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Napalm Death's 1990 album Harmony Corruption is the band's first to feature vocalist Barney Greenway after the departure of Lee Dorrian. The album is widely considered to be a classic, though Greenway revealed in an interview with The Jasta Show that he actually prefers 1992's Utopia Banished.

Greenway said Utopia Banished was what he wanted Harmony Corruption to be in terms of harshness and extremity, and that he doesn't love the production on Harmony Corruption. Greenway is careful to point out that his dislike of Harmony Corruption's production has nothing to do with Scott Burns as a producer it was just a product of its time and was produced in line with the sound back then.

"Harmony Corruption is a really funny album because there is a lot of people that come to us, they'll say 'right. My favorite albums [are] Scum or Harmony Corruption.' When people present that to me and they're like, 'yeah, [Harmony Corruption] is the best,' [and] I'm like 'no, not it's not actually.'"

"Utopia Banished to me was a better album, and recording it was better. It's more harsh, it's more extreme it's what I actually wanted to do [and] what I would have preferred to do with Harmony Corruption. I like the Harmony Corruption album. I like the songs on there, some of them. Some of the moments on there, not so great for me. But the production I'm not blaming anybody for this because Scott did what Scott thought he should do, you know, for other bands, and it's not bad. It's just not a Napalm Death production as far as I'm concerned.

"Having said all that, it is a product of its time and it was a stepping stone for us to go other places as a band and so I wouldn't change it for the world, you know? I've no interest in doing a remix or recording any of the tracks."

And to clarify Greenway makes it clear through the interview that Napalm Death is not at all interested in re-recording old material or doing reissues unless there's a genuinely good reason for it.

Napalm Death and Brujeria will hit the road this October for their Campaign For Musical Destruction Tour. The tour will feature Frozen Soul on most dates, as well as appearances from MDC and Cryptic Slaughter. Get the full routing below.

w/ Brujeria

10/12 Santa Cruz, CA Catalyst10/13 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall10/14 Bend, OR Domino Room10/15 Seattle, WA The Showbox (w/ Cryptic Slaughter)10/16 Portland, OR Bossanova Ballroom (w/ Cryptic Slaughter)10/18 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall10/19 Denver, CO Bluebird

w/ Brujeria, Frozen Soul & MDC

10/21 St. Louis, MO Red Flag10/22 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall10/23 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop10/25 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small's10/26 Bensalem, PA Broken Goblet10/27 Boston, MA Paradise10/28 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg10/29 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom10/31 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle

w/ Brujeria & Frozen Soul

11/1 Athens, GA 40 Watt11/3 Orlando, FL The Social11/4 Tampa, FL Crowbar11/5 West Palm Beach, FL Respectable Street11/7 Birmingham, AL Saturn11/8 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall11/9 Nashville, TN Basement East

w/ Brujeria, Frozen Soul & MDC

11/11 Houston, TX Scout Bar11/12 San Antonio, TX Paper Tiger11/13 Austin, TX Mohawk11/14 Denton, TX Rubber Gloves

w/ Brujeria & Frozen Soul

11/16 El Paso, TX Rockhouse Outdoors11/17 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater11/18 Phoenix, AZ Nile Theater11/19 Los Angeles, CA Belasco Theater (w/ Cryptic Slaughter)

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Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Heres what you need to know on this Friday, July 29.

Obamas Will Return to White House for Portrait Unveiling President Joe Biden has invited the Obamas to visit the White House in the fall for the unveiling of their official White House portraits. The move comes after the former president and his wife were snubbed by Donald Trump, who neglected to uphold the tradition during his term in the Oval Office. (CNN)

Documentas Artists, Curators, and Artistic Team Push Back on Censorship A joint statement from curatorial collective Ruangrupa and the artists of Documenta 15 says they do not trust the supervisory board of the exhibition. We refuse the supervisory boards recommendation to enter a process of consultation with scholars from the fields of contemporary antisemitism, the authors wrote. This environment of intimidation, suspicion, and censorship is untenable and some of the collectives in the exhibition have been experiencing it for far too long. The missive was sent privately on July 18 but released publicly yesterday after a fresh controversy that saw the German media quoting selectively from the behind-the-scenes document. (e-Flux)

