#Mike Dorsey

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Mike Dorsey

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Found these..

Credits belongs to , Holly Homan , Jim McClear , Bradford Timeline , Brisbane City Hall , Steve Cornforth , Janice Waltzer , Jan Tonnesen and DJ

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mood 41 “sigh...”

♡ send me a mood and i’ll make a playlist ♡

[mitjalovse]

Some music superstars of the previous decades changed in the 90's by getting a different name for that time in order to be heard. David Bowie did something in this vein a few times during the 90's, if I'm not mistaken. For instance, he released the original version of the tune on the link without his name on the single and the latter became successful in clubs. He later covered his own piece under the name Tao Jones Index, which was him and his backing band at the time. Sadly, he only worked as Tao Jones on a couple of gigs, because the song does show this could've evolved into a dance project for Bowie. However, would this have gone the way of Tin Machine? Look, I get 90's Bowie is cherished now, but things weren't like this at that time, so …

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David Bowie: Reality

Music On Vinyl/ISO/Columbia MOVLP875, 2014

Album originally released: September 2003

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Bad movie I have Hard Luck 2006

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there are two executions scheduled next month

michael smith is scheduled to be executed by the state of oklahoma on april 4th, and brian dorsey in missouri on april 9th. of the time i'm writing this, willie pye was just killed last night by the state of georgia. none of these men should have been eligible for the death penalty: both mr. pye and mr. smith had/have intellectual disabilities and mr. dorsey was incapable of deliberation during the time of his crime which should have changed the nature of his murder charge.

read more about michael smith and brian dorsey and sign petitions asking for clemency below:

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Unethical Executions in April

Micheal Smith is being executed in Alabama despite having an intellectual disability that would disqualify him from the death penalty in any other state. The only reason he is still being executed is because of a few confusing technicalities in Oklahoma law.

Petitions Here:

Letter Writing Campaigns for oklahoma residents here:

Missouri is slated to execute Brian Dorsey despite his claims of ineffective counsel and the fact that he is picture of remorse and rehabilitation: he turned himself over to the police and pled guilty, has had a flawless prison record, currently resides in the honor ward while working as a prison barber (a highly coveted job only given to trust worthy inmates), and has about 60 prison staff members advocating for the commutation of his sentence.

Petitions Here:

Letter Writing Campaigns and other actions for Missouri Residents here:

https://www.archstl.org/missouri-bishops-others-request-clemency-for-brian-dorsey-first-inmate-to-be-executed-this-year-9478

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As fame and the pressure of life on the road hit us, Brian's behaviour became a liability.

At Clearwater, I slept late on 6 May, then joined the others at the poolside along with my girl. Then my girl's friend who had slept with Brian arrived, looking battered and bruised and said Brian had beaten her up. We were disgusted by this. Mike Dorsey promptly disappeared into the motel in search of Brian. When they met, blows were exchanged and Brian suffered two cracked ribs, to the satisfaction of everyone.

Within a couple of days, news of the punch-up had trickled out to the press. We concocted a story. I gave an interview to New Musical Express by phone, saying: "We had a gorgeous pool here in Clearwater and we were doing karate beside it. Brian fell heavily and the next day, a lump came up on his chest. The doctor told him he had cracked two ribs. He wears an elastic belt, which we call his 'corset.' He's recovering rapidly, I'm glad to say." Lies!

excerpt from Bill Wyman's memoir, Stone Alone

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Mike Dorsey

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Mick with tour manager Mike Dorsey

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10 years post-Ferguson, advocates seek prosecutor accountability

Advocates say there’s been little effort by prosecutors to free wrongfully convicted St. Louisans

