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Paper Ballots Under Fire in Montgomery County
Last year, Pennsylvania's Department of State mandated all 67 counties to start using voting systems that include a voter-verifiable paper trail. They must be in place for next year's Presidential contest. In Northampton County, both the Elections Commission (3-2) and County Council (8-1) have opted for a new, $2.9 million, voting system called the Express Vote XL. It's a hybrid that combines a 32" touch screen with a independent voter-verifiable paper record that is digitally scanned. The alternative was a paper ballot system. But a large number of elections judges were leery of that alternative, citing privacy concerns, long lines and confusion. Based on the experience of voters in Montgomery County who used paper ballots in the Spring primary, it appears that every concern raised by judges was justified.
According to a Philadelphia Inquirer story, Montgomery began using paper ballots during the May 15 primary. Voters marked ballots with a pen, shading in bubbles like a n SAT, and then scanned them.
NorCo election judges and county administration employee Amy Cozze predicted that the use of paper ballots would create privacy concerns, and that's exactly what happened in Montgomery County. Cozze and election judges predicted long lines. That's exactly what happened in Montgomery County.
Montgomery election officials downplayed the complaints because otherwise, they'd have to admit they were wrong.
Here's an excerpt from the story:
At the Upper Dublin Sports Center, Prashant Rushi, 35, of Ambler, said it took him 20 minutes to vote around 7 a.m.
"This process isn't going to fare well," he said. "Imagine what it's going to happen during the peak times."
Rushi, a Democrat who works in health-care licensing, said he worries that in future elections people will ditch long lines and not vote because of the new system.
"Instead of going backward to paper ballots," he said, "they should've gone forward to digital."
Afternoon voter Thomas Wagner, a 67-year-old welder living in Plymouth Township, was also not a fan.
"Cardboard boxes. I'm impressed," he said sarcastically. "We're going back to basics. This is crazy."
He said he was "forewarned" by neighbors who had voted earlier in the day.
"They said, `Bring a lunch. It might be a while.' "
David Hartman, a 59-year-old Plymouth Township resident, volunteered at three local polling places to stump for school board candidates and said he heard mixed reactions to the machines.
The voting machine said he had "under voted," because he didn't vote for a district attorney candidate. But Hartman is a Republican and there was no Republican candidate on the ballot for DA.
Misunderstandings like that "could slow things down" during the next election, he said.
"I'm worried for the general election more than this," he said. "If it's a big election where a lot of people turn out, there's going to be a lot of people waiting. I don't know how they're going to handle that."
Though the Express Vote XL underwent rigorous testing before certification, it was derided by Elections Commissioner Deb Hunter. NorCo Dem party boss Mat Munsey rallied a group against these machines with no true understanding. Hunter was more concerned about her own powers than the system itself. She also demonstrated a personal animus towards County Administrator Charles Dertinger. At one meeting, she spun around to ask him to be silent even though he was sitting there quietly.
The person who was speaking, perhaps a bit too loudly, was me. I was muttering because, instead of using her time before Council to address the competing systems, she was complaining about the lack of respect she was being accorded as an elections commissioner. That's irrelevant to which system should be chosen.
Executive Lamont McClure, who advocated Express Vote XL, said he respects Montgomery County's process. But he added, "All the fears that the Northampton County judges of elections told Council about are real." He noted the privacy concerns raised by Montgomery County voters and added ,"We vote in some tight spaces."
McClure has signed the contract to purchase the new system, and Acting Voter Registrar Amy Hess awaits their arrival. In addition to training election workers, she plans on several public displays.
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Those paper ballot people were crazy. They went on and on with their conspiracy theories. Why did the council president let them all get that much time. h
He should have said enough is enough and stopped the speeches.
are you high?
The Council Prez allowed them to speak bc was hat is their right under the First Amendment and Sunshine Act. Had he bullied them, then he would have been accused correctly of stepping on their rights. He handled these folks correctly. Council listened, too, and even agreed to delay the purchase. But I agree that some of these people just wanted to hear themselves, and Den Hunter diminished herself by making this personal. It wasn't.
I went back and watched the video after the meeting. It could have easily gone off the rails but it was handled well and moved along as it should.
Deb Hunter / Matt Mincey, no wonder trump won Northampton County and will probably do the same next time, these two are the catalyst of why people are leaving the NORCO DEMS
Deb Hunter is un-electable County wide and has proven this time and time again
Matt Mincey is
What is the deal with Matt Muncey and Deb Hunter? The party people are saying that Muncey wants to run his won ticket for county offices. He may even run Hunter for Executive or as the anchor of his new council ticket The democrats seem to be really self-destructive. They say they want younger preferably female candidates for these offices as opposed to older people especially men but some of these men are their top vote getters. Bernie, are they really wanting to dump their vote winners for this new blood/woman agenda or is this just more BS?
5:06. It's true they are so blinded by their hatred of old white men in politics that they will do anything to help republicans win
My feelings are hurt as I love my tinfoil lined cap, thats discrimination and the picture should be banned.
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Common law developed after the Norman Conquest of England. In 1066 England was peopled with Angles, Saxons, Vikings, Danes, Celts, Jutes, and other groups who were suddenly ruled by French-speaking Normans. Most law at the time was customary law that had been handed down orally from generation to generation.
In addition there were the legal code of Alfred the Great, which was biblical in nature, and the Danelaw of the Vikings and Danes. Most of the courts were communal courts (folk-moot), the hundred and shire courts, and baronial, or manorial, courts administering justice in the interest of the local nobility.
Immediately after the Norman Conquest the king would hear cases coram rege (before the king) that involved royal interests. However, the king with the royal court tended to be on the move in England or away in France. Consequently the legal work was soon delegated to an appointed tribunal, the Curia Regis. From it came the three royal common law courts that were used to unify the kingdom.
