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aemiron-main · 1 year

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Posts Made After Seeing The First Shadow

(click here for the TFS section of the google doc)

(click here to go to a tumblr post with the posts I made BEFORE seeing the first shadow)

I Am Henry Creel vs You’re Not Henry: Changing Rooms, Fringe, Henward, TFS, Walls, and Convincing Edward That He’s Henry (x)

The Gay Ones: Henry Creel Is So Gay, How Did Any Of You Guys Come Out Of TFS Thinking That He’s Straight? (x)

TFS and The Edward Timeline: We Definitely Saw Edward Timeline Events During TFS (x)

“Gay Henry Truthers Are Erasing An Interracial Relationship During The 50s”: No We Aren’t, The Struggles Of An Interracial Relationship Are Still Very Much Present Even With Gay Henry & You’re Actually The Ones That Are Erasing Key Aspects Of Both Henry and Patty (x)

Silly, Terrible Play: Henry Ripping Off Virginia’s Dress and TFS Henry Breaking The The Fourth Wall (x)

The Hawkins High Backdrop in TFS: Why Is Almost Every Place Hawkins High? (x)

I’m Not A (Violent) Dog, I Don’t Know Why I Bite: Henry Creel Vs Cujo (x)

The Town That Didn’t Exist: Rachel, Nevada (ft. The Creel Murders, and Will’s Birthday) (x)

TFS, Rachel Nevada, and The X Files’ Dreamland Episode (x)

Elvis Cloned By Aliens: Was Anyone Gonna Tell Me That Elvis Had A Twin? ft. Kissing Cousins and TFS (And Henward Are So Absolutely Real) (x)

TFS and Chuck E’s In Love: All Roads Truly Do Lead To Edward (x)

TFS and Tommy: The Ball Gag (x)

Timeline’s Wrong (I Mean, Off) (x)

Henry’s Blood Transfusions and Universal Donors (x)

Democreatures Smelling Blood, Blood Transfusions, and Dimension X: Was Brenner Trying To Make The Lab Kids Immune To Dimension X Via Blood Transfusions? (x)

Why Was Brenner Touching The Soteria Spot On His Own Neck During TFS? (x)

Two Slick Cats: TFS and Henward vs the Everly Brothers (x)

Why Did They Gag Henry? (x)

Stupid Girl: Brenner and Henry vs Byler (x)

Henry’s Shadow Voice vs Brenner’s Angry Voice (x)

Who’s Henry vs You’re Not Henry vs You’re Not Him: Why Is Brenner Henry? (x)

Something No One Could Understand Except For Me, Henry: What’s Up With All Of The “Brenner Is Henry” Vibes (x)

Did Brenner Shock Henry During The Spyglass Lab Scene? (x)

Henry In The Nevada Caves, Bob’s JVC vs The Creel Camera and The Descent on the S4 Board (x)

Where is Henry’s Scar? (x)

You Have To Be Your Father: Did Brenner Jr Become Brenner Sr? (ft William Brenner) (x)

From Captain Midnight: TFS and the Captain Midnight Broadcast Intrusion (x)

This is Your Dream: Was TFS Patty’s Dream? At Least Partially? Did Patty Go Missing At Age 12? Are Her And Henry Hooked Up To NINA Together? (x)

But It Wouldn’t Be Make Believe If You Believe In Me: It’s Only A Paper Moon, TFS, and Things Not Being Real (x)

Henry Looking Up During The Creel Murders in TFS vs Edward (x)

TFS Orderly Henry VS the Weird Henward During NINA: Are They The Same Guy? (x)

My Sweet Boy vs I’m Not Your Boy: What Is Up With The Brenner-Virginia Parallels in TFS? And What’s Up With The TFS Brenner-vs In-Show Victor Resemblance? (ft The Girl (Boy) He Stole) (x)

Following Us: TFS vs It Follows (x)

I Lost It: Henry Lost His Innocence In That Cave (x)

Did Henry Push Scott Off Of A Quarry In Nevada? (x)

Be Not Afraid: Henry’s Weird Shadow Bone Snapping Seems To Triggered By Fear (x)

TFS and The Rabbit: We Still Don’t See Henry Kill It (x)

Stardust Spider, Sensory Suits, and Alan Munson’s Silver Spandex Suit (x)

Dream A Little Dream Of Me: Is Patty Real? (x)

The Stolen Girl: Was Patty Stolen By HNL? (x)

It’s Not About Him, It’s About Dad: How Patty’s Puppy Love For Henry Ties To Her Issues With Mr Newby (x)

Walking After Midnight: Virginia Creel Continues To Be Weird With Henry (x)

Henward, TFS, Rabies, and Patty’s Bat Wings (x)

You’ll Come Crawling Back vs Crawling Backwards: What’s With The Crawling In TFS and ST? (x)

Crawling Backwards, A Thump On The Head, and The Cave (x)

Jesus: They Keep Paralleling Virginia and Patty Re: Henry (x)

Was Martin Brenner A Boy Scout? (x)

I Love You: Gay Henry, Puppy Love Creelby, and Virginia-Patty Parallels (x)

You Don’t Know Him: Hentty and Edward (x)

TFS, Twins, and a Henward Concept (x)

The Man Behind The Curtain: The Wizard Of Oz and TFS (x)

Patty and Henry Being Compared To Romeo and Juliet (x)

MR ELECTRIC SEND HIM TO THE THEATRE REALM: I Could Not Pretend- Did Henry Send Edward To Do The Play In His Place? (x)

A Canon Event: Brenner, The Creel Murders, and TFS (x)

You Don’t Age and You Don’t Shave: TFS Brenner’s Hair and Scruff Are Weird (x)

The Hurt Means You’re Out Of The Cave: Jim’s Letter vs TFS (x)

Alan Munson Vs 7 Year Old Henry & The TFS Hair Styling Choices (x)

Henry’s Scooter Vs Will’s Bike (x)

The TFS Newspapers About The Creel Murders (Edward Creel is So Real) (x)

TFS, ST, Yuri vs Murray and Characters Pretending To Be Other Characters (x)

Hentty, Mileven, Kisses and The Fleshflayer (x)

Henry Creel is Presumed Dead- Right? The TFS Creel Murders Are So Damn Weird, And Henry Broke The Fourth Wall AGAIN (x)

Anything Is Possible: TFS Creelarke Crumbs and a Patty-Scott Parallel (x)

Say It: Even More Hentty Familial Parallels (x)

The Project Rainbow Poster vs Will Getting Flayed: Why is Will Connected To Brenner Sr AGAIN? (x)

What Are You, Henry Creel? Detect Thoughts and Reading Minds and Doppelgangers and TFS: Is TFS "Henry" A Doppelganger? (x)

Well, Now Where Do We Go? Nowhere! vs The Girl From Nowhere (x)

The Source: How Did Brenner Convince The US Gov Not To Kill Henry/Let Him Keep Henry in TFS? (x)

Does The Hawkins Library Appear In TFS? (x)

Hickman Hill vs Hick With A Buck Knife: More Clone and Edward Stuff in TFS (x)

I Hope They Throw Away The Key: Parallel Between TFS and The Wall (x)

Who is Who? What is What? Doctor Martin Brenner and Henry Creel: What Does The Man Want? Why is Brenner Henry? Get That Man Out of The Boy's Head! (x)

Making Kids Kill Cats: Digging Into Brenner vs the Shadow (x)

#stranger things #the first shadow #st: the first shadow #pinned post section #pinned post section: the first shadow

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erikacousland · 3 years

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St Victor with Donor by MASTER of Moulins

1480-85

Oil on panel, 58 x 50 cm

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

The Master of Moulins (Jean Hey) may have trained in Ghent, but his work, such as the present painting, also suggests familiarity with painting in Bruges.

#St Victor with Donor #Jean Hey #Arms & Armor #Armor & Helmets

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troybeecham · 3 years

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Today, the Church remembers St. Bonaventure.

Ora pro nobis.

He was born at Bagnorea in Umbria, not far from Viterbo, then part of the Papal States, in 1221 AD. Almost nothing is known of his childhood, other than the names of his parents, Giovanni di Fidanza and Maria di Ritella.

He entered the Franciscan Order in 1243 and studied at the University of Paris. In 1253 he held the Franciscan chair at Paris. A dispute between seculars and mendicants delayed his reception as Master until 1257, where his degree was taken in company with Thomas Aquinas. Three years earlier his fame had earned him the position of lecturer on The Four Books of Sentences—a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the twelfth century—and in 1255 he received the degree of master, the medieval equivalent of doctor. After having successfully defended his order against the reproaches of the anti-mendicant party, he was elected Minister General of the Franciscan Order. On 24 November 1265, he was selected for the post of Archbishop of York; however, he was never consecrated and resigned the appointment in October 1266.

Bonaventure was instrumental in procuring the election of Pope Gregory X, who rewarded him with the title of Cardinal Bishop of Albano, and insisted on his presence at the great Second Council of Lyon in 1274. There, after his significant contributions led to a union of the Greek and Latin churches, Bonaventure died suddenly and in suspicious circumstances.

He steered the Franciscans on a moderate and intellectual course that made them the most prominent order in the Catholic Church until the coming of the Jesuits. His theology was marked by an attempt completely to integrate faith and reason. He thought of Christ as the “one true master” who offers humans knowledge that begins in faith, is developed through rational understanding, and is perfected by mystical union with God.

Bonaventure was formally canonised in 1484 by the Franciscan Pope Sixtus IV, and ranked along with Thomas Aquinas as the greatest of the Doctors of the Church by another Franciscan, Pope Sixtus V, in 1587. Bonaventure was regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages.

Bonaventure wrote on almost every subject treated by the Schoolmen, and his writings are very numerous. The greater number of them deal with philosophy and theology. No work of Bonaventure’s is exclusively philosophical, a striking illustration of the mutual interpenetration of philosophy and theology that is a distinguishing mark of the Scholastic period.

Much of St. Bonaventure’s philosophical thought shows a considerable influence by St. Augustine. So much so that De Wulf considers him the best medieval representative of Augustinianism. St. Bonaventure adds Aristotelian principles to the Augustinian doctrine, especially in connection with the illumination of the intellect and the composition of human beings and other living creatures in terms of matter and form. Augustine, who had introduced into the west many of the doctrines that would define scholastic philosophy, was an incredibly important source of Bonaventure’s Platonism. The mystic Dionysius the Areopagite was another notable influence.

In philosophy Bonaventure presents a marked contrast to his contemporaries, Roger Bacon, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas. While these may be taken as representing, respectively, physical science yet in its infancy, and Aristotelian scholasticism in its most perfect form, he presents the mystical and Platonizing mode of speculation that had already, to some extent, found expression in Hugo and Richard of St. Victor, Alexander of Hales, and in Bernard of Clairvaux. To him, the purely intellectual element, though never absent, is of inferior interest when compared with the living power of the affections or the heart.

Like Thomas Aquinas, with whom he shared numerous profound agreements in matters theological and philosophical, he combated the Aristotelian notion of the eternity of the world vigorously (though he disagreed with Aquinas about the abstract possibility of an eternal universe). Bonaventure accepts the neo-Platonic doctrine that “forms” do not exist as subsistent entities, but as ideals or archetypes in the mind of God, according to which actual things were formed; and this conception has no slight influence upon his philosophy.

Like all the great scholastic doctors, Bonaventura starts with the discussion of the relations between reason and faith. All the sciences are but the handmaids of theology; reason can discover some of the moral truths that form the groundwork of the Christian system, but others it can only receive and apprehend through divine illumination. To obtain this illumination, the soul must employ the proper means, which are prayer, the exercise of the virtues, whereby it is rendered fit to accept the divine light, and meditation that may rise even to ecstatic union with God. The supreme end of life is such union, union in contemplation or intellect and in intense absorbing love; but it cannot be entirely reached in this life, and remains as a hope for the future.

Like Aquinas and other notable thirteenth-century philosophers and theologians, Bonaventure believed that it is possible to prove the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. He offers several arguments for the existence of God, including versions of St. Anselm’s ontological argument and Augustine’s argument from eternal truths. His main argument for the immortality of the soul appeals to humans’ natural desire for perfect happiness, and is reminiscent of C. S. Lewis’s argument from desire. Contrary to Aquinas, Bonaventure did not believe that philosophy was an autonomous disciple that could be pursued successfully independently of theology. Any philosopher is bound to fall into serious error, he believed, who lacks the light of faith.

A master of the memorable phrase, Bonaventure held that philosophy opens the mind to at least three different routes humans can take on their journey to God. Non-intellectual material creatures he conceived as shadows and vestiges (literally, footprints) of God, understood as the ultimate cause of a world philosophical reason can prove was created at a first moment in time. Intellectual creatures he conceived of as images and likenesses of God, the workings of the human mind and will leading us to God understood as illuminator of knowledge and donor of grace and virtue. The final route to God is the route of being, in which Bonaventure brought Anselm’s argument together with Aristotelian and Neoplatonic metaphysics to view God as the absolutely perfect being whose essence entails its existence, an absolutely simple being that causes all other, composite beings to exist.

