The War on Murder: Sharon Tate and the Victims' Rights Movement
March 31, 2013 • By Rachel Monroe
ROSIE BLANCHARD BEGAN SENDING Mother’s Day cards to Doris Tate in the 1990s, even though the two women had never met. One day in August, Blanchard trekked to the Tate family house for the first time; P.J., Doris’s husband, answered the door. “Hi,” Blanchard said cheerfully. “I’m your daughter, Sharon.”
This was, of course, untrue. P.J. and Doris’s oldest daughter, Sharon, had been stabbed to death by members of the Manson Family two decades earlier, just weeks before she was due to give birth. P.J. Tate slammed the door in Blanchard’s face, but the young woman continued to pester the family for attention. In her mind, this was perfectly justifiable: she was Sharon Tate reincarnated, she told anyone who’d listen, and she just wanted to reconnect with her family.
Years later, after Doris’s death, Blanchard turned her attentions to Sharon’s youngest sister, Patti. Patti tolerated the harassment for years, until she was diagnosed with cancer. As Alisa Statman writes in Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family’s Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice, Patti realized that, should she fail to survive her illness, she “didn’t want [her] kids to pick up the phone and hear, ‘Hi, it’s Aunt Sharon.’” Eventually, Patti mustered the courage to trek to Blanchard’s Burbank apartment to ask her to stop. But when Patti told Blanchard that she didn’t believe in the reincarnation story, the younger woman was unexpectedly understanding. “I’m glad you said it,” Blanchard replied. “Because there’s something I’ve been wanting to tell you, but I haven’t had the nerve — I’m Sharon’s baby! I’m your niece! I’ve been alive all this time!”
On August 8, 1969, five followers of Charles Manson — Tex Watson, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, Linda Kasabian, and Susan Atkins — drove to Sharon Tate’s house at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, northwest of Beverly Hills. They were carrying knives (Tex also had a gun) and wearing all black. At the time, Sharon’s husband, Roman Polanski, was filming in Europe; keeping her company in his stead were Sharon’s ex, hairstylist-to-the-stars Jay Sebring; coffee company heiress Abigail Folger; and Holocaust survivor Woytek Frykowski. Just after midnight, Watson, Van Houten, Krenwinkel, Kasabian, and Atkins arrived at the house, cut the phone lines, and scrambled over the fence. The first person they killed was 18-year-old Steven Parent, who’d just been visiting the house’s caretaker, William Garretson. Tate, Sebring, Folger, and Frykowski were next.
Faced with a gruesome crime scene the next day, the Los Angeles police immediately assumed that the teenaged Garretson was the guilty party. After all, Garretson, who lived in a small house at the edge of the Tate–Polanski property, was alive and intact, while everyone else at the house had been stabbed, shot, or bludgeoned to death. (Or all three, in the case of Frykowski.) But forensic evidence quickly exonerated Garretson, who maintained that he’d been asleep the whole time and hadn’t heard a thing.
Or that’s what he said in 1969, at least. These days, Garretson claims that most of his earlier testimony was a fabrication. What actually happened, he now swears, was that the eight-months pregnant Sharon delivered her baby that night, just before she died. Mysterious men in black suits let Garretson hold the baby for a few minutes, before spiriting it away to an undisclosed location. That baby grew up in New York as Rosie Blanchard, unaware until she was 24 years old that she was actually the daughter of one of the most famous murder victims in the world. In the late 1990s, around the same time she began harassing the Tate family, Blanchard got in touch with Garretson. Within six months, they had moved in together and become engaged. For the 31st anniversary of Sharon’s murder (and thus, ostensibly, of Blanchard’s birth), they threw a party: “The room, adorned with photos of the Manson victims, candles, confetti and Sharon Tate memorabilia, could hold 50,” wrote a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch who attended the party, held in a room at the Best Western in Lancaster, Ohio. “But the only guests in attendance were two Ohio University journalism students and me.”
“[Garretson] and I have seen some ups and downs,” Blanchard told the reporter. “But we both survived the same murder, and he was the only one who could empathize with my pain. We never knew, 31 years ago, that we’d meet again.”
Murder ruptures the habits and functions of daily life. It dismantles the castle. It turns the bricks back into sand. “I say a murder is abstract,” a character in Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1948 play Dirty Hands says. “You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.” He’s talking about people who commit crimes, but murder’s meaning-draining properties apply just as much to those who witness violent acts: they find they can’t sleep, or they sleep all the time. Words start to seem nonsensical. The world is new, and worse.
What, then, of famous murders — ones we didn’t commit or witness, but still live with, in a sense? We stare at a house ringed by crime scene tape during the evening news; if we’re truly devoted, we can follow Court TV’s live coverage of the indictment six months later. But our lives aren’t split into a before and after; in fact, they haven’t changed much at all. Maybe, if we’re Joan Didion, we have a panic attack and start to lock our front door. Meanwhile, the rest of us eat our oatmeal and do the crossword puzzle as always, only with an occasional shiver of dread: something horrible happened somewhere else today. Most of us, at least. But there are many ways to be a victim of a crime, and not all of them look like you might expect.
When Sharon Tate left her family (then stationed on a military base in Italy) to try and make it in Hollywood in 1961, her mother, Doris, lapsed into a pill-induced stupor. She had never been separated from her oldest daughter for an extended period of time, and the emotional strain proved too much. A psychiatrist diagnosed her with “acute separation anxiety disorder,” and Sharon reluctantly returned to Europe.
Sharon Tate in Eye of the Devil (1966)
Eight years later, after Sharon’s murder, Doris once again turned to Valium, according to Restless Souls. While her husband, P.J., spent hours consulting with cops and pursuing suspects on his motorcycle, Doris stayed home, popped some pills, and missed her daughter.
More than a decade after Sharon’s death, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay stopped by Doris’s hair salon to ask for her help gathering signatures for a blanket petition against the release of any member of the Manson Family. The task brought her the sense of purpose she’d been missing, and Doris soon became an early and prominent voice of what has come to be known as the victims’ rights movement.
The victims’ rights movement was a conservative offshoot of 1970s-era radical feminism, when activists mobilized on behalf of victims of rape and domestic violence, arguing for restitution, psychological counseling, and a defined role for victims in legal proceedings. By the 1990s, the movement — a coalition of crime victims, prosecutors, prison officials, and conservative politicians — was one of the most powerful lobbying forces in the state of California. In the early days, though, it was just a group of grassroots activists trying to make themselves heard.
Encouraged by Kay, Doris began attending meetings of Parents of Murdered Children, which functioned as both support group and advocacy organization. At POMC meetings, New Age-y therapeutic language (“finding a voice”) dovetailed with a deeply conservative attitude toward criminal justice; campaigning for “rights” was a way for victims to assert agency in the face of tragedy, while also attacking a judicial process that many saw as overly favorable to defendants. The movement brought renewed purpose to Doris’s life. Her daughter’s killers “should have to sit in a four-by-four cell where they can think about what they did for eternity,” Doris told P.J. after a POMC meeting, according to Statman. “And, if you stopped numbing your mind [with beer] you’d see that.”
As she finds her place within the victims’ rights movement, Doris emerges as Restless Souls’s most nuanced and well-drawn character, a woman who bakes cookies, calls everyone “darlin,” and tenaciously argues legal niceties at parole hearings. By 1985, Doris was a board member of Citizens for Truth, Justice for Homicide Victims, the California Justice Committee, and Believe the Children, as well as serving as president of Parents of Murdered Children. The next year, she led the charge to oust the first female Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Rose Bird, who had consistently overturned death penalty verdicts that came before her. To press her cause, Doris appeared on The Phil Donahue Show. “One thing is certain,” she told Donahue. “[the death penalty] will cut down on recidivism, because the guy that goes to the gas chamber well, my dear, he’s one less we have to worry about.” That November, voters supported Bird’s removal by a 66–33 margin. It was the first time a sitting Chief Justice had ever been ousted, and the first time since 1934 that any State Supreme Court Justice had been removed.