A coalition of racial justice advocacy groups in St. Louis has quietly issued the first in a series of “Prosecutor Watch” reports on the role and powers of the prosecutor and its function in the local criminal legal system. Prosecutors, the coalition contends, have staggering authority to enact violence on communities. The groups say prosecutors’ offices are structured to prize convictions over truth, and in their pursuit of convictions, “prosecutors regularly abuse their power.” The introductory report gleans insights from more than three years of collective focus by the Prosecutor Organizing Table, which is made up of local decarceration leaders who spend the bulk of their working lives trying to free Black and poor people from the clutches of the carceral state: Action St. Louis, ArchCity Defenders, Forward through Ferguson, Freedom Community Center, MacArthur Justice Center, and Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty. Advocates told Prism there’s been little prosecutorial fervor to free wrongfully convicted St. Louisans, even innocence cases. Children, however, continue to be charged as adults, and poor people are still landing in jail for 200 days or more because they can’t afford cash bail. This human misery has been happening under the watch of “progressive prosecutors” carried to office with a reform mandate on the national wave after the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, Missouri.  To better understand these dynamics, reports evaluating the individual prosecutors’ offices are slated to follow. The next report will focus on Wesley Bell’s office in St. Louis County and the office of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabriel Gore. Specially appointed by Missouri’s governor, Gore assumed office on May 30, 2023, replacing Kim Gardner, who’d resigned under extreme pressure from state Republicans. Assessments of Bell’s and Gore’s offices will be based on five key metrics fleshed out in the report: transparency, charging decisions, pretrial detention, conviction and sentencing, and commitment to community-based alternatives.  Mike Milton leads Freedom Community Center, which advocates for transformative justice shaped, in part, by survivors of the criminal legal system like himself.  He told Prism convening the Prosecutor Organizing Table in 2020 and publishing the reports in 2024 are fruits of a long-term strategy born in the period between Gardner’s election as St. Louis circuit attorney in 2016 and Bell’s as St. Louis county prosecutor in 2018. “It was a long strategy of ‘how do we fight mass incarceration’ as we came out of the hopes of Ferguson. Ferguson told us there has to be a different way of dealing with incarceration,” Milton said. By the time the Prosecutor Organizing Table began convening, it was clear to Milton that regime changes alone would not move the needle. “We were trying to reach out to him several times. [Bell] just would not respond to us,” Milton said. “He was taking credit for the jail population decrease, but it was actually The Bail Project, my [former] organization, that was posting bail and dropping the jail population, like 200 people a month.” Milton became concerned his work was being undermined. “Bell was still recommending cash bail at that time, and he knew better,” he said. Michelle Smith, the co-director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty (MADP), said her organization has barely recovered from the emotional upheaval of the April 9 execution of Brian Dorsey, and the state is already set to kill another Missouri man, David Hosier, on June 11.  Smith rejects any notion of disposable people.  “Right now, I know several people who are wrongfully convicted, not necessarily on death row, but who have strong innocence cases out of St. Louis County,” Smith said. But when family members ask about progress, they’re given pat answers: “‘We’re looking into that, we’ll let you know,’” she said, parroting them.

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2023 NFL Season Predictions

Full Season Schedule,Final Standings, and Playoff Bracket available at

Adjusted 2024 First Round Draft Order (Includes trades to date)

1.Cardinals

2.Colts

3.Bears (via Panthers from Bryce Young/ DJ Moore trade)

4.Buccaneers

5.Raiders

6.Cardinals (via Texans from Will Anderson trade)

7.Rams

8.Bears

9.Giants

10.Commanders

11.Seahawks

12.Patriots

13.Falcons

14.Jaguars

15.Broncos

16.Jets

17.Steelers

18.Ravens

19.Saints

20.Titans

21.Vikings

22.Cowboys

23.Chargers

24.Chiefs

25.Dolphins

26.Packers

27.Lions

28.Bills

29.49ers

30.Texans (via Browns from Deshaun Watson trade)

31.Eagles

32.Bengals

Awards Picks (also receiving votes in parentheses)

Most Valuable Player: Joe Burrow, QB, Cincinnati Bengals (Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Deshaun Watson, Josh Allen)

Offensive Player of the Year: Nick Chubb, RB, Cleveland Browns (Ja'Marr Chase, Justin Jefferson, Brandon Aiyuk, Tony Pollard, Tyreek Hill, Christian Watson, Chris Olave)

Defensive Player of the Year: Myles Garrett, DE, Cleveland Browns (T.J. Watt, Micah Parsons, Nick Bosa, Gregory Rousseau)

Offensive Rookie of the Year: Bijan Robinson, RB, Atlanta Falcons (Jahmyr Gibbs, Will Levis, De'Von Achane, Bryce Young, Quentin Johnson, Zay Flowers, Sam LaPorta)

Defensive Rookie of the Year: Christian Gonzalez, CB, New England Patriots (Will Anderson, Jack Campbell, Brian Branch, Emmanuel Forbes)

Comeback Player of the Year: Damar Hamlin, S, Buffalo Bills

Most Improved Player: Christian Watson, WR, Green Bay Packers (Skyy Moore, David Njoku, Brandon Aiyuk)

Head Coach of The Year: Mike McDaniel, Miami Dolphins (Dan Campbell, Zac Taylor, Kevin Stefanski, Mike Vrabel)

Offensive Assistant Coach of The Year: Ben Johnson, Offensive Coordinator, Detroit Lions (Eric Bieniemy, Pete Carmichael, Tim Kelly, Ken Dorsey, Kellen Moore)

Defensive Assistant Coach of the Year: Jim Schwartz, Defensive Coordinator, Cleveland Browns (Lou Anarumo, Aaron Glenn, Patrick Graham, Brian Flores, Vic Fangio)

Additional Speculation On Season Storylines (Listed by team) List does not include all NFL teams

Las Vegas Raiders

Raiders fire Josh McDaniels after starting 2-10 and losing to the Chiefs Week 12 in Las Vegas, and promote defensive coordinator Patrick Graham to be their interim head coach.

