#David Gaffney

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Comic Art Europe Guests revealed for Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2023 – and the debut of a “Festival Fringe”

Five more incredible comic creators are joining the Lakes Festival's line-up for this year’s annual event in Bowness-on-Windermere

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Eli Clifton at The Guardian:

Top Republican donor and TikTok investor Jeff Yass is connected to over $16m in funding to anti-Muslim and pro-Israel groups that have advocated for a US war with Iran and other militaristic policies in the Middle East, according to an investigation by the Guardian and Responsible Statecraft.

Media reports on Yass, the billionaire co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, a trading and technology firm, have focused on his outsized role in the Republican party, to which he is now the largest political donor in the 2024 election cycle, contributing more than $46m thus far. Yass has also emerged as the biggest funder of a group targeting progressive representative Summer Lee in her primary race, suggesting an interest in influencing Democratic primary outcomes, not just in boosting Republicans. But little has been reported about his involvement in funding groups advocating a pro-Israel US foreign policy, hawkish US policies in the Middle East and support for theorists whom experts described as extreme anti-Muslim conspiracists.

Leading Yass’s philanthropy in the foreign policy space is $7.9m contributed to Jerusalem Online University between 2014 and 2019 by a grant-making group at which he once served as one of three directors. A Jewish Daily Forward investigation into the group in 2011 found that the website promotes itself as a source of educational materials about the Middle East and Israel, but the website’s actual message is far more biased, the Forward found. “On its website and its promotional materials, Jerusalem Online U hardly portrays itself as a center for neutral academic inquiry,” the Forward wrote. “In fact, it boasts an explicitly pro-Israel mission that seems distinctly at odds with academic principles. In one advertisement for its services, the Jerusalem Online U site’s blog features a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling Congress last May that ‘Israel is what is right’ about the Middle East. The words ‘Be a Part of What’s Right’ appear on screen as he speaks.”

The contributions came from the Claws Foundation, an entity at which Yass served as a director alongside Arthur Dantchik, a co-founder of Susquehanna, and attorney Alan P Dye. Dye did not return calls for comment. The Kids Connect Charitable Fund – which does not list Yass or Dantchik as directors but listed the Claws Foundation as a “related tax-exempt organization” in an IRS filing and was identified as an arm of both men’s philanthropy by Haaretz – contributed another $3.48m to Jerusalem Online University’s parent organization, Imagination Productions. The Claws Foundation also issued a $10,000 grant to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in 2011 and $35,000 in grants, between 2010 and 2011, to the Center for Security Policy, an anti-Muslim and conspiracy theory-promoting group founded by Frank Gaffney, whom the Southern Policy Law Center describes as “one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes” and the Anti-Defamation League describes as a chief promulgator of the conspiracy theory “that the US government has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and that a number of political figures have actual ties to the group”. The Center for Security Policy vice-president, Clare Lopez, has said: “When Muslims follow their doctrine they become jihadists.”

In 2013 to 2014, the Claws Foundation sent $250,000 to the David Horowitz Freedom Center, another central promoter of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. Horowitz, whom the group is named after and who serves as its president, once complained that Muslims were a “protected species in this country” and said he was “wait[ing] for the day when the good Muslims step forward” at a Brooklyn College event in 2011. “The fact Yass is donating to Gaffney and Horowitz’s organizations shows how extreme his politics are,” said Tommy Vietor, former national security council spokesperson under President Obama. “They are beyond Trump. They are OG conspiracy theorists. Gaffney in particular.”

[...] Trump has a track record of shifting positions on Israel and Iran to align with political mega-donors. Only after securing the nomination in 2016 did Trump pivot to more militaristic positions in the Middle East – committing to withdrawing the US from the JCPOA, moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and supporting an unconditionally pro-Israel US approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – positions in lockstep with his biggest political patrons in the general election, the late Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam.

Top GOP funder and billionaire Jeffrey Yass has donated over $16M into pro-Israel Apartheid and anti-Islam causes.

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Meet Joe Black 1998 It also has Death Take a Holiday 1934

[casualoptimist]

Book Covers of Note, June 2024

[spaceagebachelormann]

𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬

!!REQUEST REQUIREMENTS!!

-> state the character, romantic or platonic, the format of the request, and a plot

-> do you have any specifics for the reader? blonde, poc, male, neurodivergent, etc? (please keep in mind i will write poc readers but i’m white so they may be a little difficult for me)

-> requests are preferred to be sent through inbox, but i can make dms work if needed

-> PLEASE ACTUALLY SPECIFY WHAT YOU WANT WITH YOUR REQUEST!! ITS VERY HARD FOR ME TO WRITE “____ x reader fluff” GIVE ME A PLOT LINE

!!WHAT I WILL WRITE!!

-> platonic

-> romantic

-> familial

-> any gender x any gender

-> headcanons

-> long fics

-> multi character

-> blurbs

-> poly relationships

-> x reader

-> i will only write cheating if it’s a character comforting r after being cheated on, not a character cheating on r

!!WHAT I WONT WRITE!!

