#Gorin university

[punnysher]

Shoma Sawamura of Rival Schools, in Sprite form!

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[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

Along a valley of the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, Emilio Mateo set out on a 10-mile hike up to the Queshque Glacier. Following the tracks of llamas and cattle, Mateo, a researcher at the Aspen Global Change Institute, and his research assistant were on their way to collect glacier samples. Armed with a hammer and chisel, and empty backpacks to carry back 35 pounds of bedrock samples, their goal was to get as close as possible to the glacier and reach a still-forming glacial lake that wasn’t there 15 years ago. 

Now, drawing on those samples and others from Bolivia and Colombia, a new study says tropical glaciers in the Andes are the smallest they’ve been in the past 11,700 years. 

“It’s a sad milestone to hit for these glaciers,” said Mateo. But the milestone helps researchers understand the unprecedented changes happening in the tropical Andean region, he explained.

Glacier retreat has accelerated over recent decades, a crisis both for nearby communities that rely on glacial meltwater and farther-flung places bedeviled by sea-level rise. But other glaciers, like those in North America, were smaller 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, in the early Holocene period, than they are now. 

After studying rare chemicals called beryllium-10 and carbon-14 in bedrock—like the ones in the samples Mateo collected—researchers found that these bedrock locations in the Andes had never been without glacier cover for at least 11,700 years. As such, these tropical glaciers are now smaller than they’ve ever been since the dawn of human civilization.

“Everywhere else, in the Himalayas and Alaska, the glaciers aren’t to that point yet. They are still receding, but they are not as small as they once were at the beginning of the Holocene,” said Mateo.

In North America, glaciers were indeed smaller than they are today for a fairly large part of human history, according to a 2023 study. So the findings from these Andean samples were shocking.

“This is not a result that we expected to find. We thought that this was decades away,” said Drew Gorin, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Leor Sapri

Published: Dec 15, 2023

The core question in lawsuits over state-level age restrictions on “gender-affirming care” or former patients suing their providers for fraud or malpractice is whether sex-trait modification is an evidence-based and ethical medical practice. Recognizing the limits of their own knowledge on such matters, judges have turned to expert witnesses to help them understand the key issues at play. But since both sides in these legal contests appoint expert witnesses to back their claims (typically medical doctors and mental-health professionals), judges must determine which are more credible.

A recent exchange between Moti Gorin, an associate professor of philosophy and bioethicist at Colorado State University, and Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender activist and cyberlaw instructor at Harvard Law School, provides crucial insight into how these questions bear on the outcome of lawsuits over gender medicine. In a paper titled “The Anti-Transgender Medical Expert Industry,” published earlier this year in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Caraballo argues that judges should disregard the opinions of medical professionals who testify on behalf of states seeking to restrict “gender-affirming care.” In a newly published letter to the editor in the same journal, Gorin shows the fatal flaws in Caraballo’s arguments. (The journal also gave Caraballo the chance to respond to Gorin.)

Caraballo devotes considerable space to maligning experts and organizations skeptical or critical of “gender-affirming care” as being driven by “anti-transgender” animus. As Gorin points out, these are

serious allegations, directed at named entities and individuals, and presented not on a social media platform or in the opening statement of an attorney engaged in courtroom advocacy but in the pages of a peer-reviewed, academic journal. One should therefore expect strong evidence in support of such allegations, in keeping with the usual norms of academic publishing. Those norms require, inter alia, that easily-verifiable factual claims be true, that accurate and otherwise adequate citations be provided, that the author avoid unnecessarily inflammatory language, and so on.

Caraballo provides zero evidence for these accusations. For example, Caraballo describes Stephen Levine, a professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with five decades of clinical experience treating gender dysphoric patients, as “one of the most prolific anti-transgender medical expert [sic] in the country” and claims that he “has not published peer-reviewed research in the relevant field.” As Gorin observes, however, “It is easy to confirm that this claim is plainly false.” Levine, who chaired the HBIGDA’s (now WPATH) Fifth Standards of Care and served on the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders, has many peer-reviewed publications in the field, including landmark papers like “The Myth of ‘Reliable Research’” that touch directly on the evidence base for pediatric gender medicine.