Johnny Depps Paintings Fetch $3.6 Million in Hours With debate still swirling around the significance of the actors highly public U.S. defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, U.K.-based Castle Fine Art sold out 780 Pop-inflected portraits by Johnny Depp from his so-called Friends & Heroes collection. The works depict people who have inspired Depp such as actor Elizabeth Taylor and Keith Richards. After the surprise announcement of the sale, Depps gallery made around 3 million in just a few hours, with individual works going for 3,950 ($4,800) and the portfolio of four images selling for 14,950 ($18,064). (BBC)

Sothebys Sells 77-Million-Year-Old Gorgosaurus For $6.1 Million Sothebys sold its Gorgosaurus skeleton for $6.1 million at its Natural History sale yesterday morning. The 10 foot tall and 22 foot long dino is a member of the Tyrannosaurid family and lived during the Late Cretaceous period around 77 million years ago. (Press release)

Lisson Appoints New Beijing Director Theresa Liang has been named as Lissons Beijing-based gallery director. The Beijing space is set to open next month with an inaugural exhibition of Anish Kapoor. Previously, Liang was the director of the Long March Space, and studied fine art at Londons Slade. (Press release)

Frick Honored for Diverse Hiring Practices New Yorks mayor Eric Adams has awarded the Frick with the Sapolin Accessibility Award for Employment for hiring people with disabilities. The museums staff includes two neurodiverse individuals working as librarians, a third who works in the museum shop, and a Deaf housekeeper. (The Art Newspaper)

Dallas Museum Appoints First Person of Color to Lead Board The Dallas Museum of Art has named Gowri Natarajan Sharma the new president of its board of directors, making her the first person of color to hold the position in nearly 120 years. Sharma, an architectural advisor to her familys business, is currently a member of the museums acquisition committee, and has been on the board since 2017. (ARTnews)

De Sarthe Is Opening in Arizona Hong Kong gallery De Sarthe is opening a by appointment gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, at 7507 E. McDonald Dr. It opens today with an exhibition of artists Mak2 and Zhong Wei, with works by Ma Sibo, Rick Levinson, and Zak Smith on view in the back room. (Press release)

Saudi Arabia Is Planning 100-Mile-Long Mirrored Megacity Saudi Arabia has released imagery of plans for a jaw-dropping futuristic urban utopia based around two enormous mirror-encased skyscrapers that will stretch 100 miles across desert and mountain terrain. Dubbed the Line, the vast complex aims to provide homes for some 9 million people. (Guardian)

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Access to Abortion

Stephania Taladrids piece about a Texas teen-ager seeking an abortion is deeply disturbing (An Abortion Odyssey, June20th). Laura, as she was called, at least had the support of a parent who was willing to drive hundreds of miles and spend upward of a thousand dollars to help her. But, in more than two-thirds of states, when pregnant minors dont have parental consent for an abortion, the laws require them to go before a court to obtain an order authorizing one. In the best of times, the judicial-bypass procedure is traumatizing. In a post-Dobbs world, in which obtaining an abortion may mean travelling to another state, many pregnant minors will face the additional obstacle of having to get a court order there. Teens who lack parental support will thus be unable to end their pregnancies lawfully and safely; inevitably, many will resort to dangerous self-help methods instead.

Barbara AtwoodProfessor EmeritaJames E. Rogers College of LawUniversity of ArizonaTucson, Ariz.

I appreciated Louis Menands detailing of Yoko Onos artistic career (The Grapefruit Artist, June20th). About the intertwining of Onos and John Lennons work, Menand writes, Ono herself admitted that together we hurt each others career and position just by being with each other and just by being us. How true is that? As a co-author of a biography about Ono (Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies), I believe that Onos statement is very true. In the nineteen-sixties and seventies, it may not have been apparent that romancing a pop star threatened Onos credibility. But Lennons celebrity meant that Ono could no longer come and go quietly on the avant-garde stage. (Picture Marina Abramovi running off with Justin Bieber, and youve got the idea.) Ono struggled with questions about whether her art was evaluated on its own merits or because her partner was famousno small source of regret for someone forging her own artistic voice.

Nell BeramCambridge, Mass.

Thanks to Alex Ross for bringing attention to Germanys opera scene and the state of arts funding in the country (Musical Events, June 20th). As he notes, Public funding makes this quasi-utopia possible. Germany also allows taxpayers to deduct up to twenty per cent of their taxable income for charitable contributions, including those to opera houses, and to carry excess contributions into future tax years. (In much of the E.U., such deductions are limited to ten percent.) As a result, most of Germanys opera houses have a Frderverein, or friends group, whose aim is to support new productions and nurture young singers.