-> smut (i’m 15)

-> yandere

-> most aus, ask about the specific au before requesting an au

-> incest

-> age gaps

-> canonical gay/lesbian character x a man (if lesbian) or a woman (if gay)

-> song fics

-> things about ocs

-> ships

-> sunshine x grumpy tropes, i’m horrible at this trope

character list

keeper of the lost cities

sophie foster, dex dizznee, fitz vacker, keefe sencen, biana vacker, marella redek, maruca chebota, tam song, linh song, wylie endal, jensi babblos, stina heks, elwin hesledge

harry potter

harry potter, ron weasley, hermione granger, neville longbottom, luna lovegood, ginny weasley, fred weasley, george weasley, sirius black, james potter, remus lupin, mary macdonald, marlene mckinnon, lily evans, dorcas meadows, regulus black, barty crouch jr, narcissa black, andromeda black, bellatrix lestrange

the outsiders

ponyboy curtis, johnny cade, sodapop curtis, darry curtis, steve randall, twobit matthews, dallas winston, cherry valance

the school for good and evil

agatha, sophie, tedros, hort, hester, anadil, dot, nicola, rhian mistral, rafal mistral, clarissa dovey, leonora lesso

little women

jo march, amy march, beth march, meg march, laurie

dracula

dracula, lucy westenra, arthur holmwood, john seward, mina harker, abraham van helsing, renfield, quincey morris, jonathan harker, the brides

frankenstein

victor frankenstein, elizabeth lavenza, henry clerval, adam frankenstein, justine mortiz, ernest frankenstein, the bride

dr jekyll and mr hyde

henry jekyll, edward hyde, richard enfield, gabriel utterson, hastie lanyon, lucy harris

phantom of the opera

christine daaé, erik destler, raoul de chagney, meg giry, carlotta giudicelli

the mighty ducks

charlie conway, adam banks, lester averman, guy germaine, connie moreau, fulton reed, dean portman, julie gaffney, ken wu, luis mendoza, dwayne robertson

david bowie

david bowie, ziggy stardust, jareth, thomas jerome newton, celliers

daisy jones and the six

daisy jones, billy dunne, graham dunne, karen sirko, warren rhodes, pete loving/roundtree, eddie loving/roundtree, camila dunne, simone jackson

doctor who bbc

ninth doctor, tenth doctor, eleventh doctor, twelfth doctor, rose tyler, jack harkness, mickey smith, donna noble, martha jones, clara oswald, river song, amy pond, rory williams, simm! master, missy/gomez master

miss peregrines home for peculiar children

jacob portman, emma bloom, millard nulling, enoch o’connor, olive elephanta, alma peregrine

good omens

crowley, aziraphale, ineffable husbands (poly), beelzebub <3, gabriel, ineffable bureaucracy (poly), nina, maggie, nina and maggie (poly), anathema

what we do in the shadows

nandor the relentless, nadja of antipaxos, laszlo cravensworth, colin robinson, guillermo de la cruz, the guide, baron afanas

yellowjackets

shauna shipman, lottie matthews, misty quigley, taissa turner, van palmer, natalie scatoricco, jackie taylor, travis martinez

star trek (tos/aos)

jim kirk, spock, leonard mccoy, nyota uhura, hikaru sulu, pavel chekov, montgomery scott, janice rand, christine chapel

xmen

charles xavier, erik lehnsherr, logan howlett, scott summers, jean grey, ororo munroe, rogue, remy lebeau, kevin sydney, lucas bishop, mystique, emma frost, kurt wagner, hank mccoy, jubilee

miscellaneous characters

sarah williams, bernard the elf, rodrick heffley, varian, lisa frankenstein, the creature (lisa frankenstein)

UPCOMING FANDOMS : american horror story, torchwood, gossip girl, hannibal, sherlock, ghosts, house md, star trek tng, the x files, the big bang theory, dead poets society

[h50europe]

Repost • @ subotica.ie IG The Boy That Never Was airs at 9:35pm this Sunday on @rteone

We can’t wait for everyone to watch this story unfold! Some Ep 1 stills in the mean time.

Starring Colin Morgan, @tonior, @kerrlogan and Simon Callow.

Directed by @han_quinn

Written by @jospainscreenwriter and David Logan, based on the novel by @karenperrywrites

Produced by Natalie McAuley (@sneakyshrew)

Executive Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch and Aoife Sullivan (@aoife.osullivan.og)

Director of Photography: Tim Fleming ISC

Editor: Darragh Moran

Production Design: Jon Beer

Music by: @djkormac

First AD: Ciara McIlraith

Key Second AD: Ciara Lyons

Script Supervisor: Louise Gaffney Farrell

Line Producers: Ailish Bracken , Hamid Herraf

Casting: Elaine Grainger CDG

Casting Morocco: Saad Fekhari

Costume Design: Kenza Chaabi, Suzanne Keogh

Make-Up Design: Bouchard Amelia Sakhi, Aisling Nairn

Hair Design: Redouane Dafaa, Sevlene Roddy

Sound Mixers: Mehdi Filali, Daniel Birch

📷 Stills Photographers 📷

1 / Poster - Cáit Fahy

2 - Reda Laaroussi

3 - Reda Laaroussi

4 - Reda Laaroussi

5 – Cáit Fahy

6 – Molly Keane

The series was produced by Subotica for @rteone and Abacus Media Rights who have pre-sold the series to @UKTV Alibi Channel and France Télévision.

The series was made with development and production support from @ScreenIreland

The series was produced with support from the Government of Ireland’s film tax relief Section 481. tourism.culture.gaeltacht

Financed in association with the @finnishimactfilmfund and produced in association with @aurorastudiosfi

The series was developed with support from Creative Europe Media Slate Funding @ced_ireland_media

#theboythatneverwas #boy #colinmorgan #toniorourke #kerrlogan #simoncallow #irishfilm

[medheartcd]

INTRODUCING      .  .  .      𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊'𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 & 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒

PATRICK DEMPSEY    as    MICHAEL HADLER    ―    PATRICKS FATHER    ( 57 ) ― CHIEF OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AT GAFFNEY MEDICAL CENTER IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, BOARD MEMBER

JENNIFER GARNER    as    ABIGAIL HADLER    ―    PATRICKS MOTHER    ( 56 ) ―HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHER AT LAKESHORE HIGH SCHOOL IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

GLEN POWELL     as    TYLER BRENDAN ― PATRICKS BEST FRIEND SINCE HIGH SCHOOL | FIND HIM AT @traumadriven

JONATHAN GROFF    as    DAVID HADLER    ―    PATRICKS PARTNER, ( 36 ) ― PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN AT GAFFNEY CHICAGO MED.

