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Page 3, 25th November 1983
Page 3, 25th November 1983 — Cruise and Kent a Herald special on the words behind the row and debate on deterrence
Politics, Religion / Belief, War / Conflict
Organisations: North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Pax Christi, Congress, Foreign Office, Heythrop College, Bradford University, Justice and Peace Commission
People: Reagan, Gerry Hughes, Paul Rogers, Roger Ruston, Thatcher, Fr Gerard Hughes Si, Fr Ruston, Francis Pym, Bruce Kent
Locations: Geneva, London, Oxford
Cardinal Has Stern Words For Pym
A Stockpile Of Problems For Mr Pym
The Bomb
Cardinal Calms Irish Storm
Page 1 from 8th December 1978
Persecution: Protest In Commons
Cruise and Kent a Herald special on the words behind the row and debate on deterrence
Keywords: British People, Peace, United Kingdom, Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament, Glastonbury Festival, Bruce Kent, Basil Hume, Peace Movement, Politics, Religion / Belief
Bishops put a cat among the pigeons
IT IS almost a year since Cardinal Hume led a delegation of five bishops to the Foreign Office to see Mr Francis Pym, then Foreign Secretary, about the state of the arms race, and to present him with a 14-page document expressing their fears for the way things were going.
The English and Welsh hierarchy has a tendency to caution on nearly all issues, and the disarmament question has been no exception. Yet a great deal of water has gone under the bridge in the year spanning the Iwo November meetings of the Bishops' Conference, and even staunch Catholic supporters of the peace movement have been surprised at how far the bishops have changed their attitude in that year.
Even last December, when they approached Mr Pym, the bishops had reservations about the Government's policy of deterrence as a defence system. Now, with the advent of cruise missiles, they have said the "new situation would appear to make it more difficult for the Government to demonstrate convincingly its commitment to a policy of progressive and mutual disarmament".
The fact is, that during the past year Cardinal Hume and the bishops have been lobbied repeatedly to take a firmer line on disarmament, especially by the Catholic peace movement, who have been trying to convince them that deterrence is, effectively, dead.
Another considerable influence was a confidential meeting of the hierarchy early in the new year at New Hall, near Chelmsford, when they listened to experts, both theological and strategic, on the whole question of the morality and 'practicality of deterrence.
The theological advisers were Fr Gerard Hughes Si, head of Philosophy at Heythrop College, London, and Fr Roger Ruston OP, of Blackfriars, Oxford. A strategic, expert, Mr Paul Rogers was also called in.
Fr Hughes is'known to be a supporter of the morality of deterrence. The nub of his view could be summed up in a chapter he contributed to a recently published book, The Cross and the Bomb.
"I should have thought it a reasonable view that the avoidance of nuclear war was of overriding moral importance. In that case, the possession of the deterrent, even though it involves the intention to wage nuclear war, is not merely not wrong, it might be argued to be obligatory."
His views apparently differ considerably from those of Fr Ruston, who has argued (in a Justice and Peace Commission booklet): "Anyone who looks squarely at the evidence must sec that it (deterrence) has been a complete failure on all essential matters", and pointed to the coming of cruise as evidence of this failure.
Paul Rogers is p lecturer in peace studies at Bradford University and was a prominent delegate at the 1980 National Pastoral Congress. He has written extensively on nuclear weapons and generally supports CND.
Since then the attitude of various hierarchies, especially the Americans, has had an impact, as has the powerful rhetoric of Mgr Bruce Kent. Mgr Kent is believed to have both enemies and supporters among the hierarchy. But whatever their individual feelings, the bishops cannot ignore him.
But the biggest impact on the bishops has undoubtedly resulted from the bellicose attitude of Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan, backed up by the "we-told-you-so" stance of the Catholic peace movement. Sources say that Mrs Thatcher has been prevailed upon by senior advisers to modify her warmongering attitude to the Soviet Union, because of its counter-productive effect on opinion leaders like Cardinal Hume.
Various Catholic peace supporters, notably members of Pax Christi, have expressed such strong opposition to the arms race, and especially to cruise, that they have become involved with law-breaking nonviolent direct action.
Pax Christi has made its position on cruise abundantly clear. At a conference two weekends ago it stated its opposition to the missiles because, it said: "As nuclear weapons with indiscriminate effects, they can have no moral use; as war fighting weapons ready for use early in war, they lower the threshold with conventional weapons; the Geneva talks are not really for disarmament but for arms control and do not include thousands of cruise missiles elsewhere; cruise missiles, planned and designed well before SS20 Soviet missiles, constitute a unilateral increase in Nato weapons".
This has been the sort of line adopted by other people in the Catholic peace lobby, including Roger Ruston and Paul Rogers. Even Gerry Hughes told me "If they destabilise, they arc a bad thing" and admitted " the level of deterrence is far too high. But how to get it down is a political issue, not a moral one."
Roger Ruston said "I do not think thc cardinal's statement can be taken as simply an endorsement of present policy on nuclear deterrence."
Paul Rogers, who was surprised at the bishops' "antagonism" said "We are many years beyond the stage of minimal deterrence. That is why the bishops' statement tends to put the cat among the pigeons."
There are many who still have reservations about Cardinal Hume's Times article as being too soft on the Government. They would like to have seen a complete condemnation of cruise by the cardinal and the bishops. But the underlying shift in the cardinal's thinking has been recognised, and there is warm support for his initiative in writing the article at all.
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Press Releases, 1969-1970
File — Box: 3, Folder: 18
AFSCME Career Development Program Records
Series IV: Publicity, 1967-1974
From the Collection: This collection documents the planning, execution, and evaluation of the AFSCME Career Development Program, 1966-1975, which primarily involved the Hospital Career Development Program (HCDP). HCDP developed and implemented career ladders and training curricula for hospital employees. The records are comprised of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, curricula, job descriptions, organizational charts, contracts, press releases, news clippings, lesson plans, course schedules, graduation invitations and announcements, recruitment material, newsletters, and a small number of photographs.
Important Subjects: Career Development Hospitals—Employees Occupational training United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare United States. Dept. of Labor
Important Names: Miller, Betty Lucy, William Wurf, Jerry, 1919-
Series Description: Series 1: General Files, 1969-1975 Series 2: Reports and Meeting Minutes, 1967-1975 Series 3: Correspondence, 1967-1975 Series 4: Publicity, 1967-1974 Series 5: Contract Proposals and Contracts, 1968-1974 Series 5 contains information related to contracts between AFSCME and various governmental funding agencies such as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and the Department of Labor, to conduct career development training for its members.
Series 6: Job Descriptions and Career Ladders Series 7: Curricula, 1967-1974 Series 8: Alphabetical Files, 1966-1975 Series 8 contains files related to organizations, healthcare, laws, and governmental funding agencies related to the AFSCME Career Development Program.
Series 9: Boston, 1968-1972 Series 10: Cleveland, 1969-1974 Series 11: Detroit, 1970-1974 Series 12: District of Columbia, 1968-1974 Series 13: Houston, 1973-1975 Series 14: Maryland, 1970-1975 Series 15: Memphis, 1971-1975 Series 16: Milwaukee, 1967-1975 Series 17: New York, 1966-1974 Series 18: St. Paul, 1971-1973 Series 19: Photographs
From the Collection: Material entirely in English.
From the Collection: 24 Linear Feet (24 SB)
From the Collection: AFSCME (Organization)
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Mixed Materials)
Press Releases, 1969-1970, Box: 3, Folder: 18. AFSCME Career Development Program Records, LR002369. Walter P. Reuther Library. http://as.reuther.wayne.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/509168 Accessed January 20, 2021.
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Soccer Shut Out at Emmanuel (Mass.), 2-0
Emmanuel (Mass.)
Simmons (8-7-1, 6-5-1 GNAC) 0 0 0
Emmanuel (Mass.) (12-5, 8-3 GNAC) 1 1 2
1st - 18:00 - Kayla Generis (Emmanuel (Mass.))
2nd - 78:00 - Kaylin Deschenes (Emmanuel (Mass.))
G: N/A
Sh: 2 Players (#3, #17) - 1
Sv: Lauren Williams - 7
G: 2 Players (#10, #13) - 1
Sh: Kaylin Deschenes - 4
Sv: Lexi Gawron - 2
BOSTON, Mass. -- The Emmanuel College (Mass.) women's soccer team scored a goal in each half to defeat visiting Simmons University, 2-0, in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference contest at Roberto Clemente Field in Boston, Mass. The Sharks fall to 8-7-1 overall and 6-5-1 in league play, while the Saints win their third straight match to improve to 12-5-0 and 8-3-0.
The Emmanuel defense held Simmons to just two shots for the game with both coming in the first half, while the Saints offense fired 11 shots. Emmanuel held a 7-2 margin on corner kicks as well.
The Saints scored 18 minutes into the match when junior forward Natalie Dash (East Hampton, Conn.) threaded a well-placed through ball to the feet of junior forward Kayla Generis (Wethersfield, Conn.) who took two touches before finishing the semi-breakaway with her ninth goal of the year.
The Sharks received a shot on goal from senior midfielder Cíara Forde (Quincy, Mass.), less than three minutes into the match and classmate Mikayla Elliott (Lowell, Mass.) also put a hard shot on frame to try and tie the match with less than eight minutes remaining in the opening half off of a corner kick.
The scored remained at 1-0 until the 78th minute when Emmanuel took advantage on a foul in the Sharks defensive third of the pitch. On the ensuing direct-kick, freshman back Kennedy Davingnon (Woodstock, Conn.) found the head of Deschenes who netted her fifth goal of the campaign to bump the lead to 2-0 with just 12 minutes to play.
Senior keeper Lauren Williams (Bowdoinham, Maine) registered seven saves for Simmons, while junior goalie Lexi Gawron (South Hadley, Mass.) turned away both shots she faced to record her ninth career shutout for the Saints.
The Sharks return to action on Tuesday, October 23 when they host Brandeis University at Daly Field at 7:00 p.m. in their regular-season finale, while Emmanuel hosts GNAC foe Lasell College on October 24 at 7:00 p.m.
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Category: Start / International Food Laws (IFL)
This section relates to international food laws and regulations with a general list of laws and regulations for a selected number of regions and countries of the world.
CFR: FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food
Code of Federal Regulations: Good Manufacturing Practice: Title 21, Food and Drugs, Chapter I. Foods and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, PART 110: Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food. (English)
Diritto Interno Svizzero: Polizia degli alimenti e degli oggetti d'uso e consumo (817)
Leggi e Ordinanze Federali Svizzere concernenti la polizia degli alimenti e degli oggetti d'uso e consumo: raccolta completa delle Leggi, dei Decreti e delle Ordinanze Svizzere riguardanti l' alimentazione (Italiano).
Droit Interne Suisse: Police des denrées alimentaires et de divers objets usuels (817)
Lois et Ordonnances Suisses concernant la police des denrées alimentaires et de divers objets usuels (Français).
Food Law Organization
This site's mission is to encourage and facilitate education and research on food law and policy. This site is maintained by the Law Office of Neal D. Fortin. Mr. Fortin is a visiting associate professor at Michigan State University's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, lead instructor for food regulation in United States for the Institute of Food Laws & Regulations, and adjunct professor at the Michigan State University College of Law (English).
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Indice del Diritto Svizzero Interno (Italiano)
Raccolta sistematica del diritto federale: indice del diritto interno: le Leggi, i Decreti e le Ordinanze Svizzere (Italiano, Français, Deutsch).
Search the European Laws (SEL)
The multilingual searchable database of the European Laws. Multilingual site: (20 EC languages).
Table des Matières du Droit Suisse Interne (Français)
Recueil systématique du droit fédéral: Table des matières du droit interne (Français)
US National Archives & Records Administration
NARA is an independent Federal agency. NARA is America's national recordkeeper. Their mission is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience. (English). We strive to make it easy for citizens to access these records anywhere at anytime, and we hope that by providing electronic public access to more and more of our records and services, we will better meet your records and information needs.
The official site of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the site is a valuable resource in responding to your intellectual property (IP) queries and presenting the wide range of activities undertaken by the Organization. (English, Français, Español, Russian, Arabic, Chinese).
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The British public 20 years UFO files Aliens who married a girl with the earth (FIG.)
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Your West Chesire
Calling all carers
Groups that support carers in west Cheshire are coming together to ask, ‘What’s it like to be an unpaid carer in 2020?’
This year, because of Coronavirus, people across the area are continuing to face new challenges and carers are under more pressure than ever.
If you are a carer living in the borough the Council and Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group wants to hear from you as part of a consultation to inform the next strategy for carers in west Cheshire.
Councillor Val Armstrong, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health at Cheshire West and Chester Council, said: “By working with carers we have identified what we think is important in this strategy, but we want to know if we’re getting it right. Are these the same issues that matter to you? If you’re a carer, parent or are involved in providing services or support in this sector, we want to hear from you.
“We want carers of all ages in Cheshire West and Chester to feel valued, empowered and have access to the right support at the right time. The only way we can really achieve this is to have carers closely involved in writing the carers strategy before it is finalised and goes on to inform future services.”
Clare Watson, Accountable Officer of NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “The role of carers in supporting not only their loved ones, but the Cheshire NHS, should not be understated. Without the, often unseen, support of Cheshire’s carers, it would be extremely difficult to provide the level of care and support required to enable vulnerable people to continue living in their own homes and communities.
“This includes many young carers who either support a family member who is ill or help by looking after other members of the family while they can’t."
The draft strategy identifies five key priorities to help support all age carers in Cheshire West and Chester.
The early identification of carers. This is important to make sure that all carers are aware of the current support available to them at the earliest opportunity.
Supporting carers to achieve their personal potential. This relates to ensuring that carers in education, training and employment are not disadvantaged or prevented from having individual aspirations or goals due to their caring role.
Making sure carers get the right support at the right time to avoid them reaching crisis point. Ensuring it is easy for them to make the most of appropriate support networks and enable carers to continue in their caring role. This includes making sure the short break respite services on offer meets the needs of all carers
Improving the health and wellbeing of carers through better access to support groups, financial advice, health checks, exercise and social contact and befriending services. We would like to see more carers registered with their GP so that a person need only tell their story once and we can build up a profile of our carer population that really reflects local need.
Creating services and systems that work for carers throughout social care and health.
Because of COVID-19 traditional methods of consultation will not be possible. The Council and CCG will be writing to carers, running focus groups on the phone and online.
All Age Carers Strategy 2020 - 2025 consultation
You can request a paper copy of the consultation via email from: CarersStrategyConsultation@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk or by telephone on: 0300 123 8123. The consultation will run until 18 October 2020.
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The Basics of Scripting
by alexp
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Overview & Prerequisites
This article will introduce you to the concept and basics of Scripting, a tool available in the Advanced Editor that allows you, as an author, to have more precise control over what happens in your storygames. In order to use Scripting, you will need to know how to use the Advanced Editor and be familiar with Variables.
Scripting Defined
The first thing to keep in mind about scripting is that, virtually everything you can do with a script you can do with other things in the editor, such as Variable Changes and Item Drops. The key difference is that, in some circumstances, scripting can make these things much easier to do. In this article, we will focus on only one thing -- Variable Changes -- something you should already be familiar with doing.
