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Douglas Neckers: The disturbing history of chemical weapons – HollandSentinel.com

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All weapons of war are awful guns, bombs, bayonets, even arrows from bows whenever one of these is fired, no good can come to the person on the other end.

But war is war. The mortal hate that marks it means opposing armies will use everything at their disposal in quests of victory over the enemy. So that Putin might use chemical weapons in the Ukraine was taken seriously by the Allies. The compounds sarin and tabun probably have never been used in battle, but are so toxic that micro quantities kill humans.

The Germans made tons of both at three different sites in the 1940s, and considered using them. But Hitler wouldnt give his approval.Society is terribly ignorant, it seems, and if the kinds of drugs that were peddled to everyone including the former president of the United States to treat COVID-19 are any indications, the general awareness of the people toward chemical things hasnt improved. Hitler wasnt chemically more aware, but he surmised that if he had supplies of nerve agents, his enemies would have larger stashes.

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In war making with chemicals, most everyone knows the Germans introduced waves of chlorine gas over the battle fields at Ypres in Belgium in April 1915 and that most combatants used mustard gas and phosgene during World War I. Less known perhaps was a much more toxic mustard gas analog, Lewisite, so-called "dew of death" that was never used.

Lewisite had an impressive academic profile the reaction to make it was discovered by Father Julius Nieuwland later at Notre Dame, where he probably gained more fame as Knute Rocknes chemistry instructor than from the reaction of arsenic trichloride with acetylene. The toxic substance in that mix was identified by Northwestern University professor Winfred Lewis and manufactured by the U.S. chemical corps at the former Ben Hur automobile site near Willoughby, Ohio, under the direction of James Bryant Conant, later the president of Harvard. As 1918 was winding down, tons of Lewisite were shipped east by rail through Corry, Pennsylvania, where I was born and up over the mountains to Baltimore where it was loaded on vessels headed for France. The War ended so the Lewisite was dumped in the ocean.

The late Professor Paul Fried of Hopes history department knew I was a chemistry major when I took his European history course as a senior, and he urged me to study chemical weapons by the medium of a former day the ubiquitous semester ending "term paper." Fried assigned term paper topics in his classes and because he knew I was to become a chemist, he assigned me to write a paper on the chemical organization, I.G. Farben.

Farben was a cartel of 11 companies formed after WWI to do what cartels do control markets, prices, patent positions and distributions. Farben was a WWI reaction by German industry to rebuild after the Versailles treaty had taken the best efforts of its industries in reparations for their causing WWI. Farben aspired to take over the world of chemical manufacturing much as the Nazis saw the Third Reich as lasting 1,000 years. I found one book on Farben in all of Holland, at the Herrick Library (it no longer has it I checked), so I read what I could I understand of the history of I.G. Farben, and most particularly of its involvement in making weapons of mass destruction in German chemical companies. Farben was the topic of Nuremberg trial No. 6, the case of the U.S. v. Karl Krauch et al. and its overriding impact on the chemical industry world wide continued until it was broken up following WWII. From that simple assignment came a lifelong interest in the involvement of chemists in War.

Nerve agents were made in huge quantities by other combatants after they were discovered, and their structures revealed. The U.S. stash of sarin, soman and other agents took German scientists to help us make, and later, to destroy. They have been used occasionally. Once by a Japanese terrorist in the GUM attack on a Tokyo subway; also by Russian operatives on agents in Britain, and last year on Alexei Navalny when Putin agents put a novichok, Russian for "new agent," in his underwear in Siberia.

Chemical weapons treaties were signed by many nations including Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russian scientists who developed the novichok agents claim they are the deadliest ever made, with some variants possibly five to 10 times more potent thansoman. Chemical stocks were to be destroyed and no new compounds found or made. From reports published by a Russian scientist in the 1990s, we found that the chemical structures were only slightly different than other known compounds. And though this has not been officially released, a specific novichok, (Russian for "new agent") of known chemical composition that was not new was used in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny the Putin critic since jailed in Russia for his anti-government politics. Fortunately Navalny was treated in Siberia saving his life; and at the Charite Hospital in Berlin, where he was brought back to normal and released only to be jailed again when he returned to Russia.

Do we expect the Russians will use chemical weapons? No army has been as horrific as the Russian army in Ukraine; and no leadership as brutal. Its impossible to know for sure, but when cornered, Id guess the Russians would. When Fritz Hater, the German scientist that advocated the use of chlorine in Belgium in 1915 was about to depart to the east with armies that would use gas there, his wife chemist Clara Immerwahr tried hard to talk him out of doing so. And when he wouldnt, she took his pistol and shot herself. The conscience of a single spouse, also a chemist, says volumes to the rest of us. Lets hope she really could effect a never, but never, again.

Douglas Neckers, in addition to being a proud Hope alum, is an organic chemist, the McMaster distinguished professor emeritus and the founder of the Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University. He is also a former board chair of the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, N.Y.

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The History of the Long Island Rail Road – Untapped New York

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The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is one of the oldest railways in the United States. It began life as the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road (B&J), which was incorporated in 1832 to serve a 10-mile stretch between the City of Brooklyn and the village of Jamaica. However, while the B&J was still just in the planning stages, the railroads developers had ambitious plans for a train that ran the entire length of Long Island and connected New York to Boston via a ferry from Greenport. It was thought that this route would out-compete the other obvious route through southern Connecticut because that path would have to cross too many wide streams. By contrast, the LIRR does not have to cross any major streams on its way to Greenport.