Doris’s dramatic journey of self-actualization through criminal justice activism aside, Restless Souls is ultimately not a very satisfying read. The book’s account of Sharon Tate’s early years is not particularly revealing; like an adorably ditzy rom-com heroine, “[Sharon’s] clumsiness got the best of her,” and “balancing a checkbook was a challenge she didn’t care to master.” Statman’s chapter on the night of the murders rehashes Vincent Bugliosi’s canonical account in Helter Skelter (1974), but with some movie-scenario color thrown in for good measure (“The knife slashes through the open window like a rabid dog’s gnashing”). And then there are sentences like this one: “My gaze turned to a glaring punch.” And this one: “[P.J. and Doris Tate] were as set in their ways as a grape stain to white pants and equally as stubborn. Despite it all, their love was as preserved and age-worn as a pressed rose hidden in a Bible.” Italics are used liberally, and verb tenses jump all over the place. Cops say things like “Go on home folks. There’s nothing to see here,” while bad guys betray themselves with sinister winks.
But let’s be real: no one picks up a book like this for its writing. (If “[y]ou can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style,” as Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert once claimed, the adage does not hold for true crime historians.) As its breathless title suggests, Restless Souls is a Lifetime movie of a book, and it delivers the drama with requisite zeal. More troubling than the bad writing, though, is the narrative awkwardness that stems from the fact that Statman has chosen to write the book in the alternating first-person voices of Doris, P.J., and Patti Tate — all of whom are now dead. Although Statman certainly had access to plenty of personal documents and knew the Tate family well (more on that in a bit), her habit of inserting thoughts into her characters’ heads reflects a general tendency to overassume and overreach. This is most disconcerting during the murder scenes, in which Statman writes her way into the minds of those about to kill or be killed, as when “Sharon flings her arms defensively, wildly, not knowing what she is hitting, and too terrified to feel the pain as the knife gashes her forearms.”
Inserting herself into the Manson story seems to be something of a compulsion for Statman. Although you wouldn’t know it from Restless Souls, in 1990, the 21-year-old Statman signed a lease on the house at 10050 Cielo Drive. She was in need of a place to live, and the isolated house in Benedict Canyon just happened to be available, she recalled in a 2012 interview. Though she knew of the house’s tragic history — a disclosure about the murders was in her lease — she claims not to have been overly concerned about it. “I can’t begin to explain it, but the moment you drove through the gates there was an overwhelming, peaceful easy feeling that was felt by all those who came to visit me,” Statman has written. “And for me, that feeling out-weighed the past atrocities.” (In the conspiracy-rife world of Manson studies, there are some who believe that Statman’s renting the house wasn’t as coincidental or innocent as she claims. Debra Tate, Sharon’s sister, alleges that Statman rented the house because she was “fascinated” by Sharon’s murder and was already planning to write a book about the case.)
Whatever her initial motivation for moving in, Statman’s rental of the Tate house ensured that she quickly became obsessed with the famously engrossing Manson case. Statman (who currently works an assistant director on Modern Family) agreed to help producer Bill Nelson make a documentary about the case, hoping to get a foothold in Hollywood in the process. In the course of their research, Nelson and Statman paid a visit to retired LAPD detective Earl Deemer. As Nelson and Statman asked about the case, Deemer began pulling photographs out of his personal files, including photographs of murder victims in the last weeks of their lives. Statman assumed, correctly, that the detective had taken the images as souvenirs from the Tate house in the aftermath of the murders. “I was so angry,” Statman recalled. “He’d been sitting on these photos for years. The second they left the room, I pocketed them, with the intention of returning them to whoever I could find.”
After she returned home, Statman contacted Sharon’s youngest sister, Patti, to see about returning the images. At the time, Patti was unhappily married to a professional basketball player and living in Southern California with her three young children. Within a few years, Patti and her husband divorced; Statman and Patti had fallen in love, and soon moved in together as domestic partners. A decade later, when Patti died at 42 of breast cancer, Statman was awarded custody of her children — one of whom, Brie Tate, is credited as a co-author of Restless Souls.
When Charles Manson listened to the Beatles’ White Album in 1969, he heard things: praise for Manson Girl Sexy Sadie (Atkins), the subliminal message “Charlie, Charlie, send us a telegram” buried in the sonic chaos of “Revolution Number 9,” and, most of all, ominous proclamations of an imminent race war to be known as “Helter Skelter.” “Manson had a hypnotic rap about how the modern blacks were arming themselves, how he, Manson, had talked to blacks in prison and he had learned of heavy arms caches here and there,” Ed Sanders wrote in The Family: The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion (1971). Any day now, Manson preached, blacks would rise up, kill whitey, and assume control of the government — only to fail miserably, in the end, because of their innate inferiority. That’s when Manson’s gang would emerge from their secret hiding place — a mystic chamber located somewhere underneath Death Valley — and assume ultimate control of the country. When they committed the 1969 murders, Family members wrote RISE and HEALTER SKELTER [sic] and POLITICAL PIGGY on the walls in their victims’ blood, in an attempt to pin the crimes on the Black Panthers (and thus usher Helter Skelter along).
In a sense, Manson’s schizophrenic premonition was not so far off. Helter Skelter never happened, but something else did. By the 1980s, the people most likely to be the victims of violent crime were young black men from low-income neighborhoods, while the leadership of the victims’ rights movement was dominated by white women. This is not to discount the good work accomplished by these groups: the grieving mothers who formed Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) made drunk driving into a national issue, and the various victim advocacy groups helped instate restitution policies that have changed people’s lives. But its rhetorical positioning has meant that the victims’ rights movement has managed to inure itself from criticism — it’s difficult to campaign against a group called Parents of Murdered Children — while at the same time calling attention to certain kinds of victimhood and consistently eliding others. In Restless Souls, the growth of the victims’ rights movement is presented as a straightforward story of tenacious, motherly good winning out against insidious, inhuman evil (which occasionally colludes with bleeding-heart liberal judges). But a deeper examination of the role of the movement reveals a story that’s more complicated and more unnerving than the one that Statman wants to tell.
“‘Victims’ suggests a nonprovoking individual hit with the violence of ‘street crime’ by a stranger,” Indiana law professor Lynne N. Henderson, an early and outspoken critic of the movement, wrote in a 1985 paper called “The Wrongs of Victim’s Rights.” “‘Victims’ are not prostitutes beaten senseless by pimps or ‘johns,’ drug addicts mugged and robbed of their fixes, gang members killed during a feud, or misdemeanants raped by cell mates.” As Henderson points out, the victims’ rights movement relied heavily on the symbolism of blameless, female victimhood. The “victim” in question was, more often than not, a grieving mother like Doris Tate.
The movement’s emphasis on punishment and retribution also set the criteria for which victims’ voices counted, and which responses were considered legitimate. In 1990, Rosemary LaBianca’s daughter Suzan LaBerge attended Tex Watson’s parole hearing to argue that the convicted killer deserved to be released; she and Watson had been corresponding, and she believed that his conversion to Christianity was sincere. (Ironically, LaBerge was allowed to testify in the first place because of a 1982 law that Doris Tate helped pass, which allowed those most closely affected by a crime to make a Victim Impact Statement at parole hearings.) “You know, Suzan, that you dishonored your mother today,” Doris hissed at her in the parking lot afterward, according to Statman. “Every mother within the sound of my voice would cringe if their kid went into a parole hearing to beg for their killer’s release. You make me so sick I can’t even stand to look at you, you dumb shit.”
If the victims’ rights movement had limited its appeal to actual victims of violent crime, it would never have grown to be as large or as powerful as it did. The movement’s genius — the thing that made it enough of a political force that we now have a federal Office for Victims of Crime, and most states now have constitutional amendments enshrining victims’ rights — was creating a strategic alliance between those who had been the victims of violent crime and people who had not been victimized but still lived in a state of heightened anxiety. The sex and drugs and activism of the 1960s felt like social chaos to a large segment of the population (closely related to, if not totally coextensive with, Nixon’s famous “silent majority”). Who knew whose daughter might be murdered by the next sex-crazed hippie cult? In a 1968 Gallup poll, 81 percent of Americans agreed that “law and order has broken down in this country,” with the most commonly identified culprits being “Negroes who start riots” and “Communists.” The victims’ rights movement appealed to non-victims who nonetheless felt threatened by a polarized society and rising crime rates. The movement was, in a way, an attempt to turn back the clock on the social and judicial reforms of the 1950s and ’60s — and a remarkably successful one at that.
There is a tricky logic at work here. While victims of past crimes might want vengeance, financial restitution, counseling, or even (in rare cases) more lenient sentencing, victims of future crimes simply want to avoid becoming victims. “Past victims may be said to represent individual and private interests, while future victims represent the public’s fear of crime and its interest in crime control,” Henderson writes. “Proponents of the crime control model [of criminal justice] confuse the images of past and future victims by exploiting the public’s emotional identification with the anguish of past victims simultaneously with its fear of crime and victimization.”