Gorin provides other examples of blatant falsehoods in Caraballo’s paper, raising the question of how the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics could allow such defamatory statements to be made in its pages without even minimal corroboration. As Gorin later explained on X, academic publishing relies on a certain degree of trust. Editors and reviewers assume that scholars will not, for instance, blatantly mischaracterize sources they cite, as Caraballo appears to have done. Recently, a prominent physician argued that the scandal of pediatric “gender-affirming care” was made possible due to a “broken chain of trust” within the medical and scientific establishment, with activist clinicians and researchers exploiting the chains of trust built up over generations by their professional forebearers. That physician is Stephen Levine.

No less embarrassing for Caraballo than the many factual errors in the original article is Caraballo’s apparent misunderstanding of the rules of evidence in adjudication. Here, Gorin takes Caraballo to task on the author's own turf and shows a superior grasp of the issues.

First, some context. Courts are generally a bad forum in which to settle scientific debates. Among other problems, judges are not subject-area experts and have little time to master the nuances of scientific controversies; they must inevitably decide between competing claims of subject-area experts. By definition, such contests require non-experts to substitute their own judgment for that of at least one expert—a scenario that can easily undermine the judge’s credibility in the eyes of scientific critics.

In the 1923 case Frye v. United States, the D.C. Court of Appeals opined that it was hard to determine when a “scientific principle or discovery crosses the line between the experimental and demonstrable stages,” and that, in order to do so, judges should consider whether a scientific principle or discovery has “gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.”

In 1975, Congress adopted the Federal Rules of Evidence. Rule 702 states, “If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.” In the 1993 case Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Supreme Court held that Rule 702 supersedes the Frye test of “general acceptance." The Court laid out four criteria to guide judges in their assessment of the reliability of expert testimony:

1. The expert’s scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will help the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue; 2. The testimony is based on sufficient facts or data; 3. The testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods; and 4. The expert has reliably applied the principles and methods to the facts of the case.

It’s easy to see how these doctrinal issues bear directly on the current debate over “gender-affirming care.” When advocates of gender-affirming care maintain that these controversial procedures are evidence-based, they cite the consensus of professional medical associations. Critics point out that this consensus is manufactured and enforced through suppression of contrary viewpoints. They point out that consensus-based medicine is not necessarily evidence-based medicine.

Caraballo’s position is that expert testimony from the likes of Levine and the psychologist James Cantor—author of the definitive, peer-reviewed fact-check of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ policy statement on “gender-affirming care”—should be discounted on the grounds that Levine and Cantor do not directly provide “gender-affirming” medical treatments to minors and that they operate outside the consensus of U.S. medical associations.

Regarding the first claim, if clinicians do not approve minors for puberty suppression, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries, that might be because they don’t believe that these interventions are evidence-based and ethical. Moreover, as Cantor has explained in expert witness testimony, the expertise of clinicians is different from that of scientists. The clinician’s expertise “regards applying general principles to the care of an individual patient and the unique features of that case.” The scientist’s expertise “is the reverse, accumulating information about many individual cases and identifying the generalizable principles that may be applied to all cases.” Accordingly, Cantor writes, “In legal matters, the most familiar situation pertains to whether a given clinician correctly employed relevant clinical standards. Often, it is other clinicians who practice in that field who will be best equipped to speak to that question. When it is the clinical standards that are themselves in question, however, it is the experts in the assessment of scientific studies who are the relevant experts.” For good reason, Caraballo’s criterion—that a doctor must practice a type of intervention in order to qualify as an expert in the evidence base for that intervention—is neither mentioned nor implied in the Daubert standards.

Not just that, but clinicians who practice “gender-affirming care” are likely to find themselves in intellectual, professional, and financial conflicts of interest, which may produce confirmation bias and impair their ability to dispassionately assess the evidence for the care they provide.

In short, Caraballo’s characterization of who counts as an expert is a classic example of the No True Scotsman fallacy. Caraballo conveniently defines as “experts” only those who practice, and by implication agree with, “gender-affirming care” for kids. It would be as if we agreed to define only clinicians who practice lobotomy as “experts” on whether lobotomy is an evidence-based practice.

As for Caraballo’s second point, about “anti-transgender” experts being outside the consensus in the field, Gorin points out that, under Daubert, this should not disqualify the opinions of these experts. To recall, the court in Daubert explicitlyrejected the “general acceptance” standard in Frye as a prerequisite for determining the reliability of testimony. “It is easy to see why ‘general acceptance’ is too strict a requirement,” writes Gorin. “It would exclude from the start expert testimony that, despite being inconsistent with generally-held opinion or consensus, proves to be consistent with the truth.” Commitment to science means above all commitment to the scientific method. As the Court put it in Daubert, “The focus . . . must be solely on principles and methodology, not on the conclusions they generate.”