The first of the royal common law courts was the Exchequer. Originally concerned with the collection of taxes and the administration of royal finances, by 1250 it had become a court exercising full judicial powers. The second royal common law court to develop was the Court of Common Pleas (or Common Bench), which was probably established during the reign of Henry II (1154–1189).
This court heard cases that did not involve the king's rights. It was firmly established at Westminster after King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. The third royal common law court to evolve from the Curia Regis was the King's Bench. Eventually this court heard cases involving the king's interests, criminal matters, and cases affecting the high nobility. It also developed the practice of issuing writs of error for review of cases decided in Common Pleas.
One factor promoting the development of the common law courts was their ability to settle land disputes. All of the land in England belonged to the king by right of conquest. He then awarded it to his vassals to hold and utilize in exchange for loyalty and for services. Because economic production was almost exclusively agricultural, title to the use of land was extremely valuable.
Disputes over who was entitled to possess land created innumerable cases. As the justices in Eyre traveled their assigned circuits to hold court, they would decide cases using the Bible, canon law, and most especially reasoning applied to the customary law of that place. When the judges returned to London they would go to their places of permanent residence in taverns or cloisters.
These residences of the judges, who were often monks or bachelors, eventually became the Inns of Court, where cases were heard and experts were trained in law. In the course of over 200 years the judges "discovered" the law common to all the people of England. The belief was that underlying the thicket of unwritten customary law was a common foundation that could be discovered by reason.
In effect the judges were developing legal principles or laws as they made judicial rulings in particular cases. Among the principles of the common law are stare decisis (let the decision stand). Stare decisis means that a judge in deciding a case should look to similar cases from the past for guidance. The use of similar cases is itself a legal principle, namely, that like cases should be tried alike.
However in the absence of a precedent setting rule the judge would in effect "legislate" and create a new rule. This meant that the common law was case law or judge-made law created by legal reasoning about legal problems. It was well established centuries before the rise of Parliament.
The developing common law had the virtue of stability; however, it lacked flexibility. To bring a case into a common law court was often too costly for common people. The common law courts also moved slowly; that could mean that justice delayed was justice denied. To lodge a complaint in a common law court an appropriate writ had to be obtained.
If the wrong kind of writ were used, of which there were eventually over 100 kinds, the case would be dismissed. In addition some of the rules of the common law were injurious to justice. For example before bringing a suit for an injury to a person or to property in a common law court real injury had to be sustained. The common law lacked a mechanism for preventing irreparable harms from happening.
Since the king was believed to be the fountainhead of justice in England—that is, the person who ruled by divine right and though whom the justice of heaven flowed to the people—equity courts were established to restore fairness or equity to the legal system. People would appeal to the king for justice. In response the kings ordered the court chancellor to issue decrees of equity. Chancery courts developed to hear cases of equity and to correct the common law.
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Midwinter Lucie by Alan Porter (2008)
So how do you think you'd feel if you stumbled unexpectedly on what looks like your own grave?
Partly obscured by moss and lichen and softened by the gloom, he saw the most familiar words in his life:
'MARTIN JAMES LEWIS'.
Don't tell me you wouldn't be interested, especially when you see the same birthday too, exactly one hundred years earlier. And don't tell me you wouldn't look to see what date you died:
Frantic now, he scratched at the stone, tearing at history, desperate to see what came next. Please, a long life, please.
'DIED,' it said, '24 OCT 1908, AGED 13 YEARS.'
Well that's pretty grim for Martin Lewis who plans to turn 13 himself in a week's time, on October 24th.
Wouldn't be too surprising if it were all just coincidence. After all, Martin's family has lived in the village of Midwinter Lucie for generations. But in the watches of a sleepless night Martin decides at the very least to see if he can find out exactly how his unfortunate predecessor met his end.
He finds out more than he really wants to know. It happened in 1908. And it happened in 1708. Furthermore, both boys died in the bell tower of St Thomas the Apostle Church in Midwinter Lucie.
So what's the next thing you're going to do in this situation? Probably not what Martin Lewis does. Even his friend Ruth thinks he's pushing his luck:
'Let me get this right,' Ruth said. 'You think there's something really dangerous in the tower, and it's trying to kill you. So to find out what, you want to go up there? And that's sensible, why?'
Actually, what happened up that tower is one of the scariest passages I've ever read in a book. I don't believe in ghosts and I know it's only a story, but...
A real frightener this one. Don't read it unless you're feeling brave.
Like a good ghost story? Have a look at this one by Tim Bowler:
Or this one by Sally Prue, which explores how we can all feel in the grip of something bigger and more powerful than we are:
The Devil's Toenail
And not exactly a ghost story, but powerful superstitions at work in this brilliant one by Jan Mark. Highly recommended:
The Eclipse of the Century
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Q: Why is model's clean run when viewing an already submitted form? I have a website that allows users to submit the same form several times (but with different input) but also allows them to view each form they submitted and edit it.
The problem is with the "key_name" field. If I view an already submitted form (edit_keydef) then there is the ValidationError message with the field highlighted in red, when in fact my intention is for that ValidationError to occur only when they are about to submit but have provided the same name as another form. (The view used when filling in the form is different to that when editing the form - as with the editing there's more fields) but both views use the same model.
I don't understand why DJango runs the clean() function when the form has already been sumbitted, i.e. the validation has already occurred and the data has already been submitted
views.py
def edit_keydef(request, id):