Bonaventure, however, is not only a meditative thinker, whose works may form good manuals of devotion; he is a dogmatic theologian of high rank, and on all the disputed questions of scholastic thought, such as universals, matter, seminal reasons, the principle of individuation, or the intellectus agens, he gives weighty and well-reasoned decisions. He agrees with Saint Albert the Great in regarding theology as a practical science; its truths, according to his view, are peculiarly adapted to influence the affections. He discusses very carefully the nature and meaning of the divine attributes; considers universals to be the ideal forms pre-existing in the divine mind according to which things were shaped; holds matter to be pure potentiality that receives individual being and determinateness from the formative power of God, acting according to the ideas; and finally maintains that the agent intellect has no separate existence. On these and on many other points of scholastic philosophy the “Seraphic Doctor” exhibits a combination of subtlety and moderation, which makes his works particularly valuable.

In form and intent the work of St. Bonaventure is always the work of a theologian; he writes as one for whom the only angle of vision and the proximate criterion of truth is the Christian faith. This fact influences his importance for the history of philosophy; when coupled with his style, it makes Bonaventure perhaps the least accessible of the major figures of the thirteenth century. This is true, not because he is a theologian, but because philosophy interests him largely as a praeparatio evangelica, a preparation for evangelism, as something to be interpreted as a foreshadow of or deviation from what God has revealed.

In a way that is not true of Aquinas or Albert or Scotus, Bonaventure does not survive well the transition from his time to ours. It is difficult to imagine a contemporary philosopher, Christian or not, citing a passage from Bonaventure to make a specifically philosophical point. One must know philosophers to read Bonaventure, but the study of Bonaventure is seldom helpful for understanding philosophers and their characteristic problems. Bonaventure as a theologian is something different again, as is Bonaventure the edifying author. It is in those areas, rather than in philosophy proper, that his continuing importance must be sought.

Almighty God, you gave to your servant Bonaventure special gifts of grace to understand and teach the truth as it is in Christ Jesus: Grant that by this teaching we may know you, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

#christianity #theologian #philosophy #church #father troy beecham episcopal #father troy beecham

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whiskeyworen · 3 years

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Thinking about Dean Koontz novels

Recently I’ve been getting back into reading my favorite Dean Koontz novel series. The Christopher Snow series, the Odd Thomas series, and the Frankenstein series, and Twilight Eyes. Anyone who hasn’t read them, might not wanna read further cuz of spoilers. I don’t feel like putting a page break. It occurred to me that there’s a really good opportunity for an in-world crossover, at least, of elements of those three series, if not actually having the main characters encountering each other. First is that the Odd Thomas and Frankenstein novels exist in the same world, since at some point, they both cross over at the St. Bartholomew’s Abbey. Presumably, when Deucalion arrives there, it’s after Odd Thomas has left, but it’s the same world. Which means Deucalion exists in the same world that has bodachs and spirits, as much as it means Odd Thomas exists in the same world that Victor Helios was making New Race replicants. Half way into one of the Frankenstein novels, it’s mentioned that Victor Helios is disinterested in making microorganisms or viral agents, since he thinks his New Race, developed by his BioVision company (and an absolute rats nest of shell corporationas and donors) are far superior. But it made me think ‘had someone ever made an overture to him on other ventures, that he declined?’ First thing that jumps to mind is Fort Wyvern, and the retrovirus project, if not Mystery Train. One was an experiment in ‘controlled’ genetic engineering that would probably have interested Victor for a little while...at least until he decided he’d cribbed enough notes and everything else was pointless...and the other was Randolph Josephson’s pet project; a time machine of some function or other. I’m thinking Victor might have been at least loosely associated, if only on a surface level, with Josephson, for a few reasons. First being that the casket Helios uses to house his next body/clone self in his home has chamber walls made seemingly of the same material as Josephson used in the translation chamber of Mystery Train. While Josephson’s was far bigger, and was used for a different purpose (sending things forward/backward/sideways in time), Victor used the same swirly, red-gold material to house and keep his clone-self contained. Maybe he figured out how to use it on a lesser level than the time machine, and just kept his clone at a level of stasis that cryogenics simply wouldn’t match? I dunno. The Mystery Train events happen a few years or so earlier than the events in the Frankenstein novels, but that just means that Helios was already gone and disengaged from the projects at Fort Wyvern when it all went sideways. It also means that, if it’s in the same story universe, that while Victor was replacing people with replicants in New Orleans, the retrovirus from Wyvern had already long since spread there. Which might explain why his New Race Empire started to fall apart, in addition to the strictures he’d imposed on them breaking down. The New Race members that started experiencing severe changes to personality and actions might have additionally been suffering from the Retrovirus’s changes to the hosts they were cloned from. They were New Race, and supposedly improved beyond human, but if they were based off a damaged, flawed, error-filled design...it would have propogated. And to muddy things even more, you could add the Twilight Eyes ‘goblin’ beings to the mix; shapeshifters from ancient times with a full-on hate for humanity, but who could shift between a bestial, raging form, and their human form on a whim. Things that, when they died, no matter what form they died in, they’d revert back to human to hide evidence of it. If Victor Helios had no idea these beings even existed, then some of the replicants he cloned from ‘people’ he replaced would have had the modified DNA of the goblin-things. Which, since it would have been a side-effect in cloning, might have destablized them mentally or physically over time. Or in some cases, immediately. I’m just picturing a New Race assassin trying to take out say, a prosecutor in the court system, so that Victor could replace them with his own agent...only to discover the ‘human’ they were assigned to kill is a lot harder to kill than they expected, and puts up more of a fight. Maybe not morphing into a goblin, but definitely more vicious than expected. And Victor would just dismiss it as an unpleasant surprise, not knowing these things even existed and that he was trodding on their well-worn soil. I wonder...if Odd Thomas walked through New Orleans before Victor’s empire came apart... would he see nothing but Bodachs everywhere? Would he see them swirling before and around certain people? Or would he sense the New Race’s hostility long before he saw them? Or the Goblins? Would he look around, in horror, to realize half the people he saw were horrific beasts, while the others were as blank slate as marble and full of cold thoughts, while Bodachs gleefully swept between them like summer breeze? Would Deucalion hear from someone from Moonlight Bay, a reference to the retrovirus, do the math and distance, and a bit of research, and realize “Hey, this probably really screwed up Victor’s plans. How interesting.” How would he react to learning, possibly from Chris, about the Mystery Train project and what it did/nearly did/never did/will always do, and how it was changed to Tornado Alley and moved to a different state, possibly because funding for it dried up before it reached finished product (at least, in the fixed timeline. The original timeline, the device was finished and used, which is what opened up the kettle of fish)? How would they all react to learning that a good portion of the population of the world might be Goblins? And the danger they represented? These thoughts, and the idea that all these separate events and people, all cascaded over each other and around each other without knowing, and possibly saved the world entirely by accident, entertain me. Without ever knowing that they’d dealt with each others’ enemies.

#Dean Koontz #Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #Christopher Snow series #Odd Thomas series #Twilight Eyes #In-story-world crossover

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orsanasxm · 4 years

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Stem Cell Therapy

Stem cells are the foundation for every organ and tissue in your body. They are the body's raw materials — cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are generated. There are many different types of stem cells that come from different places in the body or are formed at different times in our lives. These include embryonic stem cells that exist only at the earliest stages of development and various types of tissue-specific (or adult) stem cells that appear during fetal development and remain in our bodies throughout life.

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The most used Multipotent stem cells, present throughout the body within the adipose, bone marrow, organ support tissues, but also from bones, cartilage, muscles ... These stem cells are particularly easy to take from adipose tissue or bone marrow. They can give rise to cartilaginous cells (chondrocytes), Osseous (ostheoblasts), fatty (adipocytes), muscle fibers (myocytes), cardiomyocytes ... They also secrete growth factors favorable to the surrounding cells and are sometimes used exclusively for this property. They also produce anti-inflammatory factors, which lead to local immunosuppression and promote the function of cells regulating immunity. These properties limit local inflammation and protect, a priori, against transplant rejection.

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fuckblizzardbearlover · 4 years

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in case i cant load this file at the library. (trying to print a document so i can quickly show Alleged well meaning ignorant trump voters why, he isnt just evil, he’s anti republican/christian and they shouldnt vote for him). Good god this was only the last 2 months. what an asshole

Trump is anti republican values

Letting a private media network run the country

August 21, 2020 – Department of Homeland Security officials were told by Trump to watch Lou Dobbs “every night.” The Fox Business host and ardent supporter of the president was the department’s “shadow chief of staff,” said former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor. “The president would call us and… he would say, ‘Why the hell didn’t you watch Lou Dobbs last night? You need to listen to Lou. What Lou says is what I want to do.’”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/miles-taylor-trump-lou-dobbs-fox-marching-orders-homeland-security_n_5f4066aec5b697824f98b023?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWNzd2VlbmV5cy5uZXQv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAGFv3J9DnCA3yhN9irljBGeIbETe34K6hRT9yzxk6fd6EH5rwaIC9XZg45NhSNMmcvi9VOlg6_bhNLjM5dJN0RyAgwY-OU7N6WLocW6uEbm0aIboW8YpMa9gJWFC2ROIFYRfX1D3NcVHgWKxWLeie8yY03vhUz2vWZR5jrJSGEy

Every word of this is blatant government corruption. Trying to rig an election, putting someone in charge who gave you money to make sure it happens? WHy does he hate america democracy so much?

August 17, 2020 – Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was accused of deliberately slowing mail delivery to give the president a boost in the November election. Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Ted Lieu of the House Judiciary Committee called for the FBI to open a criminal probe into DeJoy, who was appointed by Trump in May. The businessman earned millions of dollars from a company that does business with the Postal Service. He donated $1.2 million to Trump’s election campaign.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/512284-two-democrats-call-for-criminal-inquiry-of-postmaster-general

More corruption! Using the Presidential seat to promote a donar’s brand? Is America just a money making scheme to him and his rich elite?

August 16, 2020 – Trump said that the Food and Drug Administration “should be approving” an extract from the oleander plant as a coronavirus cure, even though there is no evidence that it is beneficial. Oleandrin had been touted by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a major Trump donor who has invested in the company that makes the extract. Lindell is not a doctor.

https://www.axios.com/trump-covid-oleandrin-9896f570-6cd8-4919-af3a-65ebad113d41.html

Hates america and democracy. If America is so great why cant he respect the democratic process

August 19, 2020 – Trump would “see what happens” in the November election before accepting its result, said White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. “The president has always said he’ll see what happens, and make a determination in the aftermath.” Two days earlier, Trump had said, “The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-election-results-white-house/

More lies

August 14, 2020 – The Senate Intelligence Committee asked federal prosecutors to investigate former Trump strategist Stephen Bannon for possibly lying during its inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Senators also said that Donald Trump Jr., Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks offered conflicting testimony.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-14/senate-committee-sought-investigation-of-bannon-raised-concerns-about-trump-family-testimony

Stole from his own voters!

August 20, 2020 – Stephen Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, was charged with cheating hundreds of thousands of donors who were told that their money would go toward building a wall along the Mexican border. A federal indictment said that Bannon, arrested with two other men, used almost $1 million for personal expenses; in all, the men raised more than $25 million. Bannon, who portrayed himself as a man of the people, was arrested on a $35 million yacht owned by fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyregion/steve-bannon-arrested-indicted.html

Still no tax returns? If he was successful and legal he wouldnt be hiding!

August 20, 2020 – A federal judge ruled that Trump must give his tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney, who is investigating Trump’s financial records. Judge Victor Marrero rejected the president’s most recent attempt to block the release of his returns. “This is a continuation of the witch hunt, the greatest witch hunt in history,” Trump told reporters. “There’s never been anything like it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyregion/donald-trump-taxes-cyrus-vance.html

More voter manipulation

August 6, 2020 – White House health officials said that the U.S. might have a coronavirus vaccine in early 2021. Trump, however, claimed that one could be available “sooner than the end of the year, could be much sooner.” Asked if a vaccine could arrive before the November 3 election, he said, “I think in some cases, yes possible before, but right around that time.” No reputable scientists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, believe a vaccine is possible before 2021.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-vaccine/trump-says-coronavirus-vaccine-possible-before-nov-3-idUSKCN25221Q

Vote intimidation is against 1st ammendment and your right to vote

August 20, 2020 – In order to prevent voter fraud, Trump said, he will order law enforcement to the polls on November 3. “We’re going to have sheriffs, and we’re going to have law enforcement. And we’re going to have hopefully U.S. attorneys, and we’re going to have everybody and attorney generals,” he said. Law enforcement is barred at polling places in several states because of concerns over voter intimidation.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/513048-trump-says-he-will-send-law-enforcement-us-attorneys-to-polls-in

More election tampering

August 4, 2020 – Trump’s campaign sued Nevada, arguing that a bill allowing voters to mail in election ballots would lead to fraud. In a tweet, Trump called the legislation “an illegal late-night coup,” adding, “See you in Court!”

