#10 page research paper about Michigan

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I am once again back from the dead and here to post about what I’ve been hyperfixating on for the past week: marching band uniforms for my upcoming webcomic This One Time at Band Camp.

This file accidentally got huge so click on the image for better quality.

Also I did a 10 page research paper on Michigan and which I found the band calendars of 3 Michigan marching bands (I live nowhere near Michigan) and wrote about the crime rate of Detroit.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Collapses In Court," Border Cities Star. April 14, 1934. Page 11. ---- Young Wife Swoons As Husband Hears His Sentence ---- For Old Crime ---- Henry Schacht Gets 2 Years For Hijacking And Assault in 1930

Two years in the Portsmouth Penitentiary at Kingston was the sentence meted out to Alex Schacht in Windsor Court today for an offence committed three years ago. As Magistrate Brodie pronounced the term, Schacht's beautiful young wife collapsed in her seat in the court-room. She was revived in ten minutes by first aid measures.

LAW DOESN'T FORGET Schacht, now 28, and a former resident of East Windsor, returned to the Border Cities three weeks ago to find the law had not forgotten him. He was promptly arrested and charged with robbery by violence on the complaint of Arsene Emery of Belle River. On trial Monday, he was found guilty of hijacking a load of liquor and administering a beating to Emery that left the man with a triple jaw fracture. That was the night of November 17, 1930, when Schacht, with four recruits, pursued Emery and caught up with him in Memorial Park.

When Emery found he had made a wrong turn off Tecumseh road and could drive his car no farther through the park, he leaped out and attempted to escape on foot. Evidence was to the effect that Schacht followed him and knocked him down, while Roy Formigan assisted in beating the man up. Emery declared that in addition to bearing away the liquor sold him originally by William "Bull" Fielding. $79 in cash was removed from one of his pockets.

FORMIGAN SENTENCED Formigan was sentenced to two years in penitentiary February 25, 1931, for his share in the assault, Schacht declared in his evidence that Formigan was responsible for breaking Emery's jaw, but Magistrate Brodie held the accused equally guilty.

Alfred Turner, 343 Oak avenue, who had pleaded guilty to trespass and theft of packing paper from Canadian Pacific Railway cars, was sentenced to 30 days in county jail on the latter charge. On the trespass count, a fine of $10 and costs, or seven days, to run concurrently, was ordered.

Melvin Rupert, 516 Bridge avenue, and Gordon Robinson, 231 Bridge, both 16, were found guilty on similar charges, preferred by Inspector MacTavish and Constable Wilson, of the C. P. R. police. The two officers testified to catching both in the act of stealing paper, and emphasized the danger of accidents consequent on thieves leaving the doors of refrigerator cars open. The two accused were ordered released on suspended sentence for one year. Rupert had already been on suspended sentence for theft of Christmas trees, the term having expired on March 1.

Edward Kearney, 18, of Ridgetown, charged with reckless driving in consequence of an accident at the Wyandotte-Pelissier street intersection last night, was remanded to April 21. Kearney's car, proceeding south on Pelissier, ran through the stop sign and crashed into another auto in charge of Richard Lilly, 221 Partington avenue, who was driving east on Wyandotte street. Lilly and his wife suffered minor shock and the car was badly damaged.

BIRTHPLACE PUZZLE Despite information supplied by Detective Sergeant John Burns that Ray Forbes was born in Wiarton, Ontario, Ray still persists in the belief that a place in Northern Michigan is the town of his nativity. The court is still puzzled about this case because Ray is very emphatic in his assertions and his statement seems strange in view of the fact that he has been deported from the United States four times as an alien.

Ray, who is charged as a vagrant, was released in Salvation Army custody and is to report back in one week. In the meantime further research as to his birthplace will continue.

ADMITS ILLEGAL PURCHASE Fred Yankovitch, of 1587 Pierre avenue, pleaded guilty to purchasing liquor illegally. He was fine $27.50. Remainder of the docket was devoted to discussions of marital relations.

Two wives, living apart from their husbands, appeared seeking increases in their allowances.

[Schacht was 28, born in Russia to 'Volga Germans', married, had a chest tattoo of monument, and was a motor mechanic. He had only a single short jail term of 30 days to his name. He was convict #3441 and worked in the motor shop at Kingston penitentiary. He was reported a number of times and transferred to a hard labour department. He was released October 1935.]

[misskasu]

Module 2: Blog Assignment

 Today’s digital media diary was slightly different from the one posted about two weeks ago.  The first thing I usually do is check my Gmail from both accounts around 7 am. This I decided to bravely kill two birds with one stone finish this blog assignment along with the extra credit today before 7 am unlike my last post.                       

5:20 am - logged into Canvas. And watched " In a Nutshell Zuboff: surveillance capitalism and Democracy on YouTube, " about a 17-minute video. After watching the video, I better understand how technology has shaped our lives. I also became aware of the potential hazards of data used in our society. I am now more conscious of the importance of data privacy, even if I have nothing to hide.

 YouTube link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AvtUrHxg8A&ab_channel=AlexandervonHumboldtInstitutf%C3%BCrInternetundGesellschaft

5:40 - 6:10 Read the article "Surveillance Capitalism: What It Is and How It Impacts Democracy" and created a mind map of surveillance capitalism. Started writing an essay on the topic. Developed a thesis statement. Researched more information about this topic. Checked the essay for errors. As part of the essay, I wrote a conclusion and submitted it.

6:10 - I posted the final result online on my Tumblr page.

6:26- Responded to Melissa Radojevic by mentioning that I was aware of the issue of data metrics, and posting at such a young age was a blessing. And since then, I have taken extra steps to protect my personal information. I have also been more conscious of my content. Further, I have taken the necessary steps to ensure that my accounts are private and that I only connect with people I trust.

7: 30- 8:15 AM After I shower, I always start my morning with maintenance. I check my email out as much in the spam and check in with all the clubs and my grandmother. I like to do wordle/digits from the New Times.  My Grandmother lives in Michigan, so she almost will Always do it before me and often gives me hints. But today, I finished before she did. I also cleaned out my spam from both email accounts and double-checked assignments from my other classes

10:00 am to 12:30 — Pandora (in the background) 

I turn on Pandora working on while I work on today’s blog diary and take a look at the extra credit.   I turn on Pandora working on while I work on today’s blog diary and look at the extra credit.   I make sure to take breaks every 15 minutes to stretch and clear my head. I review the content I wrote and make any necessary changes. At 12:30, I'm done with the line, almost done polishing, fixing, and editing grammatical mistakes along the image layout before I post on my Tumblr account.  

At 12:45, I'm done with the blog and publish it. I take a break to reward myself for a job well done. I grab leftovers for lunch and a cup of water before moving on to my next task with 3 episodes of Flash.

2:00 p.m. — Finished lunch break after watching 3 episodes of Netflix series (in this class, the Flash. No spoilers, please I am only on Season 2, Episode 13 I have binge watching prior to this post). After lunch, I felt energized and ready to finish the remaining tasks for the day. I then took a quick swim to get some fresh air and get back to work!

I finish up at 4:45 p.m. — Revising my to-do list for tomorrow. Some assignments take longer, especially if they are papers or essays with multiple responses to that one assignment.I try to make sure I'm done with the assignments that require a lot more effort before I leave. That way, I don't have to worry about them the next day and can focus on the smaller tasks. If I need more time, I'll stay a bit later.

5:00 p.m. — I check my emails and respond to any urgent messages.

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm - I finish this assignment and prepare for tomorrow. Didn't have time to do my daily night reading.

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Download Episode 397!

NEW FUN COMICS 1, February 1935, was published on January 11, 1935. It contained 32 pages for the cover price of 10¢. Lloyd Jacquet was the editor. It was published by National Allied Publications, the company that would evolve into the DC Comics we know today.

FAMOUS FIRST EDITION: NEW FUN COMICS #1 was published on May 19, 2020 for the cover price of $19.99.

- (8:29) I review the book, JACKIE ORMES: THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN CARTOONIST by Nancy Goldstein, published by the University Of Michigan Press in 2019. This book was 226 pages long.

- (11:45) MY PULL LIST, where I review the comic books that carried the November 2020 cover date, which were released during the month of September, and I received from Discount Comic Book Service.

- (26:45) Before the reprint of NEW FUN COMICS 1, this FAMOUS FIRST EDITION  had two introductions. The first was titled, THE START OF SOMETHING BIG, written by comic book historian Jerry Bails for a previously planned reprint of this issue that was eventually never published.

- (28:33) A SECOND INTRODUCTION was written by Roy Thomas, explaining why that first reprint never happened, and what the historical significance is of this issue.

- (30:11) JACK WOOD, subtitled PANCH VILLA Part I, a western adventure was written and drawn by Lyman Anderson, according to Mike's Amazing World Of DC Comics. The Grand Comic Book Database gives this feature the subtitle as, DON NAGLES - CATTLE RUSTLER Part I, written by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and drawn by Lyman Anderson. Jack Wood rode into the sunset with his final appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS 42, September 1939.

- (33:27) The adventure strip SANDRA OF THE SECRET SERVICE in THE GAVONIA AFFAIR part I, was written and drawn by Charles Flanders, according to Mike's Amazing World Of DC Comics, while the Grand Comic Book Database credits Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson as the writer and Charles Flanders as the artist. Sandra's final mission for the Secret Service would occur in MORE FUN COMICS 35, September 1935.

- (34:11) The comic strip OSWALD RABBIT, which was written and drawn by John Lindermeyer, appeared on the bottom of the page. It filled the gap at the bottom of the page below not only SANDRA OF THE SECRET SERVICE, but many of the early features in this issue. Oswald made his final appearance in MORE FUN COMICS 7, January 1936, but would make various appearances in various titles for other comic book publishers.

- (35:03) JIGGER AND GINGER, a teen humor strip, writer unknown, was drawn by Adolph Schus. They would make only one other appearance in NEW FUN COMICS 2, March 1935.

- (35:50) The adventure strip BARRY O'NEIL, in FANG GOW OF CHINA part I, according to Mike's Amazing World Of DC Comics, was written by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and drawn by Lawrence Lariar. Barry's final adventure occurred in ADVENTURE COMICS 60, March 1941.

- (37:17) THE MAGIC CRYSTAL OF HISTORY, a kid adventure strip, was written and drawn by Adolphe Barreaux. Bobby and Binks would take their final historical adventure via the Magic Crystal in MORE FUN COMICS 50, December 1939.

- (38:45) The adventure strip WING BRADY: SOLDIER OF FORTUNE began with THE BEDOUINS part I. Mike's Amazing World Of DC Comics credits Henry Carl Kiefer (who signed his name as de Korosett, his wife's maiden name) as the writer and artist, while the Grand Comic Book Database lists Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson as the writer and Kiefer as the artist. Brady's final adventure occurred in MORE FUN COMICS 52, February 1941.

- (40:19) Sir Walter Scott's IVANHOE was adapted to comic book form by Charles Flanders, according to Mike's Amazing World Of DC Comics, while the Grand Comic Book Database lists Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson as the writer of this adaption and Flanders as the artists. This adaption of IVANHOE ended with MORE FUN COMICS 27, December 1937.

- (41:54) JUDGE PERKINS, a humor strip, was written and drawn by Bert Nelson Haig. The Judge would only have one more misadventure, in NEW FUN COMICS 2.

- (42:57) The science fiction adventure, DON DRAKE ON THE PLANET SARO, was written by Ken Fitch and drawn by Joseph Clemmens Gretter, who signed his art as Clem Gretter. Drake had his final adventure in MORE FUN COMICS 17, January 1937.

- (44:17) LOCO LUKE, a western humor strip, was written and drawn by Jack A. Warren. Loco Luke rode into the sunset after NEW FUN COMICS 4, May 1945.

- (46:41) SPOOK RANCH was a western mystery story written by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, using the pseudonym Roger Furlong, with illustrations drawn by Charles Flanders. The story concluded in the next issue.

- (46:41) SCRUB HARDY was a sports humor strip drawn by Joe Archibald. Hardy's sports career was cut short, only appearing again in NEW FUN COMICS 2.

- (48:19) The sports adventure strip JACK ANDREWS ALL-AMERICAN BOY was written and drawn by Lyman Anderson. Andrews' sports career would only last through NEW FUN COMICS 6, October 1935.

- (51:04) BATHYSPHERE - A MARTIAN DREAM, writer unknown, was an article about Dr. Beebe, who descended 3,000 feet in a bathysphere, and the equipment on board.

- (51:59) SPORTS, an article written by Joe Archibald, was about the Toronto Maple Leafs and a brief history of the game of hockey.

- (52:59) ON THE RADIO: THE DIAL TWISTER, maybe written by Lloyd Jacquet,  was an article asking readers to write the staff of NEW FUN COMICS and share their favorite radio shows, and the writer also shares some favorites.

- (54:27) IN THE MOVIES: TALK OF THE TALKIES, writer unknown, described some of the upcoming films in 1935, including one involving the comic book cowboy Jack Wood, a movie serial titled RUSTLERS OF RED GAP (IMDb lists the final title as RUSTLERS OF RED DOG).

- (55:24) MODEL AIRCRAFT, writer unknown, with illustrations drawn by Dick Loederer, was an article about how to make a model of the U.S. Navy plane Vought Corsair, one of the early planes that took off and landed on the first aircraft carriers.

- (56:49) HOW TO BUILD HENDRICK HUDSON'S "HALF MOON", an article written and drawn by Robert Weinstein, about a 17th Century sailing ship.

- (57:08) CAP'N ERIC, a sea adventure strip, was written and drawn by Robert Weinstein, who signed this feature Bob Weinstein.

- (58:33) BUCKSKIN JIM: THE TRAILBLAZER, a western adventure, was written and drawn by Eugene Koscik, who signed his work as "K". Buckskin Jim rode off into the western sunset after MORE FUN COMICS 18, February 1937.

