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Home » Brownies: The Antique Brownie Camera Value and History
Brownies: The Antique Brownie Camera Value and History
Old Brownie Camera Worth and History: The previous century smartphone camera for sale.
The term brownie is often used to refer to that popular, simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak. This was the authentic smartphone of the previous century with respect to photography capability. The unique feature of this camera is that it was not expensive and therefore it could be bought for most population. In addition, it had the unique capability that introduced the new concept of the snapshot. The History of the Brownies is long since the first model was presented in February 1900. That first model was very simple since it only consisted of a cardboard box camera, which contained a meniscus lens that took 2¼-inch square pictures on 117 rollfilm. The usage was very simple and people could learn very fast to use it. The price was only $1 so it could be available to most of families. Definitely, it is easy to imagine that the Brownie was our current smart phones for making selfies and photography but with much more glamour of course! In some sense the old brownies were also “smart” because the slogan was: “You push the button, we do the rest.”
French Ad on Brownie Camera
There was no other camera which was so spread, bought and iconic in the history. Tens of millions were made and were operatives. It is therefore no surprising that so they are easy to find and buy even today. However, there are also companies that sell newly constructed models of brownies cameras using modern materials and textures but keeping the old style technology, colors and design.
Enligh ad on EastMan Kodak Brownie Camera
The first camera was refereed as brownies because of the popular Palmer Cox cartoons. Promptly, and perhaps more than expected, consumers responded, and over 150,000 Brownie cameras were shipped in the first year of production !. This is an amazing number for the production rates of that era. Soon, an improved model, called No. 2 Brownie came in 1901, which produced larger photos. Of course the price increased a bit since it had better features, but it costed still only $2 and it was very popular too.
brownie cameras were also purchased by women as an independence symbol showing that a new era was coming.
One of the markets targeted by the brownie cameras were the family and children. Parents wanted to have memories of their children and these cameras were the first technology that allowed them to do so. Of course, they were also taken to war by soldiers, which is the inspiration of this article and topic for our website remorika.com. Indeed, many important iconic shots were taken on using brownie cameras. These brownies became part of our present history.
Iconic Photography taken in Iwo Jima with a Brownie Camera.
In 1930s, the cameras continued to be popular, and spawned many different models, types and variants, such as a Boy Scout edition. Improvements continued, such as in 1940, when Kodak released the Six-20 Flash Brownie.The camera was Kodak’s first internally synchronized flash camera, using General electric bulbs. Then in 1957, Kodak produced the Brownie Starflash, Kodak’s first camera with a built in flash.
Ladies were one of the targets of the Brownie camera marketing campaigns.
Millions of the probably most popular Brownie 127 camera were sold between 1952 and 1967. The Brownie 127 was a simple bakelite camera for 127 film. Another simple camera was the Brownie Cresta which was sold between 1955 and 1958. It used 120 film and had a fixed-focus lens.Accoding to some reports, the last official Brownie cameras made were “anniversary model”, 110 film models in the early 1980s.
Associating a theoretically complex artifact with a woman at that time was a symbol of simple way of using it.
Some models that can still be bought with relatively low price are this Vintage Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera. This camera is in good condition. The shutter functions properly and the lens is clean and clear. The camera opens and closes smoothly. The camera could use a light cleaning.
Or for example, this Vintage Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash TLE Camera With Flash.
More unique models are this Hanging Antique Kodak brownie camera clock, photographer photo collector recycled upcycled.
Choosing an example from the 19502, we have this Kodak Eastman, Brownie Bulls-Eye 1950s Antique Camera. Kodak Brownie Bulls-Eye camera in nice condition for its age from 1950s. Shows a mild amount of usage wear with minor scratches on camera body. There is a small crack on the side, also a number code is sketched in the back of the camera – see photos. All the photos are of the camera being for sale.
Let’s take vintage photo again with WWII flavor
Another examples of cheap brownies camera available:
Kodak Brownie Baby Special Bakelite Camera
Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash [Antique]
Vintage Collectable Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera
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Home › in thenews › Business news › Most savers on course for retirement
Almost three in five people in the UK believe they are saving enough for a comfortable retirement, according to research.
Scottish Widows' annual retirement report showed 59% of 5,036 adults are on course to maintain their standard of living when they retire, up from 55% in 2018.
The research indicates that the latest increase in minimum contributions into a workplace pension through auto-enrolment have been well received by employees.
In April 2019, employees earning more than £10,000 a year and over the age of 22 saw their minimum contributions rise to 5%, while minimum employer contributions rose to 3%.
Scottish Widows believes contributions of at least 12% of an individual's income would be enough to fund what it considers to be a comfortable retirement.
Despite the generally positive findings, 22% of respondents expect they will never be able to retire, prompting Scottish Widows to call for further action.
Peter Glancy, head of policy at Scottish Widows, said:
"With no further step-ups in auto-enrolment contributions planned, bold action must be taken to ensure no one has to face the spectre of poverty in their later years.
"While the past 15 years have proved that things have changed for the better, auto-enrolment alone won't avert a pension crisis in the UK.
"Government and industry need to take the next step together."
Talk to us about retirement planning.
Over-65s face social care timebomb
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Plot Points
105: What Do We Read? An AMA
Plot Points has been discussing role-playing games as literature since 2013. The podcast takes a deep dive on the influences, origins, joys, and meaning of tabletop role-playing games. The Plot Points gang talks about new releases, old gems, and speaks with the most influential and exciting creators in the tabletop role-playing game space.
Find a cool new game, discover a strategy for your home group, or learn a fresh take on the theory of role-playing.
This week, the Plot Points crew lets YOU decide what we talk about! Sarah, Brad, & Ben chew over our favorite wrestler, books we would recommend, and read aloud some listener mail!
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Audio courtesy of 50 Breaks!
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Plot Points is a monthly podcast in which a rascally crew of geeks, nerds, and other scoundrels gets together to discuss role-playing games, their supplements, and adventures as written. Meet Our Crew Ben Riggs is a writer, gamer, and educational professional. He has lived in four countries on three continents, and reads more than is good for him.
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GN 03960.001: Overview of Administrative Review Under the Fee Agreement Process
Social Security Act §§206(a) and 1631(d)(2); and § 413(b) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act.
GN 03960.001 Overview of Administrative Review Under the Fee Agreement Process
This subchapter describes administrative review under the fee agreement process. (See also GN 03910.001 for a general overview of representation and representative's fees.)
B. Policy
When a claimant or representative disagrees with the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) determination disapproving a fee agreement, he/she may protest that determination by requesting an administrative review. When a claimant, affected auxiliary beneficiary, representative, or decision maker disagrees with SSA's fee determination, he/she may protest that determination by requesting an administrative review.
1. Issues on Review - Fee Agreement Process
Unlike administrative review under the fee petition process, administrative review under the fee agreement process in §206(a)(2) and (3) of the Social Security Act (the Act), as amended, may involve two distinct issues: the review of a determination disapproving the fee agreement; and the review of the amount of the fee determined under the fee agreement.
Therefore, in some instances, a party could file two requests for administrative review:
* the first when he/she received notice of the decision maker's disapproval of the fee agreement; and
* the second when SSA had reversed the disapproval of the fee agreement, authorized the amount of the fee under the agreement, and the party objects to the fee amount authorized.
2. Finality of Determination
Like the fee petition process, SSA's determination on administrative review under the fee agreement process is final and binding.
3. Other Differences
Administrative review under the fee agreement process also differs from administrative review under the fee petition process as follows:
* The party requesting administrative review must do so within 15 days of receiving the notice of the determination disapproving the fee agreement or authorizing the amount of the fee. (Under the fee petition process, the party requesting administrative review must do so within 30 days after the date of the notice of the fee authorization.)
* The decision maker (see D.4. below) may:
* request administrative review of the amount of the fee under the agreement;
* comment on another party's request for administrative review and, therefore, SSA must afford the decision maker the opportunity to do so; and
* conduct an administrative review requested by the claimant, an affected auxiliary beneficiary, or the representative, if SSA favorably decided the claim at the hearing or Appeals Council review level and the issue for review is the amount of the fee under the agreement.
EXAMPLE: The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) who made the favorable hearing decision may conduct administrative review of the fee amount based on a request filed by the claimant.
C. Process
1. Steps or Stages
Whether the issue is the disapproval of the fee agreement or the amount of the fee, administrative review under the fee agreement process generally involves the same procedural steps and stages that GN 03950.001C. describes for administrative review under the fee petition process. These are:
* Acknowledging receipt.
* Notifying the processing center (PC) of the request in cases under title II of the Act involving an attorney representative, to prevent premature release of past-due benefits withheld for possible direct payment.
* Examining the request and the file to establish authority to conduct review and timely filing by a proper party.
* Informing the parties and providing them an opportunity to comment.
* Reviewing the initial determination.
* Notifying the requester and the parties of the determination on administrative review.
As under the fee petition process, these stages generally follow in sequence. However, sometimes SSA may not make a determination on administrative review, e.g., when an improper party requested review. Sometimes the stages can overlap, e.g., the reviewer acknowledges receipt; requests an explanation of good cause for late filing; and, at the same time, informs the other parties of the request for administrative review.
2. FO Responsibility
Field Offices (FOs) do not conduct administrative review under the fee agreement process. FO responsibilities in the process involve the following:
* Acknowledging receipt of, and routing, any requests for administrative review that the FO may receive (GN 03960.015).
* Providing information about title XVI cases, including the computation of the past-due benefits amount (GN 03960.043, GN 03960.045, and GN 03960.047).
* Taking postreview actions in title XVI cases (GN 03960.065).
* Responding to inquiries from claimants, auxiliary beneficiaries, and representatives.
However, a FO decision maker may request administrative review of the amount of the fee under an approved agreement (GN 03960.010B.2. and C.). The FO decision maker also may comment on another party's request if it concerns the fee amount.
D. Definitions
1. Affected Auxiliary Beneficiary
An affected auxiliary beneficiary is a beneficiary, in a life or death case, who has benefited from the representative's services to the claimant who appointed the representative. References to the “affected auxiliary beneficiary” as a party include any person authorized to act on the beneficiary's behalf, e.g., parent, legal guardian, or representative payee.
2. Attorney
An attorney is an individual in good standing who is admitted to practice law before a court of a State, Territory, District, or island possession of the United States or before the Supreme Court or a lower Federal court of the United States.
3. Claimant
A claimant is any individual whose asserted rights under titles II, XVI, or XVIII of the Act are, or may be, affected by an SSA determination or decision. As used throughout this subchapter, the term includes a beneficiary. References to the “claimant” as a party include any person authorized to act on the claimant's behalf, e.g., parent, legal guardian, or representative payee.
4. Decision Maker
The decision maker is the person who has responsibility for adjudicating the claim or post-entitlement or post-eligibility action at a given level of the administrative review process, e.g., claims representative (CR), claims authorizer (CA), ALJ, or Administrative Appeals Judge (AAJ).
5. Disapproval of the Fee Agreement
Disapproval of the fee agreement means that SSA will not use the agreement between the claimant and the representative to determine a fee under §206(a) of the Social Security Act.
6. Fee Agreement
A fee agreement is a written statement signed by the claimant and his /her appointed representative specifying the fee the representative expects to charge and collect, and the claimant expects to pay, for services the representative provides in pursuing the claimant's benefit rights in proceedings before SSA. A fee agreement submitted to SSA must be considered for approval under the fee agreement process throughout the administrative review process.
7. Notice of the Disapproval of the Fee Agreement
Notice of disapproval of the fee agreement or “disapproval notice” means:
a. Favorable Decision Below the Hearing Level
* In title II cases, the Notice of Award or postentitlement notice that SSA sends to the claimant, with a copy to the representative, explaining why the decision maker disapproved the fee agreement.
* In title XVI cases, the Fee Agreement Notice on Form SSA-L8165-U2 (SSI Important Information) that SSA sends to the claimant, with a copy to the representative, explaining why the decision maker disapproved the fee agreement.
b. Favorable Decision At or Above the Hearing Level - All Cases
* the Form HA-515-U6 (Order) that the ALJ, Regional Chief ALJ, Deputy Chief ALJ, or Chief ALJ sends to the claimant, with a copy to the representative, explaining why he/she disapproved the fee agreement; or
* the Form HA-517 (Order of the Appeals Council) that the AAJ, or Deputy Chair or Chair of the Appeals Council sends to the claimant, with a copy to the representative, explaining why he/she disapproved the fee agreement.
8. Notice of the Fee Determination
Notice of the fee determination means:
* In title II cases, the award or postentitlement notice stating the amount of the fee that SSA authorizes the representative to charge and collect under the fee agreement process.
* In title XVI cases, the Fee Agreement Notice on Form SSA-L8165-U2 (SSI Important Information), stating the amount of the fee that SSA authorizes the representative to charge and collect under the fee agreement process.
9. Non-requester
A non-requester is a person who is a party to the determination, but who did not request administrative review of the disapproval or the amount of the fee authorized under the fee agreement process.
10. Representative
A representative is an individual who meets the qualifications shown in GN 03910.020B.1. and 2., and whom the claimant appoints.
11. Requester
A requester is the person who requested administrative review of the disapproval or amount of the fee authorized under the fee agreement process.
12. Reviewer
A reviewer is the SSA reviewing official who has been delegated authority to conduct administrative review. “PC reviewer” refers to a non-Office of Hearings and Appeals (ODAR) reviewing official.
A reviewer is the SSA reviewing official who has been delegated authority to conduct administrative review. “PC reviewer” refers to a below hearing level reviewing official.
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Tag: The Romantics
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A milestone, of sorts: This week, as we reach the midway point of Disc 4 of this seven-disc box set, we’re at the official halfway mark...
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Teen rock acts bridged the teen pop and Avril Lavigne eras. Despite a large corporate push, all-girl Canadian band Lillix failed to catch...
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John Cleese: 'I'm Not Afraid Of Death. Most Of The Best People Are Dead'
The always hilarious John Cleese talks about his old age and why he's not afraid of dying.
"I"m not afraid of death. I was thinking about it a lot, because you do as you get older, and most of the best people are dead," said the 77-year-old.
"And there are an awful lot of awful people still alive. And most of them are in charge. No names, no names."
Cleese then jokes that his latest gig is "some of the easiest money I've ever made."
John Cleese and Eric Idle Sing New Song 'F--k Selfies' For Conan
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John Cleese and Seth Meyers Do Local News Promos Together
John Cleese Remembers Monty Python's 'Dead Parrot' Sketch With Meyers
John Cleese: Sarah Palin Is Like A Nice Looking Parrot
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SK Hynix is the first in the industry to present memory chip LPDDR4X DRAM 8 GB
In October, Samsung started producing the industry’s first memory chips LPDDR4 DRAM 8 GB, intended primarily for mobile devices.
Now the company SK Hynix first began to produce memory chips LPDDR4X DRAM of the same capacity. The chip includes four crystal density of 16 GB.
This memory operates at a voltage of just 0.6 V vs 1.1 V from LPDDR4, which significantly reduces the power consumption of the chips. When connecting to 64-razagnal the memory bus data throughput reaches up to 34.1 GB/s. Also these chips are allocated the smallest in the segment of buildings, the size of 12 x 12.7 mm with a thickness less than 1 mm. the Company notes that the chip will be used not only in smartphones and tablets, but also laptops upper price segment and automotive electronics.
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Q: With Racism being such a hot issue in 2015, how has The Potter’s House worked to promote unity and bring healing and support?
On the broader stage, we partnered with Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church, and James Robison of LIFE Outreach International to launch the inaugural “Reconciled Church” on Dr. Q: Given the legacy of African Americans and the contributions they’ve made to this country, who in your family was a legacy maker and how have they influenced your life? The fact that my father built a prosperous business in a town that was less than five percent black and that my mother could dream of becoming a teacher when in a generation prior it was illegal for blacks to even learn to read and write is a testament to their faith, tenacity and strength of their will. Q: With this also being the month of Valentine’s Day, what message of love do you like to inspire The Potter’s House with? Have a dozen roses sent to your office so that you aren’t the only one with an empty desk on that Friday before the big day. Go to church and then a movie so that you have a schedule to keep and you’re not alone with nothing to do.
Give out of your need for companionship – there’s no shortage of lonely shut-ins, widows and orphans who would appreciate a visit. Do something for someone else, babysit for a single mother, cook a meal or walk the dog for an aging neighbor, etc. Q: Why are you so passionate about TORI and helping ex-offenders successfully re-enter society?
A: At my core, I have a passion to help people reach their destiny or their God-given purpose in life.
In 2000, she got married, bought her first home in Cedar Hill, TX, and began right away starting a family.
She was arrested, held on a $200,000 bond and initially charged with injury to a child; a 2nd degree felony.
Simultaneously, in lockup, she was separated from population and put in a single cell where she was confined 23 hours a day, until she was released on a $50,000 bond. After one year of sobriety, on the one year anniversary of her son’s death, she was contemplating suicide. About DaystarDaystar Television Network is an award winning, faith-based network dedicated to spreading the Gospel 24 hours a day, seven days a week – all around the globe, through all media formats possible. What has it meant to you to have been such a vital part of the Daystar family all these years? From this ministry, many who were released from prison, came to our church, The Potters House, thinking it was a transitional housing facility built for them upon return.
TORI has taught me that even when a person has the tools to succeed, without faith, life becomes a losing battle. Many of our clients don’t just lack opportunity, but they need deliverance from an old lifestyle and exposure to a new way of life. The story went viral, traveling all over the world; on every news and radio station, the internet, CNN, and even Nancy Grace.
After release, she was shocked to find that her home had been burglarized, her boys had been taken by CPS and placed in her parents’ home, and she subsequently, had no place to go. Although we didn’t offer that through our church, we saw the overwhelming need and I tasked our lay professional volunteers to come to the table and help me create a strategy to meet their needs. In 2005, we opened the doors of the TORI program in the community and started to serve any person with a criminal background that was needing assistance in reintegrating back into the community.
Hearing their stories, keeps me grounded and non-judgmental, because their lives remind me that we are not defined by our past, we are called for more! Those services included anything from housing, employment, education, spiritual guidance, family reunification, and healthcare issues.
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Poland-Denmark, 2013, 80′, black and white
Director - Pawel Pawlikowski
Script - Pawel Pawlikowski
Camera - Ryszard Lenczewski, Lukasz Zal
Cast - Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Joanna Kulig, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski, Jerzy Trela
Producers - Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol, Ewa Puszczynska
Production - Opus Film, Phoenix Film Investments
Filmed in incandescent black-and-white, with each frame exquisitely composed, UK-based director Pawel Pawlikowski’s (My Summer of Love, Last Resort) new film is an elegy for his homeland and an intimate, poetic exploration of the limits of faith. Orphaned during WWII, Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) was brought up in a rural convent and in early 60s Poland is a young novice preparing to take her vows. When she decides to make contact with her last remaining relative, she meets her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a free-living intellectual working as a judge and secretly annihilating painful memories with a heady mix of sex and booze. Their encounter lifts the shroud off the dark secret of their family’s past and both women must confront the devastating truth. Both actresses are superb and reveal much with what they do not show, but this pure and haunting concept is also true of the film’s cogent and profoundly moving narrative.
Clare Stewart, BFI London Film Festival
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -
Camerimage’13 – Golden Frog for Best Cinematography Gijón IFF’13 – Best Actress (Agata Kulesza), Best Screenplay, Gil Parrondo Award for Best Production Design, Grand Prix Asturias for Best Film London’13 – Best Film Gdynia’13 – Best Cinematography Toronto’13 – International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI) Special Presentations Warsaw’13 – Ecumenical Jury Award, Grand Prix
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Pawel Pawlikowski was born in Poland but has been a British resident since the 1970s. He has directed documentaries for the BBC. His award-winning documentary Tripping with Zhirinovsky (1995) was the inspiration for his first feature film, The Stringer (1998), which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. His second feature, Last Resort, won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature at Edinburgh and was nominated for European Discovery of the Year. His film My Summer of Love (2004) won many awards, including the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards and an Eagle for Best European Film. His latest film Ida premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
1991 From Moscow to Pietushki – TV doc.
1991 Dostoevsky's Travels – doc.
1992 Serbian Epics – doc.
1995 Tripping with Zhirinovsky – TV doc.
1998 The Stringer
1998 Twockers – doc./short
2000 Last Resort
2004 My Summer of Love
2011 The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème)
2013 Ida
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Category Archives: Fantasy Football
Dalvin Cook Fantasy: Should You Start or Sit the Vikings RB in Week 9?
Category : DFS , Fantasy Football , Minnesota Vikings , NFL , Sports , Vikings
If you’re a fantasy football owner of Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook, it’s been a tough season thus far. Unfortunately for the second-year running back who flashed tremendous upside last season, he’s been unable to get fully healthy and stay on the field. But with a crucial Week 9 divisional matchup against the Detroit Lions ahead, it seems Cook may have a real chance to return to action.
Although the 23-year-old has missed the last four games, a positive outlook was provided Friday morning. NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport joined Good Morning Football and spoke about the Vikings running back and his potential to return this week.
“My understanding is that Dalvin Cook is nearing a return to the field. We’ll have to see how he makes it through practice today, on Friday, the last big-time practice of the week. But it is trending in that direction that Dalvin Cook actually could for real, seriously, I’m not joking this time, be on the field for the Vikings.” Rapoport told Good Morning Football.
“It’s been on again off again several times, remember he returned for the Thursday night game, re-injured his hamstring, we thought he was going to play a couple weeks ago but was not able to go. They do have the bye after this week, so if they want to be cautious they could do that, but it really does seem like Dalvin Cook has a legitimate and real chance to play this Sunday.”
So the big question becomes, if the Vikings running back is out there this Sunday, how should fantasy football owners approach the situation? We’ve seen Cook suffer setbacks and even struggle at times this year, so let’s break down the start-sit debate around the young back.
Should You Start or Sit Dalvin Cook in Week 9?
Obviously, this entire conversation comes down to Cook being active for the game, which seems likely at this point. Things can change quickly, but for the time being he’s trending upwards and that’s a good sign. As far as the Vikings game against the Lions goes, that’s a big part of what makes this debate even more interesting.
On the season, the Lions have struggled mightily against opposing running backs. They’ve given up 959 rushing yards on 173 carries (5.5 yards per carry) along with 34 receptions for 305 yards and seven combined touchdowns. It’s hard to make an argument that Cook doesn’t make sense as at least a name to take a chance on in the bulk of fantasy leagues.
The big concern comes down to his production. Cook has 36 carries in three games for just 98 yards (2.7 yards per carry) while catching nine passes for 107 yards. Considering he has dealt with injuries, I don’t believe the Vikings would put Cook back on the field one week ahead of their bye unless he was nearly 100 percent healthy. In turn, he makes sense as a potential fantasy option this week.
As Ben Goessling of the Star Tribune revealed, the Vikings do plan to play Cook, but he will be on a limited snap count.
Sources have said the Vikings plan to play Dalvin Cook on a limited snap count Sunday. They went into the Cardinals game with a similar plan, before Cook’s hamstring wasn’t feeling good that Sunday. He was on the practice field again Friday, though, and the hope is he’ll play.
— Ben Goessling (@GoesslingStrib) November 2, 2018
I’d tread lightly with using Cook, but do believe with the six teams on bye this week that he’s a potential flex play in 12-team leagues and a RB2/flex option in larger leagues. The latest news that Cook will be on a snap count is somewhat concerning, but I do still believe he warrants flex consideration based on the number of bye weeks.
It would also be incredibly wise to monitor the Vikings running back’s status ahead of the game. There doesn’t seem to be much of a chance of a setback here, but any updates from pregame warmups Sunday could be worth considering.
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Lamar Miller Fantasy: Should You Start or Sit the Texans RB in Week 6?
Category : DFS , Fantasy Football , Houston Texans , NFL , Sports , Texans
The Houston Texans left fantasy football owners in a tough spot last Sunday ahead of their Week 5 matchup with the Dallas Cowboys. Running back Lamar Miller seemed unlikely to play for much of the day, but slightly before kickoff, it was revealed he would be active for the game.
Fortunately for fantasy owners who stayed away due to his chest injury, Miller wound up acting as the emergency back for the offense, handing the starting gig over to Alfred Blue. But heading into Week 6, Miller has gotten in a full practice and looks like he’ll be good to go for a game against the Buffalo Bills.
Although the Texans’ lead back is expected to return to game action, it still may not make him a strong starter in many fantasy leagues.
Gauging Lamar Miller’s Week 6 Fantasy Value
It’s been a fairly disappointing season to this point for Miller, largely due to the fact that the Houston offense is centered around Deshaun Watson. After seeing 20 rushing attempts and totaling 98 yards in Week 1, he’s posted stat lines that have been mediocre at best.
Miller totaled just 70 combined yards in Week 2 and had a horrible next two games, rushing 24 total times for 59 yards from Weeks 3-4. Fantasy owners were saved a bit in Week 3 thanks to the 27-year-old catching five passes and finding the end zone on one of them.
The real concern here comes from the fact that Miller began losing work to Blue, who’s proven his value as a pass-catcher, even before the injury. According to Football Outsiders, after seeing 52 offensive snaps to Blue’s 16 in Week 3, Miller out-snapped his backfield mate just 46-40 in Week 4.
With Miller coming back from an injury, it makes the situation tough to gauge in terms of how his workload will look against the Bills. Realistically, the Texans could opt to utilize Blue more both for his pass-catching and while Miller gets eased back in.
Should You Start or Sit Lamar Miller?
While I like the matchup for Texans running backs against the Bills, I’m having a tough time buying into Miller currently. He’s failed to top 100 yards in a single game and the team seems focused on shifting to a committee approach with Blue.
It’s unfortunate due to the fact that Buffalo has allowed five rushing touchdowns to opposing backs, but they’ve also had some trouble with pass-catching backs. This actually may bode well for Blue, as the Bills have given up 32 receptions for 244 yards and two touchdowns. Regardless of how you look at it, the situation is messing from a fantasy football perspective.
I wouldn’t recommend Miller as a starter in most places, but it’s understandable if he’s your best option in a 14-team league. An argument could even be made to use him as a flex play in 12-team leagues. I’ll personally do my best to find another option, as the Texans running back doesn’t have much upside.
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LeSean McCoy Fantasy: Impact if Bills RB Is Traded to Eagles
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If interested in a fun storyline, look no further than the potential return of running back LeSean McCoy to the Philadelphia Eagles. In what has been a brutally frustrating season for fantasy football owners when it comes to McCoy, there’s no question that a trade could be big news.
As Josh Reed of WTVB revealed, the Eagles have called the Buffalo Bills about a potential trade after the team lost starting running back Jay Ajayi to a torn ACL.
McCoy simply can’t seem to get things going this year, and even in his best game (last week), he totaled just 85 yards on 24 carries (3.5 yards per attempt) and caught two passes. A large part of this is due to the fact that the Bills offense is just bad this year, and while rookie quarterback Josh Allen has flashed some upside, it’s still been tough sledding.
So for fantasy owners who are holding McCoy and hoping he can break out, the best chances of that happening may be with a deal that sends him back to where his career started.
LeSean McCoy’s Fantasy Value if Traded to Eagles
There’s certainly no guarantee this trade happens, but the Bills could opt to rebuild in some capacity by moving McCoy and the remainder of his contract. The 30-year-old back has one full season after 2018 on the five-year, $40 million deal he signed, per Spotrac.
But unfortunately, McCoy landing with the Eagles doesn’t instantly make him a fantasy stud once again. Things are quite a bit different in Philly than when he was last there. Ajayi was expected to be the team’s workhorse back but saw his workload scattered a bit over the first three games he played (not including Week 3, due to injury).
Ajayi didn’t see more than 15 carries in a game this season, even when he was posting solid numbers. While McCoy may see a consistent 12-14 touches if traded, the potential cause for concern could come down to how Doug Pederson hands out snaps.
Although Ajayi dealt with some bumps and bruises and missed a handful of opportunities over the first few weeks, Pederson’s lack of commitment to a runner was frustrating. In Week 1, Ajayi found the end zone twice, yet received just 40 percent of the offensive snaps, the same number as Darren Sproles, per Football Outsiders. The Eagles coach now seems locked on keeping Wendell Smallwood and Corey Clement involved.
How to Approach Possible LeSean McCoy Trade
McCoy certainly has upside for fantasy football owners if dealt, but we just don’t know how much to expect. His outlook with the Eagles would be better than what he currently is facing in Buffalo, so if you’re able to swing a trade for McCoy without breaking the bank, it’s not a bad idea.
There’s a good chance that at this point, McCoy’s owner in your fantasy league has found a replacement for him. So if he’s just sitting on a bench somewhere, and that team has a need for a wide receiver or a position you have depth at, offer up a player who’s flashed some upside. Most fantasy owners are frustrated currently with McCoy, so it makes sense to try to take advantage of that.
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Home Newswire ‘What the HELL do we do now?’ — RT USA News
‘What the HELL do we do now?’ — RT USA News
Apr 20, 2019: 3:52 am
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has ridiculed the mainstream media for its refusal to give up on the ‘Russian collusion’ conspiracy theory, and called CNN’s coverage of the report “absurd and desperate.”
Attorney General WIlliam Barr held a press conference on Thursday outlining the main findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Aside from finding no collusion between President Trump and Russia, the report also found that Trump had cooperated with the investigation. Barr said the White House did not ask for any redactions in the final report.
Ingraham posted a shot of a pair of CNN anchors looking puzzled, wondering “What do we do now?? What the HELL do we do now?? AAAAAAARGH!!!!!”
CNN, of course, savaged Barr for presenting the report’s findings as he did, accusing the attorney general of making “a political speech endorsing the president’s behavior,” an accusation Ingraham called “beyond absurd and desperate.”
“This was a political speech endorsing the president’s behavior (by Barr).” — @JeffreyToobin@CNN Beyond absurd and desperate.
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 18, 2019
CNN wasn’t the only outlet clutching at straws, however. Throughout his press conference, Barr was repeatedly accused by reporters of “spinning” the Muller report to protect Trump, being “generous” to the president, and redacting the report too heavily.
Ingraham slammed these reporters as “Non lawyers with ZERO understanding of the underlying legal requirements, spouting IDIOCY.”
Non lawyers with ZERO understanding of the underlying legal requirements, spouting IDIOCY. The AG recounted what’s in the report and they trash him. Mueller works for the DOJ, goofballs, not the other way around.
“Mueller works for the DOJ, goofballs, not the other way around,” she snapped.
Via RT. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission or license.
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“The Beauty Spot Live Tour”
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In this episode our hosts Lorna Weightman and Avila Lipsett go to the beautiful town of Newbridge, where we had
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In this episode our hosts Lorna Weightman, Avila Lipsett go to the beautiful city of Kilkenny, where we had an
Eve presents The Beauty Spot Live Tour in Cork
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The Beauty Spot Live Tour from The Woodford Cork
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The CW President Mark Pedowitz Calls ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’ Crossover A Game Changer
The Arrowverse’s hotly anticipated Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover has been revealed to already been its early planning stages and is being called “the biggest, the most complicated” DC crossover ever done.
Also read: Arrowverse Unlikely To Crossover With DC Universe Originals
The revelation surrounding the upcoming fall 2019 DC television crossover was made during The CW‘s panel at the Television Critics’ Association conference by CW President Mark Pedowitz.
During the panel, Pedowitz stated that the crossover was already in its early planning stages and according to him it is “the biggest, the most complicated” DC crossover that the network has been able to put on.
Mark Pedowitz says they are already in the planning stages for “the biggest, the most complicated” DC crossover they’ve done. #TCA19
— Danielle Turchiano (@danielletbd) January 31, 2019
This is a pretty ambitious claim following the success of the Crisis on Earth X crossover two years ago which was lauded for being better than the Justice League film, which was released in the same year. Not only that but the crossover comes on the heels of the smaller Elseworlds crossover late last year, which teased the upcoming event.
Crisis on Infinite Earths is based on the iconic DC Comics storyline of the same name by the legendary creative duo of Marv Wolfman and George Perez. The crossover was a multidimensional crossover that brought various iterations of the DC universe of heroes and villains together to face the Anti-Monitor as he attempted to destroy the universe. The storyline streamlined and rebooted the DC Comics continuity for the modern era.
What do you think of this news? Are you excited for Crisis on Infinite Earths? Let us know in the comments below!
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Ukraine 0-4 rout of Montenegro!!
The average fan of the Ukrainian team hopes for the best, but always expect the worst. So it’s easy to surprise with something pleasant. But today was struck on the spot even the most inveterate optimist. And his usual opponent does not find something to complain about. All failures during the game look when completed only small obstacles on the path to great success. Mikhail Fomenko on the one hand does not reinvent the wheel in solving human problems in the defense team. He just moved from midfield Tymoshchuk and Gusev, who already have experience in their careers
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Ukraine Air Force helicopters will repair Croatia
Ukraine won the tender of the Ministry of Defence of Croatia to repair multipurpose helicopters Mi-8 and Mi-17 Croatian Air Force. According to the press service of the state-owned "Ukrspecexport" under the terms of the tender, Ukraine will provide overhaul of six helicopters.
Repairs will be carried out at the facilities of a member of the State Concern "Ukroboronprom" GP "Sevastopol aviation enterprise" (ARC) with the participation of JSC "Motor Sich" (Zaporozhye). The first two helicopters to be delivered to the customer until November 30.
Apart from Ukraine, took part in the tender of
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Октябрь 18th, 2013 | Tags: Croatia, Defence, Defence Croatia, force, helicopters, tender, Ukraine | Category: Russia | Comments are closed
CSY repaired the ship Kirovograd
PJSC "Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant" (CSY, Nikolaev, Ukraine) on June 4, has completed a comprehensive renovation medium landing ship "Kirovograd" Naval Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As the press service of the CSY, in the course of repair, according to the drawings of Design center of the plant was made a new ramp of the ship and the gate leaf device for receiving and landing. Also repaired two main engines of the ship with the production of new gas lines.
— "After the call KFOR" Kirovograd "in the waters of the plant, the ship was
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Inter-Zaporizhia opened in Dnipropetrovsk region, premix feed plant
Ltd. "Inbel", controlled by the company "Inter-Zaporizhzhya," launched in the Dnipropetrovsk region (s.Orlovschina) plant concentrates, premixes and feed design capacity of 30 thousand tons per year, according to a statement on the website of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday.
"Ukraine is interested in the fact that such companies were created by investments due to investors", — said the head of state during the opening ceremony of the company on May 21, noting that the plant can provide products not only domestic market but also for export supply .
Press Service notes
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Октябрь 18th, 2013 | Tags: companies, company, feed, Inbel, plant, thousand, Ukraine | Category: Russia | Comments are closed
The new plant in Vinnytsia. Ltd. Bastion produce facade materials from polymeric compositions
The plant will provide jobs for more than 300 vinnichan
May 31 at the winery opened a new modern enterprise —Ltd. "Bastion". The plant produced facade materials from polymer compositions. A red ribbon during the inauguration of the enterprise cut chairman of the Board of Directors of the holding company "Alta Profile" Sergei grouse, chairman of the Vinnytsia Regional State Administration Ivan Movchan and Vinnytsia Mayor Vladimir Groisman.
The company "Bastion" is part of the holding company "Alta profile." Previously, production was located in Brovary (Kyiv region)., But investors decided to move all
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Октябрь 18th, 2013 | Tags: Alta, Bastion, capacity, company, materials, production, Ukraine | Category: Russia | Comments are closed
The Russian leader AUTOMATION LAUNCHES NEW PLANT IN KHARKIV
At the initiative of Russia’s largest developer and manufacturer of automation in Kharkov will open a new plant.
Own production company OWEN in Ukraine (Kharkov) with a total area of 2,000 square meters. meters has existed since 2007. In III quarter 2013 in Kharkov will be put into operation a new plant for the production of products ARIES, the capacity of which will double the company’s efficiency.
Due to the expansion of production capacity by the end of 2013 the company plans to increase the staff of the production unit by 40%, thus creating
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Октябрь 18th, 2013 | Tags: Aries, capacity, company, increase, production, products, Ukraine | Category: Russia | Comments are closed
In the city of Boryspil opened ecological power plant
Today the governor of Kyiv region Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk and first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk ecological power plant opened in Boryspil
As a reporter, first ecological power plant Ukraine earned a year ago, at the landfill site number 5 in the village Pidgirci Obukhov district, Kyiv region.
Now beginning to work more powerful power plant, where electricity is produced by "green tariff".
"Ukraine has moved from talking about alternative sources of energy to practical steps. If used in a way all landfills in Ukraine, then this energy will last us for many
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Prysiazhniuk: Exhibition AGRO-2013 demonstrates the power of the agrarian Ukraine
Yesterday kicked off in Kiev is Ukraine’s largest international exhibition "Agro-2013". Event was opened by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. He pointed out that the agricultural sector is not just feeding the population, but also demonstrates strong growth. This strategic sector of the economy in the past year has brought to the budget 42 billion hryvnia, including earned and due to the dynamic export of agricultural products. This was during the collegium of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, held in the framework of the exhibition "Agro-2013", the head of department Mykola Prysyazhnyuk. "The importance
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U.S. invested $ 2,000,000 in Kiev Veterinary Laboratory
The United States invested $ 2 million in a new laboratory and training center at the Institute of Veterinary Medicine in Kiev to prevent bird flu.
This was announced by the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft during the official opening of the laboratory, transfer"Ukrainian News".
"We are all familiar with articles that appear in the press about diseases such as" bird flu "or" African swine fever. " It is therefore very important that Ukraine had the opportunity to diagnose and to prevent severe and terrible disease to premature to report on the negative consequences
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Anor Londo
Dark Souls » Locations » Anor Londo
When the dragons of the Age of Ancients were defeated, the winners of the war, calling themselves gods, founded and constructed a prosperous land: Lordran. Anor Londo, as Lordran's capital city, became legendary with the passage of time; an unreachable city of the gods. It was built by Lord Gwyn at the dawn of the Age of Fire, and served as his throne, surrounded by other gods, his brave knights, and his army of Silver Knights.
In the Age of Fire, when the First Flame started to exhibit signs that it was fading, and after unsuccessful attempts to prevent this, Lord Gwyn descended to the Kiln with the already charred Black Knights in a dramatic last attempt. He sacrificed himself, offering his own soul in order to extend the Age of Fire, and he succeeded, thus prolonging the Flame. Sadly, for the gods, this selfless sacrifice originated other problems: the Undead Curse was created when Gwyn linked the fire, breaking the natural course of the world and soon, most of Anor Londo's inhabitants abandoned the city and Lordran.
Heroes and pilgrims from many eras have tried to reach the city. To reach Anor Londo, they must surpass Sen's Fortress and defeat the gatekeeper, the Iron Golem. Countless have perished in their attempts, but many have also been successful and have reached the city of the gods, such as: the Darkmoon Knightess, Black Iron Tarkus and Solaire of Astora. It's also important to note that prevalining in the Battle of Stoicism grants access to Anor Londo.
The Chosen Undead is tasked by the primordial serpent Kingseeker Frampt to retrieve the Lordvessel from Gwynevere, Princess of Sunlight. In the now-deserted Anor Londo, only one god remains in the city: Dark Sun Gwyndolin, last-born of Gwyn. In order to deceive the Chosen Undead, he creates an illusion of his sister and the sun, making Anor Londo appear bathed in sunlight and glory, as it once may have been. But should this veil of deception be liften, one shall learn the truth, that Anor Londo is wrapped in darkness. The real Gwynevere has long since left the city with her future husband, Flann, God of Flame.
The Darkmoon Blades now seek vengeance for crimes against the gods and operate under Gwyndolin's command. Also, as her name suggests, Darkmoon Knightess, the Firekeeper of Anor Londo, is a member of this covenant. Under Anor Londo's cathedral, only accessible by using a mechanical turning staircase, is a circle of statues made in rememberance of Gwyn and the knights who descended with him to the Kiln. Behind his statue, there is a secret, honorary tomb made for him, from where Dark Sun Gwyndolin governs the Blades of the Darkmoon Blades.
The forsaken capital still preserves a couple of interesting points:
The grand cathedral of the city was originally Gwyn's castle, and is still guarded by Silver knights, Bat Wing Demons and giant Sentinels. In the cathedral itself, Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough form the last line of defense before the illusion of Princess Gwynevere. The Giant Blacksmith, a friend of Hawkeye Gough, resides in the left wing of the cathedral.
Aside from the grand cathedral is a smaller, but still ornate building that hosts a statue of Gwynevere and an incredibly large painting made by Ariamis, protected by the Painting Guardians. This painting - only if a particular object is used on it - grants passage to the Painted World of Ariamis.
Following the patch on the hill beside the city leads to the Duke's Archives, domain of Seath the Scaleless.
Design Works Interview
Miyazaki: in Dark Souls there were three main sections or themes: the image of Gods and knights centered around Anor Londo was one of these.
Otsuka: So for example, Anor Londo wasn't created by a single artist?
Miyazaki: Not quite: we didn't have a single designer making maps, characters or equipment, but we did have separate people in charge of each of the game's areas. I believe Mr. Waragai was responsible for Anor Londo
Waragai: Yes, I was, but before we started developing the look of the area, we first decided on the general layout and then we worked together with the 3D artist. I set out designing the main features such as the statues and the revolving elevator.
Miyazaki: This is actually how most of the areas were constructed. The map design was really what dictated everything else, once we determined what needed to happen in each area we would immediately draw up a rough map, then once the basic layout of the area was decided, we'd work on the finer details. Through the rough map I was able to communicate the requirements, structure and appearance of an area to the artists, and have them develop those ideas through collaborating with one another. I'm never satisfied with design works that simply follows the design brief so I often requested that the artists and designers add some of their own ideas. I believe that these ideas can enrich the area, if not the entire game, although this can lead to more work of course.
Otsuka: So you had a team of one artist/designer and one 3D artist working on each area, and then it fell to you to make the final decisions?
Miyazaki: Yes, but each of the areas had its own feel or tone as far as art direction was concerned. For an area like Blight Town for example, we found that once we decided on the general direction and gathered appropriate reference materials, there wasn't really a need to spend too much time developing the look of the area, it just came together. However in areas which were composed of more traditional architecture, we had to spend a lot of time working on the finer details. There weren't a huge amount of artists on the team so it was a case of moving people to where they would be of most use.
Anor Londo for instance is one of the most complicated areas in the game in terms of architecture, and as the mid-way point of the game it's also a very important area, so we spent a great deal of time working on it. After ringing the bells and overcoming the traps of Sen's Fortress I really wanted to player to feel "Yes! I've made it!"
Miyazaki: There was a lot I wanted to fit into Anor Londo. As I mentioned before, I wanted it to feel like a reward after finishing Sen's Fortress, but I also wanted it to be an area with no clear road, to have the player
walk in places that you wouldn't normally walk, such as the buttresses. Then there was also the image of the setting sun, and the way the area changes once night falls. I really like the way your eye is drawn to the different features like the revolving staircase elevator.
Waragai: That was Nakamura's idea, I remember him saying "life is like climbing a great spiral"…
Miyazaki: Nakamura comes up with some strange things, doesn't he? I mean that in the best possible way, of course! I think this worked out really well, there are several spirals in the area and I'm glad that we were able to incorporate that idea.
Otsuka: Did you use anything for reference when designing Anor Londo?
Waragai: We had the image of walking on buttresses from the start, so that, I suppose. Their actual purpose is to support the walls so they can build them even higher, but when I visited the cathedral in Milan, I walked beneath the buttresses and I thought, "how fun it would be to walk on them"…
Miyazaki: There was one more thing I wanted to achieve with Anor Londo; the last game I directed, Demon's Souls, was based in the early middle ages so it was extremely difficult to gather reference materials for the area designs. Dark Souls is based in a later time period so with Anor Londo, I saw a chance to create an area that felt more cohesive and full of the kind of detail that we couldn't achieve in Demon's Souls.
Meaning of the City's Name
While there is no official confirmation of what "Anor Londo" means, it's possible to decypher it and give some possible meanings:
The most accepted theory is that, as "anor" means "sun" in Elvish (language created by J. R. R. Tolkien), and "londo", shared with New Londo, could mean "city", thus Anor Londo's meaning may well be City of (the) Sun. New Londo, in this sense would mean "New City".
Others theorise that "anor" means "Lord, Lord's" or "God, God's", which makes sense lore-wise, since Anor Londo is called City of the Gods and the gods are also called Lords.
Renaissance Inspiration
Anor Londo's design is based on buildings from the Renaissance Era. The outside is based primarily on Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana di Santa Maria Nascente in Milan while the interior is based on the inside of French castleChâteau de Chambord.
Darkmoon Knightess Dialogue
Well, you are a rare visitor.
Welcome to the lost city of Anor Londo, chosen Undead.
If you seek Lord Gwyn's old keep, exit here and head straight yonder.
I am the Keeper of the bonfire.
If not for me, what beacon would there be in this lost city?
A gatekeeper, and a guide; that is my calling.
Giant Blacksmith Dialogue
Talk, 'tis no good.
No one home.
Everyone gone.
Silver Knight Set
Of the Silver Knights who protect Anor Londo.
When Lord Gwyn departed to link the Fire, his knights split into two groups.
The Silver Knights remained in the forsaken capital in the service of their goddess.
Soul of Ornstein
Soul of Ornstein, Dragonslayer Knight who guards the cathedral in the forsaken city of Anor Londo.
Lord Gwyn granted this soul to his four most trusted knights.
Soul of Smough
Soul of Smough the Executioner, who guards the cathedral in the forsaken city of Anor Londo.
Smough's Hammer
Great hammer from the soul of executioner Smough, who guards the cathedral in the forsaken city of Anor Londo.
Smough's Set
Equipment of Smough, the Executioner, protector of the cathedral at the forsaken city of Anor Londo.
Ring of the Sun Princess
The Princess of Sunlight Gwynevere left Anor Londo along many other deities, and later became wife to Flame God Flann.
Soul of Gwyndolin
Soul of Darkmoon Gwyndolin, god of the Dark Sun and guardian of deserted Anor Londo.
Darkmoon Seance Ring
This ring is granted to adherents of Gwyndolin, Darkmoon deity and last born of Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight.
The Dark Sun Gwyndolin is the only remaining deity in Anor Londo. His followers are few, but their tasks are of vital importance.
Darkmoon Blade Covenant Ring
Gwyndolin, all too aware of his repulsive, frail appearance, created the illusion of a sister Gwynevere, who helps him guard over Anor Londo.
An unmasking of these deities would be tantamount to blasphemy.
Core of an Iron Golem
Soul serving as the core of the Iron Golem, guardian of Sen's Fortress, and slayer of countless heroes seeking Anor Londo.
Purple Coward's Crystal
Victory in this battle once led to ancient Anor Londo, but even in the absence of it's overseer, capitulation is a disgrace.
In the name of a warrior's honor, do not quickly resort to the use of this crystal.
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Vol: 26 Issue: 3
Art of Pakistan
Editor/s: Arjmand Aziz & Ann Proctor
Untitled (Forlorn Foe series) (detail ), Khadim Ali, 2016, gouache and gold leaf on wasli paper, 148 x 55cm. Courtesy the artist. See pp18-19 of this issue.
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This issue of the TAASA Review marks the 70th anniversary of Pakistan’s creation in August 1947 and is the first art journal of its kind to examine its ancient, classical and contemporary art forms. As guest editors, we have aimed to do two things. Firstly, to include as many different art forms as possible: from contemporary miniature painting, to ceramics, performance art and re-examinations of historical architecture, textiles and petroglyphs. Secondly, we hope to highlight the many significant artistic and cultural connections, collaborations and cross-fertilisations between Pakistan and Australia – connections which are ongoing but may not be well known outside of an art cognoscenti.
Although a young nation, Pakistan is the inheritor of ancient and modern fault lines, both artistic and geo-strategic. This complexity, combined with more recent internal and external political tensions, has given rise to an efflorescence in both literature and the visual arts.
Mehreen Chida-Razvi examines Emperor Jahangir’s tomb in the city of Lahore, setting it within its architectural context and highlighting the important but often obscured influence of his wife and Queen, Nur Jahan, in the cenotaph’s design and construction. Taking the idea of a cenotaph, renowned artist and educator, Adeela Suleman, in her recently commissioned work for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, constructs a mesmerising curtain of metal birds to commemorate every death in Karachi whilst making the work. Mikala Tai, Director of the 4A Centre, explains that Suleman’s monument could not keep pace with the number of deaths occurring whilst she was creating the work, and that Suleman with other Pakistani artists are part of The Big Anxiety - a Sydney based project to enable Australians to experience the anxiety and fear of living with trauma and conflict.
Trauma is part of the creation of Pakistan, most obviously in the partition of the Punjab. Partition has often dominated and circumscribed much post-1947 art history scholarship. An examination of South Asia’s most recognisable embroidery – the Phulkari baghs of Punjab – uncovers this tendency and attempts to provide another perspective beyond a reductive Pakistan-India lens. Textiles – specifically, a magnificent embroidered tunic from Swat – provides the backdrop for In the Public Domain, where writer and independent researcher, Claudia Hyles, tells how she acquired the dress whilst living in Peshawar more than 20 years ago. The tunic forms part of her large and significant gift of South Asian textiles to the National Gallery of Australia.
Individual artists are at the heart of any cross-cultural exchange and conversation. Australia’s eminent and influential ceramic artist and educator, Merran Esson, has been quietly forging these ties for more than a decade. Esson has nurtured several young Pakistani contemporary artists, including Abdullah M.I Syed, whose performance-based artworks are included in this issue. Abdullah Syed’s own article is a thoughtful exploration of the concept of ‘poetic activism’ which imbues his own and other contemporary Pakistani artists’ works.
Esson’s article discusses the difficulties faced by traditional Pakistani potters and contrasts their work with that of a number of ceramicists working in Karachi and internationally, who use clay as a medium in their art practice.
An interview with the artist Khadim Ali gives an insight into his choice of subject matter as he draws on familiar narratives from his youth while exploring and expanding the miniature style of painting learnt as a student at the National College of Art in Lahore. His haunting, intensely beautiful painting is to be found on the cover of this issue.
Mountains have played a vital role in the history of the area and this is drawn out in Jason Neelis’ article on petroglyphs and inscriptions in northern Pakistan. A staggering figure of over 50,000 rock drawings and 5,000 inscriptions have been identified, reflecting the concerns and beliefs of the many peoples who traversed the area over countless centuries. One of the impressive petroglyphs illustrated is the Buddhist Shatial triptych, published relatively recently in the 1990s. Readers will gain further insight into this majestic area with Helen Holmes’ Travellers Choice article Searching for Shangri-la.
The current Pakistan High Commissioner to Australia, H.E. Naela Chohan, is a practising artist with a deep commitment to women’s issues. Her article traces influential artists and art institutions in Pakistan, setting the context for her own work. Melanie Eastburn’s book review of Turner and Webb’s Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts fits well with Chohan’s interests and indeed with the concerns of many of the contemporary artists represented in this issue.
We hope, in short, that this issue uncovers and exposes the beauty, complexity and contradictory nature of an often misunderstood country to a new audience.
3 EDITORIAL: ART OF PAKISTAN - Arjmand Aziz and Ann Proctor, Guest Editors
4 PHULKARI BAGHS OF THE PUNJAB: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE - Arjmand Aziz
7 PAKISTANI CONTEMPORARY ART IN AUSTRALIA: A QUESTION OF REPRESENTATION - Mikala Tai
10 THE IMPERIAL MUGHAL MAUSOLEUM OF JAHANGIR: HOMAGE AND LEGACY - Mehreen Chida-Razvi
12 ENDANGERED SIGNPOSTS: UPPER INDUS PETROGLYPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN - Jason Neelis
14 FROM SYDNEY TO HALA: A CERAMIC JOURNEY TO PAKISTAN - Merran Esson
16 MANZOOM MUZAHAMAT: NOTES ON POETIC ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY PAKISTANI PERFORMANCE ART - Abdullah M. I. Syed
18 AN INTERVIEW WITH KHADIM ALI - Arjmand Aziz and Ann Proctor
20 WOMEN AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN ART IN PAKISTAN - Naela Chohan
22 IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: AN EMBROIDERED KURTA FROM SWAT - Claudia Hyles
24 TRAVELLERS CHOICE: SEARCHING FOR SHANGRI-LA - Helen Holmes
25 BOOK REVIEW: ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS: CONTEMPORARY ASIAN CONTEXTS - Melanie Eastburn
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State, private hospitals on alert for New Year’s Eve revelry By Joel C. Atencio December 31, 2010
State, private hospitals on alert for New Year’s Eve revelry
By Joel C. Atencio
December 31, 2010, 1:14am
MANILA, Philippines (PNA) – Doctors, nurses and other medical personnel of government-run and private hospitals nationwide were placed on Thursday on alert for firecracker-related injuries and other emergencies as the nation joins the world in welcoming the New Year on Friday.
The Department of Health (DOH) issued this announcement a few days after it launched an all-out drive against the sale and use of firecrackers through its “Kontra Paputok Campaign.".... MORE
Source: Manila Bulletin
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/295713/state-private-hospitals-alert-new-year-s-eve-revelry
Expect 'extremely wet' weather in 2011 – Pagasa By ELLALYN B. DE VERA December 30, 2010
Expect 'extremely wet' weather in 2011 – Pagasa
By ELLALYN B. DE VERA
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) Thursday warned of “extremely wet” weather conditions in 2011, mainly due to climate change.
Science and Technology Undersecretary Dr. Graciano Yumul, also PAGASA’s officer-in-charge, said the effects of climate change have been evident in the country causing sea level rise and excessive moisture and rain..... MORE
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/295640/expect-extremely-wet-weather-2011-pagasa
China shuts down 60,000 pornographic websites Friday, 31 December 2010 00:00
China shuts down 60,000 pornographic websites
China said Thursday that authorities had shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites as part of a year-long crackdown on lewd online content, as Beijing moves to tighten control over the Internet. "By the end of November, we had inspected 1.8 million websites, and closed down more than 60,000 unsound websites that spread porn," Wang Chen, minister for the press office of the State Council, China's cabinet, told reporters.
He added that authorities had jailed 58 people for at least five years in the crackdown on lewd online and mobile phone content that was launched in December last year..... MORE
Source: Manila Times
URL: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/tech-times/36730-china-shuts-down-60000-pornographic-websites
Denmark, Sweden foil ‘Mumbai-style’ massacre plot Friday, 31 December 2010
Denmark, Sweden foil ‘Mumbai-style’ massacre plot
Friday, 31 December 2010 00:00
COPENHAGEN: Denmark and Sweden said on Wednesday that they had foiled a “Mumbai-style” plot by Islamic extremists to massacre the staff of a Danish newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Denmark’s PET intelligence service said that five suspects had been arrested and a submachine gun seized, preventing an imminent assault on the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten daily.... MORE
URL: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/component/content/article/42-rokstories/36737-denmark-sweden-foil-mumbai-style-massacre-plot
2.2-M Filipinos consume NFA rice, NSO says December 31, 2010
2.2-M Filipinos consume NFA rice, NSO says
MANILA, Philippines (PNA) - Middle and upper class Filipino families are consuming more National Food Authority (NFA) rice than the poor households, according to the National Statistics Office.
The NSO said there were 1.07 million Filipino households under the upper 70 percent of the Philippine population consumed NFA rice in 2006.
These middle and upper class Filipino families consumed an average of 273 kilogram (kg) per year..... MORE
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/295714/22m-filipinos-consume-nfa-rice-nso-says
Group wary of 'downtrend' in OFW Mideast deployment By ROY C. MABASA December 31, 2010
Group wary of 'downtrend' in OFW Mideast deployment
By ROY C. MABASA
MANILA, Philippines — Certain labor market reforms being implemented by host countries particularly those in the Middle East next year will result in continued “downtrend’ in the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in 2011.
This, according to Migrante-Middle East as it echoed the same declaration earlier issued by both the Department of Labor and Employment and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) that from January to October this year a total of 1.079 million OFWs were deployed compared with 1.112 million during the same period of 2009..... MORE
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/295769/group-wary-downtrend-ofw-mideast-deployment
Salceda places Albay under state of calamity; urges PAGASA to device warning system for ITCZ By Mar S. Arguelles December 31, 2010
Salceda places Albay under state of calamity; urges PAGASA to device warning system for ITCZ
By Mar S. Arguelles
LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines (PNA) - Albay Gov. Joey Salceda urges the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Service Administration (PAGASA) to device a warning system for inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ), giving it a name and levels of warning system similar to the warning system issued during tropical depressions and typhoons signals.
Salceda, Albay Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) chairman, said the proposal would make disaster authorities completely evaluate the impacts of the ITCZ in terms of rainfall content and other parameters..... MORE
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/295709/salceda-places-albay-under-state-calamity-urges-pagasa-device-warning-system-itcz
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Five years of searching for Jonas Burgos
Five years ago today, Jonas Joseph Burgos was abducted by suspected state security agents at a busy mall in Quezon City. From that day until this very moment, his family and friends continue searching for him despite all the difficulties.
After five years, Jonas Burgos still missing
Mrs. Burgos calls for justice on 5th year anniversary of Jonas’ abduction(Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / bulatlat.com)
MANILA – In hopes of finding Jonas Burgos, Mrs. Edita Burgos and her family have turned to the judicial system but found it wanting.
“We went through the legal process and here we are now,” Mrs. Burgos said in an interview a few days before the fifth year of the disappearance of her son. She encountered a labyrinth and she is still nowhere near finding even a trace of her missing son.
Just last week, the Court of Appeals ruled that the military documents related to the case are secret. In a five-page decision by Associate Justice Rosalinda Asuncion-Vicente, the CA’s special former seventh division said the documents, including the summary of information about the two suspects, are considered as confidential. In effect, the court has ruled that the military part of Mrs Burgos’ labyrinthine search for Jonas is untouchable. (Click here to read the whole article)
Jonas Burgos, gentle and brave
The three boys in the family share a light moment. On the right is Jonas. JL stands beside him and Sonny below.(Photo courtesy of the Burgos family / bulatlat.com)
MANILA – Jonas or Jay to his family was born on an Easter Sunday, on March 29, 1970. “I was attending Mass when my labor began. In less than an hour, before the Mass ended, I gave birth to him,” Mrs. Edita Burgos recalled. Jonas is the middle child of the five children of Mrs. Burgos and press freedom icon, Jose Burgos Jr.
As a child, Jay was full of energy. “I would tell his teachers to keep him busy or else they’d get into trouble,” Mrs. Burgos said. Jay went to Victoria School Foundation during his grade school.
Jay was called “supervisor” for his habit of roaming around the school. On the first day of classes, he already knew the names of all the teachers. Sometimes, he would tickle the knees of his classmates, moving from one desk to another.
Asked why he was doing those things, Jay would tell his mother: “Our teacher was saying the same things over and over again.” Smiling, Mrs. Burgos said: “And so, by next school year, he was given the task of erasing what was written on the blackboard. Sometimes, he would erase the text even before his classmates were done copying.” (Click here to read the whole article)
5 years of search, 5 years of hope.... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/28/five-years-of-searching-for-jonas-burgos/
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Noynoying strikes again EDITORIAL 04/29/2012
Noynoying strikes again
At the conclusion of the 33rd National Conference of Employers last Wednesday, Noynoy was anticipated to make policy pronouncements in his remarks that will close the annual assembly of the country’s business executives.
The finale of the event was set at 11 a.m. on the 25th and the big shots in business were all at the edge of their seats waiting for what pronouncements Noynoy may have to rev up the local economy which seems to have hit a lamp post in managing only a 3.7 percent growth last year against the 7.9 percent growth in 2010.
The result was almost predictable, no Noynoy, no policy speech and everyone who participated in the conference going home in disgust and disappointment over the Aquino no-show.
In Noynoy’s place was Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz who failed to give comfort to the disenchanted business people since they had been talking with the ever present official during the entire length of the event that ran for four days since April 22..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120429com1.html
Under-age call girl scandal shakes Singapore elite FOCUS 04/29/2012
Under-age call girl scandal shakes Singapore elite
SINGAPORE — An unfolding scandal over an under-age call girl has shaken Singapore’s political and economic elite after businessmen, civil servants and uniformed officers were charged in the case.
Prostitution is legal in Singapore, but 48 men ranging in age from their early 20s to late 40s have so far been charged under a 2008 law making it a crime to pay for sex with a girl under 18.
Singapore has long been perceived as a conservative, even prudish, city-state but it has a thriving sex industry dating back to its beginnings as a key trading port of the then British empire..... MORE
Keep guessing: US deploying fighter jets to the Gulf?
The US says it has deployed a number of its most modern jet fighters to an air base in Southwest Asia. The announcement alarmed many, who suspect the base is actually in the United Arab Emirates just 200 hundred miles from Iran.
The Air Force did not specify the exact number or location of the recently-deployed F-22 Raptors, but confirmed that they had been sent to a base in Southwest Asia, a region that includes the UAE.
“Such deployments strengthen military-to-military relationships, promote sovereign and regional security, improve combined tactical air operations and enhance interoperability of forces, equipment and procedures,” said Air Force spokesman Capt. Phil Ventura..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/us-deploying-jet-fighters-gulf-242/
Divorce, Saudi style: Man splits with ‘disobedient’ wife during live broadcast
Ever travelled to a nearby city on your own? In Saudi Arabia, this could be grounds for divorce. A Saudi man broke up with his wife because she “disobeyed” him by going on a business trip without his consent.
The man phoned a radio program dealing with marital problems to complain about his wife to host Sheikh Ghazi al-Shammari, a prominent Islamic scholar. The unnamed man said his wife “offended his manhood” by traveling from the Saudi port city of Jeddah to the capital Riyadh for a business conference, alone and without his approval.
Al-Shammari concluded that the man had to divorce his wife..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/saudi-divorce-radio-disobedient-248/
Testing P-Noy’s mettle TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 04/29/2012
Testing P-Noy’s mettle
TABLETS OF STONE
Larry Faraon, OP
Authority is supposed to create fear, or in Christian ethical parlance, “reverential fear.” It is a kind of fear that would make us tremble at the sight of the authority’s iron hand and heart of steel, but would bow our heads in due respect and obedience.
But of course, indeed, there is already an atmosphere of fear in the form of doubt and insecurity creeping into the sensibilities and perceptions of our people. This worrisome insecurity is even leading to doubts as to the present administration’s capability to put this country under its nose and grip.
Nobody can’t help chill in the fact that “even when the cat is around, the mouse will play.”
Primetime news and broadsheets are now competing with tabloids in reporting of all sorts of heinous crimes viewable from CCTVs mostly daring heists and senseless murders in malls, homes and the streets, just like in the movies. And the perpetrators are getting younger by the day! We are still top in the list of countries unfriendly and hazardous to the journalistic profession, the latest of which was an attempt to strafe the house of columnist Professor Randy David. Despite the automatic denials of the police authorities as they lace their reports with facts of dwindling crime rates in select areas, the public perception says the contrary. President Joseph Estrada was head of the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission (PACC) when he was vice president to Fidel Ramos and continued to fight off criminality when it was his turn at the helm..... MORE
Philippines tops list of world’s most disaster-hit countries in 2011
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
MANILA — Topping this list is not an achievement for any country.
The Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC) has recently released its 2011 Disaster Report saying that the Philippines topped the list of countries most frequently hit by natural disasters last year. Citing the records of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Carlos Padolina, CDRC deputy executive director, said that of the 302 natural disasters that happened worldwide, 33 occurred in the Philippines.
CDRC is a non-government organization that pioneered and continues to promote community-based disaster management in the Philippines. It operates nationwide through a network of regional centers and people’s organizations. It maintains its own disasters database, monitoring both natural and human-induced disasters.
Based on the report, a total of 431 natural and human-induced disasters were reported in the Philippines in the past year. These killed 1,774 people, and affected more than three million families or 15.3 million people, and caused over P26 billion in economic damages.
“This is a more than 50 percent increase from the 2010 figure of 202 disaster events recorded,” said Padolina.
Increasing number of people affected by disasters
The CDRC’s 2011 Philippine Disaster Report presents information on disasters that occurred in the Philippines in the past year, providing an overview of the type of disasters that occurred, the frequency of occurrence, as well as the effects of these disasters on communities. Where available, direct economic costs to agriculture and infrastructure were also included. A substantial portion of the data.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/27/philippines-tops-list-of-world%E2%80%99s-most-disaster-hit-countries-in-2011/
China brass calls for ‘decisive action’ over RP standoff 04/29/2012
China brass calls for ‘decisive action’ over RP standoff
A major general in the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has called for “decisive action” from the Chinese government to assert its territorial claim against the Philippines over the Scarborough Shoal dispute.
Prominent Chinese military commentator Major Gen. Luo Yuan accused the Philippines of initiating the current standoff in the South China Sea.
“Therefore it is important that China demonstrates its determination to safeguard its national sovereignty and security,” Luo said..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120429hea2.html
CBCP urges Aquino to distribute Hacienda Luisita now 04/29/2012
CBCP urges Aquino to distribute Hacienda Luisita now
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action, Justice, and Peace (CBCP-Nassa) called on President Aquino and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to swiftly facilitate the implementation of the SC ruling upholding the distribution of the vast Hacienda Luisita estate of the Aquino-Cojuangco clan to farm workers.
CBCP-Nassa lauded the Supreme Court (SC) for the favorable ruling on the Hacienda Luisita land dispute.
“The long wait is over. The decision for land distribution of Hacienda Luisita has finally been rendered. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action, Justice and Peace thanks the Supreme Court for its resolution to distribute the lands to the farmers of Hacienda Luisita following the land valuation of 1989,” said CBCP-Nassa chief and Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo in a statement..... MORE
NPA frees 5 human shields By Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/29/2012
NPA frees 5 human shields
By Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/29/2012
The Philippine Army (PA) yesterday confirmed that the five civilians, including a barangay kagawad who were held hostage by the New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas in Davao del Sur have been released on Friday.
This was disclosed by the PA’s 10th Infantry Division spokesman, Major Jacob Obligado.
Obligado said the five civilians, Barangay San Miguel Councilor Enteng Bunal, Jolly Paimalan, Elmer Pentes, Rhyan Banua and Pablo Butaya have been released by their captors..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120429nat1.html
Criminalize hiring of teachers through contracts, job orders — ACT 04/29/2012
Criminalize hiring of teachers through contracts, job orders — ACT
A lawmaker has moved to criminalize the hiring of public school teachers through service contracts or job orders.
ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio filed House Bill 6006, which seeks to dismiss from service with cancellation of eligibility and perpetual disqualification from government service any government official found guilty of the offense. His or her retirement benefits shall also be forfeited.
Tinio said the measure covers teachers employed in public schools in the kindergarten, elementary and secondary levels, as well as in public post-secondary education institutions, including state universities and colleges (SUCs), local universities and colleges (LUCs), and technical-vocational schools..... MORE
Policeman, four others slain in clash between lawmen and holdup men in QC 04/29/2012
Policeman, four others slain in clash between lawmen and holdup men in QC
Five persons, one of them a policeman, were killed while two others were wounded when armed men held up passengers of a jeepney that led to a brief encounter between responding policemen and the suspects in Quezon City last Friday night.
Killed were PO3 Erwin Hipolito, Rommel Tinio, the jeepney driver, and three of the suspects who were gunned down by policemen.
The wounded were identified as POI Cyril Agitong and another driver identified as Ignacio Rigor..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20120429met4.html
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Aurora lawmaker files bill seeking Magna Carta for Filipino seafarers 04/29/2012
Aurora lawmaker files bill seeking Magna Carta for Filipino seafarers
Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara has filed a Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers that includes, among other lofty provisions, a comprehensive definition of their employment and economic rights and mandates 15 government agencies to actively promote, professionalize and prepare the seafarers for the 21st century maritime industry.
The Angara bill lists 17 items on the rights of seafarers alone, seeks best business practices acts from foreign ship owners recruiting Filipino merchant marine officers and urges all stakeholders to adopt all the international conventions and standards on seafarers’ welfare, especially those on compensation and wages.
The bill also seeks to rein in the fees and the cumbersome procedures that merchant marine officers face when seeking employment or re-deployment, mostly from government agencies and local placement companies..... MORE
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Ancient Libya
Ancient Mathematics
Berbers
Ethiopia or Kush
Great Zimbabwe
Nile Civilization
140,000-20,000 BC
20,000-5000 BC
5000-1000 BC
1000 BC-1 AD
1-1800 AD
Niger Valley
Recent Archaeological Discoveries Help Restore Ancient Africa's Lost Legacy
Despite the widespread lack of knowledge about ancient Africa and its place in history, dozens of recent finds are forever re-writing history. In the last decade alone, archaeologists have rediscovered ancient stone structures, evidence of advanced technology, manuscripts and inscriptions in various parts of the continent that continue to prove Africa was the birthplace of not just humanity but all civilization.
Buried Ship in Tomb Covered with Depictions of 120 Ships in Egypt
Ships depicted on walls of a tomb at Abydos, Egypt (c. Josef Wegner)
At Abydos, archaeologists found the remains of a buried ship in a tomb complete with at least 120 depictions of ships. The actual ship measures roughly 65 feet long and the wall etchigs are as large as 5 feet long and include masts, sails, decks, rudders, oars and rowers. Because of its proximity to the tomb of suten Senwosret III, it is speculated that the tomb dates to at least c. 1850 BC. Read More.
Towns, Cemeteries Excavated in Sudan
The remains of towns, cemeteries and evidence of vineyards were found following excavations by Polish archaeologists in the Letti Basin in Northern Sudan. At the Hag Magid site, they found columns, mud bricks, ceramics, pottery shards and paintings dating back 1,000 years to the medieval Christian Kingdom of Makuria. Read More.
Church Paintings, Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Found in Sudan
Although the Christian Church of Raphael was discovered a decade ago in Dongola, the Makurian capital, excavations only began in 2015. Since then, 1,000-year-old paintings depicting Mary, angels, priests, saints and Makurian authorities have been found along with inscriptions on a granite pulpit. Of particular note is one wall inscription listing the names of bishops of different Makurian territories as well as King Johannes who founded the church. Read More.
100,000-year-old Tools Made from Imported Quartz in South Africa
Anthropologists from the University of Wisconsin found quartz tools from 100,000 years ago, providing more clues about early human civilization in southern Africa. The scraping tools are thought to have been used to make animal hides. Since quartz is not found below the surface of this site, it was likely imported from farther south. Read More.
Modern Humans Used Milk-and-ocre-based Paint 49,000 Years Ago
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2,000-year-old Jewelry in Aksum
Tomb excavations in Aksum revealed the remains of a wealthy woman wearing a necklace, a beaded belt, bronze ring, with what looks to be a Roman bronze mirror that dates back 2,000 years. Apart from bringing more insight into ancient Aksumite culture, the find suggests Aksum traded with the Roman empire earlier than once believed. Read More.
Tomb Unearthed in Waset (Luxor)
Waset Tomb (credit: SCA/Agence France-Presse)
A tomb likely dating to the 18th Dynasty (1543-1292 BC) was unearthed near Waset (Luxor). While its colorful images of scenes of the tomb owner's daily life have been well preserved, the names of the owner and possibly the god Amun have been deliberately erased. Read more: Read More.
Barley and Wheat Residue in Kushite Cemetery in Central Sudan
Researchers from Kiel University have uncovered further evidence of agriculture practiced by ancient Kushites. Barley and wheat residue was found on the teeth of human remains in tombs that date back 7,000 years ago. The researchers, however, inaccurately assume that this find is the oldest known evidence of wheat and barley crop cultivation along the Nile. Read More.
Nok Culture Research Gets Funding
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The German Research Foundation donated 1.6 million euros to continue the research efforts of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences for another three years. The results of the team's research and analysis will provide groundbreaking insight information into social structure, economy and iron smelting technology of the Niger Valley's Nok Culture, which dates back over 3,000 years. Read More.
Oldest Modern Human Remains Outside Africa in Israel
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World's First Paid Personal, Family Medical Leave in Egypt
The discovery of medical records of construction workers at Deir el-Medina near Luxor (Waset, c. 1292-1077 BC) provides evidence of the world's oldest known paid medical leave practices. Among the documents were paid employee leave notices for personal and family illness and doctor visits for checkups, and attendance records indicating no docked pay for such absences. Read More.
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Skeletal analyses by Italy's Center for Sudanese and Sub-Saharan Studies at the Al Khiday 2 cemetery revealed ancient Kushites chewed purple nutsedge, likely as a tooth cleaner. The remains of the skeletons had teeth bereft of cavities owing to the antibacterial properties of the weed they consumed. This find rewrites history which largely assumes oral hygiene is a relatively recent practice. Read More.
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Polish archaeologists uncovering the remains of a large, brick monastery near al-Ghazali in northern Sudan located artwork and other inscriptions that date to the 600s AD on a wall next to a row of 15 toilets. This is the best known example of a large sanitary complex from medieval Nubia. Read More.
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A discussion in English of the week in Georgia (the one near Chechnya not the one near Alabama) Don't know what a podcast is? Don't worry, just click on it and listen. კეთილი იყოს თქვენი მობრძანება! თუ ინგლისური იცით, დააჭირეთ ისარს და მოისმინეთ კვირის საინტერესო ამბები
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Posted on September 9, 2016 by Mark Mullen
EU parliament committee votes yes to visa free, NATO brass in TBL, Okruashvili enters Rustavi2 case, Armenian PM resigns, new UK Ambo, Otsneba list out, Audit Office fines donors, Coalition for a Euro-Atlantic Georgia, Chugo says Nationals have provocation wing, Bidzina says 2/3 seats Otsneba, Usupashvili wants US base, Gori sakrebulo ejects Okru ally, Sturua witnesses threatened, still environmental protests Tbilisi Meria, too many cars, fake phones, benchmark rate lowered, Exxon Mobile puts screws on Azeris, import duty rate overhaul, Enguri repairs coming, Tsinandali five star hotel 2018, Fabrika hostel soon, grapes start, Guria Hazelnut, new BoG CEO, domestic violence center opens, German busses, GIPA environmental MA, Parliament quorumless, legal committee says yes to Margvel judges, trust in banks goes down, Misha on anti Roma mob, Pomerantsev podcast
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The MEME this week is a video taken at a conference hosted by the McCain Institute and Economic Policy Research Center at Rooms Hotel. A huge rabbit who was apparently interested in countering Russian propaganda showed up at the conference and made quite a splash. The conference was attended by leaders from the Georgian government, the NATO Council, the US, and Ukraine.
Link: http://bit.ly/2bXqLW3
The Hollywood Reporter reviews House of Others, a new film by Rusudan Glurjidze that’s being considered for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The film deals with the aftermath of the civil wars of the 1990s, but according to the reviewer specialized knowledge about Georgia’s history isn’t necessary. The film focuses more on creating a visual aesthetic than weaving an elaborate plot.
Link: http://bit.ly/2csld11
Social Science in the Caucasus looks at public trust in the banking system. They find that trust levels have fallen every year since 2009, so the causes are deeper than the lari’s weak performance over the past two years. Most alarming, among rural residents, distrust in the banking system has nearly quadrupled since 2010.
Link: http://bit.ly/2c9XrIC
Civil.ge is running a photo reel of the environmentalists protesting outside City Hall. They’re demanding the resignation of city environmental head Nino Sulkhanishvili as well as an overhaul of Tbilisi’s policy towards the environment and green spaces.
Link: http://bit.ly/2cFLGgb
The World Bank publishes its annual report on poverty reduction in Georgia. It finds that poverty is still a big problem but that it fell every year from 2011 to 2014, and that much of the credit goes to the fact that more rural households are engaged in productive economic activities. It also says that lack of proper education is the number one factor that keeps individuals, families, and communities in entrenched poverty.
Link: http://bit.ly/2cBentw
Freedom House publishes its 2016 Nations in Transit report for Georgia. The report is written by Michael Cecire. It received an overall score of 4.61 out of 6, which is slightly lower than its scores from 2014 and 2015. Georgia scored highest on national and local democratic governance, and lowest on civil society.
Link: http://bit.ly/2bXq3ry
A new post from the ISET Economist Blog deals with consumer confidence and how it tends to be stable over time. Confidence took a big hit in 2015 due to the lari losing lot of value, but it’s gradually moving back to its long-term levels. They also find consumer confidence to be closely linked to measurements of happiness, which also tend to be stable over time.
Link: http://bit.ly/2cALYRc
Madona Gasanova writes in The FINANCIAL about citizenship by investment programs, something that Georgia currently doesn’t have. However, foreigners can get a residence permit if they invest at least 300 thousand lari. Some economists and business leaders think a citizenship for investment program will help bring money into the country, especially if Georgia gets visa-free travel to the EU, but the Georgian National Investment Agency thinks such a policy wouldn’t do much good.
Link: http://bit.ly/2bXqDpi
Luke Coffey of the Heritage Foundation previews the visit of NATO bigwigs to Tbilisi this week. He thinks that Georgia has made enough democratic, security, and economic progress to get a lot more support from NATO than it currently does, and he makes the case for giving it a clear path to NATO membership.
Link: http://bit.ly/2c7mw4z
The Chicago Tribune lists Tbilisi as one of its best travel destinations this September. They specifically mention the city’s Persian and Art Nouveau architecture.
Link: http://bit.ly/2ccIJkO
Foreign Policy covers comments made by Misha about a recent case of mob violence against Roma in a village near Odessa, which started after a local Roma man was charged with raping and killing a young girl. No one was hurt by the mob because the local Roma population had already fled. The controversy is that Misha made comments in support of the angry mob, saying that he shared their outrage about crime and anti-social behavior in the village–two things that are widely blamed on its Roma population. He also didn’t mention the fact that the man in custody hadn’t yet been convicted of any crime.
Link: http://bit.ly/2bSKkII
The Daily Beast has a piece on the upper-scale Kiev neighborhood of Vozdvyzhenka. The neighborhood is described as a Potemkin village–it was built in the latter half of the 2000s on the ruins of a pre-Soviet working class neighborhood–it cost about $100 million to develop and many of the buildings are visually stunning but poorly constructed. In the author’s view, it’s a microcosm for Kiev itself over the past decade and-a-half.
Link: http://bit.ly/2chfC1B
The American Interest has a podcast interview with Peter Pomerantsev, the brilliant journalist who writes about television, entertainment, and political misinformation in Russia. He talks about his 2015 book Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, as well about the US Presidential election campaigns. He also discusses the cultural influence that Russian money has been made on London–referring to Londoners as the service class of the global rich.
Link: http://bit.ly/2cFMTUG
EurasiaNet’s Josh Kucera writes about the complicated politics of Armenian genocide recognition in Germany. The German Bundestag passed a resolution this June to officially recognize the genocide. Turkey hit back, recalling its ambassador and refusing to allow German politicians to visit their troops serving at a German air base. They said the policy won’t change unless Germany denies genocide recognition, and Der Spiegel reported that the German Chancellery plans to issue an official statement staying that the resolution passed by the Bundestag is non-binding, so Germany’s government actually doesn’t recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Link: http://bit.ly/2bXqpyo
Reuters has a piece on attempts at reconciliation by the EU and Turkey. EU foreign ministers and Turkish officials met on the 2nd of September for the first time since the failed coup attempt in July. Turkey is still angry at what they see as a lack of support after the failed coup attempt. The EU is still critical of Turkey’s human rights record and its crackdown on civil society after the coup attempt. Turkey also said it won’t enter into any agreements about controlling the flow of refugees and migrants until it gets visa liberalization from the EU.
Link: http://bit.ly/2bXqiTx
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Yes, that’s a VHS tape of The Jungle Book, and I just watched it at home using my VHS player. (Nothing beats a video that starts off with “Coming Soon in 1997.” Did you know that they released the 1989 movie The Little Mermaid back into theaters that year? Best Disney movie ever.)
I have mixed feelings about the Jungle Book cartoon. On the one hand, I love watching Bagheera slink around and roll his eyes. Shere Kahn is delightful as well. The voice of Baloo is just perfect. The animation of Kaa the snake is hilarious. On the other hand, I can’t get over the fact that Kaa speaks with the totally incongruous voice of Winnie the Pooh, a character who is the opposite of sneaky and threatening, while the Mowgli in this story does absolutely nothing but sulk and giggle and sulk and giggle the entire time. The only time he makes a decision is in the tacked-on ending invented by Walt himself—about which, more later—and his use of tools is limited to the aimless swishing of various twigs.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-jungle-book/id636328918
SPOILERS, including a detailed plot summary and comparisons with the 2016 movie, below.
The Jungle Book: 1967 vs 2016
1967: The beginning of the movie is narrated by Bagheera, who finds Mowgli alone in a busted river boat and secretly deposits him in front of the den of a mother wolf, who takes him in.
2016: Mowgli is found and placed with the wolves by Bagheera after his father burns Shere Kahn and gets killed.
1967: Ten years pass, and the wolves hold a council that decides not to protect Mowgli from Shere Kahn, who hates man. Bagheera makes Mowgli leave and Mowgli whines about it.
2016: Shere Kahn threatens all the animals in person during a drought, thus prompting the wolves to hold a council. Mowgli decides it’s better for him to go than to endanger his adoptive family and leaves with Bagheera, not necessarily to go to the man village.
1967: Mowgli is hypnotized by Kaa and almost eaten, but is saved by Bagheera. Then, Mowgli is so stubborn that Bagheera abandons him to fend for himself.
2016: Shere Kahn attacks Bagheera and Mowgli, but Mowgli escapes on his own. Mowgli is hypnotized by a female Kaa and almost eaten, but is saved by Baloo.
1967: Baloo happens across moping Mowgli and tries to teach him to fight and roar like a bear. Bagheera thinks Mowgli is under attack and returns, only to witness Mowgli fall under Baloo’s spell as he sings a song about living a carefree life in the jungle. (Some Lion King parallels here.)
2016: Baloo makes Mowgli get honey for him, which Mowgli does by making all sorts of tools and contraptions, as only a human can do, and the two become friends.
1967: Mowgli gets kidnapped right out from under Baloo’s nose by the monkeys. King Louie (an orangutan) tells Mowgli he will ensure that Mowgli can stay safe in the jungle forever if he brings back fire. Mowgli says he can’t, but has a lot of fun dancing until he’s ‘rescued’ by Bagheera and Baloo.
2016: Bagheera tells Baloo that Mowgli must go to the man village and convinces him to betray his friendship. Mowgli is deeply hurt. Then he gets kidnapped and taken to the king of the monkeys, a threatening and impossibly giant being who sings and wants fire. Mowgli gets rescued by Bagheera and an admirably loyal Baloo, but finds out to his horror that his wolf dad has been killed by Shere Kahn… a fact his friends had kept from him.
1967: Bagheera tells Baloo that Mowgli must go to the man village and convinces him to betray his friendship. Mowgli is deeply hurt. He gets attacked by Kaa again, but escapes on his own and goes wandering off morosely into the land of some British vultures with weird hair, who tease and then befriend him.
2016: Mowgli goes and steals fire from the man village and returns to his jungle home to confront Shere Kahn.
1967: Shere Kahn attacks Mowgli. Baloo and the vultures fight and distract him. Lightning strikes a dead tree, which catches fire. The vultures tell Mowgli that fire is the only thing that scares Shere Kahn. Mowgli ties a burning branch to Shere Kahn’s tail and he runs off. Baloo seems to have died after being bitten by Shere Kahn, but wakes up during Bagheera’s teary eulogy.
2016: Mowgli has accidentally set the forest on fire but he doesn’t use the fire on Shere Kahn. His friends fight Shere Kahn while he builds a deadly trap. After Shere Kahn has fallen to his death, Mowgli and his elephant friends divert the river to put out the fires in the jungle.
1967: Everyone’s okay now, and it seems that Mowgli will stay with Baloo (not the wolves) forever. That is, until Mowgli catches sight of a girl just outside the man village. She’s singing and collecting water. He gets all twitterpated (love crazy, like the animals in Bambi in springtime) and decides to follow the girl back into the village. Baloo is momentarily annoyed while Bagheera is gratified, and then the two animals go off singing into the jungle. The End.
2016: Mowgli goes back to living with all his friends in the jungle, most particularly the wolves, who now are more accepting of his human abilities. The End.
More Thoughts on the Jungle Book Movies
The core of the 1967 movie is the friendship between the boy and the bear. Apparently Walt Disney took Rudyard Kipling’s setting and some ideas for characters but almost nothing else; he insisted that the people working on his film NOT read the book. It was a successful movie, so he must have done something right.
In terms of drama, the 2016 movie is better. The protectiveness Bagheera feels towards Mowgli is still there, as is the boy/bear friendship, but there’s so much more going on, mostly relating to the wolves. The wolf pack is where Mowgli’s story begins and ends. Mowgli’s identity is painfully split between boy and wolf in a way that has to be reconciled by the end of the story. The threat to the wolves is what sends Mowgli towards the man village at the beginning, what maintains the tension in the middle of the story, and what brings Mowgli back for a confrontation with Shere Kahn at the end.
The elephants, too, have a more important role to play in the 2016 movie. In the 1967 movie, the elephants are little more than a distraction. They march around on a military patrol, led by an comically self-important patriarch. When Mowgli wanders off, Shere Kahn overhears Bagheera asking the elephants to look for him, which they do, because Mowgli made friends with the baby. But they don’t find him, or enter into the story again. In the 2016 movie, the elephants are far from silly. They are revered as mysterious creator gods of the jungle, and—after Mowgli rescues the baby—play a pivotal role in the finale, helping Mowgli balance the man-made disaster with a similarly man-made solution.
So Disney’s classic Jungle Book cartoon is a classic, though not my favorite, and its new version is actually more complex than I gave it credit for.
Now all that’s missing is a comparison with the book!
Oh. No, I’m wrong. There are two other live-action Disney remakes. After reading that article, though, I don’t feel any particular need to see them. Ever.
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Yokohama – Manchester United’s manager, David Moyes, make sure Wayne Rooney will join teammate during a visit to Sweden in a pre-season tour of 2013. “As far as we know, Rooney will come,” said the former Everton’s tactics interpreter, Tuesday, July 23, 2013.
Rooney can not follow the Manchester United pre-season tour to Asia because of a hamstring injury. Rooney got injured when carrying out joint exercises in Thailand. Because seriously, who has the nickname Shrek striker was sent home to England.
Rooney also had predicted should istrihat for one month. This means that Rooney will not undergo a preseason game match other MU. The 27-year-old, said Moyes, his physical condition has improved. “Right now, he has started to jog,” said the man’s passport Scotland.
In addition, Moyes also discuss the future of Rooney was a warm conversation. Moyes insists Everton’s academy dropout to survive in the MU. “We and the club said that he tida tela for sale. Was not going to change,” said 50-year-old coach.
As is known, Rooney wanted to leave Manchester United because the club was not happy at Manchester City’s neighbors. Several Premier League’s top clubs were trying to capitalize on this situation. Chelsea and Arsenal rumored to be the club’s most industrious Rooney hook.
