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CMC Capital Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm founded by former president of Shanghai Media Group Li Ruigang, has raised US$600 million for its second U.S. dollar-denominated fund at its hard cap.
According to a filing submitted with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at the end of May, CMC Capital Partners II, L.P. has sold US$182 million to U.S. investors, and US$366.5 million to non-U.S. investors.
The vehicle is reportedly already one-third invested. Some of CMC's latest non-Chinese investments include a stake in U.S. talent and sports agency firm, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), announced in April.
The firm also acquired an undisclosed stake in Imagine Entertainment, a Hollywood production firm led by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer, last spring.
Founded in 2010, CMC focuses on investing in the media, film, entertainment and sports sectors in China and globally. The group also operates CMC Holdings, which focuses on making strategic investments with an eye to create synergy among its dozens of portfolio companies.
Some of CMC's other portfolio companies include online video content provider Yitiao, online education firm Yuantiku, Chinese financial news portal WallStreetCn.com, and media ranking firm Newrank.
Update on July 5, 2017: CMC Capital issued the following release:
CMC Capital Partners Closes Second USD Fund at $600 million Hard Cap
July 5, 2017 – CMC Capital Partners ("CMC Capital" or the "Firm") is pleased to announce the final closing of its second USD Fund, CMC Capital Partners II, L.P. ("Fund II" or the "Fund"), at the hard cap of $600 million. The Fund was oversubscribed and surpassed its $500 million fundraising target. The limited partners subscribed to Fund II represent a group of top-tier global investors including public pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, fund of funds, family offices, high net-worth individuals, and other institutional investors. Consistent with the prior fund, the Fund will continue to invest in fast growing companies in media & entertainment, Internet & mobile and lifestyle sectors, both in China and with a strong China growth angle.
"We are humbled by the support and vote of confidence from our existing investors and are pleased to welcome new investors into the Fund." said Ruigang Li, Founding Chairman of CMC Capital Partners. "The China market is playing an increasingly important role in our target sectors globally. This unique and exciting market requires profound and in-depth understanding of the market landscape. Leveraging our deep domain expertise and resources, we will continue to explore attractive opportunities and provide value-added services to our portfolio companies."
As of the final closing, the Fund is approximately one-third invested, having completed a number of investments in leading media companies across content, platform and services, and Internet companies that are rapidly revolutionizing traditional industries. "We will continue to deploy at a measured investment pace, applying discipline and patience to identify opportunities which are consistent with our investment strategy. We are dedicated to help our companies expand to the next phase of growth by adding true strategic value." added Ruigang Li.
About CMC Capital Partners
Founded in 2010 by Ruigang Li, CMC Capital is China's leading private equity firm with a focus on media & entertainment, Internet & mobile, and lifestyle sectors. With a deep understanding of the China market, an extensive network of industry resources and prominent operational capabilities, CMC Capital has created and supported the growth of many industry leaders in its focused sectors.


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Many tools have been developed for measuring performance. The best test is always your own application, but a number of tests are available that can give a more general overview of the performance of MPI on a cluster. Measuring communication performance is actually quite tricky; see [51] for a discussion of some of the issues in making reproducible measurements of performance. That paper describes the methods used in the mpptest program for measuring MPI performance.
The mpptest program allows you to measure many aspects of the performance of any MPI implementation. The most common MPI performance test is the Ping-Pong test; this test measures the time it takes to send a message from one process to another and then back. The mpptest program provides Ping-Pong tests for the different MPI communication modes, as well as providing a variety of tests for collective operations and for more realistic variations on point-to-point communication, such as halo communication (like that in Section 8.3) and communication that does not reuse the same memory locations (thus benefiting from using data that is already in memory cache). The mpptest program can also test the performance of some MPI-2 functions, including MPI_Put and MPI_Get.
The mpptest program is distributed with MPICH and MPICH2 in the directory 'examples/perftest'. You can also download it separately from www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/perftest. Building and using mpptest is very simple:
% tar zxf perftest.tar.gz % cd perftest-1.2.1 % ./configure --with-mpich % make % mpiexec -n 2 ./mpptest -logscale % mpiexec -n 16 ./mpptest -bisect % mpiexec -n 2 ./mpptest -auto
To run with LAM/MPI, simply configure with the option --with-lammpi. The 'README' file contains instructions for building with other MPI implementations.