J. Patrick TruhnBerlin, Germany

I was heartened by Rebecca Meads article about the theatre director Robert Icke (A Hamlet for Our Time, June13th). Having worked in theatre for decades, I, too, believe in looking at what is in the text instead of projecting ideas onto it. Icke poses brilliant questions about Ophelia in Hamlet, and his inventive staging deepens our understanding of her character, her madness, and her relationship with the tortured prince. When I studied in London, in 1977, I asked my teacher Judith Gick for her best advice about staging Shakespeare. Remember he is writing about real people, she said. This seems to be precisely Ickes approach.

Randi Jean KleinSanta Fe, N.M.

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Its hard to tell stories about utopia. What can you tell stories about in a perfect world? Turns out, immense questions of human frailty and potential.

AMC+ has an early gem in Moonhaven, a sci-fi series premised around a dying planet Earth and a Moon colony, Moonhaven, designed to develop both a technology and a society to save itbut a colony safe from the brutality and poisons of Earth. Three generations in, the colony is composed of utopians who have been raised to think of nothing but bringing their perfection to the suffering Mother Earth.

Earth is a polluted Blade-Runner urban hellscape, clearly devouring itself, with a populace of gas-masked inhabitants waiting for the slow, eventual salvation of future generations through AI. That autonomous, self-learning AI, called IO, designed and effectively rules the moon colony. Although there is human leadership, IO decides when the leadership comes and goes, as the intellectual property of a group called ICON.

IO is fluent in the history of our mistakes, says Indira Mare (Amara Karan), the human envoy of the AI. Those mistakes define humanitys future. But IO learns by observing the Mooners, what Indira calls the best of humanity: People who have never experienced true evil, true corruption, and greed.

Moonhaven itself is a finely imagined and realized science fiction setting: it is a forested, bucolic expanse, a kinetic and bohemian Eden with a plethora of art and very-unspace-like wooden architecture. The shows lead Moon character is Paul Sarno (Dominic Monaghan), a detective in a world where police are largely preoccupied with helping the relatives of victims heal emotionally from trauma. Together he and his partner Arlo (Kadeem Hardison)- a cheerful dreamer investigate the first murder in a long time in the moons history, a murder linked to an Earther pilot and combat veteran named Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), who is incidentally headed to the moon with Indira Mare herself as the Envoys pilot.

Bella is the shows central protagonist, and shes a fascinating and charming characterthe kind of spunky, gives-no-shits kind of strong female protagonist its very easy to mess up, especially by trying too hard to make her both bitchy and lovable. Shes one of those capable, secretive, intuitive POV characters that works well both as lens and a distinct personality.

Slowly, the show builds and builds the stakes and complexity of the Moon and Earths relationship, one an increasingly reluctant savior and one reluctant to be saved. Change is a pressurized impossibility at every turn. Darker and darker twists emerge.

The setting is as fascinating as the story. The differences of language and cultural nuances in Moonhaven are precise and pervasive. Its incredible worldbuilding, with the settings complexities and imperfections on display. There are design choices that feel novel but intuitive. Each small device and technology has been carefully imagined in a way that its very difficult not to admire. From costume design to interior decorating to music players to instruments, from social concepts to linguistics, Moonhaven is a true sci-fi vision.

Not to overstate things by invoking the great Le Guin, but the closest thing I could compare the rendered cultural difference to is the opening conversation in The Left Hand of Darkness, when the Earth-born representative of a galactic collective speaks with an official of a planet reluctant to join. The representative slowly begins to realize that even after years of study, he does not understand the person he is speaking with. A divide of logic and purpose as well as lightyears stand between them. The realization sets up the books mode of acceptance and possibility: different modes of being are at play simultaneously, and the audience has to be ready to recognize and expand with new perspectives.

Moonhaven accomplishes the best of science fiction without the weight of pretentiousness or self-importance. Its honestly a treat. Some critical responses have been dismissive, but theres always some innate silliness to sci-fi that makes it tempting to be cynical of the shows high-concept aims. So yeah, it wont be for everybody. But give it a shot.

The first season is now streaming on AMC+, with the first episode free with an Amazon Prime subscription.

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CHICAGO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A first-of-its-kind test could make it easier for newborns to get care for spinal muscular atrophy, a common genetic disease that is life-threatening but treatable if caught in time. Findings on this method and a second innovative test that could improve diagnosis of pediatric urinary tract infections (UTIs) will be discussed today at the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo.