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/trump-campaign-sues-nevada-over-bill-expanding-mail-in-voting-for-general-election

Undermining America, insulting the American system, undermining democracy and making attacks on the American people. No one hates american democracy like Trump

August 21, 2020 – Trump said he had a “theory” that if November’s election results were not known by the end of 2020, “Crazy Nancy Pelosi would become president, you know that. No. No. I don’t know if it’s a theory or a fact, but I said, ’That’s not good. That’s not good.’” In his remarks to a conservative group in Arlington, Va., Trump also said, “The more success that we’ve achieved, the more unhinged the radical left has become. Anarchists and violent mobs have rioted in our Democrat-run cities, attacking police and tearing down statues. I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness, and chaos, and that’s what it is.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/elections/trump-says-he-is-the-only-thing-standing-between-the-american-dream-and-total-anarchy.html

No one is above the law. Refusing to comply with investigators

August 24, 2020 – New York State’s attorney general asked a State Supreme Court judge to compel Eric Trump, the president’s son, to testify in an investigation. The inquiry was looking into whether Trump and his business overstated assets “to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits.” Eric Trump canceled an interview with the attorney general in July, and the Trump Organization said it would not comply with seven subpoenas that it was sent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/nyregion/letitia-james-trump-projects-investigation.html

Big govt stealing from taxpayers

August 27, 2020 – In visiting his own properties 271 times as president, Trump and Secret Service agents netted the Trump Organization more than $900,000. According to the Washington Post, Trump’s business also brought in at least $3.8 million in fees associated with 37 political events held at Trump’s properties.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-company-secret-service-spending/2020/08/27/9331bd86-de36-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_trumpsecretservice-1150am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

More attacks on American WOrking class. He acts like the postal service is a boogie man. Its hundreds of thousands of hard working americans trying to do a job to keep this country running

August 13, 2020 – Trump said he opposed $25 billion in emergency aid for the U.S. Postal Service. He made the unfounded claim that the coronavirus relief funding would help the service process “fraudulent” mail ballots for the November election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Praising Terrorist

August 31, 2020 – Trump suggested that a 17-year-old charged with murdering two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, acted in self-defense. “That was an interesting situation,” Trump said at a news conference. “He was trying to get away from them, I guess it looks like, and he fell and then they very violently attacked him… I guess he was in very big trouble. He probably would’ve been killed.” The shootings occurred during an anti-racist protest after Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by police. Trump planned to travel to Kenosha, but Blake’s family said they would talk to the president only if the family’s lawyers were present. Trump said he would not speak with them.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/31/trump-defends-kenosha-gunman-406377

Promoting conspiracy theorists

August 12, 2020 – Trump congratulated Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congressional candidate from Georgia who voiced her support of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. “Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up — a real WINNER!” Trump wrote on Twitter. The FBI identified QAnon as a potential domestic terror threat in 2019.

https://www.axios.com/trump-qanon-georgia-runoff-marjorie-taylor-greene-50ccdb7a-89ca-4331-9b16-77710ea27b5c.html

But his whole campaign is based on baseless conspiracies

August 11, 2020 – In a radio interview, Trump said, “China will own the United States if this election is lost by Donald Trump.” He added, “If I don’t win the election…you’re going to have to learn to speak Chinese, you want to know the truth.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/politics/trump-china-biden-learn-chinese/index.html

Anti free speech

– August 28, 2020 – At a campaign rally in New Hampshire, Trump ridiculed social justice protesters around the country. “You know what I say?” he told a small crowd. “Protesters, your ass. I don’t talk about my ass. They’re not protesters. Those aren’t protesters. Those are anarchists, they’re agitators, they’re rioters, they’re looters.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump/trump-knocks-protesters-against-racial-injustice-during-new-hampshire-rally-idUSKBN25O1AE

More anti free speech

– August 7, 2020 – The Trump administration issued two rarely used executive orders to ban TikTok and WeChat. The popular social media networks are owned by companies in China — a frequent target of the president’s pre-election rhetoric. “The spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China (China) continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,” Trump wrote. He did not, however, outline any specific threat from the companies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/technology/trump-wechat-tiktok-china.html

Only cares about his brand and money

August 8, 2020 – An aide to Trump asked the South Dakota governor’s office what it took to have a president added to Mount Rushmore. In 2018, Trump had told future Governor Kristi Noem, “Do you know it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/us/politics/kristi-noem-pence-trump.html

What is wrong with him. A dr is just doing her job and he attacks her cus dead americans make him look bad? Suck it up!

August 3, 2020 – Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said that the pandemic was “extraordinarily widespread.” Trump replied that she was “pathetic.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/trump-blasts-birx-after-coronavirus-claims-390881

Speaking ill of the dead, Not giving a shit about Russia putting bounties on american troops heads, not caring that americans are dying

August 4, 2020 – Jonathan Swan of Axios asked Trump how the coronavirus was “under control” when 1,000 Americans were dying of it every day. “They are dying. That’s true. It is what it is,” Trump replied. In the same interview, Trump maintained that he did not know about Russia’s offer of bounties for American troops killed in Afghanistan. The bounties, though, were reportedly brought to his attention in intelligence reports. “I read a lot,” he said. “I comprehend extraordinarily well. Probably better than anybody you’ve interviewed in a long time.” When asked how history will remember the late civil rights leader John Lewis, Trump replied, “I really don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration.”

https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-under-control-5f114a16-9952-428c-bc07-3cfa360b0977.html

Trump is anti christian

Intentionally spreading the virus

August 27, 2020 – The Trump administration broke norms and flouted the Hatch Act by using government property — the White House — for a political convention. Trump delivered his closing-night speech from the South Portico, flanked by Jumbotrons on the South Lawn that screened campaign billboards. Roughly 1,500 people attended the speech, sitting closely together, most refusing to wear masks. A senior White House official dismissed any concerns about the coronavirus, telling CNN, “Everybody is going to catch this thing eventually.”

Lying about dead americans to look good in the polls

August 5, 2020 – The United States recorded 1,380 COVID-19 deaths in a day, but Trump said, “This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/trump-says-surging-virus-will-go-away-like-things-go-away

Do not take the lord’s name in vain. He’s trying to speak for God.

August 6, 2020 – Trump said that Biden, a Catholic who has long attended Mass, was “following the radical left agenda… no religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God. He’s against God."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Thou shalt not covet . He’s so full of hate when obama comes up

August 19, 2020 – As Obama criticized Trump in a speech at the Democratic National Convention, Trump assailed his predecessor in tweets. He wrote, “HE SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GOT CAUGHT!” and “WHY DID HE REFUSE TO ENDORSE SLOW JOE UNTIL IT WAS ALL OVER, AND EVEN THEN WAS VERY LATE? WHY DID HE TRY TO GET HIM NOT TO RUN?” Earlier in the day, having heard some of Obama’s prepared remarks, Trump said, “When I listen to that and then I see the horror that he’s left us, the stupidity of the transactions that he’s made — look what we’re doing, we have our great border wall, we have security.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-hammers-obama-ahead-dnc-speech-so-ineffective-so-terrible-n1237359

Lies, coveting , and being a petty man baby

August 9, 2020 – Trump cut short a news conference when a reporter asked him why he repeatedly took credit — more than 150 times — for a veterans’ health care bill that was signed into law by President Obama. “Why do you keep saying that you passed Veterans Choice?” asked CBS correspondent Paula Reid. “It was passed in 2014… it was a false statement, sir.” Trump answered, “OK. Thank you very much, everybody.” Then he abruptly walked away.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/politics/trump-veterans-choice-paula-reid/index.html

Threatening American citizens, the poor the homeless, displaced. Threaten to take away money from the state so they could help those whos homes were destroyed

August 20, 2020 – As wildfires displaced more than 100,000 Californians, Trump again blamed the state for the blazes, threatening to withhold federal emergency funds. Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania, he said, “I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests — there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.” He added, “Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it because they don’t listen to us.”

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/20/trump-blames-california-for-wildfires-tells-state-you-gotta-clean-your-floors-1311059

Note: We now know he knew how deadly it was when we only had 11 cases. He held this rally on govt property knowing his own voters might catch it and die

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/wh-brushes-off-covid-concerns-amid-trumps-maskless-crowd-in-game-of-make-believe

Willfilly killing Americans by taking away their medicine if their hospitals don’t obey him. Thats fascism. Thats murder

August 25, 2020 – The Trump administration announced that if hospitals did not report coronavirus data to the Department of Health and Human Services — until now a voluntary program — they would have their Medicare and Medicaid funding revoked. The loss of the money could force hospitals to close.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-data.html

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" 9th commandment

– August 23, 2020 – Without providing any proof, Trump alleged that the Food and Drug Administration was intentionally delaying coronavirus vaccine trials. “The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics,” he tweeted. “Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives!”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/trump-fda-coronavirus-vaccine/index.html

More easily identifiable lies. Does trump not know how to use google?

August 13, 2020 – Trump, who had spread the lie that Obama was born in Kenya, gave credence to the conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris could not be vice president because her parents were immigrants. “I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Trump said of Harris, who was born in California and is thus eligible for the vice presidency and presidency. “I have no idea if that’s right. I would have thought, I would have assumed, that the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/trump-kamala-harris.html

Destroying God’s land

August 17, 2020 – The Trump administration announced that it would begin selling leases for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a vast area of undisturbed wilderness in Alaska. The Center for American Progress said that the drilling — sought by Republican lawmakers for decades — would lead to the release of more than 4.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

More enviroment destruction

August 13, 2020 – The Trump administration eliminated an Obama-era rule that required oil and gas companies to repair methane leaks. The EPA said the companies will no longer pay roughly $100 million a year for repairs — resulting in the release of 850,000 tons of planet-warming methane by the end of the decade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/climate/trump-methane.html

Thou shalt not commit adultery

– August 22, 2020 – Trump was ordered by a California judge to pay an adult-film actress $44,100. The money was for her legal fees related to a lawsuit that she had brought against the president. Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, had sued Trump to be released from a $130,000 nondisclosure agreement to keep her quiet about their alleged sexual relationship.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-22/trump-ordered-to-pay-44-100-in-stormy-daniels-legal-fees

Trump is an incompetent idiot

-August 31, 2020 – In defending police officers, Trump said they can make mistakes in using deadly force in the same way golfers sometimes miss putts. “They choke,” he said. “Just like in a golf tournament, they miss a three-foot—.” Fox News host Laura Ingraham interrupted the president to keep him from continuing. “You’re not comparing it to golf,” she said, suggesting that “the media” would use that against him.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/514539-trump-compares-police-who-use-force-to-golfers-who-choke-and-miss-a

– August 22, 2020 – “You can’t trust him,” Maryanne Trump Barry said about her brother, Donald, in a conversation secretly recorded by their niece, Mary Trump. A retired federal judge, Barry said, “His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God. I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maryanne-trump-barry-secret-recordings/2020/08/22/30d457f4-e334-11ea-ade1-28daf1a5e919_story.html

Blatant lies

August 10, 2020 – Trump said he would not have called for Obama’s resignation if 160,000 Americans had died on his watch. Trump, though, had said in 2014 that Obama should resign for his response to the Ebola outbreak, during which two people died in the United States. “I think it’s been amazing what we’ve been able to do,” Trump said about his administration’s response to the pandemic. “We understand the disease. Nobody understood it because nobody’s ever seen anything like this. The closest thing is in 1917, they say, right? The great pandemic. Certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. Probably ended the Second World War, all the soldiers were sick.” The pandemic that Trump spoke of actually began in 1918 and lasted until 1919. World War II ended 26 years later, in 1945.

https://www.axios.com/trump-obama-resign-787b042d-0361-48f1-bba5-c97b05837331.html

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-889#2020

#trump #antifa #weapons against trump #we all need to convert at least one racist

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We All Share It

Yesterday I was having a conversation with an African-American pastor, who leads a 147-year-old historic, black church here in Austin when he asked me a question that I was ashamed to answer.

He and I had met once at an event but didn't really know one another that well, and we both wanted to take the opportunity we'd be given in the midst of all of this strife and challenge to just have a conversation.

We also spent some time discussing the tragic circumstances of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and how his community is responding to all of the protests and violence.

At one point, he inquired if he could ask me a personal question that he'd always wanted to ask the white pastors he knew.

"Why are white pastors so afraid to speak up?" He asked me. "Is it because of what you think it will cost you?"

I felt like I had been gut-punched. I don't even remember what I said at first as I stammered through my response. My face got flushed and I could feel my heart pounding in my chest.

I finally had to confess to him that in the past I had tempered my responses to the social issues that divided our nation because I had been afraid of the backlash from church people.

And afraid of losing members... afraid of losing donors... afraid of losing my job...

That part of our conversation haunted me. It was the tipping point for me as I had been staring at a social media post I'd written but was afraid to post--a post where I spoke out, ending my silence at last.

In the end, it was that quiet question that enabled me to do it. A question that I began to ask myself over and over again.

"Why am I so afraid to speak?"

It's so easy in this current culture within which we live to create what Fr. Richard Rohr calls "false dichotomies" or "dualistic thinking." When we do this, there is no room for dialogue, no space for the other---especially when the "other" disagrees with us.

This way of thinking keeps us from realizing some very important things. We are all created in God's image, and when some of us are marginalized, and outcast, we all struggle. When some of us are wounded, we all feel that pain.

St. Julian of Norwich captures it simply like this:

There is only one suffering and we all share it.

The problem is, far too many of us have grown used to ignoring the pain, pushing it aside, denying the Spirit's voice within us... We have become willing to do just about anything not to feel it, to put it in some opposite category... a false dichotomy.

Now it has found us, and we can't ignore it any longer.

I read this poem by e.e. cummings today and this line resonated with me:

now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

It's time to attune our ears to the cries for help on the other side of the noise of the 24/7 news programs, social media, and the like. The Spirit of God whispers, for sure... but sometimes the Spirit cries out.

We need to have our eyes truly opened to see others as complicated, beautiful image-bearers of God, who can't be placed in some either/or category. We need to see them more clearly so that we can see God more clearly.

Victor Hugo once wrote:

To love another person is to see the face of God

Don't be afraid. I say that to myself as much as I say it to all of you.

Don't be afraid in the midst of all this struggle. If our eyes are open, and our ears are listening, and our hearts are prepared to be led by the Spirit...

