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VisionSpring's CEO Ella Gudwin describes Scott's support as a "big win" for the sector. "This is believed to be the largest, single private donation towardsolving the problem of uncorrected blurry vision as a poverty intervention," she says.

Most notable in Scott's gifts is the lack of any reporting requirements, something that nonprofit workers like Water For People's Williford heartily welcome.

"People don't realize how much time organizations spend on allocating restricted resources. A lot of people say, 'I want to make sure my money goes only to programming, not to overhead.' " But, she says that overhead is important — it's "salaries, fundraising and keeping lights on."

She also says that it is common for donors to have specific geographic preferences for their gift.

"If you get different restrictions, you are constantly having to reallocate resources and reserves."

Bubb says that an unrestricted approach is a blow against bureaucracy.

"Philanthropic foundations have been far too process-driven, deciding what's best for charities and making them jump through hoops with over-elaborate application arrangements."
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Jury Awards Idaho Drag Queen $1.1M After Far-Right Blogger Doctors Video To Claim She “Exposed Genitals”

I am absolutely shocked that a conservative blogger (a self-proclaimed Christian) would maliciously edit a video to support her ideology. Is it too late for the GOP to regain their grand ole party?

The day of Posey’s performance, June 11, 2022, Bushnell posted a video of herself discussing the mass arrest of Patriot Front members near City Park, as well as footage from Posey’s performance. “Why did no one arrest the man in a dress who flashed his genitalia to minors and people in the crowd?” she said in the video. “No one said anything about it and there’s video. I’m going to put up a blurred video to prove it.”

The next day, Bushnell published an edited video she had received from local videographer Jeremy Lokken. Bushnell told others that the blur concealed “fully exposed genitals” and urged people to contact police. The edited video garnered many thousands of views, sparking national news coverage and a police investigation. City prosecutors ultimately declined to file charges and stated publicly that the unedited video showed no exposure.

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BIG baseball tourney: Iowa screwed again . . . It was NOT interference (And it was NOT a fair catch)

Wow. What is it about Iowa. Football, basketball, baseball, Iowa grads in the WNBA . . .

Today, it was the Big Ten Tourney. Iowa trails Illinois 4-2 in the bottom of the tenth, but the Hawkeyes have the bases loaded and nobody out. A ground ball is fielded and thrown to second for the force with the relay to first way late while the runner from third scores to make it 4-3, one out, and runners on first and third.

But NO. Wait. The umpire called interference at second base even though, as the TV guys said, the play was routine in every possible way. The slide was straight into the bag, and the Hawkeye runner made no contact of any kind with anybody. But not to worry because the obviously wrong call will be overturned on review . . .

But NO. The crazy, ridiculous, horrible call was CONFIRMED! After Head Coach Rick Heller argues and is thrown out, of course, the next Iowa batter strikes out. Game over.

Iowa gave the game away to Michigan yesterday, and today they were outright robbed by an inexplicable call, even after review, that can only be compared to the TD that was taken away from Iowa and Cooper DeJean against Minnesota that cost Iowa the game. It was NOT a fair catch, and it was NOT interference.

Beth Goetz had better raise hell about what happened today because it was plain incompetence or bias or both. The evidence is clear.

An Indian woman accused her husband of forcing her to have ‘unnatural sex.’ A judge said that’s not a crime in marriage

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An Indian judge has dismissed a woman’s complaint that her husband committed “unnatural sex,” because under Indian law it’s not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts.

The ruling, made in the Madhya Pradesh High Court last week, shines a light on a legal loophole in India that doesn’t criminalize marital rape by a husband against his wife, if she’s over age 18.

Campaigners have been trying to change the law for years, but they say they’re up against conservatives who argue that state interference could destroy the tradition of marriage in India.

A challenge to the law has been winding its way through the country’s courtrooms, with the Delhi High Court delivering a split verdict on the issue in 2022, prompting lawyers to file an appeal in the country’s Supreme Court that is still waiting to be heard.
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According to the Madhya Pradesh High Court order, the woman told police her husband came to her house in 2019, soon after they were married, and committed “unnatural sex,” under Section 377 of India’s penal code.

