#( $$. vis. byrde family ! )

[soelvfisk]

Jeg er in awe. Hvordan ku stenen få mig til at tro på at alle tænkte det samme som hende???? EJ EJ EJ HVOR ER DET CREEPY!!!

Hun fik mig jo overbevist om, at alle der kendte mig, tænkte det samme som hende. At jeg ikke var til at holde ud, når jeg havde grænser og behov og brug for hensyn. Og når jeg opførte mig som hun ville have, øsede hun mig til i ros og kærlighed.

Hun gjorde alle relationer utrygge for mig, fordi jeg følte mig som en kæmpe byrde folk bare var tvunget til at udholde. Og nu har jeg seriøst været modig girl - kigget igennem mine venner på fb, følgere på insta og mine ubesvarede beskeder. Og lavet en LISTE over mennesker som både mig og stenen kender… Og jeg føler at jeg har været HJERNEVASKET. Der er 16 mennesker på den liste. 16 navne. Og INGEN af dem er tætte venner med stenen. Dem der er tætte har jeg ikke talt med. Alligevel nok +20 navne på folk jeg havde mere kontakt med end min familie. Men jaja. Halvandet år er gået. De kender hende - ja - men det ændrer ikke på at der er laaaaaangt flere mennesker. Altså millioner af mennesker som ikke kender stenen. I verden. Og her gik jeg og følte at stenen kendte alle og at alle kendte stenen. At alle veje førte til stenens abuse. 16 er både mange men også meget lidt. Og de 16 mennesker er jo mere sig selv, end de er stenens. Så jeg behøver ikke at frygte noget. Jeg tror jeg er safe - for hvis de viser sig at være utrygge, så er vi jo bare ikke venner.

Jeg kender mange mennesker, som ikke har noget med stenen at gøre. Og faktisk kan jeg jo se, at jeg kender FLEST mennesker, som ikke har noget med stenen at gøre. DET VIDSTE JEG IKKE. Eller, det var jeg ikke bevidst om. JEG KUNNE IKKE SE DET. Jeg troede at jeg var mest alene? Og det er jeg slet ikke???? Det findes fles trygge mennesker??!!!!!??? WHAT WHAT WHAT? Hvordan kunne jeg GLEMME DET???? I halvandet år, har jeg følt at hendes alt/intet måde at beskrive ting på, har været ægte… at hun havde alle og jeg havde ingen. Kan ikke forklare det anderledes. At jeg var intet og hun var alt. At jeg var dum og hun var et geni. At jeg altid tog fejl og gjorde det forkerte og at hun altid havde ret og gjorde det rigtige. At jeg var grim og hun var smuk. At jeg var ond og hun var god. At alle kunne se det. Og at jeg skyldte hende at tie stille. At jeg skyldte hele verden at forsvinde. At jeg fortjente det hele - for hvorfor skulle hun ellers opføre sig sådan.

Oh my GAWD.

Og nu kan jeg bare se at jeg er tryggere end jeg gik og troede!?

WHAT THE FUCK.

STENEN VAR ABUSIVE????!!!! DET VAR PSYKISK VOLD. Og jeg kender flere trygge menensker end utrygge mennesker. Wow wow wow.

Frygter stadig at støde på stenen. Men seriøst mest er jeg bare MINDBLOWN over hvordan min virkelighed lige er gået lidt op for mig?! Og hvordan hendes ord har forskrækket mig og gjort mig BLIND for alt det der er foran mig og omkring mig.

Der er flest trygge mennesker. Kun 16 som kender både mig og stenen. 16! OG JEG TROEDE AT DET VAR OVER 1000!!!?? HOW HOW HOW.

Ej hvor er det syret. Og jeg sværger - chancen for at NOGEN af dem tænker lige så modbydelige og wack ting som stenen og opfører sig lige så twofaced…. Tror ærligt hun er en one in a million kinda girl og ik på 2008 popsang måden.

I dag, d. 22 marts kl. 22.22 er det gået op for mig at hun både løj og tog fejl!?

Skiver “epiphany” i min kalender og får det til at komme igen hvert år. Så jeg kan huske i dag.

Det føles som om hun har malet mit vindue med et mega dystopisk motiv… og nu har jeg kradset malingen af. Og jeg kan se himmel og bakker og hav og natur og fugle og lys og fucking håb.

Tænk at jeg troede hun havde ret, selvom jeg vidste at hun var en dum én.

No no no. Stenen har mig ikke en skid.

Ved at der er al mulig heling tilbage, men det her føles som en milepæl. Jeg er så vred på hende. Wow. Wowowowow.

Wow. Det var bare det. Ej hvor vildt. Jeg er paf.

[maelkevejen]

Det føles som om, hele mit indre sitrer og slår knuder på sig selv. Det afløses af angstprovokeret ro, der ikke er sandfærdig. Engang imellem er jeg i stand til at ignorere det i korte perioder, og så føles alting let og ligetil. Indtil den indre sitren begynder igen. Jeg ved ikke engang, hvorfor jeg græder, bare at jeg har det dårligt. Selvafskyen vokser stødt men tilsyneladende ubemærket, og jeg ønsker, at madrassen bare ville lade mig synke, indtil jeg ikke eksisterede mere. Måske bare for en stund. Livet vil så meget, jeg vil så meget, men det føles ikke som om, jeg er gearet, dygtig eller vedholdende nok, og jeg gribes tiere og tiere af spørgsmålet om, hvad jeg overhovedet skulle her. Så træt. Af at være blevet sat i verden af forældre, der i virkeligheden ikke var gearet til det og tvunget til en dysfunktionel opvækst i en dysfunktionel familie. Og mest af alt: Ikke få det bedste ud af det. Jeg afskyer mig selv for det. Og jeg ved fandeme ikke, hvad jeg skal stille op med alle de følelser; det er som om, ordene sidder fast i halsen på mig, og jeg kan ikke sige andet end: “… min hjerne er begyndt ar sige nogle rigtig grimme ting til mig, og jeg synes, det er rigtig skræmmende”. Eller bare at jeg har mange dommedagstanker. Men vi… taler ikke rigtigt mere om det. Hvad skulle jeg også sige? Jeg får at vide, jeg bare kan ringe, og det ved jeg også godt, at jeg kan, men jeg vil ikke være en igle og syge fra sind, der ikke har mere at give af. Jeg vil ikke være en byrde. Jeg vil ikke sidde i min stue som min mor og gøre alle mine problemer til andres. Så hellere… ikke sige noget? Jeg går bare, dækket af gåsehud, og venter. Jeg ved ikke på hvad.

[incitetube]

𝕋𝕠𝕡 𝕋𝕍 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕨𝕤 𝒐𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒆𝑻𝒖𝒃𝒆 ​​​​​​​𝕥𝕠 𝔼𝕟𝕛𝕠𝕪 𝕎𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕟 𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕖 𝕋𝕚𝕞𝕖.

Incitetube

1. 𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔.

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 7.5/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Outer Banks follows a group of teens, led by John B, as they search for a legendary treasure tied to his missing father. Along the way, they squatter rivals, uncover secrets, and navigate friendship, love, and danger while trying to requirement the subconscious fortune.

#outerbanks

2. 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒆.

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 9/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Arcane follows two sisters, Vi and Jinx, as they navigate a mismatch between the wealthy Piltover and the undercity Zaun, blending action, magic, and emotional drama.

#Arcane

3. 𝑲𝑶𝑨𝑺.

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝑩 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 7.5/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: KAOS is a visionless spectacle that reimagines Greek mythology, blending humor and drama. The show explores gods, humans, and the underworld with a modern twist on warmed-over myths.

#kaos

4. 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓:

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8.7/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Black Mirror is an scrapbook series that examines the visionless side of technology and modern society, with each episode presenting a standalone story that reflects on its consequences.

#BlackMirror

5. 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒚 𝑩𝒍��𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔:

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8.8/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Peaky Blinders follows the Shelby treason family in post-World War I Birmingham, led by Thomas Shelby. The series chronicles their rise in the criminal underworld, facing rivals and law enforcement tween historical events.

#peakyblinders

6. 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔:

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8.6/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: House of Cards follows ruthless politician Frank Underwood as he schemes his way to power in Washington, D.C. The series explores themes of ambition, betrayal, and the visionless side of American politics.

#HouseOfCars

7. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: The Gentlemen follows American expat Mickey Pearson as he tries to sell his marijuana empire in London. When rival gangs and schemers threaten his plans, a stylish web of charade and intrigue unfolds.

#TheGentlemen

8. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒚:

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 7.8/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: The Umbrella Academy follows a dysfunctional family of superpowered siblings who reunite without their father's mysterious death. They must solve the mystery of his demise while confronting personal issues and an impending apocalypse.

#TheUmbrellaAcademy

9. 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚'𝒔 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑹𝒚𝒂𝒏

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan follows CIA reviewer Jack Ryan as he becomes a field wage-earner uncovering global conspiracies and facing high-stakes threats.

