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tk9336 · 3 years ago

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My Curatorial Internship at MSI Part 2

In a very bittersweet conclusion, I finished my internship this past Thursday. It culminated in a visit Friday, August 6th with my family and friends getting a VIP tour of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. My younger brother and his Australian co-worker flew in from D.C. and we picked them up from O’Hare on the way to MSI. We met with Director Kathleen McCarthy first thing after getting and to my utter disbelief got us onboard U-505 as a thank you for all my help this summer. She then let me run the tour onboard a German U-Boat... I am still feeling beyond honored for a privilege like that. She then let me give the tour of Collections and it really brought my short time with MSI full circle. I was asked to continue working on a project regarding a “Reichkriegsflagge” flag someone emailed us that they believe is linked to U-505. So as you can imagine I am thrilled... I broke down the history we have on the flags MSI has in storage and on exhibit. I emailed no fewer than four separate institutions; the German Maritime Museum, the US Naval Academy Museum (who has U-505′s actual War flag it was flying when captured in 1944), the Smithsonian, and to Keith Gill who was the chief Curator of U-505 when it was restored and interred in it’s final resting place within the 37 million dollar McCormick Foundation Exhibit.

What will follow is Weeks 7 - 9:

Week 7: 7/19-22/2021

Monday: I was not feeling well and decided to email Voula at 8AM as I got back home from the train station. I am glad I made this decision because I had a stomach that was in knots and there was plenty of material to work on from home. I worked on the U-505 artifacts list.

Tuesday: I came into the office and had my normal weekly meeting with Voula at 10 AM. We discussed the past week and the week ahead. Fortuitously since I had finished the massive transcription I was available to help on a more pressing issue that came up. The U.S. Navy was coming to give inert certificates and certify any munitions we had that still needed them. This was great because it was an opportunity to work with the Registrar Deanna, and do registration/collections management work. I got half way through the huge U.S. Navy loan files. I will continue next week in office, as tomorrow I am not working but will be on location.

Wednesday: I am not working Wednesday, as I am taking a long time friend and his family from my organization, the 501st Legion downtown. I will hopefully get to show them what I do in Collections; my office, the staff who are in my department and a brief walk through storage. I can't wait to see their faces... they have been following the posts I have been making to share my excitement of this incredible opportunity. The visit went well, and the parents Neil and Andrea are big World's Fair fans (both Colombian Exposition and 1933 Century of Progress.) They were former patron members of MSI before COVID.

Thursday: Working from home I was tasked with making a list of the artifacts on exhibition from the transcription of the U505 exhibit. So taking out the artifacts and making it into a separate word doc that I am sure helps the team when needing quick reference to what is on the floor.

Saturday: I continued the work from the U505 artifacts list and now am porting it to a excel workbook which seems to be the preferred file extension used by Kathleen and Voula (and perhaps Collections in general). Not strenuous academic work (since I already did that) but a lot busy work plugging, copying, pasting, etc.

Week 8: 7/26-29/2021

Monday: I came into the office today and resumed my work on going through the large U.S. Navy loan folders Deanna gave me in a effort to find relevant materials on the German, and American torpedoes as well as a Soviet Cruise Guided Missile, the "STYX." I gathered all my materials and presented them to her, and she looked through and helped me reduce the gathered documents for the most relevant to inertion. I found an actual donation file for the STYX to MSI from the Navy... not everyday you find a piece of paper saying this million dollar, surface to ship missile from the Cold War. This took me to the end of the day.

Tuesday: I came into the office and had my weekly meeting with Voula. This would be our last in person meeting as she is going to Greece with her family this Friday. I made sure to really emphasize how much this opportunity meant to me and that I was going to go the extra mile to wrap up all my projects and try to be as much use to MSI as possible. I had finishing helping Deanna yesterday with the inert reference materials to help her with the U.S. Navy guys coming in next Monday.

