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behind the scenes // ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS (2022)

Have you ever wondered how Best of the Year lists are chosen? Each year publications like Entertainment Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter conduct anonymous interviews with Academy members to reveal their Oscar votes, often with article titles like “brutally honest” and “juicy.” I understand not wanting to burn any bridges with friends or colleagues, but I usually finish those pieces annoyed. If you’ve got an opinion, own it! How do know if I can trust your judgment or taste?

In the spirit of transparency, I’m doing my small part to be the change I wish to see in the world. (Exactly the scenario someone had in mind when altering Gandhi’s words to fit on a bumper sticker.) Last year I voted in the St. Louis Film Critics Association Best of the Year for the first time, and I’m sharing my behind-the-scenes look at how we narrowed down the 800+ eligible films of the year to our 23 winners and how I chose my votes. Apologies in advance it's not a "juicy" take—there's not a lot of drama in our group!

These were the key 2022 dates for our decisions:

Saturday, December 10th: Individual nominations due to SLFCA leadership

Sunday, December 11th: Tie-Breaker Meeting to determine final nominees

Saturday, December 17th: Final ballots due

As a reminder, I can’t speak for how every critic in the group prioritizes viewing or votes. Another critic in the group may have completely different strategy even if we end up voting for the same nominee!

How the Ballots Work

Like many awards shows, I’m kicking this explainer off with Best Supporting Actor and Actress. I didn’t have any cuts when I submitted my ballot—I was looking for people to fill my five slots. The real decision-making was about their order.

In the first round of voting, our ballots are ranked, with our first choice earning five points toward the performer’s total and fifth place earning one point. For example, I contributed five points each to Andre Braugher and Carey Mulligan’s totals for their performances in She Said as well as two points to Angela Basset’s total for her Black Panther role. While those three made the cut for SLFCA’s nominations, not enough of the other critics ranked Adrien Brody, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dolly De Leon, Kate Hudson, Rami Malek, Pedro Pascal, or John David Washington highly enough for them to make the final nominations. Curtis and De Leon were just a few points away from making the cut.

More performers our critics loved: Jessie Buckley, Women Talking; Hong Chau, The Whale; Tom Hanks, Elvis; Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway; Anthony Hopkins, Armageddon Time; Nina Hoss, Tár; Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once; Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin; Keke Palmer, Nope; Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse; Mark Rylance, Bones and All; Jeremy Strong, Armageddon Time

Watching as Many Movies as Possible

More than 800 eligible films were released in 2022 . (One of our members compiled them all into a Letterboxd list.) In the 10 days before my nominations were due, I watched She Said, Triangle of Sadness, Vengeance, and White Noise, all of which made my picks for Best Screenplay. I also watched titles I nominated in other categories (Babylon, Emily the Criminal, The Fabelmans, RRR, “Sr.”), plus a few that didn’t make the cut (Armageddon Time, Devotion, The Menu, Something From Tiffany’s, The Wonder).

But what about the films I hadn't seen that SLFCA nominated? That’s what the week between the Tie-Breaker Meeting and the final ballot due date is for. In those seven days, I checked out The Banshees of Inisherin, Tár, and Women Talking, which were movies I had expected to be nominated regardless of my support.

More screenplays on my long list: Amsterdam, The Menu, See How They Run

More screenplays our critics loved: After Yang, Aftersun, All Quiet on the Western Front, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Elvis, Empire of Light, Happening, Nope, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Till, The Whale

Choosing Nominees

In the Cinematography, Editing, and Visual Effects categories, I focused on an advocacy strategy. Before I met most of my fellow St. Louis Film Critics Association members, I was regularly updated with their film recommendations in a private Facebook group. As early as September, members shared headlines about the Awards Season, and based on chatter I’d seen in the group and in the film world at large, I figured support would be strong for films like Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, She Said, and Top Gun: Maverick. I was less sure about sentiment for Amsterdam, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, See How They Run, Triangle of Sadness, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, so I prioritized them on my ballot.

More films on my long list: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (VFX), RRR (Editing), She Said (Editing), The Woman King (VFX)

A few more films our critics loved: All Quiet on the Western Front (Cinematography), Avatar: The Way of Water (Cinematography, Editing), The Batman (VFX), Decision to Leave (Editing), Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (VFX), Empire of Light (Cinematography), Three Thousand Years of Longing (VFX), Women Talking (Editing)

Breaking Ties

After we submitted our ballots, we met as a group at a restaurant to hash out ties. The longest and most passionate debate broke out over the Best Scene category because there was a six-way (!) tie for third place. We ultimately decided to keep four of those six scenes and nominate six films total. We typically only include five nominees, but exceptions can be made in the case of a tie.

A few more scenes our critics loved: Scarlet Witch vs. the Illuminati in Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, the Home Alone-inspired sequence in Violent Night

Prioritizing Nominees

After nominations were finalized at our our Tie-Breaker Meeting, I counted 20 nominated films I had not seen, 14 of which were only nominated in 1 category each. (I did not join the group till the summer, so I was not watching for most of the year knowing about this deadline!) I knew I would not have the time to watch them all, so I prioritized by asking these questions:

How many nominations did each film have? The Banshees of Inisherin, Women Talking, and Tár each earned between 4 and 11 noms, so they were highest priority

Could I watch every nominee in a category? All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Apollo 10½, Jackass Forever, and Wendell & Wild each only earned one nom, but I prioritized them so I could complete the Animated, Comedy, and Documentary categories

Had I watched enough noms to vote in a category? To vote in a category, I had to watch at least three nominees. I prioritized the twice-nominated in Decision to Leave so I could vote in Best International Feature, but I decided to skip voting in the Horror category because I would’ve needed to watch four films to vote (and because this horror-averse viewer probably would have found all four of them quite upsetting!)

More films on my long list: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Action), The Lost City (Comedy), Marry Me (Comedy), Minions: The Rise of Gru (Comedy), See How They Run (Comedy), The Woman King (Action)

A few more films our critics loved: Bad Axe (Documentary), The Bad Guys (Animated), The Banshees of Inisherin (Comedy), Barbarian (Horror), The Batman (Action), Broker (International), Bros (Comedy), Clerks III (Comedy), Corsage (International), EO (International), Lightyear (Animated), Navalny (Documentary), The Sea Beast (Animated), Smile (Horror)

Announcing the Winners

For me, the final round of voting is a combination of picking clear favorites in a category and trying to get your favorite films represented somewhere on the ballot. Winners are announced in a press release and shared on the SLFCA website. And in just a few weeks the process starts all over again with the new year!

You can see the full list of winners and nominees for 2022 at STLFilmCritics.org, and here are how my nominations shook out in the categories not featured above:

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CJ current events 2feb23

Nellie makes an important point

→ Good luck getting car insurance in St. Louis: Insurance companies are so sick of paying for stolen cars that they are refusing coverage on a couple of makes and models in St. Louis. So if you have a Hyundai or a Kia and you live in the city of St. Louis, you’re out of luck. In the last year, thefts of Hyundais and Kias have risen 1,450 percent.

Yes, a 1,450 percent rise. (Please tell me again about how fake the crime wave is, please I love it.)

In other news of appalling preventable tragedies: Seattle’s morgue is running out of room for all the people who overdosed on fentanyl. Here is Seattle-King County Public Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan: “Obviously, they have finite space in the coolers they use, and that space is now being exceeded on a regular basis.”

And there’s a new-ish measure of how deep the decline of downtown San Francisco is. Downtown activity was at 31 percent of where it was before the pandemic, determined by GPS location data from 18 million smartphones. Granted, my personal Tinder activity in downtown SF once accounted for 20 percent of regional cell traffic, so this isn’t all on the mayor. https://www.thefp.com/p/tgif-90-seconds-to-midnight

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Tyre Nichols homicide

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Five former Memphis police officers were indicted Thursday on murder charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, whose beating after a traffic stop was captured on video that “sickened” a top Tennessee law enforcement official.

Police had said that Nichols was supposedly stopped for reckless driving, but Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis said early Friday morning an investigation and review of available camera footage had found "no proof" of that.

The officers involved — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith — were fired after, Davis said, they violated department policies during the Jan. 7 stop that led to Nichols' death.

All five former officers were charged with second-degree murder, two counts of official misconduct, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, one count of official oppression and one count of aggravated assault, prosecutors announced.*** https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-1-ex-memphis-police-officer-indicted-tyre-nichols-death-attorney-rcna67632

video of the beating at https://vimeo.com/CityofMemphis Video 2 is the most comprehensive. It appears to be someone’s surveillance camera.