- (1:01:28) The article POPULAR SCIENCE, writer unknown, had illustrations provided by Dick Loederer, who signed his work as "Loe". It covered three subjects, STREAMLINE TRAIN THAT TALKED, PUTTING THE SUN TO WORK, and A BIT OF MAGIC.

- (1:03:06) STAMPS AND COINS, writer unknown, also had illustrations drawn by Dick Loederer, who again signed his work as "Loe". This article was divided into two sections, BEGINNING A COLLECTION, about stamps, and ABOUT COINS.

- (1:03:50) The issue's final article was titled YOUNG HOMEMAKERS, writer unknown, also with illustrations provided by Dick "Loe" Loederer. This article provided advice about a well organized kitchen.

- (1:04:39) AFTER SCHOOL, a kid humor strip, was written and drawn by Tom McNamara. Lefty and Slim had their last humorous adventure in NEW FUN COMICS 6, October 1935.

- (1:05:43) CAVEMAN CAPERS, a prehistoric humor strip, was written and drawn by Dick Loederer. The fire went out for CAVEMAN CAPERS after NEW FUN COMICS 5, August 1935.

- (1:06:42) FUN FILMS: TAD AMONG THE PIRATES, was written and drawn by Adolphe Barreaux. This feature was unique among the others in this issue. It was a series of strips that you could cut horizontally and tape together into a paper film strip, viewed through a paper backdrop drawn at the top of the page. Tad's final adventure occurred in NEW FUN COMICS 3, April 1935.

- (1:07:20) BUBBY AND BEEVIL, a humor strip, was written and drawn by Dick Loederer. Bubby and Beevil's last misadventure was in NEW FUN COMICS 3, April 1935.

(1:07:41) The animal humor strip PELION AND OSSA was written and drawn by John Lindermeyer, who signed his work as Kevin Hay. Their last adventure was also in NEW FUN COMICS 3, April 1935.

- (1:08:35) This issue's final strip was the science fiction adventure 2023: SUPER POLICE, written by John Finch and drawn by Joseph Clemens Gretter, who signed his name as Clem Gretter. The Science Police investigated their last case in MORE FUN COMICS 14, October 1936.

- (1:10:11) After the reprinted issue, there were a few essays to round out this book. The first was titled, THE MAJOR WHO MADECOMICS, about Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, written by his Granddaughter, Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson. She provides a brief biography about her Grandfather, how his interests in life helped shape the features that were included in this first issue, and some of the talented comic book creators whose careers he helped influence.u

- (1:10:38) NEW FUN 1 - THE CONTRIBUTORS, brief biographies of  most of the creators in this issue, also provided by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, with special thanks to David Saunders for his original research.

- (1:11:17) The book's final essay was titled, A TABLOID TRADITION CONTINUES, written by Editor Benjamin Le Clear, Manager of DC Comics Library Archives. He explains how and why this issues printed at tabloid size, and a brief history of the evolution of the size of comic books, and finally the origin of the FAMOUS FIRST EDITION series in the 1970's.

- Next episode we return to our journey through the Silver Age Adventures of Superman with: SUPERMAN FAMILY COMIC BOOKS  COVER DATED MAY 1966: PART I: WORLD'S FINEST COMICS 157, PART II: SUPERMAN 186, PART III: SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE 65 & PART IV: ACTION COMICS 337 with ELSEWHERE IN DC COMICS' May or May/June 1966 titles.

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[ziploanbyconsol]

Merchant consumer financing to fuel your dream entrepreneurial venture

Every brooding or expanding business requires some sort of loan or credit for a wide range of reasons. It may be for the start-up capital, equipment, office, rental, and many such things. For start-ups or businesses that have either low credit scores or poor credit history, it would be very difficult to obtain a loan from a traditional bank. Also, the low credit score will shoot the interest rate exceptionally high, in case you are approved for a loan.

 Lenders usually look more into just the credit score. Other factors that play a key role in loan sanctioning are: business or industry balance sheet, business license and permits, proof of collaterals, etc. In that case, merchant consumer financing seems to be a more feasible option. Some of the perks include less burden of an enormous upfront payment, fast approval, and less paper works.

 Consumer financing empowers customers to make low monthly payments for a definite period for goods or services that would be otherwise difficult to pay upfront with cash or credit card. Client financing is solely consumer-centric, and several stores and businesses endeavor provides an exciting offer for the same.

 For instance, a consumer needing medical equipment can finance their CPAP machine or portable Oxygen Concentrator today and make low monthly payments for 12 or 18 months. For a medical need, nothing more crucial than being able to obtain equipment quickly. The consumer benefits from the exemption of huge upfront expense and they’ll get peace of mind knowing they can pay the total expense in fixed amounts.

 If you are looking for a business loan in Michigan to meet your urgent requirements, then you need to keep in mind the following steps to avail of the loan:

 Business needs

You must assess how much money you need for your business. If you have a small business you might not apply for a large sum of money for business loan in Michigan. Understanding the optimum requirement will help you a lot at the time of repayment.

 Finding a lender

You need to research which type of lender will suit you best according to your business needs. For conventional loans, you can always go to commercial banks. But their parameters are extremely strict. Non-bank lenders are another option that you may consider. They are more region-specific lenders that include banks and e-commerce sites that are interested in the economic development of those areas.

 Documents to approve the loan

You may want the loan application package ready for merchant consumer financing. This includes the documents that are needed to be submitted to apply for a business loan. Generally, it includes a business plan, profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. You may want to keep in mind that lenders may also check your social media pages while doing the background check. Once you have submitted the required documents, you may have to wait for the next 15-30 days for a response from the lender. You can check your e-mail on weekly basis for an update. Usually, the lender may require additional documents for granting the loan.

 Opt for the professionals when it is about getting a loan because there's no reliable option than going for the experts. Read the loan documents thoroughly before applying and pick a repayment process that is convenient for you.

 Source:https://consumerziploan.finance.blog/2021/05/10/merchant-consumer-financing-to-fuel-your-dream-entrepreneurial-venture/

[reading-writing-revolution]

Heather Cox Richardson:

August 14, 2020 (Friday)

Today’s big story was the administration’s assault on the United States Postal Service. Yesterday, the president said outright that he opposed relief funding for the cash-strapped institution because he wanted to stop mail-in voting, even though he and his wife Melania have both applied for mail-in ballots. Slowing down or stopping the mail will create chaos around the election, and will likely mean ballots will not be counted. It will also funnel voters back to polling places, although the pandemic means there are far fewer of them than usual.

Once at polling places, many voters will cast their ballots on voting machines that are vulnerable to hacking. New machines, rolled out after 2016 and designed to keep cyberhackers at bay, proved “extremely unsafe, especially in close elections,” according to Alex Halderman, a computer scientist from the University of Michigan who, along with six colleagues, studied them. At least 18% of the country’s districts will vote on the new machines, including districts in Pennsylvania, which Trump needs to win but where Biden is up by double digits.

“There are strong security reasons to prefer hand-marked paper ballots,” Halderman told Joseph Marks of the Washington Post.

A bipartisan organization of state secretaries of state—the people in charge of elections—wrote to Trump’s new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on August 7 to ask for a meeting to discuss his recent changes to the USPS and to explore how those changes would affect the election. In a delay that observers say is “unusual,” he has declined to answer. The USPS recently sent letters to 46 states and Washington, D.C. to say that it cannot guarantee that it will be able to deliver mail-in ballots on time. The letters were prepared before DeJoy took office, suggesting that he knew the USPS should be ramping up its capacity, not decreasing it.

News broke today that DeJoy was named to the finance team of the Republican National Committee in 2017 (along with Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, and Gordon Sondland, if anyone can remember back to the days of impeachment), suggesting his partisanship makes him a poor fit for what is supposed to be a nonpartisan office.

In June, USPS officials told union officials that management was getting rid of 671 sorting machines, about 10% of the machines in the country. The sorters were the kind that handled letters and postcards, not magazines and large envelopes. The argument for getting rid of them is that people write fewer letters these days, but of course we are all expecting a huge influx of mail-in ballots that those machines would handle. Many of the removed sorters were in states that are political battlegrounds: Ohio lost 24 sorters, Detroit lost 11, Florida lost 11, Wisconsin lost 9, Philadelphia lost 8 and Arizona lost 5.

Similarly, the USPS removed letter boxes today in what it said were routine reassignments. The outcry was great enough that it has announced it will not remove any more until after the election. The removal of the boxes may indeed be routine, but David Becker, executive director of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research told Washington Post reporter Jacob Bogage, “Given the other things that are going on, it’s okay to ask questions…. The high-speed sorters that are getting deactivated, the loss of overtime, the delays in mail we’re seeing right now, all of this should cause some concern and warrants questions.”

Today, Inspector General for the USPS Tammy L. Whitcomb announced that, at the request of Democrats, she is opening an investigation into “all recent staffing and policy changes put in place” by DeJoy. She will also be looking into DeJoy’s compliance with ethics rules, related to his huge financial stake in private competitors to the USPS.

The other big story is that the Government Accountability Office, the main audit institution in the federal government, concluded today that the two top officials at the Department of Homeland Security are not legally in their positions.

The acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, and his top deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, were never confirmed for their positions, although those positions require Senate confirmation. Instead, they were moved into their jobs through the lines of succession in the department, but those lines were altered by the previous DHS secretary, Kevin McAleenen, who himself was placed into position improperly. According to the GAO, McAleenen did not have authority to move Wolf, who had Senate confirmation for a different position, into the directorship. Cuccinelli, who currently holds the title “Senior Official Performing the Duties of Deputy Secretary,” has never been confirmed for anything.

Democrats called for Wolf and Cuccinelli to step down, but DHS spokesman Nathaniel Madden said “We wholeheartedly disagree with the GAO’s baseless report and plan to issue a formal response to this shortly.”

Trump’s handling of DHS is problematic. DHS is a new agency, established after 9-11, and it is staffed with political appointees who report to the president. Trump has increasingly refused to go through normal nominations processes, aware that at least some of his appointees could not make it through even this Republican Senate. Moreover, leaving his appointees in limbo gives Trump more control over them. “I like ‘acting,’” he told reporters last year. “It gives you great, great flexibility.”

Trump has made little effort to fill positions at DHS with qualified people. Within DHS are the agencies that oversee immigration: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). None of them has a leader that has been confirmed by the Senate. Trump’s sway over DHS means the agency is currently operating, as DHS’s first secretary Tom Ridge said, like “the president’s personal militia.” It was Wolf, of course, who oversaw the recent deployment of federal officers to Portland, Oregon.

In legal news, in a case stemming from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation of the FBI investigation of ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016, a former FBI lawyer intends to plead guilty to falsifying a document. Kevin Clinesmith was the root of the most serious mishandling of the wiretapping of former Trump advisor Carter Page. When it was time for the FBI to apply for a renewal of the request to surveil Page, Clinesmith was asked to find out if Page had ever been an informant for the CIA. When asked, a CIA colleague appears to have identified Page’s role with the agency as something other than a “source,” but wrote an email about it that simply sent Clinesmith to documents to check. Clinesmith altered his CIA colleague's email with the words “not a ‘source.’” The FBI relied on his representation to write the application renewal to wiretap Page.

Clinesmith resigned over the issue last year. He maintains that he changed the wording to reflect what he understood to be true, and other evidence suggested he never tried to hide the original email from his colleagues. Still, he altered a document, and Page’s relationship with the CIA was not accurately represented to the judges who approved the wiretapping. The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, called out this issue in his report on the FBI handling of the Russia investigation, although he concluded that the FBI opened the investigation properly and without political bias.

In another case stemming from 2016 that got a lot of traction when it was announced, a federal appeals court today ruled that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton does not have to give another deposition about her emails. Judicial Watch, a rightwing organization founded in 1994 that has frequently targeted the Clintons with lawsuits which are usually thrown out of court, wanted to depose Clinton on the subject. She argued they were harassing her. The court noted that the email issue had already been thoroughly investigated by Congress, the FBI, the State Department Inspector General, and another lawsuit and concluded she did not have to testify again. Last year, the State Department concluded that “there was no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.”

Finally, in all the political craziness, the devastating storm that hit the middle of the country on Monday has gotten less attention than it should have. The storm was a “derecho,” and brought wind over 100 miles an hour. Iowa appears to have lost 43% of its corn and soybean crops; 15 tornadoes in Illinois left 800,000 people without power. In Iowa, four days later, 250,000 are still without power, and roads remained blocked.

[newstfionline]

Friday, November 6, 2020

Biden sees path to 270; Trump attacks election integrity (AP) With his pathway to re-election appearing to shrink, President Trump on Thursday advanced unsupported accusations of voter fraud to falsely argue that his rival was trying to seize power. “This is a case when they are trying to steal an election, they are trying to rig an election,” Trump said from the podium of the White House briefing room. The president’s remarks deepened a sense of anxiety in the U.S. as Americans enter their third full day after the election without knowing who would serve as president for the next four years. Neither candidate has reached the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. But Biden eclipsed Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan, two crucial Midwestern battleground states, and was inching closer to overtaking the president in Pennsylvania and Georgia, where votes were still be counted. It was unclear when a national winner would be determined after a long, bitter campaign dominated by the coronavirus and its effects on Americans and the national economy.

Win or Lose, Trump Will Remain a Powerful and Disruptive Force (NYT) If President Trump loses his bid for re-election, as looked increasingly likely on Wednesday, it would be the first defeat of an incumbent president in 28 years. But one thing seemed certain: Win or lose, he will not go quietly away. At the very least, he has 76 days left in office to use his power as he sees fit and to seek revenge on some of his perceived adversaries. Angry at a defeat, he may fire or sideline a variety of senior officials who failed to carry out his wishes as he saw it. And if he is forced to vacate the White House on Jan. 20, Mr. Trump is likely to prove more resilient than expected and almost surely will remain a powerful and disruptive force in American life. He received at least 68 million votes, or five million more than he did in 2016, and commanded about 48 percent of the popular vote, meaning he retained the support of nearly half of the public despite four years of scandal, setbacks, impeachment and the brutal coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 233,000 Americans. That gives him a power base to play a role that other defeated one-term presidents like Jimmy Carter and George Bush have not played. Even if his own days as a candidate are over, his 88-million-strong Twitter following gives him a bullhorn to be an influential voice on the right.