The SKaMPI test suite [94] is a comprehensive test of MPI performance, covering virtually all of the MPI-1 communication functions.
One interesting feature of the SKaMPI benchmarks is the online tables showing the performance of MPI implementations on various parallel computers, ranging from Beowulf clusters to parallel vector supercomputers.
Perhaps the best-known benchmark in technical computing is the LINPACK benchmark. The version of this benchmark that is appropriate for clusters is the High Performance LINPACK (HPL). Obtaining and running this benchmark are relatively easy, though getting good performance can require a significant amount of effort. In addition, while the LINPACK benchmark is widely known, it tends to significantly overestimate the achieveable performance for many applications because it involves n3 computation on n2 data and is thus relatively insensitive to the performance of the node memory system.
The HPL benchmark depends on another library, the basic linear algebra subroutines (BLAS), for much of the computation. Thus, to get good performance on the HPL benchmark, you must have a high-quality implementation of the BLAS. Fortunately, several sources of these routines are available. You can often get implementations of the BLAS from the CPU vendor directly, sometimes at no cost. Another possibility is to use the ATLAS implementation of the BLAS.
ATLAS is available from math-atlas.sourceforge.net. If prebuilt binaries fit your system, you should use those. Note that ATLAS is tuned for specific system characteristics including clock speed and cache sizes; if you have any doubts about whether your configuration matches that of a prebuilt version, you should build ATLAS yourself.
To build ATLAS, first download ATLAS from the Web site and then extract it. This will create an 'ATLAS' directory into which the libraries will be built, so extract this where you want the libraries to reside. A directory on a local disk (such as '/tmp') rather than on on an NFS-mounted disk can help speedup ATLAS.
% cd /tmp % tar zxf atlas3.4.1.tgz % cd ATLAS
Check the 'errata.html' file at math-atlas.sourceforge.net/errata.html for updates. You may need to edit various files (no patches are supplied for ATLAS). Pay particular attention to the items that describe various possible ways that the install step may fail; you may choose to update values such as ATL_nkflop before running ATLAS. Next, have ATLAS configure itself. Select a compiler; note that you should not use the Portland Group compiler here.
% make config CC=gcc
Answer yes to most questions, including threaded and express setup, and accept the suggested architecture name. Next, make ATLAS. Here, we assume that the architecture name was Linux-PIIISSE2:
% make install arch=Linux-PIIISSE2 >&make.log
Note that this is not an "install" in the usual sense; the ATLAS libraries are not copied to '/usr/local/lib' and the like by the install. This step may take as long as several hours, unless ATLAS finds a precomputed set of parameters that fits your machine. ATLAS is also sensitive to variations in runtimes, so try to use a machine that has no other users. Make sure that it is the exact same type of machine as your nodes (e.g., if you have login nodes that are different from your compute nodes, make sure that you run ATLAS on the compute nodes).
At the end of the "make install" step, the BLAS are in 'ATLAS/lib/Linux-PIIISSE2'. You are ready for the next step.
Download and unpack the HPL package from www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl:
% tar zxf hpl.tgz % cd hpl
Create a 'Make.<archname>' in the 'hpl' directory. Consider an archname like Linux_PIII_CBLAS_gm for a Linux system on Pentium III processors, using the C version of the BLAS constructed by ATLAS, and using the gm device from the MPICH implementation of MPI. To create this file, look at the samples in the 'hpl/setup' directory, for example,
% cp setup/Make.Linux_PII_CBLAS_gm Make.Linux_PIII_CBLAS_gm
Edit this file, changing ARCH to the name you selected (e.g., Linux_PIII_CBLAS_gm), and set LAdir to the location of the ATLAS libraries. Then do the following:
% make arch=<thename> % cd bin/<thename> % mpiexec -n 4 ./xhpl
Check the output to make sure that you have the right answer. The file 'HPL.dat' controls the actual test parameters. The version of 'HPL.dat' that comes with the hpl package is appropriate for testing hpl. To run hpl for performance requires modifying 'HPL.dat'. The file 'hpl/TUNING' contains some hints on setting the values in this file for performance. Here are a few of the most important:
Change the problem size to a large value. Don't make it too large, however, since the total computational work grows as the cube of the problem size (doubling the problem size increases the amount of work by a factor of eight). Problem sizes of around 5,000–10,000 are reasonable.
Change the block size to a modest size. A block size of around 64 is a good place to start.