Wednesday: I worked from home since I have no shortage of stuff to work on. Voula tasked me with writing labels for the Fire Fighting artifacts I that I made a long project of at the beginning of the internship. Since I created all that in a long, well organized word doc, I can then, like a professional curator, work from my research to create 1-2 sentence labels for each item. I will take that and then input it into a excel workbook which seems to be the preferred file extension for reference purposes.

Thursday: We had another MSI Zoom round-table, and this time we how to brand, and what branding means professionally speaking, and to Museums like MSI specifically. Thankfully being Zoom was able to attend while working from home, which is an absolute godsend (in regards to not having to commute to Chicago, from Wauconda, IL... not that I don't like being at MSI- the commute is long.) I continued buttoning up and polishing all that I worked on so far. This isn't the normal college assignment where I don't re-read it once and make quick improvements (being honest here!) I re-read them about 3 times each, as I am very proud of what little I can contribute to MSI.

Week 9: 8/2-5/2021

Monday: I worked from home buttoning up and polishing all my work for MSI that I've done this summer in addition to finishing the label writing for the Fire Fighting artifacts list. I will port that into a Excel workbook like the U505 artifacts list, just to be consistent (as providing a word doc copy as well.) Long day in front of the computer... I worked roughly 10 hours. I just really want to leave a good, and lasting impression on MSI as a show of the supreme gratitude I have for them and this opportunity.

Tuesday: Today I came in feeling a little bit disappointed it is my last week, and endevour to take as much advantage of it as possible. With my Zoom meeting with Voula (who is in Greece right now) we discussed any last questions I had, and she wanted to say that she will be available as a reference and contact for me going forward which means the world over. Today is my day to talk, and work with the Registrar Deanna. She let me know my work on the Russian Cruise missile STYX was very helpful to the gentlemen from Navy doing the inert certifications. That felt really good. Kathleen also forwarded me a project involving one of the flags of U505! The very SAME one I took a photo with learning how to handle textile artifacts. I am over the moon, call it fate that I sought that flag out earlier. (As a former Combat Arms 11Bravo serviceman, holding the captured colors of an enemy combatant captured in combat is nothing short of incredible. So much so the words escape me. A significant emotional experience for me, personally.) We handled the additional two flags, both of which are the correct dimensions for being a port flag, meaning it was flown in dock, and around friendly waters when not on patrol. We handled both, and I took photos showing the measuring tape next to the artifacts to certify these are what they appear to be, the real McCoy. I will follow up with the author of a book about Hans Goebeler, one of the U505 sailors and find out more about this additional Reichskreigflagge he signed! To be entrusted to do this by Kathleen is very empowering. To help Deanna she had me scan all the Black Creativity Juried Art files from 2020 from artists. These were receipts of artwork we kept, or returned. The scanner allows you save files in it that are available to the department computers via wifi. If she has to pull a receipt on a artwork it is catalogued. Not the most exciting work, but work that needs doing. Glad I got to get a flavor of what it entails to be the registrar and put on a different hat, albeit a simple busy-work one for me to get a grasp at how her work differs from the curators.

Wednesday: I had to work from home this day because of issues with my car. Normally not an issue with the battery but with my dad being out of town for work I didn't have a back up vehicle. I still had plenty to work on to finish up.

Thursday: This is my last scheduled work day for the Curatorial internship at MSI. It is completely bittersweet, bitter that it is over, and sweet in the way that I have all these contacts and incredible experiences under my belt. I have a tour scheduled with Mike Welsh whose in charge of facilities, buildings and grounds. Additionally we will have the opportunity to do a in person round table with Chevy Humphrey, President and CEO of MSI. The day began with a little party/meeting hosted by Kathleen for the new assistant curator, registrar and preparator to help with the projects being undertaken by each position. We also celebrated my last day which was very nice. I got to help unpack a 3D photo studio that was massive, and will be a big help photographing these artifacts for cataloguing and being put online. The meeting with Chevy went well if a little underwhelming because I was the only one asking questions! But, hard to pass up a mostly 1:1 dialogue with the CEO and President of MSI. I came back to collections in which Kathleen presented me some gifts from MSI in appreciation of my help for the summer. What a grand and wonderful experience.