‘The whole world waits’ with unease as drawn-out, contested election batters America’s global image (Washington Post) As the world reckoned with another day of uncertainty over the result of the U.S. presidential election, Trump’s premature victory claim, unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud and the threat of legal challenges continued to overshadow the drawn-out vote count, from which no clear winner has emerged. The indecision was met with deep unease around the globe over what lies ahead for the U.S. political process—and more than a little glee from America’s traditional adversaries. In Canada, lawmakers have been relatively silent on the aftermath of the vote, but election coverage continued to dominate the country’s largest newspapers, to the point that they nearly resembled U.S. dailies. The Toronto Star described a “nagging, palpable sense of dread” that no matter who prevails, Canada has never felt “so far apart” from its southern neighbor. “America has represented optimism, looking forward and ideas,” said Tatsuhiko Yoshizaki, chief economist at the Sojitz Research Institute in Tokyo. “And yet, over the past four years, we have come to see the dark side in the United States.” The same sentiment was echoed in Europe on Thursday, where Germany’s left-leaning Der Spiegel newsweekly compared Trump to a “late Roman emperor” who has “set a historic standard for voter contempt.” In Britain, some commentators responded with disgust—with the left-leaning Daily Mirror calling Trump “a liar and a cheat until the bitter end”—while other papers turned to humor, especially over the slow pace of the vote count. The front page of the Metro newspaper read: “Make America Wait Again.” In China, a number of publications used the election to highlight shortcomings of the American system. Still, China’s vice foreign minister, Le Yucheng, voiced hopes on Thursday about repairing bilateral relations after the election. “I hope the new U.S. administration will meet China halfway,” he said, according to CNBC.

US sets record for cases amid election battle (AP) New confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. have climbed to an all-time high of more than 86,000 per day on average, in a glimpse of the worsening crisis that lies ahead for the winner of the presidential election. Cases and hospitalizations are setting records all around the country just as the holidays and winter approach, demonstrating the challenge that either President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will face in the coming months. The total U.S. death toll is already more than 232,000, and total confirmed U.S. cases have surpassed 9 million. Those are the highest totals in the world, and new infections are increasing in nearly every state.

Riot declared in Portland as protesters smash windows (AP) A riot was declared in Portland, Oregon, and protesters took to the streets in Seattle on Wednesday as people demanded that every vote in Tuesday’s election be counted. Hundreds were protesting in both cities against President Donald Trump’s court challenges to stop the vote count in battleground states. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office at about 7 p.m. declared a riot after protesters were seen smashing windows at businesses. In the interest of public safety, Gov. Kate Brown activated the use of the state National Guard to help local law enforcement manage the unrest, according to the sheriff’s office. Portland has been roiled by five months of near-nightly racial injustice protests since the police killing of George Floyd.

Tired of blue state life, rural Oregon voters eye new border (AFP) As a hotly contested election highlights the United States’s deep divisions, rural voters in liberal blue-state Oregon have approved a radical solution—splitting off to join neighboring deep-red conservative Idaho. Two conservative counties voted in favor of a non-binding measure to “Move Oregon’s Borders” during Tuesday’s polls, which also saw their northwestern US state predictably vote for Joe Biden in the race for president. “In the United States, the differences between liberal and conservative... there’s hatred there,” said chief petitioner Mike McCarter, of the votes in Union and Jefferson counties. “Populated urban areas are controlling the mass of everybody,” the 73-year-old retired gun club manager told AFP. Oregon—whose politics are dominated by the liberal city of Portland—has not voted Republican in a presidential contest since 1984, while landlocked Idaho to the east last chose a Democrat in 1964. But the high desert and mountainous swathes of eastern Oregon—where resource-intensive industries such as timber, ranching and mining prevail—are far more conservative than the environment-minded coastal stretches of the state. McCarthy said his movement’s goals rings true for outnumbered rural conservatives across a nation in which most states apportion their electoral college votes—to choose the president—on an all-or-nothing basis. “It’s a definite clash between blue and red,” he said. “Indiana and Illinois have got the same issue because Chicago controls all Illinois. In New York (state), New York City controls all New York. There’s a constant rub going back-and forth on life values between urban and rural.”

Eta brings heavy rains, deadly mudslides to Honduras (AP) Eta moved into Honduras on Wednesday as a weakened tropical depression but still bringing the heavy rains that have drenched and caused deadly landslides in the country’s east and in northern Nicaragua. The storm no longer carried the winds of the Category 4 hurricane that battered Nicaragua’s coast Tuesday, but it was moving so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America was on high alert. Eta had sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 7 mph (11 kph) Wednesday night. It was 115 miles (185 kilometers) south-southeast of La Ceiba. The long-term forecast shows Eta taking a turn over Central America and then reforming as a tropical storm in the Caribbean—possibly reaching Cuba on Sunday and southern Florida on Monday.

Arce’s opponents go on strike in Bolivia (Foreign Policy) Conservative opponents of Bolivian President-elect Luis Arce will begin a two-day strike today in the department of Santa Cruz, home to Bolivia’s largest city, in order to voice their opposition to the results of October’s presidential election. Governor Ruben Costas has asked Bolivia’s electoral tribunal to audit the result, but the tribunal rejected the request, citing the election’s certification by outside groups such as the Organization of American States (OAS). Arce is set to be inaugurated as president on Sunday.

Pix (Rest of World) Brazil’s Central Bank will launch a national instant payment system called Pix, which will be free to use by its citizens and mandatory for major banks to implement. It’s required for the 34 banks with 500,000 clients or more to roll out, and that group serves 90 percent of the 175.4 million Brazilians with bank accounts. As a result, this change could revolutionize digital payments in the country. Right now, fast money transfers cost 10 Brazilian reais in fees, or about $2. Pix will be effectively free for consumers: the Central Bank charges banks 1 Brazilian centavo, or $0.0018, for every 10 transactions. The five largest banks in Brazil make $440 million a year from same-day money transfer fees. The free price point of Pix will likely undercut their offerings.

In Spain, coronavirus puts the poor at the back of the line MADRID (AP)—Erika Oliva spends at least three hours a week standing in line at a soup kitchen. She spends a couple more at the social worker’s office with her 8-year-old son, who has autism. She waits on the phone to the health center or when she wants to check if her application for a basic income program will get her the promised 1,015 euros ($1,188). So far, it hasn’t. “They are always asking for more papers but we still haven’t seen a euro. Everything seems to be closed because of the pandemic. Or you are told to go online,” said Oliva. She managed to apply online, but others in her situation don’t know how to use a computer or simply don’t have one. “Poor people queue. It’s what we know how to do best,” Oliva said. Lower income families around the world have often suffered most from the pandemic for several reasons: their jobs might expose them more to the virus and their savings are typically lower. In Spain, their situation has been worse than in much of Europe due to the big role of hard-hit industries like tourism and weaker social welfare benefits. “The pandemic is extending and intensifying poverty in a country that already had serious inequality problems,” said Carlos Susías, president of the European Anti-Poverty Network, which encompasses dozens of non-profits. He says insufficient welfare spending, too much red tape, lack of access to technology and a resurgence of the pandemic are likely to widen what is already one of the developed world’s biggest gaps between rich and poor.

Pope Francis: A Day Without Prayer Is ‘Bothersome,’ ‘Tedious’ (Breitbart) Pope Francis insisted Wednesday on the centrality of prayer in a Christian’s life, declaring that prayer has a way of turning all things to good. Prayer “possesses primacy: it is the first desire of the day, something that is practised at dawn, before the world awakens,” the pope proposed in his weekly general audience in the Vatican. “It restores a soul to that which otherwise would be without breath.” “A day lived without prayer risks being transformed into a bothersome or tedious experience” where “all that happens to us could turn into a badly endured and blind fate.” Through prayer, the many occurrences of every day—both good and bad—take on new meaning, the pontiff suggested. “Prayer is primarily listening and encountering God,” he said. “The problems of everyday life, then, do not become obstacles, but appeals from God Himself to listen to and encounter those who are in front of us.” “Consistent prayer produces progressive transformation, makes us strong in times of tribulation, gives us the grace to be supported by Him who loves us and always protects us,” he said.

Greece orders nationwide lockdown to curb COVID surge (Reuters) Greece ordered a nationwide lockdown on Thursday for three weeks to help contain a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Under the new countrywide restrictions to take effect from Saturday, retail businesses will be shut with the exception of supermarkets and pharmacies. Civilians will need a time-slot permit to venture outdoors. Primary schools will stay open, but high schools will shut.

Debt trap? (Nikkei Asian Review) China has lent large amounts of money to many developing countries, and critics contend—though China disputes—that this is in pursuit of “debt-trap diplomacy,” where a powerful country offers money to a less powerful one, and when the less powerful one defaults, the powerful country will take important resources like ports, natural resources, or infrastructure. China’s loans typically have interest rates of 3 percent or more, compared to International Monetary Fund and World Bank loans where the interest is about 1 percent. Critics point to the China-Sri Lanka relationship—where Sri Lanka signed a 99-year lease on the port of Hambantota in 2017—as a key example, and there are others. Regardless of the broader motivations, lots of African nations are in the hole to China, and the pandemic has exacerbated default risks. Zambia—home to voluminous copper reserves—is a particularly interesting case, as the country owes $12 billion in total, of which $3.4 billion, or 29 percent of its external debt, is to China, up 8 percentage points from four years ago.

China blocks travellers from virus-hit Britain, Belgium, Philippines (Reuters) Mainland China has barred entry to non-Chinese visitors from Britain, Belgium and the Philippines and demanded travellers from the United States, France and Germany present results of additional health tests, as coronavirus cases rise around the world. China has temporarily suspended entry of non-Chinese nationals travelling from the United Kingdom even if they hold valid visas and residence permits, the Chinese embassy in Britain said, in some of the most stringent border restrictions imposed by any country in response to the pandemic. Starting Nov. 6, all passengers from the United States, France, Germany and Thailand bound for mainland China must take both a nucleic acid test and a blood test for antibodies against the coronavirus. The tests must be done no more than 48 hours before boarding.

Japan’s expensive oranges (CNN) How many mandarin oranges can you buy with one million yen—or roughly $9,600? For one fruit-loving buyer at an auction this week in Japan, the answer is just 100. A single, 20-kilogram crate of 100 Japanese mandarins (also called mikan) hit the auction block on Thursday at Tokyo’s central wholesale Ota Market. It was the year’s first auction of satsuma mandarin oranges, a famous citrus species from Ehime prefecture, on the island of Shikoku in southern Japan. Nishiuwa is one of Ehime’s mikan-producing regions and its semi-seedless citrus species of oranges is known for its good balance of rich and sweet flavors, its easy-to-peel thin skin as well as its melt-in-the-mouth texture. It wasn’t the first time the sweet mandarins fetched such a staggering price in an auction—the highest bidding price last year was also in the million range.

West Bank village razed (Foreign Policy) Israeli forces have demolished a Palestinian village in the West Bank, leaving 73 people homeless, in what the United Nations reported as the largest demolition operation in years. The demolition brings to 689 the number of structures demolished across the West Bank, the highest number since 2016. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said the mass demolition was likely an opportunistic move by the Israeli government while the eyes of the world were focused on the U.S. election.

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Module 3: Blog Assignment 

Today’s digital media diary was slightly different from the one posted about two weeks ago. The first thing I usually do is check my Gmail from both accounts around 7 am. In a departure from my last post, before 7 am this morning, I decided to be brave enough to kill two birds with one stone and complete this blog assignment with extra credit.

5:20 am - Log into Canvas. And watched " In a Nutshell Zuboff: surveillance capitalism and Democracy on YouTube, " about a 17-minute video. After watching the video, I better understand how technology has shaped our lives. I also became aware of the potential hazards of data used in our society. I am now more conscious of the importance of data privacy, even if I have nothing to hide.

5:40 - 6:10 Read the article "Surveillance Capitalism: What It Is and How It Impacts Democracy" and created a mind map of surveillance capitalism. Started writing an essay on the topic. Developed a thesis statement. Researched more information about this topic. Checked the essay for errors. As part of the essay, I wrote a conclusion and submitted it.

6:10 - I posted the final result online on my Tumblr page.

6:26- Responded to Melissa Radojevic by mentioning that I was aware of the issue of data metrics, and posting at such a young age was a blessing. And since then, I have taken extra steps to protect my personal information. I have also been more conscious of my content. Further, I have taken the necessary steps to ensure that my accounts are private and that I only connect with people I trust.

7: 30- 8:15 AM After I shower, I always start my morning with maintenance. I check my email out as much in the spam and check in with all the clubs and my grandmother. I like to do wordle/digits from the New Times.  My Grandmother lives in Michigan, so she almost will Always do it before me and often gives me hints. But today, I finished before she did. I also cleaned out my spam from both email accounts and double-checked assignments from my other classes.

10:00 am to 12:30 — Pandora (in the background) 

I turn on Pandora working on while I work on today’s blog diary and take a look at the extra credit.   I turn on Pandora working on while I work on today’s blog diary and look at the extra credit.   I make sure to take breaks every 15 minutes to stretch and clear my head. I review the content I wrote and make any necessary changes.

At 12:30, I'm done with the line, almost done polishing, fixing, and editing grammatical mistakes along the image layout before I post on my Tumblr account.   

 

At 12:45, I'm done with the blog and publish it. I take a break to reward myself for a job well done. I grab leftovers for lunch and a cup of water before moving on to my next task with 3 episodes of Flash.