With the plans in place for an island-spanning railroad, the Long Island Rail Road was chartered in 1834, and the first section between the Brooklyn waterfront and Jamaica opened in 1836. From there, the train tracks expanded eastward, reaching Hicksville in 1837, Deer Park in 1842, and finally Greenport in 1844. Operation between Brooklyn and Greenport began on July 29th, 1844, and reduced the travel time between New York and Boston from nearly fifteen hours down to eleven.

Long Islands relatively easy terrain and close connection to New York City meant that construction was fast and easy. Upon completion, the LIRR was one of the first major railroads in the United States. It started service only a few years after the countrys first railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, commenced, and the system was virtually complete decades before the great railroad tycoons would amass their fortunes in the West. In fact, the name Long Island Rail Road is the oldest continually-used railway company name in the United States.

During the 1850s and 60s, the LIRR competed with other Long Island railways, such as the New York and Flushing (NY&F) and the Central Railroad of Long Island (CRRLI). The NY&F was the LIRRs first competitor, beginning operation in 1854 with a route between Flushing and a ferry terminal in Long Island City. The two companies competed for 13 years until NY&F was bought by the LIRR in 1867, eventually becoming the modern-day Port Washington branch. The Central Railroad of Long Island served many of the local villages in Nassau County that the LIRR bypassed on its way to Greenport, but by 1876 the LIRR had bought this railroad as well.

As the 1870s came to a close, the Long Island Rail Road had eliminated all of its major competitors and formed monopoly control over rail service throughout the peninsula. However, the economic recession of 1893-1897 caused ridership to plummet, and by the end of the 19th century, the LIRR itself was bought by the giant Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The PRR owned thousands of miles of track from Chicago to New York and for a brief period even operated a special express service from Penn Station to Montauk, fully equipped with dining and lounge cars, for wealthy vacationers traveling to the Hamptons.

In 1905, the Pennsylvania Railroad used some of its mammoth fortune to modernize large portions of the Long Island Rail Road through electrification and grade-crossing elimination projects. The following three decades would be the LIRRs high point both in terms of service quality and the extent of track miles. Not only did the Pennsylvania Railroad electrify large sections of the LIRR, withthe New York City-area electrification project being completed in 1913, but PRR also completed major grade-crossing eliminations. For example, the Atlantic Branch of the LIRR, which runs between Downtown Brooklyn and Jamaica, had 50 grade crossings in 1897. By 1907 a combination of elevated viaducts and tunnels were built and the line became fully grade-separated.

A surprising relic from this era of railroad expansion was the LIRRs introduction of through-running service into Manhattan via the subway system. Between 1909 and 1917, Long Island Rail Road trains served the Financial District of Manhattan by traveling over the Williamsburg Bridge and into the J/Z subway tunnel to Broad Street. This highly modern level of railway integration exists today only in Tokyo, and it is one of the crowning achievements of their transit system, but an early version of it actually existed in New York almost 100 years earlier.

Unfortunately, beginning in the 1940s, the Long Island Rail Road began to face increasing competition from highways and the automobile, which created a downward spiral of declining ridership, decreasing revenue, and deteriorating service. During the postwar years, at least 22 different branches, spurs, and cutoffs of the LIRR were abandoned, sold off, or even burned down. Some of these branches, like parts of the Rockaway Beach Branch and the Manhattan Beach Branch, were incorporated into the New York City subway system as the A and B/Q trains respectively. However, other major rail corridors were abandoned altogether, like Whitestone Branch that served the Queens neighborhoods of College Point and Whitestone with passenger rail until 1938.

The rapid ascendency of the car after World War II caused cascading bankruptcies for rail companies across the United States. The New York region was not immune from this destruction, and in 1949, the Long Island Rail Road went bankrupt. Although it was still owned by the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad, after the LIRRs bankruptcy the PRR stopped subsidizing the LIRR. This led to a series of deadly crashes, branch closures, and service reductions throughout the 1950s and 60s. Even the LIRRs majestic terminal station in Manhattan, the original Pennsylvania Station, was demolished to build Madison Square Garden. By 1970,the Penn Central Transportation Company, formerly thePennsylvania Railroad, filed for bankruptcy. Prior to this, the LIRR wasacquired by the MTA from the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1965 and incorporated into New Yorks regional transportation network

In the decades following the LIRRs incorporation into the MTA, the railroad has seen a gradual but steady resurgence. By and large, service stopped being cut by the 1970s and in some places even expanded. New electrification projects began in 1968, and by 1987 the Main Line had been electrified from Mineola to Ronkonkoma and the Port Jefferson Branch had been electrified from Hicksville to Huntington. Service slowly increased on the non-electric sections of rail too. For example, in 1963 there was one train running between Riverhead and Greenport per day; in 2018, there were four per day. Today the LIRR is the busiest commuter railroad in the country, serving almost 350,000 daily riders over 11 branches. And throughout its 188-year long history of mergers, expansions, and bankruptcies it has kept its original 1835 name: the Long Island Rail Road.

