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TERRINGTON, William (d.1409), of Aspley Guise, Beds.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
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s. of Geoffrey Barkworth of Terrington (prob. Norf.). m. (1) by Mich. 1367, Joan (d. aft. Apr. 1405), wid. of Robert Fitzwith (d. Oct. 1362) of Wigginton, Oxon. and Bubbenhall, Warws., and John Guise (d. by Nov. 1363), of Aspley Guise, at least 1da.; (2) by Dec. 1408, Anne.1
Commr. to suppress the insurgents of 1381, Beds. Mar., Dec. 1382; of array Apr. 1385, Apr. 1386, Mar. 1392, Dec. 1399, Sept., Nov. 1403; inquiry Feb. 1393 (value of the goods of a felon), July 1395 (concealments); kiddles June 1398.
J.p. Beds. 16 July 1388-9.
Sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 21 Oct. 1391-18 Oct. 1392.
Although we know him to have been the son of Geoffrey Barkworth of Terrington, and to have changed his name to that of his place of birth, little direct evidence survives about this MP's early life. One of his kinsmen (who was also his namesake) took holy orders, and, in 1374, agreed to act for him as a trustee of the manor of Aspley Guise. The latter may almost certainly be identified with William Terrington, a clerk of the privy seal and distinguished notary, who held office from 1350 to 1370, being duly rewarded with a variety of lucrative prebends and canonries. Another William Terrington subsequently prospered in the service of Richard II, and even though we cannot now establish what relationship—if any—existed between him and the shire knight, the possibility of some family connexion should not be ignored.2 There can, however, be little doubt that our man owed his position in the Bedfordshire community (which returned him to at least 11 Parliaments) to his first wife, Joan, who brought him extensive and profitable estates both there and further afield in Warwickshire and Oxfordshire. The couple were married by 1367, when they faced the first of a series of lawsuits from rival claimants to this property. Joan does not appear to have been an heiress in her own right, for her landed income came almost entirely from dower settlements and other gifts of land made upon her by her two previous husbands. From the second (John Guise) she obtained a life interest in the above-mentioned manor of Aspley Guise; and when he died, in 1363, she also became guardian of his grandson, Anselm. Once he came of age, the latter advanced a title to that part of the manor which had been held as dower by his late mother, and by the Michaelmas term of 1367 the dispute was being heard before the court of common pleas. The young man evidently lost his case, since, as we have already seen, Terrington and his wife made an enfeoffment of the whole manor in 1374, although they subsequently agreed (perhaps in accordance with an informal settlement) to grant him the reversion after Joan's death.3
The problem of recovering the land which Joan had received as dower from her first husband, Robert Fitzwith, meanwhile proved far more serious. Her rightful third of the manors of Bubbenhall and Shotteswell in Warwickshire and Wigginton, Weston and Ardley in Oxfordshire had been seized in the early 1360s by her stepdaughter's husband, Sir John Beauchamp† of Holt, a powerful and tenacious adversary who claimed that she had forfeited her title to the estate by deserting Fitzwith to live in adultery with one Roger Careswelle at St. Thomas's hospital in Southwark. Although highly implausible, her own version of this escapade was accepted in court, and in the autumn of 1369 she obtained formal restitution of the property. Beauchamp later agreed to pay her an annuity of £20 in return for the land itself, and when he fell victim to the Merciless Parliament of 1388 this arrangement was upheld. Joan's difficulties were not, however, at an end, for before his death Beauchamp had granted a life tenancy of the manors of Shotteswell and Bubbenhall to John Catesby*, who categorically refused to honour his commitment to pay part of the pension. Once again, Terrington and his wife went to law, winning their suit against Catesby in 1391 after considerable delays and prevarications. Much later, in April 1405, they were obliged to petition Henry IV for a special assize to be held after their eviction from the three Oxfordshire manors, but nothing seems to have disturbed their tenure of the property between these two dates.4
While still a comparatively young man, Terrington had taken part in various campaigns overseas, serving in the retinue of Humphrey, earl of Hereford. He first appears to have gone abroad in July 1366, when he obtained royal letters patent permitting him to appoint two attorneys to supervise his affairs at home. Together with his friend and future parliamentary colleague, Ralph Walton*, he fought under Hereford's banner on two more expeditions, one of which, in the summer of 1371, resulted in a naval engagement with the French.5 He first entered the Lower House in January 1380, at which time he was involved in litigation with a local landowner who had arraigned him on an assize of novel disseisin. This was by no means his last appearance at the Bedford assizes, although on subsequent occasions he was acting as a trustee for, inter alios, the two Sir Gerard Braybrookes* and Robert Digswell*, and could thus remain fairly detached from the proceedings. Terrington was quite often a party to Digswell's affairs, being a feoffee of the Herefordshire and Bedfordshire estates which belonged to the latter's second wife, Margaret Boys. He also witnessed a number of local deeds, usually styling himself as 'lord of Aspley Guise', where he lived on after his second marriage, despite his earlier promises to Anselm.6 On at least three occasions he agreed to offer personal securities on behalf of friends and neighbours. The first of these is particularly interesting, since it suggests that he was connected, albeit somewhat tenuously, with Thomas Haxey, the royal clerk whose criticisms of the state of the royal household in February 1397 almost cost him his life. Terrington was, in fact, a Member of the Commons which presented Haxey's 'bill' of proposed reforms to the House of Lords, and which was roundly chastised by Richard II for its temerity. His acquaintance with Haxey dated back to August 1388, when he had entered bonds of £20 as a guarantee of the clerk's willingness to accept an arbitration award in a property dispute. In this he was joined by John Waltham, the keeper of the privy seal, who then employed Haxey as one of his clerks, and John Burton, the keeper of the rolls of Chancery. Waltham owed his appointment to the Lords Appellant of 1388, whose influence may well have lain behind Terrington's brief appearance on the Bedfordshire bench. His prompt removal in July 1389, by which date the Appellants had relinquished much of their power, certainly confirms this impression, as, indeed, do royal letters of pardon accorded to him in May 1398, specifically as a supporter of their cause. Terrington meanwhile served on a few royal commissions and was, indeed, made sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1391, but he received very little in the way of royal patronage. In February 1393, he and two others were granted goods to the value of £40 from a felon, and a few days later he was actually commissioned to discover their whereabouts, yet this was the only reward which ever came his way. Perhaps because he was too old to exploit the opportunities which it offered, the Lancastrian usurpation seems to have made little real change to his life: Henry IV appointed him to two commissions of array, but by January 1404, the date of his 11th and last Parliament, he was evidently ready to retire, and his last years passed without incident.7
Terrington drew up his will on 22 Dec. 1408, and died at some point over the next six months. He wished to be buried in a side chapel in the parish church of Aspley Guise, where his tomb, with its fine panelled tracery, still stands. He had by then married his second wife, Anne, to whom he left the residue of his goods, and to whom, along with William Lawnsleyn, the family chaplain, fell the task of executing his will. He fathered at least one child, a daughter named Ellen, about whom little else is known.8
Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
Author: C.R.
Variants: Tiryngton and Tyryngton. The sketch biography of William Terrington given in Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xxix. 93-94, confuses the Bedfordshire MP with a crown servant of the same name, an error which is perpetuated by A. Goodman in Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. (ser. 3), ii. 275-6; and which leads him to assume, wrongly, that our Member must have been Thomas Walsingham's informant about events in Queen Isabella's household in January 1400. The subject of this biography may well have known the St. Albans chronicler, since he was intimate with his friend, Thomas Pever† of Toddington, Beds., but it is quite clear that he never held office at Court. The other William Terrington married Ellen Swinford in 1398 (at which time the MP's wife, Joan, was still alive), and can usually be distinguished from his namesake because of the description 'servant of the King'. He outlived our William by at least five years (CPR, 1413-16, p. 214). He appears to have come from Northants. where he was living in 1405 (ibid. 1401-5, p. 445), although his wife brought him extensive estates in Lincs. and Yorks. (Feudal Aids, vi. 480).
1. C260/103/53; CP25(1)5/66/4, 12; PCC 19 Marche; CCR, 1360-4, pp. 491-2; 1389-92, pp. 374-5, 402; VCH Beds. iii. 339; VCH Warws. vi. 46; v. 148; W. Dugdale, Warws. i. 48; CIMisc. v. no. 152; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xiii. 76; Cal. Signet Letters ed. Kirby, no. 319; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 90-91.
2. CP25(1)5/66/4, 12; Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. ed. Emden, iii. 1925; CPR, 1377-81, p. 27; 1388-92, p. 460; 1391-6, p. 484; 1396-9, pp. 120, 357, 450; 1401-5, p. 99.
3. CP25(1)5/66/4, 12; Peds. Plea Rolls, 90-91; VCH Beds. iii. 339; CCR, 1360-4, pp. 491-2.
4. C260/103/53; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xiii. 76; CAD, iv. A6641, 9265, 9736; v. A11523; Cal. Signet Letters, no. 319; CCR, 1385-9, pp. 567-8; 1389-92, pp. 374-5; CIMisc. v. no. 152; VCH Warws. v. 148; vi. 46; Dugdale, i. 48.
5. E101/31/15, 32/20; CPR, 1364-7, p. 304; 1370-4, p. 93.
6. JUST 1/1489 rot. 21, 1506 rot. 9, 30v, 1516 rot. 2; E326/4395; CCR, 1377-81, p. 382; 1389-92, pp. 319, 481, 538; CAD, ii. B2578.
7. F.T. Tout, Chapters, iv. 17-19; v. 79; CFR, x. 281; CCR, 1385-9, p. 609; 1392-6, p. 478; 1396-9, p. 112; CPR, 1391-6, pp. 220, 239; C67/30 m. 3.
8. PCC 19 Marche; VCH Beds. iii. 340.