And so the grieving mothers of the victims’ rights movement told their heart-wrenching stories, and the movement lobbied for increasingly conservative, tough-on-crime policies: mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines; 15-year parole denials; three- (or even two-) strike laws for repeat offenders. After learning that Tex Watson had fathered a couple of children while in prison, Doris Tate made it her personal crusade to eliminate conjugal visits for those sentenced to life in prison.
While the prominent narratives of the victims’ rights movement told of serial murderers or sex crimes against children, most of the people who got caught up in these “tough-on-crime” policies were nonviolent drug offenders, the vast majority of them black. The effects of these policies have been devastating. As the legal scholar Michelle Alexander points out in The New Jim Crow (2010), there are currently more black men under correctional control in the United States than were enslaved in 1850. In 2009, California prisons — once some of the most well run and progressive in the nation — were so underfunded and overcrowded that the Supreme Court mandated that 30,000 prisoners be released over the next few years.
Meanwhile, the victims’ rights movement continues to see itself as keeping politicians honest by pressing them to be ever-harsher on crime: “Nana [Doris Tate] and the multitude of other victims’ advocates became the guardian angels of the state as they worked tirelessly to keep the violent offenders behind bars,” Brie Tate, Patti’s daughter, claims in Restless Souls’s final chapter. “They did their job right, but California didn’t, as the state continually neglected to build more prisons to house its offenders.” An odd claim, considering that since 1980, higher education spending in California has decreased by 13 percent, while investment in prisons has grown 436 percent; the state now spends far more money on prisons than it does on colleges and universities. Meanwhile, violent crime rates held relatively steady between 1973 and 1993, and dropped precipitously over the past two decades. But, as Alexander writes, “by locking millions of people out of the mainstream legal economy, by making it difficult or impossible for people to find housing or feed themselves, and by destroying familial bonds by warehousing millions for minor crimes, we make crime more — not less — likely in the most vulnerable communities.” Charles Manson’s acid-fueled dream of an annihilating race war has come to pass, after a fashion. It’s just been a longer, slower fight, more like a war of attrition, than anyone ever imagined it would be.
Even on death row, a murderer projects a certain omnipotence. It’s not so surprising, then, that some adolescents (boys and girls both) fetishize serial killers. Teenagers have been wearing Charles Manson T-shirts for 40 years now. Maybe if I’d been more goth, it would’ve gone that way for me, too. But I was mostly a good girl, I thought, and in my daydreams about murder, I was always the one being killed.
I know I wasn’t the only one to fall for the victim instead of the killer. In a way, both Alisa Statman and Rosie Blanchard have inserted themselves into tragedy. As a rhetorical position, victimhood can be paradoxically powerful. The victim is both blameless and immune from criticism; she can claim access to specialized knowledge of what crime and criminals are “really” like, and demand deference from those less experienced. The victim may be wounded — she may be dead! — but she retains the charisma that comes from righteous anger. She knows things. She has been initiated.
This is, of course, an oversimplification. I am sitting here telling you what victimhood is, when the difficulty is that it can look like many different things. The early years of the victims’ rights movement were about encouraging a diversity of victims’ voices in courtrooms, parole hearings, support groups, and in the media. Instead, we now have a movement that purports to speak on behalf of victims everywhere, and even on behalf of anyone who might someday become a victim. This is an attempt to tidy up the aftereffects of violent crime by sifting the world into victims and criminals, good and evil, the sinned-against and the irredeemable. Such a cynical reduction is more than just a rhetorical problem, as The New Jim Crow makes appallingly clear.
But who am I to judge? I, too, am a murder groupie of sorts. Right now I’m looking at a small plastic bag with a shard of gray stone pinned to the bulletin board over my desk. SHARON’S STONE, it says, in someone’s idea of a tasteful font. “This stone was removed from the original fireplace in 10050 Cielo Drive,” the caption reads, “where Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Voyteck [sic] Frykowski, Jay Sebring and Steven Parent were murdered late in the evening of August 8, 1969. The House was destroyed in 1993.” It’s a macabre relic, and I don’t know why I have it around, except for the occasional dark compulsion to get close to the place that frightens me the most — that place where the victim and the voyeur and the criminal all collapse into one, when I don’t know which one I want to be anymore.
Rachel Monroe
Rachel Monroe is a writer living in Marfa, Texas.
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The modern operating table is a marvel of engineering, designed to allow surgeons maximum access to the patient while keeping them safe and comfortable. But it wasn’t always this way. In fact, the history of the operating table is a long and fascinating one, full of twists and turns. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the evolution of the operating table from its early days to the present day. We’ll explore how the needs of surgeons have changed over time and how technology has helped to meet those needs. So whether you’re a medical professional or just someone with a curiosity for all things surgical, read on to learn more about the story behind the operating table.
Los diferentes tipos de mesas de operaciones
Operating tables have come a long way since their inception. The first operating tables were little more than slabs of stone or wood on which the patient was placed. Today, there are many different types of operating tables available, each designed for a specific type of surgery.
The most common type of operating table is the general surgery table. This table is typically used for surgeries that do not require a special table. General surgery tables have a flat surface and may be equipped with stirrups for the legs.
Another common type of operating table is the obstetric table. This table is designed for delivering babies and has a hole in the center for the baby to pass through. Obstetric tables also have stirrups for the legs to prevent the mother from moving during delivery.
There are also speciality operating tables such as those used for orthopedic surgeries, brain surgeries, and eye surgeries. These tables are designed to provide stability and support during these delicate procedures.
How the operating table came to be
In the early days of surgery, operating tables were little more than boards or planks of wood on which patients were placed. Sometimes a hole was cut in the board for the surgeon to sit or stand, but more often surgeons performed their operations while standing next to the patient’s head. This meant that they had to lean over the patient, which made it difficult to see what they were doing. It also meant that they were often working in a cramped and uncomfortable position.
One day, a surgeon named James Syme was performing an operation on a patient’s leg. He was having difficulty seeing what he was doing, and he asked his assistant to hold a mirror so that he could see better. The assistant did as he was asked, but he accidentally dropped the mirror and it shattered on the floor.
Looking around for something else to use, Syme’s eyes fell on a table that was being used to hold instruments. He had his assistant bring it over, and he found that it was just the right height for him to work comfortably. He quickly finished the operation, and afterwards he decided that all surgical procedures should be performed on a table like this from then on.
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Mesas de operaciones are an essential piece of equipment in any operating room. They provide a sturdy and level surface on which the surgeon can work, and they allow for easy access to the patient’s body during surgery.
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Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado spoke Saturday at a conference held by the Truth & Liberty Coalition, a religious-right political organization founded by right-wing pastor Andrew Wommack.
Addressing a crowd of conservative Christian activists gathered in the auditorium at Wommack’s Charis Bible College, Boebert called on the audience to put faith into action by calling on God to remove ungodly leaders in Washington, D.C., and replace them with “righteous men and women of God” who realize that the government should be taking orders from the church.
“When we see Biden address the nation and the world and show more contempt and aggravation and aggression towards unvaccinated Americans than he does terrorists, we have a problem,” Boebert said. “And that’s why I have articles of impeachment to impeach Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.”
“We cannot take another 18 months, we cannot take another three years of this poor, failed leadership,” she continued. “We are sons and daughters of revolutionaries. They went to battle for a lot less. They took a stand for a lot less. And it’s time we get involved. I need you involved in every local level. I need you speaking up. I need the world to hear your voice. You know the word of God, and you know that there is power in your words, that the world was framed by words. You have the Lord God Almighty on your side. I need you to use your voice and speak.”
“What if Jesus showed up today and said, ‘From this point forward, everything you say you will have it’?” Boebert asked rhetorically. “He said it! That’s exactly what he said to us. So, what are we saying? Are we going to sit and agree with the enemy? Are we going to agree with what the enemy is doing? Are we going to sit back and complain and murmur? Or are we going to speak life into this nation? Are we going to speak victory? Are we going to declare that God removes these unrighteous politicians, these corrupt, crooked politician, and installs righteous men and women of God?”
“You have the God kind of faith, and that faith speaks,” she added. “That faith speaks to mountains, those impossible, immovable situations, and I think there’s some mountains they need to hear your voice. … It’s time the church speaks up. The church has relinquished too much authority to government. We should not be taking orders from the government; the government needs to be looking at the church and saying, ‘How do we do this effectively?’”
