5th grade science fiction

Hello - I’m in the planning stages for a 4th grade curriculum for next year. I went to a learning store recently and found lots of spelling workbooks, reading comprehension workbooks, writing workbooks, and one that has daily grammar exercises. If combined with regular book reading and vocabulary, is this enough? I do want to make sure I’m keeping mostly on track with what would be covered in public school but also don’t want it to be super repetitive. I also would maybe occasionally include a reading or writing project that ties in with whatever we’re doing in science, social studies, or a field trip to add in some variation. So maybe 75% workbooks and 25% other materials/projects.
Edit: I do want to add that I don’t think literary-based curriculum would be a good fit for us due to this child’s interests and learning style. Loved MBTP for one of my other children but don’t think it would be a good fit for this one.
Looking at Beast Academy for math and currently undecided on science and social studies.

I recently watched Stargate s4 ep6 "Window of Opportunity". It's the one known as the "Groundhog Day" episode, because O'Neal and Teal'c get caught in a 10 hour time loop, which is a similar plot to the Bill Murray movie where he lives the same day over and over. Both are hilarious.
Are there any "Groundhog Day" episodes of television that you can remember?

I am predicted an A*A*AA (Maths , Further Maths, Economics and Religious Studies) but my grades are 88887776666 (6s in Eng Lang, Comp Sci, Further Maths and French) which I know aren't great and that Cambridge focuses more on GCSES than non Oxbridge Uni's. I really am trying to boost my personal statement: I attended insights at multiple Banks, attended multiple lectures and read into my subject, coded data science projects that link to econ, entered essay and investment challenges as well as research projects - I have Cambridges 2024 Technology Development Work Experience Scheme in August and I plan to get work experience in finance during the summer. I know with the ratio of international to UK students at LSE applying there is completely out the window but it really would be a dream to study at Cambridge - is there anything more I could possibly do or would you consider I take a gap year and improve my application and grades.

I was thinking if I can do other things to make universities look at me. I am joining the swim team next year and I am also doing computer science club as well as spin club. Are there any volunteering or other clubs I could be joining for them to like me more? For example, deca or hosa.... I also want to be in IBT SHSM even tho Universities don't look at it. I want to do computer science and my aim is a good university like Waterloo. Im scared sigh... FREE US. Also if any waterloo students are reading this let me know what your marks were and extracurriculars because I keep seeing tiktoks with people getting 87% averages and getting into CS Waterloo. I know it is going to be tough because of International students as well as a bunch of people want to get in but I think if i could improve my grades for math and all I could get in. Please LET ME KNOW PLEASE.

I'm looking for anyone who relates! And I'll elaborate.
For as long as I can remember, I've been a very jumpy/flinchy person, but I've never faced any physical abuse. This is something others have called out and I've noticed myself. I'm very jumpy, rigid, and easily frightened. To put this into perspective I'll use a story of the time I got called out by a classmate. It stuck with me because of how absurd the whole thing was. Borderline laughable.
I was in the 8th grade, in some kind of science class. The desks were rectangular and placed next to each other, making it 2 students per desk. I'm not sure what we were doing but it involved rulers. I remember the classmate to my left reaching for her ruler and my immediate reaction was to gasp loudly, flinch and freeze. Still as a statue.
The entire room was dead silent, by the way. So everyone heard this, some probably witnessed this.
She looked at me and said "What? Did you think I was gonna hit you?" And I muttered something like "No." I was really embarrassed. I whipped up some lie about seeing a spider but I can't remember if I told her or only thought about telling her. Regardless, that experience stuck with me because I freaked over absolutely nothing.
I'm wondering if anyone else relates to this kind of behavior. Jumpy and flinchy despite never being physically abused?

Current grade 12 and applied for computer science everywhere, but I’ve realized I’d rather study engineering, likely mechatronics.
I have an offer to queens computing as of now and I was hoping that I would be able to accept that, and then transfer into mechatronics once at queens.
Would this be possible? And if so how would I go about doing it?

Long story short I did about a year and some change in the United States for high school. Moved to India for school because of a work mishap on my parent's behalf. The situation was all a little mucky but essentially it resulted in me(a US citizen) living in India with my uncle without either of my parents. I joined school about four months late in sophomore year and had a ton of health issues arise because of the move.
So I somehow managed to pull together a 36/56 in the MYP-5 eAssessments and figured I'd go back to the United States the year after. Thing is, I didn't. Not complaining or anything but I guess my mind wasn't in it. With all the health issues, the new family around me(and the restrictions that came with them), as well as the fact that I wasn't given a chance to actually process the move(even during summer break) I just crumpled.
It was like trying to drive a half broken down car, it'd move for a while and then break down and then start up again after a couple kicks to the engine. It was a ton of high's and lows. I got a 29/45 for semester 1 of DP 1 and after that my mental health plummeted to an all time low.
Towards the end of second semester I guess my OCD(at least I think that's what very unhealthy and random fixations that seem world changing but really aren't are) started to feel like it had more room in my brain and it started eating me up. Suffice it to say, I didn't do all that well.
For Math AI HL I got a 5 on paper 1, a 4 on paper 2, and a 2 paper 3. A gosh darned 2. I only have two other grades at the time of the creation of this post. Computer Science HL; paper 1 : 4, paper 2: 2. A freaking 2. English SL: paper 1 was a 4, and paper 2 was a 4 as well. I'm not sure what exactly my other grades are at this current time but considering how mentally deranged I was, I cannot be hopeful, genuinely. I know, this is all my fault, and heck I may just be venting. All of this is probably one big excuse, if I really wanted it I could've probably could've chucked aside all of my problems right? I don't know.
My question is, what do I do to save myself and my college application? My parent pay's tax to the state of Illinois and UIUC said there's a possibility of me being able to get in state.
My grades for DP 1 semester 2 aren't only decided by my exam scores but I'm not sure if they will get me past a 5 in most of my subjects. My freshman year I had a 3..33 unweighted GPA and a 3.5 weighted GPA. Not great.
I don't know what to do. Can anyone help me? Will any of the stuff above be a good thing to put in a college essay?(that's mainly way I vented/ranted)
What is the best way to leverage my situation and grades in order to get into a decent school?
Thank you for reading my reading my rant.