    data = {'title': 'View or Edit Key Definition'}
    template = 'generate_keys/edit_keydef.html'

    keydef = get_object_or_404(KeyDefinition, pk=id)

    if request.method == "POST":
        keydetails_form_instance = KeyDefDetailsForm(request.POST, instance=keydef)

        if 'Save' in request.POST:
            if keydetails_form_instance.is_valid():
                if keydetails_form_instance.cleaned_data['encoded_activation_key']:
                    activation_obj = Activation()
                    result = activation_obj.GenerateKey(keydef)
                keydetails_form_instance.save()
                return redirect('/key/edit/' + str(id))
            else:
                log.debug(keydetails_form_instance.errors)

        if 'Generate' in request.POST:
            if keydetails_form_instance.is_valid():
                activation_obj = Activation()
                result = activation_obj.GenerateKey(keydef)
                if "error" in result:
                    data['error_msg'] = format_html(
                        '
Failed to generate activation key because:
'
                        + '
'
                        + str(result['error'])
                        + '
'
                    )
                else:
                    keydetails_form_instance.save()
                    return redirect('/key/edit/' + str(id))
            else:
                log.debug(keydetails_form_instance.errors)
    else:
        keydetails_form_instance = None
        if not id:
            keydetails_form_instance = KeyDefDetailsForm()
        else:
            # Retrieve a previously saved form.
            try:
                keydetails = KeyDefinition.objects.get(pk=id)
                keydetails_form_instance = KeyDefDetailsForm(keydetails.to_dict(),
                                             instance = keydetails)
            except KeyDefinition.DoesNotExist as e:
                return redirect('/record_does_not_exist')

    # Form instance has been saved at this stage so update the variant list.

    data['form'] = keydetails_form_instance
    data['set_product_options_url'] = reverse_lazy('set_product_options', kwargs={'id':id})

    return render(request, template, data)

models.py
class KeyDefinition (models.Model) :
 ...

 def clean (self) :

    ....

    # ensure that each user can't have two keys with the same name
    key_name_exists = KeyDefinition.objects.filter(key_name=self.key_name, developer_email=self.developer_email)
    if key_name_exists:
        raise ValidationError (
             {'key_name' : ['This Key Name already exists']}
        )

 class Meta:
    verbose_name = "Key Definition"
    unique_together = [['key_name', 'developer_email']]

forms.py
class KeyDefDetailsForm (ModelForm) :

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs) :
        super(ModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.helper = FormHelper()
        self.helper.form_method = 'post'
        self.fields['version'].widget.attrs['class'] = "major_minor"

    def update_variants(self, keydef_obj):
        self.fields.update({
            'feature_variant': forms.ModelChoiceField(
                widget = Select(),
                queryset = FeatureVariant.objects.filter(product__feature_name=keydef_obj.feature),
                required = False,
                label = "Product"
            )
        })

    def update_available_hosts(self, keydef_obj):
        # only show hosts that have been created by this user
        self.fields.update({
            'available_hosts': forms.ModelChoiceField(
                empty_label=None,
                initial = AvailableHosts.objects.get(host_label=keydef_obj.host_label).id,
                widget=Select(),
                queryset = AvailableHosts.objects.filter(host_developer_email=keydef_obj.developer_email),
                required = False,
                label = "Available Hosts"
            )
        })

    class Meta :
        model = KeyDefinition
        fields = '__all__'
        widgets = {
            'customer_name' : TextInput(),
            'host_method' : TextInput(),
            'issue_date' : TextInput(attrs={'type':'date'}),
            'expiry_date': TextInput(attrs={"type":"date"}),
            'available_hosts' : Select(),
            'country' : Select(),
            'feature' : Select(),
            'activation_request' : HiddenInput(),
            'hostid_provision' : HiddenInput(),
        }

A: The KeyDefinition indeed exists: exactly the one you are editing matches. The clean() method will always run when validating a form. That is why you should exclude that object, so with:
class KeyDefinition(models.Model):
    def clean(self):
        # …
        # ensure that each user can't have two keys with the same name
        key_name_exists = (
            KeyDefinition.objects.filter(
                key_name=self.key_name, developer_email=self.developer_email
            )
            .exclude(pk=self.pk)
            .exists()
        )
        if key_name_exists:
            raise ValidationError({'key_name': ['This Key Name already exists']})
        return super().clean()
We here thus exclude our own object with .exclude(pk=self.pk).

Note: It is more efficient to use .exists() [Django-doc]
than to check the truthiness of a QuerySet, since this will not load the records from the queryset, and thus will minimize the bandwidth used between the database
and the Django/Python layer.

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League of Legends: Is Ascension About Kills or About Capturing Relics?
The team that reaches 200 points first in the Ascension game mode wins the game. There are three ways to score points: 1) Champion kill scores 1 point. 2) Capturing a relic scores 3 points. 3) Killing a champion while ascended score 2 points. While you can theoretically win an Ascension game by killing enemy champions 200 times, in practice that is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
In the last few Ascension games I played, I scored over 20 kills. In the same game, another team mate also scored over 20 kills. Everyone else on the team scored less than 20 or less than 10 kills. But let's just assume that you have an all-star team where each person can score 20 kills. That means your team scored approximately 100 points out of a 200 points game. That's only 50 percent of the winning number. And in this case, we used a very optimistic, but rather unrealistic team score.
More realistically your team is going to score around 50 to 75 points combined from champion kills. So where does the other 125 points come from? Let's just assume your team can score 10 to 20 points killing enemy champions while ascended. That means over 100 remaining points comes from capturing relics.
In a way, you can say that capturing relics is more important than killing enemy champions. Killing champions is really just a bonus and helps you capture more relics.
Excerpt: Ascension is a new game mode for League of Legends. This new game mode is temporary for now, as it will only be available until September 21, 2014. Nevertheless, it is an extremely fun, challenging, and entertaining mode to try. And this post will explain the winning strategy to this game mode. But . . .