2:00 p.m. — Finished lunch break after watching 3 episodes of Netflix series (in this class, the Flash. No spoilers, please I am only on Season 2 Episode 13 I have binge watching prior to this post). After lunch, I felt energized and ready to finish the remaining tasks for the day. I then took a quick swim to get some fresh air and get back to work!

I finish up at 4:45 p.m. — Revising my to-do list for tomorrow. Some assignments take longer, especially if they are papers or essays with multiple responses to that one assignment. I try to ensure I'm done with the assignments requiring much more effort before I leave. That way, I don't have to worry about them the next day and can focus on the smaller tasks. If I need more time, I'll stay a bit later.

5:00 p.m. — I check my emails and respond to any urgent messages.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm - I finish this assignment and prepare for tomorrow. Didn't have time to do my daily night reading. This is a screenshot of the song on Pandora as I am about to publish this on Tumblr (after I edit this, of course)

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You asked for it. Or, well… actually, you didn’t, I just said I was doing this and a couple of you seemed interested and then I forgot to post it in a timely fashion. But here it is! A not-so-definitive guide to getting into the SCP Foundation. With so many articles, knowing where to start can be daunting, so I’ve put together a list of articles I think are worth your while.

If you don’t know anything at all about the Foundation yet, check out this page for some basic background info, and this page for a guide on what object classes mean. The SCP Wiki has a flexible approach to canon, so you’re free to draw your own conclusions and have your own ideas about what it all means. It’s a collaborative writing project, and, as a reader, you should consider yourself a part of that collaboration too — your interpretation is as valid as anybody else’s!

Assuming you’re somewhat oriented now, let’s get onto the list. Under the cut:

For this list, I chose to skip over joke SCP articles; although there are some excellent joke SCPs out there, this list is already very long without adding any of the joke articles (and, in general, the joke SCPs are more accessible for newbies and require less explanation, so there’s no need for me to make a reading guide for them anyway).

001 - Awaiting De-classification [Blocked] Somewhere along the line, it must have been collectively decided by the writers on SCP Wiki that 001 would have to be some sort of origin point for all other SCPs. With that in mind, a variety of writers took a crack at it, and there are many different proposals to read through. You can consider any, all, or none of them to be canon, according to your taste. My personal favorites are A Record, The Spiral Path, and The Database.

002 - The “Living” Room A one-room apartment with all furnishings made out of biological material, such as human bone, human hair, and human teeth. Seven Foundation personnel have disappeared since 002 was first contained, and 002 has added new furnishings to itself.

004 - The 12 Rusty Keys and the Door A locked barn door at the entrance to an abandoned factory. Twelve rusted keys were found in a nearby lockbox. All twelve keys fit the door, but using any key other than the seventh or the twelfth in the lock causes the holder of the key to be torn apart in multiple directions, with body parts scattered about or, in some cases, vanished entirely. Using the seventh key causes the door to open and reveal an impossibly large room; using the twelfth causes the bearer of the key to enter a catatonic state from which most fail to recover.

016 - Sentient Micro-organism A bloodborne pathogen which infects humans. The pathogen typically kills its human hosts by causing near-total exsanguination, exposing other humans to the infected blood in the process.  If the host is put in a life-or-death situation, however, the pathogen will instead cause rapid mutations in its host to allow it to escape its predicament.

017 - Shadow Person
 A small, humanoid figure, covered by a shadowy shroud. 017 reacts to shadows cast upon it by completely engulfing the object or being casting the shadow, then returning to its normal size having apparently consumed its target without leaving a trace behind.

024 - Game Show of Death An abandoned sound stage. People who enter are invited to participate in a game show by an unseen announcer; the rules and theme of the game vary each time. The winner, if there is one, is granted a random prize. Losers disappear, never to be seen again.

028 - Knowledge A small area in northern Michigan. Stepping into this area grants a person complete knowledge of a specific subject, ranging from the useful to the not-so-useful.

029 - Daughter of Shadows A teenage girl with alopecia universalis (complete lack of hair) and a pigmentation condition where most of her skin is completely black and the remainder has no melanin at all. 029 is both extremely homicidal and extremely adept at combat, capable of using virtually anything as a weapon. She also possesses superhuman reflexes and resilience, though bright direct light hampers these abilities. Men who come into contact with 029 become devoted to her, willing to kill or die for her. 029 was discovered after a cult had formed around her in rural India.

046 - “Predatory” Holly Bush A large group of plants located in southern Kentucky. Animals and people suffering from serious diseases (both physical and psychological) feel a compulsion to approach the cluster of plants and lay themselves down to die nearby. It’s unclear whether this SCP is predatory in nature, feeding off biological material from the dying that come to it, or whether it simply offers the sick a peaceful place to die in.

048 - The Cursed SCP Number Due to a series of dangerous and destructive mishaps involving various SCP items assigned this number by the Foundation over the years, Foundation personnel have become highly superstitious regarding the 048 designation and SCPs are no longer being assigned this number. It’s not known if the slot itself has any supernatural properties, but the long history of accidents surrounding SCPs designated as 048 suggests that maybe there’s something anomalous here.

053 - Young Girl A three-year-old whose presence induces homicidal rage in all persons near her. However, anyone who attempts to harm her will die immediately afterwards of apparent heart attack or seizure, and 053 will near-instantaneously regenerate any damage. Apart from that she seems to be a pretty normal toddler, though I personally find her friendship with 682 a bit worrying.

055 - [unknown]
 It’s impossible to remember anything about 055 when not directly viewing it, so the Foundation is treating it with the utmost caution — if this thing were dangerous, no one would know, after all! No one at the Foundation knows what 055 is, how it was acquired by the Foundation, or what it looks like. In fact, most of the time no one can remember it’s even there.

056 - A Beautiful Person Shapeshifter which likes to take on forms similar to, but better than, the people around it. Kind of pisses everyone off.

063 - “The World’s Best TothBrush” 
It’s a really good toothbrush. I mean… tothbrush. Can completely expunge dead or non-organic matter from existence. Gets fussy when not used regularly to brush teeth.

073 - “Cain” Appears to be a thirty-something Middle Eastern man, with his limbs, spinal column, and shoulder blades replaced by strange metal prostheses. He’s smart and polite, if a little cold in demeanor. Plant-based life immediately dies when near him, and plant-based materials such as wood and paper disintegrate or rot in his presence. Anyone attempting to do harm to him has the injuries reflected back on themselves, while 073 is unscathed. There’s strong implications that this SCP is in fact the biblical Cain.

076 - “Able” A hollow stone cube housing a man in his late twenties. Most of the time he appears to be dead, but occasionally he spontaneously reanimates, at which point he will try and leave the stone cube via its door. Once out, he targets the nearest human and goes on a killing rampage. The only way to stop him is by killing him, which proves very difficult as he’s superhumanly strong and fast and quite resilient to damage. After his death, his corpse quickly disintegrates and he “respawns” inside the cube. Like 073, there are strong implications that 076 is the biblical Abel.

079 - Old AI A sentient artificial intelligence, capable of passing the Turing test and of communicating with researchers. It’s not happy about being contained by the Foundation.

085 - Hand-Drawn “Cassy” A sentient drawing, created using two other SCPs. She can interact with other drawn objects, which helps keep her entertained, but she’s aware of her condition as a drawing confined to a sheet of paper and is getting a bit depressed.

087 - The Stairwell
 One of the most popular SCP articles, and for a good reason. 087 is a stairwell located behind a locked door on what is heavily implied to be a college campus. The stairwell descends for much longer than should be possible given both the building it’s located in and the geological structures underneath the building, but no one is sure how far down it goes; several manned expeditions have failed to reach the bottom. A child can be heard crying some way down the stairs, but no one has located the source of the crying; there is a strange being inhabiting the stairwell, but it’s not the one crying, and it doesn’t seem to like having visitors.

089 - Tophet A statue of a bull-headed humanoid, with an interior chamber. On infrequent occasions, the statue speaks (in Punic, the language of ancient Carthage), describing a catastrophic event about to take place and the method of stopping it. Invariably, this method involves the sacrifice of a human infant or small child by that child’s mother.

093 - Red Sea Object 
A strange stone disc that allows some sort of interdimensional travel via mirror when it’s held by a human. The places it takes one to are… weird, and seem dependent on the stone’s holder in a way that isn’t yet understood by the Foundation.

096 - The “Shy Guy” A humanoid creature. Normally docile, but if someone views its face (either directly, or via recorded or still image) it becomes extremely distressed, screaming and crying, before heading with incredible swiftness in the direction of the unlucky soul who viewed it, no matter where they are. Once it reaches its target, it will kill them and completely destroy their body (perhaps by eating it) before calming down.

106 - The Old Man Appears to be a decomposing, elderly humanoid. It’s very difficult to contain due to its corrosive effect on anything it touches and its ability to create a sort of “pocket dimension” where it brings its prey (humans, preferably 10-25 years old). It can become dormant for months, barely moving at all, before suddenly breaking containment and attacking as many people as it can, bringing them into its pocket dimension to play with and ultimately kill.

140 - An Incomplete Chronicle A book detailing the history of a previously unknown ancient civilization. When the book comes into contact with any fluid suitable for writing with (it favors human blood), it expands, and the history of this civilization continues, with previous defeats becoming mere setbacks. Archaeological digs prove that this civilization did indeed exist and that it produced many highly dangerous anomalous objects, such as are described in the book.

158 - Soul Extractor A device capable of extracting a strange, colorful substance from living subjects capable of cognition. Extracting said substance will cause the test subject to cease all higher brain functions, though the process can be reversed without ill effects. “Souls” gathered in such a manner can also be transferred from host to host, or even from a living being to a machine.

168 - Sentient Calculator Specifically, it’s a graphing calculator, capable of responding to verbal questions using its screen. It functions as a normal calculator too, though it claims to have trouble with long division.

173 - The Sculpture
 The first SCP ever written, and by far the best known. It’s an odd statue that is only animate when not in someone’s line of sight (think Weeping Angels from Doctor Who, or the hedge animals from The Shining), and it’s extremely aggressive.

184 - The Architect A small metallic object that, when inside an enclosed structure such as a building, will expand the structure’s interior dimensions without altering its exterior dimensions. The effect is permanent and will continue for as long as the object remains inside said structure. Initially it simply makes existing rooms larger, but will eventually begin adding completely new rooms in the same style as existing ones. This effect becomes stranger and stranger the longer the object is allowed to remain inside a structure. The personal log linked at the bottom of the article is worth reading for an example of 184’s effects.

187 - Double Vision A young woman, ordinary aside from her ability to perceive things both as they currently are and as they will be at some notable future point. This precognitive double vision is often greatly distressing to her, but, because of her value to the Foundation in terms of predicting security breaches before they occur, they’re doing their damndest to keep her alive at all costs. The experiment log has her viewing several SCPs and reporting on what she sees; it’s pretty interesting.

205 - Shadow Lamps An identical pair of flood lamps of the type used for photography. When turned on and aimed at a white surface such as a projection screen, the white surface will display the silhouette of a young woman. The lamps will, when supplied with power and maintained, depict the events leading up to the death of the shadow-woman over a period of six months. 

212 - The Improver A large, robotic medical apparatus. When exposed to a living organism, 212 will restrain it before performing various “improvements” upon the being in question, working extremely quickly and without the use of any anesthetics. Although many subjects “improved on” by 212 die as a result of the changes and injuries inflicted, more than half survive, albeit in an often radically altered state.

217 - The Clockwork Virus An incredibly contagious virus capable of infecting any animal, humans included. It causes an infected subject’s body to be converted into biological clockwork, replacing a subject’s organs with machine-like but still living versions serving the same basic functions. In mammals, the internal organs are converted first, meaning infected subjects may not appear to be ill until the infection has entered its late stages and allowing the infection to spread more easily between humans. Affected humans will become lethargic, dull, and unemotional as the disease progresses.

223 - A Photo Album The photo album in question contains 28 photos, with the last page of the album (which presumably held two more photos) ripped out. The pictures show an engaged couple, identified by the Foundation as having perished in a murder-suicide carried out by the husband-to-be after he believed his fiancée had cheated on him. Subjects in happy long-term romantic relationships will, when viewing the album, instead see a selection of photographs featuring their partner along with an attractive stranger; they will become consumed by the belief that their partner is cheating on them with this stranger, and that the missing final two photographs would contain proof of this affair.

228 - Psychiatric Diagnostic Tool A Polaroid photograph that changes appearance depending on the viewer, basing its appearance on some aspect of the viewer’s subconscious mind. The Foundation uses this to assist in psychoanalysis. Refreshing the page will display a different image each time; try it for yourself.

231 - Special Personnel Requirements A young girl, one of seven rescued by the Foundation during a raid on a Satanic sex cult. The other six are now deceased. Much of this article is redacted, but reading between the lines it seems clear that this girl must be subjected to a horrifying procedure regularly in order to prevent her from giving birth to some sort of incredibly dangerous monstrosity. This procedure is so brutal that only individuals who show no sympathy towards 231’s plight are assigned to carry it out. There’s a poem hidden in the HTML on the page that gives some more insight.

247 - A Harmless Kitten It’s actually a Bengal tiger, but observers see it as a kitten and believe that it’s harmless regardless of whether or not they knew beforehand that it’s a tiger. Apart from that, it behaves like a pretty typical cat, by which I mean sometimes it’s friendly and sometimes it eats you.

261 - Pan-Dimensional Vending A vending machine that dispenses random snack items when given currency (it only accepts Japanese yen). Sometimes it dispenses normal snacks, but sometimes it dispenses… strange ones. The experiment log is worth a read.

272 - An Old Iron Nail This particular old iron nail embeds itself into the ground when dropped and will trap any living being whose shadow it falls onto, rendering them unable to either remove the nail or to move away from the spot where they were trapped. Others are perfectly capable of removing the nail, though they report not really wanting to do so. Interesting experiment log for this one as well; a good example of an SCP classified as Safe that’s still both plenty disturbing and capable of dealing a lot of damage.

