title: Aaron (The Walking Dead)

text: Matt Fowler of IGN reviewed "Forget" and commented that "Aaron, despite his short time on the series, has already leapt out as a really engaging character. More so than a lot of other characters were able to do in the past when they were newly introduced. [...] You can easily see now why Aaron makes a great recruiter. He has a way of talking to people, as an "outsider" within his own community, that truly reaches them. And it was that outlying status that helped him get through to Daryl. Well, that and their time out with Buttons." Sean McKenna for "TV Fanatic" comments on Daryl saying "it was great to watch him and Aaron bond (after some angry hesitancy from Daryl) to the point where they had each other's backs, and Daryl was even willing to stop in for some spaghetti." Shane Ryan for "Paste Magazine" also commented on Daryl, "makes the biggest strides this episode, thanks to the kindness of Aaron, who shows some belief in the crossbow-wielding outdoorsman" and that Daryl "just needed somebody to believe in him, and to give him a purpose. Aaron did just that, and now he’s back in the fold". Patrick Kevan Day for the "Los Angeles Times" commented that Aaron and Eric "genuinely seem to be as pleasant as they seemed at first. Barring any horrific twists, it seems these two are as genuine as they come".


title: Aaron (The Walking Dead)

text: Matt Fowler of IGN reviewed the episode "Spend" and commented that "I don't even think Aaron feels like an 'outsider' in Alexandria because he's gay. I think it's because he's a capable, caring person who will fight by your side. Unlike so many others." Zach Handlen of "The A.V. Club" in a review of the episode "Try" commented of the Alexandrians that "that these people are absolute shit at going on runs outside the fence, unless it's Aaron on a recruiting trip". Chris Oshea for "Us Weekly" in a review of the fifth season finale "Conquer" commented that "Aaron and Daryl are likely going to start off next season with matching friendship bracelets."


title: Aaron (The Walking Dead)

text: Ron Hogan from "Den of Geek!" in his review of the sixth season episode "Now" appreciated the scene in the sewer tunnel with Maggie and Aaron after revealing her pregnancy: "It was wonderful work from Cohan, and while it just confirms what everyone's expected all along about just why Maggie has been staying home all season, it's still really well done because Aaron is a great character and we're all invested in Glenn and Maggie’s relationship."


title: Aaron (The Walking Dead)

text: Eric is killed in the season eight episode "Monsters"; in the TV series he died from a gunshot wound, but in the comics he was killed instantly by a shot to the head. Cameron Bonomolo for comicbook.com commented that "Eric succumbing to his wounds, alone, is arguably a hell of a lot worse than taking a bullet to the head: at least comic book Eric didn't see it coming. Comic book Eric also didn't have to reanimate, and it may be hard for Aaron to get closure knowing his beloved is out wandering around as just yet another Walker in a herd of corpses. Though the specifics of their fates differed, both Erics died as result of a battle with Saviors — and we just may yet see a vengeful Aaron on the horizon." Eric Kain of "Forbes" criticized the acting in the sequence where Aaron finds Eric, saying "The bad fake crying scene between Aaron and Eric could have been fixed so easily, so I'm a little confused why it ended up so unbelievable."


title: Aaron (The Walking Dead)

text: In the ninth season episode "Who Are You Now?", Aaron was revealed to be a member of the council of Alexandria, with Erik Kain of Forbes describing him as "sporting his cool beard and a metal arm". After the death of his character in "Evolution", the actor who portrayed Paul "Jesus" Monroe commented on how Jesus and Aaron did not get into a romantic relationship, saying "I think it's unfair to the audience, to tease that Aaron and Jesus relationship. But it's also great that we have it in there. I’m happy they did that. [...] I liked that they had a friendship, but I felt like a further relationship wasn’t necessarily required. I thought it would have been a bit lazy". In a review of the next episode "Adaptation", Kirsten Acuna for "Insider" said that "we see that Aaron is among those characters who's deeply affected by his friend's death, apologizing to Michonne on the mid-season premiere for not listening to her when it came to leaving their own community."


title: Aaron (The Walking Dead)

text: In the tenth season episode "Walk with Us", Aaron has an encounter with Negan who has joined the Whisperers as part of a plan to stop them. Noetta Harjo of "Geek Girl Authority" reviewed the episode, writing "Aaron is dragging an injured Luke (Dan Fogler) on a makeshift stretcher. When he sees Negan walk by in his Whisperer mask, Aaron grabs his sword. Negan tries to say it's not what Aaron thinks, but Aaron thinks he wants to kill Negan." Erik Kain for "Forbes" said that "Negan tries to protest, but the only thing that prevents a fight is a handful of walkers showing up. Maybe Aaron will finally trust Negan when he learns the truth—or maybe he'll just trust him for one more episode before flipping again."


title: Aaron (The Walking Dead)

text: Robert Balkovich for "Looper" commented in his review for the episode "One More" that "Both Gabriel and Aaron struggle with their relationship to their family — the community of Alexandria — throughout this episode. Gabriel's faith in the possibility of maintaining a safe home for them wavers, while Aaron occasionally loses sight of what it takes to keep their family alive and well. But in surviving their ordeal with Mays, it appears that each man gains a bit more resolve to refocus and keep pushing forward." Writing for "TV Fanatic", Paul Daily said that "The character development for them both is excellent, but Aaron is too much of an optimist, and I hope the altercation with Maes will veer him away from trusting people blindly." Marquand explained of Aaron in an interview about this episode that "I think it's certainly redeemable, but I think it's going to give Aaron pause, and it's going to make him really question the kind of man Gabriel is moving forward [...] I don't think there's any way Aaron couldn't be wildly affected by that and not look at Gabriel as someone who may have changed irrevocably."


title: Aaron (The Walking Dead)

text: A group led by Aaron encounters some Whisperers in the eleventh season episode "Out of the Ashes". Renee Hansen for "Undead Walking" said that "This episode shows some excellent screen time for Aaron and the inner turmoil he is fighting. He is teamed up with Jerry, who always puts a positive spin on things no matter the circumstances, and Carol, who tries to be a voice of reason to him." Erik Kain for "Forbes" commented that with the Whisperers, "Aaron goes full torture-mode with one of them and there's a scuffle and ultimately Aaron has to cut the guy's hand off after he has a walker bite it as part of the interrogation." Alex McLevy for "The A.V. Club" said that "Carol is trying to learn empathy again, and Aaron's anger and fear were justified—but some acts can't just be shrugged off. Keith had to cut off his own hand, and that's on Aaron. So to leave him with a weapon and a group of people who are probably pretty pissed off at them, now? That’s not compassion; that’s foolhardy."


title: Nathan Deal

text: John Nathan Deal (born August 25, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd governor of Georgia from 2011 to 2019. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party in 1992 and switched to the Republican Party in 1995. On March 1, 2010, Deal announced his resignation from Congress to run for Governor of Georgia.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal faced a crowded field of candidates in the July 2010 Republican primary election, ultimately facing former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel in a tightly contested August 10, 2010, primary runoff election, and won by fewer than 2,500 votes. The following day, Handel declined to pursue a recount and conceded. On November 2, Democratic opponent Roy Barnes called to concede the race for governor of Georgia, making Deal the governor-elect to succeed term-limited Sonny Perdue in 2011.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal won his re-election campaign for governor in 2014 against Democrat Jason Carter. He was succeeded by then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal was born on August 25, 1942 in the town of Millen and grew up on a farm in Sandersville, Georgia. His parents, Mary (née Mallard) and Noah Jordan Deal, were teachers.


title: Nathan Deal

text: He attended Mercer University in Macon, where he earned his bachelor and law degrees with honors. After he earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1966, he joined the United States Army, where he earned the rank of captain.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal spent twenty-three years in private law practice. He was also a criminal prosecutor, a Hall County juvenile court judge, and a Northeastern Judicial Circuit superior court judge. In 1980, he was elected to the Georgia Senate as a Democrat.


title: Nathan Deal

text: In November 1990, he was elected by his party to be the President Pro Tempore, the second highest ranking position in the chamber. Democrat Jane R. Hemmer replaced him, but was defeated by Republican Casey Cagle.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal was first elected to Congress in November 1992 as a Democrat, succeeding eight-term incumbent Ed Jenkins in . He was re-elected as a Democrat in 1994.


title: Nathan Deal

text: However, on April 11, 1995, shortly after Republicans assumed control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, Deal joined the Republican Party, which was led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, a fellow Georgian. Years later, Gingrich said that Deal became a Republican because he liked what he saw in the Contract With America.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal was handily re-elected in his first election as a Republican in the 1996 general election, even though Jenkins endorsed his Democratic opponent, attorney McCracken "Ken" Poston. This was the first time his district had elected a Republican for a full term since Reconstruction. To date, Poston is the last Democrat to win even 30 percent of the vote in this district.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal was unopposed for re-election in 1998, 2002, and 2004 and defeated an underfunded Democratic candidate in 2000. His district was renumbered the 10th District in 2003, but became the 9th again after a mid-decade redistricting in 2006.


title: Nathan Deal

text: In November 2006, Deal was re-elected 77%–23%. His Democratic opponent was John Bradbury, a former elementary school teacher turned truck driver. His district, already heavily Republican, became even more Republican after the mid-decade redistricting pushed it further into the Atlanta suburbs.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal's voting record was relatively moderate in his first term, getting ratings in the 60s from the American Conservative Union (ACU). He moved sharply to the right after his party switch and voted for all four articles of impeachment against Bill Clinton. From 1996 onward, he garnered ratings of 90 or higher from the ACU.


title: Nathan Deal

text: During his 17 years in Congress, Deal rose to chair the Health Subcommittee of Energy and Commerce, where he became a noted expert on entitlement reform and health care policy.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal introduced H.R. 698, the Citizenship Reform Act, which would eliminate birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The 14th Amendment begins "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. ... " Deal's argument is that undocumented immigrants (and their children) are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction.