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Nick is the Aftersales Manager for Richardson Ford Bridlington. Starting his career at Beverly Ford in 1992 as an Apprentice, Nick completed the programme over the 4 years, achieving a B-Tech National and NVQ. From 1996-1997 Nick become qualified as a Technician, spending a lot of time at the Daventry College site. Nick held Technician status for three years and was keen to progress further, becoming Senior Technician in early 2001.
It was here that he moved to Richardson Ford to undergo training as Master Technician which he completed by 2003. He spent 7 years in the role as Master Technician and in 2010 was offered Workshop Control. This was in line with where Nick wanted to progress, though he is still qualified as Master Technician. In 2012 the opportunity arose for Parts Manager which Nick still currently manages. In 2015 he took on the Service Managers position due to the two dealerships sites undergoing a management reshuffle.
In June of this year he attended the Heroes Managers Assessment had this to say, 'The assessment is very different from anything I have done previously as I needed to provide a business plan presentation' Despite this I found the course very enjoyable. The benefit of attending this journey has been the help, guidance and training we received.' Nick is keen to keep developing for whatever the future holds for his career and is a passionate advocate for training, saying, 'I have always believed in hard work to accomplish the goals we have in life. Mr Paul Richardson and Mr. Toby Richardson have always encouraged and supported this over the last 15 years. I believe that every manager needs a good team behind them and I have a great team behind me. My colleagues have helped and supported me as I have progressed within the dealership and continue to support me in my current position which I am very thankful for.'
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BTS Was Nominated For A 2021 Grammy & ARMYs Are Absolutely LOSING IT
By Michele Mendez
The Grammy Awards is the most prestigious musical event of the year, meaning only the biggest artists in the industry get nominated. If you ask ARMYs, they'd tell you BTS should have been recognized years ago because the group has broken countless records on the charts and on streaming platforms and 2020 has only brought about more success. This year, BTS achieved their first Billboard No. 1 single with "Dynamite," becoming the first Korean act to top the chart. The single's music video also racked up 101.1 million views in 24 hours, making it the most-viewed YouTube video in a single day. After all these achievements, fans will be happy to hear BTS was nominated for a 2021 Grammy.
Before the Recording Academy announced its nominees on Tuesday, Nov. 24, critics had a feeling BTS would snag some nominations, making fans so excited to hear the final results. Some critics thought "Dynamite" was a strong contender for Record of the Year, while Map of the Soul: 7 could go up for Album of the Year. BTS was also seen as a likely nominee for Best Pop Duo/Group performance. Fans were happy with these predictions since they felt the nominations would finally recognize BTS' artistry. Meanwhile, a controversial prediction was BTS would snag a nom for Best New Artist. Fans thought this downplayed the group's impact on the industry, especially since they've been outselling many of their peers on the charts.
In the end, BTS scored a nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group performance, making them the first Korean group to ever be recognized in a major Grammys category. ARMYs were so proud of the guys making history once again. They also pointed out how amazing it was BTS got both a Billboard No. 1 single and a Grammy nom in their seventh year of being a group.
In 2019, BTS made history for being the first Korean group to present an award at the Grammys and in 2020, they became the first Korean group to perform on the Grammys stage. Fans are hoping BTS makes history again by winning Best Pop Duo/Group next.
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How Did Gold Prices Pull The String Of Newcrest Mining On Charts?
Gold prices are trading higher, with COMEX gold futures recovered from the level of $1292.50 (Day's low on 14th March) to the level of $1306.70 (Day's high on 18th March). The COMEX gold prices today managed to cross the previous day's high to mark a high of $1307.65 (during the time of writing this report on 19th March 2019, 04:20 GMT). The gold prices are currently hovering at around $1305, well above the market psychological level of $1300.
The array of factors which are supporting the gold prices are the concern of delay in Brexit solution till the deadline of 29th March, falling dollar prices, falling market discount rate or Yield-to-Maturity in fixed income market, rising bond prices and a lot more.
In the presence of such events in the global market, the gold prices are finding short-term support around $1290. The market participants are waiting for the smoke to shun away over the U.S. Federal stance on the interest rate for the coming quarters and economic data to unveil the outlook of the global economy to reckon the direction of gold prices further.
However, gold miners are relatively enjoying as compared to short sellers in the market as gold prices are still high enough to give these miners a higher realized price as compared to the realized prices these miners were getting at the second half of the previous year 2018. The higher realized prices led these miners to receive high sales proceeds from the commodity, which in turn provides strength to their balance sheet.
With gold prices moving sharply from the second half of 2018, it has supported the prices of gold miners on Australian Stock Exchange as well.
Once such miner, where rising gold prices has supported the prices of the miner apart from financial performance, business model, exploration programmes, project and production of the miner, was the Newcrest Mining Limited (ASX: NCM). Following the observation on the charts, it can be concluded that the gold prices and Newcrest prices have established a positive correlation with each other.
Following the observation on the monthly chart, it can be noticed that there was a drop in gold prices during the starting of the 3rd quarter of 2018 brought a significant drop in Newcrest prices as well. Both the assets dropped in August 2018. The drop in the prices of both the assets can be observed in the chart with a red downside arrow mark.
The uptrend in both the assets started in October 2018. The rise in gold prices along with various other factors which could have been discounted by the market, resulted in the rise of NCM. The uptrend in both the assets can be seen on the chart and is marked with a green upside arrow.
Gold miners such as NCM rode on the commodity bull rally which started from the second half of the year 2018. The charts confirm the positive correlation between these two assets. However, the high or low commodity prices cannot be considered as the only reason to judge a commodity associated company and other factors also play a role. Albeit, commodity prices do establish a significant relation to the market prices of these companies.


