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Columns, Congress, Criminal law, Politics	 December 6, 2021 December 6, 2021
The Loki Effect: How Crime Became the Latest Crisis Blamed on the Pandemic
Below is my column in The Hill on the rise in crime, particularly "smash and grab" operations. This weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was hit by business groups for denying that there is a rise in such crime. Absent such denials, however, the cause of the rise in crime remains a matter of fierce debate. The White House and others have reached for a familiar culprit: the Pandemic. Call it the Loki Effect.
Here is the column:
Crime is raging across the country, from violent attacks to brazen shoplifting to mob "smash and grab" attacks. The White House this week had a simple answer for the cause of this rising lawlessness: It was not "defund the police" efforts, or more restrictive policies for police and prosecutors. It was the familiar scourge cited in debates ranging from infrastructure to supply chains to tax increases — the pandemic.
The pandemic now seems to have reached the mythic level of gods who once were blamed for everything that went wrong in life. Africans had Anansi the Spider, while the Norse had the trickster Loki. Both were known to assume different identities to wreak disorder or steal precious things.
For politicians, it is useful to have a lurking Loki to explain that social problems are not really of their making, the result of their failures. The Loki factor was evident in the press conference this week when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked about the rising lawlessness seen in major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: "Does the president still think that crime is up because of the pandemic?" White House press secretary Jen Psaki replied that "many people have conveyed that."
Doocy persisted: "So when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go loot a store — a CVS, a Nordstrom, a Home Depot until the shelves are clean — do you think that's because of the pandemic?" Psaki replied: "I think a root cause in a lot of communities is the pandemic, yes."
That damned Loki.
Whole stores have been ransacked by gangs, and the crime is sweeping large and small businesses alike. At the same time, shoplifting has reached such high levels in cities like San Francisco that stores like Walgreens are closing up due to the losses.
Yet, some in the media have echoed the spin that such brazen crimes are simply responses to the dire conditions caused by the pandemic. When the CBS morning news played a clip of a man nonchalantly clearing a shelf of hair-care products into a garbage bag and then riding his bike out of a Walgreens, co-host Tony Dokoupil insisted that it seems like "an act of desperation. I mean, you're not getting rich off what you take from a Walgreens, you're getting probably something you need. I don't know the details of that particular case." Indeed, the first priority for most people in a pandemic is to steal dozens of hair-care products.
It also appears that pandemic sustenance-gatherers felt compelled to grab $79,000-worth of purses from a Givenchy store in New York. Purses certainly do appear to be a COVID necessity across this accessory-deprived nation: When a gang hit Burberry's on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, they ran past an assortment of clothing to grab high-priced purses, too.
Crimes have gotten so bad in New York that the CEO of Bank of America this week sent out suggestions on how employees should "dress down" and take other survival measures to avoid victimization. Citibank is offering car services to avoid having to walk the streets of the city.
For years, many of these cities have seen calls to "defund the police," and many, like New York City, have cut police budgets. Groups like the ACLU insisted that "defunding police will make us safer." Undercover units and gun-violence units have been eliminated; police practices, from the pursuit of certain suspects to traffic enforcement, have been curtailed or stopped. Prosecutors also have faced policy and legal changes on decriminalization, parole opposition and other law-enforcement limitations.
In some cities, like San Francisco, police largely stopped responding to shoplifting calls after state law was changed to make the theft of merchandise worth $950 or less just a misdemeanor. Career prosecutors have quit there after the election of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who is blamed for a sharp decrease in prosecutions.
In New York, Democratic politicians have pushed through sweeping criminal reforms that include "clean slate" legislation that would seal criminal misdemeanors after three years and felonies after seven years. The convictions would later be expunged completely; millions of offenses erased. That includes violent offenses.
While many politicians still call for "reimagining policing," that imagination does not extend to seeing a cause-and-effect with rising crime levels. Instead, it is the Loki effect of … the pandemic.
The fact is that most criminals are rational actors who make a calculus of risk in the commission of offenses. The mobs hitting stores like Bloomingdales are organized gangs. Even shoplifters stealing from stores like Costco and Target are known to quickly sell the goods on the internet through fences.