Change the processor decomposition and number of nodes to match your configuration. In most cases, you should try to keep the decomposition close to square (e.g., P and Q should be about the same value), with P ≥ Q.
Experiment with different values for RFACT and PFACT. On some systems, these parameters can have a significant effect on performance. For one large cluster, setting both to right was preferable.


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Whole Smoked Chicken
This is one recipe I'm going to be using this July 4th Holiday. I've got a lot of people to feed, so I'm going to smoke whole chickens and pull them for Pulled Chicken Sandwiches and Smoked Chicken Nachos.
I've done this in the past for parties and for catering jobs and people loved it… the smoked, pulled chickens go a lot faster than you will expect. They are juicy, delicious and even picky people can't resist chicken.
The first and longest step in my whole chicken process is the brine.
A 4 – 5lb bird needs to soak for at least 6 hours, but I like for it to go overnight. This really packs in the flavor and makes a huge difference with the final product. If you don't believe me, test it out for yourself. The brined chicken will be juicer and have more flavor through-and-through.
Here's the Whole Smoked Chicken brine recipe I used:
- Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot
- Add 1 cup of brown sugar to the boiling water
- As soon as the sugar dissolves add 1 cup of Killer Hog's The BBQ Rub.
- Stir the rub into the mixture and turn off the heat
- Add 32oz of ice cubes to the pot to chill the brine
This recipe is enough brine for 1 chicken. It can be easily doubled for multiple birds or even whole turkeys.
Once the brine has chilled, open the chicken, remove the neck and internal organs (usually packed in the cavity), and rinse the bird under cold water. Place it in a large bowl and pour the brine over it. Make sure the chicken is submerged completely; then place the bowl in the refrigerator.
Whole Smoked Chicken Cooking process
The next day remove the chicken from the brine. You can tell that the seasonings have penetrated the skin and soaked deep into the meat.
Lay it on a sheet pan and spray the entire outside with cooking spray. You can substitute vegetable, olive, peanut, or any type oil that you want; but don't skip this step. It not only binds the rub to the skin, but it's also what gives the final product a beautiful, golden appearance.
For seasoning the whole chicken I start with a kicked up salt made with cayenne pepper, black pepper, and garlic powder. This goes on first and creates a base layer of flavor on the skin.
Next I dust on The BBQ Rub to enhance the color and really make the skin pop. Since I soaked the chicken overnight there's no need for injecting.
This bird is packed with flavor and all it needs now is smoke.
My cooking temp with whole chickens is in the 275-300 degree range. I'm a firm believer that higher temps produce better chicken. The meat cooks evenly and the skin turns out perfect every time. It normally takes about 2 hours to cook a whole chicken at this temperature.
I start checking the internal temp of the Whole Smoked Chicken at the 1 ½ hour mark just to get a feel for where it is. As soon as I see temps of 165 in the breast and 175 in the thickest part of the thigh, I know it's ready to come off the pit.
Always let the chicken rest for 10-15 minutes before cutting into it.
This gives the meat time to stop cooking and allows the juices to move away from the outer areas resulting in a juicer end product. If you cut into it immediately, all of the liquid (flavor) will run out onto the cutting board and you'll get dry chicken.
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Unicorn Freakshake Recipe
Unicorn Week: Day 2
It's Day 2 of Unicorn Week, and time for something completely different with this unicorn freakshake.
This is my very first recipe post, so of course it's unicorn inspired!
What is a unicorn freakshake?
A freakshake is basically a super-high-calorie, sugar laden version of a milkshake!
The craze started in Australia and is now becoming big in the UK, USA and across the world.
They are definitely NOT to be had every day (I mean, there's practically a day's worth of calories in just one), but as an occasional treat they are super yummy and definitely something to wow friends and family with.
A unicorn freakshake is a freakshake that's been made… well… UNICORN-Y! (is that a word?)
Think lots of pink, pastel colours, rainbows and of course a cute unicorn printable to complete the look!
How to make a unicorn freakshake
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Unicorn milkshake ingredients list
- Printable unicorn toppers (available in my free resource library — get the password at the bottom of this post)
- A glass (these latte mugs are similar to the glass I used)
- Your favourite strawberry milkshake (I use Nesquik!)