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How to make a bad situation worse by starting rumors

Lauren Witzke@LaurenWitzkeDE·Jan 28 We are investigating a tip that 3 of the 5 officers in the Memphis PD beating of Tyre Nichols were members of the Vice Lords gang and under their direction. Other gang directed beatings were reportedly found on their phones. Recordings as proof of carrying out the beating.

Plausible???? Show me the videos. Give me some proof.

Here’s some proof you’re not credible:

Lauren Witzke@LaurenWitzkeDE·Jan 28 All of the cops involved had been with Memphis PD 2-5 years each, which coincides with the exodus of White cops and the city’s stated push to hire majority (exclusively) black officers.

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Why failure is an orphan

3 Memphis EMTs suspended.

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A seventh police officer has been relieved of duty following the Jan. 7 beating and death of Tyre Nichols, the Memphis Police Department confirmed Monday.

The department declined to divulge details about why the officer was relieved of duty and did not disclose the officer's name. Officials also noted that there are still charges that are "impending" and that the department expects "the next phase of personnel actions in the coming days."*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/seventh-officer-relieved-duty-tyre-nichols

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It’s early, but our mugshot of the year is

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=538708281623619&set=a.243486301145820&type=3

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Tanya Gold makes a good point

I went to Dubai once. It is where tyranny meets hyper-capitalism, and it is as awful as it sounds.

I was helping a journalist friend research an article. I spent my days admiring an undersea bedroom in a lagoon and a ski slope inside a mall. At night I would meet trafficked maids, or a woman imprisoned for adultery. I asked an ancient British tourist why he came here for his holidays. He said, “The staff will hold your dick if you ask them.” That is what Westerners like about Dubai: the indentured servitude. And the weather.

Last week, at the grand opening of Atlantis The Royal, Dubai’s newest luxury hotel, Beyoncé gave her first live performance in five years. This gig featured a 48-person all-female orchestra—how feminist—a Lebanese dance troupe, and her daughter. She was reportedly paid $24 million for the occasion.Her latest album, Renaissance, is, among other things, an homage to black queer culture. She performed no songs from it; how could she in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death? So she sang her back catalog for the equivalent of ten Bugatti Chirons. Oil-rich tyrannies have generous marketing budgets; they’re selling tyranny itself.

What Beyoncé does or doesn’t do for money wouldn’t matter but for the trend of celebrity activism, which insinuates that morality travels with a star like her wardrobe. Beyoncé acolytes say that just by arriving in Dubai she made the city gayer, a kind of subtle protest. Perhaps so subtle that even Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid—accused of abducting two of his daughters for noncompliance with his wishes, one from England, and another from a ship as she tried to flee Dubai—wouldn’t notice. Did his enforcers reconsider their stance on gayness as they sang along to “Drunk in Love”? Or are they are laughing themselves stupid at the PR coup of persuading an until-now gay ally to perform at the opening of a hotel in a country that hates gays? ***

To enjoy yourself in Dubai, you must close your eyes to suffering. Almost 90 percent of Dubai’s residents are migrant workers, and many of them live in conditions amounting to indentured slavery.

Beyoncé isn’t Dubai’s only brand ambassador. Aussie actress Rebel Wilson, who is gay, was photographed at the opening of Nobu by the Beach in Dubai that same weekend. (She participated in a sake ceremony.) Members of the Kardashian-Jenner dynasty were photographed at after-parties, presumably celebrating the common values they share with Dubai: love of attention and excess. The luxury hotel opening is just the latest act in a grotesque fairground, where brands and celebrities who practice goodthink at home sell themselves to the highest bidder elsewhere, while attempting—and failing—to maintain the moral high ground. ***

This collusion between Western celebrities and Middle Eastern despots is enabled by idiotic elements on the left: People who don’t seem to know what fascism, Stalinism, or Nazism is, since they insist upon confusing it with things they don’t much like. They hate their own rotting democracies so much, they cannot accept that other places are worse. Call a democracy tyranny and you won’t recognize tyranny when it hands you a check.***

Tyranny’s defenders—that is, its contracted employees—will say that feasting in authoritarian states brings incremental reform and teaches us to be less racist toward an over-overlooked and vulnerable minority: authoritarian rulers. I think the opposite. It normalizes tyranny, using what we love best to seduce us: leisure. https://www.thefp.com/p/dubai-paid-beyonce-24m-she-gave-them

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Paul Pelosi video released

https://www.dailywire.com/news/additional-footage-emerges-showing-suspect-breaking-into-pelosi-home-911-call-released

Shows how weird and dangerous it is in San Francisco.

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Hauck acquittal

On Monday, pro-life activist Mark Houck was found not guilty of federal charges alleging he violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act over an incident outside an abortion clinic in Philadelphia in October 2021.***

Houck, 48, was accused of shoving a Planned Parenthood abortion escort named Bruce Love in 2021. As a result, Houck was charged with two counts of violating the FACE Act over the alleged “attack of a patient escort.” Reportedly, Houck claimed that the pro-abortion volunteer was verbally harassing his 12-year-old son.

In September, Houck was arrested at his home in front of his wife and children.

Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, told LifeSiteNews that a SWAT team of 25 to 30 agents in 15 vehicles surrounded their home in Pennsylvania, with rifles at 7 a.m. Though a U.S. district court previously tossed out the case.“They started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it,” Ryan-Marie said, adding that the rifles were “kind of pointed throughout the house.”*** https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/01/30/pro-life-activist-mark-houck-found-not-guilty-on-federal-face-act-charges-n2618924

Did they learn nothing from Carrie Underwood/Carol Bond?

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Abigail Shrier talks victimless crime

On a Saturday night in South Los Angeles, cars pull up and idle along the side streets of Figueroa, high beams ablaze, so that the drivers can get a good look at “the girls.” The women stand three astride in the middle of the street, in pasties and G-string bikinis under fishnet dresses. Draped over their shoulders are unzipped coats; even in temperate L.A., the night’s January chill is biting. In seven-inch Lucite heels, they teeter toward the driver of each car the way you might walk barefoot across gravel. Less than a block away, their pimps keep company on a sidewalk corner, in hoodies and loose jeans, watching their quarry, awaiting the payout. Absent is the one thing that might typically break up the party: a police car.

In early January, I joined Erin Wilson and Stephany Powell on a tour of “the track” on Figueroa, one of California’s busiest prostitution areas. For decades, Wilson, who volunteers for the anti-trafficking organization Journey Out, and her mother, Powell, have worked to combat human trafficking in Los Angeles and to help women and child victims escape this brutal world.

In our postfeminist era, prostitution is so often idealized—“sex work is work”—that it’s easy to overlook the gruesome reality of what it means to have a pimp, an arrangement closer to slavery than to any legitimate job. “The horror stories I could tell you about [prostitutes] being beaten and being choked and being burned and being gang raped,” said Vanessa Russell of Love Never Fails, an anti-trafficking nonprofit based near Oakland. “And the PTSD and all the mental health, the trauma bonding, the psychotic breaks. Maybe you’re somebody who likes to have sex more than once a day. But nine to 21 times with different guys, some that are like 90 years old that smell?”

“Nine to 21 times over what period?” I ask.

“One day,” she said. “That’s healthy living? I don’t think so. The body is not even made for that. Like the pelvic inflammatory disease that you see.” She ticks off the ways a woman’s body is subjected to microbial assault: the STDs, yeast infections, and UTIs that are frequent among the women she sees. Their hospital records prove, she says, that the human body is “not meant to have that much activity going on. And then the girls that are out there—where they’re being sold—they don’t even get to take showers in between.”

While the last few decades have seen an increase in human trafficking, women at all three of the anti-trafficking groups I spoke with across California agreed: nothing compares with the stunning rise in trafficking they’ve witnessed in recent months. Powell, formerly a sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department’s Vice Division, knows the city’s streets intimately. Over the last six months, the number of prostitutes has doubled, she says. “On Figueroa, between 68th and 75th, in an hour, you might see about 30 girls out there. Now, you can see 60 to 65 girls in an hour.”

