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Welcome to Police Predators, a side project that documents child sexual abuse by law enforcement officers. Every month, I’ll be doing a roundup of all the stories I could find about cops that were charged with, convicted of, and/or sentenced for their crimes against minors. Mason Jordan, a former Honolulu, Hawaii police officer, pled guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, two counts of coercion and enticement and one count of cyberstalking.

GRANT TIP OF THE MONTH: Showcase Impact and Innovation Grantors / grant reviews are typically drawn to projects that promise significant impact and innovation. In your applications, look for ways to vividly describe the potential outcomes and where possible how they advance the grantor’s objectives (or mission). TL;DR - Use data and stories to paint a compelling picture of what your project will achieve. Her Village grants awarded to qualifying nonprofit organizations support work that advances and strengthens entrepreneurial skills, resources, ecosystems, and educational opportunities for girls and women.

My dear friend Kamidiox drew these pictures. If you use them, please make sure to give her proper credit. Here is the link to her website. https://kamidiox.carrd.co/ I wasn't sure how personal I wanted to get with this prompt post, Poetry People. I'm feeling a bit vulnerable and also a bit sick. I woke up at 3 AM feeling like I was going to hurl.  I guess my 59-year-old innards can no longer handle meals like the spicy southwestern ham and bean soup that I made with scraps from the leftover Easter ham.

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First married in the sixties, Aquaman and Mera are credited as the first married superheroes in comics. Their relationship has preserved over several decades and their family continues to grow. But as we might expect from any story spanning five decades, the couple have encountered a few detours. Not only did Aquaman have a couple of relationships before he and Mera started seeing on another, there are a couple of other romantic encounters in Aquaman’s life.

I first met Arabella in 1994 when she came to the launch of my first book, Lebanese Cuisine. We had friends in common but I had yet to meet her in person, and I was thrilled when I found out she would be coming to my launch, especially as I was very new to the food world when she was one of its grandees — Arabella was then the vice president of the Guild of Food Writers and had recently finished a 19 year stint as the food columnist at Vogue, not to mention her numerous award-winning cookbooks as well as her personal awards.

I’m just making a quick post because I want to clarify something. In a recent article on the conflict between the nuns of the Carmelite Monastery in Arlington, Texas and Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, I described Archbishop Vigano with these words: “the disgraced former apostolic nuncio to the United States, the sedevacantist Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.” I received a couple of messages asking me if Vigano had “officially” stated that he is a sedevacantist, or if there was any concrete proof that he is.

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sheffield rock giants Arctic Monkeys have announced their new album, The Car. in this issue, we’ll dissect the mysterious cover art and place it in context of their other releases. Arctic Monkeys their first release since 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, arctic monkeys are back with The Car. let’s first place the album in visual context of their other releases— The Car follows the theme (barring Humbug) of not having the band themselves on the cover in any way.