This article was originally published by Right Wing Watch and is republished here by permission.
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In a bright pink, purple, and red-lit ballroom in downtown Washington, D.C., last Thursday, anti-choice activists gathered to listen to prominent activists in the anti-choice movement.
“For 49 years, our role has been to influence five people on the court,” said Maureen Ferguson, a senior fellow for The Catholic Association. “Now, we have to persuade 330 million.”
The comment marked a shift in focus for the anti-choice movement. With the dismantlement of Roe v. Wade last summer, the anti-choice movement’s focus has shifted from the Supreme Court to a bevy of other places: state legislatures, Congress, and the court of public opinion.
Of course, the movement has already been hard at work in all those arenas. Trigger laws were set in place to ban abortion in scores of states after Roe was overturned, the new Republican Congress immediately set about trying to pass national anti-abortion legislation, and the March for Life has always targeted young Catholic kids in their messaging about abortion to change public opinion for the future. But their biggest goal—getting five sympathetic justices to the high court to dismantle the right to abortion—had been completed.
The panel, dubbed “Capitol Hill 101,” was a kickoff to the March for Life being held the following day and started, of course, with celebration.
“All the justices deserve our praise,” said Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor, contributor to the Federalist Society, and the author of an amicus brief in support of anti-choice petitioners in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe.
But there were limitations, George said: Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion “only went part of the way to vindicate the Constitution. … The Supreme Court did not declare the right of the unborn, but it did declare that Roe took away the right to legislate.” He pointed to the fifth section of the 14th Amendment, arguing that that “the equal protection of the laws” applies to “any person,” including the “unborn.” In an amicus brief George had submitted in Dobbs, he argued that states should be required to treat abortion as homicide.
The next panelist, Maureen Ferguson, tackled what she called “disinformation” from abortion-rights activists. “The abortion moment has flooded the national debate with disinformation,” she said, focusing on 10 talking points.
“No. 1: Women will die,” Ferguson said. “False. Every pro-life law contains a life for the mother exception.”
This goes against what medical professionals say. Jen Villavicencio, a physician with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told Forbes that “as the forced pregnancies now continue to term”—including those with life-threatening complications—“we will see more people die.” The New York Times recently reported that exceptions to abortion bans are rarely granted, even to women who qualify under state law.
And there are plenty in the pro-life movement—including representatives of organizations sitting in that ballroom—who are seeking to do away with the life of the mother exception. As The Atlantic’s Mary Zeigler reports:
Anti-abortion-rights groups, like Pro-Life Wisconsin, have described the “life of the mother” exception as unnecessary and wrong. The Idaho GOP just approved a platform with no lifesaving exception. Republican candidates like Matthew DePerno, the Republican running to be Michigan’s attorney general, oppose all exceptions to abortion bans, and that includes to save a mother’s life. Conservative states are rushing to eliminate or narrow existing exceptions to their laws. Powerful groups like Students for Life, Feminists for Life, and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) argue that “abortion is never medically necessary” and that doctors should always be punished for intentionally taking a fetal life.
Despite numerous outlets reporting that some women are being denied miscarriage treatment because hospitals are worried of running amok of new anti-abortion laws, Ferguson claimed that nothing of the sort was happening and that “every doctor knows the difference between miscarriage and abortion.”
She also said that women would not be thrown in jail with the end of Roe. But there are male lawmakers who are seeking to do just that. Throughout the country, a faction of self-proclaimed “abolitionists” are eager to punish women who receive an abortion with prison time. In Louisiana, one piece of legislation that would land women who have abortions “with the same criminal consequences as one who drowns her baby” made it one step closer to becoming a law, CNN reported.
Ferguson also claimed in vitro fertilization was not a target of the anti-choice movement, arguing that Roe’s decision was very narrow and only applied to abortion. But the following minute, she went on to claim that we know exactly when life begins—“at the fusion of sperm and egg.” Of course, by that definition, in vitro fertilization would be a target for the anti-choice movement, as it fuses sperms and eggs in a petri dish, picks the best embryo to implant and often discards the others.
Other panelists representing the Susan B. Anthony List and the Senate Pro-Life Caucus spoke about the need to pass federal legislation to limit abortion and encouraged attendees to pester their lawmakers to pass anti-choice legislation.
As the panel wound down, George urged attendees to “keep the baby in view. And we’ll win.”
Ferguson followed his lead by encouraging attendees to download the sound of an embryo at six weeks, so they could play the sound to anyone they speak to who favors abortion rights. “Well, here’s what a baby’s heartbeat sounds like at six weeks,” she said, playing the audio for the ballroom from her phone.
As the panel closed, attendees, which included hundreds of high school students, funneled out of the ballroom to the March for Life Expo. At the entrance was a booth for Alliance Defending Freedom, a multimillion-dollar anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ litigation shop, handing out free swag to excited students. ADF was central to the overturning of Roe and represented Mississippi in the Supreme Court case; its lawyers have previously bragged that they helped write the Mississippi law as part of their strategy to ban all abortions in the country.
Across from them was the Heritage Foundation, which handed out a packet of flyers and advertised a raffle for a prize of $500. Concerned Women for America advertised their Young Women for America program. Focus on The Family—a platinum sponsor of the March for Life and whose activists worked behind the scenes to get right-wing judges nominated to the federal court—had another stand, while GiveSendGo, the Christian fundraising site, also had a booth featuring a cash grab, a handwritten prize wheel, and a timeline of its company that featured its decision to offer a crowdfunding platform for Kyle Rittenhouse.
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Failed Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, a state senator, is saying he will submit legislation to ban drag shows in public by reclassifying them as “adult-oriented businesses,” amid right wing uproar over a high school’s “queer prom.”
“In the near future, I plan to introduce a bill to ban drag shows on public property or in areas that can be seen by minors,” Mastriano, a Trump-endorsed far right wing Christian nationalist who lost the 2022 gubernatorial race by a massive 14-point margin.
“In Pennsylvania, there has been an alarming uptick in drag performances that appeal to children,” Mastriano lamented in a memo to fellow lawmakers, as Fox 43 reports. “In April 2022, parents at a school district in Lancaster were shocked to learn about after-school X-rated drag shows occurring on school property. In October 2022, a sexually charged drag show for audience members as young as 13 was performed at the Rainbow Room in Bucks County.”
“Drag shows that appeal to minors on school property, libraries, and other public places should not be accepted in any functioning society,” Mastriano added.
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Sen. Mastriano was caught on film leading a group in prayer just two weeks before the 2021 insurrection, asking God for the MAGA movement to overthrow the federal government, praying they would “seize the power” and “rise up” on January 6.
In one of his examples, Mastriano was referring to the Bucks County Rainbow Room’s Queer Prom, but his characterizations of drag shows and the queer prom are disputed.
Bucks County Courier Times reports that the Rainbow Room is part of Democratic state Sen. Steve Santarsiero’s district.
Santarsiero “attended the 2020 prom as legislator and a parent of a gay child. He said his younger son had come out as gay about eight months before and was compelled to comment after seeing the proposal.”
Santarsiero published his open letter to lawmakers responding to Mastriano’s announcement.
“I take particular exception to his distorted characterization of the Rainbow Room’s Queer Prom, a dance specifically arranged for LGBTO+ youth in Bucks County,” Santarsiero tells his fellow lawmakers. “The Rainbow Room, which Planned Parenthood established over 20 years ago to be a safe place for LGBTQ+ youth to come together and build self-esteem, first held the prom in February 2020 I was at that event, both as an elected official sponsoring it and as a parent (our younger son had come out as gay about 8 months before and was excited to attend the prom with his friends).”
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He explains what he saw was kids who were “happy,” and “happy to be in a loving environment where it was OK to be themselves.”
“What I observed in person in 2020 – and again by watching the video of the 2022 prom – was a large group of teenagers having fun. What struck me, in fact, was that they could have been kids -gay or straight – at any school in the country. For the most part, they danced with the same awkwardness as any other teenager – I say that endearingly as someone who even in late middle- age is still awkward on the dance floor. What was apparent was that each one of them was happy. They were happy to be with their friends and happy to be in a loving environment where it was OK to be themselves.”