i literally barely remember it, i read it in like 5th grade. pretty sure it's a series, and one of them has realistic wings on the cover?? idk so like these agent angels had bracelets that told them what to do or how much time they had left or something.

Alright, so after some really great feedback during the last round, I made some pretty sweeping changes here, and I honestly feel like I am getting pretty close on this.
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The Fermi Paradox asks where all the other intelligent species in the universe are; we finally have an answer...
In the 23rd century, John William Anno, a first mate turned Martian Privateer Captain, is reluctantly thrust into a role requiring him, with the help of a newly developed AI, to prevent an artificial super intelligence from destroying all sentient biological life in the galaxy.
During the course of a diplomatic mission to Earth, John thwarts a plot to infect him with a strange virus, crafted by the super intelligence, causing a planet wide quarantine. John and an intelligence officer, Inkar Tursyn, have kindled embers into flames by the time her mission to uncover the origin of the virus goes off the rails; John's timely rescue mission saves her from viral infection, but not without consequences.
As John follows the tangled threads of the unfolding conspiracy, he is tested when an unexpected encounter with a race of sentient machines, subservient to the super intelligence, threatens humanity as we know it. In a race against the clock to stop the virus on Earth, John volunteers to be the diplomat on behalf of a divided humanity. While attempting to broker peace with the sentient machines, and make first contact with a potentially hostile advanced alien race on their homeworld, John forges new connections that create a stir at home.
All these meticulously crafted, yet tenuous, alliances are strained as John deals with a crisis of confidence, while convincing them to unite, in the face of a confrontation with the super intelligence.
Complete at 84000 words, 2211 is an adult science fiction with romance elements set in year 2211. It will appeal to readers of Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang. 2211 is a standalone with series potential.
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I have tried an tried and tried from 11th grad till my 2nd year of Btech to just have some epic academic comeback. But the problem is that i just am never able to do it..
Its just a different reason every time, sometimes its phone distracting me sometimes its my obsession with sports and sometimes its movies and tv shows. And even if i do manage to sit down and study the initial stages of studying without the pressure of a deadline seem to be very very difficult. The concepts never come to me in one go. Some concepts seem to easy and hence become boring and some things seem so hard that it demotivates me for the rest of the session. I am never able to execute my study schedules.....
I just completed my second year end term and i may have a few backs. I expected this since my academics have slacked of in the last year. However i will once again make a list of things to change in my life, such as wake up early, do some coding daily, go to the fucking gym study the syllabus in advance, etc..
This wont be the first or my last time giving myself false hopes again. And now i have expected myself to fail again miserably in the next two months.
Is there anyone who was a below average or average student, then just changed their academic status in one single semester or something. I have frankly never seen such examples ever in my life. From what i have noticed after studying in the same school for all my life, the students who were generally good academically in 2nd or 3rd grade remain to be the so called toppers forever. I have never ever seen someone go form average or below to top notch scholar ever,
The fact that hurts me the most is that i try, I genuinely sacrifice my social life, my outings etc., to be able to study....however there are people who engage all sorts of entertainment like clubbing and sports and seem to breeze through college. Furthermore i have no technical skills. All my coding knowledge is limited to the algorithms taught in class while here are people who have been coding since 5th grade and know 8-9 languages.
Has anyone here ever had that transition that i have been trying for the past 5 to 6 years. How did you do it, please batao. How do i go from being a nobody to someone who has the skillset that are at least the bare minimum to become hirable.

Like Game of thrones, LOTR, Harry Potter, Dune, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy etc etc but these are all book series. I want to read something like these which is a single book, or maybe a 2-book series, but not more than

Hey, my name is Simon, I'm 29 and I live in France near Paris! I work as a psychologist. I'm looking for some foreign friends to practice my English, and just pass the time!
I'm a chill, open-minded guy. I love trying new things, the problem is that I rarely finish what I started:) I like science fiction books and movies (currently reading Liu Cixin's stuff), discovering new music and going to concerts, museums, art, video games (I play on Switch), traveling... So far I've been to Malaysia, Turkey, Russia, and many European countries. Next stop will certainly be China
If you're interested in long term friendship and deep conversations, DM me! ⚠️ Please! Introduce yourself :)
À bientôt,

