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Chinese Lawyer Tortured, Denied Access to Family and Attorneys for Over 6 Months A Chinese rights lawyer has said he’s been tortured and denied access to his family and attorneys for six months. Chang Weiping, who is well-known for representing vulnerable groups in China, is currently detained in a detention center in Feng County, Shaanxi Province. On May 4, human rights officials from the United States, the European Union, Germany, France, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands met in Beijing with Chang’s wife, Chen Zijuan, to express concern for the lawyer, according to a May 7 post by C...

Colby Chamberlain on the art of Dave McKenzie Bobblehead from Dave McKenzie’s While Supplies Last, 2003, performance, poly-resin figures, 7 × 2 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄2". “I KNOW YOU ARE DAVE, but who is Dave?” Sixteen years ago, in these pages, the artist Glenn Ligon recounted how a stranger once posed this question to Dave McKenzie’s face. Or rather, she posed it to a papier-mâché approximation of his face, which McKenzie wore while he handed out bobblehead figurines of himself during an opening at SculptureCenter in New York. Ligon floated a fe...

Midstream Marvels: An ETF Strategy for the Low-Rate Landscape April 20, 2021 In a stubbornly low interest-rate environment, investors are seeking out alternative avenues to generate extra yield. Midstream energy companies and master limited partnerships are two of the more credible asset classes in this arena. In the upcoming webcast, Midstream Marvels: An ETF Strategy for the Low-Rate Landscape, John Love, President and Chief Executive Officer, USCF; and John Cusick, Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst, Miller/Howard Investments, will dive deeply into the midstream energy market and ou...

Apr 7, 2021 12:38pm An usher blocks a delivery robot during an outdoor evening dance concert at James Madison University in Virginia. The robots are often seen delivering food and drinks to students in nearby dorms, crossing through the walkway space at the edge of a grassy quad. (unknown)   One idyllic spring evening on the picturesque quad of James Madison University in Virginia, a modern dance concert graced passersby and students lounging on the grass, many glad to be outside and away from the confines of the pandemic. As expected, 21 dancers wearing masks used part of the grassy space a...

The funniest thing happened at the silly last day of the dumb impeachment show trial. House Democrat impeachment managers tried a last-minute ploy to get more attention on themselves, and the Senate didn’t fall for it. Schumer and the Dems folded, Republicans got their way, and there will be no witnesses. And then Twitter literally melted. I mean, there was a sticky goo where the left used to be. Total brain exploding. You’ll have to excuse my using embedded tweets here, because this is WAY too funny to miss out on. They’re calling for Schumer’s head.