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The Limits to Greta 3
Spectrum of Denial
"… 2019 was in many ways, for many of us, Year Zero. It was the year many of us stopped disassociating, woke up and realised the party is over."
The postcard from Sydney is a reminder that you can have months of unprecedented bushfires and still reject global warming as a hoax : It's not a climate emergency, it's an an arson emergency!
Mind you, re-tweets by Donald Junior seem to be for those who have missed the train. Apparently climate change denial has moved on. Flat rejection of global warming has been melting with the ice and is a bit passé.
And in between
Rather than argue with a thermometer "… the forces of denial are exploiting the lifestyle change movement to get their supporters to argue with each other," argues Michael Mann in the Guardian. "It takes pressure off attempts to regulate the fossil fuel industry. This approach is a softer form of denial and in many ways it is more pernicious. … This is a deflection campaign and a lot of well-meaning people have been taken in by it."
And indeed, Trump Senior recently disowned his previous disbelief in the hoax. He now takes the "the environment" so seriously he plans to read a book about it.
Will he be joining the Major Status Quo Incumbents' Operation Greentalk?
Probably not. Even in Germany climate change denial seems to invigorate the New Right and its trolls. There is something straight and simple about "flat" denial. But the focus has definitely shifted from "It's not happening" to "Maybe it's happening but it's not man made". From "There is no science" to "The science is iffy". Still, you can easily spot those "forces of denial". As a black friend told me about Enoch Powell at the time: "At least you know where you are with him…"
With "Operation Greentalk" you never know where you are. Are you in the investment or marketing department? We are used to Big Oil greenwashing its fossil stains. They've been doing that forever . But Amazon , Google , Siemens , Roger Federer and practically everyone else ? Why ?
Just follow the money…
Apparently Greta is on the trail.
Ironically the money markets may find themselves left behind on the platform for dummies with Donald Jr. : Not that I generally follow (ex) Centrfal Bankers' advice on current over-valuations. But check out Frik Els' article on current under-valuations: "Mining's unlikely heroines"
Following the money makes for a reality check. Denial is a spectrum. And we are all on it.
All the trendy talk of sustainability is largely just that. Talk. Meanwhile emissions are going up. As the Economist put it: "The world is still struggling to implement meaningful climate policy." Not least because "the world" tends to use mainstream economic modelling with its anachronistic "neutral money" mantra. There are 99 problems with "a green transformation". "Paying for it" isn't one of them.
As Servaas Storm puts it in "Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?" : "Climate economists, like economists in general, tend to forget that the policy conclusions drawn from their models are only as good, robust and realistic as the assumptions underlying the models they use. …. (They suffer from) "… self-deception when they believe their optimal control analyses of the costs and benefits of climate mitigation policies can inform climate policymaking in any meaningful manner."
And Co2 is only the headline metric. We could reduce that tomorrow and the planet could still be dying. I am all for stopping denial and disassociation. But demonising the "dumb deniers" is not gonna do the trick. There is a big problem with declaring "the party is over" when most on the planet haven't yet had a party.
I seem to have come full circle. The limits to Greta are the limits to Growth. Or rather the limits to limiting growth. What growth? Is "Decoupling" just the techno version of denial? Can quantitative "Degrowth" be qualitative Growth?
Growth! What growth?
Meanwhile here is Christopher F. Jones with a short history lesson : The Delusion and Danger of Infinite Economic Growth – How economists came to ignore the natural world.
"Fairytales of eternal economic growth." That's how climate activist Greta Thunberg depicted the dominant mindset at the United Nations last week. "How dare you," she said, admonishing them for "empty words" instead of concrete actions to preserve the planet.
She's right. One of the reasons nations fail to address climate change is the belief that we can have infinite economic growth independent of ecosystem sustainability. Extreme weather events, melting arctic ice, and species extinction expose the lie that growth can forever be prioritized over planetary boundaries.
It wasn't always this way. The fairytale of infinite growth—which so many today accept as unquestioned fact—is relatively recent. Economists have only begun to model never-ending growth over the last 75 years. Before that, they had ignored the topic for a century. And before that, they had believed in limits. If more people saw the idea of infinite growth as a departure from the history of economics rather than a timeless law of nature, perhaps they'd be readier to reimagine the links between the environment and the economy.
In 1950, the economics profession had surprisingly little to say about growth. That year, the American Economic Association (AEA) asked Moses Abramovitz to write a state-of-the-field essay on economic growth. He quickly discovered a problem: There was no field to review.
The founding fathers of economics shared a belief that growth was finite, and that the reason for limits lay in the natural world.
Yes, John Maynard Keynes had offered a theory of stagnation, demonstrating the need for government spending to stimulate an economy mired in recession, and Austrian political economist Joseph Schumpeter had studied creative destruction, highlighting the importance of entrepreneurs and innovation. Wesley Mitchell, founder of the National Bureau of Economic Research, had looked at business cycles and others had analyzed monetary forces. But no one had put it all together in a theory of growth. Modern work was "fragmentary" and had "remained on the periphery of economics," Abramovitz explained to AEA members. Development economist W. Arthur Lewis agreed, noting in 1955 that "no comprehensive treatment of [economic growth] has been published for about a century."
It was an interesting turn for a field originally quite interested in growth, but convinced it was bounded. The founding fathers of economics—luminaries including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill—shared a belief that growth was finite, and that the reason for limits lay in the natural world. Writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they based this conclusion on three observations. First, there was a limited supply of land. Second, all economic processes required at least some products of the land as raw materials. And third, the productivity of the land was subject to the law of diminishing marginal returns: each additional bit of labor and capital added to a plot of land will offer less and less benefit until no more gains are possible. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, leading economists recognized the interdependence of natural and economic systems.
While Adam Smith considered this inevitable slowing of growth to be "dull" and "melancholy," others were optimistic. John Stuart Mill thought the stationary state would come when there was enough to satisfy human needs, and embraced its arrival, writing in 1848 that it "would be a very considerable improvement on our present condition [with] much room for improving the art of living" when humans could abandon the rat race of endlessly pursuing more. Whether good or bad, the end of growth was a matter of when, not if, for the classical economists.
