+ customer Aspera ecosystem that includes MediaCorp collaborators and partners. Additionally, the Aspera Console was chosen for centralized monitoring, management, and reporting of the MediaCorp corporate-wide Aspera transfers. MediaCorp administrators use the extensive features to initiate ad-hoc transfers, create specific scheduled transfers, as well as provide delivery confirmation all from one central web interface.
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What is a Mobile DSP?
A Mobile DSP is a Demand Side Platform that has developed to the complex eco-system of mobile advertising. The platform allows you to serve your (or your client's) ads on over two-hundred thousand different apps and mobile websites.
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What are the benefits?
The benefit of exclusively dealing with mobile devices is their ability to provide large amounts of information. This includes elements such as location, age, demographics, interests and is provided through a mixture of GPS and collected app information. This allows companies to utilize more specific targeting tools that result in highly personalised, effective mobile advertising.
As well as superior targeting, mobile also allows the opportunity to design more creative advertising. For example, it is becoming increasingly common to see mobile ads that implement interactivity and responsiveness.
Finally, only Mobile DSPs can offer in-app advertising. With companies increasingly focusing on app experience as opposed to mobile web browsing, this demonstrates a great advantage desktop DSPs.
Is there anything to back this up?
This interest in mobile advertising is backed up by numerous reports, including this one, that shows mobile advertising spend for 2016 was double that of 2015.
As well as this, since Google's Mobile Friendly Update, there has been a clear intention from major search engines to capitalize on the increasing number of mobile users.
How does it work?
A Mobile DSP integrates with a mobile ad exchange (an example being Google DoubleClick), which then allows access to millions of ad impressions. After this, the process of finding and buying the right ads is completed almost instantaneously due to the process of real-time bidding.
In the past, this entire process would have taken significant amounts of time, requiring manual input, scores of meetings and days of waiting for that resulted in a loss of revenue and efficiency.
As well as the quick speed, you can to add stipulations before the process takes place that will prevent your advert being shown on websites you consider irrelevant or detrimental, such as alcohol or gambling.
What other benefits are there of a Mobile DSP?
There are a large number of advantages, when it comes to using a Mobile DSP. The below are just a few of many.
1. Highly-detailed reporting
Your ability to see effective reporting is essential to determine what can be done in the future. Because of the large source of information available, Mobile DSPs can be used to create highly detailed analysis and reports.
With the variety of data, they can also adapting for different people. For example, financial reporting can be sent to FDs, conversion rates and CTR to marketing and generated revenue and top-level information to CEOs and MDs.
2. Improved retargeting
Retargeting can be accomplished very efficient because of the way a Mobile DSP works. They can specifically target those that have performed certain actions, for example, visited your website, purchased in the last month or left your contact page without leaving their details.
As well as this, it can also be applied to a location by setting up geo-fences so, for example, every time somebody opens an app in a particular area, retargeting can be performed.
This allows you to advertise more effectively to higher-qualified leads, which in turn increases your ROI and conversion rate.
3. Automated real-time bidding (RTB)
One of the most challenging aspects of paid search and online marketing is the necessity to manage it. With Google Adwords, for example, there requires a significant amount of time management to ensure there isn't sub-par performance.
Mobile DSPs can to negate this by having structured and intelligent KPIs in place, which are dynamic to the requirements of the campaign. Through this you can save on the one resource that matters most - your time.
Examples of KPIs include eCPC (effective cost per click) and eCPA (effective cost per action). Both of these allow you to run your campaign as efficiently as can be, generating the maximum ROI while requiring less work.
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Targetoo uniquely use a combination of Mobile DSPs to ensure they have the best performance possible. With this, they create highly personalised and effective mobile advertising, which in turn create powerful advertising ROI.
If you would like to find more about what a Mobile DSP is and how it can greatly improve your mobile advertising ROI, we are happy to advise you. Please see our contact details for more.