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My Experience of Universal Medicine, Part Three: Sacred Esoteric Healing Workshop
Posted on September 25, 2012 by Esther Rockett
Continued from earlier posts: 1.Recruitment and 2.Serge Benhayon's 'Ovarian Reading' Manipulation
After the 'ovarian reading' I was convinced Serge was in the process of establishing a full blown cult, installing himself as its enlightened leader. I'd already paid a deposit on the Advanced Level 1 Esoteric Healing Workshop, and was experiencing ambivalence, to say the least. On the one hand, I knew my association with Serge would be of no further benefit to my health and wellbeing, but being a student of religion and cult dynamics, I felt compelled to bear witness and confirm my suspicion that he was heading down a destructive cultist path.
At the same time, I remained curious about the Esoteric Healing method and its ability to induce strong, spontaneous physical reactions, and wanted to see if those reactions could be reproduced by students. I was also somewhat interested in Serge's teachings, because as I mentioned, some of what he said made sense, and I had no doubt he was a genius of a kind. The whole loving, heartfelt feeling approach has a certain appeal, and I was interested in seeing how successful he was at syncretising diverse beliefs (in the tradition of theosophy etc.)
The workshop, which was designed to train students in Esoteric Healing, was held over a weekend at a pleasant facility in Lennox Head. I wish I'd done a head count, but I believe there were 40 to 60 people there, of which there were only about half a dozen men. Serge had 8 women assistants in attendance. It was clear there was a hierarchy among them. Three or four of the women appeared to form part of his inner sanctum; an admin/manager who was also responsible for artwork in his study materials, a Brisbane complementary medicine practitioner who seemed to be Serge's Brisbane tentacle, and the ubiquitous burping priestess – a formidable, mature woman, who periodically spoke with Serge in what I assumed was their native tongue (Portugese? Yiddish? Arcturan?). The other four or so assistants had completed previous workshops and had therefore attained 'advanced' status. However, they seemed to have little to do over the weekend and it appeared there was competition among them. I found them bickering from time to time and at least one was rather aggressive.
I can still feel the 'lovingness'.
The first day began with a lecture from Serge. Here, I will say, Serge must have read the same instruction book as every other successful guru, because the delivery followed the usual sales/guruism/personal development hysteria inducing formula common to groups such as Amway, Scientology, Landmark etc. It basically consists of 'pack em in and hype em up'.
Serge's delivery was exactly the Dr Fox effect; rapid fire, unstructured, illogical and jargon loaded, while persistently oversimplifying and disparaging other belief systems. Yet, in spite of the erratic content, Serge's delivery is cool and personable and he knows how to interweave enough of the more potent and attractive aspects of established traditions to keep his audience interested. Even with my degree in religious studies, I found myself intrigued by some of the more sensible or potentially useful aspects, to be astonished only moments later at the absurdity of some of the statements. For example, he would move from talking about the heart chakra and accessing our heart's purpose to live in love, to the coming of Maitreya Buddha, to compassion, to maya versus ishvara, to Christ and the tri-star energy (?), to the Internet evolving until we can access it inside our heads (??), to the Arcturans being responsible for crop circles (???) – all within a few minutes of smooth, straight faced monologue.
A commenter on the Rick Ross Cult Education Forum pages, described an 'idiot test', and although it's an unkind term, it applies to Serge's lecture technique. The inclusion of audaciously nonsensical content in Serge's lectures and teachings immediately weeds out anyone with strong critical faculties who might not only be resistant to adhering to the group, but cause trouble by asking pertinent questions. The rationally discerning will quickly abandon the group, leaving a remainder of students who are less critical, more suggestible and more malleable.
Although I was itching to challenge many of Serge's statements, I didn't because I felt intimidated. He talked too rapidly for me to concentrate and construct a useful argument, and thinking that quickly on my feet is not my strong suit. Then again, I'm not sure anyone thinks that fast when the guru is rapidly shifting the subject matter and using jargon which he has adapted to his own idiosyncratic definitions. It would take a rowdy, vocal and ferocious skeptic to keep up.
To their credit, there were a few participants who challenged Serge's statements only to have their objections annihilated via manipulation and distortion. It's very hard to argue with a single individual's theology which he has based on free range distortions of traditional spiritual concepts. Serge is extremely liberal with misrepresenting other belief systems, and it's easy to get away with when discussing occult or Eastern philosophies because the average person is not well versed. He has done enough homework to stay ahead of students with above average knowledge, but he has co-opted and distorted those philosophies to legitimize his own. As did Alice Bailey.
For the next day and half, from memory, there was less lecture time and more practical exercises of Esoteric Healing techniques. Mostly the room was kept dark, with lights out, blockout curtains closed, and only a small amount of natural light allowed in. Students worked in pairs, one per massage table and Serge demonstrated one technique at a time for laying hands on certain parts of the body. Both 'healer' and recipient were instructed to empty their mind for the duration of the treatment – to resist conscious thought. (This is also done in Serge's personal treatment sessions where he asks you to keep your mind clear. It says it all really. If you want to follow Serge, whatever you do, don't think!)
Each technique involved placing both hands on the patient for various therapeutic purposes, like releasing anger from the Liver, unblocking sexual energy, clearing sadness, draining fear, dealing with childhood issues or issues with a parent, quietening the forces of Maya etc. Yep. Snore. After the demo, students would then take turns to carry out and receive the technique. I was fascinated to find the students, including myself, able to induce hot and cold running catharses time after time, with each technique. It was a spectacular experience in many senses – in a dark room, forty or so people gradually building to a crescendo of hysterics. Reactions varied in intensity. Some people had subtle reactions, where they might shift on the treatment table a bit and alter their breathing patterns, while others launched into full convulsive thrashing, hyperventilating, sobbing, screaming and vomiting. Again I surrendered to the experience, jumped around a fair bit, spoke in tongues etc.
Serge bustled excitedly from table to table, observing and commenting. He carried on a lot about the persecution and torture of our past incarnations – archangels and monads being burned at the stake, raped, stabbed, butchered etc. He physically assisted in pulling imaginary swords out of students. He talked about the hands on techniques as healing the wounds where our angel wings had been hacked off in a past life, and carried on with a lot of divisive and paranoid ravings about how good people like us, his followers, are constantly under attack from the corrupt and evil members of the astral (um, real) world.
The following morning, the last day of the workshop, I was in Lennox Head scrounging around for some breakfast when I came across a couple of Serge's customers, a mother and daughter sitting outside the bakery. The daughter was shaking and in tears and I remembered her being similarly distraught during and after the 'treatment' the day before. Her mother was trying to comfort her but she was very distressed. I feel guilty that I didn't stop and tell them to quit while they were ahead – debrief them somewhat and tell them they would be better served to see a real psychologist, but selfishly perhaps, I didn't want to compromise my cover and invite vilification if exposed. They persevered and attended that day, but I feel it was a detrimental experience for that woman at least. There were no apparent measures in place to screen out participants who may have dissociative or psychiatrically unstable tendencies, and no measures for helping them to regain stability should they break down.
During the course of that day, we went through more techniques and continued to reproduce catharses, releasing our negative past life entities or whatever. About half way through the day, I was getting bored with speaking in tongues and having these intense physical reactions. There's an initial wow factor but I was wondering how many past lives and how much torture and suffering I'd have to tap into, because apart from the immediate stimulation and excitement, I could see no substance to it, no meaningful lasting effects and no future for it in my life. It wasn't making me a better person, I didn't need further persuasion that Serge's teachings were bullshit and I can think of a million better ways to spend a Sunday in gorgeous Lennox Head. Moreover, I've had a chronic health condition for decades and Serge's medicine made no difference to the symptoms, where other tested modalities have.
By the end of the workshop, although I was fairly burnt out and sceptical, I was still strangely, perhaps dementedly, interested and somewhat engaged with the teachings. At the end of the day, the group sat in a circle and held hands. I'd met so many truly lovely people over that weekend, decent, conscientious and kind, but clearly the intensity of the workshop had strong if not adverse effects on many of them. The young man beside me was trembling uncontrollably and many other participants were in tears or other heightened states. For days afterwards, I was in a trance like and confused state, still grappling with the teachings. Luckily I visited a wise friend and when I described the experience, his refreshingly spirited and expletive ridden rant on its preposterousness helped me snap out of it.
Bless him.
However, I remain alarmed by many problematic aspects of the workshop, and how they might negatively affect some participants. I'll bullet point them.
Serge presented the Esoteric Healing as something anyone could practice and openly encouraged people to use it on others, including children, inferring that students might charge for it. With my health problems and my chequered experience of healing I urge people not to adopt healing as a hobby, or anything other than a serious profession. Please! Medicine is a critical, complicated and arduous occupation to be undertaken only by fully trained and qualified professionals. UM minimizes and oversimplifies the difficulty of resolving symptoms and makes highly questionable claims to its own efficacy. Unless you have proper qualifications, do sick people a favour and leave therapy to the professionals. You'll do more harm than good.
