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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than a decade claimed on mandatory financial disclosure forms that he received significant income from a defunct real estate firm, Ginger, Ltd., Partnership, that has been shuttered since 2006.

This news comes only 10 days after ProPublica reported that the justice has received — but failed to disclose — hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of gifted vacations from conservative billionaire and Nazi enthusiast Harlan Crow. The billionaire also owns the home where Thomas’ mother lives, which Crow purchased from Thomas and members of his family before embarking on major renovations to the property. Thomas failed to disclose the sale of the home on financial forms, leaving blank the field for reporting the identity of a buyer in any private transactions above $1,000, including real estate. The revelations have led some to question whether Thomas was intentionally hiding his financial relationship with Crow.

On Sunday, The Washington Post revealed that in addition to not disclosing luxurious vacations and the real estate deal involving Crow, Thomas also erroneously reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in rental income from property that his wife Ginni Thomas’ parents developed in Nebraska. In financial disclosures, Thomas reported the rental income as coming from a real estate firm called “Ginger, Ltd., Partnership.” But that firm has not existed since March 2006 when it was dissolved and its leases for upwards of 200 residential lots were transferred to Ginger Holdings, LLC. Ginni Thomas’ sister, Joanne K. Elliot, is listed as manager of the Ginger Holdings, LLC, but Ginni is not listed in the LLC’s state incorporation records.

The recent news surrounding Thomas’ financial disclosures has spurred Democrats to call on the policymaking body for the federal courts, the Judicial Conference, to refer Thomas to the attorney general’s office to investigate whether the justice ran afoul of federal ethics law. In a letter signed by Democratic leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Democrats accused Thomas of an “apparent pattern of noncompliance with disclosure requirements” and noted that in 2011, Thomas admitted he had not correctly disclosed his wife’s income for a number of years. Thomas claimed at the time that his failure to disclose was due to a “a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.” But Democrats pointed out that Thomas had “accurately fil[ed] disclosure forms regarding his spouse’s employment for as many as 10 years beginning in 1987.”

Responding to the allegations that he did not report the vacations funded by Crow, Thomas said he was not aware he had to disclose “this sort of personal hospitality” but said he would follow the Judicial Conference’s guidelines moving forward.

All of these irregularities in the Justice’s financial disclosures, combined with his wife’s close involvement in Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election have led many to question Thomas’ dedication to ethics.

“Any presumption in favor of Thomas’s integrity and commitment to comply with the law is gone. His assurances and promises cannot be trusted. Is there more? What’s the whole story? The nation needs to know,” Stephen Gillers, a New York University legal ethics expert, told the Post.

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Civil Rights on the Left and Right

I found it interesting that in two Supreme Court civil rights cases today, the left and the right both wrap themselves in the mantle of the 1960s movement to end Jim Crow laws.

In the college admissions case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the conservative majority got to take the side of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his “I Have a Dream” speech, which proposed that race should not be a dividing factor in public life.

Here’s how National Review frames the decision:

‘The colorblindness principle is a keystone of the American Constitution, as the Court’s opinion, and the historic concurring opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas, demonstrate at length. That principle found its roots in the Declaration of Independence and the abolitionist movement, triumphed in the Emancipation Proclamation and the Reconstruction amendments, and overcame legalized segregation with Brown v. Board of Education and the civil-rights movement. “The Constitution, as well as the Declaration of Independence, and the sentiments of the founders of the Republic, give us a platform broad enough, and strong enough, to support the most comprehensive plans for the freedom and elevation of all the people of this country, without regard to color, class, or clime,” Frederick Douglass declared in criticizing the infamous Dred Scott decision. As Justice Harlan famously wrote in dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld racial segregation: “Our constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law.” Or, as Justice Scalia put it pithily in his Adarand Contractors v. Peña concurrence, “in the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.”’

Harvard’s position is characterized as being pro-segregation. First, ouch. Second, legally speaking, it’s a pretty easy task to frame the decision this way, since it does follow directly in the line of cases, starting with Brown v. Board, that were against segregation. Harvard ended up on the other side.

In the other major civil rights case, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, an evangelical website designer was protected from being compelled by the state of Colorado to design websites for same-sex weddings. The conservative majority treated this case as a First Amendment case--desigining a website is an act of creative expression, and the government cannot compel expression. Justice Sonia Sotomayor saw it as a civil rights case:

‘Around the country, there has been a backlash to the movement for liberty and equality for gender and sexual minorities...New forms of inclusion have been met with reactionary exclusion. This is heartbreaking. Sadly, it is also familiar. When the civil rights and women’s rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected those claims.”

According to the evidence above, both the left and the right are in favor of equality and are opposed to Jim Crow laws. But that agreement doesn’t seem to be the basis for further political agreement, or even interparty dialogue. Which means that at least one side does not hold these civil rights principles as strongly as its rhetoric makes it seem, since otherwise they would have a shared basis on which to work together, and they clearly don’t.

As Ken Kersch demonstrated in Constructing Civil Liberties, much of the 20th century discourse around civil rights was used as a smokescreen by Progressives to shrink the power of the states and the mediating institutions of civil society--especially religion--and to expand the size and the scope of the federal government. (Much of his book involves archival research in which Progressives said that in so many words--they did not care about racial or religious minorities, they just wanted to use the courts to remove obstacles to the Progressive ideal, which meant weakening the states, religious communities, the family, and private associations.)

I suspect that something like what Kersch discovered is the real fight going on in these two cases. The website designer case is really a disagreement about whether the state can control the media when it wants. The Harvard case is really about how to shape and form the next generation of leaders. In both cases, the real goal is about who exercises control over ideas, and the language of civil rights was just the way to dress up these particular disagreements.

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louisianaprelawland-blog · 1 year

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WWAFD (What Would Abe Fortas Do?)