Curious about the history of the LIRR? Join us for the virtual talk, When New York Was Long Island: The Past and Present of the Long Island Railroad led by Gotham Center Writing Fellow and journalist Elizabeth Moore. The talk is free for Untapped New York Insiders (get your first month free with code JOINUS).

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Judge Carter to Decide If the City of Santa Barbara Is Committing Eugenics – Santa Barbara Independent

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The federal judge who just ruled that Donald Trump and his attorney John Eastman more likely than not attempted to illegally obstruct Congress by concocting legal schemes to subvert the election of President Joseph Biden is the same judge hearing a homeless rights case filed against the City of Santa Barbaras no-parking rules for oversize vehicles.

Federal Judge David O. Carter, a retired Marine and ferociously outspoken from the bench, opined that Trump and Eastman, an Orange County lawyer, conspired to overturn last Novembers presidential election results. Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history, wrote Carter. This campaign was not confined to the ivory tower it was a coup in search of a legal theory. In this case, Eastman had hatched a scheme to delay certification of the election as part of a broader effort to give the final say to former Vice President Mike Pence.

Pence famously refused to go along. Carters opinion was part of the order compelling Eastman, a former law professor at Chapman College, to turn over emails between him and Trump. Eastman had argued such communications were privileged as attorney-client communications.

Judge Carter is also overseeing a case brought against the City of Santa Barbaras oversize-vehicle ordinance brought by Los Angeles civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman, who argued the ordinance is part of a campaign of negative eugenics waged against poor and homeless people by City Hall. The horror of a rich person having to endure seeing a poor persons camper or RV or indeed the actual poor person, Yagman argued, is not a legitimate reason for enforcement of the subject ordinance. It is an ugly neighborhood beautification project.

City Attorney Ariel Calonne had filed a motion to dismiss Yagmans complaint. The matter had been initially scheduled to be heard in December but was delayed at the last minute. In 2021, Judge Carter famously ordered the City of Los Angeles to find housing for its Skid Row residents within 180 days or face sanctions of $1 billion. That ruling was reversed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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What Does Being Conservative Actually Mean These Days? – Crisis Magazine

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For many decades, the conservative movement was a fusion of three main constituencies: libertarians, social conservatives, and Cold Warriors. The political culmination of this fusion was President Ronald Reagan, who successfully represented this old coalition by winning the Cold War, reviving the American economy, and preserving Americans constitutional freedoms. As Nathanael Blake remarks in his defense of the Old Right, it had its failures, but it also conserved quite a lot.

However, as younger generations of Americans come of age and men like Donald Trump are elected to the presidency, an update to the old fusionism is definitely in order. Gone are the days of confronting the Soviet Union, preaching free markets and globalism, and taking a laissez-faire attitude toward culture wars. Now, conservatives must face the challenges of a rising China, a corporatist oligarchy hollowing out the American economy, and ubiquitous woke propaganda.

So, what is this new fusionism? This was the question taken up by conservative writers Helen Andrews and Michael Brendan Dougherty at a recent event that I attended in Dallas.

Although the two writers come from opposing perspectivesAndrews is the editor at The American Conservative, while Dougherty is an editor at National Reviewthere was much more agreement than one might expect. As with the old fusionism, the new fusionism will be defined by its circumstance not really by its ideologues. Like everyone else, they must adapt or die.

This is especially true for the libertarian wing of the conservative movement that, as Andrews mentioned, proved weak and hypocritical in the face of the totalitarian Covid regime of the last two years. Rather than object and push back against the abundant violations of peoples civil rights, many of their writers joined in the derision and mockery of traditionalists who questioned what was clearly unscientific hysteria. To his credit, Dougherty conceded as much and even mentioned a similar instance in the eugenics debate of the early 20th century.

Furthermore, libertarian conservatives were directly complicit in empowering the Chinese Communist Party for decades, largely at the cost of hollowing out middle America. The prevailing view was that more economic opportunity and foreign investment in China would liberalize the country. In reality, it has mainly enriched a totalitarian state that regularly violates their peoples human rights, sponsors evil dictatorships like that of North Korea, poses serious threats to global security in general, and likely exported Covid along with its many other products.

Once again, Dougherty acknowledged this problem, though in his defense, few conservatives, libertarian or otherwise, believed China would grow in the manner that it did. The same can be said for Big Tech monopolies dominating public discourse in which 90s-style liberal entrepreneurs grew massive companies and began imposing what they thought were open platforms bringing people together.

Beyond these points, curiously little was mentioned about conservatives who favor foreign intervention and maintaining Americas role as the worlds policea group that has often been called the neoconservatives. This was probably because the neocons have dwindled to a vanishingly small minority that used up all their political capital in the War on Terror a decade earlier. They are no longer really conservative, and neither the libertarian or traditionalists would support their agenda in any meaningful way.

Although the speakers never really came to a clear definition of the new fusionism (which, to be fair, is difficult to do in a one-hour dialogue), they laid the groundwork for one, which Ill venture to make. Factoring in the ongoing changes in politics and the world in general, I believe the new fusionism will be a coalition of traditional populists and classical liberals.

At first, these two sides may look irreconcilable, with each deriding the other as hopelessly out of touch and hypocritical, but these differences are mostly superficial. The classical liberal emphasis on freedom and limited government complements the traditional populist focus on family, faith, and fairness. In a recent discussion on this topic at The Spectator, Stephanie Slade observes of old fusionist Frank Meyer: he said thatbothJudeo-Christian virtue and freedom from coercion (whether carried out by a bandit or by an agent of the state) are goods to be cherished and protected.

