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To Honor an Abuser: Why does Tufts put prestige over people?
Featurefeature, featured, issue 4 spring 2019
Posted on March 25, 2019 January 5, 2020 by Alexandra Benjamin
CW: graphic sexual violence
In early 2018, a young, rising political star of the Republican party became engulfed in scandal and chaos. 44 year-old first-term Missouri Governor Eric Greitens was accused of sexual assault and attempt at blackmail by a woman with whom he had previously admitted to having an affair. Later, he would also face charges for campaign finance violations. Missouri lawmakers immediately launched an investigation, and at first, Grietens vehemently denied the accusations, decrying them as "tabloid trash." Greitens clung fiercely to his governorship, despite serious calls for impeachment by the Republican legislature and other local and national politicians. But then, something strange happened. In late May, Greitens suddenly announced his resignation. He did so as part of a deal for prosecutors to drop one criminal charge against him.
Though he was never convicted of a felony, Greitens' political career was effectively destroyed. Many were shocked, considering his political golden-boy status (some had even claimed he would one day be the GOP pick for the White House), and the long list of accomplishments that preceded the scandal. Over the years, Greitens has previously been lauded for his achievements as a Rhodes Scholar, a Navy SEAL, and a best-selling author. In 2012, he received yet another recognition for these accolades when he was chosen as that year's commencement speaker at Tufts University.
At the time, Greitens' selection was widely praised within the Tufts community; one article in the Tufts Daily called him "the greatest commencement speaker that you've never heard of." The same article even noted that, in that year in particular, Greitens was chosen not just by President Monaco and the Board of Trustees, but in a decision by the Tufts community as a whole.
But then, six years later, the allegations broke and outrage ensued. Both the Tufts Democrats and Tufts Republicans clubs called for the honorary degree Greitens had received for his commencement speech to be revoked. Another Daily article describes a petition circulated by the Tufts Democrats urging the University to rescind Greitens' degree, which also called upon the then-Governor to resign. However, similarly to Greitens' story itself, the campus hubbub around him vanished nearly as quickly as it had appeared. Soon, busy with finals and the end of another school year, the community appeared to forget about Greitens altogether.
Just as Greitens' legal case never came to a conclusive end, the Tufts administration never publicly affirmed nor denied its support for Greitens and his degree following his resignation. In light of this, the Observer decided to re-investigate Greitens' story to see what had changed in the past year, both at Tufts and beyond.
In both arenas, the short answer is not much. When the Greitens scandal first emerged, it was January 2018. The New York Times reported that a St. Louis television network had released a recording which "it had obtained from the ex-husband of a woman who had several sexual encounters with Mr. Greitens over a matter of months in 2015." The woman's accusations were numbered, each more disturbing than the last. Some of them came from the recording, others emerged only after she was subpoenaed to testify under oath by the Missouri legislative committee charged with investigating Greitens.
The woman, whose identity was never made public, said that Greitens had taken an explicit photo of her during a sexual encounter, and had threatened to use it as blackmail if she ever exposed their relationship. According to her testimony, before taking the photo, he had blindfolded her, bound her hands to exercise equipment, and pulled off her clothes. He spanked her and kissed her without consent. After she began crying, Greitens took her down and hugged her, but then took down his pants and coerced her into performing oral sex on him. The woman said she continued to see Greitens and have sexual encounters with him afterwards, some of which were consensual. But on other occasions, when Greitens asked her if she had been sleeping with anyone else, and she told him she'd slept with her husband, he slapped her.
When the Missouri state House and St. Louis Circuit Attorney began investigating Greitens, they charged him with invasion of privacy for the woman's claims. At the same time, he came under an unrelated charge for tampering with computer data concerning charity donors that he was suspected of illegally using for political purposes. Amidst these charges, talk of impeachment began to arise.
Again, though at first Greitens staunchly denied wrongdoing, he eventually struck a deal with prosecutors to resign in exchange for the computer tampering felony to be dropped. The invasion of privacy case, meanwhile, was withdrawn due to what the St. Louis Circuit Attorney claimed to be a mishandling of the case by Greitens' prosecutor. While the prosecutor's treatment of the case is still under review, there was never a definitive ruling on Greitens culpability. This means that the privacy charges against him could still be refiled.
At the time of Greitens' initial investigation, the University hesitated to reevaluate his degree, despite calls from students to do so. The Daily reported that Patrick Collins, Tufts Director of Public Relations, told reporters that the Tufts administration was "aware of and deeply disturbed by the troubling allegations against Gov. Greitens," and were "closely following the legal proceedings in his case." However, he added that they were "waiting for the resolution of the case before taking any action." As the case was never settled, Tufts never reevaluated Greitens' honorary degree. He still holds one today.
Now, nearly a year later, Collins spoke to the Observer. In an email responding to questions about whether the University had reevaluated this position, Collins wrote the following:
"Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens is a decorated Navy Seal and former Truman and Rhodes Scholar who went on to become a respected humanitarian and an award-winning author. He was selected by the honorary degree committee of the Board of Trustees because of his achievements and commitment to service. Although serious and disturbing charges were brought against him, they were subsequently dropped."
Most notable about Collins' response is the fact that after being asked why the University chose not to rescind Greitens degree in light of the allegations against him, Collins immediately came to Greitens' defense, calling him a "respected humanitarian." The portion of Collins' statement describing Greitens' background and accolades is also nearly identical to the statement he gave to the Daily in 2018. Further, in saying that Greitens' charges were dropped, Collins made no mention of the plea deal struck with prosecutors that excused him only on the condition of his resignation. He also failed to explain the mistrial ruling that led to the dismissal of the invasion of privacy charges. Before speaking with Collins, the Observer requested interviews with Tufts' Commencement general contact, several members of the Board of Trustees, and three staff members of President Tony Monaco's office, all to talk about Greitens and the nature of selecting Commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients in general. Nearly all individuals contacted either failed to respond or declined to personally comment, deferring instead to Collins.
Many students have expressed their disappointment with the University's response to Greitens' case, both at the time and upon hearing of the administration's reaffirmed support for his degree. Representatives from the executive boards of both the Tufts Democrats and Tufts Republicans confirmed to the Observer that they stand by the initial statements they posted on their respective Facebook pages, condemning Greitens and calling for the revocation of his degree.
Many felt that the emphasis of Greitens' academic and professional accolades in Collins' statement was inappropriate, especially in response to deeply troubling accusations of sexual assault. When reading Collins' response, first-year Izzy Essman, who is from St. Louis County and vividly remembers the stir caused in her community by Greitens' accusations, said that Collins' response "sounds like a Wikipedia page."
"That's very insubstantial," Essman said. "And it's so frustrating when students ask for real answers and real conversations on a topic and get back just the weakest responses possible."
Essman also expressed dismay that the University insisted on waiting for a firm judicial conviction before cutting ties with Greitens, especially since they have not always followed this protocol. Take for instance, another formerly celebrated public figure now infamous for sexual assault: Bill Cosby. Cosby was also awarded an honorary degree from Tufts in 2000. However, amidst allegations of sexual abuse and harassment, the University revoked his degree in 2015.
Collins said that although Cosby's degree was revoked, "before resolution of serious allegations against him," the University was still "justified in doing so because [Cosby] had confirmed some of the allegations against him in a deposition that was part of the public record" and that "his confirmations presented a substantial basis to discredit the accomplishments for which he had been recognized."