By Lauren Barrouquere, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Class of 2024

April 23, 2023

In recent weeks, it has come to light that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was “fudging” his financial disclosure reports, so to speak [2]. The esteemed justice, who has served on the highest court in the land since 1991, was allegedly reporting thousands of dollars of rental income to a rental firm in Nebraska [2]. Only one problem- the rental firm has been closed since 2006 [2]. Between $50,000 to $100,000 annually was attributed to this defunct rental firm [2]. The firm- Ginger, Ltd. was replaced by a new firm with a similar name- Ginger Holdings, LLC. However, no record of the new firm appears anywhere on the necessary forms [2]. This could be chalked up to a simple mistake in paperwork, but given other recent revelations regarding Justice Thomas’s finances, it seems unlikely [2]. The annual $100,000 falsely attributed to the rental firm is middling compared to the trips Justice Thomas allegedly took with billionaire Harlan Crow, estimated to be worth over half a million USD [5].

For over 20 years, Harlan Crow bankrolled the Supreme Court Justice’s trips around the globe- including several trips by yacht and private jet, as well as lavishing the justice with expensive gifts [6]. A law, passed in the wake of Watergate, requires judges, congress members, and federal officials to disclose gifts over a certain amount, a law which Justice Thomas appears to have conveniently forgotten about, as he failed to disclose both the gifts and the trips from Crow, on the required financial documents [5].

So, what does a Supreme Court Justice do when they have been accused of misconduct? Technically, they do not have to do anything, because Justices are given life appointments, or appointments until the end of “good behavior” [4]. However, some precedent has been set for Justices resigning when caught in the middle of a scandal thanks to former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas [4]. Justice Fortas was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson, where he served for four years before stepping down [4]. In 1968, Justice Fortas was nominated to succeed Earl Warren as the Chief Justice, when it came to light that he was being paid a stipend (around $15,000) to teach as an adjunct professor at American University [4]. This would have been all fine and dandy if the stipend had not been arranged by his old law firm and clients, several of whom had pending cases in the Supreme Court [4]. Justice Fortas withdrew his nomination as Chief Justice but remained on the court until it came to light that he had accepted a retainer (approximately $20,000) from the family of an indicted criminal [4]. In 1969, Justice Fortas stepped down from the court, though he remained a practicing lawyer [4].

Justice Thomas’s financial transgressions are far greater than Justice Fortas’s, so perhaps it is wise for him to heed the actions of his predecessor. Whether he chooses to step down or stay on the court remains to be seen, but either way, his decision is certainly one for the history books.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/16/clarence-thomas-ginger-financial-disclosure/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/16/clarence-thomas-has-been-claiming-thousands-of-dollars-annually-from-a-shuttered-real-estate-firm.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate.html

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3953176-clarence-thomas-should-follow-the-abe-fortas-precedent-and-resign-gracefully/

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

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By Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter 15:03 16 Apr 2023, up to date 16:33 16 Apr 2023 Clarence Thomas disclosed revenue from actual property agency that closed in 2006Was taken over by new agency managed by spouse Ginni Thomas' sisterRaises extra questions on how fastidiously Thomas disclosed his funds Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas is dealing with extra questions on his funds with a brand new report on Sunday about 1000's of dollars of revenue he is reporting from an actual property agency with ties to his spouse Ginni Thomas.And that agency not exists, having been closed 17 years in the pastThomas, on his monetary disclosure varieties, reported rental revenue totaling a whole lot of 1000's of dollars from a agency known as Ginger, Ltd., Partnership, The Washington Put up reported.However that Nebraska-based actual property agency, which was began within the Eighties, hasn't existed since 2006.The newest revelation about issues with Thomas legally-required monetary disclosure varieties raises questions on how significantly he took his obligation to disclosure his funds to the general public. Public officers are required to fill out such varieties to indicate if they've any battle of pursuits between their private funds and public duties. Thomas is dealing with requires an investigation and his resignation. The newest questions on Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas' monetary disclosure kind is tied to his spouse Ginni Thomas - above the couple on the 2019 White Home state dinner The Washington Put up report on Sunday additionally detailed how Thomas has had errors on his varieties for years, lots of them tied to his controversial spouse Ginni, who turned a nationally-known determine within the aftermath of the 2020 election when stories revealed her emails to Arizona officers who had been questioning Joe Biden's victory in that state.The newest issues for Clarence Thomas are tied to this actual property agency that shut down in 2006. After it closed, a brand new agency Ginger Holdings, LLC, which is managed by Ginni Thomas sister, took over the holdings. Ginger Holdings, LLC, is registered to a house in Lincoln, Nebraska, and workers two people. In accordance with its fiings, it really works within the monetary providers business. However Thomas has reported revenue from the defunct firm - between $50,000 and $100,000 yearly in recent times - with no point out of the brand new agency.It could possibly be a easy paperwork error. Ginger Holdings, LLC, which is managed by Ginni Thomas sister, is registered to a house in Lincoln, Nebraska (above) However the Supreme Courtroom justice has confronted questions on his funds since ProPublic revealed he and his spouse Ginny accepted lavish, luxurious holidays from Dallas-based Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow that Thomas did not publicly disclose, regardless of being legally required to take action.Thomas stated he did not disclose them as a result of the journeys had been from a buddy and he had been assured 'private hospitality' from shut buddies was allowable.However the watchdog group CREW has filed civil and legal complaints towards him within the matter and Senate Democrats have demanded Chief Justice John Roberts examine the presents from Crow.Some Democrats have known as on the excessive courtroom to undertake a proper code of ethics - it's at present the one courtroom within the federal judiciary that doesn't have one for its 9 members. Some have even known as on the 74-year-old Thomas to resign. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib have known as for his impeachment. The justice did not reply to The Washington Put up's inquiries on the true property revenue. The agency is managed by Joanne Elliott, Ginni Thomas' sister. Elliott informed the newspaper they may ask her sister Ginni in regards to the matter.'You can name her and she or he may

