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Watch "NOT ON OUR WATCH! | Marianne Williamson" on YouTube
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

https://youtu.be/avBb5MsyNsk?si=EUzcb13lWG8VVMbm Every day something more outrageous happens, and none of it should be normalized. When a U.S. President transgresses the laws and principles of the Constitution, it's not a derangement syndrome to object to that. It's a derangement syndrome not to. This is going to be a long haul, and obviously we have to manage our nervous systems so we don't fall apart. But we can't afford to take our eye off the ball, either. As a friend said to me the other day, "It appears that the most cynical analysis is the one most likely to be true." And I agree with him. We have everything we need to stand up to this insanity, to meet the moment, to save our democracy. We don't have to have every detail worked out yet of how we're going to do it; right now we just need to cultivate the conviction that we will. Every day, do something. A post you post. An article or book that helps you understand. An attendance at a Town Hall, a call to your legislators, whatever it is. Just do it. No matter what, don't give up. Hold the line. Keep going. Be strong. Be loud. Be brave. #leadership #democracy #acourseinmiracles #politics

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Dante Poetae Sepulcrum
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Dante Poetae Sepulcrum https://www.facebook.com/share/16xegN6qfR/ The *Tomb of Dante* (Italian <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language>: *Sepolcro di Dante*) is an Italian neoclassical <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture> national monument built over the tomb of the poet Dante Alighieri <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri> (1265-1321) in 1781.[1] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-:0-1> It is sited next to the Basilica of San Francesco <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Francesco,_Ravenna> in central Ravenna <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenna>.[2] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-2> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dante%27s_tomb_%28Ravenna%29_-_Facade.…>Exterior of the 18th-century monument. The monument is surrounded by a "zona dantesca", in which visitors have to remain silent and respectful. The small garden to the monument's right originated as the monastic cloister but now only has a colonnade on one side. The garden is traditionally named after the *Quadrarco di Braccioforte*, where two people invoked the "strong arm" of Christ to guarantee their contract and therefore had the image of that arm painted on the arch.[3] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-3>[4] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-4> Historyedit <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Dante&action=edit&sect…> Burialedit <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Dante&action=edit&sect…> Dante spent his final years in exile in Ravenna and died there in 1321. The day after his death his funeral was held in the cloister of the basilica, then a Franciscan <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscans> monastery, the Church of San Pier Maggiore, later called Basilica di San Francesco <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Francesco,_Ravenna>. He was then buried outside the cloister by the roadside in an ancient Roman sarcophagus <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcophagus>, in which he still rests. Bernardo Canaccio <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Canaccio> wrote a poetic Latin epitaph in 1366, which was inscribed on its lid: "Iura monarchiae superos Phlegetonta lacusque lustrando cecini volverunt fata quousque sed quia pars cessit melioribus hospita castris actoremque suum petiit felicior astris hic claudor Dantes patriis extorris ab oris quem genuit parvi Florentia mater amoris"[5] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-5> The sarcophagus was moved to the west side of the cloister by Bernardo Bembo <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Bembo>, Venetian podestà <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podest%C3%A0> of Ravenna, at the end of the 15th century. A few years later Dante's hometown of Florence <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence> began making requests to have his remains returned. This had the support of two Medici <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici> popes, Pope Leo X <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_X> and Pope Clement VII <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VII>. The first request was supported by Michelangelo <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo> and in 1519 Leo granted Florence permission to move the sarcophagus there, but the Franciscans had enough time to make a hole in the wall and secretly move Dante's bones there. A Tuscan <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscany> delegation duly arrived but found the sarcophagus empty. It was moved into the cloister and kept under guard. 17th to 19th centuriesedit <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Dante&action=edit&sect…> Meanwhile the bones <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone> were put in a new box in 1677 by Antonio Sarti, prior of the monastery. The sarcophagus was restored under armed guard in 1692. The bones were put back in their original sarcophagus in 1781,[1] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-:0-1> the same year as the monument was completed, having been commissioned from the local architect Camillo Morigia <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Morigia> by Luigi Valenti Gonzaga <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Valenti_Gonzaga>, the cardinal legate in Romagna <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romagna>. Square in plan and with a small cupola and dome, it covers the sarcophagus. Its interior is covered in marble and stucco <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stucco>. Morigia planned to have images of Virgil <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil>, Brunetto Latini <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunetto_Latini>, Cangrande della Scala <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangrande_I_della_Scala> and Guido Novello da Polenta <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Novello_da_Polenta> in the pendentives <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendentive> of the dome's interior vault, but this plan was abandoned. Behind the sarcophagus is a 1483 bas-relief <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas-relief> by Pietro Lombardo <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Lombardo>, which also stood in this position for most of the 15th century, showing Dante reading at a lectern. From the ceiling hangs an 18th century votive lamp, continually kept burning with olive oil from the Tuscan hills donated by Florence every 14 September, the anniversary of Dante's death. The monument's facade to the street is very simple, with a gate surmounted by Cardinal Gonzaga's archiepiscopal coat of arms and the simple inscription "DANTIS POETAE SEPULCRUM" ("tomb of Dante the poet"). The friars hid the bones in the 1677 box again in 1810 during the French occupation to prevent them being confiscated. They hid the box under an old doorway between the Basilica of San Francesco and the Braccioforte Chapel before leaving the city.[6] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-6> Florence had not given up hope of having the remains removed from Ravenna, however, and in 1829 the city erected a cenotaph <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenotaph> in Santa Croce Basilica <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Croce,_Florence>, showing the poet seated in thought and a personification of Poetry weeping over the sarcophagus. <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Former_tumulus_of_Dante_-_Garden_of_Sa…>The mound which held the bones from 1944 to 1945. The box's location was forgotten until 27 May 1865, when it was found by a worker carrying out restoration work for the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth. A young student and later a respected notary, Matteucci Anastasio, noticed the words "OSSA DANTIS" (Dante's bones) on the box and saved it from being thrown into a common grave. (The full inscription stated: "Dantis ossa a me Frate Antonio Santi hic posita 1677, die 18 Octobris", written by Friar Santi.)[7] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-7> The almost complete skeleton of bones were rearticulated and put on display to the public in a crystal coffin for a few months before being reburied under the monument in a walnut chest protected by a lead cover. It remains in place and has never been returned to Florence.[8] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-8>[9] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-9> 1900–presentedit <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tomb_of_Dante&action=edit&sect…> In 1921 a bronze garland was added to the foot of the sarcophagus in memory of the dead of World War I <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I>, as well as a marble plaque to its right describing the various restorations of the tomb and an iron gate to the neighbouring garden, designed by the Venetian artist Umberto Bellotto.[10] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-10> The bones were hidden yet again during World War II <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II> to prevent them being destroyed by bombing. They were buried in the garden from March 1944 to 19 December 1945 until they were returned to the monument, now marked with a plaque.[11] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Dante#cite_note-11> The monument was restored in 2006–2007, including a complete repainting of its facades.