So when did growth become infinite? If you had to pick a Hans Christen Anderson for the fairytale of eternal economic growth, American economist Robert Solow would be your man. Solow launched modern growth theory with a pair of pioneering articles written in 1956 and 1957. Still alive today, he has done more to shape growth theory than any other thinker.
Like Abramovitz and Lewis, Solow turned his attention to growth in the 1950s because the topic was "in the air." Calculations of Gross National Product (GNP) had been pioneered during World War II and were spreading across the globe. Fueled by international competition and the reality of robust economic expansion in many nations, growth had quickly become the catchword of the day in economics departments and government bureaucracies.
Solow advanced these discussions with a new model of growth, one that sought to analyze the relative contributions of capital, labor, and technical progress. Whereas Smith, Ricardo, and Mill had taken for granted that land was one of the three factors of production with labor and capital, Solow assumed that land did not matter. To the extent that land or natural resources merited mention (and they rarely did), they could be seen as a sub-category of capital, interchangeable with money or machines.
Ignoring land meant cutting the natural world out of modern growth theory at its inception. Solow wrote that this seemed the "natural assumption" to make in a theory of growth, though he did not specify why. And since in the 1950s, abundant land and resources appeared available, few would have disagreed. Moreover, Solow was a modeler, and the chief virtue of a good model is that it simplifies. A map of a city that included every detail would be as large as the city itself, of course, and of no real use. With bottomless pools of oil in the Middle East, extensive minerals from developing nations, and swaths of farmland available, why clutter a model by including them?
With the rise of the environmental movement in the late 1960s, however, this assumption was called into question. And nowhere was the attack stronger than in the blockbuster 1972 report The Limits to Growth, in which an MIT team commissioned by the Club of Rome argued ecosystem collapse would be the inevitable result of exponential growth. Solow called the report "worthless as science" and "ignorance masquerading as knowledge." Integrating natural resources into his growth model in 1974, he argued with complex mathematics that "the world can, in effect, get along without natural resources."
"How dare you," Thunberg might easily have scolded.
But while readers might imagine Solow to be a laissez-faire fundamentalist beholden to corporate interests, in reality, he was a left-of-center thinker committed to government intervention and planetary protection. He wrote about abating pollution and joined a Sierra Club board. And he scoffed at infinite models: The real world is so complex that to predict more than twenty years into the future is foolhardy, he once told a Congressional committee.
Solow was partly right to critique sloppy thinking among some environmentalists. Limits to Growth did not take account of the ways increased prices or technological advances make new resources available. Nor did such reports account for the fact that from the 1940s to the 1970s, most natural resources did not become demonstrably more scarce. Plus, Solow noted, a no-growth economy could still be highly wasteful. Pollution, not growth, should be the focus of environmentalists.
The specific blind spot in his model was climate change. When thinking about economic growth, he and other economists focused exclusively on inputs to the production process. Would we have enough coal, oil, iron, and minerals to make new goods? With price signals, substitution, and technological change, Solow and his colleagues were convinced we would.
But they did not consider outputs—waste and pollution—to be more than a nuisance. They did not imagine that greenhouse gas emissions could be so consequential as to threaten ecosystem integrity in ways that could affect growth.
Similarly, Solow didn't consider how his ideas would be used by others. His footnotes and caveats showed he didn't think it made sense to talk about infinite growth. But few people read footnotes and caveats, particularly busy politicians. The easy and convenient takeaway from his models has been that growth can proceed regardless of planetary conditions, and Solow did little throughout his career to correct this misinterpretation.
Perhaps the relative newness of the idea of eternal economic growth can give us hope. In demanding an accounting of growth better suited to today's problems—one that takes planetary boundaries seriously—we do not need to overturn fixed or timeless laws of nature. As we grapple with the growing dangers of climate change, we can create fresh models and write different stories. That may mean returning to the field's origins: a time when ideas of growth and the natural world were intertwined."
More on "Growth! What Growth?" here
nature.com 'Is climate science taking over the science?': A corpus-based study of competing stances on bias, dogma and expertise in the blogosphere
Luis Pérez-González
Climate change science has become an increasingly polarized site of controversy, where discussions on epistemological rigour are difficult to separate from debates on the impact that economic and political interests have on the production of evidence and the construction of knowledge. Little research has been conducted so far on the antagonistic discursive processes through which climate knowledge is being contested and traditional forms of expertise are being (de-)legitimized—whether by members of the scientific community or non-scientist actors. This corpus-based study contributes to previous scholarship on the climate science controversy in a number of respects. Unlike earlier studies based on the analysis of mainstream media articles, this paper interrogates a corpus of climate change blog posts published by scientists, journalists, researchers and lobbyists laying claim to core, contributory and interactional forms of expertise—as conceptualized within the third wave of science studies. Further, the corpus informing this study has been designed to reflect the complex and multivoiced nature of the climate knowledge production process. Drawn from five different blogs, the views represented are not confined to the two poles between which the entrenched dialectic of 'alarmists' versus 'deniers' is typically played out in the climate science debate. Following a systemic functional conceptualization of dialogic engagement as a means of positioning authorial voices vis-à-vis competing perspectives construed and referenced in a text, this paper reports on bloggers' use of three lexical items (bias, dogma and peer review) to expose their reliance on (non-)epistemic values. Concordances and a range of visualization tools are used to gain systematic insights into the network of lexical choices that obtain around these items, and to gauge whether/how bloggers construct coherent authorial subjectivities in a bid to claim expert status and/or question the recognition of other players in the debate.
Posted on January 12, 2020 December 28, 2021 by CAWPosted in UncategorizedTagged Boris Frankel, C F Jones, CLIMATE CRISIS, GROWTH, Luis Pérez-González, Michael Mann, Robert Solow.
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Q: SQL: Concatenate sequential integer values I have a column like this:
ID
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1
2
3
4
5
7
10