reply something that she needs you to know,' Elliott stated earlier than she hung up on the information outlet.Clarence Thomas described receiving $270,000 to $750,000 from the Nebraska agency since 2006, calling it 'lease.' His wage as a justice this 12 months is $285,000. The revenue is tied to investments made by Ginni Thomas's late mother and father. Ginni Thomas is from Omaha. Ginni Thomas' revenue has been a problem prior to now on her husband's disclosure varieties Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas is dealing with requires his resignation Ginni Thomas is not talked about in state incorporation data establishing the brand new agency.However her revenue has been a problem for Thomas prior to now. Within the 2000s he didn't disclose his spouse's employment as required by legislation till the watchdog group Widespread Trigger reported the omission.Ginni Thomas earned greater than $686,000 from the conservative Heritage Basis from 2003 till 2007 however he checked a field labeled 'none' for his spouse's revenue throughout that interval.He did the identical in 2008 and 2009 when she labored for conservative Hillsdale Faculty.He admitted to the error in 2011 when he amended his filings, saying the data 'inadvertently omitted as a consequence of a misunderstanding of the submitting directions.' Ginni Thomas is an legal professional and longtime conservative activist. She was an ardent supporter of Donald Trump. Within the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump falsely claimed it had been stolen from him, her e-mail correspondence between with Trump's election legal professional John Eastman - who supported the authorized idea that claimed then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to overturn states' election outcomes - got here to gentle. Clarance Thomas additionally faces questions on presents from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Subsequent proof emerged that Thomas inspired state lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin to overturn the presidential election outcomes. She was known as to testify in entrance of the panel investigating the January sixth rebel on the Capitol. And plenty of critics known as on Justice Thomas to recuse himself from any election-related instances that got here earlier than the Supreme Courtroom. Ginni Thomas informed the January sixth committee that she stays within the 'political' lane at dwelling and her husband stays in a 'authorized' lane.'He is tired of politics,' she stated. 'I didn't converse with him in any respect in regards to the particulars of my post-election actions, which had been minimal.' https://guesthype.co.uk/?p=3241&feed_id=4864&cld=643c2e140c0db

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Fort Wayne City Council meeting tomorrow night – 7/27/2021

New Post has been published on https://aroundfortwayne.com/news/2021/07/26/fort-wayne-city-council-meeting-tomorrow-night-20210727/

Fort Wayne City Council meeting tomorrow night – 7/27/2021

The Fort Wayne City Council meets Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at 5:30 pm in Committee Sessions at Citizens Square.

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Why Taylor Swift Has No Problem Defending Herself—No Matter the Cost

by BILLY NILLES Jul. 2, 2019

As Taylor Swift approaches her upcoming 30th birthday, happening on December 13 of this year, she's begun taking stock of the things she's learned over the course of her first three decades on the planet. In March, she let fans in on a handful of them—30 of them, to be exact—via a self-penned piece in Elle and near the very top, perhaps belying its importance to the superstar, is the following:

"Being sweet to everyone all the time can get you into a lot of trouble. While it may be born from having been raised to be a polite young lady, this can contribute to some of your life's worst regrets if someone takes advantage of this trait in you. Grow a backbone, trust your gut, and know when to strike back. Be like a snake—only bite if someone steps on you."

As the last few years have proven, Swift has certainly grown unafraid to bite as a means of defending herself and the things she believes in. Not bad for someone whose so-called silence invited accusations of standing for nothing from critics.

Take this weekend's response to the news that celebrity music manager Scooter Braun, whose list of past and present clientele includes Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Kanye West and Demi Lovato, was the new owner of her entire music catalogue, thanks to his media holding company Ithaca Holdings LLC. reaching a "finalized" contract" with Big Machine Label Group, Swift's former record label, to acquire the company. The deal, made for a reported $300 million, includes Big Machine Music, which means that Braun retain ownership of the master recordings of each of the six albums she's released to date, as well as music from other artists such as Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow and Lady Antebellum. And, as Swift admitted in an incendiary Tumblr post, it left her feeling "sad and grossed out."

After explaining that she'd hoped to own her work prior to departing Big Machine for Universal Music Group (Big Machine's distributor) in November of last year, only to be offered a deal to "'earn' one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in," as she wrote, she walked away from her past so that her future wouldn't be tied to a company that founder Scott Borchetta was clearly intent on selling to the highest bidder.

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"Some fun facts about today's news: I learned about Scooter Braun's purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world," she wrote. "All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I've received at his hands for years."

As she explained in her post, she felt that Scooter's fingerprints were all over West and wife Kim Kardashian West's attempts to assassinate her character in the aftermath of the "Famous" lyrics debacle, which infamously find the rapper claiming that he "made that bitch famous," appearing in a screenshot of a FaceTime call between Bieber and West that the former shared with the since-deleted caption "Taylor swift what up" that she believes was intended to "bully [her] online about it" and allowing then-client West to release "a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked."

"Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it. This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at 15 to someone for whom the term 'loyalty' is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says, 'Music has value,' he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it," she continued. "When I left my masters in Scott's hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words 'Scooter Braun' escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn't want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever."

Taylor's move to take the two men involved in the deal to task has, predictably, drawn a line in the sand in the music industry, with folks like Brendon Urie, Halsey, Iggy Azalea, BFF Todrick Hall and other BFF Selena Gomezs mom Mandy Teefey publicly supporting Swift, while Bieber, Lovato, and Scooter's wife Yael Cohen Braun, who accused Swift of bullying her husband by going public with her beef, thereby sending her fan base his way, coming out in support of him.

While the minutiae of the deal and who knew about what when remains unclear, with Borchetta and Cohen Braun both furnishing receipts of some sort in their rebuttals to Swift that challenge her timeline, what is clear is that Swift is speaking up not just to shine a light on an injustice she's experiencing, but also to prevent other impressionable artistic youth from falling prey to the same sort of contract she willingly signed back in her early teens.

"Thankfully, I left my past in Scott's hands and not my future," she wrote. "And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make."

It's hardly the first time that Swift has vociferously defended herself while also trying to move the needle forward for those less fortunate than her, be they artists or women in general.

Back in 2013, Swift informed bosses at Denver's KYGO-FM that morning show personality David Mueller had sexually assaulted her, groping her at a meet-and-greet event as they posed for a photo alongside Mueller's then-girlfriend Shannon Melchor. "When we were posing for the photo, he stuck his hand up my dress and grabbed onto my ass cheek," she explained to TIME in 2017. "I squirmed and lurched sideways to get away from him, but he wouldn't let go. At the time, I was headlining a major arena tour and there were a number of people in the room that saw this plus a photo of it happening. I figured that if he would be brazen enough to assault me under these risky circumstances and high stakes, imagine what he might do to a vulnerable, young artist if given the chance. It was important to report the incident to his radio station because I felt like they needed to know. The radio station conducted its own investigation and fired him."