Essman was not convinced by this explanation. "You don't always have to wait for there to be a conviction if something is credible," she said. "The justice system does not always work the way it should or the way it's supposed to."
This has proven especially relevant to cases of sexual assault, which, by nature, are difficult to retroactively "prove" in a court of law, often becoming cases of one individual's word against another. This challenge has been increasingly tested today in the whirlwind of the #MeToo movement, where countless women have spoken out about sexual assault. The movement has adapted the slogan "believe women"—a call to meet survivors of sexual assault with support and validation rather than skepticism or victim-blaming.
Junior Han Lee is the co-head of education and outreach for Tufts' Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP), a group of students committed to "raising awareness of and ending sexual assault and rape culture on our campus, and promoting a culture of consent," according to the group's website. Lee feels strongly that the University's continued defense of Greitens and his character, despite the accusations against him, bears damaging consequences for survivors of sexual assault on campus.
"It's 2019, we've had all these movements, and I think Tufts has made a couple steps forward," she said. "But by supporting men like Greitens all of that is dismantled immediately, because I think it shows pretty clearly that Tufts is willing to protect men like Greitens in the same way that they were willing to protect perpetrators on this campus for so many years."
Junior Jen Kim, who leads the survivor support branch of ASAP, echoed Lee's statement, saying "Tufts' defense of Greitens' honorary degree honestly just underlines what the University's priorities are: public image and prestige, rather than believing survivors… It's incredibly disheartening to see Tufts defend his honor."
Again, Lee emphasized that much of the danger of Tufts' stance comes from the implication that the justice system's failure to convict Greitens inherently denies the credibility of his accuser's story. Referring to Greitens' accuser's decision to come forward, Lee said, "I think that she made a very risky move, and no one does that for attention," an argument often made to discredit victims of sexual assault cases. Again, in the Greitens case, his accuser was never publicly named.
Lee says that the idea of false accusations in assault cases is a significant topic of conversation within ASAP.
"One of the questions we get most frequently is, 'what about the crying rape statistic?'" she said. "But statistically, it's not high at all."
According to FBI data, only two percent of rape reports are ever determined to be false. The same percentage holds true for other felonies. On top of this, it is estimated that around 60 percent of sexual assault cases go unreported to authorities.
"The fact that Tufts is willing to make a big deal over [that percentage] is not great," Lee said. "It doesn't look good for the University at all."
Finally, Lee adds that even though she has observed some action taken by Tufts to improve response to sexual assault and support for survivors during her time on campus, she doesn't always see those moves as being altruistically motivated.
"I think very much it's to make this establishment look like it's progressive, and like it cares about students, especially its students who are survivors," she said. "But the reality of it is that once you make it onto this campus, once you see the statements Tufts is making, it's pretty evident that's not their actual stance."
This is not the first time Tufts has been critiqued of taking taking selectively "progressive" stances only when they are easy or convenient. In fact, it's a critique that has been notably relevant to other commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients in recent years.
Last year, for the class of 2018 graduation, Ellen J. Kullman (E'78), was selected as Commencement speaker. Kullman is the former CEO and board chair of the leading chemical company DuPont Inc., as well as a former member of Tufts' own Board of Trustees. She has been named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, and was noted on Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women list. She was also the first woman to head DuPont in the company's 200-year history. Collins called her a "champion of women's progress in the workplace," and said that "many students appreciated her thoughtful remarks," during Commencement. However, both upon her selection and up until the day of Graduation, many students expressed pointed critiques of the University's choice of Kullman, some finding the move of supporting a contentious company like DuPont that has been complicit in environmental degradation outright offensive, while others called her selection simply "bizarre."
On graduation day, a group of students chose to engage in a silent protest of Kullman's Commencement speech, holding up signs condemning the ethical failures of DuPont, and turning away from her for the duration of her speech. The Boston Globe would later report on the protest as the header of its section on local college commencement.
Bianca Hutner, A'18, an activist for fossil fuel divestment and a co-president of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) during her time at Tufts, said she felt "a moral obligation" to participate in the protests against Kullman at the time.
"[I] felt like I was standing for all these things during college," she said. "And then I had this one critical moment where if I did nothing, it would kind of feel like 'Oh, what was this all for?'"
Aside from her objections to DuPont's history of environmental destruction, Hutner also expressed frustration at what she perceived as the University's attempts to spin Kullman as a role model for gender equity and women's leadership in justifying her selection.
"If you're talking about gender equity, you should be talking about the effects and the harm [DuPont] has done by polluting waters… which oftentimes affects women." Hutner cited, for example, the links between chemical water pollution and infant health.
Similar to the critiques of Greitens' defense, Hutner and other students who protested Kullman felt that her honorary recognition as a speaker was at odds with the values of the greater Tufts community. Again, these are not the only two cases of this discord; in 2016 other students critiqued the choice of speaker Hank Azaria, who is well-known for voicing many of the characters on The Simpsons, including Apu, who Azaria, a White man, voices with an Indian accent. Junior Nikhil Srinivasan criticized Azaria's "role in propagating stereotypical depictions of South Asians in the media," in a Daily op-ed. Srinivasan also expressed that Azaria essentialized both Hindu culture and South Asian people during his speech.
From Azaria to Kullman to Greitens, it is clear from student critique that the individuals Tufts chooses to uplift and honor bear significant consequences for the student body. When asked about the criteria on which Tufts selects these honorees, and what messages or values they wish to convey to students with their selections, Collins responded that "the university considers nominees for Commencement speaker and other honorary degree recipients who, at the time of their nomination, have a record of distinguished and sustained accomplishment in the varied academic, scholarly and professional fields represented at Tufts, including business and industry, the visual, literary, musical, and performing arts, or public life." He made no mention of the consideration of the values these individuals are deemed to uphold or the example the University wishes them to set for students.
Even if the University denies that they make explicit value statements with their speaker choices and degree recipients, they must acknowledge that their decisions do not occur in a vacuum. To defend the honor of an abuser is a clear value statement, whether Tufts want to admit it or not. Additionally, to put a decorated speaker in front of graduating seniors about to enter the professional world makes another statement: this is someone you should emulate.
Lee emphasized the impact that a case like Greitens' has on our campus' survivors. "The thing [ASAP hears] even to this day the most often is that people are scared to report," she said. "Tufts has a history of not handling these cases well."
"The danger that Tufts is making here by not rescinding his honorary degree [is that] people feel like they can't come forward. You're going to have less reporting, you're going to have more survivors feeling isolated and alone."
Essman agrees, adding that even if the University fails to see the substance of the allegations against Greitens, his character and integrity has already been sufficiently damaged by the many "uncomfortable allegations about him as a politician and a person." Both she and Lee said they don't see what benefit it poses to Tufts to maintain its connection to Greitens.
""If I were the Tufts administration, I would want to reexamine my idea of what makes an allegation credible," Essman said. "And at what point it's time to break ties with toxic individuals."
The University may choose to portray their refusal to rescind Greitens' degree as a passive choice. However, in officially and explicitly honoring a tried sexual assailant, Tufts actively chooses to prioritize prestige and politics over the needs of some of its most vulnerable students. This is unacceptable.