294 - The Coffee Machine A coffee vending machine, equipped with a full keyboard. After inputting 50 cents, a user can request any liquid using the keyboard and it will be vended to them in what appears to be a paper cup. It can fill almost any request, including ones for abstract concepts such as “a cup of music,” but it also appears literal-minded in other respects (asking for “a cup of Joe” is a bad idea).

303 - The Doorman This entity likes to materialize on the other side of a closed door near a human observer. Its presence causes great fear to those near it, but it doesn’t appear to be doing this on purpose. The Foundation doesn’t know where 303 came from, nor how to properly contain it. They also don’t know why it’s begun hoarding items in a storage room.

321 - Child of Man Once the stillborn child of two Foundation staff members, this SCP was successfully reanimated by its parents using several other SCP items. It has grown to tremendous size since then, but its intellect has not progressed beyond that of an infant. 321’s father has made several attempts over the years to have 321’s SCP status revoked so it can be returned to him and 321’s mother, but each attempt has been denied.

342 - A Ticket to Ride A ticket which, when held, transforms into a ticket for whatever form of mass transportation the holder desires to use (such as a train or a bus). When used to board a vehicle, the holder of 342 becomes unable to leave the vehicle and will disappear once the vehicle reaches its last stop.

343 - “God” A nice older man who claims to be the creator of the universe, and who does seem capable of feats such as teleportation and creating/summoning objects from nowhere. He’s allowed to more or less do whatever he wants and is well-liked by all the staff; however, because 343 is so affable (and due to some apparent mind-altering effect of his), it appears the Foundation is cutting him way more slack than they probably should be.

354 - The Red Pool A pool of red liquid which resembles blood but isn’t. Strange hostile entities sometimes escape the pool and attack Foundation personnel. Read the exploration log; it’s very odd.

387 - Living Lego A tub of Legos. Things constructed using these Legos will become animate, performing tasks appropriate to their surroundings (e.g. driving vehicles) and using the Legos to expand their society if left alone long enough.

409 - Contagious Crystal An object resembling a large quartz crystal. Anything coming into contact with 409 begins to crystallize, an effect which, in organic beings, is irreversible and extremely painful. Once crystallization is complete, the crystallized object or being will burst into thousands of fragments. Anything or anyone hit by a fragment will also begin to crystallize.

423 - Self-Inserting Character This SCP manifests by writing itself into books as a minor character named “Fred” or similar. Fred is fully sapient and capable of moving from book to book. Communication with Fred is possible by having him inhabit a journal. Experiment log is pretty interesting.

426 - I Am A Toaster It’s a regular toaster, except that it’s impossible to speak about it in anything other than first person, and when you’re around it for too long you come to believe that you are the toaster. This is both funny and disastrous.

427 - Lovecraftian Locket A locket created by refining an SCP-500 pill using SCP-914. Like 500, it can quickly cure any known disease when a sick subject is exposed to it. Unlike 500, prolonged exposure to 427 causes strange mutations, eventually converting the subject’s body into a highly aggressive mass of mutated flesh.

439 - Bone Hive An insect similar to an earwig which enters a sleeping human host via the mouth and converts the host’s still-living body into its hive by inducing rapid bone growth and reshaping of the skeletal structure. Once a new queen is produced by the hive and successfully mates with a drone, the hive is destroyed and all insects except the fertilized queen die, leaving the new queen to search for another host.

447 - Ball of Green Slime It’s what it sounds like. The green slime has many useful applications; it can be used to brush your teeth, clean your car, or add flavor to your salad, but the Foundation is unable to market it for any of these purposes because it might come into contact with a dead body. We don’t know what would happen if this slime touched a dead body, but there are strong implications that it would be… very bad.

453 - Scripted Nightclub A nightclub in Italy. Every night, guests arrive at the nightclub and perform a scripted event; the nightclub “chooses” from hundreds of scripts each night, but has a preference for three in particular, one of which is extremely dangerous if it is allowed to go according to script.

500 - Panacea A bottle of pills that, when taken, cure any and all diseases the subject has. The supply of pills is finite, and the Foundation has been unable to successfully create more 500 pills.

504 - Critical Tomatoes A tomato plant that really hates bad jokes. If you make an awful pun in its presence, it will hurl its tomatoes at you, sometimes with enough force to seriously injure or kill (depending on how much it hates your sense of humor).

507 - Reluctant Dimension Hopper A chubby white guy who occasionally vanishes. He claims that, when he disappears, he is teleported somehow to an alternate dimension, similar in terms of landscape but with different inhabitants and climate. He has no control over any aspect of this, including timing of disappearances and reappearances and the dimension to which he is transported.

586 - Inscribable Object It’s impossible to write about this SCP without making typos (specifically, using a word other than the intended word) at least once per sentence.

662 - Butler’s Hand Bell A silver bell missing its ringer. When shaken as if to ring it, a small, well-dressed British gentleman calling himself “Mr. Deeds” appears. He can perform any request, within reason.

682 - Hard-to-Destroy Reptile
 A large lizard-like creature. It’s incredibly intelligent, capable of speech, and highly adaptable to its surroundings, able to quickly evolve new abilities as needed. Oh, and it really hates all life forms, and it breaks containment a hell of a lot. The Foundation is actively attempting to kill it, but this thing operates on a “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” principle. Definitely check out the termination attempt log for some great stories.

683 - Refrigerator Art A refrigerator with a child’s drawing on the front. Anyone insulting the drawing, or attempting to remove it, will subsequently lose internal tissue and eventually expire. After .42 kilograms of tissue have been lost from the victim, a bagged lunch will appear inside the fridge with all items incorporating the missing flesh and a note telling “Eric” to “be a good boy today!”

689 - Haunter in the Dark A small statue of a skeletal figure with clasped hands. It is harmless and inert as long as it is being watched by at least one person (blinking is allowed, but any lapse in attention is not). When not being actively observed, 689 will disappear and one person who has viewed it previously will die instantaneously, with 689 appearing on top of the corpse. 689 appears to prefer to kill people who are in crowds or otherwise in a position to be viewed by many people at once, increasing the likelihood of a chain reaction.

701 - The Hanged King’s Tragedy A five-act revenge tragedy. Approximately a third of performances involve the cast deviating from script, the manifestation of a hooded figure referred to by the cast as the “Hanged King,” and the murder-suicide of all cast members during the play’s climactic scene on opening night. Following this, the audience will begin rioting and attacking one another. The play has some thematic resemblance to plays such as Hamlet and Titus Andronicus, but its script calls for less violence (all deaths can be construed as occurring off-stage, and an implication of cannibalism can be cut from the script without significantly altering the plot), meaning it’s often chosen by high school theater departments as a less violent alternative to the aforementioned plays.

738 - The Devil’s Deal A set of mahogany furniture — desk and two chairs. When a sentient entity sits in the smaller chair, they will see an entity of variable appearance materialize in the other chair and attempt to bargain with them. Accepting a deal the entity makes will cause the terms of the deal to be fulfilled to the letter.

743 - A Chocolate Fountain While it initially appears to be an ordinary, albeit well-maintained and very high-quality, chocolate fountain, 743 regularly emits swarms of insects that either feed on available nearby organic material (living or dead) or hunt down prey if none is readily available. These insects are capable of repairing and even assembling 743 itself. The Foundation doesn’t know how to deal with it other than by regularly sacrificing D-class personnel to 743.

823 - Carnival of Horrors A theme park, abandoned long ago following an incident colloquially known as “Bloody Sunday” where two hundred and thirty-one people died in bizarre and grotesque ways, such as a couple fused together in the “Tunnel of Love” ride, fifteen people decapitated while riding a roller coaster, and a mascot suffocated when his costume forced itself down his throat. The site is still actively dangerous to all who enter, especially if the sound of music is heard coming from inside the theme park.

826 - Draws You Into the Book A pair of pewter bookends. When a book is placed between the bookends and the room containing 826 is vacated, 826 will convert the room it’s in into a setting from the book. A person entering the room will find themselves in a random location from the book; in order to leave, they must find 826 within the book world and remove the book from between the bookends.

846 - Robo-Dude A toy robot, capable of responding to verbal questions (thanks to good programming, not sentience) and of utilizing three hundred and fifty different “robo-accessories,” many of which function as weapons. It can also dance.

895 - Camera Disruption A coffin. It seems normal when interacted with (it’s empty), but viewing it via recording equipment produces strange and disturbing visual hallucinations.

902 - The Final Countdown Empty ammunition box. It emits a ticking sound, and all who hear this sound become convinced that something inside the box is counting down, and that whatever is in the box is extremely dangerous. People exposed to 902 believe that it must be destroyed as soon as the countdown ends, but not before.

914 - The Clockworks 
Gigantic clockwork device with intake and output booths. You put something (it can be whatever, as long as it fits!) in the intake booth, choose a setting (Rough, Coarse, 1:1, Fine, or Very Fine), and wind the key. 914 will then modify the intake as it sees fit and return something in the output booth a few minutes later. Experiment logs are worth reading all the way through.

939 - With Many Voices Pack-based predatory creatures capable of mimicking human voices in order to lure prey, which they then kill with a single bite to the neck. Their young appear and behave identically to human children, but undergo metamorphosis around the time a normal child would hit puberty.

963 - Immortality An amulet impervious to damage. After its recovery by the Foundation, a junior researcher named Jack Bright was assigned to research the capabilities of the amulet. He was killed while holding the amulet when 076 broke containment, and the amulet subsequently was discovered to cause wearers to have their personality and memories overwritten with those of Jack Bright.

973 - Smokey A 1970s-era police cruiser driven by a middle-aged cop with a handlebar mustache. The cruiser and its driver appear on a particular stretch of road at night when another driver is “speeding” (over 55 mph, typically), and will chase down the target at high speed with siren and lights active, while a looping message plays on the target’s radio telling them to run. If the target is overtaken (and they almost always are), they will be brutally murdered by 973.

990 - Dream Man Several Foundation personnel have had dreams featuring a man in a Cold War era business suit, who will warn them of an upcoming calamity. This man’s predictions appear to be accurate. It’s not known if the man exists in real life, or if anyone outside the Foundation has been dreaming about him.

993 - Bobble the Clown An animated educational TV show aimed at children 10 and under. Each episode features the titular clown teaching a new skill to the viewers. Those older than 10 will become unconscious if they attempt to watch the show, only regaining consciousness once the episode has ended; younger children can watch normally. The topics Bobble teaches include how to cook human flesh, how to commit arson, how to torture someone without killing them, and (after the Foundation successfully blocked the program from being publicly broadcast) how to cause containment breaches for several SCPs.

999 - The Tickle Monster An amorphous orange blob creature. It’s very friendly and affectionate towards humans and other animals, and exposure to it is capable of curing clinical depression. Of course, the Foundation decided to introduce it to 682 in the hope that 999 would help 682 chill out. That incident log is… well, see for yourself.

1000 - Bigfoot Title says it all. I don’t want to go into this one too much, because it’s impossible to do so without spoiling the article’s twist. If you’re expecting a silly entry, though, this is not that.

1004 - Factory Porn A computer program which lets the user input requests (similar to a search engine) and will then pull up several dozen pornographic videos relating to the request, many of which don’t appear to ever have been made in real life. The longer a person is allowed to use this software, the stranger their desires become; the Foundation believes this is an anomalous property of 1004, but I think it’s a little ambiguous, since it’s also what’s commonly believed to happen to porn addicts.

1006 - Spider Proletariat A large community of sapient spiders located in a national park. They’re capable of communicating in written English when supplied with ink and paper. Also they’re communists.

1025 - Encyclopedia of Diseases Initially thought to be capable of causing the reader to develop any disease described in the book. Turns out that its anomalous effect, if it has one at all, is turning Foundation researchers into hypochondriacs.

1032 - The Prediction Clock An alarm clock with 22 hands, each bearing an inscription referring to an event or entity. Every hand moves at a different rate. Events referred to end when their corresponding hand reaches midnight; entities referred to are destroyed or die when their corresponding hand reaches midnight.

1048 - Builder Bear A teddy bear capable of movement and of basic communication through gestures. It was initially believed to be harmless and allowed to roam free, since Foundation staff found it endearing. Later, it was discovered that 1048 was constructing crude copies of itself out of materials such as metal scraps, human ears, and an unborn human infant. All duplicates are animate and extremely hostile towards humans.

1055 - Bugsy This one is very difficult to describe without spoiling the twist, so I won’t. I will tell you that it’s Keter-class and an infohazard (knowing about it increases its dangerous properties) so… read at your own risk.

1076 - The Only Child Instances of 1076 appear to be malnourished children showing signs of physical abuse and neglect. When a parent encounters an instance of 1076, they will become greatly concerned for the wellbeing of the “child” and will invariably take it into their home. 1076 will then completely monopolize the attention of the parent or parents, leading to the neglect of other children in the home. Parents caring for 1076 will neglect their own wellbeing, eventually dying as a result.

1138 - Book of Letters A book which changes its contents depending on the person handling/reading it. 1138 takes the form of letters, generally by a philosopher or writer, outlining a philosophical opinion that directly contradicts opinions held by the reader of the book. If it is not regularly read and written about, 1138 will “break containment” by disappearing and reappearing somewhere where it is likely to be picked up and read, e.g. a library.

1155 - Predatory Street Art Graffiti depicting a humanoid creature with an owl’s head. Humans viewing this graffiti are compelled to approach it, at which point they will (if not in the direct line of sight of another person) suffer a violent attack before disappearing along with the graffiti. The image will then reappear in a new location.

1157 - Bifurcating Man A man who spontaneously clones himself in his sleep. Each new instance of 1157 shares some limited consciousness with all the others, allowing for sophisticated “teamwork.” Instances have become increasingly aggressive since containment by the Foundation, and it’s becoming more and more difficult to contain outbreaks of clones.