[docfrst]

𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 ⸻ @emersurgcn [ david ackerman & john frost ]

he was officially set to go at gaffney. a fresh set of clean maroon scrubs was now bagged folded neatly in his lap. four days ago he was unsure where he would end up after jackson monroe closed, and thanks to maggie, he was here. he owed her big time. his attending was supposed to come meet him here in the doctors lounge shortly, so he decided to make sure he was ready for that.

scrubs on, pair of new fresh nike kicks on his feet, neon yellow stethoscope in his back right pocket. he was securing his freshly printed hospital ID badge on his chest double scrub pockets. he heard the door open and close, so he turned around. ❛ doctor ackerman - hadler, nice to finally meet you. ❜ he extended his arm to shake david's.

[cardiosurgcn]

INTRODUCING      .  .  .      𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊'𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 & 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒

GEORGE CLOONEY    as    MICHAEL HADLER    ―    PATRICKS FATHER    ( 57 ) ― GENERAL DENTIST AT OWN PRACTICE IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

JENNIFER GARNER    as    ABIGAIL HADLER    ―    PATRICKS MOTHER    ( 56 ) ― HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHER & SMALL BUSINESS OWNER. LAKESHORE HIGH SCHOOL IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ADELAIDE KANE    as    HANNAH HADLER    ―    PATRICKS YOUNGER SISTER, ( 25 ) ― 1ST YEAR RESIDENT - PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE | FIND HER AT @resp0nders

GLEN POWELL     as    TYLER BRENDAN ― PATRICKS BEST FRIEND SINCE HIGH SCHOOL | FIND HIM AT @traumadriven

JONATHAN GROFF    as    DAVID HADLER    ―    PATRICKS PARTNER, ( 36 ) ― PEDIATRIC SURGEON AT GAFFNEY CHICAGO MED.

[coffee-n-bagels-comic-universe]

Neutralised (1994) [3/?]: My Version of The Shared Universe

For those of you unfamiliar with 'Chicago Hope', it was actually set in a shared universe. Also, 'Suspiciously Similar' characters will be involved (Due to actors playing multiple roles). This is my take on that:

Shows:

Chicago Hope

Homicide: Life on the Street

Law & Order

Neutralised

Oz

Picket Fences

characters (I'm not listing anyone who was in 20 episodes or less) under the cut. Also technically these are not all the characters as I'm still writing stuff.

Chicago Hope - Characters (& Actors):

Doctor Aaron Shutt (Adam Arkin)

Doctor Phillip Watters (Hector Elizondo)

Doctor William 'Billy' Kronk (Peter Berg)

Doctor Dennis Hancock (Vlondie Curtis-Hall)

Doctor Diane Grad (Jayne Brook)

Doctor Keith Wilkes (Rocky Carroll)

Doctor Jack McNeil (Mark Harmon)

Doctor Daniel Nyland (Thomas Gibson)

Doctor Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin)

Nurse Camille Shutt (Roxanne Hart)

Doctor Lisa Catera (Stacy Edwards)

Alan Birch (Peter MacNicol)

Doctor Joseph Cacaci (Bob Bancroft)

Doctor Robert Yeats (Eric Stoltz)

Doctor Gina Simon (Carla Gugino)

Doctor Jeremy Hanlon (Lauren Holly)

Doctor Francesca Alberghetti (Barbara Hershey)

Homicide: Life on the Street - Characters (& Actors)

Detective John Munch (Richard Belzer)

Detective Meldrick Lewis (Clark Johnson)

Lieutenant Alphonse Giardello (Yaphet Kotto)

Detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor)

Detective Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher)

Detective / Sergeant Kay Howard (Melissa Leo)

Detective Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond)

Officer/Detective/Lieutenant Stuart Gharty (Peter Gerety)

Detective Paul Falsone (Jon Seda)

Lieutenant/Captain/Detective Megan Russert (Isabella Hofman)

Detective Laura Ballard (Callie Thorne)

Detective Terri Stivers (Toni Lewis)

Captain/Colonel George Barnfather (Clayton LeBouef)

ASA Ed Danvers (Željko Ivanek)

J.H.Brodie (Max Perlich)

Detective Beau Felton (Daniel Baldwin)

Detective Stanley Bolander (Ned Beatty)

Dr Julianna Cox (Michelle Forbes)

FBT Agent/Officer Mike Giardello (Giancario Esposito)

Detective Rene Sheppard (Michael Michele)

Dr. Alyssa Dyer (Harlee McBride)

Detective/Captain Roger Gaffney (Walt MacPherson)

Law & Order - Characters (& Actors)

Sergeant Maxwell Greevey (George Dzundza)

Junior Detective Michael Logan (Chris Noth)

Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek)

Exex ADA Benjamin Stone (Michael Moriarty)

ADA Paul Robinette (Richard Brooks)

DA Adam Schiff (Steven Hill)

Sergeant Philip Cerreta (Paul Sorvino)

Dr Elizabeth Olivet (Carolyn McCormic)

Senior Detective Leonard W Briscoe (Jerry Orbach)

Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson)

ADA Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy)

Exec ADA/DA John McCoy (Sam Waterston)

Junior Detective Reynaldo Curtis (Benjamin Bratt)

ADA Jamie Ross (Carey Lowell)

ADA Abigail Carmichael (Angie Harmon)

Junior/Senior Detective Edward Green (Jesse L. Martin)

Interim DA Nora Lewin (Dianne Wiest)

ADA Serena Southerlyn (Elisabeth Röhm)

DA Arthur Branch (Fred Thompson)

Neutralised - Characters (& Actors)

Abraham Machado (Alfred Molina)

Andreina Neri (Robin Wright)

Caleb Willow (Cary Elwes)

Dove Lewis (Alfre Woodard)

Esmé Verity (Janaeane Garofalo)

Faustus Sanchez (Hank Azaria)

Grayson Bryant (Harold Perrineau)