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Casa Nonna is one of several new Italian restaurants in Manhattan in need of an overhaul.
Great regional/interpretive Italian cuisine, a brawny poster boy of Manhattan's high-end dining boom, now sleeps with the fishes. It's given way to a new brand of "regional" — where the inspiration comes from provinces not of Italia, but suburbia.
If you need proof that the age of creative exploration by chefs like Mario Batali, Andrew Carmellini and Missy Robbins might be over, a meal at Midtown's new Valbella should do the trick. Where the great Michael White once reigned at northern-Italian Alto, a fussy, overpriced menu now holds sway.
The previously elegant rooms at 11 E. 53rd St. have been smushed into a cheap-looking screech of industrial gray and ice-blue evocative of Reykjavik. Forks are 10 inches long — the better to keep at arm's length swordfish ($41!) sloppily topped with greens, heaped like a teepee, and random chunks of lobster.
This is what passes for creativity in Greenwich, Conn., home to the original Valbella (which also somehow migrated to the Meatpacking District). It isn't the only recent interloper from locales not known to be attuned to the cuisine in any form.
Sprawling, "Tuscan-Roman" Casa Nonna took a beating in these pages last summer. Why would the smart guys at ESquared Hospitality, who run BLT Steak, think we'd rush to far West 38th Street for a run-of-the-mill Italian menu transplanted from Washington, DC?
At least they might be wising up. They've brought in new managers and music, and later this month a new chef, Manhattan and Brooklyn veteran Ken Tufo — not a moment too soon.
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Embarrassments are all over the map. Lincoln, launched for $25 million and aiming for three or more stars under ex-Per Se chef Jonathan Benno, has yet to break the two-star barrier.
Morso, recently launched on far East 59th Street, seems like the last gasp of once-great Tuscan pioneer Pino Luongo. Montenapo, an ambitious northern-Italian giant in the New York Times building folded twice under different owners.
The new-Italian places never really constituted a "movement." Their styles were all different. Inspired by the lesson of Batali's Babbo, they shared only a common faith that the definition of "Italian," pasta especially, might be expanded as French and Japanese had been, without losing its spirit and soul.
The revolution began losing steam with the recession-driven closing of Stephen Hanson and Fabio Trabocchi's Fiamma in 2009. Fiamma, like Del Posto, Marea and A Voce (in two locations), took more liberties with tradition than nitpickers liked.
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A penalty shoot-out is never an easy way to progress in any competition but that's just what Powell's side did, and the result could well help them against high-flying Portsmouth on Saturday.
"It was a good battle out there, yesterday we worked on how we wanted to play and how we wanted to approach the game, we spoke about it to the players and I felt they settled into the game really well and that was a real positive.
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"Either way the diversion goes in, what I was really pleased about was how we took to the penalty shoot-out because we could have been despondent, we could have felt that here's another game that's gone against us with decisions, but we kept going and that's good.
"As I said before, we went through the whole process and spoke about it and then we had two teams yesterday, the team that was starting today and the rest.
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A közönséges kilka (Clupeonella cultriventris) a sugarasúszójú halak (Actinopterygii) osztályának heringalakúak (Clupeiformes) rendjébe, ezen belül a heringfélék (Clupeidae) családjába tartozó faj.