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cis-trans test
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cis-trans test[sis trans]
a test in microbial genetics to determine whether two mutations that have the phenotypic effects, in a haploid cell or a cell with single phage infection, are located in the same gene or different genes; the test depends on the independent behavior of two alleles of a gene in a diploid cell or in a cell infected with two phages carrying different alleles.
cis-trans testa genetic COMPLEMENTATION TEST to determine if two mutations have occurred within the same CISTRON or in adjacent cistrons. The test depends upon the two mutations being introduced into a cell at the same time. If they 'complement' each other by producing a WILD TYPE phenotype the mutations are in different cistrons (i.e. nonallelic). If a mutant phenotype is produced this shows the two mutations to be noncomplementary and therefore to be located in the same cistron (i.e. allelic). Two arrangements are possible in the cis-trans test (see Fig. 104 which can be carried out in a double HETEROZYGOTE individual (a HETEROKARYON in a haploid type). The more important is the transconfiguration, which is diagnostic, since two normal cistrons are present if the mutations are nonallelic (giving wild type) whereas the same cistron is mutant on both chromosomes if the mutations are allelic (giving a mutant phenotype).
1. an examination or trial.
2. a significant chemical reaction.
3. a reagent. See also under specific names of tests.
cis-trans test
used in microbial genetics to determine whether two mutations that have the phenotypic effect, in a haploid cell or a cell with single phage infection, are located in the same gene or in different genes; the test depends on the independent behavior of two alleles of a gene in a diploid cell or in a cell infected with two phages carrying different alleles.
critical titer test
the titer of a test at which the patient is judged to have reacted positively to the test.
diazo test
a group of tests for bilirubin conjugates in urine and therefore suitable for the detection of biliary and hepatic disease. Based on the combination of bilirubin with a stable diazonium compound.
exact test
a statistical test based on the exact distribution of the data under the null hypothesis, rather than on a normal approximation.
hypothesis test
the method by which a hypothesis is judged.
sodium sulfanilate clearance test
see sulfanilate.
test station
set up by the government or a cooperative organization for the purpose of testing individual livestock provided by farmers for productivity in terms of egg production, milk yield, weight gain. The feeding and measurement are under the control of the station.
statistical test
used to decide between two hypotheses.
surrogate test
an indirect test, e.g. milk cell count.
tolerance test
1. an exercise test to determine the efficiency of the circulation.
2. determines the body's ability to metabolize a substance or to endure administration of a drug, e.g. insulin tolerance test.
triglyceride absorption test
see fat absorption test.
urine concentration test
see water deprivation test.
a dexamethasone suppression test followed by an ACTH response test; the name refers to the change in plasma cortisone levels, first depressed then elevated, which if plotted on a graph would form a V.


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ALL CBU STUDENTS – Summer Position: Summer Office Assistant
Close Date: January 13, 2017 4:00 pm
The Town of Riverview: Summer Office Assistant
The Town of Riverview is home to more than 19,000 citizens. With numerous development projects underway, New Brunswick's largest town is expected to grow as more people choose to live and work in Riverview.
It is now seeking applicants for the summer student position of Summer Office Assistant with the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Relations.
- Currently enrolled in secondary or post-secondary education and/or enrolled in the fall.*
- Familiarity with Town of Riverview policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and social media.
- Excellent planning, organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills; ability to effectively work with the public.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Current Criminal Record Check meeting Town's expectations.
- Provide frontline customer service to the patrons of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Relations including answering telephones, providing patron customer service, responding to email inquiries, photocopying and creating flyer, letters and notices.
- Coordinate the sign out and maintenance of the department's vehicles and vehicle inspection forms.
- Provide general administrative support to the summer coordinators and the full time staff of the department.
Application Details
Please apply online at www.townofriverview.ca or forward a completed application form to firstname.lastname@example.com or to:
Department of Human Resources
30 Honour House Court
Riverview, NB E1B 3Y9
Fax: (506)387-2033
Application forms are found in the employment section of www.townofriverview.ca.
* All post-secondary applicants who are currently enrolled in and returning to a post-secondary institution in the fall of 2017 are required to complete a SEED application form. Information on the SEED program is available at www.nbjobs.ca.
Deadline for application is January 31, 2017.


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MultiMod is a simple App to provide a missing feature to Mac OS. Normally, when more than one keyboard is connected to a Mac, modifiers only have an effect on keys on the same keyboard. MultiMod alters this so that a modifier key (shift, command, control, alt, function) pressed on one keyboard will modify key presses on all keyboards.
This is essential to make things like ergonomic foot pedals that function as modifier keys work properly on a Mac.
MultiMod should work on any device, wired or wireless, that connects as a standard keyboard. It has been tested extensively with Kinesis Ergo brand foot switches.


