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The Covenant Counselor: A Technical Framework for Biblicist Truth-Telling on Social Media

1. Statement of the Problem The career of Kevin Samuels showed that there is strong demand for blunt talk about dating. Large audiences, especially among people who feel modern relationship culture has failed them, want someone who will name hard … Continue reading →

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Kevin Samuels: The Image Consultant Who Became the Manosphere’s Most Polarizing Voice

Origins and the Image Business Kevin Roshon Samuels’s public life was short, but he became one of the most argued-about voices on dating in the early 2020s. Wikipedia lists him as born March 13, 1969, in Oklahoma City, and as … Continue reading →

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The Fool’s Testimony: Truth-Telling Through Tiresome Characters in the Novels of Jane Austen

Executive Summary Jane Austen often puts the most accurate information in her novels in the mouths of the characters that the other characters, and the readers, have been taught to dismiss. Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice is loud, nervous, … Continue reading →

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Imported Capacity: Staffing and Coordination at Small Feast of Tabernacles Sites

Executive Summary Feast of Tabernacles sites differ widely in size, from large gatherings of several hundred people to small sites where fewer than a hundred worshipers meet in a rented hall. This paper examines a small site near St. John’s, … Continue reading →

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Closing the Distance: Artists’ Songs About Their Working Lives and the Audiences Who Prefer Not to Hear Them

Executive Summary Popular musicians regularly write songs about the conditions of their work: the isolation of touring, the strangeness of hotel life, the transactional side of performance, and the unequal intimacy between performers and fans. Artists often treat these songs … Continue reading →

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Reading the Map for the Market: Distinguishing Resident-Serving from Visitor-Serving Businesses: A White Paper on Commercial Geography, with Reference to St. John’s, Newfoundland

1. The Observation and a Needed Refinement A drive of about four miles along a commercial arterial into St. John’s shows a clear sequence. Residences come first, then a long run of car dealerships and auto-related businesses, and finally a … Continue reading →

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The Invisible Witnesses: Public Understanding of Trial Foundation

Abstract Most of the witnesses who lay the foundation for forensic evidence are seen by almost no one outside the courtroom. News reports mention the result and the expert who explained it. Documentaries and podcasts compress weeks of testimony into … Continue reading →

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Foundation Load: A Typology of Evidence by Testimonial Burden

Abstract Criminal trials vary widely in the number of witnesses required to bring a single forensic result before a jury. A DNA comparison may require a procession of collectors, custodians, technicians, and analysts, while a set of cell phone records … Continue reading →

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Prolegomenon On How Evidence Comes to Speak

1. The Problem of the Silent Result A person who sits through a modern criminal trial in which DNA evidence plays a part will often witness a curious procession. Before the jury hears what the laboratory found, it hears from … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Three Peripheries and a Runway: On the Typology of Voice Without Authority: Structural Peripherality in the Miami Overrun of September 2026, with Observations on the Prophetic Case

Abstract The runway overrun of a Boeing 767 freighter at Miami International Airport on September 6, 2026 killed five ground workers and left an investigative and regulatory record in which at least four parties occupy positions granting voice without decisional … Continue reading →

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