Előfordulása
A közönséges kilka elterjedési területe a Fekete- és az Azovi-tenger, illetve a beömlő nagy folyók alsó szakasza, valamint a Paleostom-tó.

Alfajai
A Kaszpi-tenger körzetéből két alfaja ismert (egyes rendszertani besorolások, önálló fajoknak ismerik el a közönséges kilka alfajait):

Clupeonella cultriventris caspia – anadrom vándorhal, felúszik a Volgába (a középső folyásig), az Urál és Terek folyókba.
Clupeonella cultriventris tscharchalensis – édesvízi alak a Charkhal-tóból, igen magas, oldalról erősen lapított test jellemzi.

Megjelenése
A közönséges kilka teste szardíniaszerű, erősen megnyúlt, nagy, könnyen leváló kerekded pikkelyekkel. Testmagassága nagyobb a testhossz 20 százalékánál. Hátúszója rövid. A farok alatti úszó két utolsó sugara meghosszabbodott. Oldalvonala nincs. Felső állkapcsa bemetszés nélküli, az alsó állkapocs nem éri el a szem hátulsó szegélyét. Állkapcsa és az ekecsont nem fogazott. Szája kicsi, felső állású. Szemein nincsenek zsírhéjak. A toroktól a végbélnyílásig erős pikkelyélek találhatók. 52-64 (átlagosan 58) kopoltyútüskéje van. Hátoldala és a fejtetője a világosszürkétől a zöldesig csillog, oldalai és a hasoldala ezüstszínű. A kopoltyúfedők mögött nincsenek foltok. Testhossza 8-12 centiméter, legfeljebb 17 centiméterig.

Életmódja
A közönséges kilka tápláléka gerinctelenekből áll.

Szaporodása
A közönséges kilka anadrom vándorhal, április és június között folyókban ívik. Egy-egy nőstény akár 30 000 ikrát is rakhat, az ivadék 3-4 nap alatt kel ki. 2-3 évesen ivarérett, legfeljebb 5 évig él.

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Clupeonella cultriventris (Nordmann, 1840) FishBase
Whitehead, P.J.P., 1985. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (suborder Clupeioidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(7/1):1-303. Rome: FAO.

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Exposing the LASIK Scam • View topic - Should we all write to our elected officials?
Should we all write to our elected officials?
Post subject: Should we all write to our elected officials?
Now that Bush has made that statement about lasik, see totally screwed's posting. Should we not all take the opportunity and write our congressman and senators and send them the list of bad lasik web sites?
I live in Texas and am having a hell of a hard time getting anything to my congressman.
But our elected officials have to know and they are probably the only ones that can start doing some type of investigation.
I know alot of you have been suffering longer than I have, but everything I say or try, nothing seems to help and I am giving up.
It is not worth staying around to try and make a difference when those that have not been hurt do not care. Why, because it was an elective procedure.
This will probably be my last attempt. I am tired, physically, emotionally and mentally.
It's exhausting dealing with a post-refractive disaster emotionally, however perhaps with some time and some rest your zeal to make a differnce will return. I hope so.
I've written everybody I can think of, all the way up to President Bush.
2. Internet posting of articles in search-engine frinedly places so that patients will be informed about surgeons when they use Google to check them out - hopefully *before* surgery.
3. Liberal distribution of lawsuits against surgeons who testify against patients.
4. E-mails, cc'ing people who will be embarrassed into action by the e-mail content and the knowledge that a 'group' has been made aware of the problem!


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Convocation, June 5, 1925
Marjorie Hill, graduate of architecture seen graduating with fellow male students
Convocation procession
Elsie Gregory MacGill
Chancellor and officials, exit University College during convocation
Nursing Graduate on Convocation Day
Bora Laskin (left) on the occasion of receiving an Honorary Degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, June 13 1975
Bora Laskin upon receiving an Honorary Degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, June 13 1975
Bora Laskin (centre) with other Honorary Degree recipients, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education convocation, June 13 1975
Bora Laskin receiving an Honorary Degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, June 13 1975
Bora Laskin (centre) on the occasion of receiving and Honorary Degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education , June 13 1975
Donald Creighton, Honorary Degree recipient
Convocation Garden Party
Convocation Banquet
Bora Laskin and John Ivan Laskin
Graduation procession including Esther Marjorie Hill
Marianne Marshall and Mitsu Kameko graduating from Ontario College of Education, 1940
Nursing Graduates - Diploma II on Graduation Day, June 1948
Convocation, 1987 - hug on front lawn
Bora Laskin addressing graduates after receiving an Honorary Degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, June 13 1975


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Tens of thousands of students, many of them teenagers, have brought areas of Bangladesh to a near-standstill during five days of protests following the deaths of two teenagers killed by a speeding bus.
Bangladeshi authorities have been forced to shut thousands of high schools across the country due to the demonstrations, which saw thousands of people, mostly students in their mid-teens, block major intersections in the capital of Dhaka as they marched through the streets chanting "we want justice" and checking people's drivers' licences.
Police armed with shields and batons have been called in to deal with the protesters, with some reports of vehicles being vandalised.
Bangladesh's transport sector is widely seen as corrupt, unregulated and dangerous. News that a boy and girl were killed on the roadside on Sunday by a speeding bus spread rapidly on social media they became a catalyst for an outpouring of anger.
More than 4,200 pedestrians were killed in road accidents in Bangladesh in 2017, a 25% increase from 2016, according to private research group the National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways.
In some parts of Dhaka students occupying major intersections checked licence plates and demanded to see driver identification and registration documents.
US and Australian embassies warned of significant delays as a result of the protests across Dhaka and elsewhere as many residents were forced to walk across the congested capital to offices and workplaces.
"I support this movement and sincerely hope it will shake out corruption in the system," Yunus Ali, a businessman, said at a busy demonstration.
Shajahan Khan, a government minister with ties to powerful transport unions, also triggered fresh outrage when he questioned why there was such an uproar over the two Dhaka children but no reaction when 33 people were killed in an Indian bus crash the day before.
There have been widespread social media demands for the resignation of Khan, who later apologised for his comments.
The home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday promised that the government would launch a public transport safety campaign and urged the protesters to go home. "People are suffering and we don't want this," he said.