What shifted? The answer, the anti-trafficking advocates told me, is Senate Bill 357. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in July, the measure decriminalized loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution. The bill did not officially take effect until January 1 of this year; but, from the moment it became law back in July, these women say, the on-the-ground reality changed. “The minute the governor signed it, you started seeing an uptick on the streets,” Powell said. “And on social media, the pimps were saying: ‘You better get out there and work because the streets are ours.’”***

Another Wiener bill, introduced in 2021, sought to decriminalize psilocybin and ketamine, but it failed to pass, partly because of the vocal opposition of former state senate Republican Melissa Melendez, who railed against easing restrictions on ketamine, a drug notorious for facilitating date rape. “I’m like, ‘Do you guys not see the agenda here?’ I mean, honestly, in the legislature, I think people came to just sort of accept those types of bills from him because he’s from San Francisco,” she told me in a telephone conversation. Undeterred, Wiener in December reintroduced a modified version of the bill. *** https://www.city-journal.org/predators-paradise

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Only 35?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 27, 2023 Registered Sex Offender Sentenced for Production and Distribution of Child Pornography

A Maryland man was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for production and distribution of images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children.

Justin Michael Peterson, 28, pleaded guilty in the District of Maryland to one count of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of distribution of child pornography on Aug. 30, 2022.

According to court documents, in January 2020, Peterson used Instagram to video chat with a minor victim and entice the minor victim to masturbate and insert objects into the victim’s anus while Peterson masturbated. Peterson used special software to record those chats and distributed the recordings to another minor child with whom Peterson had been exchanging sexually explicit messages on Kik and Snapchat. During his chats with the second minor child, Peterson discussed his interest in traveling to the minor victim’s home to kidnap them.

After his arrest in February 2020, Peterson admitted to law enforcement that he is sexually attracted to children as young as three years old. Peterson’s phone contained hundreds of images depicting the sexual abuse of children, including toddlers and infants. Forensic examination of Peterson’s phone also revealed that he actively participated in several online chat groups dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children and distributing child sexual abuse material. Peterson also posted messages to these groups offering to “rent” one of the minor victims as a “cam slave.”

Peterson was previously convicted in Maryland in 2016 for distributing child pornography and was required to register as a sex offender at the time of his offenses.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/registered-sex-offender-sentenced-production-and-distribution-child-pornography

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Suzie Weis Funny & fair point about a women’s advice site

***But here are the facts. There were 24,576 homicides in 2020 compared to 200,955 accidental deaths, according to the CDC. You’re about twice as likely to die from an unintentional fall, for example, than be murdered. Also: The lion’s share of murder victims, about 80 percent, are men. Meanwhile, the FBI estimates that less than one percent of murders committed in any given year are carried out by serial killers.

While every single murder is horrific and the desire to prevent them is understandable, it’s a fiction to think an anonymous whisper campaign on Facebook is the antidote to such crimes.***

Where did all of this come from? How did we get from he’s just not that into you to he’s probably going to kill you?

One reason: Women seem to love murder.

The fairer sex makes up 73 percent of true crime podcast listeners and 80 percent of the attendees of CrimeCon, a true crime convention held this year in Orlando, which will set you back anywhere from $300 to $1,500. Women also read true crime books at higher rates than men.

We also seem to be more interested when the victims are women themselves: Take the 2014 podcast Serial, which told the story of Hae Min Lee and her boyfriend Adnan Syed, who was accused of her murder. Or the tragedy of Gabby Petito, whose fiancé confessed to killing her in a note before killing himself. Or NXIVM, the sex cult whose leader had the women in his harem branded with his initials. Or all the shows and movies about Ted Bundy. There is something about true crime that we cannot get enough of, and it’s been that way long before it was a podcast category. Law & Order began airing in 1990, Dateline in 1992. And before that, In Cold Blood, and even longer ago, the frenzied coverage of Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s.

But none of this explains why a bunch of apparently sane women on Facebook are convinced they just had a martini with the Zodiac Killer.

Two things have changed since Jack the Ripper stalked his victims—and even since Nancy Grace hit the airwaves.***

In the absence of real danger, we have recast what was once understood as standard emotional bruising—ghosting, lack of consideration, signals lost in translation—as something far worse, far more sinister, indicative of a deeper pathology that you escaped by the skin of your teeth.

And second: technology. Apps like Citizen, Nextdoor, and Neighbors let us know if a mom was mugged in the neighborhood nearby and make us terrified we’ll be next. Even if muggings (or worse) were always common, they’re far more visible now, and thus seem more likely. What’s more, closed-circuit security systems are no longer just for celebrities or politicians, but for the everyman, too. Tracking devices for our valuables and location-sharing apps for our loved ones have saturated our day-to-day. “Smart” doorbells like Ring or Arlo seem to have more spyware than a nuclear submarine, and won’t set you back more than a couple hundred bucks. Danger lurks around every corner, while the promise of 100% safety is permanently on sale.*** https://www.thefp.com/p/he-just-doesnt-want-to-murder-you

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https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2023/01/30

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Good plan

The cluster of hotels and motels around the Interstate 70 interchange at Kipling Street in Wheat Ridge have provided tens of thousands of tired motorists a solid night’s sleep over the years.

They’ve also been the scene of shootings and beatings, as well as a 2020 standoff with a suspected bank robber who police officers fatally shot in his room after the man refused to put down a gun he was holding.

“We have certainly seen human trafficking and drug trafficking in these hotels,” Wheat Ridge police Chief Chris Murtha said.***

But an effort Wheat Ridge’s elected leaders embarked on in 2021 to launch a hotel licensing program is starting to bear fruit, Murtha said, pointing to a 17% decline in calls to service to the hotels over the last half of 2022.

The program requires hotels in Wheat Ridge to establish and maintain a security plan approved by the city’s police department, including crime prevention measures via video surveillance, security guards, fencing and lighting.

“We’re not trying to punish the businesses, we’re just trying to get them to comply with community standards,” Murtha said.

The city also enacted an extended stay license for the hotels, which applies to any guests staying 30 days or longer. The license requires the size of a unit to be a minimum of 300 square feet, with a kitchen equipped with a refrigerator, cooktop, dedicated sink and cabinets stocked with cooking and dining supplies. The unit must have a separate space for a bedroom and have access to wireless internet, among other requirements.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/30/colorado-i70-hotels-wheat-ridge-motels-crime-shootings/

Wheat Ridge learned it from Lakewood, which had similar success.

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Awful teenagers

One of three teenagers charged in connection with the 2020 arson that killed five members of a Senegalese family in Denver’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case, court records show.

Dillon Siebert, 17, on Wednesday will be sentenced for his role in the deaths of Djibril Diol, 29; Adja Diol, 23; Khadija Diol, 2; Hassan Diol, 25; and 6-month-old Hawa Baye.

Siebert was 14 years old at the time of the fire and originally was charged in juvenile court, where proceedings and records are not public. However, his sentencing — on a single count of second-degree murder — will take place in adult court, court records show.***

The criminal cases against the two other teen suspects — Gavin Seymour and Kevin Bui, who both were charged as adults — are on hold until May, when the Colorado Supreme Court is expected to review the constitutionality of a search warrant that was critical to identifying them as suspects.

The three teens set the Green Valley Ranch home on fire on Aug. 5, 2020, because Bui erroneously thought a person who stole his phone lived there and he wanted revenge, law enforcement officers said during a November 2021 court hearing.

The teens bought masks to wear to hide their faces and splashed gasoline inside of the home before lighting it on fire, law enforcement officials testified.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/30/dillon-siebert-green-valley-ranch-arson-murder/

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Group of unrelated young males

At least 10 people were injured in a drive-by shooting Monday afternoon in Lakeland, Florida, according to police.

Two people are in critical condition, while the eight others have "non-life-threatening" injuries. All of the victims are adult males between the ages of 20 and 35, Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor revealed during a press conference. The suspects are currently at large, and the rampage is believed to have been a "targeted" attack, per police.

Four shooters are believed to have opened gunfire from a dark blue Nissan sedan, which later fled the scene at a high speed. The shooting took place near Iowa Avenue North and Plum Street, and police arrived on the scene around 3:43 p.m. local time.

“The vehicle slowed, did not stop, and the four windows went down. It appeared to be occupied by four shooters in the vehicle,” Taylor added. “They started firing from all four windows of the vehicle and shooting males on both sides.”

Police are actively searching for the vehicle and noted that the four male occupants were donning face masks to obscure their identities. Authorities also found a "quantity" of marijuana near the scene of the attack but are unsure whether it is related to the shooting rampage.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/ten-wounded-targeted-mass-shooting-lakeland-florida

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Stay classy, San Diego

A series of shootings occurred in eastern San Diego County on Friday night, killing one person and injuring three, police said.