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Really, Rosie? Rosie O’Donnell, TV’s Erstwhile “Queen of Nice,” Loses Bully Pulpit Once Again and Is Finally Outed as the “Nastiest Woman in America!”
Music, Television April 3, 2012
Throughout my long(ish) career in the entertainment business, I’ve often been fascinated by the disconnect between a celebrity’s public persona and the more banal but factual aspects of how they deport themselves, especially with subordinates. Perhaps no public person better illustrates the dissonance between image and reality than America’s favorite closet bully, Rosie O’Donnell. In fact, you may be surprised to learn that if you look up the word “oxymoron” in Webster’s Dictionary, there is a picture of Miss O’Donnell without her make-up and the caption “The Queen of Nice.” That was her sobriquet back in the gay 1990s when she ruled daytime television with her sycophantic worship of stars and endless product endorsements.
While I was not surprised when I recently read a RadarOnline item that Ms. O’Donnell’s failing daytime talk show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network was being put out of its misery, it did make me sad because the piece also quoted a former staffer who described the show as “a fucking hellhole.” Damn! I had so hoped that being richer than Midas and, more importantly, becoming a mom, had had a palliative effect on the tortured comic and helped to take the edge off what can best be described as Rosie’s pathological need to destroy other human beings. The article added that several staffers were also very upset “when O’Donnell clashed with Oprah Winfrey’s longtime director Joe Terry. People thought she humiliated him when she scolded him in front of a live audience for using the wrong camera shots, suggesting he didn’t know what he was doing. She fired Winfrey’s stage manager because she felt like he was ignoring her and not doing his job properly.” Really? Rosie? Publicly humiliate someone? Like Maria says in West Side Story upon learning that Tony killed her brother, “Please, make it not be true!”
In these days of heightened awareness about bullying in school and the destructiveness that bullying behavior has on children, I think it’s relevant to mention that adults get bullied too. In the grown-up world, the power differential necessary to enable bullying behavior is, perhaps, nowhere more prevalent and enabled than in show business, where celebrities (who are frequently grown-up victims of bullying themselves—or, in many cases, not so grown-up) essentially have free rein to behave poorly and denigrate, demean, and diminish staffers, colleagues,and co-workers with impunity. But in the pantheon of spoiled singers, asshole actors, and pampered prima donnas that I have observed over the last thirty years, I have never—but never—seen anything like Rosie O’Donnell when she’s pissed.
I know whence I speak, for I too have been publicly “O’Donnelled” not once but twice in the mid-nineties. In the years that have passed I have heard similar horror stories anecdotally from many, many other people. After hearing about Rosie’s most recent spree of bullying on Oprah’s network, I have decided that something must be done: I propose we form a twelve-step group called “Rosie Anonymous,” where people who have been publicly humiliated or whose lives have otherwise been negatively impacted by this monster can share their stories and let each other know that they are not alone. I am anticipating that this blog entry may engender some antipathy from those who feel that perhaps, by writing my first-hand stories about Rosie, I am, in fact, doing the same thing to her that she did to me. To those people I say only this: the time has come to stop predators like Rosie O’Donnell. Besides, nobody would ever call me “The Queen of Nice.” The public, to the extremely limited extent that I have one, may refer to me as “that Queen,” or even “that Bitchy Queen,” and to those folks I simply say, “yes dear, how can I help?”
So my friends, here at last is a dollop of desiccated Rosie O’Donnell derision; a dish best served cold and undiluted:
Imagine if you will: it is 1995. I had just signed Billy Porter, an extremely gifted singer, to my fledgeling production company DHM. Though it was my first endeavor in artist management after several years working as a songwriter and at record labels, what I lacked in experience I made up for in commitment, loyalty, and a strong work ethic. I felt very sure that Billy was going to be the next Luther Vandross or Donny Hathaway; his voice was that kind of amazing and I was single-minded in my objective to make him a household name. I had originally heard about Billy through friends in the theater community as he had some major Broadway credits at that point. What he didn’t have and what he really wanted, was a record contract and I was working my ass off to make that happen.
At the time I first met him, Billy was in Washington, DC, with the revival of Grease which, as they used to say in the old days, they were about to “bring in to New York.” This production also starred Rosie O’Donnell as tough-talking Rizzo, who gets knocked up by Kenickie and sings the show’s big eleven o’clock number ” Are Worse Things I Could Do,” (the fact that Rosie O’Donnell could not sing a note was of no importance to producers Fran and Barry Weissler, who pretty much invented stunt casting and felt, I’m sure, that Rosie mauling the show-stopping number was a small price to pay to get asses in their seats.) Billy was very fond of Rosie. Rosie was very fond of Billy. I should mention that like most stars, Rosie could be very charming when motivated but, alas, she only managed “up,” meaning if you were rich or famous or gloriously talented Rosie would do to you what she did to celebrities on her show—she would redefine “sucking up.” If, however, you were just a regular person, or God forbid, a subordinate, she very well might ruin your life. Like a wild boar, if she sensed you were afraid of her, O’Donnell went for blood. In this sense, the future “Queen of Nice” was your garden variety schoolyard bully.
But what if you were a complete stranger like I was the first time I got “O’Donnelled?” We were backstage after some benefit or another in the Mike Todd room at the Palladium, a big nightclub on 14th Street. I was standing with some friends from Atlantic Records and I noticed Rosie a few feet away speaking to a few people. Billy Porter, my client, was also present but standing nearby speaking to someone else. At the appropriate moment, I broke in and politely introduced myself to Billy’s dear friend Rosie in front of a group of people that included Atlantic Records personnel:
Me: (warmly, but professional) Excuse me, Rosie, I just wanted to take a second and introduce myself. I’m David Munk, Billy’s manager. He’s spoken so highly of you and I just wanted to say what a pleasure it is—
Rosie: (like a Cobra striking ) —OH. YOU’RE THE MANAGAH. So tell me what the hell you’re doin’ fa him and what’s goin’ on with his record deal?
Me: (confused by her combativeness, but with a laugh) Well Rosie, I’m so glad you’ve taken such a strong interest in how we’re doing. As a matter of fact, we just cut a few new demos and I’ve started meeting with several labels and I’m getting very positive feedback. (This must be a joke, don’t seem defensive) It’s very early, it’s only been about three weeks actually, since we finished re—
Rosie: (sensing fear, growing) —Yeah, well who ya played it for?
Me: Wow—well, um…several people—actually, I had a meeting up at Warner Bros. and—
Rosie: —Warner Bros.? Who?
Me: My friend Carl Scott is the head of—
Rosie: —Neva heard a him. You know what? Let me give you some advice because it’s obvious ya need some: you ain’t thinkin’ big and if you don’t start thinking’ big you’re gonna fuck this up is what ya gonna do. With someone as talented as Billy ya gotta think big or ya gonna fuck it up. Why don’t you call David Geffen? You called Geffen?
Me: (staring blankly at her—dumbfounded)
Rosie: WELL WHY DON’T YOU CALL GEFFEN, THEN?
Me: (Billy is hearing all of this and I am now shrinking; yes, I am the Incredible Shrinking Young Manager) You know what Rosie? I don’t know David Geffen personally but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that you probably do know David Geffen so if you’re really interested in being helpful, I suspect he’ll take your call before he’ll take my call so why don’t you pick up the phone and show me how ya get David Geffen on the phone! Excuse me, I see a friend, pleasure to have met you.
At that point, I did what anybody in my position would do: I went to the bathroom and threw up. And not for nothing, but in 1995, though one of the richest men in show business, Geffen had virtually nothing to do with music and was, ostensibly, focusing on his year-old film studio Dreamworks SKG. But that didn’t matter to Rosie as the point was not to be helpful but to beat the shit out of me in front of my client.
I’m reminded of the old adage, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig!”
Overall, I thought that I actually handled the situation pretty well, but I was truly traumatized that Billy heard me spoken to so disrespectfully and with such harsh criticism of my judgment. Having a major star verbally attack me in public and especially within his earshot was not something that I was prepared for. How do you prepare for something like that anyway? Pepper spray? Tazer? Raw meat? A stool and a whip?
Having had a long history of being bullied as a child, I found this experience to have, perhaps, even more of a negative impact than it should have. I talked about it a lot to a few close friends and with my therapist and I started to get my confidence back as things slowly returned to normal. I did, indeed, get Billy a record deal with A&M Records within six months of being “O’Donnelled”—maybe less—and I started feeling better. We got Billy’s version of the Denise Rich/Peter Zizzo/Tina Shafer song “Love Is On The Way” (later recorded by Celine Dion) placed as the sound bed for the montage sequence of a major film, The First Wives Club—a major get. Billy’s own CD was, by that time, almost finished and we were beginning to talk about marketing with the label. At that point, I felt that my work on Billy’s behalf was fairly unassailable, that is, until it happened again:I got publicly “O’Donnelled” a second time. I still feel queasy just remembering it.
Billy Porter’s “Untitled” CD, which I Executive Produced for Billy and A&M Records
Billy told me one day that Rosie had gotten her own daytime talk show and she had asked him to be the musical guest on the very first episode. Well, actually, it wasn’t the first episode, it was a safety they were taping in advance of beginning the live show a few days later. The record label was concerned that Billy was just considered a Broadway singer and they wanted him to sing something from the new record, which was a more mainstream pop collection. I spoke to the talent coordinator on the show and we had a few friendly conversations because the show (or Rosie) had wanted him to sing something more theatrical—but we worked it out in what was, at least from my end, a few completely normal and always professional series of phone calls.
We showed up on the appointed morning at 6:00 am for the taping. We were bleary-eyed and, of course, I was a bit nervous, in light of my previous “O’Donnelling.” I was sitting on the set, drinking a cup of coffee while Billy talked to the musical director, John Mc-whatever-the-fuck-his-name-was. Suddenly, there she was, with no make up which is, to be kind, not a great look. I flashed on the scene in Godzilla when when the monster suddenly emerges in Tokyo Bay. I sat there quietly praying while Rosie spoke to Billy, trying to be both present and invisible in the hopes of fullfilling my professional necessity to be there without drawing any undue attention to myself. It was posture that was unsustainable. She looked up and saw me. I figured that I may as well meet her gaze, greet her warmly, and hope for the best.
Me: (meekly) Hi Rosie.
Rosie: Who are you?
Me: I’m Billy’s manager, David Munk.
Rosie: (pouncing, like when a big cat sees a gazelle on a nature show) Oh, you again! WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO HEAH FROM MY STAFF THAT BILLY PORTER’S MANAGAH IS CAUSIN’ PROBLEMS?
Me: (Stunned; I experience that vertiginous sensation like that shot in Goodfellas when the foreground and the background begin to change places) Um…I’m not sure what your staff—
Rosie: (growing) THAT BILLY PORTA’S MANAGA IS A PAIN IN THE ASS AND WON’T LET BILLY SING A BROADWAY SONG ON MY SHOW. ARE YOU AN ASSHOLE? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS CAN DO FA HIM AND I HAVE TO HEAH THAT YOU’RE DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH?
Me: Okay Rosie, I’m not sure what your staff told you, but I promise you there was nothing unprofessional in my conversations with your people. There were a few phone calls back and forth and we worked it out. The record label didn’t want him to sing a show tune and it’s my job as the manager to run interference and do what’s in Billy’s best interest. I would be glad to speak with whomever on your staff spoke with you…
There was more, but I’ve blocked it out—a blur—like the Dali dream sequence in Hitchcock’s Suspicion. I just kind of mentally blacked out at that point. Even with my personal history of managing such encounters, there is only so much ignominy you can take before the switch gets turned off. Besides, I was out of practice. It had been more than ten years since I left East Brunswick and, apart from the occasional comment on the street, I had banished such feelings of humiliation beneath a landfill-size mountain of grandiose ambition and fuck-em-all revenge fantasies, just like practically every other person I’d encountered in the music business. We were, all of us, overgrown adolescents trying work through craters of insecurity and repair the pockmarks of our personal trauma with attention, power, position, money, and the endless admiration of everyone. Rosie was just an extreme example of everything I hated most about my childhood, squeezed like a sausage into a pantsuit and droppin’ her “g’s.”
The worst was still to come. Billy did end up firing me about a week before the first single was released from the album. As usual, I was naive and dreamy. I thought my love for Billy Porter, respect for his talent and the fact that I had produced results meant that we would be a team forever, but that is usually not how it works. I really should have had other clients. I should also not have spent my 401K from Time Warner acting like I was a big shot so Billy would feel properly cared for: paying to take Billy on trips; to concerts; paying for recording sessions and never billing back for anything—extremely unprofessional. We’ve since had some closure, though it took a good many years.
I’ll never know for sure why Billy felt he needed to move on, but I have always felt that Rosie O’Donnell may have been pressuring Billy to “think biggah!” He was even younger than me and we were both under a lot of pressure. Rosie, however, is another story. As you can see, toward her I still harbor plenty lots of rancor. How about this: how about in these democratized days of the Internet, we have a “Stand Your Ground” policy that permits the use of deadly Internet force whenever we feel threatened by Rosie O’Donnell and bullies of her ilk? Let’s speak up and speak out and let people like Rosie O’Donnell know that being famous is not a privilege that allows you to act like Marie Antoinette, or, in Rosie’s case, Godzilla.
I would like to hear from other people who have Rosie stories. As they say in recovery, “We are only as sick as our secrets.” And as for the erstwhile “Queen Of Nice,” I would like to recommend a career in wrestling or the roller derby or, even better, just go back to Tokyo Bay and wait for the sequel.
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Jim C
Good for u having the courage to share your horrible treatment by Rosie. We all have issues, but treating people like garbage should never be tolerated. Looks like Karma is visiting Rosie. Maybe Rosie will think twice before steamrolling someone with her meanness.
Hi Jim, Thanks so much for taking the time to read my blog. It’s great to hear from people — I hope you’ll keep reading. David
LaRayne
I have hear this one too many times about her. She is voted off my planet..
PS… this will cause her cankles to swell, but I love your blog…
keep the faith my friend…
Hi there — thank you so much for taking the time to check in with me. Please keep reading and let me know how I’m doing! David
GardenerGirl
Very interesting if horrifying story thanks for sharing!
Personally I never understood the Queen of Nice moniker…she always scared the bejeeses out of me. She also seemed like a messy hoarder will all those little toys she was lays collecting.
Can’t imagine what her personal spaces look like when not being kept up by someone as their full time job. Probably messy, cluttered, trashy dumps.
No one cares that she is a lesbian anymore. Admitting your are a gay nowadays is about as brave, revealing and riviting as admitting you’re black or a working woman or had a facelift. Its been done.
Stick a fork in her she’s done.
Her “queen of mean” has caught up with her perhaps.
Hi Roberta — thanks for your comments. They gave me a good laugh! The idea of sticking a fork in Rosie is very appealing and extremely visually persuasive – I can almost hear the noise it would make. I also love the idea of her being a hoarder, though I always thought of her crazy desk as more of her reflection of a willingness to sell any product under the sun. Yes, she is a frightening mess of a human being and it felt cathartic to finally tell my story!
I hope you keep reading my blog. I have some great stuff planned. David
Eulah Canzoneri
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God, what a bitch. Rosie and Donald sound like they would be perfect together.
That’s the irony Joe. They’re exactly the same!
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1978/79? | age 10/11? Ratcheting-up the evil of the Empire still further, the Imperials kill Rebel Prisoners at Yavin IV. I’d read plenty of WWII comics by this time and was familiar with SS tactics against civilians and prisoners.
Yet Another Massacre
Above: Shocking stuff. Poor Spider-head man. And what are those rocks doing there?
Is that poor Spider-head man from the Mos Eisley Cantina? I bet he wishes he hadn’t signed-up with the rebels. Though if he’d stayed in Mos Eisley, he probably would have died too. (I wonder where that costume came from? An old giant spider monster B-movie?)
I’d already had <Stormtroopers murder the ENTIRE POPULATION of Mos Eisley—right from the get-go in this comic—as a reprisal for the Rebels destroying the Death Star. Any innocent and unrelated people would do as a reprisal, it seems. And on the previous page, they massacred all of the Rebels’ abandoned droids. Strangely enough, in this page, there seems to be a ready-made prison camp at Yavin, with a sentry tower and barbed wire. It’s in keeping with Star Wars’ echoes of the WWII imagery and equipment which we’d seen in the first film.
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Lidice in Space?
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Gosh, I had to look that one up, Rob. That’s shocking.
Lidice, Czech village, raised to the ground and all of its inhabitants shot or sent to concentration camps by the SS. As a reprisal for the assasination of Nazi general Reyhard Heydrich.
Warlord comic would depict this kind of thing quite often. “Reveal the whereabouts of the partisans, or escaped enemy soldiers, or we will shoot 1 villagers per day.”
Grim stuff for me to introduce to Star wars. Granted, the Death Star destroyed an entire planet, but it was distant. This, and the Mos Eisley massacre is right up close. Warlord comic tended to show a lot of this kind of thing. It was less than 20 years after WWII and they took a very 1-sided approach. Germans and Japanese frequently shot civilians and prisoners.
The later ‘Battle’ comic fom IPC was more nuanced.
Distance does tend to rub the rough edges off — compare the fight scenes in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” with the off-screen violence of “Crystal Skull” for example.
I remember the brutal fight on the airfield in Raiders, but no off-screen violence in Crystal Skull.
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Oh, actually I recall Indy fighting the big Russian guy. That was pretty brutal bare-knuckle stuff.
Phil Custodio
That looks like the Death Squad Commander action figure! He really earns his title here
He’s funny looking though, Phil! No neck.
Short, but deadly.
I loved the teeny picture of him on the back of the action figure card backs. Of course, I eventually got the figure too.
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Senate Week in Review: June 24-28, 2019
The United States Supreme Court ruled during the week that courts have no role in deciding partisan gerrymandering claims, a decision that Senate Republicans say further underscores the need for a fair maps redistricting process in Illinois.
In other action, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed legislation on June 25 that makes Illinois the 11th state to legalize the recreational use and sale of cannabis for adults.
And a new law increasing the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 is among several other new laws that will take effect on July 1.
Courts have no role in policing gerrymandering
On June 27, the United States Supreme Court ruled that courts have no role in deciding whether state legislative and federal Congressional maps are drawn for the benefit of a certain political party. Senate Republicans say this decision further underscores the need for the Illinois General Assembly to approve a state constitutional amendment to allow for fair maps in Illinois.
Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady issued the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court ruling:
“Today’s ruling by the United States Supreme Court shows the time is now for the Illinois General Assembly to vote upon Senate Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 4. This bipartisan measure, which has 37 sponsors (enough to pass the measure) would give the people of Illinois the opportunity to amend the Illinois Constitution and create a new, non-partisan system for drawing maps.
A healthy democracy requires competitive elections and new ideas, which is in the people’s best interest. Our current system, which gives the party in power ultimate authority to redraw legislative maps, inhibits that. As a result, I am calling on the Illinois Senate President to ensure this bipartisan measure gets called for a vote, and for the Governor to follow through with his pledge to support fair maps in Illinois. We need to take the power of drawing legislative maps away from politicians and put it in the hands of the people.”
Residents can voice their support for fair maps by signing a petition at http://senatoroberweis.com/.
Recreational cannabis legal in Illinois beginning January 1
Signed by Governor Pritzker on June 25, the new recreational use and sale of cannabis law (House Bill 1438/PA 101-0027) sets in place regulations for businesses, possession limits for consumers, tax rates, and a process for expungement of records.
Adults ages 21 and older can possess up to 30 grams of cannabis or five grams of concentrate. Those with medical cannabis cards can grow up to five plants for personal use.
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The law also puts a process in place for those with possession offenses or manufacture/deliver offenses of 30 grams or less to have their records expunged by the Governor. Those convicted of crimes dealing with 30 grams or more must apply to the Prisoner Review Board for possible expungement.
Adults can begin buying and using cannabis legally starting January 1, 2020.
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The new fiscal year begins on July 1, and several new laws will also take effect.
Perhaps the most high-profile of these new laws to take effect on July 1 is the new law that increases the age to purchase tobacco, electronic cigarettes, or alternative nicotine products from 18 to 21. House Bill 345/PA 101-0002 also eliminates penalties for underage possession; however, retailers will still be fined for selling restricted products to underage customers. A number of communities in Illinois already have Tobacco 21 rules, but beginning July 1, this will be the statewide standard.
Other new laws taking effect July 1 include:
Texting While Driving Penalties (HB 4846/PA 100-0858): States that first-time incidences of driving while operating a handheld mobile device are considered a “moving violation,” and the operator using a hand-held device could face a $75 fine. Previous law considered first-time offenses as a “non-moving violation.”
State Hospital Residents ID (SB 2903/PA 100-0717): Requires the Secretary of State to issue a standard Illinois ID card to a person upon conditional release or absolute discharge from the custody of the Illinois Department of Human Services.
Chronic Absence Data Collection (HB 5771/PA 100-0819): Requires any preschool that receives funding via the Preschool for All program to collect and review its chronic absence data and determine what systems of support and resources are needed to positively engage chronically absent students and their families to encourage the habit of daily attendance and promote success.
School Report Card Attendance (SB 1532/PA 100-0448): Provides that the State Report Card for schools must contain data on average daily attendance.
Instructional Day Definition (SB 28/PA 101-0012): Defines a school instructional day as a minimum of five clock hours of seat time. Provides that participation in dual credit enrollment, in a supervised career development experience, in a youth apprenticeship or in a blended learning program will be counted toward the calculation of clock hours of school work per day. Expands the e-learning pilot program to all school districts and provides that the regional offices of education or intermediate service centers have the responsibility to verify e-learning programs prior to their use in a school district.
Diversion from Institutionalization (SB 2424/PA 100-0924): Requires the Illinois Department of Human Services to create the Diversion from Facility Based Care Program consisting of at least six homes in various locations to serve individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are at risk of institutionalization.
Government Entity Billing (SB 544/PA 100-0994): Amends the Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act to allow for billing of certain government entities by circuit clerk for civil filing fees and to clarify civil case debt collection fees.
Illinois Liquor Control Commission (SB 3022/PA 100-1050): Makes the Illinois Liquor Control Commission independent from the Illinois Department of Revenue. The Commission had been merged with the Department by an Executive Order from Governor Rod Blagojevich in 2003.
Meat Products for Personal Use (SB 1364/PA 100-1185): Expands the options a Type I meat processing establishment may pursue to process or slaughter meat for its own personal use.
Criminal Fines (SB 1328/PA 100-1161): Increases the minimum felony fine from $25 to $75.
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Apparently I have a Sherlockian happy place.
Let me tell you about last night, to set things up. Polar vortex blowing in, which so many of us now have stories of, and here in Peoria, being treated more "kindly" than Minneapolis or Chicago, were expecting twenty below with fifty below wind chills by morning. And the icy winds were blowing in.
The good Carter and I battened the hatches, made all necessary prep, and sat down to watch a little TV and the latest adventure of Sherloque Wells. (A.K.A. CW's The Flash series this season.) When Sherloque was done, we settled into a movie, the latest Ghostbusters, which we'd both seen and enjoyed, when . . . BLOOP! . . . all the power goes out. Somewhere in the distance, something has gone wrong for about forty-seven homes, in a strip running through our neighborhood.
We're sitting in the dark, our furnace shut horribly silent, and checking with the power company to see what's up. Their robo-phone line says "A crew has been dispatched, estimated time for power to be restored, two hours." Two hours. Fine.
We play Quiddler, we have a ukelele concert, I read aloud from John Kendrick Bangs plays.
At the end of those two hours, our robo-friend says "Service has been delayed. The issue is line damage." I'm making good progress at reading Lyndsay Faye's Paragon Hotel by battery-powered lamplight, and it's distracting me pretty well.
But at the end of another two hours, robo-lady repeats the same message. And as we pass the midnight hour, it seems like a good time to try to get maybe a little rest. But the uncertainty of what's in the future of our pipes and plaster haunts me, just as the winds whistles and moans outside and the 1930s vintage house makes the old wood creaks of a sailing ship. Rest just isn't going to come.
And by the time the two a.m. hour hits, I'm really stressing. When those brave souls who tend the lines suddenly finish their work at around 2:15, the power returns, the furnace starts warming us back up, but I cannot sleep for over an hour yet . . . and the building insecurity of the past six hours has taken its toll and I just can't relax. Until about an hour and change later, I finally drift off.
Now, the human brain can be a marvelous thing sometimes. It can give us all sort of obsessive-compulsive hang-ups, anxieties we can't get past, etc., but occasionally it can just give a person exactly what they need at a given moment. When I woke up today, all the stress was not only gone, but I felt as warm and secure as could be. And much of that, I attribute to my brain finding a happy place for me while I slept.
Where was that happy place?
Well, before I awoke I was dreaming of being at the final wrap-up panel of another 221B Con, where everyone had lovely couches to sit on instead of the usual hotel chairs. The team that runs the Con was talking about how well the con had went this year, and all was just as right with the world as right could be.
As I've written many times in this blog, 221B Con is a joyful, accepting place. Those traditional Sherlockians I've found who didn't enjoy it usually aren't accepting it for being what it is, not the other way around. No matter how "fish out of water" a situation I've walked into at 221B Con, whether an Omegaverse panel or a wedding reception for Sherlock and John dolls, I've never felt unwelcome. Lacking in social skills, maybe. Not being up on some new corner of Sherlockian culture, occasionally. But never unwelcome. Even just babbling about some silly thing to strangers on an elevator, 221B Con has always felt like the kind of thing you'd expect the true Good Place to be like: A happy enclave of diverse strangers who, by the end of the weekend, feel like cousins.
So where did my brain put me, when it needed a dream of comfort and warmth? 221B Con. Which is apparently my mind palace's current happy place. And I'm good with that. Especially since April is not all that far away.
As much as I am now a card-carrying member of Doyle's Rotary Coffin, and the membership card vows to honour the code "All Holmes is good Holmes," it may be a struggle.
A.) Because it uses the British preference of "Holmes," which then includes Oliver Wendell. (Though "Sherlock" would include basketball players, etc., so it has the same deficiencies.)
And, B.) Because I know in my heart there is bad Sherlock. Bad for me, just as a meal of heavy cream sauce over deep-fried lard would be bad for me to attempt to digest.
It's a sort of ideal that one aspires to, but overall can lack as much empathy as its reverse. There are times when we don't want to insist too much on the positive as well. Shouting "SEASON FOUR OF SHERLOCK WAS GREAT!!!" is probably not going to win you any friends in some company. Even good Sherlocks had some bad Sherlock in their run, be they the sainted Jeremy Brett or the classic Basil Rathbone. And those fellows that came before Rathbone . . . well, they're a bit of a kink for a modern viewer.
But see what I just did there? I went from the a fairly agreeable statement (All long-running Holmeses can have clunkers.) to a rather obnoxious statement about other Sherlockians (Fans of old movies are kinksters.). And that's where the trouble starts. I am probably more guilty of that than anybody. (No, I don't still think Elementary fans are "zombies." And I have built up my resistance to adding "but . . ." to that statement.)
We need to retain the ability to point out flaws or things about a Sherlockian work that disagree with us. Though we'd like all Sherlockiana to be "critic-proof" in terms of box office, ratings, or sales, at the same time we still need to be able to state our personal reaction to a given work. There are those fans of anything who are so intent on their love of it that any negative review is going to push them into pain or anger, but at the same time, any Sherlockian who loves Michael Dibdin's The Last Sherlock Holmes Story so much that they can't see how it might negatively affect another Sherlockian is surely a sociopath.
Dammit, I did it again. I'm sorry, sociopaths.
Social media has offered us some real challenges as it has opened our windows to the rest of humanity. The greatest of these has to be accepting that another human being has a view we, in our very hearts, think is wrong, wrong, wrong and not going to war against them unless they're actually hurting others. And that always has to be our line in our reviews, even though it's a line that can geta little hazy: Is this going to hurt someone?
On the other side of things, there's a response to criticism that I've been hearing a lot of lately, and it's one I've started using myself: "That's fair." Because sometimes we aren't doing our best work, sometimes the points are valid, and sometimes the food is just too spicy for someone else's tastebuds. Finding enough common ground to agree on even one point in a work you have different reactions to is a healthy start to a conversation, and a conversation, as opposed to an argument, is even healthier still.
Is all Sherlock good Sherlock? Well, I see your point, and yet . . . .
We got a brand new podcast this morning, and its first episode was something of a delight. Mattias Boström, the author of my favorite Sherlockian book of recent memory From Holmes to Sherlock, released Talk About Sherlock, a thoughtful, twenty-five minute podcast.
For a single-speaker podcast, I find twenty-five minutes to be about the right length, and better still was the subject matter: A full consideration of something that happened in the world of Sherlock Holmes within the last month. We, quite naturally, tend to focus on the distant past in this Sherlockian hobby of ours, even in current interviews with current Sherlockians, and it's easy to get a little bored by the same old topics. In his first episode, Mattias analyzes the virtual lynching that seemed to spring up around the latest Sherlock Holmes movie's release. ("Virtual lynching" is my biased coloring of the Holmes and Watson incident, not his.) And while it might be hard to keep every episode on such a current event in our culture, it was a quite refreshing change to kick off a show with.
Early on, our newest podcaster asks us to "excuse my occasional mistreatment of the English language," but like the early episodes of The Baker Street Babes podcast, I found that hearing spoken words from a non-American voice adds just that much more spice to what's being said. (There's a reason so many popular YouTubers are out of England or Australia. Sorry, Canadians -- just not different enough!) The host being from Sweden doesn't hurt Talk About Sherlock in the slightest. In fact, it's sure to give the podcast a valuable perspective for those of us who don't get out of our country much.
As our list of Sherlockian podcasts gets longer and longer . . . side note, someone needs to come up with a short history of Sherlockian podcasting at this point, so I can say with authority whether I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere was first . . . the variety that we're getting . . . excuse me, another side note, bring back Sherlock and knitting, you-know-who-who-is-probably-too-busy-right-now-but-it-still-needs-to-be-said . . . is really quite lovely . . . do I have an attention deficit issue? JUST END THE SENTENCE, BRAD!!
Anyway, as I was saying, great new podcast, worth a listen even if you don't fully trust mad bloggers. You'll want to get in early for this one.
As we go from very cold to very, very, very cold in parts of the country this week, an important question arises: Do we turn to the bitterly cold stories of Sherlock Holmes, or turn to the warmest of the tales in hopes of some illusion of comfort?
There are three of Watson's chronicles which are not only cold, but bitter cold: "Charles Augusts Milverton," "Abbey Grange," and "Blue Carbuncle." How cold was Watson's bitterly cold?
Early scholars, who liked to use old weather reports to help date the stories, put Milverton starting on an 18.9 degree February day, that being the low temperature for the day, and probably the week. (The great thing about being an American Sherlockian is that the Victorian era was still using Fahrenheit temperatures -- no conversions necessary!)
At the other end of the spectrum is "Cardboard Box," where "It was a blazing hot day in August," and "Baker Street was like an oven." Watson then talks about the brickwork across the street, and, having stayed in St. Louis on a blazing August weekend, I will attest that nothing heats up a city like brickwork. There's a reason people make brick oven pizza.
It's in "Cardboard Box" that we learn Watson had trained himself in India to tolerate heat better than cold and that "a thermometer at ninety was no hardship." As humans, I suspect we all can tolerate an uncomfortable ninety degree heat over a chill of eighteen degrees . . . one of those two things can kill us overnight, the other just makes us grumpy. (One old NASA experiment reported that over 40 and under 95 is where we humans can live just fine.) So Watson definitely didn't like those eighteen degree mornings . . . especially considering the heating technology of the 1880s.
With Wednesday's high predicted at negative eleven degrees here in Peoria, I think I'm going to drift toward the "Cardboard Box" end of the Canon temperatures for a time. And not complain too much, because we have Sherlockians in Minnesota and Canada who always have it worse.
A trip back through any Sherlock Holmes story always gives new benefits, and this week's look into "The Adventure of the Empty House" at our monthly discussion group was no different. Our limited time kept us from fully exploring a few of the wonderings that popped into my head as we moved through the text, but one of the lines that stuck with me the most is worth a second thought.
When watching a dramatized version, certain parts of the original work don't have the same impact, and I suspect that is the case with Sherlock Holmes's return from the dead. One theme that comes up time and again in this century is the thought that his allowing Watson to think he's dead is both callous and somewhat cruel. And Holmes's initial reasons certainly hit that mark -- he uses Watson:
"I owe you many apologies, my dear Watson, but it was all-important that it should be thought I was dead, and it is quite certain that you would not have written so convincing an account of my unhapppy end had you not yourself thought that it was true."
Which is interesting because Watson had not published any of the short stories at that time. A Study in Scarlet saw print in 1887, and The Sign of the Four in February of 1890, leaving well over a year -- a year in which Holmes and Watson saw very little of each other -- in which Watson writing about Holmes and publishing the stories was something Sherlock Holmes seemed to have little thought of.
Unless, of course, Watson's continued publication of Holmes's work was part of the wedge that came between them in addition to Watson's marriage. Watson was writing and wanting to publish, but The Sign of the Four may have showed just enough popularity that Holmes wanted no more of his biography in print just yet. But Watson was persisting enough that even after a year or so of not being that close, Holmes still knew his death would open the floodgates for Watson's literary career . . . as it did.
From the publishing side, Holmes using Watson this way makes a certain sociopathic sense. But it's the second part of the hoax that makes Sherlock Holmes seem a little less cruel, and makes one wonder a bit about Watson.
"Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret. For that reason I turned away from you this evening when you upset my books, for I was in danger at the time . . . ."
Like its predecessor, "The Final Problem," "Empty House" short-changes us on so many details of Sherlock Holmes's battle with Moriarty and his minions. Even though Scotland Yard thinks they've caught the whole gang in "Final," the conditions of Holmes's return tells us that they definitely did not. We know of Moran and Parker still working together, and there are hints that enough of Moran's associates are still out there that Holmes cannot show his face in London until the head of their gang is lopped off. But whatever danger exists for Sherlock Holmes, it seems extreme to Holmes himself, that Watson would definitely betray him. And Sherlock Holmes was not a man who did things for no good reason.
What indiscretion did Holmes think Watson's "affectionate regard" would bring out? Surely not an article in The Strand Magazine going, "Hey, everybody, HE'S ALIVE!" A sudden trip to Montpelier, France to see Holmes seems more probable. But was Watson prone to other indiscretions that we don't know of? Gossipy with his billiards buddy Thurston, or the boys at the club? Sure to tell Mary, who was the real big mouth of the couple?
As always, there are depths to these texts of which we may never know the full extent.
Tonight's meeting of the Sherlock Holmes Story Society at Peoria's North Branch library was a lively discussion of "The Empty House" and other Sherlockian topics, but one little subject change at the last drew me immediately back to my lodestone of late. What topic? What lodestone?
Well, one of our number who is associated with the Peoria Riverfront Museum, was talking about a medical history exhibit coming to the museum and a book she'd read called The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine By Lindsey Fitzharris. While Lister's career preceded that of John H. Watson by some years, the point brought up was that surgery in the Victorian era tended more toward amputations than actual work in the torso.
And even though Watson came along after antiseptic and anesthesia were both being used, the fact that he was an army surgeon brought back one very grisly probability: Watson was very familiar with, and certainly capable at, performing amputations. It is not an act one wants to readily associate with our lovable teddy bear of a constant companion, but battlefield surgery had long had one major component, and that was . . . well, yeah . . . .
But, the good side!
Holmes and Watson, that merry lark of a movie which I have been rolling in like a hog in cool mud on a summer day, features one scene where Holmes calls upon Watson to get out his bonesaw, which the good doctor seems to have at the ready. At the time, it seemed just one more part of a wacky lark, involving Queen Victoria and "Toilet-sized chunks!" But with tonight's reminder that John H. Watson was, indeed, a Victorian battlefield surgeon, that's just one more insight toward what a well-considered exploration of the doctor and the detective Holmes and Watson actually was.
The Watson portrayed by John C. Reilly not on seems to have that Canonically Watsonian talent on his resume, he seems also used to fighting with amputees, as he announces when the one-armed man they're searching for tells the duo they'll have to fight their way out of the octagon. In Holmes and Watson's universe, did the one-legged Jonathan Small require more of a tussle with Watson in his capture? Or was it just trouble with those Afghan war patients?
In any case, as always, John H. Watson has just so many aspects to learn and re-learn over time, which makes him an evergreen sort of companion, doesn't it?
As Holmes himself said, "I never get your limits, Watson."
Today was a banner day, a trifecta, if you will, for the devoted fan of Holmes and Watson and its like.
Early in the wee hours of the morning came the Oscar nominations, and Bohemian Rhapsody got the nomination for best picture. And, as any serious film buff knows, Alex Basham, the practical electrician for Bohemian Rhapsody also worked as the practical electrician on Holmes and Watson. So it was great to see some of the talent that went into my favorite Sherlockian movie of last year getting some recognition.
And then came the evil twin of the Oscars, the Razzies. And there was Holmes and Watson with six nominations! There were snubs, of course, as the patriarchal Razzies sought to honor Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly without recognizing the magnificent work of Rebecca Hall, the inimitable Lauren Lapkus, Kelly Macdonald, OR Pam Ferris, each of whom did splendid work in the film. And while Etan Cohen got the directing nod, his amazing screenplay went un-nominated. But you know how these award shows are . . . so whimsical in their selections!
And then, to top all of that off, Paul Thomas Miller opened up memberships to Doyle's Rotary Coffin for simply sticking a coin in the nearest charity tin and printing out the ID card and personalizing it.
This newest Sherlockian society is described as "A society formed for the sole purpose of whole-heartedly and contrarily enjoying supid Holmesiana regardless of how canonical others consider it to be." While Holmes and Watson is sure to cause the formation of other such fan clubs and appreciation societies, Doyle's Rotary Coffin has pride of place as the first sparked from that film. What will its members be called? "Spinners?" "Coffin Nails?" "Doylerotisserie Chickens?" "Worms Unknown to Cinema Science?" Tis hard to say, so early, but there are at least three known members at this point.
And with a proper Sherlock Holmes hat as demonstrated in Holmes and Watson, and its appropriately Texas-sized membership card, affixed with a lanyard, here is a photo of its latest sign-up.
It has been quite a day.
While the internet might have given us the spoiler, the troll, and other bits of unwanted data, the place where it serves its best function is advance warning. We're much for aware of coming weather of all types, including cinematic seasons and what we can buy three months from now. So we have time to prepare.
The latest early warning for Sherlockians is that there will be merchandising for Detective Pikachu, the latest is a long line of characters who wear a deerstalker to show they're a great detective. And while it was easy to survive the Burger King toys and lawn gnomes of Sherlock Gnomes as you actively had to seek them out, Detective Pikachu is showing every sign of showing up in the stores you shop in now. And if the movie is at all successful, next Christmas is going to wash in a tide of the little fellow.
At this point, I don't know how many Sherlockian collectors remain with that attitude of a Pokemon trainer that we saw so much of in the 1980s ("Gotta catch 'em all!), but should said folk still live, they might want to prepare for the coming deerstalker storm. Also, any Sherlockian who thinks Detective Pikachu has the chance of becoming their collecting specialty might want to pre-plan as well. He's cute, and the combination of Sherlock Holmes and cute doesn't come along every day, outside of fan art. (221B Con dealer's room is coming! Love the stuff I find there.)
We've already started a year that looks to be an expensive one for Sherlockians, as opportunities for conferences and their attendant dealer's rooms abound, so this might be the month to start planning ahead . . . especially once those cute little yellow-and-deerstalkered accessories start showing up.
Back when "Sherlock Peoria" was an actual website all its own, I started a series based on an imaginary publication called The Watsonville Watsonian, whose mission it was to report on all things having to do with folk named Watson. Among its articles was a team-up between the boys Daddy Holmes and Daddy Watson that teased their hoped-for future for their sons.
The little flaw in their dream?
Jack P. Holmes and Henry M. Watson were hoping that it was their sons Mycroft and Henry Jr. who would become the detective team supreme. And when the subject of John H. Watson's brother came up in a Twitter chat with Crystal Noll this morning, I couldn't help but think of that unlikely pairing. Mycroft Holmes, unwilling to go out and investigate crime scenes, and Henry Watson, plagued with a serious drinking problem. They could have been the Victorian Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, but somewhere along the line, things just didn't work out. Mycroft wound up in government service and Henry wound up dead.
There's a story there, I think.
Mycroft, proving his amazing abilities to a key government figure by foiling a major threat to the British empire, yet losing his most important ally along the way. Perhaps that tragic victory was even what put him on a path toward never venturing outside his rooms, club, and workplace until the threat of Moriarty actually had him driving coaches for his little brother and counseling the younger Holmes not to risk another Watson in this latest war of masterminds.
Of course, that still leaves the Holmes/Watson sisters out there, ready to team-up. There has to be a Eurus/Harry fanfic out there somewhere, but I can't imagine it going any better than Mycroft/Henry. Sherlock and John remain the perfect Holmes/Watson pairing, and yet . . .
. . . well, there are still some lovely possibilities to ponder, aren't there?
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Sooooo, last weekend, huh? And here we are in this weekend.
A lot of us dealing with yet more snow, as the weather overlords are graciously giving us Saturdays to spend all day shoveling for recreation. But when the shoveling isn't happening, it's a good excuse to settle into home like the bunker for survival it is and spend some time with Sherlock Holmes . . . or John H. Watson.
Occasionally, we have to choose a focal point in dealing with the boys from a Sherlockian's perspective. Most of your intake, be it books, movies, or TV, is going to involve both, but when you go for the deep dive in your personal explorations, whether it's any sort of study or your own fiction, you often have to direct your focus on one of the two. But which one?
The cool, quirky, thinking machine or the loyal, authorial . . . cipher?
One dichotomy we don't often look at with Holmes and Watson is how one is the mystery-solver and the other is actually the mystery. Watson's dates, Watson's wives, Watson's sexuality, Watson's career path . . . while John is busy telling us all about Sherlock in great detail, he's purposefully focusing our attention away from a certain other subject: him.
Sherlock Holmes is the bright light that brings us to the party, but once we're here, eventually a Sherlockian has to go, "Hey, wait a minute . . ." and look at the man behind the curtain, John H. Watson.
One of my pet theories has always been that John H. Holliday faked his consumption and death in a very Holmes-ish "Dying Detective" manner and emigrated to London with a change of last names. Outlandish? Far-fetched? Maybe, but still not an impossibility as John H. Watson's own biography is missed so many details.
What else might there have been about the man who handed all the credit to Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes to the rest of us? Why does he see Australian gold fields when he looks are dug holes, why was there a secret manuscript of a San Francisco wedding, and why does he talk of three continents when the subject of women comes up? Is his lack of self-detail just modesty or hiding something?
One has to wonder what Sherlock Holmes knew of John H. Watson that we don't, as Holmes would never tolerate an ongoing mystery in the same set of rented rooms as himself. Could his taking Watson as a room-mate actually been a purposeful act to solve a mystery at first, that just worked out as an ongoing companion?
Ah, there's a question. But with Watson, it's just one more mystery for Sherlockians to solve. And now that we have Watsonians out there as well . . . hmm, how mysterious are they? What's going on with those dog pseudonyms? Why do they never gather en masse that we know of?
Ah, John Watson. Such a troublemaker, you are!
"This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie."
-- Sherlock Holmes, not liking people in "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"
"What is it that we love about Sherlock Holmes?" a great Sherlockian once asked as the theme for an essay of warm Sherlock fuzzies. Well, let's be honest. Sometimes we just love Sherlock Holmes because he thought the rest of us were foolish dullards. Not because we think that we are particularly dull or particularly foolish . . . but those goddamn other people.
So here we are mid-winter, post-SH-birthday, amidst a governmental break-down in both the US and the UK, and all those other people . . . even some of our friends . . . are just . . . ugh.
It's a great time for Sherlock Holmes!
Because Sherlock Holmes wasn't the guy who liked everybody. He cared about people. He tried to help those poor sods whose foolishness got them into this mess or that. And his prime mission in life was calling the world on its bullshit. (Yes, we can call such things "mysteries," but, really? A demon-dog with eyes aflame? A league to promote keeping redheads alive? A man who'd leave Mary Sutherland at the altar? Bullshit! Bullshit! And, c'mon, she wasn't that bad . . . bullshit!)
My apologies for being a bit swear-y tonight, I'm in that sort of mood. Humanity just needs to get its act together right now, including me, the swear-y blogger who should be working on other projects, and the cat on my lap that wants to bite my arm as I'm typing. We're all in a bit of a mid-winter mood right now.
Which is why this, too, is a good time for Sherlock Holmes. The detective who could end a successful case with "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable." Murder was an awful thing, not a puzzle game, and Sherlock Holmes got that. Murderers suck.
One might almost think that finding a literary hero that gets "in the dumps at times and won't open my mouth for days on end" is not a healthy option, but all of those very human, very unsociable qualities, that make Sherlock Holmes kind of a jerk are qualities that the rest of us tend to possess as well. The fact that he can stir himself to rise above them, to help humanity, and put forth, as Deadpool would say, "Maximum effort!" . . . well, that just makes him more of a hero for us than we could hope for, a hero who gets it.
And gives us the hope that we might rise past our lower attitudes as well. Any quest for the facts can take you down a dark road. Some people do things that make them unworthy of the time it takes to deal with their social summonses. Bad days are gonna come.
On those days, we still have Sherlock Holmes, bless him. A truly beautiful misanthrope who manages to get the job done despite it all.
And on we go toward better days, where he's good to have around as well.
If you collect old books, and wander the bookshops looking for familiar names, as time goes by, you may start to develop sets of non-Sherlockian books from an author with ties to Sherlock Holmes.
Over the years, I've piled up sets by a few such names. Christopher Morley . . . the easiest of the old Irregulars. Vincent Starrett . . . the harder one, though it helps to be near Chicago. Father Ronald Knox. Dorothy Sayers. Isaac Asimov. Even that Conan Doyle fellow. And, as time went on, I've gotten rid of a few as well, once I decided that, if not for their connections to Sherlock Holmes, I really didn't care for their style.
Tonight, I was bumbling about the library, knocking things over, and realized that one such old author has wound up holding a place of honor among my shelves. While others have come and gone, not a single copy of this fellow's books -- that wasn't a duplicate -- has ever left my library. And why has he made it to this cherished place?
Not for great literary stature. Not for importance to the Sherlockian movement. Not because anyone else told me he was somebody I just had to have. Just a writer whose little hardbacks make me smile, both in premise and execution . . . and he just happens to hold a very special place in the history of Sherlock Holmes.
Mr. John Kendrick Bangs. The man who told Victorians what Sherlock Holmes was doing in the afterlife after Conan Doyle killed him.
Bangs' tales of ghosts and gods, writers and lovers, emperors and idiots, are light and lively and never tax one's brain overmuch at the end of a long day. He's just having fun and churning out books like an old sci-fi favorite of mine, Ron Goulart, the sort of writer who seems to like to play in their imagination more than the tortured emotions of their soul. (Those who still wonder at my joy in Will Ferrell's work may note that I've gone for light and silly for a very long time.)
How long does it take for a Sherlockian book collector to realize their old book author of choice? How many books does it take before the fix in in? With less bookshops to browse, and on-line buying having a laser focus, I wonder if future collectors will even sample some of the old authors -- most of them came my way after finding nothing directly Sherlockian after a day's search and settling on something tangential in an author or subject with any Sherlockian connection I could make. Quite a few odd old books have wound up in my library that way. Things like The Story of the Gypsies or The Pipe. But I digress.
Having a favorite author from another era who doesn't have a currently popular character gives you a certain literary mystique, I should think, so if you don't have one, you might want to give it a try. Lord knows there are enough of them out there. And the things you might learn along the way can be almost as much fun as the reading itself.
Sherlockiana sometimes seems like its own little island, far from the coast of mainstream human interactions, where Sherlockians can sit back with their figurative tropical umbrella drinks and relax and enjoy the sunshine that radiates from the master detective.
That's not true at all, of course, as current events, trends, and even our latest adaptations, born of current culture, have always affected us very deeply from our earliest writers on. Yet Sherlockiana has, until now, not really had its "kneeling during the national anthem moment," when fans of football started decrying that politics had entered their get-away-from-it-all hobby.
The Baker Street Babes tweeted a link to an essay involving the #MeToo movement by one of our current literary lights, Lyndsay Faye, this week that moves us in that direction. Whether or not it catches fire well enough to become a point of contention in our ranks has yet to be seen. Sherlockiana is a fairly conservative hobby on its elder side, but so liberal on its up-and-coming side that we're probably going to see a few more of these issues come up before things transition to future generations.
An un-named editor of the BSI's manuscript series seems to have rejected a pretty solid essay in its entirety instead of suggesting any tweaks, which says to me that said editor hit one segment of that essay as a roadblock and didn't consider its entirety. That also suggests that the deal-breaker may have been something which disagreed with said editor's worldview.
The point that inevitably comes up in these situations is "Why didn't so-and-so quietly discuss this with so-and-so, instead of making it a public issue? Why bring politics into our hobby?"
Well, politics comes into our hobby all the time, behind the scenes. When editors pick what gets published in journals, when a society head decides who can become a member, when a writer decides what he is going to post in his blog that morning. Which brings in the question: If a political choice is made in the forest where no one can hear it, is it still a political choice?
We usually only hear complaints about such issues becoming public when one disagrees so heartily with said issue that one wants to pretend it doesn't exist. And that mindset isn't good for anyone's future, as one can see playing out real-time in modern America right now.
My friend Rob and I have been having a very interesting discussion on this latest little issue, and a thoughtful discussion is always worth having . . .
Even on our tropical island in the Sherlockian sun.
Once upon a time, the aging blogger began, we had regional soda pops. Taking a vacation a day away from your home meant pop machines with an array of bottled liquids bearing names and colors you'd never seen before. A few, like the now omnipresent Mountain Dew, survived and went national. Others now reside as "Who remembers this?" photos on Facebook.
When the subject of Sherlock Holmes's April 5th birthday came up this week, I was put in mind of such regional variations, as I wondered if that date ever gained traction beyond the Southern Illinois/St. Louis area where its evangelists spent the most time.
In the early 1980s, when Father Raymond L. Holly first championed April 5 as the true date of Holmes's birth, William S. Baring-Gould had already heartily embraced January 6 in his cornerstone annotated, and the Baker Street Irregulars had well settled in with their own traditions. But the Southern Illinois scion society, the Occupants of the Empty House, went their own way, following the arguments of Father Holly, and began to celebrate that holiday on April 5.
Those arguments were based upon Holmes's rebirth in "Empty House," Anglican customs, and the detective's very name, "Sherlock," and can be most easily found in the book Commanding Views from the Empty House, in an article titled "The New Beginning." They make much more sense than Christopher Morley's flimsy hangover premise for the January date, but those early Irregulars did like their drinking jokes, as evidenced in the B.S.I. "Buy-laws."
But the reasons why one might think Sherlock Holmes's birthday is this date or that really aren't as important as the celebrations of that date which follow. Members of the Occupants of the Empty House did a very clever thing in picking their own date -- they could have a marvelous celebration at their own meetings and still attend the New York celebration of the other date with never a conflict to be had. Other dates, such as one in June, have also been proposed for similarly functional reasons, June being a better time to do most things than January.
At its core, though, is a premise Sherlockians have always held dear: Look at the original texts about Sherlock Holmes and figure things out for yourself. And then embrace those choices with all your heart. Before we even knew what "headcanon" was, with that concept acknowledging that another head might hold another fact as Canon, we let our hearts hold some things to be true, as Vincent Starrett wrote in his poem "221B."
And sometimes, specific areas of the country held those ideas as one, just like the regional soda pops of my childhood, for a similar reason . . . they were very tasty, and enjoyed by both locals and visitors.
"It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves."
Ever realize that you are Canonical before?
Our old pal John Watson speaks directly to us in that opening of "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs," asking us to decide something for him. He thinks this might be a funny story, but whether he's unsure of his own ability to tell the joke or just concerned about how some of us might take his getting shot or Nathan Garrideb winding up in a nursing home. But in his own mind, the events of "Three Garridebs" was funny enough that he has to at least mention that there was comedy there.
Maybe he's just giving us permission to laugh at this particular criminal matter before we get to the serious parts. Because even Sherlock Holmes, both before and after Watson takes a flesh wound, has to laugh at parts of it.
This is the tale where we get the phrase "crazy boob of a bug hunter." We get a visitor showing up at Baker Street who recognizes Sherlock Holmes from his pictures (perhaps one of the reasons Holmes retires not so long after this). We get that lovely quote from Holmes that could be used very neatly of late, "I was wondering, Watson, what on earth could be the object of this man in telling us such a rigamarole of lies."
Rigamarole. Sherlock Holmes says "rigamarole." If you're in a state where pot is legal, you can probably get ten minutes of giggles our of that word alone.
And a villain who says things like "Here am I, a wandering American with a wonderful tale," and expects people to take him seriously, something Sherlock Holmes doesn't from the outset. And once he's caught, even after shooting at Watson, admits, "I'm a soft-hearted guy that can't begin shooting unless the other man has a gun also." And follows it with "I've not hurt this old stiff."
As "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" wasn't published until twenty-two years after it occurred, and Watson refers to Nathan Garrideb as "our old friend," there seems a likelihood that Watson, and possibly Holmes, continued to see Garrideb once this case was over, which is perhaps where the "cost one man his reason" part came in. With the sanctum of his home and collection violated, there's a strong chance Garrideb started seeing intruders and threats to it everywhere and coming to 221B Baker Street over and over again as a returning client, to the point where Holmes and Watson saw him as a bit of a joke. (And, perhaps, gave Sherlock one more incentive to retire to Sussex.)
But there was something Watson found very funny in all this, hence the words at the outset, yet, as with all comedy, might not have been sure everyone would laugh at it. With all the other funny moments in the Canon, this is the one time he thinks it funny enough to call it out, though, which gives us a hint as to where the doctor's funny bone truly was.
I often get philosophical around this time of year.
For instance, I just remembered a time in the late 1970s when my younger brother went to his senior prom, and his classmates had decided upon the theme "Dust in the Wind." They plainly enjoyed the current hit by the group Kansas, but at the fact that a bunch of high school kids picked such a dreary nihilistic tune for their prom just seemed bizarre to me.
I mean, prom, that time when see if you are of appropriate status to get picked to go, put on a tux, and make sure you get the official picture to add to your personal permanent record . . . it's important, right? Not dust in the wind, right? And tonight is that Sherlockian prom among proms, the B.S.I. dinner. A black hole in our current social media universe, an untelevised awards show, a thing of mystery to those who haven't been, a thing of mixed emotions to those who have.
The B.S.I. dinner doesn't have advertised themes, like "Under the Sea," "Moonlight and Ham," or "Dust in the Wind." The Baker Street Babes charity ball has been going that route to great success (though still no "Moonlight and Ham," sadly). And all we hear in the aftermath of the elder event is usually new-member lists, but as with proms, it's about that moment. Either you're there or you're not. It's all about the moment itself, and luckily, no one function has the monopoly on moments.
Sherlockian moments can be such great moments, and happen all over the place, even tonight. Because like the secret of those high school kids and their "Dust in the Wind" prom theme, moments are pretty simple: "Life is short, so we'd better have sex now." (You know how proms are.)
So whatever you're doing with Sherlock tonight, I hope your moments are warm and welcome tonight, and whether or not you are getting to go to the prom, I hope you get to have sex*. Because, "Dust in the Wind," y'know?
* Or your equivalent peak experience.
One of my fascinations in the movie Holmes and Watson is a momentary flash during a dream Sherlock Holmes has, where he and his new love Millie operate an ice cream stand together.
Yes, Sherlock Holmes dreams of ice cream.
His dream ice cream shack is called "Sherlock Cones Ice Cream," and in its brief moment on the screen, I have only been able to identify three of its six advertised flavors, even after seeing the movie six times. The three I have are:
"The Game Is Afruit"
"The Six Neapolitans"
"The Sign of the Four Flavours"
And I have a vague recollection of something based on The Hound of the Baskervilles, but that may elude me until the DVD and its ability to pause come around.
Sherlock Holmes and ice cream, though, is not as odd a combo as one might think. Good ice cream is a chemistry of sorts . . . in fact, in the 1890s, Agnes Marshall, England's "queen of ices" thought liquid nitrogen might be used to make ice cream, long before Dippin' Dots, "the Ice Cream of The Future," was invented by a Southern Illinois University grad using a similar process.
The cone part of "Sherlock Cones," is, of course, another sign that Holmes and Watson is an alternate history Sherlock, as the ice cream cone wasn't popularized until a decade or so after Sherlock's dream on our Earth, at the St. Louis World's Fair. (Funny how many ice cream innovations occur not so far from here. Soft-serve started in Kankakee, and Dairy Queen in Joliet.) Of course, since Sherlock Holmes winds up in A-mehr-ica at the end of Holmes and Watson, his post-Moriarty activities and all that midwestern ice cream business could have been intertwined.
This, of course, is excellent fanfic fodder for the American adventures of Sherlock and Millie, but trying to tie Sherlock of the Doyle Canon to ice cream is a real reach. Sherlock of the Doyle Canon seems to be all about the cheese as his dairy product of choice, and even non-iced cream is nowhere to be seen.
Still, something about that chilly, tongue-coating, flavor-rich delight seems like it should have a kinship with Sherlock Holmes, like his "spirit animal of food" or something. But as with so much about that master of detectives there are wilds here to explore.
My paper in the Fall 2018 issue of The Watsonian, entitled "Conan Doyle's Curious Collection of Continuitites" put forth my multiverse theory of Watson's dates in the Sherlockian Canon. Why does Watson have Holmes investigating "Wisteria Lodge" in 1892 when he was supposed to be thought dead and on hiatus? Simple -- that was a Watson whom Conan Doyle channelled from a parallel Earth to the one which held the Reichenbach Falls moment.
So you will understand one of the reasons I found the movie Holmes and Watson to be a Sherlockian treat: It gave me dates and another parallel Earth to chart in my multiverse theory of Sherlock Holmes's lives.
The movie begins with young Sherlock starting school in 1867. He meets young Watson in that same year (at least in the American release of the film -- which might indicate a second universe for the other version) and goes on to solve his first crime, which is reported in a newspaper dated November 24, 1867.
How old is Sherlock Holmes during that formative year? Well, there we find another indicator that this is a universe quite alien to our own, where humans not only have the ability to "uncry" . . . they also look what we would see as ten or twelve years old when they are twenty-one years old. That is the case, at least, unless this Sherlock Holmes played by Will Ferrell lies about his age in his moment of revelation:
"Watson! I've discovered my emotions! And I'm only 46!"
He makes that statement in 1892, which means he would have been 21 when he started school. Given, however, that almost immediately started solving crimes, perhaps that was also the year this Sherlock started lying about his age to get into crime scenes, making him almost ten years younger than his declared 46.
Want some more cross-universe chronology fun? Not only did this Sherlock's Moriarty escape to America in 1892, his universe's RMS Titanic also set sail for America in that year, which it did about twenty years later in our universe. Of course, their Mahatma Gandhi was a shave-headed, newspaper-quote-worthy older man in their 1892 as well, when in our world he was only a newly-minted lawyer headed back to India at age 23.
Getting into the respective ages of Mrs. Hudson's many lovers -- Einstein, Houdini, Mark Twain, and Charlie Chaplin -- is a whole 'nother kettle of fish pie and swamp. Our Chaplin would have been only three years old when hanging out with Hudson. Twain, in his late fifties, might be close enough, but Harry Houdini would have been only eighteen when Hudson is calling him "dollface" and he is starting the gears that she hoped would crush Watson's head. Albert Einstein would have been thirteen when his full shock of white hair came in, but being a lover of that particular Mrs. Hudson might just age a man severely, given her seeming desire to bed all of those gentlemen simultaneously.
Before anyone complains that I'm spending far too much time considering the ramifications of utter nonsense, I would make one simple statement: Welcome to the world of Sherlockian chronology!
Our Watson(s) may have not gone quite so far astray with is dates as Holmes and Watson's newspapers and title cards, but trying to get those dates to line up requires exactly the same amount of imagination and parallel universe theory as making sense from this particular non-sense. Being a Sherlockian chronologist does a lot to mentally prepare one for a movie like this one, given that both Sherlockian chronology and comedies this wacky should have the same motto written over their doors:
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here."
Because that's definitely where the fun starts.
It may be said of my friend, Mr. Brad Keefauver, that he was not someone who did those things he enjoyed most by halves. And when the commitment to a cause took him, he became a force beyond what might be considered reasonable or rational to his fellow man. (The insights of women being so much more keen of course. And other genders doubly so.) Then it was not surprising that, early in January of 2019, we found ourselves seated for a fifth showing of that remarkable film Holmes and Watson . . .
Sorry for the royal "we," but when you "chronicle your own adventures," as it were, or "third-person narrate your own biography" . . . you know, "pound your own keyboard?" "Post your own blog?"
In any case, with only one more night of screenings left in Peoria, tonight was the night I went to see Holmes and Watson in the theater for a fifth and final time. So I feel like I might need to explain myself to those who are, perhaps, less enthusiastic about movies in general. How can a person sit through any movie five times in a few short weeks?
Well, this won't be the first time I've done such a thing -- in college it was not at all that unusual. The summer Star Wars came out, I saw it thirty-two times in the theater. And the key to seeing a movie more than a couple times is quite simple: Beyond just making you enjoy its story, the movie has to provide a world that you enjoy existing in for its run-time.
And, boy, do I enjoy the world that Holmes and Watson creates.
It's a world where Sherlock Holmes is England's greatest hero and everyone knows it. It's a world of lavish Victorian vests and long coats, giant cakes with hidden corpses that still are worth eating on your way to the morgue, and a long-suffering Mrs. Hudson whose accent is so thickly layered that its depths might hold megalodons. A world where Lestrade is properly vexed by Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft is properly superior to his brother, and the signs on institutions explain exactly what their attitude is. It's a world where folks can break into song, have sexual dreams that betray their hidden feelings at exactly the wrong moment, and invent social conventions ahead of their time while relishing the problematic viewpoints of their own era.
It's faux Victorian London via Hollywood and theme park, populated by a cast of charming louts, ladies, and street urchins of the most enjoyable sort.
At this point, I truly think John C. Reilly is in strong contention for my favorite John Watson of all time, filling out all the qualifications of a "Watson wanted" ad like a champ. Holmes and Watson is totally his story and its world is one he practically creates, loving it all from its Queen to its corpses with Watson-tinted glasses. He loves the world he lives in, and that comes through the screen as the original Canon's Watson comes through on the printed page.
And that, American ladies, filthy news kids, and wankers, is how I've come to see this particular Sherlock Holmes movie five times in the past few weeks. Your prime Earth-Sherlock may have the word "Granada" attached, or be set in the present day, but for a no-qualifications-needed good time that leaves a smile on my face during every roll of the credits, Holmes and Watson is where I haven't minded spending nearly eight hours of late, with no regrets at all.
One night left in many a city or town, so get out and see if it's a world you can handle, if you haven't already!
Well, I didn't get any selfies of my fresh haircut as I boarded the car to make my way to the start of my Sherlock Holmes Birthday Stayweekend, the book release party as I released Lyndsay Faye's The Paragon Hotel from it's corrugated cardboard shipping case, the happy e-mail encounter with a Sherlockian friend, but that's okay. The Keefauver selfie skills seem to have skipped a generation, because I know my nieces and nephews have it down.
So here we are. Even if one doesn't feel too envious of those travelers gathering in New York this week for Sherlockian purposes, one definitely can get a feeling that one isn't keeping up with one's Sherlockian "duties." It's not that Sherlockian life has any requirements that can only be met by attending the New York weekend, but it's the focal point for enough Sherlock Holmes fans of the old school that it can come to feel like that way.
For those of us who, for whatever reason, are doing the Sherlock Holmes Birthday Stayweekend this week, however, it might be good to do something a little special to enjoy the week in a Sherlockian way. This year, for example, (DON'T SAY IT! DON'T SAY IT! THEY'RE GOING TO THINK YOU'RE OBSESSED!) Holmes and Watson is hanging on in theaters until at least Thursday, and possibly longer. (I CAN'T HELP IT! THE LOA POSSESSED ME!)
This early in the year, however, those of us with fresh Sherlockian goals can look at this as a fertile time to put our excitement toward breaking ground on new projects. This is such an exciting time to be into Sherlock Holmes, with paths available to us that our forebears didn't even see coming and would have loved to have at their fingertips. There may be a really good party or four, some good folks to meet, some good books to buy, and other diversions in NYC, but we're not exactly adrift in a void if we're not there.
(And those who are there have to have somebody to send their social media postcards to!)
So, if you're Stayweekending like me this week, have a little Sherlock fun of the kind you love most and know that you're not the only one. Our numbers are greater than ever before, I'd wager, and one of these days somebody'll get a virtual equivalent figured out. But in the meantime, there's a lot of Sherlock to be grateful for, even in the place you're at right now.
Let me know if you have any good Sherlock Holmes Birthday Stayweekend ideas to share, because it's starting now!
There are a lot of parts of 221B Con that I love. Most of it, actually. The one part that I have the worst time with? Panel application time.
I mean, when you're at the con itself, you have the delicious agony of wanting to go to everything, but having to squeeze in meals and deal with the simple fact that you can't be two places at once. It is literally impossible to do all of 221B Con. Choices have to be made. Once choices are made, though, all you have to do is then walk into a room and sit down. Easy peasy.
But panel application time is looking at a list of about seventy panel topics and picking not only a few that would be fun, but also finding the ones that you are also qualified to sit on. And if you don't get down to "Insecurity, Imposter Syndrome, and other Creative Pitfalls" and know exactly why that panel exists, well, believe it or not, it is possible to feel insecure enough to apply to a panel whose very theme you suggested back in the fall.
But enough whining. Time to buck up, remember that I might be qualified for a panel or two, and hit that list. One technique I've learned over the years is that sometimes, you have to charge headlong into the thing that frightens you the most. So "Holmes and Watson -- We think the Queen is Stunning Too," here I come. I know Howard Ostrom is going to walk into that panel specifically to tell me how unfunny he thought Holmes and Watson was, as I know his penchant for going after Elementary panels, and he's liable not to be the worst of it. But just as John C. Reilly's Watson gave his all to protect his Queen, so, too, must I stand for that 2018 Queen of Sherlockian Films.
Going to pass on "Arthur 'Continuity' Doyle" this year, after doing it last year and before. Enjoyed the last couple, but I went hard on continuity at last year's "Holmes in the Heartland" conference, and need some rest on that topic.
I had to check my e-mail to remind myself what panel topics I suggested and might want to support -- and it looks like "The Unreal Podcast" made the list. Doing "Sherlock Holmes Is Real" has been a curious little trip and I'd love discussing that with some other travelers on the fictional podcast road. Hoping I can get a key Academicasaurus podcaster to apply for that one as well.
Turns out "Sherlock Holmes AUs Before They Were AUs" and "Sherlock Holmes Users Group" were things I sent in, so I put in for those as well, but man, four panels seems like a lot -- I mean, I go to 221B Con to absorb info from panels more than to prattle on about my own business (which I certainly do plenty of right here). So hopefully one of those will get enough potential panel-folk that I can take one off and not miss too much else. But we shall see. As with everything else 221B Con, I want to split myself into four and do as much as possible.
Okay, I've hit the send button on that thing.
Going to see the same big-screen movie four times in two weeks is a ridiculous luxury. Even if you have one of those film deals where you can see a dozen movies a month for a set fee, seeing a movie four times means that you spent at least six hours viewing the movie itself, and at least another four getting to-and-from the theater and sitting through previews, etc. And ten hours of your time in a given two week period, is not a cheap price to pay. (Spoilers will be the price you pay if you read further, so be forwarned: SPOILERS! [Foghorn noise])
And yet, after four viewings of Holmes and Watson, I find myself still as pleased as I originally felt walking out of the theater. It still surprised my with laughs a few times, and Will Ferrell's performance started reminding me of a very dear friend's delivery. And after four times, I also came to realize that one of the things that endears me the most about Holmes and Watson is the story it tells.
John Watson, the best and most loyal friend on the planet, sees the greatness in Sherlock Holmes beyond even the cheering throngs of Holmes and Watson's London. He goes along with whatever outlandish idea Sherlock has for him, including the disguise "down-on-his-luck horse shit salesman," in which, rather than protesting having manure smeared on him, Watson immediately drops into character, calling out "Horse shit for sale! Who will buy my horse's shit?" In pushing Watson to such limits for parody's sake, Holmes and Watson is putting one of Watson's most endearing qualities right out in front: He believes in Sherlock Holmes. Always and devoutly.
Things start to turn, ever-so-gently, when Watson meets the woman of his dreams, Dr. Grace Hart, whose admiration for him brings up the possibility that he should really be a true partner to Sherlock Holmes, and not just "the guy who gets sent to the companion's chamber at the Diogenes Club." It's Mycroft, of course, who sparks an opposite reaction in Sherlock, implying that someone as close to Sherlock as John could simulate Moriarty's genius by just observing Holmes himself.
Classic story, one party wants full partnership, the other's family sews seeds of mistrust. And, once separated, they realize their true love for each other. Whether or not you agree that Holmes and Watson is a comedy, I think we can all identify it as a romance. Watson finds love, Holmes finds love, and their giving into those loves makes them able to finally love each other. Who'd have thought that a nominally non-Johnlock film would break ground with Sherlock singing the words, "Why do I ache with shame while moaning Watson's name? I can-not deduce the reason why . . ."
Coming back together, Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson are a better, more solid detective duo than ever before. They quickly save the day, blow up the baddie, and bid bon-voyage to their lady friends (interesting how Grace and Millicent open the boys' hearts and they shuffle off to leave the boys alone together). Holmes and Watson's final appearance, in Professor Moriarty's frontier saloon and subsequent ghosting him, is the perfect shorthand to their attaining a level that makes even that criminal mastermind no match for the abilities of an integrated Sherlock and John.
That simple story, told in such a silly manner, is still a very good story of the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson. I could completely have seen other hands shaping this thing as a drama with the very same plot beats and coming out with a magnificently epic tale. Would I rather have had that movie? Maybe for some other Sherlockians who missed out getting enough joy out of this one, but for me, this was a tale of Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson that meant something.
What didn't I get out of it after four viewings? All the dates on all the newspapers. It seems to take place late in 1892 -- the perfect year for something so non-Canonical in its Moriarty take. I also wasn't able to catch all of the flavors that "Sherlock Cones Ice Cream" offers in the dream sequence! I got "The Sign of the Four Flavors," but there are five others, all Canonical! Also, exact quotes! "Back to your monkey-work, Hudson!" stuck with me on day one, because I like monkeys. But there are some others, including the whole musical number, that I'm dying for exact wording on.
But it does lift my spirits. I will say that for it. "The game is a-starting!"
The last couple of weeks have been an interesting ride. And an informative one.
You know this hobby we share. It has the best people in it. You can go to an event, talk to people who like to talk about what you like to talk about, and feel like you're part of a greater thing. Bond and connect in ways that don't occur ever day. It's what makes Sherlockiana special, even though there are a legion of other interest groups and hobbyist leagues out there that, rightfully, might make the same claim. These are the places we connect.
Except when we don't.
A Sherlockian life is defined by both sides of that coin -- the brilliant moments when you connect with complete strangers over this common miracle we call Sherlock Holmes, and those moments when folks in that group you thought of as friends and peers divide sharply with you. We glory over the former in our writings and memories, but the latter are always present, and if we intend to stay within the hobby, we have to deal with them, especially if we trend more toward the sensitive empath side than the narcissistic sociopath end of the spectrum.
And most of us have a bit of both, I suspect. It's a tricky business.
For example, my Sherlockian career will forever be defined by the moment I got made a Baker Street Irregular, and what followed. Sherlockians were the coolest people I ever met . . . until I got to New York and met the men-only B.S.I. of the late 1980s. Suddenly, I felt like I wasn't really a part of this hobby I had whole-heartedly joined, and went from a climactic point in my Sherlocking to an isolating, disconnected one. Still not a big fan of either the group's membership policy or NYC, which makes me a baffling enigma to any fans of the January rituals who bother to kindly contemplate the outliers.
When CBS's Elementary came along, I got to be the bastard on the other side of that coin. Oh, how plainly non-Sherlock-y that show was, surely no Sherlockian found such a thing acceptable as a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. I was connecting with a lot of Sherlockians who felt like I did, big-time. But after a few years . . . a few years, yikes! . . . I finally began to sympathize with those . . . to me . . . outliers who actually enjoyed the show. Not that I liked the show, but I came to understand how banging that drum too hard might hurt their ears, whether I was agreed with by a goodly number or not. And we don't really bond over our shared negatives like we do over our shared positives, do we?
These divisive bits come along more with a new, internet-fueled speed these days, but they still can leave a lasting impact. That last season of Sherlock played hob with folks, and only two weeks ago, we came to Holmes and Watson. And it made me laugh. I was excited for 221B Con, as it's another one of those times when we get to share enthusiasms, especially the rarer ones. And within two short weeks, the phrase "I laughed during Holmes and Watson," definitely puts you in that rarer group.
Yet 221B Con panels can be both lovely sharing times, and lightning rods for those folks who just have to air their grievances like they're a Costanza at Festivus. And when you love a movie that got an 8% on Rotten Tomatoes (that notorious 0% was before hardly any reviews were in), you're already weary of folks airing their grievances. And suddenly, the whole idea of being in a large group of Sherlockians feels a bit more disconnecting than connecting.
It's so very easy to stay disconnected. All you have to do is "not do." That's why depression is such a nasty bit of business, its draining power to make you "not do" robs you of the very things that might help you fight it. And while I'm not struggling with that particular beastie at the moment, I am having one of my normal bouts of wrestling with "not do" . . . which can come more frequently with age. Really bad timing with the 221B Con panel sign-up list just coming out this Friday, but I suppose I will fight through it at some point.
And I might go see Holmes and Watson again to lift my spirits. Uh-oh . . . .
How many Sherlock Holmeses does it take to build a personality test?
There is said to be a "five-factor model" in psychology for building personality tests, and it occurred to me this morning that we now probably have enough current Sherlock Holmeses that one could score people's personalities based on the amount they like or dislike a particular Sherlock Holmes. Look at this list:
That's five big Sherlock Holmeses within a ten year span. All you had to do was live within a single decade of modern culture to experience all five. How these correspond to traits like openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, I am not about to state. (But I can think of a Sherlockian or two who might be good at such a thing.) But if there were enough Sherlockians in the world to make building such a model worthwhile, one could actually use those Sherlocks to study personality.
Oh, wait, I can see one solid statement I can make in looking at that list: Anyone who loves all five of those scores high in "agreeableness." Because those are five very different Sherlocks, and most folks who are willing to be honest are going to have one clunker in that batch. And ranking them on a scale of one through five, even if you have no clunkers, should not be that hard. They're very different, which gives you an interesting perspective on our friend Sherlock Holmes.
Working in corporate America, I've been blessed wtith HR department personality tests a few times. One of those, the "True Colors" sort of test, is always given with the stated goal of showing us how our co-workers have different personalities and that we might want to take that into account in dealing with them. (Seriously. HR departments like to spell things out to folks as simply as possible, but you know how it is -- the one bad kid in the class always spoiled something for the rest of us.) The basic principle is one that is applicable to our hobby, though, as it has grown of late: All Sherlockians do not have the same personality, a point worth considering on occasion.
Whether it's preparing a talk or admitting someone into your exclusive club, there are a lot of variations of the species Sherlockian that it helps to bear in mind. ("Yay, verily, blogger, attend to thine own words!" Don't know why my conscience speaks like Thor this morning.) And having such a cultural abundance of Holmeses gives us one opportunity for charting those variations.
And we have spares, as well, like Ben Syder and Johnny Depp (Gnomes counts!) to tweak such a scale even further. Even if no one ever develops a personality scale based on Sherlocks, the sheer ability to do so right now should tell us one thing:
This is truly a golden age for screen Sherlocks. We may not have something for absolutely everyone, but we sure are getting there!
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Getting children (really) excited about books
NORTH CANAAN — For preschoolers the Douglas Library in North Canaan was the place to be on Monday evening, June 24.
It was Preschool Literacy Night, sponsored by the Northwest Child Care Collaborative, the Canaan Child Care Center and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, which donated books to the event. Every preschooler went home with a copy of “A Tree Named Steve” by Alan Zweibel.
This tale of the friendship between a family and a tree was one of a few books read aloud that evening by Cindy Strattman. The room was filled with the...
What America means, celebrated at Flag Day
Eyes on the future for 27 in the NCES Class of 2019
North Canaan Airman graduates
Hub offers activities center
Staring at a pond (not a screen) at derby
Mini library in a mini ’fridge
A place of peace for trees and children in North Canaan
Release of federal funds means Union Station nears completion
Karen Bartomioli
karenb@lakevillejournal.com
NORTH CANAAN — Is there finally light at the end of the tunnel for the project to rebuild Canaan Union Station?
With plans for the final phase in hand and ready to be put out to bid, the owners were recently given an approval date of 2013 for the release of federal funding set aside for the project.
They found that date to be unacceptable.
Roadwork could change use of school’s parking lot
NORTH CANAAN — Work on a new Pease Street entrance to the Town Hall parking lot is underway, part of an effort to improve safety at a school crosswalk.
The Board of Selectmen put the plan in motion following a review by consulting engineer George Johannesen of Allied Engineering Associates.
Good aim!
The NCES PTO annual Family Fun Fest was held on the front lawn of North Canaan Elementary School Sept. 18. Iain Rand showed winning form at the potty toss.
President Harding as greatest U.S. leader
If only he had lived to finish his term
NORTH CANAAN — President Warren G. Harding arrived at Christ Church Sunday. At least, his spirit was there, in a re-enactment presented by Kevin Titus of Falls Village.
The actor has taken on the role of the former president in a big way, promoting the man he believes could have been our greatest national leader had he not died two years into office.
Titus entered the church with a “Secret Service” man and shook hands with every member of the small crowd before taking the podium to give Harding’s “My Conviction” speech.
Cleanups follow storms
NORTH CANAAN — The town’s “garage sale” has been rescheduled to Sept. 24 at 9 a.m. at the Town Garage.
Now that the town crew and selectmen have dealt with cleanup following Tropical Storm Irene, they can focus on clearing out unused items.
The list includes a 1-ton dump truck with plow, a larger dump truck with a sander and an Army surplus Jeep, in camouflage paint, as well as an assortment of smaller items.
After lightning strikes, community comes out
NORTH CANAAN — Lightning can strike twice, but it only takes one person to spark a groundswell of community spirit.
Resident Greg Karcheski read in the Sept. 15 edition of The Lakeville Journal that the electrical system for the Douglas Library elevator had been zapped by lightning twice over the summer.
The first time was June 1. It was repaired. The second time was Aug. 19. That strike also knocked out the alarm system. Again, it was repaired, and this time, a surge protector was added.
Each repair cost the library a $1,000 deductible on its insurance.
For little golfers — and a child care center — it’s mini golf!
Janet Manko
publisher@lakevillejournal.com
NORTH CANAAN — A bright and brisk late summer day was just right for the Mini-Golf Tournament at the Caddie Shack in North Canaan last Saturday, Sept. 17.
The event was a fundraiser for the Housatonic Child Care Center (HCCC) in Salisbury, so it was fitting that groups of families with young children, as well as older folks, all took part in the tournament.
Canaan Fire Company earns top honors
NORTH CANAAN — Two local volunteer fire departments brought home big trophies from the 128th Connecticut State Firefighters Association’s Convention and Parade this past weekend.
It was hosted by the Clinton Volunteer Fire Department.
Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department won Best Overall Apparatus, for the second year in a row.
Canaan Fire Company won Best Fire Unit Without Music and came in sixth overall in the competition.
North Canaan’s BD celebrates 50 years
NORTH CANAAN — Half a century ago, the very rural local landscape was an unusual place to consider as a spot for a manufacturing plant. Becton-Dickinson Co., now known as BD, was a little more than 50 years old at the time, expanding and about to go public with shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
Perhaps former plant manager Jim Levy should have suggested they’d gone too far afield when he arrived in 1961 to interview prospective employees. He and his team were stuck in a motel room as 20 inches of snow fell. They did not conduct a single interview.
Sgt. Ohler injured in Afghanistan
NORTH CANAAN — Sgt. Brian Ohler, 28, was wounded while out on patrol with his unit in Farah, Afghanistan, on Saturday night, Sept. 17. Farah is a city in western Afghanistan on the Farah River.
His brother, Keith Ohler, who lives in North Canaan with his wife, Erin, owns and operates the Caddie Shack and Steppin’ Stone.
“Brian’s unit was hit by an IED [Improvised Explosive Device], which blew up between two Humvees,”
he said in an interview Tuesday morning with The Lakeville Journal.
“He was in charge, and everyone got out, there were about 25 of them.”
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Head Women's Tennis Coach Mark Guilbeau spoke recently at the VAF social in Richmond.
WOMEN'S TENNIS - Meghan Kelley Day in the Life
Follow along with Meghan Kelley on her last day of classes on Grounds.
Fri, May 3, 2019
WOMEN'S TENNIS - Season Preview with Meghan Kelley
Head Coach Sara O'Leary begins her second year with the 'Hoos with a little help from senior co-captain, Meghan Kelley.
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA Second Round Highlights
The Cavaliers fall to the Gamecocks in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA First Round Post
Head coach Sara O'Leary and sophomore Chloe Gullickson address the media after the win over VCU.
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA First Round Highlights
Virginia defeats VCU 4-2 to advance to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament.
UNCOMPROMISED EXCELLENCE: Virginia Tennis - A New Era
An inside look at Virginia Tennis with Director Andres Pedroso and Head Coach Sara O'Leary.
Virginia Tennis - New Facility
Director of Tennis and Men's Head Coach Andres Pedroso join's Women's Head Coach Sara O'Leary to discuss the new Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar's Head Sports Club.
WOMEN'S TENNIS: Sara O'Leary - Introductory Press Conference
Excerpts from new 'Hoo head coach Sara O'Leary's introductory presser.