Two years after the radio host saw his employment status at the station go from "current" to "former," he filed suit against Swift, accusing her of lying and suing him for making him lose his job. He wanted $3 million in damages. As result, she brought a countersuit against Mueller for assault and battery, taking him to trial.

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By 2017, she was on the stand, showing an unflappable, steely determination to defend herself in the face of a man who'd wronged her and a legal team intent on discrediting her. When asked why the photos of the incident didn't show the front of her skirt wrinkled as evidence of any wrongdoing, she answered plainly, "Because my ass is located at the back of my body." When she was asked if she felt guilty about Mueller losing his job, she responded, "I'm not going to let you or your client make me feel in any way that this is my fault. Here we are years later, and I'm being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are the product of his decisions—not mine."

In the end, the jury threw out Mueller's unfair dismissal case, ruling in Swift's favor, awarding the singer the symbolic $1 dollar she'd asked for. In a statement released after the verdict was rendered, she said, "I acknowledge the privilege that I benefit from in life, in society and in my ability to shoulder the enormous cost of defending myself in a trial like this. My hope is to help those whose voices should also be heard. Therefore, I will be making donations in the near future to multiple organizations that help sexual assault victims defend themselves."

A year later, Swift spoke to fans during a Tampa, Fla. stop on her Reputation Stadium Tour about the incident, thanking them for sticking by her during a "really, really horrible" time in her life. "I just think about all the people that weren't believed, or the people who haven't been believed, or the people who are afraid to speak up because they don't think they will be believed," Swift said. "And I just want to say that I'm sorry to everyone who ever wasn't believed because I don't know what turn my life would have taken if people hadn't believed in me when I said that something happened."

Over the years, Swift has also used her superstar muscle to advocate for what she believes she and all other artists deserve during this streaming revolution. In 2014, after penning an article for the Wall Street Journal in which she argued that "music should not be free" and that artists shouldn't "underestimate themselves or undervalue their art," she pulled her entire discography from Spotify.

"Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment," Swift told Yahoo that November, defending her position. "And I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music. And I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free."

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The following June, she penned an open letter to fans, explaining why they wouldn't be able to find her latest album, 1989, wouldn't be made available on Apple Music once the service launched. As she explained, her issue lay with Apple Music's decision not to pay artists during its free three-month trial for users to sign up. "I'm not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those three months. I find it to be shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company," she wrote, adding that she was speaking on behalf of fellow musicians who had some hesitation at speaking out against the tech company.

"These are not the complaints of a spoiled, petulant child. These are the echoed sentiments of every artist, writer and producer in my social circles who are afraid to speak up publicly because we admire and respect Apple so much. We simply do not respect this particular call," she added. "We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation."

A day later, Apple announced that it would, indeed, be paying artists during the free trial period."When I woke up this morning and saw what Taylor had written, it really solidified that we needed a change," Apple's senior vice president of internet services and software Eddy Cue told Billboard in an interview after tweeting that the company was changing course. "And so that's why we decide we will now pay artists during the trial period."

By 2017, in time to celebrate 1989 selling over 10 million albums worldwide and, maybe, to tweak then-frenemy Katy Perry's launch of new album Witness, Swift's music was back on Spotify and added to Amazon Music and Google Play as well.

At every turn, Swift has revealed herself to be someone who has certainly found that backbone she wrote about in Elle. After West claimed he made her famous, he accepted Album of the Year at the 58th Grammy Awards with a speech that didn't mention the rapper by name, but spoke to him just the same. "As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I wanna say to all the young women out there: There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success, or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame," she said. "But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going, you'll look around and you'll know that it was you and the people who love you that put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

When Kardashian West branded her a snake as she shared the questionably-recorded audio of a phone call between Swift and West as he was crafting "Famous," she took the animal iconography on as a central motif in her next album and tour, which became the highest-grossing domestic tour by a woman ever.

"A few years ago, someone started an online hate campaign by calling me a snake on the internet," Swift wrote in Elle. "The fact that so many people jumped on board with it led me to feeling lower than I've ever felt in my life, but I can't tell you how hard I had to keep from laughing every time my 63-foot inflatable cobra named Karyn appeared onstage in front of 60,000 screaming fans. It's the Stadium Tour equivalent of responding to a troll's hateful Instagram comment with 'lol.'"

When speaking with a German news outlet to promote new single "ME!" in May, she was asked if her 30th birthday meant she was going to settle down, get married and have kids soon. She shut that s--t down, saying, "I really do not think men are asked that question when they turn 30. So I'm not going to answer that."

As she's become more politically active, endorsing progressive candidates in her adopted home state of Tennessee, emphatically calling out President Trump, and advocating on behalf of the LGBTQIA community during this most recent Pride Month, after years of being criticized for sitting silently on the sidelines, she's opened herself up to criticism from those who wish their pop stars would shut up—unless they're spouting views identical to their own, of course. But it's no different to the criticism she faced when she was silent, or when she dared to demand fair compensation for her art, or when she simply wanted to be believed as a victim of sexual assault. All of which she's learned to look past.

"I learned to block some of the noise," she wrote in Elle. "Social media can be great, but it can also inundate your brain with images of what you aren't, how you're failing, or who is in a cooler locale than you at any given moment. One thing I do to lessen this weird insecurity laser beam is to turn off comments...I'm also blocking out anyone who might feel the need to tell me to 'go die in a hole ho' while I'm having my coffee at nine in the morning. I think it's healthy for your self-esteem to need less internet praise to appease it, especially when three comments down you could unwittingly see someone telling you that you look like a weasel that got hit by a truck and stitched back together by a drunk taxidermist. An actual comment I received once."

As for those in real life who are bringing her strife—like, say, Braun and Borchetta, currently—she's got a plan for dealing with that, as well.