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Harvard Clinical Professor Of Law
Director, Criminal Justice Institute
Senior Fellow, Jamestown Project
Emerson once said our democracy was in danger of sleeping. Not so much anymore. I think people are awake and they're going to stay awake and stay engaged - that's a good thing.
By Heidi Legg
I am humbled to bring you our 100th visionary interview on TheEditorial.com. And the timing to capture this voice who can talk to us about the power of the judicial branch in our government is apt. Four years ago when I sat down with Pedro Alonzo and Pattie Maes as my first interviews, I knew only that I was surrounded by some of this country's greatest minds along the Harvard, MIT and Kendall Square corridor. Of course, there are great minds across our nation but they are clustered here – and even those who don't walk those hallowed halls are living and working here to participate in the great experiment of what is possible. It's certainly not for the weather, easy parking or affordability! I am grateful to all the people who were willing to be interviewed, verbatim and at length, on topics of national and global interest around emerging ideas along this unique brain trust along the Charles River. In this digital age, it seems only right to record and try to decode what I am seeing around me and hope you will share it.
Ron Sullivan Jr. is important as our 100th because of his deep understanding of the US judicial system at this moment in time when the third branch of our government has moved from its quiet confidence and roared its voice. Add to this, Sullivan Jr.'s work around US incarceration reform and civil rights. I had to be patient to have a chance to sit down with Sullivan and I am grateful to to bring you this interview. His ideas around bias and the destruction of our black and brown men's lives fold into his thinking for how we move forward from the past, how we work to think collectively as "We" in our nation. He says that what has played out in the past few weeks demonstrates that our democracy was built to survive one person. He also cautions that this requires everyone to participate, to be open to conversation regardless of our baggage. We all have it, he says, and I agree. I had ruminated a long while on who would be our 100th and I could not think of a more timely and thoughtful voice.
This is quite the moment for the American judicial system. This, the third branch of government, seems front and center. What do you think about it?
It is an incredible moment in history and incredible for a couple reasons: One, we've seen for the first time in a long time how average concrete people are fully engaged in the legal system. You hear people effortlessly talking about en banc appeals and all of these arcane legal terms. I think it's a good civics lesson that people see how the separation of powers works, and how executive power can be constrained by the judiciary in appropriate circumstances. The second:
I think what we're seeing is evidence that our democracy can survive one person. It's built to be clunky. It's built to slow things down, and that's important. This executive order was a rush to move very quickly, but as we see there are three branches in our government and one of the other branches essentially said, 'we have to slow down, figure this out, and make sure that it's consistent with our constitution and our founding ideals.'
I do think with the recent election some people thought that the democracy was going to instantaneously implode or explode, but the democracy is robust. It doesn't work by itself. We have to work with it and so long as citizens are engaged, the democracy can survive.
Did you see the public more anxious than those of you in the judiciary and legal system because you understand this?
I think you always feel anxious, and I certainly did. It was a relief when the system worked as it was designed to work.
You're a justice system reformer. Have you seen improvements in the system?
I have seen some improvements but regrettably some things are as bad as they were twenty some odd years ago when I graduated from Harvard Law School.
What are those things?
The treatment of black, brown, and poor people in the criminal justice system – it's abysmally poor. It was then. It is now. The incidence of wrongful convictions has remained constant. Those haven't abated in a meaningful way and, last, the distribution of resources across the criminal justice system has remained unduly weighted toward the government in such a way that the accused simply doesn't have a fair shot to prove his or her case in court.
We too often see color as a proxy for criminality, it results in black and brown people being over-policed and over-prosecuted and over-sentenced.
When you look at black/brown convictions, what improvements would you like to see implemented?
That is a huge question. The central problem that we have to get at is that we still live in a country where far too many see color as a proxy for criminality. In as much as law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges, those people at the helm of the apparatus of our criminal justice system, are members of this culture, they too are impacted by or infected by some of the biases seen in the broader culture. Because we too often see color as a proxy for criminality, it results in black and brown people being over-policed and over-prosecuted and over-sentenced.
One way we have to get at this is outside of the legal system. We have to deal with a culture where different people are thought of as a 'They' instead of a 'We.' The famous philosopher Richard Rorty wrote that we have to engage in more 'we' talk, and I think that has to be a fundamental.