Enabling Scripting in the Advanced Editor
Before getting started, you'll want to make sure that you have enabled Scripting in your storygame. To do this, go to the Properties page in the Advanced Editor, and scroll down to the "Editor Features" heading. Click on the [change editor features] link and, on that page, change Scripting to Basic. As you get more familiar with Scripting, you can increase the level to Advanced.
Once Scripting has been set to Basic on your storygame, you'll notice a few new things:
A "Scripts" navigation item appears
Numbers appear next to Items and Pages
A new button ( ) will appear next to each link
A new option ([Edit Item Script]) will appear on the Edit Item page
These new options will allow you to create Link Scripts and Item Scripts within your storygames.
Link Scripts
Changing A Variable
Similar to Variable Changes and Item Drops, a Link Script is processed whenever the player clicks on its corresponding link. The global link script is simply a link script that processes on every link. Since you're already familiar with Variable Changes, we'll start by doing that: changing variables. Consider, for example, if you wanted to add 10 to the value of POINTS when the player clicked on a link. Using Variable Changes, you would follow a process like this:
Open the Page with the Link that will cause this change to occur
Click on the Variable Changes ( ) icon
Enter "10" in the text box associated with the POINTS variable
Using a Link Script, the process is similar:
Enter the following in the Text Box: %POINTS := %POINTS + 10
In both cases, when the player clicks on the link, 10 is added to the value of POINTS. Note, however, in the script how this is achieved. The above script consists of two different parts:
%POINTS := -- this translates in English to, "set the value of POINTS to." Note that the variable is prefixed with a percent symbol (%). In Script Code, all variables must be prefixed with this symbol.
%POINTS + 10 -- this translates in English to, "the value of POINTS plus 10."
When the two parts are combined, we are left with the following English translation: "set the value of POINTS to / the value of POINTS plus 10" A bit more awkward and confusing than "Add 10 to POINTS", but so is common with Script Code. This is why that, if all you want to do is increase the value of variables, you should stick with Variable Changes. They are much easier to use.
Changing Multiple Variables
As with Variable Changes, you can change the value of multiple variables with one click. If, for example, you wanted to Add 10 to POINTS, Add 100 to MONEY, and Subtract 1 from HEALTH, you would use the following script:
%POINTS := %POINTS + 10
%MONEY := %MONEY + 100
%HEALTH := %HEALTH - 1
Beyond Basic Variable Changes
Of course, Scripting is not designed to do things so simple as the examples presented above. With Scripting, you can do things otherwise impossible, such as add the value of one variable to the value of another variable. Consider, for example, if you wanted set the value of DAMAGE equal to the value of STRENGTH plus the value of WEAPON:
%DAMAGE := %STRENGTH + %WEAPON
It doesn't stop there, either. You can make the expressions as complex as needed, using any combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and parenthesis. You can also use Random Expressions if you'd like, too. Here's a fairly complex script using all of these concepts:
%ATTACK := (%WEAPON + %STRENGTH) * 1D4 #note: 1D4 is a random number between 1 and 4
%DAMAGE := 20 - (%DEFENSE / 2) - %ATTACK
If you're having a hard time following the script, don't worry; you can break it down into its components. Just as they do in arithmetic: evaluate parenthesis first, then multiplication/division, then addition/subtraction.
Item Scripts
Now that you've got a good idea on how to change variables using Script, let's take a look at how you can use Item Scripts to do the same. Without using scripting, if you wanted to change a variable when an item was used, you'd have to create a page that had a Previous Page link that changed the variable for you. There's nothing wrong with that approach; in fact, it may be preferred simply so that the player may see a detailed explanation of what happens. However, it's not the only way.
Item Scripts work very similarly as Link Scripts: they are evaluated every single time an item is used. Keep that "every single time" in mind as you use them: even if the item does not have an effect defined on the page, the Item Script is still evaluated. To edit an item script, simply edit that item and click on the [edit link script] button.
To give you an idea of what you might use an item script for, consider that the item "MAG Clip" is an item that can be used on any page. You could have the item script work as follows:
%MAGBULLETS := %MAGBULLETS + 25
Item Scripts, however, are most useful when combined with more advanced scripting techniques that you can learn about by reading further articles on the topic. For now, we'll just leave it at that.
Conditional Statements
One of the most powerful aspects of Scripting is the ability to conditionally evaluate a statement. For example, consider the example script from way about that sets the value of DAMAGE. If, for whatever reason, the variable DEFENSE or ATTACK were too high, DAMAGE could be set to a negative number. To make sure that this doesn't happen, you can use a simple IF-THEN statement:
IF %DAMAGE < 0 THEN %DAMAGE := 0
The first line sets the value of DAMAGE: nothing too new there. The second line checks to see if DAMAGE is less than (<) zero and, if it is, sets it to 0.
One popular scenario is the need to "flip" a "switch" variable (i.e., a variable that you only give a value of 0 or 1). What used to take two Links, two Link Restrictions, and two Variable Changes can now be done with a single link and a single link script using an IF-THEN-ELSE statement:
IF %FLASHLITE = 1 THEN %FLASHLITE := 0 ELSE %FLASHLITE = 1
So, in the above statement, if FLASHLITE represents whether the player's flashlite is on (1) or not (0), this would "flip" the flashlite's state.
Of course, you could use the IF-THEN or IF-THEN-ELSE statement for anything else you'd like to do. One thing to keep in mind is that if you want to have several statements evaluated by the same condition, you can use a BEGIN-END block, as follows:
IF %DICEROLL = 7 THEN
%MONEY := %MONEY + 10
%TURN := %TURN + 1
In the above script, MONEY and TURN are set a value only if DICEROLL is equal to (=) 7.
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Three More Kassams as Sderot Prepares for Funeral
No damage in latest attack... 100 educators visit besieged city... Poll results show support for more military force against Gaza...
Woman Killed by Kassam Rocket in Sderot
Ambassador Apologizes, But Storm Just Increases
Calls to Re-settle Gush Katif
Lebanese Cut Power and Water, Then Shell 'Palestinian Camp'
Clear Message from Israel, Mixed Messages from Gaza
College and University Students End 5-Week Strike
Fatal attack in Sderot
Rabbis ascend to Temple Mount
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1. Three More Kassams as Sderot Prepares for Funeral
by Hillel Fendel
With Kassams continuing to rain down upon Sderot and environs - three more were fired Tuesday morning, causing no damage - it appears that the public is just as confused about what to do as the government is.
In a poll taken this week for the Knesset TV Channel, 78% of the public opined that the government was not responding forcefully enough to the Kassam-firing terrorists in Gaza. However, at the same time, a majority of the respondents still feel that ground forces should not be sent in.
It should be noted that the poll was carried out before the Kassam-caused death of Shir'el Friedman of Sderot Monday night.
Kassam Victim's Funeral at Noon
Shir'el, who was born in Sderot and is survived by her parents and two older brothers, is to be laid to rest in the Sderot cemetery at noon today (Tuesday).
Shir'el was Israel's ninth fatal casualty of a Kassam rocket. Mordechai Yosifov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, a 3.5 year old on his way to nursery, were killed in June 2004. Three months later, two young cousins - Dorit Aniso, 2, and Yuval Abebeh, 4 - were killed just before the onset of the Sukkot holiday. Four months later, Ella Abukasis, 17, was killed by a Kassam rocket as she was walking home; she jumped to protect her brother when the Red Dawn rocket warning alert sounded. In July 2005, Dana Gelkowitz, 22, was killed in a Kassam attack at Netiv HaAsarah - the only non-Sderot Kassam casualty among Israelis. Last summer, in July 2006, Moshe Shlomo, 52, died of a heart attack he suffered after a Kassam rocket landed near his home a few days earlier. Last November, Fatima Slutzker, a Moslem woman married to a Russian Jew, was killed by a Kassam that landed in downtown Sderot.
In addition, three foreign workers were killed in a Kassam attack in Gush Katif in 2005, and two Bedouin were killed when they moved a previously-unexploded Kassam in a field.
Hear two hours of LIVE broadcast from Sderot, with Yishai Fleisher and Tamar Yonah:
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Wheat Fields About to be Harvested Go Up in Flames
In terms of monetary damage caused by the rockets, it is not limited to an apartment or a car here and there. Wheat fields in at least two agricultural communities in the western Negev, nearly ready for harvest after months of work, have gone up in flames when rockets hit them. "I sat and cried this morning when I saw it," said one member of Kibbutz Nir-Am, just outside Sderot.
"This is our harvest season," Betty Gavri of Nir-Am told Ynet. "When you hear on the radio 'no one was hurt and there was no damage' - when our wheat fields go up in flames on the eve of Shavuot, that's not damage?"
The holiday of Shavuot, which begins tonight (Tuesday night and Wednesday), is known as the Festival of Harvest (Exodus 23,16).
As opposed to the city of Sderot, the nearby agricultural communities have a more earthy connection to the land; barely any of the 350 residents of Kibbutz Nir-Am, for instance, have left. "Our imbibed values are that our very presence here determines the State's borders. This is an agricultural tradition, that says that the land is our roots and our sustenance. If everyone would get up and leave, we could just close the entire country."
Rabbis and Educators Call for Social, Military Help
A group of some 100 rabbis and educators, many of them representing hesder yeshivot and yeshiva high schools around the country, descended upon the Yeshivat Hesder of Sderot on Monday to show their solidarity with the city residents.
Among the participants were Rabbis Chaim Druckman, Chanan Porat, Tsomet Institute head Yisrael Rosenne, Yigal Kaminetzky of Gush Katif, Elisha Vishlitzky, David Fendel of Sderot, and Eliezer Sheinvald of Modiin, as well as Col. (ret.) Geva Rapp of the 'Face to Face' outreach organization.
The rabbis resolved to continue activities such as hosting Sderot residents in their towns and schools, further visits to Sderot, offering economic and social help to needy families, special Sabbath and other events around the country dedicated to Sderot, and more.
In addition, the educators called "upon the Government of Israel to end this national disgrace of the abandonment of Jewish lives in Sderot and the area, by embarking on another Operation Defensive Shield [i.e., a massive military anti-terror offensive] in order to restore the self-respect and the security of the residents of Sderot.
To this end, the group resolved to embark on a campaign, including billboards, bumper stickers, rallies, and the like to garner public support for the cause.
Other visitors to Sderot on Monday included Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzippy Livny, the European Union's Javier Solana, and Britain's Ambassador to Israel Tom Phillips.
The Home Front Command distributed pamphlets to many communities in the Sderot-Ashkelon area, advising the residents how to protect themselves during Kassam attacks. Among those who received them were 500 expellee families from Gush Katif, currently living in Nitzan, just north of Ashkelon.
For more information on Sderot, see the Yeshivat Sderot and Sderotmedia websites.
2. Woman Killed by Kassam Rocket in Sderot
Palestinian Authority terrorists murdered 32-year-old Shirel Feldman in Sderot Monday night with a Kassam rocket attack that scored a direct hit on her car as she stood next to it near a bakery in the center of town. Ms. Feldman was pronounced dead on arrival at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon after suffering severe injuries to her chest and stomach. She bled to death as Magen David Adom paramedics raced to the hospital in a desperate attempt to save her life. One man suffered shrapnel wounds and was listed in fair condition, another suffered light injuries and 12 people were treated for shock in the same attack.
The rocket, one of a barrage of five aimed at the western Negev, slammed into the commercial shopping area in the center of town shortly before 8:00 p.m. while business owners were meeting to discuss the situation. Most businesses were closed as a result, minimizing what might otherwise have become a mammoth disaster.
The Color Red missile alert system failed to sound the warning that rockets were on the way.
Two other Kassams landed south of Ashkelon and the other two exploded in open areas the western Negev. By 10:30 p.m., another five rockets had been fired. Two slammed into an area next to a western Negev kibbut. The others fell in various open areas around the region.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana were meeting in Sderot at the time of the attack. Neither one was hurt. Ms. Livni told reporters at a news conference in the besieged town that a ceasefire with Hamas is not an option, as far as Israel is concerned. The foreign minister noted that Hamas considers a ceasefire an opportunity to rearm and upgrade weapons supplies and terrorists training in anticipation of the next conflict.
Three terror organizations rushed to take the credit for this attack: Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Salah al-Din Brigades terror group, part of the Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had harsh words in a statement issued following the attack. "We will take whatever steps are necessary to stop the Kassam attacks," he warned, but did not elaborate on what those steps might be. The security cabinet gave a green light yesterday for the IDF to resume targeted assassinations, and government officials warned that Hamas Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, and Hamas politburo chief and arch-terrorist Khaled Mashaal would not be immune from the attacks.
By midnight, a total of 25 rockets had rained down on the western Negev. Two more Kassams had exploded in Sderot, one in the industrial area and the other in the center of town, causing some damage but no injuries. Earlier in the evening, a rocket exploded among the fields near several farms in the region. The explosion ignited a pile of weeds and started a fire, but no damage or injuries were reported. A rocket landed near a gas station, another hit a greenhouse, setting it ablaze. Another slammed into a kibbutz south of Sderot.
3. Ambassador Apologizes, But Storm Just Increases
US Ambassador Richard Jones has apologized for his statements about Jonathan Pollard. Pollard supporters, however, have a series of demands: They want a full retraction from Jones, as well as immediate action by Prime Minister Olmert to demand a pardon from US President Bush. They also say they won't let Israel get away with low-level Foreign Ministry talk of a release on "humanitarian" grounds.
The story began at Bar Ilan University on Monday morning, when Ambassador Jones told an audience that Pollard "took money for what he did [and] sold out his country." Even more controversial was his comment, "The fact that [Pollard] wasn't executed is the mercy that Jonathan Pollard will receive."
Pollard's wife Esther called the remarks "malicious incitement" in that they implied that Jonathan had committed treason. Later in the day, Jones apologized, saying his words reflected neither his personal views nor those of the Bush administration. Saying his remarks were "misinformed and misleading," Jones added, "I certainly do not personally believe that Mr. Pollard should have received capital punishment and I was appalled to learn that I had given that impression."
The statement of apology was emailed by Stewart Tuttle, the press attaché of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to, among others, Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice-Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. The email included the comment, "I personally thank you for helping us through this difficulty."
Esther Pollard said that without a full retraction, Jones's apology is inadequate: "Ambassador Jones falsely accused my husband of treason, falsely accused my husband of spying for money, and falsely accused him of harming the United States. He suggested that Jonathan ought to have been executed, reinforcing the false charge of treason. All of these false charges made by Richard Jones against Jonathan Pollard are still out in the public domain and doing damage. Unless and until Jones takes retracts these egregious lies and corrects the record, his apology is at best incomplete, and at worst insincere."
MK Uri Ariel, head of the Knesset Lobby for Pollard, said, "It's nice that [Jones] said he's sorry, but now the time has come to release Pollard, not just to apologize. The Prime Minister must turn immediately to US President Bush, demand an end to this disgrace, and have Pollard freed immediately."
Esther Pollard on Foreign Ministry Position
It was widely reported that after Jones's original speech, the Foreign Ministry had asked him for Pollard's release for "humanitarian reasons." Arutz-7 has learned, however, that what actually occurred was that Foreign Ministry official Yoram Ben-Ze'ev spoke with Jones and "reiterated the Ministry's well-known position on Pollard." Asked to explain what this "well-known" position actually includes, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mark Regev told Arutz-7, "Israel has apologized for its mistakes in the Pollard affair and believes that he should be released on humanitarian grounds."