"Banish the drama. You only have so much room in your life and so much energy to give to those in it," she wrote. "Be discerning. If someone in your life is hurting you, draining you, or causing you pain in a way that feels unresolvable, blocking their number isn't cruel. It's just a simple setting on your phone that will eliminate drama if you so choose to use it."

In other words, put quite simply, she's learned how to shake it off.

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However, use of botulinum toxin has severe side effects such as allergic reactions, rashes, neck and back pain, thus liming market growth to a certain extent. Unauthorized use of botulinum toxin can also lead to difficulty during swallowing food, shortness of breath and nausea thereby further restraining market advancement. Furthermore, higher cost of these expensive procedures coupled with minimum availability of the products like Myobloc by Solstice are expected to negatively affect overall market performance. Yet, increasing adoption of neurotoxins in therapeutics as well as cosmetic application are expected to fuel market demand for botulinum toxin over the next seven years.

Botulinum toxin is gaining a wide popularity in cosmetic as well as aesthetic applications due to properties such as anti-aging and facial therapy. Rise in the number of application of botulinum toxin involving treatment of frown lines, crow’s feet lines, and glabellar lines are anticipated to boost market growth over the forecast period. The aesthetic segment has largest share in the botulinum toxin market in the last few years. Additionally, increasing approval rate by regional and international authorities are predicted to drive market demand over the next seven years.

Rise in the number of research & development activities coupled with favorable government laws & regulation are expected to offer lucrative growth opportunities for market players in the near future. Botox injections involving botulinum toxin weaken and completely paralyzes muscles and blocks certain nerves, which is influential during complex treatments. The effect of botulinum toxin commonly lasts about three to twelve months depending on the type of treatment.

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The botulinum toxin industry is divided by region as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa. North America has shown major growth in recent years owing to the rise in the implementation of latest technologies in the healthcare sector, higher disposable income, availability of a variety of aesthetic procedures for enhancing external appearance and existence of well-established infrastructure.

Asia-Pacific region is predicted to hold major market share in the botulinum toxin market with massive growth in forecast period. Countries such as India, China and Singapore are leading the Asia-Pacific market with increasing healthcare expenditure, rising awareness among consumers, and significant investment by leading industry players considering potential growth opportunities in the region.

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Motion Sensor Market Growth Factors, Regional Analysis, & Key Players By 2026

Market Overview

Global Motion Sensor Market is expected to reach USD 3.97 Billion by 2026 at a CAGR of 7.10% during the forecast period. Market Research Future (MRFR), in its report, envelops segmentation and drivers to provide a better glimpse of the market in the coming years. To reduce this excessive consumption, the building construction companies are shifting towards implementing strategies and technologies that are likely to reduce energy consumption and take the pressure off the grid. This has encouraged the manufacturers of motion sensors to develop state-of-the-art technology to cope up with emerging emergency needs.

Segmental Analysis

Global Motion Sensor Market has been segmented based on Type, Microwave Radar By Frequency, Microwave Radar By Application, PIR Sensors By Application, Occupancy Sensors By Application, and Region.

Based on microwave radar by frequency, the global market has been segmented into 10.6 GHZ–24 GHZ, 2.6 GHZ–5.8 GHZ, 77 GHZ, UP TO 2.5 GHZ, 66 GHZ, and 5.9 GHZ–10.5 GHZ. The 10.6 GHz–24 GHz segment accounted for the largest market share in 2019; it is expected to register a CAGR of 36.2% during the forecast period. Sensors with frequencies ranging between 10.6 GHz and 24 GHz provide speed, direction, and distance information about moving objects and are also resistant to moisture, dirt, and temperature. This radar sensor node is combined with two-element dual-band antennas that are designed to operate at both the radar and Zigbee ISM frequency bands.

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By microwave radar by application, the market has been segmented surveillance and lighting. Surveillance is further divided into perimeter security, intruder & burglar alarm, automatic door. Lighting is further divided into smart building lighting, street lighting, smart home indoor lighting, and sensory switch. The surveillance segment accounted for the largest market share in 2019. Surveillance is the most important field in the security system. Microwave radar sensors are used in searching and locating a person under debris or behind a wall. Perimeter security refers to an integrated system that helps in the physical security of a facility. Additionally, it protects against unauthorized physical intrusions. After technological advancements, security systems deploy infrared, microwave, radar, and seismic sensors, which has further added to the robustness of these systems. It includes technologies, such as free-standing perimeter security and buried perimeter security. A basic intruder alarm system comprises several interior and perimeter intrusion detectors, a control panel, with rechargeable battery power backup, internal or external keypads, and at least one external sounder. There two types of door contact authentication systems, which are mechanical and magnetic. In these systems, the user gets to know whether a door is opened or closed. The sensor detects a change in echo from the slightest movement in the detection zone. This change prompts a microprocessor to switch the light on. The emergence of smart buildings and the Internet of things (IoT) technology has driven the adoption of lighting control systems and further increased the adoption of microwave radar sensors.

By PIR sensors by application, the market has been segmented into lighting and surveillance. Lighting segment accounted for the largest market share in 2019. These sensors not only can turn on the lights but also air conditioning systems, video and audio devices, and computers, among others. PIR sensors play an important role in lighting control for reducing energy consumption. Lighting solutions with PIR sensors are used in several residential applications, one of them being renovation. Lighting control with PIR sensors in smart homes reduces maintenance and energy costs and supports sustainable development by being energy efficient. A smart building is a structure that uses automated processes to automatically control various building operations such as air conditioning, heating, security, energy management, ventilation, and other systems. PIR sensors can sense motion, either vehicle or human, in or out of the sensor range. This sensor is quite small, inexpensive, easy to use, low power, and easy to interface. Surveillance involves monitoring the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people or the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them.

By occupancy sensors by application, the market has been segmented into Lighting Systems, HVAC Systems, Security & Surveillance, Others. Security & surveillance segment accounted for the largest market share in 2019. Occupancy sensors are generally used in indoor spaces to control lighting systems. They sense the object inside the room and turn on the lights according to the presence of an object. Occupancy sensors are compatible with lighting and HVAC systems and capable of managing the HVAC operations within a space depending on occupancy. Security and surveillance systems are widely installed in apartment building entrances, corridors, parking garages, storerooms, laundry areas, and mall rooms. The other applications areas for occupancy sensors are fire detections systems, gas detection systems, and seat and bed occupancy systems.