Calling it “an important point,” Santarsiero observes: “Many of these students do not feel accepted by their peers – although it has been my experience both as a teacher and a parent that the younger generations are far more open to them than older ones – and at times by adults, which, sadly, can include family members Indeed, the Central Bucks School District, where many of these students attend school, is presently led by a board majority that has created an educational environment that is openly hostile to LBGIQ+ youth. So, having an organization like the Rainbow Room and an event like the Queer Prom can very literally save the lives of kids who otherwise experience feelings of depression and isolation. I can share from personal experience that Ronni and I are deeply indebted to the Rainbow Room for how it helped our son on the road to becoming the confident young man that he is.”
He appeared to take particular exception to Mastriano calling it “sexually charged.”
“As for it being sexually charged, I will not attempt to get into the gentleman’s mind to decipher what exactly he meant by that phrase, although I note that it is one that is most often used by those, who, solely on their own authority, take on the mantel of arbiter of morality in ironic disregard of the biblical admonition against judging. I would simply suggest that it might be a challenge to find a prom in America at which someone would not be offended by what they would consider inappropriate behavior or dress. With that in mind, we should be careful not to hold LGBTQ+ youth to a different standard than that of straight young people,” Santarsiero said.
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2023: A Year of Execution
As the year 2022 comes to a close, I look back to see how I’ve done and set more meaningful goals for 2023.
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Inspired by interesting creators and personalities online, 2022 was the first year of my life in which I made a rough plan for the year ahead. As 2022 has come to a close, when I look back, even though I didn’t all the things I aimed for, I’m still happy that I had some direction over the course of the year. As I did in 2022, the main areas of this 2023 planning will be revolving around the topics of health, wealth, and career. Unlike 2022, where I tried many things and hoped for the best, this year I’m embracing with a lot of clarity. Thus 2023 is a year of execution where I stick to my principles and routine. I’ve also decided to take fewer things on my plate to make this plan more sustainable. One issue I faced last year was that I revisited the planning only a handful of times during the course of the year. This year I’m attempting bullet journaling and I’m hoping that it will keep me aware of the goals I’ve set for the year.
Instead of doing a separate blog post about last year’s review, I thought of including the same in this year’s plan. To sum up the 3 main highlights of 2022 were:
Switching my career to a field that I’m interested in at the intersection of data, sustainability, and writing.
Getting engaged to my girlfriend and one step close to getting married.
Becoming a super randonneur by completing 200,300, 400, and 600-kilometer cycle rides in a calendar year.
To be fit and healthy by end of 2023.
Create a consistent recurring passive income by end of 2023.
Continue learning to code and create a portfolio by the end of the year.
To achieve the goals mentioned in the previous section, the following objectives have been laid out. Some of these objectives are interconnected and contribute to more than one of the goals.
🏋 Weight
The goal for 2022 is to end the year at a healthy weight of 65 which puts me in the normal range on the BMI scale. Last year also I had a similar goal and reached 67 kgs by August, but failed miserably as the year came to a close. A lot of it has to do with less exercise during the last quarter of the year when I shifted to New Delhi and had an erratic schedule and diet.
🛌 Sleep
My goal for this year is to have an average of 7 hours of sleep throughout the year. I had a similar goal last year and more or less achieved it for the first half of the year. Second half I struggled miserably and it is quite evident that I didn’t hit the target. Also, I’m yet to find a sustainable way to track sleep that gives me better insight without using a wearable. I’m looking at ways to track it using my phone usage or by manual entries.
🚴Cycling
The goal for 2023 is to ride 4000 km in Delhi and complete a few 200 km rides in and around Delhi. I’ve kept the goal quite realistic as I’m in a new city where winters and summers are extreme.
Also, the lack of community so far and the air pollution have bothered me a lot in Delhi. Last year the goal was to ride 6000 km and even with no serious cycling in the last quarter of the year due to relocation, I ended the year with 5,642 which was quite close to the goal I had set. Another goal was to complete 200 and 300 BRMs which are self-supported time-based cycling events. But to my surprise, last year I did 200, 300, 400, and 600 km rides to become a super randonneur, something I never anticipated. I really pushed my limits for this and was super happy about the same.
🏃♂ Running
My goal for 2023 is to run a total of 600 km and complete a half marathon. Last year there was no tangible goal in terms of kilometers but there was a 10km goal that I achieved in March. This year I’m setting my standards high with hopes of consistent running and my first-ever half marathon.
🏊♂ Swimming
The goal for 2023 is to at least swim once a week and clock at least 30 km of swimming distances by the end of the year. The goal for last year was to achieve a fitness to swim 800kms continuously, but that never happened and I could achieve a fitness to swim only 250 meters max. My swimming also took a toll due to the winters in Delhi and the access to pools. I will have to start from square one to achieve this goal.
🧘♂Meditation
In 2023 the goal is to remaster the art of meditation and end the year with at least 220 mindful days with at least 10 minutes of meditation. The goal is to immediately start meditation first thing in the morning when I wake up such that I don’t postpone it further. I had 110 mindful days in 2022 on the Waking Up app. which was even lower than in 2021. If time persists, I would love to do a silent retreat for a few days or something like Vipassana in 2023.
⏲ Fasting
The goal for 2023 is to fast for a total of 4000 hours which was calculated by assuming five 16-hour fasts in a week. Last year the target was 4500 but I failed to track it and logged only 2100 hours of fasting. I even set up an NFC sticker-based easy tap system to log in to my fasting on the Zero app but failed to cultivate a habit for the same. The goal for this year is to be more consistent in terms of logging and I’m tracking the same on my journal as well.
🍲 Diet
The goal for 2023 is to have 65% or more days with less than 200 calorie consumption. There were no tangible goals in 2022 in terms of diet and I failed quite a bit. Another goal also this year is to have a well-balanced protein-rich diet on training days at least.
🍺 Alcohol
It’s very hard to have a tangible goal for this but I’ve set a monetary goal of a maximum of 15,000 INR (~$180) spent on alcohol this year. As with diet, there was no tangible goal last year the goal was to just drink as much less as possible. Even though I sort of achieved it for a major part of the year, the goal fell apart when I moved to Delhi and had those long weekends. The goal for this year is to have no compromise on weekends or sleep due to alcohol and preserve as much precious time as possible.
💻 Programming
In terms of programming, I felt like I had too much on my plate and my focus was all over the place. The goal for 2023 is to master Python and brush my skills further by completing all exercises on Exercism and a full-stack Python Bootcamp. I also want to gain more AI/ML skill sets this year as I see my career moving in that direction. Since I work in the field of energy and power system modeling, I also want to learn PyPSA, TIMES, and other modeling tools to enhance my skillsets. If time permits, learning processing is also part of the plan. Another project that is currently in work is the migration of my current WordPress blog into a static one using Hugo.
2022 was a complete failure in terms of art. The goal was to complete 3 art projects but I couldn’t even complete one. 2022 saw a decline in the number of photographs I’ve taken and I really want to work on that. In 2023, I want to click more photos, go on photo walks, and complete at least 2 photography projects by the year’s end. When I mean complete, I want it to be compiled and published on my portfolio website.
📰 Newsletter
The goal for 2023 is to hit a target of 4000 subscribers by the end of the year and explore ways to go paid by the end of the year with a solid plan for 2024. In 2022, my goal was hitting 2000 subscribers, and to my surprise even without being consistent, I hit my target in October itself. If I hadn’t been lazy, I would’ve ended the year with 2500 subscribers conservatively. I wanted an ambitious goal for this year and thus the target of gaining close to 1700 subscribers this year. I’ve found that cross-promotion works best for increasing your subscriber base. So if you’re a newsletter writer, happy to collaborate with you!
✍ Blogging
I ended 2022 with just 9 articles and didn’t even achieve half of the target of 30 articles I had set for the year. In 2023, I want to be more practical and publish more meaningful content and I aim to publish 20 blog posts by the end of the year.
Reading also took quite a toll in 2022 where I read only 22 books against the target of 45. Even though setting a number in terms of reading is absurd, it sets the tone for the year and I aim to read 30 books by the end of the year.
💸 Side Hustles
The goal for last year was to earn a minimum of 50000 INR (~ $670) per month from the side hustles by the end of the year. As the year came to a close, my maximum earning month was one in which the newsletter generated close to 25000 INR (~ $330) in revenue. Rather than a monthly goal, the goal for 2023 is to generate a total passive income of 3,60,000 INR (~ $4300) by the end of 2022. This I feel is quite realistic and I hope to achieve it by the year’s end.