#tomclancy

10. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒅𝒐𝒎

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8.5/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: The Last Kingdom follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a Saxon nobleman raised by Vikings, as he seeks to reuse his racial home. Set in the 9th and 10th centuries, it explores themes of loyalty and the mismatch between Saxons and Danes.

#thelastkingdom

11. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: The Witcher follows Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter navigating a dangerous world filled with magic and political intrigue. The series explores his journey of fate and self-discovery.

12. 𝑶𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒌

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8.5/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Ozark follows Marty Byrde, a financial planner who moves his family to the Ozarks without a money-laundering scheme for a drug shoestring fails. He must navigate the criminal underworld to alimony his family safe.

#ozarks

13. 𝑩𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑺𝒂𝒖𝒍

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 9/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Better Call Saul follows Jimmy McGill, a struggling lawyer who transforms into the morally compromised Saul Goodman. The series explores his descent into the criminal underworld and the upstanding dilemmas he faces.

#BetterCallSaul

14. 𝑴𝒊𝒏��𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 8.6/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Mindhunter follows FBI teachers Holden Ford and Bill Tench, withal with psychologist Wendy Carr, as they interview serial killers to understand their psychology and modernize criminal profiling. Set in the late 1970s, the series delves into the early days of criminal psychology and criminal profiling at the FBI.

#mindhunter

15. 𝑺𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒓

𝑰𝑴𝑫𝒃 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 6.9/10

𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆: Snowpiercer is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the last remnants of humanity live on a moving train divided by class. Tensions rise between the impoverished tail and the privileged front, sparking a revolution that explores themes of inequality and survival.

#Snowpiercer

[wisteryahs]

india amarteifio. demiwoman . she/they. ― is that AUGUSTA DANBURY i saw during this years first ball of the season? the TWENTY year old is preparing finding a suiter but is enticed by the social season. They are known to be ARDENT, but also CANTANKEROUS, but focus on the positives when finding their chosen one.

just a friendly reminder that augusta uses she/they pronouns. if you need any help, please don't hesitate to reach out.

PLAYLIST.   /  PINTEREST. /  CONNECTIONS

i. basics.

full  name:    augusta danbury

also  called:   auggie, gusta, gus (only by close friends)

titles:   lady danbury's grandchild, liege augusta danbury

age:    twenty

gender:    demi woman, she/they

orientation:    biromantic, pansexual

birthplace:   london, england

status:    unbetrothed & unwed.

ii.  personality.

positive:    ardent, well-meaning.  resourceful.

negative:  cantankerous, impulsive.  rebellious.  selfish.

character parallels: katniss everdeen (the hunger games), rosalie hale (twilight), kate & edwina sharma (bridgerton series), hilda spellman (sabrina the teenage witch), king george (queen charlotte: a bridgerton story), and molly weasley (harry potter)

iii.  appearance.

faceclaim: india amarteifio

height:   five feet,  six  inch.

hair:    black.

eye  color:    dark  brown.

iv.  family  ties.

father:  earl dominic danbury (lady danbury's heir)

mother:   former countess harriet danbury nee byrd (npc, deceased)

sibling(s): utp danbury, utp danbury, & utp danbury ( 3 older siblings)

grandmother: lady agatha danbury

grandfather lord herman danbury (deceased)

cousins: children of lady danbury's children

aunt(s): melissa danbury, anne danbury

uncle(s): cedric danbury

v.  history.

ACT I: A ROCKY BEGINNING

born as the youngest to dominic danbury and his late wife harriet danbury, augusta was named after the late queen consort augusta. during childbirth and a extrmely harsh labor, augusta's mother lost her life due to an infection from childbirth, that left her bedridden. in a matter of days, the countess harriet danbury was dead due to a fatal infection. thus, this meant that augusta was the last of her mother's children and grew up with the love of her mother. however, her grandmother helped her son raise her grandchild to become a proper member of society.

ACT II: GROWING WITH WINGS

for what seems like a century, augusta was taught the basic of what it meant to be a "proper woman" — although she felt anything but. their governess taught her how to write, read, embroider cushions, play the piano forte (decently), and a bit of history. yet, what augusta felt most passionate about weren't any of this. instead loving the thought reading a science book and learning about the stars. a taboo subject — by far, that her father scolded her about on multiple occasions. sometimes augusta would find herself sneaking away on horseback late at night to get a glimpse of the stars in the sky. in their eyes, stars were a place that she could take her away from all her pain and suffering. a place instead of not being seen as just a maternal match for someone; a place they could be herself.

ACT III: A BLOSSOMING FLOWER

once augusta hit the age of womanhood, there was no going back for them. instead, she is preparing herself for her first season in hopes of finding herself a partner. the hopes of finding the youngest a danbury a match is all thanks to their status and names upheld. (however, augusta wishes nothing more to not mind a match but will bite her tongue for the sake of her family). only time will tell.

vi.  wanted connections

friends

potential suitors

family friends

frenemies

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Taurus at the Speed of Sound ~ May Monthly Horoscope

by Eric Francis

Dear Friend and Reader:

Earlier this week, we experienced the first of seven Sun-Uranus conjunctions in Taurus (that was Monday, April 22). News events are moving at a dizzying pace, and defy comprehension. At the time I’m writing this article on April 25, it’s been just over a week since the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, and a week since the release of the redacted version of the Special Counsel’s report. It seems more like a month.

As of this writing, there are now 20 Democratic presidential candidates, with Joe Biden’s entry into the race. Also today, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin met Kim Jong-un, the Korean leader, for a summit meeting in China. Putin is moving in on a power vacuum abandoned by Trump’s failed attempts at courting diplomacy with Kim.

Texas executed John William King for the 1998 killing of James Byrd, the first time in modern Texas history that a Caucasian man was executed for the death of an African American man. This was the infamous dragging death by a white supremacist.

Pres. Trump denied that he ordered then-White House Counsel Dan McGahn to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller III. He said that McGahn had lied to the Special Counsel about this during the investigation.

McGahn, one of the star witnesses in the Special counsel’s investigation, has been subpoenaed to testify before Congress, but Trump brought a personal lawsuit to block his testimony. The president also vowed to fight any subpoena of documents or testimony by congressional oversight committees, in effect daring the House of Representatives to impeach him.

On that note, if he is impeached, Trump said he would fight it at the U.S. Supreme Court. He is clearly referencing his impression that he would get a 5-4 win on any case he brings, but there is no such course of action provided for under the Constitution. (What actually happens during an impeachment is that the chief justice presides over the trial, with the Senate serving as the jury.)

Contents of the report of the Special Counsel, 448 pages long, are gradually percolating through the news. The report details the astonishing extent of Russian meddling in the election, which came in the form of a social media propaganda campaign dating to 2014, and hack and dump operations of email and confidential documents stolen from formal Democratic Party offices and Hillary Clinton’s personal office.

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, this week falsely summed up the operation Wednesday as consisting of “a couple of Facebook ads.”

On the Personal Side of the Equation

We live in a restless time. I keep reading articles about the impact of lack of sleep and sleep hygiene. Part of this impact is coming from being inundated by radio waves, which are invisible light waves; these burn melatonin. So too does exposure to blue light, which is a fact of looking into screens all day.

But there is something more, a sense of agitation, nervousness and fear, as if we’re heading toward an edge that we cannot see.

Despite all the discussion about global warming and climate change, collectively our societies are doing very little about it. Economic success is still measured in growth — corporate profits and the value of the stock market. Many people are struggling — really struggling — to make ends meet as everything gets more and more expensive.

Economic woes are always an issue; we hear about them in good times and bad. But we are living in the New Gilded Age, when there are more billionaires than ever before. Money is energy, and much of it is stagnant at the moment, as companies and individuals hang onto huge cash reserves. There is fear of loss and little imagination about what to do with vast sums of wealth that exist.

As I’ve written many times, my studied impression is that the internet is what is driving consciousness: the sensation of what it feels like to be alive right now. Inundation by internet is the primary factor behind the social crisis, the anxiety epidemic, the sexless relationships, and a general state of psychic chaos.

Reader Responses: Uranus in Taurus

I recently asked my readers how they were responding to Uranus in Taurus. Here is a sample of the responses:

“It’s quite an upheaval. My trust in God has increased and at times is still quite tested. Due to a lingering concussion that hasn’t healed I haven’t worked for several weeks. I am far out on a limb in completely new territory. I have a sense that I am learning many things that I’ve needed to learn for a while. I am also in brand new territory that’s missing some of the old markers.”

lived at ages 4-6, (big stir), all the moving from home to home before I was in 5th grade… my inner sense of personal sovereignty and authority has had its challenges as I feel that speaking in honesty and truth can fucking stir lots of pots. It seems to put people I care for in uncomfortable wonder about my authenticity in relationship to them, cause I’m challenging them.”