and I want to get the following resultset:
ID
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1-5
7
10

Is there a way to achieve this with (Oracle) SQL only?

A: Yes:
select (case when min(id) < max(id)
             then cast(min(id) as varchar2(255)) || '-' || cast(max(id) as varchar2(255))
             else cast(min(id) as varchar2(255))
        end)
from (select id, id - rownum as grp
      from t
      order by id
     ) t
group by grp
order by min(id);

Here is a SQL Fiddle demonstrating it.
The idea behind the query is that subtracting rownum from a sequence of numbers results in a constant.  You can use the constant for grouping.

A: self joins are necessary... I think this will work
Select a.id, b.id
From table a   -- to get beginning of each range
  Join table b -- to get end of each range
    On b.id >= a.Id -- guarantees that b is after a
       And Not exists (Select * From table m  -- this guarantees all values between
                       where id Between a.id+1 and b.id
                           And Not exists(Select * From table
                                          Where id = m.id-1))
       And Not exists (Select * From table  -- this guarantees that table a is start
                       Where id = a.id -1)
       And Not exists (Select * From table  -- this guarantees that table b is end
                       Where id = b.id + 1)

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Sunday-afternoon gunfire leaves 1 dead in parking lot of Birmingham apartment complex
Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com
A Sunday-afternoon shooting in the parking lot of a Birmingham apartment complex left one male dead.
Birmingham police 911 received a call about 3 p.m. reporting a person with a gun in the parking lot of Adona Apartments. While officers were en route they got a call of shots fired, and then another alerting them that someone had been shot.
Officers got on the scene and found the wounded victim on the staircase to one of the buildings there. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.
Police identified the victim as 30-year-old Daontay Dawon Jarrett of Birmingham.
He is the fifth person found shot to death in Birmingham Since 7 a.m. Saturday.
"Our prayers and condolences go out to each family who has been impacted by this useless and unnecessary violence,'' Police Chief Patrick Smith said in an earlier statement in response to the four homicides that happened Saturday. "We will continue to investigate to seek justice for each victim and their family members."
Sunday's slaying brings the city's homicide total to 119 so far this year. Of those, 13 have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren't deemed criminal.
In all of Jefferson County, there have been 195 homicides, including 119 in Birmingham.
Birmingham ended 2020 with 122 homicides, the highest number of killings in 25 years. Of those, 15 were deemed justifiable and one accidental.
The department only has to submit criminal homicides – 106 – to the FBI for its year-end tally. In a city with a population estimated at roughly 209,000, that was almost six murders per every 10,000 residents.
In all of Jefferson County, there have been 194 homicides, including 118 in Birmingham. Last year, there a total of 183 homicides countywide, a number that was surpassed more than a week ago.
Fitzgerald said because of the heavy population of the apartment complex, investigators believe there are multiple witnesses who may have seen something. Tipsters can call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 205 254-7777.


ELIZABETH — A Union County family who lost a toddler in a deadly mail truck accident has been given $4.9 million by the U.S. Postal Service.
Ana Chacon sued the U.S. government after the 2015 accident in Elizabeth. Chacon was crossing Rahway Avenue, carrying her 2-year-old granddaughter and holding the hand of her 4-year-old grandson.
Sofia Flores died from the accident, while her brother, Jacob, and their grandmother were hospitalized with injuries.
An investigation revealed that the driver, Joseph Collins, did not look right before turning from Chilton Street. He also was using a cellphone just before the crash, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court of New Jersey.
Following mediation, the settlement for $4.9 million was divided as $1.8 million for Ana Chacon, nearly $1 million for the Estate of Sofia Flores and nearly $430,000 for Jacob Flores.
The estate of the victim includes her parents, Mariana Chacon and Juan Flores, and her brother. The rest of the settlement went to pay legal fees and expenses.
The settlement was approved by the Department of Justice in December 2018 and payment was received in early January, according to court records.