In 1968, University of Chicago economist Gary Becker wrote his famous article, "Crime and Punishment," in which he argued that criminals make calculations based on both the certainty and the severity of punishment. If you increase the certainty or likelihood of punishment, you can achieve deterrence with lower levels of punishment. Conversely, if there is a low detection rate for crime, you can deter some crimes with higher levels of punishment.
What is happening in cities like San Francisco is that both the certainty and the severity of punishment has fallen below deterrence levels.
Consider the recent brazen smash-and-grabs at malls in the city, in which almost $350,000 worth of goods were stolen. After rising complaints from citizens, the city finally moved aggressively and arrested 14 people. Yet all were immediately released upon processing under "no bail" laws. If prosecuted, they expect relatively light sentences. For other felons, this is an easy calculation: Hundreds of thousands of dollars in goods can be stolen with a low likelihood of capture and a relatively low severity of punishment.
While the Biden White House may not see the cause-and-effect realities, these felons certainly see the cost-benefit realities.
We are all living in a pandemic, but most of us do not look for a Givenchy store to grab an essential diamond-encrusted purse. That is the action of someone who is certain about the value of the purse — but not about the likelihood of prosecution.
It still remains unclear whether this pandemic was man-made or just a natural occurrence. However, the rise in crime in our cities is strictly a man-made epidemic.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.
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177 thoughts on "The Loki Effect: How Crime Became the Latest Crisis Blamed on the Pandemic"
What race are the California looters? I think it's relevant. Just like it was relevant to ask who was behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Democrats are wrong about EVERYTHING. It is foolish and dangerous to let them have any political power whatsoever.
Dennis McIntyre says:
Jonathan: The last paragraph of your column speaks volumes about your willingness to rely on conspiracy theories rather science to explain the origins of Covid-19: "It still remains unclear whether this pandemic was man-made or just a natural occurrence". Earlier in the year Pres. Biden ordered the US intelligence community to reassess the lab "leak" hypothesis. In August the requested report reached no definitive conclusion–but leaned toward the theory the virus has a natural origin–not in a bio-lab in China's Wuhan province. To date that is still the consensus. Most scientists think Covid-19 made a "zoonotic" jump from animals to humans.
But you keep fueling the Chinese conspiracy theory–backed early on by Trump who understood the pandemic could threaten his presidency. He called it the "China virus", trying to divert attention away from his failure to treat the virus seriously and fighting state efforts to deal with it. Trump was suffering from what I call the "Columbo syndrome". He wanted the famed TV detective to come in and force the Chinese to confess. That isn't how science works. So stop fueling the attempts to "blame" China rather in dealing in facts!
Chris Weber says:
It did come from China. There is solid documented proof that Fauci knew and funded research for such nonsense at the Wuhan lab of all places, and we also know that the 500,000 vaccines that China sent us early in 2020 were also all infected with the virus. They had to be destroyed. So enough. Calling it the China virus was accurate. Wuhan virus is likely more accurate. The fact is the democrats have done nothing but exploit it, both parties lined their pockets from it and both parties took away freedoms and rights of the citizens for what can only be described as their grand experiment into mass population control.
Its all Vuadville. The political version of the WWE. And most people are duped, carrying the water for one side or the other, while both sides pee in your pails.
scientists think Covid-19 made a "zoonotic" jump from animals to humans.
He says citing zero evidence and not naming a single scientist. Which is understandable because scientist are not allowed into China to do any scientific investigations.
We do know China has conducted over 100,000 zoonotic tests and come up with zero. In scientific terms, No evidence of zoonotic transfer.
Lawlessness is a function of the discipline of leadership, of which America has none. In America, Americans are persona non grata and America is an open-border, an international free-for-all. The American free-for-all is a function of the contaminated and corrupted vote. Never was America intended to suffer a one man, one vote democrazy, which is self-terminating. The Founders established strict immigration and vote criteria in 1788. Turnout was 11.6% by design. Ben Franklin told Americans they must resolve to "keep" the restricted-vote republic they were given. They couldn't. They didn't. It is likely too late to implement vote restrictions that would save the nation which is on the precipice of the abyss.
"The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum."
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"the people are nothing but a great beast…
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Vermont is one of the most vaccinated states and has one of the highest rates of new infections.