The cathartic nature of the healing practice may be responsible for some of the hold UM has on people. I've been around the block with healing and went in with some foreknowledge, but for those new to that kind of experience, it could be alluring, exciting and intoxicating at best, and frightening, damaging and addictive at worst. It appears to be just one thought reform technique in Universal Medicine's arsenal, and I plan to elaborate on that in subsequent posts.
The strong cathartic nature of the healing is also highly exposing of participants' vulnerabilities. To this day I'm concerned about the people who grew distraught during the process, because their vulnerability not only left them ripe for exploitation by Serge ('clearly you need to do more workshops…come to more healing sessions…tell me more about your painful past…I take cash, cheque or credit card…') but I also don't believe Serge and his crew have the proper training and qualifications to adequately assist students in recovering from revisiting trauma. As a counsellor friend of mine says, 'if you're going to break someone down, you'd better be able to put them back together.' This may also explain how followers' personalities end up becoming more and more fragmented – also allowing UM to tighten its hold the longer they stay in the group.
Serge's 15 year old daughter was participating in the workshop and receiving the Esoteric Healing training. It's not illegal, but ethically it reeks. I don't care if Natalie is Hippocrates himself reincarnated, a 15 year old has no place in therapy, except as a patient.
I assumed all of the women at the workshop were patients of Serge's and could therefore assume most of them were subject to his 'ovarian' fishing, and had disclosed if not their sexual history to him, then at least their history of negative experiences with men in their lives. Throughout the weekend, he mentioned rape often, continually returning to the subject. For a certain percentage of the participants this would have contributed to a psychological re-traumatisation process known as 'trauma triggering', an experience which can exacerbate post traumatic stress disorder. In addition, the pressure to disclose gives him the power to exploit emotional wounds, and an opening to provide marital or relationship advice, which as a favourite cult manoeuvre encourages followers to alienate themselves from non followers, including loved ones. In doing so, Serge is also capitalizing on the unfortunate and enduring gap in communication between the sexes. Again, none of these actions constitute an actual crime, but are enormously problematic in terms of therapeutic ethics because they are potentially extremely harmful.
All of this makes a mockery of UM's public relations assertions of integrity and professionalism. NONE of what went on at that workshop would be acceptable in a registered therapeutic profession. If any UM staff with legitimate training are reading this, shame on you for associating yourselves with such conduct! Healers have an obligation to do no harm and your behaviour and apologism is reprehensible!
Hence, our public campaign to call these practitioners to account.
Dear Universal Medicine apologists, during your next propaganda posts on your sanitized websites, if you're going to get defensive, at least answer the charges. Specifically the six points I have made above.
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This has been my fear all along Venus. Serge uses outrage to engage his so-called students, and knowing full well that many have experienced the trauma of some sexual abuse or even perhaps overt sexual advances within a relationship, he leverages sympathy with his ideas. Once he has, he takes a cudgel to relationships in his bid to ensure that the students are focused on him as the 'supreme' male. That other practitioners are complicit in his business of destroying people and families is shameless. Thanks for this moving and honest account.
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The publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail Online has paid out £120,000 in damages after claiming a charity supported a "hate festival" in Gaza.
The trustees of Interpal took action against Associated Newspapers over two stories published on August 2 and 15 last year which alleged the charity supported an event in Gaza where children took part in a play where they acted out the murder of Jewish people.
The charity, which was founded in 1994, provides aid to Palestinians.
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Two full apologies have been published on Mail Online and prominently in the print edition of the Daily Mail.
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Starstriter Mohamed Salah from Liverpool FC was elected for the second time as the footballer of the year in England.
The Egyptian received the most votes from the FWA journalists (Football Writers' Association) and thus awarded the prestigious title for the second time after 2018.
The Germans Bernd Trautmann (1956) and Jürgen Klinsmann (1995) were once one of the honored.
Salah prevailed with 48 percent of the votes ahead of Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City) and Declan Rice (West Ham United).
With Liverpool and team manager Jürgen Klopp, the 29 -year -old still has the chance of the "Quadruple" – after the victory in the league cup, the Reds are also in the race for the championship, the FA Cup and the Champions League.
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In 2018 Salah won all three personal titles. He will receive the trophy for the FWA award on May 5th.
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2022 TLA Elections
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In 2022, members will elect a president-elect and a representative-at-large to serve on the Executive Board.
TLA elections will open on February 16 and close March 16, 2022. Your participation in the election process is critical as these leaders will help set the course for the association for the coming year. To vote, you must be a current TLA member by January 31, 2022.
Candidate bios and statements of concern for those running for all offices are found by logging into the Members Only website and clicking on View Candidate Biographies. (On the Secure Membership Area page, "View Candidate Biographies" is at the bottom of the first column on the left, under "Misc. Forms".)
Meet the Executive Board Candidates
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Executive Director, Houston Public Library
Learn more about Rhea's plans in her video.
We have clearly demonstrated our worth, strength, innovativeness, agility, and tenacity by navigating recent challenges like fiscal instability, insufficient digital access, social justice and anti-racism, and the pandemic crisis. We now face a pivotal moment with still much work to do to advance our core values and re-envision our future.
Working together we can combine our talents and strengths to move forward an exciting future for TLA which includes increasing financial vitality, embracing diversity and inclusion, attracting new members, strengthening advocacy, reinvigorating member engagement, and rebranding our image. As TLA president-elect, I will engage members on all levels of the association to accomplish the work needed at this important juncture. Working together we can transform TLA's landscape to ensure inclusivity, transparency, sustainability, and resiliency.
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Gretchen Pruett
Director, New Braunfels Public Library
Learn more about Gretchen's vision in her video here.
The library's role in our communities as the source of credible and relevant information is being eroded by the continuing onslaught of misinformation. When the information-seeking public needed us the most, the unprecedented pandemic closed our doors. We are still recovering, and we must speak with a unified voice to be heard above the noise.
The Texas Library Association is that voice for all our state libraries — it is local, it is relevant, and it amplifies members' concerns to the stakeholders of Texas libraries and the people they serve. I have advocated for libraries and TLA throughout my career — and I will be honored to continue this work as president-elect. Libraries are more relevant than ever before to build strong communities and citizens.
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Nora Galvan
Nora Galvan, Director of Library Services, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD
The pandemic has helped demonstrate the importance of school librarians and the essential role they play as educators in our schools. However, Texas does not mandate that school districts hire certified librarians, and school librarians are paid at the same level as classroom teachers despite the very different roles they play.
School librarians must continually advocate on their own behalf to raise awareness among their fellow educators and administrators of how they support student learning and success. TLA and TASL have many resources to assist school librarians in these efforts. However, with increasing efforts to restrict education related to racism, and organized challenges to books and other resources, it is critical that TLA do even more to support school librarians as they face these complex issues.
Melissa Rippy
Director of Libraries & Instructional Materials, Pasadena ISD
School Librarians continue to struggle with imbalances in access, budgets and staffing in schools across Texas during a pandemic, reduced budgets, and virtual learning. Now more than ever before, we need a supportive community for those facing similar obstacles.
TLA and TASL have the ability to help make connections among librarians so that they are able to work together to find solutions to these common obstacles while still meeting the various needs of students and teachers. The pandemic has changed the way that we interact with each other in our world; as a "living" organization, TLA has the opportunity to adapt and evolve so that it may serve as a source of community and guidance meeting the needs of all librarians.
TLA Response to Governor's Proposed Parental Bill of Rights
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On Thursday, January 20, Governor Abbott announced his proposed Parental Bill of Rights at a campaign event in North Texas. The Texas Library Association issued the following response: We are […]
The 2022 2×2 Reading List is Here!
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The Texas Library Association is delighted to announce the arrival of the 2022 2×2 Reading List! These beautifully illustrated, often witty and instructive volumes are the best of recent books meant […]