- Strawberry ice cream sauce
- Pink sprinkle doughnut
- Squirty cream (aerosol cream)
- Marshmallows
- Fizzy rainbow sweets (I bought mine from Lidl)
- A straw
- Long wooden skewers
Unicorn milkshake instructions
- Print out the free unicorn toppers and cut one out
- Poke a hole in the top and bottom of the unicorn topper and thread a wooden skewer through it
- Thread a selection of marshmallows onto a separate wooden skewer
- Thread some rainbow fizzy sweets onto a third skewer. Fold them up so that they are shaped like rainbows once threaded
- Make up your favourite strawberry milkshake. I like to add a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream and some ice and blend it all together.
- If your milkshake is looking a little too pale, add a tiny bit of pink food colouring to make it look more 'unicorn-y'
- Squirt some strawberry ice cream sauce around the edge of your glass
- Quickly pour in the strawberry milkshake
- Add a pink sprinkle doughnut on top of the glass
- Push the wooden skewers through the doughnut so that they stand up and stick out from the top of the freakshake
- Add a generous helping of squirty cream
- Add some sprinkles to the top – I used white chocolate drops
- Put your straw through the cream so it goes through the whole in the doughnut
- Enjoy your unicorn freakshake!!
I was super-proud of how this unicorn shake recipe all came together, and excitedly showed my husband, only for him to say that the strawberry sauce kind of made it look like unicorn blood. Silly husband. Doesn't he know that unicorn blood is SILVER??
( Yes, that's a Harry Potter reference… 😉 )
Still, I can see where is is coming from – so if you agree that it looks a little bit… err… not quite right… then maybe leave the strawberry sauce out!
Want more unicorn treats?
I hope you enjoyed Day 2 of my week of unicorn craft projects.
Check back tomorrow for the next project 🙂
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Here's a roundup of all the projects from this series:
- Unicorn box frame
- Unicorn freakshake
- 'Unicorn Kisses' chocolates
- Caticorn birthday card
- Unicorn button art
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For our entire time here we've been striving to network with other agencies and organisations (role players) to ensure a cohesive strategy in Chris Nissen. Part of our desire is too also wipe out any duplication of service into the community so as to strengthen the planned outreaches of the various groups involved. Frustratingly our efforts at building a network have been fairly fruitless and there are a couple of fairly obvious reasons for this. Firstly, besides ourselves as Helderberg Christian Church, there is no other agency or organisation which is in the community on a regular and committed basis. Secondly, the few that are involved in anything consistent are either 'protective' of their little piece or their reaching out to the many cats and dogs by feeding them. That is a whole other issue which needs to be addressed!
Almost on a weekly basis we hear of 'meetings' which took place between the various role players in the community, but Dean is never invited to these meetings, much to the annoyance of some key players in the community. There is one main reason for this; Dean would (unintentionally) embarrass the participants of such meetings as his presence would highlight the fact that these meetings are in fact 'talking shops' and nothing more. All very frustrating!
Yesterday could have been bit of a breakthrough in this area... Dean spent quite a bit of time speaking with the local Christian counseling centre (not for the first time!) about some activities they have planned for early next year. At the end of the conversation, they promised to liaise with Dean regarding their future involvement in CNP which could also benefit our planned Home Based Care Team. Could this be the start of something new? We really hope so. For too long individuals have been doing their own thing and then dining out on the experience, much to the annoyance and frustration of the community.
Please pray that our efforts to network amongst all the interested and active role players would be fruitful so that God's kingdom may be enlarged within the community.
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Your campaign profile is your first chance to impress a potential investor. Prepare yourself for writing the profile by asking yourself what the investor is most likely to be interested in. Ethical investors care about the strength of the business idea as well as the good that is being created in the world, so try to explain both things.
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how do you know your team can succeed in this market?
Be concrete, but don't go into too much detail. The purpose of your campaign profile is to make the investor interested enough to read more about your project. Later, they may go to your company's website, or Facebook page. They might check out your team's LinkedIn profiles, or Twitter feed. Hopefully, they will read the extra documents you provide on the Coinfunded platform, like your business plan and investment memorandum. Put details in these places, and use your profile as your sales pitch.
In this section, keep to concrete facts. Say what the project is and why it's important, but do not go into details. Your purpose here is to let potential investors know what kind of project this is so that they will read more. If you need a template to work with, try this:
(Company) is making a ( product or service that will solve (this problem) for (target customers) by (method).