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CUE: Women's Tennis - Rosie Johanson The CUE feature on the freshman seizing the opportunity to become Virginia's next star. Thu, Apr 27, 2017
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CUE: Tennis - American Collegiate The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence feature on the Cavalier winners of the American Collegiate Invitational. Fri, Sep 16, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS: Danielle Collins - NCAA Champion VSTV caught up with the 2-time NCAA Singles Champion. Fri, Jun 3, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA Quarterfinals Post Match Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau following the season-ending loss to Vanderbilt. Sat, May 21, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA Quarterfinal Highlights Virginia falls to defending National Champion Vanderbilt in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Vanderbilt Sat, May 21, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA Sweet 16 Post Match Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau and Meghan Kelley following the win over the Tarheels. UNC Thu, May 19, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA Sweet 16 Highlights #14 Virginia upsets #3 UNC to advance to the NCAA Quarterfinals. UNC NCAA Thu, May 19, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA 2nd Round Post Match Comments from Stephanie Nauta, Meghan Kelley, and Head Coach Mark Guilbeau following the 4-2 victory over LSU. Sun, May 15, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA 2nd Round Highlights Virginia advances to the Sweet 16 for the 6th consecutive year with a 4-2 victory over LSU. LSU Sun, May 15, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA 1st Round Post Match Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau, Taylor Wingo, and Julia Elbaba following the victory over FDU. Fri, May 13, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA 1st Round Highlights #14 Virginia defeats FDU to advance to the 2nd round vs. LSU. FDU NCAA Fri, May 13, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - Notre Dame Highlights The #13 Virginia women's tennis team closed out the regular-season with a 5-2 victory over Notre Dame on Senior Day. Sun, Apr 17, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS - Pitt Highlights Virginia defeats the visiting Panthers 6-1. Pitt Fri, Apr 15, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS: Virginia vs. Louisville Highlights The women's tennis team improves to 3-0 in the ACC with a 6-1 win over Louisville. Louisville Cardinals Mon, Feb 29, 2016
CUE: Women's Tennis - Season Preview The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence season preview feature on the back-to-back ACC champion Women's Tennis team. Thu, Jan 21, 2016
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA Round of 16 - Baylor Highlights #9 seed Virginia falls to #8 Baylor 4-3 in an NCAA round of 16 thriller. Sat, May 16, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA Round of 16 - Baylor Post Match Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau and junior Julia Elbaba following the sweet 16 loss to Baylor in Waco. Sat, May 16, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS - NCAA Sweet 16 Press Conference Junior Stephanie Nauta and Head Coach Mark Guilbeau discuss making the NCAA Sweet 16 for the 5th consecutive season. Mon, May 11, 2015
MUST SEE MONDAY: May 11, 2015 The top three moments of the week in Virginia Athletics leading up to May 11, 2015. Mon, May 11, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA Second Round Highlights Highlights from the Cavaliers' 4-2 win over South Carolina to advance to the round of 16. USC Gamecocks Sun, May 10, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA Second Round - Post Match Coach Press Conference Head Coach Mark Guilbeau addresses the media following Virginia's win over USC in the second round of NCAAs. USC Gamecocks Sun, May 10, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA Second Round - Post Match Players Press Conference Comments from Danielle Collins and Stephanie Nauta following Virginia's win over South Carolina in the NCAA tournament. USC Gamecocks Sun, May 10, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA 1st Round - Post Match Press Conference Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau, Danielle Collins, and Julia Elbaba following the victory over VCU. Sat, May 9, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS: NCAA 1st Round - VCU #9 Virginia defeats in-state foe VCU 4-0 to advance to the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament. Sat, May 9, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS - 2015 ACC CHAMPIONS Head Coach Mark Guilbeau recaps the Cavaliers' 2nd consecutive ACC Championship. Wed, Apr 29, 2015
Womens Tennis vs Virginia Tech Women's Tennis defeats Virginia Tech 5-2 in another Commonwealth Clash Battle. Virginia Tech Sun, Apr 19, 2015
CUE: WOMEN'S TENNIS - Stephanie Nauta The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence feature on the junior captain. Thu, Apr 9, 2015
MUST SEE MONDAY: April 6, 2015 The top three plays in Virginia athletics for the week leading up to April 6, 2015. Mon, Apr 6, 2015
WOMEN'S TENNIS: Virginia vs. BC Highlights No. 9 Virginia defeats BC, 6-1, at the Snyder Tennis Center. Thu, Apr 2, 2015
CUE: WOMEN'S TENNIS - 2015 Preview The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence preview of the 2015 season and newcomers Skylar Morton and Cassie Mercer. Fri, Jan 30, 2015
CUE: WOMEN'S TENNIS - Julia Elbaba The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence feature on women's tennis player Julia Elbaba. Thu, Nov 20, 2014
CUE: Danielle Collins The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence feature on 2014 NCAA Women's Tennis National Champion Danielle Collins. Thu, Aug 28, 2014
Women's Tennis - Danielle Collins NCAA Press Conference Comments from sophomore Danielle Collins following her 2014 NCAA Singles title. Wed, May 28, 2014
Women's Tennis - NCAA Quarterfinals Post Match Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau and sophomore Danielle Collins following the 4-2 loss to Stanford. Sat, May 17, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - NCAA Quarterfinals Virginia falls to defending champion Stanford in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Sat, May 17, 2014
Women's Tennis - NCAA Round of 16 Post Match Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau and Danielle Collins after the 4-1 victory over Baylor. Thu, May 15, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - NCAA Round of 16 Virginia advances to its first NCAA Quarterfinals with a 4-1 victory over Baylor. Thu, May 15, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - NCAA 2nd Round Virginia advances to the Sweet 16 for the fourth straight season with a 4-1 victory over Kentucky. Sun, May 11, 2014
Women's Tennis - NCAA 2nd Round Post Match Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau, Maci Epstein, and Rachel Pierson following Virginia's victory over Kentucky. Sat, May 10, 2014
Women's Tennis - NCAA 1st Round Press Conference Comments from Stephanie Nauta, Danielle Collins, and Head Coach Mark Guilbeau following the victory over Youngstown State. Fri, May 9, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - NCAA 1st Round Third-seeded Virginia eliminates Youngstown State in the 1st round of the NCAA Tournament. Fri, May 9, 2014
Women's Tennis - NCAA Preview Head Coach Mark Guilbeau and sophomore Julia Elbaba preview the NCAA tournament. Thu, May 8, 2014
Women's Tennis - ACC Championship Press Conference Danielle Collins, Stephanie Nauta, and Head Coach Mark Guilbeau address the media following Virginia's first ACC Tournament title. Tue, Apr 29, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - ACC Championship Virginia wins its first ACC Championship in women's tennis, defeating Duke 4-2. Mon, Apr 28, 2014
CUE: Women's Tennis - Senior Day The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence feature on the Senior Day victory over Clemson. Fri, Apr 11, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - Clemson The Cavaliers defeat Clemson on Senior Day in Charlottesville. Clemson Tigers Mon, Apr 7, 2014
CUE: Women's Tennis - Julia Elbaba The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence special feature on Julia Elbaba and her forehand winner. Thu, Apr 3, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - North Carolina #5 Virginia drops tough match to #12 North Carolina. Sat, Mar 8, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights-Duke Virginia downs top-ranked Duke, 5-2. Fri, Feb 21, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - Florida ITA Virginia falls to #2 Florida to open the ITA National Indoor Tournament. Florida Fri, Feb 7, 2014
Women's Tennis - Florida Post Match Comments from Head Coach Mark Guilbeau following Virginia's tough 4-2 loss to Florida in the ITA National Indoor Championships. Fri, Feb 7, 2014
CUE: Women's Tennis - 2014 Preview The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence preview of the 2014 season. Fri, Jan 17, 2014
Women's Tennis Highlights - NCAA Round of 16 Virginia's season ends at the hands of #3 Texas A&M in the NCAA Round of 16. Texas AM Sat, May 18, 2013
Women's Tennis Highlights - Texas (NCAA) Virginia advances to the round of 16 with an incredible comeback against Texas. Texas Longhorns Sun, May 12, 2013
Women's Tennis Highlights - NCAA 1st Round Virginia blanks Fairleigh Dickinson 4-0 to advance in the NCAA Tournament. The Cavaliers will face Texas in the 2nd Round. FDU Sat, May 11, 2013
Women's Tennis - NCAA Preview Coach Guilbeau looks back on the season and previews the upcoming NCAA tournament. Tue, May 7, 2013
Women's Tennis Highlights - FSU Virginia uses the momentum from a close doubles point to blank FSU 4-0. FSU Sat, Apr 20, 2013
Women's Tennis - ITA National Indoors Head Coach Mark Guilbeau previews the upcoming ITA National Team Indoors at the Boars Head Sports Club. Thu, Feb 7, 2013
Women's Tennis Highlights - NCAA Round of 16 #14 Virginia falls to #3 Duke in the NCAA Round of 16 to conclude the season. Duke Fri, May 18, 2012
Women's Tennis - Tennessee (NCAA) Highlights from the Cavaliers 4-1 win over Tennessee in the NCAA Tournament. Tennessee Sat, May 12, 2012
Women's Tennis Highlights - Fairleigh Dickinson (NCAA) Virginia blanks Fairleigh Dickinson to advance to the round of 32 in the NCAA tennis tournament. FDU Fri, May 11, 2012
Tennis - NCAA Preview The Men's and Women's Tennis teams host the opening rounds of the NCAA Tennis Championships at Snyder Tennis Center May 11th-13th. Tue, May 8, 2012
Women's Tennis Highlights - UNC Virginia drops a close match to North Carolina, 4-3. North Carolina Mon, Mar 26, 2012
Tennis - Weekend Preview The Men's and Women's Tennis teams return home to the Snyder Tennis Center for matches March 16th-18th. Associate Coach Andres Pedroso and Head Coach Mark Guilbeau discuss the matchups. Wed, Mar 14, 2012
Women's Tennis Highlights - NTI Consolation Matches #9 Virginia defeats #13 Georgia Tech but falls to #5 Baylor in the Consolation Round of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. Mon, Feb 13, 2012
Women's Tennis Highlights - Northwestern (First Round NTIs) The highly-ranked Cavaliers drop a hard fought battle against Northwestern Friday Night. Northwestern Sat, Feb 11, 2012
Women's Tennis - ITA Preview Head Coach Mark Guilbeau talks to his team before the ITA National Team Indoors. Wed, Feb 8, 2012
Women's Tennis UVa completes a weekend sweep of FSU and Miami FSU & Miami Thu, May 4, 2006
Women's Tennis Virginia clinches the Commonwealth Challenge as Women's Tennis downs Virginia Tech 6-1. Virginia Tech Mon, Mar 19, 2007
Women's Tennis Cavaliers start the season 3-0 with 5-2 win at Wake Forest. Wake Forest Mon, Jan 31, 2011
Women's Tennis - 2011 NCAA Championship Virginia concludes its best season in school history against UCLA in the NCAA Championship Sweet Sixteen. UCLA Fri, May 20, 2011
Women's Tennis Highlights from Women's Tennis match versus NC State and Wake Forest. Wake Forest Sat, Apr 9, 2011
Women's Tennis Women's Tennis pushes No. 1 UNC to the brink before falling in a tight match, 4-3. UNC Sun, Apr 4, 2010
Women's Tennis - 2010 NCAA Championship Women's Tennis goes the distance vs. Princeton and advances to the second round of the 2010 NCAA Championship. Princeton Fri, May 14, 2010
Women's Tennis - 2011 National Indoor UVA upsets No. 3 Baylor in the first round of the ITA Indoor National Championship. Baylor Fri, Feb 18, 2011
Women's Tennis No. 18 Virginia Women's Tennis Doubles Play vs. NCSU on April 8, 2011. NCSU Mon, Apr 11, 2011
Women's Tennis - 2011 NCAA Championship First round NCAA Women's Tennis play; #11 Virginia beats Army 4-0. Army Sat, May 14, 2011
Women's Tennis - 2011 NCAA Championship For the first time in school history, Women's Tennis advances to the NCAA Sweet 16 by defeating NCSU. NCSU Sun, May 15, 2011
Women's Tennis Head Coach Mark Guilbeau previews the 2011 season. Mon, Jan 31, 2011
Women's Tennis Tour the Women's Tennis Facility with Emily Fraser. Thu, Oct 1, 2009
Women's Tennis Head Women's Tennis Coach Mark Guilbeau spoke recently at the VAF social in Richmond. Mark Guilbeau Thu, May 14, 2009
Women's Tennis Mark Guilbeau talks about signing the nation's #1 class last spring, and the idea of UVa being a "Tennis University." Mon, Nov 6, 2006
Women's Tennis Head Coach Mark Guilbeau reviews the 2006 season, and shares his coaching philosophy. Wed, Oct 18, 2006
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LeBracketology:Ohio State will win it all
Subject: LeBracketology:Ohio State will win it all Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:13 am
LeBron James expects his uniforms and sneakers to be on display when the nets are cut down to celebrate this year's NCAA title.Predictably, James expects Ohio State to win the national title.Air Jordan 2011 - Black Red White This should come as no surprise, of course, given that James is from Ohio, is a longtime Buckeyes fan -- oh, yeah, and the team wears his apparel.Equally predictable his Miami Heat teammate Dwyane Wade says Marquette is the last team standing on his bracket.
Wade led Marquette to the Final Four in 2003, the year James decided to skip college and go right into the NBA draft, where he was the No. 1 overall pick."If I could have not went to school all the way until March and then played in March Madness, then I would have done that.Air Jordan 2011 - Black Blue White But I have no regrets not going to school," James said Tuesday, before turning a bit and looking directly into a long row of television cameras that surrounded him.
"Now, let's play this when the kids are asleep. 'Go to school, guys.' I was just fortunate."Wade and James had a playful back-and-forth about the tournament Tuesday, taking a quick break from preparations for Miami's home game against Oklahoma City on Wednesday night.Air Jordan 2011 - BlackWade was asked if he still follows the tournament and fills out a bracket."I always follow Marquette," Wade said. "You follow some of the good teams, the good players that are playing in college. But I'm not a guru.
I can't break down every (team). I'm like Charles Barkley. I don't know that many of them."Chimed in James: "You're a lot better than him, though."Barkley has been one of Miami's biggest critics this season.James took a playful swipe back at him in his "What should I do?"Air Jordan 2011 - White Black/Anthacite commercial last year, biting into a doughnut before saying "Hi Chuck" into the camera.Barkley, a longtime NBA analyst for TNT, will be involved in the joint CBS-Turner Sports coverage of this year's NCAA tournament."We've got the No. 1 overall seed in the whole thing," James said. "So I'm looking forward to it."
Pacers' Danny Granger returns to lineup:Forward Danny Granger is back in the Indiana Pacers' lineup after missing a game with strep throat.The Pacers beat the Knicks 106-93 in New York on Sunday without Granger, the team's leader with 20.6 points per game.Air Jordan 2011 Tyler Hansbrough stepped in with a career-high 29 points.Pacers coach Frank Vogel said before Tuesday's game against New York that Granger looked and felt great. Indiana enters tied with Charlotte for the No. 8 spot in the Eastern Conference.Sunday's game was only the second game Granger missed this season.
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Express Scripts and Other Pharmaceutical Companies Sued by Missouri Counties
Dustin Steinhoff, News Editor
Express Scripts is one of the many pharmaceutical companies being sued by a group of Missouri counties seeking payment for the money they have spent trying to fight the “opioid epidemic.”
On Aug. 1, 10 Missouri counties filed a 274-page lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court against 49 pharmacies, and opioid distributors and manufacturers. The lawsuit claims pain prescriptions have been branded by manufacturers and distributors as solutions for long-term and chronic pain in order to increase drug sales. Additionally, the counties claim the companies did not inform the Missouri State Pharmaceutical Board and Drug Enforcement Agency when receiving and filling suspicious orders.
The counties involved in the lawsuit are Cape Girardeau, Christian, Crawford, Greene, Iron, Jasper, Jefferson, Joplin, Taney, and Washington. Among the 49 defendants are companies such as Walgreens, CVS, Purdue Pharma, and St. Louis-based company Express Scripts.
The plaintiffs claim they should be reimbursed for the costs the opioid epidemic has caused them due to the autopsies, law enforcement, medical care, and family protective services needed due to opioid overdoses.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids in 2016 was five times higher than in 1999. The average number of Americans who die every day from an opioid overdose is 115.
Brian Henry, vice president of corporate communications at Express Scripts, provided the company’s official response: “Express Scripts leads the industry with solutions to reduce abuse of opioids. We intend to vigorously defend ourselves against these allegations.”
John Garvey, an attorney from the private law firm Carey Danis & Lowe, is one of the attorneys working with the various counties on the case.
“Our lawsuit is against 49 defendants,” Garvey said. “Not only manufacturers, but distributors, pharmacies, and prescription benefit managers such as Express Scripts.”
Garvey claims the lawsuit is based upon the liability of the corporations, the first of which being the mislabeling of opioids.
“The first [liability] is the failure to disclose or the misbranding of the opioid, beginning with Purdue Pharmaceutical where the label for opioids provides that it is only meant for postsurgical pain and cancerous pain,” Garvey said.
Despite being labeled as a prescription for such pains, Garvey claims the drugs were misrepresented by the company’s claims and marketed towards the chronic market pain and general practitioner doctors. Garvey also claims the companies endorsed the drugs as safe, effective, you can function normally on the drug, is was not addictive, raising the dosage was not dangerous, and there were no withdrawal symptoms, despite not being true.
“All those things are false. All of those things the companies knew were false. But they aggressively marketed to the key opinion leaders and bogus front groups that they had funded that they had not told the public they were funding,” Garvey said.
Garvey also claims Express Scripts and the other companies did not report certain red flags when fulfilling opioid prescriptions.
“The second level of liability is where companies like Express Scripts, have a duty under the law to report suspicious activity, meaning high numbers of opioids going to a particular geographical location or patient. None of the manufacturers, distributors or pharmacies ever called the DEA or the State Board of Pharmacies to report this,” Garvey said. “Express Scripts and other pharmacies failed to have adequate control in dispensing their drugs and knew that most of these prescriptions they were dispensing were for non-medical purposes and that they were for addicts.”
According to Garvey, it will be a couple of years before there is a trial. Once the trial occurs, there will be a single verdict applied to Express Scripts and the other companies involved in the lawsuit.
Express Scripts has a large presence on the UMSL campus. Express Scripts opened its world headquarters on campus in 2007. George Paz, former Express Scripts CEO and current board chairman for Express Scripts, graduated from UMSL and is currently serving a three-year term as president of the Chancellor’s Council at UMSL. In 2011, the Computer Center Building was renamed Express Scripts Hall.
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At least 40 killed in air strike on Libya migrant detention centre
Security and emergency personnel work at site of an air strike at a detention centre for mainly African migrants, in a suburb of Tripoli, Libya on Wednesday in this image obtained from social media. Courtesy of Jihaz Mukafahat Alhijrat Alghyr Shareia via Reuters
An air strike late on Tuesday hit a detention centre for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, a health official said.
It is the highest publicly reported toll of an air strike or shelling since eastern forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar three months ago launched an offensive with ground troops and aircraft to take the capital held by the internationally recognised government.
The conflict is part of chaos in the oil-and-gas-producing nation since the NATO-backed overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Malek Mersek, spokesman for a state emergency medical services, said 40 people had been killed and 80 wounded in the strike on the detention center in the Tajoura suburb located next to a military camp.
The Tripoli-based government said in a statement that dozens of people had been killed and wounded in an air strike blamed on the “war criminal Khalifa Haftar”.
Published photos showed African migrants undergoing surgery in a hospital after the strike. Others lay on beds, some covered in dust or with limbs bandaged.
Libya is a main departure point for migrants from Africa fleeing poverty and war and trying to reach Italy by boat, but many get picked up by the Libyan coast guard supported by the European Union, which wants to stop migration.
Thousands of migrants are held in government-run detention centres in western Libya in what human rights groups and the United Nations say are often inhuman conditions.
Tajoura, east of Tripoli’s center, is home to several military camps of forces allied to Libya’s internationally recognized government, which have been targeted by air strikes for weeks.
On Monday, Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), which is allied to a parallel government, said it would start heavy air strikes on targets in Tripoli after “traditional means” of war had been exhausted.
An LNA official denied his force had hit the detention center, saying militias allied to Tripoli had shelled it after a precision air strike by the LNA on a camp.
The LNA air campaign has failed to take Tripoli in three months of fighting, and last week LNA lost its main forward base in Gharyan, which was taken back by Tripoli forces last week.
Both sides enjoy military support from regional powers. The LNA for years has been supplied by the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, while Turkey recently shipped arms to Tripoli to stop Haftar’s assault, diplomats say.
The conflict threatens to allow Islamist militants to fill a security void, disrupt oil supplies, boost migration across the Mediterranean to Europe, and scupper UN plans for an election to end rivalries between parallel administrations in east and west.
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Sudan’s opposition agree power-sharing deal with military
Seven die as thousands protest against army rule in Sudan
Cameroon opposition leader freed after abduction
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A Bigger Buyback For Apple?
Earlier this year, Apple (AAPL) expanded its share repurchase authorization to $ 60 billion.
Well, Carl Icahn is calling on the company to repurchase more like $ 150 billion in stock. From this recent Icahn letter to Tim Cook:
"We want to be very clear that we could not be more supportive of you, the existing management team, the culture at Apple and the innovative spirit it engenders. The criticism we have as shareholders has nothing to do with your management leadership or operational strategy. Our criticism relates to one thing only: the size and timeframe of Apple's buyback program. It is obvious to us that it should be much bigger and immediate."
Warren Buffett did recently say "I wish I had bought the stock many years ago" and also mentioned he had advised Apple on buying back their stock -- if they thought it to be undervalued -- a few years ago or so.
(At that time they did not.)
Buffett is no small fan of buybacks when they make sense yet said the following about the pressure on Apple to buyback even more of their stock than they are already doing:
"I think the Apple management and directors have done a pretty darn good job of running the company. My vote would be with them."
He then added this:
"I do not think that companies should be run primarily to please Wall Street and largely shareholders who are going to sell. I believe in running Berkshire for the shareholders who are going to stay and not the one's who are going to leave."
So they agree on how well the company is being run.
The important difference comes down to time horizon.
Buffett has always had a strong bias in favor of building and serving a base of shareholders who mostly are going to stick around for the long haul. With that in mind, he naturally has a preference that decisions are made, first and foremost, for long term owners. He's just not that enthusiastic about responding to pressure from someone who might not be around as a part owner for very long.
Pressure for change from those who intend to own shares for years to come -- under the right circumstances -- can be just fine; pressure from those with shorter time horizons is not.
So those who push for action to achieve a profitable near term outcome then move onto the next target should be considered of secondary importance to those in it for the long haul.
(What moves the stock up near-term may or may not also be favorable for long term owners.)
Still, what Carl Icahn usually does is hardly the equivalent of short term trading.
Agitating for fundamental change at the senior management and board level can be a very useful thing. No doubt more than a few companies need it. In fact, the investing world would benefit from more large shareholders who are willing to do so and are competent at it. The question is whether those who push for the change are willing -- alongside other owners -- to stick around for the long run repercussions of the change they helped facilitate.
Some will no doubt argue that the sticking around part isn't all that important as long as the right kind of change happens.*
Icahn wants Apple's board to move more aggressively and announce a $150 billion tender offer. He thinks it should be financed with debt or a mix of debt and balance sheet cash.
In the letter, Icahn does say "to invalidate any possible criticism that I would not stand by this thesis in terms of its long term benefit to shareholders, I hereby agree to withhold my shares from the proposed $150 Billion tender offer. There is nothing short term about my intentions here."
Of course, that definition of long term -- a willingness to withhold shares during the tender offer -- probably isn't exactly a time horizon that Buffett would consider long term.
Now, if someone like Carl Icahn can actually improve corporate governance more generally (and maybe improve/change the laws of consequence that can undermine long term oriented owners) that would be a very useful thing.
The quarterly results Apple released back in July revealed they've already been buying back a whole lot of stock. The company was also likely doing so, in a meaningful way, during the quarter that just ended.
One of Icahn's chief concerns seems to be that the window to buyback the stock when it is actually cheap will close sooner than later. That's certainly a legit concern. Now, the existing $ 60 billion buyback authorization is not exactly small but, the question is, how fast can it be executed. The company indicated back in April it expects the buyback to be completed by the end of 2015.
Well, if the buyback takes all of that time to complete and the stock price rises materially, it just won't be as effective as it could otherwise be. It may still have a favorable impact, of course, but a bit less so than if it were completed while the stock was selling for much less.**
It's also possible that the stock becomes truly expensive. In that case the buyback should naturally be halted. Buybacks generally only make sense when the share price represents a plain discount to per share intrinsic value, the company is comfortably financed, no superior alternative investment(s) exist, and all other important expenditures (including whatever solidifies/widens the moat) are covered.
Apple reports its quarterly results next week. At that time, it will become more clear just how much more stock they've been buying since they last reported.
The buyback activity may not be quite as much as some would like to see, but they still likely repurchased more than a few shares outstanding.
In any case, I'll still never really be all that comfortable with tech stocks as long-term investments.
They have, on occasion, become of mild interest (in small doses) when selling at a substantial discount to conservatively estimated per share intrinsic value.
That's about it.
Long position in AAPL established at much lower than recent prices
Apple's Buyback
* The following seems relevant here. Does the owner of an asset (e.g. a car), someone who intends to sell sooner than later, spend money on the things that will assure reliable performance many years from now or, instead, mostly just do those things that polish it up for sale? Time horizon impacts owner behavior. This naturally also applies to businesses. Crucial things must be often be done today to make sure a business remains competitive many years down the road. Those who are mostly (if not entirely) trying to get a near term result aren't likely to weigh those important long term considerations appropriately against their own near term objectives and interests. Sometimes there's no tension between near term and long term considerations; other times there is.
** One wonders how much of the recent rally in the stock can be attributed to Icahn's actions. In other words, how much has the higher than otherwise price inadvertently reduced Apple's buyback effectiveness. That may not be precisely knowable but it certainly matters. Around the more recent market prices, the buyback is already meaningfully less impactful than it would have been not long ago.
Labels: Buffett, Stocks, Technology
Best Global Brands 2013
According to a report by Interbrand released late last month, Apple (AAPL) is now the most valuable global brand.
Coca-Cola (KO) had held the top spot for 13 straight years in prior Interbrand reports.
It now sits at number 3.
Top Ten Most Valuable Global Brands
2 Google (GOOG)
3 Coca-Cola
4 IBM (IBM)
5 Microsoft (MSFT)
6 General Electric (GE)
7 McDonald's (MCD)
8 Samsung (SSNLF)
9 Marlboro (INTC)
10 Toyota (TM)
Website: Best Global Brands 2013
Press Release: Interbrand's 14th Annual Best Global Brands Report
Report: Best Global Brands 2013
This top ten ranking of global brands has some similarities to the entirely separate ranking of global brands released earlier this year by Millward Brown.
Apple, Google, Coca-Cola, IBM, Microsoft, and McDonald's make the top ten on both lists. The specific value these two rankings place on each brand is in some cases, not surprisingly, very different (e.g. the study earlier this year puts Apple's brand value at $ 185 billion, the newer ranking places it at more like $ 98 billion).
Some of the are differences between the two rankings will naturally come down to methodology.
Interbrand's methodology is explained here. For inclusion in their rankings, a brand needs to have a "truly global" presence as defined by their methodology.
"In measurable terms, this requires that:
- At least 30 percent of revenues must come from outside the brand's home region
- It must have a presence in at least three major continents, as well as broad geographic coverage in emerging markets
- There must be sufficient publicly available data on the brand's financial performance
- Economic profit must be expected to be positive over the longer term, delivering a return above the brand’s operating and financing costs
- The brand must have a public profile and awareness above and beyond its own marketplace.
These requirements...lead to the exclusion of some well-known brands that might otherwise be expected to appear in the ranking. The Mars and BBC brands, for example, are privately held and do not have publicly available financial data. Walmart, although it does business in international markets, often does so under a variety of brands and, therefore, does not meet Interbrand's global requirements.
For similar reasons, brands in several sectors have been excluded."
These are:
Telecommunications - strong ties to their national markets but "awareness challenges" further away from home.
Airline industry - capital intensiveness and low margins result in brands that "struggle to achieve positive economic profits over the long term."
Pharmaceutical companies - consumer relationship is generally with the product brands (more so than the corporate brand owner) and "insufficient publicly disclosed financial data on pharmaceutical product brands."
Top 100 Global Brands
Among the top 100, Nokia's (NOK) brand, took the biggest hit in both absolute and percentage terms. Not exactly a surprise.
Google was the biggest gainer in absolute terms.
Facebook (FB) was the biggest gainer in percentage terms.
To me, it seems rather unlikely that brand value could ever be pinned down -- and I mentioned this in the post on Millward Brown's rankings -- as precisely as might be implied by these rankings.
Still, these studies are provide some indication which brands matter around the world and how -- in at least a rough sense -- their value might be changing.
Established long positions in AAPL, GOOG, KO, MSFT, and GE at much lower than recent prices. Recently added small new IBM position.
Buffett's Purchase of IBM Revisited
In November of 2011, Warren Buffett revealed on CNBC for the first time that he had been buying shares of International Business Machines (IBM).
Buffett on IBM: Berkshire Buys Big Blue
He apparently began buying in the first quarter of that year and some will rightly note that the stock hasn't done much since then.
Certainly not, for example, compared to the S&P 500.
Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKa) cost basis in the stock is something like a little over $ 171 per share.
As I write this it is selling at roughly $ 185 per share (though, fortunately, earlier this week it went even lower).
So has it been a good investment for Berkshire?
It is, in fact, a very large and likely long-term position for the company. The stock hasn't done much but, as I'll get to below, earnings per share sure has.
Why Buffett Wants IBM's Shares "To Languish"
Here's how Buffett explained how he looks at IBM -- a company that's been repurchasing shares at a good clip for some time -- in the 2011 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter:
"When Berkshire buys stock in a company that is repurchasing shares, we hope for two events: First, we have the normal hope that earnings of the business will increase at a good clip for a long time to come; and second, we also hope that the stock underperforms in the market for a long time as well."
IBM has, in fact, been consistently repurchasing stock for quite some time.
If shares are selling at a plain discount to value, a temporarily even lower share price just increases the effectiveness of future repurchases for continuing shareholders.*
Buffett goes on to explain his thinking on IBM and their share repurchases this way:
"....what happens to the company's earnings over the next five years is of enormous importance to us. Beyond that, the company will likely spend $50 billion or so in those years to repurchase shares. Our quiz for the day: What should a long-term shareholder, such as Berkshire, cheer for during that period?
I won't keep you in suspense. We should wish for IBM's stock price to languish throughout the five years."
This mostly comes down to the power of well executed share repurchases. They can work extremely well over the long haul when shares are bought nicely below intrinsic value, business prospects are at least solid (i.e. moat reinforcement/strengthening is not being neglected) and the company is in a comfortable financial position (a healthy balance sheet, lots of liquidity sources, along with robust even if fluctuating somewhat free cash flow).
Buffett walks through the math in the letter to further explain why he wants IBM's stock to "languish".**
The bulk of the IBM position for Berkshire was established in the 2nd and 3rd quarter of 2011. Buffett would have been able to see that IBM had earned $ 11.52 per share in its, at that time, most recently reported full fiscal year (2010).
Let's compare that to now. For 2013, earnings per share should come in at ~ $ 16.00 per share. That's obviously not such a bad increase in per share earnings power especially for what is a rather large company. Of course, there's certainly no guarantee that this earnings power will be persistent. That's only one of the many important judgments -- some easily quantifiable, many that are not -- any investor has to make.
Businesses -- even those that are, at least in my view, very much superior to IBM -- inevitably run into difficulties from time to time. The question becomes whether a particular business possesses -- and can further build -- enough advantages to produce attractive earnings over the longer haul.
The price paid should always represent a clear discount to the present value of conservatively estimated future earnings. There's some real ambiguity about what should be considered, within a range, IBM's normalized future earnings power. So the price paid should more than reflect such ambiguity. Otherwise, when a stock that's purchased at a plain discount to value temporarily goes to an even lower price -- especially if "temporarily" proves to be an extended period of time -- it's not at all a bad thing for the long-term owner.
(As long as the enterprise maintains an ongoing financial capacity to buyback shares.)
Berkshire has also been receiving a growing but still just decent annual dividend that now sits at roughly 2%; a nearly 50% increase in the dividend payment since early 2011.
Make some conservative assumptions on dividend growth (along with the impact of buybacks) going forward and that now modest payment seems likely to be rather a whole lot less modest 7-10 years out. Shares repurchased at attractive prices should, all else equal, eventually fuel earnings per share and, ultimately, dividends per share over the longer run. Over many years, especially if the stock remains low and the business performs at least reasonably well, the compounded impact of the share repurchases should be not inconsequential.
"The logic is simple: If you are going to be a net buyer of stocks in the future, either directly with your own money or indirectly (through your ownership of a company that is repurchasing shares), you are hurt when stocks rise. You benefit when stocks swoon. Emotions, however, too often complicate the matter: Most people, including those who will be net buyers in the future, take comfort in seeing stock prices advance. These shareholders resemble a commuter who rejoices after the price of gas increases, simply because his tank contains a day's supply.
Charlie and I don't expect to win many of you over to our way of thinking – we've observed enough human behavior to know the futility of that – but we do want you to be aware of our personal calculus."
So the key is the price compared to value and whether one thinks business prospects are likely to remain attractive (even if, as in the case of IBM, maybe a bit unexciting). The current valuation just doesn't demand spectacular business performance to achieve satisfactory risk-adjusted returns. Instead, it simply demands merely solid business performance and continued smart financial management. Price paid and, as Buffett points out in his 2011 letter, earnings performance "for a long time to come" will ultimately influence long-term investment results.
(Though not necessarily earnings performance in any given year or even over somewhat longer time frames. This is especially relevant when a business is going through some kind of transition or when macro factors come into play.)
Unfortunately, with some public companies, share repurchases are done at unattractive valuations and for the wrong reasons (e.g. to prop up the stock or to offset dilution from stock options).
It's when a stock sells for a plain discount to conservatively estimated per share intrinsic value, and the company can comfortably afford it, that a buyback makes sense.
I don't doubt that market participants primarily in the business of betting on price action will maintain this was not such a great investment. That view may even prove correct. Those looking for quick speculative gains will likely find IBM to be a mostly uninteresting place to put their money at risk. If nothing else, IBM is the sort of investment that's almost certain to not make someone quick and substantial returns.
Some will correctly point out the lack of revenue growth prospects; IBM's organic revenue growth has been pretty much nonexistent (or worse) for some time.
That's likely to continue.
While revenue growth can be a fine thing, it can't be viewed in a vacuum; not all incremental revenue is of the high return variety. Some opportunities produce growth without producing attractive returns on capital.
Excess capital should be returned to shareholders when it can't be put to good use elsewhere (i.e. when only subpar or worse investment alternatives exist). Well, in too many cases, that's just not what happens.
Of course, some might view IBM's share repurchases as just an attempt to prop up earnings. No doubt some companies do just that. I happen to think this doesn't apply to IBM when you consider how they've handled their financial management responsibilities over time.
(Buffett does highlight the quality of IBM's financial management in the 2011 letter.)
The specific context matters when it comes to share repurchases.
Among other things:
- How price paid compares to a conservative estimate of intrinsic value
- The attractiveness of investment alternatives
- The durability of the core business franchise
- Inherent capital intensiveness
- Financial health (balance sheet and free cash flow)
IBM is ultimately a technology business.
That's the bad news.
For that reason alone the company's stock will never be a favorite.
Naturally not all technology and technology-related businesses possess similar inherent risks; some new tech startup, for example, has very different specific risks associated with it compared to IBM. Up to a point it's true that the price paid can minimize the risk of permanent capital loss, but only up to a point.
Sometimes the risks of a business are so difficult to gauge that no price is low enough to provide sufficient margin of safety.
At some point the right answer is to just avoid.
For me, that's often the right answer with shares of technology businesses.***
From earlier in the 2011 letter:
"The first law of capital allocation – whether the money is slated for acquisitions or share repurchases – is that what is smart at one price is dumb at another."
There are certainly far better businesses out there but, once the inherent risks and opportunities are understood well enough that it gets beyond the go/no go decision, the investment process always comes down to price.
Long position in BRKb established long ago at much lower than recent prices. Recently added a small IBM position for the first time at somewhat lower than current prices.
Buffett on Buybacks, Book Value, and Intrinsic Value
Buffett on Teledyne's Henry Singleton
Buffett: When it's Advisable for a Company to Repurchase Shares
The Best Use of Corporate Cash
Buffett on Stock Buybacks - Part II
Buffett on Stock Buybacks
Buy a Stock...Hope the Price Drops?
* Share repurchases may happen going forward but will only make sense if the shares remain cheap enough. In other words, nicely below per share intrinsic value. Repurchases that are executed above approximate per share intrinsic value is generally poor use of capital. Since estimated per share value is best case an imprecise range, there should be a plain margin of safety. The discount to value should be obvious. Share count reduction needs to accomplished in am economically sound manner. This should be something an investor can count on but, unfortunately, that's not the case.
** In the letter, Buffett explains the relatively simple yet important repurchase math. Essentially, he points out that if IBM's stock price were to average something like $ 200 during a given period the company would acquire 250 million shares for its $ 50 billion. If the stock instead sold for $ 300 on average during the five-year period IBM will acquire only 167 million shares. He says that, over the five years, Berkshire's share of those earnings would be a full $ 100 million more in this "'disappointing' scenario". Also, if the stock were to fluctuate near current prices -- which are now even lower than the "'disappointing' scenario" -- it would work out even better. In the very long run the "weighing machine" will reflect roughly the additional per share value of those incremental earnings.
*** I realize some others may feel more comfortable with tech stocks but, with investments, buying only what one knows well is essential. That is necessarily unique to each investor. Gauging the future prospects of most tech businesses is tricky at best. At least it is for me.
Labels: Buffett, Technology
Five Years After The Crisis...
It's been a little more than five years since the financial crisis really kicked into high gear.
With that in mind, I decided to re-read some of the things Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger were writing and saying -- well before the crisis began -- a decade or so ago. At the time both were becoming uneasy, I think it's fair to say, with the increasingly pervasive use of derivatives, combined with excessive leverage (often masked by the derivatives themselves), and the resulting rather complex -- nearly impossible to understand -- yet concentrated interconnectedness within the evolving financial system.
At the Berkshire shareholder meeting back in 2003, a bit more than five years before the financial crisis was to begin, Charlie Munger said the following:*
In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting. I'm more pessimistic than Warren. I'll be amazed if we don't have some kind of significant blowup in next 5-10 years.
So Charlie was clearly uncomfortable with the direction the financial world was going and, as it turned out, was all too right to be.
He was rightly concerned at the time and his relative pessimism to Warren Buffett was well-warranted.
Though Buffett was far from not concerned. He said the following at the same meeting:
Derivatives are advertised as shedding risk for the system, but they have long crossed the point of decreasing risk and now increase risk. The truth is that Coca Cola could handle risk [I think he was talking about currency exposure], but now with every company transferring risk to very few players, they are all hugely interdependent.
He also added:
When you start concentrating risk in institutions that are highly leveraged, [watch out].
We all now know how the toxic the combination of excessive leverage and, due to rampant use of increasingly complex derivatives, hugely interdependent financial institution would become. Yet, at the time, there was little more than a passing interest in their warnings.
Little to no proactive action was taken. I don't consider this particularly surprising but that's just the reality.
Buffett had already taken some time to more fully explain their views on derivatives in the 2002 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter. Below are some excerpts from the Derivatives section of the letter along with some comments:
Derivatives as time bombs
"Charlie and I are of one mind in how we feel about derivatives and the trading activities that go with them: We view them as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system."
What reinsurance, derivatives, and hell have in common
"In fact, the reinsurance and derivatives businesses are similar: Like Hell, both are easy to enter and almost impossible to exit. In either industry, once you write a contract – which may require a large payment decades later – you are usually stuck with it. True, there are methods by which the risk can be laid off with others. But most strategies of that kind leave you with residual liability."
Errors of optimism
"Errors will usually be honest, reflecting only the human tendency to take an optimistic view of one's commitments. But the parties to derivatives also have enormous incentives to cheat in accounting for them. Those who trade derivatives are usually paid (in whole or part) on 'earnings' calculated by mark-to-market accounting."
Unfortunately, as Buffett points out, many times there is no real functioning market for a particular derivatives contract. As a result "mark-to-model" is used.
He goes on to say:
"In extreme cases, mark-to-model degenerates into what I would call mark-to-myth."
Asymmetrical marking errors
"I can assure you that the marking errors in the derivatives business have not been symmetrical. Almost invariably, they have favored either the trader who was eyeing a multi-million dollar bonus or the CEO who wanted to report impressive 'earnings' (or both). The bonuses were paid, and the CEO profited from his options. Only much later did shareholders learn that the reported earnings were a sham."
Buffett goes on to point out that derivatives can create a "pile-on effect" since some contracts, at what turns out to be an inopportune time, require collateral to immediately be posted for counterparties. Suddenly there is this huge unexpected need for cash that just isn't readily there.
This ultimately can lead to liquidity crisis.
"The need to meet this demand can then throw the company into a liquidity crisis that may, in some cases, trigger still more downgrades. It all becomes a spiral that can lead to a corporate meltdown."
We saw this during the financial crisis but Buffett was writing this long before what we now know had played out.
The 'linkage' problem
"In banking, the recognition of a 'linkage' problem was one of the reasons for the formation of the Federal Reserve System. Before the Fed was established, the failure of weak banks would sometimes put sudden and unanticipated liquidity demands on previously-strong banks, causing them to fail in turn. The Fed now insulates the strong from the troubles of the weak. But there is no central bank assigned to the job of preventing the dominoes toppling in insurance or derivatives. In these industries, firms that are fundamentally solid can become troubled simply because of the travails of other firms further down the chain. When a 'chain reaction' threat exists within an industry, it pays to minimize links of any kind."
Micro vs Macro
"Many people argue that derivatives reduce systemic problems, in that participants who can't bear certain risks are able to transfer them to stronger hands. These people believe that derivatives act to stabilize the economy, facilitate trade, and eliminate bumps for individual participants. And, on a micro level, what they say is often true. Indeed, at Berkshire, I sometimes engage in large-scale derivatives transactions in order to facilitate certain investment strategies.
Charlie and I believe, however, that the macro picture is dangerous and getting more so. Large amounts of risk, particularly credit risk, have become concentrated in the hands of relatively few derivatives dealers, who in addition trade extensively with one other. The troubles of one could quickly infect the others."
One of the problems with many derivatives instruments is that they "make a joke of margin requirements." They allow leverage to build up in the system in ways that would not otherwise be possible.
"The derivatives genie is now well out of the bottle, and these instruments will almost certainly multiply in variety and number until some event makes their toxicity clear."
Buffett closes by saying:
"Charlie and I believe Berkshire should be a fortress of financial strength – for the sake of our owners, creditors, policyholders and employees. We try to be alert to any sort of megacatastrophe risk, and that posture may make us unduly apprehensive about the burgeoning quantities of long-term derivatives contracts and the massive amount of uncollateralized receivables that are growing alongside. In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal."
The section on derivatives in Buffett's letter was released as an article in Fortune in March of 2003. The reason? Warren Buffett thought it important enough that it reach a wider audience.
I'd say that was a wise and well-intentioned thing to do even if those who could/should have paid attention chose to do otherwise. There was plenty of time for a course correction but those with the power to do so simply did not.
(That few considered carefully the warnings then changed their behavior is unsurprising when one considers the vast sums of money involved, the incentives and culture in place and, well, just human nature itself.)
It's still well worth reading what Warren Buffett had to say back then in its entirety. He had it just about right and Charlie Munger, if anything, even more so.
Of course, they were not exactly the only two people who were warning this all would end up very badly.
A number of others understood it well.
The reality is that severe overconfidence too often precedes -- or at least contributes to -- financial folly (LTCM comes to mind).
At times, overconfidence might merely hurt results but, at extremes, it can end up being a terribly destructive thing.
It may be only one of the many seeds of financial destruction, but sure ranks as an important one.**
Certainly more so than some might like to think.
Now, I happen to think it takes a special form of overconfidence -- and feel free to choose somewhat harsher words, where applicable, to describe this tendency -- to not consider carefully what the likes of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are saying.
(Especially when it comes to financial matters, though not necessarily limited to financial matters.)
I'm not at all suggesting that they're somehow never wrong.
It's just that they are so often very right.
Investor Overconfidence Revisited
Investors are Often Their Own Worst Enemies, Part II
Investors are Often Their Own Worst Enemies
Berkshire Hathaway's Derivatives Portfolio
Berkshire Hathaway: Earnings and the Derivatives Portfolio
The Illusion of Skill
The Illusion of Control
Buffett on Derivatives: The 'Chain Reaction' Threat
Munger on Derivatives
Charlie Munger on LTCM & Overconfidence
Buffett on Derivatives
When Genius Failed...Again
* From notes taken by Whitney Tilson.
** Some consider the tendency toward excessive confidence and optimism to be more pervasive and even destructive ("pervasive and potentially catastrophic" - Scott Plous, The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making) compared to the many other cognitive biases.
Don't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence by Daniel Kahneman
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Kyle Mitchell
Call Me Fitz | Season 4 Ep 3
Haven | Season 4 | Robert Maillet, Kyle Mitchell, & Adam Copeland
Haven | Season 4 Ep 9
8x10 for Print
Kyle Mitchell is a Canadian based professional actor who has been performing in commercials, theatre, television and film productions across Canada since the age of six.
His portrayal of “Boy Kicking Soccer Ball” in a 1983, Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial, garnered Kyle as much KFC chicken as he could eat while on-set, a $50.00 cheque AND vast amounts of acclaim from both his mother and father. The young, Mr. Mitchell may have been the happiest 6-year-old of all time, that day!
A mere 12 years later, while attending the renowned Victoria School of the Arts, Kyle was once again thrust into the spotlight as a “Featured Performer” (for two seasons) on the much loved CBC TV series, “Jake and the Kid”, thusly cementing Mr. Mitchell’s desire to never, ever have a regular, 9-5 office job… ever.
Since that fateful, 20-episode run on “Jake”, Kyle has appeared on many stages and screens around the world. Over the years, Mr. Mitchell has had the great pleasure to study performance from the likes of Jerry Stiller, Robin Duke, Joe Flaherty and John Dunsworth, to name but a few.
In the rare times Kyle has a few moments away from performing, he is an avid athlete, musician, writer and hunter of the Muse… And for some reason, his mother and father still vastly acclaim him.
More of me on IMDB.
the.kylemitchell@yahoo.ca
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Kyle Mitchell ©2019
“Let's go. Make a scene and we hurt her.” – Sinister Man | Haven
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Pete, Angela and Giuliana
Pete Cataldo
A brand-new dad reflects on the crazy-making early days of parenthood and the choices he and his wife have made in designing a life that’s right for them.
I’ve never been into the whole zombie apocalypse genre. Not because I’m afraid or don’t like zombies or anything—far from it—I really like scary movies and horror films. I guess I just missed the point of the half-dead craze and never truly got into it. Until now.
You see, it turns out that I was just missing the true meaning of it all.
The hit show, “The Walking Dead” makes much more sense to me now that I realize it’s not about zombie-like, half dead humans … rather the show is about an army of first-time parents out to rid the world of others who don’t understand the struggle.
Now, it’s my turn to realize that the struggle is real. It all makes sense: Fatherhood has turned me into a zombie.
It’s like I’ve officially been welcomed into the special fraternity only a new dad could understand: Zombie/Fathers Anonymous.
Me: Hi, my name is Pete and I’m a first time dad to newborn Giuliana. I haven’t slept in 7 weeks.
Group: Hi, Pete.
I kid. I kid. Although not about the sleepless nights. Those are very real.
But, all kidding aside, this is all part of the journey that we take on when deciding to bring a new cute little person into this big, crazy world. My wife, Angela, and I recently made that very decision. Our daughter, Giuliana, has only been here for a few short weeks (or perhaps the longest weeks ever, I’m not really sure about that), but she’s already changed our lives and left her tiny little footprints all over our hearts—along with some spitup and some questionable diaper stuff, but that’s neither here nor there.
We don’t necessarily have a unique story, but we do come from a road few would likely have the courage to travel. As successful TV news reporters, Angela and I decided to give it all up six years ago and move to New York. Big city living! We literally packed our bags and hit the road without jobs, in the middle of the “Great Recession” and proceeded to freak out about our decision for eight months until we finally found steady employment—all while planning our wedding, by the way.
Now as a grown ups who should’ve matured from making slightly wild and crazy decisions, we’ve thrown our sanity out the window once again to start our own business as professional voice actors and bloggers, all while raising a little girl in Manhattan.
What can I say, we enjoy a challenge.
And just a few days after Giuliana’s grand entrance into this world, we faced our first true challenge and real scare as parents. We really thought we broke our baby.
Turns out that it was very bad episode of acid reflux that caused her to experience what the pros call an Apparent Life Threatening Event (ALTE). In Giuliana, it looked like a nasty seizure followed by total unresponsiveness and then an eventual trip to the ER.
Mommy and Daddy spent four anxious and gut-wrenching nights in the Pediatric ICU with our newborn daughter while test after test was administered. Thankfully, all came back negative. And our little pumpkin was okay—aside from nasty heartburn.
But it was terrifying and gave us a real crazy dose of the nonstop fear that this parenting thing entails. Not sure we’ll ever actually laugh about this, but, at least it does provide some ransom material for my daughter when she’s in her teen years—“Oh yeah, remember that time you had a crazy burp that sent you to the ER?”
It’s amazing how these things put everything into perspective when you see your little one in pain and there is absolutely nothing you can do to help.
Just a few weeks into fatherhood, and I clearly do not have it figured out—I’m still working on how to unlock the super secret cheat code to actually reimagine this thing called sleep—but I’m trying everyday to be the best that I can be. I strive to be the best father that I can be, the best husband that I can be, and the best man that I can be to set a positive example for my daughter.
That was part of the inspiration behind launching my own blog at DaddyMindTricks.com to discuss modern fatherhood and the need for all dads to do even more than just get involved. We need to be real active members of the process and real active partners to our significant others. We should all be working together to ensure a terrific future for the little ones that matter the most.
Now, if you’ll excuse me it’s 2:30 a.m., and since I’m awake, I need to go catch up on all of the episodes of “The Walking Dead” that I’ve been missing this whole time.
This is #1000families post number 137. Do you have a family story of your own to contribute to the 1,000 Families Project? Or do you know a family that might want to do so? Learn more about how the series got started and how to get involved here. You can find all of the #1000families posts here.
Tagged: 1000 families, 1000 Families Project, dad blogger, dad blogs, Daddy Mind Tricks, dads, first-time parents, newborns, The 1000 Families Project
About Pete Cataldo
A reformed sports media junky, Pete left his job as a television sports anchor to pursue a career in public relations. And then he realized that industry sucked even worse than the media. So it was back to the creative realm as a professional voiceover actor at PeteCataldo.com where he and his wife, Angela, work from their home studio in a tiny Manhattan apartment, providing a voice for commercials, documentaries and pretty much anything that requires awesomeness. In addition to writing about his journey into fatherhood at DaddyMindTricks.com, Pete also provides insight into the world of health and fitness as a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach. He’s also the proud daddy of newborn daughter Giuliana. View all posts by Pete Cataldo
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The Press Gallery: Inside Alberta politics
The Press Gallery #160: The Why You Gotta Be So Mean edition
Why you gotta be so mean, Alberta? Now MLA Sandra Jansen has been assigned a security detail. The Press Gallery podcast team Sarah O'Donnell, Paula Simons and Stuart Thomson join host Emma Graney to talk about Jansen's first speech as an NDP MLA this week, and politicians from all sides of the house vowing to do better, as they call for more human interactions on their social media channels. The podcast team also takes a look at the raft of power announcements made by government this week, including electricity price caps, more on the coal phaseout, power purchase arrangement settlements and basically turning the entire power system on its head by moving to a capacity market structure, and the life and death of four-year-old Serenity, a child in care who died in heartbreaking circumstances. Good stuff from the gallery Sarah's picks: A trio of pieces to get you thinking about electronic voting - Experts urging the Clinton campaign to challenge election results in three swing states, a piece about whether the U.S. election could have been hacked, and an op-ed by the University of Alberta's dean of science, Jonathan Schaeffer. Paula's pick: As we all prepare to binge-watch the Gilmore Girls this weekend, Richard Warnica's piece in the National Post on what became of the Huntzberger newspaper chain. Emma's pick: An analysis in the New York Times about folks not being quite so set on oceanside real estate these days, thanks to climate change, and how that's hit the industry. Stuart's pick: A look at the Jason Kenney campaign's march toward "power, delicious power," by Jason Markusoff in Maclean's magazine.
Join legislature reporter Emma Graney, columnist Keith Gerein, as well as others in The Press Gallery, Edmonton Journal's Alberta politics podcast.
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2019 Junior Summer Sculling Programs
Mike Van Beuren: Mike van Beuren has coached sweep and sculling since the 1990s. As a rowing athlete, he represented the USA abroad as a Junior sweep rower. Later in life, Mike became a multi-year National Champion single sculler and set a number of World and National age-group records on the Concept2 ergometer. He lives in Hartland with his wife Mary who is also a sculler.
Sophie Bartels: Sophie learned to row with the Hanover High School crew team, and continued on to row four years at Colby College. She returned to Hanover to work as a research coordinator on a mental health project in Colombia, and started coaching the UVRF-Lebanon Crew varsity girls’ team in the spring of 2018. She has loved having the opportunity to coach this awesome team, and has also helped with novice, master’s, and fall crew rowing.
Carin Reynolds Carin learned to row in 1982 during her sophomore summer at Dartmouth College. Two years later she moved on to the U.S. Lightweight Women's National Rowing Team, and won a gold medal at the World Championships in 1984. She has competed and medaled nationally and internationally in both sweep and sculling boats at Nationals, Worlds, the Goodwill Games, the World University Games and the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Carin coached the Dartmouth Novice women from 1986-88, then took 10 years off. She returned to the UV and to coaching in 1999 with the Hanover High Program, then founded the UVRF-Lebanon Crew middle and high school in 2010, where she continues to head the program and coach novice and varsity sweep and sculling.
Erika Dade Erika got hooked on rowing in the 1980s while in graduate school in Oregon. Later in Seattle, she rowed and competed for Lake Washington Rowing Club. Following a decade of living abroad, she moved to the Upper Valley in 2003, and returned to rowing and competing, both sweeps and sculls, with UVRF. Erika has been assistant Novice Girls coach at Hanover High since 2011 and served on the UVRF Board for 8 years until 2019 (last 3 as President).
Casey Kelsey: Casey learned to row in high school at St. Paul's, rowed at Brown, and now is Head Coach of Girl's Crew at Choate.
Joe Jones: Due to an injury I was forced to transition from a competitive running program to rowing in 2016. That year I progressed through UVRF novice, club, and masters programs. I have been training and racing with the masters since.
Junior Sculling
In sculling, each rower holds 2 oars and rows in small boats. UVRF owns many sculling boats, including singles (one person), doubles (2 person), and quads (4 person) that are available to club members under certain conditions. If you are already a sweep rower, sculling is an excellent way to develop boat feel, balance and technical skills.
In addition to the programs listed below, that are exclusively for juniors aged 14-22, the club offers Learn-to-Scull clinics for first-time rower-scullers and Free Sweep-to-Scull clinics for experienced sweep rowers.
Junior Club Members have the privilege of using club singles and doubles throughout the summer season on their own IF they have the requisite level of certification following the club sculling policies, and do at least one of the following:
pay the Club Sculling Equipment Fee, offered to juniors at $100 for the entire season
register for a Sweep Program (Leb Crew)
register for a Junior Sculling Clinic or a Learn-to-Scull Program (must become a member after program, if not already one)
register for Intermediate Coached Sculling Sessions
pay for rented rack space.
For more information on club sculling policies and procedures, please visit the sculling section of the UVRF website. If you have questions about junior programs at UVRF, please ask your reps or email the club.
Ayla Weale, Leb Crew, UVRF Junior Rep
Sam Krimmel, Hanover Crew, UVRF Junior Rep
Andy Rightmire, Hanover Crew, UVRF Junior Rep
UVRF uppervalleyrc@gmail.com
Summer Junior Sculling Clinics - 1 week each
Experienced sculling clinics: previous sculling experience is required
Beginner sculling clinics: you must have at least one season of high school rowing experience or permission from the coach (email club). Previous sculling experience is not required.
Absolute beginner clinic: If you have never rowed before (sweep or scull) you may register for a clinic marked "Never Ever Rowed"
UVRF Junior Membership is a prequisite (Leb Crew are already UVRF members). Ages: 14-22
Please note that any clinic that under-enrolls may be subject to cancellation. If that is ever the case, we will notify all participants by email on the Friday prior to the start of the clinic.
If you have any questions about which clinic is appropriate, please contact Kelly at
Clinics are color coded: NEVER-EVER-ROWED BEGINNER SCULLERS EXPERIENCED SCULLERS RACE
Clinic 1
Cancelled due to low enrollment.
June 24-28 Monday - Friday evening 4:30-6:00pm
Coach: Erika Dade Max: 6
NEVER EVER ROWED BEFORE novice scullers
July 1-5 Monday - Friday evening (no session on on July 4) 4:30-6:00pm
Coach: Sophie Bartels Max: 8 Cost: $100
Beginner scullers (have sweep rowed, but never sculled)
July 8-12 Monday - Friday evening 4:30-6:00pm
Coach: Sophie Bartels, Max: 8
Experienced scullers
July 15-19 Monday - Friday evening 4:30-6:00pm
Coach: Mike Van Beuren Max: 6
CITY SPRINTS RACE PREP
Coach: Carin Reynolds Max: 8
Cost: $125 + $30 race fees
Experienced scullers who want to race
Competing at City Sprints Regatta, July 27, Methuen, MA
Race fee covers entry in one race, sculler will need to cover cost for any additional races
July 29- August 2, Monday - Friday evening 5:00-6:30pm
Coach: Andy Hilton Max: 8
August 5-9 Monday - Friday evening 5:00-6:30pm
Coach: Joe Jones Max: 8 Cost: $125
August 12-16 Monday - Friday morning 7:30-9:00am
Coach: Casey Kelsey Max: 8 Cost: $125
Please click here to choose a session, pay and sign up.
UVRF Scholarships are available upon confidential application. Just email to receive info and an application form.
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Tim-Approved: Ninja Baseball Bat Man
When I saw the title of this game on my Mario Bros. MAME cabinet I just about died. Ninjas?!? AND Baseball?!? AND BATMAN?!? Why didn’t I know about this game before? It’s the perfect combination of awesome! Well, I soon found out that it wasn’t referring to THAT Batman, but at least it sounded cool. And soon after that I came to find out it wasn’t actually a baseball game, it was a baseball-themed beat ’em up like every arcade game made in the 90’s (TMNT, X-Men, Simpsons, etc.). STILL, I pushed on, determined to know more, and I’m glad I did. The premise of the game is so silly that it works. See, someone stole artifacts from the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Commissioner of Baseball calls upon these Baseball Ninjas to get them back (the title of the game fails to mention these ninjas are actually ROBOT NINJAS)! I won’t say much more except there are some great screenshots here and here with longer explanations (including the real life ballplayers the characters are named after). My favorite enemy is the living bat that wields…a bat. Despite being bizarre beyond belief, the game has some really nice, colorful graphics and solid gameplay to boot. Reminds me of Dynamite Headdy in some ways, one of Ray’s favorite games.
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MetaRidleyR27 says:
You find some of the weirdest games Tim.
roadjcat says:
Agreed. XD I’m not one for retro games so, I also tend to miss some of the weirder games.
D3vin says:
Do you own the original? if not, Downloading rohms is eeeeeeeeee leeeegalll!
sheppy says:
See THIS is why you, Time, should check out my retrosignments in the retro forum. While this game is a lost gem on par with Waku Waku 7, the best Beat em Up remains either God Hand or Shadow of Myseria.
Tacos says:
This looks awesome. That is all I can say really.
also, I was looking at the arcade cabinet up close, and lo and behold, the second player start button looks like the 2P Start! logo… only with more generic guys instead of Tim and Ray
NSBAceAttorney says:
Well… time to get… another game…
CKcheeseboy says:
Hmm, maybe there’s a reason for that…those arcade people totally stole Ray’s logo design!
THAT WAS ONE OF THE WEIRDEST GAMES EVAH!!!
(But really freaking fun!)
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Marquee Stage - timwarren40
The London Gay Men's Chorus
We warmly welcome the return of the London Day Men's Chorus Ensemble (LGMCe) to Chesil Rocks for the third year.
The ensemble comprises 18 singers from the London Gay Men’s Chorus - Britain's Biggest Boyband. They perform at a range of events from award ceremonies to private parties; from weddings to television broadcasts. In the past year, LGMCe have performed sell-out shows at home and abroad.
Sarah de Warren
Sarah de Warren became a prominent writer and vocalist in the EDM world after her record, 'High', went viral in 2016. The song charted at #8 on Spotify's Viral 50, and featured on the most influential blogs on Youtube, bringing interest and attention to her enchanting vocal style.
Sarah works closely with DJs and artists across the world, consistently releasing exciting material, and so it's no surprise that she recently broke 6 million Spotify streams.
Scheduled this summer to the perform at the biggest music festival in world, Summerfest (closely followed by Chesil Rocks of course!), she's one to watch.
Sha Supangan
Heart-centric singer/songwriter, dancer, producer, DJ and all-around performer from being a world-champion ice skater to national cheerleading, poetry contest gold medalist, and motivational speaker from the Philippines.
Previously a club owner/events promoter/marketing go-to-person in Asia, she's now delved into the world of writing, producing, performing electronically infused music, telling her story having backpacked and performed around the world including Berlin, Frankfurt, Florence, Venice, Paris, Malaysia, and Singapore sharing the stage with artists like Grammy-award winner Joss Stone, EDM superstar Steve Aoki, and many more.
She aims to connect people again with their own drum beats through music, words, dance, and laughter.
Comedy Hour
Tom Glover
Our comedy will once again be hosted by Loveable West Country favourite Tom Glover. He is a highly sought-after act and MC, capable of bringing laughter to any room. Tom combines tales of fatherhood and country living with hilarious observational routines on daily life. In recent times Tom also finished runner up in the prestigious Lastminute Comedy Club Comedian of the Year and reached the finals of the Inaugural Petfringe Comedian of the Year. His infectious personality and playful approach make him an instant hit with audiences, however Tom is perhaps best known for his excellent crowd work and quick wit that have earned him a number of regular compere roles at major venues across the South West. He’s had two successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with split shows and is currently working on his debut solo show, 'A Glover not a fighter', which was a Best new show nominee at the Leicester Comedy Festival in 2019.
This video is from a Brighton Komedia gig in 2017: https://youtu.be/TfiqPeHWi9k
Seren are a country/folk trio made up of brother and sister, Kerrie-Jo and Connach Jameson, together with bass player Simon Lumb.
They play an uplifting mix of easy listening originals, traditional and cover songs with a fun lively atmosphere.
Matt Kilsby
A local resident, Matt's day job is a long time city career in finance - however his passion is in magic.
Inspired by his Grandad when he was young, it's something Matt has now been practicing for over 10 years. He's excited to share some of it with you at this years' Chesil Rocks !
Emily Stiles and Jenny Moon
Chesil Rocks will be Emily's first encounter with story-telling at a music festival and she is so excited! She is no stranger with telling stories and with being in front of a larger audience. Emily has had a love of the performing arts since she was Alice (in Wonderland) in primary school herself! Since then; she's pursued a degree in Arts and Education at Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire, before settling for a career in teaching when she realised she wasn't going to be a famous Hollywood actress.
For 10 years, she lived and worked in South East London where she developed a keen interest in traditional tales from around the world. Emily is now a local primary school teacher and has 16 years' experience of working with children of all ages.
Now that she has returned to her 'native' Dorset, she has enjoyed nurturing her own classes' love of literature using stories and drama as a main stimulus.
When she has time to rear her head from motherhood, wife-dom and work; Emily also enjoys lino printing, needle felting, gardening and long dog walks! She is really looking forward to some interactive story-telling at Chesil Rocks - it's not going to be a spectator sport!
Jenny tells stories to children and adults in
a variety of settings that include at present schools, care homes, memory cafes, National Trust properties and lunch clubs etc.
She would love to spend more time writing her own stories, but most are traditional stories from all over the world. The important thing is that they work as oral stories (many do not).
In her other life, Jenny dabbles with art, writes, walks and cycles. She works part time in higher education, running workshops on reflective learning, critical thinking and using story in education in locations worldwide.
Join Jenny at Chesil Rocks and listen to some of her stories.
Debbie Ross Mackenzie.
Having great activities for families at Chesil Rocks has always been important to us, and for this year we are excited to have family Yoga sessions planned.
There will be fun yoga sessions for children, their siblings, mum's and dad's etc they promise to be great fun with props and games involved. 😊
Costing just £2 per person, the sessions will take place between 2pm and around 6pm.
These sessions will be delivered by our friend Debbie, who is a qualified yoga teacher and has been trained through the Rainbow Kids Yoga training method.
½ SIZED LANDROVER RIDES
Keith Brignell.
This is little ‘Lewie’, a Toylander 2, which is a half-size copy of Keith Brignell’s Series 2A Landrover ‘Larry’, built by himself in 2016.
It is normally self-drive but for Chesil Rocks it’ll be remote control and powered by two 12v batteries under the bonnet.
Keith’s grandchildren absolutely love it, as did dozens of children at Chesil Rocks last year.
Outside Stage
Marquee Stage
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TODAY.AZ / Politics
OSCE's ceasefire monitoring between Azerbaijani, Armenian troops ends with no incident
The ceasefire monitoring at the contact line between the troops of Azerbaijan and Armenia, in the direction of Fuzuli district, held in accordance with the mandate of Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on December 4, ended with no incident, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan said in a message on Dec. 4.
The Personal Representative’s field assistants Ognjen Jovic and Simon Tiller carried out the monitoring from the territory of Azerbaijan.
The Personal Representative’s field assistants Michael Olaru, Ghenadie Petrica and Martin Schuster carried out the monitoring on the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan occupied and controlled by the armed forces of Armenia.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/176673.html
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Azerbaijan to take part in 2019 International Army Games
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Goniatites
Goniatites are extinct ammonoids, shelled cephalopods related to squid, octopus, and belemnites, that form the order Goniatitida. The Gonatitida originated from within the more primitive anarcestine ammonoids in the Middle Devonian some 390 million years ago.
Categories: Fossils, Goniatites.
FOUND IN: NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA.
Goniatites are Ammonoids with a distinctive goniotitic zig-zag pattern in the sutures that mark the spiraling growth of the shell. The extinct ammonite that decended from Nautiloids is an example of the remarkable symmetry often found in nature. Mineral exchange over the eons can create an amazing array of contrasting colors and the beautiful natural display you see here. Ammonites were Cephalopods sharing a common ancestor with the squid and octopus. The ammonites that appeared in the Devonian became very diverse and widespread in the Paleozoic and Mesazoic before going extinct along with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. The goniatites lived early in the Devonian period, some 400 million years ago, and became extinct during the Permian period.
Ecologically, goniatites were limited to environments of normal-marine salinity—as appears to be the case for all cephalopods throughout their history. Goniatites are much more abundant and speciose in rocks understood to represent cratonic (also called epicontinental or inland) sea sediments than they are in rocks understood to represent open ocean sediments. Within these inland seas, goniatites’ greatest abundance and diversity appears to have been achieved in offshore deep ramp and basinal environments rather than in nearshore environments. Known nearshore (e.g., lagoonal) occurrences have generally been ascribed to wash-in of shells from offshore waters.
Due to lack of strong evidence for any particular life mode (e.g., nektonic, planktonic, demersal, planktivorous, piscivorous), it remains unclear what resources goniatites were capitalizing on in these offshore environments. Only a few goniatites’ full trophic apparatuses have ever been described, and reports of stomach contents in these creatures’ fossils remain questionable at best. However, goniatites clearly lacked the calcified jaw apparatuses developed later in ammonoid history by the ammonites; this has been cited as evidence against a durophagous (shell-crushing) diet for goniatites.
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Goniatitida
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GOP Debate: From a Future Voter
August 18, 2015 By Rachel Greenberg
“The most exciting thing about covering politics is that it unfolds in front of you, you never know what could happen.” My mother’s voice carried through the crisp Cleveland morning, bouncing off the grey walls of Quicken Loans Arena, or “The Q”. I nodded, shrugging it off in all my teenage glory. While mom can’t help me with my trigonometry, she really does know quite a bit about the campaign trail.
Upon entering the hall, it was impossible not to absorb the dynamic energy exuded by the audience. I never would have expected such vibrancy from the endless sea of suits. The moderators were seated, turning to face the crowd. They introduced themselves as if there were no stage, no debate, or even an audience; I realized they were talking to the TV cameras. The astounding cheer after FOX’s Megyn Kelly finished her greeting was a sign of what was yet to come in the first GOP Debate of the 2016 Election.
The room fell silent with the first question, the crowd desperately taking in the candidate’s words until the bell rang signifying the candidate’s time to answer was up; the rush to finish their thought made those words sound more like “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
Donald Trump provided a much needed contrast, even though his presence was disruptive to the serious and staged nature of the event. He has become the symbol of the distress and delusion of the American people, desperate for a new direction. America needs big changes, and Donald Trump is a living hyperbole. Mr. Trump and his debate theatrics highlight the need for a pragmatic leader.
Standing a few podiums away from Mr. Trump was Senator Marco Rubio, whose velveteen voice and eloquence made him seem all the more presidential. Former Governor Jeb Bush was criticized for being slightly shaky and seemed all knowing in comparison to Donald Trump. Mr. Trump provided this service to other candidates as well, making Governor Chris Christie seem more intellectual, and Dr. Ben Carson seem more qualified, securing the aura of what an experienced politician should be. This debate was the unfolding of my own political views, the unfolding of my journalistic aspirations, and what the campaign trail is really like.
This debate was also an introduction to both the Republican Party and election politics as a whole. The phenomenon of petty political parties resided in my mind for many years, flirting with stereotypes and labeled as the price of Democracy. This image has been torn to pieces by the riveting reality of the way this great nation chooses its leaders. And while I may be spending the majority of the road to 2016 in a classroom, one thing stands true, this election season will unfold before the American people with unprecedented vigor, and anything could happen. Just like my mother said.
Follow Volta Insider on Twitter @VOLTAINSIDER. Volta Insider is Rachel Greenberg’s podcast, which creates a web of intriguing interviews on the ever-changing realms of art, innovation, and politics.
Filed Under: 2016 election, Event Coverage, News Media, Uncategorized, Volta Insider Tagged With: Cleveland, GOP debate, Presidential Election, republican debate 2016, Republican National Party, VoltaInsider
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Four Reasons Why You Need Zahtar In Your Life
Zahtar Roasted Sweet Potatoes Courtesy of Shoshie Steinhart, Koshermoms.com
There are hundreds of ways to make it and hundreds of ways to use it. There are even lots of different ways to spell it! It’s zahtar, the new “it spice” for savvy foodies, and it’s showing up everywhere from pita and pizza to matzah balls and cocktails.
Now that the word is out, home cooks will want to know all about the tangy, crave-worthy flavor everyone’s talking about. Pereg, the leading purveyor of all-natural exotic spices, has the lowdown.
First of all, what is zahtar? This collection of herbs and spices (sometimes spelled za’atar, zatar, zaa’tar, zahatar, and zatar) has been a staple of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine for centuries. Base ingredients usually include hyssop, sesame seeds, oregano, marjoram, and salt. Like chicken soup or curry, there are countless variations. The way it’s made depends on where the maker’s roots are. Some families keep their recipes “top secret.”
Here’s everything you need to know about this trend-setting taste sensation.
Zahtar is versatile. This blend of herbs and spices works beautifully as a dry rub for all kinds of meat, poultry, and fish. (Zahtar and lamb are a match made in culinary heaven.) A pinch of zahtar adds an intriguing Middle Eastern note to your favorite stews, soups, marinades, breads, and more. Mix it with olive oil, sour cream, or yogurt for a sensational dip. Keep some on the table to sprinkle over veggies, hummus, eggs, avocado toast … no wonder The Guardian calls it “magic dust!”
Zahtar is good for you. It’s full of antioxidants and also contains antibacterial and antifungal properties. Zahtar has also long been considered “brain food.” Maimonides is said to have prescribed it to his patients. (And we know how smart he was!)
Zahtar tastes like no other spice blend. It’s aromatic and has an earthy, warm flavor. Zahtar is kind herbaceous, kind of zesty, kind of tangy, and totally unique.
Zahtar is a thing. Chefs across the U.S. are introducing it on their menu items — from fried chicken and pizza to Asian-fusion — and restaurants are offering it as a tabletop condiment. Bakeries are celebrating it in breads and pastries. Food blogger Molly Yeh even came up with a popsicle-style cocktail featuring zahtar and cucumbers!
Pereg zahtar is a blend of 100 percent pure hyssop, parsley, sesame seeds, ground chickpeas, coriander, salt, and olive oil. All ingredients are fresh, natural, gluten free, vegan, and OU kosher-certified.
Now that you know all about this trendy “magic dust,” it’s time to give it a try!
Zahtar Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Recipe courtesy of Shoshie Steinhart, Koshermoms.com
2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced into wedges
3 tablespoons avocado oil, divided
3 teaspoons Pereg Zahtar, divided
Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Place sweet potato wedges in a mixing bowl. Pour 2 tablespoons oil and 2 teaspoons zahtar over and coat the potatoes well. (Reserve the rest of the oil and zahtar for dressing).
Place potatoes on baking sheet and roast for 40 minutes. Meanwhile mix together the remaining oil and zahtar and honey in a bowl. Drizzle over the potatoes before serving, when the potatoes are still warm from the oven.
Pereg Natural Foods products are available at select retailers throughout the U.S. and Canada, and at pereg-gourmet.com.
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710 Study San Rafael Neighborhood Posts
To consolidate, disseminate, and gather information concerning the 710 expansion into our San Rafael neighborhood and into our surrounding neighborhoods. If you have an item that you would like posted on this blog, please e-mail the item to Peggy Drouet at pdrouet@earthlink.net
Auto Industry Analyst Predicts Decline of the Two-Car Household
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/12/02/auto-industry-analyst-predicts-decline-of-the-two-car-household/
By Angie Schmitt, December 2, 2014
With fleets of vehicles for “mobility services” replacing personal vehicles, KPMG predicts that the total number of cars on American roads could start to decline.
Bailey Mareu, 30, and her husband were looking for ways to save money after she left her job to help run the family business in Lawrence, Kansas, two years ago.
So they decided to downsize from two cars to one. The Mareus were both working from home most days, and they were just a mile-and-a-half walk from the shops and restaurants of downtown Lawrence.
“It just kind of made sense financially,” said Mareu. “We decided to sell my car because it has the higher loan amount on it.”
What Mareu and her husband did might be the wave of the future, according to the automotive division of consulting giant KPMG. While predicting continued global growth in car sales as countries like India and China become more affluent, KPMG’s recent white paper about trends affecting the car industry [PDF] sees different forces at work in the United States.
In the U.S., says KPMG, car sharing companies like Zipcar, on-demand car services like Uber, and even bike-share will eat away at the percentage of households owning multiple vehicles, especially in major cities. Today, 57 percent of American households have two or more vehicles. KPMG’s Gary Silberg told CNBC that the share of two-car households could decrease to 43 percent by 2040.
In this scenario, KPMG predicts that the rise of “mobility services” will displace car ownership by providing similar mobility but without the fixed costs. The typical new car now costs $31,000 but sits idle 95 percent of the time. Given other options, Silberg told CNBC, many Americans will be happy to avoid that burden.
Other contributing factors flagged by KPMG include increasing urbanization, telecommuting, changing travel preferences among younger generations, and growing traffic congestion in big metro areas.
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Q&A with Angela McCluskey - August 27, 2009
Here's an interview with Angela McCluskey, one of the artists currently working with Richard. Check out Angela's music at her MySpace page!
First of all, congratulations with the new record ("You Could Start A Fight In An Empty House") coming out now! How does it feel?
Feels great..it's taken me ages as I didn't want to go the regular route but finally I think this will be the best way..Republic is a website that lets fans interact and not the soulless experience that iTunes is ..also you have to buy the record which I'm selling for 2 99...
Where will it be possible to buy your new record?
Republic Project will have it set up in a few days to pre order then record comes out Sep 22 and will be available everywhere...
In many ways your music reminds me of British trip hop bands but with a more organic and less sterile sound. Do you aim for any specific genre with your solo music or does it just end up in a specific way all by itself?
Only two or three of the new songs have a trip hop vibe..I tried to do the record like it was a show so it starts with an acoustic song then moves into electro then into blues and then even full on prodigy vibe and a bit of reggae then ends by a beach in Bahamas with the real sound of the waves...
Can you tell us a little of your musical influences?
I'm a Burt Bacharach fan and 60's pop .so the record I'm doing with Richard Fortus is that vibe..I'm so excited ..I even put our demos up ..perfect music to do anything to...but soul was my primary influence growing up ..Dusty Springfield..then Scott Walker..Marvin Gaye not a lot of rock..
You've mentioned that you grew up in an environment where your singing was not encouraged. Do you have any recommendations to young people experiencing the same?
Life is life and the obstacles only make you better...
Would you say that good music, songs that get to you instantly, can be draped in more or less any musical genres without losing their inherent quality?
A good song is a song you can sing on its own or with guitar or piano...not something hidden in layers of instruments...
Any particular musician you would love to work with? Isobell Campbell, from Belle and Sebastian and a fellow Glasgower, has had great success partnering with Mark Lanegan, a singer that at least lyrically resembles you. Could you see yourself trading verses with Lanegan in the future?
Oh I've worked with most of the people I wanted to from Cyndi Lauper to Ricki Lee Jones..Joseph Arthur Lloyd Cole..Richard Fortus..Kraig Johnson
How did your collaboration with Richard Fortus happen? Has it anything to do with you being a huge Guns N' Roses fan?
I met Richard many years before ..he played on my solo album on Bluenote.."The Things We Do"...I love his playing and we write really easily together...Im not a huge G&R FAN BUT I ABSOLUTELY GET WHAT THEY'RE ABOUT.. I was on Geffen at the same time and saw the riot they caused with that record...I've met Axl in NYC and had a fun night with him and friends..sweet guy..very passionate...that's what its all about..I love people who are passionate about what they do ..be it making cream puffs or swimming in the ocean..
Can you tell us a little bit about your collaboration with Fortus? Is he involved in song writing or "only" adding guitars?
Richard came up with the whole concept and has been at me for a few years to do a French album..I love all that 60s pop..so we started a few weeks ago and I'm loving..he writes all the music and I write melody and lyrics..perfect..we work very fast ..the two songs are up on MySpace BROKEN HEART and ALL I NEED...wicked pop songs...very driving along the riviera in south of France type vibe..love it...
What are you listening to right now on your music player?
Radio Dept
Bang Gang
Glasvegas...who I sang with recently at T In The Park..big festival in Scotland
Do you have any upcoming touring/concert plans?
No tour plans as yet as it costs a lot of money but I hope to do some local shows and a live radio show at KCRW in the next month here in LA
I would have paid anything to have seen Billie Holiday live or Edith Piaf
Glasvegas on tour with Kings of Leon at o2 centre in London...of curse I was kidnapped on the tour bus and ended up on tour with them for a week...brilliant..went to Roskilde festival in Denmark...
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Sinica Sinoweb
Sinica Sinoweb provides full-text access to the archive of 14 journals from Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, with the earliest dating back to as early as 1928:
Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica
Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy
Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History Academia Sinica
Research on Women in Modern Chinese History
Oral History Journal
Newsletter for Modern Chinese History
Taiwan Journal of Anthropology
Taiwan Historical Research
Thought and Words : Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Shih-Huo Monthly
Legein Semi-Annual Journal
Legein Monthly
Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore
Interface in Chinese and English, content in Chinese
This database is made available by the National Central Library (Taipei) via the Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) programme.
admin December 12, 2017 June 25, 2018 NNC resource East Asia China Asia Taiwan
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Monthly Email News for the Architectural Aluminium Industry
Mandatory licensing taskforce launched
Trade and consumer organisations, including the GGF, Fensa, TrustMark and the Federation of Master Builders have come together to look into a mandatory licensing scheme for all UK companies in the construction sector.
The Construction Licensing Taskforce was formed following independent research detailing the benefits of such an all-industry scheme and in the light of FMB statistics showing 77% of UK SMEs and 78% of consumers would welcome mandatory licensing for all companies involved in construction.
The Taskforce will be chaired by Liz Peace CBE, former CEO of the British Property Federation, who said: “Mandatory licensing has the potential to transform our industry into a world-leading sector. Licensing will help drive up standards and help address the issue of quality and professionalism, which is some areas, is falling short. At the heart of what we’re trying to do is increase protection for the ordinary person who engages with the construction sector.
“Indeed, according to research by the FMB, one third of homeowners are so worried about having a bad experience with their builder, they are putting off commissioning construction work altogether. This could be costing the economy as much as £10 billion per year.”
“The Task Force will be supported by major players and in an industry that is often criticised for being too fractured and disparate, I am heartened by the fact that the sector is coming together to lead the industry in a new direction.”
The FMB research also revealed that 90% of homeowners believe rogue and incompetent traders should be criminalised and over half of respondents who commissioned home improvements had a negative experience with the contractor.
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Name Adriana Chechik
Birth date 4 November 1991
Birth Location Downington, Pennsylvania
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Number of movies 500+
The early life
Dezarae Kristina Charles also known as Adriana Chechik, was born on November 4, 1991 at Downington, Pennsylvania. She grew up as a witty and bubbly chick despite not having a permanent home since she was living in foster care. She passed the GED and went to an educational institution and decided to take biochemistry. She lived with her best friend and got into her first relationship. When she grew up, Adriana lost her flower. Before entering the industry, she admitted that she slept with just only one guy although finding herself comfortable giving blowjobs.
Adriana’s first boyfriend was her best friend’s son. When they broke up, she met this stripper and they eventually became close friends. She went to Miami with her and worked in the same industry. She has a unique beauty and a stunning body which captured the interests of many. Adriana was offered a chance to appear on a video and she didn’t hesitate to grab it. When she saw what pornstar actresses did, she just realized that she wanted to be successful in this career too. With her passion and dedication she is now one of the most in demand sluts these days.
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Adriana entered the pornstar career at the age of 22. After a year, she already appeared in 100+ videos and received famous awards. She showed her hardcore sex skills and shocked everyone. Her fan’s favorite was her in a gangbang and hot anal sex scenes. Her dark hair combined with her green seductive eyes and stunning vital statistics of 32B-25-34 got her on the top of her career. After being in the pornstar career for five years, she already filmed 500+ movies featuring her in, POV, gonzo, soft-core, boy/girl, lesbian, TS, and interracial.
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Who do you think were the most photographed entertainer(s) of all time?
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For some reason I want to say Sinatra.
I would have to say super models. We have always been fascinated with the beauty of women.
Doggie S
Marilyn Monroe. http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/019_1374~Marilyn-Monroe-Posters.jpg
Phil in the Blank...backandtotheleft
I would guess Elvis Presley...
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Maybe the Beatles? Individually and collectively! :)
koldkanuck
Bull wears a COAT of many colours
tossup between Elvis and The Beatles
Andy Ninja Is Wicked Back To Work
Hmmm. . .Princess Diana or Marilyn Monroe?
Barcaluv
Given his longevity and many years in the business, I would propose Mickey Rooney?
Little Devil the Pumpkin King
Probably Britney Spears. There seems to be more paparazzi now then ever before.
debtahals wears a curiosity COAT
Marilyn Monroe Betty Grable (or at very least, her insured legs lol) Frank Sinatra Princess Di Madonna Elvis Michael Jackson Katherine Hepburn
Michael Jackson has been inducted in the guiness world records as the most photographed person ever and the most famous. This is also a recent report by hollywood weekly selecting Michael Jackson: Michael Jackson has been selected the most photographed celebrity ever by Hollywood Weekly. Michael Jackson: The Most Photographed Celebrity Ever? Hollywood Weekly, May 2006 Cover After reviewing an extensive photo library of 70 year old Bill Jones, a respected freelance photographer whose work has appeared in numerous national publications, including Ebony and Jet magazine for over 40 years, and after considering that Mr. Jones is the most published photographer on the planet, Hollywood Weekly made an interesting discovery; Michael Jackson is the most photographed celebrity ever. "Michael Jackson is without question the most famous American celebrity ever photographed. Factor in the global success of his career, his popularity made sense, but we actually conducted an analysis of Mr. Jones' body of work and, in our opinion, Michael Jackson is the most photographed celebrity in the world," explained Hollywood Weekly, publisher, Prather Jackson. The May issue of the Hollywood Weekly will feature exclusive photographs of Michael Jackson taken by celebrity photographer, Bill Jones. Fans interested in writing letters to the Hollywood Weekly for this edition, should send an email to: editor@jacksonpublishing.com The publication will be released on May 10, 2006. To Order, http://www.jacksonpublishing.com/pages/25/index.htm
Who's the toughest movie or tv dog of all time?
In your opinion, who is the most influential musician/band of all time? e.g. elvis, the beatles, mozart etc
Who else finds those SmileyCentral Ads incredibly annoying most of the time? Are there people who actually like them all the time?
Who is the best cartoon character of all time?
Who do you think is the most controversial person alive today?
Who do you think is the most over rated actor or actress today?
Do any of you think that all the characters on "Lost" are all dead already, and that the island is actually Purgatory?
What do you think of the idea of time crystals (crystals which extend into the fourth dimension) ? They were proposed by Frank Wilczek in 2012
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Ayuno, restricción calórica y las enfermedades del sistema digestivo.
Fasting diet therapy in gastrointestinal tract diseases
Vopr Pitan. 2007; 76(6):33-8. [Article in Russian]
Maksimov VA, Karataev SD, Chernyshev AL, Buntin SE, Panaĭkin VI, Lysov AN, Zelentsov SN, Obukhov IuV, Parkhomenko NA, Mel'nikov VL
The article is devoted to an effective not medicamentous method of therapy--to the medical starvation. Indications and contra-indications to carrying out of medical starvation are given. Own results of use of medical starvation are resulted at diseases of bodies of digestion. Practical recommendations on applications of medical starvation for patients with diseases of bodies of a gastroenteric path are submitted.
Effect of fasting on diarrhoea in collagenous colitis.
Digestion. 2002;65(1):30-4 .
Bohr J, Jarnerot G, Tysk C, Jones I, Eriksson S.
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden.
AIM: Diarrhoea in collagenous colitis has been considered as secretory though the pathophysiology has been studied thoroughly in only a few patients. The result of fasting is one way to distinguish between secretory and osmotic diarrhoea. Our aim was to investigate the effect of fasting on diarrhoea in collagenous colitis.
METHODS: Fourteen patients with collagenous colitis were admitted to the hospital for investigation. All were female. Five of these did not have diarrhoea during admission and were excluded. Stools were examined for weight, electrolytes, pH, fat and osmolality during a period on a normal diet and during fasting.
RESULTS: During the fasting period the faecal weight was significantly reduced from median 757 (440-3,198) to 191 (22- 2,197) g. The faecal sodium concentration was also reduced, though not significantly, during fasting from median 65 (29-85) to 45 (19-88) mmol/l. The osmotic gaps varied according to the method of calculation applied.
CONCLUSIONS: The data indicate that the cause of the diarrhoea in collagenous colitis could be multifactorial. In some patients an osmotic factor dominates and in others a secretory factor, while in some patients a combination of both seems to exist.?
Gallbladder motility and gallstone formation in obese patients following very low calorie diets. Use it (fat) to lose it (well).
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1998 Jun;22(6):592-600
Festi D; Colecchia A; Orsini M; Sangermano A; Sottili S; Simoni P; Mazzella G; Villanova N; Bazzoli F; Lapenna D; Petroni ML; Pavesi S; Neri M; Roda E.
Department of Medicine and Aging, University G D'Annunzio Chieti, Italy.
Dieting obese subjects are at risk of developing gallstones. A gallbladder motor dysfunction could have a pathogenetic role. The principal aim of this study was to evaluate the long term effects of two very low calorie diets differing in fat content on gallbladder emptying and gallstone formation in obese subjects.
DESIGN AND SUBJECTS: Gallbladder emptying in response to meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) in two different diet regimens (3.0 vs 12.2 g of fat/d) was evaluated by ultrasonography in 32 gallstone-free obese patients on different days, before and during (at 45 d intervals) one or two 6-month weight reduction diets (for the first three months: 2.24 MJ (535.2 kcal), 3.0 g fat/d vs 2.415 MJ (577.0 kcal), 12.2 g fat/d; for the second three months, the same low calorie diet of 4.194 MJ (1002 kcal)/d for both groups). In 10 subjects, bile analysis was also performed.
RESULTS: Twenty-two (69%) subjects concluded the study, eleven in each group, and a significant weight loss was achieved by all subjects. Gallstones (asymptomatic) developed in 6/11 (54.5%) (P < 0.01) of subjects following the lower fat diet, but in none with the higher fat regimen. In the dieters during the first three months (very low calorie phase) the higher fat meals always induced a significantly greater gallbladder emptying than the lower fat meals. The cholesterol saturation index initially increased significantly and then decreased, without difference between the two groups.
CONCLUSION: In the obese during rapid weight loss from a very low calorie diet, a relatively high fat intake could prevent gallstone formation, probably by maintaining an adequate gallbladder emptying, which could counterbalance lithogenic mechanisms acting during weight loss.
Review: low caloric intake and gall-bladder motor function.
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2000 May;14 Suppl 2:51-3
Festi D; Colecchia A; Larocca A; Villanova N; Mazzella G; Petroni ML; Romano F; Roda E.
Department of Medicine and Aging, University G. d'Annunzio, St Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, Italy
Cholelithiasis is the primary expression of obesity in the hepatobiliary system. In obese subjects the risk of developing gallstones is increased due to a higher cholesterol saturation of gall-bladder bile. During weight reduction with very low calorie diets (VLCD) the incidence of gallstones increases, but the mechanism for gallstone formation is not completely understood and several pathogenetic mechanisms have been suggested: increased saturation of bile, increased gall-bladder secretion of mucin and calcium, increased presence of prostaglandins and arachidonic acid. Alterations in gall-bladder motility may contribute to gallstone formation, but few studies have addressed the issue of gall-bladder motility during rapid weight loss and its possible role in gallstone formation. VLCD have been associated with a gall-bladder stasis, as a consequence of reduced gall-bladder stimulation by low fat content of the diets. A threshold quantity of fat (10 g) has been documented to obtain efficient gall-bladder emptying. Ursodeoxycholic acid administered during VLCD seems to have a protective role in developing a biliary cholesterol crystals. Gall-bladder emptying was lower in response to low fat meals with respect to relative higher fat meals, before as well as during the VLCD. This may account the possibility of an adaptative response of the gall-bladder motility to a given diet regimen. Adequate fat content of the VLCD may prevent gallstone formation, maintaining adequate gall-bladder motility and may be more economic and physiologically acceptable
than administration of a pharmacological agent.
Gallstone formation in obese women treated by a low-calorie diet.
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1995 Aug;19(8):593-5?
Spirt BA, Graves LW, Weinstock R, Bartlett SJ, Wadden TA.
State University of New York Health Science Center (Syracuse, NY), Department of Radiology, USA.