Caraballo’s typo-riddled response to Gorin’s criticism complains that he is “hyper fixat[ed] on minor errors rather than the broader argument.” (In fact, Gorin’s examples of Caraballo’s factual errors go to the heart of Caraballo’s thesis that the experts in question are driven by animus rather than good-faith disagreement with the prevailing consensus.) Caraballo then resorts to more mudslinging and name-calling, for instance characterizing Levine as a “conversion therapist” because he uses exploratory therapy for his pediatric patients rather than automatically “affirming” their self-diagnosed “gender identity” as permanent and eligible for hormonal treatments. To support the accusation, Caraballo cites a paper by a transgender bioethicist who opposes “gatekeeping” for drugs and surgeries on the grounds that teenagers should have the right to turn their bodies into “gendered art pieces.”

Caraballo then continues to impugn the motives of “anti-transgender” expert witnesses by claiming that they are paid for their work—an unremarkable observation and one that conveniently ignores the fact that experts on the other side are also paid. For example, Jack Turban is paid up to $400 per hour to testify against state age-restriction laws. (It was money well spent: Turban revealed that he does not understand the basics of evidence-based medicine.)

Speaking of ulterior motives: in a footnote, Caraballo discloses that “these witnesses provided a report that impacted my ability to access care when I visit family in Florida. I can no longer obtain refills there legally due to restrictions placed on adult care. Additionally, my care in Massachusetts has been severely affected by the large influx of trans people fleeing states such as Florida. While this may be an elective academic indulgence for Gorin, this affects my healthcare directly.”

Caraballo ends by wondering, “Why should gender affirming care be considered differently where non-practitioners of a field testify on the relevant standards, they themselves do not practice?”

The answer is simple: those who provide irreversible, sterilizing, and often disfiguring “treatments” to kids on the belief that these young people were “born in the wrong body” are ideologues who need to be reined in by their more professional colleagues. For Caraballo, apparently, only blood-letters should testify on the merits of blood-letting.

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When activists get desperate, their lies get more egregious.

Caraballo needs to return his law degree. He's dangerously unqualified.

[yoshiunity]

Website and Ko-Fi Updated!

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New Art Added:

Commission: Pale-Blood Amber

Rival Schools Pacific High

Rival Schools Gorin High/University

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Feel free to check it out whenever you can! More info in replies.

Trying something new. Honestly, something I should have done a long time ago. For now on, I'm posting art on my website and Ko-Fi page AT LEAST two days ahead of other social media. I'll post an update like this for anyone interested.

So if you want to see my work early, just click the links and you can check it out. If you're willing to wait at least two days, that's fine too. It's free either way. However you want to view my work is up to you, as long as you're not an asshole.

Most of the artwork in this update is already on here, but that's a one-time slip-up. Honestly, I'm only doing this to bring more attention to my website and Ko-Fi. I mean, it's simple business. I've worked hard on my website. Also, WIX is getting ready to raise the price.

Also, It's a good way to show that I'm available for business and open to tips($) without beating anyone over the head. So get ready to see updates like this A LOT.

[hannah-and-the-wizzards]

Prologue

The sun was high in the sky, dazzling and relentless over the endless expanse of the desert. Thin shimmers of air danced over the hot sand dunes and deceived the senses of the travelers. But even in this almost indomitable wasteland, one could feel the traces of magic - an ancient, mystical force that ran through the desert and attracted magical creatures from all corners of the world.

A colorful caravan moved forward slowly but determinedly. They were wizards and magicians from the farthest lands who had set out to reach the legendary goal: a magical city that only appeared for a short time as a mirage in the middle of the desert. This city, called Gorin, was the meeting place of the most powerful and wisest magicians, and ancient secrets and hidden powers were guarded within its walls.

In the midst of this illustrious company was Hanna, a young woman with a determined look and a heart full of hope. Hanna was not a sorceress, at least not a real one. However, she had posed as one, hoping to find the answers she had been seeking for years in Gorin. Her sister Justin had disappeared without a trace long ago, and Hanna was convinced that the city of magicians was the key to her whereabouts.