Increasing Access to Spinal Muscular Atrophy Testing Spinal muscular atrophy is the leading inherited cause of infant death after cystic fibrosis, and early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to giving affected newborns the best chances at healthy lives. However, most newborn screening panels that use next-generation sequencing (NGS) do not detect this condition. The most common form of spinal muscular atrophy is caused by an abnormal version of the gene SMN1, which produces a protein essential to nerve cells involved in muscle movement. NGS panelswhich analyze hundreds of genes for disease-causing changestypically exclude SMN1 because of difficulty distinguishing it from another gene known as SMN2. The two differ only in a small spot.

Gustavo Barcelos Barra, PhD, and colleagues at Sabin Medicina Diagnostica in Brasilia, Brazil, developed a NGS panel that detects a mutationin that small spot on the SMN1 gene that causes spinal muscular atrophy. Using this NGS panel, they tested 52 DNA samples from spinal muscular atrophy patients, then compared the results to those from a single-gene PCR test (a widely used method for diagnosing this condition). After eliminating four samples for technical reasons, the researchers found that panel results for SMN1 and the single-gene test agreed in all cases.

Including spinal muscular atrophy on NGS panels means that "parents do not have to look for an additional test for [this condition]," said Barra. He added that his innovation would save laboratories from performing an extra test for spinal muscular atrophy along with NGS newborn screening.

Identifying Children's UTIs QuicklyUTIs are common in children and when left untreated, they can cause acute distress, septic shock, and even kidney damage. The gold standard for diagnosing UTIs, thoughurine cultureis slow and labor-intensive for laboratory staff, leading doctors to sometimes inappropriately prescribe antibiotics before getting results. This is a serious issue that is contributing to the rise of antibiotic resistance.

A team led by Jingcai Wang, MD, PhD, of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio,is the first group of researchers to show that a faster method for diagnosing UTIs in adults could also work in children. Known as UTOPIA, this method uses urinalysis results and other variables to predict UTIs, and delivers answers well before the 2-3 days needed for culture results.

In order to evaluate this method's performance in children, the researchers used it to analyze data from the medical records of 5,353 children who previously underwent both urinalysis and urine culture for UTI. For each of these patients, the researchers entered their age, sex, risk for UTI, and urinalysis results into UTOPIA's algorithm to see how accurately it predicted their urine culture results.

Based on receiver operating curve (ROC) value, UTOPIA predicted positive urine culture results more accurately than any individual variable did on its own. The algorithm's ROC value was 0.825, versus values for individual variables, which ranged from 0.546 to 0.776. The closer the ROC value is to 1, the more accurate the testing strategy, Wang explained.

"UTOPIA is a simple way to predict urine culture results. You get quicker diagnosis of UTI and prevent potential kidney damage," Wang said. "It can potentially reduce unnecessary urine cultures, save money, and reduce use of unnecessary antibiotics in children."

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Abstract A-155: Incorporating spinal muscular atrophy screening by next-generation sequencing into a comprehensive multigene panel for newborn sequencing: a pilot evaluation will be presented during:

Scientific Poster SessionTuesday, July 269:30 a.m. 5 p.m. (presenting author in attendance from 1:30 2:30 p.m.)

Abstract B-243: Evaluation of a prediction algorithm value in predicting positive urine culture in pediatrics: a retrospective cohort study at Nationwide Children's Hospital will be presented during:

Scientific Poster SessionWednesday, July 279:30 a.m. 5 p.m. (presenting author in attendance from 1:30 2:30 p.m.)

Both sessions will take place in the Poster Hall of the Clinical Lab Expo show floor at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.

About the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab ExpoThe AACC Annual Scientific Meeting offers 5 days packed with opportunities to learn about exciting science from July 24-28. Plenary sessions will explore artificial intelligence-based clinical prediction models, advances in multiplex technologies, human brain organogenesis, building trust between the public and healthcare experts, and direct mass spectrometry techniques.

At the AACC Clinical Lab Expo, more than 750 exhibitors will fill the show floor of the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago with displays of the latest diagnostic technology, including but not limited to COVID-19 testing, artificial intelligence, mobile health, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, point-of-care, and automation.

About AACCDedicated to achieving better health through laboratory medicine, AACC brings together more than 70,000 clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory science. Since 1948, AACC has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more information, visit http://www.aacc.org.