This study assessed the incidence of gallstone formation in 47 obese women who consumed a low-calorie diet (LCD) for the first 16 weeks of a 26-week weight loss program. The LCD consisted of four daily servings of a liquid diet combined with an evening meal of a pre-packaged dinner entree and provided approximately 925 kcal/d. Six of the 47 patients (12.8%) displayed gallstones at week 17, as determined by sonography. Five patients were asymptomatic when followed for up to 48 weeks. The sixth, however, reported severe abdominal pain 30 weeks after beginning treatment and required a cholecystectomy. Patients who developed gallstones, as compared with those who did not, had significantly higher baseline triglyceride and total cholesterol levels and had a significantly greater rate of weight loss. Results of this study indicate that an increased risk of gallstones is not limited to very-low-calorie diets and that the incidence of this complication should be assessed in persons who consume popular over-the-counter meal replacement plans.
Gastro-intestinal tract [Naturopathic dietary treatment in functional disorders]
MMW Fortschr Med. 2006 Feb 16;148(7):34-6.
Stange R. Komm. Chefarzt, Abt. fur Naturheilkunde, Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin.
Fasting prevents experimental murine colitis produced by dextran sulfate sodium and decreases interleukin-1 beta and insulin-like growth factor I messenger ribonucleic acid.
Endocrinology. 1997 Feb;138(2):734-40
Savendahl L, Underwood LE, Haldeman KM, Ulshen MH, Lund PK.
Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599, USA.is, gastr
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Pixar in a Box reaches Season 3
A collaboration between Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy, sponsored by Disney, the Pixar in a Box project will have six new lessons in 2017. Discover what storyteller means at Pixar and learn to be one. Pixar in a Box is a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. It started in 2015,
The post Pixar in a Box reaches Season 3 appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
71st Emmy Awards – Art of the Cut nominated edit
Congratulations to all of the nominated picture editors for this year’s Emmy Awards. (71st Emmy Awards) If you’re interested in reading about the editors involved in the nominations for Best Picture Editing, here is a list of the nominees who have been interviewed for Art of the Cut, including links to their interviews. 71st Emmy... The post 71st Emmy Awards – Art of the Cut nominated editors appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
After Effects Classic Course: Colorama 1 – Overv
The last few posts have been about both the corrective and creative uses of color manipulation. Now it’s time to get purely creative with the most over-the-top color manipulation plug-in in After Effects: Colorama. This powerful effect is initially overwhelming, because it can do so much from sedate tinting to psychedelic color cycling. So let’s... The post After Effects Classic Course: Colorama 1 – Overview appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
An interview with “This is America” editor Ern
Recently, the music video for Childish Gambino’s This is America won one of two Grand Prix prizes in the Entertainment for Music category at Cannes. Jury president Paulette Long described the video as a cultural phenomenon, saying that “Every so often a video comes out and it points a finger and makes us admit that... The post An interview with “This is America” editor Ernie Gilbert appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
Need to rent a computer for onsite editing?
A week of editing video, in a hotel, for a conference brought to my attention a company called RentAComputer.com. I had never heard of them before and I have no idea how long they have been around but it was a fantastic option for what we needed. Show up at a hotel, shoot video on-site... The post Need to rent a computer for onsite editing? appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
ART OF THE CUT with documentary editor Paul Crowde
Paul Crowder, ACE is a London-born, L.A.-based editor. I last spoke with him when he edited Ron Howard’s fantastic tribute to the Fab Four: “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years.” Before cutting “Eight Days,” Paul edited and directed dozens of documentaries and shows and was probably most famously associated with the... The post ART OF THE CUT with documentary editor Paul Crowder, ACE appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
Foundry at DigiPro 2019: Machine Learning in Post-
At DigiPro 2019, Foundry’s Head of Research Dan Ring will be presenting on “Jumping in at the Deep End: How to Experiment with Machine Learning in Post-Production Software”. The 8th DigiPro, or Digital Production Symposium 2019, happens in Los Angeles on 27 July 2019, as part of SIGGRAPH 2019. The event is an open window... The post Foundry at DigiPro 2019: Machine Learning in Post-Production Software appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
Puget Systems launches a new FREE app: Adobe Premi
How well does your computer run Adobe Premiere Pro CC? If you want to know, get the new benchmark for Adobe Premiere Pro CC, a tool Puget Systems uses to check the computers the company builds. Launched December 2018, and available for both Mac and Windows as a FREE download, the Puget Systems Benchmark for... The post Puget Systems launches a new FREE app: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Benchmark appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
Record 3D binaural audio with Hooke Verse hardware
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The Art of the Cut Podcast Eps. 3 (w/ Chernobyl Ed
The Art of the Cut podcast brings the fantastic conversations that Steve Hullfish has with world renowned editors into your car, living room, editing suite and beyond. In each episode, Steve talks with editors ranging from emerging stars to Oscar and Emmy winners. Hear from the top editors today about their careers, editing workflows and... The post The Art of the Cut Podcast Eps. 3 (w/ Chernobyl Editor Simon Smith) appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
Face Replacement How-to
Learn the art of face replacement with our step-by-step walkthrough of the technique. This marks the start of a new collaboration between provideocoalition.com and moviola.com: “Impossible Shots.” In Impossible Shots we’ll be taking high-end feature film techniques and breaking them down to achievable levels—all the while maintaining the believability of the final look. (No “Plan... The post Face Replacement How-to appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.
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Injectable Oxygen set to make resuscitation easier and safer...
AED Drone bringing help to the scene before ambulance arrival...
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The truth is out there...
While it is recognised around the world that the most common cardiac arrest is the Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA)...here in Australia we act as if the the most common arrest is in an adult who drowns while eating a meat pie. Very Australian but just not true!? See our discussion page and check out the facts.
Dr Heimlich saves choking woman with man-oeuvre he invented
The 96-year-old American inventor of the Heimlich manoeuvre has used the technique himself to save a choking woman at his retirement home. Dr Henry Heimlich said he had demonstrated the technique many times but never used it in an emergency. His action dislodged a piece of meat with a bone in it from the 87-year-old woman's airway. "I didn't know I really could do it until the other day," he told the BBC. Dr Heimlich was having dinner with eight or nine others at the Deupree House retirement home in Cincinnati when he turned to talk to a woman at his table and noticed she was choking. "She had a skin colour that was no longer pink. Her mouth was puffed up and her lips were out," he told the BBC. "Though I invented the Heimlich manoeuvre I had never been called on to do it before." Dr Heimlich described how he turned the woman, Patty Ris, around in her chair so her back was exposed. The manoeuvre requires a rescuer to carry out abdominal thrusts on a choke victim to dislodge the blockage. "I did it three times and a piece of meat with a bone in it came flying out of her mouth and she was all right," he said. Staff had rushed to the table when the woman started choking, but stood back to allow Dr Heimlich to carry out his manoeuvre. "Just the fact that a 96-year-old man could perform that, is impressive," his son Phil Heimlich told the Cincinnati Inquirer. Dr Heimlich, who invented the technique in 1974, swims and exercises regularly. He often meets people who were saved by the technique or who saved someone else, his son said.
Who has the Heimlich manoeuvre saved? Since the technique was introduced in 1974 it is believed to have saved the lives of more than 100,000 people in the US alone. They include former President Ronald Reagan, pop star Cher, former New York mayor Edward Koch and Hollywood actors Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau, Carrie Fisher, Jack Lemmon and Marlene Dietrich. In 2014 actor Clint Eastwood was credited with saving the life of a golf tournament director in California who was choking on a piece of cheese. In the UK, celebrity promoter Simon Cowell was reportedly saved by comedian David Walliams, who carried out the Heimlich manoeuvre on him after a mint became stuck in his throat.
European Resuscitation Council releases new guidelines
The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has released their new guidelines, including now recommending that the BLS Guidelines for Children be the same as the ALS Guidelines (see below). This includes using the ratio of 15:2 for CPR due to the high likelihood that a peadiatric arrest will by caused by a hypoxic episode.
ECC and AHA recommend first-aiders and other BLS providers are given Naloxone (Narcan) for narcotic over-doses
New Collars solves the issues for the critics of hard collars
The Lubo
The Lubo offers a combined solution for both airway and immobilization needs. While the Lubo is the only non-invasive solution that can safely open the airway by imitating the jaw thrust maneuver for a long time, it is the only immobilization device that allows the care giver to manage the airway easily, frees the neck from the “traditional neck grasp” while performing solid immobilization.
Any first responder, paramedic or non-paramedic, learns in the Basic Life Support course to perform the Jaw-thrust maneuver using both hands.
On the one hand, this is a difficult technique that requires training in order to be performed successfully, and still may risk the patient’s cervical spine if done manually without preliminary immobilization. On the other hand, the common cervical collars may compromise the patient’s airway by obstructing both the professional medical personnel from performing intubation and the Basic Life Support first responders from manually performing a Jaw-thrust maneuver.
Lubo secures patent airway while immobilizing the spine without causing damage to the patient’s neck. Lubo also enables performing intubation, if needed, while maintaining cervical spine fixation.
Lubo meets the first-aid international guidelines, both civilian and military, allowing basic patent airway and can quickly be applied by any first responder. The Lubo can easily be included in any first-aid kit and therefore improve health and wellness in the community.
Lubo sales commenced worldwide through distributors specialized in out-of-hospital emergencies both to the civil (private and government) and military markets.
History
The Lubo stems from field experience in the Israeli Army (IDF). The inventor, Dr. Omri Lubovski, is a veteran in the prestige aviation rescue 669 unit. He realized that the need for opening the airway non-invasively, quickly and efficiently, is crucial especially when the victim’s situation or scene surroundings are complicated. The lack of ability to open and secure the patient’s airway while performing immobilization, led to the invention of Lubo.
The Lubo concept has grown out of two major needs in the field of emergency medicine:
Non-invasive airway solution
While every guideline related to pre-hospital critical care and emergency medicine instructs the first responders to take care of the patient’s airway first, the means and methods are inadequate. Whether it is the invasive solutions that are very hard to place and that may cause serious damage to the patient, or whether it is the airway method, such as head tilt-chin lift which can harm the spine, the care giver lacks an optimized solution2,3. The jaw thrust maneuver is the safest and most efficient way to open the airway without risking the spine4,6, but this method is difficult to perform manually and is impossible to maintain for more than few seconds.
Cervical collars pitfalls
Although cervical collars have been in use for the past 50 years or so, there is an ongoing debate regarding their essentiality in light of the risks posed once they are placed on a patient7,9. Most of the cervical collars today grasp the neck and can result in airway difficulties as well as airway management compromise, intracranial pressure (ICP) incensement, increased patient pain or dyspnea, increased scene time and delay of delivery to definitive care10.
This novel device is intended to enable non-invasive airway management in cases of trauma that require immediate airway management combined with an immobilization capability1.
Lubo’s main features
Non-invasive airway management.
Imitates the jaw thrust maneuver while protecting the cervical spine. Performs a safer jaw thrust maneuver without risking the spine6.
Avoids using ‘invasive’ airway devices OPAs (which can result in pallet trauma, nausea, vomiting and bronco-aspiration) and NPAs (which may lead to bleeding).
Facilitates airway clearance (teeth, secretions etc.).
Immobilization without compromising the airway and without grasping the neck.
The only cervical collar that enables intubation (no need to remove the collar) and its immobilization is at least as good as the standard cervical collars.
Easy to operate by any first-responders.
Effective, fast and painless.
Lubo Family Models:
The Lubo family includes various models addressing the need to open and secure patent airway by any first responder in different segments of the critical care market, such as emergency services, first-aid kits, hospital ER/ICU, military and MCI.
Lubo Regular
Enables patented airway opening with cervical spine immobilization, adjustable to adult sizes, single-use for pre-hospital medical emergency care.
Lubo Military Model
Enables patented airway opening with cervical spine immobilization, adjustable to adult sizes for use by military forces. Robust, dark colors, for pre-hospital use, complied with TCCC and TEMP guidelines.
Lubo Mini
Enables patented airway opening with cervical spine immobilization, adjustable to small sizes, single-use for pre-hospital medical emergency care.
Lubovsky, O., Liebergall, M., Weissman, C. & Yuval, M. A new external upper airway opening device combined with a cervical collar. Resuscitation 81, 817–821 (2010).
Lairet, J. R. et al. Prehospital interventions performed in a combat zone. J. Trauma Acute Care Surg. 73, S38–S42 (2012).
Eastridge, B. J. et al. Death on the battlefield (2001–2011). J. Trauma Acute Care Surg. 73, S431–S437 (2012).
Uzun, L. et al. Effectiveness of the jaw-thrust maneuver in opening the airway: A flexible fiberoptic endoscopic study. ORL 67, 39–44 (2005).
Durga, V. K., Millns, J. P. & Smith, J. E. Manoeuvres used to clear the airway during fibreoptic intubation. Br. J. Anaesth. 87, 207–211 (2001).
Aprahamian, C. et al. Experimental Cervical Spine Injury Model : Evaluation of Airway Management and Splinting Techniques. (1984).
Goutcher, C. M. & Lochhead, V. Reduction in mouth opening with semi-rigid cervical collars. Br. J. Anaesth. 95, 344–348 (2005).
George, J. W., Fennema, J., Maddox, A., Nessler, M. & Skaggs, C. D. The effect of cervical spine manual therapy on normal mouth opening in asymptomatic subjects. J. Chiropr. Med. 6, 141–145 (2007).
Benger, J. & Blackham, J. Why do we put cervical collars on conscious trauma patients? Scand. J. Trauma. Resusc. Emerg. Med.17, 44 (2009).
Sundstrøm, T., Asbjørnsen, H., Habiba, S., Sunde, G. A. & Wester, K. Prehospital use of cervical collars in trauma patients: a critical review. J. Neurotrauma 31, 531–40 (2014).
The X Collar
Who will win the "Australian - Fast Food AED Challenge"
A challenge open to all the major fast food chains in Australia. Be the first to install defibrillators (AED's) in your restaurants and get bragging rights.
With such huge profits being made in Australia by fast food companies and the importance of a balanced approach to food intake, now is the time for these retailers (who share 51.5 million visits a year in Australia) to show leadership in customer care and install defibrillators (AED's) in all their restaurants. This will help address the biggest single killer of Australians, Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). Survival is less than 10% without an AED and up to 75% if the first shock is delivered in the first 3 minutes i.e. before Ambulance arrival.
"Hands only" CPR improves bystander willingness to start resuscitation by 70% in Sweden but in Australia bystanders are still encouraged to use "rescue breaths" in all resuscitation attempts?!
NEW ORLEANS – Since guidelines have endorsed the use of compression-only or Hands-Only CPR by people not trained or unwilling to provide rescue breaths during resuscitation attempts, Swedish bystanders are trying to help at a far greater rate.
Using a national registry in Sweden of 23,169 bystander-witnessed cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, researchers compared the total rate of bystander CPR attempted and the proportions of standard CPR , which involves both rescue breaths and chest compressions; and Hands-Only CPR.
They found: Bystanders attempted to resuscitate a total of 38 percent of people in cardiac arrest from 2000-2005 — before compressions-only-CPR was introduced into the guidelines. During 2006-2010 — after guidelines noted that dispatcher guidance of laypeople in compressions-only CPR might be preferable — 59 percent of bystanders attempted resuscitation CPR. The total rate of CPR attempts rose to 70 percent during 2011-2014, after guidelines strongly recommended that dispatchers instruct untrained bystanders in compressions-only-CPR.
Most of the increase in bystander CPR during the last 15 years in Sweden was associated with increased use of compressions-only-CPR, from 5 percent in 2000-2005 to 15 percent in 2006-2010 to 28 percent in 2011-2014. The 30-day survival of people with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was not significantly different between those receiving compressions-only-CPR (13.6 percent) and standard CPR (12.9 percent). Either approach resulted in far higher survival than when no CPR was attempted (6.4 percent during 2011-2014).
The study was presented Saturday at the Resuscitation Science Symposium taking place at American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2016.
An important lesson for the NSW Government on its attitude to AEDs in schools. Creating a regulatory framework is not removing barriers for schools wanting to purchase an AED!
Teachers save teenager's life after he goes into cardiac arrest at school
By MattJarram | Posted: December 13, 2016 - Nottingham Post
A Nottinghamshire mum says quick-thinking staff saved her 17-year-old son's life after he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while at school.
Sarah Walker, 52, of Lingford, Cotgrave, says that if it wasn't for staff at South Nottinghamshire Academy, her son, Charlie Allison, would not be with them today.
The keen Nottingham Forest supporter suddenly collapsed at 2.30pm on Friday while exercising in the school's Fitness Suite.
The sports-mad pupil, who plays football for Bingham Town, had suffered a sudden cardiac arrest – and every moment was critical as school staff fought to save his life.
The Radcliffe-on-Trent school has a defibrillator on site – which delivers a charge to the heart – and had just received whole school training on how to use the defib a week before Charlie collapsed.
PE teacher, Scott Lowman, 31, and inclusion manager, Sam Proctor, 43, rushed to Charlie's aid and managed to bring the young lad back to life. The pair, assisted by pupils and staff, managed to start Charlie's heart before a road ambulance and the air ambulance arrived on site.
Charlie's mother, Sarah Walker told the Post: "We owe the school Charlie's life. They gave us our son back. Without them I would not have a son. There is no doubt. Without the defibrillator he would not have made it to the hospital."
In fact, the school said that Charlie, who is now recovering on the Acute Cardiac Ward at the City Hospital, was apparently most upset because his Nottingham Forest shirt had to be cut off while they worked on his heart. Explaining the ordeal, PE teacher Scott Lowman, who helped to save Charlie's life, told the Post: "One of the young lads in the fitness suite came running out and said Charlie had fainted. It was a scary situation. He started to go downhill – his breathing slowed and at one point stopped.
"We shouted for the defibrillator after noticing his heart had stopped and I started CPR while waiting for the defibrillator. We delivered the shot which started Charlie's heart again. I am still struggling to come to terms with what has happened. Without the defibrillator he would not be here."
Sam Proctor, who operated the defibrillator, added: "All of the school staff need praise. Everyone worked together to bring Charlie back to life." His mum says that Charlie has had no heart or breathing problems in the past and the family are anxiously waiting for a diagnosis following the close call.
She said: "He is a fit and healthy boy. Charlie is a million miles away from where he was on Saturday and Sunday but he has a long way to recovery. We don't know what the diagnosis is yet. He is just a happy-go-lucky lad and very conscientious. Sport is his life and he lives and breathes sport."
Charlie is undertaking a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Sport at the Academy in conjunction with Nottingham Forest. He has been a keen sportsman since he was six-years-old, making 144 appearances for Cotgrave Colts and playing for two years, mainly in right back, for Bingham Town. He is also in the Newark and Nottingham Cricket League for Keyworth Town and is a Nottingham Forest season ticket holder. Charlie has an older sister, Katie, 28.
His mum, who is special needs teaching assistant at Oak Field School and Sports College, added: "I did not think I was ever going to see him again. Everyone went onto magic auto-pilot and brought him back to life."
According to the British Heart Foundation, almost 90 percent of people who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests die.
The quick response was critical, as every minute without CPR and defibrillation reduces the chance of survival by up to 10 per cent.
Dan Philpotts, head teacher at South Nottinghamshire Academy, said: "Our thoughts and best wishes are with Charlie and his family at this difficult time and we are so pleased to see him recovering in hospital. "Having seen first hand how a defibrillator helped saved Charlie's life, I cannot believe that they are not compulsory in schools and other public places.
"South Nottinghamshire Academy staff were unbelievable and I am so proud of the way in which they responded – whilst it was very traumatic and some staff are struggling to come to terms with it, they can rest assured that they have contributed to saving a student's life."
Charlie Allison being supported by friends at the City Hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Charlie Allison pictured before his prom.
Life-saving team at South Nottinghamshire Academy - Scott Lowman, PE teacher, Dan Philpotts, head teacher, and Sam Proctor.
Stop Randomising all Cardiac Arrests
Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD
Read this paper from the American Heart Association's Circulation. 2016;134:2035-2036. on some of the issues with current and past cardiac arrest RCT research and the interpretration of outcomes. The author suggests that we may be missing important conclusions by randomizing all studies. <click here>
Public cardiopulmonary resuscitation training rates and awareness of hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a cross-sectional survey of Victorians.
Janet E Bray, Karen Smith, Rosalind Case, Susie Cartledge, Lahn Straney, Judith Finn
Emergency Medicine Australasia: EMA 2017 January 13
METHODS: A cross-sectional telephone survey in April 2016 of adult residents of the Australian state of Victoria was conducted. Primary outcomes were rates of CPR training and awareness of hands-only CPR.
RESULTS: Of the 404 adults surveyed (mean age 55 ± 17 years, 59% female, 73% metropolitan residents), 274 (68%) had undergone CPR training. Only 50% (n = 201) had heard of hands-only CPR, with most citing first-aid courses (41%) and media (36%) as sources of information.
ARAN Comment: The position taken by the ARC and its unofficial "spokespeople" ("unofficial", because the ARC refuses to debate the evidence with anyone outside their own organisation); is that the current DRSABCD appropriately prioritises compressions and defibrillation as the only two measures that have shown to make any difference in outcome in SCA in first response. The results of this study reinforce the position of ARAN; in that the message about compression-only CPR (which is the focus in all other jurisdictions in the world outside Australia and NZ) is not being articulated to the public in Australia. Half the population (even if they have been to a formal course or seen the propaganda from the ARC) have still not heard of compression only CPR being an alternative. All research on public willingness to help in an emergency shows an increased willingness if "rescue breaths" were omitted.
This survey would most likely have similar results in other states of Australia but will always show a huge variance to overseas, where the message is not hidden in an obsolete guideline for BLS (that is targeted to responding to hypoxic arrests). Another unfortunate (but predictable) fail from the ARC.
Association Between Tracheal Intubation During Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Survival
Lars W Andersen, Asger Granfeldt, Clifton W Callaway, Steven M Bradley, Jasmeet Soar, Jerry P Nolan, Tobias Kurth, Michael W Donnino
JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association 2017 January 24
Importance: Tracheal intubation is common during adult in-hospital cardiac arrest, but little is known about the association between tracheal intubation and survival in this setting.
Objective: To determine whether tracheal intubation during adult in-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with survival to hospital discharge.
Design, Setting, and Participants: Observational cohort study of adult patients who had an in-hospital cardiac arrest from January 2000 through December 2014 included in the Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation registry, a US-based multicenter registry of in-hospital cardiac arrest. Patients who had an invasive airway in place at the time of cardiac arrest were excluded. Patients intubated at any given minute (from 0-15 minutes) were matched with patients at risk of being intubated within the same minute (ie, still receiving resuscitation) based on a time-dependent propensity score calculated from multiple patient, event, and hospital characteristics.
Exposure: Tracheal intubation during cardiac arrest.
Main Outcomes and Measures: The primary outcome was survival to hospital discharge. Secondary outcomes included return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and a good functional outcome. A cerebral performance category score of 1 (mild or no neurological deficit) or 2 (moderate cerebral disability) was considered a good functional outcome.
Results: The propensity-matched cohort was selected from 108 079 adult patients at 668 hospitals. The median age was 69 years (interquartile range, 58-79 years), 45 073 patients (42%) were female, and 24 256 patients (22.4%) survived to hospital discharge. Of 71 615 patients (66.3%) who were intubated within the first 15 minutes, 43 314 (60.5%) were matched to a patient not intubated in the same minute. Survival was lower among patients who were intubated compared with those not intubated: 7052 of 43 314 (16.3%) vs 8407 of 43 314 (19.4%), respectively (risk ratio [RR] = 0.84; 95% CI, 0.81-0.87; P < .001). The proportion of patients with ROSC was lower among intubated patients than those not intubated: 25 022 of 43 311 (57.8%) vs 25 685 of 43 310 (59.3%), respectively (RR = 0.97; 95% CI, 0.96-0.99; P < .001). Good functional outcome was also lower among intubated patients than those not intubated: 4439 of 41 868 (10.6%) vs 5672 of 41 733 (13.6%), respectively (RR = 0.78; 95% CI, 0.75-0.81; P < .001). Although differences existed in prespecified subgroup analyses, intubation was not associated with improved outcomes in any subgroup.
Conclusions and Relevance: Among adult patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest, initiation of tracheal intubation within any given minute during the first 15 minutes of resuscitation, compared with no intubation during that minute, was associated with decreased survival to hospital discharge. Although the study design does not eliminate the potential for confounding by indication, these findings do not support early tracheal intubation for adult in-hospital cardiac arrest.
New Emergency Anti-Choking Device - LifeVac now available in Australia
Designed to be used when first aid fails, the LifeVac has already saved 6 lives. The device comes in two configurations. The first for home or facility use that can be wall mounted. The other for storage in existing kits for use by first responders and paramedics. The device can also be used on yourself.
As a comparison, the ARC, one-handed chest thrusts technique for the relief of upper airway obstruction in the conscious adult, rather than abdominal thrusts (used in every country in the world other than AU and NZ) has no relevant clinical evidence, has no clinical trials and has no recorded examples of success in over 15 years of its inception. This is one of the reasons LifeVac saw Australia as a country in need of a device such as the LifeVac.
If we compare the evidence to support LifeVac with the ARC recommendation of one-handed chest thrusts technique:
LifeVac ARC Recommendation
Cadaver Studies Yes No
Manikin Studies Yes No
Used Internationally Yes No
Evidence of Success Yes No
(Note: The studies conducted by LifeVac on our device are available on the website www.lifevac.net.au)
Considering the comparison table above and the level of evidence required to suggest “best practice” it is surprising that this device is not more widespread in Australia over unproven recommendations. Disappointing, but again so predictably when it comes to innovation that trumps their consensus opinion, the ARC refused to allow this new technology to be presented at their recent Spark of Life Conference. Reinforcing again the ARC focus on politics and monopoly control rather than saving lives.
ARAN fully endorses the LifeVac anti-choking device for the removal of upper airway obstruction after the failure of first aid measures. In making this determination, ARAN notes that the device has more evidence of efficacy than the ARC "one-handed chest thrusts technique", currently recommended by the ARC over abdominal thrusts.
36 US States now require high school students to learn CPR prior to graduation. 0 Australian states require students to learn CPR prior to graduation (FAIL)
South Dakota has become the latest US state that requires high school students to learn CPR (including defibrillation) prior to graduation
http://news.heart.org/south-dakota-becomes-36th-state-to-require-cpr-to-graduate-high-school/
ARAN released draft of new ASHPA - Universal BLS Emergency Guideine
For years the DRSABCD (with minor tweaks) has been the standard advice when approaching any BLS emergency. However since its inception there has also been a sense amongst those who have had to use or teach this guideline that it is not a good fit for emergencies that are not a collapse and provides no overall guidance for managing any other type of incident. The other issue is that even if used in a collapse the DRSABCD provides guidance about providing care to a hypoxic arrest in an otherwise healthy casualty - a scenario that really happens. We have found at least 10 advantages of the ASHPA Guideline over the DRSABCD and you may find more. The ASHPA also builds on the 2 critical questions in BLS (consciousness/ unconsciousness and if breathing is normal) to guide the next steps, regardless of the emergency.
Check it out in our "Flowcharts" section
Compression-to-Ventilation Ratio and Incidence of Rearrest - A Secondary Analysis of the ROC CCC Trial.
A new look at continuous compressions vs. the 30:2 ratio and if CCC produces better, worse or comparable rates of rearrest post ROSC.
READ THE PAPER
NEW UK Resuscitation Council AED Posters and Signs.
After a national survey of consumers, the UK Resuscitation Council has released new posters and signs for AEDs. The content, although not clinically accurate was the consensus among consumers of the easiest messages about AED to understand. ARAN has change the emergency number to 000 and the material is now available for download in pdf.
AED POSTER
AED SIGN
New cheaper competitor to Epipen coming later this year.
This photo provided by Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. shows the Symjepi syringe, prefilled with the hormone epinephrine, which helps stop life-threatening allergic reactions from insect stings and bites or eating foods such as nuts and eggs. On Thursday, June 15, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. product, which is expected to go on sale later in 2017. (Audacity Health/Courtesy of Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. via AP)
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Cervical collars and immobilisation: A South African best practice recommendation
Quality of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation during real-life out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Tore Gyllenborg, Asger Granfeldt, Freddy Lippert, Ingunn Skogstad Riddervold, Fredrik Folke
Resuscitation 2017 September 10
This study conducted in the Capital Region, Denmark, (2012-2016) the initial 10 minutes of CPR data were analysed for compression rate, depth, fraction and compressions delivered for each minute of CPR. Data are presented as median [25th;75th percentile]. The study included 136 cases. Bystander median compression rate was 101min (-1) [94;113], compression depth was 48mm [3.9;5.8] and compressions per minute were 62 [48;73]. Of all cases, the median compression rate was 100-120min (-1) in 42%, compression depth was 50 -60mm (i.e in compliance with current recommendations) in 26%, compression fraction≥60% in 51% and compressions delivered per minute exceeded 60 in 54%. In a minute-to-minute analysis, the found no evidence of deterioration in CPR quality over time. The median peri-shock pause was 27s [23;31] and the pre-shock pause was 19s [17;22].
CONCLUSION: The median CPR performed by bystanders using AEDs with audio-feedback in OHCA was within guideline recommendations without deterioration over time. Compression depth had poorer quality compared with other parameters. To improve bystander CPR quality, focus should be on proper compression depth and minimizing pauses.
ARAN Comment: This data (although from an AED using a accellerometer feedback) reinforces the importance of compression depth (as only 42% were in the recommended range). Unfortunately, most training manikins (that are under no standard), do not realistically simulated the force pressure required for compressions on a typical cardiac arrest victim. Two recommendations would be: 1. A standard for resuscitation manikins and 2. Training emphasis on the minimisation of pauses e.g. high performance cpr.
Frequency and influencing factors of cardiopulmonary resuscitation-related injuries during implementation of the American Heart Association 2010 Guidelines: a retrospective study based on autopsy and postmortem computed tomography. Rutsuko Yamaguchi, Yohsuke Makino, Fumiko Chiba, Suguru Torimitsu, Daisuke Yajima, Go Inokuchi, Ayumi Motomura, Mari Hashimoto, Yumi Hoshioka, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Hirotaro Iwase
International Journal of Legal Medicine 2017 September 13
The study conducted between January 2012 to December 2014 tried to determine the frequency of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)-related injuries and factors involved in their occurrence, data based on forensic autopsy and postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) during implementation of the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR were studied.
RESULTS: In total, 180 consecutive cases were analyzed. Rib fractures and sternal fractures were most frequent (overall frequency, 66.1 and 52.8%, respectively), followed by heart injuries (12.8%) and abdominal visceral injuries (2.2%). Urgently life-threatening injuries were rare (2.8%). Older age was an independent risk factor for rib fracture [adjusted odds ratio (AOR), 1.06; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.04-1.08; p < 0.001], ≥ 3 rib fractures (AOR, 1.06; 95% CI, 1.02-1.09; p = 0.002), and sternal fracture (AOR, 1.03; 95% CI, 1.01-1.05; p < 0.001). Female sex was significantly associated with sternal fracture (AOR, 2.08; 95% CI, 1.02-4.25; p = 0.04). Chest compression only by laypersons was inversely associated with rib and sternal fractures. Body mass index and in-hospital cardiac arrest were not significantly associated with any complications. The frequency of thoracic skeletal injuries was similar to that in recent autopsy-based studies.
ARAN Comment: The significant findings of low numbers of injuries is consistent with other findings. The association of age and musculo-skeletal injuries is self evident. The significant finding was that chest compression only CPR by bystanders was inversely associated with complications like rib and sternal fractures. This is further evidence that compression only CPR is a superior method for public BLS training, particularly in the first 6-8 minutes in SCA.
Association of Public Health Initiatives With Outcomes for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest at Home and in Public Locations
Christopher B Fordyce, Carolina M Hansen, Kristian Kragholm, Matthew E Dupre, James G Jollis, Mayme L Roettig, Lance B Becker, Steen M Hansen, Tomoya T Hinohara, Claire C Corbett, Lisa Monk, R Darrell Nelson, David A Pearson, Clark Tyson, Sean van Diepen, Monique L Anderson, Bryan McNally, Christopher B Granger
JAMA Cardiology 2017 October 4
Importance: Little is known about the influence of comprehensive public health initiatives according to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) location, particularly at home, where resuscitation efforts and outcomes have historically been poor.
Objective: To describe temporal trends in bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first-responder defibrillation for OHCAs stratified by home vs public location and their association with survival and neurological outcomes.
Design, Setting, and Participants: This observational study reviewed 8269 patients with OHCAs (5602 [67.7%] at home and 2667 [32.3%] in public) for whom resuscitation was attempted using data from the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) from January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2014. The setting was 16 counties in North Carolina.
Exposures: Patients were stratified by home vs public OHCA. Public health initiatives to improve bystander and first-responder interventions included training members of the general population in CPR and in the use of automated external defibrillators, teaching first responders about team-based CPR (eg, automated external defibrillator use and high-performance CPR), and instructing dispatch centres on recognition of cardiac arrest.
Main Outcomes and Measures: Association of resuscitation efforts with survival and neurological outcomes from 2010 through 2014.
Results: Among home OHCA patients (n = 5602), the median age was 64 years, and 62.2% were male; among public OHCA patients (n = 2667), the median age was 68 years, and 61.5% were male. After comprehensive public health initiatives, the proportion of patients receiving bystander CPR increased at home (from 28.3% [275 of 973] to 41.3% [498 of 1206], P < .001) and in public (from 61.0% [275 of 451] to 70.5% [424 of 601], P = .01), while first-responder defibrillation increased at home (from 42.2% [132 of 313] to 50.8% [212 of 417], P = .02) but not significantly in public (from 33.1% [58 of 175] to 37.8% [93 of 246], P = .17). Survival to discharge improved for arrests at home (from 5.7% [60 of 1057] to 8.1% [100 of 1238], P = .047) and in public (from 10.8% [50 of 464] to 16.2% [98 of 604], P = .04). Compared with emergency medical services-initiated CPR and resuscitation, patients with home OHCA were significantly more likely to survive to hospital discharge if they received bystander-initiated CPR and first-responder defibrillation (odds ratio, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.01-2.38). Patients with arrests in public were most likely to survive if they received both bystander-initiated CPR and defibrillation (odds ratio, 4.33; 95% CI, 2.11-8.87).
Conclusions and Relevance: After coordinated and comprehensive public health initiatives, more patients received bystander CPR and first-responder defibrillation at home and in public, which was associated with improved survival.
ARAN Comment:: Whilst the outcomes of this research are predictable and obvious we in Australia see not State or Federal Government interest in OHCA through public education and initiative. The NHS in the UK funds defibrillators in communities. In Australia the emphasis is on Ambulance and ED's saving lives in OHCA., however the pre-Ambulance phase is where we can see the real improvements. to our appalling survival rate. (5-6% to hospital discharge in Adults). i.e. only 1,980 lives out of 33,500 (and up to 75% are savable). Road fatalities only account for 1.,155 deaths a year and have been relatively static of the past 7 years (regardless of the heavy policing of marginal speed infringements, speed cameras, television advertising, double demerits and all the public advertising . Road safety campaigns and processes cost over $500 million dollars per year in Australia i.e nearly 1/2 a million dollars for every death. ARAN has written to both State and Federal Health Ministers concerning improving the national situation, however it has been made very clear that there is no appetite or interest in OHCA in Australian government.
Continuous chest compression versus interrupted chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation of non-asphyxial out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Lei Zhan, Li J Yang, Yu Huang, Qing He, Guan J Liu
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017 March 27, 3: CD010134
BACKGROUND: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major cause of death worldwide. Cardiac arrest can be subdivided into asphyxial and non asphyxial etiologies. An asphyxia arrest is caused by lack of oxygen in the blood and occurs in drowning and choking victims and in other circumstances. A non asphyxial arrest is usually a loss of functioning cardiac electrical activity. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a well-established treatment for cardiac arrest. Conventional CPR includes both chest compressions and 'rescue breathing' such as mouth-to-mouth breathing. Rescue breathing is delivered between chest compressions using a fixed ratio, such as two breaths to 30 compressions or can be delivered asynchronously without interrupting chest compression. Studies show that applying continuous chest compressions is critical for survival and interrupting them for rescue breathing might increase risk of death. Continuous chest compression CPR may be performed with or without rescue breathing.
OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of continuous chest compression CPR (with or without rescue breathing) versus conventional CPR plus rescue breathing (interrupted chest compression with pauses for breaths) of non-asphyxial OHCA.
SEARCH METHODS: We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; Issue 1 2017); MEDLINE (Ovid) (from 1985 to February 2017); Embase (1985 to February 2017); Web of Science (1985 to February 2017). We searched ongoing trials databases including controlledtrials.com and clinicaltrials.gov. We did not impose any language or publication restrictions.
SELECTION CRITERIA: We included randomized and quasi-randomized studies in adults and children suffering non-asphyxial OHCA due to any cause. Studies compared the effects of continuous chest compression CPR (with or without rescue breathing) with interrupted CPR plus rescue breathing provided by rescuers (bystanders or professional CPR providers).
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two authors extracted the data and summarized the effects as risk ratios (RRs), adjusted risk differences (ARDs) or mean differences (MDs). We assessed the quality of evidence using GRADE.
MAIN RESULTS: We included three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and one cluster-RCT (with a total of 26,742 participants analysed). We identified one ongoing study. While predominantly adult patients, one study included children. Untrained bystander-administered CPR. Three studies assessed CPR provided by untrained bystanders in urban areas of the USA, Sweden and the UK. Bystanders administered CPR under telephone instruction from emergency services. There was an unclear risk of selection bias in two trials and low risk of detection, attrition, and reporting bias in all three trials. Survival outcomes were unlikely to be affected by the unblinded design of the studies.We found high-quality evidence that continuous chest compression CPR without rescue breathing improved participants' survival to hospital discharge compared with interrupted chest compression with pauses for rescue breathing (ratio 15:2) by 2.4% (14% versus 11.6%; RR 1.21, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.01 to 1.46; 3 studies, 3031 participants).One trial reported survival to hospital admission, but the number of participants was too low to be certain about the effects of the different treatment strategies on survival to admission(RR 1.18, 95% CI 0.94 to 1.48; 1 study, 520 participants; moderate-quality evidence).There were no data available for survival at one year, quality of life, return of spontaneous circulation or adverse effects.There was insufficient evidence to determine the effect of the different strategies on neurological outcomes at hospital discharge (RR 1.25, 95% CI 0.94 to 1.66; 1 study, 1286 participants; moderate-quality evidence). The proportion of participants categorized as having good or moderate cerebral performance was 11% following treatment with interrupted chest compression plus rescue breathing compared with 10% to 18% for those treated with continuous chest compression CPR without rescue breathing. CPR administered by a trained professional In one trial that assessed OHCA CPR administered by emergency medical service professionals (EMS) 23,711 participants received either continuous chest compression CPR (100/minute) with asynchronous rescue breathing (10/minute) or interrupted chest compression with pauses for rescue breathing (ratio 30:2). The study was at low risk of bias overall.After OHCA, risk of survival to hospital discharge is probably slightly lower for continuous chest compression CPR with asynchronous rescue breathing compared with interrupted chest compression plus rescue breathing (9.0% versus 9.7%) with an adjusted risk difference (ARD) of -0.7%; 95% CI (-1.5% to 0.1%); moderate-quality evidence.There is high-quality evidence that survival to hospital admission is 1.3% lower with continuous chest compression CPR with asynchronous rescue breathing compared with interrupted chest compression plus rescue breathing (24.6% versus 25.9%; ARD -1.3% 95% CI (-2.4% to -0.2%)).Survival at one year and quality of life were not reported.Return of spontaneous circulation is likely to be slightly lower in people treated with continuous chest compression CPR plus asynchronous rescue breathing (24.2% versus 25.3%; -1.1% (95% CI -2.4 to 0.1)), high-quality evidence.There is high-quality evidence of little or no difference in neurological outcome at discharge between these two interventions (7.0% versus 7.7%; ARD -0.6% (95% CI -1.4 to 0.1).Rates of adverse events were 54.4% in those treated with continuous chest compressions plus asynchronous rescue breathing versus 55.4% in people treated with interrupted chest compression plus rescue breathing compared with the ARD being -1% (-2.3 to 0.4), moderate-quality evidence).
AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Following OHCA, we have found that bystander-administered chest compression-only CPR, supported by telephone instruction, increases the proportion of people who survive to hospital discharge compared with conventional interrupted chest compression CPR plus rescue breathing. Some uncertainty remains about how well neurological function is preserved in this population and there is no information available regarding adverse effects.When CPR was performed by EMS providers, continuous chest compressions plus asynchronous rescue breathing did not result in higher rates for survival to hospital discharge compared to interrupted chest compression plus rescue breathing. The results indicate slightly lower rates of survival to admission or discharge, favourable neurological outcome and return of spontaneous circulation observed following continuous chest compression. Adverse effects are probably slightly lower with continuous chest compression.Increased availability of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), and AED use in CPR need to be examined, and also whether continuous chest compression CPR is appropriate for paediatric cardiac arrest.
ARAN Comment: The study reinforces the benefits of continuous compressions over interrupted compressions, however as with most research does not differentiate between protected vs. unprotected airways and bystander vs. professional intervention and the timing of the onset of different strategies e.g. only on paramedic arrival, from the witnessed event and by whom. These confounders tend to muddy the importance of any findings. The results of the conflation of these variables is often interpreted as inconclusive evidence on which to base change. The significant improvement of cerebral function of those treated with continuous compressions by professionals (18%) over (11%) with current interrupted compressions is an important finding. By inference, the other factor here is that these patients (as they were treated by professionals) would have had a protected airway and not hyperventilated. Again a distinction in management and rescuer would be helpful and probably show a much clearer distinction for change to current recommendations (especially in Australia). The other confounder is that the bystander ability to discern the aetiology of the arrest. The conclusion is once again clear, compression only CPR for bystanders, prior to paramedic arrival leads to better outcomes, particularly in SCA. It is astounding that we have known this since at least 2010 but in Australia we (not all just those looking to for guidelines) are still holding on to an ideology that most arrest are hypoxic in nature and only happen to healthy victims.
Technique for chest compressions in adult CPR
Taufiek K Rajab, Charles N Pozner, Claudius Conrad, Lawrence H Cohn, and Jan D Schmitto
Abstract: Chest compressions have saved the lives of countless patients in cardiac arrest as they generate a small but critical amount of blood flow to the heart and brain. This is achieved by direct cardiac massage as well as a thoracic pump mechanism. In order to optimize blood flow excellent chest compression technique is critical. Thus, the quality of the delivered chest compressions is a pivotal determinant of successful resuscitation. If a patient is found unresponsive without a definite pulse or normal breathing then the responder should assume that this patient is in cardiac arrest, activate the emergency response system and immediately start chest compressions. Contra-indications to starting chest compressions include a valid Do Not Attempt Resuscitation Order. Optimal technique for adult chest compressions includes positioning the patient supine, and pushing hard and fast over the center of the chest with the outstretched arms perpendicular to the patient's chest. The rate should be at least 100 compressions per minute and any interruptions should be minimized to achieve a minimum of 60 actually delivered compressions per minute. Aggressive rotation of compressors prevents decline of chest compression quality due to fatigue. Chest compressions are terminated following return of spontaneous circulation. Unconscious patients with normal breathing are placed in the recovery position. If there is no return of spontaneous circulation, then the decision to terminate chest compressions is based on the clinical judgment that the patient's cardiac arrest is unresponsive to treatment. Finally, it is important that family and patients' loved ones who witness chest compressions be treated with consideration and sensitivity.
Introduction: Chest compressions have saved the lives of countless patients in cardiac arrest since they were first introduced in 1960 [1]. Cardiac arrest is treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and chest compressions are a basic component of CPR. The quality of the delivered chest compressions is a pivotal determinant of successful resuscitation [2]. In spite of this, studies show that the quality of chest compressions, even if delivered by healthcare professionals, is often suboptimal [2]. Therefore it is important that providers carefully familiarize themselves with this technique.
Indications: Chest compressions are generally indicated for all patients in cardiac arrest. Unlike other medical interventions, chest compressions can be initiated by any healthcare provider without a physician's order. This is based on implied patient consent for emergency treatment [3]. If a patient is found unresponsive without a definite pulse or normal breathing then the responder should assume that this patient is in cardiac arrest, activate the emergency response system and immediately start chest compressions [4]. The risk of serious injury from chest compressions to patients who are not in cardiac arrest is negligible [5], while any delay in starting chest compressions has grave implications for outcome. Due to the importance of starting chest compressions early, pulse and breathing checks were de-emphasized in the most recent CPR guidelines [4]. Thus, healthcare providers should take no longer than 10 seconds to check for a pulse. The carotid or femoral pulses are preferred locations for pulse checks since peripheral arteries can be unreliable.
Contraindications: In certain circumstances it is inappropriate to initiate chest compressions. A valid Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order that prohibits chest compressions is an absolute contra-indication. DNR orders are considered by the attending physician on the basis of patient autonomy and treatment futility.
The principle of patient autonomy dictates that competent patients have a right to refuse medical treatment [6]. Therefore a DNR order should be documented if patients do not wish to be treated with chest compressions. For patients with impaired decision-making, previous preferences should be taken into account when making decisions regarding DNR.
The principle of treatment futility dictates that healthcare providers are not obliged to provide treatment if this would be futile [6]. Therefore a DNR order should be documented if chest compressions would be unlikely to confer a survival benefit or acceptable quality of life. However, few criteria can reliably predict the futility of starting chest compressions.
If there is any uncertainty regarding DNR status then chest compressions should be started immediately while the uncertainties are addressed. Compressions may subsequently be terminated as soon as a valid DNR order is produced.
Of note, patients with implantable left ventricular assist devices [7-9] or patients with total artificial hearts or biventricular assist devices [10] who suffer cardiac arrest from device failure should be resuscitated using a backup pump (e.g. ECMO [11,12]) if this is available rather than with chest compressions.
The Physiology of Chest Compressions: Chest compressions generate a small but critical amount of blood flow to the heart and brain. This significantly improves the chances of successful resuscitation [13]. However, the precise mechanism of blood flow during chest compressions has been controversial since the 1960s. The two main hypotheses are the external cardiac massage model and the thoracic pump model.
The external cardiac massage model suggests that chest compressions directly compress the heart between the depressed sternum and the thoracic spine [1]. This ejects blood into the systemic and pulmonary circulations while backward flow during decompression is limited by the cardiac valves. The external cardiac massage model is supported by radiographic evidence of direct compression of cardiac structures during chest compressions [14].
The thoracic pump model suggests that chest compressions intermittently increase global intra-thoracic pressure, with equivalent pressures exerted on vena cava, the heart and the aorta [9]. Thus blood is ejected retrograde from the intra-thoracic venous vasculature as well as antegrade from the intra-thoracic arterial vasculature and both arterial as well as venous pressures rise concomitantly. Therefore the presence of an arterial pulse in itself is not a reliable indicator of blood flow. This principle is illustrated by the fact that a ligated artery will continue to pulsate even in the absence of blood flow. However, the compliance of venous capacitance vessels is greater than the compliance of arterial resistance vessels. Therefore a pressure differential between the extra-thoracic arterial and venous sides of the vascular tree is formed. This pressure differential is but a fraction of the arterial pulse pressure, yet it is sufficient to drive some blood flow. The thoracic pump model is supported by arterial and venous pressure tracings demonstrating simultaneous peaks in venous and arterial pressures during chest compressions [15].
In toto, the available evidence suggests that both cardiac massage and the thoracic pump contribute to blood flow during chest compressions. Yet even excellent chest compressions can only generate a fraction of baseline blood flow [16]. Therefore the time during chest compressions contributes to the ongoing ischemic insult to the patient's heart and brain.
The brain is the organ most susceptible to decreased blood flow and suffers irreversible damage within 5 minutes of absent perfusion. The myocardium is the second most susceptible organ, with ROSC directly related to coronary perfusion pressures [17]. Therefore successful resuscitation with neurologically intact survival and ROSC critically depends on maintaining blood flow to the heart and brain via chest compressions.
Technique for Chest Compression: Chest compressions consist of forceful and fast oscillations of the lower half of the sternum [1]. The technique of delivering chest compressions is highly standardized and based on international consensus that is updated in 5-year intervals [4,13,18].
Patient PositioningThe patient in cardiac arrest should be placed in supine position with the rescuer standing beside the patient's bed or kneeling beside the patient's chest [18]. Adjustment of the bed height or standing on a stool allows leveraging the body weight above the waist for mechanical advantage. For optimal transfer of energy during chest compressions the patient should be positioned on a firm surface such as a backboard early in resuscitation efforts. This decreases wasting of compressive force by compression of the soft hospital bed. While re-positioning the patient, interruptions of chest compressions should be minimized and care should be taken to avoid dislodging any lines or tubes [13].
Hand Position and PosturePlace the dominant hand over the center of the patient's chest [19]. This position corresponds to the lower half of the sternum. The heel of the hand is positioned in the midline and aligned with the long axis of the sternum. This focuses the compressive force on the sternum and decreases the chance of rib fractures. Next, place the non-dominant hand on top of the first hand so that both hands are overlapped and parallel. The fingers should be elevated off the patient's ribs to minimize compressive force over the ribs. Also avoid compressive force over the xiphisternum or the upper abdomen to minimize iatrogenic injury.
The previously taught method of first identifying anatomical landmarks and then positioning the hands two centimeters above the xiphoid-sternal notch was found to prolong interruptions of chest compressions without an increase in accuracy [20]. Similarly, the use of the internipple line as a landmark for hand placement was found to be unreliable [21]. Therefore these techniques are no longer part of the international consensus guidelines [4,13,18].
For maximum mechanical advantage keep your arms straight and elbows fully extended. Position your shoulders vertically above the patient's sternum. If the compressive force is not perpendicular to the patient's sternum then the patient will roll and part of the compressive force will be lost.
Compression Rate and InterruptionsThe blood flow generated by chest compressions is a function of the number of chest compressions delivered per minute and the effectiveness of each chest compression. The number of compressions delivered per minute is clearly related to survival [22]. This depends on the rate of compressions and the duration of any interruptions. Chest compressions should be delivered at a rate of at least 100 compressions per minute [4] since chest compression rates below 80/min are associated with decreased ROSC [2]. Any interruptions of chest compressions should be minimized. Legitimate reasons to interrupt chest compressions include the delivery of non-invasive rescue breaths, the need to assess rhythm or ROSC, and defibrillation [18]. Hold compressions when non-invasive rescue breaths are delivered [18]. Once an advanced airway is established there is no need to hold compressions for further breaths. High-quality compressions must also continue while defibrillation pads are applied and the defibrillator is prepared [13]. Aim to minimize interruption of chest compressions during the changeover of rescuers. Including all interruptions the patient should receive at least 60 compressions per minute [13].
Compression Depth, Recoil and Duty CycleCompression depth should be at least 5 cm, since sternal depression of 5 cm and over results in a higher ROSC [18]. No upper limit for compression depth has been established in human studies but experts recommend that sternal depression should not exceed 6 cm [13].
After each compression, allow the chest to recoil completely. Incomplete recoil results in worse hemodynamics, including decreased cardiac perfusion, cerebral perfusion and cardiac output [23]. Complete recoil is achieved by releasing all pressure from the chest and not leaning on the chest during the relaxation phase of the chest compressions [13]. However, avoid lifting the hands off the patient's chest, since this was associated with a reduction in compression depth [24].
The duration of the compression phase as a proportion of the total cycle is termed duty cycle. Although duty cycles ranging between 20% and 50% can result in adequate cardiac and cerebral perfusion [25], a duty cycle of 50% is recommended because it is easy to achieve with practice [4]. Thus the duration of the compression phase should be equivalent to the duration of the decompression phase. If the patient has hemodynamic monitoring via an arterial line then compression rate, compression depth and recoil can be optimized for the individual patient on the basis of this data.
Rotating RescuersThe quality of chest compressions deteriorates over time due to fatigue [26]. Therefore the compressor should be rotated every two minutes [13]. Rotating compressors more frequently than this may have detrimental effects due to interruptions of chest compressions from the practicalities of the changeover [27]. Consider rotating compressors during any intervention associated with appropriate interruptions of chest compressions, for example when defibrillating. Every effort should be made to accomplish the switch in less than five seconds. For this purpose it may be helpful for the compressor performing chest compressions to count out loud [13]. If the rotating compressors can be positioned on either side of the patient, one compressor can be ready and waiting to relieve the working compressor in an instant [4].
Termination of Efforts: Chest compressions are terminated following ROSC and unconscious patients with normal breathing are placed in the recovery position [28]. If there is no ROSC, then the decision to terminate efforts is based on the clinical judgment that the patient's arrest is unresponsive to treatment. This decision should be made by the physician leading the emergency response team after consultation with the members of the team. The factors that are considered include the time to initiate chest compressions, duration of chest compressions, initial arrest rhythm, age, comorbidities and any reversible causes of cardiac arrest such as drug overdose [3]. The duration of cardiac arrest is the most important prognostic factor [29]. In general, chest compressions should be continued at least as long as VF persists. Prolonged chest compressions are less likely to succeed if there is no ROSC within half an hour. However, case reports with exceptional ROSC are well documented and each decision to terminate efforts should be made individually. Any family members and patients' loved ones who witness chest compressions should be treated with consideration and sensitivity.
Complications: Life-threatening complications of chest compressions are extremely rare [24]. Such complications occur less frequently than 1% [30-35]. If hypotension is noted following ROSC then cardiogenic shock and abdominal injury are the most important complications of chest compressions that should be considered [31]. Rib fractures are the most frequent complication, with an incidence of 1/3 at autopsy [30]. However, rib fractures were noted in only 2% of non-arrest patients who received chest compressions from a bystander [5]. Following successful ROSC all patients should be re-evaluated for resuscitation-related injuries [28].
Summary: High quality chest compressions are proven to save lives. If an unresponsive patient has no definite pulse or is not breathing normally then the responder should assume that this patient is in cardiac arrest, activate the emergency response system and immediately start chest compressions. Push hard and fast over the center of the chest. Minimize interruptions of chest compressions and aggressively rotate compressors. Following successful ROSC place the patient in the recovery position and re-evaluate for resuscitation-related injuries. If there is no reasonable chance for ROSC then the decision to terminate efforts should be made by the leader of the emergency response team. Any family members witnessing chest compressions should be treated with sensitivity and respect.
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ARAN Comment: Although this research was first published in 2011 it is a good example of how in resuscitation recommendations, there is an accepted wisdom around technique, rationale and mechanism that have been perpetuation; not because they are continually validated by emerging evidence but because they are not revisited and/or tested for efficacy, since they are considered by some to be "decided". Examples in this research of this unproven "accepted wisdom" include:
The assumption that the ideal hand position is "parallel and overlapping with the fingers elevated off the rib cage".(as this is suppose to mitigate rib fractures. This technique has no supporting evidence as superior or that rib fractures are reduced but is the default description on every website and in current Australian guidelines. ARAN has in its guidelines alternate techniques that are more effective that this accepted wisdom.
The landmarks used for compression location, simplified to the "centre of the chest" in this and ILCOR guidelines does lead to issues in some larger children for rescuers with large hands, leading to overlap over the xiphoid process. Palpating the lower border of the sternum and using at least a one finger spacing to hand placement minimises complications. Usually in smaller children and infants the centre of the chest is appropriate. The "delay" mentioned in establishing landmarks is not significant if they result in optimal compressions with decreased complications. The paper also states that the incidence of rib fractures (2%) by bystanders and 1/3 on autopsy overall. This result is contradictory and suggests that paramedics have a rib fracture rate 1500% greater than bystanders. either this indicates that bystander compression are largely ineffective, paramedics are heavy-handed or just providing sufficient depth of compression to generate sufficient inter-thoracic pressure change or: the 2% bystander rate of rib fractures (considering these (who would most likely all have autopsy's) is a distorted figure.
This early work asserts that a "legitimate" reason for the interruption to compressions would be the application of "rescue breaths". Any reader of ARAN works would be familiar with our distaste for the term "rescue breaths" that imply "mouth to" contact with a casualty using expired air, a technique in most bystander arrests leads to hyperventilation, gastric distension and aspiration. Secondly, although this is a 2011 paper, the legitimacy of interrupted CPR in this paper is still championed by the ARC in Australia, for all arrests. The paper is held up with more reverence than other contemporary evidence that continuous compressions are superior.
The paper does not recognise that there is a significant section of the community who cannot use the kneeling compression technique (let alone effective ventilations, if required). This could be due to age, low body mass, being frail, disability, injury or a medical condition like arthritis, knee or hip replacement or chronic back injury. ARAN has promoted for a number of years the teaching of an alternate technique (using the foot) called "pedal compressions" and this is described on our website. This technique has been used in actual cardiac arrests with outcomes similar to "traditional" methods. Some years ago ARAN sent a paper regarding pedal compression to the ARC for consideration, however to date there has not even been an acknowledgement of the correspondence let alone any evidence of a genuine consideration of this life saving technique. It reinforces the that when the ARC say:
"Any attempt at CPR is better than no CPR" is disingenuous and actually means "Any attempt at CPR that conforms only to the opinion of the individuals that make up the ARC is better than not doing any CPR. If you attempt any CPR that does not conform with the opinion of the individuals that make up the ARC you are better doing no CPR"
ARAN goes it alone to change the regulations around defibrillators (AEDs).
Together with a few proactive and progressive organisations, ARAN has led a formal submission to the Australian Building Codes Board, suggesting revisions to the 2019 National Construction Code (NCC) and the Building and Construction Code (BCC) to include mandatory provisions of AEDs in buildings to comply with certification.
ARAN believes that this initiative is the best way to reach the density and spread of defibrillators required to show significant improvements in out of hospital cardiac arrest. While over 33,500 people in Australia suffer a sudden cardiac arrest, only 5-6% survive to discharge from hospital. The significant change is what happens in the pre-ambulance period and the most important element in survival is early defibrillation (< 3 mins). The only way to achieve this is to have Public Access Defibrillators as accessible as fire extinguishers and a consistent requirement rather than optional extra. Changes to the building codes mean the certification of certain types of buildings (including change of purpose) for a specified purpose must have AED's available and installed to a standard, including spacing, housing and maintenance.
Currently there are no regulations, laws, legislation, WHS codes or standards that make AEDs a requirement. Australia is reliant on voluntary industry codes and the good will of businesses, organisations and individuals to reach appropriate AED numbers...but this will never result in effective coverage.
Significantly and disappointingly, the ARC where not supportive of this initiative. It is clear that this is due to political ideology rather than merit. History tells us that the modus operandi of the ARC is not to support any initiative originating from outside their organisation but then vigorously attack any proposal once it enters the public comment phase to make their influence felt. Another example of letting down the Australian public with its hubris.
Heroic Heimlich! Off-duty New Jersey police officer captured on video saving choking man's life in front of his son
New Jersey State Trooper Dennis Palaia was with his son watching a football game when he noticed a nearby diner exhibiting signs of distress
Surveillance footage captured tense moments as police officer performs life-saving first aid manoeuvre to clear the choking man's airway
Unnamed victim expressed his eternal gratitude to the officer for saving his life
Palaia 'undoubtedly prevented a tragedy,' police state in praise as hundreds of social media users laud trooper for his quick, life-saving action
An off-duty New Jersey police officer has been lauded as a 'hero' after he quickly acted to save a man from choking at a restaurant. New Jersey State Trooper Dennis Palaia was with his son watching a football game on Sunday at a Buffalo Wild Wings branch in Rockaway Township, New Jersey when he noticed a distressed man sitting nearby, according to police.
Palaia immediately rushed to the dining man, who was showing signs of difficulty breathing. Recognizing that the man was choking, he immediately began the Heimlich Maneuver,' police said.
After four abdominal thrusts, the off-duty police officer was able to clear the choking man's airway.
Police said that the man was then able to resume breathing and his skin tone - which had changed during the traumatic incident - had returned to its natural colour.
The so-far unnamed victim expressed his eternal gratitude to Palaia for saving his life. Apart from a sore throat and some aching ribs, police reported that the man has since made a full recovery.
By Julie Steigerwald For Dailymail.com
Click on the link to see the video evidence of the Heimlich Manoeuvre working <Click Here>
ARAN Comment: While the rest of the world benefits from saves using abdominal thrusts, we are still waiting for one, single documented example that the ARC one-handed "chest thrusts" technique (not to be confused with the chest thrusts technique that has evidence and used in the rest of the world) has efficacy.
Children saving lives: Training towards CPR excellence levels in chest compression based on age and physical characteristics
Nicolas Mpotos, Peter Iserbyt
Resuscitation 2017 October 28, 121: 135-140
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization's endorsement of the "Kids save lives" statement fosters the implementation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training for school children worldwide. However, not every child achieves and maintains the recommended chest compression depth of 5-6cm.
PURPOSE: To investigate the variability in compression depth for three age groups (grade 1: 12-14; grade 2: 14-16; grade 3: 16-18 years) as a function of physical characteristics and to define minimal compression excellence levels for training.
METHODS: Compression depth of 265 subjects (111 girls, 154 boys) aged 12-18 years from one secondary school was individually assessed and reported in percentiles per age group. Pearson correlations between physical characteristics and CPR variables were calculated. Excellence level was defined as the percentage compressions with depth 5-6cm.
RESULTS: In grade 1 (12-14 years), achieved excellence levels were 1% for girls and 23% for boys at the 75th percentile. In grade 2 (14-16 years), it increased to 24% for girls and 80% for boys. In grade 3 (16-18 years) finally, it was 59% for girls and 87% for boys. Significant positive correlations were found between CPR and physical variables (p<0.05), especially weight >50kg (p<0.01).
CONCLUSION: A minimal excellence level of 25% is achievable by boys 12-14year and girls 14-16year and can be gradually improved to 60% and 90% according to age and gender. This might necessitate more exertion and training for some younger children, especially girls, and will probably be more easily achieved for children weighing >50kg.
ARAN Comment: ARAN has long held that the ability of rescuers to perform adequate compressions in reliant on strength and mass over qualifications and experience. Other studies have shown that 46% of the Adult (>13yo) population (including health professional are able to achieve/maintain adequate chest compression depth on a typical cardiac arrest patient. ARAN is also currently conducting experiments to determine the realism on CPR manikins currently available in provided a realistic resistance to compressions. Our suspicion is that many CPR manikins (regardless of cost) give users an unrealistic sense of achievement.
Use of automated external defibrillators for in-hospital cardiac arrest : Any time, any place?A Wutzler, C Kloppe, A K Bilgard, A Mügge, C Hanefeld
Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin 2017 November 7
BACKGROUND: Acute treatment of in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) is challenging and overall survival rates are low. However, data on the use of public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for IHCA remain controversial. The aim of our study was to evaluate characteristics of patients experiencing IHCA and feasibility of public-access AED use for resuscitation in a university hospital.
METHODS: IHCA events outside the intensive care unit were analysed over a period of 21 months. Patients' characteristics, AED performance, return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and 24 h survival were evaluated. Outcomes following adequate and inadequate AED use were compared.
RESULTS: During the study period, 59 IHCAs occurred. AED was used in 28 (47.5%) of the cases. However, AED was adequately used in only 42.8% of total AED cases. AED use was not associated with an increased survival rate (12.9 vs. 10.7%, p = 0.8) compared to non-AED use. However, adequate AED use was associated with a higher survival rate (25 vs. 0%, p = 0.034) compared to inadequate AED use. Time from emergency call to application of AED >3 min was the most important factor of inadequate AED use. Adequate AED use was more often observed between 7:30 and 13:30 and in the internal medicine department.
CONCLUSION: AEDs were applied in less than 50% of the IHCA events. Furthermore, AED use was inadequate in the majority of the cases. Since adequate AED use is associated with improved survival, AEDs should be available in hospital areas with patients at high risk of shockable rhythm.
ARAN Comment: This study re-affirms that just having a MET team that will respond to manage all cardiac arrests is not sufficient to meet target times to first shock. AED's are once again advantageous for cardiac arrest without the need for rhythm diagnosis by clinical staff.
Are two or four hands needed for elderly female bystanders to achieve the required chest compression depth during dispatcher-assisted CPR: a randomized controlled trial
Asta Krikscionaitiene, Zilvinas Dambrauskas, Tracey Barron, Egle Vaitkaitiene, Dinas Vaitkaitis
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2016 April 11, 24: 47
BACKGROUND: Rescuers are often unable to achieve the recommended 5-6 cm CC depth. The physical limitations of elderly bystanders may affect the quality of CC; thus, we investigated new strategies to improve CC performance.
METHODS: We performed a randomized controlled trial in December 2013. Sixty-eight lay rescuers aged 50-75 were randomized to intervention or control pairs (males and females separately). Each pair performed 8 min of DA-CPR on a manikin connected to a PC. Each participant in every pair took turns performing CCs in cycles of 2 min and switched as advised by the dispatcher. In the middle of every 2-min cycle, the dispatcher asked the participants of the intervention group to perform the Andrew's manoeuvre (to push on the shoulders of the person while he/she performed CCs to achieve deeper CC). Data on the quality of the CCs were analysed for each participant and pair.
RESULTS: The CC depth in the intervention group increased by 6.4 mm (p = 0.002) compared to the control group (54.2 vs. 47.8 mm) due to a significant difference in the female group. The CC depth in the female intervention and control groups was 51.5 and 44.9 mm.
DISCUSSION: The largest group of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest occurred in males over the age of 60 at home, and accordingly, the most likely witness, if any, is the spouse or family member, most frequently an older woman. There is a growing body of evidence that female rescuers are frequently unable to achieve sufficient CC depth compared to male rescuers. In some instances, the adequate depth of the CCs could only be reached using four hands, with the second pair of hands placed on the shoulders of the rescuer performing CPR.
CONCLUSION: Andrew's manoeuvre (four-hands CC) during the simulated DA-CPR significantly improved the performance of elderly female rescuers and helped them to achieve the recommended CC depth.
ARAN Comment: Alternative techniques like the Andrew Manoeuvre and Pedal Compressions are effective alternatives for those who lack the body mass/strength or have disabilities/injuries restricted then from using the traditional kneeling technique. The insistence by the ARC on only using the kneeling technique for resuscitation does not reflect the reality of those who may be called upon to provide OHCA compressions. This dogmatic position has likely cost many lives.
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2016 Apr 11;24:47. doi: 10.1186/s13049-016-0238-z.
Are two or four hands needed for elderly female bystanders to achieve the required chest compression depth during dispatcher-assisted CPR: a randomized controlled trial.
Krikscionaitiene A1, Dambrauskas Z2, Barron T3, Vaitkaitiene E4, Vaitkaitis D4
Four hands are needed for female bystanders to achieve the required chest compression depth during dispatcher assisted CPR: A randomized controlled trial
Asta Krikscionaitiene, Dinas Vaitkaitis, Zilvinas Dambrauskas, Tracey Barron, BS and Egle Vaitkaitiene
Aug 1, 2015 | 2015, AEDR 2015 Vol. 3 Issue 2, Research Posters
Easy-to-learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation training programme: a randomised controlled trial on laypeople's resuscitation performance
Rachel Jia Min Ko, Swee Han Lim, Vivien Xi Wu, Tak Yam Leong, Sok Ying Liaw
Singapore Medical Journal 2017 November 13
INTRODUCTION: Simplifying the learning of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is advocated to improve skill acquisition and retention. A simplified CPR training programme focusing on continuous chest compression, with a simple landmark tracing technique, was introduced to laypeople. The study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the simplified CPR training in improving lay rescuers' CPR performance as compared to standard CPR.
METHODS: 85 laypeople (aged 21-60 years) were recruited and randomly assigned to undertake either a two-hour simplified CPR training or standard CPR training. They were tested two months after the training on a simulated cardiac arrest scenario. The participant's performance on the sequence of CPR steps was observed and evaluated using a validated CPR algorithm checklist. The quality of chest compression and ventilation were assessed from the recording manikins.
RESULTS: The simplified CPR group performed significantly better on the CPR algorithm when compared to the standard CPR group (p < 0.01). No significant difference was found between the groups on the time to initiate CPR. However, a significantly higher number of compressions and proportion of adequate compressions was demonstrated by the simplified group than the standard group (p < 0.01). Hands-off time was significantly shorter in the simplified CPR group than in the standard CPR group (p < 0.001).
CONCLUSION: Simplifying the learning of CPR by focusing on continuous chest compressions, with simple hand placement for chest compression, could lead to better acquisition and retention of the CPR algorithms, and better quality of chest compressions than standard CPR.
ARAN Comment: Yet another study indicating the superiority of compression-only CPR for bystander CPR (using BLS). Supports the obvious truth i.e. that in the pre-ambulance period in SCA, compression-only CPR (for BLS providers) is better in both willingness of the public and outcome for casualties. Let's just stop treating all cardiac arrests as hypoxic arrests! To do so is not supported by science. Unfortunately recalcitrance in Australia is leading to poorer outcomes.
The IOs have it: a prospective observational study of vascular access success rates in patients in extremis using video review Kristen M Chreiman, Ryan P Dumas, Mark J Seamon, Patrick K Kim, Patrick M Reilly, Lewis J Kaplan, Jason D Christie, Daniel N Holena
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 2018 January 4
BACKGROUND: Quick and successful vascular access in injured patients arriving in extremis is crucial to enable early resuscitation and rapid OR transport for definitive repair. We hypothesized that intraosseous (IO) access would be faster and have higher success rates than peripheral IVs (PIVs) or central venous catheters (CVCs).
METHODS: High-definition video recordings of resuscitations for all patients undergoing Emergency Department Thoracotomy (EDT) from 4/2016-7/2017 were reviewed as part of a quality improvement initiative. Demographics, mechanism of injury, access type, access location, start and stop time, and success of each vascular access attempt were recorded. Times to completion for access types (PIV, IO, CVC) were compared using Kruskal-Wallis test adjusted for multiple comparisons while categorical outcomes such as success rates by access type were compared using chi-squared test or Fisher's exact test.
RESULTS: Study patients had a median age of 30 (IQR 25-38), were 92% male, 92% African American, and 93% sustained penetrating trauma. A total of 145 access attempts in 38 patients occurred (median 3.8 (SD 1.4) attempts per patient). There was no difference between duration of PIV and IO attempts (0.63 IQR 0.35-0.96 vs. 0.39 IQR 0.13-0.65 minutes, adjusted p = 0.03), but both PIV and IO were faster than CVC attempts (3.2 IQR 1.72 - 5.23 minutes, adjusted p<0.001 for both comparisons). Intraosseous lines had higher success rates than PIVs or CVCs (95% vs. 42% vs. 46%, p<0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Access attempts using IO are as fast as PIV attempts but are more than twice as likely to be successful. Attempts at CVC access in patients in extremis have high rates of failure and take a median of over 3 minutes. While IO access may not completely supplant PIVs and CVCs, IO access should be considered as a first line therapy for trauma patients in extremis.
Great to see the first public education campaign about CPR in Australia. (click here)
The ABC has produced Australia's first public education television advertisement about the importance of bystander steps in the event of a cardiac arrest. ARAN has been advocating for this for some time at state and federal level to focus the public on the truth of SCA. It is also great to see that at last our message has got through about Sudden Cardiac Arrest i.e. the only actions that make a difference are calling for help, starting fast and deep compressions and using a defibrillator. Finally the dogma of ventilations in SCA has been dropped from the message. Kudos to the Tasmanian Branch of the ARC who have shown innovation and common sense in presenting the public with the right message, I am sure they have had to overcome resistance from the ARC National Council.
Sad and angry!
When 3 yo Tasmanian boy choked to death recently in his mother's arms, we were all deeply saddened for this tragic loss of life. His mother (who was trained in all the current Australian first aid measures) tried in vain to remove the ball from his airway and commenced CPR waiting for Paramedics. She did everything she was told to but was tragically unable to save her son.
This situation is not only tragic but frustrating and makes us here at ARAN very angry. ARAN has been warning the ARC for many years about what will happen if people use their choking guidelines, guidelines that differ from the rest of the world. Not because they are better and more effective but because the ARC says so! from our own experience, anyone who challenges their choking guidelines and the evidence and science behind them is ostracised, belittled, white-anted and has court action threatened against them. We have consistently asked the ARC to prove what they say, including:
Where is the evidence for their "one-handed chest thrusts" technique that they recommend instead of abdominal thrusts that are use in every other country in the world?
Where are the studies and clinical trials that prove their recommendations are better and more effective than every country in the world and backed by their experts?
Why has there been no reported saves from the ARC technique in 15 years (since its inception), despite abdominal thrusts saving lives daily around the world?
Why does the ARC perpetuate the myth that their "chest thrust" technique has the same efficacy as the American "chest thrusts" technique when they are two completely different methods (the US one having studies behind it)?
Where is the evidence of all the injured and dead people who have been "inflicted" with abdominal thrusts over the years?
Why does the ARC act with apparent impunity when their guidelines fail to provide the outcomes that are realised in the rest of world?
There is of course no guarantees in choking or any other life threatening emergency, however no one group has all the answers (particularly when international consensus is different). None of these questions posed by ARAN have ever been answered by the ARC, no evidence has been forthcoming and no-one has ever been prepared to debate the science. We predicted poor outcomes and we unfortunately expect more. We feel for the people of Australia who have been sold a myth for so many years, have acted in good faith and have trusted the ARC but have been let down.
Impact of Bystander Automated External Defibrillator Use on Survival and Functional Outcomes in Shockable Observed Public Cardiac Arrests
Ross A Pollack, Siobhan P Brown, Thomas Rea, Tom Aufderheide, David Barbic, Jason E Buick, James Christenson, Ahamed H Idris, Jamie Jasti, Michael Kampp, Peter Kudenchuk, Susanne May, Marc Muhr, Graham Nichol, Joseph P Ornato, George Sopko, Christian Vaillancourt, Laurie Morrison, Myron Weisfeldt
Circulation 2018 February 26
"Patients shocked by a bystander were significantly more likely to survive to discharge (66.5% versus 43.0%) and be discharged with favourable functional outcome (57.1% versus 32.7%) than patients initially shocked by emergency medical services."
The use of BMV compared with ETI failed to demonstrate noninferiority or inferiority for survival with favorable 28-day neurological function
Effect of Bag-Mask Ventilation vs Endotracheal Intubation During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on Neurological Outcome After Out-of-Hospital Cardiorespiratory Arrest: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Patricia Jabre, Andrea Penaloza, David Pinero, Francois-Xavier Duchateau, Stephen W Borron, Francois Javaudin, Olivier Richard, Diane de Longueville, Guillem Bouilleau, Marie-Laure Devaud, Matthieu Heidet, Caroline Lejeune, Sophie Fauroux, Jean-Luc Greingor, Alessandro Manara, Jean-Christophe Hubert, Bertrand Guihard, Olivier Vermylen, Pascale Lievens, Yannick Auffret, Celine Maisondieu, Stephanie Huet, Benoît Claessens, Frederic Lapostolle, Nicolas Javaud, Paul-Georges Reuter, Elinor Baker, Eric Vicaut, Frédéric Adnet
JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association 2018 February 27, 319 (8): 779-787
Importance: Bag-mask ventilation (BMV) is a less complex technique than endotracheal intubation (ETI) for airway management during the advanced cardiac life support phase of cardiopulmonary resuscitation of patients with out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest. It has been reported as superior in terms of survival.
Objectives: To assess noninferiority of BMV vs ETI for advanced airway management with regard to survival with favorable neurological function at day 28.
Design, Settings, and Participants: Multicenter randomized clinical trial comparing BMV with ETI in 2043 patients with out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest in France and Belgium. Enrollment occurred from March 9, 2015, to January 2, 2017, and follow-up ended January 26, 2017.
Intervention: Participants were randomized to initial airway management with BMV (n = 1020) or ETI (n = 1023).
Main Outcomes and Measures: The primary outcome was favorable neurological outcome at 28 days defined as cerebral performance category 1 or 2. A noninferiority margin of 1% was chosen. Secondary end points included rate of survival to hospital admission, rate of survival at day 28, rate of return of spontaneous circulation, and ETI and BMV difficulty or failure.
Results: Among 2043 patients who were randomized (mean age, 64.7 years; 665 women [32%]), 2040 (99.8%) completed the trial. In the intention-to-treat population, favorable functional survival at day 28 was 44 of 1018 patients (4.3%) in the BMV group and 43 of 1022 patients (4.2%) in the ETI group (difference, 0.11% [1-sided 97.5% CI, -1.64% to infinity]; P for noninferiority = .11). Survival to hospital admission (294/1018 [28.9%] in the BMV group vs 333/1022 [32.6%] in the ETI group; difference, -3.7% [95% CI, -7.7% to 0.3%]) and global survival at day 28 (55/1018 [5.4%] in the BMV group vs 54/1022 [5.3%] in the ETI group; difference, 0.1% [95% CI, -1.8% to 2.1%]) were not significantly different. Complications included difficult airway management (186/1027 [18.1%] in the BMV group vs 134/996 [13.4%] in the ETI group; difference, 4.7% [95% CI, 1.5% to 7.9%]; P = .004), failure (69/1028 [6.7%] in the BMV group vs 21/996 [2.1%] in the ETI group; difference, 4.6% [95% CI, 2.8% to 6.4%]; P < .001), and regurgitation of gastric content (156/1027 [15.2%] in the BMV group vs 75/999 [7.5%] in the ETI group; difference, 7.7% [95% CI, 4.9% to 10.4%]; P < .001).
Conclusions and Relevance: Among patients with out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest, the use of BMV compared with ETI failed to demonstrate noninferiority or inferiority for survival with favorable 28-day neurological function, an inconclusive result. A determination of equivalence or superiority between these techniques requires further research.
Study shows abdominal thrusts are safe and effective and singles out Australia as being out of touch with latest research.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520267/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520267/
Modern Approach to Basic Airway Management
Sun, Apr 1, 2018 JEMS
By Andrew Merelman, BS, NRP, FP-C , Richard Levitan, MD, FACEP
Excerpts from a recent JEMS article describing a modern approach to the essentials of ventilation & oxygenation.
An x-ray image shows the difference between head tilt ad jaw thrust techniques in managing airways.
VENTILATION
Ventilation is often the most important intervention being performed, & doing it correctly should be a priority.
The reality is that ventilation is often the most important intervention being performed, and doing it correctly should be a priority. Without conscious awareness, the tendency is for providers to ventilate too fast and with excessive volume.
Proper BVM technique is composed of three main principles: 1) consistent mask seal; 2) proper tidal volume; and, 3) controlled rate. Mask seal is best optimized by using a two-person technique.
Two person technique for ventilation showing jaw thrust
When a one-person technique is necessary, “C-E” is the best option for mask seal. The biggest detriment to the “C-E” technique is that the provider only has their pinky and ring fingers available to perform a jaw thrust. These fingers are weaker and can’t easily displace the jaw to open the airway.
After the mask seal, squeezing the bag properly is the other critical component of BVM use. A standard adult BVM has a volume of about 1,000–1,200 mL. Most adult patients only need around 400-500 mL of volume delivered in each breath. This means that providers should use one hand and attempt to only squeeze about half or less of the volume of the bag in each breath.Using lower volumes and squeezing slowly also reduces the chance of filling the stomach with air and causing vomiting. One way to ensure more appropriate tidal volumes is to use a pediatric BVM for adult patients. They generally provide a volume of 400–600 mL, which is perfect for adults.
Additionally, the person squeezing the bag must consciously limit the ventilatory rate to avoid over-ventilation. It’s common to see providers over-ventilating as they aren’t focused on the task and are under an adrenaline surge.
SUPRAGLOTTIC DEVICES
One of the most important recent developments in airway management is modern supraglottic devices. They’ve evolved quickly, and today, they are more effective and easier to insert than ever before—so much so that many surgical procedures under general anesthesia are being performed with laryngeal mask devices in lieu of endotracheal intubation.
The most revolutionary of these devices is the laryngeal mask style airways. The third and fourth generation devices of this type have improved mask design, and are made to function under patient movement and with secretions in the airway. Additionally, they’re easier to insert than older laryngeal mask devices or other supraglottic airways.
These modern airway adjuncts have changed the way we approach BVM ventilation. We know that ventilating with a mask is often difficult and can cause gastric distention. In patients who can tolerate it and don’t have an intact gag reflex, a laryngeal mask airway should be utilized when BVM ventilation is necessary. Inserting the device is quick and easy, and it allows more definitive and effective ventilation and airway control. It eliminates the need for a handheld mask seal while significantly lowering the risk of gastric insufflation and vomiting. In fact, upper airway collapse actually improves laryngeal mask functionality as the airway tissues collapse into the bowl and improve the mask seal. These principles are also true in cardiac arrest. If a BVM is going to be used, placing a laryngeal mask is beneficial.
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Acting on the Call
New Global initiative to improve Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests rates by focusing on the key elements, especially in the community.
Advanced vs. Basic Life Support in the Treatment of Out-of-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Arrest in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium
Michael Christopher Kurz, Robert H Schmicker, Brian Leroux, Graham Nichol, Tom P Aufderheide, Sheldon Cheskes, Brian Grunau, Jamie Jasti, Peter Kudenchuk, Gary M Vilke, Jason Buick, Lynn Wittwer, Ritu Sahni, Ronald Straight, Henry E Wang
Resuscitation 2018 April 30
BACKGROUND: Prior observational studies suggest no additional benefit from advanced life support (ALS) when compared with providing basic life support (BLS) for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). We compared the association of ALS care with OHCA outcomes using prospective clinical data from the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC).
METHODS: Included were consecutive adults OHCA treated by participating emergency medical services (EMS) agencies between June 1, 2011, and June 30, 2015. We defined BLS as receipt of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and/or automated defibrillation and ALS as receipt of an advanced airway, manual defibrillation, or intravenous drug therapy. We compared outcomes among patients receiving: 1) BLS-only; 2) BLS + late ALS; 3) BLS + early ALS; and 4) ALS-first care. Using multivariable logistic regression, we evaluated the associations between level of care and return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), survival to hospital discharge, and survival with good functional status, adjusting for age, sex, witnessed arrest, bystander CPR, shockable initial rhythm, public location, EMS response time, CPR quality, and ROC site.
RESULTS: Among 35,065 patients with OHCA, characteristics were median age 68 years (IQR 56-80), male 63.9%, witnessed arrest 43.8%, bystander CPR 50.6%, and shockable initial rhythm 24.2%. Care delivered was: 4.0% BLS-only, 31.5% BLS + late ALS, 17.2% BLS + early ALS, and 47.3% ALS-first. ALS care with or without initial BLS care was independently associated with increased adjusted ROSC and survival to hospital discharge unless delivered greater than 6 minutes after BLS arrival (BLS + late ALS). Regardless of when it was delivered, ALS care was not associated with significantly greater functional outcome.
CONCLUSION: ALS care was associated with survival to hospital discharge when provided initially or within six minutes of BLS arrival. ALS care, with or without initial BLS care, was associated with increased ROSC, however it was not associated with functional outcome.
Great to see that (at last) the message about SCA from the ERC that we have been promoting since the inception of ARAN is finally gaining mainstream support in Australia i.e. CALL - PUSH - SHOCK, the only 3 proven measures in SCA in BLS.
Call 000 – follow the instructions
Push – link hands, push hard and fast
Shock – use an AED
How useful is CPR during ambulance transport?
In a retrospective analysis of a registry of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases treated between 2008 and 2014, only 259 (3.6%) of OHCA in patients received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during ambulance transport. The included patients who had not ROSC at the time it was decided to transport to a hospital and who were rejected as non-heart-beating donors. Factors as young patient age, cardiac arrest outside the home, the presence of a witness, lack of a shockable rhythm on responder arrival, lack of BLS prior to responder arrival, non-cardiac cause, and orotracheal intubation are associated with the use of ambulance CPR, a strategy that can be considered futile because nearly nobody survived.
Comments: Should we stop performing CPR during ambulance transport? Only 1 in 259 (0.38%) victims of OHCA with CPR during ambulance transport survived to discharge with good neurologic outcome. However, not doing this would not have kept that one person alive.
Rosell Ortiz F, García Del Águila J, Fernández Del Valle P, J Mellado-Vergel F, Vergara-Pérez S, R Ruiz-Montero M, Martínez-Lara M et al. Ambulance cardiopulmonary resuscitation: outcomes and associated factors in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Emergencias. 2018 Jun;30(3):156-162. [Article in English, Spanish; Abstract available in Spanish from the publisher]
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AHA: Hands-Only CPR Training Kiosks as Effective as Class Setting
While ARAN has been advocating for Hands-Only CPR kiosks at airports in Australia but has faced road blocks and resistance from multiple quarters, the AHA has a released its findings that these kiosks (that have trained 100,00 travellers in the US) are as effective as a 30 minute face-to-face CPR session.
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The US has figured out that the most common cardiac arrest is an SCA and compressions-only are the appropriate intervention. Hypoxic arrests are the exception. In Australia all arrests are presumed to be drownings in young people, but this is very rare.
Minimum depth and rates of compressions are just not good enough...
Association between Pre-hospital CPR Quality and End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Levels in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Ryan A. Murphy , MD,Bentley J. Bobrow , MD,Daniel W. Spaite , MD,Chengcheng Hu , PhD,Robyn McDannold , MS &Tyler F. Vadeboncoeur , MD, Pages 369-377 | Published online: 01 Feb 2016
Introduction: International Guidelines recommend measurement of end-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO2) to enhance cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) quality and optimize blood flow during CPR. Numerous factors impact EtCO2 (e.g., ventilation, metabolism, cardiac output), yet few clinical studies have correlated CPR quality and EtCO2 during actual out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) resuscitations. The purpose of this study was to describe the association between EtCO2 and CPR quality variables during OHCA.
Methods: This is an observational study of prospectively collected CPR quality and capnography data from two EMS agencies participating in a statewide resuscitation quality improvement program. CPR quality and capnography data from adult (≥18 years) cardiac resuscitation attempts (10/2008–06/2013) were collected and analyzed on a minute-by-minute basis using RescueNet™ Code Review. Linear mixed effect models were used to evaluate the association between (log-transformed) EtCO2 level and CPR variables: chest compression (CC) depth, CC rate, CC release velocity (CCRV), ventilation rate.
Results: Among the 1217 adult OHCA cases of presumed cardiac etiology, 925 (76.0%) had a monitor-defibrillator file with CPR quality data, of which 296 (32.0%) cases had >1 minute of capnography data during CPR. After capnography quality review, 66 of these cases (22.3%) were excluded due to uninterpretable capnography, resulting in a final study sample of 230 subjects (mean age 68 years; 69.1% male), with a total of 1581 minutes of data. After adjustment for other CPR variables, a 10 mm increase in CC depth was associated with a 4.0% increase in EtCO2 (p < 0.0001), a 10 compression/minute increase in CC rate with a 1.7% increase in EtCO2 (p = 0.02), a 10 mm/second increase in CCRV with a 2.8% increase in EtCO2 (p = 0.03), and a 10 breath/minute increase in ventilation rate with a 17.4% decrease in EtCO2 (p < 0.0001).