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The vaccine appears to be marginally effective for a short time and then not at all. It's side effects can be crippling and lethal.
It's long term consequences are unknown.
UpstateFarmer says:
Crime in places like San Fran were on the increase prior to the pandemic.
With DA not wiling to prosecute, offenders turned back out on the streets hours after arrest, free to go commit crime again.
Crime has even spread to wealthy communities, with the murder of Jacqueline Avant, in her Beverly Hills home. Oprah Winfrey, tweeted, "The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe,"
"The world is upside down."
Now that crime has come to the wealthy, will they, the elite, demand something be done about it?
Or just hire more private security, build more, higher fences/gates?
Independent Bob says:
Didn't the pandemic cause everything.
Man Up says:
We can make all the excuses we want to, for crime now running rampant. But, it is clear that bad policies…not Covid, is what is causing the spike in crime. Giving other reasons, just gives the criminals more incentive to commit more crimes. The more excuses are given for criminal conduct, the more crime there will be and the more people will turn to crime, seeing it as almost a heroic endeavor. My experience has shown that criminals do not like places where they are not welcome.
An old guy says:
If I may, two comments.
It was Cesare Beccaria who first argued that it was the certainty, not the severity, of punishment which deterred crime. He also argued that the punishment should be proportionate to the crime. He's worth a read, at least John Adams and Thomas Jefferson thought so. A 'bad' law is one that cannot be uniformly enforced, leaving those who are caught feeling as if they were singled out for mistreatment, and those who are not as free as the birds in the field. Beccaria was arguing against severe punishment, much like some of the leftist reformers today, but he was not arguing against punishment. He merely wanted it to be rational and proportionate, and he wanted laws to be fair, so he believed that a thief should recompense his victim, not merely be put in prison, and he favored life in prison over capital punishment because the murderer would then have a lifetime to dwell upon what he had done. Perhaps worth a read; it's a short book, and even Catherine the Great thought it was good enough to invite the Milanese philosophe to Russia to reform her penal system, while Voltaire thought it good enough to host him in Paris.
As for The Virus — it's infection fatality rate (the one that counts) appears to be between 0.15 and 0.2 percent, which is low according to the physicians I know, about the same as a bad flu season. There is also the anomaly that in 2020 (an election year), the number of deaths in the US rose from 2,854,838 in 2019 to 3,358,814, an increase of 503,976. About three-quarters of the increase was due to reports of Covid, which the CDC noted were "confirmed or presumed COVID-19 as an underlying or contributing cause of death." So the 377,883 deaths associated with the virus were not from it — and that is important, since many died "with" the virus, and a number of other underlying conditions (kidney failure, heart failure, cancer, pneumonia . . . .).
That still left 126,093 more deaths in 2020 than in 2019, a very peculiar figure, given that from 2018 to 2019, the increase was only 15,633 and the average increase from 2015 through 2019 was 35,000 annually, with a low of 15,633 (from 2018-2019) and a high of 69,255 (from 2016 to 2017). Nobody appears to know what caused the extra deaths, but the sudden explosion of deaths either meant that something truly sinister was afoot or that the CDC has fudged the figures.
I wish I knew which it was.
Its clear JS is posting under an alias.
What an attention hound.
Don't feed the trolls
Ole Man says:
Your last paragraph was gutsy, questioning the origins of the pandemic. Sounds almost conspiratorial.
The virus causing the rot in Progressive cities is Progressivism, not Covid.
Covid exists in sanely run cities without the decay we see in 'Progressive' places like San Francisco.
Progressive politics is a type of social gangrene.
The decaying wounds and sores were predictable and, in fact, were predicted. No surprises at all.
This is interesting: https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/how-looting-in-san-francisco-turned-the-city-into-a-ghost-town
That leads to the question, did Nancy Pelosi buy a house in Florida? What would be pushing such a story? No one knows for sure if it is true or not. The rumors are all over that she bought on the East or West coast of S. Florida. One can't be sure unless one sees her name attached, but one can't be sure if no name is attached because it can be purchased under a corporate name or another alias.
The Pandemic is like a lockpick.
Sutton's law: Why do people rob banks? Because that is where the money is.
But, where is there even more money? Hillary discovered that as did many others, some before and some after.
Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party __ Dinesh D'Souza,
Well I wouldn't completely rule out the pandemic as playing a partial role. Not the pandemic specifically but the govts reaction to it.
The pandemic was used to shore up these big corporations, while simultaneously forcing the closing of literally millions of small businesses across the country. Pretty much all small business, ma and pop shops here in rural Virginia, are gone. GONE. Cafes and diners like the Salem Cafe, which was here for decades. Shutttered and closed. Dance studios, tatoo parlors in town, barber shops, cafes and diners, all gone.
They said they'd give the businesses money, but they gave most of it to the big corporations and screwed the little guys. Even I had to shutter my tree practice and ended up going to work full time for one of my largest clients. Every small business that built up a practice through sweat, work and service was beaten down and shuttered by this nonsense pandemic they conflated with every death in America to frighten the easily panicked lemmings and the rest of us watched as small-town America was told to close its doors and make room for the big corporations.
So I wouldn't be surprised if the guy clearing the shelves at Walgreens wasn't the former owner of a small mom and pop pharmacy or knick knack shop across the street. Not justifying it if he is, just saying I wouldn't rule out the absolutely totalitarian response to this bullsh$t pandemic by the democrats as having some role in addition to the defund the police movements to account for the increased crime. They put a lot of people out of work and destroyed a lot of wonderful small family run businesses. They want everyone working for one of the corporations that they are trying to control. They gave us Obamacare so they could get medical records and information on every citizen. They wanted the IRS to hand them banking info for every single cent poorer American's earn (and were shot down). They social media platforms to control our speech and dictate what we can and cannot talk about, see and hear.
The republicans? A trainwreck. An absolute trainwreck of lunatic congressional members and fringe pundits, offering equal corruption (like how they robbed American small business with the loans) producing for their alternative President a New York elitist socialite playboy who never did an honest day's work in his life and couldn't put together a coherent sentence to save his life, as some sort of so called macho patriotic hero. So there's not much in the way of alternatives. We're supposed to be free people. The republicans make a good noise about freedom but when it comes to actually allowing it that noise turns into squawkin. But the democrats are openly and actively taking away our freedom right before our very eyes and turning us all into some sort of miniaturized melting pot version of China. And their voters are lapping it up, making it hard to get anyone to even understand the freedoms which are rapidly being stolen away, not in the middle of the night, but during the day, right before our very eyes. The thing is, watch. When the republicans are in office they talk about freedom, but they end up doing same things as the democrats. We started the lockdown under Trump, not Biden. He talked one way, but still locked down the country.
It's a diddling game. A media managed game of slap and tickle. Republicans give you a slap, democrats give you a tickle, but in the end the results the same. They both end up trying to stick it in your rump. And Americans are too busy being greased by one side or the other, to figure it out. Which is exactly what they want.
Time's ripe for a good man or woman to run for President, outside of the two totally corrupt parties we're forced to choose from. I wonder if there are any left.
Olde Edo says:
The pandemic is less a cause than an excuse for shoddy behavior [by the government, which then filters down to us lowly citizens].
"If you increase the certainty or likelihood of punishment, you can achieve deterrence with lower levels of punishment. Conversely, if there is a low detection rate for crime, you can deter some crimes with higher levels of punishment."
What is it that the left doesn't understand? We hear the left's arguments on the blog all the time, but they don't make sense.
Democrats said defunding the police would make communities safer.
Well, did it?
Are they going to be held accountable? Policies that lead to more crime, including murder, should make that party less popular. Will it more voters connect politics with results?
Cause and effect.
Here in CA, Progressive politicians raised the felony threshold to $950. Shoplifters can steal up to $950 with impunity. Cops won't make an arrest, and the liability is too great to make a citizen's arrest, so business owners are helpless.
Take away the punishment, and you get more crime.
With the no bail policy, organized major crime ring members are back out on the street within 24 hours. Back at it again.
Theft is not a victimless crime. Even if the items are insured, that means that premiums go up until the policy is canceled. As the cost of doing business increases, with all that lost product, then prices go up.
Shoplifting is so bad that my local small health food store had to build a little metal fence around the higher priced supplements. If you want to buy one, a clerk will take it up to the cash register for you.