Patrick Graham will finish the season with a record of 2-3, leaving the Raiders with a final record of 4-13.

The Raiders will fire general Manager Dave Ziegler, interim coach Patrick Graham, and a majority of the rest of McDaniels' staff after the regular season is completed.

Tennessee Titans

Starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill gets injured early in the season, and the Titans allow scond-year QB Malik Willis and rookie Will Levis to struggle for the starting spot before Levis wins it outright after during Tennessee's bye week in Week 7.

Levis then manages to lead the Titans to an 8-3 record from the bye week on, putting up Rookie of the Year-worthy numbers... if he had started the full season.

The Titans still manage to fall in the Wildcard Round to a tough Browns team, but this year still cements Levis as the starting quarterback going into 2024, with Tannehill likely to be moved by the front office in the offseason.

Washington Commanders

Ron Rivera is fired after a Week 16 loss to the Jets, finishing his season in Washington with a record of 4-11. Assistant head coach and Offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy is promoted to be the interim head coach.

Bieniemy then coaches the Commanders to a 2-0 record in the final games, and after the season, his interim tag is dropped in order to make Eric Bieniemy the full-time head coach of the Washington Commanders in 2024.

Aside

Originally, I had afew wonkier predictions, namely the Cardinals and Colts trading their respective picks to quarterback-needy teams so those unnamed teams could select one of USC QB Caleb Williams or UNC QB Drake Maye.

My only reservation was that by the time October comes around, we're gonna have seen a much better sample size of football in 2023, so I'm certain I'll have opinions on it. I'd just like to save some for the wilder stuff for when there's a clearer picture to expand upon.

Ideally, I'd like to do one of these at the end of every month of the season, so we'll see how that goes.

End of the way, I wanted to put something out to reign in the new year, and I hope you're along for the ride.

Now who's ready for some mothafuckin football?

[mitjalovse]

We must stress some musicians follow their unintentionally perfect finales later on. For instance, Bowie's Reality might be an example of such a finish asc we know he returned. Moreover, Reality might be in the top tier of his albums, yet nothing on the record screams the end. Sure, there are some hints on him dealing with his advanced age, but the entire LP seems like a breezier affair than the predecessor. However, him taking a long time to get to The Next Day caused many to see the disc as his finale and I have to admit we could've been pleased with the way Bowie finished his career despite Reality not being beholden to such a task. Of course, I still ask myself – how much did the final two discs lower the rank of Reality on the list of Bowie's platters?

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Birthdays 5.21

Beer Birthdays

Frederick Kirschner (1856)

Nick Matt (1945)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Albrecht Durer; artist (1471)

Plato; Greek philosopher (428 B.C.E.)

Judge Reinhold; actor (1957)

Marc Ribot; rock guitarist (1954)

Henri Rousseau; French artist (1844)

Famous Birthdays

Fairuza Balk; actor (1974)

Bill Barber; jazz tubaist (1920)

Mike Barson; rock keyboardist (1958)

Raymond Burr; actor (1917)

Peggy Cass; comedian (1924)

Nick Cassavetes; actor (1959)

Bill Champlin; rock guitarist, singer (1947)

Glenn Curtiss; inventor, aviation pioneer (1878)

Al Franken; comedian, writer, actor (1951)

Josh Hamilton; Texas Rangers OF (1981)

Armand Hammer; industrialist (1898)

Robert Hatch; actor (1945)

Ronald Isley; singer (1941)

Dorsey Levens; Green Bay Packers RB (1970)

Marie McCray; porn actor (1985)

Robert Montgomery; actor (1904)

Notorious B.I.G.; rapper (1972)

Alexander Pope; English writer (1688)

Harold Robbins; writer (1916)

Andrei Sakharov; Russian physicist (1921)

Leo Sayer; actor (1948)

Biggie Smalls; rapper (1972)

Mr. T; actor (1952)

Fats Waller; jazz pianist (1904)