In other words, the new conservative fusionism, like the old, looks more like the friendly dialogue between Helen Andrews and Michael Brendan Dougherty and less like the heated debate between David French and Sohrab Ahmari. It is made between two people of good faith who want to see all Americans not only enjoy better lives but enjoy them together as a community.

Already, most conservative publications reflect these two sides (including The American Conservative and National Review), acknowledging that most conservative readers and voters are somewhere in the middle. What they agree on is that they are tired of the old fusionist establishment and desire arguments and leadership that is more effective at fighting the Left. This means learning from past fusionists, like William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan, but finally letting them go and forging a new conservative movement for a new generation.

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Author Chlo Cooper Jones, Who Has a Visible Disability, On Deciding to Claim Space For Herself and Her Son – Yahoo Entertainment

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"I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening as two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life is worth living."

This is how Chlo Cooper Jones begins her memoir Easy Beauty, remembering a painful, but pivotal moment that occurred in 2017.

One of the men, whom she names Colin in the book, was an ethical philosopher she met in her doctoral program. As they sipped on their drinks, he revisited a longstanding eugenics argument when he told her that, in an ideal world, a person with her type of disability should have been aborted before birth.

The men had been sharing their own struggles with depression and Cooper Jones, who was born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, began to feel a moment of connection. That moment shattered quickly, she says.

"I'm leaning forward, both literally and figuratively, toward these men hoping we're going to have this, for me, very unique moment of kinship," Cooper Jones, 38, tells PEOPLE, "which turns into Colin saying, 'Well, I don't want to live and if I had a body like yours I definitely wouldn't. That'd be even worse. I'd just kill myself.'

"I think it's a painful moment because it reminds me how isolated the disability experience can be," she continues. "And how even in these moments of possible connection, I'm still seen by certain people as something other, something slightly less human even."

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Though Colin's comments were biting in their directness, Cooper Jones explains, "there are no villains in the book." In fact, she even had a "sort of a respect" for Colin, who was directly stating a viewpoint she encounters often, one that has seeped into the undercurrents on which society flows.

Cooper Jones, whose walk and stature is impacted by her condition, has had people cheer her on as she walks up the subway steps, a celebratory gesture whose effect is instead "condescending," she explains. The philosophy professor has been mocked and called mean names throughout her life, even by one of her students. And, just recently, she went to an event to promote her book where a woman said "weird" and "pretty harmful" comments to her, Cooper Jones says.

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Easy Beauty is, in part, an exploration and response to such interactions. The book follows Cooper Jones as she seeks a language to communicate her experience as a person with a disability and claim space for herself a journey she decided to embark on after that philosophical exchange (on the men's part, that is). As the men talked, she withdrew into herself.

"I had this sort of realization as they're speaking about whether or not my life was worth living," says Cooper Jones. "[I realized] that I didn't really possess a language to speak to them and to have a debate with them. It was largely because I had spent my life not talking about disability and not learning very much about disability, not understanding the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act]."

Cooper Jones explains that she had a habit of separating herself from that part of her identity.

"I have a very physical, immediately recognizable disability, so it's not as if I can pass as anything other than disabled," says Cooper Jones. "But it always felt like a gate or a wall between myself and other people. So, I used to think that the way to lower that gate was to pretend that it just wasn't there, that my body wasn't there. ... I was sort of in this complicated act of self-erasure."

Chloe Cooper Jones and her son Wolf

Chlo Cooper Jones The author with her son Wolfgang

Cooper Jones realized she needed to reassess how she approached such interactions. Her memoir which started off as introspective journal entries is not only for herself, but for her 10-year-old son Wolfgang, whom she shares with husband Andrew Grossardt, a 34-year-old content creator.

"I thought, 'Okay, I've got to figure out how to live a life worthy of him,' " she explains. "And that's going to require me coming to some peace with this discomfort. And that required a lot of change."

The author hopes society will also be able to adapt how it views people with disabilities. Cooper Jones explains that we're all closer to disability than we think, either as life events happen or as we age. While people's fear of experiencing disability is reasonable, Cooper Jones explains that "those fears can turn into a rejection or even a disgust of the concept of disability or seeing disability as just part of the human spectrum." She says that type of fear "is something worth looking at and having maybe a healthier relationship to."

"Not just because I hope that that means that you'll treat me differently," Cooper Jones continues. "But because you might be able to have a capacity of grace for yourself when inevitably you have situations when your mental and physical body shift."

The multiple depths that Cooper Jones plumbs in Easy Beauty results in a memoir that can't easily be classified. The same can be said for the book's author. Cooper Jones is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a philosophy professor and a writer, who delves into her journey as a daughter, mother, wife and her search for a new way of seeing the world.

In other words, her story is about the complexity of the human experience and the questions of identity and belonging that plague us all.

"I wanted to write a book I was searching for: a person, who at the very beginning, sees a problem in themselves and also sees a problem in the world and wonders how that could change," she says. "I wanted to be as true and honest and unfiltered and vulnerable as possible. I wanted that help myself. I wanted to be guided in that way."