It could not be ascertained what Ben-Ze'ev actually told Jones - but Mrs. Pollard said it doesn't matter: "The whole thing just shows how not seriously Israel is taking this issue. It is not the place of a minor Foreign Ministry official to tell the Ambassador that it 'believes Pollard should be released'; this is something the Prime Minister of Israel must bring up directly with the President of the United States, who is the only one who can pardon Pollard. The Prime Minister is in constant contact with the White House. Official agents are not released just as a 'favor' on humanitarian grounds."
4. Calls to Re-settle Gush Katif
With every crash of a Kassam rocket in the Negev, increasingly more voices are calling for a return to Gaza - for different reasons.
Respected journalists from Yediot Acharonot and Haaretz have written that re-occupying Gaza is the only solution - lending an air of "political correctness" to the simultaneous ideological call by settlement leaders and Gush Katif expellees to return to Gush Katif.
The reasons advanced for reoccupation by the various elements are, to be sure, not identical. Military affairs correspondent Ron Ben-Yishai, writing for Yediot Acharonot last week (May 17), explained that it is based solely on security considerations:
"Israel's key problem at this point in time is the violent anarchy reigning in the Palestinian arena," Ben-Yishai wrote. "Even if Israel chooses to undertake drastic measures such as cutting off electricity and water from Gaza residents, while indiscriminately bombing launch sites, there would still be no one on the Palestinian side able to stop the Kassam attacks. The only thing that will happen is that Israel will face condemnation and be isolated in international public opinion."
"Under current circumstances," Ben-Yishai continued, "one consideration must guide the Israeli government: How do we prevent casualties among western Negev residents as a result of Kassam attacks, and how do we thwart the digging of tunnels by the Palestinians and a worse situation in the future as a result of Hamas' rapid strengthening? The most effective and virtually only modus operandi to achieve these objectives is an occupation of wide sections of the Gaza Strip."
"Once the IDF controls most Gaza territory, it will be able, in conjunction with the General Security Service (Shabak), to gather intelligence information and apply it in anti-terror operations while proceeding to destroy terror infrastructures. Meanwhile, the digging of a seawater tunnel would curb the smuggling through Gaza's Philadelphi route."
Ben-Yishai added that limited aerial and ground operations would not curb Kassam rockets, would draw terrorist fire and endanger Israeli troops, and would end with international pressure upon Israel. Instead, "a very large military force [is] required to stay in the Strip for many months... The question is whether the Olmert government will continue to deal with political survival and endless 'assessment sessions,' or whether it will finally start to act practically."
Similarly, on the same day, correspondent Avi Issacharoff penned a piece for Haaretz entitled, "No Other Solution For Gazans But Israeli Occupation." Explaining that Fatah has been left without strong leadership and is headed for a military defeat at the hands of Hamas, "the Gazans are repeating one clear message: only Israeli occupation will save them. There is no other solution on the horizon."
These calls were somewhat encouraging to people like Adi Mintz, a former Director of the Yesha Council [Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza], who was in the midst of publicizing his own call for a return to Gaza.
Mintz, a resident of Dolev in the Binyamin region of the Shomron, wrote in the most recent edition of B'Sheva:
"...Jacob was unable to be comforted for the loss of his son Joseph, because one cannot be comforted for the loss of someone who is actually alive... We, too, are unable to be comforted over the loss of Gush Katif for two reasons: Because we know that we will return, and also - just like in the case of Jacob and Joseph - because the crime was committed against us by our own brothers.
"For 19 years, the survivors of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion [destroyed and captured by the Jordanians in 1948 - ed.] would go up to a hilltop overlooking Gush Etzion, and see the lone oak tree there. That tree became a symbol of the longed-for return... and Kfar Etzion became the first town to be rebuilt by Israel after the liberation of Judea and Samaria during the Six Day War...
"More and more journalists and former IDF generals who supported the Disengagement now regret it, and admit that it was a strategic mistake - the rotten fruits of which we ate in the war in Gaza and in Lebanon. A strategic mistake can be rectified only by another strategic move: Returning to Gush Katif.
"Such a move might seem, at present, detached from reality. However, with the IDF apparently preparing for a major offensive in Gaza, and with the government seemingly waiting only for Kassam deaths before acting, the return to Gush Katif is the only answer."
This will show the Arabs, Mintz explained, that "they cannot defeat us, that this is our land, and that only we have the rights to it."
Mintz emphasized the fact that the Jewish towns in Gush Katif and northern Gaza were not built on Arab land, and that the State of Israel's "terrible act of throwing out its sons" can still be rectified:
"The public is still in the throes of the earthquake of last summer's war, and is open to new conceptions. The call and demand to return to Gush Katif is moral and just, on the one hand, and is a strategic necessity, on the other hand...
"Together with the 'Homesh First' people [who are leading a campaign to return to the Disengagement-destroyed town of Homesh in the Shomron - ed.], we must broaden the scope of the struggle to include also a struggle to win over the public's soul. This is the time to join forces and to wage a campaign that will keep the idea of a return to both Homesh and Gush Katif in the public consciousness. Even if we don't succeed in the short run, this type of struggle has supreme importance for the long run."
5. Lebanese Cut Power and Water, Then Shell 'Palestinian Camp'
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
In the wake of clashes with a Syrian-affiliated terrorist organization operating in Lebanon, Fatah Al-Islam, the Lebanese government ordered services cut to the northern town the terrorists are using as their base of operations. The Lebanese army also shelled the town, which is designated by Lebanon as a "Palestinian refugee camp."
Residents of the camp told reporters that many homes have been demolished and bodies were strewn in the streets.
By Monday morning, the clashes between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese military had led to the deaths of at least 22 soldiers, 25 Islamist terrorists and uncounted numbers of non-combatants in Nahr Al-Bard and Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city, as well as in Beirut. Some estimates put the total death toll at 65.
The clashes between Lebanese security forces and the Fatah Al-Islam terrorists erupted in Tripoli, when soldiers raided a terrorist safe-house in pursuit of bank robbers on Sunday. "We traced them to an apartment in Tripoli, which turned out to be an office for Fatah Al-Islam," Interior Security Forces chief Ashraf Rifi said. The government troops were met by armed resistance, which quickly led to fierce clashes in Tripoli and in the Fatah Al-Islam home base of Nahr Al-Bard.
As an early tactic in their war against the Islamist group, the Lebanese authorities cut off electricity, water and communications in the Nahr Al-Bard camp. In response to a successful Fatah Al-Islam assault on nearby military outposts on Sunday, army tanks shelled the camp intermittently throughout the day. Army sources claimed the shells were aimed at Fatah Al-Islam headquarters, while residents of the camp told reporters that many homes in the camp have been randomly demolished and bodies were strewn in the streets. The shelling continued on Monday.
Within hours of the worst of Sunday's clashes, a car bomb exploded outside a shopping mall in a central-eastern Beirut neighborhood. One woman was killed and dozens were injured when a bomb placed under a car in the mall parking lot was detonated by unknown terrorists. The neighborhood is known to be majority Christian.
The Lebanese cabinet is meeting Monday to decide whether or not to send troops into Nahr Al-Bard.
Reactions Among Lebanese and in the Palestinian Authority
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said the fighting was a "dangerous attempt at harming Lebanese security."
Lebanese civilians have expressed to various media outlets their strong support for their military's assault against the Islamists in the Nahr Al-Bard camp. Pictures in several on-line newspapers show Lebanese citizens in the streets cheering on soldiers making their way through the streets of Tripoli.
Elias Bejjani, chairman of a Lebanese expatriate coalition in Canada, the Lebanese -Canadian Coordinating Council (LCCC), issued a press release calling for the Lebanese military "to deal decisively and with military means with the situation in the Nahr El-Bared Camp once and for all, because not doing so will weaken the army and give the Lebanese opposition and those behind them in the Syrian regime a new impetus to repeat what happened several times in the past."
The LCCC further claimed, "The rulers in Damascus had brought in its mercenary fighters several months ago to the Palestinian Camps in Lebanon with the objective of stirring strife, creating an anarchy situation, obstructing the creation of the International Tribunal [on the assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri -ed.] and, most importantly, prevent the rise of a strong self-reliant Lebanese State and institutions that would spread its control over every inch of Lebanese soil and disarm the militias and impose the rule of law."
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah organization denied any connection with Fatah Al-Islam and has condemned the current clashes in Lebanon. However, Fatah Al-Islam is an offshoot of factions that split with Yasser Arafat's Fatah in the 1980s. Lebanese security officials have linked Fatah Al-Islam variously to Al-Qaeda and to Syrian intelligence.
6. Clear Message from Israel, Mixed Messages from Gaza
Israeli missiles destroyed a Hamas weapons storage facility and an operations center of the Popular Resistance Committee in the hours before dawn Tuesday.
The sorties followed a day in which 25 rockets were fired at the western Negev, particularly at the town of Sderot. A 32-year-old woman was killed, several other people were wounded and more than a dozen suffered shock in attacks throughout the day.
Exploding rockets also ignited fires around the region, damaged numerous structures and again prevented children from going to school and enjoying end-of-year activities.
Hamas Prime Minister Offers Ceasefire, Promises Annihilation
The ruling Palestinian Authority Hamas terror organization, which began the intense rocket barrages against Israel a week ago, is now offering to temporarily halt its attacks in return for a promise by Israel to stop counter-terrorism operations in Judea and Samaria.
We live in a world where when Christians kill Muslims, it's a crusade. When Jews kill Muslims, it's a massacre. When Muslims kill Muslims, it's the weather channel. Nobody cares.
This is not a new deal; the same terms were offered months ago while rockets continued to fly in violation of the first supposed ceasefire that was to end those attacks in return for an IDF withdrawal from Gaza. More than 350 rockets were fired and dozens of bombs planted along the Gaza separation barrier since that first “ceasefire” was negotiated.
Now, even as Hamas PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is trying to negotiate a ceasefire with one side of his mouth, he has been vowing with the other to continue the battles until the state of Israel is wiped off the map.
“We will keep to the same path until we achieve one of two goals,” Haniyeh announced Monday, “victory or martyrdom.” Abu Obeida, a spokesman for one of the Hamas terrorist gangs, promised to continue striking “the enemy anywhere in Palestine, whether with suicide attacks or operations against soldiers.”
Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh commented on Israel Radio Tuesday morning that offers by Hamas to negotiate a ceasefire were empty words. He said it was important to pay attention to everything that is said - to the Arab population as well as to the Jews.
“When someone preaches that the State of Israel should be destroyed, he is not in the political echelon; he is a terrorist in a suit,” he pointed out. What does the political Hamas body do? It gives operational approval, if not actual ratification to those who are doing the fighting.”
Mr. Sneh warned that Israel is returning to its former policy of targeted assassinations, minus the kid gloves. “I’ll put it like this,” he told the interviewer. “There is no one who is in the circle of commanders and leaders in Hamas who is immune from a strike.”
Gillerman Insists IDF Withdrawal Was ‘Right Thing to Do’
This week’s intense attacks by Hamas are actually a sign of weakness, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman explained to pro-Israel advocates in New York on Monday.
"I really think that what we're seeing today is a weak Hamas," Gillerman said, postulating that Israel forced Hamas to join the Fatah faction by isolating it. He added, "Israel stands behind the fact that a withdrawal from Gaza was the right thing to do in spite of the consequences we see today."
Gillerman also accused moderate Muslims of an "eerie silence" by not trying to stop other Muslims from escalating terrorism around the world. He also charged world leaders with holding a double standard when judging Israel’s actions to defend itself.
"We live in a world where when Christians kill Muslims, it's a crusade. When Jews kill Muslims, it's a massacre. When Muslims kill Muslims, it's the weather channel. Nobody cares," Gillerman said.
7. College and University Students End 5-Week Strike
College and university students will be returning to their classrooms Thursday after the holiday of Shavuot.
The National Union of Israeli Students approved a compromise deal with the Prime Minister’s Office in a 62 percent majority vote.
Tuition fees will be frozen for one year and the findings of the Shochat Committee will not be presented to the government for approval until first being discussed with representatives of the student union. In addition, the government will return billions of shekels to higher education institutions over a four-year period in what is tantamount to restoration of budget cuts over the past several years.
The leaders of the student union were forced to meet under tight security to review the proposal. Hundreds of their constituents were chanting outside the building, urging the union to continue the strike. Student leader Etai Shonstein had to be escorted under heavy guard after the students accepted the accord. Some students said they would not accept the agreement.
Other students have been calling for an end to the strike in scattered protests around the country, usually small and quiet. Tel Aviv University students decided several days ago they would end their participation in the demonstrations, saying the ongoing walkout was no longer serving its purpose.
The semester will be extended by one month in order to allow the students to make up the studies they missed.
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The Palestinian Revolution's Vision of Darkness
By Avi Davis August 6, 2002
It should have been no surprise to anyone that among the victims in Sunday's bus bombing in the Galilee were Arabs. The Galilee's population is 52% Arab and it is inevitable that any attack on a bus in that region would have an impact on that population. So too the destruction in Hebrew University's cafeteria last Wednesday. A university that proudly boasts a population 15% Arab should statistically have expected to find Arabs among the dead. It certainly shouldn't have surprised most Israelis who can now finally appreciate the true nature of the terrorist campaign they are facing: any Israeli institution, including the ones that service or care for Arabs, is a potential target. This would seem to include hospitals, day care centers, fire stations and welfare organizations. It goes a long way to answering the question posed by Alistair Goldrein, a British student studying at the Hebrew University when he asked: "Why would someone target this university - it is what was best about Israel."
Why, indeed. The good intentions of liberal institutions or service organizations are largely irrelevant to the master planners of Palestinian terrorism. For them the secular education offered by the Israelis is a trap, designed to goad Arabs from their culture and shatter Palestinian unity. So too are the hospitals where world class physicians often sweat to save Arab life. So are the Israeli human rights groups who actively lobby for their interests and protection. All of these well intentioned people are regarded as indistinguishable from other Zionists "occupying" Palestinian land - a land categorically defined by Hamas as stretching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan.
The spiral of self deception into which the Palestinians are rapidly spinning has as its practical source the acceptance by the international media and European governments that Palestinian terrorists are freedom fighters no different in nature than the French resistance during Second World War. But a poorer analogy could not be imagined. The French resistance, which eventually unified communists, socialists and nationalists under the banner of the Forces Francaises de l'interiuer, not only had as its goals the liberation of German-occupied French territory, but the restoration of a French democratic republic and the reinstitution of French law.
Furious debate was entered by members of the resistance on the nature of that renewed French republic, giving rise to the ideological rifts that characterize French society to this day. But the important point is that debate ensued and the unifying theme of that debate was that only a vigorous democracy could save France from a decent into renewed authoritarianism or even civil war.