We will see peace. We will see hope. We will see glimpses of the kingdom of God here on earth. And maybe those glimpses will inspire us to seek the kingdom of God first, above all our fears... above everything.

May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and always. Amen.

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nyfacurrent · 5 years

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Introducing | NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists

NYFA has awarded $661,000 to 98 New York State artists working in the categories of Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, and Playwriting/Screenwriting.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and finalists of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, which it has administered for the past 33 years with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The organization has awarded a total of $661,000 to 98 artists (including three collaborations) whose ages range from 25-76 years throughout New York State in the following disciplines: Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, and Playwriting/Screenwriting. Fifteen finalists, who do not receive a cash award but benefit from a range of other NYFA services, were also announced. A complete list of the Fellows and Finalists follows.

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program makes unrestricted cash grants of $7,000 to artists working in 15 disciplines, awarding five per year on a triennial basis. The program is highly competitive, and this year’s recipients and finalists were selected by discipline-specific peer panels from an applicant pool of 2,542. Since it was launched in 1985, the program has awarded over $31 million to more than 5,000 artists. This year, thanks to the generous support of photography nonprofit Joy of Giving Something, NYFA was able to award an additional five Fellowships in Photography, which has the largest application pool of any Fellowship category.

“We are grateful to NYSCA for this annual opportunity to provide nearly 100 artists from New York State with unrestricted cash grants,” said Michael L. Royce, Executive Director, NYFA. “What’s most exciting is that the Fellowship impacts artists of all disciplines and career stages and that these artists are being recognized by a jury of their peers. Beyond the financial aspect, it empowers them to keep creating and exploring new possibilities in their work.”

New York State Council on the Arts Executive Director Mara Manus described how the program makes New York communities more vibrant: “The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship recognizes that artists of all disciplines, backgrounds, ages, and career stages make vital contributions to New York’s creative culture. Over the past 33 years, the Artist Fellowship has been a launching pad and a critical source of support for artists whose work helps build healthy communities in all regions of the state.”

On receiving a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting, Brooklyn-based Nabil Viñas said: “It is a deeply moving honor to be recognized by NYSCA/NYFA. I took up screenwriting out of necessity, as it became clear that the voices and stories from my life would not appear in works by others. This fellowship tells me our stories matter, and that my voice is worth hearing.”

For Ben Altman, a Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design from Danby, NY, the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship represents another facet of support from NYFA: “NYFA has informed my artistic practice throughout my 12 years in Upstate New York, providing professional development, fiscal sponsorship, grant application support, workshops, critique, and timely advice. To be awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is as much a tribute to those inputs as it is an important and very welcome recognition of the work NYFA’s support has helped me to produce.”

To Veena Chandra, a Fellow in Music/Sound from Latham, NY, the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship empowers her to “continue to create, promote, and preserve” musical tradition. “I feel blessed to have been playing Indian sitar music for the last 63 years. I am so grateful to my father, who created an environment for me to learn this beautiful music and taught me from the very beginning of my life. To be recognized for my work in performing and preserving Indian Classical music means a lot to me, especially at this point in my career,” she noted.

Fellowship Recipients, Finalists, and Panelists by Discipline and County of Residence:

Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Fellows

Ben Altman (Tompkins) Kenseth Armstead (Kings) Shimon Attie (New York) Sonya Blesofsky (Kings) Yeju Choi and Chat Travieso - Yeju & Chat (Kings) * Blane De St. Croix (Kings) Sun Young Kang (Erie) Kyung-jin Kim (Queens) Ming-Jer Kuo (Queens)*** Lindsay Packer (Kings) Christopher Robbins (Westchester) Jeffrey Williams (Kings)

Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Finalists

Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels (Kings) Justin Brice Guariglia (Kings) Pascale Sablan (New York)

Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Panelists

Ann Reichlin (Tompkins) Ekene Ijeoma (Kings) Nina Cooke John (New York) Victoria Palermo (Warren)

Choreography Fellows

Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie (New York) Justina Grayman (Queens)**** GREYZONE (Kings) Dan Hurlin (New York) Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Kings) Shamel Pitts (Kings) Melinda Ring (New York) Same As Sister (Queens)* Rebeca Tomas (Westchester) Kelly Todd (Kings) Donna Uchizono (New York) Vangeline (Kings) Adia Tamar Whitaker (Kings)

Choreography Finalists

Parijat Desai (New York) DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks (Kings) Netta Yerushalmy (New York)

Choreography Panelists

Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp (Monroe) Robin Collen (St. Lawrence) Trebien Pollard (Erie) Marie Poncé (New York) Kota Yamazaki (Kings)

Music/Sound Fellows

ALMA (Kings)* Lora-Faye Åshuvud (Queens) Newman Taylor Baker (New York) Bob Bellerue (Kings) Leila Bordreuil (Kings) Vienna Carroll (New York) Veena Chandra (Albany) David First (Kings) Micah Frank (Kings) Kate Gentile (Kings) Michael Harrison (Westchester) JSWISS (Kings) Liz Phillips (Queens) Kenneth Kirschner (Kings) Elliott Sharp (New York) Jen Shyu (Kings) Ann Warde (Tompkins) Eric Wubbels (Queens)

Music/Sound Finalists

Lily Henley (Kings) Earl Howard (Queens) Tobaron Waxman (New York)

Music/Sound Panelists

Toni Blackman (Kings) Sarah Hennies (Tompkins) John Morton (Rockland) Margaret Anne Schedel (Suffolk) Elio Villafranca (New York)

Photography Fellows

Manal Abu-Shaheen (Queens) Yasser Aggour (Kings) Aneta Bartos (New York) Lucas Blalock (Kings) Matthew Conradt (Kings) Debi Cornwall (Kings) Robin Crookall (Kings) Tim Davis (Dutchess)****** Eli Durst (Queens) Nona Faustine (Kings) Jonathan Gardenhire (Kings) Rachel Granofsky (Kings)***** Carlie Guevara (Queens) Gail Albert-Halaban (New York) Daesha Devón Harris (Saratoga)****** Gillian Laub (New York) Jiatong Lu (Kings)****** Diana Markosian (Kings) Rehan Miskci (New York) Rachelle Mozman Solano (Kings) Karina Aguilera Skvirsky (New York) Erin O'Keefe (New York) Paul Raphaelson (Kings) Victor Rivera (Onondaga)****** Jahi Lateef Sabater (Kings) Nadia Sablin (Kings) Derick Whitson (New York) Letha Wilson (Columbia)****** Alex Yudzon (Kings)

Photography Finalists

Mike Crane (Kings) Julianne Nash (Kings) Dana Stirling (Queens)

Photography Panelists

Nydia Blas (Tompkins) Carmen Lizardo (Hudson) Lida Suchy (Onondaga) Sinan Tuncay (Kings) Penelope Umbrico (Kings)

Playwriting/Screenwriting Fellows

Rae Binstock (Kings) Benedict Campbell (Bronx) Sol Crespo (Bronx)**** Amy Evans (Kings) Stephanie Fleischmann (Columbia) Robin Fusco (Queens) Myla Goldberg (Kings) Ryan J. Haddad (New York) Susan Kathryn Hefti (New York) Holly Hepp-Galvan (Queens) Timothy Huang (New York) Fedna Jacquet (New York) Nicole Shawan Junior (Kings)** Serena Kuo (Kings) Kal Mansoor (Kings) Michael Mejias (Kings) Joey Merlo (New York) Rehana Lew Mirza (Kings) Joél Pérez (New York) Keil Troisi (Kings) Nabil Viñas (New York) Craig T. Williams (New York)

Playwriting/Screenwriting Finalists

Iquo B. Essien (Kings) Becca Roth (Kings) Sheri Wilner (New York)

Playwriting/Screenwriting Panelists

Sheila Curran Bernard (Albany) Clarence Coo (New York) Randall Dottin (New York) David Ebeltoft (Steuben) Julie Casper Roth (Albany)

* Collaborative artists ** Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award *** Joanne Y. Chen Taiwanese American Artist Fellow **** Gregory Millard Fellows made with the support of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Gregory Millard Fellowships are awarded annually to New York City residents chosen in several categories. The award was established by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in 1984 in memory of poet and playwright Gregory Millard, who served as Assistant Commissioner of Cultural Affairs from 1978 until his death in 1984 and championed the causes of individual artists. ***** Deutsche Bank Fellow ******Joy of Giving Something Fellow

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Images from Top: Lindsay Packer (Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design ’19), False Fold, 2019, colored light and found objects, Photo Credit: Lindsay Packer; Donna Uchizono (Fellow in Choreography ’19), March Under an Empty Reign (Sextet), 2018, performers Natalie Green and Aja Carthon, Photo Credit: Ian Douglas; Eli Durst (Fellow in Photography ’19), Bread (Cross), 2017, archival pigment print; Veena Chandra (Fellow in Music/Sound ’19), Image Credit: MARS Fotographi

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Chipotle integrates Twitter and text for free burritos during the NBA Finals. According to Mobile Marketer, Chipotle is giving away up to $1 million in free burritos as part of a mobile promotion running around the NBA Championship. The catch is that every time any announcer – including sideline reporters – says "free" on-air during the first half of official league game coverage, the restaurant chain will offer up to 500 burritos. For the second half of games, mentions of "free" will result in 1,000 burritos up for grabs. The key to success is staying on Chipotle’s Twitter channel where the company will put out unique codes to be texted for code redemption. The giveaway is capped to the first 20 on-air mentions of "free" per game, meaning that there is potential for 20,000 burrito giveaways per game! The "Freeting" campaign also waives delivery fees for orders of $10 or more placed through Chipotle's app, website, and DoorDash. Although Chipotle is not an official NBA sponsor, the guerilla campaign is drawing hundreds of thousands of hungry basketball fans through the power of social media and “second screen viewing.”

Kevin Durant’s status is wrecking sports book havoc during the NBA Finals. The Warriors’ superstar has been sidelined by a calf injury that makes him questionable to appear at any point in the series. The series line at William Hill sportsbooks (Golden State -300, Toronto +250) is roughly the consensus market price, but that does not mean it’s the right price due to the unknown status of Durant’s injury. After factoring the money lines attached to each game, Golden State was placed as the -275 favorite. According to the New York Post, the first significant bet last Saturday was for $5,000 on the Warriors, pushing the price to -300, which equated to about a 73% chance of winning. If things were normal and Durant was at full strength, SuperBook odds maker Jeff Sherman said the Warriors would be at least -500 series favorites and 8½-point home favorites. Notably, Golden State is 31-1 the past 32 games when Durant was out and Curry played.

The Raptors debuted Drake’s OVO branded T-shirts for Game 1 of the NBA Finals. In celebration of the franchise's first-ever NBA Finals game, the Toronto Raptors partnered with their global ambassador Drake. According to HotNewHipHop, fans attending Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Scotia Bank Arena received the new black long sleeve shirt, which combines multiple designs from the basketball team and the rap label. Although the NBA issued a warning to the Raptors regarding Drake's "activity and presence on the sideline" during Toronto's series with the Milwaukee Bucks, it seems that the “6 God” won’t change his rambunctious ways on the sidelines. The Warriors are well aware of Drake’s sideline presence, and Steph Curry stated, "I know it's a tricky situation with him being right there on the court, but at the end of the day, he's having fun.” It seems that everyone outside of the Bay Area is rooting for the underdog Raptors and the #WeTheNorth online campaign, coupled with clutch shooting and Drake shenanigans, has propelled the Canadian team into the global spotlight.

Stanley Cup Finals seeing strong viewership. According to NBC Sports, the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues Game 1 matchup was the most-watched Stanley Cup game in four years. The matchup on NBC saw the network reel in an average Total Audience Delivery of 5.380 million viewers. It was third-most watched Game 1 since NBC began broadcasting the Stanley Cup Final in 2006 and even beat out the ever-popular “The Bachelorette.” Comparatively, Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals was up 2% compared to last year and a whopping 9% compared to 2017. On NBC alone, the game delivered a 2.87 HH rating and 5.264 million TV-only viewers. The title-hungry city of St. Louis led all markets with a 29.0 local rating, NBC Sports’ highest NHL rating on record in the market, while Boston scored a 25.2 rating. The series should draw consistently high numbers considering the Cinderella story Blues are taking on the behemoth Bruins, who posted 49 regular season wins and are the favorite for most bettors to take the Cup.

USGA increases purses for both men and women at respective U.S. Opens. According to Golf Channel, last year’s men’s winner Brooks Koepka took home $2.16 million from a $12 million purse at Shinnecock Hills. This year at Pebble Beach, the winner will look to bring home roughly $2.25 million. Meanwhile, the total purse was increased to $5.5 million for the U.S. Women's Open at Country Club of Charleston. Last year, Ariya Jutanugarn took home $900,000 for her first place finish while this year’s winner Jeongeun Lee6 will take home a seven figure number for the first time. Out of this year’s $5 million purse for the revamped, season-ending LPGA CME Group Tour Championship, the first place finisher will receive $1 million, or roughly 20% of the purse, compared to the men’s winner, who cashes in a larger number but a smaller share of total prize money at 18%. The LPGA is clearly making strides to put its athletes on a closer pay scale to that of their male counterparts.