With every step through the hot sand, Hanna felt the weight of her secret. She was surrounded by powerful beings who could shape the universe with their magic, while she herself was armed only with courage and cunning. But her goal was clear, and her determination unbroken. The hope of finding her sister again drove her on, through the burning heat of the day and the icy cold of the night.

So began Hanna's journey into a world full of magic and mystery, a journey that would not only lead her to the legendary city of Gorin, but also deep into the heart of the secrets that the desert hid. And as the caravan moved on and the sun slowly sank behind the dunes, Hanna knew that this was just the beginning of an adventure that could change everything.

[californiaprelawland]

Miranda v. Arizona 

By Catherine Kavalauskas, University of California Davis Class of 2026

January 18, 2024

Miranda v. Arizona is a landmark Supreme Court case that is considered to have effected radical change in American criminal law. The case revolves around the Fifth Amendment which was once understood to only protect Americans from “types of compulsions to confess,” (2) (for example, persuaded false confessions, compliant false confessions, etc.) however, the Miranda v. Arizona case expanded the rights of the Fifth Amendment through the implementation of the Miranda warning.  

Miranda v. Arizona consists of four different cases. The similarity of each case remains on the premise that each defendant confessed guilt after being subjected to interrogations without being informed of their Fifth Amendment rights (before or during the interrogation). The Fifth Amendment right of The Constitution protects citizens against self-incrimination, allowing individuals to refuse to answer questions during a criminal trial. Moreover, the Fifth Amendment protects individuals from self-incriminating themselves. 

Miranda v. Arizona was sparked by an incident on March 13, 1963. Ernesto Miranda was arrested and brought to the local police station where he was interrogated for being in connection with a kidnapping and a sexual assault. Miranda was forced into a two-hour-long interrogation that resulted in the police obtaining a written confession from Miranda. Despite the objection of Miranda’s defense attorney, the police admitted the written confession as evidence in the trial. In summary, because of his written confession, the jury found Miranda guilty of the crime. 

Miranda appealed his charges and took his case to the Supreme Court of Arizona. The Court held that the state did not violate Miranda’s constitutional rights because he “did not specifically request counsel” (3). Unsatisfied with this ruling, Miranda appealed his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.  

Miranda’s Supreme Court Case became a landmark decision of The United States. The Court ruled that law enforcement in the U.S. must verbally state an individual’s constitutional rights before interrogating them or else their statements cannot be used against them in court. In other words, under the Fifth Amendment, statements that are given in custody during an interrogation can rightfully be used as evidence during the trial, only if the defendant was verbally and knowingly administered their rights before the interrogation – the right to remain silent, right to an attorney.  

Moreover, the Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court case led to the establishment of the Miranda Warning in the United States. The law requires that after an individual has been arrested, a police officer must administer the individual their Miranda rights, “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney” (4).  

In summary, the Miranda v. Arizona case has led to profound and essential effects within the legal system. Miranda rights are important as they protect individuals from self-incrimination during interrogations. Moreover, the Miranda v. Arizona decision ensures that people who are accused of a crime are aware of their constitutional rights and have equal access to counsel, even if they are financially disadvantaged and cannot afford it. 

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1) Wikipedia. “Seal of the United States Supreme Court”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg. 11 Jan 2024. 

2) Wikipedia. “Miranda v. Arizona”.  7 Jan 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona . 17 Jan 2024.  

3) Oyez. “Miranda v. Arizona”. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1965/759 . 17 Jan 2024.  

4) EG Eisen Gorin. “Miranda Right Violations”. https://www.egattorneys.com/miranda-rights-violations-california#:~:text=By%20law%2C%20after%20you%27ve,the%20right%20to%20an%20attorney . 17 Jan 2024. 

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Ghostbusters (2016, Paul Feig)

28/11/2023

Ghostbusters is a 2016 film directed by Paul Feig.

The film marks the reboot of the series of the same name, with a new team of female Ghostbusters, played by Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert are two theoretical physics scholar who together wrote a book in which they argue that paranormal phenomena, such as ghosts, really exist. Abby, Erin and Jillian witness the first physical manifestation of a ghost they have ever seen, filming it and posting the video on YouTube, which leads to Erin's immediate dismissal and her loss of all credibility as a scientist by the entire community university.