The Palestinians have no such mechanism vouchsafing the progress and prosperity of their in choate state. There is no visible debate on the nature of such a state (although there is considerable tension between the religious and secular in that society); there are no intellectuals or statesmen who feel free to talk openly about the challenges of democracy; there is no room for moderates whose voices are silenced in the popular call for jihad. No, the Palestinian state-in-making speaks only in the language of hatred. Today the target is Israel but with the increasingly apparent failure to achieve any concrete political objective, the rancor and hatred unleashed by their venomous campaign is likely to turn inward. The most probable outcome is therefore not victory but civil war.
But an even graver malady afflicts the Palestinian people. Their cause has been hi-jacked, not by a resistance front but by revolutionaries. Hamas, which has stepped into the vacuum left by Arafat's corrupt Palestinian Authority, does not merely seek to eject what it perceives as foreign occupation of its land. It seeks no less than the total transformation of Palestinian society. Its militant Islamist message resonates as prescriptive change reminiscent of many other historical revolutionary movements - conceived in high ideals, reverting to violence and ending in butchery.
So those looking for historical analogies should not waste time examining France of the 1940s. They should recall France of the 1790s when another revolution, conceived with noble aspirations reverted to carnage and destroyed itself in a frenzy of blood letting. That cynical Frenchman Albert Camus once commented that "every revolutionary ends either as an oppressor or as a heretic." He might have also added that most die at the hand of their own people. The leaders of the Palestinian Revolution, wading knee deep in blood and accustomed only to the language of hate, should now be put on notice that history is unlikely to make an exception for any of them. Born in blood, they will likely die in blood.
And no one should be surprised when this revolution begins to devour its own children.
Avi Davis is a senior editorial columnist for Jewsweek.com and the author of The Crucible of Conflict: Jews, Arabs and the West Bank Dilemma, to be published in the Fall.
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14 teachers, including 10 Doctors and Ph.D.
The department teaches the following faculties: Road Construction, Management, Road Transport, Environmental and Energy, Economic and Correspondence faculty.
The department teaches the following disciplines: Road survey and design, Transport planning of cities, the Basics of surveying bridge and tunnel crossings, the Basics of road designing, Vertical layout of streets and roads, Automated design of roads, Road conditions and traffic safety, Environmental aspects of road design, Industry technology - automobile roads, Access roads to airports, Transport infrastructure, Transport routes - technological constructions, Transport and operational qualities of automobile roads and city streets.
Science Achievements
The department work is widely used for the design of roads and city streets, bridge crossings, for the development of measures improving traffic safety and environmental protection. A significant number of regulatory documents on road design were developed with the participation of the department teachers. In 2017, they obtained the patent for invention No. 2638202 "The device for measuring the strength of pavement by dynamic loading”.
Famous scientists worked at the department: the Professor D.P. Krynin, P.N. Shestakov, G.D. Dubelir, V.F. Babkov, O.V. Andreev, and E.M. Lobanov.
The department students participate in international student olympiads for the following field: 08.03.01 "Construction profile "Roads", and in republican competitions of graduate qualification works.
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Four americans added to cast of Made in Chelsea: New York to spice things up
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Made in Chelsea is about to hit your screen again next month and new cast members have just been revealed for the upcoming season which will be set in New York City. 4 Americans have been added to the cast to spice things up a little and provide the gang with allies that will have the scoop on how things work locally.
Stunning Billie Carroll is the daughter of the owners of a sweet shop chain which includes outlets named Sugar Happens and Oh Sugar. Born in the Bahamas, Carroll now resides in New York where she works at a fashion house called Kings of Cole located in Manhattan. Billie even finds the time to maintain and updates her own fashion blog.
Close friend of Billie's Carson Eisenhart will also appear in this season. Eisenhart is currently working his way up in the real estate business and is hoping to make his fortune there. Carson and Billie are almost inseparable on nights out in Manhattan and have been ever since meeting in college where Eisenhart studied anthropology.
For the ladies to salivate over, male model Jules Hamilton also joins the cast this season. Another New Yorker, Jules is currently cashing in on his natural good looks by working as an international model while his passion lies in shooting and producing movies.
And last, but not least, Alik Alfus is another outgoing New Yorker that will definitely be entertaining. Alik is big into competitive sports like tennis and baseball while also a huge music fan. For work, he is the vice president of his parent's leather company Libra Leathers which is a major player in the fashion industry.
Made in Chelsea: New York will air on E4 in August and fans can expect the behaviour on show to be even wilder than before. You will be able to catch favourites Jamie Laing, Spencer Matthews, Rosie Fortescue, Cheska Hull, Mark Francis Vandelli, Louise Thompson, Lucy Watson, Alex Mytton and Stevie Johnson in action over the course of 6 episodes in the Big Apple.
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Board index Comments World Politics
Elections America.
Discuss world politics in relation to Islam and Muslims.
Re: Elections America.
Post by Ariel » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:46 pm
Hombre wrote: ↑
You are right gorgeous
A very powerful speech. "My father voted for trump" & "The only per-existing condition my father had - trusting trump & he paid for it with his life"
My dear...I am sure if this man really died and if he really voted for Trump, that if he could have heard his daughter speak those words, He would turn around in his grave. Not ones, but twice.
I can't wait for another day of the Democratic National Convention, and a new video.
I hope it will be as much fun as the first video.
I will keep you posted.
The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.
Takeiteasynow
Post by Takeiteasynow » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:53 pm
Çhief White House doctor: 'Biden is Lost as something is not right'
Ronnie Jackson, former doctor of Joe Biden, Obama and Trump
The chief White House doctor to former President Barack Obama is worried about the mental health and stamina of former Vice President Joe Biden, suggesting that “something is not right” with the Democratic presidential nominee.
“The best way I can describe him every time I see him is that he’s just lost,” said Dr. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician to Obama and President Trump.
“I won’t make any particular diagnosis about dementia. ... But what I will say is that something is not right,” added the retired Navy rear admiral who recently won a House GOP primary in Texas.
And it is getting so bad that he is “not comfortable” with Biden being commander in chief. “I’m not,” he said of the top Democrat, set to be nominated by the Democratic Party for president on Thursday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wash ... use-doctor
Abraham= H'ammu'rab(b)i, Historical Muhammad=Benjamin of Tiberias. Islam: Syncretic Israelite Yahwishm Deity: nameless, epithets Dsr, El Qutbay, ʼAlâhâ, Allāh. Ka'ba: Kutha => Samaria => Petra=> Makkah. Hijrah 622: Petra => Kerak
Post by Hombre » Thu Aug 20, 2020 10:12 pm
Takeiteasynow wrote: ↑
WOW!!!! Even as a doctor -he is not a dully trained psychiatrist -- nor ever examined Biden. Moreover, he is a Republican.
Too rich!!!
Post by Ariel » Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:47 am
Every one can see something is wrong with Biden Hombre. For a long time I worked with elderly people with dementia, and it would not surprise me if shortly, Biden ( who looks to me as an affectionate sweet old man) asks people ...."Where is my mother ? She has not visit me for a long time"
Poor man. He should not be used by the democrates.
Post by pr126 » Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:12 am
Hombre, stop drinking the Kool aid!
Islam: an idea to kill and die for.
Post by Ariel » Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:50 pm
Elections in the US are dirty.
DNC Used Deported Woman To Attack Trump. She Was Deported Under Clinton, Flagged Under Obama.
The deported illegal alien that the Democrat National Convention used this week to attack President Donald Trump was previously deported under Democrat President Bill Clinton and was flagged under former Democrat President Barack Obama to be deported after she illegally re-entered the United States.
“Alejandra Juarez first sneaked into the U.S. in 1998. She was caught at the border and deported back to Mexico,” The Washington Times reported. “She quickly sneaked back into the U.S. — a ‘felony act’ — and remained in the shadows until a traffic stop in 2013 when she appeared on the radar of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
“Experts said an Obama-era initiative expanding the use of local police fingerprint checks to aid deportations likely flagged Mrs. Juarez for ICE,” The Washington Times added. “At that point, the Obama Homeland Security Department had a choice. It could have shown leniency but instead reinstated her deportation order from 1998, putting her on the path to deportation that the Trump Homeland Security Department carried out in 2018.”
Democrats used Alejandra Juarez’s daughter, 11-year-old Estela Juarez, as a weapon against the president during the DNC this week when she read an emotional letter that tried to portray the president as a cold person who was ripping families apart.
The ad video in which Democrats featured Estela Juarez also falsely misrepresented comments that Trump has made during his presidency.
The video shows Trump making four comments on four separate occasions, and makes it seem as though he was talking about illegal aliens. The four comments were:
“We will begin moving them out day one.”
“These aren’t people.”
“I don’t want them in our country.”
“They’re animals.”
In each of those statements, Trump was referring to violent criminals, including the hyper-violent MS-13 street gang, not people who were simply in the U.S. illegally.
Trump said during a 2016 campaign event: “According to federal data, there are at least two million, two million, think of it, criminal aliens now inside of our country, two million people criminal aliens. We will begin moving them out day one. As soon as I take office. Day one. In joint operation with local, state, and federal law enforcement.” (Source)
Trump made his “these aren’t people” remark in response to a comment from a sheriff at a White House round table event on May 16, 2018, who said: “There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.” Trump responded by saying: “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.”
Trump said on November 1, 2018: “There’s nothing political about a caravan of thousands of people, and now others forming, pouring up into our country. We have no idea who they are. All we know is they’re pretty tough people when they can blast through the Mexican military and Mexican police. They’re pretty tough people. Even Mexico said, ‘Wow, these are tough people.’ I don’t want them in our country. And women don’t want them in our country. Women want security. Men don’t want them in our country. But the women do not want them. Women want security. You look at what the women are looking for. They want to have security. They don’t want to have these people in our country. And they’re not going to be in our country. It’s a very big thing.”
Trump said during an August 2018 rally: “Anything I want, they want to oppose. You know, I just figured out how to do the wall: I’ll say I don’t want to build the wall and they’ll insist on building it. I just figured that out right now. So Bob Casey doesn’t mind MS-13 coming in. These are the slicers. They slice people up and they’re – and remember I called them animal and Nancy Pelosi scolded me, ‘How dare he call another human being an animal?’ They’re animals.“
Below is the transcript and the video that the DNC used to attack Trump:
Dear Donald Trump,
My name is Estella. I am 11-years-old.
My mom is my best friend. She came to America as a teenager over 20 years ago without papers in search of a better life. She married my dad, who served our country as a Marine in South America, Africa, and Iraq.
My mom worked hard and paid taxes, and the Obama administration told her she could stay.
My dad thought you would protect military families, so he voted for you in 2016, Mr. President. He says he won’t vote for you again after what you did to our family. Instead of protecting us, you tore our world apart. Now, my mom is gone, and she’s been taken from us for no reason at all. Every day that passes, you deport more moms and dads and take them away from kids like me.
You separated thousands of children from their parents, and you put them in cages. Some of those kids are now orphans because of you.
Mr. President, my mom is the wife of a proud American Marine and a mother of two American children. We are American families. We need a president who will bring people together, not tear them apart.
Post by Takeiteasynow » Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:21 pm
DC Convention and Joe Biden boost Trump's approval ratings
'Fact check: True': Trump’s approval rating surges during Biden’s convention. his wasn’t supposed to happen.
During this week’s Democratic National Convention, which was supposed to launch Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's ticket into the fall election with good feelings and high poll numbers, President Trump’s approval rating surged.
The Rasmussen Reports daily average for Trump, which is spread over three days, hit 51% this week — and has stayed there. On the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Trump's approval rating was 47%.
In a reaction to Rasmussen’s poll, which was looked at over 250,000 times, a commenter wrote, “It’s not uncommon for candidates to receive a bump after a national political convention. It’s just that usually the convention is their own and not their opponents.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wash ... convention
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public ... rack_aug21
For those doubting Rasmussen: this agency had the best predictions in 2016 and 2018. Trump's surge ain't that surprising knowing that no new policies or initiatives were presented at the DNC. The DP is like Biden: clueless and corrupted.
Post by manfred » Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:49 pm
Apparently Joe Biden and Bill Clinton will go onto the campaign trail together... Will the be known as the fondling fathers?
Jesus: "Ask and you will receive." Mohammed: "Take and give me 20%"
Post by Takeiteasynow » Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:51 pm
Hmm, more like Bonnie and Clyde I guess.
Post by Hombre » Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:47 pm
Ariel wrote: ↑
Biden had admitted publicly that he had a stuttering problem in the past.
Yeah you mean like this:
This idiot can't even read the text in front of him. Most likely he was reading the white stuff.
Speak of Dementia. WWI or WWII? which is which? (I don't even bother to fact check this bizzar comment)
manfred wrote: ↑
Whatever it takes to win the election. Nothing wrong with wanting to help a fellow countryman to win this upcoming election.
Despite pundits virulent hatred of Hillary Clinton - even today she is still respected by majority of Americans & for that matter - the rest of the world.
Post by Hombre » Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:02 am
How unpopular is Donald Trump?
Approval - 41.8%
Disapproval - 54.1%
An updating calculation of the president's approval rating, accounting for each poll's quality, recency, sample size and partisan lean.
Rasmussen is only ONE of 70 other polling groups. Here https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/tr ... id=rrpromo is a more complete & accurate reading of trump approval ratings.
Post by pr126 » Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:18 pm
DNC LGBTQ Caucus meeting.
The Democratic National Convention on Tuesday featured a panelist who identifies as a “nonbinary/gender transcendent mermaid Queen-King” and who called for the abolition of the police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and prisons.
How much people pay the universities to produce such idiocy?
Post by Takeiteasynow » Sun Aug 23, 2020 2:05 pm
DNC LGBTQ
Aha, an encrypted Semitic phrase. Let's see....
DN: root dn is Egypto-Semitic, ’il dn, el the judge, DN'/s/ judgemental
L: the
GBT: from West-Semitic/Hebrew root gbt, meaning 'to press down', depressing, lowering
Q: single consonant, added as radical.
Translation of DNC LGBTQ: 'The Radical Depressing/Lowering Judgement', probably referring to an extremist movement.
Post by Ariel » Mon Aug 24, 2020 12:52 pm
Who is it going to be. Trump, or Biden.
Post by pr126 » Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:30 pm
70 days to go. Get ready.
antineoETC
Post by antineoETC » Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:37 pm
My prediction if Biden beats Trump and the latter doesn't shout 'fraud' is that Biden will be in office for maybe a year before being put in a care home, wozhername will become top dog and Ilhan Omar will be brought in as vice president, which will be her springboard to run as pres in 2024.
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"Muhammad is considered to be a perfect model" SOURCE: BBC website
Post by Hombre » Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:39 pm
Yeah. I just read that recent polls by Shish-kabab show even better outcome for trump.
trump: 500
Biden 1500 electoral.
Any schmuck can conduct polls - including an obscure organization or individual named Helmut Norpath
Post by manfred » Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:06 pm
Goodness... why not just wait and see....
Post by Hombre » Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:52 pm
If we Compare the conditions in 2016 & now , the gap is a wide as the size of the English Channel .
This page is not long enough to enumerate them. Just few teed-bids. The most obvious is - than no known republicans came out & declared his opposition. Today there is a whole cadre of prominent & respected Republicans are ACTIVELY supporting Biden - only to defeat trump. Today we know more about his shady past from credible people then we knew then.
Most important - No President EVER won re-election with consistent low approval rating as trump has been "enjoying" for past 4 years.