Why do AI enthusiasts overlook the potential conflicts of interest when those predicting a singularity by 2030 are heavily invested in AI development? It seems to me that the altmans and the musks are framing it as "singularity by 2030" to make it look like what they work on will benefit the society as a whole. But my concern is that the pursuit of AI progress is driven primarily by the goal of automating jobs and maximizing efficiency at the expense of our livelihoods
But that doesn't get the public to support it as much as the promise of singularity so they cloud our vision by presenting it as a transformative leap forward for humanity, while in reality it's most likely gonna be just another dildo to shove up our ass which will make our lives worse and theirs better. Or I guess they're doing it out of goodness of their hearts for benefit of all ^{.^} :)) <333
I challenge all of you - tell me how AI could actually bring some positive change for an average person that isn't science fiction like mining asteroids. Tell me how that positive change outweighs the negatives like jobs being automated away. The talk of positives seems to always be in the realm of futuristic speculation, while the negatives are ALREADY HAPPENING!! HOW TURBOREGARDED MUST YOU BE TO NOT BE BOTHERED BY THIS HOLY SHIT LIFE IS NOT A SCI FI NOVEL YOU FKUCING SELF DESTRUCTIVE MORONS

IT and AI are shaping our world at speed of light or more, and this is the moment to talk about all those killer-app innovations with you and shine some geek light. It is not a surprise that now works with robots that are able to compose a symphony and AI that predicts your next move in chess are giving you a feeling of "science fiction is becoming reality."
It may be inspiring to share what is causing your IT and AI exhilaration at present.
Here are a few things that have me fired up:
AI-powered design and creativity: AI can provide feasible solutions to such problems as the origin of product concepts, the construction of marketing copy, and even the writing of music. This innovation facilitates the crossing of human and artificial intelligence through journal editors at an unprecedented level. This article discusses AI in Design. Read the article here: AI in Design
The rise of quantum AI: Your Rocketship to creating solutions awaits, so place your helmet on and fasten your seatbelt. Quantum technology, through its processing by AI means, may confront problems that generally a conventional computer cannot. Disease drugs discovery, materials science - the opportunities correlate with the limitless possibilities! In the following article, we are expanding on the input topic (quantum AI + removed URL).
AI for social good: AI isn't all about robots and spaceships', but technology, which seems to have become part of our day-to-day activities. People have found it a tool for resolving those grave issues as they vary from the byproduct to healthcare. Envision AI that will do two tasks: one is identifying and eliminating natural disasters, and the other one is customizing cancer treatments!
IT and AI have indeed brought about many changes in our lives. What are the things the two are excited about? Are there any apps that have touched bottom of your heart and drastically transformed your life? This is a good topic which I think we should talk about! Comment your views down below.. !!

