Harvey J Graff

You won’t read this in the Columbus Dispatch or hear it on WOSU. NBC Channel 4 misreported this story on Oct. 17, either purposefully or ignorantly by their “investigative reporter, who doesn’t’ actually investigate. But as usual, truth speaks far more loudly and clearly than either than silence or distortion.

The issue in question is important to all Ohio taxpayer, students and supporters of public higher education, and to at least some Buckeyes. This compelling matter is the tricky question of six-year university graduation rates, what drives them, and what they mean. A more complicated problem than the seemingly simple percentages appear to signify, understanding them is like peeling a piece of fruit’s layers of skin.

Woman walking and looking behind her

From a mountain peak in South Korea, Soo-wan (Go Kyung-Pyo), a businessman, plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae (Tang Wei) may know more than she initially lets on. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, Hae-joon finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire, proving that the darkest mysteries lurk inside the human heart.

Set against a contrasting backdrop of mountains and seas, "Decision To Leave" captures the tension of a police investigation while simultaneously being focused on the changing psychology of a man and a woman. The film begins with the detective Hae-joon investigating the death of a man who fell from a mountaintop. The character is similar to the police character Martin Beck from the Swedish detective novel series.

Exit poll tablet

October 24, 2022

Presidential Election in 2020

Unadjusted Exit Poll (UEP) analysis of the 2020 US Presidential and Senate elections shows the same “red-shift” pattern of Republican favoring discrepancies from Unadjusted Exit Polls (UEPs) particularly in battleground states that has prevailed in every general US Presidential election since 2004.[1]

UEPs are samples of voter responses taken after they vote in-person or by absentee ballot. These are obtained from screen shots of exit polls reported by US media right before, or soon after, polls close, and include UEP candidate vote shares and sample sizes. These differ from the exit polls that are adjusted to match official election results, or Adjusted Exit Poll (AEP) candidate vote shares and sample sizes, that are widely reported in US media.

Protest about voting rights

Thursday, October 27, from 2 p.m to 3 p.m. ET
Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E. Broad St. in Columbus  
Faith leaders from across Ohio will gather at and march to Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office at 22 N. 4th St. to hold a prayer vigil for democracy. 

The midterm election is just around the cornerAs you read this, more than 900,000 Ohioans have requested absentee ballots or voted early with millions more preparing to in the days ahead. When they do, faith leaders must do everything in our power to ensure votes are cast safely and that the results determined by the people get certified. That means showing up.

In Ohio we’ve been witness to a growing tide of white Christian nationalism undermining our democracy by spreading disinformation and threatening violence against historically marginalized groups. We’ve seen corrupt leaders draw unfair and unconstitutional legislative maps that deprive voters of their power to vote for communities where everyone can thrive. All the while threats against poll workers and election workers erode public trust and a sense of safety in voting and election outcomes.

US President Donald Trump's so-called 'Deal of the Century' was meant to represent a finality of sorts, an event reminiscent of Francis Fukuyama’s premature declaration of the 'End of History' and the uncontested supremacy of western capitalism. In effect, it was a declaration that 'we' - the US, Israel and a few allies - have won, and 'you', isolated and marginalized Palestinians, lost.

 The same way Fukuyama failed to consider the unceasing evolution of history, the US and Israeli governments also failed to understand that the Middle East, in fact, the world, is not governed by Israeli expectations and American diktats. 

It’s fascinating how “interests” interfere with survival. We prepare for — and, of course, wage — war with an overwhelming percentage of our resources (to the benefit of the profiteers), but we plead poverty when it comes to helping people or, you know, saving the planet.

Humanity! The species of global techno-dominance. We’re always at war with ourselves and, indeed, willing to annihilate the whole planet (only if necessary, of course) in order to maintain our security. That’s why we have to keep upgrading our nuclear arsenal. We . . . rather, “we,” by which I mean those in charge and those securely caged in the us-vs.-them illusion . . . live in half a world: the world subdued and defined by our dominance. We call it civilization. Even though this world appears to be nearing the end of its run — as the ice melts, as the storms intensify and the wildfires rage, as the ecosystem gasps — we keep on keeping on, doing what we do. It’s just who we are.

OSU Medical Center

Note: This essay in based completely on public records.

Part One

Scientific misconduct charges at Ohio State University (OSU) expose systemic misconduct, indeed institutional malpractice, of the institution itself.

In 2011, Purdue University medical researcher David A Sanders, PhD, informed the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) and the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) that he was accusing Dr. Carlo Croce’s lab of scientific misconduct. OSU’s ORI closed the investigation in 2015 and concluded there was no misconduct. The charges were re-opened in 2017 after an article about Dr Carlo Croce in the New York Times accused him of misconduct, again with many quotes by David A Sanders.

OSU referred the accusations to a committee known as COMIC that focused their investigation on two female researchers in the Croce lab: Drs. Garofalo and Pichiorri. They had left OSUMC in 2014 and 2016 for positions in England and Los Angeles, respectively.

Dewine face

To keep the general election season entertaining, the anti-DeWine PAC Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines has released its final quirky political ad of the election season called “Everybody Hates Mike,” a 1950s-style jingle that takes on Governor Mike DeWine for ruling over Ohioans like a “tiny tyrant who no one likes.”

We first pose to him the hope to remove the statue of General George McClellan from the streets of DC, and for official recognition of Sally Hemings as the third First Lady of the United States.

We hear from MIKE HERSH about the details of Rep. Raskin’s great career.

Rep. Raskin then lays out the case for federal criminal prosecution against Donald Trump.

Our own JOEL SEGAL tells of his long-standing friendship with Rep. Raskin, and then asks critical legal questions on prosecuting Trump and on preserving our democracy.

RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP gives us a critical presentation of the desperate need to shift the Democratic Party to becoming an actual democracy organization with a shift to grassroots organizing.  

McClendon underscores the need to stop pouring millions of donor dollars into media advertising and switch to establishing the kind of GOTV / person-to-person campaigning that won the “Georgia Miracle” in 2021, shifting control of the US Senate.

BRYNN TANNEHILL informs the Rep. on the plight of trans citizens under Republican regimes.

Lights on the stage at the concert

Turnstile’s sold-out Kemba Live show had me realizing that an all ages venue will start their show on time because teenagers can’t stay out late. I arrived at 7pm. Doors were at 6 pm. I placed my keys, iPhone, Beats Flex headphones, wallet in a tray and passed the metal detectors.

Despite Turnstile’s show being sold-out, the metal detector lady was ready before I had emptied my pockets.

JPG Mafia had already taken the stage in receiving a response while performing, “Jesus Forgive, I am a Thot.” JPG Mafia is a LA rapper via Baltimore.

I suppose JPG Mafia is a rapper. His music sounds like if KID 606 went short attention span Glitch-Hop with tempos in which a Death Grips fan would say: “I haven’t heard of New Kingdom or Divine Styler but someone else probably did, and I’m nodding my head.”

They sound like you removed 95 percent of the guitars from industrial music and learned rap from Miami Bass and Anti-Pop Consortium. I walked around because the venue was packed, and I did this thing where I stood in every possible corner before deciding where I was standing.

I felt bad because walking around could be distracting for fans.

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