Shownight will bring in in-demand comedians from underdeveloped nations to promote cultural exchange in order to enrich the arts markets of both Sweden and the comedians' countries of origin.
Your project summary is your opportunity to tell a story and create a feeling. You can do this by using a basic story structure. Explain how your project is the key element in taking your customer from a problem to a solution, or from an unsatisfactory present to a great future. Investors at Coinfunded believe in collaboration to create the future, so show them how this project will let them be part of future good in the world.
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Shownight is a live event promotions company that is a leading promoter of comedy in Sweden. We are campaigning for the funds to bring high-profile, international comedians to Sweden. Not only will Sweden benefit by getting to see these terrific international performers live, but the comedy market will benefit by having talent from different parts of the world meet, make connections, and learn professionally from each other.
Shownight wants to bring performers from developing countries like Kenya, Nigeria in Africa. They will get the chance to network with the comedians here, which creates a platform for the enrichment of the Arts of both regions.
We are campaigning for funding because we need to have a bigger pool of capital in order to satisfy the demand for performers. Because we have to pay performers 50% of their fee well in advance of the performance date, we can only book a set number of them each year. If we had a larger pool, we could book performers at a higher rate.
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Remember that you have several chances to share information, but a video might be your one chance to really share the big idea with people.
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Campaigns are all about what could be created, together. Investors need to feel confident that the project is a great idea, and the people on the team are the ones who can make that great idea come to life. Don't just repeat your professional qualifications; talk about things that show you are the right person to do the job you're doing, right now.
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When everything is going perfectly, what will you get the chance to do in your role? Will you expand your role, or will you get the opportunity to focus? Will you lead a larger team, or will you build on the success in one area to create something in another?
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While none questioned the historical significance of Tuesday's inauguration - most described the occasion as both momentous and moving - political commentators were sharply divided on President Barack Obama's hugely anticipated inaugural address.
"A disappointing hodgepodge, " was the view of New Republic writer John B. Judis. He deemed Barack Obama's speech "unusually abstract" and occupying a "netherworld between inspiring oratory and political argument.
"It was well-delivered, but it consisted of a hodgepodge of themes, injunctions, and applause lines that did not speak directly to the crisis that the country faces."
Writing for the same publication, however, Walter Shapiro, political columnist and former White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, was moved to proclaim Mr Obama the "poet-in-chief" for the speech's "striking phrases and sudden bursts of imagery" .
"President Obama reminded the nation that here was a man who wrote himself into his job," Mr Shapiro declared, although he added "my guess is that Obama's address was a little too cerebral, a little too reflective of recent White House history to reach the standard of greatness."
In an 18-minute address delivered before a shivering, expectant crowd of over a million, Mr Obama pledged to rally his nation to "a new era of responsibility" and show the world the US is "ready to lead once more".
America's 44th - and first black - president, known for his rhetorical skill and powerful speeches, outlined the grave challenges facing the country. But he stressed they could be met, declaring that "starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin the work of remaking America".
Debate about where the speech would rank alongside history's most memorable inaugural addresses began immediately: Did it lack the kind of lofty rhetoric necessary to guarantee immortality? Had the enormous expectations surrounding the address simply proved too great?
John Dickerson, writing on Slate.com, declared it "a good speech but not a soaring one" that lacked "the kind of personal speechmaking Obama was so good at during the campaign."
CNN analysts Jeffrey Toobin was also underwhelmed.
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"We remember inaugural addresses by 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' (Franklin D Roosevelt); 'Ask not what your country can do for you' (John F Kennedy). Where is anything comparable in this speech? I'm afraid this is likely to join the vast majority of inaugural addresses which are quickly forgotten."
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Jollibee has officially landed in Canada, and Filipinos in Winnipeg were quick to brave the subzero temperatures to satiate their craving for their fast-food favorites.
But in the land of poutine, do Canadians also have the same feeling? Three Winnipeg radio hosts gave three of Jollibee's langhap-sarap fares the thumbs up.
In a 45-second video posted on The Ace Burpee Show's Facebook page, hosts Ace Burpee, Chrissy Troy and LTI tried out a bucket of Chickenjoy, individual servings of Jolly Spaghetti and five pieces of Peach Mango Pie.
Troy praised the fried chicken as "crispy" and "really moist." The gravy, she said, is so good that "it's like a big, warm hug."
LTI also showed a liking to the Filipinos' sweet-style spaghetti, especially with the presence of hotdogs in the sauce "which I love."