From the time she was born, Cooper Jones has faced a unique set of challenges. She has a pain disorder that's tied to her disability, meaning that most regular activities cause her discomfort or pain throughout the day. To navigate the discomfort, Cooper Jones does pain management exercises, including going to the "neutral room", or a white room in her mind where she counts to eight on repeat to get through activities that cause pain.

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She first learned of the technique from her pediatrician when she was a little girl, she explains. "I was telling him how I would get really anxious when my mom and I would go to the grocery store and I would have to walk long distances," says Cooper Jones, "My pain would sort of rise as I was worried about standing in line at grocery aisles."

The doctor explained how the "neutral room" worked and she's used the technique ever since. "He would say, 'You're not in pain for a long time. You're not in pain forever,' " Cooper Jones recalls. "'You're only dealing with eight seconds, and you can survive that.'"

While growing up, doctors also told her other things, some of which turned out to be untrue. As she writes in Easy Beauty, Cooper Jones was told often that her body was "inhospitable" to a baby because of her condition. Both she and her doctors believed that she was incapable of getting pregnant.

"I had never conceptualized myself as a mother," she says. "Just as I don't conceptualize myself as an airplane. It's not a narrative that I thought about."

Cooper Jones was five and a half months pregnant when she realized her doctors were wrong about her body's capabilities. She'd initially dismissed the pregnancy symptoms as part of her daily life with sacral agenesis.

It was so inconceivable to Cooper Jones that she could be pregnant that she dismissed her expanding stomach as a tumor.

"I was like, 'Oh, there's a tumor that's in my body that's fluttering around or something. That's weird. I'm probably dying,' " recalls Cooper Jones. "But, no, it was Wolfgang."

The knowledge of her pregnancy was terrifying, she says. "The real traumatic part was suddenly having this child, who was extremely imminent, and not having any relationship to the future that that would then entail," she says. "I felt like I was thrown into somebody else's life all of a sudden."

After she and her then-boyfriend Grossardt got over the surprise, she found that there was a benefit to not having expectations of motherhood. "It was absolute chaos, but there is a bit of freedom in chaos to kind of develop a new way," she explains. Her love for her son is equally complex.

"My experience of love is joy and happiness and gratitude and fear and obligation and frustration and anger and imposter syndrome all these things are encompassed in my love for Wolf," she says. "And those things actually make that love, for me at least, weightier and more profound."

Grossardt was by her side through all of it. Cooper Jones explains that her husband is the first partner she's ever been with who has "forced" her into her own body because his love language is physical touch and "acts of daily care." Before she met him, Cooper Jones says she thought men could only be attracted to her for her mind.

"The first time he comes up behind me and rubs my shoulders, my first reaction is to tense up and to withdraw," says Cooper Jones. "Because I'm going, 'I don't want you to think about my body. I don't want you to pay attention to my body. My body will drive you away.' "

But that was a falsehood, she says.

"He loves my body and he loves being affectionate in that way," she explains. "So, I in order to have that loving communication had to sink down into my body and relax. And allow [my body] to feel the sensation of love and touch and care. That was very, very hard for me."

Cooper Jones says her husband, whom she loves dearly, has been laying the groundwork for years so she that she can fully be in her body and explore what that means in Easy Beauty.

Grossardt supported her as she traveled across the world from California to a Beyonc concert in Milan and the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Cooper Jones recounts these travels in her book, including what she describes as one of the most "beautiful" and "painful" moments of her life.

She was covering The Sundance Film Festival in Utah for a magazine when she met Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage at a party hosted in his honor.

Cooper Jones says that others in attendance "immediately assumed that we were there together, that I was somehow related to him." Dinklage, who was born with a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, is also short of stature.

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"There were several people who kept asking me questions that they wanted to ask him, thinking that I could be sort of a dwarf spokesperson for him," says Cooper Jones. "Which I can't because he is international celebrity Peter Dinklage, and I'm Chlo from Brooklyn."

At one point, she and Dinklage had a "moment of kinship," she says.

"We spoke and there was a certain understanding that passed between us," she explains. "It was sort of sparked by the fact that a bartender had both looked over our heads and not seen us. And people were kind of interacting with us in this very similar way. ... I just felt very seen by him."

But, after she left the party, Cooper Jones struggled with the fact that she was leaving behind a connection where her experience was completely understood, no "acts of translation" required.

"I leave that moment of very, very intense connection, and then I come back to a room full of my best friends and my husband the people who inarguably know me the best and love me the most," she says. "And I have to remember that there is so much of my life that I can't share with them and that they can't understand."

While that knowledge "hurts deeply," it also reminds Cooper Jones that "we're all always constantly in this act of translation with each other." She says that making the choice to love someone and translate your lived experience with them is "an incredible human act."

Cooper Jones adds, "It's the act of generosity and connection that's so magical."

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LETTER: Joe Biden speaks the truth about Putin – Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Boxing broadcast goes off the rails when commentator insults ring girl – Insider

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A boxing broadcast over the weekend went off the rails when 78-year-old commentator 'Colonel' Bob Sheridan called ring girls "bimbos," and then asked if that was politically incorrect.

It wasn't even the most inappropriate thing Sheridan said that night, as he also discussed the way he uses the n-word in private since he says he can't say it in public, and also claimed while laughing that he once killed eight men.