The global motion sensor market, by region, has been segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East & Africa, and Central & South America. Europe accounted for the largest market share of 31.5% in 2019; the market is expected to register the CAGR of 7.89% during the forecast period. Asia-Pacific held the second largest market size in 2019 and is expected to hold the largest market size during the forecast period. North America has a well-developed infrastructure and thus can easily adopt technological advancements. Increasing smart city initiatives has propelled the adoption of motion sensors to detect movement indoors as well as outdoors. Rapid industrialization across the chemicals, food, and electronics industries and the rise in the number of power projects to meet the rising concerns regarding electricity conservation are expected to be the major factors driving the demand for motion sensors in the APAC regional market.

Competitive Analysis

The Key Players of the Global Motion Sensor Market are Panasonic Corporation, ShenZhen HaiWang Sensor Co., Ltd, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., ADT, INC, Infineon Technologies AG, Beghelli S.p.A., Crow Group, devolo AG, Digicom LLC, Vimar SpA, Resideo Technologies Inc., Crestron Electronics, Inc., FIBARO System Manufacturer, New Japan Radio Co., Ltd, Comcast Corporation, Ring Inc., and Kuongshun Electronic Limited among others.

In February 2020, Comlight launched its Eagle Eye Zhaga motion detection light controller for outdoor and street luminaires. The product controls outdoor and street luminaires based on advanced radar motion detection.

In November 2019, Hiome, a Chicago-based company, developed an occupancy door sensor for smart homes. The sensors are offered in three variants—wired, recessed, and battery-operated.

In March 2019, Wyze Labs, Inc. launched a new series of security cameras. Wyze Sense, its latest product, is a sensor system consisting of contact sensors, PIR motion sensors, and a bridge that links its existing security camera products, including the Wyze Cam and Wyze Cam Pan.

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Did Marcus Aurelius say, “Death smiles at us all?”

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Did Marcus Aurelius say, “Death smiles at us all?”

No, Marcus Aurelius did not say it. The quote comes from the movie Gladiator, in which the lead character says those words while making an allusion to Marcus Aurelius. What comes close is this quote, “Accept death in a cheerful spirit, as nothing but the dissolution of the elements from which each living thing is composed.” (Meditations 2.17)

The Quote Marcus Aurelius Never Said

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

That faux-quote attribute to Marcus Aurelius actually comes from the epic historical drama film Gladiator (2000) based on Daniel P. Mannix’s 1958 book The Way of the Gladiator. The movie won five Academy Awards at the 73rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. It also won four BAFTA Awards at the 54th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Cinematography.

Russell Crowe played the protagonist Maximus.

Russell Crowe in Gladiator (2000). Image:

In the movie, Maximus Decimus Meridius, a general in the Roman army, intends to return home after he leads them to victory against the Germanic tribes. When he goes to meet Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the king reveals he wishes Maximus to succeed him instead of his own son, Commodus, to help save Rome from corruption and restore the Republic.

On hearing this, Commodus flies into a rage and murders his father (which is a historical error; Marcus died of old age and disease).

Commodus declares himself the new emperor of Rome and asks Maximus for his loyalty. When Maximus refuses, the Praetorian guards capture Maximus for plotting to murder the king of Rome.

But Maximus escapes and goes to his home country Spain, only to find his wife and son dead, and his house burned down. He is taken by a slave trader and sold to the gladiator trainer Proximo. Maximus soon turns out to be the gladiator who never loses a fight.

When Commodus declares to stage the gladiatorial games, Proximo goes to Rome with his gladiators. In the fight, Maximus defeats the Roman champion and reveals himself as Maximus. Commodus’ sister Lucilla, and senator Gracchus decide to help Maximus escape, so he might build his army and come back to dethrone Commodus.

Commodus discovers the plot. And gets the Praetorians to kill Proximo and the other gladiators and arrest Maximus before he could escape.

Commodus declares that he will fight Maximus in one-to-one combat in the arena. In all of Rome’s imperial history, Commodus is the first king to clash with a gladiator. All Roman rulers before him were mere spectators. Commodus confronts Maximus minutes before they are to walk into the arena for a fight to the death.

Commodus: “Do you think I am afraid?“

Maximus: “I think you have been afraid all your life.”

Commodus: “Unlike Maximus, the invincible, who knows no fear?”

Maximus: “I knew a man once who said, ‘Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.’”

Commodus: “I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?”

Maximus: “You must know. He was your father.”

The man Maximus was alluding to was the dead emperor Marcus Aurelius, father of Commodus and the last of The Five Good Emperors. History holds Commodus as an arrogant and inglorious son and a timorous and undeserving successor to the mightiest Stoic to have ever walked this earth, Marcus Aurelius — The Philosopher King.

After their exchange, Commodus stabs Maximus to weaken him. In the fighting arena, however, Maximus kills Commodus and orders the restoration of power to the Senate and revival of Republican rule.

The Five Good Emperors

Marcus Aurelius was the last of “The Five Good Emperors” — Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius — who ruled the Roman Empire between 96 and 180. None of the five were blood relatives, though they ruled successively.

Nerva was chosen to ascend the throne by the assassins of Domitian, the king who had banished all philosophers out of Italy. Epictetus, one of those who formed The Stoic Opposition against the autocracy, had to flee to Nicopolis.

Trajan, a valiant warrior and a hero of the people, was chosen by Nerva. He reduced the taxes, started the “alimenta” fund system for the poor children, and often visited people’s homes without his guards.

Hadrian, adopted and chosen by Trajan, traveled a lot. He climbed Mount Etna, Sicily, and Jabal Agra, near Syria, to watch the sunrise. He started the imperial trend of wearing a beard.

Antoninus was adopted by Hadrian on the condition that he adopt the future emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus to succeed him. He started the Puellae Faustinianae, a charitable institution for the daughters of the poor.

Marcus Aurelius was The Philosopher King. He ruled Rome for 20 years through wars and plague with intelligence and prudence, and wrote the last great book on ancient Stoicism, Meditations.