Friday: I took my Family, family friends Mike and Kathy, as well as my visiting younger brother the Assistant director of marketing and communications for Atlas Network in DC with his Australian co-worker Vale to see MSI from top to bottom. It began with Kathleen getting us ONBOARD U-505 and let me give the tour. I had never been so honored, and not to mention the onboard for the sub is temporarily closed for COVID. This meant the world, and it was so very cool to share this with my family. It's one thing to talk about a German U-Boat... it's another to be inside a REAL one. She then took us to Collections and again let me give the tour in Storage and was very generous with her time. I then took them to the Henry Crown Space Center, then into the Smart Home Park to grab a drink. I took them to the Science of Storms exhibit and then used the special staff elevator to speedily get me back to Collections to use my work laptop to do the final meeting with Studio Institute. I had to leave the meeting right near the end because we needed to get home and take care of our 14 year old dog Ziggy, and equally old visiting Griffin. It was great to share my presentation with the rest of the Chicago/Memphis interns. This was the first time Chicago was included on the program and I believe the stars aligned to put where I am today, and what I got to do this summer. Thank you. I will try to make an album on Tumblr of images of my internship this summer and I took them with a storyteller’s eye. It’s a pretty cool linear progression of what I found over the course of the internship!

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rocketwerks · 5 years ago

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John Marshall Courts Building

800 East Marshall Street

Built, 1978

Renovated, 1994

Architects, C. F. Murphy & Associates; Helmut Jahn, project architect (1978). Hening-Vest-Covey (1994)

May 2020

Straight out of Alphaville.

[ADR] — building in 1981 downtown survey

Designed by a nationally known Chicago-based architectural firm, the John Marshall Courts Building was intended to provide a neutral background to the John Marshall House. In this it succeeds. it is a slickly detailed glass box with rounded edges. The building is the best example of the "glass box" genre in Richmond.

(Montage) — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, image undated

C. F. Murphy & Associates are among the more skillful followers of Mies van der Rohe, who was the most influential architect of the 20th century. Their Richmond building has been controversial on both functional and aesthetic grounds. [ADR]

(SAH Archipedia)

Designed to respect the Marshall House next door, the sleek, black glass box of the John Marshall Courts Building sets off the house, emphasizing its iconic, welcoming facade. This is perhaps its only success, because the court building has been plagued with criticism for its dysfunction. Recent alterations have attempted to correct traffic and security issues. (SAH Archipedia)

May 2020

When your lead architect likes to wear capes as normal outerwear, and his detractors call him “Flash Gordon”, there’s a chance you might not get what you were expecting. Before you know it, you might be throwing around emotional terms like controversial and dysfunction and find yourself spending money to correct gaps in the original design.

(The Architect’s Newspaper) — McCormick Place, 1969-1971

After graduating from the Technische Hochschule in Munich in 1965, (Helmut) Jahn moved to Chicago to study at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a school long associated with the Modernist aesthetic of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his followers. On the basis of this solid design background, Jahn was hired by Chicago architectural firm C.F. Murphy Associates to work on the Miesian design for McCormick Place in Chicago.

(YouTube) — screencap from Helmut Jahn, FAIA Lifetime Achievement Award

In the late 1970s and ’80s Jahn made his mark, designing extravagant buildings that combined historical and contextual references—the central tenets of postmodern architecture—with high-tech engineering solutions. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

May 2020

Jahn certainly has his admirers and adherents. He has completed over 90 building projects during his long career, and has been widely recognized for his efforts, earning a Ten Most Influential Living American Architects award from the American Institute of Architects in 1991.