“Quite a lot has shifted for me but the one that really stands out is as a 57 year old man who is pretty conservative in physical expression and exercise, I started going to a weekly free form dance and have progressed from slow soulful movement to full on dance machine!”

“Everything about personal awakening resonates, though that started about 3 years ago. Building on that theme now, Uranus seems to be about burning through convention to see what remains, like the alchemical calcination phase, and using what’s left to (re)build something new. This is showing up in my career, which is being guided towards creating a new, spiritually-based business model from what survives the fire.”

“On the 15th my shelf of greenware fell over and every piece broke. My shelf of essential oils came out of the wall; luckily only one bottle broke. I found myself reading about broken vessels, specifically oil bottles and the shards with drops of oil representing light and the connection to everything. But the break through this week, and I think that is what Uranus in Taurus is offering, is that these material things do not matter except for what they represent. Throwing pots is a meditation for me. It is the process that is important, not the creation of the material, but the creation of the spiritual body. Part of my path, it seems, is renunciation or detachment to the material plane. Creation of the spiritual body is most important.  I also learned that you cannot have a loving connection to others without a loving connection with God/creator.”

Beltane New Moon Coming May 4

The Beltane New Moon on May 4 is an intriguing chart. I’ll have more to say about it in Monday morning’s edition, and in the upcoming Planet Waves FM (where I will continue my coverage of the Special Counsel’s report, and ignoring the presidential race). The horoscope below is based on the Beltane chart — shown in the graphic below.

With love, Eriv

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[ndlawyers]

recipe for turnabout liveblog

so right off the bat i'm seeing in my walkthrough that maggey byrde is the defendant. oh great. i have nothing against her character but i hate that she and gumshoe are hinted to be romantically involved or at least share feelings for one another. gumshoe is a gay man and i feel very strongly about this

phoenix wright impersonator??

the second man (the killer or whatever) looks suspiciously like phoenix in silhouette. if hes not an evil twin then who is he?

oh great the gay stereotype guy. i really don't know much about gay stereotypes in japan but this is certainly a different breed of homophobic stereotype than the american flavor

why can't we just use the magatama maya always wears? or is only the one pearl gave us magic?

not only is gumshoe definitely gay (its my headcanon which means its correct), but he's significantly older than maggie! (32 and 23 is a big experience and maturity gap) gross! i hate this ship even more! fuck the phoenix wright writer people for this one!

glen elg's name is a palindrome. not sure if that's significant or just for fun

orange is so not maya's color

what's in the bottle? poison, perhaps? the plot thickens

so this is our odd phoenix impersonator. how is he...orange? i like his pink scooter though

this old guy probably keeps coming back to the restaurant because he's a perv. i don't like this guy. also, those dresses really aren't showing much of anything. imagine being scandalized by that

what idiot lent armstrong half a million? i don't think that was a very good financial decision

phoenix! i know you need kudo to talk, but dont bring maya out just so he can be creepy about waitress uniforms! gross!

i am begging the people who make these games to stop sexualizing mia so much. i know i know boobs or whatever and yes she is hot im bi and have eyes but cmon

i feel a little bad for armstrong but he did steal from people and did have what might be a poison bottle in his kitchen so the jurys out on this guy

fr how did they think that guy was phoenix

have we ever had to choose NOT to press harder on a statement in these games? lol

WHY DIDNT GUMSHOE TELL US ANY OF THIS INFORMATION

i know you're not necessarily rational when your life in on the line in court, but why is maggey mad at gumshoe? he is legally obligated to present the evidence

victor kudo's nose is starting to disturb me...it looks like some kind of boil...are u okay sir

kudo and the judge cant be that far apart in age. why is kudo more of a boomer

i think that phoenix could pull off that waitress uniform for sure

i just realized kudo is wearing a sleeveless top which is sort of funny to me. the weird thing though is why does it have the hiragana for nu on it?

well that was a weird day at trial. still dont see how this changes the amount of evidence against maggey. sure kudo is unreliable, but we havent even established the presence of the second person yet

that girl is scary

the mob?? well that took an interesting turn

i know medical care is ridiculously expensive, but are there really million dollar procedures? maybe im being naive, though

i feel a bit bad for viola. she can't help the family environment she was born into, and its depressing that she really wanted to believe that tigre saved her because he cared about her. i'm guessing shes an accomplice in the poisoning, but tigre planned the whole thing

this is a very complicated murder plan, but it is ace attorney, after all. what would an ace attorney case be without like 50 logistically insane twists?

adhd gumshoe rights?

oh shit its all coming together

WHY DID ANYONE THINK THAT THIS GUY WAS PHOENIX

GUMSHOE'S HERE

why was there a random blackout. also cool that godot's mask glows. im still not a huge fan of his character though

i think maggey is being a jerk to gumshoe but maybe im just hetphobic if the writers were real ones shed be gay

anyway that was a wild case. i had fun but still i dont think its one of my favorites. i wonder what happened to violetta she was my favorite character from this case i think

aaaand finally we're done with the filler cases (i like the filler cases don't get me wrong, but i really just miss edgeworth and i assume he'll return in case 4 or 5)

[digthe60s]

1963

The biggest news from 1963 was the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, which thrust Lyndon B. Johnson into the role of president. The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was murdered two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. This was a difficult time to become president, with the mounting troubles in Vietnam where the Viet Cong Guerrillas had now killed 80 American advisers. The continued campaign for civil rights by the black community caused violent reactions from whites in places such as Mississippi, Virginia, and Alabama, where the black civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested. Films included The Birds and The Great Escape, and popular TV programs The Virginian and Lassie. Women’s fashion and hairstyles included fur boots and towering hairdos for evening wear. In music, it was the beginning of Beatlemania, after the release of Meet the Beatles.

Major events

• U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

• The Beatles release the single “I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There” and the album Meet the Beatles, which marks the beginning of Beatlemania.

• The Soviet Union launches the Vostok 6 spacecraft, carrying Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.

• The Profumo Crisis happens in the UK, caused by war minister John Profumo having an affair with Christina Wheeler, who was also involved with a Soviet Navy officer.

• ZIP codes are implemented in the U.S.

• NASA’s Mercury Mission, carrying astronaut Gordon Cooper, launches from Cape Canaveral.

• Studebaker, the U.S. carmaker, goes out of business and ends production.

• The U.S. senate approves the PTBT (Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty).

• Korea returns to civilian rule.

• American Express introduces credit cards in the UK.

• An earthquake in Libya destroys the village of Barce, leaving 500 dead.

• An earthquake in Ssrikes Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroys 80% of the city.

• Bloodless military coup deposes President George Papadopoulos.

• Typhoon Olive, with 110mph winds, destroys most of the homes on the island of Saipan.

• The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, known as “The Rock”, closes.

• Hurricane Flora, a massive storm, kills 6,000 in Haiti, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, and Grenada.

• First Beeching report suggests closing 25% of British rail.

• The polio vaccine, which is taken with a lump of sugar, is given nationwide in the U.S. and UK.

• Kenya gains independence from Britain.

• In the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, it is ruled that a fair trial “cannot be realized if the poor man charged with [the] crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.”

• Members of the Ku Klux Klan dynamite the Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 4 young girls and causing wide public outrage and condemnation across the U.S.

• A hurricane and resulting tsunami cause a flooding in East Pakistan, Bangladesh, killing 22,000.

• The Indiana State Fair Coliseum explosion kills 74.

• World religious status is determined to be 890 million Christians, 365 million Hindus, 200 million Buddhists, and 13 million Jews.

• Nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Thresher sinks in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Student riots break out all over Coro and Valencia, in Venezuela.

• Pope John XXIII dies on June 3. Pope Paul VI is elected by College of Cardinals.

• The U.S. and the Soviet Union agree to establish a “hot line” on June 20, a direct communication system between the two nations to prevent a possible nuclear war.

• The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England.

• The first U.S. state lottery opens in New Hampshire.

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech.

• James Meredith becomes the first African-American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

• The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me.

• The first episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast.

• Bob Dylan walks off The Ed Sullivan Show.

Top 10 highest-grossing films in the U.S.