Felipe having been in the auctioneering business for the last few years has seen an increase in such activities. The communication from the management team at Investment Partnership Program shows that a number of biddings are going to take lace soon. Felipe Montoro Jens said that the secretary has clarified that no changes will be made to the allocations. June 2017 has experienced an upsurge of auctions. The governance ideological difference in Brazil is the main cause of uncertainties.
The consultations with the Congress play a big role the planning process. Freitas remarks on the on the involvement of non-governmental organizations show that there might be consequences to uncompleted projects. The main console is to involve interested parties in the process. The sure way to achieve development in the country lies in the increase and improvement of the structures that shape the economy. Attracting the business community is key to providing the momentum needed to drive the nation forward. This is the only play according to Freitas.
The expenditure is overwhelming the economy and the partnership Program offers a solution. Several departments have been included in a collaboration hub. The involvement of the best from the interested shareholders will certainly control the government's involvement. In an interview by EXAME, Felipe Montoro highlighted that external input should be measured also. The politicians need to embrace growth as oppose to trying to justify one's views using the current situation in the country.
This has pushed the investors to the defense. Goodwill is vital in attracting beneficial deals. The current regime on capturing power make changes to the system. It saw more than 40 auctions of machinery and buildings. This saw the liquidation of billions worth of investments. The projects glided to a halt. Professional advice has advocated for a different approach into how the prevailing methods of dealing with monetary problems.
"At some point, the dream is so intoxicating that I'm compelled to do everything In my power to make the dream a reality." It is not a surprise that such a powerful statement came from such a focused and driven entrepreneur. Eric Lefkofsky started his venture to success after graduating the University of Michigan Law School in 1993. He went from starting a small apparel business, to later co-founding and leading fruitful companies such as Innerworkings, ECHO and Mediaocean. In 2015, Lefkofsky became the Chairman of Groupon, a company whose services are used by millions of people around the globe. After leaving his position at Groupon in 2016, he later co-founded Tempus. This company encourages eradicating cancer through invigorative technology.
Tempus, which Eric Lefkofsky is currently serving as the CEO, allows doctors and healthcare professionals to find the best molecular and clinical treatment for their patients. Through analyzing each patient's genetic code and genetic sequencing through machinery, the healthcare provider provides treatment as unique as the patient. In regards to his company, Lefkofsky stated: "We built a system to help physicians in clinic analyze incredible amounts of data and make real-time decisions to more effectively treat patients." As the CEO of a company that wants to help patients with cancer, it is not a surprise that Lefkofsky has his own foundation dedicated to helping generous organizations help others.
Since 2006, Eric Lefkofsky's private Foundation, the Lefkofsky Family Foundation (LFF), has assisted with a plethora of charitable programs. with strengthening research, enterprises and programs. By doing so, they assisted with strengthening education, encouraging the importance of human rights, exploring vast cultures and striving to improve medical research. Along with his wife, Liz Lefkofsky, Eric Lefkofsky has given millions of grant money to public schools in Chicago, non-profit organizations, and cancer research organizations. Also, they have promoted creative and arts by donating to museums and art centers in the Chicago area.
Eric Lefkofsky is more than a businessman and entrepreneur. He is a philanthropist that his dedicated a large part of his life to advancing cancer treatment, as well as serving organizations through Grant funding. To find out more about what Eric Lefkofsky is accomplishing, visit his website, https://www.tempus.com.


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In July & August St. Paul's collects various school supplies and back packs to donate locally. As part of the project we offer our Back Pack Blessing for students (of all ages) and school personnel. This year's back pack blessing will be on Sunday, August 28 during the 10:30 am service. We welcome you!
September is when we collect pet food and pet related items for local shelters. Our Blessing of the Animals service is in October.
Then comes December. Each year we adopt a family (sometimes two) for Christmas. Through the generosity of St Paul's family and friends we are able make Christmas a little brighter for our adopted family. In 2014 & 2015 we made blankets, hats and scarves for The Magdalene Project, a ministry in Niagara Falls (NY-USA).
On behalf of St. Paul's Church (Lewiston, NY), St. Paul's mission committee raised $865 for Episcopal Relief & Development. Through the generosity of parish members and a donation from the mission committee St. Paul's is proud to donate these gifts to families in need.
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Many thanks to everyone who donated school supplies during the summer months. Pictured above are a few of the supplies being delivered to the Magdalene Project (Niagara Falls, NY) in time for the new school year.
St. Paul's hosts a water station on North Fourth Street for the Mighty Niagara Marathon in September.
This project is an opportunity for St. Paul's to take the giving spirit of mission work outside the building and into the community.
United Thank Offering (UTO) is a ministry of the Episcopal Church. Through UTO, men. women, and young people nurture the habit of giving daily thanks to God for blessings received in their daily lives. The annual UTO collection is a way for us to recognize our blessings and support mission & ministries within the Episcopal Church.


The city has hired its first manager to focus on race and equity issues, Kimberlee Archie.
ASHEVILLE - The city has hired its first equity and inclusion manager, a position meant to root out institutional racism and give opportunities to underrepresented minorities.
Kimberlee Archie, a higher education consultant from Charlotte, was selected after a nationwide search, city officials said in a release late Thursday afternoon.
The other finalist was Alaysia Black Hackett, director of diversity and multicultural affairs at Mars Hill University. The two made the cut from a pool of nine top candidates.
Archie will begin work July 31 with an annual salary of $80,000. Total funding for the equity program is $136,000 this fiscal year, which started July 1.
The hiring comes more than a year after the council tapped equity and diversity as a key issue in early 2016.
Since that time the city saw the fatal police shooting of African-American resident Jerry Williams by a white officer, an incident that opened racial fissures, though the shooting was ruled justified.
A traffic disparity study this year by an independent group showed a disproportionate number of black drivers stopped and searched by city police. That was followed by historic pushback against expansion of the police department by many who said African-Americans face harsher treatment by officers.
In her new position, Archie will work inside city departments and outside municipal government with nonprofits, the public and others to "establish the use of an equity lens in all city programs and policies," city officials said. Her first focus will be on city hiring and human resources, purchasing, public engagement, sustainability, public safety and community and economic development, officials said.
Archie has a bachelor's degree in social welfare from the University of Washington and a master's in education from Capella University.
She worked in mental health in Washington state and later as family support director for the United Way of King County. In Seattle city government she was director of the Department of Neighborhoods before moving to Charlotte.
Archie has two adult children, a daughter in Charlotte and son in Washington State.
Archie has facilitated workshops, taught courses and made presentations at conferences on inclusive public engagement, race and equity and related subjects, the release said.
City Manager Gary Jackson said she has "a passion for social equity."
"Kimberlee Archie brings to the City of Asheville a demonstrated track record in accountability and facilitating opportunities for others to grow and develop," Jackson said.
Her office will be in City Hall, where she will have a direct line of communication with him, Jackson said.
"She will have easy and regular access to all services, programs and initiatives across the organization through the day-to-day support for the services and programs provided by all departments," the release said.
The equity focus came from a January 2016 retreat where council members made it a top priority for the areas of health, education, housing and economic mobility.
In June the city hired a Denver, Colorado firm to do a $320,000 racial disparity study.
African- Americans make up the city's largest minority group. But black residents are shrinking in number, from more than 12,000 in 2000 to just over 11,000 in 2010, census figures show.
That year, local African-Americans had a median income of $30,000, compared to the average Asheville income of $42,333.
In Asheville City Schools 26.4 percent of black students grades three-eight were performing at or above grade level during the 2014-15 school year.
Among white students, 83.1 percent had reached that bar.
In traffic stops from 2002, African-American drivers made up 18 percent of drivers stopped despite being less than 13 percent of the population.
That is according to the Durham-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice, the Asheville Buncombe NAACP and "open data" web developers who analyzed 15 years of traffic stop information.
The group said 33 percent of traffic searches were of black drivers and 66 percent were of white drivers.
Contraband was found on black drivers 28 percent of the time and on white drivers 29 percent of the time.