Democrat cities have a permissive attitude towards crime, and our society is crumbling. Businesses fold due to crime, riots, arson, and violence. That dries up jobs and opportunities. In response, Democrats jack up minimum wage to try to compensate for less opportunities. This makes it more expensive to do business, and the cycle continues, creating jobs desserts.
Blue city policies.
pbinca says:
Closing the schools was a definite factor in ramping up youth crime. Kids were turned loose onto the streets with no adult supervision. This lapse of social and moral development most affected single parent households and ones where both parents have to work fulltime jobs just to survive. For these youth, the cure to the pandemic was worse than the pandemic itself.
Men without hats:
You can dance if you want to, you can leave your friends behind.
MC,
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Pokemon • Nov 28, 2018
Furious xQc gives up on Pokémon after making a fatal error
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Popular streamer Félix 'xQc' Lengyel was angry when he attempted to continue his Pokémon: Let's Go save on stream - only to find that he had made a costly mistake.
Lengyel had been streaming the game for most of his 10 hour stream on Tuesday, November 28, and came across a wild Snorlax that he wanted to catch.
The streamer took on the Pokémon, eventually losing a hard-fought battle as the Snorlax put his Pikachu to sleep. Frustrated, and realizing that he needed to catch it, xQc closed the software down on his Nintendo Switch.
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The former Dallas Fuel player sat silently staring at his Pokémon: Let's Go character screen, realizing that the number of Gym Badges the game said he had was wrong. He then entered the game, throwing his controller and slamming his fist onto the desk when he saw how far back it had taken him.
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Lengyel was too frustrated to play through the missing segment again on stream, closing the game and moving on to play web browser games for 20 minutes before turning his stream off entirely.
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Q: 1960's book about a plague that kills all white people Paperback, read in the UK about 1975, setting USA and the UK.
The plot was a pandemic that was killing all white people
 (I think also Asians and Orientals but not sure)
There were like Black Power groups fighting for power
and also church leaders making their own grabs for control
Then rumours begin about 'The Floured Men' who are allegedly a couple of
men trying to fetch back the olden days of white people in charge by going 'whiteface'
Note: Although I read this in the mid-seventies it was a few years old and 'of it's time'
Therefore some racist phrases were casually used
It transpires that the Floured Men are actually white survivors so there is
an assumption that things will now get back to normal with them running things

A: This is Robert Bateman's When the Whites Went

Book subtitle: 50 million white people lie dead- victims of the mystery killer that rages from city to city.

His sf novel, When the Whites Went (1963), is set in an England where only blacks survive a disease to which all others fall victim.

Found by doing a Google Books search for "The Floured Men", which came up with the following:

Armina ate the Floured Men's food and drank from their flasks of water. But she said little. They were not Floured Men, of course, and that was even more terrifying at first than the eerie prospect of a new religion more powerful than Waldo's.

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Should you invest in this growing accounting software company?
Shares of BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL) popped almost 50% from their IPO price of $17 on their first day of trading on Oct. 28. The stock subsequently gave up some of those gains, but remains about 30% higher than its offering price as of this writing.
The automated accounting software company raised $146 million from the IPO, and plans to use those proceeds to pay off its debts. Let's take a closer look at BlackLine, what it does, and whether or not investors should pick up some shares.
BlackLine, which was founded 15 years ago, provides cloud services that automate accounting processes. Its Finance Controls and Automation platform reduces the need for human accountants and the potential for human error in data entry and calculations. The platform is currently used by over 1,500 companies in over 120 countries worldwide.
Prior to its IPO, its biggest shareholders were Silver Lake and Iconiq, which respectively owned 46.5% and 22.8% of the company. BlackLine's major clients include Coca-Cola, Under Armour, and Costco, and its platform integrates with enterprise software from Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), NetSuite, SAP (NYSE:SAP), and Workday.
Some of BlackLine's customers. Image source: BlackLine.
How fast is BlackLine growing?
BlackLine's revenue rose 62% to $83.6 million last year, and grew another 48% annually in the first six months of 2016 to $55.6 million. However, BlackLine's net losses widened from $16.8 million in 2014 to $24.7 million in 2015, and they widened again from $10.8 million to $16.9 million between the first six months of 2015 and 2016.