Hunter Kingsley (Chris Farley)

Ichabod Mortimer (Danny DeVito)

Jared Foster (Kirk Acevedo)

Kane Carter (Philip Seymour Hoffman)

Lance Carter (John Goodman)

Monday Duke (Patricia Arquette)

Noam Gold (Oliver Platt)

Omega Finch (Willem Dafoe)

Peyton Blythe (Regina King)

Russel Warszawski (Adam Sandler)

Sullivan Landon (Christopher Lloyd)

Tuesday Duke (Reese Witherspoon)

Victor Jamison (Mike Myers)

Winslow Warszawski (Brad Garrett)

Xavier Solomon (David Spade)

Yancy Haggard (Kiefer Sutherland)

Zoey Knight (Geena Davis)

OZ - Characters (& Actors)

Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau)

Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen)

Ryan O'Reily (Dean Winters)

Kareem Saïd / Goodson Truman (Eamonn Walker)

Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo)

Vernon Schillinger (J.K. Simmons)

Simon Adebisi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje)

Christopher Keller (Christopher Meloni)

Zahir Arif (Granville Adams)

Hamid Khan (Ernie Hudson Jr.)

Nacim Bismilla (Re Hanna)

Huseni Mershah / James Monroe Madison (Roger Guenvuer Smith)

Leroy Tidd / Salah Udeen (Jacues Smith)

Jefferson Keane (Leon)

Kenny Wangler (J.D. Williams)

Arnold 'Poet' Jackson (muMs the Schemer)

Paul Markstrom (O.L. Duke)

Junior Pierce (Malé-Lexington Alexander)

Malcolm 'Snake' Coyle (Treach)

Johnny Post (Tim McAdams)

James Robson (R.E. Rodgers)

Mark Mack (Leif Riddell)

Jaz Hoyt (Evan Seinfeld)

Scott Ross (Stephen Gevedon)

Andrew Schillinger (Frederick Koehler)

Nino Schibetta (Tony Schibetta)

Peter Schibetta (Eddie Malavarca)

Antonio Nappa (Mark Margolis)

Chucky Pancamo (Chuck Zito)

Dino Ortolani (Jon Seda)

Don Zanghi (John Palumbo)

Joey D'Angelo (Goodfella Mike G)

Mario Seggio (Todd Etelson)

Salvatore DeSanto (Phil Campanella)

Raoul 'El Cid' Hernandez (Luis Guzman)

Carmen 'Chico' Guerra (Otto Sanchez)

Carlos Martinez (Carlos Leon)

Carlo Ricardo (Juan Carlos Hernandez)

Cyril O'Reily (Scott William Winters)

Rev. Jeremiah Cloutier (Luke Perry)

Timmy Kirk (Sean Dugan)

Alonzo Torquemada (Bobby Cannavale)

Richie Hanlon (Jordan Lage)

Shirley Bellinger (Kathryn Erbe)

Bob Rebadow (George Morfogen)

Agamemnin Busmalis (Tom Mardirosian)

Donald Groves (Sean Whitesell)

Jackson Vahue (Rick Fox)

Desmond Mobay / John Basil (Lance Reddick)

Richard L'Italien (Eric Roberts)

Nikolai Stanislofsky (Phillip Casnoff)

William Giles (Austin Pendleton)

Henry Stanton (Thomas G. Waites)

Colonel Edward Galson (John Doman)

Eli Zabitz (David Johansen)

Kipekemie Jara (Zakes Mokae)

Dean Alvah Case (Charles S. Dutton)

Sean Murphy (Robert Clohessy)

Claire Howell (Kristin Rohde)

Diane Wittlesey (Edie Falco)

Clayton Hughes (Seth Gilliam)

Karl Metzger (Bill Fagerbakke)

Eddie Hunt (Murphy Guyer)

Lenny Burrano (Skipp Sudduth)

Father Ray Mukada (B.D Wong)

Doctor Gloria Nathan (Lauren Veldez)

Governor James Devlin (Željko Ivanek)

Martin Querns (Reg E. Cathey)

Doctor Frederick Garvey (Milo O'Shea)

Warden Leo Glynn (Ernie Hudson)

Tim McManus (Terry Kinney)

Sister Peter Marie Reimondo (Rita Moreno)

Picket Fences - Characters (& Actors)

Sheriff James 'Jimmy' Brock (Tom Skerritt)

Doctor Jill Brock (Kathy Baker)

Kimberly Brock (Holly Marie Combs)

Matthew Brock (Justin Shenkarow)

Zachary 'Zach' Brock (Adam Wylie)

Deputy Kenny Lacos (Costas Mandylor)

Deputy Maxine 'Max' Stewart (Lauren Holly)

Carter Pike (Kelly Connell)

Ginny Weedon (Zelda Rubinstein)

Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel)

Judge Henry Bone (Ray Walston)

DA John Littleton (Don Cheadle)

DA Barnaby Wood (Peter Frechette)

ADA Petrovic (Jason Beghe)

Father Gary Barrett (Roy Dotrice)

Laurie Bey (Marlee Matlin)

Howard Buss (Robert Cornthwaite)

Doctor Joanna 'Joey' Diamond (Amy Aquino)

Lisa Fenn (Alexandra Lee)

Frank (David Proval)

Rachel Harris (Leigh Taylor-Young)

Ed Lawson (Richard Masur)

Peter Lebeck (Michael Jeter)

Milton Lebeck (Chris Owen)

Reverend Henry Novotny (Dabbs Greer)

Principal Michael Oslo (Roy Brocksmith)

Cynthia Parks (Elisabeth Moss)

Bill Pugen (Michael Keenan)

Lydia Brock (Cristine Rose)

Aiesha Campbell (Bruklin Harris)

Brian Latham (Gregory Vignolle)

Agent Donald Morrell (Sam Anderson)

[prasa-koval]

47) Insight on the News (również nazywany Insight) - amerykański konserwatywny drukowany i internetowy magazyn informacyjny. Należał do News World Communications, międzynarodowego konglomeratu medialnego założonego przez założyciela ruchu Unification, Sun Myung Moona, który w tym czasie był właścicielem The Washington Times, United Press International i kilku gazet w Afryce, Japonii, Ameryce Południowej. Sprawozdania Insight czasami powodowały kontrowersje dziennikarskie.