title: Nathan Deal

text: The Office of Congressional Ethics released a report on March 30, 2010, that concluded Deal appeared to have improperly used his office staff to pressure Georgia officials to continue the state vehicle inspection program that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for his family's auto salvage business. Deal stated: "I have done nothing wrong and am not going to let this tarnish my ... record of public service."


title: Nathan Deal

text: The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), released their investigative report (Review No. 09-1022) on March 30, 2010. The report stipulates,


title: Nathan Deal

text: Representative Nathan Deal and his business partner own Recovery Services, Inc. a/k/a Gainesville Salvage & Disposal ('GSD'), located in Gainesville, Georgia ... The OCE does not take a position on Representative Deal's motivations for inserting himself into discussions of potential modifications to a state vehicle inspection program ... The OCE reviews the facts as presented at the time of review and does not take a position on whether Representative Deal's income from GSD was mistakenly reported as earned income since 2006 on his federal income taxes ... [F]or all the reasons stated above, the OCE Board recommends further review by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.


title: Nathan Deal

text: On March 1, 2010, 29 days before the official release of the ethics report, Deal resigned his seat, which he said, excluded him from the Office of Congressional Ethics' jurisdiction. Although this seemed too coincidental for some, Deal maintained in a speech to supporters that the resignation was so that he could "devote [his] full energies" to the gubernatorial campaign.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Before returning to Georgia to run for governor, Deal cast his final congressional vote against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Incumbent Republican Governor Sonny Perdue was term-limited in 2010. Seven candidates filed to run in the Republican primary. In the initial Republican primary in July, no candidate received the 50% threshold to win the primary outright. Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel ranked first with 34%, qualifying for the run-off election. Deal, ranked second with 23% of the vote, also qualified for the run-off election.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Candidates who didn't qualify included State Senator Eric Johnson (20%), Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine (16%), State Senator Jeff Chapman (3%), businessman Ray McBerry (3%), and businessman Otis Putnam (0%). Deal performed the strongest in the northern part of the state, where he lives and represented in Congress. However, he also won some counties in the southern part of the state, such as Candler (30%) and Tift (24%). He won five counties with a majority including his home of Hall (64%), Dade (56%), Walker (56%), White (53%), and Stephens (53%).


title: Nathan Deal

text: The run-off election between Handel and Deal was very competitive. Deal was endorsed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Representative Jack Kingston, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Handel was endorsed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.


title: Nathan Deal

text: On August 10, Deal defeated Handel 50.2%-49.8%, a difference of just 2,519 votes. Handel performed well in the western and eastern borders of the state, as well as the counties surrounding Atlanta. She won the heavily populated Fulton County with 71%, her best performance in the state, followed by Glascock (70%) and Burke (70%). Deal's two best counties were Taliaferro (80%) and Hall (79%).


title: Nathan Deal

text: In the general election, Deal faced former governor and state senator Roy Barnes (D) and John Monds (L). Barnes previously won the 1998 gubernatorial election with 52% of the vote, and lost re-election in 2002 to State Senator Sonny Perdue 51%-46%. Perdue was the first Georgia Republican Governor since Reconstruction.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Barnes has always been considered a moderate. After he lost re-election, he returned to practicing law for eight years until mounting a political comeback. Deal tried to connect Barnes with President Barack Obama. Barnes said "if you would listen to what is being said, you would have thought that this is an election for president of the United States." Barnes also tried to distance himself from Obama, saying his health care law was "the greatest failure of political leadership in my lifetime". On November 3, Deal defeated Barnes 53%-43%.


title: Nathan Deal

text: In 2011, then Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission Executive Secretary Stacey Kalberman and Deputy Executive Secretary Sherilyn Streiker launched an ethics investigation into Deal's campaign finances during his 2010 gubernatorial race. According to the complaint, Deal had used state campaign funds to pay legal bills stemming from a federal ethics investigation when he was in Congress, that he had personally profited from his gubernatorial campaign's $135,000 rental of aircraft from a company he partly owned, and that he had accepted campaign contributions beyond the legal limits. The campaign also paid a total of $135,000 to consulting companies which were owned by Deal's daughter-in-law and the father of Chris Riley, Deal's chief of staff.


title: Nathan Deal

text: As Kalberman and Streiker were preparing to serve subpoenas to Deal, his chief of staff, and others involved in the case, Kalberman's salary was cut by $35,000 and Streiker was ousted from her position. Soon after, Kalberman was forced to resign and was replaced by Holly LaBerge, who was recruited by the governor's office.


title: Nathan Deal

text: On July 23, 2012, the ethics commission cleared Deal of major ethics violations while finding he made "technical defects" in a series of personal financial and campaign finance reports. In July 2012, Deal agreed to pay $3,350 in administrative fees to resolve violations of campaign finance and disclosure laws.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Holly LaBerge, the head of the ethics commission that cleared Deal of major ethics violations, claimed in July 2014 that Ryan Teague, Deal's counsel, called her to say: "It was not in the agency's best interest for these cases to go to a hearing ... nor was it in their best political interest either." Deal has stated that he is "not aware of any communications along those lines".


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal ran for re-election in 2014. He defeated two primary challengers and defeated Democratic State Senator Jason Carter in the general election with 53% of the vote to Carter's 45%.


title: Nathan Deal

text: Deal took office as governor on January 10, the second Monday of 2011. His second inauguration took place on January 12, 2015.


title: Nathan Deal

text: In 2011, despite protests outside his office and threats of boycotts, Deal signed Georgia HB 87 into law, which increased the state's enforcement powers in regards to illegal immigration, as well as required many employers to determine whether their newly hired employees are undocumented immigrants or not.


title: Nathan Deal

text: In 2011, Georgia was in the midst of a criminal justice crisis. The prison population had doubled in the past two decades to 56,000, along with the state's incarceration budget. The recidivism rate was 30 percent for adults and 65 percent for juveniles. In response, Deal commissioned the Georgia Criminal Justice Reform Council, tasked with performing an exhaustive review of the state's current system, identifying key areas of focus and providing recommendations for reforms. These areas included increased funding and support for accountability courts, overhauling the juvenile justice system, and implementing prisoner re-entry initiatives. The Council's work resulted in bipartisan legislation that caused Georgia to avoid the need for 5,000 additional prison beds over 5 years and saved taxpayers at least $264 million. A 2014 study showed that "prison sentences imposed on African-American offenders have dropped by 20 percent."


title: Nathan Deal

text: On April 25, 2013, Deal signed HB 349 into law, which enacted a second round of criminal justice reforms. These reforms took a "smart on crime" approach and were based on recommendations from the Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform. This law gave those who, while locked up, have earned money toward college in the form of a HOPE Scholarship G-E-D Voucher the ability to use that money up to two years after their release. In addition, Deal reinvested $5 million to create a voluntary grant program that gives communities incentives to offer judges more non-confinement sentencing options. These could include substance abuse treatment or family counseling.


title: Nathan Deal

text: With the help of the Council and the Vera Institute of Justice, Deal developed extensive performance measures to track the success of previous reforms to ensure they were enhancing public safety and saving taxpayer dollars. "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" reported, "Since 2007 alone, more than three-dozen such courts have opened their doors across Georgia. In the first quarter of 2014, more than 4,100 offenders were enrolled in the state's 105 accountability courts, and many of these participants would likely be in prison without this alternative."


title: Nathan Deal

text: On April 25, 2014, Deal announced the creation of the Governor's Interfaith Council, composed of religious leaders across Georgia, to expand upon recent criminal justice reforms. These programs and council advisors will implement cost-effective strategies will work to increase the number of former offenders returning to the workforce and supporting their families. By removing barriers to employment, housing and education for rehabilitated offenders, a larger number of returning citizens are able to rejoin the workforce and support their families. Some of Deal's initiatives include education and jobs training programs, "banning the box" and creation of the Department of Community Supervision, which streamlines re-entry programs across various state agencies.


title: Nathan Deal

text: In 2014, Deal signed House Bill (H.B.) 60, the Safe Carry Protection Act, referred to by critics as the "Guns Everywhere" Law. Deal stated that gun rights through the United States Constitution's Second Amendment are important to people in Georgia. The Safe Carry Protection Act took effect on July 1, 2014, and permits licensed gun owners to carry guns into many public and private places, including churches, school property, bars, nightclubs, libraries, and some government buildings in Georgia. The law was supported by the Georgia Baptist Convention which included 3,600 Baptist churches in Georgia in favor of increased church autonomy, but was not supported by Catholic or Episcopalian church leaders due to their belief that it is against Jesus' teachings. By 2016, "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" found that while 57% of Georgians believed that owning a gun protects people, 59% disapproved of the law itself.


title: Nathan Deal

text: In 2015 Deal issued an executive order ordering state agencies to "halt any involvement in accepting refugees from Syria for resettlement in the state of Georgia", resulting in the state's Department of Human Resources refusing to process applications for food stamps and other benefits filed by newly arrived Syrian refugees. Deal rescinded his order on January 4, 2016, after Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said Deal lacked the authority to issue it.


title: Nathan Deal

text: On March 28, 2016, Deal vetoed a religious liberty bill that had been passed by both houses of the Georgia State Legislature, and that had been opposed by multiple large corporations, including Salesforce.com, the Coca-Cola Company and the Home Depot.


title: Nathan Deal

text: On May 3, 2016, Deal vetoed a campus carry bill that had been passed by the state legislature, after a number of state legislators refused to include exceptions for child-care centers and other places on college campuses. Had Deal signed the bill into law, it would have made concealed carrying of guns legal at every public college in Georgia, so long as the carrier was 21 or older and had a proper permit. One year later, on May 4, 2017, Deal signed a revised and stricter version of the campus carry bill into law.


title: LUMA Energy

text: LUMA Energy is the power company responsible for power distribution and power transmission in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. They are also in charge of maintaining and modernizing the power infrastructure. Previously, these duties belonged exclusively (according to the law) to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA, Spanish "Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, AEE"), but as of July 20, 2018, permission was granted for PREPA assets and service duties to be sold to private companies, and on June 22, 2020, a 15-year contract with LUMA was signed, making LUMA the new operator. The takeover took place on June 1, 2021.