As with the peach mango pie (which is conspicuously bigger than the Philippine variant), Troy and Burpee unanimously liked it, with the female host describing it as "nice, warm peach mango pie on this chilly morning."
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CHICAGO – Nearly a year after his first attempt to sue was rejected by Chicago federal judge, private investigator Paul Ciolino has returned to court, this time in Cook County, claiming former Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez defamed him, partnered with others to ruin his career and set a murderer free to settle a score with Northwestern University.
Ciolino sued Alvarez in Cook County Circuit Court on Jan. 2, seeking $25 million.
His suit also names among the defendants former prisoner Alstory Simon, who for three years has pursued a wrongful conviction claim in Chicago federal court against Ciolino. Other defendants named in Ciolino's lawsuit include James Delorto, Terry Ekl, James Sotos, Martin Preib, William Crawford, and Andrew Hale, all of whom who helped Simon regain his freedom.
Ciolino had earlier tried to sue the same defendants in Chicago federal court, also for $25 million. But the judge in that case tossed it in January 2017, saying the case would have bogged down Simon's lawsuit now pending against Northwestern University and others for allegedly framing him for a double murder he now denies.
Simon filed suit in 2015, claiming he is owed $40 million because Northwestern journalism professor David Protess and Ciolino allegedly falsified evidence leading to his imprisonment.
Simon and Ciolino became entwined in the late 1990s when Simon allegedly confessed to the 1982 slayings of Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green on Chicago's southeast side.
In 1983, another man, Anthony Porter, had been convicted of the killings. But in 1998, Protess and Ciolino, along with Protess' students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, had moved to clear Porter's name.
Protess and Ciolino had achieved fame in prior years by working to clear the names of others purportedly falsely convicted in other high-profile murder cases.
In his lawsuit, Simon alleged Protess and Ciolino fabricated "four pieces of false evidence," including an allegedly coerced confession from Simon, which "dismantled the case against Porter and proved that Simon committed the murder."
Simon has specifically alleged Ciolino had posed as a police officer and had illegally detained him, using "threats, fabricated evidence, false statements, promises, money and other illegal tactics" to wring a confession out of him that he had "shot Hillard in self-defense and Green by accident."
Simon was convicted in 1998, but was released from prison in 2014, when Alvarez abandoned all charges against Simon after her office reinvestigated the Hillard/Green murders, finding his confession "was illegally coerced by fabricated evidence, threats of the death penalty, and promises of riches."
In Ciolino's suit, attorney Jennifer Bonjean of Brooklyn, N.Y., who also is defending Ciolino against Simon's lawsuit, alleges a conspiracy to pay back Northwestern for exposing wrongful convictions.
Ciolino's lawsuit alleges Alvarez was known for her reluctance to acknowledge the problem of wrongful convictions and her unwillingness to hold police accountable.
The lawsuit further alleges Alvarez despised Protess and the university's Innocence Project, while allegedly believing Chicago media had a clear bias in favor of Northwestern and against her.
"Alvarez ignored the mountain of evidence pointing to Simon's guilt and the falsity of his claims, instead eagerly agreeing to release a man she knew was guilty, all in the name of paybacks and possible future campaign donations," Ciolino's lawsuit said.
The complaint asserts Ciolino, who used to give about 25 lectures a year all over the world, gave up his detective license because he has no clients, and he earns virtually nothing.
"He has not been asked to give a lecture in the past year," the complaint said, and now earns virtually nothing.
The suit claims intentional affliction of emotional distress, as Ciolino allegedly receives regular hate mail and telephone messages.
In 1999, Ciolino and Northwestern students obtained the confession from Simon, apparently absolving Porter.
Simon pleaded guilty.
"After roughly a year in the penitentiary, Simon decided he did not want to serve the remainder of his 37 year sentence after all," the complaint said.
Simon then found allies in Delorto and partner John Mazzola, who worked almost exclusively for lawyers Ekl and Sotos, according to the complaint.
"Delorto and Mazzola cared nothing of Simon's plight but had an agenda that worked to Simon's benefit," Ciolino's lawsuit says.
The suit claims Delorto and Mazzola targeted Simon as an accomplice in their mission to discredit Protess and Ciolino. They allegedly fed him a false narrative that he falsely regurgitated, promising representation through Ekl and Sotos.