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Remember when all those IDIOTS said New York City was dead?!? Well name another city on the planet where you can live in a rap video and ride anywhere in the capital of the world for $2.75? You can't.

Those utopia memes seem like a cool place when you take a quick glance at them.

But as an Old that watched enough of the Jetsons growing up, I realize that flying cars and cities in the sky aren't all they're cracked up to be. Give me this very real 2022 with young ladies dancing on slip n slides, liquor being poured down the throats of random strangers, and Captain America getting caught red handed being the person recording the whole damn thing since we all saw his shield in the background on what his hometown L train growing up.

Giphy Images.

Yeah, I see you trying to be slick Steve-O. You may be able to take the kid out of Brooklyn but you can't take the Brooklyn out of the kid, even though there is something inherently beautiful about America's ass filming American asses in a video that proves New York is #BACK which ipso facto means America is #BACK.

Truth be told, I didn't think I'd end up talking about the MCU when I started this blog. But it just feels right.

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Sometimes there are moments when history passes us by, when an event of great importance gets buried in the third or fourth page of our Tuesday morning newspaper, behind stories of the presidents latest faux pas or a movie stars new baby. We will invariably look back and ask ourselves how it happened, how something so monumental got drowned in the 24/7 news cycle.

I get the sense that history passed us by this week when Russia announced on Tuesday that it would withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of the decade. Russias announcement is the latest in a death by a million cuts for the aging and increasingly expensive-to-maintain spacecraft, so it doesnt come out of nowhere.

But that doesnt change the importance of Russias withdrawal. The International Space Station was always about more than that particular hunk of metal in low-Earth orbit.

Like most kids, I had a phase in elementary school where I got really excited about outer space and enthusiastically set off to memorize every factoid I could find about Jupiters moons (now numbering 80, but only 64 of them had been discovered at the time). Space was quite literally a never-ending mystery that expanded every day, and we humans were just beginning to explore its vast cosmic reaches. A new era of human history had begun in the past century, one that people would still look back and learn about in hundreds, maybe thousands, of years.

The International Space Station was one of that centurys crowning achievements, primarily because of the vision that it stood for. It symbolized the legacy of U.S.-Soviet space cooperation, the promise of a post-Cold War world and a vision of space as the common inheritance of humanity. The I.S.S. showed a generation of young people that outer space was a place for all of us, a place where every country could come together, no matter their squabbles and disagreements on Earth.

That idealistic vision seems all but dead now, as a generation of international research in space across geopolitical lines gives way to commercialization and tribalism. The Russian space agency Roscosmos and NASA will surely launch their own new missions into space after this saga is through, and when those spacecraft go up, they will be launching into a vastly different outer space, one that may eventually be visited more frequently by the world's latest billionaire of the week and maybe eventhe U.S. Space Force.

I cannot help but feel a deep sense of tragedy at this sign of the death of international cooperation in the face of our common challenges and new frontiers. After all, outer space isnt the only realm where this 20th-century idealism seems to be dying. Take arms control. Bit by bit, the 21st century has watched the erosion of nuclear control measures like the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which the Trump administration scuttled in 2019. The steady pace of disarmament over the past few decades has stalled significantly, and most nuclear powers are now expanding their arsenals.

The spirit of international cooperation, though it may have lost some of its gleam in our more cynical times, is still the best expression in our modern age of what Catholic principles of solidarity look like, and its the vision of human fraternity that Pope Francis has spent his entire pontificate working to resuscitate. Francis seems to have been prophetic when he lamented in Fratelli Tutti that [i]n todays world, the sense of belonging to a single human family is fading, and the dream of working together for justice and peace seems an outdated utopia. What reigns instead is a cool, comfortable and globalized indifference, born of deep disillusionment concealed behind a deceptive illusion: thinking that we are all-powerful, while failing to realize that we are all in the same boat.

Seen through the lens of that central problemour lack of solidarityso much of what Pope Francis is doing comes into view. His work to negotiate the end of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, his focus on environmental action, his refusal to take sides in the Russia-Ukraine War, his work to lift up non-European voices in the Curia, and so much more.They all come down to the same visiona firm commitment to viewing the world as one family, in spite of and across political or cultural differences. The pope sees a world where international cooperation is fragmenting and is trying to offer a different path forward.