A lone gunman was believed to have been driving around a large area before randomly shooting at groups of people who were outside, Fox 5 reported.

Multiple witnesses called 911 after the first two shootings and gave a detailed description of the suspect and his car. Police scoured the area looking for the gunman, who was found 90 minutes later parked on a street near the final attack.

Police arrested the driver, Jaime Gonzalez, 22, on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Officers found a 9 mm semi-automatic ghost gun in the car.***

Two 15-year-old Hispanic boys were hit in the first attack and are expected to survive. In the second shooting, which occurred in the Bay Terraces neighborhood, a 32-year-old Hispanic man died after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. A 34-year-old black man was also shot but is expected to survive his injuries.

The Hispanic man, whose identity has not yet been released, was shot multiple times throughout his body and was also stabbed, suffering catastrophic injuries, police said.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/san-diego-shooting-one-dead-three-injured

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Buehler, E.D. (Jan. 2023). Substantiated Incidents of Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2016–2018. BJS.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/sisvraca1618.pdf

Nowhere near as interesting as Caged Heat.

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Well, if it’s over a laptop, then that’s ok

The 22-year-old trans daughter charged with killing her father inside the family’s Brooklyn apartment grinned for the cameras Thursday night as she was led out of an NYPD stationhouse.

Nikki Secondino was hit with the murder charge and other offenses after police initially believed that her dad, Carlo Secondino, was stabbed to death during an early morning home invasion at their Bensonhurst home.***

Nikki smirked, but ignored questions from reporters, as detectives led her out of Brooklyn’s 62nd Precinct on Thursday night.

A neighbor of the Secondinos also said she heard Nikki making a phone call in the hallway after the slaying, claiming the family had been robbed by home invaders who also stabbed them.*** https://nypost.com/2022/12/29/nikki-secondino-charged-with-murder-of-own-nyc-father/

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Nothing wrong with matricide and pop-podcide as long as you keep it in the family

A Vermont man facing federal charges for allegedly killing his mother during an offshore fishing trip in a plot to defraud his family and an insurance company is demanding grand jury minutes, according to court filings.

Nathan Carman, 29, is also accused of gunning down his grandfather John Chakalos, a World War II paratrooper and self-made multimillionaire, as part of a scheme to claim hundreds of thousands of dollars from the family trust fund.

When he ran low on cash years later, according to prosecutors, he allegedly took his mother out to sea, killed her and sank the boat.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/vermont-man-accused-shooting-wwii-hero-grandfather-murdering-mom-at-sea-demands-grand-jury-minutes

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Guess that counts as domestic violence....

A Connecticut man who fell dozens of stories from a rooftop bar to his death last week in New York had been arrested just days earlier on domestic violence charges.

Dale Cheney, a 46-year-old finance entrepreneur, fell from the Hyatt Centric Times Square's Club 54 on Jan. 25, according to the New York City Police Department, which received the call around 6:30 p.m.

The father of five was pronounced dead at the scene, and police said a preliminary investigation found no evidence of a crime.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/connecticut-man-who-jumped-death-from-rooftop-bar-had-been-arrested-days-earlier-report-reveals

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Better to let the legislators fix it than some judge

Colorado legislators advanced a bill Tuesday to limit the use of physical restraints on inmates in acute mental health crises, sidestepping a disputed price tag and avoiding what one lawmaker described as the “soulless exercise” of trading money for policy.

Under current law, few guardrails exist to limit the use of four-point restraints in Colorado prisons. Inmates in acute mental health crises can be kept tied to beds using metal cuffs for hours on end, Rep. Judy Amabile, a Boulder Democrat, told fellow legislators. One inmate had been restrained for 39 consecutive days, she said, and others were placed in adult diapers or needed bandaging because the metal had cut into their skin.

There were 47 “restraint incidents” in the first eight months of 2022, according to Department of Corrections data, Seth Klamann reports. https://www.denverpost.com/2023/02/01/restraints-prison-inmates-mental-health/

*** He has an axe, he needs you to assist in the grinding.

Jane Sullivan Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, could face an ethics inquiry by the Justice Department.

A former colleague of Jane Roberts is asking for an inquiry after claiming that the chief justice's wife had been paid millions in commissions to place lawyers at firms — some of which have business before the Supreme Court, according to a letter obtained by the New York Times.

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR MAJOR RELIGIOUS RIGHTS CASE ON APRIL 18

Jane Roberts had given up her career as a law firm partner to become a high-end legal recruiter to avoid conflicts of interest after her husband joined the Supreme Court.

The colleague, Kendal Price, 66, a lawyer in Boston, argued that justices should be required to disclose more information relating to their spouses' work. While he did not cite any specific Supreme Court decisions, he expressed concern that having a financial relationship with law firms that argue before the court could affect or appear to affect the justices' impartiality.

“I do believe that litigants in U.S. courts, and especially the Supreme Court, deserve to know if their judges’ households are receiving six-figure payments from the law firms,” Price wrote.

Price and Jane Roberts previously worked as legal recruiters for Major, Lindsey & Africa, a global firm based in Maryland. Price was fired in 2013 and sued the firm, Jane Roberts, and another executive over his dismissal, per the New York Times.

He lost the case, but documents from the case show commissions to Jane Roberts between 2007 to 2014. Six-figure fees are credited to Jane Roberts for placing law partners at firms, including $690,000 in 2012 from one match.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/wife-supreme-court-chief-justice-ethics-inquiry

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Colorado has seen a spike in serious, credible complaints against judges in the last 12 months***

The Commission on Judicial Discipline in the last year advanced four formal complaints against the state’s judges that the panel found to have merit — as many formal complaints as had been filed in the past 12 years, vice-chair David Prince told lawmakers Wednesday.***

The spike came amid a high-profile scandal involving top judicial officials and a subsequent lawmaker-led effort to reform the system for disciplining the state’s judges, which has operated in near-total secrecy for years. ***

“We have seen more serious allegations,” he said. “…I suspect it’s more reporting. I have no reason to think judges are misbehaving at a higher level than in the past.”

The commission also saw a 25% increase in the overall number of complaints it received in 2022 compared to 2021, Prince said. Historically, the commission has dismissed about 90% of the complaints it receives about judges on the grounds that the complaints do not fall within the commission’s purview, and only investigates about 10% of the allegations it receives.

Of that 10%, even fewer cases are referred for formal, public discipline. In the last 20 years, the commission has received 3,924 complaints, investigated 373 complaints and issued 250 corrective actions — that is, private or public discipline, according to the commission.

But public discipline has been rare. Only about a half-dozen judges have been publicly disciplined in Colorado since 2010, and most of those occurred in the last couple years.

Judges who faced public discipline in the last decade include John Scipione, who failed to disclose an extramarital affair with a clerk, Mark Thompson, who threatened his stepson with an AR-15-style rifle, Natalie Chase, who used a racial slur in conversation with a Black colleague, Laurie Booras, who called another judge “the little Mexican,” Robert Rand, who made misogynistic and inappropriate comments, Lance Timbreza, who was charged with driving under the influence, and Ryan Kamada, who tipped a friend off to a federal drug investigation. https://www.denverpost.com/2023/02/01/colorado-complaints-against-judges-increase/

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live coverage of scummy lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/alex-murdaugh-double-murder-trial-to-continue-day-after-bombshell-snapchat-revelation

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Pleading the Second Amendment

https://www.facebook.com/hainescityPOLICE/videos/624279579417888/

A Florida police chief issued a warning to criminals in the state after saving a burglar who was shot by a homeowner.

"One should expect that if you are brazen enough to enter into someone’s residence and it is not yours, with intent to commit an unlawful act, there may be repercussions," Haines City Police Chief Gregory Goreck said in a Friday press conference.

"We live in Florida, and more so, we live in Polk County, and most people are armed," he said.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-police-chief-issues-warning-criminals-homeowner-shoots-burglars-most-people-armed

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Communion is a blast at his church!

A Seattle-area pastor who admitted to leading "a double life" and "bragged" about his abilities to sell drugs was caught with a cache of illicit substances and is being held in a local jail, according to local police.

"Steve Parker bragged about being a good drug dealer, saying he was good at business," a charging document for the pastor reads, according to Fox 13.

Parker, 57, was arrested on Jan. 19 after he was pulled over in Mount Vernon. Detectives with the Skagit County Interlocal Drug Enforcement Unit had previously received a tip that Parker was dealing drugs in Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom counties, including meth, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills, cocaine and heroin.