It is unclear if he was joking at the time, though a report from last year indicated that Sheridan was involved in a car accident and that there was "a death involved."

Sheridan did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Mexico promotion Bxstrs, which organized the Friday event in the city of Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though it is unclear if it was affiliated with the broadcast.

Sheridan and the former boxer Paulie Malignaggi commented on the show from a studio at a remote location.

The event was headlined by a bout between Eduardo Nunez and Adrian Pacheco. However, Sheridan's comments overshadowed the results.

While waiting for the announcement of a decision on one of the fights, Sheridan started talking about the ring girls. "Alright," he said. "We like the bimbos, right? Is that politically correct to say, 'Bimbos'?

"Okay. Sorry, ladies. You're two fine, young ladies. God bless you . Sorry for the insult. But I come from the old days where you could actually say things that were funny. Nobody got their red neck up when you said stuff like that."

Video footage of the incident was seemingly on YouTube but the broadcast has since moved to private.

Mark Ortega, a former Fox Sports boxing researcher and writer, clipped the footage and posted it himself on social media.

On the subject of racial slurs, Sheridan said: "When we're off the air, we're talking about that all the time. We're not supposed to use the n-word I know we can't use it on the air and I'm not supposed to say it outside my room. So I don't."

Sheridan also relayed a story, in which he claimed to have killed eight men. It is unclear if he is joking, but the incident may relate to a 2021 article that said Sheridan was injured in a robbery attempt.

In that story, Sheridan claimed eight men "true criminals" tried to box him in his Corvette vehicle while in Victorville, California. "There was a death involved," he said at the time, according to Fight Sports TV.

"The cops never told me how many of those guys were down."

Speaking during Friday's broadcast, he claimed:

"I killed eight of them that night in my 'Vette. Here's what I did," he said, while individuals off-camera seemingly attempt to encourage him to change the subject.

"We can [talk about it], it's the truth. I killed eight of them that night and I wanted to get that in. I got to stop talking about that."

Laughing, he continued: "There's eight dead men," before awkward silence ensued. Malignaggi then changed the subject by bringing up Muhammad Ali's former trainer Angelo Dundee.

Sheridan was born in 1944, has provided commentary on more than 10,000 fight events, and received the 1998 award from the Boxing Writers Association of America for "Excellence in broadcasting journalism."

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Grammys 2022 Best-Dressed: Lil Nas X, Billy Porter and More – The New York Times

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Ah, Las Vegas: It provides inspiration in so many ways. Thats how it seemed, anyway, judging from the Grammy red carpet, newly located to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the city of gosh, so many things! Sin and lights and camp and Elvis.

And as with the site, so, too, with the clothes. If there was a theme to the night, it was an exuberant anything-goes attitude that was not a bad reminder of why red carpets are fun in the first place. Theyre as much for those doing the watching as those doing the wearing.

There was Megan Thee Stallion, channeling an entire big cat enclosure in her one-shouldered, slit-to-the-waist Roberto Cavalli. St. Vincent, modeling Showgirls, the X Games version, in ruffle-trimmed Gucci with enormous sweeping sleeves and skirt. Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, looking like a fabulous daffodil in short ruffled yellow Valentino. And Billie Eilish, going all Gothic conceptualist in a black Rick Owens coat with a neckline that seemed to have migrated to her torso, thus suggesting everyones perspective had flipped sort of sideways. Who couldnt relate?

Even the relatively sedate Louis Vuitton suiting of BTS (think tones of clay, sand, white and teal) was punctuated by Vs overblown corsage, like an entire bouquet of paper flowers had attached itself to the side of his jacket.

Shocking pink was the color of the night, worn by Billy Porter in a ruffled Valentino shirtdress, cape, opera gloves and trousers; Saweetie, in a Valentino bra, more gloves and ginormous skirt (the brand actually had its own patented name for the pink: Pink PP, after its designer, Pierpaolo Piccioli); Travis Barker, in a shocking pink coat over a black Givenchy suit; and Anglique Kidjo, in a fabulous fringed fuchsia.

Also Justin Bieber, who accessorized his oversize Balenciaga suit and steel-tipped Balenciaga Crocs with a bright pink beanie. (Crocs also made an appearance on the feet of Questlove. Comfort dressing to the fore!)

Speaking of Saweetie, the pink was only the first of three count em outfits she wore during the night, swapping it for a black Oscar de la Renta gown cut to flash one silver-covered breast, like an Amazon going to the prom, and then trading that for a glimmering, backless gold Etro number.

Still, when it came to bling, there was Lil Nas X, shining like a rhinestone on one of Elviss jumpsuits. He seemed to be channeling a sci-fi warrior angel in pearl-encrusted Balmain with butterfly detailing before he changed into glittering Zorro black to start his performance, which in turn was shed for a pearl bolero and then a marching band jacket complete with gold braid. As for Giveon, his Chanel black boucl denim jacket and jeans sparkled like the night sky over the desert. Chanel mens wear! Why not?

Then there was Jon Batiste, who made his entrance in a silver, gold and black harlequin sequin suit in honor of New Orleans, his hometown. Designed by Dolce & Gabbana, the formerly canceled brand whose history of politically incorrect behavior seems to be behind it, at least as far as celebrities are concerned, the suit was outshone only by the diamante-bedazzled cape, part royal, part priest, he wore to accept his award for Album of the Year.