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For all this week leading up to Halloween I will be doing 5 movie reviews on horror films startiing with this one first.
Hick handymen Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town — despite am admonition from a shapely seismology coed (Finn Carter) who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.
Tremors is sort of a present-day Western, with some really insane scinece fiction elements. The Tremors in the titles, refers to the shock effects caused by these worms tunneling underground.
I can really see why Tremors found a lot of really good exposure after it's disasterous box office debut. It has some good elements that weren't really caught by the genre at the time. What makes it most different is that it really does start off like a normal comedy, with some mildly funny jokes mixed in with little heartfelt moments. Then halfway through the film it turns itself sideways and becomes a totally different film with plenty of horror B-movie elements.
There are many elements that really do make this film a bag load of fun. Even just the fact that there is a bunch of giant worms as credible villains makes it worth while, but it really can't sustain itself for too long.
There we're an awful lot of satrcial takes on many reoccuring characters throughout this movie that were based on the conventional characters from horror movies. However, after awhile I found these little parodies to be lame and the jokes to be even more of somewhat overrun.
I also didn't like the addition to the over-excessive use of the modernized blood and gore. I thought this movie would've really refrained from it, and keep to it's natural roots but really just does this too much after a long time and becomes a little disgusting.
The whole nature of this film is really what makes this film the more enjoyable, is that it really doesn't take itself too seriously. There are a lot of funny staged reactions, and the tenseful scenes mixed with some of the most obvious score music really do make this film all the while funny and joyful.
Tremors has a diverse cast that really does hit the button with many of their scenes. Kevin Bacon was really good and I thought it was nice to see that he could carry a movie so early in his career, but it's mostly the side performers that make this a worth while. Fred Ward, really does an excellent job playing the witty but also more intelligent buisness partner of Bacon, and males this film a much funnier trip.
Consensus: Tremors is a different horror film with some good comedy, and a well-acted diverse cast. But, doesn't quite stick with me as I thought it should've.
I still have a huge problem after 22 years of considering the word horror in this movie. I understand of course blood, killing, monsters, and chase scenes all constitute a horror movie. I just find it hard to take it seriously as a horror movie when I am laughing at the whole time, even when someone is getting eaten by a giant worm I can't help but laugh at them. How many movies do you see a car taken underground? Only to be found the next day because of the radio? The scene in the basement was one of the funniest moments in the movie, as the worm breaks into and they just unload every gun on the wall they can into the thing, and every one was loaded, while it was on the wall. I love the movie, to this day when I see it I watch it, which is what I did this weekend when I saw it on the Cinemax page on DISH online. This is one of the only movies I can agree with the self proclaimed movie nerd I work with at DISH, he hasn't put up one con to me about the movie, which he always has something bad to say about every movie, maybe I will ask him if he thinks it's a horror movie.


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China is one of the countries with the longest histories in the world. The people of all nationalities in China have jointly created a splendid culture and have a glorious revolutionary tradition.
Feudal China was gradually reduced after 1840 to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country. The Chinese people waged wave upon wave of heroic struggles for national independence and liberation and for democracy and freedom. Great and earth-shaking historical changes have taken place in China in the 20th century. The Revolution of 1911, led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, abolished the feudal monarchy and gave birth to the Republic of China. But the Chinese people had yet to fulfill their historical task of overthrowing imperialism and feudalism.
After waging hard, protracted and tortuous struggles, armed and otherwise, the Chinese people of all nationalities led by the Communist Party of China with Chairman Mao Zedong as its leader ultimately, in 1949, overthrew the rule of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism, won the great victory of the new democratic revolution and founded the People's Republic of China. Thereupon the Chinese people took state power into their own hands and became masters of the country.
After the founding of the People's Republic, the transition of Chinese society from a new democratic to a socialist society was effected step by step. The socialist transformation of the private ownership of the means of production was completed, the system of exploitation of man by man eliminated and the socialist system established. The people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants, which is in essence the dictatorship of the proletariat, has been consolidated and developed. The Chinese people and the Chinese People's Liberation Army have thwarted aggression, sabotage, and armed provocations by imperialists and hegemonists, safeguarded China's national independence and security and strengthened its national defence. Major successes have been achieved in economic development. An independent and fairly comprehensive socialist system of industry has in the main been established. There has been a marked increase in agricultural production. Significant progress has been made in educational, scientific, cultural, and other undertakings, and socialist ideological education has yielded noteworthy results. The living standards of the people have improved considerably.
Both the victory of China's new democratic revolution and the successes of its socialist cause have been achieved by the Chinese people of all nationalities under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, and by upholding truth, correcting errors and overcoming numerous difficulties and hardships. The basic task of the nation in the years to come is to concentrate its effort on socialist modernization. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, the Chinese people of all nationalities will continue to adhere to the people's democratic dictatorship and follow the socialist road, steadily improve socialist institutions, develop socialist democracy, improve the socialist legal system, and work hard and self-reliantly to modernize industry, agriculture, national defence, and science and technology step by step to turn China into a socialist country with a high level of culture and democracy.
The exploiting classes as such have been eliminated in our country. However, class struggle will continue to exist within certain limits for a long time to come. The Chinese people must fight against those forces and elements, both at home and abroad, that are hostile to China's socialist system and try to undermine it.
Taiwan is part of the sacred territory of the People's Republic of China. It is the lofty duty of the entire Chinese people, including our compatriots in Taiwan, to accomplish the great task of reunifying the motherland.
In building socialism it is imperative to rely on the workers, peasants and intellectuals and unite with all the forces that can be united. In the long years of revolution and construction, there has been formed under the leadership of the Communist Party of China a broad patriotic united front that is composed of democratic parties and people's organizations and embraces all socialist working people, all patriots who support socialism and all patriots who stand for reunification of the motherland. This united front will continue to be consolidated and developed. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is a broadly representative organization of the united front, which has played a significant historical role and will continue to do so in the political and social life of the country, in promoting friendship with the people of other countries and in the struggle for socialist modernization and for the reunification and unity of the country.
The People's Republic of China is a unitary multinational state built up jointly by the people of all its nationalities. Socialist relations of equality, unity and mutual assistance have been established among them and will continue to be strengthened. In the struggle to safeguard the unity of the nationalities, it is necessary to combat big-nation chauvinism, mainly Han chauvinism, and also necessary to combat local national chauvinism. The state does its utmost to promote the common prosperity of all nationalities in the country.
China's achievements in revolution and construction are inseparable from support by the people of the world. The future of China is closely linked with that of the whole world. China adheres to an independent foreign policy as well as to the five principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual nonaggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence in developing diplomatic relations and economic and cultural exchanges with other countries; China consistently opposes imperialism, hegemonism, and colonialism, works to strengthen unity with the people of other countries, supports the oppressed nations and the developing countries in their just struggle to win and preserve national independence and develop their national economies, and strives to safeguard world peace and promote the cause of human progress.
This Constitution affirms the achievements of the struggles of the Chinese people of all nationalities and defines the basic system and basic tasks of the state in legal form; it is the fundamental law of the state and has supreme legal authority. The people of all nationalities, all state organs, the armed forces, all political parties and public organizations and all enterprises and undertakings in the country must take the Constitution as the basic norm of conduct, and they have the duty to uphold the dignity of the Constitution and ensure its implementation.
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Эльвира Ивановна Гагарина (род. 21 июля 1937, Чимкент, Казахская ССР) — советский и российский , профессор, доктор биологических наук.