Insight powstało w 1985 roku, trzy lata po założeniu The Washington Times. Zastępca redaktora naczelnego The Times, Kirk Oberfeld, został redaktorem naczelnym magazynu. Obie publikacje miały siedzibę przy 3600 New York Avenue NE w Waszyngtonie. Magazyn był dotowany corocznie kwotą 40 milionów dolarów z News World, która do 2002 roku skurczyła się do około 4 milionów dolarów. W 1991 roku magazyn był jedną z pierwszych publikacji, która użyła słowa „islamofobia”. W 1997 roku Insight poinformował, że administracja prezydenta Billa Clintona przyznała darczyńcom politycznym prawo do pochówku na Cmentarzu Narodowym w Arlington. Oskarżenie to było szeroko powtarzane w talk radio i innych konserwatywnych mediach; później jednak zostało zaprzeczone przez Armię Stanów Zjednoczonych, która ma prawo do cmentarza. Presja mediów i polityków doprowadziła do ekshumacji ciała M. Larry'ego Lawrence'a, byłego ambasadora Stanów Zjednoczonych w Szwajcarii, w Arlington i ponownego pochówku w innym miejscu. Konserwatywni dziennikarze, którzy pracowali w Insight to Richard Starr, John Podhoretz i David Brock. Współpracownicy to Arnold Beichman, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Frank Gaffney i Lew Rockwell. W 1998 roku CNN poinformowało, że Insight „wywołało poruszenie”, gdy Paula Jones, która złożyła pozew o molestowanie seksualne przeciwko prezydentowi Clintonowi, była gościem magazynu na dorocznej kolacji Stowarzyszenia Korespondentów Białego Domu, na której przemawiał Clinton.

W 1999 r. Insight skrytykował Project Megiddo, raport FBI na temat możliwego prawicowego terroryzmu przewidzianego na rok 2000. W 2001 r. Insight wydrukował artykuł Dana Smitha, w którym stwierdził, że imigracja i etnicznie zróżnicowana populacja pomogły chronić Stany Zjednoczone przed terroryzmem. Artyku�� ten został przedrukowany jako rozdział w książce z 2004 r. Terrorism: Opposing Viewpoints. W 2002 r. Insight wydrukował historię reportera The Washington Times, Steve'a Millera, który napisał, że Afroamerykanom wiedzie się dobrze pod względem ekonomicznym. Ta historia została przedrukowana w książce Race Relations: Opposing Viewpoints z 2005 r. W 2003 r. Insight błędnie zacytował prezydenta Abrahama Lincolna, który powiedział podczas wojny secesyjnej: „Kongresmeni, którzy świadomie podejmują działania w czasie wojny, które obniżają morale i osłabiają armię, są sabotażystami i powinni zostać aresztowani, wygnani lub powieszeni”. Do 2008 r. to oświadczenie było szeroko powtarzane, chociaż Lincoln nigdy go nie wypowiedział ani nie napisał. W 2004 r. Insight wydrukował artykuł Abdulwahah Alkebsi, broniący roli islamu w zaprowadzaniu demokracji na Bliskim Wschodzie. Historia została przedrukowana jako rozdział w książce z 2004 r.: Islam: Opposing Viewpoints.

W 2004 r. News World Communications zaprzestało wydawania drukowanego magazynu i zatrudniło Jeffreya T. Kuhnera do prowadzenia Insight jako samodzielnej witryny internetowej. Za czasów Kuhnera, Insight nie identyfikowało swoich reporterów, co Kuhner opisał jako próbę zachęcenia do współpracy źródeł, które „nie chcą ujawniać swoich nazwisk”. Kuhner powiedział o tym: „Reporterzy w Waszyngtonie wiedzą bardzo dużo o tym, co się dzieje i czują się ograniczeni i nie mogą relacjonować tego, co wiedzą. Insight jest niemal jak ujście, zawór bezpieczeństwa, przez który mogą wyjść z tymi informacjami”. W 2007 r. Insight donosił o tajnym dochodzeniu w sprawie Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, znajdującego się w Falls Church w stanie Wirginia, na przedmieściach Waszyngtonu, przeprowadzonym przez grupę Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE). Historia Insight została potępiona przez Radę ds. Stosunków Amerykańsko-Islamskich (CAIR). W maju 2008 r. Insight zakończyło publikację i napisało do swoich czytelników: „Tego rodzaju nowatorskie, zakulisowe informacje polityczne, na które polegacie od Insight, będą teraz dostępne w jego siostrzanej publikacji, The Washington Times”.