1. Cleopatra (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

2. How the West Was Won (dir. John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall)

3. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (dir. Stanley Kramer)

4. Tom Jones (dir. Tony Richardson)

5. Irma la Douce (dir. Billy Wilder)

6. The Sword in the Stone (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)

7. Son of Flubber (dir. Robert Stevenson)

8. The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

9. Dr. No (dir. Terence Young)

10. The V.I.P.s (dir. Anthony Asquith)

Billboard’s number-one music albums (in chronological order)

1. “The First Family” by Vaughn Meader

2. “My Son, the Celebrity” by Allan Sherman

3. “Jazz Samba” by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd

4. “Songs I Sing on the Jackie Gleason Show” by Frank Fontaine

5. “Days of Wine and Roses” by Andy Williams

6. “Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius” by Stevie Wonder

7. “My Son, the Nut” by Allan Sherman

8. “Peter, Paul and Mary” by Peter, Paul and Mary

9. “In the Wind” by Peter, Paul and Mary

10. “The Singing Nun” by Soeur Sourire, the Singing Nun

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[howaminotinthestrokesyet]

Music Landmarks Tour: Bars and Hotels

The Rainbow Bar and Grill

The Sunset Strip has always been well known for its connection to the music world. Many of the bars and clubs located on that street have a place in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, and none was bigger than the Rainbow Bar and Grill. The bar was founded in 1972 by Lou Adler, Mario Maglieri and others. This quickly became a place for celebrities to hang out at as evidenced by the fact on it’s opening night a party was held there for Elton John. John Belushi would eat his last meal there. Before it was the Rainbow, this location was a restaurant owned by Judy Garland and Vincent Minelli. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe had their first date there. The bar soon became the number one spot on the strip for rock and roll celebrities including Keith Moon, Harry Nelson, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Mickey Dolenz, Keith Moon, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and many more. Motorhead front man Lemmey Klimster practically lived there sitting at the end of the bar playing the video poker machine. The bar would also change its regulars as the music changed. Members of Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue, WASP, Poison all became frequent customers at the Rainbow in the 1980’s. Guns N’ Roses would go on to mention the bar in the songs “Estranged,” “November Rain,” and “Don’t Cry.” The place was filled with groupies for all of these bands. A number of the waitresses would end up being groupies also. The rock band Rainbow was actually named after the bar. I have drank in this place. The sense that I got as we stood in this room was that I was being stared at by this huge biker. People were trying to figure out whether I was a nobody or somebody.

The Green Mill

The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago first opened in 1907. Its original name was Pop Morse’s Roadhouse, but was changed to the Green Mill Gardens in 1910. The name was a reference to Moulin Rouge in Paris. During the days of Prohibition, Machine Gun Jack McGurn became part owner of the establishment. He was a member of Al Capone’s outfit organization. Performer Joe E. Lewis would later refuse to perform at the Green Mill, which led to his brutal death having his throat slashed. This would be later dramatized in the film, The Jokers Wild. Al Capone had a favorite seat in the bar, which still exists to this day offering views of both the front and back entrance. Underneath the bar, there was also an escape hatch, which led to a tunnel that came out to another building nearby. As time went on, the Green Mill hosted quite a few jazz icons of the day including Billie Holiday. The bar also became home to one of the country’s first poetry slams, which was held for the most part on Sunday nights. The bar has been featured in numerous films mostly in the 1990’s including VI Warshawsky and Prelude to a Kiss. The reason for placing a jazz club in this list is personal. The Green Mill was always the place to go after any concert at the Aragon or the Riviera on a weekend. There would always be a long line waiting to get in there after the show. Most of the time, I would not even wait in line, but instead head over to the Uptown Lounge. The Green Mill was usually too packed to warrant spending any time there.

Memory Motel

In 1976, the Rolling Stones released a song entitled “Memory Motel” on the album, Black and Blue. The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Jagger wrote the lyrics in 1975 while staying at Andy Warhol’s house in Montauk, New York (Long Island). The motel is an actual one located there as well. The history of Mick Jagger and this motel was very brief. He only visited the bar at the motel once. A husband and wife, who owned the bar, did not really like him that much. Rumor has it that all the members of the Rolling Stones did not particularly like the motel either, but they only liked the name of the motel. Jagger found it to be quite poetic. Anyone can stay there as it still exists as an inexpensive, mom and pop motel. If you do not wish to stay there, you can still visit the same bar that Jagger drank at back in 1975. If you look at pictures of the motel, except for this connection to the Rolling Stones, I could see very little reason to attract people to stay there.

Joshua Tree Inn

If you enjoy slightly more morbid rock and roll history, you could stay at the Joshua Tree Inn in San Bernardino County, California near Joshua Tree National Park. This is the hole in the wall motel where country rock legend Gram Parsons died in 1973. Who you may ask? He was a member of the Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and the founder of American Cosmic Music. The latter was a hybrid music style combining country, r and b, rock, and folk. The Rolling Stones started to dabble in country on the album, Exile on Main Street primarily because they had met Graham Parsons. He died in Room 8 in an avalanche of drugs and alcohol. Anyone can stay in the room where he met his end. You can also stay in the Donovan Suite, which was the famous singer’s room of choice when he stayed there with his wife. In the 1970’s, he had decided to basically quit music altogether and moved to the Joshua Tree area to raise his family. The National Park is a good spot anyway because many musicians have found inspiration there including John Lennon, Keith Richards, Jim Morrison, and U2.

Continental Hyatt House

The Continental Hyatt House is a hotel located on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. If you remember the film Almost Famous, the character William Miller and Penny Lane go there to meet with Stillwater. The hotel has received the nickname over the years as the Riot House because of the outrageous behavior from many musicians over the years. The hotel was first opened in 1963 by Gene Autry, but three years later it was sold to Hyatt, which changed the name to the Continental Hyatt House. One of the primary attractions of the hotel was its close proximity to clubs on the Sunset Strip like the Whiskey A Gogo. Currently, the hotel is called the Andaz West Hollywood, but it is still owned by Hyatt. Led Zeppelin would often rent as many as six floors in the 1970’s when they stayed there. Legend has it that John Bonham would drive his motorcycle up and down the hallways. Truth be told, this was probably manager Richard Cole. In 1972, Keith Richards threw a television out the window in Room 1015. Keith Moon would later do the same thing from his room. Slipknot lead singer Corey Taylor attempted suicide here in 2003. The late Little Richard actually lived at the hotel for most of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Jim Morrison was living there for a time, but he was evicted after being found hanging outside his window. One change that has been made with the recent renovations is there are no longer any balconies to throw televisions over. The balconies have been changed to glass enclosed sunrooms.

[cursedlangmore]

quick lil tag drop

[wiadomosciprasowe]

Fordobling av aktiv dødshjelp-tilfeller i Belgia

https://www.y6.no/fordobling-av-aktiv-dodshjelp-tilfeller-i-belgia/

Fordobling av aktiv dødshjelp-tilfeller i Belgia

Dato: 12-02-2016 14:00 CET Opprinnelig tittel på pressemeldingen: Fordobling av aktiv dødshjelp-tilfeller i Belgia Kategori: , Eldreomsorg Event Helseorganisasjoner Medisinsk forskning Menneskerettigheter Lokal/regional påvirkning Familiespørsmål Kriminalitet, rettsvesen og juss Politikk Mental helse

En ny undersøkelse viser at antall tilfeller av aktiv dødshjelp har fordoblet seg fra 2010 til 2015. Det fortalte nettavisen Daily Mail nylig. For fem år siden fikk 954 personer hjelp til å ta sitt eget liv, mens i fjor var dette tallet 2 021. Da dødshjelp-praksisen ble tillatt i 2003 var det i underkant av 300 personer som fikk hjelp til å dø.

Lars Johan Materstvedt er professor i filosofi ved NTNU. Han har særlig arbeidet med medisinsk-etiske problemstillinger ved livets slutt, inkludert intervjuet dødssyke kreftpasienter om eutanasi. Materstvedt er ikke overrasket over tallene, men sier at utviklingen er forventet.

– Dette er helt som ventet og naturlig. Når et “helsetilbud” som dette kommer på banen, øker også etterspørselen. Dette bekrefter min påstand om at legalisering leder til institusjonalisering, som igjen ender opp med en normalisering av praksisen, sier han.

Materstvedt poengterer at drivmotoren til det vi nå ser er økt individualisme.

– Man får ikke etablert en slik praksis med mindre kulturen og konteksten praksisen settes inn i, er preget av retten til selvbestemmelse, hevder han. 

Belgia ble i 2014 det mest liberale landet i Europa da de åpnet for at barn også kunne få innvilget aktiv dødshjelp. Det viser seg også at flere med depresjon og personer som ikke befinner seg i en terminal fase også får aktiv dødshjelp i Belgia. I 2012 fikk de døve tvillingene Marc og Eddy Verbessem (45) innvilget sitt ønske om å dø fordi de begge var på vei til å bli blinde. Byrden av å ikke kunne se eller høre hverandre var for stor til at de ønsket å fortsette å leve.

Liv Kjersti S. Thoresen leder livsvernorganisasjonen Menneskeverd som jobber daglig med informasjon og spørsmål knyttet til aktiv dødshjelp. Thoresen mener dødshjelp degraderer menneskeverdet i de sårbare fasene av livet.

– Ved å gjøre dødshjelp tilgjengelig for noen, vil det trolig endre hvordan syke og eldre ser på seg selv og sin situasjon. Pleietrengende, alvorlig syke og eldre mennesker kan da fort føle seg som en byrde, både for samfunn og familie. Det er ikke et slikt signal vi ønsker å gi til mennesker i en sårbar livssituasjon, sier hun.

Hun er i midlertid glad for at norske politikere ser viktigheten av å ikke innføre en slik praksis her i Norge.