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The 5 Best Super Bowl Ads of 2018
Playing an ad during the Super Bowl is a big deal. The highly-coveted slots are now auctioned off at over $5 million for a 30-second ad. And as reported by Digiday, that kind of money can buy you 32 years worth of mobile video ads, or a whopping 2.6 billion impressions on Instagram.
With so much at stake, these ads are of the highest possible calibre, and they make for some thoroughly entertaining viewing. Here are our top 5 picks.
5. Doritos & Mountain Dew
2018 saw Doritos and Mountain Dew team up for a celebrity rap battle of grandiose proportions. With Morgan Freeman on team Mountain Dew and Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage on team Doritos, the campaign stirred up a global debate on who took the cake. The hashtags associated with the battle (#icecold for Mountain Dew and #spitfire for Doritos) were used over 15,000 times each.
While the ad isn't particularly layered or meaningful, it's visually powerful and heavily branded. And does it make us want to try out the new flavours by Mountain Dew and Doritos? Hell. Yes.
4. Coca Cola
Speaking of heavily branded content, Coca Cola did what they've always done best – demonstrate the unifying powers of the world's favourite beverage. The message of the ad is clear – Coca Cola is accessible to everyone.
As observed by Troy Patterson in this New Yorker article, the ad is a brilliant reflection and reminder of the Andy Warhol quote: "You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking."
In a time when advertisers are grappling to tie their brand to ideals of inclusivity, Coca Cola is one of the few brands who can pull this off in a way that feels genuine.
3. Amazon Alexa
Amazon's 'Alexa Loses Her Voice' campaign has already won a trove of awards not only for entertainment value and audience votes but also for brand effectiveness. The ad poses an unlikely scenario where Alexa catches a cold and taps out for the day, forcing Amazon HQ to recruit the likes of Gordon Ramsay and Rebel Wilson to step in.
In some truly hilarious cameo performances, the ad shows some of our favourite celebrities failing dismally to fill Alexa's shoes. Much to our relief, she returns to say, "thanks guys, but I'll take it from here". The ad is funny, down-to-earth and a poignant reminder of how seamlessly Amazon's latest virtual assistant can integrate into our lives.
2. Tide Laundry Detergent
This cheeky campaign by Tide poked fun at every stereotypical Super Bowl ad we've ever seen. Like the melodramatic jewelry ad, the fun-loving soda ad and the all-too-common, sweeping-through-the-mountains car ad.
But the true brilliance of the campaign came from the commentator of the ad, Stranger Things star David Harbour, reminding us that this is definitely a Tide ad, purely because everyone's clothes are so clean. At the end of the minute-long ad, he asks, "so does this make every Super Bowl ad a Tide ad? Watch and see."
With this super simple but incredibly clever campaign, Tide have managed to keep their brand front-of-mind throughout the rest of our Super Bowl ad viewings. And for purveyors of laundry detergent, that's pretty damn impressive.
1. Tourism Australia
Although there were mixed reactions to Tourism Australia's Dundee campaign, we're calling it. This ad is bloody brilliant. Lead by iconic Australian stars like Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, Margot Robbie and Chris Hemsworth, the ad teases a reboot of the beloved 'Crocodile Dundee' film series. And while the movie trailer is completely fake, it created a unique opportunity to subtly showcase Australia's incredible landscapes, wildlife and culture. All the while generating some serious hype.
The campaign has already spurred over 4,000 news stories and reached 412 million people on social media. A lot of this talk is driven by an effort to bring the teased film into existence #bringbackdundee. But there's no doubt the campaign will get people thinking about Australia as an exciting tourist destination.
For us, this ad wins first place for memorability, best use of celebrities and all-round cleverness. As said by Trade Minister Steve Ciobo,"What matters in a heavily media-dominated market like America is that you get cut-through." And given that Dundee is the most talked about ad of the entire 2018 Super Bowl, it's done just that.
By Grace Wright | 6th February, 2018
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NHS England is launching a clinical trial of the HIV drug PrEP, following a court ruling that they are in a position to provide the new drug.
Committing £10m over the next five years to fund the trial, NHS England and Public Health England will launch the clinical trial to 10,000 participants in early 2017/18.
The trial, which is expected to last three years, follows a recent Court of Appeal ruling that found NHS England has the power, but not the obligation to fund the anti-retroviral drug pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
PrEP has been shown to lower the risk of HIV by more than 90% in those that are at high risk of infection.
NHS England is also committing to routinely commissioning 10 new specialised treatments as part of the annual prioritisation process for specialised treatments.
Dr Jonathan Fielden, director of specialised commissioning and deputy national medical director at NHS England said the decision to fund a clinical trial was "made possible by the willingness of many pharmaceutical and device companies to come forward with lower and more responsible prices".
Professor Kevin Fenton, director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England said: "Currently 13,500 people are living in the UK with undiagnosed HIV and we are still seeing around 5,000 new infections each year.