“The Five Good Emperors” was a term first used by Machiavelli and later adopted and popularized by historian Edward Gibbon, who said under these men, the Roman Empire “was governed by absolute power under the guidance of wisdom and virtue.”

Edward Gibbon wrote in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “If a man were called upon to fix that period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the deaths of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.”

The two best among the five were Trajan and Marcus.

Final Words

While the quote (Death smiles at us all…) is not a direct quote from Marcus Aurelius, it manages to tell us in a terse sentence how the Stoics saw death — as a natural phenomenon not to be afraid of.

To learn more, check out the 21 Unforgettable Stoic Quotes on Death.

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That’s when 1.5 million people — including international visitors — converged on the city, almost certainly fueling viral spread that made the region an early hot spot. Indeed, the purple-and-white house icons that dot a map on the Krewe of Float Houses website cover the city’s entire main footprint like a sidewalk littered with doubloons, those collectible metallic coins tossed by riders from traditional floats. “In its essence, it’s not much different than when people drive around with the kids in the car and look at the Christmas decorations, holiday lights,” said Doug MacCash, who’s chronicled the house float movement for the local newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate. “Except this year, in 2021, it has such a spirit of triumph, such a spirit of defiance. It’s like, ‘Sorry, ‘rona. We’re not just giving up.'” “Mardi Gras by no means is dead; it’s just different,” said City Councilman Jay Banks, who’s cast his own house — already painted yellow and black — with other trademark representations of the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, the city’s preeminent Black Carnival organization, over which he once reigned as king. “And what we’re forced to do this Mardi Gras, with Covid as the No. 1 consideration, … is how this whole house float thing got started,” he said. “And let me tell you, I am just giggly about it.” How to turn your house into a float Do-it-yourselfers — many already armed with hot-glue guns and glitter by the gallon for crafting annual Mardi Gras costumes — have embraced the home-design effort in earnest. Two private Facebook groups with more than 14,000 participants spew inquiries at all hours, most swiftly answered by a hive mind eager to collaborate after months of stay-at-home orders. “Any recommendations on securing this? It’s top heavy,” one poster asked, referring to a photo of a homemade Lysol can prop standing several feet tall. From another: “Has anyone had luck with using cardboard to make house float decorations? I already used some and painted and sealed with mod podge acrylic sealer but am wondering how it will hold up in the elements on a French Quarter balcony! Is there a better way of waterproofing, etc.?” The exchange is not unlike in the bleak months after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when neighbors connected to trade recipes for bleach or baking soda concoctions to remove mold from items soiled by the flood. Others looking now to gild their homes have turned to a regional cottage industry built over decades for precisely this sort of venture. “Part of the consternation about canceling Carnival had to do with, well, there are people (for) who(m) Carnival is their livelihood — a lot of people: float builders, bead- and costume-makers,” MacCash said. “Some of the Carnival artists who find themselves out of work at what would have been a real scrambling sort of time, what they’ve done is they’ve found employment decorating houses.” In a normal year, René Pierre right about now would be finalizing the books on some 75 floats that his company, Crescent City Artists LLC, decorates using lightweight utility canvas, bright house paints, hard coating, wood and Styrofoam, he said. This year, Boudreaux’s house float vision, which Pierre caught on a local news report, proved to be his “ticket out” of a toned-down Carnival — and one that follows his and his young daughter’s recovery from Covid-19. “Oh, man, in about three weeks, we were booked all the way up until today,” Pierre said last week of his house-decorating customers. “My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like, “Ping ping ping ping ping.’ It was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It was like instant success. It was incredible.” The couple inked 53 house float contracts ranging from $1,500 to $3,000 apiece, a sum many riders in the city’s biggest parading groups typically would spend on bead strands and other “throws” to toss in a given year. “It has really pumped my business into full steam,” Pierre said, noting he hired his cousin, a recording artist, to help manage the crush. “We have made more money in six weeks … and talk about Mardi Gras spirit.” Of the commissions, Pierre’s favorites are a trio of painted pups fashioned after the homeowner’s own pack, a Buddha-themed display and one highlighting the Grateful Dead dancing bears. Boudreaux, known as “Admiral B” of the house float fleet, aptly did her house in a maritime motif. “I don’t know if I want to know how much I spent,” she said: “definitely more than I meant to, less than a lot of people.” How to lead (or join) a house float krewe Beyond her own decor, helming this nascent krewe (local vernacular for a festival group) has become a second full-time job for Boudreaux. There are exchanges with lawyers over decorating rules in historic districts and weekly logistics meetings with the mayor to game out how to handle homeowners who want to, say, hire a band. There are now 50 captains, 39 subkrewes, a communications team and an effort to gather and edit together dozens of dancers’ at-home videos into a performance masterpiece for the website. Yet another to-do list item got added shortly after the krewe named a New Orleans bounce star as its grand marshal, Boudreaux said. “Now Big Freedia’s house is a traffic jam. The house is so popular that even guerilla photograph-style, it still drew a crowd,” the one thing the Krewe of House Floats wants urgently to prevent. The krewe also has launched a campaign to donate $100,000 toward those facing unemployment and food and housing insecurity largely because of this year’s Carnival limits: artisans, service industry workers, musicians, Mardi Gras Indians and other culture-bearers. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, “this year plants the seed” for what’s already becoming an annual event, to endure long after the coronavirus is vanquished, MacCash said. (At last count, Pierre already had 28 house-decorating contracts set for 2022, and preregistration is open for next year’s Krewe of House Floats.) For now, Chris Volion is looking forward to safely welcoming on Fat Tuesday, February 16, revelers who pass by his New Orleans home, adorned with enormous black birds inspired by local crows and Edgar Allen Poe in his personal Krewe of Nevermore. Volion, an institutional research analyst, and his wife, Janet, are making some themed throws to hand out and plan to join neighbors for king cake-flavored Jell-O shots. “While it feels different, there’s still that excitement going on,” he said. This year, instead of swapping parade plans, “the conversation has shifted to: Have you been to such and such a block, or have you see this house? It’s so beautiful to see that the energy is still there.” For Banks, the city councilman, the house floats offer a glimmer in an especially bleak season. In his own circle, Covid-19 has taken 23 lives and killed 17 members of the Zulu organization, he said, not to mention relatives and friends of the club. It’s stripped New Orleans — and the world — of the chance to socialize in person and to observe customs in the typical way. But as is so often the case, he said, the city’s response in this dark moment offers a message far beyond its borders. “We’re showing the rest of you that there is light at the end of the tunnel,” Banks said. “As screwed-up as Covid is, we will not let it defeat us. … The lesson of New Orleans for the world is: You play the cards that you’re dealt.” Source link Orbem News #Canceled #Covid19 #floats #Gras #houses #Mardi #MardiGrasparadesgotcanceledbyCovid-19.So #NewOrleaniansturnedtheirhousesintofloats-CNN #Orleanians #parades #turned #us