title: LUMA Energy

text: LUMA Energy was registered in Puerto Rico's Registry of Corporations and Entities on January 17, 2020, under the name LUMA Energy ManageCo, LLC. The name was changed to LUMA Energy, LLC. as of June 12, 2020. The company is a joint venture between Houston company Quanta Services Inc. and Alberta, Canada company ATCO. Both companies have an equal share in LUMA, which was built with the express purpose of managing Puerto Rico's power grid. LUMA Energy is currently presided by CEO Wayne Stensby.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The contract under which LUMA Energy operates the power grid in Puerto Rico was signed after a bid in 2020. In the bid, five different companies participated and only four submitted business proposals. The $1,500M contract is set to last for 15 years and can be renewed if both parties agree.


title: LUMA Energy

text: LUMA Energy officially became the new operator for Puerto Rico's power grid on June 1, 2021. LUMA is in charge of operating the distribution and transmission infrastructure, although they do not own it, nor do they own or operate the power generation sector. The takeover happened as part of an agreement with Puerto Rico's Public-Private Partnership Agreement in an effort to overcome PREPA's bankruptcy.


title: LUMA Energy

text: As part of the company's takeover, a new online platform was made available. The platform was meant to seamlessly allow the hand-over of online services, including bill payments and outage report submissions. However, the platform failed to work as expected. Soon after, LUMA Energy representative José Pérez spoke on the radio to explain that the web service failures may have been due to excess traffic. The company later claimed that this excess traffic was a result of a DDoS attack, which was pending investigation as of June 10, 2021. The alleged DDoS attack caused upwards of 2 million visits per second to the web service pages, causing them to malfunction and the service to be unavailable to legitimate users. If confirmed, this cyberattack is one in a string of cyberattacks targeting infrastructure operators in the several months preceding July 2021 that prompted the White House to alert private-sector companies to update their cybersecurity defenses.


title: LUMA Energy

text: After the company's takeover, the island suffered widespread power outages, though problems existed before the takeover. As a consequence, several mayors declared an official emergency in their respective municipalities. According to LUMA Energy, the power outages are due to a variety of reasons, including existing damage to the power grid, bad weather, and possibly even sabotage. LUMA Energy claimed that the number of clients without service was at an all-time low, but Daily News reports up to 1 million customers suffered blackouts in June 2021, excluding the June 10 Monacillos fire. The consequences of the power outage crisis extend as far as to cause more than 13,000 PRASA clients to be without water service due to power outages at the water plants. This number increased to about 40,000 after the Monacillos fire on June 10, 2021. Additionally, on July 3, 2021, a power outage caused La Plata water dam to go offline, leaving over 250,000 PRASA clients without water service. Meanwhile, the Association of Hospitals (Spanish: "Asociación de Hospitales") warned on June 17, 2021, that the power outages put patients' lives at risk and that the power outage crisis needed to be solved immediately, regardless of what the cause was.


title: LUMA Energy

text: On Wednesday, June 16, 2021, a massive power outage left more than 337,000 clients without electricity after three units went offline unexpectedly. The reason for the units' failure is unknown as of June 17, 2021. Hours prior to the incident, LUMA Energy had stated it would be selectively shutting down systems to give them maintenance and due to insufficient power generation capacity, but that this sudden outage was unrelated and not intentional.


title: LUMA Energy

text: On Monday, June 21, 2021, a problem with unit #5 in Central de San Juan power generation station caused a power relay to leave 45,349 without electrical service, most of them in the Ponce area.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The power outage crisis caused one of the island's major shopping centers, Plaza del Caribe in Ponce, to close on June 22, 2021, due to a blackout.


title: LUMA Energy

text: On the afternoon of June 10, 2021, an explosion followed by a fire occurred at Monacillos Substation. The fire originated at a transformer that blew, and it caused damage to the power grid across different regions of the island. No injuries or deaths occurred in association with the fire. According to user reports on social media, power outages extend to the municipalities of San Juan, Trujillo Alto, Dorado, Vega Alta, Carolina, Bayamón, Fajardo, Toa Alta, Loíza, Caguas, Culebra, Guaynabo, Naranjito, and Canóvanas, among others. Included in the clients with no service as a result of the fires was El Capitolio. According to UTIER's president, Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, an estimated 50% or more of the island was left in a blackout as a result of the fire. Later reports state that approximately 900,000 clients were without power at the height of the blackout, and that by midnight on that same night, this number was closer to 60,000. By the morning of Friday, June 11, 2021, approximately 36,000 were still without power. According to Puerto Rico's Secretary of Health, Carlos Mellado López, the blackout did not jeopardize vaccination efforts against COVID-19 since there are power generators available for keeping the vaccines frozen.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The incident was reported to local and federal authorities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Juan, to determine if a crime is associated with the situation. Initially, it was unclear whether the fire was due to sabotage and no immediate connection between the fire and the alleged DDoS attacks had been established. On June 12, 2021, as indicated via Tweet by David Begnaud (CBS) and confirmed via press conference by Secretary of Public Safety of Puerto Rico Alexis Torres, preliminary investigation suggested the fire was due to an accident and not foul play. Authorities did not confirm or deny these reports, however, and at the time very little information about the investigation was publicly available "due to FBI policy.".


title: LUMA Energy

text: As part of granting approval for the investigation, a resolution by the Puerto Rico Bureau of Energy ("Negociado de Energía de Puerto Rico", NEPR) required LUMA to provide NEPR with information regarding the progress of the investigation. The deadline for this update was the afternoon of June 14, 2021, and the information shared was to be made public (censoring sensitive data). However, as of June 17, 2021, this information has not been released and the cause for the fire remains speculative. Per LUMA Energy's contract, NEPR is responsible for overseeing its operations and acting as the company's regulator.


title: LUMA Energy

text: On June 30, 2021, Secretary of Public Safety of Puerto Rico, Alexis Torres, informed that the investigation of the Monacillos fire had determined the cause was accidental. No criminal activity was associated with the fire, and it was instead due to an alleged lack of equipment maintenance. Out of nine transformers, transformers 4, 5, and 6 were the most damaged. The fire is believed to have started at transformer 5. The investigation report states that the FBI and LUMA Energy engineers continue to investigate the incident, and that the determination of no criminal hand is subject to change should additional findings suggest otherwise.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The contract signed between LUMA Energy and the Puerto Rican government is surrounded by controversy due to lack of transparency – the contract was signed behind closed doors and announced only after the fact, meaning the citizens of the island had no say in it. UTIER lawyer and legal representative Rolando Emmanuelli Jiménez stated, at the time that the contract was made public, that "its reach far extends beyond that which Fortaleza has led the nation to believe." The contract granted LUMA Energy control over distribution and transmission infrastructure, customer service, and administrative divisions such as human resources, and budgeting and finance, essentially making the company owner of a monopolized service. Emmanuelli Jiménez also noted that the contract allows LUMA Energy to dissolve the agreement for a variety of reasons, as long as a 120-day notice is provided before the effective date, which he deems too short a time. Among the possible reasons for contract dissolution are included: natural disasters, war and armed conflict, sabotage (both online and offline), civil disobedience, epidemics, insurrection, and acts of terror.


title: LUMA Energy

text: Another point of controversy was LUMA Energy's request to be freed from liability in a wide variety of situations. The approval of this request would have meant the company would not be held liable legally in the event of damages, including death, due to negligence or willful ill-intent. However, the request was denied by the NEPR, who opted instead for a liability clause similar to what was in place for PREPA. PREPA's clause was not as extensive in waiving liability as LUMA's denied clause attempted to be. The associated costs for the liabilities PREPA (and now LUMA) incurred were covered by insurance, which the Independent Office of Consumer Protection (Spanish: "Oficina Independiente de Protección del Consumidor", OIPC) argued was what LUMA should do instead. When questioned by the press, LUMA Energy president Wayne Stensby claimed the request for limitation of liability was submitted with the intent of preventing customers from having to assume additional costs, and not for the company's own protection.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The controversy also extends to the company itself. The company is a new consortium which was only formally registered in the island in January 2020, about 5 months prior to the contract being signed. However, Stensby stated that the company is experienced and that ATCO and Quanta have already worked together to operate the power grid in Alberta, Canada.


title: LUMA Energy

text: LUMA Energy employees reported instances of sabotage and vandalism, and the company has hinted at sabotage publicly, though not directly. Representative Jorge Navarro expressed urgency in investigating the sabotage allegations connected to the power outage crisis and prosecuting perpetrators if anyone was found to be responsible for the power outages. LUMA Energy also cited a DDoS attack as reason for its web services malfunctioning. more recent substation fire have been video taped and posted to YouTube.com and original uploader saw it as intentional sabotage.


title: LUMA Energy

text: On June 15, 2021, LUMA Energy alerted citizens that scam callers and emailers were allegedly contacting clients posing as LUMA employees and claiming to be calling with the purpose of making collections.


