Wednesday, November 6, 2024

texts to the chair of the democratic party in westchester 241106

 I would like to communicate with the DNC about how I feel this all goes back to the way they silenced and smeared Tulsi Gabbard in the 2020 election. This allowed Biden, a historical hawk, to sneak into office without his hawkish history being revealed. They ignored the fact that the majority of Americans wanted peace.

Trump framed himself as the “peace” candidate.  There were a lot of right thinking people who voted for him for that reason.

e-mail to FCNL 241106

This election brings an interesting irony.  Many progressive Friends supported Harris, because of her views on human rights and social justice; however, we dropped the ball on peace.  We ignored the fact that the draft dodger candidate was positioning himself as the "peace" candidate.  We ignored the fact that the popularity of Sanders on the left and Trump on the right indicated strongly that the majority of Americans want to step down from being the world's policeman.  We went for the hawks: Hilary, Biden, and Harris.  We shot ourselves in the foot. Peace has to be a bigger priority.

Monday, November 4, 2024

2022 updates

 

News from 2022

Performance

Courses

  • "How to Help a Loved One Who Struggles With their Mental Health" by Women of Dartmouth 10/13/22
  •         Certificate Program in 3D modeling and 3D animation  -- 1 year program completed this summer  
  • 4/21/22 Climate Change and Our Cities -- Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory virtual
  • 7/19/22 "Environmental Pollution: from Sources to Human Exposure" Celia Chen (Dartmouth '78)
  • 3/10/22 Presentation by Pfizer CEO -- Washington Post virtual

CLE

  •         11/16/22 "The future of Fair Use After Warhol v Goldsmith" NYIPLA
  •         11/9/22 "NYIPLA One Day Patent CLE Seminar"  (In person!!!)
  •         10/6, 12, 19/22 "NYPLA 2022 IP Transactions Bootcamp"
  •         9/14/22 "Hot Topics for Congress and the USPTO: 101 Patent Eligibility and PTAB Director Review"
  •         August 2022 -- completed viewing recordings of the Summer 2020 JPPCLE
  •         5/18/22 "Arbitration Seminar" Dartmouth Lawyers Association
  • 4/5/22 "Intellectual Property Crimes and US Innovation" NYIPLA
  • 1/28/22 "Using Petitions Effectively in Patent Prosecution" NYIPLA

Media consumed

  • live concerts attended: Josh Groban at Bethel, NY (7/5/22); Caramoor:  Caroline Shaw, Angélica Negrón & Raquel Acevedo Klein (7/21/22) ; Phoenix Rising (7/16/22)
  • albums purchased: Avi Kaplan "Floating on a Dream"; Mat & Savana Shaw "Happy Like That"; Nathan Pacheco "Higher"; Barlow & Bear "Unofficial..."
  • movies seen in theatre: "Top Gun Maverick" 7/16/22 (Bridgton drive-in, Maine)

Sightseeing Pix

Woobles Ad

 

Studio VideGro

Cindel Krajewski, CEO

Director: Jenko Kent

Location: Beacon, NY

This was such a fun project.  Before I went into it, I thought that the other characters in the script: Mr Pond and Miss Tibbles would be played by other actors.  It turned out that they were stuffed animals, which made the script super funny.

I was impressed with the efficiency and cleverness of this studio. I would definitely recommend them to anyone who is trying to do a video commercial on a budget.