– Jeg er trygg på at norske politikere på tvers av partiene fortsatt vil sette ned foten for en slik praksis. At man heller jobber for å kvalitetssikre den palliative omsorgen og helsehjelpen for alvorlig syke og døende er viktig for å sikre verdigheten til mennesker i sluttfasen av livet, sier hun.

Illustrasjonsfoto: iStock photos

Kilde: Pressekontor Menneskeverd – PRESSEMELDING –

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Hashtags: # #Eldreomsorg Event Helseorganisasjoner Medisinsk forskning Menneskerettigheter Lokal/regional påvirkning Familiespørsmål Kriminalitet, rettsvesen og juss Politikk Mental helse omsorg eutanasi belgia Menneskeverd eldre Thoresen aktiv dødshjelp livshjelp palliasjon sårbare

[soelvfisk]

Jeg vågner. Min krop sanser på en helt anden måde. Er tilstede forrest i min hjerne. Lige bag mine øjne. I mine hænder. Langs mine skuldre. Der er stille.

Jeg har en følelse af at skulle blive parat. Alt hvad det indebærer. Står op og sætter vand over til kaffe oppe i køkkenet. Kæler for hund på gulvet indtil elkedlen bipper.

Åbner døren til haven. Det er mærkelig at jeg skal forlade dette hus. At vi skal. Min families hjem. Som stopper med at være min families hjem. I går betød det mest for mig at berolige mine forældre. Lige nu føles det vigtigst at forstå hvordan jeg egentligt har det med det de fortalte mig.

Verden føles helt anderledes. Tit når store ting sker, er det som om jeg ser det hele oppefra. Og ikke indefra. Græd slet ikke. Det føltes ikke som en nyhed jeg kunne eller skulle eller ville vurdere. For det handlede ikke om nyheden. Det handlede om os. Om at jeg er mine forældres barn. Om at være familie selvom det bliver på en ny måde. Om konfrontationen med at der er masser af liv tilbage. Min mor med en afklarethed og min far med en frygt. Selvfølgelig meget mere nuanceret end det. Jeg var midt i min egen kerne lige dér. Alle mine ord stod med klare lyseblå blokbogstaver i min krop. Udsprang af en ømhed. Alt hvad de er. Alt hvad de kommer af. Og det der skal ske nu. Ingen skyld, bare et fælles ansvar. Ingens byrde alene, men noget vi kan være fælles om at bære. Ingen vrede, kun en form for bekymring. Fordi det er omstændigt og fordi jeg ved at det bliver meget hårdt.

Nu hænger jeg oppe under loftet og kigger ned på mig selv. Der drikker kaffe. Zoomer længere ud. Kigger ned på huset og tænker, at hvor mon de så ender med at bo. Og hvor mon jeg ender med at bo. Kigger på min søsters åbne dør. Hun ved det ikke endnu. Kigger på hund. Uvidende og glad i fuld spurt henover verdens bedste græsplæne.

Tænker i et splitsekund på, om de mon var blevet sammen, hvis ikke jeg var flyttet hjem. Hvis nu jeg kunne glemme alt det dårlige og blive rask. Hvis jeg var blevet i København. Eller hvis jeg aldrig var taget afsted. Jeg ved at den ængstelighed er noget jeg må tale med dem om. Og min psyk. Går ikke i panik. Men får den der tunge blå følelse i brystet. Fugtige øjne. Mest har jeg det, som det er: to voksne mennesker der har taget et svært valg. Og jeg er deres voksne barn. Og jeg er her. Og nu drikker jeg kaffe. For der er ikke andet at gøre, end at blive parat. Efter bedste evne.

[marymosley]

Sen. Hawley Calls For Federal Civil Rights Probe Over McCloskey Investigation

Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley has called upon Attorney General Bill Barr to launch a federal civil rights investigation of the St. Louis couple who wielded guns outside of their house during a protest in their gated community.  I have previously written about the possible charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey and expressed my skepticism over the apparent effort of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner to find a criminal charge.  However, Attorney General Barr should decline this request from Sen. Hawley.  There is no civil rights violation in this investigation.  Indeed, while I thought the charges could be defeated in trial or on appeal, I previously wrote that the vague criminal provisions could be used to bring a charge.  The issue turns on how the guns were used.  While I find the criminal provisions to be vague and the application in this case to be unwarranted, it is not a civil rights violation to advance such an interpretation of the law.

Hawley maintains that Garnder is violating the Second Amendment by “targeting” the couple: “This is an unacceptable abuse of power and threat to the Second Amendment and I urge you to consider a federal civil rights investigation into the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office to determine whether this investigation and impending prosecution violates this family’s constitutional rights.”

We previously discussed how Missouri law has countervailing laws that support the McCloskeys like the Castle Doctrine laws.  Hawley insists that these law as so clear and controlling that they make the motivations of the District Attorney equally clear:

“There is no question under Missouri law that the McCloskeys had the right to own and use their firearms to protect themselves from threatened violence, and that any criminal prosecution for these actions is legally unsound. The only possible motivation for the investigation, then, is a politically motivated attempt to punish this family for exercising their Second Amendment rights.”

Again, I have been critical of the basis for the proposed charges against the McCloskeys but these are broad countervailing statutes that are routinely subject to expansive interpretations by both prosecutors and defense attorneys.  The question is whether, if a court agreed that the couple was threatening people on the street, there could be a legitimate charge.  The answer is yes.  That does not make it a legitimate case in the absence of such evidence and the underlying statutes have vague elements that could allow for challenges.  However, that type of interpretative disagreement is not ordinarily the basis for civil rights charges.

The Justice Department clearly has the authority to investigate the violation of constitutional rights, but the specific basis for such an investigation is not clearly stated in the letter below.

The Second Amendment could be claimed as falling with the the Justice Department’s guidelines for the reporting of violations “based on … race, color, national origin, disability status, sex, religion, familial status, or loss of other constitutional rights.”  Some investigations of state prisons or offices generally involve constitutional violations though often with a gender or race discrimination element. The Justice Department recently moved to protect free speech rights on campuses.

However, it is not stated as the focus of common references to “civil rights investigations” as illustrated in the Civil Division’s statement that it “enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status and national origin.” It is also not included in Title VI’s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin by recipients of Federal financial assistance or the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended (Crime Control Act).

Here is how the FBI defines the scope of its mandate:

“The FBI investigates violations of federal civil rights statutes and supports the investigations of state and local authorities in certain cases. Federal civil rights violations fall into several categories: hate crimes motivated by bias against such characteristics as race, religion, national origin, and sexual orientation; color of law crimes involving law enforcement and related criminal justice professionals’ misuse of their right to discretion, such as use of excessive force or police misconduct; involuntary servitude or slavery; violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act; the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act; the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act; and violations of human trafficking statutes included as part or the Trafficking Victims Protection Rights Act. The FBI’s civil rights investigations are separate from Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations, although EEOC regulations are enforced within the agency.”

Putting aside the specific office and basis for the investigation, I simply do not believe that this would make for a compelling foundation for such an investigation.  Indeed, much of the criticism of Gardner is that she is acting for a base political purpose.  That is a common complaint against elected prosecutors.  Yet, the Justice Department has been a long defender of “prosecutorial discretion” on the use of the laws.  The point is that these laws do not clearly bar such charges, even if the motivation and foundation are legitimately questioned.  We would not want the Justice Department investigating every case where a prosecutor took an excessively broad interpretation of a statute absent a pattern of targeting constitutional rights.  The Supreme Court has allowed for “reasonable” limitations on the right to bear arms.  It is still working through the scope of such reasonable limits.  It is unlikely to reject the basis for a criminal law that bars the threatening use of lawful arms in public.  That leaves an interpretative or “as applied” controversy in cases like this one.  Finally, the St. Louis case is currently at the investigative stage so any move at this time would be likely viewed as a premature.

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Here is the Hawley letter to Barr:

Dear Attorney General Barr:

As you are well aware, the country is facing a moment of significant public unrest and discord. As many Americans are peacefully exercising their constitutional rights to free speech and protest throughout the country, still others are exploiting this moment as an opportunity to sow violence and destruction. Too often, peaceful demonstrations have devolved into tense standoffs or violent riots, with threats and attacks on businesses, innocent bystanders, and law enforcement officers.

One such incident occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, where a family reportedly faced a mass of demonstrators trespassing on their property and threatening them. When help from the police or from nearby security failed to arrive, this family, the McCloskeys, did what any reasonable person would do: they retrieved their lawfully owned firearms and defended their property and their lives. The confrontation was resolved with no one being hurt.