VISA invests in women’s soccer on the eve of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. According to Forbes, VISA revealed it would partner with both the Women’s and Men’s U.S. National Teams eight days before the Women’s World Cup begins in France. The terms of the deal ensured “at least 50%” of the investment would fund the U.S. Women’s National Team and women’s soccer programs and surrounding marketing efforts, meaning the deal will provide a much-needed spotlight on the stellar U.S. women's team. The deal will see VISA become the presenting sponsor of the SheBelieves Cup, an annual four-team international invitational tournament in the U.S. Additionally, a new U.S. marketing campaign from VISA will feature World Cup squad members Adrianna Franch, Jessica Mcdonald, Rose Lavelle, Abby Dahlkemper, and Becky Sauerbrunn. USWNT co-captain Megan Rapinoe will join VISA’s roster of athletes and the financial services brand will be the first brand partner of the Player of the Match award at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. After U.S. women’s soccer players sued U.S. Soccer over gender inequality in pay this March, VISA is providing a helping hand for the three-time world champion USWNT.

ESPN+ will broadcast the Copa America. The streaming service has obtained U.S. English-language television rights for the Copa America, South America’s soccer championship that kicks off June 14. According to The Washington Post, ESPN claimed that all 26 matches will be streamed and none will be televised via linear broadcast networks. ESPN+, launched in April 2018, has televised more than 1,000 matches from Italy’s Serie A, England’s FA Cup and second-tier League Championship, as well as European Nations League matches and MLS games. The Copa final will air from Rio de Janeiro on July 7 and is part of a tripleheader of championship matches including coverage of the CONCACAF Gold Cup final in Chicago on FS1 and the Women’s World Cup on Fox. Although ESPN has not released viewership figures for soccer on its ESPN+ platform, it is covering its early summer bases by also launching “The Equalizer” series on USWNT star Alex Morgan, coinciding with the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.

The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation unveiled a multisport, synthetic turf Youth Development Park on May 28 in Chicago’s Dunning neighborhood. Read-Dunning Park is lined for youth baseball/softball and soccer play and is now complete with a digital scoreboard, backstop, dugouts, and fencing. Chicago Parks District will manage and maintain the field and work closely with the Ripken Foundation to create programs to engage at-risk young people. The programs will address a variety of youth development needs, including character development, health, physical education, culture, and history. Read-Dunning Park was made in part by a generous $5 million donation to the Ripken Foundation from Group1001 and its CEO Dan Towriss, used to build a total of 10 Youth Development Parks over five years in 10 cities across the country. It is also supported by Chicago Cubs Charities and other local donors. To date, the Ripken Foundation has completed 84 multipurpose synthetic turf facilities in 22 states and Washington D.C. Read-Dunning Park is the second Ripken Foundation Youth Development Park, joining Freedom Field at Marquette Park located near Chicago’s South Side. The facility will be featured on a future episode of our monthly “Power of Sports” program, which explores Detroit in June.

Champions League broadcaster British Telecom calls up extra viewers via YouTube. Due to low subscriber numbers that have displeased sponsors, the British broadcaster will screen live matches from the Champions League and the Europa League for free, including on its YouTube channel. This included the Champions League final between winner Liverpool and Tottenham. According to Yahoo Sports, BT's free offering is a repeat of last season when they made Liverpool's Champions League final against Real Madrid available to non-subscribers. The decision helped the financially troubled broadcaster to pull in millions more viewers. A total of 8.5 million people watched that game across BT's TV and digital platforms, a record high for the company since the telecoms giant began broadcasting live football in 2013. It currently pays a hefty $499 million per season to show live Champions League and Europa League football. Due to high costs for broadcasting games, BT will stop broadcasting live English FA Cup games from the 2021-2022 season; in the meantime, English soccer fans will rejoice in being able to watch their teams compete for free.

Champions League victor Liverpool joins social media platform TikTok. Joining a host of European teams that have signed up with the social video network, the English club, the first Premiere League club to join the platform, will use the platform to share behind-the-scenes footage. The move should grow their already robust 66 million social media reach on a platform that has a young audience. One of the most downloaded apps in 2018, TikTok has seen several major European soccer teams launch their own video channels on the platform in recent months. According to SportsPro, TikTok signed its first soccer partnership with German side Borussia Dortmund last month, as part of a global marketing collaboration with the Bundesliga club. TikTok has taken the world by storm with its short video content and Liverpool has joined the mix to attract younger fans.

Publisher Meredith Corp. sells Sports Illustrated to Authentic Brands Group for $110 million. Authentic Brands Group is the brand-development company that manages Juicy Couture, Nautica, and elements of the Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presley estates. Meredith took on Sports Illustrated as part of its purchase of Time Inc. in January, 2018 for $1.85 billion plus debt. According to Variety, Authentic Brands now owns the rights to market, develop, and license Sports Illustrated and its kids edition, swimsuit edition, “Sportsperson of the Year,” and the magazine's sports archive. In a wide-ranging discussion, CEO of Authentic Brands Jamie Salter said that he envisioned possibilities ranging from SI medical clinics and sports-skills training classes to a gambling business and better use of the magazine’s vast photo library. The sale moves Meredith close to the end of its effort to sell various Time Inc. assets and allows SI to reinvent itself for the digital age to compete with companies like The Ringer, Bleacher Report, and Barstool Sports.

Toronto ticket prices are on the rise with the Raptors. The Raptors' NBA Finals tickets surpassed even the Warriors' prices, said TicketIQ Founder Jesse Lawrence. According to SportsBusiness Journal, Lawrence said the seats are that Game 1 were the “most in-demand Finals game that we’ve ever tracked” and that it was “ahead of every Warriors game.” The Raptors tickets are almost 50% more. Game 1 at Scotiabank Arena started at $816 which is roughly three times the cost of face value for 300-level tickets. The average ticket price for seats at the arena has been just under of $5,000, making it the highest final TicketIQ has tracked since it launched in 2011. This is the first time the Finals have been held outside of the U.S., which may be contributing to the skyrocketing ticket numbers in Canada. Although Canada may be a nation connected by hockey, Raptors fans who watch games outside the arena in rowdy “Jurassic Park” prove that love of basketball extends north of the border.

French Open unveils Court Simonne Mathieu to a smashing success. The new 5,290-seat arena at Roland Garros is nestled in a botanical garden, and is so aesthetically beautiful that SI.com claimed it "less a tennis court than a clay-covered terrarium." The court’s surface is 15 feet below street level and the stadium is surrounded by four new glass houses. French architect-engineer, Marc Mimram, had an ambition was to merge sport with nature and his results have been overwhelmingly positive. After last year's tournament, much of Roland Garros received a face lift. According to SportsBusiness Daily, 90% of Court Philippe-Chatrier was knocked down and replaced by stands that are eight meters higher than they used to be. By pushing the limits of what a stadium can be, the evolving Roland Garros has been the talk of the Tennis community and will provide inspiration for future tennis facilities.

NBC and Indianapolis 500 see TV viewership gains in their first year. NBC drew a total audience delivery of 5.446 million viewers for Simon Pagenaud's win in the Indianapolis 500, the first time the net had broadcast rights to the race. According to SportsBusiness Journal, last year’s race was a record low on ABC TV which averaged 4.913 million viewers. The 2019 audience peaked at 6.7 million viewers in the final quarter hour of the race, and drew a TV-only number of 5.414 million viewers and marks the most-watched Sunday afternoon sporting event on NBC since the Eagles-Bears NFC Wild Card game on January 6. NBC is in the first year of a multiyear broadcasting contract with Indy and significantly increased advertising efforts for the Indy 500 compared to ABC’s handling of the race in recent years. These are the baby steps for NBC and Indy, which are looking to attract younger audiences in a sport that has seen heavy viewership regression in recent years.

Las Vegas Raiders tickets selling well enough to add $40 million to stadium. Las Vegas Stadium COO Don Webb said that about $40 million more will be put into the stadium as the team has sold many personal seat licenses, stadium suites, club seats, and sponsorships. The additional money will help finance more suites, exterior restrooms, increased plaza security, and press areas and an enhanced stadium communications system. One of the enhanced areas will be a 26,000-square-foot "south end zone club space that would hold around 800 fans,” according to Las Vegas Stadium COO Don Webb. SportsBusiness Journal reports that the Raiders are in the final stages of completing a comprehensive transportation plan that will boost available parking significantly as the team has been acquiring nearby real estate to turn into more parking availability for fans. The Vegas Raiders will play in a $1.8 billion dome that sports a transparent roof, black glass exterior, and retractable doors to frame an 80-foot-tall and 215-foot wide view of the casinos on the strip, making it one of the most visually stunning North American stadiums to date.

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ESPN is rolling out more Snapchat shows to “meet fans where they are.” According to Digiday, ESPN released another Snapchat show in March called “ESPN MMA Show.” That series is part of a larger push at ESPN to cover more mixed martial arts; meanwhile the sports media company also has “Sports Center,” “ESPN Daily,” and “College GameDay” as offerings on Snapchat. While the New York Times and Bleacher Report have paused their Snapchat channels, ESPN has increased content on the social media platform as they found Snapchat has proven to be a useful way to make revenue and to direct viewers to ESPN on television and to content on ESPN+. The daily morning show “Sports Center” on Snapchat has created a routine audience of millions of viewers with more than 60% of the audience tuned in three or more times per week in the fourth quarter of 2018. The company has used Snapchat as a conduit to drive customers to other platforms while also profiting from selling ads and commercials across all their Snapchat shows.

Welcome to the future: the French Open is delivered via 8K on a 5G network. For the first time at the Grand Slam tournament, national broadcaster France Télévisions has implemented 8K cameras at Roland Garros, which is leveraging the French telecommunications company Orange’s new 5G network recently installed at the facility. According to SportsPro, Orange and the French Federation of Tennis are also including mixed-reality animations for visitors via a new headset, adding to the tournament’s augmented reality (AR) features. Now in its 18th year with the tournament, Orange launched an artificial intelligence-driven (AI) “virtual assistant” for the use of fans at the French Open while the tournament’s first Chinese smartphone partner, Oppo, enhances the collaboration with the 5G network. The 5G network allows for crystal clear imaging and the 8K imaging provides a picture that can be displayed on screens like Oppo smartphones; the tournament is showcasing the entire cycle of what 5G can bring to sports in the near future.

Overwatch league commissioner leaving for Fortnite company Epic Games. According to SportsBusiness Journal, Nate Nanzer is leaving Overwatch to try and create a competitive esports initiatives for Epic Game’s Fortnite. Now that Fortnite has been released for nearly two years, the free game has amassed a high number of player yet has not grown a substantial esports initiative. The key to Nanzer’s arrival will be making the game’s competitive scene grows so that it can reel in professional gamers and sustain interest in the game in the long run. Nanzer was a driving force behind the innovative and ambitious OWL, which became one of the foremost esports leagues as it mimicked traditional sports with teams based in cities around the world. With Fortnite’s recent collaboration with the Jordan Brand, there has been a revival in talk around the game, making it a good time for Nanzer to set up what could quickly become a competitive esports giant.

NASCAR uses its races for a gambling app. According to pennsportsbooks.com, NASCAR and a global sports data company are teaming up to develop a race-car gaming platform, which will include real-time wagering around the country. Only licensed sportsbooks in regulated jurisdictions can purchase access to official data that won’t go live until at least the 2020 racing season. Genius Sports will use NASCAR’s official data feed to create a product meant to rev up fan interest and engagement in events. London-based Genius already partners with the NBA and NCAA and works with the PGA Tour to provide a range of betting options; NASCAR will have live odds around their races with the Genius Sports collaboration. NASCAR’s Pocono 400 is around the corner, and the racing association is trying to desperately to turn around its heavily-declining fan base – live betting seems to be one of the first steps in this direction.

NHL gets safer going ticketless. The NHL has agreed to a ten-year extension of its partnership with Ticketmaster. According to SportsPro, Ticketmaster is the official partner of 26 of the league’s teams and the global ticketing platform has also expanded on its existing agreement to serve several of the league’s other marquee events, including the NHL’s Winter Classic, All-Star Weekend, and Stadium Series. Now, NHL tickets will include near-field communication technology that allows fans to “tap” into a venue’s entrances – similar to a tap credit card – which protects against digital tickets being copied and resold. The new anti-counterfeiting feature called SafeTix works by tying a unique, identifiable digital ticket to each fan's mobile phone through an encrypted barcode that automatically refreshes every few seconds. By cutting down on falsely resold tickets, the NHL remains as one of the most tech-forward sports leagues around with its new tap feature sure to make game entry a more efficient process.

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Tiger Woods loses charity poker event to NBA superstar Russell Westbrook. For more than two decades, the 43-year-old has been hosting his annual Tiger Jam. A poker tournament has been a staple of the Las Vegas charity event, and that was again the case last week. According to The Loop, a number of auction items helped raise a hefty sum for Woods’ TGR Foundation, which aims to offer underserved children STEM curricula and the skills to survive in school and beyond. One of the auction items stood out as Dave Gilbert, founder and CEO of National Funding, bid $75,000 to caddy for Woods during a pro-am later this year. Although Woods is back on the green golfing, his Tiger Jam brought stars like Westbrook together over a poker game while he has continued to refine his image, again giving back to charity.