I am sure that if Pope Francis pontificate had an official playlist (it does have an unofficial one, by the way), Russians, by Sting, would be on it. A classic Cold War protest song, its lyrics bear a haunting relevance on our modern world: We share the same biology/ regardless of ideology/ Believe me when I say to you/ I hope the Russians love their children too.

The I.S.S., in all likelihood, is dead, and that should be a wake-up call for everyone committed to the vision of human solidarity for which it stood. There are still so many common challenges we all facea global arms race, a climate crisis, the rise of a digital world and our own fragmenting sense of human solidarity.

Our century has to once again come up with answers to all of these problems and more. Are we going to solve those problems together, or are we going to let them splinter us further apart?

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As the next Hennepin County attorney, I have two major priorities: to rebuild trust and to restore effectiveness in the office. Yes, the plan is that simple. I am not a politician, and I had never imagined running for political office after more than 20 years as a prosecutor, deputy city attorney and district judge. Then, in 2020, the world changed.

First, George Floyd was murdered. That nine-minute video affected me deeply. I was depressed. I had a familiar feeling after 60 years in this country as a Black person: Things still haven't gotten better for us. My colleagues and I tried to put out a statement, but we were prohibited from doing so as judges.

Then the Minneapolis City Council pledged to "defund and dismantle" the police. I lived in north Minneapolis in the early 1990s. I know what it's like being neglected by public servants including police. We are left to solve our problems on our own. It is not the utopia that these young activists envisioned when they attempted to stand in solidarity with my community at Powderhorn Park. But as a judge, I had to be careful, so I held my tongue publicly for the next year.

One weekend the following summer, four people were shot within a mile of my house, one of them was a young child. There were no protesters, no TV coverage, just an article on an inside page of the newspaper. Around that time, I decided it was time to get off the sidelines and run for Hennepin County attorney.

I am new to politics, but I thought politicians were supposed to be accountable to the voices of regular people in the community. Even in the midst of a record violent crime surge, not a single state legislator in Minneapolis came out against the failed ballot question that grew out of the Minneapolis City Council's pledge to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. This charter amendment, supposedly advanced on my behalf as a Black person, lost 64-36 in my neighborhood and 2-0 in my household. Our politicians, once again, listened to a few loud voices over the majority. They are out of touch with reality.

When we had fully staffed police departments and a low rate of crime, Hennepin County voters were pushing for the county attorney to prioritize criminal justice reform over all other goals. And I was, too. But the real-life circumstances have changed.

In 2009, we had seven homicides in north Minneapolis. Last year, there were 46.

Unbeknown to many outside the criminal justice system, Minnesota and especially Hennepin County already takes one of the most progressive approaches to prosecution anywhere in the country. We have the fourth-lowest incarceration rate in the country.

I believe that our more lenient approach to prosecution is good as long as we fulfill our core responsibilities as prosecutors and law enforcement. Over the last two years, we have not. Car thieves know they will be released on the same day without bail; juvenile carjackers have nowhere to be placed for short-term detention or treatment, and dozens of homicides in Minneapolis from 2021 remain unsolved. And our leaders stood on a stage and told the world that we would end policing in Minneapolis. Since the murder of George Floyd, many criminals have heard the message that we don't care about their actions, and they have acted accordingly.

My first priority right now is to restore the effectiveness of the office by emphasizing our core responsibility: swift, effective and fair prosecution. And we need to send a clear message that we care about crime and that we will prosecute. We should also give people who make mistakes second chances, bolster alternatives to incarceration and continue the fight for reform.

My second priority is rebuilding trust in the office. We need to rebuild trust with everyone: law enforcement, public defenders and, most important, community members. You cannot accomplish your mission without the support of your partners.

While other candidates talk about this work, I've actually done it. We brought crime down from "Murderapolis" highs in the late 1990s to record lows in the early 2000s by getting the police and the prosecutors into the community. We might not have made the headlines, but our work was extremely successful in terms of both building trust and effectively lowering the rate of crime. I'm confident that we can do it again if the next Hennepin County attorney holds the effectiveness of the office above their own political agenda. This is an important job. Let's take it seriously.

Martha Holton Dimick is a former assistant Hennepin County attorney, former deputy Minneapolis city attorney and former Fourth District judge. She is one of seven candidates in the nonpartisan race for Hennepin County attorney. The top two finishers in the Aug. 9 primary will move on to the general election in November.