Биография
Родилась в интеллигентной семье: отец Иван Григорьевич Старостин работал в самолёторемонтных мастерских, мать Тамара Петровна Пенеско синоптиком на метеостанции.

В 1946 году семья переехала в Куйбышев, где Иван Григорьевич стал основателем и первым деканом факультета «Эксплуатации самолетов и двигателей» в Куйбышевском авиационном институте и одноименной кафедры. Тамара Петровна трудилась синоптиком в Куйбышевском бюро погоды.

В 1954 году Эльвира Ивановна окончила куйбышевскую школу № 25, поступила на биолого-почвенный факультет Ленинградского университета. Специализировалась на кафедре географии почв, где её руководителями были профессора А. А. Завалишин, Н. Н. Соколов, доценты А. Ф. Цыганенко и А. А. Хантулев.

В 1959 году она с отличием окончила университет и была оставлена там же на кафедре географии, где работала сначала младшим научным сотрудником, а с 1963 по 1979 — ассистентом.

В 1969 году Эльвира Ивановна под научным руководством А. А. Хантулева защитила кандидатскую диссертацию на тему «Особенности почвообразования на карбонатных моренах в таежной зоне».

В 1995 году — защитила докторскую диссертацию: «Литологический фактор почвообразования на примере Северо-Запада Русской равнины».

22 марта 1999 г. ей было присвоено звание «Заслуженный эколог Российской Федерации».

В последние году под её руководством проводятся почвенные исследования в Жигулевском заповеднике.

Научная работа
Эльвира Гагарина специализируется в области генезиса, географии, диагностики, классификации, эволюции почв, а также в области изучения их минеральной части: минералогия и микроморфология почв. Она разработала комплексный подход к изучению всестороннего влияния литогенного фактора на свойства почв и структуру почвенного покрова. Провела работу по дательной характеристике основных почвообразующих групп Северо-Запада Русской равнины, разработала систему их классификации. Совместно с А. А. Хантулевым составила первую карту почвообразующих пород Северо-Запада Русской равнины. Провела глубокий анализ влияния литогенного фактора на свойства почв, процессы почвообразования, структуру почвенного покрова, эволюцию почв на различных породах в естественных и антропогенных условиях на данной территории.

Гагарина автор более чем 190 научных работ, из них пяти учебных пособий и трех монографий.

Педагогическая работа
Занимается активной педагогической работой на кафедре почвоведения и экологии почв Санкт-петербургского государственного университета. Читает курсы лекций на биолого-почвенном факультете, в том числе новый курс «Деградация почв». Также ей были разработаны и усовершенствованы курсы лекций: «Мелиорации почв», «Эрозии и охране почв», «Деградации почв», «Рекультивации земель», разработаны оригинальные курсы «Микроморфология почв» и «Минералогия почв»

Работу над исследование литогенного фактора почвообразования продолжают её ученики: доктор географических наук С. Н. Лесовая, доктор биологических наук Е. В. Абакумов.

Всего под её руководством защищено более 60 дипломных работ, 7 магистерских и две кандидатские диссертации.

Э. И. Гагарина является председателем предметной комиссии почвенного отделения факультета, членом Президиума Методического Совета университетов России по специальности и направлению «Почвоведение», членом ученых советов биологопочвенного факультета СПбГУ и Санкт-Петербургского аграрного университета по защите докторских диссертаций.

Семья
Замужем за Ю. Ф. Гагариным, старшим научным сотрудником Физико-технического института им. А. Ф. Иоффе РАН, у них два сына и пятеро внуков. Брат Г. И. Старостин — математик, доцент Красноярского технического университета.