“Jeopardy!” champion and pro sports bettor starts donating his wins to charity. With 31 wins in his column so far, “Jeopardy!” champion and pro sports bettor James Holzhauer has started donating his winnings to charity. According to CNN, the 35-year-old professional gambler from Las Vegas recently became the second Jeopardy contestant ever to hit $2 million in winnings. With his total of $2,382,580 earned in 31 days, he's closing in on Ken Jennings' record haul of $2,520,700 won in 74 games. Earlier this month, Holzhauer and his wife gave $10,000 to Project 150, which is a charity that helps homeless students in Las Vegas by distributing school supplies, meals, and clothes. The Holzhauers also donated $10,000 to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, and the couple’s most recent donation is $10,000 towards an educational charity called Communities in Schools of Nevada, a state branch of a national organization that works to prevent students from dropping out of school. Through all of his “Jeopardy!” success, Holzhauer has become one of Las Vegas' most celebrated citizens, receiving a key to the Las Vegas Strip and having Clark County officials declare May 2 "James Holzhauer Day.”

Star athletes will pepper the Monster Energy $50,000 Charity Challenge Celebrity Basketball Game. On July 8, in line with celebrating the 2019 ESPY Awards Week, the charity basketball game will return to UCLA's Pauley Pavilion to raise funds for multiple charities including the host beneficiary, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend's WHO Cares initiative Teen Cancer America. Team captains at the event are Floyd Mayweather and Rob Gronkowski, who will lead the show of cross-sport goodwill. According to Yahoo Finance, the $50,000 Charity Challenge will also feature the debut of the L.A. Challenge starring some of L.A.'s best athletes putting their shooting skills to the test. The winning team will receive $25,000 for the charity they represent, while the losing team receives $5,000 for their respective charity. Further, the L.A. Halftime Skills Challenge will feature L.A. athletes and celebs competing to benefit local L.A. charities, in addition to the event host beneficiary Teen Cancer America. The mid-summer event aligns football, boxing, and basketball stars to help in the battle against cancer.

Cristiano Ronaldo highlights a charity match at Juventus' Allianz Stadium. The Juventus golden boy was accompanied by football legends including Francesco Totti, Pavel Nedved, Andrea Pirlo, and Gianluigi Buffon as well as other sports stars including Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel for the “Partita Del Cuore” or “match of the heart.” According to the London Daily Mail, the game brought together these stars in support of the Piedmontese Foundation for Cancer Research and the Telethon Foundation. The game featured extravagance of all sorts, with Ronaldo breaking out a bicycle kick with tons of soccer legends on the pitch. The Teleton foundation helps find cures for rare genetic diseases while the cancer foundation tackles one of the world’s gravest problems. By putting together current and former soccer stars alongside other big names including Exor CEO John Elkann and Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, the participants were able to maximize their reach.

The second annual AO1 Charity Softball Game raised $500,000 in Philadelphia. Carson Wentz’ charity softball game and its overwhelming fundraising may hint at a new golden age for Philadelphia sports. After the Eagles’ quarterback led his team to a Super Bowl title this past February and Bryce Harper joined the Phillies, sports in Philly are looking up. Although he did not play in the softball game, Wentz was working in his food truck, Thy Kingdom Crumb, to distribute free shrimp po’ boys and pulled pork sandwiches to ticket holders – something it does normally as the charitable food truck has delivered more than 8,000 free meals to those in need. According to Billy Penn, more than 15,000 fans came out to watch football players hit softballs, all in support of Wentz’s AO1 Foundation’s mission of “uplifting individuals and communities around the world by demonstrating God’s love for His people.” Playing at Citizens Bank Park, the quarterback also announced Camp Conquerors, an outdoor ministry program that introduces hunting and fishing to in-need children. Between Carson Wentz and the now-retired Chris Long, the Eagles have one of the most charitable presences among all American sports teams.

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A 1955 Chevy gasser tribute that’s as fun to drive as it is to look at

The 1955 Chevrolet is, by any measure, a landmark car that profoundly influenced the entire auto industry when it was introduced, and for many years thereafter. Chevy advertising called the completely restyled and V-8–equipped ’55 “The Hot One” and the public certainly agreed. By year’s end, Chevrolet sold a total of 1,802,811 vehicles, which comprised a mind-boggling 24.2 percent share of the entire American market.

The very same traits that made 1955 Chevys so immensely popular when they were new still drive people to lust after them today. Even though a massive quantity were produced, good examples can be difficult to find. That’s why our feature car caught Jeff Barbieri’s eye when he came across it at an Englishtown, New Jersey, swap meet about 10 years ago. The car was super clean, with a lot of original parts and virtually no rust. He connected his friend Billy Chun with the car, and although Chun enjoyed it very much he had to sell it before moving to South Carolina in 2011. Barbieri told his good friend Anthony Romanelli about the car, and after seeing how nice it was Romanelli pulled the trigger even though he wasn’t really looking for another car. “Jeffrey told me it was in extremely good condition,” he remembers. “And that I would regret passing on it, and he was right. The car drove as good as it looked so I could have just left it alone, but I had a plan to upgrade its performance and give it a nostalgic gasser look.”

Working hand-in-hand with his pal Barbieri, and relying on the talents of a varied group of people, Romanelli spent many hours over the next six months transforming his newly acquired ’55 into the car he envisioned. With help from well-known hot rod builder John Flood at J&R Performance, they began by removing the body from the chassis. After refinishing it, they rebuilt the chassis with parts from Don’s East Coast Restorations, including new bushings, front disc brakes, and tubular control arms.

For bodywork and paint, the car went to Romanelli’s cousin, who is also named Anthony Romanelli, at Mid-County Collision in Massapequa, New York. Mid-County did relatively minor bodywork to prepare the car for paint, and shot it with semi-flat Hot Rod Black, followed by several expertly laid coats of low-gloss clear. For the finishing touch Romanelli enlisted the help of Tony at Tony’s Creations to do the car’s artwork and lettering. Tony, who’s known far and wide as The Mouse because his logo is a stylized mouse, added to the nostalgic gasser look by painting the names of everyone who worked on the car onto its body. He also hand-painted Double Nickels on the car in memory of Jeff Barbieri, who passed away suddenly in 2012.

“Jeff was an incredible person and a great friend to me,” Romanelli recalls. “Double Nickels was his nickname because he loved ’55 Chevys so much, and the car is a tribute to him and all the long days and long nights we spent working on it together.” In keeping with the gasser theme, Romanelli knew he had to replace his car’s stock interior but he wasn’t sure which way he wanted to go. Barbieri quickly convinced him to dress up the inside with a period correct diamond and button upholstery motif. Romanelli turned to Sal Puma and Tom Cook at Sal’s Tops & Upholstery in West Babylon, New York, for their expertise. Sal’s covered 1965 Impala buckets and the ’55’s original rear bench seat with custom-sewn Naugahyde covers. They also created new door panels with a matching band of button-tufted diamonds in the middle, installed a new headliner, and modified the rear seat to make room for stereo speakers.

Engine revs are monitored courtesy of a Sunpro Super Tach II mounted to the top of the steering column. Three gauges beneath the dash indicate volts from the 100-amp alternator, water temperature, and oil pressure. The stock instrumentation was left in place, but Romanelli replaced the factory radio with a modern stereo, and completely rewired the entire car.

When Romanelli bought the Chevy it was powered by a perfectly healthy 350 engine, but he wanted something with a little bit more persuasion. To that end, he connected with Big Sal’s Racing Enterprises in St. James, New York. Big Sal Kazalski built a 427-cid small-block that produces a very reliable 500 horsepower and 480 lb-ft of torque on pump gas. The engine was created using a four-bolt main Dart SHP iron block filled with forged parts, including 10.5:1-compression SRP pistons, an Eagle steel crank, and Eagle steel rods. A Comp Cams solid roller cam actuates Ferrea valves in Dart Pro1 aluminum heads.

Induction is old-school, with fuel coming into the engine courtesy of a 750-cfm Holley perched atop an Edelbrock Super Victor aluminum high-rise intake manifold. The height of the manifold necessitated the addition of a 2-inch high riser on top of the car’s stock hood. An MSD 6AL box and MSD coil help light the fire. Waste gases exit via Hooker headers feeding into mufflers and side pipes that tuck under the body, exiting just forward of the rear wheels.

The potent small-block sends its twist to a Hurst-shifted TREMEC five-speed through a Ram clutch assembly. With the TREMEC’s overdrive fifth gear this car is happy to cruise all day long at modern highway speeds without breaking a sweat. The classic Hurst stick mounts in a center console that was borrowed from the same donor as the car’s front seats, a 1965 Impala. A 12-bolt Chevrolet differential outfitted with a 4.11 ring-and-pinion set turns the engine’s spin 90 degrees, and sends it to 10-inch-wide Pie Crust Cheater slicks mounted on American Racing wheels.

Since completing the build about seven years ago, Romanelli has driven and enjoyed his ’55 gasser at every opportunity. “It’s really a great driving car, and it draws a lot of attention out on the road or wherever I go with it. Just as important to me is the fact that the build involved so many of my friends. We shared a lot of laughs along the way, and that means more than I can really explain. The car is even more special to me because of all the time spent working on it with my late friend Jeffrey. It’s very sentimental because of that, and it always will be.”

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Today, the Church remembers St. Bonaventure.

Ora pro nobis.

He was born at Bagnorea in Umbria, not far from Viterbo, then part of the Papal States. Almost nothing is known of his childhood, other than the names of his parents, Giovanni di Fidanza and Maria di Ritella.

He steered the Franciscans on a moderate and intellectual course that made them the most prominent order in the Catholic Church until the coming of the Jesuits. His theology was marked by an attempt completely to integrate faith and reason. He thought of Christ as the "one true master" who offers humans knowledge that begins in faith, is developed through rational understanding, and is perfected by mystical union with God.

Bonaventure wrote on almost every subject treated by the Schoolmen, and his writings are very numerous. The greater number of them deal with philosophy and theology. No work of Bonaventure's is exclusively philosophical, a striking illustration of the mutual interpenetration of philosophy and theology that is a distinguishing mark of the Scholastic period.

Much of St. Bonaventure’s philosophical thought shows a considerable influence by St. Augustine. So much so that De Wulf considers him the best medieval representative of Augustinianism. St. Bonaventure adds Aristotelian principles to the Augustinian doctrine, especially in connection with the illumination of the intellect and the composition of human beings and other living creatures in terms of matter and form. Augustine, who had introduced into the west many of the doctrines that would define scholastic philosophy, was an incredibly important source of Bonaventure's Platonism. The mystic Dionysius the Areopagite was another notable influence.

Like Thomas Aquinas, with whom he shared numerous profound agreements in matters theological and philosophical, he combated the Aristotelian notion of the eternity of the world vigorously (though he disagreed with Aquinas about the abstract possibility of an eternal universe). Bonaventure accepts the neo-Platonic doctrine that "forms" do not exist as subsistent entities, but as ideals or archetypes in the mind of God, according to which actual things were formed; and this conception has no slight influence upon his philosophy.

Like Aquinas and other notable thirteenth-century philosophers and theologians, Bonaventure believed that it is possible to prove the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. He offers several arguments for the existence of God, including versions of St. Anselm's ontological argument and Augustine's argument from eternal truths. His main argument for the immortality of the soul appeals to humans' natural desire for perfect happiness, and is reminiscent of C. S. Lewis's argument from desire. Contrary to Aquinas, Bonaventure did not believe that philosophy was an autonomous disciple that could be pursued successfully independently of theology. Any philosopher is bound to fall into serious error, he believed, who lacks the light of faith.

A master of the memorable phrase, Bonaventure held that philosophy opens the mind to at least three different routes humans can take on their journey to God. Non-intellectual material creatures he conceived as shadows and vestiges (literally, footprints) of God, understood as the ultimate cause of a world philosophical reason can prove was created at a first moment in time. Intellectual creatures he conceived of as images and likenesses of God, the workings of the human mind and will leading us to God understood as illuminator of knowledge and donor of grace and virtue. The final route to God is the route of being, in which Bonaventure brought Anselm's argument together with Aristotelian and Neoplatonic metaphysics to view God as the absolutely perfect being whose essence entails its existence, an absolutely simple being that causes all other, composite beings to exist.

Bonaventure, however, is not only a meditative thinker, whose works may form good manuals of devotion; he is a dogmatic theologian of high rank, and on all the disputed questions of scholastic thought, such as universals, matter, seminal reasons, the principle of individuation, or the intellectus agens, he gives weighty and well-reasoned decisions. He agrees with Saint Albert the Great in regarding theology as a practical science; its truths, according to his view, are peculiarly adapted to influence the affections. He discusses very carefully the nature and meaning of the divine attributes; considers universals to be the ideal forms pre-existing in the divine mind according to which things were shaped; holds matter to be pure potentiality that receives individual being and determinateness from the formative power of God, acting according to the ideas; and finally maintains that the agent intellect has no separate existence. On these and on many other points of scholastic philosophy the "Seraphic Doctor" exhibits a combination of subtlety and moderation, which makes his works particularly valuable.

In form and intent the work of St. Bonaventure is always the work of a theologian; he writes as one for whom the only angle of vision and the proximate criterion of truth is the Christian faith. This fact influences his importance for the history of philosophy; when coupled with his style, it makes Bonaventure perhaps the least accessible of the major figures of the thirteenth century. This is true, not because he is a theologian, but because philosophy interests him largely as a praeparatio evangelica, as something to be interpreted as a foreshadow of or deviation from what God has revealed.

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Foreign influence was never supposed to be part of America’s elections. What is a democracy if not rule by a country’s own citizens?

Sitting in offices in St. Petersburg, Russia, however, employees of the Internet Research Agency (IRA) had plenty of ideas about how to waltz past American legal and political safeguards to sow discord and try to manipulate the US midterm elections this fall.