Conclusion:When controlling for known CPR quality variables, increases in CC depth, CC rate and CCRV were each associated with a statistically significant but clinically modest increase in EtCO2. Given the small effect sizes, the clinical utility of using EtCO2 to guide CPR performance is unclear. Further research is needed to determine the practicality and impact of using real-time EtCO2 to guide CPR delivery in the prehospital environment.
ARAN Comment: There are clinically significant improvement in EtCO2 with increases in rate and depth of compressions. There are also other benefits, such as improvements in inter-thoracic pressure change i.e. improved aortic flow and TV through passive oxygenation. Minimal depths and rates should not be acceptable anymore as "competence" in effective resuscitation (particularly in adults).
Machine learning as a supportive tool to recognize cardiac arrest in emergency calls
Stig Nikolaj Blomberg, Fredrik Folke, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Helle Collatz Christensen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Michael R Sayre, Catherine R Counts, Freddy K Lippert
Resuscitation 2019 January 18
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical dispatchers fail to identify approximately 25% of cases of out of hospital cardiac arrest, thus lose the opportunity to provide the caller instructions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We examined whether a machine learning framework could recognise out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from audio files of calls to the emergency medical dispatch center.
METHODS: For all incidents responded to by Emergency Medical Dispatch Center Copenhagen in 2014, the associated call was retrieved. A machine learning framework was trained to recognise cardiac arrest from the recorded calls. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value for recognising out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were calculated. The performance of the machine learning framework was compared to the actual recognition and time-to-recognition of cardiac arrest by medical dispatchers.
RESULTS: We examined 108,607 emergency calls, of which 918 (0.8%) were out-of-hospital cardiac arrest calls eligible for analysis. Compared with medical dispatchers, the machine learning framework had a significantly higher sensitivity (72.5% vs. 84.1%, p < 0.001) with lower specificity (98.8% vs. 97.3%, p < 0.001). The machine learning framework had a lower positive predictive value than dispatchers (20.9% vs. 33.0%, p < 0.001). Time-to-recognition was significantly shorter for the machine learning framework compared to the dispatchers (median 44 seconds vs. 54 seconds, p < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: A machine learning framework performed better than emergency medical dispatchers for identifying out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in emergency phone calls. Machine learning may play an important role as a decision support tool for emergency medical dispatchers.
ARAN Comment: The use of a machine learning framework in future triage of calls is and interesting development (particularly for non-clinical emergency call-takers), however binary decision-making methodologies always assume the worst case scenario and therefore can disproportionately be "resource heavy" in responding to the "just in case scenario". Additionally a deceased patient and a cardiac arrest may elicit the same response, that a human operator may distinguish in the additional 10 seconds.
The effect of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation on early defibrillation and return of spontaneous circulation with survival
Sun Young Lee, Ki Jeong Hong, Sang Do Shin, Young Sun Ro, Kyoung Jun Song, Jeong Ho Park, So Yeon Kong, Tae Han Kim, Seung Chul Lee.
Resuscitation 2019 January 9
BACKGROUND: Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DA-CPR) programs are implemented to augment bystander CPR and improve outcomes of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). To understand the pathway of how DA-CPR improves outcomes of OHCA, we aimed to evaluate the effect of DA-CPR on defibrillation and return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) with survival to hospital discharge within 90 minutes.
METHODS: We conducted a population-based observational study of all adults with OHCA with presumed cardiac aetiology treated by emergency medical services (EMS) between 2013 and 2016, using a national OHCA registry. We excluded cases without a witness, those that occurred in hospital, were witnessed by an EMS provider, or defibrillated by a layperson. The exposure was bystander CPR status: no bystander CPR (No BCPR), bystander CPR without dispatcher assistance (NDA-BCPR), and bystander CPR with dispatcher assistance (DA-BCPR). The observation time was set to a maximum of 90 minutes for survival analysis. The primary outcome was ROSC within 90 minutes leading to being discharged alive (ROSC with survival). The secondary outcomes were ROSC within 90 minutes leading to being discharged with cerebral performance category I or II (ROSC with good CPC) and first defibrillation within 90 minutes (defibrillation). Multivariable Cox proportional hazards analysis was performed to calculate adjusted hazard ratios (AHRs), according to bystander CPR status adjusted for potential confounders.
RESULTS: Of 25,450 eligible OHCAs, NDA-BCPR was provided for 3,193 cases (12.5%) and DA-BCPR was provided for 12,154 cases (47.8%). ROSC with survival was observed in 13.2% of cases with NDA-BCPR and 12.0% with DA-BCPR. Compared with No BCPR, both type of bystander CPR were associated with 44% and 55% increases in ROSC with survival to discharge (AHR, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.44, 1.27 to 1.63 for NDA-BCPR and 1.55, 1.41 to 1.69 for DA-BCPR). DA-BCPR was also associated with defibrillation compared with No-BCPR, accounting for ROSC as a competing risk (AHR 1.16, 95% CI 1.12 to 1.21).
CONCLUSIONS: Compared with no bystander CPR provided, both bystander CPR with or without dispatcher assistance were associated with defibrillation and ROSC leading to survival to discharge in patients with witnessed OHCA.
ARAN Comment: Con-founders in this and other studies include the early recognition of OHCA by emergency operators and the nature of the instructions given i.e. compressions only vs. traditional CPR.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed by off-duty medical professionals versus laypersons and survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest among adult patients
Daisuke Kobayashi, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Kosuke Kiyohara, Chika Nishiyama, Sumito Hayashida, Tasuku Matsuyama, Yusuke Katayama, Tomonari Shimamoto, Takeyuki Kiguchi, Satoe Okabayashi, Takashi Kawamura, Taku Iwami
BACKGROUND: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by bystanders is a key factor for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between CPR performed by off-duty medical professionals vs. laypersons and one-month survival with favorable neurological outcome after OHCA.
METHODS: Using a population-based database of OHCA patients in Osaka City, Japan, from 2013 through 2015, we enrolled adult OHCA patients with resuscitation attempts performed by bystanders before the arrival of emergency-medical-service personnel. Multi-variable logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the association between CPR performed by off-duty medical professionals vs. laypersons and the OHCA outcome after adjusting for potential confounding factors. The primary outcome measure was one-month survival with favourable neurological outcome, defined as cerebral performance category of 1 or 2.
RESULTS: A total of 2,326 subjects were eligible for our study. Among these, 365 (15.7%) patients received CPR by off-duty medical professionals and 1,961 (84.3%) received CPR by laypersons. In the multi-variable analysis, there was no difference in favourable neurological outcome between off-duty medical professionals (6.3% [23/365]) and laypersons (5.1% [100/1,961]) among eligible patients (adjusted odds ratio 0.83, 95% confidence interval [0.37-2.06]). This finding was also confirmed in propensity score-matched patients.
CONCLUSIONS: In Japan where the CPR training or bystander CPR has been widely disseminating, CPR by laypersons had similar effects compared to that by off-duty medical professionals. As this study could not assess the quality of bystander CPR, further studies are essential to verify the effects of the bystander CPR type on OHCA patients.
ARAN Comment: There is a huge variance in medical professional competence and experience with cardiac arrest and many have only a BLS requirement. Additionally, without the resources of a medical facility (i.e hospital) the level of intervention (and thus impact) will be diminished. Without specific data on the type and quality of the resuscitation it is difficult to make any recommendations.
Community-Wide Dissemination of Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Use Using a 45-Minute Chest Compression-Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training
Chika Nishiyama, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Tomohiko Sakai, Yukiko Murakami, Tomonari Shimamoto, Takashi Kawamura, Takahiro Yonezawa, Shohei Nakai, Seishiro Marukawa, Tetsuya Sakamoto, Taku Iwami
Journal of the American Heart Association 2019 January 8, 8 (1): e009436
Background: Little is known about whether cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) training can increase bystander CPR in the community or the appropriate target number of CPR trainings. Herein, we aimed to demonstrate community-wide aggressive dissemination of CPR training and evaluate temporal trends in bystander CPR .
Methods and Results: We provided CPR training (45-minute chest compression-only CPR plus automated external defibrillator use training or the conventional CPR training), targeting 16% of residents. All emergency medical service-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrests of medical origin were included. Data on patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and bystander CPR quality were prospectively collected from September 2010 to December 2015. The primary outcome was the proportion of high-quality bystander CPR . During the study period, 57 173 residents (14.7%) completed the chest compression-only CPR training and 32 423 (8.3%) completed conventional CPR training. The proportion of bystander CPR performed did not change (from 43.3% in 2010 to 42.0% in 2015; P for trend=0.915), but the proportion of high-quality bystander CPR delivery increased from 11.7% in 2010 to 20.7% in 2015 ( P for trend=0.015). The 1-year increment was associated with high-quality bystander CPR (adjusted odds ratio, 1.461; 95% CI, 1.055-2.024). Bystanders who previously experienced CPR training were 3.432 times (95% CI, 1.170-10.071) more likely to perform high-quality CPR than those who did not.
Conclusions: We trained 23.0% of the residents in the medium-sized city of Osaka, Japan, and demonstrated that the proportion of high-quality CPR performed on the scene increased gradually, whereas that of bystander CPR delivered overall remained stable.
ARAN Comment: It is unfortunate in Australia that there are political interests that want to keep CPR as formal training. It is also disappointing the outcomes from research such as this (about the benefit of compression-only training) will be disregarded by the ARC without appropriate consideration so as to perpetuate an historical view.
Ambulance Density and Outcomes After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Insights from the Paris- Sudden Death Expertise Centre Registry
Richard Chocron, Thomas Loeb, Lionel Lamhaut, Daniel Jost, Frédéric Adnet, Eric Lecarpentier, Wulfran Bougouin, Franckie Beganton, Philippe Juvin, Eloi Marijon, Xavier Jouven, Alain Cariou, Florence Dumas
Circulation 2018 December 4
BACKGROUND: In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), geographic disparities in outcomes may reflect baseline variations in patients' characteristics but may also result from differences in the number of ambulances providing basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS). We aimed at assessing the association between allocated ambulance resources and outcomes in OHCA patients in a large urban community.
METHODS: From May 2011 to January 2016, we analyzed a prospectively collected Utstein database for all OHCA adults. Cases were geocoded according to 19 neighbourhoods and the number of BLS (firefighters performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and applying automated external defibrillator) and ALS ambulances (medicalized team providing advanced care such as drugs and endotracheal intubation) was collected. We assessed the respective associations of Utstein parameters, socio-economic characteristics and ambulance resources of these neighbourhoods using a mixed-effect model with successful return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) as the primary endpoint and survival at hospital discharge as a secondary endpoint.
RESULTS: During the study period, 8754 non-traumatic OHCA occurred in the Greater Paris area. Overall ROSC rate was 3675/8754 (41.9%) and survival rate at hospital discharge was 788/8754 (9%), ranging from 33% to 51.1% and from 4.4% to 14.5 % respectively, according to neighbourhoods (p<0.001). Patient and socio-demographic characteristics significantly differed between neighbourhoods (p for trend< 0.001). After adjustment, a higher density of ambulances was associated with successful ROSC (respectively adjusted Odds-Ratio (aOR)=1.31 (1.14-1.51); p<0.001 for ALS ambulances >1.5 per neighbourhood and aOR=1.21 (1.04-1.41); p=0.01 for BLS ambulances >4 per neighbourhood). Regarding survival at discharge, only the number of ALS ambulances >1.5 per neighbourhood was significant (aOR= 1.30 (1.06-1.59) p=0.01).
CONCLUSIONS: In this large urban population-based study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests patients, we observed that allocated resources of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) are associated with outcome, suggesting that improving healthcare organisation may attenuate disparities in prognosis.
ARAN Comment: Australia suffers from the two-edged sword of a dispersed population over a large geographical area (when compared to other countries) and low resourcing of Ambulance services. The significance of ALS ambulances reflects other research that indicated ALS if implemented after 6 minutes from the time of the arrest has minimal impact on survival to discharge i.e merely increases ROSC and survival to a health facility.
Field termination-of-resuscitation rule for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Japan
Yoshikazu Goto, Akira Funada, Tetsuo Maeda, Hirofumi Okada, Yumiko Goto
Journal of Cardiology 2018 December 20
BACKGROUND: Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) recommend using the universal termination-of-resuscitation (TOR) rule to identify out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients eligible for field termination of resuscitation, thus avoiding medically futile transportation to the hospital. However, in Japan, emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are forbidden from terminating CPR in the field and transport almost all patients with OHCA to hospitals. We aimed to develop and validate a novel TOR rule to identify patients eligible for field termination of CPR.
METHODS: We analyzed 540,478 patients with OHCA from 2011 to 2015 using a Japanese registry. Main outcome measures were specificity and positive predictive value (PPV) of the newly developed TOR rule in predicting 1-month mortality after OHCA.
RESULTS: Recursive partitioning analysis in the development group (n=434,208) showed that EMS personnel could consider TOR if patients with OHCA met all of the following five criteria: (1) initial asystole, (2) arrest unwitnessed by a bystander, (3) age ≥81 years, (4) no bystander-administered CPR or automated external defibrillator use before EMS arrival, and (5) no return of spontaneous circulation after EMS-initiated CPR for 14min. For patients meeting these criteria, specificity and PPV for predicting 1-month mortality were 99.2% [95% confidence interval (CI), 99.0-99.3%] and 99.7% (95% CI, 99.6-99.7%), respectively, for the development group and were 99.5% (95% CI, 99.3-99.7%) and 99.8% (95% CI, 99.7-99.9%), respectively, for the validation group. Implementation of this novel rule would reduce patient transports to hospitals by 10.6% in the development group and 10.4% in the validation group.
CONCLUSIONS: Having both high specificity and PPV of >99% for predicting 1-month mortality, our developed TOR rule may be applied in the field for Japanese patients with OHCA who meet all five criteria. Prospective validation studies and establishment of prehospital EMS protocol are required before implementing this rule.
ARAN Comment: This set of criteria for TOR in Japan goes some way toward more pragmatic responses to OHCA, however it still does not go far enough in reflecting the reality of survival (regardless of age) rather than assuming a incredibly small chance (despite the clear evidence about survival to discharge) is worth transportation (where treatment during transport is sub-optimal and in an ED no additional measures may be affected).
Optimal Scene Time to Achieve Favourable Outcomes in Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest: How Long Is Too Long?
Glenn Goodwin, Dyana Picache, Brian J Louie, Nicholas Gaeto, Tarik Zeid, Paxton P Aung, Armando Clift, Sonu Sahni
Curēus 2018 October 9, 10 (10): e3434
Background: Despite advances in resuscitation science and public health, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) cases have an average survival rate of only 12% nationwide, compared to 24.8% of cases occurring in hospital. Many factors, including resuscitation interventions, contribute to positive patient outcomes and have, therefore, been studied in attempts to optimise emergency medical services (EMS) protocols to achieve higher rates of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in the field. However, no consensus has been met regarding the appropriate amount of time for EMS to spend on scene. Aim A favourable outcome is defined as patients that achieved the combination of ROSC and a final disposition of "ongoing resuscitation in the emergency department (ED)." The primary purpose of this preliminary study was to determine the scene time interval (STI) in which American urban EMS systems achieved the highest rates of favourable outcomes in non-traumatic OOHCAs.
Methods: All EMS-related data, including demographics, presenting rhythm, airway management, chemical interventions, and ROSC were recorded using a standardised EMS charting system by the highest-ranking EMS provider on the ambulance. The reports were retrospectively collected and analysed.
Conclusion: Our data suggest that the optimal 20-minute STI for OOHCA patients in an urban EMS system is between 41 and 60 minutes. Interestingly, the 10-minute interval within the 41-60 minute cohort that provided the highest rate of ROSC was between 41 and 50 minutes. Generally, the longer the STI, the greater the percentage of favourable outcomes up to the 50-minute mark. Once past 50 minutes, a phenomenon of diminishing return was observed and the rates of favourable outcomes sharply declined. This suggests a possible "sweet spot" that may exist regarding the optimal scene time in a cardiac arrest encounter. Significant differences between the average number of interventions per patient were found, however, many confounding factors and the limited data set make the results difficult to generalise.
ARAN Comment: Many of these studies into scene time have too many variables to make any recommendation on scene time. The variables of most concern are differences in the level of care provided on scene and the definition of a "favourable outcome" (as this can merely be a ROSC in deference to survival to discharge, without significant cerebral deficit). The studies also tend to assume that "definitive care" is only available in a hospital, as is the capacity to determine TOR.
Effect of National Implementation of Telephone CPR Program to Improve Outcomes from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: an Interrupted Time-Series Analysis
Yu Jin Lee, Seung-Sik Hwang, Sang Do Shin, Seung Chul Lee, Kyoung Jun Song
Journal of Korean Medical Science 2018 December 17, 33 (51): e328
Background: In cardiac arrest, the survival rate increases with the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), of which the initial response and treatment are critical. Telephone CPR is among the effective methods that might increase the provision of bystander CPR. This study aimed to describe and examine the improvement of neurological outcomes in individuals with out-of-hospital acute cardiac arrest by implementing the nationwide, standardised telephone CPR program.
Methods: Data from the emergency medical service-based cardiac arrest registry that were collected between 2009 and 2014 were used. The effectiveness of the intervention in the interrupted time-series study was determined via a segmented regression analysis, which showed the risk ratio and risk difference in good neurological outcomes before and after the intervention.
Results: Of 164,221 patients, 148,403 were analysed. However, patients with unknown sex and limited data on treatment outcomes were excluded. Approximately 64.3% patients were men, with an average age of 63.7 years. The number of bystander CPR increased by 3.3 times (95% confidence interval [CI], 3.1-3.5) after the intervention, whereas the rate of good neurological outcomes increased by 2.6 times (95% CI, 2.3-2.9 [1.6%]; 1.4-1.7). The excess number was identified based on the differences between the observed and predicted trends. In total, 2,127 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) after the intervention period received additional bystander CPR, and 339 cases of OHCA had good neurological outcomes.
Conclusion: The nationwide implementation of the standardised telephone CPR program increased the number of bystander CPR and improved good neurological outcomes.
ARAN Comment: while it is encouraging to see other countries implementing and evaluating new initiatives to improve OHCA survival rates; it reinforces the lack of vision and innovation in Australia in this area. Unfortunately, continued trust and reliance on the ARC for improvement and innovation is misplaced and represents the biggest barrier to progress.
[Effects between chest-compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation and standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a Meta-analysis]
Xueli Liao, Bihua Chen, Hui Tang, Yanze Wang, Min Wang, Manhong Zhou
Zhonghua Wei Zhong Bing Ji Jiu Yi Xue 2018, 30 (11): 1017-1023
OBJECTIVE: To comprehensively evaluate and compare the resuscitation efficacy of chest-compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CCPR) and standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (SCPR) for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
METHODS: Databases such as PubMed, Embase, Ovid, Cochrane Library, Wanfang, CNKI, VIP, CBM were searched from the date of their foundation to March 2nd 2018, and the studies on the difference of effects between CCPR and SCPR for patients with OHCA were retrieved. The outcomes included the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) rate, survival to hospital discharge, neurological function completion rate. Two reviewers independently screened the literature meeting the inclusion criteria, independently collected information and evaluated the literature quality. Meta-analysis was conducted using RevMan 5.3 software, and sensitivity analysis was conducted by selecting model analysis method and removing single research method. Funnel plot was used to evaluate publication bias.
RESULTS: A total of 10 cohort studies were included, including 174 163 patients with OHCA, of which 95 157 undergone CCPR and 79 006 undergone SCPR. The scores of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale (NOS) were 8-9, indicating that the quality of the literatures included was high. It was shown by the Meta-analysis that CCPR had the higher rate of survival to hospital discharge [relative risk (RR) = 1.04, 95% confidence interval (95%CI) = 1.00-1.08, P = 0.04] and neurological function completion (RR = 1.11, 95%CI = 1.06-1.17, P < 0.000 1) than SCPR, but there was no significant difference in ROSC rate between the two groups (RR = 1.01, 95%CI = 0.98-1.04, P = 0.52). In the subgroup, there was no statistical significance between CCPR and SCPR in the rate of survival to hospital discharge in cardiac OHCA patients (RR = 1.13, 95%CI = 0.82-1.57, P = 0.45). However, in non-cardiac OHCA group, SCPR showed more benefits than CCPR in improving the rate of survival to hospital discharge (RR = 0.88, 95%CI = 0.80-0.96, P = 0.004). The above analysis results were consistent in the fixed effect model and random effect model, indicating that the results were reliable and stable. It was shown by the funnel plot that most of the studies were left-right inverted funnel type, indicating a low publication bias. However, the bias could not be completely excluded due to the small number of included literatures.
CONCLUSIONS: For patients without OHCA etiological classification, CCPR was not less than SCPR in improving ROSC rate, discharge survival rate and good neurological function, and CCPR was more advantageous in learning and the willingness of bystanders to implement. However, when non-cardiogenic OHCA could be identified, SCPR should be recommended when conditions permit.
ARAN Comment: The message is clear to everyone (except Australia and NZ who refuse to listen); in SCA CCPR should be the default and SCPR for other causes.
The American Heart Association announced that Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is the official sponsor of a hands-only CPR training kiosk unveiled during a ribbon cutting event Tuesday morning at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport.
The kiosk sits at the Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport between Gate 6 and Gate 7 to the left of security, where thousands of people visit each year, according to a statement from the Heart Association.
It features a touch screen with a video program that provides a brief introduction and overview of Hands-Only CPR, followed by a practice session and a 30-second test session. With the help of a practice manikin, or a rubber torso, the kiosk gives feedback about the depth and rate of compressions and proper hand placement – factors that influence the effectiveness of CPR. Organisers say the entire training takes about five minutes.
The Heart Association states the training opportunity will be helpful because, every year, more than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of the hospital and more than 20 percent occur in public places like airports, casinos and sporting facilities. The Hands-Only CPR education available at each kiosk is designed to help users understand how they can immediately help a person who experiences a cardiac emergency outside of a hospital.
“Cardiac arrest remains a leading cause of death in the United States, and survival depends on immediately receiving CPR from someone nearby,” Dr. Scott Shurmur, M.D., a cardiologist at the Texas Tech Physicians – Center for Cardiovascular Health, said in a statement. “Although in-person training is still the best way to learn the skills necessary for high-quality CPR, the kiosk will provide additional training that could make a difference and save the life of someone you love.”
Kim Walker, a Heart Association volunteer and advocate, said about 90 percent of cardiac arrest victims die, often because bystanders don’t know how to start CPR or are afraid they’ll do something wrong.
“Bystander CPR, especially if administered immediately, can double or triple a cardiac arrest victim’s chance of survival, which is why the Hands-Only CPR education available at the kiosk is so valuable,” she said. “In just a matter of a few minutes, people will learn a skill that can potentially make a difference in the lives of those they love most as well as others.”
The two simple steps of Hands-Only CPR are: if a bystander sees a teen or adult collapse, he or she should first call 9-1-1. Then push hard and fast in the centre of the chest to the beat of “Stayin’ Alive,” which has 100 beats per minute (bpm). The Bee Gees’ song has the minimum rate you should push on the chest during Hands-Only CPR.
“The kiosks will help the community understand how simple it is to perform the two steps of Hands-Only CPR, which will hopefully help reduce some of the trepidation that people have about performing bystander CPR,” said Denise Sanders, senior corporate market director of the Heart Association in Lubbock. “After completing the kiosk training, we hope people will feel empowered knowing they are taking the first steps in learning a critical skill.”
ARAN Comment: Of course in Australia efforts to introduce similar kiosks have been undermined by our "authority" because it is "heresy" to consider teaching compressions without ventilations.
Any bystander CPR is better than no CPR attempt - An Urban Myth, Misconception, or Proved Truth?
Zlatko Fischer, Violetta Raffay, Michael Buda, Nela Đorđević Vujovic, Ivana Obradović; Journal Resuscitatio Balcanica 2018; 11: 126-130
We have all heard it before (and seen it blazoned across a familiar home page) but many of us have seen the standard of resuscitation that bystanders are capable of and the guidelines they try to follow that just tend complicate and delay the implementation of essential treatment. Researchers in Serbia have studied the assumption of any CPR being better than none and found some disturbing (but not unsurprising results). To paraphrase the findings...
"According the majority opinion, “any CPR is better that no CPR” should be critically analysed. There are reasons to more deeply and carefully investigate the usefulness of bystander CPR. Our results indicate the this might even be harmful (i.e. politically correct rather than contributing to better outcomes). It was found in a study over 3 years involving over 4000 cardiac arrest, that a victim has a 1.6 times greater chance of a ROSC if there is no bystander CPR attempt. The chances of getting CPR increased by 2.8 times if there was a bystander present."
ARAN has been sceptical of this simplistic message and the genuineness of those who spruik it, for many years. Studies (and our own research) have shown that not only are effective (i.e. beneficial) compressions) applied by a minority of bystanders (trained or not), but that current BLS protocols that still emphasise ventilations in all arrests are detrimental in the pre-ambulance period for the majority of arrests (i.e. SCA 85%).
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2018 NCAAF Week 10 Weekend Preview
November – the month where college football dreams can’t quite be realized, but can certainly be dashed.
Over the next five weekends, the dreams of many teams will be dashed. While it’s not the prettiest picture to paint of the sport, it’s the aspect that makes it so entertaining to watch, especially at this point in the season.
A couple of dreams were likely dashed last weekend, resulting in my ultimate victory over Phil in the head-to-head prediction game. We’re now even again overall, with the standings looking like this:
K. Becks: 30-15
Guests: 30-15
This week, my father joins to make picks. For those wondering, yes, no one else responded to my invitation to make picks. I appreciate the undying support of my readers.
Before we take a look at what I believe to be the best weekend slate of games this season, here are my “Three Thoughts” from the weekend that was.
I have a new “College Quarterback Crush”. His name is Jake Fromm. And his third and final touchdown pass against Florida last weekend made me feel things. More on this later.
Coaches who make the kind of money Kirk Ferentz makes normally have to win a few of the games like the one Iowa played against Penn State last weekend. But not Kirk – no, the Iowa performance last weekend was the Hawkeye Way to a T.
Kentucky’s victory on the last play of regulation, which consequently was a replay of the actual last play of regulation, is a testament to just how special a year it has been for the Wildcats. Even if you’re a Missouri fan, don’t you dig it, if only just a little bit?
Admittedly, that was kind of a weird one. Let’s take a look at the top games for this packed weekend.
5 Games to Watch This Weekend
#6 Georgia at #9 Kentucky (Saturday, 3:30 PM ET)
Normally a big game in November being played on the University of Kentucky campus takes place on the hardwood, but the Wildcats are no joke in football this season. Kentucky has the opportunity to seize first place in the SEC East outright on Saturday afternoon, a feat that nearly everyone outside the state of Georgia would like to see, simply for the novelty of it. The Bulldogs are a tough visitor to Kroger Field, however. Last weekend Georgia showed why it is one of the more difficult teams in the conference to slow down when Jake Fromm is playing well. Fromm’s third touchdown against Florida was the most beautiful ball thrown that I’ve seen in college football this season. If he’s making similar throws against Kentucky’s stifling defense, which generally speaking shut down fellow gunslinger Drew Lock of Missouri last weekend, then it will be a long day for the Wildcats.
Although I hopped on the Kentucky bandwagon weeks ago and will be rooting for the Wildcats to create havoc on the first weekend we have CFP rankings to argue about, I saw a very strong Georgia team handle Florida with ease last weekend. Assuming the Bulldogs have learned from their slip-up against LSU earlier this season, I don’t think Kentucky can hang within 10 points of Georgia in this one.
My Pick: 27-14 Georgia
Dad’s Take: Georgia 35 Kentucky 24. What WOULD happen if a Bulldog tangled with a Wildcat? Who knows, but in this case dogs over cats.The Wildcats are having a great year, but not against the SEC elite.
#13 West Virginia at #17 Texas (Saturday, 3:30 PM ET)
Both of these teams will need an extreme amount of help to claw back into the CFP conversation, but Big 12 supremacy is not out of the picture for either. Texas is coming off of the loss that essentially ended its Playoff hopes, while West Virginia faded back into anonymity after losing to Iowa State three weeks ago and hasn’t been challenged since. This game will be about redemption for both, with the opportunity to stay at least tied for the Big 12 lead heading into next week.
The fact that Iowa State held Will Grier to only 100 yards passing and one passing touchdown is astounding, considering that Grier hasn’t thrown for fewer than 330 yards or three touchdowns in any other game this season. The performance of the Texas secondary has been all over the board this season, but one thing has been consistent – the Longhorns have had trouble against the best quarterbacks. Southern Cal, Oklahoma and most recently Oklahoma State all threw for at least 300 yards and only against Southern Cal did Texas’s defense dominate. Assuming there isn’t another outlier performance from Grier, the Mountaineers will simply have too much gas for the Longhorns.
My Pick: 49-42 West Virginia
Dad’s Take: Texas 31 WVU 30. Texas slips by in this seesaw, hard to pick battle.
#14 Penn State at #5 Michigan (Saturday, 3:45 PM ET)
The Wolverines enter this weekend with the most unenviable ranking in the CFP poll – that is, the one just outside of qualification for the Playoff. But with more than a month left in the regular season that is of no concern to this squad, which is playing its best football right now. Penn State, on the other hand, is a mystery. How healthy is Trace McSorley? What has happened to the offense? Has James Franklin lost buy-in from this team?
These aren’t questions any teams wants to have to face. Worse yet, the Nittany Lions have plenty of questions on offense and must play the country’s best overall defense in terms of yards allowed per game – by 40 yards. Defensively, Michigan will be able to do everything that Iowa did and more against Penn State, so even a 100% healthy Trace McSorley won’t result in a victory for the visitors to the Big House.
My Pick: 30-17 Michigan
Dad’s Take: Michigan 27 Penn State 21. Wolverines are liking the top again – and “feeling” it.
#4 Notre Dame at Northwestern (Saturday, 7:15 PM ET)
The Notre Dame crowd is slowly but surely starting to get louder as the regular season’s end approaches and the Fighting Irish remain undefeated. But that same crowd is also known for crying the loudest about the perceived injustice of its team not getting the so-called “mulligan” that some Power 5 schools seemingly receive with regards to making the Playoff with a loss. Brian Kelly’s team gets no such mulligan, meaning that every game truly matters and the Fighting Irish need to win this trap game in order to remain in Playoff contention.
The Wildcats are riding a hot streak after beginning the season 1-3, reeling off four straight victories and assuming the top spot in the Big Ten West as of this week. Credit Pat Fitzgerald with keeping this team focused – many teams would have thrown in the towel after that kind of start, but the fact is that this team has been in every game this season and simply ran into some bad luck early. The Fighting Irish have put up gaudy numbers offensively since Ian Book took over at quarterback, but the numbers in this game may be modest. Northwestern’s bend but don’t break defensive style should provide enough stops to keep this one close. It’s just a feeling that the Wildcats will be able to do enough on their home soil to result in a rush of the field.
My Pick: 34-31 Northwestern
Dad’s Take: Northwestern 28 Notre Dame 27. THESE Wildcats pull off the upset AND have better GPAs…
#1 Alabama at #3 LSU (Saturday, 8 PM ET)
The media isn’t calling it the “Game of the Century” or something grossly presumptuous this time around, which is refreshing. For a change, it appears that everyone is simply in agreement that this rivalry game is extremely intriguing and should be wildly entertaining. Although some are already anointing the Crimson Tide this season’s national champion, Alabama has yet to play an opponent nearly as good as the Tigers and Tua Tagovialoa might be under the assumption that a college football game only lasts three quarters. This lack of previous adversity could be an issue for the Crimson Tide, which will definitely experience it at points in this game. LSU’s defensive secondary is extremely talented and Tagovialoa will surely be tested, perhaps even baited into throwing his first interception of the season.
What should have Alabama fans worried is how good LSU looked against Georgia a few weeks back. The Bulldogs are essentially Alabama lite, and the Tigers defense forced a Jake Fromm benching while the offense posted 275 rushing yards, over 100 more than Georgia has allowed to any other team this season. Ed Orgeron’s team has made a habit of exposing weaknesses this season, none of which the country is currently aware of when it comes to the Crimson Tide. That being said, it would be unwise to bet against the Tigers doing it again and making this one very, very close.
My Pick: 28-24 Alabama
Dad’s Take: Alabama 45 LSU 31. Tide is ready for this one. Alabama upset? Not this week.
5 Games to Flip To
#20 Texas A&M at Auburn (Saturday, 12 PM ET)
The Tigers have had a rough season and still have a couple of difficult games to play, yet are an unwelcome sight for anyone in the Top 25.
#16 Iowa at Purdue (Saturday, 3:30 PM ET)
The Hawkeyes couldn’t capitalize on a golden opportunity in Happy Valley last weekend and now face an uphill battle to assure a spot in the Big Ten title game. This one will be low scoring.
#15 Utah at Arizona State (Saturday, 4 PM ET)
The Pac-12 is a dog-eat-dog conference, which is why despite the difference in overall record, there isn’t much that separates these two teams.
#7 Oklahoma at Texas Tech (Saturday, 8 PM ET)
This is the weekend’s “Game Most Likely to Feature Absolutely No Defense”, and it will be fun.
California at #8 Washington State (Saturday, 10:45 PM ET)
The Golden Bears may never be “for real”, but the country waits with bated breath for the Saturday that Mike Leach’s team brings its C-game and gets upset. It happens nearly every season.
In the past, I’ve asked readers to let me know if they’d like to be guests on Around The Corn to make weekly college football picks. And while that invite still stands (email kbecks@aroundthecorn.com or message me on Facebook or Twitter if interested), the truth is that I’m basically asking friends and family on a weekly basis. Writing is a passion of mine, as is commenting on sports. But sharing those two passions with others are what has always made this worthwhile. So tell me what you think of the site and let me know what could be done better, or what would make you come back without prompting. I’d really appreciate it.
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Bobby Steggert, Christiane Noll, Christopher Cox, Quentin Earl Darrington, Robert Petkoff, Ron Bohmer, Sarah Rosenthal, Stephanie Umoh
Who said cutbacks are bad? That’s not the case in the sweeping revival of Ragtime currently playing at the Neil Simon theatre, where minimalist staging and simple props set the stage for a grandiose, thrilling production that is nothing short of breathtaking. One might wonder why producers would revive this particular show, when the original production closed less than a decade ago. But the answer is clear: the show is too good to not be seen.
The historical musical with a book Terrence McNally and music and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty is a story of three families with vastly different social and economic circumstances. Based on the novel of the same name by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime is a story of love, loss, racism, prejudice and, above all, hope.
I know. I would probably be rolling my eyes as well if I read that sentence. But there are so many other words to truly sum up the emotions invoked by the sweeping score of this show, superbly acted by a cast that consists of many newcomers to Broadway. The upper-class white family of Mother (Christiane Noll), Father (Ron Bohmer), Grandfather (Dan Manning), Mother’s Younger Brother and Little Boy (Christopher Cox), live comfortably in New Rochelle, New York. Everything is cheerful and calm for them until they meet Sarah (Stephanie Umohand Colehouse) and Coalhouse (Quentin Earl Darrington), a black woman and man who consequently send their lives into a tailspin of change, both social and political.
It is the awareness, and fear of, this change that moves the plot of this musical, as the change hovers just under the surface of the pretty family living in a pretty house. And it is the music that is the metaphor of this change. It is rare that more than a few minutes pass without a song being sung in this show. And believe me, that is a good thing. The score of Ragtime is sweeping, grand, beautiful and challenging, and this is a cast that does it justice. The soaring “Wheels of a Dream,” the crushing “Your Daddy’s Son” and the soulful “Make Them Hear You” are just a few of the highlights from the score.
Such a lush score would seem juxtaposed on a set that resembles a production warehouse, but the stark, minimalistic set only enhances the show, giving even more focus to the cast. Almost all of the songs speak of change – hope for it, fear of it, or weary resignation to it. While many may be weary of this key word from President Obama’s campaign and first year in office, the change that pulses just beneath the surface in Ragtime is a vital one, and Mother is the personification of it. In this rich and vibrant role, the seemingly demure wealthy wife and mother grows and changes in unexpected ways, realizing the wrongdoings of her own life as well as her husband’s. Her brother, played by Bobby Steggert in a performance of surprising depth and darkness, also involves himself in social activism, to the surprise and dismay of his family. The cast of real and fictional historical characters also features Booker T. Washington (Eric Jordan Young), Harry Houndini (Jonathon Hammond), espousing the ideal that an immigrant can make good, anarchist Emma Goldman (Donna Migliaccio) and vaudville star Evelyn Nesbit (Savannah Wise).
Rounding off the leading characters are Robert Petkoff and Sarah Rosenthal as the immigrant Tateh and his daughter, who both deliver touching performances of newcomers to America searching for their chance for success in the land of opportunity. Their innocent hope is both inspiring and ironic to watch, as are the dreams of Sarah and Coalhouse, both portrayed in deeply moving, powerhouse performances.
It’s a bitter mix to acknowledge the hope and despair of living in America then and now. The relevance of Ragtime in today’s world is undeniable as we read daily of a shattered economy, whispers of racism on mainstream news stations and post-election weariness as we realize that change cannot be accomplished as easily as we had hoped for. Scenes where J.P. Morgan Chae (Michael X. Martin) and Henry Ford (Aaron Galligan-Stierle) speak of opportunity and prosperity elicited sad and sarcastic laughter, but also perhaps a remind of the hope that America still must cling to.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, April 1
Today, April 1 in
1991 The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved.
More of today in history at History
If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter,
please donate what you can!
Today's Bonehead Award:
Family walks in on man sexually battering
6-year-old.
If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as
mediocre as possible.
--- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
--- Scott Adams (1957 - )
This guy was walking along the beach when he came across this
salt-encrusted piece of metal.
He worked for an hour or so to remove the salt. Lo and behold it
was a very old oil lamp.
The guy started to buff it to remove the verdigris when "poof" a
genie appeared.
This genie, like all genies, was so happy to be freed of the
lamp that he granted the guy three wishes.
"I wish to be a dollar richer than Bill Gates, " says the guy.
"Guy," the genie said, "You will forever be a dollar richer than
Bill Gates. What's your second wish."
"Genie, I want the most expensive Porsche made: Fire engine red,
on board GPS and the finest audio system ever installed in an
automobile."
"That's easy, Guy," says the genie. He waves his hand and best
car anybody had ever seen pops out of the lamp.
The genie then asks the guy for his third wish.
The guy mulls the problem over and over. A girl-- nah, with
billions and billions of dollars he certainly had become a chick
magnet. World peace? Only wackos want that. The guy found a
reason not to wish for anything that came to his mind.
"Genie," the guy said, "I can't think of anything now. May I
save the third wish for later."
"Gee, this is most unusual. But you hold the hammer, I can't
escape from this lamp until you make a third wish. Call me when
you're ready," and whoosh the genie disappears into the lamp.
The guy carefully picks up the now-ever-so- valuable lamp and
places it in the trunk of the fire engine red Porsche. He turns
the radio on to balance the sounds and makes all the other
adjustments needed to get his great audio system customized to
his ears.
After that, he pulled off the beach and headed south along the
Pacific Coast Highway.
Soon he was up to 60, then 70, then 80. The Porsche handled
perfectly.
The guy was so happy that he began to sing along with the
familiar commercial on the radio.
"Oh, I wish I was an Oscar-Mayer Wiener..."
has been earned by
Terrelle Cole Jr.,
New Port Richey,
A New Port Richey man is behind bars after officers say a family
member walked in on a man sexually battering their 6-year-old
daughter.
According to police Terrelle Cole Jr., 25, was sexually
battering the child until a family member walked in causing Cole
to flee the scene.
New Port Richey police say a statewide lookout was issued for
Cole due to information of him potentially leaving the state.
Cole was later located by the Pasco County Sheriff's Office
driving near the Suncoast Parkway and State Road 52.
Cole was charged with Sexual Battery on a Victim Under the Age
Of 12.
Re: How do I switch from Windos to Linux?
Dear DearWebby
I am going to switch the entire office to Linux. We had to
get all new machines and they are all W10. W10 is ridiculous
and everything takes a lot longer to get done. How do we go
about the switch to Linux?
You can get "Linux on a stick", that you plug into a USB port.
It works OK, especially if you use Open Office or Office Libre.
It is considerably faster than Windows.
Find a local penguin (Linux user), who is willing to do some
consulting and question answering while you switch over.
Ideally, of course, would be an existing employee, preferably
the one, who recommended Linux.
Linux is not more difficult, just different. It is like changing
from small gasoline engines to big Diesel engines. That is why
almost 100% of servers run on Linux.
Automatically move ALL your settings and programs.
No need to re-install them.
The only mover recommended by Intel and Microsoft.
I had a secretary who claimed that she liked to live like
she types: Fast and with lots of mistakes.
If you can help with the cost of the
Humor Letter, please donate what you can!
Village Dry Cleaners has relocated to High Street, right next
door to St. Joseph's Church. After March 31, Cleanliness Is
Next to Godliness.'
Thriftyfun.com
Flashlights that Don't Require Batteries
Keep a flashlight in your house that doesn't require batteries.
You can buy flashlights that can be charged by winding them up
or shaking them. If you run out of batteries, you won't be left
in the dark if there is a power outage.
Stunning Early Entries of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
>From Louise
No one is more cautious than a first-time parent. After our
daughter was big enough to ride on the back of my bicycle,
I bought a special carrier with a seat belt and got her a
little helmet.
The day of the first ride I put her in the seat, double-
checked all the equipment, wheeled the bike to the end of
the driveway, carefully looked both ways and, swinging my
leg up over the seat with much elan and style, and
accidentally kicked her right in the chin.
>From Jean
Jose and Carlos are panhandlers... They panhandle on different
areas of town.
Carlos panhandles just as long as Jose but only collects 2 to 3
dollars every day. Jose brings home a suitcase FULL of $10
bills, drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage free house and has
a lot of money to spend.
Carlos says to Jose "I work just as long and hard as you do but
how do you bring home a suitcase full of $10 bills every day?".
Jose says,... "Look at your sign,
what does it say"?
Carlos sign reads 'I have no work, a wife and 6 kids to
support'."
Jose says "No wonder you only get 2-3 dollars".
Carlos says... "So what does your sign say"?
Jose shows Carlos his sign...it reads, "I only need another
$10.00 to move back to Mexico".
Ophelia Dingbatter's
NewsNo sermon and not suitable for church, just
jokes and fun for grownups.
Read it on-line or subscribe. If you subscribe, look for the
double opt-in confirmation request.
After playing 18 holes of golf, our foursome was sitting
around the clubhouse settling our bets when another golfer
stormed in. Fuming after a lousy round, he slammed down
his scorecard and announced, "If I wasn't married, I'd give
this stupid game up!"
Today April 1 in
0527 Justinianus became the emperor of Byzantium.
1572 The Sea Beggars under Guillaume de la Marck landed in
Holland and captured the small town of Briel.
1621 The Plymouth, MA, colonists created the first treaty with
Native Americans.
1748 The ruins of Pompeii were found.
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the "$"
symbol.
1793 In Japan, the volcano Unsen erupted killing about 53,000.
1826 Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.
1853 Cincinnati became the first U.S. city to pay fire fighters
a regular salary.
1864 The first travel accident policy was issued to James
Batterson by the Travelers Insurance Company.
1865 At the Battle of Five Forks in Petersburg, VA, Gen. Robert
E. Lee began his final offensive.
1867 Blacks voted in the municipal election in Tuscumbia, AL.
1867 The International Exhibition opened in Paris.
1867 Singapore, Penang & Malakka became British crown colonies.
1873 The British White Star steamship Atlantic sank off Nova
Scotia killing 547.
1881 Anti-Jewish riots took place in Jerusalem.
1889 The first dishwashing machine was marketed (in Chicago).
1891 The London-Paris telephone connection opened.
1891 The William Wrigley Jr. Company was founded in Chicago, IL.
The company is most known for its Juicy Fruit gum.
1905 The British East African Protectorate became the colony of
Kenya.
1905 Paris and Berlin were linked by telephone.
1918 England's Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air
Force.
1924 Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high
treason in relation to the "Beer Hall Putsch."
1927 The first automatic record changer was introduced by His
Master's Voice.
1928 China's Chiang Kai-shek began attacking communists.
1929 Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.
1930 Leo Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs broke the altitude record
for a catch by catching a baseball dropped from the Goodyear
blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, CA.
1931 An Earthquake devastated Managua Nicaragua killing 2,000.
1931 Jackie Mitchell became the first female in professional
baseball when she signed with the Chattanooga Baseball Club.
1933 Nazi Germany began the persecution of Jews by boycotting
Jewish businesses.
1935 The first radio tube to be made of metal was announced.
1937 Aden became a British colony.
1938 The first commercially successful fluorescent lamps were
introduced.
1939 The U.S. recognized the Franco government in Spain at end
of Spanish civil war.
1945 U.S. forces invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the
last campaign of World War II.
1946 Weight Watchers was formed.
1946 A tidal wave (tsunami) struck the Hawaiian Islands killing
more than 170 people.
1948 The Berlin Airlift began.
1950 Italian Somalia became a United Nations trust territory
under Italian administration.
1952 The Big Bang theory was proposed in "Physical Review" by
Alpher, Bethe & Gamow.
1960 France exploded 2 atom bombs in the Sahara Desert.
1960 The U.S. launched TIROS-1. It was the first weather
satellite.
1963 Workers of the International Typographical Union ended
their strike that had closed nine New York City newspapers. The
strike ended 114 days after it began on December 8, 1962.
1970 The U.S. Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in the My Lai
massacre.
1970 U.S. President Nixon signed the bill, the Public Health
Cigarette Smoking Act, that banned cigarette advertisements to
be effective on January 1, 1971.
1971 The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on gold
ownership.
1972 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops renewed their
offensive in South Vietnam.
1973 Japan allowed its citizens to own gold.
1976 Apple Computer began operations.
1979 Iran was proclaimed to be an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah.
1982 The U.S. transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.
1985 World oil prices dropped below $10 a barrel.
1986 The U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green ran aground in the Irish
Sea.
1987 Steve Newman became the first man to walk around the world.
The walk was 22,000 miles and took 4 years.
1987 U.S. President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've
declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
1991 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that jurors could not be
barred from serving due to their race.
1992 Players began the first strike in the 75-year history of
the National Hockey League (NHL).
1999 In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Anatoliy Onoprienko was sentenced to
death for the deaths of 52 men, women and children. 43 of the
killings occurred in a 6-month period.
1999 The Canadian territory of Nunavut was created. It was
carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories and
coveres about 772,000 square miles.
2001 China began holding 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance
plane. The EP-3E U.S. Navy crew had made an emergency landing
after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The
Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead. The U.S. crew was
released on April 11, 2001.
2001 Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested
on corruption charges after a 26-hour standoff with the police
at his Belgrade villa.
2003 North Korea test-fired an anti-ship missile off its west
coast.
2003 Jason Mewes was ordered to complete drug rehabilitation or
face five years in jail stemming from a drug conviction in 1999.
2004 U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Unborn Victims of
Violence Act. The bill made it a crime to harm a fetus during an
assault on a pregnant woman.
2004 Gateway Inc. announced that it would be closing all of its
188 stores on April 9.
2009 Albania and Croatia joined the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
2010 The U.S. Congress cut Medicare reimbursements to physicians
by 21%.
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Today is Sunday, March 31
Today, March 31 in
1966 The Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which became the
first spacecraft to enter a lunar orbit.
Child rapist found back in Kansas
nine days after he was deported
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can
stay up all night and eat anything.
--- Herb Caen
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
--- Garry Shandling (1949 - )
A guy walked into his friend's office, he found him
sitting at his desk, looking very depressed. "Hey,
what's up with you?", he asks.
"Oh, its my wife," replied the man sadly. "She's
hired a new secretary for me."
"Well, nothing wrong in that. Is she blonde or
brunette or a redhead ?"
"Neither. Her father is bald."
Tufted Coquette Hummingbird
Simon Rochel-Cervantes, 46,
in a jail in
A man convicted in the rape of a child under the age 14 and
deported in February is back in a Kansas jail.
According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, Simon Rochel-
Cervantes, 46, a citizen of Mexico, spent 7-years in the
Ellsworth Correctional Facility for the rape and aggravated
intimidation of a witness.
He was released and deported on February 19. On March 5, he was
found in Sedgwick County, according to a media release from the
United State Attorney.
Rochel-Cervantes is charged with unlawfully re-entering the
United States after being deported.
If convicted, he faces up to two years in federal prison and a
fine up to $250,000. Immigration and Customs Enforcement HSI
investigated.
Re: Cellphone cooking
Here is one for you. Is this fake or real?
http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-p ... pcorn.html
The behavior of drivers with cell phones aside their heads
would definitely prove that cell phones do something to their
heads.
However, to actually pop popcorn, you would probably have to
slightly modify the phones by replacing the omnidirectional
antenna with a directional one, and by shorting across the
output limiter. I doubt very much that you can pop popcorn with
unmodified cell phones.
I don't use cell phones, so you will just have to try yourself.
My violin teacher was teaching a large group class. She
showed them her violin and said, "This violin was made in
the early 1800s."
Someone in the audience raised their hand and asked, "So,
you got it used?"
Thanks to Tina for this story:
My son was in the process of bineg potty trained. One summer
day, he came in from outside, all wet. I asked, "Did you have an
accident?".
Yes, he replied. Well, what did you do, water the trees, the
bushes,...?
"Oh, no," he replied. "I went in the garage."
Shocked, I responded, "Well, you shouldn't do that. It will
start to stink, draw flies; now I'll have to go out and hose
down the garage."
My son replied happily, " But Mom, it's OK ! I didn't go in our
garage, I went in Jill's garage!!"
Yard Sales - Setting Up Your Merchandise
Set up as many tables as you can and lay items out, grouping
like items together. You can make your own tables by using
saw horses as legs and old doors or large pieces of plywood
as the table top. The best way to display clothing is to hang
You can create a lot of hanging space by securing a rope
between two trees.
I've never seen a jellycake before. They're beautiful! I wonder how they
taste?
A Stanford research group advertised for participants in
a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They were looking
for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder.
The response was gratifying; they got 3,000 responses about
three days after the ad came out. All from the same person.
Mary Sue passed away in the middle of the night, so her husband,
Bubba, called 911. The operator answering the call said they
would be sending someone over right away.
"Where do you live?" asked the operator.
Bubba answered, "At the end of Eucalyptus Lane."
Then the operator asked, "Could you spell that for me?"
There was a long pause, until Bubba finally said, "How about if
I drag her over to Oak Street and you can pick her up there?"
Definition of Outdoor Barbecuing
It's the only type of cooking a "real" man will do. When a man
volunteers to do such cooking, the following chain of events is
put into motion.
(1) The woman goes to the store.
(2) The woman fixes the salad, vegetables, and dessert.
(3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a
tray along with the necessary cooking utensils, and takes it
to the man, who is lounging beside the grill, drinking a beer.
(4) The man places the meat on the grill.
(5) The woman goes inside to set the table and check the
(6) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is
burning.
(7) The man takes the meat off the grill and hands it to the
(8) The woman prepares the plates and brings them to the table.
(9) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the
dishes.
(10) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed "her night off."
And, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there's
just no pleasing some women.
Today March 31 in
1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the
Alhambra edict expelling Jews who were unwilling to convert to
Christianity.
1776 Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John that women were
"determined to foment a rebellion" if the new Declaration of
Independence failed to guarantee their rights.
1779 Russia and Turkey signed a treaty concerning military
action in Crimea.
1831 Quebec and Montreal were incorporated as cities.
1854 The U.S. government signed the Treaty of Kanagawa with
Japan. The act opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakotade to
American trade.
1862 Skirmishing between Rebels and Union forces took place at
Island 10 on the Mississippi River.
1870 In Perth Amboy, NJ, Thomas Munday Peterson became the first
black to vote in the U.S.
1880 Wabash, IN, became the first town to be completely
illuminated with electric light.
1889 In Paris, the Eiffel Tower officially opened.
1900 The W.E. Roach Company was the first automobile company to
put an advertisement in a national magazine. The magazine was
the "Saturday Evening Post".
1900 In France, the National Assembly passed a law reducing the
workday for women and children to 11 hours.
1901 In Russia, the Czar lashed out at Socialist-Revolutionaries
with the arrests of 72 people and the seizing of two printing
presses.
1904 In India, hundreds of Tibetans were slaughtered by the
British.
1905 Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in Tangier proclaiming to support
for an independent state of Morocco.
1906 The Conference on Moroccan Reforms in Algerciras ended
after two months with France and Germany in agreement.
1908 250,000 coal miners in Indianapolis, IN, went on strike to
await a wage adjustment.
1909 Serbia accepted Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1917 The U.S. purchased and took possession of the Virgin
Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
1918 For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time went
into effect.
1921 Great Britain declared a state of emergency because of the
thousands of coal miners on strike.
1923 In New York City, the first U.S. dance marathon was held.
Alma Cummings set a new world record of 27 hours.
1932 The Ford Motor Co. debuted its V-8 engine.
1933 The U.S. Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation
Corps to relieve rampant unemployment.
1939 Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany
threatened invasion.
1941 Germany began a counter offensive in North Africa.
1945 "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams opened on
Broadway.
1946 Monarchists won the elections in Greece.
1948 The Soviets in Germany began controlling the Western trains
headed toward Berlin.
1949 Winston Churchill declared that the A-bomb was the only
thing that kept the U.S.S.R. from taking over Europe.
1949 Newfoundland entered the Canadian confederation as its 10th
province.
1960 The South African government declared a state of emergency
after demonstrations led to the death of more than 50 Africans.
1966 An estimated 200,000 anti-war demonstrators march in New
York City. (New York)
1966 The Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which became the first
spacecraft to enter a lunar orbit.
1967 U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty,
the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the
Bolshevik Revolution.
1970 The U.S. forces in Vietnam down a MIG-21, it was the first
since September 1968.
1980 U.S. President Carter deregulated the banking industry.
1981 In Bangkok, Thailand, four of five Indonesian terrorists
were killed after hijacking an airplane on March 28.
1986 167 people died when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed
in Los Angeles.
1989 Canada and France signed a fishing rights pact.
1991 Iraqi forces recaptured the northern city of Kirkuk from
Kurdish guerillas.
1994 "Nature" magazine announced that a complete skull of
Australppithecus afarensis had been found in Ethiopia. The
finding is of humankind's earliest ancestor.
1998 U.N. Security Council imposed arms embargo on Yugoslavia.
1998 For the first time in U.S. history the federal government's
detailed financial statement was released. This occurred under
the Clinton administration.
1999 Three U.S. soldiers were captured by Yugoslav soldiers
three miles from the Yugoslav border in Macedonia.
1999 Fabio was hit in the face by a bird during a promotional
ride of a new roller coaster at the Busch Gardens theme park in
Williamsburg, VA. Fabio received a one-inch cut across his nose.
2000 In Uganda, officials set the number of deaths linked to a
doomsday religious cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the
Ten Commandments, at more than 900. In Kanungu, a March 17 fire
at the cult's church killed more than 530 and authorities
subsequently found mass graves at various sites linked to the
cult.
2004 Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a free
e-mail service called Gmail.
Today is Saturday, March 30
1936 Britain announced a naval construction program of
38 warships to get ready for WWII.
Care facility worker rrested for feeding
jalapeno peppers to dementia patient
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and
more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage
-- to move in the opposite direction.
--- E. F. Schumacher
Jolene had been wanting new kitchen cabinets for a long time,
but her husband insisted they were an extravagance.
Then she went to visit her Mother for two weeks, and when
she returned, she was overjoyed to find that her husband had
surprised her by installing beautiful new cabinets.
A few days later a neighbor came over to visit and after
admiring the new cabinets, the neighbor added, "All of us
were so glad that the fire your husband had while you were
gone was confined to the kitchen."
Albino Leopard Gecko
Reported by the Bausell Sailor:
Kyra Johnson, 30,
Care facility worker arrested for feeding
A former employee at a senior care facility is accused of
feeding one of the patients hot peppers in order to hurt him.
Kyra Johnson, 30, is charged with abuse by a caretaker,
according to KFOR.
The allegations stem from an incident at The Village on the Park
near S. Penn and Kingsridge Dr., where Johnson was still a
caretaker at the time.
The victim was an 81-year-old man who police said suffers from
dementia and relied on those working in the Memory Care Living
One morning, Johnson is accused of taking advantage of that
trust.
According to the affidavit, other employees saw her chop up a
jalapeño and mix it in with his eggs.
One witness stated, “I hope that is not hot,” to which Johnson
allegedly replied, “I hope it is.”
Investigators reported Johnson was seen feeding him the eggs
with the jalapeño in them, even though he was “not accustomed to
eating spicy food,” and “did not need assistance feeding
himself.”
The affidavit states he was seen “fanning and gasping for air to
cool his mouth.”
Witnesses told investigators Johnson meant to cause him pain and
suffering.
Re: What are Word Processors?
You probably think I am living under a rock.
I have seen those terms bandied about for decades, but never had
the courage to ask what they are about.
So, what are they, in simple words?
Word Processors started with big, bulky, "Electric Piano"
systems, that had no screen, but were able to print.
Eventually screens were added and after personal computers
became affordable, programs were created to take care of the
typing, editing, saving and printing. Wang was the big innovator
in the low budget arena, while IBM with their "Display-Write"
took care of big business. Initially the program sat on a huge
mainframe computer in the basement, with each typist or
secretary having just a keyboard and screen.
Eventuallly the programs moved to personal computers, but the
produced text was still saved on the mainframe.
Small business and hobbyists of course did not have access to
mainframes in the basement, so they saved the text on disks.
Early pioneers in PC based word processing were WordStar, which
was soon replaced by WordPerfect.
Both were just as capable, but Word Perfect did not have an on-
screen menu. Instead it had a cardboard strip with all the
commands to go where you now have the F keys.
In those days, the F-keys were "on the left, where God intended
them to be" as Isaac Asimov wrote then. With SHIFT, CTRL, ALT
and combinations of them, you could do absolutely anything.
Then in the late 80s the women's libbers revolutionized writing.
Instead of getting paid according to how many pieces of
correspondence they produced per day, they now demanded to get
paid according to how pretty their letters were.
So the now obsolete F-keys (replaced by frantic mousing around)
were moved to the top of the keyboard and instead of producing
text, the work moved towards typesetting.
Nowadays it makes little difference which word processor you
use. All of them are capable of producing the same results.
The main difference is YOU. Yes, YOU!
If you have learned it and are comfortable with one brand, for
example Open Office, then all others feel klutzy and slow.
Just stick with what you are comfortable with.
By the way, if you or your mom once were a speed demon on Word
Perfect. it is still available as part of Corell Office.
Taking his seat in his chambers,
the judge faced the opposing lawyers.
"So," he said, "I have been presented,
by both of you, with a bribe."
Both lawyers squirmed uncomfortably.
"You, attorney Leon, gave me $15,000.
The judge reached into his pocket and pulled
out a check. He handed it to Leon ...
"Now then, I'm returning $5,000, and we're
going to decide this case solely on its merits."
Every baseball team could use a man who plays every
position perfectly, never strikes out and never makes
an error.
The trouble is, there's no way to make him lay down
his hot dog and come down out of the stands.
Salt for BBQ Flare Ups
Don't Let High Fuel Costs Drive You Nuts
Avoid aggressive driving and observe the speed limit. Lighten
your load by clearing your car of extra weight, and remove roof
racks or carriers if not used frequently. Keep current with car
maintenance. clean air filters, properly inflated and aligned
tires and the correct grade of oil can all increase mileage.
Switch Zoo Online
Bob had finally made it to the last round of the $64,000
The night before the big question, he told the emcee that
he desired a question on American History.
The big night had arrived. Bob made his way on stage in front
of the studio and TV audience. He had become the talk of the
He was the best guest this show had ever seen. The emcee
stepped up to the mic.
"Bob, you have chosen American History as your final question.
You know that if you correctly answer this question, you will
walk away $64,000 dollars richer. Are you ready?"
Bob nodded with a cocky confidence-the crowd went nuts. He
hadn't missed a question all week.
"Bob, your question on American History is a two-part question.
As you know, you may answer either part first. As a rule, the
second half of the question is always easier. Which part
would you like to take a stab at first?"
Bob was now becoming more noticeably nervous. He couldn't
believe it, but he was drawing a blank. American History was
his easiest subject, but he played it safe.
"I'll try the second part first."
The emcee nodded approvingly. "Here we go Bob. I will ask you
the second half first, then the first half."
The audience silenced with gross anticipation......
"Bob, here is your question... And in what year did it happen??"
A man goes skydiving for the first time.
After listening to the instructor for what seems like days, he
is ready to go. Excited, he jumps out of the plane. After a
bit, he pulls the ripcord. Nothing happens. He tries again.
Still nothing. He starts to panic, but remembers his back-up
chute. He pulls that cord. Nothing happens. He frantically
begins pulling both cords, but to no avail.
Suddenly, he looks down and he can't believe his eyes. Another
man is in the air with him, but this guy is going *up*! Just as
the other guy passes by, the skydiver -- by this time scared out
of his wits -- yells,
"Hey, do you know anything about skydiving?"
The other guy yells back, "No! Do you know anything about gas
barbecues?"
Bulletin Bloopers
The youth group has raised almost $500 for drug abuse.
"Correction: The following typo appeared in our last bulletin:
'Lunch will be gin at 12:15.' Please correct to
read '12 noon.' "
Any church member over the age of 18 is invited to participate
in this lay ministry program. It requires a
minimal amount of training and time. The orientation will
include six weekly classes of about 200 hours each Tuesday
The Seniors group will have a picnic Saturday. Each person is
asked to bring a friend, a vegetable, or dessert in a covered
dish. Meat and drinks will be furnished.
The last day of Vacation Bible School will include a field trip
to the state game farm. We could use some additional volunteers
to help preparing the lunch of sandwiches, potato chips, cheese,
crack, and cool aid that morning.
Remem ber the youth department rummage sale for Summer Camp. We
have a Gents three-speed bicycle, also two ladies for sale, in
good running order.
1533 Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
1814 The allied European nations against Napoleon marched into
1822 Florida became a U.S. territory.
1842 Dr. Crawford W. Long performed the first operation while
his patient was anesthetized by ether.
1855 About 5,000 "Border Ruffians" from western Missouri invaded
the territory of Kansas and forced the election of a pro-slavery
legislature. It was the first election in Kansas.
1856 A peace treaty was signed between England and Russia.
(Treaty of Paris)
1858 Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patented the pencil.
1867 The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
dollars.
1870 The 15th amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote
regardless of race, was passed by the U.S. Congress.
1870 Texas was readmitted to the Union.
1903 Revolutionary activity in the Dominican Republic brought
U.S. troops to Santo Domingo to protect American interests.
1905 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was chosen to mediate in
the Russo-Japanese peace talks.
1909 The Queensboro bridge in New York opened linking Manhattan
and Queens. It was the first double decker bridge.
1909 In Oklahoma, Seminole Indians revolted against meager pay
for government jobs.
1916 Pancho Villa killed 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico.
1936 Britain announced a naval construction program of 38
warships to get ready for WWII.
1939 The comic book "Detective Comics #27" appeared on
newstands. This comic introduced Batman.
1940 The Japanese set up a puppet government called Manchuko in
Nanking, China.
1941 The German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel began
its first offensive against British forces in Libya.
1944 The U.S. fleet attacked Palau, near the Philippines.
1945 The U.S.S.R. invaded Austria at the end of World War II.
1946 The Allies seized 1,000 Nazis attempting to revive the Nazi
party in Frankfurt.
1950 The invention of the phototransistor was announced.
1950 U.S. President Truman denounced Senator Joe McCarthy as a
saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.
1972 The British government assumed direct rule over Northern
1972 The Eastertide Offensive began when North Vietnamese troops
crossed into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the northern
portion of South Vietnam.
1975 As the North Vietnamese forces moved toward Saigon South
Vietnamese soldiers mob rescue jets in desperation.
1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in
Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. Two police officers and
Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded.
1982 The space shuttle Columbia completed its third and its
longest test flight after 8 days in space.
1987 Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" was bought for $39.85
1993 In Sarajevo, two Serb militiamen were sentenced to death
for war crimes committed in Bosnia.
1993 In the Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown hit his first
home run.
1994 Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end their war in
Croatia while Bosnian Muslims and Serbs continued to fight each
1998 Rolls-Royce was purchased by BMW in a $570 million deal.
2002 An unmanned U.S. spy plane crashed at sea in the Southern
2002 Suspected Islamic militants set off several grenades at a
temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Four civilians, four
policemen and two attackers were killed and 20 people were
injured.
2009 The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed
that the new World Trade Center building would be officially
known by its legal name of "One World Trade Center."
Friday, March 29, 2019, 02:55 PM
Today is Friday, March 29
1903 A regular news service began between New York and London
on Marconi's wireless.
Bonehead arrested for attempting to
set 16 military vehicles on fire
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
--- Fletcher Knebel
We need not worry so much about what man descends from--it's
what he descends to that shames the human race.
I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area, so
I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there
that my bags never showed up. She smiled and told me not to
worry because she was a trained professional and I was in
good hands.
"Now," she asked me, has your plane arrived yet?"
Believe it or not, that is indeed standard procedure at United
Airlines. She DID ask me exactly that.
I have not flown with United since that day,
Michael Gordon,
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for
attempting to set 16 government vehicles on fire early Wednesday
morning.
Deputies responded to the Military Recruitment Center on W
Brandon Boulevard around 7 a.m. for the report that 16
government vehicles and one civilian vehicle had the gas tanks
pried open with rags and sticks placed inside the tanks.
The vehicles are the property of the U.S. Army, Navy, National
Guard, Air Force and Marine Corps.
During the investigation, the suspect returned to the location.
Michael Gordon, 27, was taken into custody.
During an interview, Gordon made statement about wanting to blow
up the vehicles, because, "the generals won't surrender to the
Kingdom of God."
The sheriff’s office said Gordon referred to himself as "Michael
the Arc Angel."
He had two lighters on him and admitted to having charcoal
lighter fluid as well.
Gordon is facing criminal mischief and attempted arson charges.
He has no prior criminal history in Hillsborough County.
He is in the Orient Road Jail.
From: JR
Re: Spreadheet and word processor
Do you have a free spreadsheet and word processor compatable
with MS-Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
Dear JR
Yes, Open Office and Office Libre.
That is what industry and commerce have switched to.
It is free, uses the Open Standard that does not care if you
use Windows, Mac, or Linux.
The programs in Open Office and Office Libre are similar to MS
Office, but without the high price.
Open Office and Office Libre are free.
https://www.openoffice.org/download/
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
>From Donna
Upon retiring from the service, my husband, Don, needed a new
ID card showing he had gone from active duty to retirement
status. But the photo taken of him was not particularly good
and he wasn't at all quiet about it.
"If I have to carry that ID around with me for the rest of my
life," he complained to the photographer, "I want a better
picture."
"Want a better picture?" asked the photographer defiantly.
"Then bring us a better face!"
A lion woke up one morning feeling really rowdy and mean. He
went out and cornered a small monkey and roared, "Who is
mightiest of all jungle animals?"
The trembling monkey says, "You are, mighty lion!
Later, the lion confronts a wildebeast and fiercely bellows,
"Who is the mightiest of all jungle animals?"
The terrified wildebeast stammers, "Oh great lion, you are by
far the mightiest animal in the jungle!"
On a roll now, the lion swaggers up to an elephant and roars,
"Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?"
Fast as lightning, the elephant snatches up the lion with his
trunk, slams him against a tree half a dozen times. The lion
feels like he had been run over by a safari wagon. The elephant
then stomps on the lion till he looks
like a corn tortilla and ambles away.
The lion lets out a moan of pain, lifts his head weakly and
hollers after the elephant, "Just because you don't know the
answer, you don't have to get so upset about it!"
Keep some salt handy when grilling. When you get flare ups from
fat or juices dripping in the grill, just toss some salt on the
flames and they will die down. Always have a fire extinguisher
or hose handy, just in case.
NEVER EVER use water if frying oil flares up!
A bit of patience does the same trick.
Those drippings just flare and are gone in a few seconds.
However, if you are making French Fries on the BBQ, and the
oil catches on fire, do not throw salt and especially not water
at it.
Napalm is much safer than a grease or oil fire with water
thrown into it. A two gallon pot of burning grease can make a
fire and mushroom cloud, that can be seen from space, if you
throw a cup of water into it.
Always have a lid or cover handy. Just put a cover on it,
then calmly, and with no need to hurry, turn the burners off
or move the pan or pot away from the hot area. A frying pan,
even a piece of plywood or gyprock, any cover will work fine.
Artwork in the eye of a needle.
A captain and several of his officers were returning to the ship
after a long evening ashore. As they climbed the gangway the
Captain threw up all over himself.
Pointing to a seaman above him he shouted, "Give that man five
days in the brig for vomiting!"
The following morning the captain was checking the log and saw
that the young seaman had been sentenced to ten days and asked
the chief mate why.
"Well Sir, when we got you undressed we found that he`d also
crapped in your pants."
In the window of a Kentucky appliance store:
"Don't kill your wife.
Let our washing machine do the dirty work."
On a shopping mall marquee: "Archery Tournament-Ears pierced"
Outside a country shop: "We buy junk and sell antiques."
In the vestry of a New England church: "Will the last person to
leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished."
The flight home from a recent business trip was pretty empty.
So the pilot made a simple request of the passengers.
"We have a little extra room tonight, folks," he said over
the PA system. "So if you wouldn't mind, please take a window
seat so the competition thinks the plane is full."
1461 Edward IV secured his claim to the English throne by
defeating Henry VI’s Lancastrians at the battle of Towdon.
1847 U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott took possession of
the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz.
1848 Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice
jam.
1867 The British Parliament passed the North America Act to
create the Dominion of Canada.
1901 The first federal elections were held in Australia.
1903 A regular news service began between New York and London on
Marconi's wireless.
1906 In the U.S., 500,000 coal miners walked off the job seeking
higher wages.
1913 The Reichstag announced a raise in taxes in order to
finance the new military budget.
1916 The Italians call off the fifth attack on Isonzo.
1936 Italy firebombed the Ethiopian city of Harar.
1941 The British sank five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus
coast in the Mediterranean.
1943 In the U.S. rationing of meat, butter and cheese began
during World War II.
1946 Gold Coast became the first British colony to hold an
African parliamentary majority.
1951 The Chinese reject MacArthur's offer for a truce in Korea.
1951 In the United States, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were
convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed
in June 19, 1953.
1961 The 23rd amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
The amendment allowed residents of Washington, DC, to vote for
1962 Cuba opened the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders.
1966 Leonid Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party. He denounced the American policy in Vietnam and
called it one of aggression.
1967 France launched its first nuclear submarine.
1971 Lt. William Calley Jr., of the U.S. Army, was found guilty
of the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial was the result
of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968.
1971 A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for
Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La
Bianca murders. The death sentences were later commuted to live
in prison.
1973 The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.
1974 Mariner 10, the U.S. space probe became the first
spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury. It had been launched on
1974 Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges
stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State
University on May 4, 1970. All the guardsmen were later
acquitted.
1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declared that he would
reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975.
1979 The Committee on Assassinations Report issued by U.S. House
of Representatives stated the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy was the result of a conspiracy.
1983 Erno Rubik was granted a patent for his Magic Cube. (U.S.
Patent 4,378,116)
1986 A court in Rome acquitted six men in a plot to kill the
1987 Hulk Hogan took 11 minutes, 43 seconds to pin Andre the
Giant in front of 93,136 Wrestlemania III fans at the Silverdome
in Pontiac, MI.
1992 Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton said "I
didn't inhale and I didn't try it again" in reference to when he
had experimented with marijuana.
1993 The South Korean government agreed to pay financial support
to women who had been forced to have sex with Japanese troops
1995 The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a constitutional
amendment that would have limited terms to 12 years in the U.S.
House and Senate.
2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and
Slovenia became members of NATO.
2010 In Japan, the Tokyo Skytree tower became the tallest
structure in Japan when it reached 1,109 feet.
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Today is Thursday, March 28
2010 China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. signed a deal to
buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo car unit.
Parents who forgot toddler at park
didn’t report her missing for 14 hours
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his
friends.
--- Baltasar Gracian
A husband looking through the paper came upon a study that said
women use more words than men.
It read, "Men use about 15,000 words per day, but women use
30,000."
Excited to prove to his wife that he had been right all along
when he accused her of talking too much, he showed her the study
The wife thought for a while, then finally she said to her
husband, "It's because we have to repeat everything we say."
The husband said, "What?"
Thanks to Donny for this picture of his Easter Cactus
Jolanda Alexandre, 27,
Makenson Alexandre, 34,
Haverhill,
Deputies in Palm Beach County, Florida have arrested the parents
of a toddler found wandering around a park alone Friday evening.
Jolanda Larose Alexandre and Makenson Alexandre each face a
charge of neglect of a child, according to the Palm Beach County
Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office posted pictures of the girl on the station
Facebook page after she was found by herself at Haverhill Park
around 8 p.m., in hopes someone would know who she was.
It wasn’t until 11:40 a.m. Saturday that the Alexandres, who
have seven other children, called 911 to report the girl
missing, according to the sheriff’s office.
Jolanda Alexandre, 27 – whose first name is also spelled
Yolanda, according to the Palm Beach Post – told authorities she
and Makenson took the children to the park to play for an hour
before bringing them home in her SUV. Jolanda said she assumed
the girl was playing outside and fell asleep that evening,
according to the paper, then woke up Saturday morning and “began
looking frantically for” the child.
Sheriff’s officials say Makenson, 34, admitted he hadn’t
realized the 2-year-old was missing until Saturday morning while
driving back to the park with the other children, the Post
Deputies say the Department of Children and Families went to the
home and removed the seven other children.
They now have a fresh start on building a new family.
Both parents were booked Saturday and have been released after
posting $3,000 bail.
From: Jeanne
Re: Photo Screensaver
How can I use photos on my desktop as screensaver? I had them
to background that fine however they won't go to screensaver.
I am still using XP pro.
Thanks Muchly,
Dear Jeanne
Put the pictures into MyPictures
Right-Click on the desktop
My Pictures Slideshow
Set the wait time
If you click on settings, you can choose a different folder
as the source of the pictures. That way you can have one
folder with motivational pictures, one with humorous
pictures, one that is child safe, etc. and switch with
a few mouse clicks
An artist asked the gallery owner if there had been any real
interest in his paintings which had been on display for the
previous few weeks.
'I have good news and bad news, 'the owner replied. 'The good
news is
that a gentleman inquired about your work and wondered if it
would appreciate in value after your death. When I told him it
would, he bought all 17 of your paintings.'
'That's wonderful, absolutely marvelous', the artist exclaimed.
'What's the bad news?'
'The buyer was your doctor.'
The local priest came across the town drunk,
who had stumbled out of a tavern.
The priest said to the drunk, "I'm afraid
I'll not be seeing you in Heaven one day."
"Really, Father?" slurred the drunk.
"What have you done now?"
Shoe Boxes for Building Kids Blocks
Use safe shoe boxes and other similar size boxes to make large
building blocks for your kids. Tape the lid of the box on and
then cover them with contact paper. You can even find contact
paper with a brick or wood pattern on it.
Puzzle boxes go back many years. This one is incredible!
Did you hear about the two little boys who found
themselves in a modern art gallery by mistake?
One said to the other, "Run! Before they say we did it!"
A minister, after listening to an impromptu campaign speech,
"Before I vote for you for sheriff, I'd like to know if you
partake of intoxicating beverages?"
Candidate for sheriff, "Before I answer, tell me if this is an
inquisition or an invitation."
A man was wheeling himself frantically down the hall of the
hospital in his wheelchair, just before his operation. A nurse
stopped him and asked, "What's the matter?"
He said, "I heard the nurse say, 'It's a very simple operation,
don't worry, I'm sure it will be all right.'"
"She was just trying to comfort you, what's so frightening about
that?"
"She wasn't talking to me. She was talking to the doctor!"
1774 Britain passed the Coercive Act against Massachusetts.
It did not go over well.
1797 Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.
1834 The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the
removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1854 The Crimean War began with Britain and France declaring war
on Russia.
1864 A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in
Charleston, IL. Five were killed and twenty were wounded.
1865 Outdoor advertising legislation was enacted in New York.
The law banned "painting on stones, rocks and trees."
1885 The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.
1898 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S.
to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they
could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1905 The U.S. took full control over Dominican revenues.
1908 Automobile owners lobbied the U.S. Congress, supporting a
bill that called for vehicle licensing and federal registration.
1910 The first seaplane took off from water at Martinques,
France. The pilot was Henri Fabre.
1917 During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
was founded.
1922 Bradley A. Fiske patented a microfilm reading device.
1930 Constantinople and Angora changed their names to Istanbul
and Ankara respectively.
1933 In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in
businesses, professions and schools.
1938 In Italy, psychiatrists demonstrated the use of electric-
shock therapy for treatment of certain mental illnesses.
1939 The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to Francisco
Franco.
1941 The Italian fleet was defeated by the British at the Battle
of Matapan.
1942 British naval forces raided the Nazi occupied French port
of St. Nazaire.
1945 Germany launched the last of the V-2 rockets against
England. All unused ones were brought to the US and became the
start of NASA.
1947 The American Helicopter Society revealed a flying device
that could be strapped to a person's body.
1967 Raymond Burr starred in a TV movie titled "Ironside." The
movie was later turned into a television series.
1968 The U.S. lost its first F-111 aircraft in Vietnam when it
vanished while on a combat mission. North Vietnam claimed that
they had shot it down.
1974 A streaker ran onto the set of "The Tonight Show starring
Johnny Carson."
1979 A major accident occurred at Pennsylvania's Three Mile
Island nuclear power plant. A nuclear power reactor overheated
and suffered a partial meltdown.
1981 In Bangkok, Thailand, Indonesian terrorists hijacked an
airplane. Four of the five terrorists were killed on March 31.
1986 The U.S. Senate passed $100 million aid package for the
Nicaraguan contras.
1986 More than 6,000 radio stations of all format varieties
played "We are the World" simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST.
1990 Jesse Owens received the Congressional Gold Medal from U.S.
President George H.W. Bush.
1990 In Britain, a joint Anglo-U.S. "sting" operation ended with
the seizure of 40 capacitors, which can be used in the trigger
mechanism of a nuclear weapon.
1991 The U.S. embassy in Moscow was severely damaged by fire.
1994 Violence between Zulus and African National Congress
supporters took the lives of 18 in Johannesburg.
Today is Wednesday, March 27
Any of you, who are still wondering why I love the deserts of
the South, go look at Superbloom
1841 The first steam fire engine was tested in New York City.
The steam engine was used for pumping water, not for driving.
Cop Who Had Sex While Toddler Died in Hot Car
Is Pregnant With Her Second Child
"According to a new survey, 56 percent of women say they
would rather be thinner than smarter. The other 44 percent
were models who didn't understand the question."
--- Jay Leno
Always acknowledge a fault.
This will throw those in authority off their guard
and give you an opportunity to commit more.
>From Edith
I walked into a Starbucks with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon
for a Grande Latte. I handed it to the girl and she looked
over at a little chalkboard that said "buy one-get one free."
"They're already buy-one-get-one-free," she said, "so I guess
they're both free."
She handed me my free Lattes and I walked out the door.
Pink Tree Frog
Cassie Barker,
Hancock County Jail in Bay St. Louis,
The police officer whose 3-year-old daughter died after she left
her in a hot car in the sweltering Mississippi heat while she
had sex with her supervisor is pregnant.
Cassie Barker, 29, who pleaded guilty on Monday to culpable
negligence manslaughter for the 2016 death of her daughter,
Cheyenne Hyer, is due to have her second childthis link opens in
a new tab, the Biloxi Sun Herald first reported exclusively.
Her attorney, Damian Holcomb, told the outlet she plans to put
the baby up for adoption after she gives birth. At this time
nobody knows who the father might be, and nobody raised any
objections to the baby being put up for adoption.
Prosecutors are recommending a 20-year sentence.
The child’s shocking death took place on Sept. 30, 2016, when
Barker finished her shift as an officer for the Long Beach
Police Department on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, say
Barker, then 27, headed to the home of her then-supervisor, Sgt.
Clark Ladner, with her daughter in her patrol car.
She told authorities at the time that she was “visiting” with
Ladnerthis link opens in a new tab, then 36, when she left the
toddler strapped in her car seat in the back of her patrol car
to see him, local station WXXV 25 reports.
Both Barker and Ladner were fired instantly when authorities
found out that she had boiled her baby in the patrol car.
Prosecutors say Cheyenne was dying from the heat in the car
while her mother was inside Ladner’s house getting laid.
Barker said she had left the car running with the air
conditioning on, but authorities said it wasn’t blowing cold
When Barker returned to the patrol car, she found her daughter
unresponsive.
The child was rushed to a nearby hospital where her body
temperature was 107 degrees, CBS News reports. She was
pronounced dead at the hospital.
During their investigation, detectives allegedly learned that
this wasn’t the first timethis link opens in a new tab Barker
had left her daughter alone in a car; she allegedly did so in
April 2015 when she ran into a store in Gulfport, CBS affiliate
WLOX reports.
Police were called and child welfare officials took temporary
custody of Cheyenne. At the time, Barker was suspended from the
Long Beach police for a week without pay.
From: John
Re: Yahoo Mail Problems
All of a sudden your daily humor@webby.com is having a
problem in my yahoo.com mail inbox. When I open your email,
I get all the borders and formated space but none of the text.
Now that I am doing a reply to you, the entire text is present.
I love your daily humor, keep it up.
John K
With Yahoo you are lucky to get your subscription at all.
Unfortunately, there is nothing that I can do about their
screwey email program, other than suggest that you
graduate from Yahoo mail.
Try Gmail. It is quite predictable.
Our local paper runs a popular column called "10 Questions"
that spotlights people who live in our community.
In addition to the usual inquiries about occupation and age,
people are asked the questions that give a snapshot look of
their personalities.
Recently one woman was asked, "What's the 'strangest' thing
you ever bought?"
She answered, "Dog toothpaste."
Next question, "What is the 'most common' thing people say
to you?"
Her answer: "Where did you get such white teeth?"
Thanks to Jai for this story:
The Fire Dog
A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of
kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the
front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmation dog.
The children started discussing what the dog's duties might be.
"They use him to keep crowds back," said one youngster.
"No," said another, "he's just for good luck."
A third child concluded. "No silly, they use the dogs to find
the fire hydrant!"
Uses for Bread Heels
A lot of people don't like using bread heels for toast or
sandwiches, here are other uses for them. Cut them up
and freeze them until you have enough to make stuffing
or bread pudding. Use them to make bread crumbs, grind
them up in a food processor and store them in the freezer.
For gourmet (coarse) crumbs you can use an old-fasioned
hand crank meat grinder, or put the croutons into a pyrex
1 quart measuring cup and stomp them with a bottle.
Your Daily Dose of Internet
A Texan, a Russian and a New Yorker go into a restaurant
in London. The waiter says, "Excuse me, but if you wanted
the steak you might not get one as there is a shortage."
The Texan said, "What's a shortage?"
The Russian said, "What's a steak?"
The New Yorker said, "What's excuse me?"
One day, Gramma sent her grandson, Little Johnny, down to the
water hole to get some water for cooking dinner. As he was
dipping the bucket in, he saw two big eyes looking back at him.
He dropped the bucket and ran all the way back to Gramma's
house and into the kitchen.
"Well now, where's my bucket and where's my water?"
Gramma asked him.
A frightened Little Johnny stammered, "I can't get any
water from that water hole, Gramma. There's a BIG
old alligator down there!"
Gramma said, "Now, don't you mind that ole' alligator, Johnny.
He's been there for a few years now, and he's never hurt no one.
Why, he's probably as scared of you as you are of him."
"Well, Gramma," replied Johnny, "if he's as scared of me
as I am of him, then that water ain't fit to drink!"
A lady said to her friend, "My birthday is coming up and
when people ask me what I want, I can't think of anything."
Her friend said, "I love giving homemade gifts.
Which one of my children would you like?"
1794 The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of the U.S. Navy.
1802 The Treaty of Amiens was signed ending the French
Revolutionary War.
1836 In Goliad, TX, about 350 Texan prisoners, including their
commander James Fannin, were executed under orders from Gen.
Antonio López de Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escaped
execution.
1836 The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, OH.
1860 The corkscrew was patented by M.L. Byrn.
1884 The first long-distance telephone call was made from Boston
to New York.
1899 The first international radio transmission between England
and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi.
1900 The London Parliament passed the War Loan Act that gave 35
million pounds to the Boer War cause in South Africa.
1900 The Russian army mobilized 250,000 troops for active duty.
1901 Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by the
1904 Mary Jarris "Mother" Jones was ordered by Colorado state
authorities to leave the state. She was accused of stirring up
striking coal miners.
1907 French troops occupied Oudja, Morocco, as a punitive action
for the murder of French Dr. Muchamp.
1912 The first cherry blossom trees were planted in Washington,
DC. The trees were a gift from Japan.
1917 The Seattle Metropolitans, of the Pacific Coast League of
Canada, defeated the Montreal Canadiens and became the first
U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.
1931 Actor Charlie Chaplin received France’s Legion of Honor
decoration.
1933 About 55,000 people staged a protest against Hitler in New
York City.
1941 Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for
Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
1942 The British raided the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire,
1946 Four-month long strikes at both General Electric and
General Motors ended with a wage increase.
1952 The U.S. Eighth Army reached the 38th parallel in Korea,
the original dividing line between the two Koreas.
1958 Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the Soviet Council
of Ministers in addition to First Secretary of the Communist
Party.
1988 The U.S. Senate ratified the Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty.
1989 The U.S. anti-missile satellite failed the first test in
space.
1993 In China, Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin was appointed
1997 Russian workers, nearly 2 million, held a nationwide strike
to protest unpaid wages.
1997 In Australia, Governor-General William Deane signed a bill
to overturn a 1996 Northern Territory act to legalize assisted
suicides. The 1996 act was the first in the world to permit
assisted suicides.
1998 In the U.S., the FDA approved the prescription drug Viagra.
It was the first pill for male impotence.
1998 Top civilian aircraft makers in France, Spain, Germany and
Britain agreed to create a single European aerospace and defense
2004 NASA successfully launched an unpiloted X-43A jet that hit
Mach 7 (about 5,000 mph).
2007 NFL owners voted to make instant replay a permanent
officiating tool.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 12:00 PM
Today is Tuesday, March 26
1945 In the Aleutians, the battle of Komandorski began when the
Japanese attempted to reinforce a garrison at Kiska and were
intercepted by a U.S. naval force.
Florida woman shoots boyfriend with
shotgun because of snoring
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
--- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one
kind of labor by taking up another.
--- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Thanks to Millie for this story:
My husband, Michael, and I were at a restaurant with his
boss, a rather stern older man. When Michael began a tale,
which I was sure he had told before, I gave him a kick under
the table. There was no response, so I gave him another
poke. Still the story went on. Suddenly he stopped, grinned
and said, "Oh, but I've told you this one before, haven't I?"
We all chuckled and changed the subject. Later, on the
dance floor, I asked my husband why it had taken him so
long to get my message.
"What do you mean?" he replied. "I cut the story off as soon
as you kicked me."
"But I kicked you twice and it still took you awhile to stop!"
Suddenly we realized what had happened. Sheepishly we
returned to our table. The boss smiled and said, "Don't
worry. After the second one I figured it wasn't for me, so I
passed it along!"
Cool Duck!
Lorie Morin,
Cocoa,
Floriduh
A woman is facing charges after police said she shot her
boyfriend after an argument over his snoring, according to the
Brevard County Sheriff's Office.
Units were initally called out to a home on Emerald Lake Drive
in unincorporated Cocoa in reference to a shooting.
Upon arrival, 47-year-old Lorie Morin and her boyfriend, who is
the victim of the shooting, told officials that the shooting was
accidental.
As officials continued to investigate, they found that the
shooting occurred during an argument between the two over the
victim snoring loudly, according to BCSO. Officials believe the
argument escalated to the point where Morin retrieved a shotgun
and shot the victim.
Both the suspect and victim are believed to have been drinking
leading up to the incident.
The man was taken to the hospital and is currently in stable
Morin was charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery
and was transported to the Brevard County Jail where she is
being held without bond, according to online records.
From: Various subscribers
Re: Pop Up Blocker
Holding down CTRL when clicking a link will disable the PopUp
blocker for that link.
Personally, I simply refuse to go to sites that try to slap me
with an unwanted PopUp as I enter. Legitimate PopUps like
calculators or Look-Ups or downloads still work anyway, and
at worst ask for permission at the top.
The teacher was giving her class of seven-year-olds a natural-
history lesson. "Worker ants," she told them, "can carry pieces
of food five times their own weight. What do you conclude from
One child was ready with the answer: "They don't have a union."
To impress his date, the young man took her to a very chick
Italian restaurant. After sipping some fine wine, he picked
up the menu and studied it with an appraising eye.
"We'll have the Giuseppe Spomdalucci," he said finally.
"Sorry, sir," said the waiter. "That's the owner."
Higher Interest Savings
You are using your bank's savings account, you may want to
consider one of the online savings accounts. They are now
offering great rates with no minimum deposit. Make sure your
new account is FDIC insured so your money is safe.
Amazing Winners of the 2018 International Landscape Photographer of the
Year Contest
Thanks to Lynn for this story:
Dear Webby, love your humor letter! This really happened to me
at the hardware store today:
My husband told me to meet him at the hardware store. While
wandering through the aisles looking for him, one of the nice
young ladies who worked there asked me if she could help me
find something. I replied, "Oh, I'm just looking for my
husband."
She grinned and replied, "Afraid I can't help you with that; we
used to carry husbands, but not any more;
we kept getting too many returns."
A husband and wife were at a party chatting with some friends
when the subject of marriage counselling came up.
"Oh, we'll never need that. My husband and I have a great
relationship," the wife explained.
"He was a communications major in college and I majored in
theater arts."
"He communicates really well and
I just act like I'm listening."
Thanks to Don for this one:
I graduated from a private school that I didn't like much.
Once I was out of there, I had no particular desire to ever
contribute to their latest fund drive or athletic events.
Sure enough, Alumni Affairs staff called my folks, got my
current number and tracked me down. 'So, what have you been
doing with yourself?' the perky alumnus asked.
I responded, "Oh, not a lot. Just the same as when I was at the
college: Stealing cars and running moonshine and selling dope."
They have never called back.
1026 Conrad II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XIX.
1799 Napoleon captured Jaffa Palestine.
1793 The Holy Roman Emperor formally declared war on France.
1804 The U.S. Congress ordered the removal of Indians east of
the Mississippi to Louisiana.
1804 The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the District of
Louisiana and the Territory of Orleans.
1885 Eastman Kodak (Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co.) produced the
first commercial motion picture film in Rochester, NY.
1898 In South Africa, the world's first game reserve, the Sabi
Game reserve, was designated.
1909 Russian troops invaded Persia to support Muhammad Ali as
shah in place of the constitutional government.
1910 The U.S. Congress passed an amendment to the 1907
Immigration Act that barred criminals, paupers, anarchists and
carriers of disease from settling in the U.S.
1913 During the Balkan War, the Bulgarians took Adrianople.
1917 At the start of the battle of Gaza, the British cavalry
withdrew when 17,000 Turks blocked their advance.
1937 Spinach growers in Crystal City, TX, erected a statue of
1938 Herman Goering warned all Jews to leave Austria.
1942 The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
1945 The battle of Iwo Jima ended.
1951 The U.S. Air Force flag was approved. The flag included the
coat of arms, 13 white stars and the Air Force seal on a blue
1953 Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine that would prevent
poliomyelitis.
1958 The U.S. Army launched America's third successful
satellite, Explorer III.
1962 The U.S. Supreme Court supported the 1-man-1-vote
apportionment of seats in the State Legislature.
1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared East Pakistan to be the
independent republic of Bangladesh.
1973 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat took over the premiership
and said "the stage of total confrontation (with Israel) has
become inevitable."
1979 The Camp David treaty was signed by Israel and Egypt that
ended the 31-year state of war between the countries.
1982 Ground breaking ceremonies were held in Washington, DC, for
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1983 The U.S. performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
1989 The first free elections took place in the Soviet Union.
Boris Yeltsin was elected.
1991 The presidents of Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay
signed an agreement that established the Southern Cone Common
Market, a free-trade zone, by January 1, 1995.
1992 In Indianapolis, heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was
found guilty of rape. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison. He
only served three.
1995 Seven of the 15 European Union states abolished border
1996 The International Monetary Fund approved a $10.2 billion
loan for Russia to help the country transform its economy.
1997 The 39 bodies of Heaven's Gate members are found in a
mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The group had committed suicide
thinking that they would be picked up by a spaceship following
behind the comet Hale-Bopp.
1998 In the U.S., the Federal government endorses new HIV test
that yields instant results.
1998 Unisys Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. pay a $3.15 million
fine for selling spare parts at inflated prices to the U.S.
federal government.
1999 The macro virus "Melissa" was reported for the first time.
1999 In Michigan, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-
degree murder for giving a terminally ill man a lethal injection
and putting it all on videotape on September 17, 1998 for "60
Minutes."
2000 The Seattle Kingdome was imploded to make room for a new
football arena.
2000 In Russia, acting President Vladimir Putin was elected
president outright. He won a sufficient number of votes to avoid
a runoff election.
Today is Monday, March 25
1940 The U.S. agreed to give Britain and France
access to all American warplanes.
Virginia police officer arrested,
charged with soliciting minor for sex
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being
right - especially when one is right.
--- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
One morning, while shaving, a fellow started cursing and
swearing so loudly it attracted the attention of his wife, who
was preparing breakfast in the kitchen. "What's the matter?" she
called out. "My razor -- it won't cut!" he answered.
"Don't be silly, dear!" she declared. "You mean to tell me your
beard is tougher than linoleum?"
Flying Rainbow
Simeon Isaiah Crispin Steers-Smith,
Chesterfield,
Chesterfield County Police officer has been arrested
after police say he tried to solicit a minor for sex online.
Simeon Isaiah Crispin Steers-Smith, 30, was arrested Friday,
March 22 by Hanover County Sheriff’s Office investigators and
members from the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against
Children/FBI Child Exploitation Task Forces.
Steers-Smith is accused of soliciting a sexual encounter with a
task force officer who was posing as a minor online. He has been
charged with three felony counts of use of a communications
system to facilitate certain offenses involving children.
From: David
Re: Full size browser
I've asked you this before, but I must be doing something wrong.
When I click on a link that opens a new window, I like for it to
be full screen. Lately, the windows are coming up quarter
screen size. I thought you told me the last time to expanded
the screens by dragging it from the corners and then holding
down the Ctrl key while closing the window and would make it
remember my preference. I'm not having any luck with that
though. I'm still getting the quarter screen every time I open
a new window.
What is the right way of doing that trick or what could be
making it go back to quarter screen? I use IE.
Viewing pages full size has gone out of fashion, because
you don't see what might be opening behind it. Also, with
the higher resolutions commonly used nowadays, you can
comfortably have two pages open side by side if you squish
them a bit.
F11 toggles a window to full screen and back.
To set full screen as the default, even though Microsoft has
decided it is a dumb idea and refuses to tell you how to do it,
follow this top secret rigmarole:
Close all browser windows but one.
Open a new window from a link on the remaining window.
Close the old window (not the new one that just opened up).
Adjust the window to be the size you want all the new windows
to be (you cannot use the maximize button for this, you have
to actually squish or stretch the size of the window to be what
you want the windows to automatically open up as).
Hold down the CTRL key while closing the window.
>From now on, all your new windows should open up to that
size until perform a similar process telling IE that you want
all new windows to be the new size.
Most likely what occurred is that you manually sized a window
to that size, closed it, and IE remembered that as your
preferred window size.
The young ensign approached the crusty old chief and asked
him about the origin of the commissioned officers insignias.
"Well, Ensign, it's history and tradition. First, we give you
a gold bar representing that you're valuable BUT malleable.
The silver bar of a lieutenant junior grade represents value,
but less malleable. When you make lieutenant, you're twice as
valuable so we give you two silver bars.
"As a captain, you soar over military masses, hence the eagle.
As an admiral, you're obviously a star. That answer your
question?"
"Yes, Sir. But what about commanders and lieutenant commanders?"
"Now that goes waaaaaay back in history. Back to the Garden of
Eden even. You see, we've always covered our unmentionables
with leaves. "
Mommy has told her little girl all about the making of babies.
Little Annie is now silent for a while.
"You understand it now?" Mommy asks.
"Yes," replies her daughter.
"Do you still have any questions?"
"Yes, how about little kittens? How does that work?"
"In exactly the same way as with babies."
"Wow!" the girl exclaims. "My daddy can do ANYTHING!"
oring Popcorn
When stored in a sealed glass jar in a cool cupboard, popcorn
can maintain its freshness for months. For longer storage,
store popcorn in the freezer, it will last for a year or more.
Popcorn should pop within 80 to 90 seconds, if it takes longer,
it probably has dried out.
Touched by a wild Mountain Gorilla.
They say that Christopher Columbus was the first American
Democrat.
When he left to discover America, he didn't know where he was
When he got there he didn't know where he was.
And it was all done on a government grant.
Thanks to Mary for this story:
My sister and I are close, and that allows us to be
honest with each other. As I fidgeted in front of the mirror
one evening before a date, I remarked, "I'm fat."
"No, you're not," she scolded.
"My hair is awful."
"It's lovely."
"I've never looked worse," I whined.
"Yes, you have," she replied.
Thanks to Kitty for this story:
In high school I was always self-conscious about my height.
Once, a lifeguard asked me out. I had never stood next to him
and didn't know how tall he was, so the night of the date I
took out two pairs of shoes, one with heels, one flat.
I arranged with my brother to answer the door, compare his
height with my date's, and run upstairs to let me know which
pair of shoes to wear.
When I heard the doorbell, I waited. Then my brother showed up
and told me what I didn't want to hear: "Go bare-foot."
0421 The city of Venice was founded.
1306 Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland.
1409 The Council of Pisa opened.
1634 Lord Baltimore founded the Catholic colony of Maryland.
1655 Puritans jailed Governor Stone after a military victory
over Catholic forces in the colony of Maryland.
1655 Christian Huygens discovered Titan. Titan is Saturn's
largest satellite.
1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted destroying Nicolosi. 20,000
people were killed.
1700 England, France and Netherlands ratify the 2nd
Extermination Treaty.
1753 Voltaire left the court of Frederik II of Prussia.
1774 English Parliament passed the Boston Port Bill.
1776 The Continental Congress authorized a medal for General
George Washington.
1802 France, Netherlands, Spain and England signed the Peace of
Amiens.
1807 The first railway passenger service began in England.
1807 British Parliament abolished the slave trade.
1813 The frigate USS Essex flew the first U.S. flag in battle in
the Pacific.
1820 Greece freedom revolt against Ottoman
1821 Greece gained independence from Turkey.
1856 A. E. Burnside patented Burnside carbine.
1857 Frederick Laggenheim took the first photo of a solar
eclipse.
1865 The SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras caught fire and sank.
400 people were killed.
1865 During the American Civil War, Confederate forces captured
Fort Stedman in Virginia.
1879 Japan invaded the kingdom of Liuqiu (Ryukyu) Islands,
formerly a vassal of China.
1895 Italian troops invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1900 The U.S. Socialist Party was formed in Indianapolis.
1901 55 people died when a Rock Island train derailed near
Marshalltown, IA.
1901 The Mercedes was introduced by Daimler at the five-day
"Week of Nice" in Nice, France.
1902 Irving W. Colburn patented the sheet glass drawing machine.
1902 In Russia, 567 students were found guilty of "political
disaffection." 95 students were exiled to Siberia.
1905 Rebel battle flags that were captured during the American
Civil War were returned to the South.
1905 Russia received Japan's terms for peace.
1907 Nicaraguan troops took Tegucigalpa, the capital of
Honduras.
1909 In Russia, revolutionary Popova was arrested on 300 murder
charges.
1911 In New York City, 146 women were killed in fire at the
Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. The owners of the
company were indicted on manslaughter charges because some of
the employees had been behind locked doors in the factory. The
owners were later acquitted and in 1914 they were ordered to pay
damages to each of the twenty-three families that had sued.
1915 21 people died when a U.S. F-4 submarine sank off the
Hawaiian coast.
1919 The Paris Peace Commission adopted a plan to protect
nations from the influx of foreign labor.
1923 The British government granted Trans-Jordan autonomy.
1931 Fifty people were killed in riots that broke out in India.
Gandhi was one of many people assaulted.
1931 The Scottsboro Boys were arrested in Alabama.
1940 The U.S. agreed to give Britain and France access to all
American warplanes.
1941 Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.
1941 The first paprika mill was incorporated in Dollon, SC.
1947 A coalmine explosion in Centralia, IL, killed 111 people.
1947 John D. Rockefeller III presented a check for $8.5 million
to the United Nations for the purchase of land for the site of
the U.N. center.
1953 The USS Missouri fired on targets at Kojo, North Korea.
1954 RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass
1957 The European Economic Community was established with the
signing of the Treaty of Rome.
1960 A guided missile was launched from a nuclear powered
submarine for the first time.
1965 Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state
capital in Montgomery, AL.
1970 The Concorde made its first supersonic flight.
1972 Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second
National Hockey League player to score 600 career goals.
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew.
The nephew, with a history of mental illness, was beheaded the
following June.
1981 The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador was damaged when gunmen
attacked using rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.
1982 Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score
200 points in a season.
1983 The U.S. Congress passed legislation to rescue the U.S.
social security system from bankruptcy.
1985 It was reported that a U.S. Army Major stationed in East
Germany had been shot and killed by a Soviet Border Guard.
1986 U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered emergency aid for the
Honduran army. U.S. helicopters took Honduran troops to the
Nicaraguan border.
1990 A fire in Happy Land, an illegal New York City social club,
killed 87 people.
1990 Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched a major counter-
offensive to recapture key towns from Kurds in northern Iraq.
1992 Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth after
spending 10 months aboard the orbiting Mir space station.
1993 President de Klerk admitted that South Africa had built six
nuclear bombs, but said that they had since been dismantled.
1995 Boxer Mike Tyson was released from jail after serving 3
1996 An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a
ranch near Jordan, MT.
1998 A cancer patient was the first known to die under Oregon's
doctor-assisted suicide law.
1998 The FCC nets $578.6 million at auction for licenses for new
wireless technology.
1998 Quinn Pletcher was found guilty on charges of extortion. He
had threatened to kill Bill Gates unless he was paid $5
2004 The U.S. Senate voted (61-38) on the Unborn Victims of
Violence Act (H.R. 1997) to make it a separate crime to harm a
fetus during the commission of a violent federal crime.
Sunday, March 24, 2019, 12:31 PM
1837 Canada gave blacks the right to vote
Gun Charge For Dope Who Shot Self Below Belt
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
--- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
--- Peter De Vries
A Missouri farmer passed away and left 17 mules to his three
sons. The instructions left in the will said that the oldest
boy was to get one-half, the second oldest one-third, and the
youngest one-ninth. The three sons, recognizing the difficulty
of dividing 17 mules into these fractions, began to argue.
Their uncle heard about the argument, hitched up his mule and
drove out to settle the matter. He added his mule to the 17,
making 18. The oldest therefore got one-half, or nine, the
second oldest got one-third, or six, and the youngest son got
one-ninth, or two. Adding up 9, 6 and 2 equals 17. The uncle,
having settled the argument, hitched up his mule and drove
Let's try that picture again:
Mark Anthony Jones,
Marion,
The Indiana man who accidentally shot himself in the penis and
scrotum has been charged with carrying a handgun without a
license, according to court records.
Mark Anthony Jones, 46, is facing a Class-A misdemeanor weapons
charge in connection with the February 28 incident in Marion. A
decision to charge Jones (seen at right) was made this month by
the Grant County Prosecutor’s Office after police forwarded the
case for review.
Jones, who lives in Marion, is the subject of an active arrest
warrant filed in Marion City Court.
According to police, Jones suffered an “accidental self-inflicted
gunshot injury” while walking on a Marion street around 6:45 AM.
During a hospital interview, Jones told cops that he had an
unholstered Hi-Point 9mm handgun tucked in his waistband when the
weapon “began to slip.”
As detailed in a Marion Police Department report, Jones “stated
the gun does not belong to him and would not disclose who the
owner was.” Jones claimed that he had been in possession of the
firearm for a day and was in the process of purchasing the
weapon. While questioning the suspect, an officer “took digital
photographs documenting Mr. Jones’ injury/s.”
When, Jones said, he “reached down to adjust” the gun, the
firearm discharged. “The bullet entered just above his penis and
exited his scrotum,”
Re: Labels in Open Office
Can I do labels like address labels with Open Office, or do I
have to use WORD for that?
I didn't realize that some people might still be using quaint
old-fashioned WORD and Microsoft Office.
In Open Office Write you click on File, New, Labels
slect the brand, for example Avery, select Sheet,
Letter Size, the Avery number, for example 5660.
Click on New Document.
Paste or type in the address,
click on Synchronize, and the address is duplicated
into 30 labels, or however many are on the selected
brand and type of label sheet.
You can, of course also pull different addresses for
each label from a database. Just follow the on-screen
instructions for that.
It's really quite simple and intuitive, as long as you start
with FILE, New, Labels
A tall, rugged man shows up at the condo pool. Mrs. Goldfarb
reacts to this new face, and immediately closes in to begin
questioning.
She says "I think you might have been here, a long time ago, but
I haven't seen you for many years."
He says "I've been away."
"Oh" she says "certainly not anywhere in Florida. You're very
pale."
He says "I've been in prison."
A longer silence follows, and she says "Well, I know I'm being
forward, but could I ask what for?"
He says "I murdered my wife", then adds "with an ax."
She says "So you're single now?"
Thanks to Erika for this story:
At the data-entry company where I work, the other operators and I
share a coffeepot. One morning I took it into the ladies room to
fill it with water. Then I began preening in the mirror,
my hair and reapplying some makeup. I didn't realize how long I'd
been until someone slid a note under the door. "You win," it
Any ransom demand will be met. Just release the coffeepot."
Prevent Eye Glasses and Goggles from Fogging Up
Apply a little foaming shaving cream to your glasses and then
wipe it off to help prevent them from fogging up. This also
works well for swimming and skiing goggles.
Real life gardens of earthly delights.
Camping Tips!
Take this simple test to see if you qualify for solo camping.
Shine a flashlight into one ear. If the beam shines out the other
ear, do not go into the woods alone.
A two-man pup tent does not include two men or a pup.
A potato baked in the coals for three hours makes an excellent
trhowing weapon
You can start a fire without matches by eating Mexican food,
then breathing on a pile of dry sticks.
In emergency situations, you can survive in the wilderness by
shooting small game with a slingshot made from the elastic
waistband of your underwear.
The guitar of the noisy teenager at the next campsite makes
excellent kindling.
Alternately, a ukelele placed on the camping table will
keep the next spot free.
The sight of a bald eagle has thrilled campers for generations.
The sight of a bald man, however, does absolutely nothing for
the eagle.
It's entirely possible to spend your whole vacation on a winding
mountain road behind a large motor home.
In an emergency, a drawstring from a parka hood can be used to
strangle a snoring tent mate.
The most efficient way to get teenagers and spouses to unpack
and set up camp, is to supervise from the door of the camp
outhouse.
Sign posted in the Army recruiting office:
"Girs! Marry a veteran.
He can cook, make beds, sew, and
is already used to taking orders."
"What kind of music do you sing?"
"Aqua-pella."
"Don't you mean 'a cappella', singing without instrumental
accompaniment?"
"Nope. I mean 'aqua-pella', singing accompanied only by
the water coming out of the shower-head."
1379 The Gelderse war ended.
1545 German Parliament opened in Worms.
1550 France and England signed the Peace of Boulogne.
1629 In Virginia, the first game law was passed in the American
colonies.
1765 Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American
colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private
buildings.
1828 The Philadelphia & Columbia Railway was authorized as the
first state owned railway.
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in
1848 A state of siege was proclaimed in Amsterdam.
1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was formed.
1878 The British frigate Eurydice sank killing 300.
1880 The first "hail insurance company" was incorporated in
Connecticut. It was known as Tobacco Growers’ Mutual Insurance
1882 In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announced the
discovery of the tuberculosis germ (bacillus).
1883 The first telephone call between New York and Chicago took
1900 In New Jersey, the Carnegie Steel Corporation was formed.
1904 Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese
strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur.
1905 In Crete, a group led by Eleutherios Venizelos claimed
independence from Turkey.
1906 In Mexico, the Tehuantepec Istmian Railroad opened as a
rival to the Panama Canal.
1911 In Denmark, penal code reform abolished corporal punishment.
1920 The first U.S. coast guard air station was established at
Morehead City, NC.
1924 Greece became a republic.
1927 Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-
shek over the Nationalist goals.
1932 Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train.
It was the first radio broadcast from a train.
1934 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill granting
future independence to the Philippines.
1938 The U.S. asked that all countries help refugees fleeing from
the Nazis.
1944 In Rome, The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians and shot
them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German
policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed.
1946 The Soviet Union announced that it was withdrawing its
troops from Iran.
1955 Tennessee Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" debuted on
1955 The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service.
1960 A U.S. appeals court ruled that the novel "Lady Chatterly’s
Lover" was not obscene and could be sent through the mail.
1972 Great Britain imposed direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1976 The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her
country's military.
1980 In San Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot to
death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass.
1982 Soviet leader Leonid L. Brezhnev stated that Russia was
willing to resume border talks with China.
1985 Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against the NATO presence
in Spain.
1989 The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million
gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran
aground.
1989 The U.S. decided to send humanitarian aid to the Contras.
1990 Indian troops left Sri Lanka.
1991 The African nation of Benin held its first presidential
elections in about 30 years.
1993 In Israel, Ezer Weizman, an advocate of peace with
neighboring Arab nations, was elected President.
1995 Russian forces surrounded Achkoi-Martan. It was one of the
few remaining strongholds of rebels in Chechenia.
1995 The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform
package that made the most changes in social programs since the
New Deal.
1997 The Australian parliament overturned the world's first and
only euthanasia law.
1998 In Jonesboro, AR, two young boys open fire at students from
woods near a school. Four students and a teacher were killed and
10 others were injured. The two boys were 11 and 13 years old
1998 A former FBI agent said papers found in James Earl Ray's car
supports a conspiracy theory in the assassination of Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.
1999 NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia,
Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first
time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign
country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to
sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking
independence for the province of Kosovo.
1999 The 7-mile tunnel under Mont Blanc in France became an
inferno after a truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire.
At least 30 people were killed.
2002 Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans
Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were
worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen,
Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart.
2005 The government of Kyrgyzstan collapsed after opposition
protesters took over President Askar Akayev's presidential
compound and government offices.
2006 In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announced a
permanent cease-fire.
2014 It was announced that the U.S. and its allies would exclude
Russia from the G8 meeting and boycott a planned summit in Sochi
in response to Russia's takeover of Crimea.
1981 U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law making statutory rape
a crime for men but not women.
North Carolina man faces felony charges
for possessing 216 Venus flytraps
Free advice is worth the price.
--- Robert Half
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
--- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The man, trying to start up a conversation with another man
said, "Who is the ugly lady over there?"
The second man said, "Why, that's my wife!"
Trying to get out of an embarrassing situation, the first man
said, "No, not her, the other one!"
The second man said, "That's my daughter!"
Archie Lee Williams Jr.,
Bolivia,
A North Carolina man faces felony charges after officers found
him with 216 Venus flytraps, WWAY reports.
Archie Lee Williams Jr., 41, of Bolivia, N.C., is looking at 73
counts of felony taking of a Venus flytrap.
The Venus flytrap is listed as a special concern and vulnerable
plant on the North Carolina Protected Plant Species list.
North Carolina Wildlife Master Officer John White said tips came
in for a month before they were able to catch the suspect, adding
that it is difficult to track suspects down when they travel from
area to area, WWAY reports.
On Saturday, White learned that Venus flytraps were being poached
at the Brunswick County Game Land, near Bolivia, and found
Williams getting into his vehicle.
Williams is being held at the Brunswick County Detention Center
under a $750,000 bond.
You can buy Venus Flytrap seeds at Amazon, usually for about $5
per 100 seeds. No need to poach them from some place, where they
are protected. Probably nobody except his ex wife knew that old
and probably obsolete regulation.
From: Debra
Re: Ink vs Laser
I know you ansnwered this a few years ago, but that was before my
kids and my hubby's kids got to the age, where they want to print
whatever they think is cute. Now the ink bill is getting quite a
Dear Debra
You already answered it. When the ink bill becomes a nuisance,
upgrade to Laser.
With that much printing your ink squirter won't last much longer
anyway. Simply make your next printer a Laser.
With any luck you will have just enough time to select a suitable
printer. I got a DELL 1320c color laser about a dozen years ago,
and printed a LOT since then. It is still working fine.
The only thing it does not like is when people pile stuff on top
and jam the output tray. The jam is easy enough to clear, but
that is about the only occasion for cussing it ever has.
Just look around for a color laser, that fits your budget. Their
prices have come down quite nicely.
The interviewer examined the job application then turned to
the prospective employee. "I see you have put ASAP down
for the date you are available to start, meaning as soon as
possible, of course.
However, I see you've put AMAP down for required salary.
I don't believe I've ever seen that before, what does it mean?"
The applicant replied, "As Much as Possible!"
Somewhat skeptical of his son's newfound determination to
become Charles Atlas, the father nevertheless followed the
teenager over to the weight-lifting department, admiring a
set of weights. "Please, Dad," pleaded the boy, "I promise
I'll use 'em every day."
"I don't know, Michael. It's really a commitment on your
part," the father pointed out.
"Please, Dad?" the boy continued.
"They're not cheap either," the father came back.
"I'll use 'em Dad, I promise. You'll see."
Finally won over, the father paid for the equipment and headed
for the door. From the corner of the store he heard his son
yelp, "What! You mean I have to carry them to the car?"
Protect Your Mattress
Put a protective cover over your mattresses. If you have kids
that are prone to accidents, a vinyl cover works the best.
Anyone's mattress can benefit from a mattress pad, it keeps dirt
and sweat from getting into the mattress and prevents you from
having to wash your mattress.
Maybe kids of today are going to be alright after all.
Late one night during bad weather, the following was heard
over the radio at an airport control tower:
Helicopter Pilot: "Tower, I'm holding at 3000 over
Heli-pad 1."
Second voice: "NO!!! You can't be doing that! I'm holding
at 3000 over that pad!"
There was a brief moment of silence.
First voice again: "You idiot! You're my CO-PILOT!"
A friend of mine told me about this new
Husband Shopping Center where a woman
could go to choose from among many men
for her husband. It was laid out in five
floors, with the men increasing inpositive
attributes as you ascended up the floors.
The only rule was once you opened the door
to any floor, you must choose a man from
that floor and if you went up a floor, you
couldn't go back down except to leave the
So, a couple of girlfriends go to
the place to find a man as a prospective
husband. First floor, the door had a sign
saying: "These men have jobs and love kids."
The women read the sign and say, "Well
that's better than not having jobs or not
loving kids, but I wonder what's further up".
So up they go.
Second floor says: "These men have high
paying jobs, love kids and are extremely
good looking." Hmmm, say the girls. But, I
wonder what's further up?
Third floor: "These men have high paying jobs,
are extremely good looking, love kidsand help
with the housework. "Wow! say the women.
Very tempting, BUT, there's more further up!
And up they go.
Fourth floor: "These men have high paying jobs,
love kids, are extremely good looking, help
with the housework and have a strong romantic
streak."Oh, mercy me. But just think!
What must be awaiting us further on!
So up to the fifth floor they go.
The sign on that door said: "This floor is
just to prove that women are impossible
to please."
An expert on whales was telling friends about some of the unusual
findings he had made.
"For instance," he said, "some whales can communicate at a
distance of 300 miles."
"What on earth would one whale say to another 300 miles away?"
asked a sarcastic member of the group.
something like 'Heeeeeeey! Can you hear me nowwww!?!
1026 Koenraad II crowned himself king of Italy.
1066 The 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet took
1490 The first dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" was
1657 France and England formed an alliance against Spain.
1775 American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "give me
liberty, or give me death!"
1794 Josiah G. Pierson patented a rivet machine.
1806 Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and
began their return journey to the east.
1808 Napoleon's brother Joseph took the throne of Spain.
1835 Charles Darwin reached Los Arenales, in the Andes.
1836 The coin press was invented by Franklin Beale.
1839 The first recorded printed use of "OK" [oll korrect]
occurred in Boston's Morning Post.
1840 The first successful photo of the Moon was taken.
1848 Hungary proclaimed its independence of Austria.
1857 Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in
a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and
Broadway in New York City.
1858 Eleazer A. Gardner patented the cable streetcar.
1880 John Stevens patented the grain crushing mill. The mill
increased flour production by 70 percent.
1881 The Boers and Britain signed a peace accord ending the first
Boer war.
1881 A gas lamp caused a fire in an opera house in Nice, France.
70 people were killed.
1889 U.S. President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white
colonization. The "Sooners" were already there.
1901 Dame Nellie Melba, revealed the secret of her now famous
toast.
1901 It was learned that Boers were starving in British
concentration camps in South Africa.
1901 Shots were fired at Privy Councilor Pobyedonostzev, who was
considered to be Russia's most hated man.
1902 In Italy, the minimum legal working age was raised from 9 to
12 for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls.
1903 The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent.
1903 U.S. troops were sent to Honduras to protect the American
consulate during revolutionary activity.
1909 British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.
1909 Theodore Roosevelt began an African safari sponsored by the
Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1910 In the Canary Islands, women offered candidates for
legislative elections.
1912 The Dixie Cup was invented.
1917 Austrian Emperor Charles I made a peace proposal to French
President Poincare.
1917 In the Midwest U.S., four tornadoes kill 211 people over a
four day period.
1918 Lithuania proclaimed independence.
1919 Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in
Milan, Italy.
1921 Arthur G. Hamilton set a new parachute record when he safely
jumped from 24,400 feet.
1922 The first airplane landed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington,
1932 In the U.S., the Norris-LaGuardia Act established workers'
right to strike.
1933 The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act
effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.
1934 The U.S. Congress accepted the independence of the
Philippines in 1945.
1936 Italy, Austria & Hungary signed the Pact of Rome.
1937 The L.A. Railway Co. started using PCC streetcars.
1940 "Truth or Consequences" was heard on radio for the first
1942 The Japanese occupy the Andaman Islands.
1942 During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating
Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.
1950 "Beat the Clock" premiered on CBS-TV.
1951 U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a
surprise attack in Korea.
1956 Pakistan became the first Islamic republic. It was still
within the British Commonwealth.
1956 Sudan became independent.
1957 The U.S. Army sold the last of its homing pigeons.
1965 America's first two-person space flight took off from Cape
Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young
aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.
1965 The Moroccan Army shot at demonstrators. About 100 people
were killed.
1967 Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the
biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1972 Evel Knievel broke 93 bones after successfully jumping 35
1980 The deposed shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, left Panama
for Egypt.
1981 U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law making statutory rape a
crime for men but not women.
1981 CBS Television announced plans to reduce "Captain Kangaroo"
to a 30-minute show each weekday morning.
1983 U.S. President Reagan first proposed development of
technology to intercept enemy missiles. The proposal became known
as the Strategic Defense Initiative and "Star Wars."
1983 Dr. Barney Clark died after 112 days with a permanent
artificial heart.
1989 A 1,000-foot diameter asteroid missed Earth by about 430,000
1989 Two electrochemists, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman,
announced that they had created nuclear fusion in a test tube at
room temperature.
1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood was ordered to
help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution
for the 1989 oil spill.
1993 U.N. experts announced that record ozone lows had been
registered over a large area of the Western Hemisphere.
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico's leading presidential
candidate, was assassinated in Tijuana. Mario Aburto Martinez was
arrested at the scene and confessed to the killing.
1994 Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe's National Hockey League
(NHL) career record with his 802nd goal.
1996 Taiwan held its first democratic presidential elections.
1998 Germany's largest bank pledged $3.1 million to Jewish
foundations as restitution for Nazi looting.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that term limits for state
lawmakers were constitutional.
1998 Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his Cabinet.
1998 The movie "Titanic" won 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards.
1998 The German company Bertelsmann AG agreed to purchase the
American publisher Random House for $1.4 billion. The merger
created the largest English-language book-publishing company in
1999 NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave formal approval
for air strikes against Serbian targets.
2001 Russia's orbiting Mir space station plunged into the South
Pacific after its 15-years of use.
Ink refills at Costco
We still have snow in the shades of buildings, but this evening I
went for my walk in my short shorts.
I don't like the yuppie shorts that hang down to my knees. For me
it's traditional shorts on none of them.
1987 A barge loaded with 32,000 tons of refuse left Islip, NY, to
find a place to unload. After being refused by several states and
three countries space was found back in Islip.
Alabama woman gets 23 felony charges
in Facebook bullying case
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of
marrying the whole girl.
--- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Johnny had just received his brand new drivers license. The
family goes out to the driveway and climbs in the car, where
he is going to take them for a ride for the first time. Dad
immediately heads for the back seat, directly behind the new
"I'll bet you're back there to get a change of scenery after
all those months of sitting in the front passenger seat
teaching me how to drive," says boy.
"Nope, I'm gonna sit here and kick the back of your seat while
you drive, just like you've been doing to me all these years."
Catherine Patterson,
Ashland,
An east Alabama woman is facing more than a few days in Facebook
jail after authorities say she’s repeatedly used social media to
bully multiple victims.
Catherine Patterson, 48, was arrested this week on nearly two
dozen felony warrants – 23 counts of aggravated stalking to be
exact. Her arrest comes after she was previously ordered to stay
off social media.
Clay County Sheriff Jim Studdard said the investigation began
several months ago after sheriff’s officials received multiple
complaints of cyber bullying from different victims. They
launched a probe which the sheriff described as “complex and
lengthy” because of the need to identify a suspect or suspects by
means of obtain IP addresses. Additionally, he said, they had to
then obtain physical addresses.
Sheriff’s investigators, as well as Lineville and Ashland police,
carried out a search warrant at Patterson’s Ashland home on
Wednesday. They recovered multiple electronic devices.
Few details about the alleged bullying have been released but
authorities say there is a history of conflict between Patterson
and the victims, which include some former family members. Court
records show Patterson was charged with harassment in 2017 and
with violation of a protection order in 2017 and 2018. All of
those charges against her were dismissed.
Photographic evidence in one of the previous cases included a
Facebook post that read, “My target shooting getting better but I
know I won’t missed (sic) a Fat Pigs male or female I’ll shot
(sic) to kill not injured (sic).”
Aggravated stalking is a Class B felony. Patterson’s bond is set
Studdard said social media bullying is unacceptable and will not
be tolerated.
From: Robert
Re: Ink Refilling
Tell Bob to take his cartridges to COSTCO. I have a Canon MX870
that takes 5 cartridges and costs me $45.00 for all and can pick
them up as soon as next day.
Dear Robert
Yes, COSTCO is definitely a good deal.
I used to get bulk ink from Atlantic Inkjet in Liter jugs (Quart)
for $4.95,
but eventually smartened up and got a Laser about a dozen years
Now I just slap in a new cartridge whenever that color runs out,
which is about every second year or so.
I don't plan to get back to ink ever again.
By the way, I DO have a Canon PIXMA 4 function inkjet printer,
that I got from NewEgg for $30. I use it as my scanner, never
print with it.
It is a good scanner, though!
Here is a real Classic!
A Cajun named Boudreax moved to Texas and bought a donkey
from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the
donkey the next day.
The next day, the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, but I have
some bad news. The donkey died."
The Cajun said, "Well, then, just give me my money back."
The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
The Cajun said, "Okay, then. Just unload the donkey."
The farmer asked, "What ya gonna do with him?"
"I'm going to raffle him off."
"You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
"Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he's dead."
A month later the farmer met up with the Cajun and asked,
"What happened with that dead donkey?"
"I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and
made a profit of $898."
"Didn't anyone complain?"
"Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back."
Two men were walking their dogs around the local country club and
discussing their recent game of golf. The first man's dog was a
big German Shepherd, and the second man's dog was a Chihuahua.
The first man says, "Let's go into the club and get a drink."
The second man says, "But we can't take our dogs into the
club, and I don't want to leave Froo-Froo outside."
"Oh, sure we can take our dogs inside," the first man says.
"Just do as I do, and say what I say."
So, the first man walks into the club and asks the waiter for a
place to sit. The waiter says, "Sorry sir, but you can't have
your dog in here."
The man looks around aimlessly and says, "Not even seeing-eye
dogs?"
The waiter immediately apologizes and gives the man a seat.
The second man watched this whole scene and decided to go for it.
He walks in and asks the same waiter for a seat. The waiter says,
"I'm sorry sir, but you can't have your dog in here."
The second man says, "Not even seeing-eye dogs?"
Then the waiter laughs and says, "You got to be kidding, man,
you're telling me that your Chihuahua is a seeing-eye dog?!"
The second man thinks for a moment, then says, "What?
You mean my seeing-eye dog is a CHIHUAHUA?!?"
Frugal Toys - Frisbies
Frisbees are an inexpensive outdoor toy, providing exercise and
fun for a group. Tossing a frisbee back and forth teaches
sharing. Frisbees can also be used for Frisbee golf where players
try to hit various targets around the yard in the fewest number
of throws.
The Shirk Report
Nathan, Morris and Bill are fishing in the Caribbean. Morris
says,
"I had a terrible fire; lost everything. Now the insurance
company is paying for everything and that's why I'm here."
Nathan says, "I had a terrible explosion; lost everything.
Now the insurance company is paying for everything and
that's why I'm here."
Bill says, "What a coincidence. I had a terrible
flood; lost everything. Now the insurance company is
paying for everything and that's why I'm here."
Morris and Nathan turned to him with confusion and asked,
"Flood? How do you start a flood?"
My friend wanted a boat more than anything. His wife kept
refusing, but he bought one anyway. "I'll tell you what,"
he told her. "In the spirit of compromise, why don't you
name the boat?"
Being a good sport, she accepted. When her husband went
to the dock for his maiden voyage, this is the name he saw
painted on the side: "For Sale."
W10 is bad for windows.
Every time a W10 machine is thrown out the window,
the glass breaks.
1457 Gutenberg Bible became the first printed and publicly sold
1622 Indians attacked a group of colonist in the James River area
of Virginia. 347 residents were killed.
1630 The first legislation to prohibit gambling was enacted. It
was in Boston, MA.
1638 Anne Hutchinsoon, a religious dissident, was expelled from
the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1719 Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in
Prussia.
1733 Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water (seltzer).
1765 The Stamp Act was passed. It was the first direct British
tax on the American colonists. It was repealed on March 17, 1766.
1790 Thomas Jefferson became the first U.S. Secretary of State.
1794 The U.S. Congress banned U.S.from supplying slaves to other
1841 Englishman Orlando Jones patented cornstarch.
1871 William Holden of North Carolina became the first governor
to be removed by impeachment.
1872 Illinois became the first state to require sexual equality
in employment.
1873 Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico.
1874 The Young Men's Hebrew Association was organized in New York
1882 The U.S. Congress outlawed polygamy.
1894 The first playoff competition for the Stanley Cup began.
Montreal played Ottawa.
1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an
invited audience in Paris.
1901 Japan proclaimed that it was determined to keep Russia from
encroaching on Korea.
1902 Great Britain and Persia agreed to link Europe and India by
telegraph.
1903 Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.
1903 In Columbia, the region near Galera De Zamba was devastated
by a volcanic eruption.
1904 The first color photograph was published in the London Daily
Illustrated Mirror.
1905 Child miners in Britain received a maximum 8-hour workday.
1907 Russians troops completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the
face of advancing Japanese forces.
1907 In Paris, it was reported that male cab drivers dressed as
women to attract riders.
1910 In Liberia, a telegraph cable linked Tenerife and Monrovia.
1915 A German zeppelin made a night raid on Paris railway
stations.
1919 The first international airline service was inaugurated on a
weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.
1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill
legalizing the sale and possession of beer and wine containing up
to 3.2% alcohol.
1935 In New York, blood tests were authorized as evidence in
court cases.
1935 Persia was renamed Iran.
1941 The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began operations.
1943 The Dutch workweek was extended to 54 hours.
1943 Obligatory work for women ends in Belgium.
1945 The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in
1946 The British granted Transjordan independence.
1946 The first U.S. built rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere
reached a height of 50-miles.
1947 The Greek government imposed martial law in Laconia and
southern Greece.
1948 The United States announced a land reform plan for Korea.
1948 "The Voice of Firestone" became the first commercial radio
program to be carried simultaneously on both AM and FM radio
1954 The first shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan.
1954 The London gold market reopened for the first time since
1956 Perry Como became the first major TV variety-show host to
book a rock and roll act on his program. The act was Carl
Perkins.
1960 A.L. Schawlow & C.H. Townes obtained a patent for the laser.
It was the first patent for any laser.
1965 U.S. confirmed that its troops used chemical warfare against
the Vietcong.
1972 The U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment. It was
not ratified by the states.
1974 The Viet Cong proposed a new truce with the U.S. and South
Vietnam. The truce included general elections.
1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opened.
1977 Comedienne Lily Tomlin made her debut on Broadway in "Lily
Tomlin on Stage" in New York.
1977 Indira Ghandi resigned as the prime minister of India.
1978 Karl Wallenda, of the Flying Wallendas, fell to his death
while walking a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
1980 People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was founded
by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco.
1981 RCA put its Selectra Vision laser disc players on the
find a place to unload. After being refused by several states
1989 Oliver North began two days of testimony at his Iran-Contra
trial in Washington, DC.
1990 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Captain Hazelwood not
guilty in the Valdez oil spill.
1991 Pamela Smart, a high school teacher, was found guilty in New
Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband.
1992 A Fokker F-28 veered off a runway at New York's LaGuardia
airport and into Flushing Bay, killing 27 people.
1993 Intel introduced the Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60
MHz-100+ MIPS.
1995 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned to Earth after
setting a record for 438 days in space.
1997 Tara Lipinski, at 14 years and 10 months, became the
youngest women's world figure skating champion.
Resetting printer after refilling ink
1857 An earthquake hit Tokyo killing about 107,000.
Georgia woman cuts man with sword after
catching him molesting her daughter
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it
first and getting it right.
--- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
We are here on Earth to do good to others.
What the others are here for, I don't know.
--- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
A woman went to a computer dating service and said
she didn't care about looks, income or background.
All she wanted was a man of upright character.
Then a man came in and told them the only thing
he was seeking in a woman was intelligence.
The service matched them together at once because
they had one thing in common -- they were both
pathological liars.
John Lawarren Williams,
Macon,
A Georgia woman cut her boyfriend with a sword after she caught
him allegedly molesting her 5-year-old daughter, deputies told
WMAZ.
John Lawarren Williams, 25, is facing charges of aggravated
molestation and cruelty to children. He is being held without
bond.
Deputies said they were told that the girl had also been “burned
with a cigarette on her private area,” according to WGXA. The
girl and mother went to a pediatric hospital in Macon.
Williams reportedly ran away from the house when law enforcement
arrived but later turned himself in to deputies.
According to WGXA, he was then treated for a cut on his hand and
interviewed by investigators.
"...after the cartridge reads empty, it is refilled.
Then it is re-installed back into the printer and the
stop/reset button is held down for 10 sections.
The stop reset button is the button on your printer
next to image of a triangle inside a circle..."
I got this from Atlantic Ink about refilling my cartridges,
I don't know what "sections" mean. I hate to bug them
anymore, so I thought I would ask you, since you use thier
products. I spend about $75.00 a month on new cartridges
for our business and I need to refill like I did with my old
printer.
I have a Conon MP530.
Thanks, Bob
That's a typo, like your Conon printer.
Can happen to all of us.
She means 10 seconds.
Have FNU!
A woman was out shopping one day with her son. The boy spotted
a man who was bowlegged. The boy pulled on Mom's hand and said,
"Momma, look at the bowlegged man!"
Mom was mortified and told her son that it was not polite to
point to a person and make that sort of comment. For punishment,
the boy had to read a play by Shakespeare. He couldn't go
shopping again until he finished reading the play.
Finally he finished and his mom took him once again to the mall.
Again he spied a bowlegged man, but remembered what happened the
last time. So he pulled on his mother's hand and said, "Lo, what
manner of men are these, Who wear their balls in parentheses?"
A man went to the police station wishing
to speak with the burglar who had broken
into his house the night before.
"You'll get your chance in court," said
the desk sergeant.
"No, no, no!" said the man. "I want to
know how he got into the house without
waking my wife. I've been trying to
do that for years!"
Saving Money on Video Games
Don't buy games as soon as they come out. A year later you can
often find games for half their original price. Even if you only
wait a few weeks, you can find the hot games in the used market
at local stores or on eBay.
What amazing timing and discipline.
Thanks to Cookie for this story:
One evening I was driving my eight-year-old daughter to her
grandparents' home for an overnight stay.
It was late, there was very little traffic, and we were enjoying
a peaceful ride. It was a far cry from the usual chaos
surrounding us when I drive her to various activities during rush
hour.
My daughter seemed deep in thought when she said, "I have a
question."
"What do you want to know?" I responded.
"Mom, when you're driving," she asked, "are YOU ever the stupid
idiot?"
One young man was riding his bicycle across a university campus.
A passerby saw that a message on the front of his T-shirt
announced his occupational goal: "I AM GOING TO BE A DOCTOR."
As the cyclist rode on, the passerby noticed a sign on the rear
of his bicycle: "I AM GOING TO BE A MERCEDES."
As the bus pulled away, I realized I had left my purse under the
seat. Later I called the company and was relieved that the driver
had found my bag.
When I went to pick it up, several off-duty bus drivers
surrounded me. One man handed me my pocketbook, two typewritten
pages and a box containing the contents of my purse.
explained. "I think you'll find everything there."
As I started to put my belongings back into the pocketbook, the
man continued,
"I hope you don't mind if we watch. Even though we all tried,
none of us could fit everything back into your purse. And we'd
like to see just HOW you do it."
1349 3,000 Jews were killed in Black Death riots in Efurt
1556 Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at
the stake at Oxford after retracting the last of seven
recantations that same day.
1788 Almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by
fire. 856 buildings were destroyed.
1804 The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was adopted.
1824 A fire at a Cairo ammunitions dump killed 4,000 horses.
1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales met at Portillo Pass.
1851 Emperor Tu Duc ordered that Christian priests be put to
1851 Yosemite Valley was discovered in California.
1902 In New York, three Park Avenue mansions were destroyed when
a subway tunnel roof caved in.
1907 The U.S. Marines landed in Honduras to protect American
interests in the war with Nicaragua.
1908 A passenger was carried in a bi-plane for the first time by
Henri Farman of France.
1909 Russia withdrew its support for Serbia and recognized the
Austrian annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Serbia accepted
Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina on March 31, 1909.
1918 During World War I, the Germans launched the Somme
Offensive.
1925 The state of Tennessee enacted the Butler Act. It was a law
that made it a crime for a teacher in any state-supported public
school to teach any theory that was in contradiction to the
Bible's account of man's creation.
1928 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal
of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic
1934 A fire destroyed Hakodate, Japan, killing about 1,500.
1935 Incubator ambulance service began in Chicago, IL.
1941 The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, fell to
the British.
1945 During World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids
over Germany, trashing many towns.
1960 About 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa,
when police fired upon demonstrators.
1963 Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco
Bay, CA, closed.
1965 The U.S. launched Ranger 9. It was the last in a series of
unmanned lunar explorations.
1965 More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery,
1966 In New York, demolition work began to clear thirteen square
blocks for the construction of the original World Trade Center.
1971 Two U.S. platoons in Vietnam refused their orders to
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not require
one year of residency for voting eligibility.
1974 In London, an attempt was made to kidnap Princess Anne on
the Mall.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic
Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in
Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
1982 The United States, U.K. and other Western countries
condemned the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
1984 A Soviet submarine crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk off the
coast of Japan.
1985 Larry Flynt offered to sell his pornography empire for $26
million or "Hustler" magazine alone for $18 million.
1985 Police in Langa, South Africa, opened fire on blacks
marching to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville
shootings. At least 21 demonstrators were killed.
1989 Randall Dale Adams was released from a Texas prison after
his conviction was overturned. The documentary "The Thin Blue
Line" had challenged evidence of Adams' conviction for killing a
police officer.
1990 Namibia became independent of South Africa.
1991 The U.N. Security Council lifted the food embargo against
Iraq.
1994 Wayne Gretzky tied Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals.
1994 Bill Gates of Microsoft and Craig McCaw of McCaw Cellular
Communications announced a $9 billion plan that would send 840
satellites into orbit to relay information around the globe.
1999 Israel's Supreme Court rejected the final effort to have
American Samuel Sheinbein returned to the U.S. to face murder
charges for killing Alfred Tello, Jr. Under a plea bargain
Sheinbein was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration had overstepped its regulatory authority when it
attempted to restrict the marketing of cigarettes to youngsters.
2002 In Paris, an 1825 print by French inventor Joseph Nicephore
Niepce was sold for $443,220. The print, of a man leading a
horse, was the earliest recorded image taken by photographic
2016 It was reported that the Kepler space telescope had captured
the visible light of a "shock breakout" when the star KSN 2011a
exploded. It was the first time an exploding star's brilliant
flash shockwave had been captured.
Dragging to another drive
>Annie
I see a bear, two wolves, two mountain goats, and another eagle.
There's also something I can't identify between the eagle and
goat...has a huge eye though.
Thanks for the fun and enlightenment you bring each day!
>Robert
Also, 2goats, a wolf, a lion and perhaps a bull or another
eagle!
>Moe
Bear? Real Eagle, Eagle, Bighorn Sheep, Wolf, Goat, Camel,
Buffalo, and Al Jolson? A fish
1854 The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50
slavery opponents began the new political group.
Real Estate Agent Raped Woman Who Was
House Hunting in Florida
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
"Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arrising from contem-
plating the misery of another."
--- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever
get done.
--- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thanks to Rubye for this story:
During a commercial airline flight an Air Force pilot was seated
next to a young mother with a baby in her arms.
When her baby began crying during the descent for landing, the
mother began nursing her infant as discreetly as possible.
The pilot pretended not to notice and, upon debarking, he
gallantly offered his assistance to help with the various baby-
When the young mother expressed her gratitude, the pilot
responded,
'Gosh, that's a good looking baby...and he sure was hungry!'
Somewhat embarrassed, the mother explained that her pediatrician
said breast feeding would help alleviate the pressure in the
baby's ears.
The Air Force pilot sadly shook his head, and in true pilot
fashion exclaimed........'And all these years, I've been chewing
gum.'
Ibex, finally away from the kids
Wentworth Huang Wang,
Police have arrested a real estate agent who they say raped a
woman who came from China to look at houses in Florida last year.
The Orlando Sentinelreports 38-year-old Wentworth Huang Wang was
arrested Sunday. He's charged with three counts of sexual
battery.
A police affidavit says the company the woman used for housing
and transportation put her in touch with Wang.
She told police that after Wang raped her, he warned her not to
tell because he knew people at the Orlando Police Department,
adding that they would believe him because he's an American
citizen.
She left Florida and reported the rape in California. Wang
provided a DNA sample in October, which matched evidence found on
the woman and her clothing.
Re: Dragging
Please don't think this is a stupid question. I have seen the
phrase "drag to"
and I know how to click and drag, but what I don't know .....how
drag to another place? If I wanted to drag to let's say my d
drive, that's
on another "page".
Don't run the file explorer full screen. Narrow it down so that
it just uses
a third of the screen.
Then open another one beside it.
Now you can drag from one to the other.
If you use Windows in Classic Style, you can even split each
and show folders (instead of tasks) on the left side of each File
Explorer.
Then you can drag stuff even into closed folders showing on the
is that I am qualified to slap the s**t outa you."
While stationed in Washington, D.C., a man used Arlington
National Cemetery as a shortcut on his way to give a briefing at
Fort Myer.
To his surprise, he encountered a roadblock manned by the
military police.
An MP approached him and asked in a stern voice, "Are you
supposed to be here?"
Unsure of what to say, he replied, "Not yet."
The MP held back a smile and waved him on.
Saving Money at Restaurants
Don't order alcoholic drinks. Try meatless dishes, they are
almost always cheaper. Go out to lunch, instead of dinner. Split
large dishes between two people. Order off the senior menu if
you can. Serving sizes are ridiculously large at most
A catalogue of crazy customized coffins.
An old man strode in to his doctors office and said, "Doc, my
druggist said to tell you to change my prescription and to check
the prescription you've been giving to Mrs. Smith."
"Oh, he did, did he?" the doctor shot back. "And since when does
a druggist second guess a doctor's orders?"
The old man says, "Since he found out I've been on birth control
pills since February."
On my way to deliver a repaired computer to a customer, I saw
a handwritten sign at the entrance of an alley. It read:
"Blocked! Do not pass! Difficult to turn back."
I continued anyway, only to discover that the alley was
indeed blocked by a fallen tree. As predicted, it took a
while to turn the truck around.
When I finally got back to the entrance, I noticed a
second sign. It read:
"Told you so!"
Rough Translations:
RIGOR MORRIS:
The cat is dead.
RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID:
Honk if you're Scottish
HARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS?:
Can you drive a French motorcycle?
VENI, VIDI, VISA:
I came, I saw, I shopped.
COGITO EGGO SUM:
I think, therefore I am ... a waffle
QUE SERA SERF:
LEROI EST MORT. JIVE LEROI:
Leroy is dead. Dance Leroy!
POSH MORTEM:
Death styles of the rich and famous
PRO BOZO PUBLICO:
Support your local clown
MONAGE A TROIS:
I am three years old
HASTE CUISINE:
Fast French food
QUIP PRO QUO:
A fast retort
ALOHA OY:
Love; greetings; farewell;
and from such a pain you should never know
MAZEL TON:
Tons of luck
VISA LA FRANCE:
Don't leave your chateau without it
CARNE DIEM:
Seize the meat
0141 The 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet took
1413 Henry V took the throne of England upon the death of his
father Henry IV.
1525 Paris' parliament began its pursuit of Protestants.
1602 The United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) was formed.
1616 Walter Raleigh was released from Tower of London to seek
gold in Guyana.
1627 France & Spain signed an accord for fighting Protestantism.
1739 In India, Nadir Shah of Persia occupied Delhi and took
possession of the Peacock throne.
1760 The great fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.
1792 In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the
guillotine.
1800 French army defeated the Turks at Helipolis, Turkey, and
advanced into Cairo.
1814 Prince Willem Frederik became the monarch of Netherlands.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris after his escape from Elba
and began his "Hundred Days" rule.
1816 The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed its right to review state
court decisions.
1833 The U.S. and Siam signed a commercial treaty.
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin," subtitled
"Life Among the Lowly," was first published.
1865 A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct U.S. President Abraham
Lincoln was ruined when Lincoln changed his plans and did not
appear at the Soldier's Home near Washington, DC.
1868 Jesse James Gang robbed a bank in Russelville, KY, of
$14,000.
1883 The Unity treaty of Paris was signed to protect industrial
1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patented the shoe lacing
1886 The first AC power plant in the U.S. began commercial
1888 The Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia,"
began.
1891 The first computing scale company was incorporated in
Dayton, OH.
1896 U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens in
the wake of a revolution.
1897 The first U.S. orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary was
incorporated in New York.
1897 The first intercollegiate basketball game that used five
players per team was held. The contest was Yale versus
Pennsylvania. Yale won by a score of 32-10.
1899 At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place became the first woman
to be executed in the electric chair. She was put to death for
the murder of her stepdaughter.
1900 It was announced that European powers had agreed to keep
China's doors open to trade.
1902 France and Russia acknowledged the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
They also asserted their right to protect their interests in
China and Korea.
1906 In Russia, army officers mutiny at Sevastopol.
1915 The French called off the Champagne offensive on the Western
Front.
1918 The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union asked for American aid to
rebuild their army.
1922 U.S. President Warren G. Harding ordered U.S. troops back
from the Rhineland.
1922 The USS Langley was commissioned. It was the first aircraft
carrier for the U.S. Navy.
1932 The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, made the first flight to
South America on regular schedule.
1933 The first German concentration camp was completed at Dachau.
1934 Rudolf Kuhnold gave a demonstration of radar in Kiel
1940 The British Royal Air Force conducted an all-night air raid
on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany.
1943 The Allies attacked Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's forces on
the Mareth Line in North Africa.
1947 A blue whale weighing 180-metric tons was caught in the
South Atlantic.
1952 The U.S. Senate ratified a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) exploded.
1956 Tunisia gained independence from France.
1964 The ESRO (European Space Research Organization) was
1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered 4,000 troops to
protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers.
1967 Twiggy arrived in the U.S. for a one-week stay.
1969 U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy called on the U.S. to close all
bases in Taiwan.
1972 19 mountain climbers were killed on Japan's Mount Fuji
during an avalanche.
1976 Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her role
in the hold up of a San Francisco Bank.
1980 The U.S. made an appeal to the International Court
concerning the American Hostages in Iran.
1981 Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron was sentenced to eight
years in a convent.
1982 U.S. scientists returned from Antarctica with the first land
mammal fossils found there.
1984 The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment to permit spoken
prayer in public schools.
1985 For the first time in its 99-year history, Avon
representatives received a salary. Up to that time they had been
paid solely on commissions.
1985 CBS-TV presented "The Romance of Betty Boop."
1985 Libby Riddles won the 1,135-mile Anchorage-to-Nome dog race
becoming the first woman to win the Iditarod.
1989 A Washington, DC, district court judge blocked a curfew
imposed by Mayor Barry and the City Council.
1989 In Belfast, two policemen were killed. The IRA claimed
responsibility.
1990 Namibia became an independent nation ending 75 years of
South African rule.
1990 Imelda Marcos, widow of ex-Philippines dictator Ferdinand
Marcos, went on trial for racketeering, embezzlement and bribery.
1990 In Rumania, tanks were sent to the town of Tirgu Mures to
quell ethnic riots.
1991 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that employers
could not exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic
chemicals could potentially damage a fetus.
1991 The U.S. forgave $2 billion in loans to Poland.
1993 Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared emergency rule. He
set a referendum on whether the people trusted him or the hard-
line Congress to govern.
1993 An Irish Republican Army bomb was detonated in Warrington,
England. A 3-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy were killed.
1995 About 35,000 Turkish troops crossed the northern border of
Iraq in pursuit of the separatist rebels of the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK).
1995 In Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others
were sickened when packages containing the nerve gas Sarin was
released on five separate subway trains. The terrorists belonged
to a doomsday cult in Japan.
1996 In Los Angeles, Erik and Lyle Menendez were found guilty of
first-degree murder in the killing of their parents.
1996 The U.K. announced that humans could catch CJD (Mad Cow
Disease).
1997 Liggett Group, the maker of Chesterfield cigarettes, settled
22 state lawsuits by admitting the industry marketed cigarettes
to teenagers and agreed to warn on every pack that smoking is
addictive.
1998 India's new Hindu nationalist-led government pledges to
"exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons."
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first men to
circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. The non-stop trip
began on March 3 and covered 26,500 miles.
1999 Legoland California opened Carlsbad, California.
2000 Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as
H. Rap Brown, was captured following a shootout that left a
sherriff's deputy dead.
2002 Actress Pamela Anderson disclosed that she had hepatitis C.
2002 Arthur Andersen pled innocent to charges that it had
shredded documents and deleted computer files related to the
energy company Enron.
2003 Cisco Systems Inc. announced it was buying The Linksys Group
INc. for $500 million in stock.
2003 U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait.
Acer Laptop sudden death
1965 Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to spacewalk
when he left the Voskhod II space capsule while in orbit around
the Earth. He was outside the spacecraft for about 20 minutes.
Indiana man arrested seven times in six months
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see,
I have friends in both places.
--- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
--- John Clarke
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen
and stupidity.
--- Harlan Ellison (1934 - )
The sentry walked up to the rear window and said, "General, I'm
new at this. Do I shoot you or the the driver?"
Steven Wagers,
Johnson County,
One Indiana man has enough mugshots to populate an Instagram
account. They're all recent, and law enforcement is not happy
Johnson County Sheriff Duane Burgess said this repeat offender
was arrested this week and is not leaving his jail anytime soon.
He is just a menace to Johnson County citizens, Burgess said.
Burgess is talking about 35-year-old Steven Wagers. Wagers has
been arrested seven times in the last six months, including twice
within three days last Friday and Monday. Records show Wagers has
been arrested nearly 30 times over the last 17 years. Most of his
arrests are for thefts and drug possession.
Every time we catch him and we arrest him he's got some kind of
narcotics that he's in possession of, Burgess said. It's been
an occurrence where I'm walking in the jail and he's being
released and I'm like 'Stay out of jail, Steven.' And he's
returning that next day.
Late Friday night, Wagers was arrested on suspicion of stealing a
car in Greenwood. Deputies said Wagers led them on a chase and
fought with officers when they caught up to him. They said they
found a syringe and pain pills on Wagers when they arrested him.
Monday morning, Wagers was out of jail and police responded to a
call in the same area about a suspicious man in a front yard.
Responding officers recognized Wagers as he ran away from them
again, police said. During the foot chase, they said Wagers
jumped a fence before sitting down in a lawn chair. Police said
they found him with a bag of methamphetamines.
When Burgess heard of the latest arrest Monday, he quickly sought
a court order to hold Wagers without bond. He said the move was
intended to keep Wagers locked up so he couldn't go out and
commit any more crimes pending a court appearance.
From: Myself
Re: Jerome, help!
Dear Jerome
While I was out for an hour taking pictures for a client, my good
old 2009 Acer Aspire laptop died.
Black monitor, not even a poer LED.
I tried contacting Accer support. That was a total waste of time.
Take the battery out and plug the laptop in as if the battery was
in it. Those Acer batteries do die without warning.
Hi Jerome
You fixed it!
It runs fine on just the charger.
It seems the battery died when I was not watching for an hour.
I may have a lot of answers, but whne I am stumped, I ask Jerome.
A gentleman goes to Africa and asks his tourist guide
while walking in the jungle, "Are we safe here? Aren't
there cannibals around here?"
The tourist guide says, "Yes, it's safe. You can be sure
there are no cannibals in Africa."
The tourist replied, "But I heard there may still be some
cannibals around here."
The guide answered, "There are NO cannibals here.
I'm sure.
We ate the last one yesterday."
A woman was sick of her husband's drinking, so she decided
to teach him a lesson. She dressed up like Satan, and when
her husband returned home from another bender, she jumped
out from behind the sofa and screamed.
"You don't scare me," the man said, looking her over calmly.
"I married your sister."
Cleaning With Baking Soda
Make a paste of baking soda with water for a mild abrasive.
You can use it instead of Comet or other abrasive cleaners
for cleaning bathroom fixtures. It works well for cleaning
spots off chrome and stainless steel. It can also be added
to your laundry as a booster (1/2 cup should work).
How would you like to live on a "shanty-boat?" It would be interesting for a while as long as I didn't have to stay in one place.
A priest was vested in his surplice and cassock ready to
proceed at the beginning of the service. His surplice was very
ornate, and he was swinging the incense pot which had
smoke coming from it.
A lady touched him on the shoulder and said, "Darling, I love
your dress, but your purse is on fire!"
Jeff was out playing golf and he had his usual caddy with
him. "Caddy, why didn't you see where that ball went?"
"Well, it doesn't usually go anywhere.
You caught me off guard."
>From Beth:
Office Memo:
"Whoever used the milk in the small plastic container that
was in the refrigerator yesterday, please do NOT own up to
it. I would find it forever after difficult to meet your
gaze across a cafeteria table whilst having a discussion
about java applets or brand identity. Just be aware that
that milk was EXPRESSLY for my baby, if you get my drift. I
will label these things from now on, but if you found your
coffee tasted just a little bit unusual this morning, you
might think about calling your mom and telling her you love
0037 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims
Caligula emperor.
1123 The first Lateran Council (9th ecumenical council) opened in
1190 Crusaders killed 57 Jews in Bury St. Edmonds England.
1532 The English parliament banned payments by English church to
1541 Hernando de Soto observed the first recorded flood of the
Mississippi River.
1673 Lord Berkley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
1692 William Penn was deprived of his governing powers.
1766 Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1813 David Melville patented the gas streetlight.
1818 The U.S. Congress approved the first pensions for government
1834 The first railroad tunnel in the U.S. was completed. The
work was in Pennsylvania.
1835 Charles Darwin left Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo
1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo founded American Express.
1874 Hawaii signed a treaty giving exclusive trading rights with
the islands to the U.S.
1881 Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison
Square Gardens.
1891 Britain became linked to the continent of Europe by
telephone.
1899 Phoebe, a moon of the planet Saturn, was discovered.
1902 In Turkey, the Sultan granted a German syndicate the first
concession to access Baghdad by rail.
1903 France dissolved the Catholic religious orders.
1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to
become the first person to broadcast as a "ham" operator.
1911 Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. It
was the largest dam in the U.S. at the time.
1911 North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law.
1913 Greek King George I was killed by an assassin. Constantine I
succeeded him.
1916 Russia countered the Verdun assault with an attack at Lake
Naroch. The Russians lost 100,000 men and the Germans lost
1917 The Germans sank the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante
and the Illinois, without any warning.
1920 Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.
1921 Poland was enlarged with the second Peace of Riga.
1921 The steamer "Hong Koh" ran aground off of Swatow China. Over
1,000 people were killed.
1922 Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for
civil disobedience in India. He served only 2 years of the
1931 Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.
1937 More than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas
explosion at a school in New London, TX.
1938 Mexico took control of all foreign-owned oil properties on
its soil.
1938 New York first required serological blood tests of pregnant
1940 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the
Brenner Pass. The Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's
war against France and Britain during the meeting.
1942 The third military draft began in the U.S. because of World
War II.
1943 The Reich called off its offensive in Caucasus.
1943 American forces took Gafsa in Tunisia.
1944 The Russians reached the Rumanian border in the Balkans
1945 1,250 U.S. bombers attacked Berlin.
1945 Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey
League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.
1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified.
1950 Nationalist troops landed on the mainland of China and
capture Communist held Sungmen.
1952 In Philadelphia, PA, the first plastic lenses were fitted
for a cataract patient.
1953 An earthquake hit West Turkey killing 250 people.
1954 RKO Pictures was sold for $23,489,478. It became the first
motion picture studio to be owned by an individual. The person
was Howard Hughes.
1959 U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1962 French and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.
1963 France performed an underground nuclear test at Ecker
Algeria.
1963 The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda decision
concerning legal council for defendants.
1966 Scott Paper began selling paper dresses for $1.
1968 The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold
1969 U.S. President Nixon authorizes Operation Menue. It was the
'secret' bombing of Cambodia.
1970 The U.S. Postal Service experienced the first postal strike.
1971 U.S. helicopters airlifted 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers
out of Laos.
1971 A landslide in Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru, killed 200.
1974 Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their five-
month embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1975 Saigon abandoned most of the Central Highlands of Vietnam to
Hanoi.
1975 The Kurds ended their fight against Iraq.
1977 Vietnam turned over an MIA to a U.S. delegation.
1979 Iranian authorities detained American feminist Kate Millett.
The next day she was deported.
1980 A Vostok rocket exploded on the launch pad killing 50.
1981 The U.S. disclosed that there were biological weapons tested
in Texas in 1966.
1986 Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew
to Sarah Ferguson.
1986 The U.S. Treasury Department announced that a clear,
polyester thread was to be woven into bills in an effort to
thwart counterfeiters.
1987 The U.S. performed nuclear tests at a Nevada test site.
1990 Thirteen paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum in Boston. The value was $100 million making it
the largest art robbery in history.
1989 A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at the Pyramid of
Cheops in Egypt.
1990 The first free elections took place in East Germany.
1990 In Tampa, FL, a little league player was killed after being
hit with a pitch.
1992 Leona Hemsly was sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax
evasion.
1992 White South Africans voted for constitutional reforms that
would give legal equality to blacks.
1994 Zsa Zsa Gabor filed for bankruptcy.
1997 A Russian AN-24 crashed killing 50 people.
2003 China's new president, Hu Jintao, announced that his country
must deepen reforms and raise living standards of workers and
farmers.
Spam problem
1966 A U.S. submarine found a missing H-bomb in the
Mediterranean off of Spain.
Man trying to transport meth in Canada busted
when navigation takes him to Port Huron bridge
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance
is just as bad.
--- Bob Edwards
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating
and complex--but Congress can.
--- Cullen Hightower
"Why do the Irish always fight amongst themselves?"
"Everybody else is relatively sober by comparison"
Constantine Xethalis,
PORT HURON,
A man who was allegedly attempting to transport meth from
Montreal to Calgary was busted when his iPhone navigation took
him to a border checkpoint - Port Huron's Blue Water Bridge.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspected a Canadian vehicle
at the bridge on Wednesday, driven by Constantine Xethalis. Two
others were also in the vehicle, probably to ensure that he did
not sell the dope along the way.
After they were unable to provide proof of citizenship, the
vehicle was searched. Officers found approximately 10 pounds of
meth in tablet form.
Xethalis told police he has a $2,000 gambling debt. In exchange
for waiving the debt, he agreed to transport "something" to
Calgary. He said he was also asked to drive two others from
Toronto to Calgary.
Xethalis made the pickups in Toronto. The group then used
navigation to get to Calgary, according to the criminal
complaint. The navigation guided them to the Blue Water Bridge.
Officers believe there is probably cause Xethalis did knowingly
and unlawfully possess with the intent to distribute
approximately 4.4 kilos of a mixture or substance containing a
detectable amount of meth. He will face charges.
Xethalis has been charged with possession with intent to
distribute controlled substances and importation of a schedule I
controlled substance.
From: Wanda
Re: Spam
My spam is up to over two hundred per day. I know you keep
telling me to quit whining and get Mailwasher, but I don't have
time to learn how to make the filters that you keep talking
about. Is there ANY other way to stop spam?
Dear Wanda
Yes, there are other ways. Two of them:
1) Rent more senators than the spammers did, and get them
to stop protecting spammers and put in some effective laws
against spam
2) Teach some members of the militant wings of the Hells
Angels or the Klu-Klux-Klan to become web literate and wait
for their reaction to spam.
If those alternatives are a bit beyond your budget, conquer
your fear of filters and try MailWasher!
Once you see how easy it actually is to make filters, you will
be kicking yourself for not doing it sooner. It is so easy that
I doubt you will ever bother to read the instructions.
Because I have business addresses that I can not change,
and because I have had them the same for dozens of years, I get a
LOT of spam and average 1500 pieces of mail per day. 93% of that
is spam. I would go totally nuts trying
to deal with that by hand.
Instead, MailWasher makes me smile every morning when
it shows just a few emails but says in the status line
something like: ... mails not shown in list.
I hit F6, and ... pieces of spam get flushed to hell, unread,
and without even having been shown in the list.
There is no other computer program that makes me smile
as much.
Just take that first step, click on the Mailwasher button, and
Paddy is engaged in a major custody battle.
His wife doesn't want him,
and his mother won't take him back.
"St. Patrick's Day Engagement"
An Irishman, by the name of O'Mally proposed to his girl
on St. Patrick's Day. He gave her a ring with a synthetic
diamond. The excited young lass showed it to her father,
a jeweler. He took a close look at it and saw it wasn't real.
The young lass on learning it wasn't real returned to her
future husband. She protested vehemently about his
cheapness.
"It was in honor of St. Patrick's Day," he smiled.
"I gave you a sham rock."
Recycling Used Paint Thinner
You don't need to discard paint thinner that has been used
for cleaning paint brushes. Put used paint thinner into a
glass or metal container with a tight fitting lid. The paint
particles will sink to the bottom leaving you with clear paint
thinner towards the top. Just pour off the clear paint thinner
and discard the paint particles.
Before disposing of any paint, even paint particles, check
with your local waste management to find out the correct
way to dispose of your paint.
Pouring it over obnoxious weeds in the driveway often
annoys them, but rarely kills them.
Riding the rails on a bike!
Old man Murphy had worked down at the brewery for years, but
one day he just wasn't paying attention and he tripped on
Murphy of her old man's death. He showed up at the front
door and rang the bell. When she came to the door, he said,
"I'm sorry to tell you, but your poor husband passed away at
work today when he fell into the vat and drowned."
"Knowing Pat Murphy like I do, I don't think so," said the
foreman, "He got out three times to go to the men's room."
Maureen called the police.
"My next door neighbor is exposing himself. Oh my," she
continued, "he's just standing there, big as you please,
taking a shower with his window shades up!"
The squad car arrived immediately to catch the evil culprit
in the act. She led the cop into her bedroom and pointed out
her window.
"See what I mean, officer."
The policeman scratched his head and said, "Ma'am, I can
only see the top of his head."
Maureen replied, "Crazy fool, just put a chair on that dresser
over there and stand on that!
The CIA lost track of one of its operatives, and so calls in
one of their top spy hunters.
The CIA boss says, "All I can tell you is that his name is
Murphy and that he's somewhere in Ireland. If you think
you've located him, tell him the code words,'The weather
forecast calls for mist in the morning.' If it's
really him, he'll answer, 'Yes, and for mist at noon as well.'"
So the spy hunter goes to Ireland and stops in the first bar
he sees. He says to the bartender, "Maybe you can help me.
I'm looking for a guy named Murphy."
The bartender replies, "You're going to have to be more
specific because, around here, there are lots of guys named
Murphy. There's Murphy the Baker, who runs the pastry shop
on the next block. There's Murphy the Banker, across the
street. There's Murphy the Plumber next door.
And, as a matter of fact, my name is Murphy, too."
Hearing this, the spy hunter figures he might as well try
the code words on bartender, so he says, "The weather
forecast calls for mist in the morning."
The bartender replies, "Oh, you're looking for Murphy the
Spy. He lives on 24 East Broadmoor in Dublin, on the second
floor. But,.... from what I hear he's vacationing in Hawaii
right now. You'll have to ask Murphy the travel agent to get
the phone number of the hotel he's staying at.
0461 Bishop Patrick, St. Patrick, died in Saul. Ireland
celebrates this day in his honor.
1756 St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in New York City for the
first time. The event took place at the Crown and Thistle Tavern.
1766 Britain repealed the Stamp Act that had caused resentment
and violent opposition in the North American colonies.
1776 British forces evacuated Boston to Nova Scotia during the
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent was issued.
1870 Wellesley College was incorporated by the Massachusetts
legislature under its first name, Wellesley Female Seminary.
1884 In Otay, California, John Joseph Montgomery made the first
manned, controlled, heavier-than-air glider flight in the United
States.
1886 20 Blacks were killed in the Carrollton Massacre in
Mississippi.
1891 The British steamer Utopia sank off the coast of Gibraltar.
1901 In Paris, Vincent Van Gogh's paintings were shown at the
Bernheim Gallery.
1909 In France, the communications industry was paralyzed by
strikes.
1910 The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded by Luther and
Charlotte Gulick. It was formally presented to the public exactly
2 years later.
1914 Russia increased the number of active duty military from
460,000 to 1,700,000.
1917 America’s first bowling tournament for ladies began in St.
Louis, MO. Almost 100 women participated in the event.
1930 Al Capone was released from jail.
1930 In New York, construction began on the Empire State
Building. Excavation at the site began on January 22.
1942 Douglas MacArthur became the Supreme Commander of the Allied
forces in the Southwestern Pacific.
1944 During World War II, the U.S. bombed Vienna back into the
stone age.
1950 Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley
announced that they had created a new radioactive element. They
named it "californium". It is also known as element 98.
1958 The Vanguard 1 satellite was launched by the U.S.
1959 The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) fled Tibet
and went to India.
1961 The U.S. increased military aid and technicians to Laos.
1962 Moscow asked the U.S. to pull out of South Vietnam.
1966 A U.S. submarine found a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean
off of Spain.
1969 Golda Meir was sworn in as the fourth premier of Israel.
1970 The U.S. Army charged 14 officers with suppression of facts
in the My Lai massacre case.
1972 U.S. President Nixon asked Congress to halt busing in order
to achieve desegregation.
1973 Twenty were killed in Cambodia when a bomb went off that was
meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol.
1973 The first American prisoners of war (POWs) were released
from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
1982 In El Salvador, four Dutch television crewmembers were
killed by government troops.
1985 U.S. President Reagan agreed to a joint study with Canada on
acid rain.
1989 A series of solar flares caused a violent magnetic storm
that brought power outages over large regions of Eastern Canada.
1992 In Buenos Aires, 10 people were killed in a suicide car-bomb
attack against the Israeli embassy.
1992 White South Africans approved constitutional reforms to give
legal equality to blacks.
1995 Gerry Adams became the first leader of Sinn Fein to be
received at the White House.
1998 Washington Mutual announced it had agreed to buy H.F.
Ahmanson and Co. for $9.9 billion dollars. The deal created the
nation's seventh-largest banking company.
1999 A panel of medical experts concluded that marijuana had
medical benefits for people suffering from cancer and AIDS.
1999 The International Olympic Committee expelled six of its
members in the wake of a bribery scandal.
2000 In Kanungu, Uganda, a fire at a church linked to the cult
known as the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments
killed more than 530. On March 31, officials set the number of
deaths linked to the cult at more than 900 after authorities
2004 NASA's Messenger became the first spacecraft to enter into
orbit around Mercury. The probe took more than 270,000 pictures
before it crashed into the surface of Mercury on April 30, 2015.
Open Office vs Office Libre
Saturday, March 16, 2019, 02:01 PM
1926 Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first
liquid-fuel rocket.
Rapist got 32 years
There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.
--- Rita Holt
You can't depend on your judgment
when your imagination is out of focus.
At the beginning of my shift, I placed a stethoscope on
an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior
chest wall. "Big breaths," I instructed.
"Yeth, they uthed to be," the patient said sadly.
Purple Tits
Choncey Milan Stewart,
St Paul,
Gunman-instigator in two teens’
Harriet Island rape gets 32 years in prison
The last of four young men involved in the brutal rape of two
teens on Harriet Island during the summer of 2017 received 32
years in prison for his role in the attack.
Ramsey County District Judge Timothy Mulrooney on Friday
sentenced Choncey Stewart, 18, on two counts of aiding and
abetting first-degree criminal sexual conduct, two counts of
kidnapping and four counts of first-degree aggravated robbery.
The sentence was lower than the roughly 50 years prosecutors
sought.
Choncey Milan Stewart, 18
Authorities say Stewart, who was 16 at the time, was the
instigator and gunman during the incident, which took place
around 11 p.m. June 5.
He and three others — Devontre Jordan Vann, 20, Deandray Artez
Easley, 20, Vershone Jaquay Hodges, 21 — encountered a group of
four teens — two girls and their two male friends — on Harriet
Island that night.
After exchanging some words — Stewart knew one of them — the
group forced the boys to strip to their underwear and lie in the
grass as three of the young men, including Stewart, took turns
raping the girls.
All the while Stewart had the gun, and often used it to threaten
the victims.
Three of the four victims were minors. One of the girls was 18 at
Previously, the longest sentence in the case went to Easley, the
only one of the four to take his case to trial. Easley was
sentenced to 30 years in prison. Hodges and Vann received 25 and
23 years, respectively, after reaching plea deals.
Stewart’s sentence came about two months after he pleaded guilty
to the charges.
He and his friends had gone to the park that night to shoot a
music video, according to court testimony from the others’ cases.
They were high on Xanax and drunk on tequila at the time of the
assaults.
Both of the female victims spoke at a previous sentencing
hearing, where they described through tears how they struggle
with ongoing panic attacks, severe depression, sleeplessness and
hopelessness since the assault.
From: Bill
Re: OpenOffice vs Office Libre
I believe that you recommend LibreOffice rather than Open Office.
I believe that there is a very slight edge of one over the other.
Dear Bill
Apache OpenOffice is behind LibreOffice in release numbers.
That means Libre has more frequent, smaller, updates, and Apache
has less frequent, but bigger updates.
Neither of those are earth shaking events, but may affect
bragging rights on some school buses.
In actual operation, there is very little difference.
The average user might not see too many differences between these
open-source office suites. At most, if you looked at them side-
by-side, you'd see the Apache OpenOffice sidebar is on by
default,
in Libre you have to click on VIEW, Sidebar.
Big deal.
The same with the rest of the programs. They all do the same, but
the advantage is yours. Whatever you are used to, stick with it.
When I was a 20-something college student, I became quite
friendly with my study partner, a 64-year-old man, who
had returned to school to finish his degree. He confessed,
with a wink, that he had once thought more than friendship
might be a possibility between us.
"So what changed your mind?" I asked him.
"I went to my doctor and asked if he thought a 40-year age
difference between a man and woman was insurmountable. He
looked at my chart and said, 'You're interested in someone
who's 104?'"
One year my wife and I spent a vacation on Washington's
Olympic Peninsula. We were eager to visit the rain forests
near the coast, but we heard that snow slides had made
some of the roads impassable. Although apprehensive about
the conditions we might run into, we drove on.
Sure enough, we had gone only a short way up the High Rain
Forest road when we saw a sign: "Ice 10 miles." Five miles
farther on there was another: "Ice 5 miles." The next one
was: "Ice 1/2 mile." We practically crept that half-mile.
We came to the last sign. It was outside a small grocery,
and it read: "Ice 75 cents."
Ironing Shirts
Start by ironing sleeves, cuffs, belts and collars before ironing
the body of the shirt. This will prevent you from having to
re-iron the body of the shirt. When ironing collars, iron from
the corners inward to prevent wrinkles on the ends of the
collars.
NOW you tell me! After I sold my iron at the yard sale.
Our best adventures were from getting lost, which is easy for me since I'm directionally challenged.
A 93 year old man went to his doctor to get a physical.
A week later, the doctor saw the man walking down the
street with an attractive young woman on his arm. At
the man's next visit, the doctor said, "I saw you with a
young lady the other day. You're really doing great,
The man replied, "Just doing what you said Doc,
'Get a hot mamma and be cheerful'."
The Doctor said, "I didn't say that. I said
you got a heart murmur. Be careful."
Any hot mamas left out there?
how the constant pressure of being a beautiful, desirable blonde
is causing her migraine headaches. For two hours straight, she
whines, and cries, and moans about how hard it is to be so sexy,
while everyone in the world is jealous of her, and says mean
things about her, and calls her dumb, and self-centered, and
shallow . . .
The shrink sighs and replies, "No, it isn't gone. . . I have it
now."
A psychotherapist was enjoying a growing practice since
he graduated college. So much so that he could now
afford to have a proper sign advertising his services.
So he told a kid to paint a sign board for him & put it
above his clinic entrance.
Instead of his business building up, it declined
steeply. He had especially noticed the ladies shying
away from his clinic after reading the sign. So he
decided to check it out for himself.
One look and he understood why. The boy only found a
small wooden board to paint the sign on and he had
split the word psychotherapist into the 3 words. His
new sign read:
Psycho-
the-
1190 The Crusaders began the massacre of Jews in York, England.
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the
Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives.
1527 The Emperor Babur defeated the Rajputs at the Battle of
Kanvaha in India.
1621 Samoset walked into the settlement of Plymouth Colony, later
Plymouth, MA. Samoset was a native from the Monhegan tribe in
Maine who spoke English.
1871 The State of Delaware enacted the first fertilizer law.
1882 The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States
to join the Red Cross.
1907 The world's largest cruiser, the British Invincible was
completed at Glasgow.
1908 China released the Japanese steamship Tatsu Maru.
1909 Cuba suffered its first revolt only six weeks after the
inauguration of Gomez.
1913 The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania was launched at
Newport News, VA.
1917 Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicated his throne.
1926 Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel
1928 The U.S. planned to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.
1935 Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the
Versailles Treaty.
1939 Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.
1945 Iwo Jima was declared secure by the Allies. However, small
pockets of Japanese resistance still existed.
1946 Algerian nationalist leader Ferhat Abbas was freed after
spending a year in jail.
1946 India called British Premier Attlee's independence off
contradictory and a propaganda move.
1947 Martial law was withdrawn in Tel Aviv.
1950 Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.
1964 Paul Hornung and Alex Karras were reinstated to the NFL
after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games.
1964 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war
on poverty program to Congress.
1968 U.S. troops in Vietnam destroyed a village consisting mostly
of women and children. The event is known as the My-Lai massacre.
1978 Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing
urban guerrillas. Moro was later murdered by the group.
1982 Russia announced they would halt their deployment of new
nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
1984 Mozambique and South Africa signed a pact banning the
support for one another's internal enemies.
1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was
kidnapped by gunmen. He died while in captivity.
1985 "A Chorus Line" played its 4,000 performance.
1985 Terry Anderson, an Associated Press newsman, was taken
hostage in Beirut. He was released in December 4, 1991.
1987 "Bostonia" magazine printed an English translation of Albert
Einstein’s last high school report card.
1988 Indictments were issued for Lt. Colonel Oliver North, Vice
Admiral John Poindexter of the National Security Council, and two
others for their involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.
1988 Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy were shot to death in
their driveway. Thompson, known as the "Speed King," set nearly
500 auto speed endurance records including being the first person
to travel more than 400 mph on land.
1989 In the U.S.S.R., the Central Committee approved Gorbachev's
agrarian reform plan.
1989 The Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee approved
large-scale agricultural reforms and elected the party's 100
members to the Congress of People's Deputies.