As many of you may have read, there is a case of two missing adopted kids in North Carolina, where remains have been found. The news has reported that their adoptive “mother” is Avantae Deven.
I’m a curious person and started digging up information on Avantae Deven when I first read the story in my news feed and could not believe what I was reading. It seemed like whomever this woman is must have be using an alias; Avantae Deven is not a name like Kim Jones or Mackenzie Smith.
The more I dug, the weirder it seemed to get. I found a property deed to a place in Sedona, Arizona, and figured out that whomever this Avantae person is, she at one point in time had owned a home together with someone named Nicole Adams. So I dug into who Nicole Adams was, and learned that she was the widow of a spiritual leader named Robert Adams. It appeared to me that there would be no way to identify who Avantae really was, unless I could also identify the true identity of Robert Adams.
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I've done investigative work for many years, including skip tracing. I can conclusively state that there was absolutely no person actually named Robert Adams born in New York State on January 21, 1928. This is demonstrated by the New York Birth Index. I have combed the census records for 1930, 1940, and 1950, and cross-checked them against multiple databases, and am confident that nobody with the birth name of Robert Adams was born anywhere in the United States on January 21, 1928.
Moreover, there was absolutely no person with the true name of Robert Adams who died anywhere at all in the United States, let alone Sedona, Arizona, on March 2, 1997. This is demonstrated by the Social Security Death Index.
I began this research largely by performing exhaustive searches on the known addresses that are associated with Robert, his wife Leonie (who used to use the alias Nicole), and Avantae Deven (who turns out to be their daughter Michelle who began using the alias Avantae in the mid-1990’s or so). Most of the addresses are PO boxes. Those that are PO boxes are all *private* PO boxes, not PO boxes that one can rent from the United States Postal Service. To me, that spoke volumes. The family were clearly using aliases.
As I explain further below, I eventually determined that “Robert Adams” was Robert Spiegel, born 21 January 1932 in New York. “Nicole Adams” was actually Aileen Beverly Leonie Maxwell, born February 2, 1929, in Jamaica. “Avantae Deven” is actually their daughter, Michelle K. Spiegel, born on October 1, 1960, in California.
One of Robert’s many false stories about Robert’s life that my research has refuted is Robert’s claim that his mother was Jewish and his father was Catholic. That was a lie. Both of his parents were Jewish. It’s also interesting that he claimed that he was “raised Catholic.” There is absolutely nothing to suggest that. His mother always, in New York, lived in Jewish neighborhoods. Moreover, as will be discussed below, his parents had a Jewish wedding. It’s also downright absurd that he would tell people that he was “half Jewish.” If your mother’s Jewish, you are Jewish, pure and simple. Even if Robert’s father had truly been Catholic (which he wasn’t; his name was Samuel Spiegel and he immigrated to America in 1907, lived with his Jewish, Yiddish-speaking cousins, and spoke Yiddish himself), Robert would have been Jewish because the status of being a Jew comes from the mother. Robert’s mother’s name was Fannie (nee Fleisfeder) Spiegel. Fannie’s parents were Itzik Fleisfeder and Esther Libke (nee Rifkin) Fleisfeder. Esther’s parents were Mendel Rifkin and Sarah whose maiden name is lost to time and the disappearance of the shtetls. Robert’s claim to having had a Catholic father was utterly false, but is part and parcel of his ongoing compulsive daily lying about anything and everything.
Here is the story.
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Kolomyia, formerly known as Kolomea, is a city currently located in the Western Ukraine.
On January 21, 1892 (the same year that Kolomea tallis¹ workers went on strike for better pay and working conditions), Kolomea resident Rachel Katz, wife of Abraham Spiegel, gave birth to a son, who was given the name Schmuel.
On the date that Schmuel Spiegel entered the world, Kolomea was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and almost half of the city’s residents were Jewish.
In June of 1907, fifteen-year-old Schmuel² boarded the Zeeland, which sailed from Antwerp, Belgium, arriving at New York Harbor on June 18, 1907. The ship’s manifest states that Schmuel’s father had paid for his transport, and that Schmuel intended to reside with his father, Abe, in Brooklyn. Schmuel was granted entrance, and took up residence with his cousin Charles Fetner, who resided at 353 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, in Apartment A with his wife Jennie and their baby daughter Ettie. The sparse record that exists suggests that although Schmuel’s father was, indeed, named Abraham, Abraham lived and died in Europe, without immigrating to America.
The 1910 census describes Samuel’s cousin Charles as a carpenter, who had been married to housewife Jennie for six years, and a father of three children-- Ettie age four, Nathan age two, and baby Jacob, who was not even a year old. Eighteen-year-old Samuel was identified by profession as a “Foreman Sailmaker” in an industry described as “pocket-books.”
Three and a half years after being granted admission, on a bitterly cold winter day, January 4, 1911, Schmuel (now employed as a pocket-book maker, and having Anglicized his name to Samuel) signed and submitted his declaration to become a United States citizen. He stated, in that declaration, that he was born on January 21, 1892.
By 1915, Samuel had left his cousin’s abode and was residing as a lodger in the home of a widow named Rose Hammer, who lived with her two adolescent sons, Meyer and Louis, at 531 E. 5^th Avenue; Samuel was now working as a “driver.”
Two years after the 1915 state census was taken, Samuel had moved back to Myrtle Avenue, but this time at building no. 849. On June 15, 2017, Samuel registered for the draft, and described himself as being a pocketbook maker, working for “A. Shoenfeld,” at 101 Crosby Street, New York. He was single. He stated, in his draft registration, that he was born on January 21, 1892.
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A woman named Fruma Fleisfeder was born in Beltz, Bessarabia, sometime between July 1, 1893, and 1901, to Itzik Fleisfeder and Esther Lieba Rifkin. Fruma (not living up to her pious given name) provided different dates and years of birth to different authorities on different occasions, making it impossible at this point in time to know her true position in the birth order of her family. Regardless, Fruma, who began using the name Fanny upon her entrance to the United States, did have three brothers and a sister who also came to America-- Louis Fleisfeder who was born April 10, 1890, Max Irving Fleisfeder who used October 10, 1892 as his birthdate, Hersch (later known as Harry), whose official birthdate was December 15, 1901, and Sylvia who was born in approximately 1906.
On December 1, 1919, Fruma arrived in New York Harbor on the ship La Touraine, declaring her intention, at entry, to become a United States Citizen. The ship’s manifest describes her as five feet five inches tall, with fair hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion. The ship’s manifest states that she was, at that time, age 24. If that were correct, she would have been born in 1895.
Fruma (then going by Fanny) took up residence with her cousin Ethel (nee Ruchlin) and Ethel’s husband Samuel Steinberg, on 15^th Street, Brooklyn. Soon thereafter, Ethel gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Theresa. The 1920 census states that Fanny was Russian, didn’t speak English but, rather, spoke Hebrew, and worked as a milliner in a millinery store. The 1920 census also states that Fanny was age 25, which lines up with her being age 24 in the prior year’s ship manifest.
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Sam and Fanny married in Manhattan on January 24, 1925. Their marriage certificate (signed by each of them) identifies Sam as being age 32 (contradicting, by one year, his immigration records which would have placed him at age 33), and identifies Fanny as age 24, the same age that she had claimed to be six years prior, and also contradicting an immigration petition that she would file two decades in the future, which generally placed her birth year at the mid-point of 1893.
If Fanny’s immigration records (which included a petition with her signature on it) were correct, Fanny would also have been age 32 as of her marriage to Samuel, not age 24.
So did Fanny lie in her marriage certificate? Or did she lie in her immigration petition?
The marriage certificate identifies Sam as having been born in Kolomea, Austria, and his father being Abraham, and his mother being Rachel Katz. It identifies Fanny as having been born in Beltz, Russia, to a father named Isaac, and to a mother named Esther Rifkin.
The marriage certificate does not identify Fanny as having any profession, but identifies Sam as being a pocketbook maker.
Sam and Fannie were married at 125 E. 4^th Street, Manhattan, a six-story apartment building with retail units on the ground floor that is now an expensive co-op, with three-bedroom units selling for over $900,000. Present-day real estate advertisements alternatively state that the building was built in 1894, 1903, and 1905.
The first name of the rabbi who officiated was Harry. His surname starts with Reid, but the remaining letters of his signature are illegible. Rabbi Harry identified his residence as 232 Broome Street, which, at the time, was a four-story mixed use building that, among other things, housed Chevrah Ahavath Zedek Anshei Jaskinover.
Witnesses to the marriage were Mayer Budmon and Samuel Steinberg.
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Sam and Fanny’s existence was documented next in the 1925 New York State census by census. They were living at 205 S. 2^nd Street. Samuel was still working as a “pocketbook maker.” Fanny was identified as a “housewife.”