Now, if you go inside the legal system, I think the problem of disparate treatment can be addressed if prosecutors' offices begin to actually do econometric studies which demonstrate the disparate treatment by police, the disparate sentencing, the disparate sharing recommendations in prosecutors' offices, and began to address that internally.
Would you explain that more simply for us?
I'll explain it by way of an example: an economist and I are working on an experimental study here at Harvard that will happen in a prosecutor's office. You look at the same police report but on one of them you have a characteristically or stereotypically African or African American name and then the same one with a stereotypically Anglo American name and see how that plays: what does the prosecutor recommend as a sentence? Is the case actually what's called 'papered?' Is it actually converted into a formal criminal charge?
If your findings prove this is happening, do you think this information will help educate prosecutors and officers about this bias?
It will begin to educate. I'm not one who thinks people wake up in the morning and say, 'you know what I feel like doing today? Let me go and wrongfully incarcerate some black people.' The notion of implicit bias is that we don't know that they operate on our decisions. I've got many suitcases right behind me.
We all have baggage. The key is to acknowledge these biases and know that they're operating. Then you can intentionally and consciously do things to get around them. And that takes work.
I have an African-American friend who is really good at pointing these out when we are together. I really value her insight and what we've learned together.
People of good will can and should be able to have those conversations because, again, people who are operating with pure malice, that's a different question and you can deal with that, but I'm still an optimist. I think most people are people of good will.
When you say resources, do you think they are misapplied? In our interview with Kaia Stern, she spoke about education resources in the prison system.
You need more resources across the spectrum in the criminal justice system. Where I would focus first is with public defenders. Public defenders are the most under-resourced entity in the criminal justice system and they are the front lines in terms of representing people who otherwise can't afford competent representation. We have these systems currently with extraordinarily perverse incentives.
In most states around the country – and this is going to horrify you –there is a ceiling for which a lawyer can be paid for a felony case and let's call it $5,000, and that's probably high in some jurisdictions. For a serious felony case, which could take weeks and weeks to try, what's the incentive there? The only way an individual could make a decent living is by volume. Leaving an incentive to get rid of that case as quickly as possible to get the next one and the next one and then the next one, rather than some sort of fair payment system that incentivizes 'good' lawyer-ing as opposed to 'fast' lawyer-ing.
It sounds like the health care system! In our recent interview with Dr. Annie Brewster, she said the 15-minute increment billing is making America sick. There just isn't the time to spend to get it right.
Yes, a very, very similar analogy. Other jurisdictions have an institutional defender system where the public defender's office is paid by the state and public defenders are usually paid less than the prosecutors. They have these massive caseloads that result in them not being able to spend a lot of time on the individual case, and then they miss things.
I ran a recent exoneration project when the District Attorney of Brooklyn asked me to design a conviction unit and to come and get it up and running. I had one case where a guy was arrested after he returned from Disney World with his family, and they said he had committed a murder in Brooklyn. He told everyone who would listen that, 'no, I was in Disney World,' but he was arrested, he was charged, and was ultimately convicted. He spent over twenty years in prison until my team looked through the file and found a receipt in the prosecutor's file and in the police file that showed and proved that he was in fact in Florida when he was allegedly said to be in Brooklyn, committing the murder. Again, this is a case where his public defender simply didn't have time or resources to pour through all of the documents.
That's heartbreaking.
It's heartbreaking. He spent some twenty odd years in prison for a receipt.
The bail system is another aspect of the criminal justice system that really impacts poor people. Here is what happens: people are faced with this choice that offers no right answer. A person is arrested and, let's say, a judge sets a $500 bail. You and I could call a friend or family member to bail us out in ten minutes. For many, many people around the country, $500 may as well be $5,000 or $50,000 – they don't have it. Their family doesn't have it.
Here's an example of the sort of conversation that public defenders are unfortunately forced to have with people around the country:
Defender: 'Mister or Miss Client, you've got $500 bail. I've been assigned to you as your lawyer. What do you want to do?'
The client: 'Look, I'm innocent. I didn't do this.'
Defender: 'All right. Well, we'll go in there and we can say that and they will set the trial date. Looking at the judge's calendar, it'll probably be three months before there's a trial date.'
The client says: 'what do I do in these three months? I've got a job. I've got a kid. I can't miss three months' work. I can't sit in jail for three months.'