Abby, Erin and Jillian manage to capture the ghost with their proton packs and film the operation, but their footage is once again mocked by the Internet public. Patty decides to join the team, making herself useful as she knows New York city very well and provides the group with a vehicle, a repurposed Cadillac hearse borrowed from her uncle.

When Rowan plants one of the devices in a venue where a heavy metal concert is being held, the Ghostbusters are called in and capture the ghost in front of the audience.

During the credits, Patty listens to a recording of an encounter with a ghost and asks the other three Ghostbusters if they have ever heard of Zuul.

~ Abigail "Abby" Yates, played by Melissa McCarthy, is a scholar of the paranormal world, willing to do anything to prove her theories.

~ Erin Gilbert, played by Kristen Wiig, Abby's best friend, was nominated to become a professor at Columbia University, a job she lost after it was revealed she co-authored a book about ghosts with Yates.

~ Jillian Holtzmann, played by Kate McKinnon, is a nuclear engineer, rebellious and courageous.

~ Patricia "Patty" Tolan, played by Leslie Jones, is a New York subway employee.

~ Kevin Beckman, played by Chris Hemsworth, is the secretary of the Ghostbusters, a muscular and charming but extremely dumb and childish boy, who can't even answer the phone.

~ Rowan North, played by Neil Casey, the film's main antagonist, is a mad scientist who becomes a ghost and attempts to unleash an army of ghosts to destroy the city.

~ Bradley, played by Andy García, is the Mayor of New York.

The protagonists of the first two Ghostbusters films participate in the film in some cameos:

- Bill Murray, Dr. Martin Heiss, a debunker who doesn't belive in the paranormal;

- Dan Aykroyd, a taxi driver;

- Ernie Hudson, Bill Jenkins, Patty Tolan's uncle;

- Sigourney Weaver, Rebecca Gorin, Jillian Holtzmann's professor and mentor;

- Annie Potts, the receptionist at the Mercado Hotel.

Ozzy Osbourne, Al Roker, Pat Kiernan, Cheryl Wills, Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly also participate in the film, playing themselves.

[arnaudkuma]

Master One To Master All

At the end of the class, Nagato sensei said, “if you master one thing, you can master anything”. It reminded me of how Musashi became a fantastic painter after mastering the art of the sword. (1) In his famous book “Gorin no Sho”, he writes, “When I apply the principle of strategy to the ways of different arts and crafts, I no longer require a teacher in any domain.” (2) This universal mastery…

[zandragorin]

H/D Fan Fair 2021 - Art Claim

An Issue of Touch

Summary: Harry Potter has been enlisted by Professor Longbottom to gather some rare species of water plants for his client's potions project. Seems easy enough but there's a catch, because, isn't there always? Said plant is poisonous and potentially lethal to human touch whilst underwater. What's a herbology assistant to do? Seek the help of a pretty (annoying) merman, of course.

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View An Issue of Touch on Ao3 for written dialogue.

This was originally meant to be a full on comics with loads of panels-- I already managed to make a draft of the story, but due to unforseen cicrcumstances, I wasn't able to complete everything as intended. SO I spurned out two panels instead, which I still hope gave the prompter a little glimpse of the world I envisioned their prompt taking place in.

Anyway, I still had loads of fun making these and playing with the colors, and I may have gotten a bit teary-eyed with all the lovely and nice and encouraging comments during the fest... and maybe a bit starstruck by the comments of some of my fave artists in the fandom, so thank you, thank you, endlessly.🥰

And thank you @hd-fan-fair mods for all the hard work! You are amazing.����

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Researchers at Tel Aviv University found a way to use nanotechnology to infuse color into transparent calcite nanoparticles, turning the previously invisible and transparent particles into easily detectable, sparkling gold particles.

These visible particles can serve as a basis for innovative medical approaches to diagnosing and delivering light-activated drug therapies for cancer patients.

The new technology also opens promising prospects for biomedical applications including photothermal therapy, photoacoustic tomography, bioimaging, and targeted drug delivery.

The research and development were conducted by an international team of scientists coordinated by Roman Noskov and Prof. Pavel Ginzburg of TAU’s Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering; Prof. Dmitry Gorin of the Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology; and Evgeny Shirshin of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. The findings were recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Materials.

While traditional methods of optical engineering often use toxic compounds and chemicals, this new method employs gold nanoseeds and porous vaterite (calcium carbonate) spherulites, which are currently considered to be promising drug-delivery vehicles.