Fanny was identified as age 25. This was in accordance with her age as stated on her marriage certificate, but not in accordance with her immigration documents or the 1920 census.
Sam was identified as being age 28, which conflicted with all prior records.
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In 1930, the couple were again enumerated, this time in the Federal census. The enumerator, whose signature appears to be “Max Krahn” (or something like that) stated that he obtained the information on April 16, 1930.
Sam was identified as a “framer” of pocketbooks. He was identified as being 36 years of age, which conflicts by two years with the age that he provided to immigration authorities. Perhaps the enumerator was simply sloppy; Samuel was also incorrectly identified in the 1930 census as having been born in “Poland,” with parents who were both also born in “Poland,” notwithstanding other governmental records having identified him as being Austrian. The language he spoke? “Jewish,” according to the enumerator. Was that to mean Hebrew? Yiddish? Both?
Fannie was identified as age 30 (directly in conflict with the information she supplied in her immigration petition, which bears her signature) and as being “Russian,” with parents born in “Russia.” The 1930 census enumerator incorrectly wrote that her year of immigration was 1921. Fannie, too, was identified by the enumerator as speaking the “Jewish” language.
Although later records reflected that Sam and Fannie had a son named Irving who was born in 1926, Irving was not recorded in the 1930 census. Was he missed by the enumerator? Or was he a later-adopted son?
The couple also had a boarder, identified by the 1930 enumerator as one Esther “Larson,” age 40, born in Russia, and similarly a speaker of the “Jewish” language.
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The New York Birth Index identifies a baby boy, Robert Spiegel, as one of many babies having been born in the city on January 21, 1932.
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On May 21, 1936, Samuel committed suicide by hanging in the family residence, a tenement apartment located at 1168 Union Avenue, in the Bronx. Although, based upon the date of birth that Samuel used for official governmental purposes he was age 44, the death certificate stated that he was age 43.
Fannie engaged the Gordon Funeral Home to prepare him for burial.
Strangely, although Samuel’s headstone accurately identified him in Hebrew as Schmuel Spiegel, son of Avraham, it inexplicably incorrectly stated that he died at age 40.
Fannie of course knew her husband’s real age; both of them signed the marriage certificate that had Samuel’s correct age listed. Furthermore, Samuel had petitioned for citizenship in 1911, and stated that his date of birth was January 18, 1892.
Why would Fannie commission a headstone with a false age? Perhaps she, like her son, was a compulsive liar. Maybe that’s where Robert got it from.
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The 1940 census has Fannie (identified as age 38), Robert (identified as age 8), and Fannie’s son/Robert’s brother, Irving Spiegel, age 13, as living with Fannie’s 72-year-old mother, Esther Fleisfeder, at 1537 Fulton Avenue, in the Bronx. Fannie and Esther were identified as widows. Esther was identified as “U” (unable to work), while Fannie was identified as engaged in housework. No source of income for the family was identified.
No explanation is obvious regarding where Irving was living in the census taken a decade previously. Was he adopted?
There is no “Irving Spiegel” listed in the New York Birth Index for either 1926 or 1927. There is an “Irving Spiegal” listed, who was born April 29, 1926. But he is not Irving Spiegel.
I initially thought that perhaps Irving might be one of the unnamed Baby Boy Spiegels born in New York in 1926 or 1927, and that he left the hospital unnamed because his parents were waiting for his bris before naming him. However, Robert left the hospital with the name Robert. Why wait until the bris to name one child, but not the other?
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Slightly less than two years after she was enumerated in the 1940 census, Fannie’s mother Esther died, at home, at 1537 Fulton Avenue. The causes of death were “Coronary Thrombosis, Pulmonary Oedema Nephritis, Hypertension, Arteriosclerosis.” Esther left this world on February 6, 1942, the same day that the W. L. Steed was torpedoed, shelled and sunk less than a hundred nautical miles east of the mouth of Delaware River by a German submarine.
She was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Fairview, New Jersey, the same cemetery where her son-in-law Samuel was interred.
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On November 12, 1943, Fannie, now residing at 1985 Bathgate Avenue, in the Bronx, petitioned for citizenship. She claimed, in that document bearing her signature, to be fifty years of age, meaning that if she was telling the truth, she would have been born in approximately 1893.
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On January 19, 1948, Robert (having assumed a false date of birth, that being January 18, 1931), enlisted in the New York National Guard. On paper, he had turned age 17 the day before his enlistment. In reality, he would be turning age 16 two days after his enlistment.
On December 9, 1949, Robert was discharged from the national guard, apparently for having been AWOL.
The discharge document identifies his address as being 1985 Bathgate Avenue, New York City.
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The 1950 census places Robert again at 1985 Bathgate Avenue, New York City. It correctly identifies him as age 18, and states that he worked as a shipping clerk for a newspaper company.
According to the 1950 census, Robert resided at the Bathgate Avenue address with his mother Fannie, who was purportedly still age 50 (seven years after she had previously claimed to immigration authorities to be age 50), and Robert’s brother Irving, age 24.
Irving was listed as unemployed and moreover, according to the census record, had not worked for the prior year. Fannie was employed full-time as a milliner in a hat factory.
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Military records reflect that Irving J. Spiegel, born in 1926 and a resident of 1985 Bathgate Avenue, who had completed two years of high school education, had flown bomber planes over Germany during the war. In his military documents, Irving described himself as single, with two dependents.
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On February 2, 1929, a baby girl given the name Aileen Beverly Leone Maxwell was born in Lucea, Hanover, Jamaica, to William Maxwell and Daisy (nee Tibbits) Maxwell. Her birth was registered by her parents.
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In 1954, Robert Spiegel and Aileen Maxwell were married in New York City. Their marriage license was given License No. 10284.
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The following year, the Kingston, Jamaica, Gleaner reported on June 6, 1955:
Miss Leonie Maxwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Maxwell, was married recently in New York City to Mr. Robert Spiegel of the U.S.A. Both the bride and groom are students at the New York Institute of Dietetics. The bride left the island nearly two years ago for New York. Her wedding gown was chantilly lace and nylon tulle. The bodice was fashioned with a wide, scalloped neckline and elbow-length sleeves. Her three tier skirt of chantilly lace was over pleated nylon tulle. Her fingertip-length veil was adorned with pearls.
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If the claim regarding the couple studying at the New York Institute of Dietetics was even true, their studies at this institution didn’t last long. In May of 1956, a number of advertisements bearing Robert’s photograph appeared in the Kingston, Jamaica Gleaner. The advertisements described Robert as a psychologist, author, lecturer, and “practitioner in auto suggestion,” and identified him as “Dr. J. Robert Spiegel.” Readers were invited to come meet Robert on May 21, 1956, at Record Plaza, where he would be autographing his “latest” “world-wide” 33 and 1/3 RPM record, “How to Stop Smoking in 7 days by Auto-Suggestion.”
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On May 1, 1959, three residents of 1985 Bathgate Avenue, Bronx, New York, came through customs, having returned from a trip to Jamaica. They identified themselves as “Robert D. Spiegel” born in New York (in addition to giving himself a false middle initial, Robert neglected to complete the I-94-A fully, specifically by leaving his birthdate blank), “Leonie A. Spiegel” born in Jamaica on February 2, 1929, and their minor daughter, and “Sharon S. Spiegel,” born in New York. Someone also neglected to fully complete Sharon’s I-94-A, specifically by leaving her birthdate blank.
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Leonie had taken Sharon to Jamaica two years earlier. There are no publicly available records pertaining to their outbound transport from the United States to Jamaica. There is, however, a record pertaining to their return to the United States. That publicly available record does not provide their address, but Sharon is identified as weighing 1 stone 5 pounds (a total of 19 pounds), and Leonie is identified as weighing six stone 5 pounds (89 pounds). Interestingly, Leonie used the name “Aileen Spiegel,” and the records assert that Aileen has no middle initial. Aileen was / is her true legal first name, but it is a lie to say that she has no middle initial.
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Almost two years later, on January 5, 1958, the Kingston, Jamaica Gleaner reported:
Staying at the Tamarind Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Bob Spiegel and daughter Sharon of Miami, Florida. Mrs. Spiegel is the former Leonie Maxwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Maxwell of Lucea and has been in the United States for several years. A welcome party in their honour was given last Saturday night by Messers. Horrace, Ray, and Dennis Maxwell, brothers of Mrs. Spiegel. It was a very enjoyable affair.