title: LUMA Energy

text: Following the announcement of the company's takeover and the act itself, multiple protests occurred across the island and the company has been heavily scrutinized. Protestors included former workers, trade union UTIER, allied groups such as the Path of Truth Collective (Spanish: "Colectivo Ruta de la Verdad"), Association of PREPA Jubilees (AJAEE, for Spanish "Asociación de Jubilados de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica"), and the general public. In some instances, protestors blocked entry into LUMA premises. On June 2, 2021, as a result of blocked access into premises, LUMA sued UTIER, UTIER president Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, and AJAEE. In the legal action, LUMA requested UTIER "cease and desist any acts of intimidation, violence, vandalism, or that impedes the use of property or disturbs the senses in violation of constitutional rights." According to LUMA, this was not in an effort to silence protests, but "as an invitation" for protestors to "take control of their actions while exercising their right to protest." In response, a court order was emitted on June 4, 2021, stating that for the next 10 days, UTIER protestors could not "block access to facilities used by LUMA Energy to provide electrical service on the island", with the caveat that the right to freedom of speech not be limited. The court order adds that protestors may not block roadways leading to facilities, and that protestors are to abstain from acts of violence, vandalism, or disturbing of peace that concretely affect LUMA Energy's ability to work. However, since LUMA Energy failed to demonstrate ill action from AJAEE, the court order only affects UTIER and UTIER president Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, or anyone in representation of these entities. The court order was also emitted without legal representation being present on behalf of UTIER or Figueroa Jaramillo. On June 18, 2021, superior court judge Alfonso S. Martínez Piovanetti closed the case due to "insufficient evidence" and "no-longer existing controversy."Ongoing protest proceed in Ponce, San Gurmaine, San Juan, and all other luma employment sites with, Luma employees physically being blocked in by protesters.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The power outage crisis since LUMA's takeover on June 1, 2021, caused customers to complain about more than just blackouts. A common complaint was voltage irregularities in the supplied power, causing power surges and damaging electric appliances.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The irregularities in supplied power are linked to the fires in two San Sebastián residences. No injuries were associated with the event, but the occupants were evacuated and LUMA was contacted to repair the burnt power meters.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The privatization of Puerto Rico's power grid represents a potential increase in cost for clients, despite rates already having been set to increase as a means to offset the island's debt. Puerto Ricans use, on average, less electricity than citizens in other states of the US, but pay about twice as much for the service. An increase in costs is concerning because the island's economy is declining and poverty rates in the island are significantly higher than the national average.


title: LUMA Energy

text: An increase in electric utility costs could also mean a rise in water utility costs. The dams are owned by PREPA and used as hydroelectric facilities. The water is then given cost-free to PRASA for processing. If LUMA were to acquire the facilities, some people are concerned that they could name a cost for the water and force PRASA to buy it.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (NEPR) approved a 7.6% rate increase effective July 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021. After revision on September 30, 2021 the rate was further increased by 3% effective October through December. This increase marked the fourth rate increase of the year.


title: LUMA Energy

text: The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau later approved yet another rate increase on December 30, 2021. LUMA Energy had initially proposed a rate increase of 4.05 cents (18.4%), but the rate increase that was authorized by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau was of 3.67 cents (16.8%) higher than the prior rate. This rate increase took effect for the first trimester of 2022.


title: LUMA Energy

text: One concern protestors had was whether LUMA Energy planned to continue using the existing grid and generation model. Advocates for a distributed grid questioned whether keeping the centralized model was reasonable. LUMA president Stensby responded to this by saying that the company seeks to upgrade the power grid to include renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power. As of November 2020, only 2.5% of the island's power comes from renewable sources.


title: LUMA Energy

text: A common complaint among Puerto Ricans in the face of the company's takeover was that the company was insufficiently staffed and inappropriately prepared. There were reports of 3-hour waits on the phone to receive service, insufficient brigades and long delays to service power lines, and broken web service platforms. LUMA Energy representative, José Pérez, spoke on the radio soon after the complaints began to say that the power outages could potentially be a result of sabotage.


title: LUMA Energy

text: Due to the insufficient brigades and lack of reliable service, the mayors of Barceloneta, Isabela, San Lorenzo, and Trujillo Alto municipalities declared a state of emergency in their municipalities during June 2021. They also activated their own brigades, hired independently of LUMA, to perform necessary repairs to restore electrical service. The state of emergency designation allows mayors to use available funding to repair the power grid and hire private contractors as-needed. Some mayors also used this designation to provide citizens with emergency relief for food and medication spoiled due to damaged appliances. Barceloneta mayor Wanda Soler Rosario stated that "for any one person to be without power service this long is unacceptable and worrying."


title: LUMA Energy

text: A news report from June 21, 2021, states that Popular Democratic Party (Spanish: "Partido Popular Democrático", PPD) representative Luis Raúl Torres denounced LUMA Energy's insufficient staffing. He requested that governor Pedro Pierluisi, who had previously asked people to "give LUMA some time", and the Public-Private Partnership Authority (Spanish: "Autoridad de Alianzas Público-Privadas", AAPP) set a 30-day deadline for LUMA to correct deficiencies that, according to Torres, result in a breach of contract, and to cancel the contract if this issue is not resolved. Regarding the amount of necessary employees, Wayne Stensby (CEO and president of LUMA) had stated before that around 3,800 employees were needed, but that the company only has 2,200 on its payroll.


title: LUMA Energy

text: On June 24, 2021, representative Jorge Navarro Suárez denounced that "LUMA Energy has failed." He claimed that LUMA "incurred crass negligence because they had sufficient time to prepare." He assured that LUMA Energy would be sanctioned if it was found that the company wasn't keeping their contractual obligations.


title: LUMA Energy

text: Regarding the wait times for phone service, LUMA stated on July 2, 2021, that they had a total of 115 call center employees and subcontracts with 3 companies (30, 70, and 85 employees respectively) to handle calls. They also claimed that in August 2021 they expected to have around 580 employees for their call centers, with the goal of reducing call wait times to less than 5 minutes. According to LUMA Energy, they receive between 7,000 and 15,000 calls per day.


title: LUMA Energy

text: LUMA Energy had also been receiving complaints about estimated bills. In response to this, on June 25, 2021, they asked clients to submit photographs of their power meter readings so that their bills could be adjusted accordingly, rather than the company having to send out employees to do the readings as was standard procedure. Later on, the company stated that they had plans to update the electrical meters so that most (if not all) readings could be taken remotely rather than being performed manually.


title: LUMA Energy

text: Another common concern among protestors is LUMA's preparedness for severe weather. Puerto Rico is a tropical island in the Caribbean, meaning it is located in a region that is vulnerable to tropical storms and hurricanes. After Hurricane María in 2017, which caused year-long blackouts and seriously weakened the power grid, protestors worry that LUMA's takeover could be ill-timed (taking place in June, at the beginning of hurricane season) and that the power grid and its workers would be ill-prepared for an event of that magnitude. This is another reason for the push towards renewable energy and a distributed grid model, which has been deemed incompatible with privatization of the utility.


title: LUMA Energy

text: PREPA workers protested the takeover citing concerns over their rights. One of their main concerns was job security, since the contract with LUMA would force them to reapply for their job under the new company. Workers were concerned that they would be forced to work for other agencies and the company would favor new, inexperienced hires from their companies in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and that this would be happening at a critical time since June is the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season. The UTIER, a local trade union, claimed that the contract potentially violates local labor laws. Workers not hired by LUMA were set to become public workers in other agencies, which was in itself a concern due to uncertainty regarding availability of funding for their salaries. Workers were also concerned about their retirement funds.


title: LUMA Energy

text: On June 14, 2021, LUMA Energy confirmed via press release that UITICE (Insular Union of Industrial Workers and Electrical Constructions, Spanish: "Unión Insular de Trabajadores Industriales y Construcciones Eléctricas") would exclusively be the new trade union representing LUMA electricity workers. UTIER president Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo reacted to this saying that the process was not democratic because no elections were held, leaving the choice at the hands of LUMA Energy only, and that it represented "a clear conspiracy between LUMA Energy and UITICE president Héctor Reyes against protecting workers' rights." Figueroa Jaramillo expressed concerns over whether or not this could mean that UITICE would be unable to properly oversee LUMA Energy and protect workers' rights due to potential conflict of interest with the company. He also reassured workers that UTIER "is still alive and will be creating an organization to group former AEE employees that have moved to other agencies", and that they plan to keep fighting the LUMA contract "that would raise energy rates and provide no power grid improvements, as demonstrated."


title: Tea bag

text: A tea bag, or the compound teabag, is a small, porous, sealed bag or packet, typically containing tea leaves or the leaves of other herbs, which is immersed in water to steep and make an infusion. Originally used only for tea ("Camellia sinensis"), they are now made with other tisanes ("herbal teas") as well.


title: Tea bag

text: Tea bags are commonly made of filter paper or food-grade plastic, or occasionally of silk cotton or silk. The tea bag performs the same function as a tea infuser. Tea bags can be used multiple times until there is no extraction left. Some tea bags have an attached piece of string with a paper label at the top that assists in removing the bag, while also displaying the brand or variety of tea.


title: Tea bag

text: Tea bag patents date from 1903 when Roberta Lawson and Mary Molaren, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were granted US patent 723287 for a Tea Leaf Holder, which they had filed for in 1901. The first modern tea bags were hand-sewn fabric bags. Appearing commercially around 1904, tea bags were successfully marketed in about 1908 by Thomas Sullivan, a tea and coffee importer from New York, who shipped his silk tea bags around the world. A popular legend states that this was accidental; the loose tea was intended to be removed from the bags by customers, but they found it easier to brew the tea with the tea leaves still enclosed in the porous bags. The first tea bag packing machine was invented in 1929 by Adolf Rambold for the German company Teekanne.


title: Tea bag

text: The heat-sealed paper fiber tea bag was patented in 1930 by William Hermanson. The now-common rectangular tea bag was not invented until 1944. Prior to that, tea bags resembled small sacks.


title: Tea bag

text: A broad variety of teas as well as other infusions like herbal teas, are available in tea bags. Typically, tea bags use fannings, the left-overs after larger leaf pieces are gathered for sale as loose tea, but some companies sell teabags containing whole-leaf tea.


title: Tea bag

text: Traditionally, tea bags have been square or rectangular in shape. They are usually made of filter paper, a blend of wood and vegetable fibers related to paper found in milk and coffee filters. The latter is bleached pulp abaca hemp, a plantation banana plant grown for its fiber, mostly in the Philippines and Colombia. Some bags have a heat-sealable thermoplastic such as PVC or polypropylene as a component fiber on the inner tea bag surface, making them not fully biodegradable. Some newer paper tea bags are made in a circular shape.


title: Tea bag

text: Tetrahedral tea bags were introduced by the PG Tips brand in 1997. They are typically made of nylon, soilon (PLA mesh made from corn starch), or silk. Nylon is non-biodegradable, so silk is preferred by environmentalists. PLA on the other hand is biodegradable, but is not compostable.