17 stycznia 2007 r. Insight opublikował artykuł, w którym twierdził, że ktoś z personelu kampanii amerykańskiej kandydatki na prezydenta, senator Hillary Clinton, przekazał raport jednemu z reporterów Insight, w którym napisano, że senator Barack Obama „spędził co najmniej cztery lata w tak zwanej madrasie, czyli muzułmańskim seminarium w Indonezji". Kuhner, który napisał artykuł, twierdził, że źródło powiedziało, że kampania Clinton „przygotowywała oskarżenie, że jej rywal, senator Barack Obama, zatuszował krótki okres, który spędził w islamskiej szkole religijnej w Indonezji, gdy miał sześć lat”. Clinton zaprzeczyła tym oskarżeniom. Podczas wywiadu dla The New York Times, Kuhner odmówił podania nazwiska osoby, która rzekomo była źródłem informacji dla The New York Times. Historia Insight została najpierw zrelacjonowana przez konserwatywne radio i Fox News, a następnie przez The New York Times i inne media. Reporter CNN, John Vause odwiedził State Elementary School Menteng 01, świecką szkołę publiczną, do której Obama uczęszczał przez rok po trzech latach nauki w szkole rzymskokatolickiej, i odkrył, że każdy uczeń otrzymywał dwie godziny lekcji religii tygodniowo w swojej wierze. Hardi Priyono, zastępca dyrektora szkoły, powiedział mu: „To jest szkoła publiczna. Nie skupiamy się na religii. W naszym codziennym życiu staramy się szanować religię, ale nie traktujemy jej preferencyjnie”. Uczniowie w Besuki nosili zachodnie ubrania, a Chicago Tribune opisało szkołę jako „tak postępową, że nauczyciele nosili minispódniczki, a wszystkich uczniów zachęcano do świętowania Bożego Narodzenia". Wywiady przeprowadzone przez Nedrę Pickler z Associated Press wykazały, że uczniowie wszystkich wyznań byli tam mile widziani jeszcze przed przybyciem Obamy. Akmad Solichin, wicedyrektor szkoły, powiedział Pickler: „Oskarżenia są całkowicie bezpodstawne. Tak, większość naszych uczniów to muzułmanie, ale są też chrześcijanie. Każdy jest tu mile widziany... to szkoła publiczna”.

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Gloucester Sea Serpent

At this time we had some neighbouring gentlemen in our house, who came to welcome me into the country; where amongst variety of discourse, they told me . . . of a sea-serpent or snake, that lay quoiled up like a cable upon a rock at Cape Ann and a boat passing by with English aboard, and two Indians disswaded them saying, that if he were not kill'd our-right, they would be all in danger of their lives.

So wrote the English naturalist John Joselyn on June 26, 1638. His account was later published in his book An Account of Two Voyages to New England. Since his report, hundreds of other sightings of a giant sea serpent-up to one hundred feet long, with a head the size of a horse and a snakelike body as wide as a barrel-have poured in from all around New England. But if there is one hot spot for these sightings, it's Cape Ann and Gloucester's bay.

Between the mid-seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries, reports of the sea serpent were sporadic, but in August of 1817, the great beast visited Gloucester harbor almost daily for the entire month. When a skipper from a coasting vessel claimed to see a sixty-foot serpent at the bay's entrance on August 6, he was laughed it, but not for very long. On August 14, a ship's carpenter named Matthew Gaffney not only saw the creature but also fired at him. Gaffney wrote, "I had a good gun, and took good aim. I aimed at his head, and I think I must of hit him. He turned toward us immediately after I had hired, and I thought he was coming at us; but he sunk down and went directly under our boat, and made his appearance at about one hundred yards from where he sunk . . . ."

By several accounts, just about all of Gloucester saw the eel-like creature during August of 1817. David Humphreys, a former aide to General George Washington, wrote, "[The serpent] was seen by two hundred, at one time, sporting the whole afternoon, under Wind-Mill Point." Those who saw the creature move claimed it swam with a vertical motion-like a caterpillar in the water, with the humps of its back forming hills.

The newspaper were in a frenzy printing stories culled from eyewitnesses, the Gloucester Sea Serpent stopped making the news. Editors considered the creature's to be fact and weren't interested in debating it any longer.

In the twentieth century, giant serpent sightings have basically ceased. According to J. P O'Neil, author of The Great New England Sea Serpent, the reason the beast no longer comes around is because humans have overfished the costal bays and banks, and the giant creature has simply moved on to more hospitable feeding grounds.

The most recent sighting of the sea serpent in Massachusetts occurred on July 25, 1962, off the coast of Marshfield. The Associated Press covered the story and told of witnesses on two separate fishing vessels (the Vincy and the Carol Ann) who saw the creature. The Marshfield serpent was described as having the head of an alligator and a body shaped like a nail keg. One of the fishermen, Archie Lewis, was quoted that the critter had a healthy appetite. It was, he said, "gulping up the fish in the area and did not concern itself with fishermen in the way. I have seen all types of whales, but never one that resembles this creature."

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In Loving Memory Of the Fallen

This memorial is dedicated to the courage and honor of our fallen teammates. Their dedication and sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Here are the names of our fallen. Each name is accompanied by a page dedicated to honoring and remembering them, where photos or stories can be shared.

* Indicates those who are the Original 43

January

Casey Casavant (Rooster)*

Steve Gernet (G-Man)*

Ron Johnson (Cat Daddy)*

Arthur Laguna (Art)*

Shane Stansfield (War Baby)*

Jerome McCauley (Jerry)*

Matt Fineran*

Walter Fisher*

William Reid Ray (Billy)

Sean Hawkins (Hawk)

James Patrick Flynn (Seven)

Dean Leon Silva (Windex)

Christopher P. Gaffney

February

Nicholas W. Leotti*

Michael McInnis (Mac)

Jim Grey (Mammal)

Lance Warren (#1 Dad)

Cory Gene Wainscott

Lee Eric Martin (Biggin)

Keith Jorgensen (Snake Doctor)

Tommy Lopez

Jeffrey Keith Reynolds (Festus)

Richard Garcia (Witch Doctor)

Charles Hughes (Hugo)

Glen Wenzel

March

Wesley John Kealoha Batlona (Wes)*

Stephen Scotten Helvenston (Scott)*

Mike Teague (Iron Mike)*

Jerko Gerald Zovko (Jerry)*

Bruce T Durr (Bee)*

James Cantrell (Tracker)*

Stuart Rice

William Posch

Michael Tharp

April

Peter Goodfellow (Dingo)*

Robert Gore (Jason)*

Curtis Hundley (Sparky)*

Steven McGovern*

Jason Obert*

David Patterson (Mike)*

Luke Petrik (Black Diamond)*

Eric Smith*

Patrick Waterbury (Stazi)