The alleged drug dealer was self-admittedly leading "a double life," according to court documents. Parker is an officer of Nest Ministries and director of Omni-Manna Services, a group that helps "those who have had troubled pasts, addictions, or just down on their luck" with housing, employment and counseling, according to its website, Fox 13 reported.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-bust-meth-peddling-pastor-who-bragged-about-drug-dealing-prowess-double-life

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Cold & wet case

Sonar used by volunteer divers detected the upside down wheels of a sedan submerged in a pond that ultimately broke open a 22-year-old Florida cold case.

The car belonged to Karen Moore, a 53-year-old nurse who disappeared in Davie, Florida, in 2001 at a time when she had a restraining order against her husband as their divorce proceeded through the courts.

Foul play was suspected, according to police.

The two dive crews — Depths of History and Sunshine State Sonar — teamed up in early January to search bodies of water in Broward County, an area near several missing person cases, and made the discovery in a pond in the town of Davie.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/divers-use-sonar-find-florida-womans-upside-down-car-pond-break-open-2001-cold-case

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What’s it take to get disbarred???

A Denver attorney who was caught sleeping with a client for a second time will be barred from practicing law for 30 months after admitting to that and nine other ethics violations.***

Ian Hicks graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2004 and the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver in 2007.***

Hicks’ first run-in with the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, which disciplines wayward lawyers, came in 2018. That year, he admitted to having a sexual relationship with a client in a civil case soon after she hired him in 2016. He also sent her confidential information about other clients of his, another violation of state ethics rules.

Hicks received a public censure for his wrongdoing.

In 2021, he admitted taking on a client he had recently been sexually involved with and then refusing to do any work on her case. He also admitted to taking on another client, receiving a retainer, and then similarly doing no work on that case. Both clients fired him.

Hicks again received a public censure for his wrongdoing.

Then, in 2022, the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel filed a lengthy complaint that accused Hicks of committing a much longer list of violations while representing two clients.

In the first instance, he was hired by Kathryn Cochran to sue her abusive ex-boyfriend, Dillon Emerson, in October 2021. Hicks and Cochran became sexually involved that same month. Emerson learned of their relationship when he saw flirty texts between Hicks and Cochran, including one in which Hicks mocked Emerson and called him an anti-gay slur.

Minutes after sending screenshots of those texts to his own mother, Emerson shot and killed Cochran, 43, while she was driving in the 8100 block of E. Dartmouth Ave., leading to a multivehicle fire. Emerson, 41, then shot himself and died at a hospital a short time later.***

Last year, Hicks sued Emerson’s parents, accusing them of defaming Hicks by filing a complaint about him with the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel. That case was thrown out by Denver District Court Judge Eric Elliff, who also ordered Hicks to pay $15,673 to the Emersons.

In another matter, Hicks won his client a $30,000 settlement in a real estate dispute but misplaced $10,000 of the settlement and, believing he had received only $20,000 from the defendants, refused to pay his client until the full $30,000 was received. He later admitted to poor recordkeeping and wrongly commingling a client’s money with his own.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2023/02/01/denver-lawyer-ian-hicks-suspended-sex-clients-misplaced-money/

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Illustration by French painter and miniaturist Jean Fouquet in the 'Chroniques de St Denis', a portrayal of King of the Franks Louis VII (on the brown horse and dressed in the French heraldic colours royal blue and gold fleur-de-lys) and, (clad in yellow and black and riding the white horse), his ally on the Second Crusade, the "King of the Romans" Conrad III (only nominally Holy Roman Emperor, as he was never crowned), entering Constantinople together in the mid-12th century. In fact, this event never actually happened - Conrad and his German army had already left the city by the time Louis and wife Eleanor of Aquitaine arrived. Conrad's army were then ambushed by Turks and of his 10,000 men, only a few hundred remained. He survived, but with serious head injuries. Louis' army would suffer a similar fate en route to Antioch, a nightmarish journey according to chroniclers Odo of Deuil and William of Tyre during which the famished crusaders resorted to bleeding their horses in order to drink their blood. The Prince of Antioch was Eleanor's uncle, Raymond of Poitiers, who hoped Louis would offer assistance in attacking the Turks, but the French king flatly refused. To the Franks, the Aquitanian Raymond was equally a foreigner, who planned to borrow their military support in order to enlarge his own territories. Louis, Eleanor and their troops continued onto Jerusalem. Since the city was not under attack, a "catastrophically stupid decision" was made to attack the Muslim state of Damascus, just about the only state willing to be on good terms with the Christians. There the Turks inflicted a savage humiliation, slaughtering so many men and destroying so much military equipment that there was no other option but to return to France. The union between Eleanor and Louis had been a mis-matched disaster from the start. Thoroughly disillusioned after the crusade, she now wanted rid of him. Plus she had failed to produce a male heir. The marriage was annulled and within 8 weeks she had married Henry Plantagenet. She was 29, he 18; it was a canny political arrangement unifying Eleanor's vast lands of Aquitaine and Poitiers with Henry's considerable territories of the Angevin empire and his capacity for military protection. Following the death of King Stephen, Eleanor and Henry went on to become the monarchs of England, through the bloodline of Henry's mother, Matilda, daughter of Henry I. They had 8 children, including the warrior king Richard I (the Lionheart) and inept king John (of Magna Carta fame), but relations between Eleanor and Henry II soured and Eleanor was imprisoned for 16 years, only released upon his death in 1189, by which time she was 67. Meanwhile, Louis, initially devastated by their marriage, went on to re-marry twice, producing more children including that all-important requirement, a male heir - the future Philip II of France. Conrad III died in Bavaria in 1152 and was succeeded by his nephew, Frederick Barbarossa. Sources:

‘Queen, Empress, Concubine’ by Claudia Gold.

‘Most Wise and Valiant Ladies’ by Andrea Hopkins

‘Medieval People’ by Michael Prestwich

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#St. Louis #Bad Boyz Football #Ferguson #Missouri #Tyre

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Mikko Rantanen visited NHLWAM via a video call [x] after the first round sweep over the St. Louis Blues. There will be a second part next week but I've translated the first part:

- At the beginning Putkonen asked Mikko to rotate his phone screen to horizontal. Mikko didn't realize he had a rotate lock on and when he did figure it out he said: "Oh well fuck hey" and Putkonen called him "an IT ninja"

- About Donskoi's love for repairing cars: "I remember a few weeks ago my car notified that the pressure in the tyres was low and I didn't wanna take the car to a gas station so I called Donskoi and asked him if he had the tools and Donskoi was all excited and told to come by and that he had all the tools and stuff in his garage. So I went there and he got the pressure fixed and he did some other repairing too, he's a car man so noticed that stuff right away."

- If he's gotten any speeding tickets since he's got a nice Mercedes. Mikko said he hasn't gotten any, he's "good at dodging the police".

- On the topic of tickets (fines) he got asked about the embellishing fine earlier this season. "Oh hey, this latest fine, atfer it was reported in the media I was pretty mad and called the dude who's in charge of these fines and told him I totally disagree with it and he was like "okay send us a message". They have a committee of nine people who decide and vote on these fines. So I sent them an email, I showed it to my teammates and they told me I could go to a law school with it. I wrote eight points on it about the incident, I remember when it happened and how it went. It was a toe pick so I flew on my stomach, it looked like a jump so I get why it looked like an embellishment. But then turns out they vetoed the fine but surprisingly that didn't make it into the media."

(Putkonen: "We're gonna make sure this one comes out. How long did it take to write the email?") "I don't remember the last time I had something where I actually had to think about how I'm gonna type it. It took about half an hour at least, it wasn't anything too long. I can read it aloud to you in the future episodes sometimes."

- "What was up with when you interrupted Graves' interview? - "We have this thing, I think a lot of teams have, that after every game we reward the best player or someone who made a big block or something. We give it (the necklace) out after the game, we wait that everyone gets into the locker room first and I don't know why but after every game someone has an interview that takes like 10 minutes and everyone waits in the room like "when will he come back". And that time it took a bit too long, I've been there patiently waiting in 56 games plus playoffs but this time I was like "okay this is enough".

- About what's his deal with peanut butter. "Here in Denver there's a restaurant where they sell burgers with it, they apply it like butter on it and it's good, I recommend. It sounds terrible and was horrified when I first heard about it but it was surprisingly good actually. I even use peanut butter with porridge at breakfast, or actually it's almond butter but yeah that's almost the same." (He picked peanut butter over ketchup, when asked to pick between them)

- Manninen: "I was watching Nashville the other day and it reminded me, do you remember when Matt Duchene wanted to go play for a winning organization?" - "Yeah, I remember it well. After my first season it was hard to think we would be here in 2021, as one of the biggest contenders. I don't think Duchene could imagine a change this fast either. But kudos to Sakic for building a good team."