Their only real competition in the sparkle stakes was Brandi Carlile, in a rainbow-bejeweled Boss tuxedo she told the E! host Laverne Cox weighed about 40 pounds (anything for fashion), and that she said both made her feel like a boss and was a homage to Elton John, the king of fantabulous costume.

Indeed, there was a strain of nostalgia running through the night. H.E.R. wore an egg yolk-yellow Dundas jumpsuit with caped sleeves and phoenix embroidery that was a direct reference to Aretha Franklins 1976 American Music Awards get-up. Leon Bridges, in white with gold embroidery, had a touch of Presley about him. Lady Gaga served full midcentury silver screen siren in black Armani Priv with a swag of white satin at the side before slipping into a minty blue Elie Saab satin number with a gigantic bow at the back to do her golden oldies medley, like a gift-wrapped Jean Harlow.

Olivia Rodrigo paired her corseted Vivienne Westwood with a signature 90s choker. And Dua Lipa channeled Donatella Versace in long blond hair and a bondage gown from the 1992 Versace Miss S&M collection. (Ms. Versace herself made an appearance in an award-presenting skit that was perhaps the ultimate in product placement.)

Still, that Versace gown wasnt the only vintage on the carpet. SZA wore a nude tulle Jean Paul Gaultier design from 2006 sprouting a gardens worth of flowers down the front, and Laverne Cox modeled a lacy black John Galliano number from 2007. It was as close as anyone got to value signaling via dress.

Yet in the end, amid all the fun and frippery, the one garment that most lingered was perhaps the least elaborate, least formal of all: the T-shirt worn by Billie Eilish for her performance. Featuring Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters drummer who died in late March, it was a fashion statement of the most emotional, effective kind.

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Attack review: John Abrahams super soldier borrows a lot from Hollywood, but the movie is all Bollywood – Moneycontrol

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John Abraham in 'Attack', a full-on Bollywood masala action flick. 'Attack' released in theatres on April 1, 2022. (Screen grab)

There are bad guys in the Parliament! is not a politically incorrect statement, it is Bollywoods oldest trick to get your patriotism engine all fired up. So the story begins with our guys in camouflage extracting a bad guy, literally from behind the walls. Johns kindness to a lad proves to be incorrect. Its like they say in the movies (including the latest James Bond film), You gotta leave not a child behind who will grow up and come after you.

But what fun, John's character gets time off andfalls in lovewith Jacqueline's. And the fans in the audience (including yours truly) will love seeing one of the fittest men in Bollywood ride a motorbike and display one of the best sets of dimples in the industry. Not just that, there are very few people whose smile creates crinkles around the eyes the way his does. That out of the way, time to land face first into the story.

The story borrows ideas from The Matrix, Robocop, Iron Man and more, but I was touched to see a tribute slide in the opening credits to Nathan Copeland - his story is here:

Whats this got to do with a John Abraham movie you ask? A freak terrorist attack leaves him hurt and we meet a supposedly cool computer scientist who is working with the Indian Army (please suspend disbelief here because Rakul Preet Singh just does not fit into a role that would have been great for Ratna Pathak Shah who plays Johns mother instead).Her research might help John walk again, so Im happy to not see a Guzarish redux but Iron Man.

A chip is installed in Johns head and a mini computer (glowing disc) on the back of his neck connects him to the chip which commands his limbs to move. Aha! Time to upload all kinds of data into his head (without erasing memories with his girl) and that includes fighting techniques. Nice lift from The Matrix. Very nice indeed.

The conversations between the Siri/Alexa in his head - named IRA (Internal Robotic Assistance or some such thing) - and John are fun. Well done! I liked how Ira just shuts when he needs her most and has to reboot. Loved Rakul Preet Singhs Inception-type explanation: Your memories are like the wallpaper on your computer screen. You can stare at them and enjoy them and everyone will think youre knocked out, but to get out of it, you have to willingly press enter so that Ira can bring you to reality. Nice touch.

Also well done are the scenes with John running topless on Delhis Rajpathduring his rehabilitation program once the chip is inserted into his brain. We know hes itching to get into action. They are tracking a new bad terrorist (are there any other kind in Bollywood?) who is buying chemical weapons in Europe. You sigh deeply into your coffee and expect action taking you to Europe where John will fight big burly Russians or Chechens or what have you

Of course the terrorists dont stay in exotic places. They are happy to attack the parliament in Delhi! Its such a hackneyed thing, but its all right because John the super soldier will save the day. You like how John and the terrorist share a history. How the terrorist grew up and why John still looks young (and gorgeous) is not a question that you ask. You just enjoy the awesome action scenes unfolding in front of you, assisted by Ira.

The politicians and the army in a situation room is just the same ole, same ole, but thanks to Rajit Kapur who plays the social media savvy Home Minister so well, I spewed coffee everywhere. Rajit Kapur has a social secretary and an IAS style smarmy personal secretary as well. The army has Prakash Raj, who believes in his super soldier John and Kiran Kumar. The battle between politics and the army is not new, but hearing the terrorist say that they wont end up doing anything because each will want to bring the other down...