(Newspapers.com) — Helmut Jahn’s MetroWest building in Naperville, Illinois —Chicago Tribune Sunday, March 2, 1986

However, in the early days, his critics considered him “that postmodern enfant terrible who rocketed to stardom on the supercharged fireworks of the State of Illinois Building in 1985.” (Architecture Week)

A 1986 Chicago Tribune article about his MetroWest design in Naperville, Illinois called him a “flamboyant postmodernist, who adorns himself in capes and Porches.” It went on to observe that the building produced nausea in a nearby office worker, and concluded with relief that “at least nobody has dubbed it the Starship Naperville.” [CHIT]

May 2020

With context like that, perhaps it’s not surprising that issues were found with the courts building. Not everyone digs the glass box thing, that’s easy to grok, but the functional issues are something else. The building opened in 1978 and just four short years Robert Winthrop was calling it controversial, so whatever problems existed must have quickly found a voice.

May 2020

The precise nature of the complaints is obscure, but the building does not appear to respect the available space. Together with the John Marshall House, the courts building complex consumes the entire block, yet there is a large, empty plaza along Ninth Street.

May 2020

It certainly looks nice, but by 1994 the City would find itself coughing up $2 million dollars for a renovation to create additional office space and another courtroom. [RTD1] At such cost, there probably weren’t a lot of plaza enthusiasts still hanging around.

(Rocket Werks RVA Postcards) — John Marshall High School

Adding to the sense of injury, the new courts building came at the price of the beautiful old John Marshall High School. It too sat quietly behind the John Marshall House at the corner of 9th and Marshall and was considered a state-of-the-art facility when it opened in 1909, with large classrooms, elevators, and science labs, as well as modern plumbing, heating, and ventilation. [RTD2]

Alas, this sacrificial lamb was razed, and the school had to scoot to a new location in North Side.

(John Marshall Courts Building Building is part of the Atlas RVA! Project)

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A shout-out to Ray Bonis & Harry Kollatz for their tips and input on the courts building!

Print Sources

[ADR] Architecture in Downtown Richmond. Robert P. Winthrop. 1982.

[CHIT] Chicago Tribune. Sunday, March 2, 1986.

[RTD1] Richmond Times-Dispatch. December 8, 1994.

[RTD2] Richmond Times-Dispatch. August 16, 1909.

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xtrgate · 3 years ago

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Dennis Lynch Likens Bitcoin to South Park’s Kenny

Dennis Lynch, the Head of Counterpoint Global, recently compared the world’s leading cryptocurrency to a character on the award-winning series ‘South Park’ called Kenny McCormick. The annual Morningstar annual conference was conducted on Thursday and Lynch made this comparison while giving a speech at the event. He said that Bitcoin was very much like Kenny, who died in every episode of the show and yet, was back again each time. The story of the character on the South Park animated series is not very different from what appears to be happening with Bitcoin in the crypto market. The animated series’ plot revolves around Kenny McCormick.

During the early seasons of the show, the character dies a few times and Kenny actually dies three times in the show’s seventh episode. The character also died in the fifth season and the episode had been aptly named ‘Kenny Dies’. Despite dying, Kenny came back to the show and that’s when his recurrent deaths were finally put to an end. During the entire series, Kenny actually died a total of 98 times, which seems to be quite similar to Bitcoin’s story in the crypto world. There have been hundreds of times when the world’s first cryptocurrency was declared dead.

It was back in December 2010 when Bitcoin was declared dead for the first time. At that point, it had still been very new in the market. It is usually non-believers and critics who declare the death of the coin because they believe that it wouldn’t be able to withstand any future changes that happen in the financial markets. Lynch said in his conclusion that Bitcoin was certainly not fragile, but he did say that the coin was undoubtedly under the threat of a regulatory clampdown. If governments decide to take action against Bitcoin, there is a strong possibility that it will undergo a strong price correction.