The infusion of the gold nanoseeds creates a new material whose resonance properties can be widely tuned by changing the quantity of gold inside the vaterite.

Ginzburg said he believes that the collaboration will lead to live subject (in vivo) demonstrations, which, in turn, “will pave the way for a new biomedical technology.”

[frankterranella]

Remembering a jazz great

Beegie Adair playing at various NYC venues, including Carnegie Hall.

The jazz world lost a master pianist yesterday. Bobbe Gorin (BG) "Beegie" Adair died at home after a short illness. During her long career, she was a much sought-after studio musician. But especially in the last 25 years, Beegie came to be known by the jazz public, appearing with her own jazz band. She was 84.

What, you’ve never heard of Beegie Adair? Well I must say that I also was among the uninitiated until about six years ago. Working as a studio musician is anonymous work, even when, as in Beegie’s case, you’re playing on records recorded by the likes of Dolly Parton, Henry Mancini, Joe Williams, Mama Cass Elliott and Peggy Lee. So Beegie was never as famous as jazz pianists like Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, and Erroll Garner. But she had a 65-year career, and appeared on well over 100 albums.

Beegie Adair was an unlikely jazz musician, being a woman born in Kentucky in 1937. Adair grew up in Cave City, Kentucky, where she began taking piano lessons at age five. She continued to study piano throughout college, earning a B.S. in music education at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. During and after college, she played in jazz bands, and spent three years teaching music to children before moving to Nashville, where she became a session musician.

Much later in her career, she began to play with her own trio consisting of bassist Roger Spencer and drummer Chris Brown. The group appeared all over the world. I saw them at Carnegie Hall and at Birdland in New York City. Together they recorded 35 studio albums over the last 25 years and sold millions of records. You can check out her discography at https://www.allmusic.com/artist/beegie-adair-mn0000149265/discography.

I think the talent of Beegie Adair was in knowing how to take a tune from the American Songbook and arrange it in an interesting jazz manner that was nonetheless true to the song. The only way you can really appreciate her genius is to listen to her work. There are many albums of hers available on Spotify and YouTube. I discovered her on Pandora, where I was listening to the Peter Nero station. Her playing style is very distinctive -- not as flashy as Nero or as flowery as Liberace. Beegie’s arrangements are kinetic. She bops. And you never lose the melody, which is a common complaint I have about other jazz piano versions of these great songs.

And now she’s left us. I will miss seeing her perform live, but fortunately she has left us a legacy of music that we can listen to for years to come. I like to think she’s jamming with her jazz idols in heaven now. Duke Ellington and Count Basie: Make room for the Queen “B.”

[rmnds1]

As a teenager unintentionally just by intuition draws a DICK on his desk at school we tried to close this art gestalt through a compilation of sexual sketches. Collection of love installations, an orgy of meanings, a simple and sensible dialogue reminds us that love is different, that love is the beginning of all good things in the universe. CLAN: Anton Shavkero, Alex Gorin, Iliya Korolev, Ivan Rys, Zinnur Mustafin, Yuriy Adam Sound: Daruma Audio Behance: https://ift.tt/2UO1GAQ Instagram: https://ift.tt/31QFU0z Telegram sticker pack: https://ift.tt/2tY6cBK Chanters of song – anglers and peasants alike, rehearse their canticles at the dusk of day. A shamisen is entwined with a snake, a prince was born, who became you I love, as has never been in nature – As they love the statue, As they love highly spiritual love porn. Scenes from the human and animal spousal life, as I undress, I wish to show you something You are not blind, do shine a lantern Upon my lips, my teeth, my chest, and my arm. We shall lie on the ground, upon the waters, In the wind, in the sun. And we shall roll over – Hither and thither As a wave fleeing the shore, As a flower closing its blinkers, As a sheep deserting the wolf, only to later return. I overturn the concept of “savage” And I give you power over my mind, As much as you wish to grab. Tame the wild, taming the wild, tame the wild. I have no more words, can't even breathe.

[yoshiunity]

One of my entries for a, maybe canceled(?), Rival Schools zine! Loved all the sports-themed students of Gorin High/University. All of them have enough main character energy to star in their own spin-off sports title. Capcom could have made it happen if they wanted to.

Shoma(baseball), Natsu(Volleyball), Roberto(Soccer), Momo(Tennis) and Nagare(Swimming).