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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has adopted new Rule 5123 requiring members to file notice of their participation in private placements. The Rule took effect on December 3rd 2012. The new rule does not contain a definition of "private placements" and accordingly is presumed to cover all private placements including those involving general solicitation and advertising under the new Rule 506(c) created by the JOBS Act.
On April 5, 2012 President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law.
Some of the rules went into effect immediately, such as the ability of an Emerging Growth Company to file a registration statement and seek confidential treatment during the review process. For this process the EGC would avail itself of the new Securities Act Section 6(e). The SEC issued, albeit limited, guidance on this process for EGC's yesterday, April 10, 2012.


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Today's electrical substation infrastructure climate is an ever-changing system of more than just replacing old with new. With the need for energy demands increasing, newer technologies play an important role in infrastructure upgrade construction projects.
Scott Air Force Base is in the long-term process of phasing out lower voltage substations while simultaneously adding to or building new substations and increasing additional loads for present and future needs. In essence the project entailed adding on to the existing Substation 3 prior to decommissioning. Substation 3A, which was feeding one section of base operations with a 5000v capacity, and delivering an expanded Substation 3 to carry an upgraded load - up to 7500KVA.
With only a 6 month construction schedule. clean, precise project management would be of paramount importance on this project. In fact, three months of project planning and preconstruction would be necessary to ensure success of the project. With long lead times for equipment delivery, it was critical in the preconstruction & planning phase of the project to determine sequencing of outages. In total, 12 outages had to occur at varying times, three of those being for the Substation 3, with the remaining outages directly affecting power to buildings fed from Substation 3. To accomplish this it was necessary to plan for 2nd or 3rd shift start times for the removal, replacement and testing to cutover to new systems within the expanded substation. Additionally, 30 days advance notice was required for ALL power outages. This required constant communication between all parties.
The new substation began with Guarantee Electrical providing all of the site civil work, including installing 1500 feet of new duct banks and 10,000 feet of high voltage cable and 150 high voltage terminations. This was no small feat considering much of the work had to occur during the very cold winter months with a project duration of only 6 months. Once the site civil work was completed, GECO began sequencing taking 10 transformers out of service and installing 10 new transformers on a one-for-one basis.


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Stranger in a Strange Land programmed me in ways that were not obvious for months and even years, and some that were right away. It is now obviously flawed, largely in the ways it failed to meet the author's goal of challenging all the assumptions of his society (most notably sexual dimorphism), but I still retain a lot of the benefits I got from reading it.*
Russell Blackford makes the case for the good parts while noting the flaws. Blackford may have been the first to notice that the book is an anatomy, or Menippean satire, a category defined by Northrop Frye as made up of large books in which the central plot is subsidiary to digressions, copias, lists, set pieces, parodies, and other sideshows, creating a whole larger than the sum of its parts, a quality later noted in William H. Patterson jr. and Andrew Thornton's excellent defense brief, The Martian Named Smith.
Most of the fiction I really love is anatomies, including Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, Illuminatus!, Matt Ruff's Sewer, Gas, & Electric, Neil Stephenson's The Cryptonomicon, Paul Di Filippo's Ciphers, John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, John Barth's Letters (and other books of his to a lesser extent), The Recognitions, and The Public Burning. With a bit of stretching, we could include my two favorite works of Big Trash, The Carpetbaggers, by Harold Robbins, and The Godfather, by Mario Puzo.
*Good things about Robert Heinlein, besides the obvious:
"Man, as a social animal, can no more escape government than the individual can escape bondage to his bowels."
"Thou Art God": the Martian blasphemy that's also Eastern wisdom.
His innocent observer of Terran culture learned a valuable lesson about humanity from seeing a monkey hit a smaller monkey, who in turn hit a still smaller one.
Long before the 80s, he told a story in which the "amiable nullity" who led the free world was actually controlled by his wife's astrologer.
In one book, he had a character who labored to make things better for all those billions of people because "their lives may not have cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt." That may or may not have expressed Heinlein's own beliefs at the time, but it perfectly represents the condescension of liberals and their equally genuine compassion. (I am a liberal.)
The possibility that we are all different parts of the same record, being played at different times and in different places (expressed in a letter to Theodore Sturgeon)
The taboo against cannibalism is a good idea because we're not civilized, so it's nice to have one fewer way that people can prey on each other.
"When Robert Heinlein invented the term 'grok' to mean simultaneously know, eat, embrace, make love to and incorporate, he was invoking the secret logic of all writing, and the reason it is so comforting to write"—Donna Minkowitz
"waldoes": devices that enable one to pick up and manipulate parts of the physical world without actually touching them. He left it to the reader to realize that the three greatest waldoes are language, mathematics, and science.
Astrology is nowhere near being a science, but a perceptive astrologer can use its symbols as a guiding metaphor to interpret people. (I doubt that it's much worse than other social sciences. I'd much rather trust my psyche to a good astrologer than a bad Freudian.)
understanding scientific method and using it where it works, but also being able to express nonmaterialistic approaches without sounding like The Weekly World News.
and of course the invaluable intellectual exercise in recognizing the many areas (such as strong sexual dimorphism) in which he was utterly full of shit.
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Passed the Indian School Certificate Examination of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, from St. James' School, Calcutta, in 1972, with 74.2% (best Five subjects) and 1st Division in Science Stream.
Passed the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in 1978, with 85.4% and 1st Class (with Honours) in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Passed the Master of Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1980, with a CGPA of 3.5 (out of 4.0) and Distinction, in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Obtained the PhD Degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1986, for the research work on 'Improved performance current source inverter fed induction motor drives for industrial applications' in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
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Hello, very welcome! On May 24th, 2018, the messenger angel of God brought on the following message to Prophet Benjamin Cousijnsen, which I'd like to share with you.
Shalom! I greet you in the almighty Name of Yeshua HaMashiach, YHWH, Jesus Christ. Verily, my name is Mirach, and I am a messenger angel of God.
Verily, as you can see, the website looks very different and we are working on the website which will work much better.
Verily, this improvement is also necessary because of the large number of messages. Verily, where Yeshua HaMashiach, YHWH, Jesus Christ spoke, there were often also the scribes and pharisees present, who wanted to silence Him, the Son of God, Yeshua HaMashiach, YHWH, Jesus Christ! They didn't even realize that they were being used by satan, with their negativity and gossip spirit. They didn't see the truth and twisted the words of Yeshua HaMashiach, YHWH, Jesus Christ! They were made blind, and so many also abandoned Him, the Son of God, when He had a hard time.
Also, Prophet Benjamin Cousijnsen and Prophetess Theresa, and the Evangelical EndTime Machine, and the warriors, will not let themselves be silenced, and they stomp on the strongholds of satan, and will not be held back by anyone. And all the angels cry: "Hallelujah!" Verily, some have forgotten what Yeshua HaMashiach, YHWH, Jesus Christ, has done for them through the messages. They were once so touched! But when they were tested, they got lost and followed evil speakers, and were immediately no longer behind the messages.
Verily, support the Evangelical EndTime Machine fully 100%, which belongs to Yeshua HaMashiach, YHWH, Jesus Christ!
He who doesn't believe the messages of God also doesn't believe the Lord, Yeshua HaMashiach, YHWH, Jesus Christ, who has spoken. And so he or she can be compared to the scribes and the pharisees.