Defender: 'Well, the prosecutor is offering a plea to a lesser charge. So, if you plead guilty to this, you'll get out today but if you tell me you're innocent, then we'll wait for trial and unfortunately you'll have to wait in jail.'
Are there foundations out there right now or wealthy individuals who have set up a way to provide this kind of bail for those in need?
Not really. There is actually a better alternative. Money bail is a horrible proxy for attendance at court. The better use of resources, and there are people and entities that are using their resources to reform the bail system, is to have a class of cases for which people are preventatively detained. That means: Murder, rape, mayhem sort of thing. There's a statute that says that those people can be detained until trial. While all other people are presumed to be released, but with conditions sufficient to ensure their presence; whether it's meeting a probation officer once a week, calling a probation officer once a day, wearing an ankle bracelet. There's a range of things short of incarceration.
There must be technology today that can handle this surveillance until the court date?
They have the GPS ankle bracelets that can monitor where you go until your court date. That would work.
Are most of these convictions drug related?
You hit on another big issue. We have criminalized drugs in a way that it really doesn't treat the underlying medicinal issues that really are animating the behavior. Now, we're seeing a lot of movement with heroin. Many jurisdictions are beginning to treat heroin as a medical issue and an addiction issue, as opposed to a criminal issue. And we're seeing the move to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.
The USA has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. We incarcerate 6 to 10 times more people than our peers in the developed world. What are we to do about our prison problem on a national congressional level? I've heard you mention change the bail system, fund public defenders, decriminalize drugs. Are there others areas we need to consider?
Yes, globally we have to realize that the criminal law is far too blunt a tool to deal with some of the social problems that we have. This notion that we simply lock everybody up and that's going to solve the problem has led to massive incarceration, a massive criminal industrial complex, and profit making prisons – which is just grotesquely offensive.
We have to begin to treat problems in their proper context. We live in a political economy where politicians are rewarded for being 'tough on crime.' This has led to legislators writing a host of draconian laws that criminalize everything and incarcerate darn near everybody, and they are rewarded for it. At some point the public has to say: 'I know that it's going to be injurious to us as a culture if so many of our young men are behind bars between eighteen and thirty four.'
Aren't we already there?
We certainly were there in the African American community. The numbers are just extraordinarily sad. We have one in three African American men between the age of eighteen and thirty four with some connection to the criminal justice system, either in jail or probation or parole, and that is just not sustainable.
You were a classmate of President Obama and served on his transition team. We had eight years of him leading us and I know some improvement has been made, but if progress wasn't made under him, is there any hope now under President Trump?
What we have to understand is that the business of the criminal law is in the states. The federal government only has about 2% of the criminal law enforcement while 98% is in the states. While I think President Obama could have done more as president, there's a limit to what any president can do with only 2% of the funding. President Obama seized contracting with the private prisons, which was a good thing, but again that represents an infinitesimal fraction of the prisons in the country.
I did notice in my research a chart that showed that most prisons in the US are in the southern states? Why? Is this based on being state run? Is there a propensity in some states to lead incarceration?
That's a very complicated question.
I don't know if you've seen the amazing documentary on Netflix called The 13th about the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery. There is a little clause that many people had not really paid attention to. It said, 'except in the case when you've been convicted of a crime.' So, it outlaws slavery and indentured servitude, except if you've been convicted of a crime upon due process of law. So, many scholars believe – and I share in the belief – that the location of so many southern prisons was a way to control black bodies in the South using the criminal justice system as a new form of segregation or even a new form of slavery. You still see the chain gangs are very popular there, where not only are people in prison but they are providing state and county services for essentially no pay whatsoever while they're in prison.
So while they are in prison they have to do state work, unpaid? What kind of work?
It's cleaning up, highway work, building things, making license plates. They are paid like two cents a day – something like that. The notion is that this has become yet another way to control black bodies and control these populations, and I think there's something to that.
You represented the family of Michael Brown and since we've seen escalation around the Black Lives Matter movement. What needs to be done to keep the priorities of Black Lives Matter in focus?