Unfortunately, this family is facing new threats, not from demonstrators but from the local government. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is now threatening to prosecute not the trespassers, but the McCloskeys, and she is using the powers of her office to target them. Her office has seized their firearms, and police have applied for warrants in the case, with an indictment believed to be imminent.1

This is an unacceptable abuse of power and threat to the Second Amendment, and I urge you to consider a federal civil rights investigation into the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office to determine whether this investigation and impending prosecution violates this family’s constitutional rights. There is no question under Missouri law that the McCloskeys had the right to own and use their firearms to protect themselves from threatened violence, and that any criminal prosecution for these actions is legally unsound. The only possible motivation for the investigation, then, is a politically motivated attempt to punish this family for exercising their Second Amendment rights. Indeed, this is part of a troubling pattern of politically motivated prosecutorial decisions by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney, who has not seen fit to prosecute many violent offenders, 2 and who has expressed hostility to gun rights in the past. 3 Recently, reports indicate that she declined to pursue charges against dozens of individuals arrested during a weekend of riots in the city.4

The Second Amendment is not a second-class right. No family should face the threat of harassment or malicious prosecution for exercising that right. The Department of Justice must ensure that all Americans’ rights are protected from this kind of abuse of power. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Josh Hawley U.S. Senator

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Investering i langvarig pleje, del II

Artiklen jeg skrev om Long Term Care (LTC) genererede nok svar til at få en opfølgning. Jeg er klar over, at jeg skal give to artikler til at behandle mange spørgsmål. Den første går over nogle af de punkter, jeg forsøgte at gøre i den første artikel mere detaljeret, og den endelige viser nogle af funktionerne og mulighederne, hvis man overvejer at købe en LTC politik. … Det første jeg vil sige er, at disse oplysninger er fra min ven, der er pensioneret fra økonomisk planlægning i 6 år, mener jeg, at han stadig er strøm nok til at tilbyde oplysninger, som forhåbentlig vil gavne dig og opfordre nogle af jer til at overveje, om Det er noget du skal lære mere om. Hovedpunktet i den første artikel var at sige, at jeg ved, at ingen vil købe noget, der er dyrt, når det, de ønsker, er at nyde deres pensionering og måske bruge de samme penge, der rejser, på deres hobby osv. Jeg håbede at opmuntre dem af dig unge nok og med de økonomiske ressourcer til at tænke på køb i en alder af 40 eller deromkring i stedet for at vente, indtil du er 70 år gammel (på hvilket tidspunkt du måske ikke kvalificerer), selv om du ikke tror, at du ville have brug for det indtil du var mindst 70 år gammel To grunde til dette er, at mange flere mennesker har brug for de fordele og hjælp i tidligere aldre (45 eller 50), end du kunne forestille dig, og at præmierne bliver så dyre, hvis du venter på at købe ved f.eks. 65 år. Jeg har lavet økonomisk planlægning for omkring 5 år med råd fra min ven havde jeg begrænset viden om LTC, da min ven købte sin politik, var han 56 år gammel. Hans første tankegang var, fordi han var i fremragende sundhed, han ville ikke have brug for dette i mange år, så han ville gamble og spare på at betale disse præmier i 10 år eller deromkring. Min mentor i LTC overbeviste mig om, at det var smart at købe i den tidligste alder, jeg havde råd til det på grund af den enorme præmieforskel, som vi alder, og hvad vi troede, at sundhedsomkostningerne ville være 10 år i fremtiden (vi var begge også lavt), det faktum, at han troede, at han ville leve i mindst 85 år, og at der ikke var nogen garanti for nogen af os, at vi ikke ville have brug for pleje i en alder af 60 år. Lad mig kaste nogle LTC statistikker på dig som følger: 1. Hvis du bor i 65 år, siger oddsene, at du vil leve op til 84 år. 2. Over 65% af alle amerikanere vil have brug for en slags LTC i deres levetid 3. Hvis en person lever til 65 år, er der en 44% chance for at han / hun vil komme op i et plejehjem. 4. For et par begge dreje 65, er der en 75% chance for at en af dem skal bruge LTC. 5. Femoghalvfems procent (59%) af den voksne befolkning i USA enten nu eller forventer at blive familieleder. De to fælles myter, jeg var nødt til at overvinde, da jeg talte til nogen om LTC var nummer et, som “min familie vil tage sig af mig”. Virkeligheden er, at børn har andre ansvar; de har begrænsede familieressourcer med hensyn til tid, økonomi, dygtighed og geografiske begrænsninger. “Min ægtefælle vil tage sig af mig”. Han / hun tror måske, at de kan gøre dette, men hvor mange gange har du set en koneomsorg for manden til sige 2-3 år og være i så dårlig form som manden på grund af byrden på hende. Den anden myte er, at alt andet fejler, regeringen vil være der som et sikkerhedsnet. Lad mig forsikre dig, at regeringen ikke har eller har råd til at tage sig af vores LTC-behov. Jeg forsøgte at pege på denne myte i min første artikel. De to muligheder er Medicare og Medicaid. For Medicare at betale plejehjem koster du skal have været indlagt i 3 dage, være i en “Medicare Approved” facilitet, der er “Kompetent Care” ikke “Custodial Care.” Faglig pleje tegner sig for mindre end 5% af alle sådanne faciliteter. Hvis du møder disse forhindringer, vil Medicare betale 100% i de første 20 dage. Dage 21 til 100 betaler de alt over din co-pay (jeg beklager, at jeg ikke har et nuværende nummer, den sidste jeg har er $ 114 for 2005.) Dette siger du betaler Jeg er sikker på at den nu er over $ 120 per dag i 80 dage. På dag 101 betaler du alle omkostninger, de betaler nul. Den anden mulighed, Medicaid er endnu værre. Det er gjort på en statslig basis. I Oklahoma er du forpligtet til at “bruge” dine aktiver til $ 2000. Der er begrænsninger, der går tilbage i 5 år med hensyn til gaveartikler for at komme til $ 2000.figuren. Der er ofte en venteliste for at komme ind i en facilitet, og du har ingen kontrol over, hvilken facilitet du er placeret i. Jeg kender en familie, hvor moren blev placeret over 300 miles fra hjemmet til det nærmeste barn. Efter min mening er dine valgmuligheder som følger: 1. Gør intet (håber problemet går væk) 2. Vær meget rigelig (selvsikker) 3. Vær meget dårlig (brug ned til fattigdomsniveauet) 4. Køb LTC Forsikring eller en Hybrid Plan (Overfør noget eller hele Risikoen) Fordele og ulemper ved langvarig pleje. ULEMPER: 1. For dyrt 2. Krymp mit budget 3. Ingen Retur af Premium 4. Ingen langfristet garanti Fordele: 1. Bevar kontrol og uafhængighed 2. Finansiel sikkerhed, Udlev ikke dine aktiver 3. Undgå “velfærd” 4. Ikke en byrde for din ægtefælle og / eller børn 5. Kunne kvalificere nu 6. God politik med en fremragende virksomhed 7. Det vil aldrig være mindre dyrt end det er i dag Min sidste artikel (Investering i langvarig pleje, del III) vil forhåbentlig rette op på noget, jeg har misforstået eller mangler, dækker de forskellige beslutninger, der skal træffes om de flere muligheder, som de fleste politikker har. Hvis der er spørgsmål, ville jeg forsøge at besvare dem efter min næste artikel i en uge eller deromkring. Tak, det er altid godt at opdatere din hukommelse om noget, du tror på.

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I dag overvejede jeg at begå selvmord. Det er ikke første gang at den tanke har strejfet mig.

Det er faktisk en tanke som hyppigt har strejfet mig gennem mine teenageår og tidlige voksne liv.

Jeg lever i en konstant form for trance, hvor jeg overarbejder mig selv, hælder alt min livsglæde og kærlighed ud i mit arbejde, uddannelse og venskaber.

Når jeg vender hjem til min tomme lejlighed føler jeg mig så tom inden i. Intet overskud.

For to år siden plejede der at være en som bød mig velkommen hjem. Det er så længe siden, at jeg har glemt, hvordan det føltes.

Det eneste jeg ser i min lejlighed er skyggerne af minderne om ting der engang fandt sted her.

Jeg græder mig tit i søvne. Fuld af længsel, elendighed og enormt stor ensomhed. Det æder mig op inde fra og det er nok årsagen til, at jeg har denne her uendelige træng til at komme væk og begrave mig selv i arbejde.

Det er en form for lammelse. At blive så udmattet fysisk og mentalt, at jeg ikke kan tænke på andet end, hvor træt jeg er. Så behøver jeg ikke hele tiden at blive mindet om, hvor stort tomrummet i mig er.

Jeg forsøger at se de positive aspekter og anerkende, hvor privilegeret og heldigt stående jeg er, i forhold til andre mennesker.

Det ændrer ikke på min sorg. Den river til sig og trækker mig ned i et mørke, som er blevet til en sovepude. Den omfavner mig som et kært lille barn i sin mors favn, vugger mig i søvne og forsvinder ikke, når jeg står op.

Det gør det svært at stole på andre mennesker. Venner som siger, at de vil være der for én, men som ikke er dér når det gælder.