💰 Emergency Fund
One goal I had for 2022 was to create a buffer for myself in case of any emergency such that I can survive for 6 months. Even though I was able to achieve it, I had to spend it due to some home renovations, travel, and relocation. I want to be very strict on this and I aim to set up an emergency fund of at least 3 months by end of 2023.
💰 Investment Portfolio Risk Management
Last year the goal was to reduce the exposure of crypto in my portfolio by 20% and invest more in debt/index and retirement funds. I achieved this goal successfully and my crypto allocation is standing at 18% of my total allocation. This year the goal is to reduce my crypto exposure to less than 10% and have at least 20% of assets as cash for liquidity.
💭 Other Objectives
Apart from these main objectives, some other plans I have for this year are:
To get married by end of 2023.
Create a sustainable training plan for my long-term goal of participating in a triathlon.
Move to Europe/America/Dubai and create opportunities or gain skillsets to achieve this in terms of career.
Travel very less nationally/internationally and save as much money as possible.
Publish at least one peer-reviewed paper in a journal or conference.
Reduce my screen time and addiction to my smartphone, which feels like an eternal quest.
As said in the introduction, I had too much on my plate in 2022 and felt out of focus most of the times. This year I want to avoid that and move on with more clarity. Contrary to the beginning of 2022, I’m in a much better head space in terms of career and life direction. It’s all about consistent execution this year and I hope to write a much more positive and happy report in 2024.
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More Impact Online”: The ASA looks to the future with strengthened focus on regulating online ads and the potential use of machine learning to aid regulation
The ASA’s strategy
In November 2018, the Advertising Standards Authority (“ASA”) released its latest five-year corporate strategy vision, outlining its plans, aims and focus over the next five years (the “Strategy”). We have picked out below some of the more interesting objectives and commitments made by the ASA, which are likely to be of interest to brand owners and advertisers across the industry, as well as looking a bit more closely at some ways in which the ASA may realise its aim of using new technologies to improve regulation and enforcement.
Online focus
The headline statement of the Strategy is a renewed and strengthened focus on the regulation of online advertising. No reader will be surprised to learn that an increasing number of brands will be focusing their advertising spend on the online market – and given the meteoric ongoing rise of programmatic advertising – this trend is undoubtedly set to continue. In terms of regulation, the ASA’s figures back this point up, with the vast majority (88%) of the 7,099 ads amended or withdrawn following ASA action in 2017 being online ads. Similarly, over two third of all the cases resolved by the ASA last year were regarding ads that appeared online.
Online advertising has long been seen as a bit of a “wild west” in terms of regulation and we will all have personal experience of seeing misleading, incorrect and potentially offensive or harmful advertising when browsing online. With the vast consumption of media taking place online across multiple devices and in new and immersive ways, it makes sense that the ASA should redouble its attention to protect us in the online sphere. But in a world where advertising or promotional content can be created and uploaded by anyone within seconds to a national or global audience, how can the ASA go about ensuring it is fair, responsible and not harmful? And equally importantly how can it ensure it is addressed, amended or removed in good time?
Another of the key strands for the Strategy will be getting the “buy-in” of both the public and the industry. The ASA will be seeking to work a lot more closely with the “large online platforms”, invite their engagement and collaboratively explore ways to ensure advertising compliance. It remains to be seen exactly how this will work, but the goal at least appears to make sense, both from a technological and practical context.
We have seen recently – particularly in the context of targeting – both the ASA and advertisers under investigation relying on or referring to tools, statistics and data from the likes of YouTube as part of the analysis of the ad in question – be it the ad’s viewership, exposure, tagging etc. If the ASA can work more closely with platforms such as YouTube, it is hoped the result is that – through new technology and tools – brands and ad agencies will be able to more effectively tailor and direct videos to their intended audiences. However, particularly with platforms such as YouTube where there is no requirement to “sign-in” to watch a video (and therefore YouTube has no data about, for example, the age of the viewer) – it appears that ads unsuitable for children may continue to be viewed by them in this context.
Platforms engaging with, and addressing, regulation is something which has already happened with other social media giants such as Instagram, whereby functionality now exists during the process of uploading content to allow brands and other users to identify such content as paid for advertising, using a check-box tool. This has helped to in some way address the regulatory issue of clearly labelling content as paid-for – where ensuring an ad is labelled prior to a user engaging with it is not always technologically straightforward. This is a classic example of technology adapting to incorporate regulation – something which the ASA will be keen to continue to promote.
As well as achieving the engagement of the giant social media platforms, the ASA also stresses the importance of getting small business and indeed social media influencers themselves on board. Much work has already been done in this area, including the ASA’s recent guidance – prepared to educate influencers and raise awareness of the potential issues and pitfalls to avoid when advertising both on behalf of themselves and when promoting brands by way of paid-for content. The ASA hopes this engagement will assist in educating the content creators and pro-actively reduce the number of misleading or irresponsible ads appearing online.
One of the key challenges facing the ASA in an online context will always be enforcement – or rather effective, prompt enforcement. The Strategy looks to explore the ASA’s “decision making processes and governance”, to, “simplify our regulation” and to ensure the ASA acts, “more nimbly”. Given the instant nature of the online world, the ASA’s procedures will need to be streamlined to ensure that an ad can be identified, investigated and if necessary removed or amended within a relatively short timeframe. There is reduced worth in an online advertiser being told to remove an ad many months after it has been promoted to the public, garnered attention and “gone viral” – potentially causing harm and offence along the way while generating significant publicity for the brand. To that end, as discussed below, the ASA will be looking to target the ads that matter most to the public and to ensure cases are dealt with and resolved more rapidly to maintain confidence and ensure the enforcement is effective.
The nature of the investigative process means that enforcement and removal are never going to be in real-time and there is always likely to be a delay. However, if the timeframes can be streamlined and reduced then it will undoubtedly assist in making the ASA more visibly effective.
Ad regulation and machine learning
Interestingly, the ASA has also set out in its Strategy a desire to explore how machine learning could improve its regulation. Although this is a broad and fairly vague commitment at this stage, it is no different to what corporates in all industries have been doing of late – i.e. assessing how efficiencies and improvements can be achieved through exploitation of new technologies such as “AI” or machine learning.
Elsewhere in the Strategy there are further hints as to how the ASA may utilise the latest technological developments to aid its cause. For example, there is an indication that some form of machine learning will be used to pore over and analyse social media “chatter” in order to identify and assess what irresponsible advertisements are causing a stir. This is a specific example, but more broadly the Strategy talks of “more technological tools (including machine learning)” that will assist in trawling the web to identify non-compliant advertising – thus enabling the ASA to, for example, root out scams earlier for referral to other statutory regulators.
The ASA also plans to use “data driven intelligence gathering” in order to assess which ads to target with enforcement action – i.e. which mean most to people and which are likely to have the biggest or most harmful impact. This will enable the ASA to better prioritise and focus its resources on those ads that matter most. What form this intelligence gathering takes remains to be seen, but it appears the targeted approach at the most impactful ads would be a deviation from the ASA’s previous remit of addressing each and every complaint with at least some form of action.
It is difficult to see how machine learning may impact on the regulation itself in terms of decision-making and enforcement. Given the inherently subjective nature of any decision and the scope for interpretation of the CAP Code – as well as the need to consider and interpret arguments and data provided by both the complainant and the advertiser – it is difficult to see what part machine learning may play. As a supplementary tool however, it is easy to see how it could assist in the data gathering process in order to identify inappropriate ads, make the most efficient use of ASA resources and to achieve the most prompt outcome.
Inappropriate targeting
Data, its value and importance are inextricably linked with advertising in the modern day. The very functioning of programmatic and other online advertising is built on a wealth of data about consumers. As such it makes sense that the ASA is also intending to increase its work with the ICO and to have more meaningful input into the use of data for “data-driven marketing”. With targeted advertising becoming ever more sophisticated and with the wealth of enriched data that advertisers now have access to – it is easy to see why inappropriate targeting will be firmly on the ASA’s agenda. The significant number of ASA adjudications in the past year surrounding ads inappropriately targeted at children (e.g. pre-rolls prior to a YouTube video for kids, or as banners or pop-ups as part of a child-focused website) are likely to continue as the ASA redoubles its efforts in this area – with a particular focus stated in the Strategy on protecting children and other vulnerable sectors of society.
What does this mean for brands and advertisers?