The offense includes non-consensual “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal,” and was historically used to prosecute same sex couples who engaged in consensual sex, before the Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality in 2018

According to court documents, the woman alleged the act happened “on multiple occasions,” and that her husband had threatened to divorce her if she told anyone about it. She finally came forward after telling her mother, who encouraged her to file a complaint in 2022, the court heard.

The husband challenged his wife’s complaint in court, with his lawyer claiming that any “unnatural sex” between the couple was not criminal as they are married.

Delivering his judgement, Justice Gurpal Singh Ahluwalia pointed to India’s marital rape exemption, which does not make it a crime for a man to force sex on his wife, a relic of British rule more than 70 years after independence.

“When rape includes insertion of penis in the mouth, urethra or anus of a woman and if that act is committed with his wife, not below the age of fifteen years, then consent of the wife becomes immaterial … Marital rape has not been recognized so far,” the judge said.

India’s Supreme Court increased marital consent from the age of 15 to 18 in a landmark judgement in 2017.

The woman also accused her in-laws of mental and physical harassment “on account of nonfulfilment of demand of dowry,” the court order said. A trial is pending.

Ahluwalia’s remarks have once again raised questions over India’s treatment of women, who continue to face the threat of violence and discrimination in the deeply patriarchal society.

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The world’s largest democracy of 1.4 billion has made significant strides in enacting laws to better safeguard women, but lawyers and campaigners say its reluctance to criminalize marital rape leaves women without adequate protection.

According to the 2019-2021 National Family Health Survey by the Government of India, 17.6% of more than 100,000 women ages 15-49 surveyed said they were unable to say no to their husband if they didn’t want sex, while 11% thought husbands were justified in hitting or beating his wife if she refused.

Woke Mind Virus - UCLA Medical School version

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“the admissions committee gives black and Latino applicants a pass for subpar metrics, four people who served on it said, while whites and Asians need near perfect scores to even be considered.”


Idiocracy is real and is being caused by Liberals.

Bizarro World.

Fontana pays $900,000 settlement after police interrogate man for 17 hours

After 17 hours of interrogation, Thomas Perez Jr. was in the throes of a complete mental breakdown as Fontana police detectives continued to grill him about his supposedly dead father.

"We just told you we found your dead dad, and you don't give a [expletive]," one of the detectives said.

Spiraling and looking for relief, Perez Jr. finally broke down and gave detectives what they wanted: a murder confession. Except there was one problem: the victim, his own father, was still alive.

"The worst act of deliberate cruelty that I've seen suing the police for 40 years," Perez's attorney, Jerry Steering, said. "I've never seen the cops be that cruel to someone."

The horrifying ordeal unfolded in 2018 but was finalized in 2024 after Steering secured a nearly $900,000 settlement from the city of Fontana for Perez Jr.

Six years ago, Perez contacted the police to report his father missing after an argument at their family home. When police searched the house, investigators discovered Perez Sr.'s wallet, cell phone and even some blood stains. A K9 also alerted police to the odor of possible human remains.

With this in mind, detectives unleashed an unrelenting line of questioning on Perez Jr., constantly badgering him about his father's alleged death until the psychological effects of hours of grilling took their toll on the man.

After viciously pulling on his hair and ripping his shirt, Perez Jr. made a false confession to killing his father. In reality, 71-year-old Perez Sr. was alive. He went to his girlfriend's home but didn't have his cell phone.

"I never thought that it was easy — maybe even possible to get a completely innocent person to confess to something like that," Steering said. "After I watched the video and watched the interrogation of Tom Perez, what I divined is that they could get you and I to confess to killing Abe Lincoln if they wanted to."

The marathon inquisition perpetrated by the Fontana Police Department was described as pure psychological torture.

"It's unbelievable. They're not amateurs, and they know what they're doing, and they know how to do it," Steering said.

Steering said even when detectives learned his father was alive, they didn't tell Perez Jr. Instead, they placed him on a psychiatric hold.

"Once they learned this, instead of telling him that ... they 5150 him," Steering said. "They place him on a civil protective custody hold, have him taken to the mental hospital, and then they tell the hospital that he's in custody and they can't have anybody contacting him."