I think that it kind of goes back to what we were saying earlier – we need more 'We' talk. We need more of a recognition that these young people, many of whom are being unfairly targeted and some brutalized and some even killed, are just like my son or just like your son – that this is our community and this pain is felt by everybody. I think that is the real impetus of the Black Lives Matter movement. A lot of people wrenched it out of context with the reply 'All Lives Matter' – I mean, that's self-evident. Of course, all lives matter but all lives had not been brutally treated in the way that these young black lives have. It was an effort to stand up and wave a hand and say, 'hey, we matter too. We are part of these communities. Treat us like human beings, let alone citizens, but treat us like human beings.' That's what the movement was about and young people need to continue that effort.
Do you think it risks being quashed during this new administration? When you see the public protests around the immigration ban, does it give you hope? What happens next?
I think it is at risk of being criminalized, because President Trump has said he's going to be the law and order president and he made some very negative comments about the protests. But if the recent Women's March and the march in support of immigrant families is any indication, I think that if nothing else this election has awakened people. Emerson once said, 'Our democracy was in danger of sleeping.' Not so much anymore. I think people are awake and they're going to stay awake and stay engaged and I think that's a good thing.
As a leading thinker in the judicial center, how do you process Jeff Sessions as Attorney General?
I'm deeply concerned about General Sessions. I remain deeply concerned about that appointment. As a general matter and as a default principal, I think that elections have consequences and that presidents have a right to appoint their senior most staff, including Attorney General and so forth. We may not like their policies but, again, that's what the democracy is all about.
So, I don't make the following claim lightly when I say that were I a senator, I would have voted against General Sessions, and the main reason is his record on civil rights litigation. There was a case called the Perry County Three when he was US Attorney in Alabama, and this was thirty years ago but it speaks volumes. In the Perry County Three, there were three African American activists who went into the community and attempted to educate people in what was called the Black Belt, where a lot of black people lived. They had been disenfranchised and had never really voted before. They got that community registered and advised them on how to go to the polls and vote, and educated them on what issues were important to their community and so forth, and then US Attorney Sessions prosecuted them under a federal law.
The judge in the case, a conservative judge, on the record said that he didn't buy any of these theories that Sessions used to continue the case, but Sessions persisted nonetheless. Voting is the most basic of our civic rights and to criminalize someone for attempting to aid and assist someone in voting is repugnant to the very ideals for which this country stands.
Actually, our former governor, Deval Patrick, was a very young NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer who represented one of the Perry County Three down in Alabama. They were vindicated. They were found not guilty on all charges.
The other thing that Sessions did as United States Attorney was he aggressively investigated the absentee ballot fraud, and at first blush one might say, 'Okay, that's fine. People shouldn't fraudulently use absentee ballots,' but it was his selective investigation of it. He only investigated African Americans who submitted absentee ballots and then only in those districts where white incumbents were at risk, and that's deeply problematic.
We do these hearings ostensibly because they're proxies for how someone's going to behave. With this data of how he has behaved when he was the senior law enforcement official in that district in Alabama, it seems to me a pretty strong proxy for how he may behave as Attorney General, and if we don't have an Attorney General who is committed to the most basic of all our rights – the right to vote – then I think that's problematic and I am troubled by that confirmation.
There's almost no diversity in Trump's cabinet. Of 22 people: one is black, four are women, one is Hispanic and one is Asian. His inner circle and those without confirmation are all white males except for Conway, for whom I admit I have my own bias — How can people work around this reality of dismal diversity surrounding President Trump.
That's a great question. I had eight years of access to the White House. I don't know what happened. It just went away. I have no clue what to do anymore. (Laughs)
Do you expect states with more diverse populations to step up?
Yes, at state and local levels, that's where the battlegrounds are and you have to start at the local level and allow it to percolate its way up. The current administration won the election and they operate the government. His nominees will be confirmed and they will imprint his policies.
If people object to that optic, then they have to make sure that there's a different optic at their local and county and state governments and then in four more years we have another election.
What is the Jamestown Project you founded here in Cambridge?
The Jamestown Project that I and a group of others founded is a think tank that focuses on notions of domestic democracy and how we get a more robust participatory democracy. It brings together scholars, activists, and policy people to get in a room and figure out ways to engage the democracy. We meet at least once a year, but with computers and the ten or so fellows and staff, we are really in constant contact.
What's the current mission?
Our mission always has been working to achieve our democracy. Our view is that the democracy is always evolving and that if we think we've got it right, then we've got a problem. This democracy is something we should always be working towards – some things we always should be massaging and attempting to make better.