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Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Nick Burton Film & Screenwriting
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Published in Issue No. 18 ~ November, 1998
On the other end of the spectrum from Bunuel's elegant surrealism is Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1975 interpretation of Marquis De Sade's most infamous novel, The 120 Days Of Sodom. Pasolini sets his work in fascist Italy, where four pillars of society round up an equal number of adolescent boys and girls under the threat of death to help them fulfill their most extreme fantasies and perversions at a remote villa. Four aging prostitutes are brought along to tell stories to the men while the adolescents are obliged to service them. The stories the women tell are ghastly tales of pedophilia and corophilia that arouse the jaded men's libidos and results in a ritualistic slaughter of the young people – viewed from a distance through opera glasses as kind of a "performance".
This is a tough and disturbing film that shows sex as a simple mechanical function, completely devoid of passion. It also shows that it can become the ultimate expression of power and control. Before Salo, Pasolini made a trilogy of films – The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights – that celebrated unbridled sexuality. Originally seen as subversive by film-going, middle class audiences, the strong sexuality present in the films was eventually embraced by these same viewers. Pasolini made Salo in part as a reaction to this turn. Ostensibly a parable about Fascist Italy, the film also criticized it's contemporary audience with a infamous "dinner" scene wherein the feces of the soon-to-be-slaughtered youngsters is graphically consumed.
Almost unbearably claustrophobic, Salo is a fascinating, if not horrifying vision of inhumanity and sexuality.
Incidently, in an almost fitting twist of fate, Pasolini was killed by a male prostitute shortly after this film was released.
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Nick Burton lives in Newport Beach, California. His fiction has appeared in many small press and web publications, inlcuding: Chronicles Of Fiction, Pauper, and of course Pif.


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