Under the "Risk Factors" section of its S-1 filing, BlackLine admits that higher R&D expenses in scaling up and securing its platform, the need for expanding its sales teams, and international expansion efforts could all weigh down its bottom line growth.
CEO Therese Tucker didn't set a timeline for profitability, but declared that BlackLine could generate positive cash flows by next year. BlackLine's cash position fluctuates greatly from year to year, rising 73% to $25.7 million in 2014 and falling 41% to $15.2 million at the end of 2015. That position declined to $13.6 million by the end of June 2016.
In September, BlackLine agreed to acquire Runbook, a European provider of automated accounting software, for about $34 million. That deal will mainly be funded by debt, which BlackLine plans to extinguish with its IPO proceeds. The company already had $34.4 million in long-term debt on its books at the end of June this year, which doesn't include the debt from the Runbook deal. However, the $146 million it raised from the IPO should easily cover those debts and strengthen its cash position.
BlackLine's direct competitors in the automated accounting market include smaller start-ups like FloQast, Tagetik, and Hubble. These rivals aren't dangerous, however, since BlackLine has already established a strong presence among Fortune 500 companies.
The real threat to BlackLine comes from bigger cloud infrastructure players like Oracle and SAP. These IT giants have the resources to acquire, create, and build similar accounting automation solutions on top of their own cloud platforms.
SAP offers ICR (Intercompany Reconciliation), a first-party tool for the management of financial accounts. Oracle offers a similar tool called ARM (Account Reconciliation Manager). BlackLine's automation platform is compatible with these platforms, but there's no guarantee that these bigger companies won't start evolving their own bundled tools into direct competitors against BlackLine.
Should you buy BlackLine today?
BlackLine currently has a market cap of $1.1 billion. This gives it a price-to-sales ratio of 13. That's a pretty high figure compared to other high-growth tech companies. Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, which posted 49% sales growth last year, trades at 10 times sales. Cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) company Veeva, which generated 31% growth last year, trades at 11 times sales.
Those comparisons indicate that BlackLine's upside potential could be limited by its valuations until its sales growth catches up. Its high valuation -- combined with slowing sales growth and non-existent profits this year -- could be an invitation for short sellers to swarm in. Its lockup expiration next April could also exacerbate that decline. Therefore, I'm keeping an eye on BlackLine for now, but I'm not in a hurry to invest in this hot new stock.


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Daredevil Season 1 Review: Bloody Brilliant
TV is a huge part of my life. If you go through my posts, tons of them are about movies and TV shows.
For some time I put watching Daredevil off due to work and other TV shows.
But one weekend I decided to just go for it and dare the devil.
And was it the best decision I'd ever made, after going to Texas A&M.
But this show is bloody brilliant. It's so good I wanted to cry the first episode.
How could a show be that good?
Meet Matt Murdock, a kid who got into an accident while saving a man, and later on found out that he developed extremely strong senses.
He can hear everything, blocks away, smell and taste whatever around him without touching them.
And on top of all that, he is super smart.
What do you get when you have power and knowledge?
Batman.
Except that instead of Batman, we have Daredevil.
So 20 years forward, Matt and his best friend Foggy Nelson started their own firm, calling it "Nelson and Murdock, Attorneys at Law" and hired an ex client Karen Page as their secretary.
Matt, feeling obligated to make his city a better place, fights crimes at night, wearing a mask.
People who have seen him then start calling him the "Black Mask."
On top of the city, sits Wilson Fisk, a brutal man with an iron fist who rules in the shadows. "A monster and a child," Wilson will do anything to rebuild the city the way he wants.
And nothing or no one can get in his way.
Except for the blind Matt Murdock.
Matt Murdock is a man we can sit down at a coffee shop with, exchanging ideas and thoughts on current affairs and anything, really.
He's the kind of guy we admire for his intelligence and attitude towards life, the kind of guy we can trust.
But at the same time, we know he's hiding something.
I got invested in this character, and Charlie Cox is an amazing Matt Murdock.
He is engaging, he's real, and he makes us root for him every time.
Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk is phenomenal. I don't know that it could be such a big conflict trying to hate a villain. But we were shown how he became the man that he is. And we can't blame him for anything.
The action in this show is awesome. It's clean, it's well done, and it's obviously choreographed cautiously.