Internal messages by the group’s officers to its staff advised that LGBT groups and “their liberal allies” were active online late into the night and responded well to manipulative infographics and colorful pictures, unlike their conservative counterparts.

John McCain — a critic of Russia and an advocate for higher military spending — was to be branded “an old geezer” in online messaging, even on his deathbed. Paul Ryan — who notably said last July that ��Russia is not our ally” — was to be branded on social media as a “two-faced loudmouth.”

These were just a few of efforts by the Russian organization’s online army of trolls to promote divisive messages on hot political topics ranging from sanctuary cities to illegal voting to whether athletes stood or knelt during the national anthem at NFL games.

The result was to short-change democratic discourse in the US — an outcome made possible by the shortcomings of the US laws and rules that are supposed to ensure fair election outcomes.

The snarky guidance provided to the Russian trolls, according to a detailed US federal court filing last week, was part of Operation Lakhta, which itself was just one aspect of Russia’s attack on American democracy.

It was laid bare when prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia revealed on October 19 they had taken the Washington mantra “follow the money” to heart in tracking the activities of Russian citizen Elena Khusyaynova, chief accountant of Operation Lakhta.

According to the filing, she “managed the financing of substantially all aspects of the Project [Lakhta] operations” and — luckily for prosecutors but perhaps unluckily for Russia — Khusyaynova kept “meticulous” records, covering her payments for rent, travel, furniture, and even garbage disposal. It’s unclear how the emails arrived in Washington, but creative Western hacking seems a distinct possibility.

The indictment says Operation Lakhta had an ever-increasing budget that reached more than $1 million per month earlier this year. Much of that money was used to purchase and promote posts on social media, develop and promote online videos, buy ads on Facebook and Instagram, and pay “activists” and “bloggers.”

The operation also included promoting political rallies and counter-protests, all in an effort to “inflame passions” and conduct what the Russian-financed internet trolls themselves called “information warfare against the United States of America.”

Those involved were instructed not to use news sites like Breitbart in their social media posts when trying to influence liberal groups, and to avoid outlets like the Washington Post and BuzzFeed when trying to win over conservatives.

They were also given “Tasking Specifics” with content that reflected deep knowledge of American political jargon, including such terms as “RINO” (Republicans In Name Only) and “anchor babies” (used pejoratively to refer to children born in the United States to non-citizens).

And they demonstrated a sense of humor by using a seemingly pro-Trump Twitter account labeled “@CovfefeNationUS” to post or retweet more than 23,000 messages, including one encouraging people to donate money to a political action committee opposed to Democrats.

Prosecutors found a law to use against Khusyaynova, charging her with conspiracy to defraud the United States by acting as an undisclosed foreign agent, in violation of requirements that such agents register and publicly declare their ambitions. They also said she broke Federal Election Commission laws prohibiting foreign expenditures in American elections.

But are these laws enough?

They haven’t proven much of a deterrent so far — some of the activities depicted in the indictment took place this year, long after Russian involvement in the 2016 election had been well exposed. Moreover, there are other, more direct ways that foreign money can corrupt the system, without breaking any existing laws.

Two Supreme Court decisions — the 2007 Wisconsin Right to Life ruling that Congress could not ban “issue ads” in advance of elections and the 2010 Citizens United ruling that said corporations have a First Amendment right to engage in political spending — opened the floodgates for “dark money,” that is, money whose source is unknown.

Since the 2007 case, more than $900 million from hidden donors has spilled into federal elections, according to an April report from the Brennan Center for Justice.

The main route has been to give the funds to politically oriented nonprofit organizations, which are allowed to raise unlimited amounts of cash from individuals, other organizations, and corporations without disclosing who those donors are, and then to spend it on issue-oriented advertising meant to influence election outcomes.

Foreigners can also exert influence through US companies they own or control, including US-registered Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs), which can act as shell companies to disguise the source of their funds and the names of the owners or controllers.

While the law prohibits companies based outside the United States from spending on US elections, foreign-owned companies based in the United States can do so as long as the money comes from their US revenues and a US citizen — not a foreigner — decides where that money goes. But there is no real way to check who is responsible.

This is particularly worrisome if a supposedly private company acts as a “proxy” for a government, a common set-up in places like Russia, whose president has bragged about “patriotic hackers” and other ostensibly private citizens who just so happen to act in the interest of the Russian government.

Although Moscow has tried to distance itself from some of the groups that intruded into the political debate, there’s little doubt that their work was all part of a well-organized campaign.

Just as foreign influence operations can be “laundered” through private companies and nonprofits, so can direct political donations. Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly looking at political disbursements from the National Rifle Association (NRA) to determine if Russia funneled money through the organization to influence the election.

In the 2016 presidential election, the NRA spent more than $30 million to support Donald Trump’s campaign. That is more than it had spent in all races — House, Senate, and White House — during the 2008 and 2012 elections combined. Where did that money come from?

We don’t know. But take the case of Maria Butina, the alleged Russian foreign agent who is accused of trying to influence a number of Republican officials, particularly through the NRA.

She and her boyfriend, Paul Erickson, a top Republican operative with connections to the NRA who tried to broker a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin in May 2016, created an LLC, ostensibly to pay Butina’s education bills.

Erickson, on his own, set up several other LLCs. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing — but paying university tuition through an LLC is more than a bit odd. We don’t know if the LLC had a wider role, for example, in funneling Russian money to the NRA or other political organizations.

Numerous media reports have said Mueller is also looking at a total of $285,000 in payments to Trump’s inauguration fund, reelection campaign fund, and the Republican National Committee from a man named Andrew Intrater.

Intrater is the American cousin of Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch whose company is under US sanctions. Intrater wasn’t a big political donor before 2016. (Even larger donations to Trump’s inauguration were made by others considered close to Vekselberg and Russia.)

We don’t know much about the circumstances of all these donations, but it’s clear that a flow of funds between foreign-connected Americans and major US politicians reasonably raises questions about who is buying what and why.

The Brennan Center has some ideas about how to ameliorate the risks of foreign election influence: It recommends more transparency — with more disclosure of the source of funding for radio and television ads before elections, and complete disclosure of funding sources for dark money groups.

It says companies owned or controlled by foreigners but based in America should be completely barred from making political contributions. And it calls for more vigorous enforcement of the rules by the Federal Election Commission, which has long been hobbled by partisan bickering.

Here’s the rub: These steps would almost certainly help. But foreign governments will always seek a way to influence us, and water will always find a crack to enter. Until we truly clamp down on the overall flow of money in politics, we are leaving open a wide avenue for infiltration.

While Russia must be held accountable for its actions, we need to remember that their tactics took advantage of a freewheeling culture of paid political influence that we created ourselves.

Alex Finley (@alexzfinley) is the pen name of a former journalist and an officer of the CIA from 2003 to 2009, who is now writing analyses of Robert Mueller’s investigation for the Center for Public Integrity. She is the author of Victor in the Rubble, a satire about the CIA and the war on terror. The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative journalism organization in Washington, DC.

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May 16,2018: Obituaries

Ruth Graham, 92

Mrs. Ruth Long Graham, age 92 of Wilkesboro, passed away Thursday, May 10, 2018 at State Employees Credit Union Hospice Home in Yadkinville.

Mrs. Graham was born in Asheville on September 8, 1925 to Clyde S and Allie V. Long.

She graduated Candler High School and Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta. She started her nursing career at Aston Parks Hospital in Asheville.

She married James Graham of Inman, SC. In 1954 she moved to Wilkes where Mr. Graham was a teacher at Millers Creek High School. She was employed at Wilkes Regional Hospital for 41 years and retired as the Director of Nursing. She was very instrumental in establishing the Chapel at the hospital. She was also recognized and honored by the Hospital Auxiliary for her work and service to the people of Wilkes County. She was active in the North Carolina Nurses Association where she was a lifetime member as well as the American Nurses Association. She was a member of Home Health Board, First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro where she served as a Deacon, Assistant Clerk, and served on the Library Committee, Homebound Committee and Benevolence Committee.

Funeral services were held May 15, at First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro with Dr. Bert Young and Dr. Nelson Granade officiating. Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; James Graham, three sisters; Dorothy Clontz, Mary Long, Betty Thornburg and two brothers; Wesley Long and Clyde Long and longtime friend; Dr. William L. Bundy.

She is survived by a son; Jimmy Graham and wife Diane of Huntersville and several nieces and nephews.

A special thanks to Carolyn Garcia, loving friend and caregiver.

Memorials may be made to Fred C. Hubbard Scholarship Fund - Wilkes Community College, 1328 S. Collegiate Drive, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

Ruby Tingler, 83

Ruby Scott Tingler, age 83, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at her home. She was born May 12, 1934 in Pike County, Kentucky to Wade and Betty Keen Scott. She attended Wayside Baptist Church in Taylorsville. Mrs. Tingler was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 41 years, Ronnalee "Ronnie" Tingler; son, Leslie Scott Hamilton; and sister, Shirley Chavez.

Surviving are her daughters, Linda Fair and Court Taylor of Baltimore, Maryland, Penny Matthews and husband Kevin of Ocean City, Maryland, Debra Hicks and husband Randy of White Wood, Virginia; grandchildren, Jennifer Gobble and husband Robert, Amanda Gietka and husband Brian, Nathan Hicks and Benjamin Hicks; great grandchildren, Chloe Gietka, Mia Gietka, Jackson Gobble; brother, Earl Scott of Vansant, Virginia; and sisters, Loretta Stanley of North Wilkesboro, Bea St. Clair and husband Leon of Grundy, Virginia.

Funeral service was held May 11, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Sammy Kiser officiating. Entombment followed in Mountlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Wake Forest Baptist Health Hospice, 126 Executive Drive, Suite 110, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements

Pallbearers will be Leon St. Clair, Steve Stanley, Larry Starnes, Randy Scott, Joel Dobson and Mike Scott.

Reba" Hartzog, 87

Mrs. Reba Elizabeth "Lib" Hartzog, age 87, passed away at her home on Green Acres Mill Road, Millers Creek, NC on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 after a lengthy illness. She was born to Grover Cleveland and Mary Ellen "Molly" Norris on April 27, 1931 and grew up in the Fleetwood Community of Ashe County in a close-knit loving family of ten siblings.

Lib was an immaculate housekeeper, a great cook, an avid gardener and she took great pride in her home and meticulously landscaped yard. She had that infectious "Norris" personality that never meets a stranger and her quick-wit always left a smile on your face. She will be greatly missed by her family and her neighbors in Green Acres. Lib was a member of Liberty Grove Baptist Church in Ashe County.

Funeral services were held May 12, at Reins Sturdivant Chapel with Rev. John Elledge officiating. Entombment will be in Mt. Lawn Memorial Park Mausoleum

Lib was preceded in death by her husband, William Thomas "Bill" Hartzog, a daughter, Sherry Lynn Hartzog, a niece, Mary Beth Ross, and seven siblings, Howard Norris, G.C. Norris, Jr. (Jack), Allie Norris, Bruce Norris, James Norris (Jim), Lucy Waugh, Ruby Wagoner and Ruth Crumpler.

She is survived by two siblings, Paul Norris of Lansing, NC and Helen Ross of Elizabethton, TN. One niece, Debbie Shepherd of Millers Creek and seven nephews, Dannie Norris of Wilkesboro, Marty Norris of Lansing, Ronnie Norris of Todd, David and Jackie Norris of Boone, Bill Norris of Hickory and Mark Ross of Jefferson City, TN, many great nieces and nephews, great-great nieces and nephews are left to honor her memory, along with her best friend and caregiver, Judy Horton.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Liberty Grove Baptist Church 3289 Liberty Grove Church Road, Fleetwood, NC 28626

Lucy Sheets, 84

Mrs. Lucy Jane Pierce Jones Sheets, 84, of Wilkesboro, passed away on Tuesday, May 8, 2018.

Lucy was born on Saturday, May 27, 1933 in Alleghany County to the late Robert Alexandria Pierce and Stella Elizabeth Crouse Pierce.

Lucy is preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Monty Jones and Odell Sheet; brothers, Bobby Dean Pierce, Jack Pierce; sister, Susie Woodel; daughter in law Darlene Jones and grandson Andy Wilcox.

Those left to cherish Lucy's memory are sons, Tommy Jones of North Wilkesboro, Ray Jones of Boomer, Kyle Jones ( Shirley) of Traphill, Donnie Jones of North Wilkesboro; daughters, Susan Jones of North Wilkesboro, Carolyn Poteat ( Ernest) of Ronda, Ann Call of Wilkesboro; sister, Grace Williams of Sparta; brothers, Dale Pierce (Brenda) of Roaring River, Curley James Pierce (Sarah) of North Wilkesboro, John Robert Pierce of Traphill; 20 grandchildren, 46 great grandchildren; and 7 great great grandchildren.

The funeral service was held on May 12, at the Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes chapel in Moravian Falls with Pastor Eddie Lyles officiating.

Burial followed the funeral at The Jones Family Cemetery.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Jones Family.

Ray Reins, Sr., 81

Ray Clinton "Shane" Reins, Sr., age 81, of Wilkesboro, passed away Monday, May 7, 2018 at NC State Veterans Home in Black Mountain. He was born January 12, 1937 in Wilkes County to Jessie Vance and Vera Adams Reins. Mr. Reins was a US Army Veteran. Mr. Reins was active in classic cars and stock car racing; and was one of the founders of Baby Grand Racing. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Lelia "Julene" Reeves Reins; brother, James Reins; and sister, Annie Craven.