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Watch "Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1" on YouTube; Eagle_Eye_Cherry.jpg; Watch "BREAKING NEWS: President Trump And Cabinet Take Multiple Questions About Tariffs, China At Meeting" on YouTube
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

*Watch "Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1" on YouTube:* https://www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nfGcuE?si=S4L8-QXZGWlt6gUl *Eagle_Eye_Cherry.jpg:* https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IODnPT53-MmcUuJLFNZ1thmWQ5LAC4EW/view?usp=… *Watch "BREAKING NEWS: President Trump And Cabinet Take Multiple Questions About Tariffs, China At Meeting" on YouTube:* https://youtu.be/JYAAH3BlQQM?si=BpXAJS_WSRhKFsb_

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Microsoft, Okta Say Their Password Products Don't Infringe IP
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Microsoft, Okta Say Their Password Products Don't Infringe IP <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/2325770?nl_pk=b6acf8b6-b37c-4b07…> By Lauren Berg Microsoft Corp. and information technology service management company Okta Inc. asked a California federal judge Monday for declarations that their password-generating products don't infringe a San Francisco company's patent covering a method for issuing time-based, one-time passwords. 2 documents attached |

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Submarine Cable Rules Need To Follow NIST, Feds Told
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Submarine Cable Rules Need To Follow NIST, Feds Told <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/2325557?nl_pk=b6acf8b6-b37c-4b07…> By Nadia Dreid Companies that use undersea cables should have flexibility in how they develop their individual cybersecurity plans — as long as those plans comply with the framework laid out by the government's National Institute of Standards and Technology, a trade group is telling the Federal Communications Commission. Comments attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/2325557?nl_pk=b6acf8b6-b37c-4b07…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/2325557?nl_pk=b6acf8b6-b37c-4b07…>

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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2324300?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c…> Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2324300?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2324300?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c…>

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Chinese Real Estate Developer Hit With Involuntary Ch. 11
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Chinese Real Estate Developer Hit With Involuntary Ch. 11 <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2325669?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-…> By Vince Sullivan Three creditors of Chinese real estate developer Xinyuan Real Estate Co. Ltd. filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company late Monday, saying it is in default on $170 million in note debt. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2325669?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2325669?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-…>

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Ex-AutoZone CEO Beats Investor's 'Short Swing' Profits Suit
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Ex-AutoZone CEO Beats Investor's 'Short Swing' Profits Suit <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2325773?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-…> By Sydney Price AutoZone's former CEO has beaten an investor's suit accusing him of making $1 million in short-swing profits trading in the company shares at the expense of the company, with the judge ruling the transactions were exempt from certain insider trading rules. Order attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2325773?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2325773?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-…>

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Massive Calif. Fire Assessment Pass-Through Sparks Suit
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Massive Calif. Fire Assessment Pass-Through Sparks Suit <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2325774?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c…> By Gina Kim Public interest nonprofit Consumer Watchdog sued California's insurance chief in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday to stop him from allowing insurance companies to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in assessment costs as surcharges onto policyholders, claiming the decision was made without any public input, in violation of the state's Administrative Procedure Act. Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2325774?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2325774?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c…>

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Public Roads, Public Data, Cos. Say Of Drivers' Privacy Claims
by Gunnar Larson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Public Roads, Public Data, Cos. Say Of Drivers' Privacy Claims <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2325587?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-…> By Jonathan Capriel General Motors, OnStar and other companies facing multidistrict litigation accusing them of collecting driving data and selling it without user consent have urged a Georgia federal court to dismiss the claims, arguing that driving data is public because driving happens on public roads. 3 documents attached | R <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2325587?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-…>

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