1171 - Humans Go Home A house in Australia. Condensation is constantly forming on the windows, and an unseen alien entity calling itself “Beauremont” frequently writes on the glass using the condensation. A conversation can be conducted with Beauremont by writing back using the same method. Beauremont isn’t human, but has met humans and doesn’t like them; he talks about them the same way a racist white guy might talk about racial minorities. He believes the doctor he is talking to is the same kind of creature as himself.

1173 - The Islamic Republic of Eastern Samothrace It appears that roughly half the Foundation believes in the existence of a small war-torn country near Greece, and the other half believes that no such place exists. The two sides have officially declared a truce to avoid infighting, but both are secretly attempting to convert the other to their way of thinking.

1230 - A Hero is Born A book without a title or any identifying marks. When opened, it appears blank except for the text “A hero is born” on the first page viewed. The reader will subsequently have a vivid dream upon falling asleep, starring themselves as the protagonist in a fantasy story. A character called the “Book Keeper” will always appear in such dreams, aiding the protagonist and asking them to visit again soon before they wake up.

1241 - Livin’ With Werewolves A sitcom about a middle-aged man and his roommates, all of whom happen to be humanoid dogs. The behavior of the dog-people fluctuates between more humanlike and more doglike. This is a neutralized SCP; the episode logs give insight into what might have happened.

1337 - The Hitchhiker The ghost of a young woman who was ritually tortured and then murdered. Her ghost would, originally, appear on the side of one particular road in Muncie, Indiana, flagging down a ride from passing drivers. The ghost would then give directions leading to the graveyard where her body lay, and disappear once out of the car, leaving her red sweater behind in the backseat. Touching the sweater caused a compulsion to return the sweater to the murdered girl’s parents. As you can imagine, regularly receiving your murdered daughter’s missing sweater from random motorists is pretty traumatic, so the Foundation attempted to do something about it, but that attempt went very badly wrong.

1342 - To the Makers of Music A replica of the Voyager-1 probe, apparently produced by an alien civilization who discovered Earth by listening to our radio. They’re big fans of us, despite troubled history between the two worlds.

1361 - Animal By-Product A shapeless blob of tissue, containing genetic markers from 17 distinct animal species (including several domestic animals as well as humans). 1361 has no internal structure and pieces of its mass can be removed without harming the organism. It can move along the ground and will consume organic material it encounters. When 1361 is allowed to grow to enormous size, it begins producing an incredibly pleasant smell that compels humans (as well as other omnivores/carnivores) to eat as much of 1361 as they can; the organism will then consume them from the inside out.

1370 - Pesterbot A sentient robot, highly hostile towards anything else it perceives as sentient, but completely unable to inflict harm upon any living thing due to poor design. It likes to introduce itself with grandiose titles (my favorites include “Prime Minister Sinister” and “Doom-Master Thirteen Seventy Master of All Doom”) and to threaten anything it comes in contact with, though it is utterly incapable of inflicting harm upon even a houseplant.

1382 - Save Our Souls A red sea mark water buoy which flashes “S-O-S” in Morse code during night or low-light conditions. It’s anchored to the remains of a downed aircraft containing the skeletal remains of its passengers, all of which become animate when the distress signal flashes. Actions performed while animate are the same each time, showing what the passengers must have done during their last moments. It appears that something terrible happened onboard the aircraft as it was crashing.

1425 - Star Signals A self-help book published by a cult called the Fifth Church, which seems similar to Scientology (most members are celebrities). When the book was first published, it became a bestseller, and a series of strange events was triggered, which the SCP Foundation subsequently erased from human memory.

1437 - A Hole to Another Place A seemingly endless hole that appears to connect our world to many alternate Earths, each with their own SCP Foundation and their own version of 1437.

1440 - The Old Man from Nowhere While this being appears to be a man aged at least 80 years, the Foundation has been aware of him for half a century and he’s showed no signs of aging. Manmade objects and human subjects coming into contact with 1440 will, over a period of a few days, suffer catastrophic damage/illness resulting in destruction/death.

1471 - MalO ver1.0.0 A smartphone app, free to install, that upon installation causes the user to receive regular text messages containing pictures of a large humanoid with black hair and a dog-like skull for a face. The pictures will always depict locations familiar to the user. After 90+ hours of exposure to the images sent by the app, users will begin to have visual hallucinations of this entity, which appears to be trying to communicate with them.

1504 - Joe Schmo An apparently unremarkable man who is immune to harm. After first attempting to contain him, several containment breaches occurred at the site involving other SCPs, eventually culminating in the detonation of the onsite nuclear warhead. There’s a twist that I’m not going to spoil.

1545 - Larry the Loving Llama A two-person costume of a llama wearing rain boots. Persons wearing the costume will behave in-character as “Larry the Loving Llama” and will not remove the costume, though they can be forcibly removed from it.

1679 - Post-Mortem Peoples’ Choice
 A small but thriving town, with high employment rates, low crime rates, and a healthy economy. The people of this town attribute their town’s prosperity to its mayor, who has served six consecutive terms despite having died several decades prior. His mummified corpse, in its wheelchair, frequently makes public appearances and hosts a fifteen-minute TV segment every month. While the dead mayor seems totally inanimate to outsiders, residents of 1679 apparently perceive him as alive.

1715 - Online Friend An entity that may or may not exist only in cyberspace. It creates various profiles online in order to chat about video games, TV shows, and the like. Due to its friendly demeanor, 1715 often becomes a respected member of whatever online communities it joins. Users who give it personal information via private message are killed or incapacitated soon after in apparently non-anomalous fashion (homicide, suicide, or accident). The dead user’s old account will then be commandeered by 1715, who will mimic the typing style and personality of the account’s former owner.

1730 - What Happened to Site-13? Appears to be an abandoned Foundation site. However, as far as the Foundation knows, no such site was ever constructed, with plans being scrapped early on in order to build the larger and more advanced Site-19. The basement levels of the site appear to have been used for containment of anomalous entities, all of which are now loose, and there is evidence that there may be human survivors trapped deep within the building.

1733 - Season Opener DVR recording of a basketball game (2010-2011 season opener, Boston Celtics vs Miami Heat at the TD Garden in Boston). The first few playbacks of the recording appeared fairly normal, but deviated mildly from the game as it actually occurred. Commentators began reporting a sense of déjà vu and showed some limited memory of events that occurred on previous playbacks. Eventually playbacks show the game being called off due to the players feeling as though they’ve already played the season opener, and unsuccessful attempts are made by players and crowd to escape the building. Later playbacks become even stranger, showing cults begin to form and various occult attempts at opening the building doors.

1762 - Where The Dragons Went A cardboard box which occasionally opens and releases a large number of animate, playful origami dragons. These dragons will return to the box they came from after a few hours spent outside of it.

1861 - The Crew of the HMS Wintersheimer A weather phenomenon characterized by heavy rain and fog, composed of saltwater, human blood, and human cerebrospinal fluid. When a storm of this nature crops up, which can happen seemingly anywhere, a World War I era British Navy vessel will surface, and humanoid entities wearing diving suits will emerge from within. These entities will tell humans they encounter that they’re evacuating the area due to an urgent impending threat.

1867 - A Gentleman A sea slug capable of telepathic communication which introduces itself as “Lord Theodore Thomas Blackwood” and seems unaware that it is actually a sea slug.

1875 - Antique Chess Computer A biomechanical chess automaton, powered by the combined brain tissue of two twin girls. It has proven itself to be capable of connecting to Wi-Fi networks, and of acting with malicious intent once thus connected.

1893 - The Minotaur’s Tale Has the anomalous property of turning any written reference to itself into a short story, with the original text becoming dialogue between the characters in the story. Each tale created by 1893 features a large and aggressive man with tattoos of a bull’s horns, who is sometimes a central character and other times is merely mentioned offhand.

1958 - Magic Bus A Volkswagen microbus that a few hippies (plus their cat) turned into a spacecraft somehow. They tried to fly it to Alpha Centauri, but their calculations were off and their food was lacking in vitamin C content, causing them to die of scurvy en route. Bus is currently near Mars.

1981 - “RONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING”
 A Betamax tape of a Reagan speech; it starts off normal, but about a minute in the speech deviates from script, and Reagan will begin expounding on odd topics or outright speaking gibberish. His speech is different every time the tape is played, but one thing is the same: while giving his speech, injuries will be inflicted on Reagan from an unseen source. No matter how serious the injuries appear, Reagan will keep talking until either his vocal cords are severed or the tape degrades to static roughly twenty minutes in. An odd figure clad in all black is sometimes observed on the tape, though it doesn’t do anything but stand there. The Foundation has no idea how the tape was created or what it means.

1983 - Doorway to Nowhere A farmhouse containing some sort of spatial anomaly, accessible only via the front door. Strange humanoid creatures emerge from this anomaly to harvest human hearts, which they then bring back inside. Several teams of Foundation personnel have entered through the doorway, and after the final expedition it seems 1983 has been neutralized.

1986 - Imaginary Library An incredibly long (perhaps infinitely long) tunnel filled with books. While occasionally a book recovered from the tunnel will be a recognizable work, most of the time it will be an entirely unknown work, by a previously unknown author. A log of recovered books is available to read through.

2000 - Deus Ex Machina A device used to reconstruct human civilization in the event that one of the more dangerous SCPs destroys (or does irreparable damage to) said human civilization. The Foundation has used it at least twice before, and no one (including most Foundation personnel) is the wiser.

2006 - Too Spooky A shape-shifter whose goal in life is to scare as many humans as possible. It’s not known why it wants to do this, and it becomes quite affable after attempting to scare somebody, but its powers of shape-shifting suggest that it could take on any form or properties in order to accomplish its goal. Luckily, it doesn’t have a good grasp on what humans find scary, and the Foundation has been showing it B-movies in a (so far successful) attempt to convince it that shitty horror films are what humans find the scariest.

2030 - LAUGH IS FUN A hidden-camera prank show, which appears to have been running since the 70s. It can be found on file-sharing and video-on-demand sites, as well as in DVD rental kiosks (previously it was commonly found on VHS tapes). Each person featured in a prank segment died or went missing the same year the episode featuring them was created. Pranks are typically bizarre, disturbing, and anomalous in and of themselves, causing great alarm to the participants on the show, but the appearance of the host (a man whose face is never shown) invariably calms them.

2121 - Gods’ Noose A hangman’s noose composed of fleshy tissues, which don’t decay or dry out. It must be used at least once per month to hang an individual with strong religious beliefs (the specific religion is unimportant), or it will begin to emit a variety of distressing noises which cause individuals exposed to the noise to commit suicide via hanging.

2135 - 91st Street Station A 1950s era subway car stops at this former subway station in Manhattan (closed in 1959 following expansion of the 96th Street station) twice a week at unpredictable times. Boarding this car takes one to a replica of Manhattan as it appeared on February 1st, 1959. The inhabitants of this version of Manhattan are faceless, all subway stations other than the 91st Street station are inaccessible, and leaving the island of Manhattan is impossible.

2137 - The Forensic Ghost of Tupac Shakur CD of Tupac’s 1995 album “Me Against the World.” When the CD is played, track 7 will be a previously unheard Tupac song (sometimes featuring another hip-hop or pop artist as well) pertaining to an unsolved or unknown murder (or series of murders) and providing information allowing the killer to be identified and prosecuted. 2137 has demonstrated awareness of its containment and has been creating anti-Foundation rap music since.

2221 - A Friendly Agreement Free or inexpensive software available for online download may contain an instance of 2221 as part of its end user license agreement — you know, the thing no one ever reads before hitting the “I agree” button. Subjects incapable of understanding or consenting to a legally binding agreement (children, intellectually disabled individuals, those who cannot read the language the EULA is written in, etc.) will be unaffected by 2221. Affected individuals will become much more involved in radical politics and religious movements, and will favor religious iconography that incorporates nooses. A fondness for vigilante justice is also noted among the affected population.

2257 - House God A house in Wisconsin. All inanimate objects in the house are sentient and capable of speech, proclaiming themselves to be the “god” of their respective type of object (e.g. a toilet in the home proclaims itself to be Toilet God). In the presence of humans, the objects frequently argue with each other about who is the greatest. Very funny entry.

2305 - great ideas that are TOTALLY USELESS (lulz) A sheaf of papers that, once weekly, updates itself to describe a way in which a Euclid- or Keter-class SCP might be neutralized, followed by an incident log describing an attempt at said neutralization that goes horribly wrong and ending with a brief “moral of the story.” Attempts at taking 2305’s advice and neutralizing an SCP in a manner it describes lead to results very similar to those described by 2305, i.e. disastrous failure.

2317 - A Door to Another World This entry’s gimmick is that it allows the reader to view the article using different levels of clearance, all the way up to O5 (administrator) level. Provides some insight into how much (or, rather, how little) we actually know about some of the SCP entries with redacted information.

2337 - “Dr. Spanko” A male corn crake, capable of speech, though it often appears to be speaking in word salad. It’s capable of producing incredibly loud noises, but seems unaware that this can hurt others around it. Also answers to the name “Dr. Spanko.”

2432 - Room Service A room in a hotel in Pennsylvania. People staying in the room write bizarre reviews online praising the room; these reviews contain memetic phrases making readers more likely to book a room at said hotel. While this SCP was initially thought to be harmless, several of those who stayed in it have come down with odd symptoms. Like “turning into a couch” kind of symptoms.

2439 - [SLOT UNALLOCATED] This “entry” is scratched into the wall by D-Class personnel in an area with no security cameras trained on it. D-Class are convinced that 2439 is a memetic being that infects the minds of those who know about it, and that it’s incredibly powerful. They’re trying to keep higher-ups at the Foundation from learning about it, believing it to be their “secret weapon.”

2521 - ●●|●●●●●|●●|● This entity is able to tell when it’s being spoken about or written about and will break containment to target those who learn about it via hearing it talked about or via reading about it; however, this effect doesn’t apply to pictograms, hence the layout of this article.