At Bristows we regularly advise client brands and ad agencies on the interpretation of the CAP Code and how best to ensure compliance while retaining the artistic aim or purpose of an ad. In terms of the effect of the Strategy for such clients – given the nature of the document, the plans involved are long term and therefore no immediate changes are expected. While we can expect to see greater focus and enforcement by the ASA in targeting online ads, it remains to be seen how its processes and tools will evolve to meet this significant challenge. We will follow further updates from the ASA in this area with interest.
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UNEXPECTED Max Schenzel pleads guilty to another felony, also guilty of probation violation
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It appears as though Unexpected dad Max Schenzel’s ability to continually skirt the law with little repercussion has finally reached its limits. The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to a felony earlier this month and is scheduled for sentencing in late May. The guilty plea also triggered an automatic probation violation from his previous felony theft conviction in December of 2018. That hearing is scheduled for the same time as his new sentencing.
According to court documents, Max pleaded guilty to a felony count of Unlawful Use of Means of Transportation on April 1. The charge stems from an incident on February 26 when a man called police to report that Max had stolen his vehicle. A second call to police was later made reporting that Max was in another vehicle that also wasn’t his.
Max reportedly tried to run from the police, and as he was being handcuffed, he allegedly tried to kick an officer in the groin. Max was facing four felony counts when he was initially booked. In addition to Unlawful Use of Means of Transportation, he was also charged with Aggravated Assault on an Officer, Resisting Arrest, and Theft. Prosecutors dropped all but the single class 5 felony count of Unlawful Use of Means of Transportation prior to Max pleading guilty.
In a bit of good fortune for Max, the owner of the second vehicle did not want to press charges.
According to PhillipsLaw.com, a class 5 felony in Arizona has a presumptive sentence of 1.5 years.
Until his sentencing and probation violation disposition hearing in late May, Max is under the supervision of Pretrial services, “to include drug monitoring, alcohol monitoring and electronic monitoring.”
Max is also still facing two separate assault charges stemming from altercations with Chloe Mendoza in December and February. There is a pre-trial conference scheduled for both cases later this week.
UPDATE – Max’s assault cases have been continued until June.
Max has all but vanished from social media over the past month. Just prior to his arrest for auto theft, Max shared a YouTube video answering fan questions. “I don’t belong in jail,” he stated at one point in the video. “I’m a good father to the point where I’m not hanging around the wrong people getting high,” he insisted. “The only time I mess up or do drugs or break the law is when I’m around my old friends that break the law.”
Five days after posting the video, Max was arrested for Unlawful Use of Means of Transportation.
I would assume that Max will FINALLY be spending a good amount of time behind bars. But, given his propensity for avoiding jail time, combined with the current incarceration issues due to the coronavirus, he might be able to avoid it once again. We will continue to monitor the case and will be sure to update after his sentencing.
Asa Hawks is a writer and editor for Starcasm. You can contact Asa via Twitter, Facebook, or email at starcasmtips(at)yahoo.com
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Ken Block Net Worth 2023 – Bio, Career, Wife, Death News
January 5, 2023 by DRFreport Editor
Ken Block Net Worth 2023: Pro rally driver, a big name in the world of action sports and co-founder of DC Shoes, Kenneth Paul Block, better known as Ken Block, has passed away in a snowmobile accident near his home in USA on 2 January 2023. We are going to tell you about Ken Block’s personal and professional life today in this page. Ken Block was an American rally driver from the United States. He began his National rallying career in 2005 with the Vermont Sports Car squad.
His first rallying event of the season, where he finished seventh overall and sixth in the Group N class. He was named Rally America Rookie of the Year at the completion of his debut rallying season. Before he died in 2 January 2023, Ken Block had an estimated net worth of $200 million. Here in this page now we will tell you about Ken Block Net Worth 2023, Ken Block’s Biography, Career of Ken Block, Ken Block’s Wife and Death News of Ken Block.
1 Who was Ken Block?
2 Ken Block Wiki/Biography 2023 Details
3 Ken Block Net Worth 2023
4 Career of Ken Block
5 Ken Block’s Wife/ Kids
6 Death News of Ken Block
Who was Ken Block?
Ken Block was born on 21 November 1967 in United States. His parents name has not been made public yet. Ken Block aspired to be an architect as a kid, he enjoyed drawing. Ken Block also enjoyed extreme activities such as skateboarding and dirt bike riding. Growing up in California, he had the resources he needed to pursue both of his loves.
He was a well-known rally driver and participated in various sports like snowboarding, ATV etc. as well as made the famous video series. Ken Block also entered into a partnership with Audi and made stunt videos with the company’s electric Audi cars and Porsche race cars.
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Ken Block Wiki/Biography 2023 Details
Name Kenneth Paul Block
Known as Ken Block
DOB November 21, 1967
Date of death January 2, 2023
Age at death 55
Cause of death Road accident
Profession Professional Rally driver, Businessman.
Ken Block Net Worth 2023
Ken Block’s net worth has been estimated to be around $200 million and repots suggest that he had a $200 million fortune in 2012 but that this had gone by up to half by 2023. He had owned an extensive car collection and at least two large properties. Ken Block’s main home was in Park City, Utah, while he also had a house in Rancho Santa Fe, California. His wealth came mainly from his rallying career and the 2 companies he co-owned, DC Shoes and motor apparel brand Hoonigan Industries. And viewers are already interested in knowing him, but now suddenly the whole world is looking for Ken Block Death.
The whole social network is full of Death News of Ken Block. Some want to know about Ken Block’s personal life, on this page, we have discussed his personal and professional life, including his Biography, career, family, Death, Cause of Death, and Tv Shows, sister, father, mother, lifestyle, wife, and much more.
Career of Ken Block
Ken Block began his rallying career in 2005 and was named Rookie of the Year in RAC. Ken Block competed in the WRC and won several rallycross medals. He competed in the X Games XIII rally event in 2007, finishing second overall and earning a silver medal. Then he made an appearance on the driving show Top Gear. Gymkhana 2, a popular YouTube video, was recorded by Ken Block.
He finished third in the Norway round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship and first in the European Rallycross Championship in 2014. He opted to race full-time in the World Rallycross Championship in 2016. In 2017, Ken Block finished ninth in points, with top finishes of seventh in Britain and seventh in France.
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Ken Block’s Wife/ Kids
Ken Block, a professional rally driver, was married to Lucy Block on 10 July 2004. They dated for many years before getting married. His wife is also a rally racer and has raced alongside her husband. The couple lived together for 15 years.
They have three children, his daughter Lia block is 16 years old. Ken Block wanted his wife and kids to be part of sports, so he scheduled a racing with them. Ken Block always made sure to protect the privacy of his wife and kids.
Death News of Ken Block
Ken Block died in a snowmobile accident near his ranch in Park City, Utah, on the afternoon of 2 January 2023. According to police, he was riding the snowmobile down a steep slope when the vehicle upended and landed on top of him.
Ken Block was riding in a group, but was alone when the accident happened and died at the age of 55. Ken Block was confirmed dead at the spot after a search and rescue team discovered his party in the extreme weather.
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ST. LOUIS -- In short order, the Dallas Stars went from embarrassed to triumphant.
Cody Eakin scored at 2:58 of overtime and the Stars beat the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Thursday night, bouncing back smartly from a blowout loss two days earlier to tie the second-round series at two games apiece.
"I said, 'It's time for us to man up,' and I thought we did," coach Lindy Ruff said. "I thought our leaders were our leaders."
Patrick Sharp set up the winner and also scored for the Stars, coming off a 6-1 loss in Game 3. Rookie Radek Faksa had the other goal, his third of the postseason.
"I know it was ugly for a lot of the guys and the team in general for Game 3," Sharp said. "Credit to the team, we were able to put it behind us."
Vladimir Tarasenko scored his sixth goal of the playoffs on a first-period breakaway and added an assist for St. Louis, giving him five points in the last two games. Paul Stastny had his first of the postseason with a deflection from Tarasenko.
The Stars, who finished first overall in the Western Conference, regained home-ice advantage heading into Game 5 on Saturday in Dallas.
"It doesn't matter if we're in Dallas, if we're in St. Louis, if we're in the middle of nowhere," Blues captain David Backes said. "We've got to play our same style of game, put it out there and when we do that the chips fall on our side of the table more often than not."
Eakin has a goal and seven assists in the postseason and hustled to get into position on the deciding score. He beat Brian Elliott on a 3-on-2 break after getting a stick on Jori Lehtera's shot in tight on the other end against Kari Lehtonen.
