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You get what you give in Varanasi India

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7 minute read if you skip the bad stuff.

The Lonely Planet guide to India, the gold-standard of travel guides, a bible for budget backpackers, and usually a kind voice encouraging you to travel without judgement, said this about Varanasi India:

Brace yourself. You’re about to enter one of the most blindingly colorful, unrelentingly chaotic and unapologetically indiscreet places on earth. Varanasi takes no prisoners.

Varanasi tested my patience, humor, and immune system more than anywhere in the world, yet remains one of my favorite memories of a trip across Nepal and India.

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Van Halen, Brown M&Ms, and Quality Assurance

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6 minute read.

In the 1980’s, the rock-band Van Halen caused $85,000 damage to their dressing room after finding brown M&M’s in their bowl of “munchies” before a concert. The facts behind that story can help medical-device companies become more efficient and pass any FDA or ISO Quality-System audit. This article shows you how, with the lead singer of Van Halen, David Lee Roth, as your guide.

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The JFK and MLK Assassination Report

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“We can report that Edward G. Partin has been under investigation by the New Orleans District Attorney’s Office in connection with the Kennedy Assassination investigation… based on an exclusive interview with an Assistant District Attorney in Jim Garrison’s office. We can report that Partin’s activities have been under scrutiny. In his words: “We know that Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald were here in New Orleans several times… there was a third man driving them and we are checking the possibility it was Partin.”

WJBO radio, New Orleans, 23 June1964

“As noted in the account of Ruby’s telephone records, the committee confirmed the existence of several contacts between Ruby and associates of Hoffa during the period of October and November 1963, including one Hoffa aide whom Robert Kennedy had once described as one of Hoffa’s most violent lieutenants.”

– The 1976 Congressional Committee on Assassinations John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Report

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Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran

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Jimmy Hoffa: “Would you like to be a part of this, Frank? Would you like to be a part of this history?”

Frank Sheeran: “Yes, I would. Whatever you need me to do, I’m available.”

– Frank Sheeran in “I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa,” 2004

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Hoffa vs The United States

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“I cannot agree that what happened in this case is in keeping with the standards of justice in our federal system and I must, therefore, dissent.“

– Chief Justice Earl Warren in Hoffa vs The United States

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The JFK and MLK Assassination Report

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“Finally, a note on Hoffa’s character. He was a man of strong emotions who hated the President and his brother, the Attorney General. He did not regret the President’s death, and he said so publicly.”

– The John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Junior Assassination Report.

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Partin vs Partin

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“You either loved Ed Partin or you hated him. There was no in between.“

– Douglas Westley Partin in his 2017 self-published autobiography, “From my Brother’s Shadow: Teamster Douglas Westley Partin Tells His Side of the Story.”

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Partin vs Partin

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“[Jimmy Hoffa’s] mention of legal problems in New Orleans translated into his insistence that Carlos Marcello arrange another meeting with Partin, despite my warning that dealing with Partin was fruitless and dangerous.”

“He wanted me to get cracking on the interview with Partin. In June, Carlos sent word that a meeting with Partin was imminent and I should come to New Orleans. As [my wife] watched me pack in the bedroom of our Coral Gables home, she began crying, imploring me not to see Partin. She feared that it was a trap and that I would be murdered or arrested.”

– Frank Ragano, J.D., attorney for Jimmy Hoffa, Carlos Marcello, and Santos Trafacante Jr., in “Lawyer for the Mob,” 1994

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Hoffa versus The United States

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“We can report that Edward G. Partin has been under investigation by the New Orleans District Attorney’s Office in connection with the Kennedy Assassination investigation… based on an exclusive interview with an Assistant District Attorney in Jim Garrison’s office. We can report that Partin’s activities have been under scrutiny. In his words: “We know that Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald were here in New Orleans several times… there was a third man driving them and we are checking the possibility it was Partin.”

WJBO radio, New Orleans, 23 June1964

“As noted in the account of Ruby’s telephone records, the committee confirmed the existence of several contacts between Ruby and associates of Hoffa during the period of October and November 1963, including one Hoffa aide whom Robert Kennedy had once described as one of Hoffa’s most violent lieutenants.”

– The Congressional Committee on Assassinations John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Report

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Keith Partin

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Hell, Jason. I don’t know what Big Daddy did. I don’t think it matters any more, anyway.

– Keith Partin, circa 1990

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Brian the One-Armed Drug Dealer

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It takes a village to raise a child.

– African Proverb

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Wendy and Denise

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And We have commanded people to ˹honour˺ their parents. Their mothers bore them through hardship upon hardship, and their weaning takes two years. So be grateful to Me and your parents. To Me is the final return. 

– Surah Luqman 31:14

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