The TV Media: It was this Media with their intense coverage which gave him more exposure then his opponents. They did it for their own selfish economic interest & the enormous rating he generated. Today he is not generating those ratings - coupled with his effort to discredit them ("fake News") & the TV networks are not providing him the coverage as they did back then.
Finally. the only way trump can win is - through dirty tricks (to which he is known for) or help from Russia. last week the Republican Controlled Senate had issued a 1000 page report damning trump's contact & connection with Russian Intelligence people to help him win.
The timing & the message to rump is very clear - "don't even think of soliciting foreign governments to help him in this upcoming election. Moreover, US's entire intelligence & counter-intelligence service along with Social Media are gearing up to blunt any Russian attempt to repeat their interference in the election.
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The scenery series ‘Historic’ for Microsoft Flight Simulator X ® offers a new approach to the flight simulation hobby by providing a photorealistic ground texture cover based on real photographs from the Second World War (1946/1947). The resulting view of the countryside will not only provide a new basis for the implementation of future historical scenery titles, but also allows you to discover the landscape of the era and the all the history of the region.
The product ‘Normandy 1944’ allows you to specifically discover the theater of the Allied landing operations back in 1944, Operation Neptune!
To achieve the maximum immersion in ‘Normandy 1944’ it comes complete with no less than four vintage aircraft and a steerable landing craft.
Many add-ons and other free and/or commercial bonuses will be offered later through our sites and forums. It is our goal to (help) create a real community around this range of new and original products …
You can find more details about the contents of each of the various products in this series and their compatibility at the web site FS Historic and on the VFR Network forum .
And on our ‘Normandy’ and ‘Downloads’ tabs there is more to discover, now and in the future !
The initial package contains:
– original B&W aerial photos of the 1946 situation
– full mesh for the Normandy region
– 4 ‘light’ versions of airplanes of that era courtesy of FSAddon Publishing
– a steerable FREE landing craft (Higgins Boat) courtesy of Bruce Fitzgerald
– initial sound/visual AA (FLAK) effects courtesy of James De Burghe
Now also available from simMarket.com and from Simware.com (i.e. Aerosoft)
High resolution photoreal scenery covering the ‘Manche’ (50) & ‘Calvados’ (14) French departments of the Normandy region with black & white photos from 1946/1947.
1 meter resolution ground texture (black & white) made from vintage aerial photography (IGN) adapted for an optimal visual rendition in Flight Simulator X®.
High resolution real 4.75 meter (LOD13) optimized custom mesh incuded.
4 vintage aircraft provided (GFA Super Cub, Cessna Bobcat Military, Lysander et Fieseler Storch) and a Steerable landing craft including vintage black & white repaints.
Special waterclass customized to specific vintage textures.
Coastline (and parts of lakes and rivers) waterbodies fitting the texture.
Extremely precise geo-referenced texture positionning is carried out in order to ensure a maximal compatibility with scenery add-ons for this region.
Process development is fully conform to the Microsoft Flight Simulator X® SDK, ensuring a maximal compatibility with future versions of Flight Simulator.
Open scenery concept allows an easy integration of scenery add-ons from other editors.
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Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era 2012 (Contract)
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1 Background and Overview
2 Expected results
The project was born as a joint initiative between the Future Worlds Center, the Digital Futures and the Cyprus Youth Council and it is a part of the activities carried out under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency. It aims to bring together 24 young people from all across Europe in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance that capitalize on the possibilities offered by contemporary as well as emerging digital technologies. The two-day event will be organized as an interactive co-laboratory, fully utilizing up-to-date methodologies and technologies of the science of structured democratic dialogue. The co-laboratory will take place back-to-back with the Cyprus EU Youth Conference (Cyprus Presidency event) to enable the participation of up to 8 delegates from this youth conference. This builds on the priority of the Cypriot Presidency to address the topic of Youth Participation in democrtic life in Europe as a main priority of the trio PL-DK-CY, adopted by the ministers' meeting in the Council of Education, Youth, Culture and Sport. The results of the co-laboratory will be widely disseminated with the support of the Cyprus Community Media Center, using video clips and modern digital technologies. They will inform the parallel and complimentary efforts of the Cyprus EU Youth Conference, the Digital Futures Task Force and Future Worlds Center to come up with innovative new ideas for reforms and policies that will guarantee authentic youth participation and capitalize on the diverse capabilities offered by emerging future technologies.
Formal Project Description
Contract Title Reinventing Democracy In the Digital Era
Lead Partner Future Worlds Center
Partners Digital Futures
Cyprus Youth Council
Grant Digital Futures Task Force covering 4 participants
EYF covering 8 participants
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Website http://reinventdemocracyindigitalera.wikispaces.com/
About Project Reinventing Democracy in the Digital-Era
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The project aims to bring together young people in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance that capitalize on the possibilities offered by contemporary as well as emerging digital technologies.
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Promote reforms of current systems of governance in their own ideal socio-political-economic environments.
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Inhibition of cholinesterases by fluoride in vitro.
Author: Cimasoni G.
Journal Name: The Biochemical Journal
Publish Date: April 1966
Volume/Page: 99(1):133-7.
Categories: Brain, Brain Cellular/Tissue Effects
1. Series of colorimetric dynamic assays allowed the study of the inhibition of cholinesterases by F(-) ions in vitro, by using, as sources of enzyme, whole human blood, human serum, homogenized rat brain and two preparations of red blood cells (human and bovine) whose enzymic purity was ascertained.
2. The first evidence of inhibition of human serum pseudocholinesterase by fluoride was noticed at 15-25 µm-fluoride. Ten times as much fluoride was needed to start inhibition of acetylcholinesterase of the red blood cells.
3. The action of fluoride on the enzymic reaction was immediate. The reversibility of the inhibition was shown by dialysis and dilution.
4. Kinetic measurements showed that the inhibition under study was not dependent on the substrate concentration and was of the uncompetitive type, similar to that observed in the presence of a heavy metal (cadmium).
5. The activity of serum cholinesterase did not change in the absence of Mg(2+) and Ca(2+) ions. Fluoride was shown to inhibit the enzyme in the absence of these ions as well as of phosphate.
6. Fluoride could inhibit cholinesterases in the presence of three different substrates and had no action on the non-enzymic hydrolysis.
7. It is thought that the halide is bound reversibly to the enzyme molecule, with the probable exclusion of the active site, but no firm conclusion could be reached on this point.
Fluoride-induced brain damages in suckling mice
In order to reveal mechanisms of brain damages resulted from fluoride toxicity, we treated adult female mice of Swiss Albinos strain by 500 ppm NaF (226 ppm F?) in their drinking water from the 15th day of pregnancy until the day 14 after delivery. All mice were sacrificed on day 14 after
Effects of the Fas/Fas-L pathway on fluoride-induced apoptosis in SH-SY5Y cells.
The mechanisms underlying fluoride-induced apoptosis in neurons still remain unknown. To investigate apoptosis, caspase-3 activity, and mRNA expression of Fas, Fas-L, and caspases (-3 and -8) induced by fluoride, human neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) cells were incubated with 0, 20, 40, and 80 mg/L sodium fluoride (NaF) for 24 h in vitro.
Protective effect of resveratrol on fluoride induced alteration in protein and nucleic acid metabolism, DNA damage and biogenic amines in rat brain
Fluoride, a well-established environmental carcinogen, has been found to cause various neurodegenerative diseases in human. Sub-acute exposure to fluoride at a dose of 20mg/kgb.w./day for 30 days caused significant alteration in pro-oxidant/anti-oxidant status of brain tissue as reflected by perturbation of reduced glutathione content, increased lipid peroxidation, protein carbonylation, nitric
Actions of sodium fluoride on acetylcholinesterase activities in rats
This study was carried out to observe the effects of sodium fluoride on acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activities in the cerebral synaptic membranes (SPM) and the peripheral red blood cells (RBC) of rats by in vivo and in vitro experiments. In the in vivo study, pregnant rats ingested ad libitum fluorinated drinking
Evaluation of the toxicity of fluorine in Antarctic krill on soft tissues of Wistar rats
Antarctic krill are a potential food source for humans and animals, but krill are known to contain high levels of fluorine (F). In this study, we investigated the toxicity of F in Antarctic krill using Wistar rats. There were three experimental groups: The control group were fed a basal diet,
NRC (2006): Fluoride's Neurotoxicity and Neurobehavioral Effects
The NRC's analysis on fluoride and the brain.
Fluoride's Direct Effects on Brain: Animal Studies
The possibility that fluoride ingestion may impair intelligence and other indices of neurological function is supported by a vast body of animal research, including over 40 studies that have investigated fluoride's effects on brain quality in animals. As discussed by the National Research Council, the studies have consistently demonstrated that fluoride, at widely varying concentrations, is toxic to the brain.
Fluoride Affects Learning & Memory in Animals
An association between elevated fluoride exposure and reduced intelligence has now been observed in 65 IQ studies. Although a link between fluoride and intelligence might initially seem surprising or random, it is actually consistent with a large body of animal research. This animal research includes the following 45 studies (out
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THE POSSESSION & FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE: CFQ Spotlight Podcast 3:35
Little Girls Should Not Be Dipping into Daddy's Humidor: Natasha Calis regrets her curiosity in THE POSSESSION.
You were at the beach. You were visiting relatives. You had friends over for one, last barbecue. You were scrubbing down the altar for the midnight sacrifice to the Great Old Ones (special for Providence only). Whatever you were doing, it was something you felt was more important than being in the theater this past Labor Day weekend.
And why not? While nowhere near a transcendent filmgoing experience, director Ole Bornedal’s dip into THE EXORCIST well, THE POSSESSION, mustered up enough atmosphere, dramatic tension, and credible performances — including Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick as divorced parents trying to cope with a young daughter infested with an evil demon — to merit it more attention than is usually given to films shoveled into the traditional Labor Day dumping bin. Cinefantastique Online’s Steve Biodrowski and Dan Persons take a few minutes to explore the film’s assorted pleasures and discuss the elements that made it a candidate for summary dismissal. Then Dan gives his capsule opinion of Tsui Hark’s Imax 3D spectacular, FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE and runs down what’s coming the theaters next week.
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FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE Director Tsui Hark: Fantasy Film Interview Podcast
Look, Can't We Just Exchange Insurance Info and Leave It at That?: Jet Li (right) faces off against Chen Kun in FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE.
FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE is the first Tsui Hark film to be shot in Imax 3D, starring Jet Li. Okay, stop salivating and sit back down, we’ve got work to do.
Granted, your enthusiasm is understandable. Hark — master of such deliriously epic action films as PEKING OPERA BLUES and ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA — came roaring back to prominence last year with DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME, and now returns with an ambitious adventure that’s actually a continuation of a film series that started in 1967, about a desert inn where both the noble and the infamous rub elbows and clash swords. In addition to all the expected Hark trappings, such as inventive battle scenes, sharp comedy, and women characters who can stand their own against their male counterparts — including a mysterious swordswoman, played by Zhou Xun, and a lusty barbarian princess, played by Lunmei Kwai (because would you want any other kind?) — the increased palette of China’s first Imax 3D film gives the director a whole new way to mess with your mind. Trust me, Hark takes generous advantage of the opportunity.
This is Hark’s return to MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST, and we’re glad to have him back; less glad that it had to be via a not-quite-Dolby-grade phone connection. We’ve done our best to smooth out the audio — hopefully you’ll find the discussion well-worth the effort.
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3D, FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE, IMAX, Jet Li, Tsui Hark
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Hydroplanes tested new technology on the Columbia River
H1 Unlimited boats tested a new GPS unit on the Columbia River in Pasco, WA. The U-11 Peters and May & U-88 Degree Men had first crack at the Columbia River.
The GPS unit was in the boat and the base unit was on land for H1 officials. They use it to track boat speed. They want to keep the boats from driving up to the starting line slowly and waiting until the flag drops. The U-11 and Craig Kairis of GPS Flight helped to develop the new program.
"This is just a device that will transmit to the race officials what the speed of the boats are, the speed they're traveling at. There's been a trend developing where the boats are getting slower and slower as they jockey for position, which isn't really exciting for the fans. So with this device we're going to determine a minimum speed limit," U-11 driver JW Myers said.
Posted by HydroInsider.com at 6:23 PM
Unlimited Hydroplane are headed back to Couer d'Alene, Idaho after a long absence. H1 Unlimited announced they will bring five boats for an exhibition Labor Day weekend in September this year.
Longtime fans will remember the Diamond Cup, which ran at Lake CDA for years. They will bring back the Diamond Cup name and make it an H1 Unlimited and APBA (American Power Boat Association) sanctioned event. Sources report that next year the Diamond Cup will be a full race.
HYDROINSIDER ARCHIVE VIDEO: For your enjoyment, the 1959 Diamond Cup race!
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Michelle Wallace and
Rus VanWestervelt
Alice Flows
By Rus VanWestervelt
Sunset nears. The rocks are glazed with ice that traps daylight’s last few hues, and the water of Little Hunting Creek that flowed through here just weeks ago now remains frozen as if caught in midthought.
This is just not the way it was supposed to turn out for Alice and Jared.
“What now?” he asks. But she does not answer. How can she?
The ice beneath his boots melts from the warmth and the weight they bear upon the time smoothed stone, and he feels as if they have thwarted winter’s call- if but for this moment spent in foolish desperation.
Jared and Alice never thought that death would come so soon, nor did he ever imagine that this creek might be frozen when the day arrived to carry out her wishes. Alice wanted to be returned to these waters within two sunsets of her passing; how were they to know that winter, too, would arrive so early?
“We were not yet done with autumn,” he whispers to her in his arms.
“But autumn, she seems to be done with us.”
If you’ve been to Cunningham Falls State Park between Frederick and Hagerstown, you know all about the William Houck Area. Its beauty is adorned with Maryland’s highest waterfall- 78 feet to be exact- and the very popular 42-acre lake that is frequented by anglers, boaters, swimmers, and even scuba divers. Alice and Jared had known this section of the park quite well; since in their twenties when they first married, they had visited Houck several times a year, getting to know some Thurmont folks who opted for this smaller tourist attraction in lieu of the more commercialized Ocean City and Deep Creek Lake resorts several hours east or west, respectively.
It wasn’t until their drive to the park just six weeks ago that Alice wanted to go to Houck’s oft unmentioned sibling, the Manor Area, before succumbing to the cancer that had taken a disturbingly silent-yet-terminal residence within her.
For years, Alice and Jared had joked that the Manor Area seemed like an afterthought. Without the diva attraction that the falls provided Houck, Manor was destined to be seldom more than a hangout for local teens or a scant celebratory meeting place at its shelter for birthdays, anniversaries, or reunions.
So Manor remained, without Alice and Jared, until this past October when they approached its entrance, and Jared felt Alice’s faint pulse as she squeezed his hand weakly.
“Jared,” she said. “The crowds might cheapen this somehow for us at Houck, you know?” Her soft-spoken words flowed from still softer lips, seemingly untouched by the death swirling within her. As much as the cancer had stolen from her, she held on tightly to the inner peace that radiated such kindness and gentle ways. Her grace saddened him that much more, knowing what was to come.
