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When Scott Jamison is teaching children about crime scene investigation or sharing his telecommunications skills at the Childrens Museum of Oak Ridge, he arrives with a smile that shows his selflessness and generosity.

Jamison recently received the Museums annual Friend of the Child Award for volunteering his business and telecommunications skills, as well as his teaching skills, when the staff seeks his help.

When Scott walks in the door, frequently responding to urgent pleas for help, there is only one desire and that is to make things work, said Ronnie Bogard, the former Museum board member who presented the award to Jamison.

The award is presented in memory of Selma Shapiro, Bogards mother and the Museums executive director for its first 31 years. With her vision and resourcefulness, Shapiro built the Museum from a its single-room beginnings to fill a former school building.

The award was established to honor an individual who has contributed in a big way to the success of the Museum.

Scott exemplifies dedication to the Museum, Bogard said in presenting the award. He served on the board from 2009-2015, continues as an Advisory Board member, and perhaps most importantly, he supports the telecommunications needs of the Museum.

He makes us feel that we are the most important customer and friend that he has. He has used his talents as a businessman to help prepare a business plan and advise us as needed, Bogard added. Last but not least, Scott is a teacher, and what could be more fitting for our Museum than someone who gives of his time to teach our classes.

Jamison owns Access America, a local and long distance telephone service and internet service company started by his father 38 years ago in Oak Ridge. With a PhD degree from University of Tennessee in genetics, Jamison did molecular biology research in Cincinnati before returning in 1995 to join the family business.

He donates his time to work on phone, internet and alarm systems at the Childrens Museum. Most recently, he served as a technical consultant as the Museums Gala, a major fund-raising event, went virtual for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He has helped with the Gala a number of years, last year building a database that helped Museum staff with completing sales for those who bought Gala auction items.

Jamison uses his genetics background in teaching a week-long Imagination Station Summer Camp called CSI Bodies.

The Museum operates with an incredibly small and dedicated staff. That makes it a pleasure to volunteer here, Jamison said. I enjoy helping out. There are always people here donating their time all kinds of people giving time. They are the unsung heroes of the Childrens Museum.

Bogard recalled that her mother had a passion for impacting the lives of children and families through the Museum, and she had a vision that the Museum would focus on intergenerational learning.

She wanted families to know the full history of Oak Ridge; she wanted children to be exposed to a broad range of cultures; and she wanted to showcase the arts, often through local artists, Bogard said. She knew that learning should go beyond the classroom, and she wanted the Museum to teach our children how to think beyond themselves and to have fun while doing so.

Shapiro understood the necessity of having volunteers augment a small but talented staff.

She grew those connections, Bogard said, making each one of them feel special, while bringing their expertise and associations into the circle of dedication that surrounds and lifts up this Museum.

In honor of the Friend of the Child Award, and in memory of Selma Shapiro, the Shapiro family presented a $1,000 gift to the Childrens Museum.

The Childrens Museum, at 461 West Outer Drive in Oak Ridge, is open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and from 1 until 4 p.m. Sundays. Museum admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors ages 62 and older, and $6 for children ages 3 through 18. Admission is discounted by $1 in each category while some exhibits are temporarily closed. Admission is free for children under three and museum members.

For more information, see the Childrens Museum website at http://childrensmuseumofoakridge.org/ or call (865) 482-1074.

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Crime scene investigation work is being undertaken at a sealed off property on Dore Road, Dore, after a gun was fired at the house last night.

The alarm was raised at around 7pm when a window was damaged in the gun attack.

Nobody at the property was injured.

This morning the driveway of the detached property is taped off and under police guard.

Dore Road is one of the most exclusive postcodes in Sheffield.

South Yorkshire Police said: Detectives are investigating after shots were fired towards a property in Dore, Sheffield, yesterday evening.

Shortly after 7pm, its believed two shots were fired at a house on Dore Road, causing damage to a window.

Nobody was injured in the incident and a police cordon remains in place while officers carry out enquiries.

Call 101 and quote incident 854 of February 18.

In these confusing and worrying times, local journalism is more vital than ever. Thanks to everyone who helps us ask the questions that matter by taking out a digital subscription or buying a paper. We stand together. Nancy Fielder, editor.

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While I was teaching, one of my students asked if I had seen Cybergeddon, a film distributed by Yahoo! in 2012. I had not, so I decided it would be fun for VERT to watch the film and review it, since my hobby is writing film reviews for RotundReviews.

Cybergeddon is not talked about as much as it should be given some of the background around it. It should be noted that while well reference it as a film, it was originally distributed as a web series comprised of nine episodes and then later merged into a film. The film was distributed by Yahoo! and sponsored by Norton, which provided actual virus code to add to the films realism. The film was produced with a budget of $6M, which is pretty much the same budget that Donnie Darko is estimated to have had a decade earlier.

The series was created by Anthony E. Zuiker, best known as the creator of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He won the Pioneer prize at the 2013 International Digital Emmy Awards for his then-groundbreaking work connecting Silicon Valley and Hollywood with this film. It wasnt just big names behind the scenes; the film had some big name stars, as well. Missy Peregrym was the films lead and has starred in series such as Reaper, Rookie Blue and FBI. Peregrym won a Streamy Award for her work in Cybergeddon. The series also featured Manny Montana, a well-known television actor who has appeared in Graceland, Good Girls and Conviction.