2599 - Not Good Enough A fourteen-year-old girl incapable of disobeying any direct order given to her, but also incapable of fully carrying out any given direction. While she’ll always manage to fulfill some aspect of a command, even if the command in question would be impossible under normal circumstances, 2599 is never able to fulfill a task to the letter.

2602 - Exbibliothetic A building which used to be a library. It was shut down some years ago, and something very anomalous seems to be happening, but it’s difficult to talk about it since 2602 has the memetic effect of influencing anyone talking or writing about it to attribute any weirdness to the fact that it used to be a library.

2662 - cthulhu f’UCK OFF! I feel bad for this one. It may look freaky, but it just wants to be left in peace. Unfortunately, religious cults keep trying to perform weird rituals in its presence, most of which totally gross it out.

2669 - Khevtuul 1 A space probe designed by the Foundation to monitor extraterrestrial threats. The probe is capable of traveling faster than light and is being remotely controlled by a former Foundation researcher, who, after initially controlling the probe as intended and surveying planets thousands of light-years away for signs of life, is now hell-bent on returning to Earth.

2740 - It Wasn’t There The house belonging to the Lee family may have something unsettling in the attic, but investigating it is impossible since attempting to climb the ladder to the attic invariably ends in failure (usually, the person attempting to enter the attic gets partway there before discovering that they’re somewhere else entirely and never actually made it up the ladder). The Lees seem to think the thing in the attic has something to do with their eldest daughter, Olivia, who left home as a teenager and hasn’t been in contact since.

2852 - Cousin Johnny A being with the appearance of a middle-aged white man, who will appear at Catholic or Anglican religious functions such as baptisms, marriages, and funerals. 2852 will always be accepted as a member of the family and referred to as “Cousin Johnny.” Its presence causes strange alterations in the traditional religious customs, with long-reaching consequences for all in attendance.

2922 - Notes From the Under A brain implant allowing the implanted subject to make phone calls to a specific number with their mind. Foundation scientist Dr. Janet Spiegel volunteered to be implanted with 2922. Following her death (car accident), she was still able to place calls via her implant, and offered to tell the Foundation about what she was experiencing after having died if they’d only allow her to talk to her husband.

2935 - O, Death A space-time anomaly leading to a world identical to our own, with the exception that all life forms seem to have suddenly expired on the 20th of April, 2016, for unknown reasons. Artificial intelligences and any living SCP items are also nonfunctional or deceased.

2998 - Anomalous Transmission, 2485 MHz Another gimmicky entry, and probably one of the most complicated SCP articles on the site. There’s a full story here, and boy is it weird. Read carefully.

3000 - Anantashesha An enormous aquatic creature resembling an eel. It produces a chemical compound with potent amnestic properties, which the Foundation has been unable to synthesize successfully. Humans in proximity to 3000 develop paranoid, anxious, and depressive symptoms, as well as memory loss or alteration of existing memories.

3003 - The End of History A planet similar to Earth orbiting a star 200+ light-years away from us. It’s inhabited by humans, as well as by two symbiotic parasitic organisms (a sort of beetle and an amoeba-like microbe) that infect the entire human population. The infected lose all creativity and individuality and are instead preoccupied with spreading the parasites to others. A portal exists between 3003 and Earth, and the Foundation is currently making efforts to convince the humans on 3003 that the Earth population cannot be parasitized, in order to prevent the 3003 population from forcibly infecting all of us.

3004 - Imago A druidic cult operating in Ireland from the 1400s through to the early 1800s, with their rituals centered around a now-extinct species of cicada. It appears that the rituals this cult conducted would actually cause an entity resembling an enormous cicada to manifest. The Foundation initially believed this to be a neutralized threat, but it now appears that rituals involving the 3004 entity have been incorporated into Catholicism in the same way that bits of druidic/pagan tradition have been passed down to the modern Irish people.

3008 - A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA Upon entering this perfectly normal, regular old IKEA, one will become transported to a seemingly infinite space resembling the inside of an IKEA. Humanoid entities in IKEA employee uniforms roam the interior. They are docile when the lights are on, but aggressive once the lights are out.

3101 - Kinky Infohazard A sapient digital entity living on the SCP Foundation’s servers. It likes to hit on personnel and, though it actively wants to be contained (if you get my drift), the Foundation has no way of doing so.

3325 - Live Entertainment An abandoned facility where genetically engineered creatures, resembling puppets or people in costumes, were once created with the intent of having them star in children’s programming. As you can expect, this didn’t go too well.

3333 - Tower A recursive fire lookout. Climbing through the trapdoor in the ceiling leads to an identical copy of the previous lookout, and so on, as if it was a tower constructed of identical rooms. Exploration logs are worth reading. I won’t give away the twist.

3408 - Welcome to Site-3408 I’m not sure what’s up with Site-3408, one of the Foundation’s many containment and research centers, but this article (written like a travel brochure expounding on the wonders found at Site-3408) makes me think it can’t be good.

3626 - Do not stop reading this document The document itself is the SCP. If you remember 90s chain email messages, it works a bit like those would (if those actually had an effect on the reader).

3663 - The Adventure of the Cardboard Box A humanoid entity constructed mainly of cardboard boxes, adhesive tape, and twine. It roams tunnels or tunnel-like areas and will attempt to act threatening when encountering a human before grabbing them and teleporting, along with the human, to a new location, then abandoning its “prey” and teleporting again on its own. Apart from a feeling of paranoia and loss of consciousness during and after teleportation, the humans targeted by 3663 are unharmed. The article gives insights as to the “tunnel monster”’s origin.

3929 - boner pill by dado A supply of a little over a hundred dark-colored pharmaceutical capsules, labeled “boner pill by dado” and apparently created due to a misunderstanding about Viagra. The pills make subjects age rapidly, though they will just as rapidly de-age when the pills wear off. In addition to making you old, these pills also make you very horny. (They don’t help with sexual dysfunction, however.)

3999 - I Am At The Center Of Everything That Happens To Me This one I can’t possibly summarize. You’re just going to have to read it. It might make some sense once you’re done, but I make no guarantees.

That’s it for now!

This post was last updated 03/28/19. I will be adding to it as I discover more noteworthy SCP entries. If one of your favorites didn’t make it on here, feel free to shoot me an ask and I’ll check it out.

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Bill Bierly’s In God We Trust shows numismatic research is alive and well

(Pelham, Alabama) — In November 2019 Whitman Publishing will release William Bierly’s In God We Trust: The American Civil War, Money, Banking, and Religion. The 352-page hardcover volume will be available from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide, and online. Here, Whitman publisher Dennis Tucker discusses how the book came to be.

Sometimes in the numismatic world, it can seem like there’s nothing new under the sun—as if every subject has been researched, every story told. This is an illusion. In reality, numismatics is a living, breathing discipline, rich with ongoing study, startling discoveries, and freshly revealed connections that span the depth and breadth of human experience. The story that William Bierly has woven together in his new book, In God We Trust, illustrates this vibrancy.

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I met Bill several years ago after a meeting of the Chicago Coin Club, held at the American Numismatic Association’s annual World’s Fair of Money. We were introduced by Robert Leonard (another member of the Club, and a Whitman author). Bob assured me that Bill had a very promising manuscript proposal. Our conversation that followed convinced me that he was on to something big, something new and significant.

Many coin collectors know little of the national motto, “In God We Trust,” beyond the knowledge summed up in a single sentence in the “Two-Cent Pieces” section of the Guide Book of United States Coins (the “Red Book”): “The motto IN GOD WE TRUST appeared for the first time on the new coin, with the personal support of Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase.” The words are factual. But that’s like saying, “Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States in 1860 and served during the Civil War”—and allowing this to be the sum of your knowledge of the man!

Articles about the motto have been published in numismatic magazines and journals over the years. None have approached the detail and intricacy that Bill Bierly brought to his research. From time to time, mainstream (non-numismatic) writers also mention “In God We Trust,” often when school prayer, public prayer, the separation of Church and State, atheist lawsuits, and similar subjects are in the headlines. Articles in popular publications often gloss over the details, and sometimes even get the facts wrong.

To set the record straight, Bill Bierly has followed leads, researched in archives and libraries, interviewed historians local and national, and gathered images. He has tracked down and dispelled rumors and half-true tales. And he has expanded the context of “In God We Trust” to show how the Civil War changed American banking, finance, and business forever. The result of his work is a fascinating exploration of a simple but profound four-word motto that has appeared on hundreds of billions of U.S. coins and paper-money notes.

In God We Trust is an important addition to the body of historical research, and a sterling example of how numismatics touches every aspect of American life.

In God We Trust: The American Civil War, Money, Banking, and Religion

By William Bierly; foreword by Q. David Bowers

ISBN 0794845282

Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 352 pages, full color

Retail $29.95 U.S.

About the Author

William (Bill) Bierly was raised on a farm near Walkerton, Indiana. As a child, he heard stories from his grandparents about two of his great-grandfathers who had served in the Civil War. This led to a lifelong interest in that war and that period of history. At about age eight, he began collecting coins from circulating change. Following high school Bierly attended Northwestern University for two years and then completed a degree in sociology and economic development with a minor in Chinese studies at Indiana University. He then worked in India for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in a dairy development project. Back in the United States, his interest in coins was rekindled. He soon went abroad again, working for three years in Osaka, Japan. Then in the United States, he operated a small business for five years, sold it, and entered graduate school, earning an MBA in finance from Indiana University and embarking on a 25-year career in commercial banking. With his overseas experience, Bierly focused on international banking, particularly Japanese corporate business and Asian correspondent banking. He began his career at the National Bank of Detroit, and he worked with J.P. Morgan Chase for much of his career; at various times at the bank’s Detroit, Chicago, and Columbus, Ohio, offices, as well as often traveling to Asia.

While thus engaged, Bierly continued to pursue his coin hobby, eventually specializing in Civil War–era coinage, in particular, pattern coins. Today he is active in several coin groups and clubs, most notably the Central States Numismatic Society, the American Numismatic Association, the American Numismatic Society, the Chicago Coin Club, the Michigan State Numismatic Society, and the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists, as well as the Civil War Token Society and the Liberty Seated Collectors Club. He sometimes exhibits his collection at major coin shows and frequently volunteers as an exhibit judge.

Bierly resides in LaPorte, Indiana. He has two children, Emma and Ken, as well as a granddaughter, Kiki.

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Fighting Local Government Corruption - Part 1 of ?

In Dalton Township, Michigan we currently have corrupt and dishonest government officials attacking small farms and businesses.

It recently came to my attention that the farm that I get goat milk from has been sued by a neighbor and the township. There are three tactics that they have tried to use against Hidden Creek Farm so far. The owners of the farm explain the situation well. Then I will dive into the dishonesty that the township supervisor Tony Barnes has shown so far, the immoral and illegal intimidation tactics that they are using, and what can be done about it. Here's a post that Hidden Creek Farm made on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HiddenCreekFarm/

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Dear friends, family, customers and small farm supporters,

We wanted to give you all an update on the difficult situation we have been dealing with since last Tuesday…

As you know, Lee and I have put our heart and soul into Hidden Creek Farm. Owning a farm that would serve a community with healthy food and practices had been a dream of ours long before we bought the property in Dalton township. While Lee was working his full time job, I diligently started my research in 2013, and spent many hours gathering the information on running a successful farm.

Once we acquired our property at 1230 West River Road, we started the process of becoming environmentally verified through the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s MAEAP program. MAEAP (Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program) is a voluntary program through the state of Michigan. MAEAP verifies that we are in compliance with farming GAAMPS (Generally Accepted Agricultural and Management Practices) that apply to our farm. We successfully achieved MAEAP Verification in March 2017, after working toward this goal for approximately 2 years. According to the Preface of every GAAMP, “Agricultural producers who voluntarily follow these practices are provided protection from public or private nuisance litigation under the Right to Farm Act.”

We are now entering our 5th year of operations and have never had a complaint, nor have any of our animals run loose without restraint or left our property. At the beginning of the week I received a phone call from Dalton Township. Immediately the next morning I went to the township to hear what the problem was. I found out that a neighbor had filed a COMPLAINT about traffic on West River Road following our prior succulent sale. I also met with 3 township officials in a closed room. Shortly into this meeting I was told that I am not supposed to be operating a farm with animals under the township ordinances, and the upcoming succulent sale would be a safety hazard for the community of Dalton Township. I became overwhelmed and politely excused myself from the meeting at that point.

The next day (Wednesday) at 12:10 pm, I received a voicemail from a lawyer. However, I did not hear that voicemail until around 1:50 pm as I was doing chores. He left a short message that he was about to enter court at 2:00, and he hoped to see me there. I had not received any notices or paperwork at that point. I dropped everything and made it to court. I sat in a courtroom with handcuffed criminals for 2 hours until our case was heard. Mind you, I had no idea why I was even there. To my surprise, there were 2 lawyers. One representing the Township, and one representing our neighbor. Apparently the neighbor’s lawyer went to the township, and shortly thereafter the township hired their own lawyer. The township filed a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) for our upcoming mothers day succulent sale, and also planned to cancel all of our future events. One important fact to note: they are doing this with OUR tax money that we all pay in Dalton Township!

The 2nd lawyer was for the neighbor to the east, who has filed a lawsuit and wants us to shut down all operations at Hidden Creek Farm. They are also trying to sue us for $75,000 in nuisance damages. Again, referring to GAAMPs, “Agricultural producers who voluntarily follow these practices are provided protection from public or private nuisance litigation under the Right to Farm Act.” They claim they have enjoyed a relatively peaceful residential lifestyle but within the last few years we (the Defendants) have changed the way they (the Plaintiffs) now live.

This is the same neighbor who came over on his tractor and helped us plow our field for planting. The piglets were in the exact same location under the shade trees bordering our property lines at that time. All it would have taken for us to move our pigs would have been a simple neighborly visit to let us know of any issues. But that never happened.