Избранная библиография
 Гагарина Э. И., Счастная Л. С., Хантулев А. А. К характеристике почв бассейна рек Пинеги и Верхнего Кулоя. В сб: Агропочвенные и геоботанические исследования Северо-Запада СССР. Изд. ЛГУ. 1965. 34-53.
 Гагарина Э. И. Опыт изучения выветривания обломков карбонатных пород в почве. Почвоведение. 1968. № 9. 117—126.
 Гагарина Э. И., Матинян Н. Н., Счастная Л. С., Хантулев А. А. Бурые лесные и буропсевдоподзолистые почвы Ленинградской, Новгородской, Псковской областей. Сб: Буроземообразование и псевдооподзоливание в почвах Русской равнины. «Наука».1974.
 Гагарина Э. И., Цыпленков В. П. Использование микроморфологического метода исследования при моделировании современного почвообразовательного процесса. Почвоведение.1974. № 4.
 Белозерский Г. Н., Гагарина Э. И., Казаков М., Хантулев А. А. Применение мессбауэровской спектроскопии к изучению форм железа в лесных почвах. Почвоведение. 1978. № 9.
 Гагарина Э. И., Чижикова Н. П. О лессиваже в почвах на карбонатных моренах. Почвоведение. 1984. № 10. 5-17.
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Role of stochastic processes in maintaining discrete strain structure in antigenically diverse pathogen populations.
Buckee CO., Recker M., Watkins ER., Gupta S.
Many highly diverse pathogen populations appear to exist stably as discrete antigenic types despite evidence of genetic exchange. It has been shown that this may arise as a consequence of immune selection on pathogen populations, causing them to segregate permanently into discrete nonoverlapping subsets of antigenic variants to minimize competition for available hosts. However, discrete antigenic strain structure tends to break down under conditions where there are unequal numbers of allelic variants at each locus. Here, we show that the inclusion of stochastic processes can lead to the stable recovery of discrete strain structure through loss of certain alleles. This explains how pathogen populations may continue to behave as independently transmitted strains despite inevitable asymmetries in allelic diversity of major antigens. We present evidence for this type of structuring across global meningococcal isolates in three diverse antigens that are currently being developed as vaccine components.
Alleles, Antigenic Variation, Antigens, Bacterial, Cross Reactions, Immunity, Models, Biological, Neisseria meningitidis, Stochastic Processes, Time Factors


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5 Reasons Why… You Should Stan Hey Violet
by Ashlynn Picou
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We here at THP love Hey Violet. Sisters Rena and Nia Lovelis along with best friend Casey Moreta have been playing under the name Hey Violet since 2015. Throughout the years they've released two EPs, one album, and multiple singles. Their ever-evolving sound keeps fans constantly begging for more. The more we got to know the band the more we fell in love, and we're sure you will too. We could spend all day listing off reasons to stan the band, but for the purpose of keeping this article short and sweet, we're going to narrow it down to five.
Image Source: Hey Violet via GIPHY
1. Their Music
Like any good artist, the main reason to stan Hey Violet is their music! Rena's vocals sound like those from an angel and Nia's drumming is enough to intimidate a grown man who has been playing for decades. Combined with Casey's killer guitar playing you really can't go wrong. The band has a song for any possible mood; bubbly pop songs, deeper and more meaningful songs, love ballads, break up songs, and even some older songs with a rock-inspired sound. A few fan-favorites we'd recommend are 'Clean,' 'O.D.D.' and 'Can't Take Back The Bullet.'
2. Their Style
That's right, the second reason to stan Hey Violet is their style! The band is always rocking the best outfits (even you Casey) and we're super jealous! Whether they're performing on stage, attending an event, or shooting for a music video they're always the best dressed. From t-shirts and jeans to glamorous coats and dresses, they are always the epitome of fashion. Not to mention their makeup and hair are always perfect.
Image Source: Nia Lovelis via Twitter
Image Source: Rena Lovelis via Instagram
3. The Way They Care For Their Fans
The relationship between Hey Violet and their fans is superior. They are always going the extra mile to show fans they care, whether it be sending out handmade soap or holiday cards, or chatting with fans for hours on end. They spend so much time communicating through Twitter, Discord, Instagram lives, silly YouTube videos, and playing Among Us that the bond with many of their fans is more like that of best friends or siblings. More recently they've even made the effort to create special puzzles for fans to give them hints of new music to come.
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4. Their Amazing Covers
Of course, we adore Hey Violet originals, but we also love their covers. From the beginning, Hey Violet has been covering songs from stars such as Echosmith and Imagine Dragons. They caught the attention of Taylor Swift herself when they put a twist on her song 'Blank Space' on tour back in 2015. Rena even joined the 5SOS guys on stage to sing their song 'Waste The Night.' Every time the band plays a cover of a new song they make it their own and we are here for it.
5. They Keep It Real
Hey Violet stay true to themselves, which is one of the reasons we love them so much. They speak their minds about what's important to them, which is nice to see. Many artists are afraid to be themselves and speak out about issues that may be deemed controversial, but not these three. They also aren't afraid to be weird, and we can't help but want to join them. They just have fun and don't care about what others think.
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We're Feeling Special Now That Charlotte Sands Has Finally Dropped 'Tantrum'
— HEY VIOLET (@HeyViolet) February 22, 2020
Those are just five of the endless reasons we stan Hey Violet. If you're not already a fan we hope you check out the band and love them as much as we do. If you're already an ultraviolet why is it that you love them? Did this article make you miss them as much as we do, or even greaten your appreciation for them? Let us know in the comments below or over on our Facebook or Twitter!
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Q: Can a chain subcomplex be a direct summand but it's 'origin' is not? (group homology) Let $H\!\leq\!G$ be finite groups and $C_\ast(H)\!\leq\!C_\ast(G)$ their bar complexes (each $C_k(G)$ is a free $R$-module with basis $(G\!\setminus\!\{1\})^k$).
Is it possible that $H$ is not a direct summand, but $C_\ast(H)$ is, i.e. that there holds $$G\ncong H\oplus\ldots~~\text{ and }~~C_\ast(G)\cong C_\ast(H)\oplus\ldots?$$
Furthermore, how about $~G\ncong H\oplus\ldots~~$ and $~~C_\ast(G)\simeq C_\ast(H)\oplus\ldots?$
Cyclic and dihedral groups have $D_n\ncong C_n\oplus C_2$, but homology shows $H_\ast D_n\ncong H_\ast C_n\oplus\ldots$.