Jeg fortalte om mine svagheder og blev bebrejdet for ikke at gøre nok. Jeg åbnede op om mit traume og blev bebrejdet for ikke at komme videre. Jeg stolede blindt på mennesker jeg holdte af, og gang på gang blev jeg svigtet.

Det gør mig træt. Træt af at prøve at holde af nogen, træt af at forsøge at stole på nogen, træt af at indvie nogen i hvad der foregår emotionelt i mig. Det er svært at forklare, svært at sætte ord på. Folk har så travlt, bliver utålmodige og vrede.

Vrede, så meget vrede.

Jeg mærker det i andre, og jeg mærker det i mig selv. Jeg mærker det i den svigt, i den utroværdighed, i bebrejdelsen. Det er nemmere bare at skubbe væk. Og jeg skubber og skubber og skubber.

Jeg kan ikke overskue det. Det giver alligevel ikke nogen mening at prøve eller blive ved. Det er nemt. Nemt ikke at holde kontakt, nemt at blive glemt, nemt bare at fordufte til ingenting.

Jeg forestiller mig at det må være rart at blive til ingenting. En enorm byrde der må blive løftet af alles skuldre. Ingen behøver nogen sinde bekymrer sig om mig længere, hverken mig selv eller andre. Den ultimative lyksalighed. At ikke være.

Jeg tænker tit på det. Et enkelt styrt fra min altan ville nok godt kunne gøre det.

Jeg har ikke sagt det til nogen. For jeg bliver altid mødt med forargelse og bebrejdelser.

Det er sjovt som man lever i et samfund, hvor den største epidemi er ensomhed, stress, angst og depression. Og alligevel tager ingen det seriøst. Hverken min læge, min psykolog, min familie eller venner. For jeg overlevede jo indtil nu, jeg er jo bange for at tage det næste skridt.

For halvandet år siden skrev jeg mit første selvmordsbrev, uden at vide at det egentlig var det, som det var.

For halvandet år siden levede jeg stadig i troen om at jeg var lykkelig, på trods af at jeg var dybt deprimeret og selvdestruktiv.

I det mindste havde jeg en illusion om, at livet var perfekt og at alt var som det skulle være.

Men så krakkelerede glansbilledet og hele min verden faldt fra hinanden, som tusinde af små splintrede glasskår.

Jeg tror de færreste forstår, hvor lidt jeg havde lyst til at leve. Kun få mennesker så kaosset der skete inde i mig udefra. Kun jeg har set det indvendigt.

Og folk tager én for givet. Jeg tager mine venner, min familie, min status, mit job, min uddannelse, mit liv for givet.

Derfor er det svært at udtrykke, hvor såret, utilfreds og vred jeg bliver. For jeg ved, at jeg selv kan og vil gøre det samme. For vi er kun mennesker, og vi er ikke perfekte.

Det er svært, når man har været sammen med en tyran som har lært én, at man ikke kan stole på andre, ikke engang sig selv. At man ikke behøver andre. At man ikke er god nok og ikke noget værd. Især når han talte til mine indre dæmoner, som har fulgt mig siden jeg var 5.

Det er svært at aflære sig selv vaner, som man har tilegnet sig gennem ens teenageår og tidlige voksen liv. Ikke fordi jeg ikke prøver. Det er bare svært.

Svært fordi nogle dage er værre end andre. Nogle dage skinner solen og jeg har været heldig at få 8 timers søvn, uforstyrret af onde tanker, gråd, længsel, ensomhed og selvmordstanker. Andre dage kan verdenen føltes hård, gold og grå.

Svært fordi nogle venner ikke giver plads til, at man har det svært. Fordi der ikke altid er plads til, at man har en diagnose og symptomer deraf, som er forbundet med skam. Åh så meget skam.

Skam fordi jeg føler mig skyldig over, at jeg ikke bare kan være lykkelig.

Det giver mig lyst til at skrige, men det er svært og skammeligt. Jeg føler mig som et barn, som ikke kan udtrykke mig selv, fordi jeg ikke kan forklare mit tankemønster eller de følelser der går igennem mit følelsesregister.

Fordi jeg ikke kan sige til min bedsteven at jeg er blevet diagnosticeret med svær depression, uden at han svarer ”du er ikke den eneste som har det hårdt” igen. Fordi jeg ikke kan sige til min veninde, at jeg er skuffet over hendes handlinger uden at få bebrejdelser kastet tilbage. Fordi jeg ikke kan åbne op om mine traumer, uden at få kastet beskyldninger og bebrejdelser tilbage i hovedet. Fordi man bliver mødt med et særligt blik, lige så snart man er psykisksyg og går til psykolog. Fordi man ikke bare kan holde op og tage sig sammen og komme videre.

Og jeg prøver. Jeg rejser mig op. Står op hver morgen. Jeg rejser mig op efter jeg er faldet. Gang på gang bliver jeg ved. Jeg kæmper. Jeg giver livet en chance mere. Jeg håber at i morgen bliver bedre. Jeg beder til at i morgen bliver bedre. Men det er rigtig svært.

Svært når man bliver svigtet. Svært når følelserne kommer igen. Svært når livet har budt på en trist dag. Svært når mørket omfavner mig og mine dæmoner hvisker i mit ører.

I dag følte jeg mig ensom og jeg havde ikke en eneste jeg kunne fortælle det til.

Ikke mine forældre. (Fordi de bare ville hente mig hjem og bede mig sove på det)

Ikke min bror. (Fordi jeg ikke vil være til besvær)

Ikke min bedsteven. (Fordi vi ikke har snakket sammen i to måneder)

Ikke mine veninder. (Fordi jeg ikke har lyst til den tillid det kræver)

Ikke nødlinjen. (Fordi jeg ikke har modet til det)

I dag overvejede jeg at begå selvmord. Det er ikke første gang at den tanke har strejfet mig. Men jeg gjorde det ikke.

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Ozark season two is built on a lie, one the audience can see coming from a long way off.

It begins from the premise that Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy Byrde (Laura Linney) will split from the little Ozark resort town they moved to in season one once they’ve built the casino they promised to their various criminal partners. Said casino will help launder money for the Mexican cartel Marty works for, but it will also provide a slightly more legitimate business enterprise for a local crime family, the Snells, whose land will furnish a location for the casino and whose heroin trade might also provide a lucrative side enterprise for the cartel.

This complicated balancing act, with the Byrdes at its center, would seem to set up a second season all about Marty and Wendy trying to keep the casino on track while trying to keep the cartel from stomping on the Snells and the Snells from fucking everything up in a fit of pique. (Darlene Snell, played by Lisa Emery, doesn’t much like “Mexicans,” as she’s fond of pointing out, but she can come up with any number of reasons to stomp on the casino project, some of which she just pulls out of her ass in the moment.)

Yet season two of Ozark is mostly about the Byrdes trying to pretend they’re not characters in a TV show, as Marty and Wendy focus on their plan to split with their two kids for the Gold Coast of Australia once the casino is open, leaving behind whatever mess they’ve created. They give much less attention to their burgeoning criminal empire.

Leaving aside that the Byrdes are frequently the least interesting characters on their own show, perpetually trapped in moral dilemmas prompted by their life of crime (dilemmas you’d really think they would have seen coming had they watched any other crime drama ever made), the audience knows they won’t be leaving anytime soon.

The Byrdes are our point-of-view characters. The story is about their slow descent into outright criminality, juxtaposed with the way said descent changes their family, sometimes for the better (but often for the worse). If they leave the Ozarks, then there is no show.

This is a common thing for an antihero drama to try for a few episodes. The “what if I tried to escape?” story has driven arcs on just about any antihero drama you can think of, though rarely successfully. TV doesn’t handle the moment where the protagonist “refuses the call” well, because it tends to drag out that moment into long bouts of inaction. Thus, in season two of Ozark, the Byrdes are too often reactive protagonists, trying to clean up messes caused by others rather than making new messes of their own.

There are still enough good things going on that I could have written off Ozark season two as competent but ultimately not for me — but for one thing.

Watching any given frame of this series, which has earned Emmy nominations for directing and cinematography, is frequently like looking through a pool of dirty dishwater. So intent on being perceived as serious is Ozark that it never stops to shoot anything in a format other than “ultra-glum.”

Some spoilers follow, mostly in the images, which depict certain situations the characters get into.

Let me explain what I mean by starting with a shot that is, on its face, totally defensible.

Ruth talks to her dad in the Ozark season two premiere. Netflix

I call this image “defensible,” because it more or less makes sense why Ruth’s face would be half in shadow. The scene takes place in a car, in late afternoon, in a place without a lot of light sources other than the sun. If you’re following a naturalistic theory of lighting, you can more or less argue for why Ruth appears to be receding into darkness.

But I pull up this image to give you a rather dramatic example of Ozark’s primary method for lighting scenes featuring human beings. Regardless of where they are, regardless of how much light would be present, they’re always lit so that half of their face is in shadow. I spent season two trying to count times when characters weren’t lit this way, and I never got to 15, across 10 episodes where the shortest installment ran 55 minutes and several ran over an hour.