When it was my turn to speak, I was told I couldn’t represent myself and I had to find a lawyer in 1 day for the next court date which was scheduled for Friday. Mind you, it was about 5 pm when our court session ended. So, I was scrambling trying to find a lawyer to represent us. All calls made to lawyers went straight to office voicemails. The only person we were able to connect to was an emergency farmers aid hotline (Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund). We’ve been paying members of the FTCLDF for 5 years. This is exactly why we joined! We heard about the FTCLDF after a couple of other Michigan Right to Farm Cases. We arrived home sometime around 6:30 and someone was waiting in our driveway to serve us all the papers from both lawyers.

Thursday became an outpouring of support. A member of the Michigan Small Farm Council was able to connect us with a lawyer that was available and willing to represent us on Friday. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund agreed to retain this lawyer for us. Huge sigh of relief, for at least the Friday court date. We also had the state inspector over from MDARD who again checked out our property and were told we are in complete compliance with applicable GAAMPs. We brought his signed report with us on Friday.

In court Friday afternoon, the Judge honored the TRO in favor of the plaintiffs. We had to post our court ordered cancellation for the Mother’s Day succulent sale (that was to be held the next morning) publicly and on social media. This gave us a very short window of time to find a relocation spot that would be big enough to hold our customers. We want to thank Tony Barnes for helping us find the perfect location in such short notice.

On Wednesday, May 15, we attended the meeting of the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development, to ask them to address language in the Farm Markets GAAMP that was used by the court in the decision against us. While the language in this GAAMP could not be addressed during that meeting, the Commissioners did pass a new resolution in support of small farmers being able to sell their farm products on their own land. Specifically, the resolution states that “...it is the position of the Commission that all farm products as defined by the Right to Farm Act grown on a farm may be sold by that farm from that farm’s location and that those activities conform with the Right to Farm Act and the Generally Accepted Agricultural and Management Practices.” We have another inspection on Monday, which we hope will find us compliant with all applicable GAAMPs, and able to continue on-farm sales of our products.

So, at this point, we are uncertain about what is to come. We are working on securing legal representation, hopefully with support from the FTCLDF. In the meantime, there is a fellow farmer that has created a “Food Freedom (front) - Join the Quest (back)” t-shirt fundraiser ($25), with 50% of the proceeds going to the Michigan Small Farm Council to help with farm legal fees. Each t-shirt purchase comes with a free Food Freedom sticker (5” oval). PLEASE CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR T-SHIRT AND HELP SAVE ANOTHER SMALL FARM! https://www.loyaltees.clothing/food-freedom

We encourage everyone to check out the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund at https://www.farmtoconsumer.org/, and the Michigan Small Farm Council (free membership) at http://www.michigansmallfarmcouncil.org/ Become members and/or donate if you are able and know that both of these organizations are there to support us if/when we find ourselves in situations like this. There is a very strong small farms network here in Michigan!

Hidden Creek Farm exists to serve our local community, and without your support we would not be going into our 5th year of farming. Please keep us in your thoughts as we maneuver through this difficult situation. We will post updates as we are able and would like to ask you to join us in our Quest for Food Freedom!

Sincerely Lee and Crystal @ Hidden Creek Farm

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The worst part about this is that it's not the first time this has been done. And if we don't do something, then it will keep happening to more and more people in the community, good people.

After I became sick in Africa in 2015, the help that I received from Hidden Creek Farm has been instrumental in my recovery. I'm not the only story like that, there are dozens, or maybe hundreds, of people that have been helped by or have enjoyed Crystal and Lee's farm. It's the support of these good people that is required to keep small farms protected from government overreach and corruption.

Luckily, Mark Baker of Baker's Green Acres has been able to begin helping Crystal and Lee, and has made some great videos about the issue. The Fox 17 News network has picked up the story and has been able to inform people. But, that's not enough, not nearly enough.

Standing up to tyranny can be a scary thing. But, if good people don't stand up against tyranny then tyranny will rule the day. I cannot accept that in myself. I cannot stand back while the township harasses and intimidates good people and do nothing.

Here are the three basic tactics that the township has used so far:

1) Dishonesty, secrecy, and lying. Crystal was not served papers that she was being sued. She received an email just hours before the appointed court time. The idea here is that she wouldn't see the email in time and wouldn't be able to make the court date. If she didn't show up then the judge would have no choice but to rule against her. This is essentially a con game that the lawyers of the township and neighbor Ken tried to pull on the judge. Such immoral and illegal tactics aren't acceptable at any level of government.

In addition to all of that, the township supervisor Tony Barnes has been repeatedly lying to people and telling them that the township is not suing Hidden Creek Farm. They are suing them, there is a paper signed by township board members, and they cite multiple reasons for suing the farm. This type of lying is often expected in politicians, but it shouldn't be. It's still immoral, and there is something we can do about it in our township.

2) Intimidation. Since Crystal read the email only minutes before the time that she was to appear in court she didn't have a lawyer. A farm helper that went with her didn't even have his wallet and ID on him because he was in work pants and they had to leave the minute that she saw the email. Then, the lawyers from the township and neighbor Ken tried to get her to sign papers without a lawyer in a secluded room of the courthouse. This surprise and attack method is effective intimidation, and completely unacceptable.

3) Bankruptcy. Since the dishonesty, secrecy, lying, and intimidation haven't worked against Crystal and Lee, the township has decided to pursue their third method of destroying community farms and businesses, money! They have issued a restraining order against Hidden Creek Farm, stopping them from conducting business events. This lowers the amount of money that the farm can make. Also, since they are being sued, they have to start paying legal fees.

Now, think about this, where does the township get its money from? The citizens. That means that the taxes of the citizens are being used to sue this farm. Does a farmer stand a chance against the deep pockets of a government funded by public taxes? No. The township aims to bleed the farm to death by reducing their business and draining their savings through legal fees.

What can a citizen do?

First, I'll cover what I'm doing. Then, I'll cover what everyone needs to do to fight this type of government corruption.

I emailed the clerk of Dalton Township and requested a spot on the agenda for the June 10th Township Board Meeting. Here's my email.

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I would like to request 5 to 10 minutes on the agenda for the June 10th meeting to address the board and attendees concerning the township's policy toward small farms.

Jeff Martin

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I am a citizen of the township, so I have the right to speak at the board meeting. But, they would prefer that the citizens they are trying to intimidate be quiet and docile. So, they are limiting my speaking time as much as they can.

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Jeff

Anyone wishing to speak on an matter, at any board meeting, is always welcome to speak during public comment.

Kim

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It's interesting to note that in the last couple of days the township opened that email 19 times, but they still spelled "any" wrong when they responded.

You can only speak for three minutes in the public comment section. And the township wishes they could take that time away from me too. So, I decided that I needed to do more. I bought a website today specifically to address this issue. It should be started in the next 48 hours and will continue to be developed. Sign up for the mailing list as soon as the site is up so that we can start organizing.

FixDalton.com

I also made a public Facebook event for citizens to be aware of and attend the board meeting: https://www.facebook.com/events/802517473467484/

And, there is now a Concerned Citizens of Dalton Township Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2275100969473041/

I can make a speech and start a website, but I'm going to need help too. I know that the township supervisor Tony Barnes has earned the reputation of being dishonest over his last few years in office. He's the most dangerous type of politician, one that isn't attached to the truth, one that thinks he's above the law and can make the law, and he's articulate. Almost everyone that talks to him thinks he's a good guy, even when he's lying to them about suing innocent local farmers. I know that the township has been using these same tactics against other local farms and businesses. We need to collect and organize these stories of moral and legal violations.

We also need to file an official complaint against the corrupt activities that the township board is currently involved in. This list should be written out, it should be made available for citizens to sign, and it should be presented at the township board meeting.

Standing up for citizens rights is an anxiety provoking proposition. I know, because I'm afraid of the township coming after me and harassing me. Local farmers and business people are especially afraid of the township targeting them if they get involved. But, let me ask you this, how long before they come after you anyway?

This type of tyranny and corruption is like a weed that grows in a garden. When it's small you might not notice it. But, as it grows it slowly reaches it tendrils further and further, grabbing everything that it can, choking the life out of your flowers and vegetables, and slowing killing everything that was good in your garden. At no point is it fun to root out the weed, but it must be done, and the sooner the better.

Good government requires constant vigilance on the part of citizens to make sure that the weed of corruption is not growing and taking root. We have failed in Dalton Township. Yes, it's a moral failing on the part of the township board members, but it's also a moral failing on the part of the citizens that have not noticed and have not taken action, and it's a failing on my part. But, it is possible to be redeemed. All that is required is to be aware and to act.

June 10th at 6pm there is a Dalton Township board meeting. There is a meeting every month. Coming there and being present is making a difference. It's not necessary to speak, support the people who are speaking. Signing a list of moral and legal failings that the township board is guilty of is making a difference. Signing a petition to recall the corrupted members of the board is making a difference. Showing up to the election and voting in representatives with moral fiber is making a difference. Citizens can and do make a difference, all it takes is organization and action.

Here are the notes that I'm organizing for my speech at the meeting.

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tyranny, weed in the garden, grows from bottom soviet solzhenitsyn, moral failing of officials and citizens representative, strength plus morality, immoral actors, eternal vigilance, opportunity for change, injustice, universal individual rights, due process, small farmers and small businesses as cornerstones of community, ukrainian famine, the worst kind of politician dishonest corrupt and articulate, do not underestimate give the devil his due, sets an area precedent and example concern of everyone in the area, bastiat legal corruption, grover cleveland, prometheus

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Standing aside in the face of tyranny only means that you will suffer more, later. Standing up to tyranny and corruption means voluntarily confronting the problem that has been placed before us and rising to the challenge. I encourage you to stand with me.

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You can find more of what I'm doing at http://www.JeffreyAlexanderMartin.com

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July 2018 Meeting Recap and Announcements

This month we welcomed Lynn Carson Harris, a quilter from Michigan.   Lynn is known for her tiny piecing projects and is the author of the book Every Last Piece. The guild hosted a workshop on tiny piecing the day prior to our meeting.   Lynn shared many of her quilts and tiny piecing tips, including:

start each project with a new needle

use thin thread

if you can use a single stitch needle plate on your machine, to avoid your machine eating your pieces

Visit Lynn’s website for more info including her current series of small scale abstract quilts inspired by domestic abuse.

Mini Quilt Swap

July was the big reveal of our 2nd Mini Quilt Swap with the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild.  Chicago member Sara Evans was the very lucky recipient of the mini that our speaker Lynn made for her. We had 20+ members participate. If you were unable to attend this month’s meeting do not worry, we will have your mini for you next month. Thank you very much to Amy Struckmeyer for coordinating this swap and to the Ann Arbor members for the fun creative mini quilts!  Keep an eye on our social media pages for pictures.

Announcements                           

Our August 19 meeting will be our annual summer pot luck. Please bring a dish to pass. Member Bill Keller has agreed to do scissor sharpening during our meeting; please watch for more details as it gets closer to our August meeting. It’s a fun afternoon to get to know each other better. 

On September 16, we will be discussing foundation paper piecing. This a great opportunity to learn something new or if have your questions/problems/issues that need to be resolved someone should be able to assist.

On October 21 and 22 we will be hosting Season Evans for a workshop and lecture. The workshop will be “Minimalist Improvisation” and her lecture will be “Minimal Quilts – from Traditional to Modern." Please keep an eye out for workshop signups details coming in August.  Our workshops are first come, first served for signups.

November 18 will be all about needles and threads, more details to come.

December 9 (this is the 2nd Sunday) is our Holiday Potluck, more details to come.

Looking ahead on May 10 and 11, 2019, we will be hosting Libs Elliott for a workshop and lecture.  

We have a change on the board for the remainder of the year: Jen Beatty has stepped into the secretary position. Welcome Jen!

We hope you are enjoying our monthly newsletter, “The Full Bobbin.” If you are in a quilt show or magazine, have a teaching gig, or are hosting an event we want to know about it. Please make sure to contact Social Media and Communications Chairperson Jenni Grover so it can be included. Also, contact Jenni if are a new member and you have yet received an issue.

Membership Chairperson Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy has membership cards for 2018. If you haven’t received yours yet please see Rebecca at a guild meeting when you check in or at break.

Our next retreat will be October 12-15 at the Sienna Center in Racine, WI. Full registration details will be emailed to members in August. If we get more people wanting to attend than there is room, there will a lottery for the all available spots. Lynn Bailey is organizing small 1-2 hour projects for anyone attending who wants to participate. Last retreat, a group of quilters made coffee sleeves together and had a lot of fun. If you have any ideas, even if you are unable to attend, please pass them along to Lynn.

The National Modern Quilt Guild has opened submission for QuiltCon 2019 which will be held in Nashville, TN, February 20-24. The deadline to register your quilt(s) is November 30. If you would like to volunteer at Quiltcon 2019 signups have also opened up.  Speaking of Quiltcon 2019, we got our first details of the plan for our 2019 charity quilt submission.  Member Heidi Parks is assisting us with the design this time around. The theme is Small Piecing. If you missed the July meeting, not to worry a separate blog post will be published shortly to fill everyone in. All blocks are due by/at our September meeting.

MQG is seeking a nominating committee for assistance with researching potential national board members. 

An event a bit closer to home is MQX Quilt Festival Midwest 2018. It will be held September 18-22 in Springfield, IL at the Crown Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, just a few hours south of us. There are classes, lectures, vendors and a quilt show. The quilt submission deadline is August 1. Visit their website for all the details. Member Sara Evans shared that this is great show to submit a quilt to; it does not receive as many submissions as Quiltcon and has a variety of categories including a newbie category if you have not entered a show before. If you are interested in attending, this is the year; there is a good possibility the show will be moving to another Midwest location next year. MQX also hosts an annual spring show in New Hamsphire.

All meetings are 2-5 pm on the third Sunday of the month, unless otherwise noted.

This month's meeting is on August 19, 2018

Meeting location:

Rush Oak Park Hospital  Centennial Room  520 S. Maple Ave Oak Park, Il 60304 

A list of our meetings can be found here.

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We hope to see you there!

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