title: Tea bag

text: Empty tea bags are also available for consumers to fill with tea leaves themselves. These are typically open-ended pouches with long flaps. The pouch is filled with an appropriate quantity of leaf tea and the flap is closed into the pouch to retain the tea. Such tea bags combine the ease of use of a commercially produced tea bag with the wider tea choice and better quality control of loose leaf tea.


title: Tea bag

text: In 2017, Mike Armitage, a gardener in Wrexham, UK, found that tea bags left a plastic residue after being composted. He started a petition urging Unilever to remove plastic from bag production. In January 2018, Co-op Food announced that they were removing plastic from their own brand 99 tea bags in conjunction with their supplier Typhoo. In February 2018, PG Tips announced that their pyramid bags would now use corn starch adhesive in place of polypropylene.


title: Tea bag

text: Microplastics may be found in the tea meant for human consumption. A 2019 study showed that "steeping a single plastic teabag at brewing temperature (95 °C) releases approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics into a single cup of the beverage". A 2021 study analyzed purportedly cellulose tea bags and found that 15 of the 22 bags tested also contained polyester, polyethylene or polypropylene, which are known to shed microplastic fibers. Although cellulose is considered to be biodegradable, the plastic components are not and release microplastics to the environment when composted.


title: Tea bag

text: Decorative tea bags have become the basis for large collections and many collectors collect tea bags from around the world. Tea bag collector clubs are widely spread around the world and members consist of people interested in items related to teas. Online collector clubs often include catalogs of tea bags, as well as collection tracking tools. In addition, tea bag collectors often collect other tea-related items such as labels. These websites also provide forums for discussions and trade arrangements between collectors.


title: Tea bag

text: Teabag folding began in the Netherlands and is often credited to Tiny van der Plas. It is a form of origami in which identical squares of patterned paper (cut from the front of tea bag wrappers) are folded, and then arranged in rosettes. These rosettes are usually used to decorate gift cards and it has become a popular craft in both the US and UK since 2000.


title: Tea bag

text: Soil scientists used standardized tea bags to measure the decomposition rate of organic materials in different soils.


title: Isao Inokuma

text: Inokuma was born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, and took judo at age 15. He entered the Tokyo University of Education (current University of Tsukuba) and won the All-Japan Judo Championships in 1959 at only 21 years of age, to become the first student competitor to win the championship. He placed second in the All-Japan Championships in 1960 and 1961, both times losing to the future Olympic silver medalist and lifelong friend Akio Kaminaga.


title: Isao Inokuma

text: Inokuma won the 1963 All-Japan Championships, but placed 4th in the 1964 All-Japan Championships and ended up entering the 1964 Summer Olympics in the +80 kg division (the heaviest weight category at the time excluding the open category). His main rivals there were Canadian Doug Rogers, who trained with Inokuma in Japan, and Georgian Anzor Kiknadze, who nearly defeated Inokuma in 1961 using sambo armlock techniques. Inokuma faced Kiknadze in the semifinals. He managed to avoid the armlocks and threw Kiknadze at the five minute to advance to the final against Rogers, who was about 30 kg heavier. In the final little happened in the first 10 minutes, and the referee, Charles Palmer threatened to disqualify both, with little effect. Inokuma was awarded the gold for a slightly higher activity.


title: Isao Inokuma

text: After graduating, Inokuma became a judo instructor for Juntendo University and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. In 1965, he entered the Open weight class of the World Judo Championships intending to wrestle Dutch judo champion Anton Geesink, but Geesink went to the +80 kg division that year, and the two never faced off against one another. Both Geesink and Inokuma won gold medals in the competition, and Inokuma announced his retirement shortly afterwards, citing lack of motivation.


title: Isao Inokuma

text: In 1966, he resigned from his post at the Tokyo Police Department to become an executive at the Tokai Construction company (東海建設株式会社). He continued to work with judo as an advisor for the International Judo Federation, and as an instructor at Tokai University, where he coached future Olympic gold medalist Yasuhiro Yamashita. He also authored several books and manuals on judo. He became the CEO of Tokai Construction in 1993.


title: Isao Inokuma

text: Inokuma died by suicide by "seppuku" in 2001, possibly due to financial losses suffered by his company.


title: Air-launched cruise missile

text: An air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is a cruise missile that is launched from a military aircraft. Current versions are typically standoff weapons which are used to attack predetermined land targets with conventional, nuclear or thermonuclear payloads.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: The Right Stuff (TRS) is a neo-Nazi and white nationalist blog and discussion forum, and the host of several podcasts, including "The Daily Shoah". Founded by American neo-Nazi Mike Enoch, the website promotes Holocaust denial, and coined the use of "echoes", an antisemitic marker which uses triple parentheses around names to identify Jews. Alex McNabb, a co-host of "The Daily Shoah", was fired from his job as an emergency medical technician following violent and racist comments he expressed on the podcast.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: The site promotes white supremacy, neo-Nazism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and the white genocide conspiracy theory. It cites the work of Kevin B. MacDonald, a former professor of psychology and antisemitic conspiracy theorist, known for claiming there is a Jewish plot to control the world to undermine the interest of white people.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: Much of "TRS"'s content is devoted to Holocaust denial, as well as denying genocidal Nazi policies against Poles, Russians, and other Slavic "Untermenschen". To justify their denial of Nazi atrocities, "TRS" hosts promote the conspiracy theory that the documentary record establishing these genocides was forged by unspecified Jews or agents of Jews.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: In December 2012, "The Right Stuff" described itself as "a political and cultural blog" which aimed to unite the "alt right" and to troll liberals and progressives. Over time, the podcast became more radical, and adopted a conspiratorial neo-Nazi ideology. The blog developed and retains a lexicon defining jargon used by its publications as well as the wider alt-right movement. The website achieved general notice through its promotion of the triple parentheses or (((echo))). In 2014 the show began to use a distortion effect when names of Jews were mentioned during its segment "Merchant Minute". The meme was adapted to text through use of parentheses, and in the summer of 2016 it became known through a "New York Times" column on the topic.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: "The Right Stuff" was one of the earliest websites to make use of the term "cuckservative". In addition, the blog was an early proponent of the propaganda film "With Open Gates", which attacks multiculturalism and Middle Eastern refugees in Europe, and promotes the conspiracy theory that Jews are bringing the refugees in order to harm white people.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: The blog has seen a steady decline from its peak in 2017. In September 2021, a Southern Poverty Law Center report found that the website had declined in traffic by 87.5% since February 2017, coinciding with a decline in the total number of cast members appearing on "The Daily Shoah". In February 2019, Mike Peinovich responded to a data subpoena from the "Sines v. Kessler" civil lawsuit by stating that "TRS" had "lost regular listeners," and that many users had "cancelled their accounts and stopped visiting the site."


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: In early 2017, Mike Peinovich, the founder of "The Right Stuff" who had for years operated under the pseudonym Mike Enoch, was doxxed by fellow neo-Nazis, who released biographical information about him that contradicted his professed ideology. The dox revealed that Peinovich's wife was Jewish and that their wedding had featured traditional Jewish rites and chanting. As a neo-Nazi, Peinovich was also mocked upon the revelation of his Serbian surname, in light of Nazi Germany's racial classification of Serbs as subhumans ("Untermenschen"), and the genocide of Serbs perpetrated by the Croatian Ustaše puppet regime.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: After the doxxing, some followers of Peinovich reacted angrily to the information that had been revealed. They circulated forged images of him and his wife which derided their ethnicities. "Salon" journalist Matthew Sheffield posited that Neo-Nazi podcast listeners speculated that Peinovich was Jewish, "controlled opposition", or otherwise disingenuous in his beliefs.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: Alex McNabb is a former emergency medical technician (EMT) who appeared on "The Daily Shoah" under the pseudonym "Dr. Narcan". He was fired from his job as an EMT after racist comments he made on "The Daily Shoah" came to light, including comparing Black patients to animals and claiming to have tortured a young Black boy using a catheter needle.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: The National Justice Party (NJP) is an antisemitic white supremacist political organization in the United States that promotes neo-Nazism. It is not a registered party for elections.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: "The Right Stuff" announced the National Justice Party in August 2020, led by Mike Peinovich, with a platform based upon the white genocide conspiracy theory. The party platform also incorporates antisemitic elements, such as calling for mandatory employment discrimination to prevent Jewish individuals from working in "vital institutions". The chairmen of the party include a number of prominent white supremacist and alt-right figures, including Joseph Jordan (also known as Eric Striker), Tony Hovater, Michael McKevitt, Gregory Conte, Warren Balogh, and former member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, Alan Balogh.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: On July 24, 2021, NJP hosted their fifth party event in the Midwest and released a full-length documentary about it. Peinovich held a speech where he called Donald Trump the most Jewish president ever and controlled by the Jews. The party's leaders also gave "heil Hitler" salutes. NJP had previously hosted a meeting in response to the January 6 United States Capitol attack. NJP held their inaugural event in Millersville Pike just outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: NJP members have organized gatherings in Ohio, Wisconsin, and in Fargo on the anniversary of the death of Daisy “Jupiter” Paulsen, who was killed on June 4, 2021, to protest cases they claim are "anti-white" killings by minorities. Jupiter's accused killer is Black.


title: The Right Stuff (blog)

text: NJP is also connected to Antelope Hill Publishing, which publishes books by Nazis and fascists and sells these books at NJP events and on the internet.


title: Jalandhara

text: Jalandhara (Sanskrit: जलन्धर, lit. "he who holds water"), also known as Chalantarana (Sanskrit: चलन्तरण, lit. "he who walks and swims") is an asura in Hinduism. He was born when Shiva opened his third eye in his fury when Indra struck him with his thunderbolt. However, Indra was saved, and the energy emitted from the eye was sent into the ocean. The energy developed into a boy and was raised by Varuna, and eventually, by Shukracharya. When he grew up, he conquered the three realms - Svarga (heaven), Bhuloka (earth), and Patala (underworld). He married Vrinda, the daughter of Kalanemi. He would be slain by his creator, Shiva.