It's so good I wanted to cry on the first episode.
I have the biggest crush on Rosario Dawson, and I think she kills it as Claire Temple. She's stunning and she is a great match to Daredevil. Too bad in the comics she's Luke Cage's love interest.
I'm honestly not ready to see that yet. I'm all in for Luke and Jessica Jones.
As for plot line, it flows beautifully. We get to see more sides of each character, which I appreciate, and overall, it is a good story.
And it's told brilliantly.
I am going to watch Season 2 next weekend, and from what I heard, it is kick ass crazy good. And much better than Season 1.
Well, Daredevil gets an 8.5/10.
Don't watch it if you can't handle blood and gore. But if you're into this, and if you loved Deadpool, well you'll dig this.
I dare you.
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NFL Week 2: Award Winners
Richard Benites | September 19th, 2018
Week 2 of the young NFL season has now concluded and boy oh boy, there are plenty of juicy storylines to cover. While some may be proud of their team's performance so far, others are in panic mode and taking to Twitter to express their malcontent. Regardless, this is already shaping up to be yet another unpredictable year of football; one where you really have to stay on top of things. Here's a leg up on this week's conversations and our picks for the NFL Week 2: Award Winners.
1) The Maybe We Shouldn't Leave Him That Open Award: A.J. Green
Let me set the scene really quick: it's Thursday Night Football, Bengals vs. Ravens, the whole nation is watching as Baltimore's defense has been widely touted as one of the best in the NFL. Plot twist: you let A.J. Green catch 3 touchdowns before the half.
Seriously, the game was seemingly out of reach by the beginning of the 2nd quarter of play. On one hand, fans were excited to see Green put on a show and prove that he's still a top 5 NFL wide receiver. On the other hand, how could you not game plan against him? How could you not slide over safety help? How on earth could you give him that much space in the redzone?! Altogether, the Bengals' star wideout went for 69 yards and 3 touchdowns; Baltimore fantasy owners, eat your heart out.
2) The 'Put Me In, Coach!' Award: Josh Rosen
The first goose egg of the season goes to none other than the Arizona Cardinals, after losing 34-0 in Week 2. If we're being fair, they were going up against a very strong Los Angeles Rams side. However, if we're being honest, Sam Bradford played awful, through and through.
Bradford has not looked the part since his arrival in Arizona during the offseason. His overall career record is now 34-47-1 and all signs are now pointing towards his depth chart substitution for rookie Josh Rosen. The Cardinals selected the former UCLA quarterback with the 10th pick in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft, and he was chosen with the notion that he'd be the future of the franchise. Well, the future is now, and if head coach Steven Wilks fails to see that, we just might get more replays of Rosen yawning on the sideline from boredom.
Checking in on Josh Rosen… pic.twitter.com/rlyBGF9489
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) September 16, 2018
3) The 'Put Me Out, Coach!' Award: Vontae Davis
I think I speak for most NFL fans when I say Vontae Davis' spontaneous retirement is unprecedented. A late in the preseason surprise retirement, fair. Stepping away from the game in the middle of the season, rare but we've seen it. Calling it quits and leaving the stadium during halftime while your team is out there fighting, wow.
Although we're far from this former All-Pro's prime, he's shown flashes that he's not too worse for wear. Now we don't know the exact specifics of Davis' situation, but he has come out and stated that his departure was a family decision in order to preserve his health. Even if that is the sole reason for his actions, we wish him well.
4) The Kicking and Screaming Award: Minnesota Vikings & Cleveland Browns
If you thought missing field goals were bad, try missing extra points. The Vikings and Browns top this award because, well, the Vikings are cursed with dreadful kickers and the Browns organization is cursed altogether.
Vikings' rookie kicker Daniel Carlson was waived today after going 0-3 on field goal attempts during their closely contested game against the Packers. The end result was a 29-29 tie where a made kick, even on a clutch last-minute field goal, would've won it for Minnesota; veteran Dan Bailey was signed to replace Carlson. Cleveland's kicker, Zane Gonzalez, was also waived after back-to-back weeks of failed opportunities. In a match where the Browns only fell 18-21 to the Saints, Gonzalez missed two field goals as well as two extra points. Although it was later found out that he was playing through an injury, Gonzalez was also eventually waived from the Browns.