However, it is also possible for the coin to make a recovery, as it has done several times before. In the last few years, Bitcoin has enjoyed significant institutional adoption from some prominent players in the financial sector. One of the leading global financial companies that have enabled its clients to access crypto as an asset class is Morgan Stanley. Recently, it introduced a product for offering Bitcoin exposure for an array of institutional funds. Some of the divisions of the banks that were involved in this exposure include the Counterpoint Global division that falls under Lynch.

It is also important to note that Morgan Stanley is definitely not the only bank in the US that’s venturing into crypto-related products. There are other leading banks, such as JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, which have also announced their plans for offering their clients crypto exposure due to increased demand. Recently, a letter was published by leading banks in the US and UK that opposed some of the proposals put forward by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision in relation to crypto holdings. The banks argued that crypto adoption by banks would be inhibited due to these proposals.

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blairemclaren · 4 years ago

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Garrett Lemont Lyles Jr Death – Obituary, Garrett Lemont Lyles Jr Has Died

Garrett Lemont Lyles Jr Death - Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death Garrett Lemont Lyles Jr., 31, was fatally stabbed at McCormick Correctional Institution with what is believed to be a homemade weapon.....click link to learn more

Garrett Lemont Lyles Jr Death – Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death Garrett Lemont Lyles Jr., 31, was fatally stabbed at McCormick Correctional Institution with what is believed to be a homemade weapon. Through a social media announcement, DeadDeath learned on June 24, 2021, about the death of Garrett Lemont Lyles Jr who has died. In the mourning spirit of this death, families, friends, and…

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ericfruits · 7 years ago

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The Shank Non-Redemption

Friday, November 17, 2017

An attorney has been suspended for four months by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Count one of the amended complaint arose out of an incident that occurred in the course of Attorney Cohen's representation of R.S., who is serving a life sentence for a homicide conviction. On October 18, 2013, Attorney Cohen traveled to the Columbia Correctional Institution to meet with R.S. Attorney Cohen carried with him a black bag containing pens, transcripts, and papers. He also brought a white pastry bag containing two crème-filled donuts and hard boiled eggs. Attorney Cohen informed correctional officers that he had brought his lunch with him.

Attorney Cohen met with R.S. for several hours. At some point correctional officers moved them to a different room. When leaving the room, R.S. threw Attorney Cohen's white pastry bag into a trash container. An officer searched the discarded bag and found a leftover donut and a toothbrush package with the toothbrushes removed. A subsequent search of R.S. and his belongings revealed two toothbrushes and a 1.5 ounce container of McCormick brand red pepper. The toothbrushes and pepper had been secreted by Attorney Cohen into the prison in a legal folder.

According to prison authorities, the toothbrushes were heavier than the ones available to inmates at the prison canteen and could be fashioned into shanks. The authorities also concluded that the crushed red pepper could be made into a pepper spray.

When correctional officers interviewed Attorney Cohen about the items, he denied knowing anything about them.

Three other counts dealt with the representation of another criminal client.

The referee

The referee said he was troubled by the fact that Attorney Cohen did not present any mitigating evidence about the prison incident either at the evidentiary hearing or as part of the stipulation. The referee further said that he was troubled by Attorney Cohen's behavior during the hearing. The referee said, "Attorney Cohen took no responsibility for his actions. He demonstrated no remorse for his actions and demonstrated contempt for the proceedings. Attorney Cohen did not even bring a file to the hearing to assist him in his representation."

...We also agree with the referee that Attorney Cohen's behavior is more egregious than Attorney Mross' furnishing inmates with cigarettes because the contraband delivered to the inmate by Attorney Cohen could have been used as a weapon. In addition, we note that Attorney Mross had no disciplinary history and there were no other counts of misconduct involved. By contrast, Attorney Cohen was previously reprimanded for a misdemeanor disorderly conduct conviction, and in addition to the criminal conviction this case also involves three additional counts of misconduct with respect to Attorney Cohen's representation of C.S.

Costs were also imposed. (Mike Frisch)

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armandj · 4 years ago

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Alt-Season: What’s Driving Some Altcoins to New Highs?