title: Jalandhara

text: In the Shiva temple, when Indra and Brihaspati were going towards Mount Kailasha to meet Shiva, their way was blocked by a naked yogi with matted hair and a radiant face. The yogi was Shiva himself, who had taken the form to test the knowledge of Indra and Brihaspati. Indra did not recognize the yogi and was infuriated at the fact that the man was not moving out of their way. Indra asked him to move, but the man did not budge. After not receiving a response, Indra became enraged and threatened him with his thunderbolt. Upon this action Indra's arm, became paralysed and Shiva neutralised the thunderbolt. Shiva became angry upon this action of Indra and his eyes turned red, frightening Indra. The anger caused his third eye to open, nearly killing Indra. Brihaspati recognised Shiva and prayed to him, requesting him to pardon Indra. To avoid killing Indra, Shiva sent the fire from his eye towards the ocean and upon meeting with the ocean it assumed the form of a boy. The boy cried terribly, which caused Brahma to descend from his abode. The ocean told Brahma that he did not know where the boy came from. Brahma then told him that the boy would one day become the emperor of the asuras, that he could only be killed by Shiva, and that after his death, he would return to third eye.


title: Jalandhara

text: Jalandhara's childhood was full of wonders. Borne up by the wind, he flew over the ocean; his pets were lions that he had caught; and the largest birds and fishes were subject to him. Jalandhara grew up to be a handsome man and was made the emperor of asuras by Shukra, their guru. Jalandhara was exceedingly powerful and was considered to be one of the mightiest asuras of all time. He married Vrinda, the daughter of the asura Kalanemi. Jalandhara ruled with justice and nobility. One day, the sage Bhargava (Shukra) came to meet Jalandhara. He narrated the tales of Hiranyakashipu and Virochana. He also told him how Vishnu had severed Rahu's head during the episode of the Samudra Manthana. The asura came to believe that the devas had treacherously taken his father Varuna's treasures. He sent one of his messengers, Ghasmara, to Indra to ask him to return his father's treasures. However, Indra refused to do so.


title: Jalandhara

text: A fierce battle ensued between the devas and the asuras. Many warriors were killed on both sides. Shukra revived the asuras using his "amṛtajīvinī vidya". Brihaspati revived the dead devas by using the medicinal herbs from the Drona mountain. Shukra counselled Jalandhara to uproot the mountain so that Brihaspati would be unable to employ the medicinal herbs to revive the devas. Jalandhara acquiesced and hurled the mountain Drona into the ocean. Demoralised, the devas requested Vishnu for his aid. A fierce battle was fought between Jalandhara and Vishnu, who rode upon Garuda and wielded his divine sword, Nandaka. Vishnu was impressed by Jalandhara's valiance in battle and granted him a boon of his choice. Jalandhara requested his brother-in-law Vishnu to stay in his eponymous city, bringing with him his followers and his consort, Lakshmi. Without his help, the devas were defeated by asuras, and Jalandhara became the lord of the three worlds (heaven, earth, and the underworld). He confiscated all the jewels that the devas and the gandharvas had hoarded during the Samudra Manthana and ruled virtuously, with nobody in his realm sick or lean.


title: Jalandhara

text: The devas were unhappy about their defeat, dejected at their being stripped of their authority. The divine sage, Narada, upon consulting with the devas, went to see Jalandhara. On being asked the purpose of his visit by Jalandhara, he described the beauty of Kailasha where Shiva lived, and that he wondered if any other place matched its beauty. In response, Jalandhara showed off his riches to Narada, who commented that he did not have the most beautiful woman as his wife. Narada then continued to describe Shiva's residence and also described to him about Parvati's beauty.


title: Jalandhara

text: Jalandhara sent his messenger Rahu to Shiva and accused him of hypocrisy, pointing out that Shiva claimed to be an ascetic but kept a wife, Parvati. He proposed that Shiva hand over Parvati to him:


title: Jalandhara

text: How can you live on alms and yet keep the beautiful Parvati? Give her to me, and wander from house to house with your alms bowl. You have fallen from your vow. You are a yogi, what need have you for the gem of wives? You live in the woods attended by goblins and ghosts; being a naked yogi, you should give your wife to one who will appreciate her better than you do.


title: Jalandhara

text: Upon hearing these insults, Shiva became so angry that a fearsome creature (Kīrttimukha) sprang from his brow and nearly killed Rahu, the messenger who had delivered the demand. War being determined, Jalandhara marched first to Kailasha; but finding that Shiva had forsaken it and taken up a position on a mountain near Lake Manasa, he surrounded the mountain with his troops. Nandi marched against them, and spread destruction; however, the army of the gods suffered many losses. Parvati then urged Shiva to enter the war. Shiva carefully warned Parvati to be on her guard during his absence, as it was possible asuras in some disguise might visit her; after this, accompanied by Virabhadra and Manibhadra, two forms of his anger, Shiva went to the battlefield. Kartikeya came to fight with him, but was defeated. After his defeat, Ganesha tried to attack him, but was badly defeated by him and was left unconscious on the battlefield. Upon seeing Shiva and his avatars dominate the battlefield, Jalandhara created an illusion. This distracted his army, but not himself. Meanwhile, Jalandhara disguised himself as Shiva and went to Parvati in order to trick her. Parvati recognised him and fled, growing beyond infuriated. The goddess meditated on Vishnu, and when he appeared, she demanded that he deceive Vrinda, just like Jalandhara had tried to deceive her.


title: Jalandhara

text: Vishnu caused Vrinda to dream that Jalandhara had been killed by Shiva. Posing as an ascetic, he creates the illusion that Jalandhara is then restored to life by him. Delighted to see her husband restored to life, Vrinda sported with him for many days in the forest. She recognised that it was Vishnu in disguise, and curses him that someday someone would trick his own wife (which becomes true when Sita is kidnapped by Ravana) just like how he had tricked her, that he would roam about in distress with Shesha (Lakshmana), and that he would seek the help of monkeys (vanaras). Saying thus, she entered the fire to immolate herself. After her death, her soul left her form from the funeral pyre, joining Parvati.


title: Jalandhara

text: Jalandhara, hearing of this deception and his wife's death, was enraged and left Mount Kailasha, returning to the battlefield. The illusion ending, Shiva and his forces realised the truth. Shiva engaged Sumbha and Nisumbha in battle, but they soon fled. They were later killed by Parvati. Jalandhara then engaged Shiva in battle. Towards the end of the battle, when most of Jalandhara's army had been slaughtered, Shiva beheaded him with a chakra (discus) created from his toe. Upon his death, his soul merged with Shiva, just like Vrinda's soul had merged with his consort.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: Sachiin Joshi, also spelled Sachin Joshi (born 7 August 1984), is an Indian actor, producer, and entrepreneur known for his work in Telugu and Hindi cinema. His father, Jagdish Joshi, is the owner of the JMJ group of industries. Sachiin also owned the Dambulla franchise of the Lanka Premier League (LPL), the Dambulla Viikings, which was terminated by SLC in 2021 before the second season.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: Sachin Joshi was born in Pune to Jagdish Joshi, owner of the JMJ group of industries. He was unsuccessful in establishing himself in Telugu films, but later began working as an actor in Bollywood to a mixed reception. Joshi made his debut in the 2002 Telugu film "Mounamelanoyi" and went on to star in two more Telugu films, "Ninu Chudaka Nenundalenu" (2002) and "Orey Pandu" (2005). He did not appear in films again until 2011, when he performed as the titular lead character in the Hindi film "Aazaan," which he also co-produced. This marked his debut in Hindi film. Joshi returned to Tollywood with the remake of "Aashiqui 2", titled "Nee Jathaga Nenundali", and reprised the role played by Aditya Roy Kapur in the Hindi version. He co-starred with Nazia Hussain, who made her debut in "Aashiqui 2". Joshi was also a lead in the 2013 film "Jackpot", in which he starred opposite Sunny Leone and Naseeruddin Shah.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: His film "Amavas", which he self-financed and co-stars Nargis Fakhri, opened to extremely poor reviews, and was widely panned by critics for its "mediocre performances and direction."


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: Before becoming an actor, Joshi began a career as an entrepreneur. Among other companies, he owns the trouble-ridden Viiking Ventures, which sells the Kings Beer brand, now known as Goa Kings, as of 2015. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2018.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: In January 2018, Joshi was accused of fraud by former business partner Raj Kundra, related to a poker league they were both involved in. Kundra has since launched legal proceedings against Joshi for defamation.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Joshi offered his Beatle Hotel in Powai to the governing body of Mumbai, as a quarantine facility for COVID-19-positive patients coming from abroad. He also donated food boxes to the local police and municipal workers.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: In November 2020, Joshi purchased the Dambulla Viiking franchise for the upcoming 2020 Lanka Premier League. The team, originally named Dambulla Lions, was renamed due to becoming part of Viiking Ventures.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: In January 2021, Joshi's business partner Parag Sanghvi filed an action against him, alleging a scam and nonpayment of franchise royalties for the Playboy Beer Garden in Pune.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: In February 2021, Joshi was arrested by the Indian Enforcement Directorate on money laundering charges. A subsequent investigation by Indian tax authorities discovered unaccounted transactions of around ₹1,500 crore during their six-day-long search operation carried out at various premises linked to Joshi and his father.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: In June 2021, Joshi was denied permission by a court to travel to Geneva, Switzerland, purportedly to visit his thirteen-year-old-daughter, because he was deemed a flight risk.


title: Sachiin J. Joshi

text: In February 2012, Joshi married model and actress Urvashi Sharma. Sharma later changed her name to Raina Joshi. The couple has three children.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Meadowlands Arena (formerly Brendan Byrne Arena, Continental Airlines Arena and Izod Center) is a closed indoor arena facility located in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. The arena is located on New Jersey Route 120 across the highway from MetLife Stadium and the Meadowlands Racetrack, next to the American Dream shopping and entertainment complex.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The arena, which opened in 1981, was originally built to accommodate the New Jersey Nets basketball team. In 1982, the Colorado Rockies hockey team joined the Nets in the new building and became known as the New Jersey Devils. The Nets and Devils were joined by the Seton Hall Pirates men's collegiate basketball program in 1985.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: In 2007, the Prudential Center opened in nearby Newark as the new Devils home arena. Seton Hall, whose campus in South Orange is closer to Newark than East Rutherford, likewise moved its basketball games there. The Nets remained at the Meadowlands for three more seasons before moving to Newark, where they played two seasons before departing New Jersey for Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The men's basketball team from Fordham University played four home games during the 2010–11 season at the arena.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Following the departure of all three of its major tenants, the arena continued to host occasional non-sporting events, such as touring shows and concerts, and other local events. The state-owned facility reported losses for 2013, and was projected to have $8.5 million in losses for 2015. On January 15, 2015, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) voted to shut down Izod Center, and have Prudential Center acquire hosting rights to events scheduled for the arena over the next two years in a $2 million deal.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Since closing, the vacant arena has been used as a rehearsal venue for large-scale touring concert productions as well as a sound stage for video and television productions. Since 2018, NBC has leased the venue to film prime-time drama series, including "The Enemy Within" and "". It is also home to the crime drama series "The Equalizer", starring Queen Latifah, and the 2022 TV series "Tales of the Walking Dead".