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In 1963, roughly five years after their 1958 visit to Jamaica, Leonie petitioned for naturalization, in Louisiana. Although I am in possession of the index showing that she petitioned in 1963, I do not possess the petition itself. However, the fact that she petitioned for naturalization in Louisiana demonstrates that that at least she was residing in Louisiana at the time. Since she stated that she didn’t leave Robert’s side for over 40 years, presumably Robert, young Sharon, and also baby Michelle were living in Louisiana at that time.
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People who knew Robert personally relate that he stated that Leonie was a Cayman Island heiress. She wasn’t. Not only was she not born in the Cayman Islands, Leonie’s father’s estate was litigated (with the judge ruling against her) long before Robert started telling people that his wife was a Cayman Islands heiress.
Leonie’s father did leave an estate, but not to her. On November 9, 1967, the Gleaner reported that the Supreme Court had upheld the will of the late William Josiah Maxwell, the father of Horrace, Ray, Dennis, and Leonie, and the husband of Daisy Maxwell, who had contended that William’s signature was a forgery and that the person to whom his estate had been bequeathed had exercised undue influence. The court disagreed. The article reported:
The estate, which one of the executors described as “a sizeable one,” included 112 acres of land at Paradise and three houses at Lucea, Hanover.
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Robert apparently wasn’t banking on Leonie’s inheritance in any event. In May of 1966, advertisements appeared in the Houston Chronicle with Robert’s photo on them, selling a record that would purportedly assist people in stopping smoking in seven days. He identified himself as “Dr. J. Robert Spiegel.”
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On page 55 of the November 15, 1969, San Antonio, Texas Express and News, was an advertisement stating:
SCIENCE OF THE MIND
Dr. J. Robert Spiegel of Houston, director and founder of the Science of the Mind Foundation there, is conducting Sunday evening meetings at 7:30 p.m. in the Sheraton Inn, 1400 Austin Hwy.
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On page 4 of the July 10, 1970 edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram was a photograph of Robert, with a brief local news blurb:
GUEST – Dr. J Robert Spiegel of Houston, Science of Mind Foundation director, will speak at the 10:45 a.m. service tomorrow in First Church of Religious Science, 2001 6^th Ave. His subject is “What Religious Science Teaches.”
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On page 8 of the June 18, 1970 edition of the Houston Daily Cougar was this advertisement:
HOME OF UNIVERSAL LIFE
“Teaching Aquarian Meditation For The New Age
Meets Every Sunday, 11:00 A.M. At The World Trade Center Auditorium
Houston, Texas
DR. J. ROBERT SPIEGEL (BRAHMADANDA) DIRECTOR - FOUNDER
Aquarian Meditation Initiation for the first time offered through correspondence. For those sincere students wishing to bypass evolution and enter the 5th Kingdom. Initiation includes meditation technique, Mantra, how to "live” 24 hours a day, and much more. Write for application today:
P.O. Box 53328 Houston, Texas 052
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From the Galveston Daily News, May 02, 1971, Pg. 31:
AQUARIAN MEDITATION SOCIETY PRESENTS DR. J. ROBERT SPIEGEL AN AUTHOR, LECTURER, TEACHER OF YOGA & SELF DEVELOPMENT WILL SPEAK ON MAN, MIND & THE UNIVERSE WEDNESDAY, MAY 5th AT 7:30 P.M. IN THE RECREATION CENTER HARRIS COUNTY PARK, NASA RD. # 1 ALL WELCOME — DONATION $1.50
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The 1972 Spiritual Community Guide lists Robert twice, in the San Diego area. First, on page 117, using his alias “J. Robert Spiegel”:
THE TEMPLE OF METAPHYSICAL ABUNDANCE. J. Robert Spiegel, 1118 Torrey Pines Rd., 92037. Teaches yoga, nutrition, ESP, metaphysics, psychology, mind control
Second, on page 124, in which he, as one might have predicted, was masquerading as some sort of medical man or scholar:
"AQUARIAN MEDITATION SOCIETY, U. S. Grant Hotel, Attn: Dr. Robert Spiegel, 453-7588"
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Also in 1972, Volume 25 of San Diego Magazine published in November advertised gift certificates for the “Astrology Research Center.” “Give your loved one the gift of love. Only $50” said the advertisement. Where was this entity located? At 1118 Torrey Pines Road, the same address as Robert’s Temple of Metaphysical Abundance. The advertisement purported that person identified as “Lil Canaan” was the director. The telephone number was 459-6400.
In 2013, the San Diego Union Tribune published the obituary for Lillian Mulonas, who founded the La Jolla “Astrology Research Center.” At this point in time, unless Robert Adams’ only surviving daughter, Michelle/ Prentiss/ Avantae knows the answer and talks, we will not know what relationship, if any, existed between Robert’s Temple of Metaphysical Abundance and Lilian’s Astrology Research Center, both of which were located at 1118 Torrey Pines Road in 1972.
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From the July 12, 1973, San Diego Reader:
BRAHMADANDA FOUNDATION
“Teachings of the Cosmic Way” meets Sundays, 11:00 a.m., U.S. Grant Hotel, Crystal Room. Free admission, refreshments served. Call 453-7588 for more information.
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On page 51 of the June 29, 1974 edition of Phoenix’s Arizona Republic was the following advertisement:
Speaker from San Diego
Dr. J. Robert Spiegel from San Diego, a traveler and lecturer, will speak at 8 p.m., Friday in Universal Series Center, 4340 N. Seventh Ave., on the topic “Science of Being.”
He is the founder of the “Aquarian Meditation Society” in Jamaica and is founder and publisher of “Equinox,” a philosophical newspaper.
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The family (Adams or Spiegel, however one might want to refer to them) have resided in (that I know of) New York, Miami, Jamaica, Louisiana, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Houston, New Mexico, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Scottsdale, Sedona, and a number of cities in North Carolina.
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In at least the 1990’s, before he left for Sedona, Robert Adams used the address PO Box 7210, Jordan Avenue, D-30, Canoga Park, CA. He used that address on correspondence he wrote, and on at least one published document. Who else used that address? The data aggregators show that this address was also used by a Michelle K. Spiegel, and a person going by the name Leonie Maxwell. Michelle and Leonie also used other addresses associated with Robert, those being 1815 Willis Avenue Panorama City, and 21551 Burbank Boulevard, Woodland Hills.
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The California Birth Index shows that Michelle K. Spiegel was born on October 1, 1960, in Los Angeles County, to a mother with the maiden name Maxwell.
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In later life, Michelle used the addresses above that are associated with Robert and Leonie, as well as an address of 12004 Vanowen Street #14, North Hollywood. This is the same address at which Denniston Keith Maxwell, one of Leonie’s younger brothers, resided at, after his immigration to the United States. Denniston was one of Michelle’s uncles.
In a recent Facebook posting, Michelle/Avantae stated: “Never knew anything personal about said uncles, etc. Never asked, never cared.” Really? She shared an address with an uncle? Her uncle lived within a few minutes’ drive from her parents, and Michelle/Avantae never knew anything about him?
As an aside, Michelle/Avantae alleged (or admitted) that she “never cared” about anything personal regarding her uncles. If that is true, what does that tell us about Michelle/Avantae’s fundamental character? Antisocial? Psychopathic? Narcissistic in the extreme?
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On August 2, 1996, Michelle, going by the name Avantae E. Deven, married Tyson Ruben Alvarez in Las Vegas. The two had addresses in common in Arizona, Nevada, and Montana.
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Robert “Adams” died on or about March 2, 1997, in Sedona, Arizona.
Shortly after that, in the spring of 1997, “Nicole Adams” and “Avantae Deven” (both aliases; the correct legal names are Aileen Beverly Leonie Spiegel and Michelle K. Spiegel) purchased a home together in Sedona, on Navahopi Road. Shortly after the purchase, “Nicole” quit-claimed her portion to “Avantae.”
On July 17, 2001, Tyson, still married to “Avantae,” quit-claimed any interest in the Navahopi property to “Avantae,” and had the county recorder send the deed to “Avantae” in care of the Infinity Institute, at that time located at 9101 W. Sahara Ave. Suite 105 C29 (in other words, a private post box), in Las Vegas.
Avantae divorced Tyson in 2006. She had, by then, moved to North Carolina. She “served” Tyson via publication summons, claiming that she was unable to find him, despite his information being on multiple data aggregators.
You can go to various Facebook groups, and other sources, to pull up the documents that people have uncovered showing who is associated with the "Infinity Institute," and in what fashion, and also the addresses that they have used over the years.
In any event, this is the information regarding Robert that I think that people need to be aware of.
Why turn to a known liar and con man for spiritual guidance?
1A tallis is a prayer shawl.
2The ship’s manifest states that he was age 14, which conflicts by one year with what Samuel identified as his date of birth. These errors are not uncommon; his fare could have been purchased when he was age 14 and the records not updated.