Craig Fuller (Firecracker)*

Norman Spruill (Old School)

Abraham Bronn

Scott Sandefer (Sandman)

May

Thomas Jaichner (Bama)*

Thomas Capel (Grundle)

Brandon Teague

Steven Powell (Junior)

June

Richard Bruce (Kato)*

Krzysztof Kaskos*

Jarrod Little*

Christopher Neidrich*

Artur Zukowski*

David Olinger (Dave-O)

Joshua Hernandez (Pedro)*

Corey Meile (Olaf)

William Larson (Gunz)

July

William Hinchman (Sonny)*

Roland Tressler (Johny Quest)*

Michael Sacks (Max)*

Cory Gray

Antouine Castenada (Lips)

Sean Barton (Taxi)

Duane Xanders

Bart Baker

August

Charles Geisler (Bullfrog)

Philip VanDyke

William Woods (Brian)*

Joseph Bixler (Bix)

Michael Oyer

Roger Abshire (Nitro)

Christopher Hartsock

Mike Hawley (Mike)

September

David Shepherd (Chief)*

Stephen Sullivan*

Peter Tocci (Bear)*

Kenneth Webb (2B)*

Jack McCracken (Stagger)

Atom Ziniewicz

Carlos Guerrero (Tony)

Alan Nowak

Robert Schierenberg

Chad Burke

October

Rod Richardson (K2)*

Thomas Capel (Grundle)

Brandon Teague

Steven Powell (Junior)

Eric Chapa

Nickolaus Dillon

Jordan Pyle

November

David Randolph*

Noel English*

Loren Hammer (Butch)*

Melin Rowe*

David Laconte

Thomas Mitchell

Christopher Coene (Superfly)

Steven White (Blanco)

Raymond Tanner

December

Dane Paresi*

Scott Roberson*

Jeremy Wise*

Scott Brachmann (Mongo)

Ken Bell (Thumper)

Christopher Shellhamer

James Parker Jr. (Doc)

Sean Bowles (Rock Ape)

Terrance Cullinan

Jason Terrell (Turbo)

Col George Smith (Doc Smith)

Willard Baber (Buddy)

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The NY Times

By David Gelles and Austyn Gaffney

As Los Angeles burned for days on end, horrifying the nation, scientists made an announcement on Friday that could help explain the deadly conflagration: 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history.

With temperatures rising around the globe and the oceans unusually warm, scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused climate change.

The firestorms ravaging the country’s second-largest city are just the latest spasm of extreme weather that is growing more furious as well as more unpredictable. Wildfires are highly unusual in Southern California in January, which is supposed to be the rainy season. The same is true for cyclones in Appalachia, where Hurricanes Helene and Milton shocked the country when they tore through mountain communities in October.

Wildfires are burning hotter and moving faster. Storms are getting bigger and carrying more moisture. And soaring temperatures worldwide are leading to heat waves and drought, which can be devastating on their own and leave communities vulnerable to dangers like mudslides when heavy rains return.

Around the globe, extreme weather and searing heat killed thousands of people last year and displaced millions, with pilgrims dying as temperatures soared in Saudi Arabia. In Europe, extreme heat contributed to at least 47,000 deaths in 2023. In the United States, heat-related deaths have doubled in recent decades.

“We’re in a new era now,” said former Vice President Al Gore, who has warned of the threats of global warming for decades. “These climate related extreme events are increasing, both in frequency and intensity, quite rapidly.”

The fires currently raging in greater Los Angeles are already among the most destructive in U.S. history. By Friday, the blazes had consumed more than 36,000 acres and destroyed thousands of buildings. As of Saturday, at least 11 people were dead, and losses could top $100 billion, according to AccuWeather.

Although it is not possible to say with certainty as any specific weather event unfolds whether it was caused by global warming, the Los Angeles fires are being driven by a number of conditions that are becoming increasingly common on a hotter planet.

Last winter, Southern California got huge amounts of rain that led to extensive vegetation growth. Now, months into what is typically the rainy season, Los Angeles is experiencing a drought. The last time it rained more than a tenth of an inch was on May 5. Since then, it has been the second-driest period in the city’s recorded history.

Temperatures in the region have also been higher than normal. As a result, many of the plants that grew last year are parched, turning trees, grasses and bushes into kindling that was ready to explode.

That combination of heat and dryness, which scientists say is linked to climate change, created the ideal conditions for an urban firestorm.

“Wintertime fires in Southern California require a lot of extreme climate and weather events to occur at once,” said Park Williams, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “And the warmer the temperatures, the more intense the fires.”

A third factor fueling the fires, the fierce Santa Ana winds, which blow West from Utah and Nevada, cannot be directly linked to climate change, scientists say. But the winds this week have been particularly ferocious, gusting at more than 100 miles per hour, as fierce as a Category 2 Hurricane.

Fires across the West have been getting worse in recent years. In 2017, thousands of homes in Santa Rosa, Calif., burned to the ground. The next year, the Camp fire leveled more than 13,000 homes in Paradise, Calif. In 2021, roughly a thousand homesburned near Boulder, Colo.

And from the boreal forests of Canada to the redwood groves of Oregon, large fires have been incinerating vast areas of wilderness. 

“In the last couple years we’ve seen an increase in extreme weather events and increasing amounts of billion-dollar disasters,” said Kaitlyn Trudeau, a senior research associate focused on wildfires and the West Coast at Climate Central, a nonprofit research group. “It’s very clear that something is off, and that something is that we’re pumping an insane amount of carbon into the atmosphere and causing the climate systems to go out of whack.”

As the Los Angeles fires consumed some of the most valuable real estate in the world, an unfolding tragedy became fodder for political attacks.

President-elect Donald J. Trump blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, for the disaster. Mr. Trump inaccurately claimed that state and federal protections for a threatened fish had hampered firefighting efforts by leading to water shortages.