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Construction on a new arena across Route 20 (now 120) from Giants Stadium and the Meadowlands Racetrack began in 1977, with the arena's initial purpose being to serve as the primary home for the Nets who had moved from Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York to New Jersey. While the venue was being built, the Nets played their home games in Piscataway at the Rutgers Athletic Center.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The arena was designed by Grad Partnership and Dilullo, Clauss, Ostroki & Partners and was constructed at a cost of $85 million. Originally named after the sitting governor of New Jersey, Brendan Byrne, the arena opened July 2, 1981, with the first of six concerts by New Jersey rock musician Bruce Springsteen. The Nets moved into their new home on October 30, 1981, and lost to their cross-river rivals, the New York Knicks in their inaugural home game. In 1982, the arena hosted the NBA All-Star Game. Then, it hosted the 1996 NBA draft.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Another motivation for building an arena in the Meadowlands was to potentially lure a National Hockey League team to New Jersey. Governor Byrne was a member of an ownership group that was looking to do so, and in 1978 businessman Arthur Imperatore purchased the Colorado Rockies and announced that he would be relocating the team to New Jersey. Unfortunately for Imperatore, the Rockies would be sold twice more before that finally became a reality. The newly-renamed, John McMullen-owned New Jersey Devils played their first game at the arena on October 5, 1982, against the Pittsburgh Penguins, with the game ending in a 3–3 tie. Don Lever scored the first goal in the arena, which was the Devils' very first goal. In 1984, the arena hosted the NHL All-Star Game. The following year, the Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team began playing at the arena.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: On January 4, 1996, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) announced a naming rights deal with Continental Airlines under which the airline, with a hub at nearby Newark Liberty International Airport, would pay the NJSEA $29 million over 12 years. As Continental Airlines Arena, it hosted the 1996 Final Four—the last Final Four to date that has been held in an arena specifically built for basketball.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: In September 2006, the Nets and the NJSEA announced an extension of their lease to keep the team in the Meadowlands until 2013, with a provision to leave as early as 2009 if the Brooklyn arena was completed. It was reported at the time that the Nets' owner, Bruce Ratner was seeking to sell the Nets, thus thwarting any possible move to Brooklyn.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: On May 5, 2007, the Devils played their last game at the arena, losing 3–2 to the Ottawa Senators, eliminating them from the Eastern Conference semifinals 4–1. Scott Gomez scored the final goal in the building. The Devils subsequently relocated to the newly constructed Prudential Center in nearby Newark at the beginning of the 2007–08 NHL season.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Following the Devils' final season at the arena in 2007, Continental Airlines opted out of the naming rights agreement and the NJSEA signed an agreement with Izod for five years. The company paid $1.4 million per year for the first two years of the agreement; when the Nets left, it dropped to $750,000 per year for the balance of the five-year deal. The columns of the arena's exterior were also repainted red as the arena assumed a new color scheme.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: In 2009, Newark mayor Cory Booker and Devils owner Jeffrey Vanderbeek called for the closing of the Izod Center, because it was a competing venue to the Prudential Center for events, and a "drain on taxpayers." In October 2009, a deal was brokered for the Nets to play at the Prudential Center for two seasons, beginning in the 2010–11 NBA season. The deal also included a partnership with the Prudential Center hosting sporting events (Devils, Nets, Seton Hall), and the Izod Center handling concerts and family shows. The two arenas proposed a joint venture, Jersey Presents LLC, to wrestle leverage from promoters who had been playing the two against each other. "You can’t have two venues that close together fighting each other and have that be productive for the state," said Jerry Zaro, economic czar to former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, who brokered the deal. The Nets' agreement to play the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons in Newark was finalized on February 18, 2010. On April 12, 2010 the Nets played their final game at the Izod Center, a 105–95 loss to the Charlotte Bobcats. Terrence Williams made the final basket in the arena.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: With the loss of its major tenants, the Izod Center served primarily as a venue for traveling events, such as concerts, ice shows, and other occasional local events such as graduation ceremonies. New Jersey's government considered possible options for the arena, including selling or leasing it to another operator, or closing it entirely. Triple Five Group had attempted to negotiate taking over the arena so it could be incorporated into the nearby American Dream Meadowlands complex, but the deal fell through. The arena reported losses for 2013, also facing competition from Barclays Center in landing major concerts, and it was estimated that the arena would lose $8.5 million over the course of 2015. Even with its use during Super Bowl XLVIII, Izod Center reported a $45,800 loss from the event.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: On January 15, 2015, as urged by state governor Chris Christie, the NJSEA voted to close Izod Center. Under a two-year, $2 million agreement with Devils Arena Entertainment LLC, most future events scheduled for Izod Center were moved to Prudential Center. While the arena was originally expected to be shut down by the end of January, its final event was a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus event on March 22, 2015. Under the terms of the agreement, the operators of Prudential Center were held responsible for staffing and logistics for shows held after January 31 but was entitled to receive the profits from such events.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: On July 14, 2016, "The Record" reported that Devils Arena Entertainment had yet to pay the first $500,000 installment of its $2 million agreement with the NJSEA. On August 11, 2016, the NJSEA announced that it would allow musicians to book the arena for use as a rehearsal facility. Prudential Center president Hugh Weber noted that Coldplay had similarly done so prior to their tour stop at nearby MetLife Stadium, and that while Prudential Center has frequently seen similar bookings, there is a large backlog due to the venue's high traffic. The NJSEA and the Prudential Center will share the revenue generated by the rehearsals.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The arena has primarily served as a sports venue in its history. The arena was the home of the NBA's New Jersey Nets basketball franchise from 1981 to 2010. It was the home arena for the NHL's New Jersey Devils hockey franchise from 1982 to 2007 and the NCAA's Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team from 1982 to 2007 as well as continuing to play host to various regular-season men's college basketball. The last game being played on December 18, 2014, between the Duke Blue Devils and UConn Huskies. Izod Center used two separate floors for NBA and NCAA basketball—a standard hardwood floor for Nets and the arena's old parquet floor for regular-season college basketball (since 2007, the NCAA has used a uniform floor for regional sites).


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: College basketball first arrived at the arena with the opening rounds of the 1984 NCAA basketball tournament. Seton Hall moved its Big East Conference men's basketball games to the arena for the 1985–1986 season. The arena hosted the NCAA Men's Final Four in 1996, the last traditional arena to do so to date. On eleven occasions (1986–91, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2007) the arena hosted the semifinals and finals of the tournament's East Regional. Only Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium, which hosted 13 regional finals from 1940 to 1952, has hosted more. It also hosted the 1982–1989 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and 1986 Atlantic Ten Conference men's basketball tournaments.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: On January 22, 1987, after New Jersey was hit with of snow, only 334 fans attended the Devils' 7–5 victory over the Calgary Flames, a record for the lowest attendance for a game in modern NHL history.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Other teams that have called the arena home include the New Jersey Rockets of the Major Indoor Soccer League, the New Jersey Rockin' Rollers of Roller Hockey International, the New Jersey XTreme of the National Indoor Football League, and the New Jersey Red Dogs / Gladiators of the Arena Football League. Two different National Lacrosse League teams have played at the arena—the New Jersey Saints from 1987 to 1988, and the New Jersey Storm from 2002 to 2003. The New York Cosmos also used the arena to host indoor matches, and the last NASL indoor game was played at the arena on April 11, 1984 – the Cosmos lost to the San Diego Sockers, 7-3, in front of 4,717 fans, giving the Sockers a sweep of the best-of-five series.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: On February 12, 2011, the arena hosted . In November 2011, the Izod Center was the host of the final round of the TicketCity Legends Classic. The UFC on Fox 3 event took place at the arena on May 5, 2012.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Meadowlands Arena played host to the , , , and Stanley Cup Finals. The arena saw the Devils clinch two of their three Stanley Cup championships before a home crowd, winning Game 4 of the 1995 Finals over the Detroit Red Wings and Game 7 of the 2003 Finals over the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim; the Devils' other Stanley Cup win took place in Game 6 of the 2000 Finals over the Dallas Stars at Dallas' Reunion Arena. The Devils lost in the 2001 Finals in seven games to the Colorado Avalanche. The arena also was host to the Los Angeles Lakers winning an NBA Championship by sweeping the Nets on June 12, 2002, and again the next year, when the Nets lost in six games to the San Antonio Spurs. Izod Center is the most recent of five venues to host the Stanley Cup Finals and NBA Finals at the same time; the other four are Boston Garden, Madison Square Garden in New York, The Spectrum in Philadelphia and Chicago Stadium. Game 3 of the 1983-84 NASL Indoor Finals was played there on April 11, 1984 between the Cosmos and the San Diego Sockers. This also happened to be the last indoor game played in the North American Soccer League, as the league folded in early 1985. It was one of the busiest arenas in North America in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, playing host to numerous championship and neutral games.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The arena also hosted the NCAA Men's Final Four (basketball) in 1996, which was won by the University of Kentucky, and included Syracuse University, the University of Massachusetts, and Mississippi State University.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The arena was a popular site for concerts, having been designed with acoustics in mind and requiring a smaller facility fee for artists than competing venues, such as Madison Square Garden.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Bruce Springsteen remains one of the most popular concert acts; his appearances have included a six-night run to open the arena in July 1981, a 10-night sold-out run in 1984, an 11-night run in 1992 and a 15-night sold-out run in 1999. This last feat was commemorated by a large banner hanging from the rafters, next to the banners representing the achievements of the resident sports teams. Springsteen would return to the arena for concerts in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2012.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Additionally, a number of tracks from Springsteen's 1986 live album "Live/1975-85" were recorded at the arena during concerts in 1981 and 1984. In 2015, Springsteen's August 5, 1984, concert was officially released as a live album followed by his August 20, 1984 concert in 2018, his July 25, 1992 concert in 2019, and his July 9, 1981 concert in 2020.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: New Jersey natives Bon Jovi have played at the arena many times and sold out every show. The only other act to do that is Bruce Springsteen.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The Rolling Stones performed three consecutive shows, during their 1981 North American Tour, on November 5–7, 1981, with Tina Turner, George Thorogood & The Destroyers and The J. Geils Band as their opening acts. The shows on November 5 and 6 were filmed and partially featured on their live-concert film, entitled "Let's Spend the Night Together".