And I'm enjoying the heck out of it so far.
I'd watched the first three episodes previously, and while they were all "fine" (especially the third one), none of them really left me with a burning desire to keep hitting the "Play Next Episode" button.
This time around, however, the fourth episode is the one that hooked me. The Reavers (sorry... The Gorn) stalking Enterprise through the gas cloud surrounding a dead star? Good, tense stuff.
I've also been pleasantly surprised at the amount of actual science fiction in this science fiction series. The show seems genuinely interested in exploring Big Ideas (war, predestination, prejudice, the ethics of genetic engineering, whether the needs of the many truly do outweigh the needs of the few, what it means to be able to truly see things from another person's POV).
Are the camerawork and cinematography needlessly flashy at times? Is a lot of the dialogue more jokey and quippy than it needs to be? Sure. This is definitely still Star Trek for the Marvel Age. But I'd still say it's far and away better than Disco or Picard; the primary difference, I think, being that while Strange New Worlds is a sci-fi show, Disco and Picard are primarily action/adventure shows taking place in a sci-fi setting. Their stories are driven by action and emotion, rather than ideas.
(To elaborate: Disco Season 2 isn't about the dangers of an all-knowing A.I. taking over the galaxy and trying to eradicate non-artificial life; it's about Burnham looking for her missing brother (and eventually meeting up with her long-lost mom). Disco Season 3 isn't *really* about The Burn: it's about Burnham trying to figure out if she still knows how to play by the rules after being separated from the Disco crew for a year. And Season 4 isn't really about an unknowably powerful alien species accidentally stepping on us the way we'd step on a couple of ants; it's about Burnham and her boyfriend finding themselves on opposite sides of a high-stakes ethical dilemma. Every season of Picard, of course, is pretty uniformly about constant fan service).
Anyway... here's looking forward to Season 3! (Says the guy who hasn't finished Season 1 yet)

