This is off-topic but in reply to a poster's question whether Marvin was an English teacher -- he's not. However, he writes the instruction manuals for most appliances and electronic equipment we have recently purchased! Just kidding, Marvin.
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Where are the Forum Policies/Guidelines... and more
by Marvin Shilmer inive been posting here from more than ten years.
im not a prolific poster, but based on my ongoing participation i thought i knew participation policies, by firsthand experience if nothing else.
recently i had need to consult the forums policy and posting guidelines looking for position statements, definitions and explanations.
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Witnesses knocking on $375M bldg. sale
by Gayle inhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/witnesses_knocking_on_bldg_sale_dgtqywmep5qqbensqrcocn?.
anyone keeping track of these sold brooklyn properties?
how many left there?
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Here's another article on the transactions:
RFR and Kushner Companies to Acquire Watchtower Dumbo Properties
By Gus Delaporte 12:45pm
RFR Realty and Kushner Companies have agreed to acquire a six-property portfolio in Dumbo from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York for $375 million. The sale is the latest in a series of transactions for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are in the process of transitioning their headquarters from Brooklyn to Orange County, New York.
“We are delighted to partner with Kushner Companies and team with LIVWRK to become the new stewards for these exceptional properties in this burgeoning neighborhood,” said Jason Brown, head of acquisitions at RFR, in a prepared statement.
he 1.2-million-square-foot portfolio of properties consists of117 Adams Street, 175 Pearl Street, 55 Prospect Street,81 Prospect Street, 77 Sands Street and 90 Sands Street. The properties are set to be redeveloped in partnership with LIVWRK Holdings.
“We feel privileged to program and activate this game changing project. Watchtower took impeccable care of these assets and we are thrilled to help incorporate them into DUMBO’s thriving mixed use community,” added Asher Abehsera of LIVWRK Holdings, the statement.
As reported by The Commercial Observer, the Watchtower properties on Sands Street have been earmarked as potential office space for tech companies as part of the Brooklyn Tech Coalition’s efforts to promote Brooklyn as a national tech hub.
“These properties feature large, creative office space right in the heart of the growing Brooklyn tech triangle. We look forward to playing a key role in the continued improvement of the neighborhood and advancement of the market,” said Jared Kushner, chief executive officer of Kushner Companies, in the statement.
The news of the acquisition was first reported by the New York Post earlier today. The bulk of the sale is expected to close in September but the 30-story hotel at 90 Sands Street will close separately in 2017, according to the Post.
Mr. Kushner owns the Observer Media Group, which publishes The Commercial Observer.
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How to Take Down the AAWA! (For those that have been hurt by that org)
by HintOfLime in(if you're tired of aawa threads, please be aware, this is an aawa thread.).
sadly - there are people who have been negatively affected by the aawa, and like other organizations, the aawa made protecting it's name and reputation a priority over helping and protecting the people it should have been trying to help.
like other organizations, they won't discuss the issues publicly with the community, insisting instead on discussions behind closed doors and "getting the names" of people expressing concerns.. .
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Another article about Rick Simons, Attorneys of the Year 2012
by AndersonsInfo inthe recorder, april 22, 2013. http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/pubarticleca.jsp?id=1202590815091&attorneys_of_the_year_2012_richard_simons.
richard simons, furtado jaspovice & simons partner .
image: jason doiy/the recorder.
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The Recorder, April 22, 2013
Richard Simons, Furtado Jaspovice & Simons partner
Image: Jason Doiy/The RecorderTen years ago, Hayward attorney Richard Simons' practice got a boon from the state Legislature in the form of a one-year window to file sex abuse cases against churches even if the statute of limitations on the claims had passed. During that time, he took on a series of clients who wanted to sue the Catholic Church, and the child sex abuse niche turned into a business for him.
"I've tried more of these cases to verdict than anybody in the west," he said.
In 2012, he got one of his biggest victories — a $28 million verdict against an East Bay Jehovah's Witnesses congregation, a church elder and the Watch Tower Tract and Bible Society, the nonprofit governing body of the faith, after a jury found they had covered up the repeated molestation of a young female congregant.
It's the largest award in a child sex abuse jury award on behalf of a single victim against a religious organization, according to Simons, and the first verdict against the Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian offshoot known best for its door-to-door proselytizing.