Alice was right about the crowds. They had had plenty of social moments in their 30 years of marriage. They grew up together in these Maryland woods, keeping just fit enough to handle the challenges of the soft-soiled, sometimes rocky trails, the shallow rivers, and the temperamental Chesapeake- good times always enjoyed with even better friends. But when the cancer hit Alice a brief 7 months ago, they had pared down their social circle, and Jared understood that even strangers at the falls would somehow dilute the reason they had come.
They entered Manor and scanned the lot for others; autumn had bloomed brilliantly in a cacophonic canvas canopy of browns and oranges, reds and greens. Jared parked along the northern bank of Little Hunting Creek and turned off the car. The area seemed abandoned, left alone by the masses who went elsewhere to gather their rosebuds or swim deep in other waters. Alice was happy.
“No wonder William Houck’s been treated like an only child all these years,” Jared remarked.
Manor just wasn’t that kind of tourist trap; it certainly wasn’t awe-inspiring, and it wasn’t on the map as a Kodak moment.
Alice ignored Jared- or perhaps never even heard him speak, as she left him in the car and headed to the water. Seventeen soft steps, and she was past the picnic bench and at the bank, looking west, then east, then west again. In both directions, the creek veered to the left and rolled out of sight around a bend.
He gave her a moment at the water’s edge. There wasn’t much to look at. Having visited Houck for so long, Jared couldn’t help but think that Little Hunting Creek-maybe 15 feet wide where Alice stood- was blushing, the runty kid sister of the Homecoming Queen. It was hardly more pronounced than the small spring from which it originated in the Catoctin Mountains; little fanfare could be made of it further downstream as well, even where it joined Big Hunting Creek and then, eventually, the Monocacy River.
This absence of pomp and circumstance freed the sounds of the crisp water churning over rocks and dipping in and out of stone-bed pools; winds whistled through leaves and broken bark and brought to them the fragrances of wild sarsaparilla, spice bush, and even pine sap. They stood there for several more minutes, as if in a decompression chamber, acclimating themselves to the richer sounds of squirrels scurrying for winter’s keep and the softer sights of sunlight sifting through leaves like light through stained glass.
This is why we are here, he thought; we have come to touch the sun before it comes to touch us.
With a firm patch of earth now under his feet, Jared stands without sound as the sporadic road traffic close by hums a sing-song of comings and goings. Very, very close, he thinks; a poor musical substitute for the water that once rushed over these rocks that run east to west, around the bend, no end in sight.
The unadorned, brown urn he carries with Alice’s ashes is heavy, but the weight does not bother him. It is the weight of ever-present thoughts, more than anything, reminding him that her remains are in his arms, cradled with the same fragility of a newborn life, a compact world of endless possibilities unexplored, unrealized.
He leaves the bank and joins the creek’s bed of iced-over rocks, where a smaller stream trickles quickly from under a pool of frozen water, escaping winter’s fate. He holds Alice close as he chooses carefully each rock, working his way closer to the little stream. But even with his strongest effort, his greatest care for Alice in his arms, he cannot help but slip on a small, flat rock that sends him- and Alice- into the air…
Alice removed her sandals and walked effortlessly to a shallow pool formed by some of the larger rocks. From this pool flowed a tiny, constant stream of water that rambled over smaller pebbles, a miniature Cunningham Falls gleaming with promise.
There stood Alice, centered, visibly at peace. On the ride up, she had talked with Jared about meditation and transcendentalism and all that Buddha stuff that helped her focus, maybe even live a little longer. Here she stood now in front of him, focusing, perhaps hoping for a few extra days. She had said that meditation made her cancer seem nonexistent, suspended. There was an abeyance about it, she had said, where as long as she stayed centered, as she clearly was now, life would never cease flowing through her. Death, she had stated plainly, would come only in the most physical of senses.
Just flow, she would always tell him. Let the world carry you along, on and on. Simple, huh?
Just flow.
Jared had never been so deep to meditate and see things that way. He had always spent his time turning rocks (not flowing over them), looking for a marbled salamander, finding perhaps an eastern newt. Other times he searched for things that didn’t seem to belong; maybe they had a greater glow, a greater effervescence about them. They stood out, caught his attention, begged him to be taken. Or so he believed. He could never leave without some tangible treasure.
Alice stood there in that pool, her arms open wide, her face to the sky. Leaves dropped, some on her, some in the water, and away they were swept, down the river, around the bend.
She looked down, kneeled into the water, cupping her hands as she dipped them and pulled up a pool filled with her reflection. She brought the water to her shoulders and arms till beads ran off her fingertips and back into the pool and down the little falls.
With her hands still wet, Alice pressed them against her neck where she had first found the cancer. She held her hands there, as if somehow cleansing the area, purifying it, making it innocent once again.
Alice nodded briefly, barely acknowledging Jared’s concern. To him, she seemed too focused- if not too weak- to do much more.
Alice scooped up half a palm of ground stone that formed a miniature cairn in her hand and knelt down into the pond. She looked at the tiny pile of sand, then to the water that surrounded her waist. She brought her hand down to the pond and let the water flow, a swirling fluidity that broke the cairn down, tiny grain of sand by tiny grain of sand, carrying each through the gate, over the rocks, beyond the bend, and on and on.
Jared was now downstream of her. Painful as it was, he decided to remain, to stand his ground and not battle the waters coming down to him. To walk upstream at this point seemed to go against some natural force of what was to be, and so he waited.
He marveled at her beauty in solitude. It was difficult for him to see any clear distinction between the life within her and the life that surrounded them: paralleled beauty enveloped in the mingling, nurturing solace of primitive spirits.
She stood up and began walking toward him, doing her best to stay immersed in water, as deeply as possible, even if only being wet to her ankles at times.
When Alice reached Jared, She kissed him gently on the cheek and rested her head on his shoulder.
“I’m ready,” she whispered.
He wrapped his arms around her and held her close, but after a moment she gently pushed away, turned, and walked out of the water and toward the picnic bench.
Jared took one more glimpse of the river upstream where it turned to the left, bending then disappearing into an unknown eternity. His eyes drifted down to the pool where Alice had immersed herself. Just below the pond were two flat rocks leaning against and supporting each other, framing an area where some of the water was running through.
He looked over at the bench where Alice sat, staring at her hands, brushing the few remaining granules of sand from her hands.
I was the one who did more of the leaning, he thought, and it was true. He had spent much of their 30 years together feeding off of her strength.
This is our closest moment, frozen and immortalized. yet here we remain, never farther apart.
He could not have felt more ashamed and proud at the same time to be her soul mate.
Jared catches his fall with one hand, blood suddenly flowing from it as he balances the delicate urn in his other hand. He pushes his hand against his navy blue coat, his pulse, warm, wet with each beat.
He thinks only of Alice, though, close to him, as he continues on until he reaches the pool of icy water.
He crouches, precariously perched between the obscure, trickling falls and two supporting rocks, comrades leaning more or less on each other.
They never considered how this part was to be done. Just dumping her ashes into this scaled down stream would choke its flow, and stagnant water would most certainly freeze with these temperatures.
He recalls Alice’s last moments here, bending down and allowing the small pile of ground stone in her palm to be lifted by the water’s rush and carried away. It had been at that moment that she had made up her mind how to proceed with all of this. The solution, however tough until that moment, seemed natural and almost relieving to her, as if this were the last great decision she would have to make.
Jared cannot believe that this is it. He pulls the urn closer, tighter, the pulse of warm blood still flowing from his hand. He remembers the first time they had touched in a late October so long ago, that lingering feel of her smooth hand on his, and then the smile, the blush, the unmistakable, embarrassing laugh. How he then leaned in to her, and when they kissed, time ceased and he wished his lips would never leave hers, the moist, tentative breath of love, the slow and inevitable sigh and then the slide of his body into hers.
I now know Love, he had whispered to her. And when she melted into him a second time, he vowed that he would never let her go.
He stands in the water, holding her one last time, fighting the urge to forget her final wishes and turn around, back over the icy rocks, into the warmth of the car, and return home.
I’m ready. . . .
Jared cannot stop the tears. He knows what he must do. He brings his quivering lips to the top of Alice’s urn and kisses her one more time.
“Flow, Alice. Flow,” he whispers.
He turns the urn on its side and immerses it into the small stream, slowly removing the brown, pottered top with his bleeding hand.
The urn swallows the water, and a wisp of air- much like a sigh- escapes as Alice’s ashes flow downstream, as does Jared’s blood: joining, mingling, journeying as one with his Alice, over the rocks, beyond the bend, on and on and on.
Flow, my lovely Alice. Flow, he thinks.
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Last Men Standing: Lancashire Soldiers in the Wars in France
By Michael Bennett
Edited by Linda Clark, Peter Fleming
Book: The Fifteenth Century XVIII
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication: 20 November 2020, pp 151-164
In 1436 Duke Philip of Burgundy was advised by Hue de Lannoy that, after heavy expenditure and loss of life over twenty years, the entire community of the realm in England was so weary of the war that they had lost all hope in it. This appraisal appears in a preamble to proposals for Burgundian diplomatic initiatives in September, but it almost certainly informed the duke's decision earlier in the year to launch an attack on Calais. The English response to the siege of Calais, however, was neither lethargic nor half-hearted. In spring 1436 the government issued proclamations warning of the attack and preparing the ground for the mobilisation of the nation in defence of its honour and interests. When the siege began, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, was appointed to command the relief expedition and soon found himself at the head of the largest army assembled in England since 1385. Many lords and knights raised companies and Londoners volunteered for service. Although there are few surviving records of the men who served in 1436, it cannot be doubted that Lancashire was well represented. Sir John Radcliffe, a native of Lancashire, was sent ahead to organise the defence of Calais. By chance, too, it is known that Thomas Harrington, a Lancashire squire, raised, at his own expense, a company of six men-at-arms and 120 archers. Even before Gloucester's expedition crossed the Channel, the duke of Burgundy's Flemish army decided to abandon the siege. After disembarking in Calais, the expeditioners joined in the rout of the Flemings and the rapine in Flanders. In England the relief of Calais, along with the defeat of a Scots incursion, was celebrated as a great victory. In addition to triumphalist poems and ballads, a Latin poem crowed the nation's chauvinism: ‘England crushes realms, Burgundy buys dishonour / Fractured France trembles, conquered Scotland groans.’
While acknowledging the bombast in 1436, historians would probably agree with Lannoy's appraisal of English attitudes to the war. They have observed a decline in the readiness of the political nation to support the war through taxation, military service and even prayer. In explaining parliament's reluctance to fund the war in France, they have clarified the sheer intractability of the fiscal problem. The decline in participation by noble and gentle families between 1415 and 1450 has been documented in some detail.
An Epistemic Argument for an Egalitarian Public Sphere
Journal: Episteme , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2020, pp. 1-18
The public sphere should be regulated so the distribution of political speech does not correlate with the distribution of income or wealth. A public sphere where people can fund any political speech from their private holdings is epistemically defective. The argument has four steps. First, if political speech is unregulated, the rich predictably contribute a disproportionate share. Second, wealth tends to correlate with substantive political perspectives. Third, greater quantities of speech by the rich can “drown out” the speech of the poor, because of citizens’ limited attention span for politics. Finally, the normative problem with all this is that it reduces the diversity of arguments and evidence citizens become familiar with, reducing the quality of their political knowledge. The clearest implication of the argument is in favour of strict contribution limits and/or public funding for formal political campaigns, but it also has implications for more informal aspects of the public sphere.
Theatre & Knowledge. By David Kornhaber. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 78. £6.99/$17.99 Pb.
Michael Y. Bennett
Journal: Theatre Research International / Volume 45 / Issue 3 / October 2020
Implementation of Antibiotic Time Outs Using Quality Improvement Methodology
Zachary Willis, May-Britt Sten, Lindsay Daniels, Jonathan Juliano, Michael Swartwood, Ronald Davis, Donna Krzastek, Clare Mock, Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, David Jay Weber
Journal: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 41 / Issue S1 / October 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2020, pp. s275-s276
Background: Antibiotic time outs (ABTOs), formal reassessments of all new antimicrobial regimens by the care team, can optimize antimicrobial regimens, reducing antimicrobial overuse and potentially improving outcomes. Implementation of ABTOs is a substantial challenge. We used quality improvement methods to implement robust, meaningful, team-driven ABTOs in general medicine ward services. Methods: We identified and engaged stakeholders to serve as champions for the quality improvement initiative. On October 1, 2018, 2 internal medicine teaching services (services A and B), began conducting ABTOs on all patients admitted to their services receiving systemic antimicrobials for at least 36 hours. Eligible patients were usually identified by the team pharmacist. ABTOs were completed within 72 hours of antibiotic initiation and were documented in the electronic medical record (EMR) by providers using a template. The process was modified as necessary in response to feedback from frontline clinicians using plan-do-study-act (PDSA) methods. We subsequently spread the project to 2 additional internal medicine services (services C and D); 2 family medicine teams (services E and F); and 1 general pediatric service (service G). The project is ongoing. We collected data for the following metrics: (1) proportion of ABTO-eligible patients with an ABTO; (2) proportion of ABTOs conducted within the recommended time frame; (3) documented plan changes as a result of ABTO (eg, change IV antibiotics to PO); (4) proportion of documented plan changes actually completed within 24 hours. Results: Within 12 weeks, services A and B were successfully completing time outs in >80% of their patients. This target was consistently reached by services C, D, E, F, and G almost immediately following launch on those services. As of June 29, 2019, >80% of eligible patients across all participating services have had a time out conducted for 16 consecutive weeks. ABTOs have resulted in a change in management in 35% of cases, including IV-to-PO change in 19% of cases and discontinuation in 5%. Overall, 77% of time outs occurred during the 36–72-hour window. Ultimately, 95% of documented plan changes were completed within 24 hours. Conclusions: ABTOs are effective but implementation is challenging. We achieved high compliance with ABTOs without using electronic reminders. Our results suggest that ABTOs were impactful in the non–critical-care general medicine setting. Next steps include (1) development of EMR-based tools to facilitate identifying eligible patients and ABTO documentation; (2) continued spread through our health care system; and (3) analysis of ABTO impact using ABTO-unexposed patients as a control group.
Disclosures: None
Is hospitalization a risk factor for cognitive decline in older age adults?
Lucia Chinnappa-Quinn, Steve Robert Makkar, Michael Bennett, Ben C. P. Lam, Jessica W. Lo, Nicole A. Kochan, John D. Crawford, Perminder S. Sachdev
Journal: International Psychogeriatrics , First View
Many studies document cognitive decline following specific types of acute illness hospitalizations (AIH) such as surgery, critical care, or those complicated by delirium. However, cognitive decline may be a complication following all types of AIH. This systematic review will summarize longitudinal observational studies documenting cognitive changes following AIH in the majority admitted population and conduct meta-analysis (MA) to assess the quantitative effect of AIH on post-hospitalization cognitive decline (PHCD).
We followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Selection criteria were defined to identify studies of older age adults exposed to AIH with cognitive measures. 6566 titles were screened. 46 reports were reviewed qualitatively, of which seven contributed data to the MA. Risk of bias was assessed using the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale.