- About the playoffs so far: "Of course it's good to win a playoff series but we are keeping in mind the main goal and know it's only getting tougher. We are pretty level-headed and didn't really even celebrate the first round win."

[link to translation of part 2]

#mikko rantanen #colorado avalanche #mp #translation #he's such a solid dude i'm mad that i can't translate his dialect #but hope yalls still enjoy!!#nhlwam

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BLACK LIVES MATTER

A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist (Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)

Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B Something To Do - IGBO - Funk

Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul

Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop

Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk

When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House

Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock

Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House

Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique

Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul

See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock

Toast - Koffee - Dancehall Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul

The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B

Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul .img - Brother Theodore - Funk Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House

Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk

quand c’est - Stromae - Pop Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul

Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul

Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop

Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz

Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat Fast Lane - Rationale - House Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B

Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop God Knows - Dornik - Soul Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz Get Back - McClenney - Alternative Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul

Spotify playlist

In memory of:

Aaron Bailey Adam Addie Mae Collins Ahmaud Arbery Aiyana Stanley Jones Akai Gurley Alberta Odell Jones Alexia Christian Alfonso Ferguson Alteria Woods Alton Sterling Amadou Diallo Amos Miller Anarcha Westcott Anton de Kom Anthony Hill Antonio Martin Antronie Scott Antwon Rose Jr. Arthur St. Clair Atatiana Jefferson Aubrey Pollard Aura Rosser Bennie Simons Berry Washington Bert Dennis Bettie Jones Betsey Billy Ray Davis Bobby Russ Botham Jean Brandon Jones Breffu Brendon Glenn Breonna Taylor Bud Johnson Bussa

Calin Roquemore Calvin McDowell Calvin Mike and his family Carl Cooper Carlos Carson Carlotta Lucumi Carol Denise McNair Carol Jenkins Carole Robertson Charles Curry Charles Ferguson Charles Lewis Charles Wright Charly Leundeu Keunang Chime Riley Christian Taylor Christopher Sheels Claude Neal Clementa Pickney Clifford Glover Clifton Walker Clinton Briggs Clinton R. Allen Cordella Stevenson Corey Carter Corey Jones Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd Cynthia Wesley

Daniel L. Simmons Danny Bryant Darius Randell Robinson Darius Tarver Darrien Hunt Darrius Stewart David Felix David Joseph David McAtee David Walker and his family Deandre Brunston Deborah Danner Delano Herman Middleton Demarcus Semer Demetrius DuBose Depayne Middleton-Doctor Dion Johnson Dominique Clayton Dontre Hamilton Dred Scott

Edmund Scott Ejaz Choudry Elbert Williams Eleanor Bumpurs Elias Clayton Elijah McClain Eliza Woods Elizabeth Lawrence Elliot Brooks Ellis Hudson Elmer Jackson Elmore Bolling Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. Emmett Till Eric Garner Eric Harris Eric Reason Ernest Lacy Ernest Thomas Ervin Jones Eugene Rice Eugene Williams Ethel Lee Lance Ezell Ford

Felix Kumi Frank Livingston Frank Morris Frank Smart Frazier B. Baker Fred Hampton Fred Rochelle Fred Temple Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.

George Floyd George Grant George Junius Stinney Jr. George Meadows George Waddell George Washington Lee Gregory Gunn

Harriette Vyda Simms Moore Harry Tyson Moore Hazel “Hayes” Turner Henry Ezekial Smith Henry Lowery Henry Ruffin Henry Scott Hosea W. Allen

India Kager Isaac McGhie Isadore Banks Italia Marie Kelly

Jack Turner Jamar Clark Jamel Floyd James Byrd Jr. James Craig Anderson James Earl Chaney James Powell James Ramseur James Tolliver James T. Scott Janet Wilson Jason Harrison Javier Ambler J.C. Farmer Jemel Roberson Jerame Reid Jesse Thornton Jessie Jefferson Jim Eastman Joe Nathan Roberts John Cecil Jones John Crawford III John J. Gilbert John Ruffin John Taylor Johnny Robinson Jonathan Ferrell Jonathan Sanders Jordan Edwards Joseph Mann Julia Baker Julius Jones July Perry Junior Prosper

Kalief Browder Karvas Gamble Jr. Keith Childress, Jr. Kelly Gist Kelso Benjamin Cochrane Kendrick Johnson Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Kenny Long Kevin Hicks Kevin Matthews Kiwane Albert Carrington

Lacy Mitchell Lamar Smith Laquan McDonald Laura Nelson Laura Wood L.B. Reed L.D. Nelson Lemuel Penn Lemuel Walters Leonard Deadwyler Leroy Foley Levi Harrington Lila Bella Carter Lloyd Clay Louis Allen Lucy

M.A. Santa Cruz Maceo Snipes Malcom X Malice Green Malissa Williams Manuel Ellis Marcus Deon Smith Marcus Foster Marielle Franco Mark Clark Maria Martin Lee Anderson Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew Avery Mary Dennis Mary Turner Matthew Ajibade May Noyes Mckenzie Adams Medgar Wiley Evers Michael Brown Michael Donald Michael Griffith Michael Lee Marshall Michael Lorenzo Dean Michael Noel Michael Sabbie Michael Stewart Michelle Cusseaux Miles Hall Moses Green Mya Hall Myra Thompson

Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr. Natasha McKenna Nicey Brown Nicholas Heyward Jr.

O’Day Short family Orion Anderson Oscar Grant III Otis Newsom

Pamela Turner Paterson Brown Jr. Patrick Dorismond Philando Castile Phillip Pannell Phillip White Phinizee Summerour

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Ramarley Graham Randy Nelson Raymond Couser Raymond Gunn Regis Korchinski-Paquet Rekia Boyd Renisha McBride Riah Milton Robert Hicks Robert Mallard Robert Truett Rodney King Roe Nathan Roberts Roger Malcolm and his wife Roger Owensby Jr. Ronell Foster Roy Cyril Brooks Rumain Brisbon Ryan Matthew Smith

Sam Carter Sam McFadden Samuel DuBose Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr. Samuel Hammond Jr. Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. Sandra Bland Sean Bell Shali Tilson Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Shukri Abdi Simon Schuman Slab Pitts Stella Young Stephon Clark Susie Jackson

T.A. Allen Tamir Rice Tamla Horsford Tanisha Anderson Timothy Caughman Timothy Hood Timothy Russell Timothy Stansbury Jr. Timothy Thomas Terrence Crutcher Terrill Thomas Tom Jones Tom Moss Tony McDade Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. Trayvon Martin Troy Hodge Troy Robinson Tula Tyler Gerth Tyre King Tywanza Sanders

Victor Duffy Jr. Victor White III

Walter Lamar Scott Wayne Arnold Jones Wesley Thomas Wilbert Cohen Wilbur Bundley Will Brown Will Head Will Stanley Will Stewart Will Thompson Willie James Howard Willie Johnson Willie McCoy Willie Palmer Willie Turks William Brooks William Butler William Daniels William Fambro William Green William L. Chapman II William Miller William Pittman Wyatt Outlaw

Yusef Kirriem Hawkins

The victims of LaLaurie (1830s) The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868) The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887) The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898) The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910) The black victims of the Red summer (1919) The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919) The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920) The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)

All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.

All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness.

All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination.

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My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories.

Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more) Documentaries: 13th (Netflix) The Innocence Files (Netflix) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix) Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix) I Am Not Your Negro

YouTube videos: We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch) Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)

Books: Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery White Fragility by Robin Deangelo Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Websites: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/ https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/

#black lives matter #blm #racism #george floyd #breonna taylor #mlk #black history

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sggahagagag I'm doing an about me

-So hi I'm mani and I use all pronouns

-I will rant about ANYTHING

-new York Rangers and detroit Red Wings are just mwah to me

-I also sorta have an obligatory toleration towards st Louis cuz I live in Missouri so yk

-sometimes I post like 30 posts in a day and then I'll be gone for a week

-my asks are always open for anything (especially random stuff without context. I find it funny)

And for when I procrastinate and change my acc around, here are my past users:

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Colts Sign T Tyree St. Louis To Practice Squad

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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts today signed tackle Tyree St. Louis to the practice squad and released running back Quinton Flowers from the practice squad.