Hello, I am an international student and I applied to Sapienza University and I have tons of worries about whether will I get into ACSAI (Applied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence) or not. So here is what I put into account:

• SAT 1410
• GPA 9th grade: 4.78 , GPA 10th grade: 4.4, GPA 11th grade: 4.5, GPA 12th grade: 4.38
• IELTS 7.5
• Computer science course mentor (105 hours total)
• Founded a school gym club
• conducted research about how AI can be integrated into my country's small and medium businesses.

The reason I'm worrying a lot is that in my opinion my SAT and GPA for 12th grade are not good enough for ACSAI. Can you please tell me my chances, so I can wait peacefully for the response?

Apology for the long rant.
Common science y1 btw, were just like in the 5th week, and I always have to self teach myself (like hello? I can't follow the fast pace of the lesson. Every single topic for bio and lab safety cos I don't understand shit and is so tiring. yk, what's the worst part? Lecturer notes for bio are only released a week after so we have to always rely on research ws and it's so tough to keep up with bio since I didnt take bio in sec school and poly is so diff now and I'm starting to not understand shit for these 2 modules , and I also did badly for my math module cuz everything including tests is freaking online and I'm not used to it and i have quizes this week.Someone pls tell me how to ACTUALLY not stress abt this shit 😭

Just have to vent quickly. I teach art and just left the art museum with my fifth graders. 84 students split into 11 research groups, 22 parent chaperones. Tons of work to make it happen. My four 5th grade teachers spent most of the two hours sitting in the museum cafe, doing nothing, while the students and parents were exploring the museum and presenting. WTF! Didn’t think I had to write instructions for my colleagues.