The suit was on behalf of Candace Conti, who was 9 or 10 years old when she says Jonathan Kendrick, an officer in the North Fremont Jehovah's Witnesses congregation, sexually abused her. She claimed church leadership failed to inform the congregation that Kendrick had previously abused his stepdaughter because of a policy that kept such accusations quiet under certain circumstances. A jury found the policy damaged Conti, who reported abuse to church authorities when she was 16.
Simons had asked the jury for $21 million in punitive damages against the organization. Jurors awarded that, plus $1. They felt the award needed an exclamation point, Simons says. (The judge cut the punitive damages to $9 million, and the case is now on appeal.
A child of a labor family, Simons thought he'd end up a union lawyer, fulfilling his grandparents' "fondest wish." But while at UC-Berkeley School of Law, Simons met a small group of plaintiffs lawyers, went to work for them, and never left. Forty years later, Furtado, Jaspovice & Simons has just recently shuttered its office, and Simons is planning to scale down his practice as he eyes retirement.
He said he'll take only child sex abuse cases going forward. Previously, he'd also handled wrongful death and products liability cases.
"Handling serious catastrophic injury cases, you really have the opportunity to change the life of the client," he said. "But handling child sex abuse cases against third-party institutions changes the lawyer's life, too. It makes you feel like you are changing more than an individual's life, you're changing social consciousness about what is really a hidden problem."
— Cynthia Foster
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April 5, 2013 news article about a N. Carolina JW raping a 12-year-old girl at KH
by AndersonsInfo ini just received a link to this article today.
i searched to see if it had been posted before on jwn but couldn't locate anything.
barbarahttp://www.robesonian.com/view/full_story/22159944/article-man-charged-with-rape-of-12-year-oldman charged with rape of 12-year-oldby adelina shee.
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I just received a link to this article today. I searched to see if it had been posted before on JWN but couldn't locate anything. Barbara http://www.robesonian.com/view/full_story/22159944/article-Man-charged-with-rape-of-12-year-old Man charged with rape of 12-year-old by Adelina Shee
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Rodriguez-VazquezLUMBERTON — A youth group leader is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl while working at a Lumberton church, according to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
Jahaziel Levi Rodriguez-Vazquez, 28, of 221 Warwick Mill Road, is charged with statutory rape and is being held under a $50,000 bond at the Robeson County jail, according to Randall Graham, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office. Rodriguez-Vazquez was 27 at the time of the alleged assault.
According to a sheriff’s report, Rodriguez-Vasquez was working at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s, a church at 918 Piney Grove Road, when the assaults occurred. Graham said Rodriguez-Vazquez got to know the victim while working with young people at the church.
The victim’s parents contacted lawmen in March. According to the report, Rodriguez-Vazquez assaulted the girl twice, once last year and again in February.
Investigators with the sheriff’s Juvenile Division say there is a possibility that there are other victims, and anyone with information should call 910-671-3140.
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New light is Scientifically Accurate!! Here is the Proof!!
by DATA-DOG inwt 1981 12/1 pg.
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" such adjustments might be said to follow a principle that has been said to govern the progress of scientific truth.
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For what it's worth, GB member Karl Klein wrote this infamous article. Due to the many complaints that came into the Writing Dept. contradicting his "tacking" premise, his writing career became a past tense.
Barbara
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New light is Scientifically Accurate!! Here is the Proof!!
by DATA-DOG inwt 1981 12/1 pg.
28 paragraph 9.. .
" such adjustments might be said to follow a principle that has been said to govern the progress of scientific truth.
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Jehovah's Witnesses in Southern Russia Face New Charges
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://en.ria.ru/russia/20130408/180515407.htm.
rostov-on-don, april 8 (ria novosti) prosecutors in the southern russian city of taganrog have charged 16 jehovah's witnesses with taking part in the activities of an extremist organization after they allegedly resurrected the banned local branch of the international religious organization.. according to investigators, the religious groups followers continued to hold regular meetings after their local branch was banned in the city in 2009. at the meetings, they allegedly incited hatred against other religions, circulated extremist literature and called for military draft dodging.. the suspects also attempted to involve children in their activities and collected money for the organization, the prosecutors said in a statement.. the case materials will be sent to the taganrog city court after the suspects are informed of the charges, the statement said.. the jehovah's witnesses organization, which has more than seven million followers worldwide, including over 130,000 in russia, has been banned in a number of russian regions and in some former soviet republics over its religious beliefs.. the jehovah's witnesses branch in the russian capital was dissolved by a district court ruling in 2004, but the european court of human rights declared the decision illegal in 2010.. .