KCAL News contacted Fontana police and the city of Fontana before the end of the business day on Friday but did not hear back.

Please advise

I have been single for some time now. I had hoped to reconcile with a no pic x but apparently that ship has sailed. I’m in my late 40’s have no desire to use an app to meet a potential partner.

My no pic neighbor is roughly my age, smart, social and quite attractive. Since I know that any chance of reconciliation with my x is essentially gone, I have thought about asking this woman to go for a walk, meet for a drink, etc. Here’s the rub, in my limited experience with her, she never shuts up. She was walking her dogs this morning, she saw me and stopped to chat. She talked for a half hour straight without taking a breath and the majority of the time, I had no clue wtf she was talking about.

So do I ask her to do something in hopes she has a different gear? Do I continue to wait for my x? Or do I move along and hope the right person is out there?

I’m expecting some well thought out, rational, sound advice from you knuckle dragging trogs. TIA.

Joseph Anderson- Stud Athlete

Just posting this mostly because I didn’t realize the size and athleticism of incoming football recruit- Joseph Anderson. Yesterday at his Sectional Track Meet, the 6’6 220+ pound Anderson went 14.38 in the 110 hurdles, 22’3 in the long jump, and over 49 feet in the Triple Jump 😳

That’s a huge kid to be accomplishing those marks, and obviously speaks to the athleticism he will be adding to the D Line room. Cant wait to see what Bell, Parker, and company can do with him!!

Fever's first win

Congrats to Caitlin Clark and Co. for collecting Indiana's first win of the season last night before a record crowd of over 19,000 in Los Angeles. There were a few remarkable elements involved in that game besides getting that first W:

* The officiating was fantastic. Not perfect, but it was one of the best officiated games I've ever seen on any level in a long time. Or did it just seem that way compared to the trash the WNBA has been putting out before last night . . . In any event, it was shocking and overdue. Let's hope for this kind of officiating becoming the norm, as it should.

* The lack of rugby-style play. Give LA credit for playing basketball instead of rugby. I'm pretty sure that helped make the game so well officiated. This, too, should be the norm.

* Caitlin should have had a triple double if her teammates could make a layup. Even so, she finished with 11 points, 10 rebounds, and 8 assists, and that last number should have been at least 12. In fact, last night CC led the Fever in rebounds, assists, and steals (4), and she was tied for blocks with 2. For those who didn't realize it, CC is a basketball player, not just a shooter.

* Despite having a seriously off night from three, CC played some tenacious defense, forced some TOs, and in addition to putting up the numbers above, she hit two of the biggest shots of the night . . . both long threes late in the game . . . to clinch the win for Indiana.

* There were signs, at times, that Indiana is beginning to figure out how CC plays and how they fit into that style. Of course, how she plays hasn't exactly been a secret, so maybe her teammates--and coaches--should have been far more prepared for her arrival.

* Finally, the TV announcers were the best, by far, we've heard in our brief WNBA experience.

And so maybe everyone can relax a little and Indiana can keep on winning, although tonight's quick turnaround @ Las Vegas should be a challenge. Tonight's game also will be a reunion for CC with Kate Martin and Megan Gustafson. As a result, I understand that Lisa Bluder and the entire Iowa women's coaching staff will be in Vegas to witness the game. Cool. I hope all three Iowa grads play well and that we see another clean, close, well-officiated, entertaining game.

Scholarship caps are eliminated?

It's talking about that latest ruling that allow NCAA athletes to get paid. Am I reading this right? I got this from the Gazette Online.

It also eliminates scholarship caps and adds NIL accountability measures. But most notably, the settlement paves the way for schools to pay athletes directly. More specifically, schools can set aside up to $21 million of their revenue to share with athletes.

Idaho jury awards $1.1 million to a drag performer in defamation case against a Karen

Eris Posey performed in a gay pride parade in Coeur D'Alene three years ago, and far right blogger Summer Bushnell posted a video claiming Posey had exposed himself to children, with blurred images covering his genital area. He did not expose himself as shown in unaltered video, and personal accounts. Posey received death threats after the claims of Bushnell went viral.
It's nice to see accountability, however, Bushnell still has the original video and claim on her Facebook page.
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