It’s not just Ruth (the teenage would-be kingpin played by Julia Garner, who was the best thing about season one and is frustratingly wasted in season two), either. It’s every character. They’re all constantly trapped between darkness and light, in a bit of not particularly subtle visual symbolism.

Wendy attends a very important meeting. Netflix Marty makes a choice. Netflix Mason reveals himself. Netflix

Now, again, I could sort of make an argument for any of the above images making sense from the point of view of “there probably would be low light levels in that situation,” especially if you accept that everybody in the Ozarks is turning off lights all of the time to save on their electric bill.

But it’s harder to make that argument for a shot that is set in a hospital room. Have you seen hospital lighting?

You’d think the nurses would turn on more lights. Netflix

Or this shot, set outside, on a sunny day. The sun is literally right behind the subject of the shot, but the director has staged the shot underneath an overhang so that the shadow lies over half the actor’s face.

The sun is right there! Netflix

This is not a problem of any one director, either. The show’s directorial crew includes esteemed Emmy nominees and winners like Alik Sakharov and Phil Abraham and Bateman himself. No, this is just how the show chooses to light every single shot, so that you always know the characters are in a murky moral gray area, caught between their darker selves and their better selves. There’s no attempt to vary this, and everything has a vaguely bluish tint over it, like the whole story takes place at 6:30 am in November.

But all of the above shots are more or less legible. Yeah, I think they’re all kind of silly as visual metaphors, but you can mostly see what’s going on, and a sufficiently skilled actor (and Ozark has plenty of those) will be able to get across just as much with only half their face as with access to their whole expression.

No, the real problems arise when Ozark stages so many of its scenes in ways that downplay visual contrast, leaving almost everything shrouded in shadow, to the point of genuine incomprehension. (At one point in watching season two, my monitor switched off, and it took me a couple of seconds to figure it out. Once I turned it back on, you couldn’t see anything that was happening anyway.)

Like, what are we supposed to make of this …

Ruth wakes up to see her father. Netflix

Or this …

Guys, you can really turn on some lights. Netflix

Or this?

A pieta! I guess? Netflix

Any one of these images might be stunning if it weren’t surrounded by so many other images that looked just like it. The last one, in particular, accompanies an emotionally powerful moment, and seeing this sort of negative image of a pieta could create something incredibly moving. But when everything is suffused with shadow, it’s harder for those moments to stand out.

The shadowy images are so bad they even swallow some of the show’s attempts at visual humor. For example, try to tell me what’s supposed to be funny about this image:

Any guesses? Netflix

The joke is that this would-be tough guy is wearing a shirt that reads “Take a Dam Ride.” Even if you don’t know who the character is, you should be able to spot the silly pun. But Ozark’s visual scheme chokes even that out.

There are some occasionally interesting visuals in Ozark season two, usually involving the sudden eruption of fire (which has a tendency to cast an unearthly but much-needed glow onto everything nearby). And I liked the season’s final image, which uses the flatter lighting of a news photograph to throw everything that’s happened into relief.

But the show’s visuals, too often, feel like a series playing at seriousness via tricks it learned on other, better shows.

This is a big, emotional moment, which would be evident even in a still if we could see the actors’ faces at all. Netflix

I can already hear Ozark fans lining up to say, “So what if it’s dark and moody? I like dark and moody!” Well, let’s take a look at a famous shot from a series Ozark is frequently compared to: Breaking Bad.

Walter White at night. AMC

Notice how much more definitive the contrast in lighting is here. Yes, you lose a bit of Walter’s face to shadow, but you can still see what’s going on, and the string of lights behind him acts as an effective visual counterpoint to the dark things he’s doing. This is a scene, set at night, that immediately tells you everything you need to know about who Walter is and what he’s doing. And if you know the series, you’ll understand that even better.

What’s more, not all of Breaking Bad was lit like this! In fact, here’s a shot from the very same episode as the shot from above, the classic “Ozymandias” (directed by Rian Johnson).

Skyler’s life falls apart. AMC

Look how powerful that shot is because of the contrast between Skyler’s raging emotions and the starkness of daylight. Her whole life has fallen apart, and the unyielding sun is going to make sure you see every iota of her grief.

But I could point to literally any other great antihero drama and find the sort of visual contrast above. Yes, they all had scenes that took place in darkness and shadow, to great effect, and they all had scenes that seemed to take place in an eerie, autumnal chill. But they also had scenes in contrast to those, where the lights are so bright that you can’t look away from the devastation onscreen.

This sort of visual discontinuity is important to an audience’s experience of a filmed story. When everything looks the same, your brain tends to slide down into a rut of numbing familiarity. Effective filmmakers use visual discontinuity, then, to jar your brain out of that complacency, to make you sit up and take notice. (The great YouTube essayist Lindsay Ellis has a wonderful video on just this topic, covering the Transformers franchise, which has a similar problem to Ozark but in an opposite direction — there, the movies have too much going on in every frame.)

Going from dark to light, from action to inaction, from cacophony to stillness are all ways to keep viewers engaged and invested. Making sure everything is muted and coolly blue is a great way to simply trick the brain into guzzling down more episodes without really thinking about what it’s watching, at least not until moving on to the next thing. It’s a way to make what’s being offered seem like it has weight, without actually doing anything weighty.

The illusion of depth without any actual there there is an Ozark specialty. By the end of season two, it’s dragged itself to exactly where you’d think it would go, and racked up quite a body count (also proving it hasn’t really learned the lessons of the shows that came before it, which did their best to hold off on killing major characters). But none of it feels as if it has any meaning beyond getting from the end of season one to the start of season three. It’s a bridge to nowhere that keeps building itself right in front of you.

Tricking viewers’ brains into continuing to just watch stuff without really engaging with it is typical of this streaming era, and especially typical of Netflix, which too often settles for shows that have the appearance of quality without actually trying to do anything worth watching. They might not be good, but so long as they look good and feature good actors and have the sorts of plot turns you’d find in better shows, your brain might think they’re just good enough to keep going.

This is the specialty of Ozark, which is admittedly not the worst show on the air, or on Netflix. But there are few shows that make me feel more like a sucker once I’ve finished watching.

Ozark is streaming on Netflix.

Original Source -> Ozark’s muddy season 2, explained in 11 incomprehensible screenshots

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Financial Misconduct in Utah Divorce Cases

What is financial misconduct?  In Utah, it is a basis upon which an Utah divorce court can make a distributive award.  

Consider this:

If a spouse has engaged in financial misconduct, including, but not limited to, the dissipation, destruction, concealment, nondisclosure, or fraudulent disposition of assets, the court may compensate the offended spouse with a distributive award or with a greater award of marital property.

So what does this mean in plain English?  It means if you are getting divorced and your spouse is destroying, ruining, hiding, or getting rid of assets in a sneaky way, the court can give you some of their separate property to punish them.  When a court does this, it is called a distributive award. 

So what is separate property?

(a) “Separate property” means all real and personal property and any interest in real or personal property that is found by the court to be any of the following:

(i) An inheritance by one spouse by bequest, devise, or descent during the course of the marriage;

(ii) Any real or personal property or interest in real or personal property that was acquired by one spouse prior to the date of the marriage;

(iii) Passive income and appreciation acquired from separate property by one spouse during the marriage;

(iv) Any real or personal property or interest in real or personal property acquired by one spouse after a decree of legal separation issued under section 3105.17 of the Revised Code;

(v) Any real or personal property or interest in real or personal property that is excluded by a valid antenuptial agreement;

(vi) Compensation to a spouse for the spouse’s personal injury, except for loss of marital earnings and compensation for expenses paid from marital assets;

(vii) Any gift of any real or personal property or of an interest in real or personal property that is made after the date of the marriage and that is proven by clear and convincing evidence to have been given to only one spouse.

So what does this all mean?  It means if your spouse has separate property, and they are playing games with the marital property, the court can remedy this by giving you some of their separate property.

Retroactive Arrearage Modification Not Prohibited

The Supreme Court has decided that parties to a support order may modify child support by agreement.  In Byrd v. Knuckles the Supreme Court held that nothing prohibits a juvenile court from adjusting an existing arrearage in child support if the parties agree to do so.

In this case, as part of an agreement to consent to a step-parent adoption, the Mother agreed that the Father’s child support arrearage would be reduced by 50%.  After the adoption was completed, the Father attempted to have his child support arrearage reduced pursuant to this agreement, and the Court found that it had no authority to reduce this arrearage under the Law.  This matter was appealed, and then brought before Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court noted that this decision does not mean that a court MUST accept a parties’ agreement to reduce a prior arrearage, but that a court is not prohibited from doing so pursuant to the Law.  As in this case, this issue is particularly relevant where one party is willing to sign away their legal rights in order to be released from future, and possibly past child support obligations.

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