1993 In France, ostrich meat was officially declared fit for
human consumption.
1994 Tonya Harding pled guilty in Portland, OR, to conspiracy to
hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating
rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned
from amateur figure skating.
1994 Russia agreed to phase out production of weapons-grade
plutonium.
1995 NASA astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to
visit the Russian space station Mir.
1998 Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000
suspects for 500,000 murders.
1999 The 20 members of the European Union's European Commission
announced their resignations amid allegations of corruption and
financial mismanagement.
Open Office compatibility
Re PIE DAY yesterday: 3 14, officially pi day, but jokingly
called PIE day in hopes, somebody will donate a slice of pie.
Well, neither of the people, who know how to bake a pie, did.
Michael in Hawaii told me that WiFi attenuates with the SQUARE
of the distance, not the cube, like I had erroneously stated.
1960 The first underwater park was established as
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve.
Today's Bonehead Aw3ard:
Man who used fridge to try and smuggle
10 Vietnamese nationals into UK is jailed
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in
choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
--- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement
them are priceless.
--- Mary Kay Ash
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small,
uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him,
and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none
seemed forthcoming.
Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of
driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few
possessions.
But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to
find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky.
The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was stunned with
grief and anger. "God, how could you do this to me!" he cried.
Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the sound of a
ship that was approaching the island. It had come to rescue him.
"How did you know I was here?" asked the weary man of his
rescuers.
"We saw your smoke signal," they replied.
Ciprian Scorteanu,
In Jail now
A Romanian man has been jailed after trying to smuggle 10
Vietnamese nationals, including eight children, into the UK in an
adapted fridge in his lorry. Ciprian Scorteanu had his heavy
goods vehicle stopped by Border Force Officers at the Port of
Hull on October 27, 2018. The 45-year-old was questioned by
officers who, after becoming unsatisfied with his responses,
decided to impound his trailer for 48 hours so that they could
search its cargo of used tyres.
Scorteanu was allowed to leave the port in the trailer’s tractor
unit and return two days later on October 29. However, just hours
after letting him go, officers made an alarming discovery after
noticing steam coming from the roof of the trailer’s
refrigeration unit. The façade of the unit was removed and
inside, officers found 10 people, including eight children,
hiding inside a specially adapted fridge. Mark Robinson,
Humberside assistant director for Border Force said: ‘This was a
deliberate attempt to bypass the UK’s border controls. ‘The
trailer had been adapted for the sole purpose of smuggling.’
He said that without the expertise of his officers, the
Vietnamese nationals could have been ‘trapped in the confined
conditions for 48 hours’, with the risks to their welfare
‘obvious’. He added: ‘Border Force officers are on the frontline
keeping our borders safe and secure. We will continue to work
with law enforcement colleagues to ensure that people smugglers
and traffickers, who often put the lives of others at risk
through their actions, face the consequences of their crimes.’
After finding the Vietnamese nationals, police were alerted and
Scorteanu was arrested the same day in Lincolnshire. The
investigation was passed to Immigration Enforcement Criminal and
Financial Investigation (CFI) officers and Scorteanu was charged
with assisting unlawful immigration into the UK. It is believed
the 10 Vietnamese nationals were trapped in the fridge for 36
hours from when Scorteanu started his journey in Germany.
They had no food and were only given water to drink. Katie Brown,
from CFI, said: ‘Scorteanu’s callous disregard for their safety
is frightening.’ The Vietnamese men found in the fridge were
refused entry to the UK and removed to Rotterdam in The
Netherlands. The eight children were taken into the care of
social services. Scorteanu, who did not have a fixed UK address,
was jailed for four years and six months at Hull Crown Court on
March 7 having admitted the offence at an earlier hearing.
From: Donnie
Re: OpenOffice compatibility
I suggested Open Office to a friend's son who is a college
student on a snug budget. His on-line assignments
require WORD.
Will Word open an Open Office document? I tried a sample
document on my computer, but was not successful.
Is there any trick that will work easily?
Thanks once again for all of your help.
Dear Donnie
Yes, I realize that some colleges accept bribes from Microsoft
dealers for insisting that only Microsoft products be allowed.
Word can't open Open Office documents, it is way too primitive
for that.
However, Open Office can save documents as Word Documents.
Open office is OPEN. It works on UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mac,
and it can save documents and spreadsheets in just about any
format. That's why it is called OPEN, and why the business world
is switching to it.
Kids limited to WORD will soon have a hard time competing
with those who are comfortable with OPEN. The more progressive
colleges have already realized that and switched to OPEN Office.
Just tell him to save the documents in Word format, so that
the backward teacher can read it.
Word does work just fine on WORD documents,
it is just a bit limited outside that narrow alley.
Had a friend whose Grandpa lived with 'em... He was
always going on about the good old days, and the lower
cost of living, in particular...
"When I was a boy, my momma could send me to the store,
and I'd get a ham, a quart of milk, 6 oranges, 2 loaves o' bread,
and a comic book... all fo' a quarter!! You can't DO that no
mo'...
...them daing video cameras is ever'where ya look......"
Mark was only 5 feet, 8 inches tall when he left for college
in the fall. He worked through the Christmas holidays and didn't
return home again until the February break.
When he got off the plane, I was stunned at how much taller he
looked. Measuring him at home, I discovered he now stood at 5
feet, 11 inches.
My son was as surprised as I. "Couldn't you tell by your clothes
that you'd grown?" I asked him.
"Since I've been doing my own laundry," he replied, "I just
figured everything had shrunk."
Evaporating water requires tremendous amounts of energy. It only
takes 1 BTU (British thermal unit) to raise 1 pound of water 1
degree, but each pound of 80 degree F water that evaporates takes
a whopping 1,048 BTU of heat out of the pool.
This guy's art work with flowers is amazing!
LOCAL MAN WINS 'EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH AWARD' FOR 23RD
STRAIGHT MONTH
Chuck Rogers, a self employed marketing consultant, has won his
company's 'Employee of the Month Award' for a record 23 months in
a row. Said Rogers, "I began the award program nearly two years
ago when my psychologist and business coach suggested that I
needed to create a company plan for maintaining employee moral
and building self-esteem."
Rogers, who works alone from his home office, has received 100%
of the votes for the 'Employee of the Month Award' since its
inception. Said Rogers, "It feels really good every time I win
the award. I am always surprised and flattered when the winner is
announced. But the best part is that I get to use the special
parking spot set aside for the winner.
It is right next to the house. You can't imagine what a benefit
that has been!"
I was a second lieutenant in the Army, learning to fly
light aircraft at Fort Sill, Okla. One day I made a
perfectly smooth landing. At last!
To my horror, when I stepped on the brakes nothing
at all happened. "What'll I do now?" I shouted to my
instructor. "The brakes failed!"
"I'm not surprised," he growled. "We're still two feet
in the air."
Years ago, Nebraskans got tired of leaning into the wind,
having their top soil blown away, and chickens laying their
eggs two and three times. Seems the wind continually came
down from Canada, and there was nothing between Canada
and Nebraska to stop it.
The farmers all got together and decided to build a fence
across the North Border of the State of Nebraska. . . . the
idea being, to stop that cold wind.
It might've worked, too. The barbed wire they used was
strong enough, .but the real problem was that a couple
owners of farms on the upper border kept leaving their gates
open.
44 BC Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated by a herd of
high ranking Roman Senators. The day is known as the "Ides of
March."
1341 During the Hundred Years War, an alliance was signed between
Roman Emperor Louis IV and France's Philip VI.
1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first New
World voyage.
1778 In command of two frigates, the Frenchman la Perouse sailed
east from Botany Bay for the last lap of his voyage around the
1781 During the American Revolution, the Battle of Guilford
Courthouse took place in North Carolina. British General
Cornwallis' 1,900 soldiers defeated an American force of 4,400.
1862 General John Hunt Morgan began four days of raids near the
city of Gallatin, TN.
1864 Red River Campaign began as the Union forces reach
Alexandria, LA.
1875 The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, John McCloskey,
was named the first American cardinal.
1877 The first cricket test between Australia and England was
played in Melbourne. Australia won by 45 runs.
1892 New York State unveiled the new automatic ballot voting
1892 Jesse W. Reno patented the Reno Inclined Elevator. It was
the first escalator.
1901 German Chancellor von Bulow declared that an agreement
between Russia and China over Manchuria would violate the Anglo-
German accord of October 1900.
1902 In Boston, MA, 10,000 freight handlers went back to work
after a weeklong strike.
1903 The British conquest of Nigeria was completed. 500,000
square miles were now controlled by the U.K.
1904 Three hundred Russians were killed as the Japanese shelled
Port Arthur in Korea.
1907 In Finland, women won their first seats in the Finnish
Parliament. They took their seats on May 23.
1910 Otto Kahn offered $500,000 for a family portrait by Dutch
artist Frans Hals. Kahn had outbid J.P. Morgan for the work.
1916 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 troops, under
General Pershing, over the border of Mexico to pursue bandit
Pancho Villa. The mission failed.
1917 Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicated himself and his son. His
brother Grand Duke succeeded as czar.
1919 The American Legion was founded in Paris.
1922 Fuad I assumed the title of king of Egypt after the country
gained nominal independence from Britain.
1934 Henry Ford restored the $5 a day wage.
1935 Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda banned four
Berlin newspapers.
1937 In Chicago, IL, the first blood bank to preserve blood for
transfusion by refrigeration was established at the Cook County
1938 Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1939 German forces occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and part of
Czechoslovakia.
1944 Cassino, Italy, was destroyed by Allied bombing.
1946 British Premier Attlee offered India full independence after
agreement on a constitution.
1949 Clothes rationing in Great Britain ended nearly four years
after the end of World War II.
1951 General de Lattre demanded that Paris send him more troops
for the fight in Vietnam.
1951 The Persian parliament voted to nationalize the oil
industry.
1954 CBS television debuted its "Morning Show."
1955 The U.S. Air Force unveiled a self-guided missile.
1960 The first underwater park was established as Key Largo Coral
Reef Preserve.
1964 In Montreal, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were
1968 The U.S. mint halted the practice of buying and selling
1979 Pope John Paul II published his first encyclical "Redemptor
Hominis." In the work he warned of the growing gap between the
rich and poor.
1982 Nicaragua's ruling junta proclaimed a month-long state of
siege and suspended the nation's constitution for one day. This
came a day after anti-government rebels destroyed two bridges
near the Honduran border.
1985 In Brazil, two decades of military rule came to an end with
the installation of a civilian government.
1989 The U.S. Food and Drug administration decided to impound all
fruit imported from Chili after two cyanide-tainted grapes were
found in Philadelphia, PA. Unions in the US were against Chilean
imports.
1989 The U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs became the 14th
Department in the President's Cabinet.
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first executive president
of the Soviet Union.
1990 The Ford Explorer was introduced to the public.
1990 The Soviet parliament ruled that Lithuania's declaration of
independence was invalid and that Soviet law was still in force
in the Baltic republic.
1991 Four Los Angeles police officers were indicted in the
beating of Rodney King on March 3, 1991. (California)
1991 Yugoslav President Borisav Jovic resigned after about a week
of anit-communist protests.
1994 U.S. President Clinton extended the moratorium on nuclear
testing until September of 1995.
1996 The aviation firm Fokker NV collapsed.
1998 More than 15,000 ethnic Albanians marched in Yugoslavia to
demand independence for Kosovo.
1998 CBS' "60 Minutes" aired an interview with former White House
employee Kathleen Willey. Wiley said U.S. President Clinton made
unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993.
2002 Libyan Abdel Baset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi began his life
sentence in a Scottish jail for his role in the bombing of Pan Am
Flight 103 on December 21, 1988.
2002 In the U.S., Burger King began selling a veggie burger. The
event was billed as the first veggie burger to be sold nationally
by a fast food chain.
2002 In Texas, Andrea Yates received a life sentence for drowning
her five children on June 20, 2001.
2002 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Associated
Press that the U.S. would stand by a 24-year pledge not to use
nuclear arms against states that don't have them.
Safari Browser
PIE DAY!
Thank you, Michael!!
Thank you, Bill!!
1958 The U.S. government suspended arms shipments to the Batista
government of Cuba ensuring the victory of Castro and the
Communists.
Two Memphis officers arrested hours apart
are latest in string of officer arrests
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the
level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
--- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three
requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking,
all is lost."
---Gustave Flaubert
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough
leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
--- George Bernard Shaw
From Jean
A 'Republican' is Sitting in a Bar
A union boss walks in from the factory next door and is about to
order a beer when he sees a guy at the far end of the bar wearing
a TRUMP Make America Great Again cap with two beers sitting in
front of him.
The union boss doesn't need to be an Einstein to know that this
guy is a Republican, so he shouts over to the bartender so loudly
that everyone can hear, "Drinks for everyone in here,
bartender.... but not for the ‘Republican'.
Soon after the drinks have been passed out, the Republican gives
him a big smile, waves at him then says, "Thank you!" in an
equally loud voice.
This infuriates the 'Union Boss'.
After a few minutes, the union boss once again loudly orders
drinks for everyone except the Republican. As before, this
doesn't seem to bother the Republican. He nods and smiles, and
again yells, "Thank you!"
A few more minutes pass and the union boss orders another round
of drinks for everyone except the Republican.
Frustrated that he can't seem to get the guy angered, the union
boss asks the bartender, "What is wrong with that Republican?
I've ordered three rounds of drinks for everyone in the bar but
him, and all the dummy does is smile and thank me. Is he
nuts...?"
"Nope," replies the bartender. “He owns the place."
Xavier Chin, 20,
Seminole County,
While Memphis always has a lot of officers arrested and in the
clink, it is relatively rare that they arrest two within hours
in separate incidents.
The first arrest happened just before 9 p.m. Thursday, when
police said Officer Dartelle Joyner got into a fight with a woman
inside of an East Memphis restaurant.
Police said a security guard tried to break it up, which is when
the nine-year veteran of the police department allegedly went to
his car, got an axe and used it to threaten the security guard.
The security guard managed to disarm and arrest Officer Dartelle
Joyner.
Less than an hour later, authorities said Ozell Toles hit a
utility pole while driving under the influence. The 18-year MPD
veteran now faces multiple charges.
Both officers were relieved of duty pending investigations by the
Both he and Sargent say they trust the majority of officers.
The Memphis Police Department has not commented on these latest
arrests.
Re: Safari
What's this with Safari?
I thought you were solidly on the Windows side!
Which browser do you really recommend now?
For max speed, the Chinese Maxthon seems to be best
For max compatibility, Chrome seems best
For the most tricks and gimmicks, FireFox is best
For reading long text pages, Safari is best.
Safari is slow, buggy and can't cope with a lot of stuff,
but it's font rendering is a class better than the rest.
Marketing Guy: Why haven't you kept me up-to-date on this
Ops Guy: I've cc'd you on every e-mail I sent to them!
Marketing Guy: I don't have time to read my e-mails. There's
too much information in them. If you send me an important
e-mail, give me a call to let me know I need to check it.
Every morning during our coffee break, my co-workers and I
listened to the culinary disasters of a newlywed colleague.
We then tried to share some helpful hints and recipes.
One day she asked us for step-by-step instructions on cooking
sweet potatoes, one of her husband's favorites. "I've finally
been able to make them sweet," she said, "but how do you make
them orange?"
Moving Furniture and Wall Art
Wrap furniture in plastic to keep them clean and together. You
can also stand them on their end to save space. When you take
down paintings and prints, tape hooks and nails used to hang them
to the back of the frame. Use a large piece of cardboard to
protect the front of prints and paintings.
It is a good idea to patch nail holes
immediately, so that you don't forget one and blow your
damage deposit. You can get tubes or little tubs of wall patch
at most hardware stores, even pre-colored in common
wall colors. In a pinch, you can fake it with a paste made from
flour and water.
To remove nails without damaging the wall, grab them with
small vise-grips or pliers, and turn them 3 full rotations, then
ease them out while continuing to turn in the same direction.
Don't reverse direction! The smaller the hole, the easier it is
to make it invisible.
Decorative cranes by
paper artist. It's hard for me to pick a favorite, they are all
beautiful. See if you can pick a favorite?
>From Mona
I sat with my infant son in front of the TV, hostage to
my husband's channel-surfing. He eventually settled on an
R-rated movie in which the actress was soon topless.
"Honey, change the channel," I said, shielding my son's
eyes. "He shouldn't see this."
"It's okay." my husband replied. "He probably thinks it's
the Food Network."
There were two good ol' boys from the South, who love to
fish, and they wanted to do some ice fishing. They'd heard
about it up in Canada, so they took off up there. The lake
was frozen nicely. They stopped just before they got to
the lake at a little bait shop and got all their tackle.
One of them said, "We're gonna need an ice pick." So they
got that, and they took off.
In about two hours, one of them was back at the shop and
said, "We're gonna need another dozen ice picks."
Well, the fellow in the shop wanted to ask some questions,
but he didn't. He sold him the picks, and the old boy left.
In about an hour, he was back. Said, "We're gonna need all
the ice picks you've got."
The bait man couldn't stand it any longer. "By the way," he
asked, "how are you fellows doing?"
"Not very well at all," he said. "We ain't even got the boat
in the water yet."
Custom at Duquesne University dictated that if a professor
was ten minutes late, class was canceled. One professor
arrived early for a 9 a.m. lecture. He placed his hat on his
desk, and went to the faculty room. Before he knew it, it was
9:10. By the time he got back to his classroom, it was empty.
The next day, he let his students have it. "When my hat is here,"
he fumed, "I'm here!"
The following day, the professor arrived at 9 a.m. He was met by
the sight of 28 hats on 28 desks -- and no students.
1489 Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, sold her kingdom to
Venice. She was the last of the Lusignan dynasty.
1629 A Royal charter was granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1647 During the Thirty Years War, France, Sweden, Bavaria and
Cologne signed a Treaty of Neutrality.
1743 First American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil
1757 British Admiral John Byng was executed by a firing squad on
board HMS Monarch for neglect of duty.
1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
1864 Samuel Baker discovered another source of the Nile in East
Africa. He named it Lake Albert Nyanza.
1891 The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the bottom
of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links
across the Channel.
1900 U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the
ratification of the Gold Standard Act.
1900 In Holland, Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovered Mendel's
laws of heredity.
1901 Utah Governor Heber M. Wells vetoed a bill that would have
relaxed restrictions on polygamy.
1903 The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that
guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama. The
Columbian Senate rejected the treaty. A deal was signed on
November 6, 1903 with the newly independent Panama.
1904 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the governments claim that the
Northern Securities Company was an illegal merger between the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies.
1905 French bankers refused to lend money to Russia until after
their war.
1905 The British House of Commons cited a need to compete with
Germany in naval strength.
1906 The island of Ustica was devastated by an earthquake.
1912 An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempted to
kill Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome.
1914 Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to
assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from
12½ hours to 93 minutes.
1915 The British Navy sank the German battleship Dresden off the
Chilean coast.
1918 An all-Russian Congress of Soviets ratified a peace treaty
with the Central Powers.
1923 President Harding became the first U.S. President to file an
income tax report.
1932 George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed
1936 Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only
judge is God and itself.
1939 Hungary occupied the Carpatho-Ukraine. Slovakia declared its
independence.
1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S.
President to fly in an airplane while in office.
1945 In Germany, a 22,000 pound "Grand Slam" bomb was dropped by
the Royal Air Force Dumbuster Squad on the Beilefeld railway
viaduct. It was the heaviest bomb used during World War II.
1947 The U.S. signed a 99-year lease on naval bases in the
1947 Moscow announced that 890,532 German POWs were held in the
1951 U.N. forces recaptured Seoul for the second time during the
Korean War.
1964 A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee
Harvey Oswald.
1978 An Israeli force of 22,000 invaded south Lebanon. The PLO
bases were hit.
1979 The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were
married or would get married.
1979 Near Peking, China, at least 200 people died when a Trident
aircraft crashed into a factory.
1980 A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing
near Warsaw. 87 people were killed. A 14-man U.S. boxing team was
aboard the plane.
1981 Three Pakistani airline hijackers surrendered in Syria after
they had exchanged 100 passengers and crewmen for 54 Pakistani
prisoners.
1983 OPEC agreed to cut its oil prices by 15% for the first time
in its 23-year history.
1989 Imported assault guns were banned in the U.S. under
1991 The "Birmingham Six," imprisoned for 16 years for their
alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, were set free after a court
agreed that the police fabricated evidence.
1991 Bolivian interior minister Guillermo Capobianco resigned
after U.S. officials accused him of receiving money from drug
traffickers.
1995 American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American
to enter space aboard a Russian rocket.
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million for an
anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out
Islamic militants.
1998 An earthquake left 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran.
2002 A Scottish appeals court upheld the conviction of a Libyan
intelligence agent for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. A
five-judge court ruled unanimously that Abdel Basset Ali al-
Megrahi was guilty of bringing down the plane over Lockerbie,
Scotland.
2003 Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail.
Blake had been jailed for the murder of his wife Bonny Lee
Bakley.
Length of netwrk cable
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 12:29 PM
1884 Standard time was adopted throughout the U.S.
Florida man crashes car then led
police on bizarre nude foot chase
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
--- Jane Caminos
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in
touch with it.
--- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
The future father-in-law asked, "Young man, can you
support a family?"
The surprised groom-to-be replied, "Well, no. I was just
planning to support your daughter. The rest of you
will have to fend for yourselves."
Rufous Kingfisher
Xavier Chin, 20, abandoned his vehicle after the crash in
Seminole County, Florida on Sunday evening and began to run from
responding deputies without any clothes on. Cellphone video
showed the strange sight as Chin jogged through a field in an
attempt to escape.
Officers followed Chin as he ran in between homes trying to lose
the police, according to ClickOrlando. About a mile away from the
crash sight, Chin broke into the home of a man who was making
dinner. Chin, who was covered in mud and blood, darted into the
man’s bedroom and jumped in his bed with hopes that police would
never find him under the stranger’s sheets.
A short time later, deputies found Chin, who had thoroughly
dirtied up the resident’s bed. He was arrested and taken to a
local emergency room where he was treated for injuries he
sustained in the crash. Chin was charged with burglary, hit-and-
run, criminal mischief and resisting arrest. He was booked at
Seminole County Jail on Monday and his bail was set at $18,000.
From: Eddie
Re: Length of network cable
Thanks for the info, but I have had some calls that stated that
their modem/router was mor than 50 feet, and also I have this one
guy there at the center that stated that after 25 ft. you will
lose you connection speed. So I wonder if is in the wiring that
they are making now and or what type of ethernet cord do you
recommend?
The recommended maximum length for a cat5 or cat5e cable is
328 feet or 100 meters. CAT 6 is rated for 250Mhz up to a
distance of 1000 meters.
Those clowns should read what's written on the packages!
Under 25 feet you don't really need cable, unless you have to go
around a welder or a safe, because wireless is normally very
for the first 25 feet anyway. With wireless it drops off with the
cube of the distance, same as light.
Twice the distance is 2 x 2 x 2 8 times less signal strength.
3 times further is 27 times less signal strength.
With cable you don't have that problem. Cat 5 and Cat 6 are
nicely shielded and since there is no real current flowing,
there is no noticeable voltage drop. The network cards use
CMOS transistors, that act like closed loop hydraulics. They
transmit the push-pull impulses, but nothing flows out at
either end.
Keep in mind that on the other side of the modem is a crude
and unshielded phone line that simultaneously also carries
fax and voice and muzak and a pretty serious 60 cycle hum.
The modem just peels off the high frequency, cleans it up a
bit and forwards it down the ethernet cable.
If the signal coming TO the modem is reasonably good, don't
worry about the length of the ethernet cable.
The old gentlemen was aging more rapidly than he wanted.
"Your gout is getting worse." said the doctor. "I recommend
that you give up smoking, drinking and sex for a while."
"WHAT!" said the man. "Just so's I can walk a little better?
If it wasn't for those things I wouldn't get out of my
rocker in the first place !"
Woman: He's very successful. I'm sure he's a millionaire by
now, and he's only 26. He never even graduated from college.
Girl: I'm soooooo jealous. I wish I didn't have an education.
Avoid Bouncing Checks
Bouncing checks almost always ends up being a lot more costly
than sending in a late payment. Checks clear almost immediately
these days, so track your spending closely. Always keep a buffer
in your account and sign up for overdraft protection with your
bank.
Amazing Friesian horses.
Two elderly women were fussing about their husbands over
tea one day.
"I do wish my Leroy would stop biting his nails. That makes
me terribly nervous!" the first one said.
"Oh, my Elmer used to do the same thing," the other woman
commented. "But I broke him of that habit real quick."
"I hid his teeth!"
>From Jan
Unfortunately, getting a new passport required a new photo.
As I handed my ten-year-old passport and the new picture to
the clerk, I sighed. "I like the original better," I told
"Trust me," she said. "Ten years from now, you'll like this
one."
>From Adam
"My father says, 'Marry a girl who has the same belief as
the family.'
I said, 'Dad, why would I marry a girl who thinks I'm a
schmuck?'"
0483 St. Felix III began his reign as Pope.
0607 The 12th recorded passage of Halley's Comet occurred.
1519 Cortez landed in Mexico.
1639 Harvard University was named for clergyman John Harvard.
1660 A statute was passed limiting the sale of slaves in the
colony of Virginia.
1777 The U.S. Congress ordered its European envoys to appeal to
high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce the
American army.
1781 Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
1852 The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle
Sam cartoon". It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew.
1865 Jefferson Davis signed a bill authorizing slaves to be used
as soldiers for the Confederacy.
1868 The U.S. Senate began the impeachment trial of President
Andrew Johnson.
1877 Chester Greenwood patented the earmuff.
1878 The first collegiate golf match was played between Oxford
and Cambridge.
1900 In South Africa, British Gen. Roberts took Bloemfontein.
1901 Andrew Carnegie announced that he was retiring from business
and that he would spend the rest of his days giving away his
fortune. His net worth was estimated at $300 million.
1902 In Poland, schools were shut down across the country when
students refused to sing the Russian hymn "God Protect the Czar."
1902 Andrew Carnegie approved 40 applications from libraries for
donations.
1908 The people of Jerusalem saw an automobile for the first
time. The owner was Charles Glidden of Boston.
1911 The U.S. Supreme Court approved corporate tax law.
1915 The Germans repelled a British expeditionary force attack in
1918 Women were scheduled to march in the St. Patrick's Day
Parade in New York due to a shortage of men due to wartime.
1925 A law in Tennessee prohibited the teaching of evolution.
1930 It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered
by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
1933 U.S. banks began to re-open after a "holiday" that had been
declared by President Roosevelt.
1935 Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem
confirming some biblical history.
1940 The war between Russia and Finland ended with the signing of
a treaty in Moscow.
1941 Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the
1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps became the first woman
colonel in the U.S. Army.
1943 Japanese forces ended their attack on the American troops on
Hill 700 in Bougainville.
1946 Reports from Iran indicated that Soviet tank units were
stationed 20 miles from Tehran.
1946 Premier Tito seized wartime collaborator General Draja
Mikhailovich in a cave in Yugoslavia.
1951 Israel demanded $1.5 billion in German reparations for the
cost of caring for war refugees.
1951 The comic strip "Dennis the Menace" appeared for the first
time in newspapers across the country.
1957 Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges.
1963 China invited Soviet President Khrushchev to visit Peking.
1969 The Apollo 9 astronauts returned to Earth after the
conclusion of a mission that included the successful testing of
the Lunar Module.
1970 Cambodia ordered Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to leave.
1970 Digital Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-11 minicomputer.
1972 "The Merv Griffin Show" debuted in syndication for
Metromedia Television.
1974 The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty.
1974 An embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries was
1980 A jury in Winamac, IN, found Ford Motor Company innocent of
reckless homicide in the deaths of three young women that had
been riding in a Ford Pinto.
1988 The board of trustees off Gallaudet University in
Washington, DC, chose I. King Jordan to be its first deaf
president. The college is a liberal arts college for the hearing-
impaired.
1990 The U.S. lifted economic sanctions against Nicaragua.
1991 Exxon paid $1 billion in fines and for the clean-up of the
Alaskan oil spill.
2002 Fox aired "Celebrity Boxing." Tonya Harding beat Paula
Jones, Danny Banaduce beat Barry Williams and Todd Bridges
defeated Vanilla Ice.
2003 Japan sent a destroyer to the Sea of Japan amid reports that
North Korea was planning to test an intermediate-range ballistic
missile.
2003 A report in the journal "Nature" reported that scientists
had found 350,000-year-old human footprints in Italy. The 56
prints were made by three early, upright-walking humans that were
descending the side of a volcano.
2012 After 244 years of publication, Encyclopædia Britannica
announced it would discontinue its print edition.
1888 The "Blizzard of '88" began along the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard
shutting down communication and transportation lines. More than
400 people died.(March 11-14)
1755 In North Arlington, NJ, the steam engine was used for the
first time in America.
Fake Arizona nun busted for
trafficking fentanyl
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no
one knows what they are.
--- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
--- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
--- Andy Gibb
When her late husband's will was read, a widow learned
he had left the bulk of his fortune to another woman.
Enraged, she rushed to change the inscription on her
spouse's tombstone.
"Sorry, lady," said the stonecutter. "Per your
request, I inscribed 'Rest in Peace' already on it. I
can't change it now."
"Very well," she said grimly. "Just add, `Until We
Meet Again!'"
Esther Gomez De Aguilar, 53,
Jose Aguilar Diaz, 52,
Yuma,
This is one twisted sister!
An Arizona woman dressed as a nun — and carrying a Bible on her
lap — was busted trafficking $90,000 in the synthetic opioid drug
fentanyl, according to police.
Esther Gomez De Aguilar, 53, of Yuma was sporting a veil while
driving with her husband when an officer pulled them over for a
traffic violation in Eloy on Monday, Pinal County cops said.
The cop, who unleashed a drug-sniffing dog, searched De Aguilar
and found pounds of fentanyl powder and pills in her purse and
stashed under her clothes, police said in a Facebook post.
The couple was hauling a total of 8.5 pounds of fentanyl — enough
to kill hundreds of people, cops said.
“You can see they will use any means to conceal what they are
doing,” Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb said in a Facebook post.
“Fentanyl is extremely dangerous. All it takes is the equivalent
of 4 to 5 grains the size of sand to kill you.”
De Aguilar and her husband, Jose Aguilar Diaz, were charged with
possession and transportation of narcotics for sale.
From: Tom
Re: Saved Cookies
Deleting cookies does not necessarily delete passwords on
CCleaner. Both under Internet Explorer
and Windows Explorer on the Index page there is a heading called
"Saved Passwords". Unclick those and problem is solved.
I have had problems with Amazon in the past and I do not save
that password. Yes, it's a PIA to enter it each time but better
that than getting hacked. Have a great weekend (lol)
A woman went into a hardware store to purchase a bale of
peat moss. She gave a personal check in payment and said to
the clerk, "I suppose you will want some identification."
He replied, without hesitation, "No ma'am, that won't be
necessary."
"How come?" asked the woman.
"Crooks don't buy peat moss." answered the clerk.
Early in the Civil War, when the Union armies were suffering
repeated defeats, Abraham Lincoln was discussing the war
situation with his cabinet.
"How many men do you estimate are in the Confederate army?"
a cabinet member asked.
"About a million and a half," said Lincoln.
"That many?" said another member. "I thought the number was
considerably less."
"So did I," said Lincoln, "but every time one of our generals
lose a battle, he insists that he was outnumbered three to
one - and we have about 500,000 men."
If a store runs out of an item that is on sale, ask them
for a rain check. Rain checks allow you to pay the sale
price for the item at a later date. If the store can't give
you a rain check, take the ad to a competitor to see if
they will price match.
Photo of one in a million yellow cardinal.
The local high school has a policy that the parents must call
the school if a student is to be absent for the day. Alice
deciding to skip school and go to the mall with her friends.
So she waited until her parents had left for work and called
the school herself.
"Hi, I'm calling to report that Alice is unable to make it
to school today because she is ill."
Secretary at high school answered, "I'm sorry to hear that.
I'll note her absence. Who is this calling please?"
"This is my mother."
"I'm ashamed of you," the mother said. "Fighting with your
best friend is a terrible thing to do!"
"He threw a rock at me!" the boy said. "So I threw one at him."
The mother stated emphatically, "When he threw a rock at you,
you should have come to me."
The boy quickly replied, "What good would that have done?
My aim is much better than yours."
After years of his wife's pleading, the rich, good old boy
finally went with her to her little local Church on Sunday
morning. He was so moved by the preacher's sermon
that on the way out he stopped to shake his hand.
He said, "Reverend, that was the best damn sermon I
ever did hear!"
The Preacher replied, "Oh!! Why, thank you sir, but
please, I'd appreciate it if you didn't use profanity in the
Lord's house."
"I'm sorry Reverend, but I can't help myself. It was
such a damn good sermon, sir!"
"PLEASE, I cannot have you behaving this way in Church!"
"Okay Reverend, but I just wanted you to know that I
thought it was so damn good, I put $5,000.00 in that there
collection box."
"HOT DAMN, that's damn generous !"
1496 Jews were expelled from Syria.
1609 The Bermuda Islands became an English colony.
1664 New Jersey became a British colony. King Charles II granted
land in the New World to his brother James (The Duke of York).
1809 Britain signed a treaty with Persia forcing the French to
leave the country.
1857 "Simon Boccanegra" by Verdi debuted in Venice.
1884 The State of Mississippi authorized the first state-
supported college for women. It was called the Mississippi
Industrial Institute and College.
1889 Almon B. Stowger applied for a patent for his automatic
telephone system.
1894 Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
1903 The Czar of Russia issued a decree providing for nominal
freedom of religion throughout his territory.
1905 In Rome, Premier Giovanni Giolli was forced out of office by
continued civil strife.
1906 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations must yield
incriminating evidence in anti-trust suits.
1909 The British Parliament increased naval appropriations for
Britain.
1909 Three U.S. warships were ordered to Nicaragua to stem the
conflict with El Salvador.
1911 Dr. Fletcher of Rockefeller Institute discovered the cause
of infantile paralysis.
1912 The Girl Scout organization was founded. The original name
was Girl Guides.
1923 Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated phonofilm. It was his
technique for putting sound on motion picture film.
1930 Ghandi began his 200-mile march to the sea that symbolized
his defiance of British rule over India.
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg dropped the flag of the German
Republic and ordered that the swastika and empire banner be
flown
side by side.
1933 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt presented his first
presidential address to the nation. It was the first of the
"Fireside Chats."
1935 Parimutuel betting became legal in the State of Nebraska.
1938 The "Anschluss" took place as German troops entered Austria.
1940 Finland surrendered to Russia ending the Russo-Finnish War.
1944 Britain barred all travel to Ireland.
1947 U.S. President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to
help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
1959 The U.S. House joined the U.S. Senate in approving the
statehood of Hawaii.
1966 Bobby Hull, of the Chicago Blackhawks, became the first
National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 51 points in a
single season.
1974 "Wonder Woman" debuted on ABC-TV. The show later went to
CBS-TV.
1984 Lebanese President Gemayel opened the second meeting in five
years calling for the end to nine-years of war.
1985 The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. began arms control talks in
Geneva.
1985 Larry Bird (Boston Celtics) scored a club-record 60 points
against the Atlanta Hawks.
1985 Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced that he
planned to drop Secret Service protection and hire his own
bodyguards in an effort to lower the deficit by $3 million.
1987 "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway.
1989 Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi of Sudan formed a new cabinet
to end civil war.
1989 About 2,500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art
Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American
flag placed on the floor as part of an exhibit.
1992 Mauritius became a republic but remained a member of the
British Commonwealth.
1993 In the U.S., the Pentagon called for the closure of 31 major
military bases.
1993 Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female U.S. attorney
1994 A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell of the Loch Ness monster was
confirmed to be a hoax. The photo was taken of a toy submarine
with a head and neck attached.
1994 The Church of England ordained its first women priests.
1998 Astronomers cancelled a warning that a mile-wide asteroid
might collide with Earth saying that calculations had been off by
600,000 miles.
1999 Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic became members of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). All three countries
were members of the former Warsaw Pact.
2002 U.S. homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveiled a color-
coded system for terror warnings.
2002 Conoco and Phillips Petroleum stockholders approved a
proposed merger worth $15.6 billion.
2003 In Utah, Elizabeth Smart was reunited with her family nine
months after she was abducted from her home. She had been taken
on June 5, 2002, by a drifter that had previously worked at the
Smart home.
2003 The U.S. Air Force announced that it would resume
reconnaissance flights off the coast of North Korea. The flights
had stopped on March 2 after an encounter with four armed North
Korean jets.
2009 It was announced that the Sears Tower in Chicago, IL, would
be renamed Willis Tower.
Cookies and passwords
In case you didn't notice, now all your clocks are right again!
Globalism is the fashionable word for Global Communism.
Don't be fooled!
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
--- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Deciding to take up jogging, the middle-aged man was astounded by
the wide selection of jogging shoes available at the local sports
shoe store.
While trying on a basic pair of jogging shoes, he noticed a minor
feature and asked the clerk about it: "What's this little pocket
thing here on the side for?"
"Oh," said the sales clerk, "that's to carry spare change, so you
can call your wife to come pick you up when you've jogged too
far."
T-SHIRT PHILOSOPHY
The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
AOC's IQ test score is back and the results were negative.
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I
grew up
Procrastinate now
Rehab is for quitters
My dog can lick anyone
Party - my crib - two A.M. (on a baby-size shirt)
Finally 21, and legally able to do what I've been doing since 15
Serenity Nebula
Ernest Ray, 55,
Pikeville,
Eastern Kentucky man indicted on
multiple sex trafficking charges
(pimping minors)
U.S. Marshals arrested a Pike County man on sex trafficking
charges. Ernest Ray, 55, of Pikeville is facing five counts of
sex trafficking of minors.
Ray appeared in U.S. District Court Wednesday and is facing the
charges ranging between 2010 and 2016.
The federal indictment also states that Ray is facing six counts
of drug trafficking.
Ray was indicted on the charges on February 28th.
Ray was taken to the Pike County Detention Center on Tuesday.
In court on Wednesday, Ray pleaded not guilty to all charges.
A trial date is set for May 13th.
If convicted, Ray faces potential life in prison for each of the
sex trafficking charges.
Pleading "not guilty" and forcing the juveniles to testify the
gory details will negate any please for leniency.
From: Charles
Re: Cookies and Passwords
Every time I delete the cookies, all my passwords
are gone. Is there a way around that ?
Dear Charles
That is probably just a setting in your CrapCleaner.
It is quite popular to dump cookies and passwords when you go on
vacation, and the easiest way to do that is to dump cookies in
CrapCleaner.
Unless you go away or lend the machine to somebody, just leave
the cookies alone. Thay are quite safe nowadays.
A woman goes to a counselor, worried about her husband's temper.
The counselor asks, "What's the problem?
The woman says, "I don't know what to do. Every day my husband
loses his temper for no reason. It scares me."
The Counselor says, "I have a cure for that. When it seems your
husband is getting angry, take a double shot of Jack Daniel's and
swish it in your mouth. Swish and swish, but don't swallow until
he either leaves the room or calms down."
Two weeks later, she goes back to the counselor, looking fresh
and reborn.
She tells the counselor, "That was a brilliant idea. Every time
my husband started to get angry, I swished the Jack. I swished
and swished, and he calmed down. How does swishing Jack Daniel's
in your mouth do that?
The counselor said, "The Jack Daniel's does nothing. Keeping your
mouth shut is the trick.
Thanks to Annett for this story:
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office.
After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office
alone. He said, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe
stress disorder. If you don't follow my instructions carefully,
your husband will surely die.
"Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant at
all times. For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner
prepare an especially nice meal for him.
"Don't burden him with chores. Don't discuss your problems
with him; it will only make his stress worse. Do not nag him.
Most importantly, make love to him regularly.
"If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year,
your husband will regain his health completely.
If not, he will die in six months."
On the way home, the husband asked his wife,
"What did the doctor say?"
"He said you're going to die in six months," she replied
Organizing Children's Outfits
If you have young children who are just learning how to dress
themselves, try organizing clothing by outfit. For example, hang
a pair of slacks and a matching shirt in the closet together.
That way your child can just choose an outfit and get dressed.
Have you ever felt homesick for a place you've never been? Click on the link to read about the places some feel homesick for.
The sense of freshness...
A new supermarket opened in Montgomery, AL. It has an automatic
water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on,
you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of fresh
When you pass the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and you
experience the scent of fresh mown hay.
In the meat department there is the aroma of charcoal grilled
steaks with onions.
When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle.
The air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs
frying.
The bread department features the tantalizing smell of fresh
baked bread & cookies.
I don't buy toilet paper there any more.
Thanks to Connie for this story:
A woman gives birth to a baby, and afterwards, the doctor comes
in, and he says, "I have to tell you something about your baby."
The woman sits up in bed and says, "What's wrong with my baby,
Doctor?
What's wrong???"
The doctor says, "Well, now, nothing's wrong, exactly, but your
baby is a little bit different. Your baby is a hermaphrodite."
The woman says, "A hermaphrodite... what's that???"
The doctor says, "Well, it means your baby has the...er...
features... of a male and a female."
The woman turns pale. She says, "Oh my god! You mean it has a
penis...
AND a brain?"
A man stopped at a florist shop after work to pick up roses
for his wife. As the clerk was putting on the finishing
touches on bouquet, another man burst through the door,
breathlessly requesting a dozen red roses. "I'm sorry," the
clerk said. "This man just bought our last bunch."
The desperate customer turned to the other man and begged,
"May I please have those roses?"
"What happened?" the first man asked. "Did you forget your
wedding anniversary?"
"It's even worse than that," the second man confided. "I
crashed my wife's computer!"
537 The Goths began their siege on Rome.
1302 The characters Romeo and Juliet were married this day
according to William Shakespeare.
1649 The peace of Rueil was signed between the Frondeurs (rebels)
and the French government.
1665 A new legal code was approved for the Dutch and English
towns, guaranteeing religious observances unhindered.
1791 Samuel Mulliken became the first person to receive more than
one patent from the U.S. Patent Office.
1810 The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was married by proxy to
Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. That got him Austria and
Mexico.
1824 The U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker became the first Indian to lead
the Bureau.
1845 Seven hundred Maoris led by their chief, Hone-Heke, burned
the small town of Kororareka. The act was in protest to the
settlement of Maoriland by Europeans, which was a breach of the
1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1861 A Confederate Convention was held in Montgomery, Alabama,
where a new constitution was adopted.
1865 Union General William Sherman and his forces occupied
Fayetteville, NC.
1867 In Hawaii, the volcano Great Mauna Loa erupted.
1900 British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury rejected the peace
overtures offered from the Boer leader Paul Kruger.
1901 Britain rejected an amended treaty to the canal agreement
with Nicaragua.
1901 U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan
purchased Carnegie Steel Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the
world's richest man.
1904 After 30 years of drilling, the north tunnel under the
Hudson River was holed through. The link was between Jersey City,
NJ, and New York, NY.
1905 The Parisian subway was officially inaugurated.
1907 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt induced California to
revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.
1907 In Bulgaria, Premier Nicolas Petkov was killed by an
anarchist.
1930 Babe Ruth signed a two-year contract with the New York
Yankees for the sum of $80,000.
1930 U.S. President Howard Taft became the first U.S. president
to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, VA.
1935 The German Air Force became an official department of the
Reich.
1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Lend-
Lease Act, which authorized the act of providing war supplies to
the Allies.
1946 Communists and Nationalists began fighting as the Soviets
pulled out of Mukden, Manchuria.
1946 Pravda denounced Winston Churchill as anti-Soviet and a
warmonger.
1947 The DuMont network aired "Movies For Small Fry." It was
network television's first successful children's program.
1964 U.S. Senator Carl Hayden broke the record for continuous
service in the U.S. Senate. He had worked 37 years and seven
1965 The American navy began inspecting Vietnamese junks in an
effort to end arms smuggling to the South.
1969 Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.
1978 Bobby Hull (Winnipeg Jets) joined Gordie Howe by getting his
1,000th career goal.
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev was named the new chairman of the Soviet
Communist Party.
1986 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-
stick frozen treat for a one-stick model.
1988 A cease-fire was declared in the war between Iran and Iraq.
1990 Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
It was the first Soviet republic to break away from Communist
control.
1990 In Chile, Patricio Aylwin was sworn in as the first
democratically elected president since 1973.
1992 Former U.S. President Nixon said that the Bush
administration was not giving enough economic aid to Russia.
1993 Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to
become the first female attorney general.
1993 North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty refusing to open sites for inspection.
1994 In Chile, Eduardo Frei was sworn in as President. It was the
first peaceful transfer of power in Chile since 1970.
1997 An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant caused 35
workers to be exposed to low levels of radioactivity. The
incident was the worst in Japan's history.
1998 The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that
said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and
possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the
asteroid would hit Earth.
2002 Two columns of light were pointed skyward from ground zero
in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
W10 Hyperlinks not working for Eudora
1910 Slavery was abolished in China.
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
--- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
>From Nancy:
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Justin Trudeau all die and wind
up in hell.
While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for.
The Devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth.
Putin calls Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he was finished
the Devil informs him that the cost is a million dollars, so
Putin writes him a cheque..
Next Donald Trump calls the U.S. and talks for 30 minutes.
When he's finished the Devil informs him that the cost is
6 million dollars, so Trump writes him a cheque.
Finally Trudeau has his turn and calls Canada for 4 hours.
When he's finished, the Devil informs him that there would be
No charge and to feel free to call Canada anytime.
Putin and Trump go ballistic and ask the Devil why Trudeau got to
call Canada for free.Â
The Devil replied, " Since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister
of Canada, the country has gone to Hell, so it's a local call!
To pass the time while our plane was being de-iced, the flight
attendants played a trivia game with the passengers. They asked
us to guess the total number of years the three of them had
worked for the airlines.
After an attendant collected our estimates, we heard the
"The correct answer is 26 years.
For the two people who came closest with 28
years, we have prizes.
And for the passenger in seat 12F who guessed 85 years,
would you please step off the plane once we are airborne."
Have you ever seen a bear tree?
Billy Wethington,
Where's the beef? Frankfort man accused
of taking $75,000 worth of beef tenderloin
A Kentucky man is accused of stealing more than $75,000 of beef
tenderloin over several months.
News outlets report 42-year-old Billy Wethington was arrested in
Louisville on Friday and charged with theft by unlawful taking.
Police say Wethington worked at an undisclosed business. During
each shift, they say, he's accused of shoving eight to 10 beef
tenderloins into a garbage bag and putting it in his vehicle.
An arrest citation says Wethington was captured on surveillance
video stealing the beef. Court records show the business lost
more than $75,000 and up to $100,000 over the course of eight
months. The newspaper says police didn't initially reveal what
Wethington did with the beef that he's accused of stealing.
It's unclear if Wethington has a lawyer who could comment.
Re: Hyperlinks in Eudora
I had another computer crash, that's the fifth since installing
W10 in October, 2018. After reinstalling my programs, hyperlinks
in Eudora 7 do not open in Fifefox.
1) How can I check for hardware problems such as motherboard.
2) How can I get the hyperlinks to work.
That is not a hardware problem.
You had a 3 month grace period to revert to W7, but that is over.
The hyperlinks in Eudora have worked since about 1989. No change
Check in the Control panel, Default programs,
and make sure FireFox is selected as the default program for
hyper links and web pages,
and not some wacky stuff like Bing or Bling or Safari or Opera or
IE or Edge or the Chinesse clone of IE: Maxthon.
Sure, you COULD use Chrome or any of those, but you need to
install them first.
I use Chrome and am quite happy with it.
It is similar to FireFox but of course the settings are all
shuffled around, as is common with modern programs.
They don't want to get sued for copyright infringement.
The program does the same stuff ever since Netscape, but the
customization settings are not in the same order. You still drive
the same old car, but use different gloves.
Make sure Firefox, or any actually installed program is selected.
Eudora does not specify which browser to use. It just yells
and Windoze then looks in the control panel and opens whichever
browser is specified in there.
Our manager at the restaurant where I worked was a much
beloved, jovial man. But there was one subject you didn't dare
discuss in front of him -- his height. Or, should I say, his lack
of it.
One day, he stormed through the door and announced angrily,
"Someone just picked my pocket!"
Most of my fellow waitresses and I were speechless, except for
the one who blurted out, "How could anyone stoop so low?"
TWO ELDERLY WOMEN were trying on shoes in our store. When
I slipped a shoe onto one woman's foot, the end of my tie got
caught beneath her heel. Unaware of my predicament, she stood up
and started toward the mirror. For a few seconds, I found myself
crawling along the floor beside her, trying to get her attention.
"Look, Martha," her friend said. "He wants to go home with you!"
It will spread out the moisture more evenly. Or, toss wrinkled
clothing into a dryer with a damp towel for a few minutes before
ironing. Instead of using the sprayer in your iron, use a spray
bottle. A spray bottle on mist offers you much more control when
applying water.
FIVE YEARS AFTER my wife, Bridgid, and I were married, we
received our final wedding gift -- an ice-cream maker. In an
attempt to cover procrastination with humor, the friend who sent
it included a note: "I wanted to make sure the marriage would
last."
Bridgid wasn't amused, but she thought the present deserved a
thank-you note anyway, which she dutifully sent five years later.
Her note read: "I wanted to be sure the ice-cream maker would
A police officer was investigating an accident on a two-lane,
narrow road in which the drivers had hit virtually head-on.
One driver, an extremely elderly woman, kept repeating, "He
wouldn't let me have my half of the road!"
After gathering as much information as possible, he approached
the other driver, who was examining his own damage.
The police officer asked, "That old lady says that you wouldn't
let her have her half of the road. Why not?"
In exasperation, the man turns from his smashed car and says,
"Officer, I would have been HAPPY to give her half of the road --
- if she had just let me know WHICH half she wanted!!!!"
I was golfing with a soldier who had just returned from
Afghanistan. His plans included becoming a greens keeper once he
was discharged in a few months. He applied to a local college for
its golf course superintendent program, but the department chair
worried that he might not be up for the job. "It's stressful," he
"You have to fight the weather, insects and demanding club
members."
"Will anyone be shooting at me while I mow the grass?" asked
the soldier.
"Of course not."
"I'll take the job."
0241 BC The Roman fleet sank 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle
of Aegusa. Most of the Roman ships were privateers, owned by
businesses.
1496 Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the
Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1629 England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not
call it back for 11 years.
1656 In the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to
all free men regardless of their religion.
1785 Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He
succeeded Benjamin Franklin.
1792 John Stone patented the pile driver.
1804 The formal ceremonies transferring the Louisiana Purchase
from France to the U.S. took place in St. Louis.
1806 The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the
1814 In France, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined
Allied Army at the battle of Laon.
1848 The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
which ended the war with Mexico.
1849 Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift
vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
1864 Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the
U.S. Civil War.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with
the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want
to see you."
1880 The Salvation Army arrived in the U.S. from England.
1893 New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation
ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the
night before.
1894 New York Gov. Roswell P. Flower signed the nation's first
dog-licensing law.
1902 The Boers of South Africa scored their last victory over the
British, when they captured British General Methuen and 200 men.
1902 Tochangri, Turkey, was entirely wiped out by an earthquake.
1902 U.S. Attorney General Philander Knox announced that a suit
was being brought against Morgan and Harriman's Northern
Securities Company. The suit was enforcement of the Sherman
Antitrust Act. Northern Securities loss in court was upheld by
the U.S. Supreme Court on March 14, 1904.
1903 Harry C. Gammeter patented the multigraph duplicating
1903 In New York's harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was
quarantined with six dead from cholera.
1906 In France, 1,200 miners were buried in an explosion at
Courrieres.
1909 Britain extracted territorial concessions from Siam and
Malaya.
1912 China became a republic after the overthrow of the Manchu
Ch'ing Dynasty.
1924 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law
forbidding late-night work for women.
1927 Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak
in public.
1933 Nevada became the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.
1941 The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would
begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season.
1941 Vichy France threatened to use its navy unless Britain
allowed food to reach France.
1944 The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the
accusation of spying on Allied troops.
1945 American B-29 bombers attacked Tokyo, Japan, 100,000 were
killed.
1947 The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.
1947 Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a 20-year mutual aid pact.
1949 Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as
"Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was
convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.
1953 North Korean gunners at Wonsan fired upon the USS Missouri.
The ship responded by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.
They almost hit them!
1956 Julie Andrews at the age of 23 made her TV debut in "High
Tor" with Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson.
1966 The North Vietnamese captured a Green Beret camp at Ashau
Valley.
1966 France withdrew from NATO's military command to protest U.S.
dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its
from Paris.
1969 James Earl Ray pled guilty in Memphis, TN, to the
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated the
guilty plea and maintained his innocence until his death in April
of 1998.
1971 The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting
age to 18.
1975 The North Vietnamese Army attacked the South Vietnamese town
of Ban Me Thout.
1980 Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the
militants holding American hostages in Tehran.
1982 The U.S. banned Libyan oil imports due to their continued
support of terrorism.
1986 The Wrigley Company, of Chicago, raised the price of its
seven-stick pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum from a quarter to 30
cents.
1987 The Vatican condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-
tube and artificial insemination.
1990 Haitian President Prosper Avril was ousted 18 months after
seizing power in a coup.
1991 "Phase Echo" began. It was the operation to withdraw 540,000
U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf region.
1994 White House officials began testifying before a federal
grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
1995 U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Yasser
Arafat that he must do more to curb Palestinian terrorists.
1998 U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf began receiving the first
vaccinations against anthrax.
2002 The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the
U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans
the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that
threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including
Iraq and North Korea.
2003 North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was
one of several in a pattern of unusual military maneuvers.
My Anti-Virus recommendation
Saturday, March 9, 2019, 12:54 PM
Today is Saturday, March 9
Today, March 9 in
1975 Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
It still works just fine, and bears love walking on it.
Invention is the mother of necessity.
--- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
A guy was setting on his porch, when a young man walked
up with a pad and pencil in his hand.
"What are you selling young man?" the guy asked.
"I'm not selling anything," the young man said.
"I'm the Census Taker."
"The what?" the man asked.
"A Census Taker. We are trying to find out how many people
are in the United States."
"Well," the man said, "you're wasting your time with me,
I lost track of that number ages ago!"
Fresh out of Army parachute school, I was about to
make the first jump with my new outfit, the elite 82nd
Airborne Division and I was scared. I had heard the
stories about rookie jumpers who had been summarily
banished from the division when their nerve failed.
As soon as the green light came on, the jump master
screamed, "Stand up!" but my body wouldn't obey.
Then the veteran next to me came to my rescue. A
look of utter contempt on his face, he took the action
that enabled me to rise: he unsnapped my seat belt.
Hungry Man Dinner Tonight
Braulio Mata, 31,
Jose Garcia, 44,
Ramon Aracena Alfe, 47,
Dionell Duarte Hernandez,32,
Yarly Mendoza-Delorbe, 20
ARDSLEY, Westchester County,
DEA Targets Alleged Drug Mill, Walks Out
with Enough Drugs To Kill 2 Million People
A law enforcement raid of a residential home in Westchester
County, New York, on Friday resulted in the seizure of enough
fentanyl to kill about 2 million people, ABC News reported.
The Drug Enforcement Agency’s Tactical Diversion Squad and local
police “executed a search warrant” in the home, which authorities
believe functioned as “an elaborate heroin and fentanyl mill,”
according to News 12 Westchester.
Law enforcement discovered 6 kilos of heroin and 5 kilos of
fentanyl. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says
fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is “50 times more potent than
heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.”
entanyl is often added to heroin, cocaine and counterfeit
prescription pills without the user’s knowledge, leading to
overdose deaths.
The suspects arrested in the raid included Braulio Mata, Jose
Garcia, Ramon Aracena Alfe, Dionell Duarte Hernandez and Yarly
Mendoza-Delorbe, officials told WABC.
“The five face charges ranging from conspiracy and possession of
heroin and fentanyl to resisting arrest,” News 12 said.
The home’s landlord told WABC he rented the house in December to
a Bronx couple. The landlord claimed he had no idea about any
alleged illegal activity.
Neighbors told News 12 the area is normally quiet, and they were
surprised to hear about the alleged drug mill.
“However, they say they did notice cars coming and going,” News
12 reported.
“The fentanyl alone has the potency to kill nearly over two
million people,” said Ray Donovan, special agent in charge of the
DEA’s New York division, according to ABC News.
“I commend the men and women in the Task Force and Tactical
Diversion Squad for their quick and efficient investigation into
this organization and their diligence to the safety of the
residents living nearby,” Donovan said.
The “raid was conducted by a task force that included the DEA,
Westchester County police, Orangetown police, the Rockland County
Sheriff’s Office, Yonkers police, and the Putnam County Sheriff’s
Department,” ABC News noted.
>From Gyppo
Dear Webby.
Re Hank who has lost his browser passwords and has to keep
signing in. It may be that he has recently started using
CCleaner. If it's still on the default settings it will wipe all
his cookies and he'll have to re-enter passwords each time. No
problem to re-enter if you only visit a few password protected
sites, but a bummer if you have a whole raft of them suddenly
acting as if they've never seen you before.
Gyppo
Re: Anti Virus
I have been running AVG free addition and you likely know
they now want us to pay $55.00 Us for it...If I am going to
pay, and I'm willing to pay, can you tell me the best protection
to pay for? Is the new AGV worth the price ?
Thanks, as always for your excellant advice...I can't "click on"
with out you...lol.
Hugs Ann
I use MalwareBytes on all Webby machines.
It takes care of any and all Malware.
Aside from that I just use an ancient FREE Spybot0Search&Destroy,
about once every second year. I don't like the new version,
but the ancient version is just fine.
That's it. Nothing else. Anything else just slows things down.
After the service a woman went to the preacher, "Pastor, I hope
you don't take it personal that my husband walked out during your
sermon."
"Oh, I'm so glad you told me that, because it upset me terribly,"
said the preacher.
"What caused him to leave, if I may ask?"
"Oh he's walked in his sleep since he was a child."
A burglar broke into the house of a Quaker in the middle of the
night and started to rob it. The Quaker heard the noise and went
downstairs with his shotgun.
When he found the burglar he pointed his gun at him and said most
gently, "Friend, I mean thee no harm, but thou standest where I
am about to shoot!"
Mending Holes in Screens
If you have a hole in a screen door or window screen, you can
mend it just like you mend a piece of clothing. Just stitch the
hole shut using fine nylon thread or wire that matches the color
of the screen. If it is too big to repair, you can replace the
entire screen.
A guy is real drunk and gets home real late. Trying to avoid the
little woman, he parks a block away from his home. He takes
off his shoes as he walks up the stairs, careful not to make a
He quietly opens the door and tiptoes into the room, when
BAM, he gets hit with a cast iron frying pan.
Telling the story to a friend the next day at the local watering
hole, his best friend sadly shakes his head and says: "Boy are
you ignert! Now here's how I do it. When I get rip roaring
drunk I go borry my buds low rider Harley and go screamin up
and down my block a couple of times a hootin and a hollerin.
I take the Harley raht up on the porch and then start screamin
and a cussin. I slam open the door and scream, 'Hohney, Ah'm
home! Let's get it on!'
And you know what's amazin'? My wife is always sound asleep!!!"
"Get this," said the bloke to his mates. "Last night while I
was down the pub with you guys, a burglar broke into my house."
"Did he get anything?" his mates asked.
"Yeah, a broken jaw, six teeth knocked out, and a pair of broken
nuts. My wife thought it was me coming home drunk."
When the store manager returned from lunch, he noticed his
clerk's hand was bandaged, but before he could ask about the
bandage, the clerk said he had some very good news for him.
"Guess what, sir?" the clerk said. "I finally sold that
terrible, ugly suit we've had so long!"
"Do you mean that repulsive pink-and-blue double-breasted
thing?" the manager asked.
"That's the one!"
"That's great!" the manager cried, "I thought we'd never get rid
of that monstrosity! That had to be the ugliest suit we've ever
had! But tell me. Why is your hand bandaged?"
"Oh," the clerk replied, "after I sold the guy that suit, his
seeing-eye guide dog bit me."
Today March 9 in
1454 Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy. Matthias
Ringmann, a German mapmaker, named the American continent in his
honor.
1617 The Treaty of Stolbovo ended the occupation of Northern
Russia by Swedish troops.
1734 The Russians took Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland.
1745 The first carillon was shipped from England to Boston, MA.
1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon flight in North
America. The event was witnessed by U.S. President George
Washington.
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais were
married. They were divorced in 1809.
1799 The U.S. Congress contracted with Simeon North, of Berlin,
CT, for 500 horse pistols at the price of $6.50 each.
1812 Swedish Pomerania was seized by Napoleon.
1820 The U.S. Congress passed the Land Act that paved the way for
westward expansion of North America.
1822 Charles M. Graham received the first patent for artificial
teeth.
1832 Abraham Lincoln announced that he would run for a political
office for the first time. He was unsuccessful in his run for a
seat in the Illinois state legislature.
1839 The French Academy of Science announced the Daguerreotype
photo process.
1858 Albert Potts was awarded a patent for the letter box.
1859 The National Association of Baseball Players adopted the
rule that limited the size of bats to no more than 2-1/2 inches
in diameter.
1860 The first Japanese ambassador to the U.S. was appointed.
1862 During the U.S. Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and
Virginia (built from the remnants of the USS Merrimack fought to
a draw in a five-hour battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1863 General Ulysses Grant was appointed commander-in-chief of
the Union forces.
1897 A patent was issued to William Spinks and William Hoskins
for cue chalk.
1900 In Germany, women petition Reichstag for the right to take
university entrance exams.
1905 In Egypt, U.S. archeologist Davies discovered the royal
tombs of Tua and Yua.
1905 In Manchuria, Japanese troops surrounded 200,000 Russian
troops that were retreating from Mudken.
1905 In Congo, Belgian Vice Gov. Costermans committed suicide
following an investigation of colonial policy.
1906 In the Philippines, fifteen Americans and 600 Moros were
killed in the last two days of fighting.
1909 The French National Assembly passed an income tax bill.
1910 Union men urged for a national sympathy strike for miners in
Pennsylvania.
1911 The funding for five new battleships was added to the
British military defense budget.
1916 Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New
Mexico. 17 people were killed by the 1,500 horsemen.
1929 Eric Krenz became the first athlete to toss the discus over
160 feet.
1932 Eamon De Valera was elected president of the Irish Free
State and pledged to abolish all loyalty to the British Crown.
1933 The U.S. Congress began its 100 days of enacting New Deal
legislation.
1936 The German press warned that all Jews who vote in the
upcoming elections would be arrested.
1945 "Those Websters" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 During World War II, U.S. B-29 bombers launched incendiary
bomb attacks against Japan.
1946 The A.F.L. accused Juan Peron of using the army to establish
a dictatorship over Argentine labor.
1949 The first all-electric dining car was placed in service on
the Illinois Central Railroad.
1954 WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), in New York, broadcast the first
local color television commercials. The ad was Castro Decorators
of New York City. (New York)
1956 British authorities arrested and deported Archbishop
Makarios from Cyprus. He was accused of supporting terrorists.
1957 Egyptian leader Nasser barred U.N. plans to share the tolls
for the use of the Suez Canal.
1959 Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York.
1964 Production began on the first Ford Mustang.
1965 The first U.S. combat troops arrived in South Vietnam.
1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalin's daughter defected to the
1975 Iraq launched an offensive against the rebel Kurds.
1977 About a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings
in Washington, DC. They killed one person and took more than 130
hostages. The siege ended two days later.
1983 The official Soviet news agency TASS says that U.S.
President Reagan is full of "bellicose lunatic anti-communism."
1985 "Gone With The Wind" went on sale in video stores across the
U.S. for the first time.
1986 U.S. Navy divers found the crew compartment of the space
shuttle Challenger along with the remains of the astronauts.
1987 Chrysler Corporation offered to buy American Motors
1989 In Maylasia, 30 Asian nations conferred on the issue of
"boat people."
1989 In the U.S., a strike forced Eastern Airlines into
bankruptcy.
1989 In the U.S., President George H.W. Bush urged for a
mandatory death penalty in drug-related killings.
1990 Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as the first female and
Hispanic surgeon general.
1993 Rodney King testified at the federal trial of four Los
Angeles police officers accused of violating his civil rights.
(California)
1995 The Canadian Navy arrested a Spanish trawler for illegally
fishing off of Newfoundland.
2000 In Norway, the coalition government of Kjell Magne Bondevik
resigned as a result of an environmental dispute.
2011 Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation that
abolished the death penalty in his state.
When browser forgets passwords
Friday, March 8, 2019, 09:37 AM
Today is Friday, March 8
Thank you Claude!
1917 Russia's "February Revolution" began with rioting and
strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the
"February Revolution" due to Russia's use of the Old Style
calendar.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
--- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see
it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of
doubt, only moments.
---Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
A woman drove a minivan filled with a dozen screaming kids
through the mall parking lot, looking for a space. Obviously
frazzled, she coasted through a stop sign.
"Hey, lady," shouted a man in another car, "don't you know
when to stop?"
She rolled down her window and screamed at him,
"What makes you think these are all mine?"
A couple invites a group of friends to dinner. As they sit
down at the table, the wife turns to their 6-year-old daughter
and says, "Would you like to say the blessing?"
"I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replies.
"Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife answers.
The daughter bows her head and says,
"Lord, why on earth did I invite these ungrateful bums to
dinner?"
Ayub Abdulrahman,
Man throws Molotov cocktails at his own
vehicle inside Orange County impound lot
An Orange County man is under arrest after allegedly throwing
Molotov cocktails at his own vehicle inside of an impound lot,
according to an arrest report.
"He came back and started throwing gas cocktail bombs over the
fence on his own car," said car lot owner Darnell Adams.
An arrest report says the suspect, Ayub Abdulrahman, came to get
his car back after it was impounded and set it on fire instead.
Adams said he was going to hand over the keys because Abdulrahman
had already paid almost $300 to get this car out of the impound
lot, but instead of it going home the burned-out car was stuck
behind crime scene tape.
Adams said he was bringing Abdulrahman his keys when surveillance
cameras caught him throwing several fire bombs at the vehicle.
“Everything is on camera and I showed it to the cops,” Adams
said. “I mean it's just clear as day, throwing like three, four,
five gas bombs over the fence.”
Deputies asked WFTV not to show the rest of this video while
they're in the early stages of the investigation. But the
surveillance video shows exactly what Adams described.
“I didn't even own it anymore. He was getting it out,” Adams
said. “20 minutes. If he had waited twenty minutes, he would've
been able to drive away in his car.”
Adams said he was coming around the corner with the keys and saw
Abdulrahman running away. He chased after him until deputies to
made an arrest.
Adams said his mechanic was able to put the fire out with an
extinguisher.
“What if he would've came back later and tried to finish the job
and all my cars catch on fire?” Adams said.
Adams said he's especially grateful the scene is just contained
to the one car.
“We got a paint shop in the back so it's a lot of flammable
materials and he could've harmed a lot of people over here,”
Adams said.
Deputies said the State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating
the incident.
From: Hank
Re: Browser forgets passwords
Dear Webby;
I thoroughly enjoy your daily humor letter.
Lately, I have to sign in to every page that has a password to
enteer.
I have W10. Is this a new MS update improvement?
Dear Hank
There are no Microsoft "Improvements".
The Humor Letter is not passworded.
It is just a wide open public page.
Anything else depends on your browser settings.
If you have traditionally set your browser to remember passwords,
and then accidentally took that off, then you have to find out
how to put it back on.
The way to do that is, of course, different for each browser.
Find out which browser you are using, then check the settings.
That might be rather tedious, and you will probably find the
answer easier by googling for that browser's privacy settings.
For Chrome, for example, the info is here:
Choose your privacy settings
An investment counselor decided to go out on her own. Business
kept coming in, and pretty soon she realized that she needed an
in-house counsel. She began to interview young lawyers.
"As I'm sure you can understand," she started off with one of the
first applicants, "in a business like this, our personal
integrity must be beyond question."
She leaned forward. "Mr. Peterson, are you an honest lawyer?"
"Honest?" replied the job prospect. "Let me tell you something
about honest. Why, I'm so honest that my father lent me $15,000
for my education, and I paid back every penny the minute I
finished my very first case."
"Impressive. And what sort of case was that?"
The lawyer squirmed in his seat and admitted,
"He sued me for the money."
The other night Kyle, 9, and and his mother were watching a
commercial about Father's Day. Christal asked Kyle, "When
you grow up, are you going to have children?"
He immediately replied, "Yep!"
Christal decided to have fun with him, so she added, "You know,
you have to kiss a girl to have children."
Kyle thought for a moment and then looked at his mother and
said very seriously, "I'll adopt." --
Sap on Your Car
Walter arrived at his office late one morning and was greeted
with giggles from the pretty young receptionist.
"What are you laughing at?" asked Walter.
"There's a big black smudge on your face," said the girl.
"Oh, that!" said Walter. "That's easy to explain. I saw my
wife off on a month's vacation this morning; I took her to
the station and kissed her good-bye."
"But what about the smudge?"
"As soon as she got on board, I ran up and kissed the engine."
How aircraft carriers work.
>From Millard
During my stay at an expensive hotel in New York City, I
woke up in the middle of the night with an upset stomach.
I called room service and ordered some soda crackers. When
I looked at the charge slip, I was furious. I called room
service and raged, "Hey, I know I'm in a luxury hotel, but
$11.50 for six crackers borders on the ridiculous!"
"The crackers are complimentary," the voice at the other
end coolly explained. "I believe, sir, you are complaining
about your room number."
The pastor of a church began his sermon with this story:
"I was on a plane last week, flying from Chicago to California,
when we ran into some very severe turbulence.
As it got worse, the passengers became more and more
alarmed, and eventually even the flight attendants began to
look concerned. Finally, one of them noticed that I had 'Rev.'
in front of my name on the passenger list, came over to me,
and said, 'Sir, this is really frightening. Do you suppose you
could...I don't know...do something religious?'"
"So I took up a collection."
A rabbi is riding in a cab when they see a guy kicking a woman
who's lying on the sidewalk.
The cabbie zooms over, jumps out, and runs to help the lady.
The rabbi rolls down the window, and starts yelling, "Stop it!
Stop it! Stop the meter!"
1618 Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.
1702 England's Queen Anne took the throne upon the death of King
William III.
1782 The Gnadenhutten massacre took place. About 90 Indians were
killed by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out
by other Indians.
1855 A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls, NY.
1862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" was launched.
1880 U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United
States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the
isthmus of Panama.
1887 The telescopic fishing rod was patented by Everett Horton.
1894 A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York. It
was the first animal control law in the U.S.
1904 The Bundestag in Germany lifted the ban on the Jesuit order
of priests.
1905 In Russia, it was reported that the peasant revolt was
spreading to Georgia.
1907 The British House of Commons turned down a women's suffrage
1909 Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in
Hungary.
1910 In France, Baroness de Laroche became the first woman to
obtain a pilot's license.
1910 The King of Spain authorized women to attend universities.
1911 In Europe, International Women's Day was celebrated for the
1911 British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared
that Britain would not support France in the event of a military
conflict.
1917 The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the
cloture rule.
1921 Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated while leaving
the Parliament in Madrid.
1921 French troops occupied Dusseldorf.
1933 Self-liquidating scrip money was issued for the first time
at Franklin, IN.
1941 Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish
any anti-Nazi protests.
1942 During World War II, Japanese forces captured Rangoon,
Burma.
1943 Japanese forces attacked American troops on Hill 700 in
Bougainville. The battle lasted five days.
1945 Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy
Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to
serve duty in World War II.
1946 In New York City, the "Journal American" became the first
commercial business to receive a helicopter license.
1946 The French naval fleet arrived at Haiphong, Vietnam.
1948 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in
public schools was unconstitutional.
1953 A census bureau report indicated that 239,000 farmers had
quit farming over the last 2 years.
1954 France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form
the state of Indochina.
1959 Groucho, Chico and Harpo made their final TV appearance
1961 Max Conrad circled the globe in a record time of eight days,
18 hours and 49 minutes in the Piper Aztec.
1965 The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam. They
were the first U.S. combat troops to land in Vietnam.
1966 Australia announced that it would triple the number of
troops in Vietnam.
1973 Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain.
234 people were injured.
1982 The U.S. accused the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with
poison gas.
1985 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported that 407,700
Americans were millionaires. That was more than double the total
from just five years before.
1986 Four French television crewmembers were abducted in west
Beirut. All four were eventually released.
1988 In Fort Campbell, KY, 17 U.S. soldiers were killed when two
Army helicopters collided in midair.
1989 In Lhasa, Tibet, martial law was declared after three days
of protest against Chinese rule.
1999 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Timothy
McVeigh for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in
1999 The White House, under President Bill Clinton, directed the
firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory. The firing was a result of alleged
security violations.
2001 The U.S. House of Representatives voted for an across-the-
board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.
2005 In norther Chechnya, Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov
was killed during a raid by Russian forces.
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Thursday, March 7, 2019, 08:37 AM
Today is Thursday, March 7
1935 Malcolm Campbell set an auto speed record of 276.8 mph
in Florida.
A man can sleep around, no questions asked,
but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
--- Joan Rivers (1935 - )
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus
handicapped.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side,
and it holds the universe together....
--- Carl Zwanzig
Gore is indebted to his memory for his jests
and to his imagination for his facts.
--- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Little Willie asked his mother: "Mamma, don't soldiers ever go to
heaven?"
Of course they do!" protested his mother. "What makes you ask?"
There are so many soldiers with beards but I never saw any
pictures of angels with beards."
Oh, that's because most MEN who go to Heaven get there by a close
shave."
A man's house is on fire. No help is in sight so he takes
matters into his own hands.
He runs out of the house with his son and tells him to wait
outside.
Then he runs back in and gets is daughter and brings her
ouside. Then his wife. Then the dog. Then the cat.
Then he goes back in "3 more times" without bringing out
anybody or anything.
So a bystander is curious and asks him, "Why do you keep
going back into your burning house and not coming out with
anything?"
The man replies, "I'm turning over my mother in law."
Reported by Helen R.
Andrea Baber,
Christian school teacher, who was caught
by her husband having sex with her
15-year-old male student is sentenced to
20 months in prison
A Christian school teacher who was caught by her husband having
sex with her 15-year-old male student has been sentenced to just
20 months in prison.
Andrea Baber, 30, was sentenced in Douglas County on Friday after
she was caught having sex with the student in 2017.
She pleaded guilty to three counts of third-degree rape and six
counts of contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor.
As part of her plea deal, 20 other charges including sodomy and
giving marijuana to a minor were dropped.
She will also have to register as a sex offender.
Baber, who was a teacher at Logos Christian Academy in
Springfield, was arrested in 2017 after the victim's father
received an anonymous email alerting him to the relationship.
The email asked the boy's father if he knew his son was in a
sexual relationship with Baber.
Several photos were attached to the email that showed Baber and
the victim in bed together.
The boy's father reported it to police.
Separately, Baber's husband also filed a report with child
protective services after he found his wife and the boy partially
clothed in the couple's bed.
Police later found that Baber had sex with the student 'on a
regular basis' from 2016 onward.
During her sentencing, Baber apologized to the victim and his
'I want to extend my apologies to the victim and his family, and
I am happy to serve this sentence if it satisfies the victims
family, but I know I was not justified,' Baber said, according to
the News-Review.
In addition to jail time, Baber has also been ordered to pay the
victim $1,100 for counseling.
Baber was an English teacher at Logos Christian Academy in
Springfield when she started having sex with the 15-year-old
student.
From: Stacy
Re: IP numbers of postcard senders
Please advise who I need to send a preservation letter to in
to secure the sender IP address of the following Internet
cards that were sent from ..........
Detective Stacy H........
Domestic Violence Unit
City of........
Dear Stacy
Just reveal the header of the pick-up notice.
You will see a line starting with X-STAMP.
That line gives you all the gory details that you need. The date
and time is in EST. It even tells you what kind of browser and
what version the perp used.
We invented and instituted that X-Stamp in 1995 to help people
like you to find and stop abusers.
>From Lisa
When I was 28, I was teaching English in a high school where
occasionally the faculty and staff were allowed to dress
down. One of those days I donned a sweatshirt and slacks.
A student came in, and his eyes widened. "Wow!" he exclaimed.
"You should wear clothes like that every day. You look twenty,
maybe even thirty years younger.
"Johnny," said his teacher, "if coal is selling at $6 a ton
and you pay your dealer $24, how many tons will he bring you?"
"A little over three tons, ma'am," said Johnny.
"Why, Johnny, that isn't right," said the teacher.
"No, ma'am, I know it isn't," said Johnny, "but they all do it."
The harder the sap gets, the tougher it is to remove and the more
likely it is to scratch your car's finish. Make a paste with a
mild abrasive like baking soda and apply to the sap, then rub it
with a rag until the sap is removed. Other products you can try
are mayonnaise or WD-40.
Umbrella Magic!
The day I started my construction job, I was in the office
filling out an employee form when I came to the section that
asked: Single____, Married____, Divorced____.
I marked single. Glancing at the man next to me, who was
also filling out his form, I noticed he hadn't marked any
of the blanks. Instead he had written, 'Yes, in that order.'
>From Ed
Our supervisor recently made a casual comment
about my shaggy mane. He then went on to extol
the virtues of a good haircut, which, he insisted,
makes an elderly man look younger, and a younger
man seem more mature.
"How would a haircut make a middle-aged man like
me appear?" I asked, trying to stump him.
"Still employed," he answered.
Consider the man who couldn't make up his mind what to order,
no matter how long and hard he studied the menu. Finally, he
turned to the waiter for help.
"Well," said the waiter, "today our special is chicken on a bed
of wild rice with green beans almondine and a nice side salad,
with a succulent shrimp cocktail and your choice of beverage
and dessert."
"That sounds great. How is your chicken prepared?"
"We break it to her very gently
and tell her it's nothing personal!"
0322 BC Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.
1774 The British closed the port of Boston to all commerce.
That did not go over well!
1799 In Palestine, Napoleon captured Jaffa and his men massacred
more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele was signed.
1849 The Austrian Reichstag was dissolved.
1854 Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No.
174,465) for his telephone.
1901 A grand jury indicted four citizens of Anderson, SC, that
had been operating a slavery system in parts of South Carolina.
It was determined that many African-Americans were captured while
traveling, were jailed and then sent to work for local
landowners.
1904 The Japanese bombed the Russian town of Vladivostok.
1904 In Springfield, OH, a mob broke into a jail and shot a black
man accused of murder.
1906 Finland granted women the right to vote.
1908 Cincinnati's Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the
city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate
automobiles."
1911 Willis Farnworth patented the coin-operated locker.
1911 In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000
troops to the border of Mexico.
1918 Finland signed an alliance treaty with Germany.
1925 The Soviet Red Army occupied Outer Mongolia.
1927 A Texas law that banned Negroes from voting was ruled
unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1933 CBS radio debuted "Marie The Little French Princess." It was
the first daytime radio serial.
1933 The board game Monopoly was invented.
1935 Malcolm Campbell set an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in
1936 Hitler sent German troops into the German Rhineland in
violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.
1942 Japanese troops landed on New Guinea.
1945 During World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at
Remagen, Germany.
1947 John L. Lewis declared that only a totalitarian regime could
prevent strikes.
1951 U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launched
Operation Ripper against the Chinese.
1954 Russia appeared for the first time in ice-hockey
competition. Russia defeated Canada 7-2 to win the world ice-
hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden.
1955 "Peter Pan" was presented as a television special for the
1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick said that he was in favor
of legalizing the spitball.
1955 Phyllis Diller made her debut at the Purple Onion in San
Francisco, CA.
1959 Melvin C. Garlow became the first pilot to fly over a
million miles in jet airplanes.
1965 State troopers and a sheriff's posse broke up a march by
civil rights demonstrators in Selma, AL.
1968 The Battle of Saigon came to an end.
1971 A thousand U.S. planes bombed Cambodia and Laos.
1975 The U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule. The new rule
allowed 60 senators to limit debate instead of the previous two-
thirds.
1981 Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed the
kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman. The
guerrillas accused Bitterman of being a CIA agent.
1985 The first AIDS antibody test, an ELISA-type test, was
1987 Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titleholder when
he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round fight in Las
Vegas, NV.
1989 Poland accused the Soviet Union of a World War II massacre
in Katyn.
1994 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at
an original work can be considered "fair use" that does not
require permission from the copyright holder.
1994 In Moldova, a referendum was rejected by 90% of voters to
form a union with Rumania.
1999 In El Salvador, Francisco Flores Pérez of the ruling
Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) was elected president.
2002 A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88
million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle
over the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II.
2003 Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
announced that they had transferred 6.7 gigabytes of uncompressed
data from Sunnvale, CA, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 58 seconds.
The data was sent via fiber-optic cables and traveled 6,800
2009 NASA's Kepler Mission, a space photometer for searching for
extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy, was launched from
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Compressed air vs Vacuum
Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 09:53 AM
Today is Wednesday, March 6
1899 Aspirin was patented by German researchers
Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is
humanity in the higher.
--- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885),
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about
diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
---George Dennison Prentice
Don't worry if your job is small,
and your rewards are few.
Remember that the mighty oak
was once a nut like you!
The grizzled old Master Chief was conducting the course in
boot camp. He growled at me: "If you were on night sentry
duty and saw a figure crawling towards camp, what procedure
would you follow?"
"Well, Master Chief," I answered, "I'd help the officer to his
quarters."
A women's lib speaker was addressing a large group and said,
"Where would man be today if it were not for woman?"
She paused a moment and looked around the room. "I repeat,
where would man be today if it were not for woman?"
>From the back of the room came a voice,
"He'd be in the Garden of Eden eating strawberries."
"Pillars of Creation", part of the Eagle nebula, where new stars
are forming. The tall pillar on the left is 4 lightyears tall.
Dawn Renee Phillips,
Graham County,
Bimbo arrested for knocking over
61 grave stones
The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office confirms, an arrest has been
made for the vandalism at a local cemetery.
Authorities tell News 13, following a tip, they arrested 58-year-
old Dawn Renee Phillips. Phillips is charged with 61 felony
counts of desecrating grave sites.
Phillips is originally from Oregon but had a Kentucky drivers
She is currently in custody on a $125,000 bond.
An update on the vandalism that took place at Lone Oak cemetery.
We received information last night that the suspect and vehicle
were observed at the rest area in Andrews at approximately noon
yesterday. We have worked with the good folks at the Cherokee
County Sheriff's Office throughout the day today. I just spoke
with Cherokee County and the subject has been identified, she is
from out of state. Arrest warrants are being issued at this time
and she will be in our custody shortly. I want to thank everyone
for sharing the photographs that were put out on Facebook, it
played a major part in this subject being found and identified.
Updated information will be provided as we are able to do so.
From: Susan
Re: Compressed Air versus vacuum
Ever since my hubby took one of those government computer
courses, he insists on using those expensive and silly
compressed air cans to "clean" everything in, on or near
computers, instead of using a vacuum cleaner. Is there
any reason for doing that with compressed air?
Dear Susan
No, there is absolutely no reason for blowing dirt and
dust from one place to another or for blowing lose parts into
inaccessible locations. It's just that puppy dogs and many
men are scared of vacuum cleaners, so they come up with
wimpy excuses for not using them.
If you are worried about sucking up loose screws and
springs, just use a clean filter bag. I have used a bag-pipe
style ShopVac with shoulder strap since the days of the
PC/XT (mid 80's), including a few years as mobile computer
troubleshooter in the 90's, and never had any mishaps,
except for occasionally tripping over the hose while running
up narrow stairways, while carrying a repaired computer under
the left arm, tool case in the right hand, vacuum on the back;
and getting bumped by cute ladies coming down the stairs.
But even that was fun.
Just leave the computer plugged in but turned off. That way
it is grounded and does not build up static. Use the vacuum
cleaner's crevice tool and touch the bare metal at the back of
computer as the first thing to clean, and you won't have any
static related accidents.
If you have kids, take those "compressed air" cans and heave them
into the garbage. Kids like huffing them and every year a dozen
or more of them die from that.
Nobody ever died from using a vacuum cleaner.
After the birth of my son, a woman from the records depart-
ment stopped by my hospital room to get information for his
birth certificate.
"Father's date of birth?" she asked.
When I told her, she said, "Do you realize that his birthday
is exactly nine months before your son's birth?"
"No, I hadn't thought about it," I responded, "but now that
you mention it, I realize that I have a daughter who turned
two a couple of days before the same date."
After she finished taking down all the data, she patted my
hand and said, "Maybe you should start buying your husband
a tie for his birthday."
And get his secretary pregnant instead?
One night at the dinner table, Jill commented, "When we were
first married, you took the small piece of steak and gave me the
larger. Now you take the large one and leave me the smaller; You
don't love me any more..."
"Nonsense, darling," replied John, "you just cook better now,
and we can afford better steak knifes."
Sharp Blades on the Lawn Mower
It's important to have sharp mowing blades. Dull blades don't
cut the grass, they tear it. This causes stress to your lawn and
makes it more susceptible to disease and insect problems. When
grass is torn rather than cut, it can also develop a brown
Welcome to the Visual Dictionary
Online, the dictionary with a new point of view.
A lady lost her handbag in the bustle of shopping at the
mall. It was found by an honest little boy, who returned it
to her. Looking in her purse, she commented, "Hmm, that's
funny. When I lost my bag, there was a $20 bill in it. Now
there are twenty $1 bills."
The boy quickly replied, "That's right, lady. The last time
I found a lady's purse, she didn't have any change for a
reward."
One of the posh hotels in Las Vegas employs my sister-in-law
as a room-service attendant. During a medical convention at
the hotel, she was preparing a breakfast order that consisted
of fried eggs, bacon, ham, hash browns and a cheese danish.
"Now that's a heart attack waiting to happen," commented a
passing co-worker.
"Yeah," my sister-in-law replied. "And believe it or not, it's
just what the doctor ordered!"
One day a mother took her 6-year-old son with her to visit
a friend at work. Everyone there knew her, and she was
offered a cup of coffee. That day, as one of the employees
went to make more coffee, her son followed her and asked,
"What are you doing?"
"I'm making your mom's favorite drink," she answered.
Imagine the woman's shock when she heard her son say, "Wow!
You know how to make beer?"
1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.
1808 At Harvard University, the first college orchestra was
founded.
1820 The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and
signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri
into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the
rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1834 The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as
Toronto.
1836 The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his
army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the
189 Texas volunteers.
1854 At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Pope's
Stone from the lapidarium.
1857 The U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ruled that
blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.
1899 Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and
Hermann Dreser.
1900 In West Virginia, an explosion trapped 50 coal miners
underground.
1901 An assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen.
1907 British creditors of the Dominican Republic claimed that the
U.S. had failed to collect debts.
1928 A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead
and 50,000 fled to Swatow.
1939 In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a
military coup and vowed to seek "peace with honor."