Surviving are his children, Shane Allen Reins of Wilkesboro, Lisa Reins Stone of Clemmons, Clinton Reins and wife Angela of Wilkesboro, Jennie Reins of Massachusetts; brother, J.V. Reins and wife Ina of Wilkesboro; sisters, Mary Church and husband Bob, Emma Byrd all of Wilkesboro, Joyce Phillips and husband Darrell of Hickory; grandchildren, Magan Stone, Shaina Reins, Matthew Reins, Camille Stanton, Rowen Stanton, Jordan Reins, Brooklyn Reins, Hailey Walker and Hannah Walker; great grandchild, Knox Johnson and many nieces and nephews.

Funeral service was held May 10, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Victor Church and Rev. Robert Duncan officiating. Entombment with military honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard Post 1142 followed in Scenic Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. . Memorials may be made to Catherine H. Barber Memorial Homeless Shelter, 86 Sparta Road, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659 or the donor's choice. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements

Dwight Triplett, 88

Mr. Dwight Elton Triplett, age 83 of Wilkesboro passed away Sunday, May 6, 2018 at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem.

Funeral services were held May 9, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Ferguson with Pastor Michael Johnson and Rev. Sherrill Wellborn officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mr. Triplett was born October 6, 1934 in Wilkes County to Ira Wilbur and Flossie Barnette Triplett. He was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and served in the United States Army.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister; Jewel Eller and a brother; Dale Triplett.

He is survived by his wife; Linda Rea Shepherd Triplett of the home and daughter; Sara Hole and husband Anthony of Clemmons and grandson; Nicholas Hole.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mt. Zion Baptist Church Building Fund, PO Box 7, Ferguson, NC 28624 or American Kidney Foundation, 6110 Executive Blvd., Suite 1010, Rockville, MD 20852.

James Holloway

Mr. James Vestal Holloway better known as J Bug passed away Sunday, May 6, 2018, at Forsyth Medical Center.

Graveside services were held May 11, at Christian Home Baptist Church with Rev. Greg Hall officiating. .

Mr. Holloway was born April 13, 1953 in Wilkes County to Vestal Tyre and Pearl Marie Bouchelle Holloway. He was a truck driver for Kewaunee Scientific and a member of Christian Home Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Mr. Holloway is survived by his wife; Cindy Reep Holloway of the home, two sons; Jamie Holloway and wife Melissa of Hays, Matthew Dowell of Charlotte, two grandchildren; Bryson and Brylee, two sisters; Judy Adams of Millers Creek and Emma Tedder of Mocksville, two nephews; David Adams and wife Lisa and Derek Cornett and wife Tonia, two great nephews; Parker Adams and Carter Cornett and his faithful companion, his buddy Woody.

Sylvia Cranor, 79

Sylvia Lou Segraves Cranor, 79 of North Wilkesboro, wife of Hugh A. Cranor, III died May 6, 2018 at her home.

Funeral service was held May 9, at First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro with Dr. Bert Young officiating. The service concluded at the Davis Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Cranor was born in Wilkes County to Archie Gilbert Segraves and Chloe Church Segraves. She graduated form Wilkes Central High School, then attended Draughn's Business College in Winston-Salem and later graduated from Clevenger Business College in Wilkesboro.

Mrs. Cranor retired from Wilkes Paint and Glass Company, where she worked as office manager for over 37 years.

Mrs. Cranor was a long-time member of First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro and a member of the Euzelean Sunday School Class and the Sloan Circle. She was active in many areas of her church and volunteered for several different ministries.

After retiring, Mrs. Cranor took a training course at Hospice and became a Hospice volunteer for several years. She also volunteered at the Wilkes Ministry of H.O.P.E. where she interviewed clients who came for help. She loved this ministry a lot.

Mrs. Cranor was also a volunteer for the Samaritan Kitchen of Wilkes where she enjoyed driving and delivering meals to clients.

In 2006, Mrs. Cranor received the Governor's Award for Outstanding Service in North Carolina.

She was a long-time member of the Victorian Belles Group and so enjoyed their monthly outings.

Mrs. Cranor was preceded in death by her parents. Surviving are her husband of nearly 60 years, Hugh A. Cranor, III and a daughter, Virginia "Ginger" Chloe Edmiston and her fiance', Bobby Johnson. She is also survived by a very special cousin, Melody Hoyle and husband, Ernie as well as her precious dog, Baby of 15 years.

Pallbearers were be Dwayne Billings, Tim Billings, David Billings, Ronnie Billings, Noial Handy and Rev. John Triplett.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro, PO Box 458, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659.

Wayne Earl Barnes, age 64

Wayne Earl Barnes, age 64, of Millers Creek, passed away Friday, May 4, 2018 at Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville after a lengthy battle with Muscular Dystrophy. He was born August 6, 1953 in Heidelberg, Germany where his late father, SFC (ret) Ray Von Barnes and family was serving in the United States Army. He was a graduate of Methodist University, received his B.A. degree in Fayetteville, N.C. He was reared in a military family through High School and experienced many different communities. Mr. Barnes was preceded in death by his parents; Ray Von and Rosa Ann Barnes; and his only sister, Sheila Barnes Balboa.

After college Wayne moved to the Elkin/Wilkesboro area and involved himself in the Educational School System. He also served as a bus driver for 20 years at C.B. Eller, Ronda-Clingman Elementary Schools, East Wilkes High School, and East Wilkes Middle School. He was acknowledged for his service to Education via honors and awards including served on the NCAE Board of Directors, Support Person of the Year, NCAE President of the local chapter, as well as a member of the board of directors of the Educational Support Professionals Association NC-ESPA. He was involved in the Angel Food Ministry Program in Elkin for Five years. Mr. Barnes served on the board for ECHO (Homeless Shelter). He helped in getting Grace Clinic started in Elkin. In 1995 he traveled with the Western UMC Conference to La Paz Bolivia on a mission trip to distribute medical supplies. Surviving are his wife, Claudene Johnston Barnes; five nieces; five nephews; four great nephews; five great nieces; two sisters in law and their spouses; one brother-in-law and spouse; father-in law; and his best buddy, Patch.

Graveside service will be held 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at Mountlawn Memorial Park Cemetery with Dr. Will G. Barnes, Chaplain, Colonel, United States Army officiating. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 12:00 until 1:00 on Wednesday, prior to the service. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

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NFDA Introduces the 2018 Meet the Mentors Program Participants

Brookfield, Wis. – The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) is proud to announce the names of the 50 funeral professionals who will attend the association’s Meet the Mentors program, March 11-13 at the Emory Conference Center Hotel in Atlanta, Ga. Meet the Mentors has been wholly funded by the Funeral Service Foundation since the program’s 2011 inception.

During Meet the Mentors, these 50 funeral professionals who are either age 40 or under or new to the profession (first licensed within the last five years) will have an opportunity to meet, learn from and talk with innovative and successful funeral professionals. It’s also an opportunity to network and form relationships with other new professionals.

The names of the 50 participants were announced last week through a series of video drawings, which were shared on the NFDA website and social media sites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

About Meet the Mentors

During Meet the Mentors, attendees will meet, learn from, and talk with three innovative and successful funeral professionals: Matthew Baskerville, CFSP, CPC, CCO, owner of Reeves & Baskerville Funeral Homes, which has locations in Coal City, Gardner, Morris and Wilmington, Ill.; Erlinda Valdez, general manager of Wallin Funeral Homes, which has locations in Sanger, Fowler, Riverdale and Parlier, Calif.; and Victor C. March, Sr., president and CEO of March Funeral Homes in Baltimore, Md. March also serves on the Funeral Service Foundation Board of Trustees. Baskerville is a 2013 Meet the Mentors alum.

There is no cost to participate in the Meet the Mentors program itself. The Funeral Service Foundation’s grant provides exclusive, career-transforming access to three mentors and covers attendees’ registration fees, two nights’ lodging and select meals. The 50 individuals selected to attend only pay for their transportation to the program.

More than 600 young professionals and emerging leaders have benefited from the Meet the Mentors program, which underscores the Foundation’s mission to support all of funeral service in building meaningful relationships with the families and communities it serves. The program is part of the Foundation ‘45 Awards, which are designed to transform the careers of funeral service professionals through scholarships, awards, resources and mission-focused outreach.

Complete details about the NFDA Meet the Mentors program, including the videos announcing the 2018 Meet the Mentors participants, can be found on the association website, www.nfda.org/mentors.

The 2018 NFDA Meet the Mentors attendees are:

Tiffany Aguilar, Legacy Funeral Group, Seguin, Texas

Lorna Agusto, Granby’s Funeral Service, Bronx, N.Y.

Emily Ahern, Vincent Funeral Home, Simsbury, Conn.

Patrick Anderson, Anderson Funeral and Cremation Services, Belvidere, Ill.

John Appel, Garden of Memories Funeral Home & Cemetery, Metairie, La.

Blake Ashley, Martin Funeral Home, Mt. Morris, Mich.

Eileen Baldeshwiler, Sunset Funeral Home & Memorial Park, Evansville, Ind.

Jack Clock, Wm. Sullivan and Son Funeral Directors, Utica, Mich.

Devin Cole, Roller-Chenal Funeral Home, Little Rock, Ark.

Erika Collaros, Schoedinger Funeral and Cremation Service, Columbus, Ohio

Bryan Conyers, Blyth Funeral Home, Greenwood, S.C.

Paige Gaikowski, Scott Funeral Home, Jeffersonville, Ind.

Jay Garrett, Cotton Funeral Service, Newark, N.J.

Hanna Goffinet, Scott Funeral Home, Jeffersonville, Ind.

Jessica Goglin, Kuhler Funeral Home, Huron, S.D.

William (Cody) Gore, Scottsboro Funeral Home, Scottsboro, Ala.

Winston Grannis, Boone-Nickell Funeral Home, Flemingsburg, Ky.

Amanda Hall, Funeral Alternatives of Washington, Tumwater, Wash.

Cortney Heck, Brainard Funeral Home, Wausau, Wis.

Ben Hengesteg, Iles Funeral Homes – Dunn’s Chapel, Des Moines, Iowa

Dana Ivins, Wappner Funeral Directors, Mansfield, Ohio

Robert Justen, Justen Funeral Home, McHenry, Ill.

Mykal Jensen, Gunderson Funeral Home, Madison, Wis.

Kaitlynn Lenoir, Gunderson Funeral Home, Madison, Wis.

Rhonda McCann, McNabb Funeral Home, Pocahontas, Ark.

Brett McReavy, Washburn-McReavy Funeral Chapels, Minneapolis, Minn.

Nathan Minnich, Hoover-Boyer FH, Inc., Elizabethville, Penn.

Amanda Moss, Harris FH & Cremation Services, Abbeville, S.C.

Austin O’Neal, Cochran Funeral Home, Blairsville, Ga.

Justin Panske, Malcore Funeral Home, Green Bay, Wis.

Angela Plummer, Anderson & Sons Mortuary, American Fork, Utah

Jonathan Poling, Schoedinger Funeral Service, Grove City, Ohio

Shannon Powell, Barnes Friederich Funeral Home, Midwest City, Okla.

Brandi Reed, Lakeside Memorial Funeral Home, Hamburg, N.Y.

Matthew Richmond, Williams-Gores Funeral Home, Delton, Mich.

Nicholas Ricci, Patrick T. Lanigan Funeral Home & Crematory, East Pittsburgh, Penn.

Dexter Ritter, D.L. Ritter & Co., Canton, Miss.

Parris Robles, Roller-Christeson Funeral Home, Harrison, Ark.

Arianna Rule, Mt. Sinai Memorial Chapels, Manalapan, N.J.

Constance Scheanon, Ducro Funeral Home, Ashtabula, Ohio

Ren Scherling, Darrell Howe Mortuary, Lafayette, Colo.

Jerelyn Serra, Blake Chelmsford Funeral Home, Chelmsford, Mass.

Amanda Stafford, Mueller Memorial, St. Paul, Minn.

Melody Stuart, McClure Funeral Home, Taylorville, Ill.

Kelly VanderLaan, VanderLaan Funeral Home, Hudsonville, Mich.

Sarah Whetstine, Barnes Friederich Funeral Home, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Jennifer Harvey, Ogeechee Technical College, Statesboro, Ga.

LaTorria Williams, Davenport & Harris Funeral Home, Birmingham, Ala.

Andrew Wint, Wint Funeral Home, Clarkston, Mich.

Damon Wenig, Wenig Funeral Homes, Sheboygan Falls, Wis.

About NFDA – www.nfda.org

NFDA is the world’s leading and largest funeral service association, serving more than 20,000 individual members who represent nearly 11,000 funeral homes in the United States and 49 countries around the world. NFDA is the trusted leader, beacon for ethics and the strongest advocate for the profession. NFDA is the association of choice because it offers funeral professionals comprehensive educational resources, tools to manage successful businesses, guidance to become pillars in their communities and the expertise to foster future generations of funeral professionals. NFDA is headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., and has an office in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.nfda.org.

About the Funeral Service Foundation – www.FuneralServiceFoundation.org

Since 1945, the Funeral Service Foundation has served as the profession’s philanthropic voice. As the charitable arm of the National Funeral Directors Association since 1997, the Foundation receives operational support from NFDA and donors across the profession to help advance its mission to support funeral service in building meaningful relationships with the families and the communities it serves.

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