[hangorin]

【記者会見プレリリース】

Press Conference

Press Release

「過酷な真夏の開催は危険！」

２０２０東京五輪開催中止を求める国際共同声明を発表

〜反五輪団体が７月に東京に結集！

“It’s dangerous to host the Games in the middle of harsh summer”

Announcing the international joint statement calling for the cancelation of Tokyo 2020: Anti-Olympic Games advocacy groups gather in Tokyo in July!

　東京五輪開催を1年後に控え、過去の五輪開催都市および開催予定都市の反五輪団体６団体が東京に結集し、「過酷な真夏の五輪開催」に反対する国際共同声明を発表します。

With the Tokyo Olympics being one year away, six anti-Olympic groups from past and future host cities of Olympic Games will gather in Tokyo to issue an international joint statement opposing “hosting the Olympics in the middle of a dangerously hot summer.”

　

　来年の東京五輪は、３０度を超える猛暑・炎天下の下で開催が予測され、アスリートのみならず、観客やボランティア、とくに子どもたちを熱中症などの危険にさらす可能性があるとして、世界中から懸念の声があがっています。

Next year's Tokyo Olympics are expected to be held under conditions of extreme heat where temperatures are forecasted to exceed 30 degrees centigrade. Concerns have been raised about the potential of putting not only athletes, but also spectators, volunteers, and especially children at risk for heatstroke.

 　また今回の東京五輪は、交通機関の利用制限や過剰すぎる警察警備体制、競技場への熱帯雨林を違法に伐採した木材の使用や野宿者の排除、原子力災害被災者の切り捨てなど、様々な都市機能麻痺や人権侵害などを引き起こしているだけでなく、五輪招致をめぐる買収疑惑までもが浮上、「搾取オリンピック」と称されるほど問題を抱えています。

In addition, the Tokyo Olympics is host to a multitude of urban infrastructure problems and violation of human rights and environmental code including: restrictions on the use of public transportation; deployment of a large-scale police security system; use of wood illegally logged from the rainforest to build the stadium; displacement of homeless people; abandonment of the victims of Fukushima’s nuclear power plant disaster. In fact, there are so many problems that the Games is now being called the “Exploitation Olympics”.In addition, the Tokyo Olympics is host to a multitude of urban infrastructure problems and violation of human rights and environmental code including: restrictions on the use of public transportation; deployment of a large-scale police security system; use of wood illegally logged from the rainforest to build the stadium; displacement of homeless people; abandonment of the victims of Fukushima’s nuclear power plant disaster. In fact, there are so many problems that the Games is now being called the “Exploitation Olympics”.

 　そこで、東京五輪の抱える問題を実態調査するため、米国のスポーツ・ジャーナリスト　ジュールズ・ボイコフ　Jules Boykoff　氏（、『祝賀資本主義とオリンピック』著書）が緊急来日を決定。これにあわせ、ブラジル・リオ（2016年夏開催）、韓国・平昌（2018年冬開催）、仏国パリ(2024年夏開催予定)、米国ロサンゼルス(2028年夏開催予定)など、五輪開催地域の反五輪団体が東京に結集し、東京五輪の中止を求める共同声明を発表する運びとなりました。ぜひご取材ください。

To investigate the problems of the Tokyo Olympics, a renowned U.S. sports journalist and scholar, Jules Boykoff (The author of Celebratory Capitalism and the Olympics) will make an emergency visit to Japan. For this occasion, anti-Olympics groups from past and future host cities, such as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (summer 2016), Pyeongchang, Korea (winter 2018), Paris, France (summer 2024), and Los Angeles (summer 2028) are also scheduled to gather in Tokyo and issue a joint statement calling for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics. We hope we can welcome you at this press release event.