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1 The University of Manitoba Students' Union Act is amended by this Act.
(b) by striking out "he" and substituting "the person".
3(1) Clause 8(f) is amended by adding "section 8.1 and" after "subject to".
5 Section 12 of the English version is amended by striking out "his" and substituting "their".
6 Section 15 of the English version is amended by striking out "he is" and substituting "they are".
(b) by striking out "him" and substituting "the person".
8 Section 18 is amended by striking out "Subject to subsection (1)" and substituting "Subject to section 17".
(b) the first affirmation vote under subsection 8.2(3) of The University of Manitoba Students' Union Act, as enacted by section 4 of this Act, must occur within six months after the day this section comes into force.
This Bill amends The University of Manitoba Students' Union Act. Any increase in students' annual membership fees must first be approved by a majority of students voting in a referendum. Certain requirements must also be met for UMSU to become and remain a member of an external organization.
The Bill also contains amendments making the Act gender neutral, and corrects a cross-reference numbering error.


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package org.robolectric.shadows;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.webkit.CookieManager;
import android.webkit.CookieSyncManager;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.robolectric.Shadows;
import org.robolectric.TestRunners;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.robolectric.Shadows.shadowOf;

@RunWith(TestRunners.WithDefaults.class)
public class ShadowCookieSyncManagerTest {

  @Test
  public void testCreateInstance() {
    assertThat(CookieSyncManager.createInstance(new Activity())).isNotNull();
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetInstance() {
    CookieSyncManager.createInstance(new Activity());
    assertThat(CookieSyncManager.getInstance()).isNotNull();
  }

  @Test
  public void testSyncAndReset() {
    CookieSyncManager.createInstance(new Activity());
    CookieSyncManager mgr = CookieSyncManager.getInstance();

    ShadowCookieSyncManager shadowCookieSyncManager = shadowOf(mgr);
    ShadowCookieManager shadowCookieManager = shadowOf(CookieManager.getInstance());
    assertThat(shadowCookieSyncManager.synced()).isFalse();

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Payouts slow to come in drug lab settlement
Little accounting in place to track fees paid by wronged defendants
Zack Huffman
It may be a new year, but tens of thousands of individuals wrongfully convicted on drug charges in Massachusetts with tampered evidence are still waiting for payments from the state as part of a court settlement approved two months ago.
"The feedback I've gotten is that people haven't gotten their check yet, and they're understandably anxious to receive compensation," said Luke Ryan, an attorney with Sasson Turnbull Ryan & Hoose who has been actively involved in the effort to find justice for families caught up in the state drug lab scandal from a decade ago.
Anatomy of a disaster
In the 2010s, two separate scandals were uncovered in the state's drug labs, which is where substances assumed to be drugs by arresting officers are tested to confirm that arrestees were actually holding drugs. The scandals, involving chemists Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak, both involved tampering with or fabricating drug evidence, casting tens of thousands of convictions into doubt.
Most of those convictions have since been vacated, but despite having clean(er) records, those folks have yet to be reimbursed for the court fees and processing costs associated with their wrongful convictions. The fees included victim-witness fees, probation fees, parole fees, DNA collection fees, drug analysis criminal assessment fees and driver's license reinstatement fees. There is a standing court order calling for those refunds, but the same people who fell victim to tainted prosecutions are still waiting for their reimbursement checks.
Dookhan, a chemist at the Hinton State Laboratory in Jamaica Plain, was arrested in September 2012 after it was discovered that she had been fudging her analyses in order to pad her test sample outputs. She reportedly produced results at five times the average of other technicians in the lab, but still, almost a decade passed before she was caught.
Meanwhile, Farak, who worked as a chemist at both the state's Hinton and Amherst labs, was dipping into drug samples from 2005 to 2013 for her own personal use. She was caught in 2016.
Dookhan doctored drug evidence in almost 34,000 cases from 2003 to 2012 — accounting for one in six cases tried in the state during that period. More than 24,000 of those cases ended in convictions or other negative outcomes, according to the ACLU of Massachusetts, which handled appeals for these defendants.
That announcement came in 2016 and was followed by a court order to overturn those convictions in early 2017.
In December 2017, district attorneys across the state announced they would be overturning about 6,000 more convictions that relied on tainted evidence handled by Farak. Those who were impacted by the disaster had their records cleaned, but still have had to endure seemingly endless court-related costs and fees.
The settlement
On Oct. 29, 2019, a collection of Dookhan and Farak defendants sued the state in Suffolk County Superior Court seeking reimbursement for all the financial costs they endured because of their rigged cases.
"As both the U.S. Supreme Court and the SJC [Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court] have held, and as the Commonwealth has publicly acknowledged, due process requires that money paid by individuals based on their now-vacated, wrongful convictions must be returned," according to the 16-page lawsuit.
The end result was a $14 million settlement approved by a Suffolk Superior Court judge last October.
"I think one of the many lessons in this saga is the fact that we've had this system in place where people decided many years ago user fees should be a big part of the court experience for those prosecuted," said Ryan, the attorney working for affected families. "We've got a system in place where it's just, 'Grab this money from mostly poor people, but don't have mechanisms in place to really account for what's taken.'"
The settlement class includes more than 31,000 people, each of whom the state is required to notify with instructions for how to get their respective payment. Those individuals had to be identified and then compiled into a list that the state's payment administrator could refer to when issuing checks. There are a lot of moving parts and an unusually large set of recipients.
"I think the delay in payment is largely a function of the large number of class members and some of the complications that have plagued this litigation with respect to record-keeping issues," Ryan said. "I have no reason to believe that payments are not imminent."
He added that individuals who were not notified by the state, but who still believe they may have been impacted by the actions of Farak and Dookhan, can file.
"Individuals who believe that they were erroneously excluded from the class have the right to contest that. If people are dissatisfied with the amount that they receive, they can challenge that as well, by filing a refund amount claim," Ryan said. "These are unlikely to be life-changing sums of money, but this is money that people are owed. If the money doesn't get distributed to class members, it's going to go to some very worthy nonprofits, but even the nonprofits really want to see class members get everything they're entitled to."
The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office did not respond to a request for comment.
This article is syndicated by the MassWire news service of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
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