In Cybergeddon, an FBI Agent (Peregrym) is framed for a crime as revenge for her investigations and must team up with a hacker in order to clear her name and prevent a major crime. The film is a rather well-paced thriller that holds your attention. (Read more...)

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DONALD Trump got bad advice that Mike Pence had powers to overturn the election result, the Vice-Presidents former chief of staff has said.

During the Capitol Hillsiege, rioters appeared to scream "hang Mike Pence" after Trump blamed the "furious" Pence for not blocking Joe Biden's win.

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The MAGA fans stormed Congress as lawmakers were voting on certifying Joe Biden as the then President-elect on January 6.

Mark Short has now told CNN that Pence had a strong viewpoint as to what his role was supposed to be that day.

I think unfortunately thepresident was getting bad advicefrom people who had articulatedthat the Vice President wouldhave some extraordinary powersthat had never been used beforein the history of our country, he said.

He went on to say that the poor legal advice that thepresident was receivingIthink led him to believe that there was a different role thevice president could play onthat day.

As the rioters poured into the Capitol, the former Vice President was whisked out of the building.

The apparent chants for Pence to be hanged came afterTrumprepeatedly called for Pence to block Congress from certifying Biden as the winner but the VP said he would not do so.

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Republican Sen Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma toldTulsa World that Pence was outraged at Trump's calls to block the certification of the election.

"Ive never seen Pence as angry as he was today," Inhofe told the news outlet on Tuesday.

He said, After all the things Ive done for (Trump).

Trump had made repeated calls for Pence to block the vote.

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During his speech at the "Save America March" which preceded the Capitol Hill riots on Trump urged Pence to "do the right thing".

"I hope Mike is gonna do the right thing," Trump said. "I hope so, I hope so, because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election."

Trump said: "Mike Pence has to agree to send it back."

As Trump spoke,Pence released a statement, stating he would not block Congress from Certifying Biden as the president-electand did not have the authority to do so.

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"It is my considered judgement that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not," Pence said.

Following the riots, one official toldThe Washington Postthat Trump was so angry at Pence that he couldnt see straight.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, aRepublican, hailed Pence for his "courage" in upholding the Constitution.

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Trump got bad advice thinking Mike Pence could save election with Congress certification, VPs ex-chief of s - The Sun

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Friday pilloried a Minnesota attorney who sued former Vice President Mike Pence in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, referring him to the Committee on Grievances for possible disciplinary action.

U.S. District Judge for the District of ColumbiaJames Boasberg,an appointee ofBarack Obama, said attorney Erick Kaardal failed to sufficiently allayed the Courts concerns regarding potential bad faith in filing the widely criticized December action that named Pence, Congress, several swing states, and even the Electoral College as defendants. The lattermost caused quite a stir amid the legal community, as the Electoral Collegeisnt actually an entityyou can sue.

Boasberg, who last month ordered Kaardal to submit a Declaration to the court explaining why he should not be referred to the committee, provided a litany of reasons for the decision in a four-page order that categorized the Kaardals complaint as little more that political grandstanding.

The judge began by noting that Kaardals Declaration spent most of its time supporting the suits theory on the unconstitutionality of the federal and state statutes at issue but failed to directly address why. Despite explicitly disclaiming any theory of fraud, Kaardal used scores of pages regurgitating false and debunked claims of fraud, the judge noted.

The only reason the Court can see for the Complaint to spend 70+ pages on irrelevant allegations of fraud, not one instance of which persuaded any court in any state to question the elections outcome, is political grandstanding, he wrote. The Response never explains otherwise.

Filed on behalf of the uber-conservative Wisconsin Voters Alliance, the suit which one legal commentatorreferred toas the single dumbest election lawsuit of the entire cycle alleged that state legislatures in every state were constitutionally required to approve the certification of election results before they could be formally counted by Congress. (Generally, an elections official, such as a Secretary of State, handles such certifications with observation by the major political parties.)

Boasberg also said the timing of the filing reflected that Kaardal was merely using the legal system to generate headlines, not make a serious legal challenge.

[I]f Plaintiffs were in good faith challenging the constitutionality of federal and state statutes that have long been on the books, why wait until two weeks before the electoral votes were to be counted? he wrote.This claim, just like the one attacking the federal election statutes, could have been brought any time over the past years (or, in some cases, decades). It is fanciful that counsel needed to worry whether states would in fact take the allegedly unlawful action of certifying their election results without the state legislatures involvement, as state statutes required them to do just that. To wait as counsel did smacks once again of political gamesmanship and may be relevant to the Committee.

The Court also highlighted the Kaardals lackluster attempt to serve the named defendants or request a hearing as further evidence the suit was frivolous.

A suit that truly wished a merits opinion before January 6 would have given notice to all Defendants as soon as (or before) the Complaint and Motion were filed on December 22, 2020, wrote the judge. Plaintiffs never did this or ever contacted the Court about a hearing prior to its January 4 Opinion, leading the Court to conclude that they wished only to file a sweeping Complaint filled with baseless fraud allegations and tenuous legal claims to undermine a legitimate presidential election.

Read the order below.

Wisconsin Voter Alliance Kardaal Order by Law&Crime on Scribd

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