An ‘alt-season’ happens when quite a few altcoins shortly and astronomically rise in opposition to each the greenback and Bitcoin directly.

Maybe the an alt-season occurred was within the fourth quarter of 2017, when quite a few altcoins out of the blue “mooned” and continued on an upward trajectory: despite the fact that Bitcoin was additionally astronomically growing in worth, quite a few altcoins had been performing even higher, and continued to carry out effectively eleven after the value of Bitcoin started to droop in mid-December of that yr.

There definitely have been loads of latest examples of altcoins performing fantastically effectively: LINK (Chainlink) has skyrocketed from $4.08 to $8.34 over the course of the final month, a whopping 104.Four p.c enhance; ADA (Cardano) elevated by 51.89 p.c ($0.079 to $0.12) over the course of the final month (at press time).

Equally, XTZ (Tezos) rose from $2.64 to $3.11 (a 17.Eight enhance) during the last month; DOGE (Dogecoin) rose from $0.002 to $0.0029, a 45 p.c enhance over the identical time interval (although it went as excessive as $0.0048 at one level over the course of the month. XLM (Stellar Lumens) soared from $0.072 to $0.10.

Are we getting into into one other alt-season? What does this imply for Bitcoin–and for cryptocurrency markets extra typically?

Bitcoin’s stagnancy may very well be contributing to an altcoin surge

Plenty of analysts have famous that alt-seasons usually are inclined to happen after lengthy durations of stagnation in cryptocurrency markets–significantly, within the Bitcoin market.

Stagnation has definitely been the pattern for Bitcoin, which has hovered between roughly $9,000 and $10,000 for about two months.

David Waslen, chief government and founding father of HedgeTrade, defined to Finance Magnates final week that among the latest motion in altcoin markets could also be a form of run-off impact from Bitcoin merchants–who, historically talking, “love volatility”.

David Waslen, chief government and founding father of HedgeTrade.

“To have the ability to revenue off an asset class that may transfer 10% in a matter of minutes offers alternatives that you just’re unable to seek out in a number of the standard asset lessons,” Waslen defined. “Superior merchants have been in a position to lock huge returns prior to now.”

Nevertheless, as Bitcoin has turn into much less and fewer unstable, merchants have sought to get their volatility repair elsewhere: “with the drop in volatility you’ve seen a drop in [trading] quantity as merchants are hesitant to take positions, as there are fewer alternatives.”

And Bitcoin’s dominance is slipping as altcoins appear to be gaining extra recognition amongst merchants: “Bitcoin’s market dominance has been in decline since early Could 2020,” Simon Peters, market analyst and crypto knowledgeable at eToro, mentioned to Finance Magnates.

Bitcoin Dominance Index, by way of TradingView.

Nevertheless, Peters doesn’t essentially consider that the optimistic efficiency of sure altcoins constitutes an alt-season–at the very least, not but: “at this level I might be extra inclined to say we’re in ‘alt season’, if [Bitcoin dominance] falls beneath 60%, mirroring what occurred the final time we had an actual alt season in late 2017 to early 2018,” he mentioned.

At press time, Bitcoin dominance sat at roughly 63 p.c.

”A number of contributing elements which have led altcoin markets to surge”

Bitcoin’s lack of volatility isn’t the one purpose that some altcoins could also be performing so effectively.

“There are a number of contributing elements which have led altcoin markets to surge,” Waslen defined.

And the explanations behind every coin’s particular person surge could also be distinctive: for instance, “we’re not too long ago seen $DOGE spike when getting pumped by influencers on TikTok,” he mentioned.

Simon Peters additionally instructed Finance Magnates “ADA’s latest features are most probably due to the Shelley improve, being carried out on the finish of July to the Cardano mainnet,” and that “it may very well be that traders who want to profit from staking going ahead are shopping for now in preparation.”