We think now is an ideal time for citizens to band together and make sure that we continue to achieve our democracy.
What public opinion would you like to change?
That's a deep question. I hope this doesn't feel redundant but I would want to change the unfortunate pervasive opinion that young black maleness equates in some way with criminality and I think that opinion motivates so much, unfortunately.
You were here at Harvard Law as a classmate of Obama and Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch. Was it obvious back then that these classmates would emerge as leading figures in American policy. What did that classroom look like?
They were older than me. I knew President Obama when I was in law school. I was a first year during their third year. I did not know or at least I can't remember Judge Gorsuch. That would've been an interesting comparison. I do remember Senator Cruz who was a few years behind me as a young student and, yes, you absolutely knew he was going to be a very successful politician. I have been wracking my brains to think if I interacted with Judge Gorsuch but again I would've been a fledgling One L when those guys as Three L's were in the hallways.
What was President Obama like as a classmate?
He was great. He was a mentor. People always ask me, 'give me insight into his personality. What sort of quirky things did he do?' and in those days, most people went straight through from college to law school, as did I. The president had worked several years as a community organizer before he came back to law school. He was twenty-seven while the rest of us were twenty-two and while that's not a big gap now, it was a huge gap then. He always seemed so much more mature than the rest of us.
Was he already statesman-like? Did he give off that vibe?
That's right. He had worked already and nothing matures you like having to pay your own rent. He would always seem steady as a rock. Now he will probably have a revisionist memory of this but I do have clear memories of utter dominance: me dominating his team on the basketball court.
You dominating the basketball court?
Absolutely. Absolutely. That's my clear memory of those days.
Where do you relax?
My library. I have a library in my home that's full of dusty old books and I can I sit there and nestle up with some old dead writer and that really provides a sense of stillness for me, which I very much need. It rejuvenates me.
Would you offer us a few book recommendations, Professor?
One would be Richard Rorty's Contingency, Irony and Solidarity. I think people will find it just a beautiful read and one way to help make sense of this crazy world in which we live. Michelle Alexander wrote a wonderful, wonderful book called The New Jim Crow. Baldwin's The Fire Next Time is one of my all time favorites and something that I read at least once a year. Anything by Dostoevsky - just a fabulous writer. I read at least two Dostoevsky novels a year, or reread, I should say. So, The Idiot is one of my favorites and, because I'm a criminalist, Crime and Punishment. I love it.
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The 27-year-old's derriere has been the focus of much attention since she undertook bridesmaid duties at her sister Kate's wedding to Prince William, with Facebook groups dedicated to her attracting thousands of members.
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It is a natural--if not bromidic--action to wax poetic about a person once she has died, particularly if that person is someone as iconic as Elizabeth Taylor, one of the last remaining actresses to have evidenced any kind of golden era in Hollywood. While some may deem it celebrity blasphemy to point out the finer quirks and imperfections of a person after she has died, one cannot help but recall some of Elizabeth Taylor's more insane moments, chiefly involving any time she was asked to present an award--case in point being her premature opening of the envelope at the Golden Globes in 2001 because she was too fucked up to know that she had to announce all of the nominees first.
Additionally, Taylor's roster of friends and lovers always made for a somewhat sordid turn of events (her many marriages and divorces being the center of attention in that category, notably Conrad Hilton and Richard Burton). Between her unlikely friendship with Michael Jackson, which formed in the mid-1980s when she attended one of his concerts at Dodgers Stadium, and her infamously stealing Eddie Fisher away from Debbie Reynolds, it seems easy to forget her actual body of work in the wake of Taylor's ironic demise from heart failure.
Apart from her early acclaim in films like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Place in the Sun, and Suddenly, Last Summer, Taylor maintained her acting panache in the latter half of her career with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Taming of the Shrew.
It wasn't until the 1980s that Taylor's zeal for alcohol and pill abuse got the best of her, forcing her into rehab at the Betty Ford Center (très chic in the decade of Devo). After getting this little addiction in check, Taylor devoted much of her energy and finances to AmFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research) and made some highly unusual film and TV choices (The Flinstones and God, the Devil, and Bob) in the face of a career that had essentially ended. Still, her spirit was never broken by any personal or professional strife. And, while most would like to remember her a certain way now that she has died, what's so wrong with thinking of her slurring, "Glaaadiatooor!" amid some of those other classic images?