The qualitative review suggested increased cognitive decline following AIH, but several reports were particularly vulnerable to bias. Domain-specific outcomes following AIH included declines in memory and processing speed. Increasing age and the severity of illness were the most consistent risk factors for PHCD. PHCD was supported by MA of seven eligible studies with 41,453 participants (Cohen’s d = −0.25, 95% CI [−0.02, −0.49] I2 35%).
There is preliminary evidence that AIH exposure accelerates or triggers cognitive decline in the elderly patient. PHCD reported in specific contexts could be subsets of a larger phenomenon and caused by overlapping mechanisms. Future research must clarify the trajectory, clinical significance, and etiology of PHCD: a priority in the face of an aging population with increasing rates of both cognitive impairment and hospitalization.
Evaluation of an ensemble-based distance statistic for clustering MLST datasets using epidemiologically defined clusters of cyclosporiasis
Fernanda S. Nascimento, Joel Barratt, Katelyn Houghton, Mateusz Plucinski, Julia Kelley, Shannon Casillas, Carolyne (Cody) Bennett, Cathy Snider, Rashmi Tuladhar, Jenny Zhang, Brooke Clemons, Susan Madison-Antenucci, Alexis Russell, Elizabeth Cebelinski, Jisun Haan, Trisha Robinson, Michael J. Arrowood, Eldin Talundzic, Richard S. Bradbury, Yvonne Qvarnstrom
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 148 / 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2020, e172
Outbreaks of cyclosporiasis, a food-borne illness caused by the coccidian parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis have increased in the USA in recent years, with approximately 2300 laboratory-confirmed cases reported in 2018. Genotyping tools are needed to inform epidemiological investigations, yet genotyping Cyclospora has proven challenging due to its sexual reproductive cycle which produces complex infections characterized by high genetic heterogeneity. We used targeted amplicon deep sequencing and a recently described ensemble-based distance statistic that accommodates heterogeneous (mixed) genotypes and specimens with partial genotyping data, to genotype and cluster 648 C. cayetanensis samples submitted to CDC in 2018. The performance of the ensemble was assessed by comparing ensemble-identified genetic clusters to analogous clusters identified independently based on common food exposures. Using these epidemiologic clusters as a gold standard, the ensemble facilitated genetic clustering with 93.8% sensitivity and 99.7% specificity. Hence, we anticipate that this procedure will greatly complement epidemiologic investigations of cyclosporiasis.
5 - Vaccine Diaspora
Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania
Book: War Against Smallpox
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp 122-148
Chapter 5 explores the early spread of vaccination in continental Europe. If news of Jenner’s discovery quickly spread abroad, the delivery of vaccine in a viable state proved a major challenge. Diplomatic and medical networks explain its early arrival in Germany and Austria. From 1799, Dr De Carro made Vienna a major centre for the spread of the practice, with the samples sent to Lord Elgin in Istanbul seeding the practice in Greece. The British military build-up in the Mediterranean opened new channels for the dissemination of English cowpox. By vaccinating sailors aboard ship, Drs Marshall and Walker brought fresh vaccine to Gibraltar and Malta and Marshall established vaccination in Sicily and southern Italy early in 1801. Dr Sacco’s discovery of a local source of cowpox in cattle in Lombardy in late 1800 led to important trials and, over the following decade, an impressive vaccination programme in northern Italy. In the interstices of war in Europe, the practice developed as an international enterprise with several important new hubs.
3 - Good Tidings from the Farm
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp 65-93
Chapter 3 focuses on Jenner and the discovery of vaccination, specifically his translation of the vague notion that cowpox prevented smallpox into a more precise body of knowledge which could distinguish between varieties of cowpox and be the basis for the development of protocols for its effective use. Given the rarity of cowpox, his use of humanised cowpox (vaccine), propagated on children, was to prove critical to the success and viability of the practice. Publishing his findings in 1798, Jenner had to wait a year for his new mode of prophylaxis to gain acceptance. Initially, London-based physicians – Woodville conducting clinical trials and Pearson distributing vaccine – made much of the running. Jenner, however, reasserted his leadership in the field and made championship of vaccination his principal occupation. After considering reports on Jenner’s discovering of cowpox inoculation and making it available to the world, the British parliament granted him a premium in 1802. The Royal Jennerian Society was established in 1803 to promote and support the practice.
Preface and Acknowledgements
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp ix-xi
8 - Across the Pyrenees
Chapter 8 discusses the arrival of vaccination in Portugal and Spain. An early recipient of cowpox, Portugal proved barren ground until the Prince Regent promoted the practice. Given its long rejection of smallpox inoculation, Spain moved surprisingly rapidly to embrace the new prophylaxis, with the first vaccination at the end of 1800, with vaccine sent from Paris. During 1801, vaccination was established in Madrid and other major centres and there was a flurry of publications on the procedure, some original, others customised translations. Grandees patronised vaccination in the provinces and local initiatives led to good coverage in Barcelona and Navarra. In 1803, the Royal and Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition was organised to extend the practice through the Spanish empire, beginning in the Canary Islands. War and political upheaval frustrated measures to consolidate vaccination in Spain and Portugal, but the authorities, political and medical, and some communities retained their commitment to the practice.
9 - Romanovs and Vaktsinovs
Chapter 9 charts the fortunes of vaccination in the Russian empire. Emulating Catherine the Great’s patronage of inoculation, Dowager Empress Maria sponsored its introduction and establishment in the Foundling Houses in Moscow and St Petersburg in 1801. Early in 1802, Tsar Alexander commended the practice and supported a plan for a vaccine expedition through the empire, using children under vaccination to deliver vaccine from one district to the next. Projecting an image of paternalism and philanthropy, the expedition required local notables and medical men to assist in extending and embedding the practice. The Russian embassy to China in 1805–6 included a vaccination arm that helped to consolidate and further extend the practice in Siberia. By a variety of means, including promotional prints (lubki) addressed to the peasantry, pressure from the nobility and direct coercion in 1811, large numbers of vaccinations were achieved. The French invasion of Russia only briefly halted the progress of the practice. After the defeat of Napoleon, Tsar Alexander visited London, congratulating Jenner in person.
2 - Fire with Fire
Chapter 2 discusses smallpox inoculation (variolation) in the late eighteenth century. The development of a light form of the procedure, which reduced its risks and costs, made it increasingly familiar in Britain and the English-speaking world from the 1760s. The practice likewise gained new credit, as a calculated risk, in elite and enlightened circles in continental Europe. Rulers like Catherine the Great promoted the practice, recognising its potential value to the state as well as the individual. In England, the emergence of specialist inoculators seeking the commercial edge, the practice of ‘general inoculations’ in villages, and the public health risks of popular recourse to the practice in urban settings brought to light cases of individuals previously infected with cowpox being resistant to smallpox and provided the technology and incentive to explore the possible advantages of inoculating cowpox as a safe alternative. In the meantime, the rapid expansion of smallpox inoculation, not least in European colonies, provided a launching pad for the global spread of vaccination in the decade after 1800.
4 - National Mobilisation
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp 94-121
Chapter 4 discusses the expansion of vaccination in the British Isles during the Napoleonic Wars. The rapid extension of the practice from 1800, involving hundreds of thousands of people, represented a mobilisation of opinion and action that paralleled the mobilisation of the nation for war. Medical men took up vaccination with alacrity, seeking to make their name and serve their communities. Members of the aristocracy and gentry, with women often in the lead, accepted it in their families and supported it in their spheres of influence. Clergymen promoted it from the pulpit. Reckless practice led to adverse outcomes that encouraged anxieties about inoculating cowpox and provided ammunition for an anti-vaccination movement in London in 1805–7. Instructed to conduct an enquiry, the College of Physicians fully endorsed vaccination in 1807. After receiving the report, Parliament broke new ground in health provision by funding a National Vaccine Establishment to distribute vaccine and have oversight of the practice.
7 - The Guardian Pox in Northern Europe
Chapter 7 discusses the spread of vaccination in northern Europe. Familiarity with smallpox inoculation, its disadvantages as well as its advantages, assured a strong constituency of interest in the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia and a generally positive response to the potential of the new prophylaxis. Medical men in Germany, well-networked professionally, conducted trials of the new prophylaxis, rapidly achieved consensus as to its value and collaborated in extending it nationally. They invested culturally in vaccination, celebrating the ‘guardian pox’ in festivals and promoting a cult of Jenner. In the Netherlands, most German states and in the kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden, rulers acted on the advice of their physicians to endorse and support vaccination. Government officials and the clergy, Catholic as well as Lutheran, needed little prompting to assist in establishing it in their spheres of influence. Vaccination put down strong roots across northern Europe, becoming compulsory in Bavaria in 1805, Denmark in 1810–11 and Sweden in 1816.
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp v-vi
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp vii-vii
12 - A New Pox for the New World
Chapter 12 discusses the severity of smallpox in the New World and the use of smallpox inoculation to control smallpox in the West Indies and suppress epidemics in Spanish America. Early attempts to introduce cowpox in Jamaica and elsewhere led to disappointment, but local initiatives began to bear fruit prior to the arrival of the Spanish Royal and Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition in 1804. This well documented expedition, in which children under vaccination were escorted to go arm-to-arm with others along the way, naturally commands centre stage. Projecting an image of professional expertise and imperial benevolence, Dr Balmis and his assistants brought vaccination to Venezuela and helped to set the practice on a firmer organisational footing in Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico. In the meantime, Salvany, his deputy, headed south through Colombia and Peru, vaccinating on an epic scale. Although Lima was already supplied with vaccine from Brazil by way of Buenos Aires, Salvany continued his work in the remote districts of Peru until his death in 1810. His assistant, Grajales, remained in harness in Chile until 1812.
Print publication: 18 June 2020, pp viii-viii
13 - Oceanic Vaccine
Chapter 13 completes the study of vaccine’s encirclement of the globe by examining its introduction in Mauritius, Cape Colony and New South Wales in 1804, Indonesia in 1804–5 and the Philippines and Canton (Guangzhou) in 1805. The seeding of vaccination around the Indian Ocean, in the southern latitudes and around the South China Sea reveals a complex pattern of movements, with vaccine from India brought to Mauritius and Cape Town, with carefully packed cowpox sent directly from London to Sydney and with Mexican boys going arm-to-arm with Filipinos. The spread of vaccination around this vast region rarely led to continuity of practice, except in European enclaves, in Mauritius and parts of the Indonesia and the Philippines, where enslaved or subject populations were available to maintain the vaccine supply. Vaccination nonetheless saved lives, helped to suppress smallpox in gateway cities, laid foundations on which the practice could be rebuilt and extended and show-cased the benefits and costs of colonial medicine.
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total fat, calcium and sodium (2). The study, done by researchers at NPD Group, found that each of the last four years has shown a decline in commercial foodservice traffic among all people over the age of 18. 7th Century A.D.. – The earliest cookie-style cakes are thought to date back to 7th century Persia A.D. (now Iran), one of the first countries to cultivate sugar (luxurious cakes and pastries in large and small versions were well known in the Persian empire). By the time they’re 60 and over, however, that percentage plunges to 24.1%. Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest people, says he “eats like a 6-year-old,” meaning lots of Oreos and Cokes every day (he invests like one too). Most eaten types of ready-to-eat cookies in the U.S. 2020 Amount of ready-to-eat cookies eaten within 30 days in the U.S. 2020 Consumption of ready-to-eat cookies in the U.S. 2020 Young people ages 18 to 34 are most likely to spend more money on vacations than other age group. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European law that governs all collection and processing of personal data from individuals inside the EU.. This infographic from Bundle pinpoints what cities and states consume the most ice cream and frozen yogurt per capita. Luckily, we looked into the best chocolate chip cookie brands to see what's on the market that you'll love—and that people are already talking about. It's also found in a small number of foods including oily fish, eggs, margarine, yoghurt and fortified breakfast cereals. https://www.thespruceeats.com/alltime-favorite-cookie-recipes-304900 The National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) found that women in this age band fail to meet the recommended daily intake for several key nutrients, including calcium, folic acid and iron. 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For example, a home and garden website will typically have older users and a technology website will typically have more male users. Millennials – Demographics and Characteristics; Centennials – Newer Term. They have crisp edges, big chunks of melty chocolate, and a rich, toffee-like flavor thanks to brown butter. The survey of 1,000 Americans also revealed that 21 per cent of people say they eat upwards of 10 cookies per week, while 31 per cent of millennials say they love cookies more than alcohol. The only developing BRIC market in the top 20 is Russia, but it eats its fair share and on 5.9 kg per capita, the Russians ate more chocolate than the average American (5.5 kg) last year. As consumers age, they retire and eat at home more often. Poll finds that the average 16 to 24-year-old knows how to cook only four recipes. At least it's good for the nation's waistline… Our body makes most of our vitamin D in reaction to sunlight on our skin. So who eats the most ice cream in America? We've rounded up the most popular store-bought chocolate chip cookies and ranked them based on … It’s a good idea to have images representing your most important demographic in terms of volume and/or conversions. GDPR cookie consent in brief. Almost 10% of pizza consumption occurred at a … In Asia, chocolate hasn't traditionally been the sweet of choice, market analysis firm Euromonitor International reports. Learn how to make delicious meals that satisfy the whole family. WGB and BrandSpark collaborated for the third annual Most Trusted U.S. Food Retailers market study to identify the retailers that are capturing the highest affinity among shoppers from coast to coast. Ice cream consumption in Finland is estimated at 14.2 liters per capita annually. This age group can usually work independently in the kitchen. The point of gathering multiple focus group participants is to get as many different perspectives as possible. The percentage of senior adults over the age of 60 who will eat at least once slice of pizza today: less than 6%. The most populace nation to feature in the top 20 was the US followed by Russia, Germany and France. Thirty-three percent of polled millennials are willing to spend $5,000 or more on vacation. Published Wed, Sep 13 2017 11:31 AM EDT Updated Wed, … Age UK Advice Line 0800 678 1602. Every year, the average Swiss person eats just under 20 lbs of chocolate. Depending on the age group, pizza ranks as one of the top three leading contributors of sodium to the American diet (3,4). Conclusion I predict that 10-20 year old's will eat the Finland is known as a cold region, and most of the ice cream consumption takes place during the short summer. Make sure they have learned basic kitchen skills and moved on up on skill level … Free to call 8am – 7pm 365 days a year Find out more. For consumers of … Getting Started with Low-Fat Cooking Low-fat cooking doesn't have to skimp on flavor. 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Men's love of chocolate is on par with women's preference for the treat: A UK study by research group Mintel revealed 91% of all women admit to eating chocolate – with the men not far behind at more than 87%. Dallas came in second while the Philadelphia ranked third. Lactose is added to some boxed, canned, frozen, and prepared foods like bread, cereal, lunchmeats, salad dressings, mixes for cakes and cookies, and coffee creamers. However, people over the age of 65 are at risk of not getting enough … Young people spend more on takeaways than any other age group because they don't know how to cook. Dinner is the most popular time in the US to eat pizza. Cookies are small files which are stored on a user's computer. Please do not attempt this record unless you are above the age of 18 and trained as a professional speed eater. Nearly 45% of Americans age 20 to 39 eat fast food on any given day. Age 19-38 (in 2019) 27.48% of population 89 Million. 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Philomena Morrissey Satre Director of Diversity and Inclusion and External Strategic Partnerships, Land O'Lakes, Inc.