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Steve Coogan’s net worth, famous girlfriends and dramatic Jimmy Savile transformation – The Mirror

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He is known to millions as the gaffe-prone, politically incorrect radio turned TV presenter Alan Partridge, but Steve Coogan is soon to be seen in a dramatically different role, as the serial-abuser Jimmy Savile.

The 56-year-old is no stranger to serious roles, but his turn as the evil predator in upcoming BBC drama The Reckoning, which will look at how the monster's crimes went undetected for so long, is sure to be his darkest yet.

The father-of-one, who is appearing on Saturday Night Takeaway this evening, has been has been in the limelight for decades, and dated models, well-known actresses and even had a fling with a rock star.

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Coogan has been pictured often at showbiz soirees with his arm around glamorous women, and his roles in Hollywood blockbusters alongside smaller projects has ensured he's worth millions.

Born in Lancashire, Coogan rose to prominence in 1980s as a voice actor for the politician-blasting puppet show Spitting Image.

In the early 1990s he launched comedy character Alan Partridge on BBC Radio 4 comedy On The Hour, and later with his own spoof radio chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge.

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Coogan has continued to portray Partridge over the years in radio shows, on TV and and even on the silver screen with movie Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, in 2013.

He reprised the much-loved comedy character with This Time with Alan Partridge, which mocked topical TV shows such as The One Show.

Alongside his role as Partridge, Coogan has also acted alongside Rob Brydon as a fictionalised version of himself in beloved sitcom The Trip.

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He has acted in a slew of successful films, both serious and comic, playing a Roman soldier in Night at the Museum and a journalist helping an Irish mother, played by Judy Dench, track down her son, in Philomena.

In 2018, he won huge praise for his portrayal of Stanley Laurel against John C Reily's Oliver Hardy, in Stan & Ollie, a film about the iconic double act.

The following year, he played a billionaire fashion mogul, loosely modelled on Topshop mogul Philip Green, in the Michael Winterbottom film Greed.

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He has won and been nominated for a flurry of awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Philomena, and winning Best Male Performance in a Comedy Role at BAFTAs, for The Trip.

Thanks to his long career, Coogan is, according to Celebrity Net Worth, worth $25million, which equates to around 19million.

As well as his acting and writing credentials, Coogan has hit the headlines for his relationships with a bevvy of famous women.

In 2002, Coogan married British socialite Caroline Hickman, but the pair divorced in 2005, with Hickman saying the marriage had irretrievably broken down.

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The same year Coogan's divorce was granted, he had a brief two-week fling with Hole singer Courtney Love, now 57, who was married to Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain.

In January last year, Love called the rendezvous "one of my life's great shames" on social media.

In the post the musician criticised her solo record America's Sweetheart, writing: "Like Steve Coogan, or crack, its one of my lifes great shames."

In 2008, it was revealed that Coogan was dating actress and restaurant heiress China Chow, who is nine years younger than him.

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Chow is the daughter of Michael Chow, known for the Mr Chow restaurant chain.

A source told Mail Online that he was "absolutely smitten and hasn't even looked twice at another girl in months", but the pair ended their relationship after three years.

The unlikely lothario moved in with underwear model Elle Basey, 24 years his junior, after the pair met while he was guest editing Loaded magazine as Alan Partridge.

Coogan posed with Elle in a photoshoot, while she wore black underwear, stockings and suspenders.

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The pair dated between 2011 and 2014, sharing Coogan's house in Brighton.

In 2019, Coogan split with Let's Do Lunch presenter Melanie Sykes, 51, after 10 months, amid rumours of commitment issues.

The pair were first linked after meeting at a launch party for his film Stan & Ollie, however Mel reportedly decided to pull the plug.

In an interview with The Sun on Sunday, a source close to Mel said the former talk show host felt she had no option but to end the relationship as she saw her hopes of settling down fade away.

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Mel is gutted it didnt work out - but although she is disappointed, she is not that surprised, the source claimed.

She was worried that he wasnt committing and wasnt keen on family stuff or getting too involved with her two teenage sons, the source went on.

Coogan has also dated actress Laura Hajek, Downtown Abbey cast member Daisy Lewis and Nancy Sorrell, before she married comedian Vic Reeves in 2003.

Coogan has a grown-up daughter, Claire, from a four year relationship with solicitor Anna Cole in the 1990s.

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The star recently looked unrecognisable when he was spotted filming the upcoming Jimmy Savile drama.

In November, the award-winner was pictured with bleached blonde hair and a maroon tracksuit on a North Wales beach as filming commenced.

The actor previously pictured filming in Bolton, greater Manchester, wearing a jester costume.

The decision to chronicle Savile's crimes came under fire with many hitting out at the BBC, where the sick TV presenter spent many years of his career before his death ten years ago.

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Coogan previously said about taking on the role: "To play Jimmy Savile was not a decision I took lightly.

"Neil McKay has written an intelligent script tackling sensitively a horrific story which, however harrowing, needs to be told."

However, the BBC confirmed to viewers they have been working closely with the many people whose lives were impacted by Savile to ensure their stories are told with sensitivity and respect.

The upcoming series will also draw on extensive and wide-ranging research sources.

The BBC had defended their decision to create the series and said it was an important story to tell to "ensure such crimes never happen again".

Executive producer Jeff Pope said: "Steve has a unique ability to inhabit complex characters and will approach this role with the greatest care and integrity."

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