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On the site of a former auto-repair shop here, broken stone walls mark the site of a 900-year-old village that may yield new insights into an ancient desert culture.

The ruins are what remains of two “great houses” — apartment buildings, essentially — that formed a northern outpost of a civilization based at Chaco Canyon, about 100 miles away in northwestern New Mexico.

Archaeologists from the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, in nearby Cortez, have just begun the first systematic excavation of this site in an effort to learn how its residents lived in the early 1100s, and how they related to the wider Chaco culture.

In particular, the Northern Chaco Outliers Project aims to determine when the village was occupied, how many people lived there, and whether they did so during an extended drought of 1130-1180, which may have accelerated a northward movement of people from Chaco.

The project is the first in many years to systematically excavate any of about 250 great houses that were built in the region known as Four Corners, said John Kantner, an archaeologist at the University of North Florida.

“We have so little understanding of the role of great houses and the relationship between others and Chaco Canyon itself,” said Dr. Kantner, who excavated Blue J, another Chaco-related site in New Mexico.

The project here has the potential to “fill in the gaps about the outlying great houses,” he said.

Susan Ryan, director of archaeology at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, leads the Haynie Site project. Credit Nick Cote for The New York Times

Three full-time archaeologists and volunteers began work in mid-May and will spend at least the next three years sifting through the ruins, named the Haynie Site after its former owners, Ralph and Claudia Haynie, who bought the five-acre property in the early 1980s.

The team is working from site descriptions and maps of the ruins that were made by Claudia Haynie as she did her own excavations in pursuit of artifacts.

Large parts of the ruins were excavated with heavy machinery, and portions of both great houses were demolished, disturbing to at least half the site, said Susan Ryan, the Crow Center’s director of archaeology, who is leading the project.

The artifacts obtained by the Haynies cannot be recovered because they were sold, she said. But archaeologists can use the couple’s records to infer what the site looked like before it was disturbed.

“She was recording, in a pretty scientific way, where her objects were coming out of the great houses,” Dr. Ryan said of Claudia Haynie. “She had a great respect for the people who used to live there, she has a respect for the buildings themselves.”

“Somebody really did care about the site even though the actions went against what archaeologists would say is appropriate,” she added. Today, local representatives from descendant communities visit the site twice a year and help guide the research.

Diagrams drawn by Ms. Haynie show floor plans for both of the great houses, which had two or perhaps three stories and measured roughly 75 feet by 55 feet. One of the drawings includes about 30 rectangular rooms, based on remaining masonry or inferred walls where none physically survived.

Dr. Ryan holding a fragment of pottery collected at the Haynie Site. Credit Nick Cote for The New York Times

The diagrams also include five kivas, circular spaces that in bigger settlements were used for religious purposes. At the Haynie site, they apparently were used for everyday activities like sleeping, cooking or making tools.

Despite their practical nature, each of the Haynie kivas also contains a “sipapu,” a Hopi term for a ritual hole with a ladder used to symbolize a connection between the world and the spiritual realm, Dr. Ryan said.

“On a ladder, you are symbolically moving in and out of worlds that are vertical,” she said. “You are constantly being reminded of where you have come from, your identity and origin stories. It’s just a beautiful thing.”

On a tour of the site, Dr. Ryan pointed out a line of mortar in which alternating layers of clay and calcium carbonate made a stronger fill and insulated the surrounding rooms.

“Those are basket loads of fill that someone has dropped in there, probably in the early 1100s,” Dr. Ryan said of spaces between the stones. “That’s so exciting, because now you can see how big a basket was and how much dirt was in there.”

Estimates of the age of the Haynie structures comes from tree-ring dating. One of the roof timbers dates has been dated to 1111, when the center of the Chaco civilization was moving northward into what is now southwestern Colorado.

Archaeologists link the Haynie site to Chaco Canyon by noting shared architectural features, like subfloor ventilation systems, tall ceilings and flat-sawed timbers.

Like many ruins in the Four Corners region, the Haynie site remains on private land now owned by Haynie Ranch LLC, a company dedicated to preserving the site and investigating its history.

Surrounded by farmland, the site is closed to the public unless visitors receive permission from the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. (By contrast, ancient cliff dwellings at nearby Mesa Verde National Park draw thousands of visitors.)

But the Crow Canyon team has been denied access to some of the ruins sitting on another parcel of private land, marked off by a barbed-wire fence that runs through the site.

Portions of the Haynie site, such as floors and hearths, will be covered over with earth, or “backfilled,” after the current project is completed, to protect the ruins from further exposure to the elements.

“Once it’s been open for that long, all of this wood has collapsed, all of the plaster has popped off the wall, and joints of all the architecture are coming loose because the mortar has run,” Dr. Ryan said. “Leaving things open is not where you want to be at for preservation.”

“It sounds crazy to the public, but backfilling is the most important way to preserve archaeological sites,” she said. “To have this backfilled would be the best protection you could have for a site.”

Covering the ruins would also help protect them from the “pothunters” who have removed artifacts from “pretty much every site” in the Southwest, said Dr. Kantner.

Even if the ruins were on public land, it would not be feasible to stabilize them in a way that makes them accessible to the public, he added. But the information gleaned from them can be shared through websites and museums.

“It’s still possible to tell their stories from what’s left,” he said.

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