“Equally, there was an uplift in Tezos funding now that extra crypto exchanges and platforms are beginning to provide XTZ rewards,” Peters added.

Simon Peters, market analyst and crypto knowledgeable at eToro.

Moreover, “LINK has been gaining in worth after some bullish information round Chainlink partnering with numerous tasks within the DeFi house. One key partnership is with China’s Blockchain Providers Community, which can permit real-world knowledge for use by the purposes being constructed on the Chinese language BSN blockchain infrastructure.”

David Waslen additionally commented that the LINK surge–and presumably different altcoin surges–could also be feeding itself: “final week, LINK posted a brand new all-time excessive which might generally result in folks FOMOing in,” he mentioned. In different phrases, as a few of these cash expertise natural rises in worth, speculative traders may even see a possibility to revenue off of the bullish actions.

DeFi tokens could also be within the highlight in the intervening time

There additionally appears to have been a focus in upward worth actions in cash which might be related to DeFi platforms.

For instance, COMP, the native token of Compound’s lending platform, famously surged to roughly $360 about two weeks after its launch in June; whereas the value has since corrected to the $150-$170 vary, the coin seems to be holding pretty regular.

David Waslen defined that the recognition of those DeFi property could also be due partly to the more and more fashionable observe of “yield farming”, which–by numerous mechanism–permits folks to earn fastened or variable curiosity by investing crypto within the DeFi market; the most typical instance of this appears to be interest-bearing crypto accounts.

Will McCormick, director of communications at world cryptocurrency change OKCoin, additionally defined to Finance Magnates that “the method of incomes staking rewards within the type of tokens and/or curiosity in return for offering liquidity to a DeFi protocol,” has certainly drawn a number of new customers and holders to DeFi tokens.

Will McCormick, director of communications at world cryptocurrency change OKCoin.

“Within the final month we have now seen the greenback worth of property locked in DeFi apps greater than double, and nearly 5X within the final 12 months. The DeFi ecosystem is discovering the correct incentive buildings to encourage participation within the DeFi networks, which can help the subsequent part of innovation within the DeFi house to push the trade additional.”

by way of DeFi Pulse

Certainly, “you’ve had the DeFi farming part simply now starting, the place persons are discovering methods to earn throughout occasions of deep financial strife, “ Waslen mentioned.

Dave Parkinson, the chief working officer of worldwide media and publicity agency Lamourie Media.

Dave Parkinson, the chief working officer of worldwide media and publicity agency Lamourie Media, additionally instructed Finance Magnates that “platforms that take part in decentralized finance like Chainlink and Compound have been attracting consideration from institutional traders.”

Moreover, “ADA’s dedication to implementing DeFi purposes on its blockchain are additionally attracting curiosity from the institutional facet.”

And, after all, there was some hypothesis that the DeFi house could also be crypto’s new hype machine: “ DeFi or Decentralized Finance has turn into the crypto house’s new ‘flavour of the month; simply as ICO’s had been again in 2017,” Dave Parkinson mentioned.

“With dozens of recent rising tasks on the horizon I’m at all times conserving an eye fixed open for the subsequent scorching up-and-comers,” he mentioned. “I count on the DeFi house to stay scorching all through the remainder of the yr into 2021 with many of those new tasks reaching the highest 20 or larger by this time subsequent yr because the institutional cash floods in.”

”Every of those tokens has its personal fundamentals.”

One other doable contributing issue to the altcoin worth surges is that individuals might merely be utilizing altcoins extra usually than prior to now.

“I feel usually there are extra folks utilizing altcoin blockchains throughout an altcoin worth surge,” David Waslen instructed Finance Magnates. “Particularly with these tasks which have their token effectively built-in into their platform.”

Certainly, Andrea Zanon, chief government of the Nimbus Core Platform, mentioned that “every of those tokens has its personal fundamentals.”

Andrea Zanon, chief government of the Nimbus Core Platform.