In 2002, Ekl and Sotos formally undertook Simon's representation, but were unsuccessful the following year in lobbying then state's attorney Dick Devine for a hearing.
Ciolino's lawsuit asserts Delorto, Elk, and Sotos knew Simon's claim of coercion was allegedly bogus.
The lawsuit asserts, in 2010, they "found a washed up journalist, defendant Crawford, to write their version of the Porter/Simon saga."
And although Crawford enjoyed some success with the Chicago Tribune, "alcohol abuse eventually sidelined his career leaving him bitter and irrational," the lawsuit said.
"Even among his friends and allies, Crawford is seen as mentally unstable, illogical, and erratic," Ciolino wrote in the complaint. "On numerous occasions, Crawford has threatened Protess and Ciolino, and others, in drunken stupors."
According to the lawsuit, defendants brainstormed how to sell a false narrative that Protess, Ciolino, and Northwestern framed Simon.
"Delorto and Mazzola harassed, threatened, pressured, and coerced witnesses into conforming their stories to the false narrative," Ciolino asserted in his complaint.
The complaint accuses the men of using unethical tactics, while allegedly falsely accusing Protess and Ciolino of using unethical tactics.
In 2011, Alvarez moved a judge to rule that Protess waived a reporter's privilege.
The judge ordered Northwestern and Protess to turn over every email, memo, record and document about investigations going back decades.
"With the war raging between Alvarez and Northwestern, defendants Sotos and Ekl saw an opportunity to form an alliance with Alvarez against Northwestern," Ciolino's complaint alleges.
According to the lawsuit, Alvarez promptly announced that her conviction integrity unit would investigate, but that Alvarez already knew what she would do.
"Alvarez knew she was going to release Simon, guilty or not, to settle the score with Protess and Northwestern," Ciolino's lawsuit said.
Defendant Hale and his company, Whole Truth Films, produced a documentary on Simon's release.
According to the lawsuit, it "depicts Ciolino essentially committing a home invasion, busting his way into Simon's house and then using a weapon to threaten Simon."
The suit identifies defendant Preib as spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police.
The lawsuit asserts he has peddled a false narrative on his blog, "Crooked City."
She asked for an injunction against all false and defamatory statements.
Six days after Bonjean filed Ciolino's complaint, she represented him by telephone as defense counsel for a hearing in Simon's suit in Chicago federal court.
The proceedings ran quietly and ended quickly.
Magistrate Judge David Weisman continued three discovery motions after lawyers assured him they would meet and confer.
He set a status conference March 12.
Ciolino's lawsuit is docketed in Cook County Circuit Court as Case No. 2018-L-000044.


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Can (intense) violence be used to communicate a message about antiviolence? If Shinya Tsukamoto begun giving a reply to this question with "Fires on the Plain", this time, he gives a definite one, and in the most stunning matter.
"Killing" is screening at Art Film Fest Košice
After 250 years of peace, the idle samurais hear again the bells of war in the mid 19th century coming from Edo, as the "negotiations" with the Americans start taking place. Mokunoshin Tsuzuki is another masterless samurai, who earns his living by working in the rice paddies of an isolated farm, while honing his skills by sparring with the family's son, Ichisuke, who dreams of becoming a samurai, despite the fact the he was born a peasant. At the same time, the beginning of a subtle romance seems to take place between Tsuzuki and Yu, the family's daughter despite the fact that the girl disapproves of her brother's dealings with the samurai ways.
Nevertheless, the sudden appearance of Jirozaemon Sawamura, a veteran samurai who is in search for talented warriors that will fight for the shogun's side, and of a band of ragtag ronins, changes the lives of all involved forever, as the cycle of violence opens.
This "opening" is where Tsukamoto's main comments lie: Once violence ensues, no one remains unaffected, despite his degree of involvement, and the closing of the cycle is as difficult as its opening is easy. His approach towards the presentation of the aforementioned borders on the extreme, as he does not shy away from the violence even a bit, with the tendency finding its apogee in the scene in a small cave, which could be easily described as butchering. The amount of violence in the film, however, does not hide his messages by any means, as his hatred for war and violence in general extends to the concept of revenge, human nature (in terms of how people cherish violence when they benefit from it), and the fact that samurai swordsmanship may look impressive and noble, but in reality, its only purpose is to kill. Through this last concept, and particularly through Sawamura's continuous will to follow its rules, Tsukamoto seems to highlight the futility of Bushido, in a fashion similar to the one presented in films such as "Harakiri" and "Samurai Rebellion", where the "nobleness" of Bushido was completely deconstructed.