5) The This is Fine… Award: Pittsburgh Steelers
This is Mike Tomlin right now:
As of this week, the Pittsburgh Steelers are 0-1-1 on the season, Le'Veon Bell continues his indefinite holdout, and, in a recent surprise turn of events, Antonio Brown did not report to team meetings/practice. The root of Brown's situation may have something to do with a former Steelers PR representative calling him out on Twitter, where the star receiver then responded with, "trade me let's find out". These five words were enough to cause a social media monsoon and have Pittsburgh fans wiping away tears with their Terrible Towels™.
6) Honorable Mention: Khalil Mack
Disclaimer: Raiders fans should look away on this one. We all saw plenty of mentioning of Khalil Mack in our sports feeds this week, and for every mention of him, there's a subsequent reference to how foolish the Raiders were to trade him away. However, one stat stood above all others – Mack's defensive production vs. the entire Raiders' defensive production…yeah, seriously.
In only six quarters of play: Mack has tallied 2 sacks, 1 interception, 2 forced fumbles, 1 fumble recovery, and 1 touchdown; whereas 8 quarters for the Raiders have brought them only: 2 sacks, 1 interception, 1 forced fumble, 0 fumbles recovered, and 0 touchdowns. Once again, we hope you didn't read that Raiders fans, and if you did, then we hope you and your two future 1st-round picks the best.
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According to Delta Associates' third quarter report, rents in the DC area for Class A and B apartments have risen 3.6 percent over the past twelve months while vacancy rates sit at 2.8 percent, the lowest for any metro area in the country except for New York City.


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Here are four scenarios to show how a courier can add value.
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Scenario: The urgent papers for the solicitor needs to arrive by lunchtime tomorrow, the delivery for Mr Smith is less of a priority while the package for the new customer needs to be delivered on Saturday.
Added value: Couriers offer a range of courier services. In addition to Next Day you'll find timed deliveries, 48 hour services, Saturday deliveries and even international parcel collections.
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MARION -- All too often we have to report accidents and deaths involving trains versus cars. It often happens when drivers try to beat the train, and misjudge.
Illinois has more than 10,000 railway crossings. That's the second most in the state. Making it even more important for us here at home to know the rules.
More than 50 percent of all collisions occur at crossings with active warning devices such as crossing arms and flashing lights. But what we learned, is that those lights aren't stopping people and this can turn deadly.
"There is a high, high likelihood that a fatality versus just an injury will occur," said Illinois State Trooper Joey Watson.
Last year alone, 24 people were killed at railroad crossings and nearly 80 were injured. A lot of those deaths were caused by distracted driving.
"In about 25 percent of the train versus vehicle crashes, it's where the vehicle struck the side of the train," said Watson.
Watson says that the force of a train hitting your car is the same as if your car were to run over a soda can.
His advice is to heed the warnings. Never weave through the gates, make sure you're not distracted by your phone when driving across tracks and to always pay attention.
Watson also said that drivers need to be stopping when the lights are flashing, not just when the crossing gates are down.


Hi and Help, Struggling to create an internal thread (external no problem) - the thread creation icon options disappear when selecting internal lines to 'convert to thread' or draw thread. Is this a known program bug/limitation or could you kindly point me in the right direction?
Hi, Went back to drawing program and tried changing to left hand internal thread tool but the icon option still does not appear highlighted for selection. Grateful for any further thoughts!
Hi Martin, Just spent more time trying various configurations of tooling and drawing - feeling a little exasperated; could you kindly confirm that you have successfully created in internal thread using Quickturn 2d yourself eg with the 'line to thread conversion' option. If this is the case could you email me or attach an example drawing file? If i don't hear back i'll assume the obvious answer is that it is not possible and there is a problem with the program.
Yes I tried it successfully before I replied to your original post.
Have you checked you have the latest version?
Can you post a sketch of what you are trying to make. While drawing the internal shape can you try switching to thread from the top menu or right clicking rather than converting the line afterwards.
What diameter is the internal thread? The diameter has to be greater than 14mm to enable the threading bar to fit into the hole.
In the tooling menu ensure the internal threading tool is selected this is normally enabled in place of the 5mm drill. Ensure it is ticked as in use.