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Q: C# app doesn't work on virtualbox I create some app on c#. This app get some functionality from C++ DLL, and works correctly on non virtual systems (Win7 x64, Win8.1 x64).
But on Virtualbox with Win8.1 x64 app doesn't work correctly. I write all exeptions and errors to .txt log file, and in this file i get next error for each call DLLImport:

Unable to load DLL 'someDll.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E).

DLL file is located with all bin and executable files of app.
How i can fix that?


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Cross-Andes Pipeline Raises Ire of Residents
GAS TO SANTIAGO
By Andrea Mandel-Campbell Special to The Christian Science Monitor
June 28, 1996 | SANTIAGO, CHILE
Yuyo Astorga can trace his family's roots in San Alfonso, a town outside the capital, Santiago, back to the 1800s. The soft-spoken farmer never imagined that he and 50 family members would be defending their land from a $325-million gas pipeline.
The much-anticipated pipeline, being built by the Calgary, Canada-based Novacorp and a consortium of South American energy companies, is the first to cross the Andes from Argentina. It brings the promise of lower energy costs and a cleaner environment to smog-bound Santiago.
It also brings worries to the residents of San Alfonso and the neighboring communities of the Cajon del Maipo Valley, who, with environmental groups, are trying to keep out the pipeline.
Barring access to their land with bits of metal and iron rods, the determined Astorga clan has twice fended off surveying missions to their 8,900-acre property. The family says they are prepared to "fight with their lives" for their homes even though the pipeline consortium, GasAndes, was awarded a concession for the property in October. "[Novacorp] believes they can fix everything in their path, and any obstacles can be overcome with money, by buying people," says Mr. Astorga. "But this is our life, our future, and our children's future. There is no amount of money worth that."
Tensions reached a high in May after GasAndes threatened to use police force to gain access to the land. Fearing a political backlash, Chile's National Environmental Commission (Conoma) stepped in and offered to smooth the way for a new concession along the north side of the river valley. According to opponents of the pipeline, Conoma had no choice but to try to make up for environmental approvals that, in violation of Chilean law, allowed the high-pressure pipeline to pass within yards of the Astorgas' homes on the river's narrow south shore.
Conoma maintains new technical studies will have to be conducted on the north shore, where the majority of the residents of the heavily touristed town of San Alfonso live, but the community has little confidence the government will do much to protect them.
In a recent protest attended by politicians and flag-bearing Chilean cowboys, residents questioned nascent environmental laws that awarded GasAndes a concession before carrying out an environmental impact assessment.
Community leaders vowed to go to the courts and get an injunction to stop the company, their fears compounded by the threat of gas leaks from earthquakes and flash floods, as well as two recent accidents in Canada with Novacorp-owned pipelines. They plan to argue that the project is a risk to public safety, despite the fact that GasAndes has faced close to a dozen such injunctions in Chile already, winning every one.
"[The government doesn't] want to give any indications to foreign investors that their projects could be hindered or stopped because of environmental considerations," says Manuel Baquedano, president of the Political Ecology Institute.
According to accident rates in Canada, GasAndes calculates it would be 123 years before there was an incident anywhere along the 750-mile pipeline, which is being built to withstand earthquakes and will be completely concealed once it is buried. The project is the first of its kind in Chile. "We have no culture of gas pipelines here in Chile - there is a real terror of pipelines," says Conoma spokesman Hector Olivo. "But we are not going to hold up the development of an entire region because of a few people."
First Look Chile's new president promises progressive social reform
First Look Chile earthquake: Massive earthquake causes landslides, tsunami, 10 aftershocks
First Look At least 10 killed, over 1 million evacuate as strong earthquake rocks Chile
https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/0628/062896.intl.intl.5.html


A lot is riding on the Veronica Mars movie. It's the first time a cancelled TV series was wanted enough by fans to generate $5.7 million of funding on Kickstarter so it could be made into a film. And now the trailer is here.
We're impressed. While having the feel of a big budget Hollywood movie (which $5.7 million wouldn't normally buy you) it also keeps the low-key wit of the TV series. Even the trailer gives a feeling that everyone involved enjoyed making this movie.
Veronica Mars will be released on 14 March, a year after the Kickstarter campaign completed, and is written and directed by TV series creator Rob Thomas. It stars Kristen Bell who played Veronica Mars in the series. Her best friend was murdered and father removed as country sheriff so she dedicated her life to cracking crime mysteries. Since then, in the movie, she's moved into law and can't resist taking on another mystery to save an old flame.
If this proves to be a success it could pave the way for fan funded movies from resurrected TV shows to never-made movie sequels. Even comic and book adaptations, where there was previously no hope, may reach the silver screen.


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1. The tomatoes from our CSA. This was our first year participating in a CSA and it was amazing. And while some vegetables (e.g., root vegetables) are so sturdy and reliable in flavor that the CSA veggies didn't taste all that different from grocery store variety, the tomatoes were a completely different story. Beautiful, rich, juicy, and sweet, the tomatoes were phenomenal. One week we were allotted 20 pounds of tomatoes (!); I had anticipated doing some canning and preserving but the tomatoes were so spectacular that we gobbled and shared them before I even had a chance to think about Mason jars.
2. The lattes and cookie sampler that Jon enjoyed during our short retreat for our 10 year anniversary. Not only were the treats delicious, but the context in which we enjoyed them enhanced the flavor all the more.
3. And probably due to a recency effect -- and the irresistible play on words (um, Seoul Food) -- bi bim bap. On Christmas Eve Day we called a half dozen places before finding somewhere that was open for lunch. Of course it was a Korean restaurant (and they were also open on Christmas Day, those crazy Koreans). I was fighting a bit of a cold and nothing warms and sings home to me like bi bim bap sizzling in a stone pot.