"That's the nice thing about finishing first, we've got home-court advantage back," Eakin said. "It's a race to two, and it's going to be a lot of fun."
The Stars are 1-2 in overtime in the playoffs and the Blues are 2-2.
Dallas is 5-1 with Lehtonen, who made 24 saves, in the playoffs. Ruff also has used Antti Niemi extensively, and joked about the daily controversy.
"Now, we've got a decision to make next game with these two goalies," Ruff said.
Elliott stopped 25 shots for St. Louis and thought he was in good position on the winner.
"It almost looks like it goes on the outside of the net and in, that's how close it was," Elliott said. "Just regroup and go take a game from their barn."
Tarasenko's goal was an exception to the rule in a tight-checking first period. Somehow he found the defense napping and scored his 16th career goal in 24 playoff games, beating Lehtonen between the pads.
The Stars looked worse on the play given they had six men on the ice, an infraction that went undetected.
"We still couldn't defend Tarasenko, which is kind of ironic," Ruff said. "But that was my mistake.That was on me."
Faksa, who had the deciding goal in the Stars' Game 1 victory, tied it on an unassisted goal off a giveaway by fellow rookie Joel Edmundson. Sharp had a tap-in for his first point of the series on a power play off an assist by Jamie Benn, giving the Stars two goals in 1:09 and the lead.
They'd been 0 for 12 with the man advantage before Sharp's fourth of the playoffs overall.
Edmundson played sparingly the rest of the period, totaling 2:38 in four shifts. He totaled 10:39, by far the fewest among the Blues' defensemen.
"I don't want to get into going after a guy. Wrong time to do it," coach Ken Hitchcock said. "Young player, they're going to make mistakes."
Stastny's first goal of the playoffs on a deflection from Tarasenko tied it on a 4-on-3 power play at 13:06 of the second.
NOTES: Tarasenko leads the Blues with 11 points in the postseason. ... F Colton Sceviour, who scored the Stars' lone goal in Game 3, was among their scratches along with F Curtis McKenzie, who was pummeled by Ryan Reaves late in Game 3. Brett Richie played for the first time in the postseason, and Valeri Nichushkin played in his seventh game. ... The Blues have been outscored 14-7 in the second period in the playoffs. ... Several Cardinals players attended the game, including Yadier Molina and Carlos Martinez. ... The Blues raised funds from a 50-50 raffle for victims of the Fort McMurray, Alberta, wildfires. ... Hitchcock has 82 playoff victories, tied with Mike Babcock and Toe Blake for ninth on the career list.
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Being a Graduate with International Relations Degree: What You Can Become
Are you interested in pursuing an international relations degree? This study field has become more and more popular today, especially with the number of global events that also have an impact in political, economic, cultural, and social life. Not only is this an attractive discipline, it is also broad and versatile. Pursuing this degree will provide great insights on laws, public policies, social issues, political affairs, and economic trends, in which everything’s linked together to create the big picture. Even so, it’s also understandable if this becomes your concern: your career prospects.
Career Prospects for International Relations Degree
Opportunities in government and politics.
With this degree, you can pursue a career in the government sector, especially foreign services career at national level. Or you can opt for joining the diplomacy department if you’ve got knowledge about other countries, including their language, culture, political environment, and so on. Other options you can consider when working in the government sector with a degree in international relations also include intelligence specialist (in the navy, the military, or security departments) and political analyst (as researchers; the opportunities are also within research institutes or media companies).
Opportunities in international law and business.
Being a lobbyist is also another career opportunity as someone with international relations degree. Lobbyists are hired to convince members of government institution so they’d make a decision to benefit the organization represented. Alternatively, you can also work as an international lawyer, be it in the government sectors, corporations, or even non-profit organizations. There are various issues the international lawyers will need to deal with, such as finance, banking, and trade law.
Opportunities in a non-profit organization.
You can also work to improve the welfare of the society with this degree. Join the non-profit organizations operating on the international level so you’ll get the chance to shape your career with opportunities to travel to other countries.
Graduates from international relations major often impress many employers due to the qualities they possess, such as the extensive knowledge and interdisciplinary skills. In addition to that, they also often demonstrate an exceptional communication and language abilities. This is why graduating an international relations degree may open up a vast opportunity to pursue career in various fields, such as journalism, economics, or research analysis. This is why you should also develop the set of skill during your study, such as learning foreign languages, communication skills, problem-solving skills, and negotiation and persuasion abilities.


PayPal Announces New Employee Inducement Grants
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced it has granted equity awards on January 15, 2023, under its 2022 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan") to new employees who joined PayPal. The grants were previously approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of PayPal Holdings, Inc. Information regarding the equity awards can be found on the company's investor relations website at: https://investor.pypl.com/news-and-events/news/
PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 430 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com.
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Pete Rock Returns With 'One, Two, A Few More' & A New Album
By Ivory
This is clearly the season of comebacks. Who could forget that after 15 long years, D'Angelo finally graced us with his long-awaited follow-up Black Messiah. Well, it seems that artists are waking up out of their slumbers to bring new music to the masses. DJ/producer Pete Rock is the latest to get in on the fun with the announcement of his upcoming Petestrumentals 2 album, set to hit stores June 23rd. Though he's released several projects in recent years, fans of his 2001 album Petestrumentals have been anxiously awaiting the follow-up to the project.
The first single from the album, "One, Two, A Few More," premiered yesterday via The FADER. According to Pete, the song, in addition to some of the other songs from the album, are old beats that have been sitting in his vault. "'One, Two, A Few More' is actually a beat I made in 1995 and just sat on for years for the right moment," he explained in a statement. "Now, I get a chance to release this and new and unreleased music never heard by my fans with Mello (Music Group)." Pete is hopeful that the album inspires fans to keep striving for success. Meanwhile, I am hoping that this trend of long-awaited returns keeps going. (Yes, I'm looking at you Dr. Dre, Lauryn Hill and Maxwell.)
Petestrumentals 2 is available for pre-order via iTunes, Mello Music Group's website and on vinyl.
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600 Booksellers Unite To Pull 4 Million Titles Off AbeBooks As Platform Relents To Protest
VICTORIA, CANADA — Antiquarian booksellers triumphantly united against bookselling giant AbeBooks this week after the retail platform said it was going to drop five countries from selling on the platform. Aghast at the company’s decision, more than 600 booksellers from 27 countries pulled more than 4 million titles from the website’s inventory in what they dubbed “Banned Booksellers Week.” AbeBooks, which is owned by Amazon, relented after only two days, reversing their decision and apologizing for it.
Conflict arose when AbeBooks issued a statement in October saying they were going to drop all sellers from South Korea, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia without any further explanation. Once word crept around and a further explanation demanded, the company released a statement that said, “our third-party payment service provider is closing at the end of the year.”
That was not a good enough excuse for booksellers all over the world, who remain a tight-knit community. The company faced a deluge of criticism, including from major bookselling organizations such as the London Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, which pledged to drop AbeBooks as a sponsor of its 2019 book fair.
Meanwhile, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) remained neutral on the issue before and during the protest, releasing a statement saying, “While the ABAA acknowledges Abe’s authority to manage its subscriber base, the Association was dismayed at the seemingly abrupt and peremptory manner in which this authority was exercised.”
According to the New York Times, “The matter was apparently resolved when Sally Burdon, an Australian bookseller who is president of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, spoke with Arkady Vitrouk, chief executive of AbeBooks. In a Wednesday email to her members after their talk, Ms Burdon said Mr Vitrouk apologized for the platform’s behavior ‘a number of times’ and said booksellers in the affected countries would not be dropped as scheduled on Nov. 30.”
“I share my colleagues’ relief at a speedy resolution to the issue, and Abe’s decision to allow the booksellers in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Poland and South Korea to able to continue business on the Abe platform,” ABAA president Vic Zoschak told Antiques and the Arts Weekly.
“I think this particular issue, and its resolution, has brought the two parties closer together, with a greater appreciation of each sides’ concerns,” Zoschak continued. “Time will tell whether my view is accurate.”
Flares between dealers and online selling platforms have popped up regularly in recent years. A dealer-led protest against antique and art retail platform 1stDibs in 2016 came after an increase in seller fees. It remains to be seen if the success of the antiquarian booksellers will alter the discourse between dealers and selling platforms moving forward.
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