“ADA is a generic blockchain platform, enhancing on the use case of Ethereum with built-in mechanisms to drive effectivity in operational capability,” Andrea defined.

“The others are examples of rising asset lessons,” he continued. For instance, “COMP is a decentralized finance platform, which automates and secures monetary providers on prime of blockchain platforms”

Moreover, “LINK is an interoperability layer, making it doable to speak between blockchains. In technical phrases, the state of operation executed on one blockchain will be exported to a different by an interoperability layer, reminiscent of LINK.”

What are your ideas on the latest altcoin worth surges? Tell us within the feedback beneath.

source https://www.financeary.com/cryptocurrency/alt-season-whats-driving-some-altcoins-to-new-highs.html

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augustatoday · 5 years ago

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$60,000 in contraband found hidden in SC prison equipment

McCORMICK, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina prison officials say they found dozens of contraband cellphones and earbuds and more than 32 pounds of tobacco and marijuana hidden in a piece of construction equipment.

Authorities say guards searching the equipment Wednesday at McCormick Correctional Institution discovered the secret panel with the $60,000 stash of contraband. None of the banned items made…

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Inmate Suing for Right to Smoke Cannabis as Part of His Religious Practice

Rastafarian inmate James Rose has sued the South Carolina Department of Corrections for violation of his religious freedoms while imprisoned. Primary among his demands are that his jailers allow him to grow out his dreadlocks and smoke marijuana, a cornerstone practice of the faith that originated in Jamaica. In his lawsuit, Rose reports that his dreadlocks were forcibly shaved in the prison.

“The injuries I’ve sustained related to the events were migraine headaches, psychological trauma, mental anguish (depression), panic attacks, and nightmares,” Rose wrote in the handwritten document that he filed on Monday. The 41-year-old is suing the department to the tune of $1 million in punitive and actual damages. Rose is currently serving a life sentence in the maximum security McCormick Correctional Institution due to charges stemming from the 2013 murder of Lincolnville resident Leland Shannon Jr.

Traditionally, Rastafarians consume marijuana for a variety of reasons, among them to aid meditation, produce heightened feelings of community, and to invoke religious visions. Cannabis usage stems from various scriptures from the Christian Bible, including Revelation 22:2, which states “the leaves of the tree served to heal the nations.” Rastafarians often refer to cannabis as lamb’s bread, callie, iley, wisdom weed, or holy herb. Aside from smoking the drug, members of the faith use it as a cooking spice, tea, and medicine.

Rose’s case is by no means the first time that Rastafarians have found that the US legal system infringed on their ability to practice their religion. In 2017, a Pennsylvania man saw his lawsuit dismissed after claiming that a state prison violated his rights by insisting that he cut his hair. In that instance, the judge noted that mandatory hair cutting was essential for prison hygiene and that it prevented incarcerated individuals from hiding “weapons and contraband” in their mane.

In 1998, then-attorney general Janet Reno published a legal opinion stating that Rastafarians do not have the right to smoke cannabis in the United States, given federal laws of prohibition. In Jamaica, religious use of the plant was legalized for Rastafarians in 2015 along with a host of other decriminalization measures related to cannabis.

Not all petitions to practice their freedom of religion by Rastafarians serving time in the United States have been rejected. Earlier this year, Deon Glenn was permitted to wear his hair in dreadlocks while serving out a life sentence. His case was built in part on the Leviticus commandment “They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.”

US District Judge Patricia Gaughan ruled in Glenn’s case that prison requirements that inmates cut their hair were indeed in violation of their right to practice the Rastafarian faith. The judge made it clear that she did not think her ruling should be applied to all inmates.

“I grew dreadlocks as a part of my Rastafarian religion and asked to be accommodated with marijuana as part of my religion and practice,” Rose stated in his lawsuit. He claims prison guards at Lieber Correctional Institution “used excessive force to maliciously and sadistically cause harm” when they physically restrained him and shaved his head on April 17, 2017, after Rose asked them for cannabis.

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