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Queen performed in the arena on August 9, 1982, during their Hot Space Tour. This concert is infamous for Brian May 'accidentally' snapping his John Birch Red Special replica after he hurled it to his wall of Vox AC30s and the roadies missed to catch it.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Iron Maiden performed the first show on their The Beast on the Road Tour on October 22, 1982, and on their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour on March 14, 2008. Their performance of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was featured in the concert documentary "Flight 666".The Grateful Dead played 16 times from 1983 through 1989, and recorded "Road Trips Volume 4 Number 2", on March 31–April 1, 1988 and "Nightfall of Diamonds", on October 16, 1989.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Rush performed during their Power Windows Tour on March 31 and April 1, 1986. The shows were partially featured on their concert album, entitled "A Show of Hands".


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Pink Floyd performed three concerts on October 10, 11 and 12, 1987, as part of their A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Michael Jackson performed three sold-out shows during his Bad World Tour on October 3, 4 and 5, 1988, in front of 61,061 people.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The Dave Matthews Band's performance on September 11, 1999, was recorded for a PBS special and subsequently released as a live album and DVD, entitled "Listener Supported".


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Kiss performed on June 27, 2000, during their Kiss Farewell Tour, which was filmed and is available on their "" box set.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Cher performed two shows during her, then, on July 2, 2002 and April 13, 2005. On her DVD "", there is a video of her rehearsing at the Izod Center.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Phish performed a concert on February 24, 2003, which featured legendary blues guitarist B.B. King for most of the first set.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Simon & Garfunkel performed two consecutive shows during their Old Friends Reunion Tour, on December 7–8, 2003, with The Everly Brothers as their opening act. They performed "Leaves That Are Green" in place of "Song for the Asking", which had been on their setlist for other concerts on this tour, following an announcement that they had not played it live since 1967.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The arena played host to the final show of the politically motivated Vote for Change Tour on October 13, 2004, featuring performances by Patti Scialfa, Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band, with special guest John Fogerty and unannounced guest Eddie Vedder.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Slipknot performed at the arena on March 6, 2005. The preshow of the concert was featured in a segment on the March 9, 2005, episode of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", where the Slipnutz, a comedy musical trio who were featured on Conan, opened for the band. However, the Slipnutz were heavily booed by the crowd.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed two consecutive shows during their Stadium Arcadium World Tour, on October 17 and 18, 2006, with The Mars Volta as their opening act. Footage from the shows and the arena were used in the music video for "Snow (Hey Oh)".


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Prince & The New Power Generation kicked off their Welcome 2 American Tour, with two consecutive shows on December 15 and 17, 2010. They also performed two impromptu semi-private shows in the "Hospitality Room", where 50 fans attended the show on December 16 and 30 attended the show on December 18.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The "Love for Levon" concert took place on October 3, 2012, as a tribute to late drummer/singer Levon Helm of The Band. The show featured a wide variety of musicians who had worked with Helm, as well as musicians who were influenced by him. Proceeds from the show went towards keeping Helm's Woodstock barn in his family's control, as well as continuing his Midnight Ramble concert series in the barn. The show's musical directors were Don Was and Levon Helm collaborator Larry Campbell. The concert was released on CD/DVD on March 19, 2013.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: Fordham University's men's basketball team used the Izod Center as an alternate home court for four games in the 2010–11 season. The average attendance for these games was only 1,799, which was approximately half of the capacity of Fordham's normal home, Rose Hill Gymnasium.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The Winner's Club was a luxury bar and restaurant inside the arena that hosted parties and group events. The Winner's Club is now used by the New Jersey State Police.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey was established in 1988 to honor athletes, teams, events, and contributors associated with the state of New Jersey. While there was no physical site or structure for the hall, the members were honored with plaques displayed throughout the arena.


title: Meadowlands Arena

text: The arena was frequently cited near the bottom of public polls. It was commonly referred to as "cold and dull" in appearance, as well as being "cavernous". In a 2005 poll, "USA Today" rated it the worst arena in the NBA, with the distance of the inexpensive seats from the court, and the level of crowding in the concourse after the game cited as reasons.


title: C++ Standard Library

text: In the C++ programming language, the C++ Standard Library is a collection of classes and functions, which are written in the core language and part of the C++ ISO Standard itself.


title: C++ Standard Library

text: The C++ Standard Library provides several generic containers, functions to use and manipulate these containers, function objects, generic strings and streams (including interactive and file I/O), support for some language features, and functions for common tasks such as finding the square root of a number. The C++ Standard Library also incorporates most headers of the ISO C standard library ending with ".h", but their use is deprecated (reverted the deprecation since 2003). No other headers in the C++ Standard Library end in ".h". Features of the C++ Standard Library are declared within the codice_1 namespace.


title: C++ Standard Library

text: The C++ Standard Library is based upon conventions introduced by the Standard Template Library (STL), and has been influenced by research in generic programming and developers of the STL such as Alexander Stepanov and Meng Lee. Although the C++ Standard Library and the STL share many features, neither is a strict superset of the other.


title: C++ Standard Library

text: A noteworthy feature of the C++ Standard Library is that it not only specifies the syntax and semantics of generic algorithms, but also places requirements on their performance. These performance requirements often correspond to a well-known algorithm, which is expected but not required to be used. In most cases this requires linear time O("n") or linearithmic time O("n" log "n"), but in some cases higher bounds are allowed, such as quasilinear time O("n" log "n") for stable sort (to allow in-place merge sort). Previously, sorting was only required to take O("n" log "n") on average, allowing the use of quicksort, which is fast in practice but has poor worst-case performance, but introsort was introduced to allow both fast average performance and optimal worst-case complexity, and as of C++11, sorting is guaranteed to be at worst linearithmic. In other cases requirements remain laxer, such as selection, which is only required to be linear on average (as in quickselect), not requiring worst-case linear as in introselect.


title: C++ Standard Library

text: The C++ Standard Library underwent ISO standardization as part of the C++ ISO Standardization effort, and is undergoing further work regarding standardization of expanded functionality.


title: C++ Standard Library

text: The Apache C++ Standard Library is another open-source implementation. It was originally developed commercially by Rogue Wave Software and later donated to the Apache Software Foundation. However, after more than five years without a release, the board of the Apache Software Foundation decided to end this project and move it to Apache Attic.


title: C++ Standard Library

text: Ever since the modules were introduced in C++20, there has been no support for standard library modules until C++23. These named modules were added to include all items declared in both global and codice_1 namespaces provided by the importable standard headers. Macros are not allowed to be exportable, so users have to manually include or import headers that emit macros for use.


title: C++ Standard Library

text: Each header from the C Standard Library is included in the C++ Standard Library under a different name, generated by removing the .h, and adding a 'c' at the start; for example, 'time.h' becomes 'ctime'. The only difference between these headers and the traditional C Standard Library headers is that where possible the functions should be placed into the codice_71 namespace. In ISO C, functions in the standard library are allowed to be implemented by macros, which is not allowed by ISO C++.


title: Gleaming the Cube

text: Gleaming the Cube (also known as A Brother's Justice and Skate or Die; released in the Philippines as Challenge to Win Again) is a 1989 American neo-noir film directed by Graeme Clifford and starring Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 16-year-old skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother.


title: Gleaming the Cube

text: The skating technical advisor for the film was original Z-Boy Stacy Peralta. Among the skateboarders who appear in the film as stunt skaters are Mike McGill, Mark "Gator" Rogowski, Rodney Mullen, Rich Dunlop, Eric Dressen, Lance Mountain, Mike Vallely, Chris Black, Ted Ehr, Natas Kaupas, Chris Borst, and Steve Saiz. Tony Hawk (Buddy) and Tommy Guerrero (Sam), then members of the Bones Brigade, appear in the film as members of Brian's skate crew. Christian Jacobs, future lead singer of The Aquabats and creator of "Yo Gabba Gabba!," also appears in the film as Gremic.


title: Gleaming the Cube

text: The film received a moderate release in the United States from 20th Century Fox (in 469 theaters). Although the film had a relatively low box office turnout, it garnered a significant cult following after its theatrical release, through basic cable replays on networks such as USA and the burgeoning VHS (and later DVD) market, as well as among skateboarders.