St. Louis, 6-5, 315 pounds, spent time on the New England Patriots’ practice squad this year. He participated in the Patriots’ 2019 offseason program and training camp before being waived during final cuts on August 31 and…

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Events 7.11 (before 1900)

472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius). 911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor. 1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army. 1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans. 1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. 1410 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Ottoman capital, Edirne. 1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances. 1576 – While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland". 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec. 1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979. 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille. 1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty. 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War. 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. 1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed. 1836 – The Fly-fisher's Entomology is published by Alfred Ronalds. The book transformed the sport and went to many editions. 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C. 1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War. 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto. 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua. 1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. 1899 – Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.

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Bommarito 500 at Gateway Review

There was plenty of drama when IndyCar returned under the lights in St Louis, with major title implications as a result, although passing still was very difficult. It was also a great night for the rookies to IndyCar, with both of them showing their talent at points.

Newgarden has now won half of the races at Gateway since it returned to the calendar in 2017, as he dominated the 2nd half of the race, getting great fuel mileage from his Chevy engine. It wasn’t a flawless day though for him, as at the start of the race he chopped down on his teammate Pagenaud, which was rather reckless and could have ruined his race. He didn’t need to take those sorts of risks, as he was already ahead of all his title challengers, plus it affected a teammate majorly. With everything else that went on in the race, he has halved his gap to the title leader, and should be strong for the rest of the year.

It was a calculated day for O’Ward, as whilst he did show aggression at points, he also was cautious at moments where it could have gone wrong for him. Being 2nd after all that happened in that race should still be satisfying for him, especially as he now leads the championship, with just 3 rounds to go. Power seemed ecstatic with getting a podium, as the car was not to his liking at all throughout the race, we could see this from the start, as he dropped back into the midpack.

McLaughlin was quietly sat in the pack for most of the race, but got to the front when it mattered, possibly helped by a lucky yellow and other people’s issues. But nevertheless, he looked as though he belonged at the front, just like at Texas, as he continues to grow during his rookie year. Even more impressive, is that he was the one who helped all his teammates with their car set up for the weekend, as he tested here a few months ago, which could have been what gave them the pace they had.

It has been a trying year for Bourdais and Foyt, as the car has been fast at so many places, but fortune has not favoured them really, which has to be tough for them. So, the 5th place here will give them something to build on, as they head to the final leg of the year. I would watch out for them next year, as they could well have the pace to get a win or two.

Sato and Hunter Reay climbed through the field well, with the last yellow really aiding them, because they stopped earlier compared to the others. Both of them could find themselves struggling to find a seat for next year. Pagenaud was unlucky as I mentioned before, whilst Ericsson couldn’t match the pace of those around him at the front.

Daly came back well from a poor qualifying, as did Kellett who had his best weekend ever in the series, although he was only in the top 10 at points because he was saving less fuel than others. Grosjean ended up a lap down, however that does not show the pace we saw from him at parts of the race. During one stint he was the fastest car on track, passing car after car, as he got to grips with the new style of racing. Yet, after his next pitstop, he struggled on cold tyres and lost a lot of time, that combined with the yellow really hurt him, as he deserved a top 10 really.

There were plenty of non-finishers in this race, firstly Rahal and Jones got together, which in my view was on Jones, as if he had been next to the apex where you should be, it would have gone fine. Carpenter then got into the wall, which ends off a poor year for him, I think it may be time to hang up his boots soon sadly, at least outside Indy.

The next crash was the defining one of the race, as Veekay didn’t brake enough behind Palou and Dixon, ploughing into both of them, causing major title implications. They are still right in the title fight, but the momentum has gone from both of their charges at the moment. Finally, to sum up Andretti’s year, Rossi and Herta retired whilst being in the battle for the win, Colton had a broken driveshaft, whilst Rossi got up into the grey and couldn’t save the car. Can they end the year on a high, after a difficult two years for the team?

Gateway under the lights always gives us some drama to add to the season, and we got our fair share of that over the 260 laps. With 3 West Coast races left, the key will be to have solid races at all of them, as you can’t expect anyone to be dominant in a series like this.

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Ryan NYP ‘N-X-211’ “Spirit of St Louis” by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 30 Built 1927 This is the original “Spirit of St Louis” in which Charles Lindbergh carried out the first solo, non-stop crossing of the Atlantic on 20th-21st May 1927. The flight was from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,610 miles and took 33 ½ hours. The NYP (which stands for New York Paris) was based on a standard Ryan M-2 mailplane. It had a longer wingspan and a massively increased fuel capacity. The cockpit was moved rearwards and the engine moved forwards, allowing the large main fuel tank to be situated over the centre of gravity. This arrangement meant that the pilot could only see forward using a periscope. The engine is a Wright Whirlwind J-5C 9-cylinder radial engine, producing 223hp. After returning from France, Lindbergh and the NYP carried out a tour of the United States and then flew nonstop from Washington to Mexico City, visited Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico (among others) before flying nonstop from Havana to St Louis. Flags of all the countries visited were painted on the cowling. The NYPs final flight was from St Louis to Washington on 30th April 1928, after which Lindbergh presented her to the Smithsonian Institution for preservation. She was hung in the Arts and Industries Building until 1976 when she moved to the then new Air and Space building. She is usually on display suspended in the ‘Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall’ (Gallery 100/200), but is seen here when lowered to the ground for inspection and maintenance. She is fitted with temporary wheels (so as to not put the weight of the aircraft on the original tyres) and with the cowlings removed, showing some interesting detail. National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC. 11th May 2015

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Shrine Game Offensive Players To Watch: East Team

Shrine Game Offensive Players To Watch: East Team #easteam #shrinegame #offense #JordanTaamu #TyreeStLouis #DaMarkusLodge #TyJohnson #nfldraft #nfldraftprospects #football #future

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With shrine week underway, here are some offensive players from the east team that should standout and catch your eyes. Also, these draft prospects could potentially get their names called on draft day in a few months and maybe on the team you support.

DaMarkus Lodge – WR – Ole Miss

2018 Stats: 65 receptions, 877 receiving yards, 4 receiving touchdowns

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#tyre sampson #St Louis #Missouri #R.I.P.

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Hi folks. So I am presently STing a V20 Dark Ages Vampire game and my players have suggested doing a "modern nights" 2010s game using V20. (We won't be using V5.) They want the game to be set during the present (2018) and so, since today was my day off, I came up with an alternate version of the metaplot, bringing it from the late 1990s to today.

Thoughts, comments, feedback welcome!

January 1998-October 1999: The Kue-jin courts of China direct the Great Leap Outward, a highly coordinated offensive by Asia’s native vampires to seize control of U.S. domains from Western vampires as revenge for colonialism (and the Cainites’ profit from it). The Anarch Free State in southern California suffers heavy losses in the first year, but with Camarilla assistance fights the invaders to a stalemate in Los Angeles. The Kuei-jin take San Francisco from the Camarilla in 1999 but by the end of the year suspend their offensives to focus on domestic concerns. The Anarchs rally to San Diego while the Camarilla focuses on Sabbat attacks across the East Coast and the southern U.S.

April 1998: Giangaleazzo, the Sabbat Archbishop of Milan, defects to the Camarilla and openly burns the original version of the Code of Milan, the code of conduct for the sect.

November 1998: The Tremere antitribu of the Sabbat are annihilated in a single night, bursting into flames instantly and crumbling to ash wherever they are. Shortly after diaberlizing Saulot to steal the Antediluvian’s power, Tremere loses a spiritual battle with the far more powerful entity. Saulot ends up possessing Tremere, while Tremere’s soul is placed in that of his former lover and disciple, Goratrix. As part of a desperate effort to achieve the strength necessary to retake his body, Tremere (as Goratrix) resorts to a ritual that sacrifices the Tremere who followed “Goratrix” in his Sabbat defection. Intended to magically steal Saulot’’s power and give it to Tremere, the ritual fails, but does succeed in forcing Saulot into a deeper torpor, limiting his manipulations.

May 1999: Xaviar, the Justicar of Clan Gangrel, concludes that the Antediluvians may not be a myth as the Camarilla claims. After unsuccessfully trying to persuade the sect’s warlord, Karsh, to lead the clan out of the Camarilla, Xaviar decides to publicly maintain the Camarilla position while secretly investigating the Antediluvians’ existence with the clandestine assistance of the Noddist scholar and fellow Gangrel known as Beckett.