 日時：２０１９年７月２３日（火）　11：00～　外国人記者クラブ　

場所：日本外国特派員協会（東京都 千代田区 丸の内 3-2-3　丸の内二重橋ビル5階）

Dates/Time: July 23, 2019 (Tuesday), From 11:00am

Location: Foreign Correspondent Club (Marunouchi Nijubashi Building 5F, 3-2-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo)

 ※ジャーナリストのみ参加可能です。下記の日本外国特派員協会HPよりご確認ください。　

FCCJ - Press Conference: "NoOlympics2020" by Boykoff, Orchier and Ichimura http://www.fccj.or.jp/events-calendar/press-events/icalevent.detail/2019/07/23/5261/-.html

 出席者： Participants:

 ジュールズ・ボイコフ：Jules Boykoff　（元プロサッカー選手。オリンピック出場経験者。パシフィック大学政治学教授。著書に『Ｃｅｌｅｂｒａｔｉｏｎ　Ｃａｐｉｔａｌｉｓｍ　ａｎｄ　the Olympic Games（祝賀資本主義とオリンピック）』『Pawer Games（邦題「オリンピック秘史」早川書房）』）

Jules, Boykoff (Former professional soccer player and olympian, professor at the Pacific University, U.S. He is the author of Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games)

 アン・オーシエー：Anne Orchier（アメリカ・ロサンゼルス在住。反オリンピック団体「NolympicsLA」メンバー。ロサンゼルス居住者ユニオン、スクール・オブ・エコーズ）

Anne Orchier (Resident of Los Angeles, U.S., member of the “Los Angeles Tenants Union” and “School of Echoes”, and the organizing member of  “NOlympics LA”.

 いちむらみさこ：Misako Ichimura（反五輪の会 NO OLYMPICS 2020　メンバー）

Misako Ichimura（Member of “Han gorin no kai NoOlympics2020”）

 ※会見時、デイブ・ザイリン氏　Dave Zirin（スポーツ・ジャーナリスト）、パリ・ＬＡ・韓国の反五輪団体関係者も来場します。ぜひ取材をお願いします。

Dave Zirin (Sports journalist), as well as members of anti-olympics groups from Paris, Los Angeles and South Korea, will also be present at the presser.

 問い合わせ先：

Hosted by:

反五輪の会 NO OLYMPICS 2020　　Hangorinnokai No OLYMPICS 2020

首藤久美子（sudo kumiko反五輪の会）  hangorin2020　＠　gmail.com

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Chanters of song – anglers and peasants alike, rehearse their canticles at the dusk of day. A shamisen is entwined with a snake, a prince was born, who became you I love, as has never been in nature – As they love the statue, As they love highly spiritual love porn. Scenes from the human and animal spousal life, as I undress, I wish to show you something You are not blind, do shine a lantern Upon my lips, my teeth, my chest, and my arm. We shall lie on the ground, upon the waters, In the wind, in the sun. And we shall roll over – Hither and thither As a wave fleeing the shore, As a flower closing its blinkers, As a sheep deserting the wolf, only to later return. I overturn the concept of “savage” And I give you power over my mind, As much as you wish to grab. Tame the wild, taming the wild, tame the wild. I have no more words, can't even breathe.

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Ramblings

So this is a WoW blog, but it's also my blog and I'll post ooc stuff on here because it's easier and idk, I wanna.

That being said I just wanna give it up to Robert Venditti at DC Comics because he just recently wrapped up a 50 issue run on "Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps" and man oh man. It was an epic.

This run, alongside Benjamin Percy's 40-issue run on Green Arrow and Peter J. Tomasi's run on Superman, perfectly illustrates the benefits of not shuffling around creative teams.

Green Lantern Corps (which I'll call it for brevity) tells an amazingly epic story of the Green Lantern Corps clawing their way back to their proper place as the Universe's police force. That is the overarching story throughout various arcs, which make friends out of enemies, features old favorites and introduces new ones, just spectacular stuff.

It also has this amazing way of making the background Green Lanterns consistent characters of their own. There's obvious favorites for any Green Lantern fan like Kilowog, but I've become familiar with characters like Two-Six, Gorin-Sunn, Iolande, Salaak. These characters have a presence, you grow to recognize them, and that serves to make the Corps feel all the more real and alive within the pages of the series. There's no air of "Yeah just draw some weird alien thing wearing green," or "We need some faceless background Lantern to die in this big fight." They're consistent presences that add to the amount you get immersed in the series, because you recognize them even if you don't know them super well. That kind of continuity and attention to detail deserves to be commended.

If you're a fan of DC I 100% reccomend this series. It's completed now so you get a 50 issue run all helmed by the same writer, and the art is nothing to sneeze at, either. A lot of it is already in collected volumes which will be cheaper than getting individual issues, and I'm sure it won't be long before the last arc/couple arcs are made into collected volumes, as well.

Just wanted to share my love for an excellent piece of reading. Happy writing, folks!