The beauty of the samurai ways and particularly of the swordsmanship is also highlighted through Tsukamoto's and Satoshi Hayashi's cinematography, with Tsuzuki functioning as the vessel for this tactic, but this lasts only briefly, as the reality deriving mostly from violence eventually takes over, again deconstructing anything about the concept that could be described as even remotely positive.
Tsuzuki, through a great performance by Sosuke Ikematsu, also stresses the fact that even samurais are "normal" people, as his actions are also dictated by fear and occasionally, by lust, with Tsukamoto inducing the film with some elements of (perverse) sensuality through this last concept. The blame for the blights that befell people at the time lie mostly on the previous generation, according to the film, with Tsukamoto as Sawamura highlighting the fact that his generation swept the new one towards a direction its members did not want to go (as presented by Tsuzuki). At the same time, the story also somewhat justifies this act as a necessity due to the circumstances of the times, as dictated by the band of ronins that appear in the area.
The role peasants play in this concept is also excellently portrayed by Yu Aoi as Yu and Ryusei Maeda as Ichisuke, whose sole roles are the ones of the victim, with the former's performance giving a truly tragic tone to this idea, while highlighting the fact that at times as the ones the story unfolds in, love is also nothing but a burden, another sentiment that leads to despair.
Tsukamoto's editing induces the film with a rather fast pace, while also retaining, at times, a nightmarish atmosphere, a sense that is also heightened by the use of shaky handheld camera. This last aspect somewhat faults the various action scenes, but even this "fault" falls under the general style of the film, that has the samurai ways stripped of any kind of nobility. The element, though, that actually elevates the film to a very high level is late Chu Ichikawa's music, whose electronic and percussion sounds accompany, and occasionally dictate the atmosphere in the most impressive fashion, with the ending titles scene highlighting the fact to the fullest.
"Killing" presents an impressive combination of meaningfulness and aesthetics that results in one of the best films of the year, and a truly worthy entry to the samurai genre, through its extreme, but quite realistic approach to the whole concept.


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"Reaching the top of KYANJING RI after 5 days trekking – 4400m" (Nepal)
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5 Spiritual Books for Kids
Growing up, books were my best friends. For as early back as I can remember, my parents read to me. And I know I was reading on my own before I entered the school system.
So, I guess it's no surprise that I love books to this day. And it's not surprising that I consider books essential for kids.
In this post, I look at five great books to help your kids understand spirituality and spiritual concepts.
Each one is a great story on its own. And each one has many lessons.
Let me know which one your kid(s) like the best!
The Oak Inside the Acorn by Max Lucado
Each and every one of us is a miracle. Each and every one of us is here for a special, unique purpose.
Too often kids are teased when the don't fit in. And just as often schools and other well-meaning adults try to push kids into a box.
The Oak Inside the Acorn helps kids embrace their own uniqueness and stand strong in the face of people who want them to be different.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Full of magic, adventure, and hope The Girl Who Drank the Moon helps children learn to face their fears.
As a Newbery Medal winner, this book is a must read for anyone who love children's literature.
A Pebble for Your Pocket by Tich Nhat Hanh
The renown Buddhist author presents the basic tenets of Buddhism in a kid-friendly way.
Even better, Hanh provides practical, concrete advise for handling difficult emotions – like anger.
The book is free from jargon and uses an engaging writing style, making it a fun read that's perfect for bed time or any time.
Just In Case You Ever Wondered by Max Lucado
This beautiful story telling of a father's love for his child is a great way to bond with your kid while sharing a story.
While some see it as an allegory for Christian beliefs, I see it as a tale about how the Universe is always protecting each of us and is always available to comfort us.
No matter how you interpret it, Just In Case You Ever Wondered is a touching, heart-warming must read!
Adri's Big Dream by Sarah Woodard
Yes, it's shameless self-promotion time! And though I do say so myself, I believe Adri's Big Dream is worthy of being on this list of big hitters.
It presents the concepts of transformation and self-acceptance in a child-friendly and fun way.
Currently, Adri is being used by therapists and guidance counselor's as part of their work to help children feel more at peace.
Check out this touching folktale yourself. Your kids will thank you!