June 1999: The Ravnos Antediluvian rises from torpor in northern India, consuming the souls of almost all its descendants in the area. Three Kuei-jin Bodhisattvas, some of the most potent of their kind, manage to weaken the ancient creature enough so that it slips back into hibernation beneath the earth. A historically destructive monsoon covers up the supernatural nature of the incident from mortal eyes, but many vampires witness several days of insanity and instability in all Ravnos vampires. Vampires in the Western Hemisphere are mostly unaffected long-term, but the elimination of so many Ravnos Kindred in Asia leads to a resurgence of Kuei-jin control across southern Asia.

June-August 1999: The Sabbat initiates a “Black Crusade” against the Camarilla, fueled by an overpopulation of sect members as well as religious fervor brought on by the millennium. Fabrizia Conteraz, the Archbishop of Miami, leads the conquest of St. Louis, Memphis, and Atlanta from the Camarilla. The East Coast offensive under Archbishop Francisco Domingo de Polonia stalls, however, locked into a war of attrition in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. Even worse, New York City – long the base of the Sabbat in the northeastern United States – falls to the Camarilla, although Polonia kills the Ventrue Prince, Michaela, before retreating to the Sabbat stronghold of Baltimore.

December 1999: It is discovered that the Sabbat Regent, Melinda Galbraith, is dead, after “she” is revealed to be impostor by Sascha Vykos. After calling in numerous boons, Vykos is appointed the new Regent of the sect. They have Polonia destroyed for his failures, while Conteraz is promoted to Cardinal of the Southeastern U.S. They also declare that the “Black Crusade” will continue as Gehenna is close at hand.

The 2000s

There is no vampire involvement in the September 11 attacks, but the Camarilla invests a large amount of its resources in arms-manufacturing and military contractors, making huge profits. The sect takes an even more authoritarian turn, taking advantage of the enhancement of state power in the wake of the War on Terror. The Inner Circle conducts a covert purge of known individuals associated with study of Caine and the Antediluvians, sending Beckett further underground. New York City becomes consolidated Camarilla territory, the Kindred resuming control of global finance.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 has the unintended consequence of waking ur-Shugli, a childe of Haqim, the founder of the Assamites. Soon after waking, he breaks the Tremere curse placed on the clan that prevented them from drinking the blood of other vampires. As the new Eldest of the Assamites, ur-Shugli preaches a fundamentalist return to worshipping Haqim and acting as isolationist assassins once more, as before the Treaty of Tyre. Around a quarter of the main clan (mostly its younger members) refuse to renounce Islam and become “the Dispossessed.” A sizable portion of the warrior caste under Fatima al-Faqadi travels to Mexico and joins the Sabbat. The Camarilla responds to the breaking of the curse and the assassination of several of its leading princes at Assamite hands by declaring itself at war with the clan and its agents.

Huge advances in technology such as search engines, social media, and other digital innovations puts the Masquerade at heightened risk. With the kine armed with high-definition camera phones, violations of the First Tradition become frequent, and the Camarilla becomes even harsher in its practices, to the extent that just having a MySpace page is grounds for calling a Blood Hunt. The Nosferatu-controlled SchreckNet, a private Internet network, is opened to other Camarilla clans. Anarchs are also able to access it without too much difficulty, although the Sabbat is actively prevented from using it. Attempts to reveal and spread the existence of vampires online are instantly met by smear campaigns by Nosferatu “trolls” who poke holes in the accounts and evidence that manage to leak on to the Internet. They cannot catch everything, however, and vampire hunters are an increasingly common problem.

The rising importance of Silicon Valley as a place of innovation and global economic importance leads the Camarilla to redouble its efforts to retake San Francisco, which it does by 2006. Around the same time, the Anarchs strike north from San Diego and succeed in reclaiming Los Angeles for the Free States. The Kuei-jin retains presences in the many Chinatowns across the West Coast, but nevertheless the Quincunx is humbled by the failure of the Great Leap Outward, leading to the rise of more isolationist leadership more concerned with the increasing power of the Yama Kings.

The Camarilla is caught unprepared for the Great Recession of 2008, and as fortunes disappear overnight, elders and even princes find themselves exposed to challenges from enemies and upstarts. The inability of the sect to anticipate or prevent the crisis does much to damage its credibility, and the seeds of almost a decade of intense repression produce the fruit of rebellion. The Third Anarch Revolt erupts across North America and even the Camarilla bulwark of Europe, with several notable cities – Athens, Berlin, Liverpool -- falling under Anarch control. Simultaneously, the Sabbat takes advantage of the chaos in the close of the decade by destroying Lasombra and Tzimisce “traitors” in Eastern Europe, Italy, and Spain, including Giangaleazzo in Milan. The sect uses already existing xenophobia and strong anti-globalization populism to instigate violent outbursts against immigrants and leftists to mask its own bloody assaults.

In 2010, it is revealed that ur-Shugli serves the Baali after an operation ostensibly meant to excavate the Second City instead unearths a reliquary containing an incredibly powerful and ancient demon. Before ur-Shugli can finish releasing the entity, the Methuselahs of Clan Assamite come together to interrupt the ritual at the cost of their own lives. The Third Baali War erupts across the Middle East and North Africa against the backdrop of the Arab Spring. Many of the Dispossessed Assamites return to the main clan to wipe out the Baali and salvage assorted supernatural relics looted amidst the riots and insurgencies now common in the region. By 2013 the Assamites can claim a tactical victory in limiting infernal incursions and sending the Baali back into the shadows, but with the main Assamite clan much reduced in strength, its oldest elders all but gone. Most of the Dispossessed Assamites return to Alamut; as a sign of younger and more progressive attitudes, Fatima al-Faqadi becomes the first woman caliph. The Camarilla and the Assamites remain at war.

During the Third Baali War, demon-worshipping cults are uncovered across the world. The Sabbat Inquisition culls virtually all the packs in Montreal after a bishop is found responsible for a series of murders believed to be Satanic in nature. Camarilla cities are not immune either, with several European cities rotten with secret and blasphemous orders from the past. Yet again, the sect tends to execute those suspected of corruption without evidence, only worsening accusations that is little more a society for tyrants.

The Giovanni and the Followers of Set, never trusted by any of the sects, are often casualties in the purges that follow the war, their activities linked to dark magic and licentious behavior. In response, the two clans form an alliance in 2011, stating that their domains will be shared, save for the respective clan headquarters in Venice and Egypt. The union has served each clan, as their combined influence in organized crime as well as the mystical arts has proven mutually beneficial. Elder vampires call it the “Independent Alliance” while neonates refer to the “Snakes and Skulls, Inc.”

Modern Nights

The Camarilla continues to decline into the 2010s, strongest in Western Europe and the Northeastern United States. While materially strong as an institution, there has never been a greater divide between the powerful and the powerless, the old and the young. The talk of a “meritocracy of vampires” rings hollow, and not just in traditional Anarch-leaning cities. Consequently, the Camarilla has responded by gradually removing the velvet glove from around the iron fist. This has led to the rise of two factions, the Traditionalists, who favor the status quo, and Modernizers, who want to introduce liberal reforms to save the Camarilla from becoming totally archaic and irrelevant.

The Sabbat under Regent Vykos is once more resurgent, with Cardinal Conteraz taking Little Rock, Cleveland, and Kansas City for the sect in the U.S. Vykos, however, has proved a polarizing figure, as their scholarly and autocratic bent has upset those members who feel the Sabbat has become too centralized in its authority. The revelation of infernalism among the sect’s higher ranks has also provoked a desire for new, younger leaders. Joseph Pander, the leader of the Sabbat’s clanless vampires, has become the leading spokesperson against Vykos, prompting some to speculate of a new civil war.

Of the three major sects, the Anarchs have prospered the most. Unrest and anger in mortal society has led to greater popularity for anti-establishment values, and it is easy to describe Camarilla elders as “the Kindred’s 1%.” Within the Movement itself, however, ideologies range from the far left to the far right, and vampires welcome in one Anarch city might be driven out of another. Berlin has become something of the latest Kindred experiments at creating a new democratic order for vampires, although what exactly such an order will ultimately look like is not something that is agreed upon.

#anarchs #camarilla #malkavian #role-playing game #sabbat #gangrel #toreador #nosferatu #brujah #rpg #lasombra #tzimisce #tremere #bloodlines #white wolf #onyx path #vampire: the masquerade #vampire the masquerade

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