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The Old Vic and Sonia Friedman Productions have announced the cast and creative team for Jonathan Spector's multi award-winning Eureka Day, which has its European premiere at The Old Vic this September, directed by Katy Rudd (The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Camp Siegfried).

Joining the previously announced Academy, Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets, The Sessions, Mad About You) are Kirsten Foster (Life of Pi, The Sandman) as May, Mark McKinney (The Kids in the Hall, Superstore) as Don, Ben Schnetzer (The Book Thief, Pride) as Eli and Susan Kelechi Watson (This is Us, A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood) as Carina.

Set against the backdrop of a mumps outbreak at a progressive private elementary school in California in 2017, Eureka Day is a satire on the quest for consensus; the central question of 'to vaccinate' or 'not to vaccinate' taking on a whole new meaning in 2022.

The creative team are also announced with Set and Costume by Rob Howell, Lighting by Jon Clark, Sound by Donato Wharton, Video by Andrzej Goulding, Music by Jherek Bischoff, Casting by Jim Carnahan, Voice by Charlie Hughes-D'Aeth and Dialect by Penny Dyer. The Baylis Assistant Director is Aaliyah Mckay.

Eureka Day will play from 06 September to 31 October 2022 at The Old Vic.

Every child is welcomed at the progressive Eureka Day school in Berkeley, California - it's a point of pride for the parents on the Executive Committee.But when a public health scare erupts, it turns out tolerance and togetherness are no match for mumps...In Jonathan Spector's timely and hysterical comedy, polite debate descends into ideological warfare, as a democratic utopia tears itself apart.

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Warriors in Rush Duel, Prediction Princess, and Traptrix!

[RUSH DUEL] New Product Deck: Warrior Deck Talismanic Warrior Migangai

3 Yamiruler the Dark Delayer2 Kimeruler the Dark Raider1 Semeruler the Dark Summoner2 Kimeluna the Lunar Dark Raider3 Talismanic Warrior Miganagi3 Talismanic Warrior Shitotsu3 Mezame the August Awakener3 Talismanic Warrior Sakakaze3 Pierce-Enforcing Brave3 Amazing Dealer2 Siesta Torero

3 Trade-In2 Rulers Current2 Avian Spell Strategy

1 Mirror Force (LEGEND)1 Imptailing Crisis1 Trap Lid1 Not Exactly Kappa Rocket Science1 Mask of Good Omens

Prediction Princess Deck

3 Prediction Princess Tarotrei2 Nether Prediction Princess Tarotreith1 Impcantation Chalislime1 Cyber Angel Benten2 Prediction Princess Bibliomuse2 Prediction Princess Coinorma1 Pot of The Forbidden1 Deus X-Krawler1 Summoner of Illusions3 Impcantation Talismandra3 Impcantation Candoll1 Impcantation Penciplume3 Diviner of the Herald1 Honest

3 Pre-Preparation of Rites3 Prediction Ritual3 Nether Prediction Ritual1 Harpies Feather Duster2 Foolish Burial Goods

2 Black Cat-astrophe1 Star-Crossed Meeting

2 Mereologic Aggregator1 Nine-Lives Cat1 The First Darklord1 Eldlich the Mad Golden Lord1 Naturia Exterio2 Elder Entity Ntss2 Herald of the Arc Light1 Accesscode Talker1 Powercode Talker1 Knightmare Unicorn1 Cross-Sheep1 I:P Masquerena

Traptrix Deck

Bring out Rank 4 Monsters, et al.

3 Traptrix Myrmeleo3 Traptrix Dionaea3 Traptrix Mantis2 Traptrix Vesiculo1 Traptrix Atrax1 Traptrix Genlisea1 Traptrix Nepenthes2 Dogmatika Ecclesia, the Virtuous1 Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Knighted3 Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring3 Maxx C1 Lord of the Heavenly Prison

2 Lightning Storm2 Called by the Grave

2 Floodgate Trap Hole2 Bottomless Trap Hole2 Gravediggers Trap Hole2 Solemn Judgment3 The Phantom Knights of Shade Brigandine3 Infinite Impermanence1 Dogmatika Punishment

3 Traptrix Sera1 Traptrix Cularia1 Traptrix Rafflesia2 Traptrix Allomerus1 I:P Masquerena1 Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax1 Time Thief Redoer1 Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS Sky Thunder1 Number 39: Utopia1 Number C39: Utopia Ray1 Number S39: Utopia the Lightning1 Elder Entity Ntss

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