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http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130408/180515407.htm
ROSTOV-ON-DON, April 8 (RIA Novosti) – Prosecutors in the southern Russian city of Taganrog have charged 16 Jehovah's Witnesses with taking part in the activities of an extremist organization after they allegedly resurrected the banned local branch of the international religious organization.
According to investigators, the religious group’s followers continued to hold regular meetings after their local branch was banned in the city in 2009. At the meetings, they allegedly incited hatred against other religions, circulated extremist literature and called for military draft dodging.
The suspects also attempted to involve children in their activities and collected money for the organization, the prosecutors said in a statement.
“The case materials will be sent to the Taganrog city court after the suspects are informed of the charges,” the statement said.
The Jehovah's Witnesses organization, which has more than seven million followers worldwide, including over 130,000 in Russia, has been banned in a number of Russian regions and in some former Soviet republics over its religious beliefs.
The Jehovah's Witnesses branch in the Russian capital was dissolved by a district court ruling in 2004, but the European Court of Human Rights declared the decision illegal in 2010.
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Do you know where Rick McLean is hiding?
by AndersonsInfo ini've been thinking that the michael norris case makes it clear that an accused jw perpetrator of child sexual abuse, who has been identified, can 'disappear' into another congregation in another place.
in the case of michael norris, it's obvious that the watchtower knew norris was hiding in costa rica where he attended a jw congregation.
so this makes me wonder if anyone still on the 'inside' knows where rick mclean is at present.
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Authorities push hunt for suspected child predator
By Debbi Baker (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer11:47 a.m. January 8, 2009
From the San Diego Fugitive Task Force -SAN DIEGO — Authorities released new photos Thursday of a fugitive suspected in multiple cases of child molestation involving dozens of young victims abused over the last 20 years in northern San Diego County and Riverside County.
“He is the most wanted child predator in the U.S. right now,” said Supervisor Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Jurman.
Frederick Cecil McLean, 57, has been on the run since a warrant was issued for his arrest in January 2005 when he was charged in San Diego Superior Court with four counts of child molestation and one count of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14, Jurman said.
Since then, numerous other victims have come forward and have alleged 100 additional molestation incidents involving McLean, Jurman said.
One person, who is now an adult, told authorities that McLean assaulted her more than 100 times for seven years beginning when she was 5 years old.
McLean used his position as a respected member of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization to gain people's trust, Jurman said. Several of his victims were daughters of people involved in the church, he said.
An avid outdoorsman, McLean liked to go camping in remote areas, and he often took children with him, Jurman said. He frequented the Anza-Borrego desert and the Cuyamaca mountain area. McLean is white, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing about 170 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. He may have changed his appearance, Jurman said.
He also had used the aliases Frederick McClean, Rick McClean and Frederick McLain.
McLean once owned a business that customized and restored race cars and other vehicles, and he is probably still making a living in the auto industry, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Authorities consider McLean to be armed and dangerous. He has stated that he would rather die than go to jail.
Authorities also believe he is most likely still molesting children.
“We are almost certain that he is out there seeking new victims,” Jurman said.
McLean is listed on the U.S. Marshals Service's Web site as one of the 15 most wanted people in the country. A $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his arrest.
Anyone with information is asked to call U.S. Marshals headquarters at (800) 336-0102 or go to usmarshals.gov.
Debbi Baker: (619) 293-1710; (Contact)
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Do you know where Rick McLean is hiding?
by AndersonsInfo ini've been thinking that the michael norris case makes it clear that an accused jw perpetrator of child sexual abuse, who has been identified, can 'disappear' into another congregation in another place.
in the case of michael norris, it's obvious that the watchtower knew norris was hiding in costa rica where he attended a jw congregation.
so this makes me wonder if anyone still on the 'inside' knows where rick mclean is at present.
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I've been thinking that the Michael Norris case makes it clear that an accused JW perpetrator of child sexual abuse, who has been identified, can 'disappear' into another congregation in another place. In the case of Michael Norris, it's obvious that the Watchtower knew Norris was hiding in Costa Rica where he attended a JW congregation. So this makes me wonder if anyone still on the 'inside' knows where Rick McLean is at present. If you do, I wonder if you are willing to speak? Of course, anonymity is guaranteed if needed.
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