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Philomena serves as Director of Diversity & Inclusion and External Strategic Partnerships. She joined Land O’Lakes in June 2017, bringing more than 30 years of human resource experience in diversity and inclusion, community relations, work life and wellbeing. Before joining Land O’Lakes, she worked at Wells Fargo & Company. Her previous roles included VP of Organizational Effectiveness Development, Diversity and Inclusion; Community Outreach Consultant; and Senior HR Consultant.
Philomena has extensive experience in developing and implementing diversity strategies, including internal initiatives and community-focused pipelines. Previously, Philomena participated in a Middle East Fellows project, in partnership with Hamline University and the U.S. State Department, and traveled to the Middle East as a part of the peace and economic development project.
Philomena co leads the SHIFT Leadership Advisory Council and previously served on the Board of SHIFT (nonprofit focused on people in midlife). She serves on the AG D and I Consortium; and co-chairs the Twin Cities D&I Roundtable. Philomena was recently named to the Minnesota Aging Workforce Citizen Commission. She previously served on the Minneapolis Workforce Council, the Executive Leadership Council/Board of Directors for Honoring Women Worldwide, Goodwill Easter Seals, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES), Lifeworks, HIRED and Resource Inc. Advisory Boards. She also co led the 2020 Women on Boards initiative for Minnesota.
Philomena has received numerous awards, including AARP/Pollen 50 over 50, the Minneapolis Business Journal’s Woman Change Maker and Minority Advocate, Minnesota Business The (Real) Power 50 Award and the University of Phoenix Diversity Leadership Award. Philomena has an MA in Organizational Leadership from St. Catherine University and a BA in Public Administration and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin LaCrosse. Philomena is an Adjunct Professor at the University of St Catherine in the Master of Organizational Leadership Graduate Program.
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Daily Jive
Interesting findings in art, technology, culture, and the ever-astonishing strangeness of the human condition. Updated (mostly) daily for years and years and years from in and around Philadelphia, PA.
Canadians are A-OK in my book. They're like Americans, but with sense and long vowels. Ever get sucker punched by a Canadian? I didn't think so. They also made this cool skateboardish segway.
Onemansafari: a nice photoblog with old found pictures.
Given enough time, anything can be made available in kit form. Here's absinthe. The professionally made stuff is supposed to taste downright nasty. I can't imaging how the bagged-specimen variety goes down.
Hey Kids: Philly Rock! A couple of unreleased studio tracks my band Puddle recorded a whiiiiile ago (early '95).
Puddle - Instant.mp3
Puddle - SorryGuys.mp3
Chris on vocals+guitar, me on bass, and a really cool guy named Rob who I've lost touch with on drums.
Treewave is a couple of musicians who uses old 8-bit computers for their backing band.
"We use two C64s live that run synthesizer software off a custom cartridge I programmed. That piano keyboard overlay that you see is an original C64 accessory. Commodore's SID sound chip is similar to an analog synthesizer and even includes a real analog filter. My software has several sound settings and includes an LFO, portamento, and filter control using paddle controllers."
May Banners: mp3
Virtual Beer Goggles (Nature)
But scientists now say that whatever effect someone expects from alcohol can be produced by simple exposure to flashes of alcohol-related words on a computer screen.
University of California researchers calculate that in large urban areas, children riding in school buses with diesel engines collectively inhale more school bus exhaust than everyone else in the city combined. (NYTimes)
Call me cynical, but I'm watching for an administration-sponsored bill attempting to declare bus exhaust as a vegatable.
Mary appears in a freeway salt stain.
The Shouting Men of Finland (utterly perplexing video)
Today is pants day. I've chosen sides, and I'm anti this guy, who features nothing, and pro this guy, who features some cool amateur bigfoot sketches.
Underpants by way of Toast
I'm always amazed at what people try to represent graphically with /,_,\, and .
How'd I miss Blogshares? How the hell is the Jive flatlining like a beached whale?
The Deliberately Concealed Garments Project. What the?! (from the ever-astounding Bifurcated Rivets)
ePodunk.com: Get the facts on any jerkwater cow-crossing you can curse through yer crooked teeth.
Ice Cream Truck Sound System Tech. "Turkey in the Straw" in screaming 8-bit digital; Repeat. All. Day. Long. Mister Softee got sick of it long ago and wrote their own tune.
(kinda related: Popsicle battle)
uppers.org: Providing a mod angle on the contemporary world since 1997
[Put your Rock Foot Forward] When you've got a camera and front row tickets, you wind up with excellent photos of musicians feet. This gallery, comprising 20 years of A-List boots, proves it.
200 Free, DRM-less mp3 downloads from Amazon!
A free selection of 80's-00's punk and new wave videos available for download at ScreenEdge Music (no pops, bothers, or registration) (courtesy of RnYxR0)
The radical right seems to be inventing their own dictionary. When I first heard about the economic 'Bush Boom', I thought it was a lefty, sarcastic indictment of the worst economic handling in modern history, but it turns out the corporate GOP power-base believes we're living in a economic Eden. Paul Krugman (NYTimes) today on how when you're talking to your friends in the hammer business, there seems to be a big future in nails.
The story is very different for the great majority of Americans, who live off their wages, not dividends or capital gains, and aren't doing well at all. Over the past three years, wage and salary income grew less than in any other postwar recovery - less than a tenth as fast as profits. But wage-earning Americans aren't part of the base.
However, if you're not part of the 'base', and want to take advantage of government initiatives, this administration may penalize you for your endorsement habits.
At least four of the two dozen or so U.S. delegates selected forthe [Inter-American Telecom Commission] meeting, sources tell TIME, have been bumped by the White Housebecause they supported John Kerry's 2004 campaign.
There's another word for this: "bribery".
Some nice free fonts at Chank!
"Where the hell is Australia anyway?"- Britney Spears, Pop Singer
A long, entertaining list of stupid quotes.
[Processing programming language] (w/ free download)
Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an open-source alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain.
Check out the exhibition of sample programs (w/code). This is especially cool.
'K' Records' Calvin Johnson, and how his label managed to avoid the corporate ogre for 25 years. (PopMatters)
Often, when a band breaks up, songwriters will reach deep into their vaults in an attempt to scratch a few more bucks out of fans who never got enough. Robert Pollard, from Guided By Voices reached even deeper, and released an album of drunken stage banter. No music necessary.
You knew it was going to happen sooner or later (cnn). Now, apparently according to neofascist Republicans such as Tom Delay, the internet is a den of sin to be shunned by law and policy researchers. I wonder if Mr. Delay's outrage extends to such other atrocities of Christian thought as "books" and "academic research"? Approaching information published anywhere, the internet included, with a critical eye is certainly wise, but Delay's attack clearly goes beyond a "don't believe everything you read" warning. His message is clear: "modern" is "evil". Free information is heresy, and tools that can't be explicitly controlled by cash-wielding special interests and their administration pawns is a moral outrage. For all of their genuflecting to "freedom" as a partisan prop for ultraconservative submission, people like Mr. Delay often have a difficult time concealing their hatred of true freedom. Thank you again, Texas, for unleashing yet another villian on the rest of us.
"And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."
Popesquatter! http://www.benedictxvi.com
Time to get that benediction shopping cart online, Rog... There are legions of guilty Catholics out there with money to burn.
The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here": A brilliant article I received in email. Thom Hartmann compares today's corporate-interest fueled policy machine with classical fascism. (Common Dreams)
Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.
Emitt Rhodes still doesn’t know what hit him. Thirty years ago, he was the new Paul McCartney, an ambitious kid who craved the perfect pop song. Then he got blindsided into submission by the heartless business of music. Now he’s just another sad guy with a boatload of talent that got buried in a black hole of depression.
6 Live Bloc Party radio sessions.
Listen to Beck's new album "Guero" (legal, streaming, entire album, NME)
(requires a reg. to Universal. they may spam you)
Kiddie Records Weekly Great Kids-themed vinyl archive
For the entire 2005 year, Basic Hip Digital Oddio will be featuring weekly stories and songs from the golden age of children's records, a period which ran from the mid 1940s into the early 1950s. This era produced a wealth of classics, headed by Capitol's Record-Readers and the RCA Victor Little Nipper series. Each one of these recordings has been carefully transferred from the original 78s (plus a few 45s) and encoded to MP3 format for you to download and enjoy.
Keroac poetry mp3s
One Brief, Scuzzy Moment - The East Villiage Art Scene in the mid 80's
Get a jump on the new White Stripes album with their first single "Blue Orchid".
A collection of Olivia Tremor Control Live, Demo, and boot recordings.
Punk Rock Picture Sleeves
As long as the music industry stays stocked with complete idiots, they'll never, ever get it. Now they're pissed off at Apple for daring to run a profitable business model with iTunes/iPod. For the past decade they've been walking around with huge targets on their heads screaming 'Pay the Middleman': just the kind of thing that technology was designed to irradicate. They can't go away soon enough.
These fundy maniacs are getting bothersome. Now they're planning an overt faith-based attack on Dems. Isn't it time to start fighting fire with fire? Why are Democrats so meek when it comes to self-defense? (NYtimes, pwd reqd)
Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.
P2P traffic is causing a global bandwidth shortage with estimates of 60-80% of packets going to swapping. Impressive.
If scientific papers sound like random techno-babble, it may be because that's exactly what they are. Two MIT students got a randomly generated piece of nonsense excepted for presentation at the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
Whoops! U.S. Corporations may have inadvertantly released a deadly flu strain.
Beans Around the World (as in a single can of globetrotting beans)
These people travel the world with a can of beans and take pictures of it at various points of interest (and non-interest)
These beans have been more places than you.
Don't get me wrong... I'm all for artistic freedom. Still, these guys had to expect that the SS would show up with notepads.
I just saw something really strange - a snow white whale swimming up the Delaware river between Trenton, NJ and Morrisville PA. It was identified as a Beluga, which is even more strange, given its Arctic habitat. First spotted in the early afternoon, it's been swimming around the same area all day. I saw it at 7, and it came up several times for a really nice view.
Found a mention here.
A Realistic Assessment of How Many 12 Year Olds I could Beat Up Before They Overtook Me (McSweeneys)
Which online music service is best? (ExtremeTech)
Intrade lets you bet on pretty much anything, including papacy elections (Italy enjoys a huge lead), the American Idol winner, Olympic hosting (Paris out front), or even the weather.
In the pope-a-thon, speculation is so intense that some watchers are attempting to gain unfair advantage in predicting the outcome.
A spy could import a listening device, or even signal people outside the Vatican by a color-coded message. Atkinson suggested using colored smoke or by flushing dye down a toilet with a discharge pipe that could be monitored elsewhere.
"Are they going to search all the cardinals to see whether someone bugged their spectacles or crucifixes?" asked Giles Ebbut, a surveillance expert with the London consultancy Jane's. "The imagination can run riot."
Jeffords: The war was about oil. Iran is teed up next.
Mother Jones has a deeper analysis.
"So, even while publicly focusing on Iran's weapons of mass destruction, key administration figures are certainly thinking in geopolitical terms about Iran's role in the global energy equation and its capacity to obstruct the global flow of petroleum. As was the case with Iraq, the White House is determined to eliminate this threat once and for all. And so, while oil may not be the administration's sole reason for going to war with Iran, it is an essential factor in the overall strategic calculation that makes war likely."
Scientists are seeking the elusive 'Moho'. Hey, who isn't?
XBox2 is going to be announced May 12.
The Pitchman, Ron Popeil (New Yorker, a few years old, but a good read)
The Pope's CIA files
Large pen spinning video collection. Can't remember if I linked this before, but it's worth checking out again. I'm working on the leigun, which would probably be most useful in a pinch.
"The Democrats invented the game, and Republicans perfected it."
Mother Jones on pork and special interest pandering
"The corporate income tax bears no relation to income—it's a bunch of special-interest provisions," says Gary Hufbauer, a fellow at the Institute for International Economics and a former tax policy analyst in the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. Corporate America, he says, has gotten the message: Taxation is little more than punishment for not promoting your interests on Capitol Hill. "If you do not lobby," says Hufbauer, "you are going to get taxed."
Sony patent looks to real-life Matrix (NewScientist) Yahoo on the same.
[Cynicism-a-Go-Go!] Project Censored 2005: The top censored stories.
More jive from the Christian Taliban under the auspices of the "Constitution Restoration Act" which is anything but. (from znet)
In the worshipful words of the Conservative Caucus, this historic legislation will "RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTION!", mainly by barring ANY federal court or judge from ever again reviewing "any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an entity of Federal, State, or local government, or against an officer or agent of Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official or personal capacity), concerning that entity's, officer's, or agent's acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government."
In other words, the bill ensures that God's divine word (and our infallible leaders' interpretation thereof) will hereafter trump all our pathetic democratic notions about freedom, law and rights -- and our courts can't say a thing. This, of course, will take "In God We Trust" to an entirely new level, because soon He (and His personally anointed political elite) will be all the legal recourse we have left.
The Republican fraud machine is in high gear this spring, mailing tens of thousands of "Physician of the Year" award solicitations to doctors who write checks for $1250 to the Republican National Committiee. Republicans confer this award with no assessment of work quality, no peer review, no patient, association, or community feedback. It is not buttressed by adherance to any empirical standard of treatment effectiveness whatsoever. It's simply bought.
In addition to the obvious ethical breach, and betrays patient trust by implying a standard of care that's entirely undeserved. Solicitations are distributed by the U.S. Postal Service, so it's quite possibly mail fraud as well.
"To actually buy your award and it's not from your peers or from your patients or from the community that you serve, it's really deceptive," said Mueller, author of "As Sick As It Gets: The Shocking Reality of America's Healthcare, A Diagnosis and Treatment Plan." "It's not being honest, it's just not right."
To see what the award process was all about, Mueller sent in his $1,250 contribution and ABC News paid for his travel to Washington for the scheduled events March 14-15, which included a tax-reform workshop as well as appearances by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and President Bush.
I wonder if they'll get "Hannitized" for outright dishonesty and breach of patient trust?
"It's like the old diploma mills," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a government watchdog group. "It's the kind of scam that we've seen congressional investigations look at when they take place in the private sector. But here, since members of Congress are doing it, we're not going to see any investigation."
Swiss Watchers (Guardian, UK) Defending the pope til death. If you want to be a member of the Swiss Guard, here's what you've need. Joining a Faction is encouraged. (from vaticanengarde)
[We're the RIAA and you're wrong] If you had fun getting lectured on morality by the GOP over the past few years, you're going to love what's coming up next: Free Ethics 101 courtesy of the music industry!
The World is Flat (NYTimes)
[Good help is getting hard to find] Watch as this inept waiter screws up Pat Buchannan's salad order. It also appears that no ground pepper was offered. (vid)
The curious case of Sidd Finch (NYTimes)
The original article (1985) is here.
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A rare, San Diego native, Jim graduated from California Western School of Law in 1995, where he was honored to serve as a senior editor on law review. He graduated from San Diego State University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in business with an emphasis in accounting. Jim loves teaching, coaching and mentoring, and has been blessed to have many opportunities to put those skills to good use both inside of and outside of his law practice.
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