And on Thursday, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and an ally of Mr. Trump, inserted himself into the debate over the role climate change plays in wildfires.

“Climate change risk is real, just much slower than alarmists claim,” Mr. Musk wrote to his 211 million followers on X, the social media site he owns. He said the loss of homes was primarily the result of “nonsensical overregulation” and “bad governance at the state and local level that resulted in a shortage of water.”

Those claims were rebutted by scientists, who noted that, as humans continue to warm the planet with emissions, extreme weather is becoming more common.

In Los Angeles, residents displaced by the fires watched in exasperation as the unfolding disaster was politicized.

“People are just wanting to blame somebody else,” said Sheila Morovati, a climate activist who lives in Pacific Palisades and saw her neighborhood burn. “What about all the dryness? What about the temperatures? There’s so many pieces that are all pointing back to climate change.”

News that 2024 was the hottest year on record was hardly a surprise. The previous hottest year was 2023. All 10 of the hottest years on record have come in the last decade.

“We sound like a broken record but only because the records keep breaking,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which monitors global temperatures. “They will continue to break until we get emissions under control.”

But the world is not getting emissions under control. In fact, last year countries released record amounts of planet warming gasesinto the atmosphere, even as the consequences of climate change have become painfully clear. U.S. efforts to cut emissions largely stalled last year.

The inevitable result: more heat and more extreme weather.

In late September and early October, Hurricane Helene, which scientists said was made worse by climate change, roared across the Southeast, unleashing deadly floods and landslides in several states, including North Carolina.

Months earlier, researchers showed that the devastating floods that swamped Porto Alegre, Brazil, would not have been so severe were it not for human caused global warming.

In May, scientists found the fingerprints of climate change on a crippling heat wave that gripped India, and found that an early heat wave in West Africa last spring was made 10 times more likelyby climate change.

On Friday, parts of the South that are not used to winter weather, including Atlanta, saw sleet and snow, disrupting travel and canceling flights. But it’s unclear whether the recent blast of cold air that has led to plunging temperatures across the Southeast and Gulf Coast states was caused by a warming climate.

“We just don’t see robust increases in severe cold events,” said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, a research organization. “If anything, they’re decreasing.”

While Southern California is no stranger to fires, the events of the past week have exposed the region’s inherent vulnerabilities.

As the first fires started, fierce winds pushed the flames through canyons loaded with dried-out vegetation and into homes built in the so-called wildland-urban interface, areas where neighborhoods abut undeveloped wilderness. Both of the areas in the Los Angeles region that suffered the greatest losses, Pacific Palisades and Altadena, were in such fire-prone areas.

Art delaCruz, the chief executive of Team Rubicon, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes veterans and other volunteers to assist after disasters, was at home in Los Angeles when the fires broke out. His house is safe for now, and he is now preparing to deploy volunteers who will help clear roads and distribute aid.

Team Rubicon was founded after a group of former Marines went to Haiti to volunteer after the devastating earthquake in 2010. But Mr. delaCruz said that most of the disasters his organization responds to around the world now are linked to climate change.

“It’s simple physics,” he said. “Warmer air holds more water. The storms are increasing in frequency. The storms are increasing in severity. And the damage is just unbelievable.”

There is no rain in the forecast for Los Angeles for at least another couple weeks. But scientists are already concerned about what will happen when the rains do arrive.

In 2018, the wealthy enclave of Montecito, Calif., just north of Los Angeles, was devastated by mudslides after torrential downpours fell on hills that had recently burned.

“If we get intense rainfall on those burn scars, then we’re going to add insult to injury and have debris flows,” said Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.

Heat waves. Drought. Fires. Superstorms. Floods. Mudslides. These are the growing threats of a rapidly warming world, and scientists say nowhere is entirely protected from the effects of climate change.

“We think sometimes that if we live in a city, we’re not vulnerable to natural forces,” Dr. Schmidt said. “But we are, and it comes as a huge shock to people. There’s no get out of climate change free card.”

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The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Black Beauty (voice): Alan Cumming Farmer Grey: Sean Bean Jerry Barker: David Thewlis John Manly: Jim Carter Squire Gordon: Peter Davison Reuben Smith: Alun Armstrong Mr. York: John McEnery Lady Wexmire: Eleanor Bron Lord Wexmire: Peter Cook Jessica Gordon: Georgina Armstrong Lord George: Adrian Ross Magenty Alfred Gordon: Anthony Walters Molly Gordon: Gemma Paternoster Joe Green: Andrew Knott Carriagemaker: David Ryall Job Horse Boss: Vic Armstrong Sleazy Horse Dealer: Vincent Regan Horse Dealer: Matthew Scurfield Hard-Faced Man: Sean Blowers Wild-Looking Young Man: Rupert Penry-Jones Coachman: Bill Stewart Film Crew: Art Direction: Kevin Phipps Original Music Composer: Danny Elfman Casting: Mary Selway Director: Caroline Thompson Supervising Art Director: Leslie Tomkins Producer: Peter Macgregor-Scott Editor: Claire Simpson Production Design: John Box Set Decoration: Eddie Fowlie Stunt Coordinator: Vic Armstrong Costume Design: Jenny Beavan Director of Photography: Alex Thomson Casting: Sarah Trevis Producer: Robert Shapiro Key Hair Stylist: Colin Jamison Novel: Anna Sewell Key Makeup Artist: Magdalen Gaffney Makeup Artist: Natalie Cosco Makeup Artist: Yvonne Coppard Movie Reviews:

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The Simpsons Season 18 Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XVII

Written by Peter Gaffney

Animation timed by Adam Kuhlman

Married to the Blob:

Storyboard by Martin Archer

Directed by David Silverman

You Gotta Know When To Golem:

Storyboard by Ira Sherak

Directed by Matthew Faughnan

The Day the Earth Looked Stupid:

Storyboard by John Mathot

Directed by Matthew Faughnan