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Unsolved Mysteries: Mystery on the Rooftop
Warning: Spoilers ahead. If you haven't seen the episode, "Mystery on the Rooftop," don't read any further.
Robert Stack, the host of the original run of Unsolved Mysteries in the 1980s.
I've never seen an episode of the original 1987-run of Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack as host, with his deep, ominous voice, and the creepy theme song intro. To be honest, the 1980s version feels like an adult version of Goosebumps from some of the clips I watched in anticipation of this post.
But when Netflix revived the show, and to scratch my true crime itch, I checked in for the first episode: "Mystery on the Rooftop." This episode takes place in Baltimore in 2006, and covers the unexplained death of Rey Rivera, a 32-year-old originally from Puerto Rico. He goes missing, and an extensive search begins by his wife, brother, and other family members and friends. Six days later, they find his car. Two days after that, friends find a hole on a roof, which leads them to Rivera.
Was it a suicide, wherein Rivera jumped from the famed Belvedere hotel or some other structure in the vicinity, or was it a murder of some kind staged to look like a suicide because Rivera was getting too close to revealing information about the place he worked, Stansberry and Associates?
The hole is hard to understand. I'll say that much. That is, how did he get to wherever he needed to get, in the first place? And undetected by any witnesses? And then the actual physics of being able to jump and make that hole? Neither his phone nor his glasses were damaged in the jump. That's all peculiar, although not uncommon. For example, when one of the planes in 9/11 hit the outer ring of the Pentagon, there were items virtually unmarred by the impact and explosion, right next to the hole where the plane went in. Freak stuff like that happens.
I also do think it's weird his friend, Porter Stansberry, who knew him for years, and brought him out there to work for the company didn't seem to want to be involved in talking about his friend's death. But, we also don't know his side of the story.
I also think it's perfectly reasonable for the medical examiner to say the cause of death was "undetermined." Because there doesn't seem to be enough evidence from a forensic examination investigative perspective to declare it a homicide or a suicide.
All of that being said, I am always, always skeptical of the, "He knew something, and that's why he was killed." Gag order or no gag order on the business associates at Stansberry and Associates, if Rivera knew something worth creating a conspiracy to kill him over, it would've come out in the 14 years since his death.
And you think it's hard to imagine Rivera getting to a position undetected to kill himself? Imagine at least one person with a gun or knife on Rivera (and I would imagine it would take at least two to keep a big guy like him in line) to get him into a position to kill him going undetected.
If there was a murder scenario I could imagine, it is that someone he knew at Stansberry and Associates had convinced him to meet at X spot, and so Rivera went willingly and uncoerced, and then was shoved off of that spot into the hole, thus it became a murder. But even that wouldn't have to rise to the level of some grand conspiracy, and instead, perhaps a typical workplace issue gone murderously wrong.
Two other misconceptions to correct from this episode:
1.) You are under no obligation to talk to the police. The police can't make you talk to them, and you not talking to the police doesn't make you guilty. Know. Your. Rights. Get. A. Lawyer. It may come across like a scumbag move to us — and in this case, the friend sure seems like Scumbag #1 — but it's the smart, legal thing to do.
2.) No, that television reporter is wrong. She claimed most people leave suicide notes as to not leave their family in the lurch about why they did it. That's flatly wrong. Most people do not leave suicide notes.
The sad, unfortunate thing is, I imagine most people who are left behind in the wake of a suicide can't imagine their loved one doing it. His brother even says he thinks there would be red flags along the way alerting them to it, and there very well may have been, but the sad point is, loved ones may not notice those red flags. It's not as if they are specifically trained to spot them. And then that's why the suicide seems so bewildering and out-of-nowhere.
Again, it's hard to understand how the lead-up and physics of the suicide worked out, but if I had to pick, I'm leaning strongly toward suicide. I actually was leaning more toward homicide throughout most of the episode (and even after) until I remembered the note that was found taped behind the computer on the wall.
That's fucking weird, guys.
Who tapes a note like that to the wall behind the computer? I can believe, as the family tried to reason, that as a writer, Rivera was writing mumbled, incoherent things, and that's why the letter seems a little wacky.
But in conjunction with being taped behind the wall? Add to that Rivera seeming overly scared (by the wife's own admission) by the alarm going off a day before his death, seeming to be overly protective of her when she was leaving for her business trip before his death, and then rushing out of the house like he'd just gotten an important phone call before his death, and it all points to a delusion, paranoid psychotic break leading to an unfortunate suicide.
I don't know what would have caused said delusions and psychotic break, but you can understand how the family finds signs of that, and instead, re-casts it into the wider conspiracy involving Stansberry and Associates to kill him.
The too long, don't read summation I have of the episode: At the end of the day, the truth is more likely to be the obvious answer (suicide) than the much harder to explain answer (a company-wide conspiracy to kill someone that's apparently been the perfect crime for 14 years). Because it's a mystery show, they reverse the script and make the suicide seem the implausible answer, and the conspiracy murder the plausible.
It's fun for that reason to watch, but when my rational faculties return thereafter, I go back to the rational explanation. When it's inexplicable, creating more inexplicable explanations (the wider web of a conspiracy to murder him because he knew something) doesn't help make the inexplicable more explicable. That just raises even more inexplicable questions.
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Wisp Of Smoke says:
Excellent summation. Some thoughts. Yes, know your rights. I get that and respect it. But if your best friend suddenly dies and you refuse to help the police and put a gag order on all employees, that's extremely suspicious. You said "psychotic break" using pretty flimsy evidence to determine that. The note was weird, yes. But he left the house quickly after a phone call. Why? What does that have to do with a psychotic break? Why did he pick the rooftop of a hotel that was difficult to reach the top? Where did he jump from? Too many unanswered questions. But I also believe in occums razor. So suicide would seem more plausible than a conspiracy. Great post, enjoyed it. Just not sure you provided enough reasoning for suicide. He was obviously happy, just got married. New job etc… Idk. I really don't know what happened.
Oh agreed. I think most normal people, unless there's just something about Porter and his relationship with Rey that would shed a more positive spin on why he went mute over the whole thing, would have done anything to help their friend's family find out what happened. That's why I think, despite the legal advice, he comes across like a scumbag.
I suppose I read the phone call as a continuation of his paranoia, imagining something dire on the other end that wasn't. That's certainly a guess and a leap, admittedly.
It's definitely mysterious and lives up to that billing.
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