1944 During World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first
American raid on Berlin. Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of
1946 Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement
with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state
within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1947 Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop
withdrawals from India.
1947 The first air-conditioned naval ship, "The Newport News,"
was launched from Newport News, VA.
1957 The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland
became the independent state of Ghana.
1960 Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal
elections.
1960 The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops
to Vietnam.
1967 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to
establish a draft lottery.
1970 Charles Manson released his album "Lies" to finance his
defense against murder charges.
1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil
and gas.
1975 Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled their border
1980 Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over
American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.
1981 U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal
1985 Yul Brynner played his his 4,500th performance in the
musical "The King and I."
1987 The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the
Channel off the coast of Belgium. 189 people died.
1990 The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the
ownership of private property.
1991 In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle
Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.
1992 The computer virus "Michelangelo" went into effect.
1997 A gunman stole "Tete de Femme," a million-dollar Picasso
portrait, from a London gallery. The painting was recovered a
week later.
1997 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official
royal Web site.
1998 A Connecticut state lottery accountant gunned down three
supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.
2015 The NASA space probe Dawn entred orbit around the
protoplanet Ceres in the asteroid belt.
He got no response to postcards
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 09:30 AM
Today is Tuesday, March 5
New York cop arrested for making and
selling guns to outlaws.
1934 In Amarillo, TX, the first Mother's-In-Law Day was celebrated.
1953 Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for 29 years.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
A Veterinarian was feeling ill and went to see her doctor.
The doctor asked her all the usual questions: what were
the symptoms, how long had they been occurring, etc..
Suddenly, she interrupted him: "Hey look, I'm a vet -
*I* don't need to ask my patients these kind of questions:
I can tell what's wrong just by looking." She smugly added,
"Why can't you?"
The doctor nodded, stood back, looked her up and down,
quickly wrote out a prescription, handed it to her and said,
"There you are. Of course, if that doesn't work, we'll have
to have you put to sleep."
While sports fishing off Melbourne Beach, a tourist capsized his
boat.
He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to
the overturned craft.
Spotting an old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist
shouted, "Are there any 'gators around here?!"
"Naw," the man hollered back, "they ain't been around for years!"
"Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the
shore. About halfway there he asked the guy, "How'd you get rid
of the 'gators?"
"We didn't do nothin'," the beach bum said.
"The sharks got 'em."
Sonora Borealis. Town in foreground is Tucson.
Gregg Marinelli,
Plattekill,
March 2 (UPI) -- A police officer in New York City has been
accused of illegally making handguns and assault weapons, then
selling them to criminals, N.Y. State Police said.
Gregg Marinelli, 38, a sergeant with the city's Department of
Environmental Protection Police, was arrested Thursday and
charged with six felonies: criminal sale of a firearm, two counts
of criminal possession of a weapon, manufacture/disposition of a
weapon, conspiracy and hindering prosecution, the State Police
said in a news release Friday.
"This has to be one of the most egregious breaches of trust that
I have encountered," Orange County District Attorney David
Hoovler said, according to the Times Herald-Record. "I am
furious. Number one, about the leak in the case; and number two,
the conduct, the possibility of putting untraceable guns on the
street."
Marinelli is being held in Orange County Jail in lieu of bail,
which was set at $200,000 cash or $600,000 bond by Deerpark Town
Court.
State Police and agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found gun parts, tools used to
make weapons and several firearms, including at least one fully
automatic assault rifle, at his home in home in Plattekill in
Ulster County, 75 miles north of New York City.
Many of the weapons were "ghost" guns -- meaning they were
manufactured without serial numbers.
They were sold to outlaw motorcycle groups and other people with
criminal convictions, who are barred from owning guns, troopers
"I am enraged that a police officer would sell exactly the types
of weapons that are used to kill innocent people, including
police officers," Hoovler said. "The types of 'ghost' guns which
were recovered in this case are valuable to criminals precisely
because they are difficult to trace. A police officer who alerts
an armed drug dealer who has proudly proclaimed his status as
'outlaw' motorcycle club member, that he is the subject of police
investigation, not only compromises that investigation, but puts
his fellow police officers at risk."
Thirteen handguns and assault rifles were recovered from others.
He's accused of allegedly delivering some of the illegal guns
using his marked police car.
"The alleged crimes betray the oath that this officer took to
protect the public," said Adam Bosch, director of public affairs
for the NYC Department of Environmental Protection Police. "DEP
is fully cooperating in the investigation."
The arrest of Marinelli is an off-shoot of a drug trafficking
case in Orange and Rockland Counties that uncovered a cocaine-
dealing motorcycle club and another operation that sold pills
containing fentanyl.
People who bought guns from the suspect are asked to turn them
"Those who voluntarily surrender the weapons in this manner will
not be prosecuted for their possession of the weapons, although
they could be prosecuted for any crimes committed with the
weapons," the State Police said.
Re: No response
Is it possible to detect if Angelwinks is on the Recipient's
blocked sender list? If it is on the blocked senders list,
how do you deal with the blocked cards?
Are they regarded as being "delivered" or would you send
an "unable to deliver" note?
I ask this because I have been sending cards and getting
a very prompt reply saying that the recipient has picked up
the card but have not received any reply from the Recipient.
If you get the "has picked up.." notice,
then somebody at the recipient's machine,
HAS indeed picked up and viewed your card.
There is no way we can tell if the person who opened and viewed
the card was the intended recipient, a spouse, parent, child,
room mate, the butler or employer.
All the program sees is that SOMEBODY at the recipient address
opened and viewed the card.
You will have to contact the recipient by chat or phone to find
out why you got snubbed.
It is also possible that YOU have the recipient blocked, and
that she is getting mighty annoyed with you.
So, contact her and find out!
"My son is such a saint. He works hard, doesn't smoke, and
he hasn't so much as looked at a woman in over two years."
The other woman said, "Well, my son is a saint himself. Not
only hasn't he not looked at a woman in over three years, but
"I am," the second mother replied. "And when he's paroled next
month, I'm going to throw him one heck of a big party."
A woman in our diet club was lamenting that she had
gained weight. She'd made her family's favorite cake
over the weekend, she reported, and they'd eaten half
of it at dinner.
The next day, she said, she kept staring at the other half,
until finally she cut a thin slice for herself. One slice led
to another, and soon the whole cake was gone. The woman
went on to tell us how upset she was with her lack of
willpower, and how she knew her husband would be
Everyone commiserated, until someone asked what her
husband said when he found out.
She smiled. "He never found out. I made another cake
and ate half!"
Breaking in a Baseball Glove
The best way to break in a baseball glove is to use it. To speed
up the process, apply a dab of shaving cream to the center of the
glove and then put a baseball in the pocket. Secure the glove
closed by tying a shoelace around the glove and put it between
your mattresses overnight.
Richard Branson and a group of scientists make exciting discoveries inside Great Blue Hole.
A trucker came into a truck stop cafe and placed his order.
He said, "I want three flat tires, a pair of headlights and a
pair of running boards."
The brand new waitress, not wanting to appear stupid, went
to the kitchen and said to the cook, "This guy out there just
ordered three flat tires, a pair of headlights and a pair of
running boards. What does he think this place is, an auto
parts store?"
"No," the cook said. "Three flat tires mean three pancakes,
a pair of headlights is two eggs sunny side up, and running
boards are 2 slices of crisp bacon.
"Oh, OK!" said the waitress. She thought about it for a moment
and then spooned up a bowl of beans and gave it to the customer.
The trucker asked, "What are the beans for?"
She replied, "I thought while you were waiting for the flat
tires, headlights and running boards, you might as well gas up!"
On the first day of school, the Kindergarten teacher
"If anyone has to go to the bathroom, hold up two
fingers."
A little voice from the back of the room asked,
"How is THAT going to help?"
Rick, fresh out of accounting school, went to a interview for a
good paying job. The company boss asked various questions about
him and his education, but then asked him, "What is three times
seven?"
"22," Rick replied. After he left, he double-checked it on his
calculator (he *knew* he should have taken it to the interview!)
and realized he wouldn't get the job.
About two weeks later, he got a letter that said he was hired for
the job! He was not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, but
was still very curious. The next day, he went in and asked why he
got the job, even though he got such a simple question wrong. The
boss shrugged and said, "Well, you were the closest."
1623 The first alcohol temperance law in the colonies was enacted
in Virginia.
1624 In the American colony of Virginia, the upper class was
exempted from whipping by legislation.
1766 The first Spanish governor of Louisiana, Antonio de Ulloa,
arrived in New Orleans.
1770 "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired
on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were
later convicted of manslaughter.
1793 Austrian troops defeated the French and recaptured Liege.
1836 Samuel Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing of Paterson, New
Jersey, was chartered by the New Jersey legislature.
1842 A Mexican force of over 500 men under Rafael Vasquez invaded
Texas for the first time since the revolution. They briefly
occupied San Antonio, but soon headed back to the Rio Grande.
1845 The U.S. Congress appropriated $30,000 to ship camels to the
western U.S.
1867 An abortive Fenian uprising against English rule took place
in Ireland.
1868 The U.S. Senate was organized into a court of impeachment to
decide charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1872 George Westinghouse patented the air brake for trains.
1900 Two U.S. battleships left for Nicaragua to halt
revolutionary disturbances.
1901 Germany and Britain began negotiations with hopes of
creating an alliance.
1902 In France, the National Congress of Miners decided to call
for a general strike for an 8-hour day.
1907 In St. Petersburg, Russia, the new Duma opened. 40,000
demonstrators were dispersed by troops.
1910 In Philadelphia, PA, 60,000 people left their jobs to show
support for striking transit workers.
1910 The Moroccan envoy signed the 1909 agreement with France.
1912 The Italians became the first to use dirigibles for military
purposes. They used them for reconnaissance flights behind
Turkish lines west of Tripoli.
1918 The Soviets moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to
Moscow.
1922 "Annie Oakley" (Phoebe Ann Moses) broke all existing records
for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets.
1923 Old-age pension laws were enacted in the states of Montana
and Nevada.
1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-day bank
holiday in order to stop large amounts of money from being
withdrawn from banks.
1933 The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German
parliamentary elections.
1934 In Amarillo, TX, the first Mother's-In-Law Day was
celebrated.
1943 Germany called fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds for military
service due to war losses.
1946 Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain Speech".
1946 The U.S. sent protests to the U.S.S.R. on incursions into
Manchuria and Iran.
1953 Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for
1956 The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ban on segregation in
public schools.
1970 A nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect after 43
nations ratified it.
1976 The British pound fell below the equivalent of $2 for the
first time in history.
1984 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities had the right to
display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.
1984 The U.S. accused Iraq of using poison gas.
1985 Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) became the first National
Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive
seasons.
1993 Cuban President Fidel Castro said that Hillary Clinton was
"a beautiful woman."
1993 Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the
Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned
performance-enhancing substances for a second time.
1997 North Korea and South Korea met for first time in 25 years
for peace talks.
1998 NASA announced that an orbiting craft had found enough water
on the moon to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
1998 It was announced that Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins
would lead crew of Columbia on a mission to launch a large X-ray
telescope. She was the first woman to command a space shuttle
Monday, March 4, 2019, 07:17 AM
Today is Monday, March 4
Alabama man tried to blow up mom with propane
1634 Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, MA.
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television,
but television's message has always been that the need for truth,
wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a
toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
--- Dave Barry (1947 - )
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can
do the work of one extraordinary man.
--- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
-- Victor Hugo
On a lonely, moonlit country road a young man's car engine
started to cough. Immediately pulling over to a scenic
little spot he said to the young lady next to him, "That's
funny, I wonder what that knocking noise was?"
"I'll tell you one thing for sure," said the girl coolly,
"It wasn't opportunity."
Thanks to Ross for this story:
"Lot’s wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt, ..."
when little Jason interrupted, "My mommy looked back once,
while she was driving," he announced triumphantly,
"and she turned into a telephone pole!"
Roger Dale Johnson,
Woodville,
An Alabama man is jailed on charges of trying to blow up his
mother using a propane tank in a booby-trapped storage shed.
Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office
tells news outlets a woman called police saying she was worried
her son was both on drugs and storing propane in a shed.
Harnen says an officer went to the home and a small explosion
occurred when the officer and the man's mother entered the
building. Harnen says a small device was supposed to explode and
ignite the propane, but the gas wasn't turned on. No one was
hurt.
Records show 45-year-old Roger Dale Johnson of Woodville is
charged with attempted assault and possession of a destructive
Re: Windows Updates
I'm running W7; can't pay me enough to run W10!
I'm not one to download new special packs right away;
I like to have them take the bugs out first. May I have
your opinion of the W7 updates?
Thanks, you've taught me a lot by reading your Q&A;
and you've answered many question to me as well.
There are no new goodies in it anyway, just new bugs.
The preacher's 5-year-old daughter noticed that her father always
paused and bowed his head, for a moment, before starting his
sermon. One day, she asked him why.
"Well, Honey," he began, proud that his daughter was so observant
of his messages, "I'm asking the Lord to help me preach a good
"How come He never does?" she asked.
A rabbi said to a precocious six-year-old boy,
"So your mother says your prayers for you each night?
That's very commendable. What does she say?"
The little boy replied, "Thank God he's in bed!"
Chopsticks as Knitting Needles
In a pinch, you can use bamboo chopsticks as knitting needles.
Just sharpen the tips of the chopsticks in a pencil sharpener
then dull them a little so they aren't too sharp. Ask for extras
the next time you get take out.
Live view from the space station. High res.
At a boat-rental concession, the manager went to the lake's
edge and yelled through his megaphone, "Number 99, come in,
please. Your time is up." Several minutes passed, but the
boat didn't return. "Boat number 99," he again hollered,
"return to the dock immediately or I'll have to charge you
overtime."
"Something is wrong here, boss," his assistant said. "We only
have 75 boats. There is no number 99."
The manager thought for a moment and then raised his mega-
phone: "Boat number 66," he yelled. "Are you having trouble
out there?"
"The other day a man in London dressed as Darth Vader got
drunk and assaulted two men dressed as Jedi knights. He
was sentenced to two months in jail and 10 more years
living in his parents' basement."
--- Conan O'Brien
Thanks to Minka for this story:
"Doctor, I'd like you to evaluate my 13 year-old son."
"OK: He's most likely suffering from a transient psychosis
with an intermittent rage disorder, punctuated by episodic
radical mood swings, but his prognosis is good for full
recovery."
"How can you say all that without even meeting him?"
"I thought you said he's 13?"
1681 England's King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn
for an area that later became the state of Pennsylvania.
1766 The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, which had
caused bitter and violent opposition in the U.S. colonies.
1778 The Continental Congress voted to ratify the Treaty of Amity
and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance. The two treaties were
the first entered into by the U.S. government.
1789 The first Congress of the United States met in New York and
declared that the U.S. Constitution was in effect.
1794 The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by
the U.S. Congress. The Amendment limited the jurisdiction of the
federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a
state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations
expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as
1813 The Russians fighting against Napoleon reached Berlin. The
French garrison evacuated the city without a fight.
1826 The first railroad in the U.S. was chartered. It was the
Granite Railway in Quincy, MA.
1861 The Confederate States of America adopted the "Stars and
Bars" flag.
1877 Emile Berliner invented the microphone.
1880 Halftone engraving was used for the first time when the
"Daily Graphic" was published in New York City.
1902 The American Automobile Association was founded in Chicago.
1904 In Korea, Russian troops retreated toward the Manchurian
border as 100,000 Japanese troops advanced.
1908 The New York board of education banned the act of whipping
students in school.
1908 France notified signatories of Algeciras that it would send
troops to Chaouia, Morocco.
1914 Doctor Fillatre successfully separated Siamese twins.
1952 U.S. President Harry Truman dedicated the "Courier," the
first seagoing radio broadcasting station.
1954 In Boston, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital reported the first
successful kidney transplant.
1975 Queen Elizabeth knighted Charlie Chaplin.
1989 Time, Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announced a plan
to merge.
1991 Sheik Saad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the prime minister of Kuwait,
returned to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1994 Bosnia's Croats and Moslems signed an agreement to form a
federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
1997 U.S. President Clinton barred federal spending on human
cloning.
1998 Microsoft repaired software that apparently allowed hackers
to shut down computers in government and university offices
nationwide.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court said that federal law banned on-the-
job sexual harassment even when both parties are the same sex.
1999 Monica Lewinsky's book about her affair with U.S. President
Clinton went on sale in the U.S.
2002 Canada banned human embryo cloning but permitted government-
funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility
treatment or abortions.
2012 Vladimir Putin won re-election in Russia's presidential
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Today is Sunday, March 3
Late last night I watched the launch of the SpaceX rocket with
the Crew Dragon capsule. Everything went perfectly. When the
used first stage did a pin-point landing on the recovery barge
everybody at NASA went nuts with screaming applause.
Today they will get to the space station and actually dock.
Previously, with the cargo modules, they just got close enough
and then used the Canadarm to fetch them and plug them in.
This time, with the crew module, they will hit the air lock
with their shot from Florida.
You can watch that at http://space.com
Don't worry if the docking is during your sleep time. They will
of course record it and you can replay the historic event
whenever you have time.
Police promise man slice of pizza
to end hours-long standoff
1817 The first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New
Orleans was opened.
I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune'
and the other one isn't.
--- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
The true test of character is not how much we know how to
do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
--- John Holt
>From Ross
How to Use Your IRS Rebate Check...
As you may have heard, each of us will be getting a tax
rebate check to stimulate the economy.
If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go
to China.
If we spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs.
If we purchase a computer it will go to China.
If we purchase fruits and vegetables it will go to Mexico,
Honduras, and Guatemala.
If we purchase a good car it will go to Japan.
If we purchase useless stuff it will go to Taiwan and none
of it will help the American economy.
We need to keep that money here in America.
The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it at
yard sales, tattoo parlors and on hookers,
since those are the only businesses still in the US!
Trump is slowly changing that, but Pelosi will call you a
racist, if you buy American stuff.
More than anything, a young man from the city wanted to be
a cowboy. Eventually he found a rancher who took pity on him
and gave the lad a chance.
"This," he said, showing him a rope, "is a lariat. We use it
to catch cows."
"I see," said the man, trying to seem knowledgeable as he
examined the lariat. "And what do you use for bait?"
Evan Charles McLemore,
Authorities say a Florida man accused of threatening his family
ended a four-hour standoff with police after he was promised a
slice of pizza.
The Pensacola News Journal reports that 33-year-old Evan Charles
McLemore was arrested Tuesday and charged with resisting an
officer and aggravated stalking.
Police say officers responded to a report of a possible battery
at the Pensacola home and found McLemore had barricaded himself
in a room. Officers say McLemore claimed to have a gun, so they
brought in a SWAT team. Crisis negotiators eventually managed to
coax McLemore out with the promise of pizza. It wasn’t clear if
he actually received a slice.
McLemore’s bond was set at $105,000 bond. Jail records didn’t
list an attorney.
Re: Connect Win XP to W10 computer
IS THERE A WAY I CAN HOOK UP A COMPUTER RUNNING WINXP TO MY
COMPUTER RUNNING W10 AND TRANSFER FILES?
Dear Chuck
There IS a way to directly connect them with a special cable,
but that method requires serious reading of instructions.
There is even a special USB cable available, that has a bridging
chip in it. Don't use an ordinary USB cable! It will kill one of
the two machines!
A simple router is probably the easiest, and since everybody
uses them, any neighbor kid can help you with the set-up,
if necessary.
However, it is quite simple and straightforward and nothing to
worry about.
Just plug both machines into the router,
Open the little manual that comes with the router and log in to
the web interface. The manual has the URL, user name and
On the web interface choose the Wizard. It guides you through the
setup quickly and easily.
Thanks to Linda for this story:
I was driving with my three young children one warm
summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead
of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was
reeling from the shock, I heard my five-year-old shout from
the back seat, "Mom! That lady isn't wearing a seat belt!"
Ken and Melba had finished their breakfast at the retirement
home and were relaxing in the library. "You know," said
Melba, "today, in most marriage ceremonies, they don't use
the word 'obey' anymore."
"Too bad, isn't it?" retorted Ken. "It used to lend a little
humor to the occasion."
Washing Delicate Crystal or China
If you are washing delicate dishes in your sink, line the bottom
of the sink with a bath towel before filling it. This will
protect your crystal and china from getting chipped on the hard
sink bottom. Never use your dishwasher, it is just too harsh and
dishes shift around.
Dance group delivers a mind blowing performance.
A man is a person who, if a woman says, "Never mind, I'll do it
myself; lets her.
A woman is a person who, if she says to a man, "Never mind, I'll
do it myself,"
and he lets her; gets mad.
A man is a person who, if a woman says to him, "Never mind, I'll
do it myself," and he lets her and she get mad; says, "Now what
are you mad about?"
and he lets her and she get mad, and he says, "Now what are mad
about?" says,
"If you don't know I'm not going to tell you."
Mandatory Vacation
Two entrepreneurs were comparing notes on the difficulties
of running a small business.
"I started a new practice last year," the first one said. "I
insist that each of my employees take at least a week off every
"Why in the world would you do that?" the other asked.
She responded, "It's the best way I know of to learn which
ones I can do without."
Not Your Normal Squirrel
I never dreamed that slowly cruising on my motorcycle through
a residential neighborhood could be so incredibly dangerous!
Little did I suspect. I was on Brice Street - a very nice
neighborhood with perfect lawns and slow traffic. As I passed an
oncoming car, a brown furry missile shot out from under it and
tumbled to a stop immediately in front of me.
Inches before impact, and at the last possible second, he
screamed and leapt! Snarling, hissing, and tearing at my
clothes, he was a frenzy of activity. As I was dressed only in
a light T-shirt, summer riding gloves, and jeans, this was a bit
of a cause for concern. This furry little tornado was doing
some damage!
I grabbed for him with my left hand. After a few misses, I
finally managed to snag his tail. With all my strength, I flung
the evil rodent off to the left of the bike, almost running into
the right curb as I recoiled from the throw. Somehow he
caught my gloved finger with one of his little hands; and, with
the force of the throw, he landed squarely on my BACK and
resumed his antisocial and extremely distracting activities.
And I was minus a glove.
The combination of the force of the throw, only having the
throttle hand on the handlebars, can only have one result.
Torque. The engine roared, and the front wheel left the
pavement. The squirrel screamed in anger. The Valkyrie
screamed in ecstasy. I screamed in -- well, I just plain
screamed.
About this time, he came around my neck and got INSIDE
my full-face helmet. As the faceplate closed part way, he
began hissing in my face. I am quite sure my screaming changed
intensity. It had little effect on the squirrel, however.
Finally, I got the upper hand. I managed to grab his tail again,
pulled him out of my helmet, and slung him to the left as hard as
I could. This time it worked -- sort of.
At that moment, I chanced to be passing two cops, parked,
doing paperwork. Suddenly they perceive my form, screaming
bloody murder, roaring by them at 80 mph. At the same moment
a live squirrel grenade impacts directly into their open window.
I heard new screams. They weren't mine. When I looked back,
the doors on both sides of the patrol car were flung wide open.
The cop from the passenger side was on his back, doing a crab
walk into somebody's front yard, quickly moving away from the
car. The cop who had been in the driver's seat was standing in
the street, aiming a riot shotgun at his own police car. That
maniac squirrel was now shredding their upholstery.
I took a deep breath, turned on my turn-signal, made a gentle
right turn off of Brice Street, and sedately left the
neighborhood.
I decided it was best to just buy myself a new pair of gloves.
And a whole lot of Band-Aids.
-from James Mizell, a retired police chaplain (via Chapnotes)
1803 The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering,
1812 The U.S. Congress passed the first foreign aid bill.
1845 The U.S. Congress passed legislation overriding a U.S.
President’s veto. It was the first time the Congress had achieved
1857 Britain and France declared war on China.
1878 Russia and the Ottomans signed the treaty of San Stenafano.
The treaty granted independence to Romania, Serbia, Montenegro,
and the autonomy of Bulgaria.
1900 Striking miners in Germany returned to work.
1903 The U.S. imposed a $2 head tax on immigrants.
1904 Wilhelm II of Germany made the first recording of a
political document with Thomas Edison's cylinder.
1905 The Russian Czar agreed to create an elected assembly.
1906 A Frenchman tried the first flight in an airplane with
tires.
1908 The U.S. government declared open war on on U.S. anarchists.
1909 Aviators Herring, Curtiss and Bishop announced that
airplanes would be made commercially in the U.S.
1910 J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announced his withdrawal from business
to administer his father's fortune for an "uplift in humanity".
He also appealed to the U.S. Congress for the creation of the
Rockefeller Foundation.
1910 In New York, Robert Forest founded the National Housing
Association to fight deteriorating urban living conditions.
1910 Nicaraguan rebels admitted defeat in open war and resorted
to guerrilla tactics in the hope of U.S. intervention.
1918 The Treaty of Brest Litovsky was signed by Germany, Austria
and Russia. The treaty ended Russia's participation in World War
1931 The "Star Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key,
was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was
originally a poem known as "Defense of Fort McHenry."
1939 In Bombay, Ghandi began a fast to protest the state's
autocratic rule.
1941 Moscow denounced the Axis rule in Bulgaria.
1945 Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the first time on
the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1945 Close to the end of World War II, when it was obvious that
the Allies were winning, Finland changed sides and declared war
on the Axis.
1952 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New York's Feinberg Law that
banned Communist teachers in the U.S.
1956 Morocco gained its independence.
1969 Apollo 9 was launched by NASA to test a lunar module.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan testified in a Los Angeles court that he
killed Robert Kennedy.
1972 NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft was launched.
1973 Japan disclosed its first defense plan since World War II.
1974 About 350 people died when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed
just after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris.
1978 The remains of Charles Chaplin were stolen from his grave in
Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. The body was recovered 11 weeks
later near Lake Geneva.
1980 The submarine Nautilus was decommissioned. The vessels final
voyage had ended on May 26, 1979.
1985 Women Against Pornography awarded its ‘Pig Award’ to Huggies
Diapers. The activists claimed that the TV ads for diapers had
"crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."
1987 The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a package of $30
million in non-lethal aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.
1991 25 people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737-200
crashed while on approach to the Colorado Springs airport.
1991 Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police
officers. The scene was captured on amateur video. (California)
1994 The Mexican government reached a peace agreement with the
Chiapas rebels.
1995 A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended. Several gunmen
were killed by U.S. Marines in Mogadishu while overseeing the
pull out of peacekeepers.
1999 In Egypt, 19 people were killed when a bus plunged into a
Nile canal.
W10 Video preview in Windows Explorer
Saturday, March 2, 2019, 10:40 AM
Two arrested in brawl over crab legs at Alabama buffet
1998 Images from the American spacecraft Galileo indicated that
the Jupiter moon Europa has a liquid ocean and a source of
interior heat.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge
number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the
national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now
we should call them economical numbers.
--- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but
a kind word is never thrown away.
--- Arthur Helps
Two friends, one an optimist and the other a pessimist, could
never quite agree on any topic of discussion. One day the
optimist decided he had found a good way to pull his friend
out of his continual pessimistic thinking.
The optimist owned a hunting dog that could walk on water.
His plan? Take the pessimist and the dog out duck hunting in
a boat. They got out into the middle of the lake, and the
optimist brought down a duck. The dog immediately walked
out across the water, retrieved the duck, and walked back to
the boat.
The optimist looked at his pessimistic friend and said,
"What do you think about that?"
The pessimist replied, "That dog can't swim, can he?"
Luckily the pessimist was wearing a life jacket when he got
tossed into the water.
A teacher was finishing up a lesson on the joys of discovery
and the importance of curiosity. "Where would we be today,"
she asked, "if no one had ever been curious?"
One child quietly spoke up from the back of the room. "In the
Garden of Eden?"
Thanks to Moe for the mug shot of yesterday's bonehead,
the guy who backed his pick-up into a clothing store, loaded it
up with $800 worth of clothing, then hit a door frame on the way
out and smoked his tires and the carpet to get unstuck.
Apparently Ronald Parks has quite a big rap sheet.
Reported by Helen
John Chapman,
Chequita Jenkins,
Huntsville,
Two arrested in brawl over crab legs
at Alabama buffet
Customers at an Alabama buffet were boiling mad while waiting in
line for crab legs and took to using tongs as weapons during a
brawl at the eatery, police said.
Customers at the Meteor Buffet in Huntsville had been waiting in
line for 10 to 20 minutes for crab legs, police said. The eager
diners were waiting for the next tray to come out when they
rushed to serve themselves.
"They'd been waiting there for the crab legs for a good 10, 20
minutes. When they finally came out, it's very heated. Especially
if someone is taking more than their fair share," said
police officer Gerald Johnson, who was eating at the restaurant
when the melee broke out.
Some diners began using tongs as swords and shattering plates.
Customers John Chapman and Chequita Jenkins were arrested.
Jenkins was at the $10.58 per-plate buffet with her kids.
"There's a woman who's beating a man," Johnson said. "People are
moving around, plates are shattering everywhere."
Chapman suffered a cut to his head and Jenkins was not harmed.
Chapman is facing disorderly conduct and Jenkins is charged with
third-degree assault.
>From Lee
Re: W10 Explorer icon view ?
Something seems to have changed in my Windows Explorer. Up until
recently when I used the large icon view I could see a snap shot
from the video in a video file. I use VLC to view files. Now I
only see the VLC icon.
I have Windows 10 Home.
Thanks for your continued support and interesting/funny daily
Dear Lee
If you are setting the view as Large Icons and you intend to view
thumbnails (instead of icon placeholders which won't show you a
picture preview), then you will also want to ensure that your PC
Performance Settings allows for thumbnail views.
To do so:
Click Start and then right click This PC, and choose Properties.
The System window will appear; click the Advanced system settings
link at the top left of the window.
The System Properties window will appear; look for the
Performance heading and click the Settings button.
The Performance Options window will appear; under the Visual
Effects tab, ensure that "Show thumbnails instead of icons" has a
check mark beside it, then click Apply and OK to close the
A guy goes to a doctor and says:
"Doctor, my wife has lost her voice, a week ago...."
"And you are worried she'll find it again ?"
Mrs. Applebee, the 6th grade teacher, posed the following
problem to one of her arithmetic classes:
"A wealthy man dies and leaves ten million dollars. One-fifth
is to go to his wife, one-fifth is to go to his son, one-sixth to
his butler, and the rest to charity. Now, what does each get?"
After a very long silence in the classroom, Little Morris raised
his hand. The teacher called on Little Morris for his answer.
With complete sincerity in his voice, Little Morris answered,
"A lawyer!"
Training Wheels on a Wheelbarrow
The other day at a farm, I saw a wheelbarrow with bicycle
training wheels on it. It wouldn't turn quite as sharply around
corners but it was much more difficult to tip over. A good way to
reuse those training wheels your kid has outgrown.
Two-wheeled yard carts are often lighter
than wheelbarrows, and cheaper. Those with tall wheels roll
even easier than regular wheel barrows.
For small chores a seed/fertilizer spreader works just as well.
Beautiful desert wildflowers in bloom now.
Three ministers are having lunch one day and complaining about
sudden infestations of bats in their churches.
"I've had those things in my loft and attic all summer," one
says.
"I've tried everything -- noise, spray, cats. Nothing seems to
scare them away."
"Yeah, me too," the second minister says. "I've got hundreds
living in my belfry and in the attic. I've even had the place
fumigated and they won't go away."
"I had a problem with them, too," the third minister says.
"But I baptized all mine and made them members of the church.
Then I passed the collection plate.
Haven't seen one back since."
A patient mentions his concerns to his doctor during his annual
physical.
"Isn't there some kind of memory medicine you can give me?" he
asks. "I'm getting terribly forgetful. I lose track of where I'm
going or what I'm supposed to do when I get there. What should I
do?"
"Pay me in advance," the doctor, says.
Bill Gates dies and goes to heaven, where St. Peter commends
him for his innovative work with computers and shows him his
reward -- a beautiful 10-room house with spacious grounds and
a tennis court.
Gates is pleased and spends many months enjoying the amenities
of heaven. One day, however, he is enjoying one of heaven's many
fine parks when he meets a man dressed in a fine tailored suit.
"That is a nice suit, my friend," says Gates. "Where did you get
it?"
"Actually," the man replies, "I was given 100 of these when I got
here. I've been treated really well. I got a mansion on a hill, a
500-acre estate, a golf course and three Rolls-Royces."
"Were you a Pope or a doctor healing the sick?" Gates asks him.
"No," says his new friend. "Actually, I was the captain of the
Titanic."
Perturbed, Gates stalks off to find St. Peter.
"How could you give me a paltry new house, while you're showering
new cars, a mansion and fine suits on the captain of the
Titanic?" Gates demands. "I invented the Windows operating
system. Why does he deserve better?"
"Well," says St. Peter, "you have to realize that the Titanic
only crashed once. And furthermore, when the Titanic crashed,
people prayed. Every time Windows crashes, they curse."
1807 The U.S. Congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation
of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the
United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
1836 Texas declared its independence from Mexico and an ad
interim government was formed.
1861 The U.S. Congress created the Territory of Nevada.
1877 In the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of
the 1876 presidential election by the U.S. Congress. Samuel J.
Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
1897 U.S. President Cleveland vetoed legislation that would have
required a literacy test for immigrants entering the country.
1899 Mount Rainier National Park in Washington was established by
the U.S. Congress.
1900 The U.S. Congress voted to give $2 million in aid to Puerto
1901 The first telegraph company in Hawaii opened.
1903 The Martha Washington Hotel opened for business in New York
City. The hotel had 416 rooms and was the first hotel exclusively
for women.
1906 A tornado in Mississippi killed 33 and did $5 million in
1907 In Hamburg, Germany, dock workers went on strike after the
end of the night shift. British strike breakers were brought in.
The issue was settled on April 22, 1907.
1908 In New York, the Committee of the Russian Republican
Administration was founded.
1908 In Paris, Gabriel Lippmann introduced three-dimensional
color photography at the Academy of Sciences.
1917 The Russian Revolution began with Czar Nicholas II
abdicating.
1917 Citizens of Puerto Rico were granted U.S. citizenship with
the enactment of the Jones Act.
1925 State and federal highway officials developed a nationwide
route-numbering system and adopted the familiar U.S. shield-
shaped, numbered marker.
1933 The motion picture King Kong had its world premiere in New
1939 The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of
Rights to the U.S. Constitution. These first ten amendments had
gone into effect 147 years before.
1946 Ho Chi Minh was elected President of Vietnam.
1949 The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth,
TX. The American plane had completed the first non-stop around-
the-world flight.
1962 Wilt 'The Stilt' Chamberlain scored 100 points against the
New York Knicks 169-147. Chamberlain broke several NBA records in
1969 In Toulouse, France, the supersonic transport Concorde made
its first test flight.
1984 The first McDonald's franchise was closed. A new location
was opened across the street from the old location in Des
Plaines, IL.
1985 The U.S. government approved a screening test for AIDS that
detected antibodies to the virus that allowed possibly
contaminated blood to be kept out of the blood supply.
1986 Corazon Aquino was sworn into office as president of the
Philippines. Her first public declaration was to restore the
civil rights of the citizens of her country.
1987 The U.S. government reported that the median price for a new
home had gone over $100,000 for the first time.
1989 Representatives from the 12 European Community nations all
agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) by the
end of the 20th century.
1995 Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev was
killed by a gunman in Moscow.
1995 Nick Leeson was arrested for his role in the collapse of
Britain's Barings Bank.
2000 In Great Britain, Chile's former President Augusto Pinochet
Ugarte was freed from house arrest and allowed to return to
Chile. Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw had concluded that
Pinochet was mentally and physically unable to stand trial.
Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland had sought the former
Chilean leader on human-rights violations.
2003 Over the Sea of Japan, there was a confrontation between
four armed North Korean fighter jets and a U.S. RC-135S Cobra
Ball. No shots were fired in the encounter in international
airspace about 150 miles off North Korea's coast. The U.S. Air
Force announced that it would resume reconnaissance flights on
2004 NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had
discovered evidence that water had existed on Mars in the past.
2011 Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's iPad 2.
2016 The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved sanctions on
North Korea that included mandatory inspections of cargo leaving
and entering North Korea, a ban on all sales and transfers of
small arms and light weapons and expulsion of diplomats that
engage in "illicit activities." The sanctions were in reaction to
the latest nuclear test and rocket launch in defiance of a ban on
all nuclear-related activity.
2016 Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after 340 days in
space aboard the International Space Station.
What are drivers?
Smash and graber jailed in MO
1873 E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing
of the first practical typewriter.
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
--- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side --
I've noticed those with the most opinions
often have the fewest facts.
--- Bethania McKenstry
While looking for mother related jokes, I came across this
letter from GD from Dec 3, 2000:
==from GDB
Would you believe that my mothers email program awarded the Humor
Letter THREE red peppers for "naughty language" ? We had a hoot
going through it with a fine tooth comb trying to find what was
naughty in it and the closest we came was this:
"Ma'am, this potato is bad."
She nodded, picked up the potato, and smacked it.
So, Dear Webby, better be careful about this "cruelty to
potatoes" stuff.
Otherwise PETA will go after you and protest in front of your
office! They had a topless PETA protest in Tucson last week and
it caused quite a big car pile-up.
====GDB===
A husband said to his wife, "No, I don't hate your relatives.
In fact, I like your mother-in-law better than I like mine."
Ronald E. Parks,
Smash and grabber jailed
Another dumb criminal, this time caught on camera. Ronald E.
Parks, 62, has been charged on multiple counts in connection with
plowing his truck into the Gordmans store at 135th & State Line
after midnight Dec. 4, stealing about $800 in women's sweaters,
and getting stuck and smoking his tires on the way out. When
police found him, there were Gordmans price tags in his damaged
truck and a trail of them leading to his back door.
He caused about $80,000 in damage to the business.
>From Alice
Re: Whart is a "driver" ?
I too get all kinds of ads and pop ups about drivers.
What are they really?
Do I really need them?
Drivers started with printers. Originally printers understood
commands to print certain letters. That was fine when typists
were paid according to how many pieces of correspondence they did
per hour.
The Women's Libbers didn't do too well with that and called that
a misogynic system and demanded payment according to how
beautiful their correspondence was.
So Apple and Microsoft and printer manufacturers complied and
enabled fancy fonts and all kinds of cute stuff.
Since that was not included in the 256 different letter commands,
they came up with translators for the fancy stuff. Those are
called "drivers".
Printers were just the beginning.
Then came graphics. Each printer and camera maker interpreted
things differently, so they required drivers.
All that went relatively smoothly until Windows VISTA.
Microsoft wrongly assumed that printer and camera makers would
create drivers for items, that had been sold and paid for years
ago. Well, they didn't, and there was much hue and cry and VISTA
bombed.
Microsoft learned their lesson and since then all new versions of
Windows include tons of drivers for any printer produced since
Gutenberg, plus new ones get added "in the cloud" for you to
When you buy a new 2019 printer, your 2010 Windows sees that it
does not have a driver for it, so it automatically offers to
download it.
Sometimes, though rarely, printer manufacturers discover problems
and produce a driver to cope with that. If and when something
does not work right, you can download those supplemental drivers.
Their support will suggest that.
Occasionally the asame thing happens with computers. For example
DELL pops a pop-up about once a year suggesting to download and
install a cumulative bug fix by clicking OK. No big deal.
So, all in all, drivers are no problem. If and when you need
them, you will find out painlessly.
If you want to check your drivers, you can hit START, and type
and hit ENTER.
That will give you the same as all those fancy driver checkers.
For free, and without any sneaky spyware hidden in it.
Women believe if a pet cat strays, it's because of a lack of
affection at home.
Women believe if a pet dog strays, it's because of a lack of
Women believe if a woman strays, it's because of a lack of
Women believe if a man strays, it's because men are scum.
A member of the Country Club asked the lifeguard how he might go
about teaching a young lady to swim. "It takes considerable time
and technique." replied the guard. "First you ust take her into
the water, then place one arm about her waist, hold her tightly,
then take her right arm and raise it very slowly..."
"This is certainly most helpful." said the member. "I know that
my sister will appreciate it."
"Your sister?" said the lifeguard.. "In that case, just push her
into the deep end of the pool. She'll learn in a hurry."
Wilted Lettuce
You can often recover wilted lettuce by soaking it in ice cold
water with a few drops of lemon juice or vinegar. Place it in
the fridge for about an hour and it should be much more crisp.
This also works for carrots, celery and other vegetables.
Painters interrupt an orchestra.
Little Johnny was having problems in English class, so his
teacher, Miss Figpot, decided to stop by Little Johnny's house on
her way home.
She wanted to discuss Johnny's poor performance directly with his
parents.
When she rang the door bell, Little Johnny answered.
"Hello Johnny, I'd like to talk to your mother or father," she
"Sorry, but they ain't here." He replied.
"Johnny!" She said, "what is it with your grammar?"
"Haven't got a clue," Johnny replied, "but dad sure was mad that
they had to go bail her out again!"
In California's Sonoma Valley, where vineyards cater to wine
snobbery, a woman phoned the classified ad department of a
newspaper. She offered for sale what sounded like "well-aged
Caumeneur."
The ad-taker was unfamiliar with that particular, wine, but was
used to the infusion of French words into the local vocabulary.
"Could you please spell that?" she asked.
"You know," said the woman impatiently, "C-o-w M-a-n-u-r-e
According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they
notice about a women are their eyes. And women say the first
thing they notice about men: they're a bunch of liars.
1498 Vasco de Gama landed at what is now Mozambique on his way to
1562 In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots.
The event started the First War of Religion.
1692 In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem
witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
1781 In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of
Confederation.
1784 In Great Britain, E. Kidner opened the first cooking school.
1790 The U.S. Congress authorized the first U.S. census.
1810 Sweden became the first country to appoint an Ombudsman,
Lars August Mannerheim.
1811 Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali massacred the leaders of the
Mameluke dynasty.
1815 Napoleon returned to France from the island of Elba. He had
been forced to abdicate in April of 1814.
1862 Prussia formally recognized the Kingdom of Italy.
1872 The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone
National Park. It was the world's first national park.
1896 The Battle of Adowa began in Ethiopia between the forces of
Emperor Menelik II and Italian troops. The Italians were
defeated.
1900 In South Africa, Ladysmith was relieved by British troops
after being under siege by the Boers for more than four months.
1907 In Odessa, Russia, there were only about 15,000 Jews left
due to evacuations.
1907 In Spain, a royal decree abolished civil marriages.
1907 In New York, the Salvation Army opened an anti-suicide
bureau.
1911 Industrialist Henry Frick acquired Velasquez's "Portrait of
King Philip IV."
1911 Jose Ordonez was elected President of Uraguay.
1912 Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a
moving airplane.
1924 Disney released the first Alice Comedy entitled "Alice's Day
at Sea."
1927 The Bank of Italy became a National Bank.
1932 The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was
kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
1937 U.S. Steel raised workers’ wages to $5 a day.
1937 In Connecticut, the first permanent automobile license
plates were issued.
1941 FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began
1941 Bulgaria joined the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite
Pact.
1947 The International Monetary Fund began operations.
1947 Chinese Premier T.V. Soong resigned.
1949 Joe Louis announced that he was retiring from boxing as
world heavyweight boxing champion.
1950 Klaus Fuchs was convicted of giving U.S. atomic secrets to
the Soviet Union.
1954 The United States announced that it had conducted a hydrogen
bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It was the
first U.S. test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb under Operation
Castle.
1954 Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican
nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of
Representatives.
1959 Archbishop Makarios returned to Cyprus from exile.
1961 The Peace Corps was established by U.S. President Kennedy.
1962 Pakistan announced that it had a new constitution that set
up a presidential system of government.
1966 The Soviet probe, Venera 3 crashed on the planet Venus. It
was the first spacecraft to land on the surface of another
1966 Ghana ordered all Soviet, East German and Chinese
technicians to leave the country.
1971 A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S.
Capitol. There were no injuries. A U.S. group protesting the
Vietnam War claimed responsibility.
1974 Seven people were indicted in connection with the Watergate
break-in. The charge was conspiring to obstruct justice.
1983 The New Jersey Transit strike began. It ended on April 2.
1984 The U.S.S.R. performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan,
Semipalatinsk, U.S.S.R.
1987 S&H Green Stamps became S&H Green Seals. The stamps were
introduced 90 years earlier.
1988 Soviet troops were sent into Azerbaijan after ethnic riots
between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
1989 In Washington, DC, Mayor Barry and the City council imposed
a curfew on minors.
1990 In Cairo, 16 people were killed in a fire at the Sheraton
Hotel.
1992 Bosnian Serb snipers fired upon civilians after a majority
of the Moslem and Croatian communities voted in favor of Bosnia's
1992 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia announced major political reforms
that ceded some powers after 10 years of disciplined rule.
1992 Bosnian Muslims and Croats voted to secede from Yugoslavia.
1993 The U.S. government announced that the number of food stamp
recipients had reached a record number of 26.6 million.
1994 Israel released about 500 Arab prisoners in an effort to
placate Palestinians over the Hebron massacre.
1995 The European Parliament rejected legislation that would have
allowed biotechnology companies to patent new life forms.
1995 Yahoo! was incorporated.
1996 In Kuala, Lumpur, construction was completed for the
Petronas Towers.
1999 The Angolan Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, exploded. Four other
bombs went off in the capital.
1999 In Uganda, eight tourists were brutally murdered by Hutu
rebels.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones began their attempt to
circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon non-stop. They
succeeded on March 20, 1999.
2002 Operation Anaconda began in eastern Afghanistan. Allied
forces were fighting against Taliban and Al Quaida fighters.
2003 In New York, a $250,000 Salvador Dali sketch was stolen from
a display case in the lobby at Rikers Island jail. On June 17,
2003, it was announced that four corrections officers had
surrendered and pled innocent in connection to the theft. The
mixed-media composition was a sketch of the crucifixion.
2003 In the U.S., approximately 180,000 personnel from 22
different organizations around the government became part of the
Department of Homeland Security. This completed the largest
government reorganization since the beginning of the Cold War.
2003 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani
agents near Islamabad. He was the suspected mastermind behind the
terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
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Friday — March 6, 2015 — Issue No. 647
Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,
Welcome back. I hope you enjoy this issue of The Wireless Messaging News.
Winter in the country sure is exciting. It snowed again yesterday so I couldn't drive to town. The highway is close by, just up the hill from my house on a country road, but I frequently have trouble getting up to the top—even with sand bags in my vehicle. Had to call a tow truck last week to pull me out of the ditch.
Across the road from my house there is a small pond and flocks of geese are flying in and out “honking” as they go. It is amazing how they fly in formation. How did they learn to do that?
Today the snow plow has been by so all is back to normal—just in case I want to go the town and do something really exciting like watch the barber cut hair or go to Walmart—our modern version of the old general store. Oh yes—a major announcement—I caught another mouse in the kitchen last night, and last Friday night some guy was arrested in town for throwing a beer can at the police. If you think you can stand all this excitement you are welcome to come by for a visit. I make a mean cup of espresso.
Seriously, after traveling to over 50 countries selling paging systems, I didn't find anywhere I liked better, so I came back home to retire. My ancestors came down the Ohio River on a raft, and settled here in 1851. Wayne County, Illinois has been home for the Dye family for six generations.
Thanks to the Internet, and the telephone, I am able to keep up with the news, and report what I think might of interest to you.
This is the time of the year when I try to get caught up with invoicing my advertisers, and other paper work that I hate to do. If you are a supporter, through voluntary donations, this would be a good time to continue doing your part in helping “the cause.” I believe that this newsletter is the only remaining public source of news related to paging and wireless messaging.
I also include other information on developments in technology, and provide a “community” where readers can freely express their ideas and opinions.
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Charging wirelessly into 2015
March 6 2015 at 12:50pm
Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge on a wireless charger. Photo: Bebeto Matthews
“Got a phone charger you can lend me? No, I need the new type. . . Oh, forget it.”
To ease the stress of a dying mobile phone battery and the hassle of bundling wires into your bag, designers are hoping to make 2015 the year of the wireless charger.
Companies at the Mobile World Congress, a top telecom fair which wrapped up Thursday in Barcelona, Spain, promised that soon you will just place your phone on a table or lamp stand for it to absorb electricity through a wireless surface.
South Korean giant Samsung included wireless charging capability in its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, unveiled on March 1 in Barcelona.
Swedish furniture-maker Ikea meanwhile announced a line of bedside tables, lamps and desks equipped with wireless charging spots to be launched in Europe and North America in the coming weeks.
“This is probably the year of the wireless charger,” said Kevin Curran, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ahead of the mobile fair.
“A lot of the top-end phones now by default are coming with a wireless charger. You just have to put the phone onto a mat or onto a stand.”
If a phone has a wireless charging receptor, just placing it over the charging pad on one of these items will transfer power to it.
The piece of furniture itself is not wireless, drawing its power from the mains, but no wire is needed to plug into the phone.
Different rival technologies for wireless charging have emerged over recent years.
For their devices, Samsung and Ikea opted for the Qi standard — a system developed by the Wireless Power Consortium, an alliance of some 200 different companies founded in 2008.
The Qi consortium claims its standard is the most widely used in the world with charging points in 3,000 hotels, restaurants, airports and public spaces. It says its system can be used in 80 models of mobile phone and various types of car.
The product announcements at the Barcelona show “will allow a big step forward,” eventually freeing users of cumbersome charging wires, said Inge Tauber of the German company L&P Automotive, part of the Qi project.
“People have no need to fear that their chargers will become obsolete, because these bases will be compatible with the new generations of smartphone.”
Even smartphones that were not made with a wireless charging receptor can be fitted with adaptors in the form of an outer case or other minor accessory costing from about 10 euros ($11).
Qi is competing with two other standards, PMA and A4WP, which between them group some 200 other telecom, computing and electronics firms.
The PMA and A4WP camps will merge in mid-2015 “to accelerate the growth of this nascent market,” they said in a statement.
Tauber denied this competition would hold back the industry from developing a common standard for compatible charging pads. She reckoned it would drive it towards a “homogenous standard”.
Makers of smartphones have so far failed to find a common standard for any kind of charger, despite attempts such as the European Union’s bid to impose universal chargers by 2016.
Analysts said it was tricky to estimate the potential value of the market for wireless chargers.
The Wireless Power Consortium estimates that 50 million chargers were sold in 2014.
According to technology consultancy Gartner, in that year consumers bought 1.8 billion handsets – which typically come with a charger included.
“In the next few years they will all have wireless chargers in-built,” Curran said.
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Investor Relations — Press Release
Spok Reports Third Quarter Operating Results; Board Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend
Consolidated Revenue Increases; Software Bookings Reach Record High; Wireless Trends Continue to Improve; Balance Sheet Remains Strong; Stock Repurchase Plan Extended Through 2015
SPRINGFIELD, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 29, 2014— Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), a global leader in critical communications, today announced operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. In addition, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.125 per share, payable on December 10, 2014 to stockholders of record on November 18, 2014.
Consolidated revenue increased to $49.8 million in the third quarter from $49.7 million in the third quarter of 2013 and $49.1 million in the second quarter of 2014. Software revenue increased 34.4 percent to $16.9 million from $12.6 million in the year-earlier quarter. Wireless revenue was $32.9 million in the third quarter, compared to $37.1 million in the third quarter of 2013.
Third quarter EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and accretion) totaled $12.3 million, or 24.7 percent of revenue, compared to $13.4 million, or 27.0 percent of revenue, in the year-earlier quarter, and $11.7 million, or 23.9 percent of revenue, in the second quarter of 2014.
Net income for the third quarter was $4.7 million, or $0.21 per fully diluted share, compared to $5.8 million, or $0.26 per fully diluted share, in the third quarter of 2013.
Other key results and highlights for the third quarter included:
Bookings for the third quarter increased to $20.4 million from $17.3 million in the year-earlier quarter, reaching a record high for the second consecutive quarter.
Backlog totaled $42.1 million at September 30, 2014, compared to $40.2 million at June 30, 2014.
Of the $16.9 million in third quarter software revenue, $9.1 million was operations revenue and $7.8 million was maintenance revenue, compared to $5.6 million and $7.0 million, respectively, of the $12.6 million in software revenue for the third quarter of 2013.
The renewal rate for software maintenance in the third quarter was 99.6 percent.
The quarterly rate of unit erosion improved to 1.9 percent versus 2.6 percent a year earlier, and was the Company’s lowest net paging unit loss rate in more than a decade. Net paging unit losses were 25,000 in the third quarter versus 37,000 in the third quarter of 2013. Units in service at September 30, 2014 totaled 1,274,000, compared to 1,408,000 a year earlier.
The quarterly rate of wireless revenue erosion was 2.0 percent, compared to 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2013, and 2.4 percent in the second quarter of 2014.
Total paging ARPU (average revenue per unit) was $7.97 in the third quarter, compared to $8.22 in the year-earlier quarter and$7.98 in the prior quarter.
Consolidated operating expenses (excluding depreciation, amortization and accretion) totaled $37.5 million in the third quarter, compared to $36.3 million in the year-earlier quarter.
Capital expenses were $1.3 million, compared to $2.5 million in the third quarter of 2013.
The number of full-time equivalent employees at September 30, 2014 totaled 606, compared to 652 at September 30, 2013.
Dividends paid to stockholders totaled $2.7 million in the third quarter.
The Company’s cash balance at September 30, 2014 was $106.9 million.
“We achieved or exceeded our expectations on virtually all key operating measures for the quarter,” said Vincent D. Kelly, president and chief executive officer, “resulting in one of our most successful quarterly performances in many years. Consolidated revenues increased from the year-earlier quarter for the first time in our recent history, software revenues increased substantially from the same quarter a year ago, bookings reached an all-time high for the second consecutive quarter, and our backlog remained near record levels. In addition, wireless trends continue to improve as the quarterly rate of paging unit churn fell to 1.9 percent, its best level in more than a decade, while wireless revenue remained strong. During the quarter we also continued to enhance our product offerings, expand our market reach, strengthen our balance sheet, and generate sufficient cash flow to again return capital to stockholders in the form of cash dividends.”
Commenting on Software revenue, Kelly said: “Compared to the third quarter of 2013, operations revenue grew 63.3 percent, maintenance revenue increased 11.6 percent, and total Software revenue of $16.9 million was up 34.4 percent. The increase in operations revenue primarily reflected growing deliveries of software, hardware and professional services to our expanding worldwide customer base, while higher maintenance revenue reflected our continued renewal rates in excess of 99 percent.”
Kelly said record high bookings for the quarter included sales to both new and existing customers, with many existing customers upgrading applications as well as adding products to expand their portfolio of communications solutions. “Demand remained strong for upgrades and installations of call center solutions, along with healthcare applications to increase patient safety, improve nursing workflows and enhance organizational efficiencies. Customer demand also remained strong for such software solutions as critical smartphone communications, secure texting, emergency management, and clinical alerting. Our public safety sector also grew substantially during the quarter as our software sales team added 28 new accounts.”
Kelly added: “Software sales continued to be strongest in North America. However, we continued to expand our presence outside the United States as our sales team added numerous accounts in such key markets as Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, where our healthcare solutions have attracted significant interest. At the same time, we continued to build a solid pipeline of new business leads throughout both North American and international markets.”
The Company’s wireless sales team also outperformed expectations for the quarter. “Wireless revenue came in ahead of plan due to higher than expected units in service combined with the lowest quarterly rate of pager churn in years,” Kelly said. “In addition, we completed a sizable transaction with a cellular provider during the quarter. Overall, wireless sales efforts continued to focus primarily on the core market segments of Healthcare, Government and Large Enterprise. These core segments represented approximately 93.3 percent of our direct subscriber base and 89.9 percent of our direct paging revenue at the end of the quarter. Healthcare comprised 76.9 percent of our direct subscriber base at September 30 and continued to be our best performing market segment with the highest rate of gross placements and lowest level of unit disconnects.”
Kelly also noted that Spok’s software and wireless sales teams continued to collaborate on many sales initiatives during the quarter, resulting in 17 new accounts which represented more than $1.5 million in software bookings.
Commenting on the Company’s previously announced name change, Kelly added: “Since changing our corporate name to Spok in July we’ve received an exceptionally positive response. The name change was part of a rebranding initiative that we believe better reflects our identity as a worldwide leader in critical communications. Going forward we expect our name recognition and brand strategy will continue to grow and evolve in both global and domestic markets.”
Shawn E. Endsley, chief financial officer, said: “Strong revenue from both wireless and software, combined with continued expense management, helped generate solid operating cash flow, EBITDA and operating margins for the quarter. We also strengthened our balance sheet, recording a cash balance of $106.9 million at September 30. In addition, we have no debt outstanding and approximately $40 million of available borrowing capacity with our existing credit facility.”
Endsley said the Company is maintaining its previously announced financial guidance for 2014, which projects total revenue to range from $183 million to $201 million, operating expenses (excluding depreciation, amortization and accretion) to range from $147 million to $156 million, and capital expenses to range from $7 million to $9 million.
The Company announced that its Board of Directors has approved extension of the Company’s stock repurchase program from December 31, 2014 to December 31, 2015. In extending the plan, the Board also maintained the repurchase authority of $15 million as of January 1, 2015. Since the program began in 2008, Spok has repurchased approximately 6.3 million shares of its common stock while maintaining appropriate cash balances and a strong balance sheet.
Spok plans to host a conference call for investors on its third quarter operating results at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, October 30, 2014. Dial-in numbers for the call are 719-785-1753 or 888-455-2260. The pass code for the call is 5978502. A replay of the call will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET on October 30 until 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 13. Replay numbers are 719-457-0820 or 888-203-1112. The pass code for the replay is 5978502.
In addition, the Company will host an Investor Meeting (”Analyst Day”) for financial analysts and other investors on November 20, 2014, in New York City. The meeting is scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. ET at the offices of Latham & Watkins, LLP, Spok’s outside legal counsel, at 885 Third Avenue, New York, NY. Meeting details are posted on the investor relations section of the Company’s website at www.spok.com.
About Spok
Spok Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Springfield, Va., is proud to be a leader in critical communications for healthcare, government, public safety, and other industries. We deliver smart, reliable solutions to help protect the health, well-being, and safety of people around the globe. More than 125,000 organizations worldwide rely on Spok for, secure texting, paging services, contact center optimization, and public safety response. When communications matter, Spok delivers. Visit us at spok.com or find us on Twitter @Spoktweets.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: Statements contained herein or in prior press releases which are not historical fact, such as statements regarding Spok’s future operating and financial performance, are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause Spok’s actual results to be materially different from the future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expectations include, but are not limited to, declining demand for paging products and services, continued demand for our software products and services, our ability to develop additional software solutions for our customers and manage our development as a global organization, the ability to manage operating expenses, future capital needs, competitive pricing pressures, competition from both traditional paging services and other wireless communications services, competition from other software providers, government regulation, reliance upon third-party providers for certain equipment and services, as well as other risks described from time to time in our periodic reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although Spok believes the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be attained. Spok disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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SK Telecom Signs MOUs with Taiwan Mobile, Skytel and Nokia Networks at MWC 2015
BARCELONA, Spain, March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) announced today that it signed MOUs with a number of overseas companies while participating in the 2015 GSMA Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, Spain.
Aimed at expanding its presence in the global markets with extensive knowhow and experience in industry-leading mobile network technologies, SK Telecom has entered into MOUs with three different companies namely Taiwan Mobile, Skytel and Nokia Networks.
Under the MOU with Taiwan Mobile, a leading telecommunications company in Taiwan with about 28 percent of market share, SK Telecom will share its know-how on better LTE network performance and customer experience management (CEM) aimed at enhancing Taiwan Mobile's network efficiency and competitiveness in mobile broadband service. The two companies will also work together to develop next-generation mobile network technologies and mobile solution business.
SK Telecom and Taiwan Mobile have cooperated since 2013 in 3G and LTE network planning and performance optimization. Taiwan Mobile has successfully commercialized LTE in June 2014 and has attracted more than 1 million LTE subscribers, which accounts for over 30 percent of the LTE market, within only six months of the service launch.
SK Telecom has also entered into an MOU with Mongolia's Skytel. Through the MOU, SK Telecom will provide Skytel with consulting service in LTE network technologies and network-based solutions developed by SK Telecom to enable real-time management of customer experience. The MOU is expected to serve as a chance for Skytel to become a leading LTE service provider in Mongolia, where spectrum allocations for LTE will likely take place within this year.
Moreover, SK Telecom and Nokia Networks have signed an MOU in Barcelona to further expand their collaboration in exporting diverse network operational solutions. By joining hands with Nokia, SK Telecom aims to create new opportunities in the overseas markets by providing its network operational knowhow to Nokia's 600 plus customers spread across 150 nations.
"Since launching Korea's first LTE service in 2011, SK Telecom has led the industry by introducing advanced mobile network technologies including Multi-Carrier, LTE-Advanced and tri-band LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation," said Lee Jong-bong, Executive Vice President and Head of Network Division at SK Telecom. "We will make ceaseless efforts to keep enhancing the quality and stability of our mobile networks to provide the highest level of customer experience, and share it with mobile operators around the world."
About SK Telecom
SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM, KSE: 017670), established in 1984, is Korea's largest telecommunications company with more than 28 million mobile subscribers, accounting for over 50% of the market. The company reached KRW 17.164 trillion in revenue in 2014. As the world's first company to commercialize CDMA, CDMA 2000 1x, CDMA EV-DO and HSDPA networks, SK Telecom launched the nation's first LTE service in July 2011. SK Telecom also became the world's first mobile carrier to commercialize 150Mbps LTE-Advanced in June 2013 and 225Mbps LTE-Advanced in June 2014 through Carrier Aggregation(CA). In line with its efforts to swiftly move towards the next-generation mobile network system, or 5G, it successfully commercialized 300Mbps tri-band LTE-A CA. As of December 2014, the company has over 16.7 million LTE and LTE-Advanced subscribers. Based on its strength in network operations business, SK Telecom is seeking new growth engines in areas of platform, Big Data and convergence business. For more information, please visit www.sktelecom.com or email to press@sktelecom.com.
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Microsoft’s Greg Sullivan gives 1.5 billion reasons why Windows 10 will change everything
Melissa Riofrio
BARCELONA—You know that moment in spy thrillers when the hero suddenly realizes the scope of the evil genius’s nefarious plan? I had a moment like that at Mobile World Congress, when I sat down to talk with Greg Sullivan, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Director of Public Relations. Not that anything he said was evil. He just made me stop short and realize why Windows 10 really could change everything for Microsoft.
The reason why is encapsulated in one number: 1.5 billion. That’s how many Windows users exist worldwide, according to Sullivan. “We expect many will upgrade,” Sullivan said. How many? “Very many,” he repeated, with a dastardly smile.
Now’s the time when the hero puts together all the clues. A lot of people will upgrade to Windows 10. Windows 10 will work across all devices, from phones to desktop PCs and everything in between. Windows 10 will have universal apps that will work across all these devices. Let that all sink in.
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What app gap?
Now think about the “app gap” that plagued lonely little Windows Phone. Once Windows Phone becomes part of this unified Windows 10 ecosystem, the app gap is gone. Poof. Obliterated from the face of the earth. In its place, a huge installed base of users will rise, ready and waiting for universal apps to work across all their devices. “You will suddenly have critical mass and a compelling reason for developers to make universal apps,” Sullivan explained.
Did I hear a cackle of glee?
It’s a great plan. Universal apps will be able to scale their interface to the screen size of the device, as Microsoft demonstrated at a press conference Monday morning. An Office app moved from a Windows Phone to a Surface tablet to the huge, 84-inch Surface hub display. The view redistributed itself neatly as it moved from device to device. Sometimes items shifted, but never so jarringly as to throw you off.
At the press conference, Microsoft’s Stephen Elop (the former Nokia boss) also confirmed that phones that shipped with Windows 8.1 will be upgradable to Windows 10. Universal apps will have their own icon in the Windows Store, Sullivan said, and we’ll hear more about them at the company’s Build developer’s conference, April 29 to May 1 in San Francisco.
Microsoft isn't the only evil genius plotting to rule the device world, of course. If Windows 10's universal apps gain any traction, a three-way fight with Apple and Google could develop. Now that would be fun to watch. Break out the popcorn, folks: This could be a very interesting year for the OS wars.
Source: PCWorld
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American Red Cross Deploys AtHoc Networked Crisis Communication to Accelerate Disaster Response Nationwide
Partnership between AtHoc and American Red Cross yields emergency notification system that will reach the entire Red Cross workforce across all Red Cross Chapters with on demand interoperability with federal, state and business partners.
SAN MATEO, Calif. — February 25, 2015 — AtHoc, Inc., the leader in networked crisis communication, today announced that the American Red Cross has begun a nationwide deployment of AtHoc across its network of nearly 500 chapters in the U.S. to accelerate its disaster response. The AtHoc system gives the Red Cross the ability to quickly alert and communicate with its workforce and volunteers, as well as seamlessly connect with local government agencies and business partners during crises when needed.
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"We are honored to partner with the American Red Cross in its mission to provide compassionate care to those in need, here at home and around the world," said Guy Miasnik, CEO of AtHoc. "AtHoc is committed to working with the Red Cross to ensure it has access to next-generation technology that will most effectively support all three phases of emergency response — prepare, respond and restore."
The Red Cross will use AtHoc to notify and collaborate with its workforce via multiple and redundant means, including desktop apps, smart phone apps, email, cell and landline phones, all from a web-based console. The system is configured to allow for national, regional, local or team based communications depending on the situation, impact area or specialty resources required to manage the incident.
Importantly, the Red Cross and organizations who coordinate and collaborate with the Red Cross benefit from seamless interoperability. AtHoc allows the Red Cross to invite and connect with relevant organizations for bi-directional messaging that is trusted and secure. This interoperability promotes faster and effective knowledge sharing, which results in improved situational awareness and eliminates the confusion that typically hinders rapid response to a crisis.
The AtHoc suite of integrated applications: Alert, Collect, Account and Connect sets the standard in networked crisis communication. These applications run on AtHoc’s secure cloud platform which connects users, organizations and devices globally — an “internet of things” platform addressing the growing needs of crisis communications. AtHoc leverages the power of mobility, hybrid cloud and the IP network to deliver a unified and secure end-to-end solution capable of real-time collaboration with anyone, anywhere and across virtually any device.
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AtHoc is the pioneer and recognized leader in networked crisis communication, protecting millions of people around the world. AtHoc provides a seamless and reliable exchange of critical information among organizations, their people, devices and external entities. A trusted partner to the world's most demanding customers, AtHoc is the #1 provider to the US Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, and safeguards numerous other government agencies and leading commercial enterprises. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company operates around the globe. For more information about AtHoc, please visit www.athoc.com.
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2 Eagle 900 MHz Link Transmitters, 60 & 80W
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Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update, and/or the BloostonLaw Private Users Update — newsletters from the Law Offices of Blooston, Mordkofsky, Dickens, Duffy & Prendergast, LLP are reproduced in this section with the firm’s permission.
BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 18, No. 9 March 4, 2015
Form 499-A, Access to Advanced Services Certifications Due April 1
The Annual Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, known as FCC Form 499-A, is due on April 1. The filing, which applies to every telecommunications carrier that provides interstate, intrastate, and international telecommunications, and certain other entities that provide interstate telecommunications for a fee, requires the reporting of revenue information from January 1 through December 31 of the prior year, along with certain other information.
Also due April 1 is the Annual Access to Advanced Services Certification. This filing, which applies to all providers of telecommunications services and telecommunications carriers subject to Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act, requires the filer to certify that it has procedures in place to meet the relevant recordkeeping requirements and actually keeps the required records.
BloostonLaw has an extensive experience with both filings and has a compliance manual available for the Accessibility filing.
Comment Deadlines Established for Letter of Credit Requirements
On February 27, the FCC published in the Federal Register the Public Notices seeking comment on the letter of credit proposals contained in the individual Petitions for Waiver filed by NTCA, the Alliance of Rural Broadband Applicants, and the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation at the beginning of February. Therefore, comments are due March 30 and reply comments are due April 13.
It is important to note that the FCC is also seeking comment on how the issues raised in the Petitions for Waiver may be relevant in the upcoming Connect America Fund Phase II competitive bidding process. Therefore, carriers should strongly consider participating in the proceeding even if they did not win Rural Broadband Experiment funding.
FCC Adopts Net Neutrality Order, Preempts NC and TN State Restrictions on Municipal Broadband
In what is likely common knowledge in the industry by now, the FCC voted to adopt new Net Neutrality (a.k.a. Open Internet rules) at its Open Meeting of February 26. It also voted to preempt state laws restricting municipal broadband programs. As of this writing, neither order is available to the public.
According to a press release issued by the FCC, the key provisions to the Net Neutrality Order include:
Bright Line Rules: no blocking, no throttling, no paid prioritization.
A Standard for Future Conduct: ISPs cannot “unreasonably interfere with or unreasonably disadvantage” the ability of consumers to select, access, and use the lawful content, applications, services, or devices of their choosing; or of edge providers to make lawful content, applications, services, or devices available to consumers.
Greater Transparency: broadband providers must disclose promotional rates, fees and surcharges and data caps; packet loss (as a measure of network performance); and provide notice of network management practices that can affect service. There will be a temporary exemption from the transparency enhancements for fixed and mobile providers with 100,000 or fewer subscribers.
Interconnection: the Commission can hear complaints and take appropriate enforcement action if it determines the interconnection activities of ISPs are not just and reasonable.
Title II Regulation: Prohibition of “unjust and unreasonable practices” (Sections 201 and 202); Investigation of consumer complaints under section 208 and related enforcement provisions (Sections 206, 207, 209, 216 and 217); Protection for consumer privacy (Section 222); Fair access to poles and conduits (Section 224); Protection for people with disabilities (Sections 225 and 255); and Universal service fund support for broadband service in the future (partial application of Section 254).
In a separate press release, the FCC also summarized its order preempting state laws restricting community broadband in North Carolina and Tennessee. Specifically, the FCC found that provisions of the laws in North Carolina and Tennessee are barriers to broadband deployment, investment and competition, and conflict with the FCC’s mandate to promote these goals. The state laws had effectively prevented the cities from expanding broadband service outside their current footprints despite numerous requests from neighboring unserved and underserved communities. Citing the well-established principal that a federal agency may preempt state laws that conflict with its regulations or policies so long as it is acting within the scope of its authority, the FCC found that there is “a clear conflict” between Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which directs the FCC to take action to remove barriers to broadband investment and competition, and provisions of the Tennessee and North Carolina law that erect barriers to expansion of service into surrounding communities, including unserved and underserved areas.
Neither order is available to the public at this time.
Second E-Rate Modernization Order Becomes Effective This Month
The FCC’s E-Rate Modernization Order of December 2014 appeared in the Federal Register on February 6, 2015, making this Friday, March 6 the effective date for those rules (except the ones associated with collections of information, which require OMB approval).
Of particular interest is the new obligation of high-cost recipients, scheduled to take effect for the 2016 funding year, to submit bids in response to all reasonable requests for category one telecommunications and Internet services in posted FCC Form 470 (Request for Proposal) by schools and libraries located in the geographic area where the carrier receives high-cost support. Services must be offered at the reasonable comparability benchmark” to be developed by the FCC, and will not constitute a rebate to the price of service; rather, the benchmark price offered will constitute the full retail price before taking into account any universal service support.
Upon receipt of OMB approval, rate of return carriers will also be required to certify annually that they bid on all reasonable requests for category one telecommunications and Internet access services in posted FCC Form 470s.
Other revisions include:
Equalizing the treatment of lit and dark fiber;
Allowing self-construction of high-speed broadband facilities by schools and libraries in the limited circumstances in which self-construction is the most cost-effective option;
Up to an additional 10 percent in category one funding to match state funding for special construction charges for last-mile facilities to support high-speed broadband, with special consideration for Tribal schools;
Expanding the five-year budget approach to providing support for category two internal connections through funding year 2019;
Adjusting the E-rate funding cap to $3.9 billion to meet the long-term needs of the program;
Directing the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) to track and provide program performance information on the specific policy changes made in this Order and the E-rate Modernization Order to enable the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the policy changes in meeting E-rate program goals; and
Clarifying the rules regarding appeals of USAC decisions.
Other requirements relating to collections of additional information (and therefore requiring OMB approval) applicable to rate of return carriers include:
Provision of the number, names, and addresses of community anchor institutions to which the carrier newly began providing access to broadband service in the preceding calendar year; and
Provision of a letter certifying that the carrier is taking reasonable steps to provide upon reasonable request broadband service at actual speeds of at least 4 Mbps downstream/1 Mbps upstream (rate of return carriers).
FCC Proposes $9 Million Forfeiture for Slamming and Cramming Violations, Falsifying Evidence
On February 27, the FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NALF) to fine GPSPS, Inc., an Atlanta, GA telephone company, in the amount of $9,065,000 for allegedly switching consumers’ long distance telephone services without their authorization (“slamming”), billing customers for unauthorized charges (“cramming”), and submitting falsified evidence to government regulatory officials as “proof” that consumers had authorized the company to switch their long distance providers.
According to the NALF, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau reviewed over 150 complaints against GPSPS that consumers filed with the Commission, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Public Utility Commission of Texas (Texas PUC), and the Better Business Bureau (BBB). All complainants contended that GPSPS switched their preferred long distance service provider without their authorization, and most affirmatively asserted that they had never heard of or spoken to GPSPS before discovering GPSPS’s charges on their telephone bills. Some complainants indicated that GPSPS told them the company had audio recording evidencing the authorization and that, upon hearing those recordings, contended they were fake. GPSPS also apparently failed to respond full and in a timely manner to the Bureau’s investigation.
GPSPS has thirty days to pay the full amount of the proposed forfeiture or file a written statement seeking reduction or cancellation thereof.
Senate Committee to Hold Hearing on FCC Oversight on March 18
On March18, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will hold a hearing entitled Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. According to the official press release, the hearing “will have a broad scope covering every aspect of the agency, from its Fiscal Year 2016 budget request to major policy issues before the Commission. This will be the Committee’s first public opportunity to directly question the Commission about its controversial Open Internet Order. The Committee is also expected to explore matters related to the modernization of the nation’s communications laws and the reauthorization of the agency, which has not occurred in 25 years.”
The witnesses for the hearing will, of course, be the five FCC commissioners themselves: Chairman Tom Wheeler and Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel, Ajit Pai, Michael O’Rielly and Mignon Clyburn.
The hearing will take place in Senate Russell Office Building, Room 253, at 2:30 PM EST. Witness testimony, opening statements, and a live video of the hearing will be made available.
Kentucky Legislature Passes Landline Deregulation Bill
On March 2, the Kentucky state Senate voted 30-3 to pass H.B. 152, which effectively eliminates the authority of the Kentucky Public Service Commission over telecommunications providers in areas that have at least 15,000 households. Governor Steve Beshear reportedly said after the vote he will sign it into law.
The primary effect of the bill is to allow AT&T (a major proponent of the legislation) and other large telecommunications companies in the area to begin retiring legacy landline networks in favor of new technology, such as Internet-supported services like U-Verse and wireless alternatives like AT&T Wireless Home.
Google Confirms Upcoming Wireless Offering
At an industry event in Barcelona this week, Google Senior Vice President of Products Sundar Pichai confirmed that the company plans to launch a wireless service in the U.S. in the future. According to Mr. Pichai, the service is intended to be small-scale, and is not targeted at competing with the big-four carriers.
“You will see us announce it in the coming months,” Mr. Pichai said. “Our goal here is to drive a set of innovations which we think the system should adopt.”
Speculation in the press suggests that Google will launch its service using a combination of WiFi and MVNO deals with Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. to wholesale their network access.
According to Piper Jaffray tech analyst Gene Munster, “At the end of the day, Google does not want to be a wireless carrier. The wireless strategy feels like Google is trying to put pressure on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile to offer low-cost unlimited data to the consumer. Google benefits from unlimited wireless data because people will use their phones more, and more Internet use is good for Google, especially with mobile YouTube.”
Calendar At A Glance
Mar. 6 – Reply comments are due on Part 1 Competitive Bidding NPRM.
Mar. 9 – Reply comments are due on Technology Transitions NPRM.
Mar. 9 – Reply comments are due on Windstream Petition for Declaratory Ruling on DS1/DS3 Access.
Mar. 9 – Comments are due on 911 Outage NPRM.
Mar. 11 – Reply comments are due on the IntraMTA Petition for Declaratory Ruling.
Mar. 16 – Deadline for comments on Online Public File Expansion NPRM.
Mar. 16 – Deadline to notify AT&T of Service Provided in CAF Phase I Deployment Census Blocks.
Mar. 30 – Comments are due on Letter of Credit Requirements.
Mar. 31 – FCC Form 525 (Delayed Phasedown CETC Line Counts) is due.
Mar. 31 – FCC Form 508 (ICLS Projected Annual Common Line Requirement) is due.
Mar. 31 – International Circuit Capacity Report is due.
Apr. 1 – FCC Form 499-A (Annual Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet) is due.
Apr. 1 – Annual Accessibility Certification is due.
Apr. 7 – Reply comments are due on 911 Outage NPRM.
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After Pissing Off Congress, FCC Asks For Biggest Budget In History
4:05 PM 03/05/2015
Less than a week after the FCC stepped on legislators’ toes by voting to assert regulatory control over the Internet, the agency is asking Congress to massively increase its budget.
The request was made at a hearing held by the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology to discuss FCC reauthorization. The subcommittee is chaired by Republican Rep. Greg Walden, who has been sharply critical of the FCC’s decision to regulate the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the Communications Act.
Walden and other subcommittee members made clear that a major component of any reauthorization proposal would be an update of the Communications Act — to reflect the significant technological evolutions that have occurred since it was last updated 17 years ago.
“Much has changed since the last reauthorization of the commission” in 1990, Walden said, “but in the intervening years the FCC has struggled to reflect the evolution of technology.”
“Nowhere is the Communications Act’s failure of imagination more evident than in the FCC’s decision to reclassify broadband service under rules developed to regulate the telegraph’s heyday,” he explained, saying the ruling “repudiated years of light touch regulation of the Internet under both Republican and Democratic administrations . . . [and] suggests an agency seemingly ill-suited to address the needs of the modern communications ecosystem.”
FCC Managing Director Jon Wilkins delivered testimony on behalf of the commission, requesting approximately $530 million in spending authority for FY 2016, which, he admitted, “represents a marked increase over the FY15 appropriated number of $339.8 million.”
In fact, Walden clarified, the figure “would be the highest funding level in the agency’s history.”
Wilkins countered that over the past six years, “the FCC has operated under essentially flat funding levels,” and when the effects of inflation and sequestration are taken into account, “suffered actual reductions in the purchasing power of our budget.”
He further claimed that this “flat funding” has not only forced the agency to reduce its staff, but also to delay improvements to its IT systems that would improve the efficiency of its remaining workforce.
But “One component of the request that resonates in particular, and is in addition to the $59 million increase in funding” for operational expenses, Walden pointed out, “is a request for a $25 million transfer from the Universal Service Fund.”
The Universal Service Fund (USF), which is managed by the FCC, is designed to promote universal access to telecommunications by subsidizing services in rural and low-income areas through fees paid by telecom companies.
“In the past,” Walden noted, “Congress funded the FCC’s Office of Inspector General with a transfer of USF funds for the purpose of bolstering audits and investigations to address waste, fraud, and abuse in the Fund following a GAO report.”
The current request is for a “realignment” to cover the cost to the FCC of managing the fund, which Wilkins claimed would “reduce . . . the regulatory fee burden on licensees with no USF relationship,” such as local broadcasters and marine licensees.
But “this ‘realignment,’ as it is called, would create a separate funding stream for the agency that comes directly out of the pockets of consumers to implement and support a subsidy program the size of which is determined by the FCC and that has become so large and burdensome that it appears that it has outgrown the FCC’s capacity for adequate oversight,” Walden argued.
Walden noted that his experience on the subcommittee had taught him that, “the [FCC's] budget request is like a window into the agency itself,” and said, “It is my hope that our conversations today will pull back the curtain and provide the committee and the American people with a better understanding of … what the commission is really up to.”
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The construction materials used to build the hospital block the signal
By Leah Hendry, CBC News Posted: Mar 06, 2015 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 06, 2015 5:00 AM ET
CBC News | Montreal
CBC News has learned cell phone reception inside the new MUHC will be spotty. (CBC)
Reception for mobile devices will be spotty inside the new MUHC super hospital when it opens next month and won't be fully operational for some time, CBC News has learned.
The construction materials used to build the hospital block the signal, according to Martine Alfonso, associate executive director of the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
Alfonso is also in charge of information services for the McGill University Health Centre.
"If you went today, you would not be able to use your phone everywhere," she said. "In the new [hospital], there are areas where someone who has a pager would not get the signal."
Although cell phones are a way of life now, the MUHC didn't foresee a lack of cellular reception as an issue when they first started planning the project, Alfonso said.
"When we started this project years ago, cellular phones were not allowed in hospitals. So, it wasn't the first issue that was looked at. But it's now a tool that everyone uses and even clinical teams use them to work with patients," Alfonso added.
The problem is related to the materials used for the hospital to be awarded the LEED Silver Certification for energy and environmentally-conscious design.
"There is a film on the windows where you would expect the wavelength or signal to be well received. Even close to a window it's not because of the quality of the construction," said Alfonso.
To deal with isolated spots of poor coverage, a network of small antennas known as a distributed antenna system (DAS) will be installed throughout the building to boost signal strength.
Alfonso says clinical areas including critical and ambulatory care, ERs and inpatient units are the first priority for installation.
The signal will be gradually improved week by week, but mobile reception in the entire building won't be available until Fall 2015.
While the system is being installed, pagers will be distributed to physicians and medical personnel who normally receive pages through their cell phones.
Before the DAS is fully deployed, the MUHC has asked its provider to install 2 antennas on the roof to allow pagers to function.
The building will be fully covered by Wi-Fi service. Messaging services including BlackBerry's BBM and Apple's iMessage will work, as will V-sign, the MUHC-designed app which allows doctors to access patient files on their smartphone or tablet.
Medical personnel will also have access to 600 portable Wi-Fi phones to carry with them if they are on the move in the hospital.
Impact on patient care
Alfonso says the delay in cellular coverage shouldn't have an impact on clinical care.
While some doctors have incorporated cell phones into their practice, the hospital has many other ways of relaying communication, Alfonso said.
"Our system is not based on the use of people's individual personal phones."
One doctor, who declined to be identified, said medical personnel use them for everything from touching base with residents, to consulting colleagues on a patient file or staying in touch with a large team.
The doctor said he was pleased the MUHC realizes the lack of cellular reception is an issue, and was satisfied with the plan to address it.
Memos are currently being distributed to staff to let them know about the issues around cellular reception at the Glen site and they are also warned about the problem when they receive their orientation tour of the hospital, Alfonso says.
A phone for making local calls will be available in every one of the MUHC's 500 single-patient rooms.
The co-chair of the MUHC's Patients' Committee, Mario Di Carlo says he was surprised the MUHC did not foresee the problem sooner, adding it could cause some inconveniences for patients' family members in some areas of the hospital.
"It feels a bit strange," said Di Carlo. "You would figure this would be done right from the outset. The basic technology for cell phones is understood. This is not something new."
Source: CBC News | Montreal
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Trump risks toxifying US Republicans but with the populist challenge coming from outside the party, UK Conservatives needn't fear death by demographics, write Frank Sharry and Sunder Katwala
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The battlefield summit: Cameron at Ypres
Twenty-seven European leaders will observe Thursday 26th June the Last Post at Ypres before getting down to business as they haggle over the priorities and personnel for the European Union, writes Sunder Katwala.
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How Britain’s Pro-Europeans Lost the Argument
England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her exchanges, her markets, her supply lines to the most diverse and often the most distant countries; she pursues essentially industrial and commercial activities, and only slight agricultural ones. She has in all her doings very marked and very original habits and traditions. In short, the nature, the structure, the very conjuncture that are Englands differ profoundly from those of the continentals. What is to be done in order that England, as she lives, produces and trades, can be incorporated into the Common Market, as it has been conceived and as it functions?
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Five reasons to be excited for the 2017 Yankees
By Chad Raines - January 30, 2017
The 2016 season was a very bipolar season for the Yankees. For the first four months, they were not good. The players were old and not producing, the pitching staff was not going deep into games, and it was rare that someone in the bullpen not named Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller, or Aroldis Chapman had a scoreless outing. The team was not exciting, and the playoffs seemed like a distant dream by the time July came. It wasn’t a fun time to be a Yankees fan.
Clint Frazier Photo Credit: Jeff Irizarry | The Syracuse Chiefs
Then came the miracle day: July 25th, 2016. Aroldis Chapman was traded to the Cubs for Gleyber Torres, Adam Warren, Billy Mckinney, and Rashad Crawford, and suddenly everyone had hope, with Torres being the Cubs #1 prospect. Then on July 31st, the day before the trade deadline, the Yankees acquired Clint Frazier, Justus Sheffield, J.P. Feyereisen, and Ben Heller for Miller. The farm system was all of the sudden loaded with elite prospects, and with the debuts of Gary Sanchez, Tyler Austin, and Aaron Judge, the Yankees suddenly became more exciting. Sanchez began to smash his way into the baseball record books, while Judge and Austin showed glimpses of their potential.
The final couple months of the season were by far the best. However, 2017 is going to be a full season of that. The Yankees will be younger, with more potential, and the beginning of the next era for the team will begin. Here are five reasons why we should be excited for this:
1) The first full season for The Kraken
Everyone knows Gary Sanchez now. Everyone knows what he did last year, hitting more home runs for the Yankees in the final 52 games than everyone but Starlin Castro and Carlos Beltran. Obviously, he’s not going to continue this pace; he did struggle towards the end of the season when pitchers started figuring out how to pitch to him. But Sanchez is a potential superstar, and watching him hit will be fun. He also has a rocket for an arm, throwing out 41% of attempted base stealers, including this one against the Red Sox.
I agree with John Flaherty; I want to see people try and steal on Sanchez just to see the cannon.
2) The debut of Red Thunder
Acquired in the deal for Andrew Miller, Yankees top prospect Clint Frazier has the potential to become an absolute force. As many people have heard Brian Cashman say, he possesses “legendary” bat speed, and has the potential to be another impact, middle of the order power bat for the Yankees. Take a look at his first home run as a Yankee, for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
Wow. His swing really does remind you of Mike Trout, huh? Frazier should mash at Yankee Stadium, and bring some much needed excitement to a team that has been pretty boring the last few years.
3) The return of Bird is the Word
Man, the 2015 season seems so long ago. It’s surprising that a year and a half ago, before Gary Sanchez, Greg Bird gave Yankees fans the young exciting player that they’ve needed for years. Bird hit .261 with 11 homers in his first 46 career games, filling in for an injured Mark Teixeira. However, a torn labrum resulted in season ending shoulder surgery last offseason. But Bird will be back, and with some luck, he will eventually be able to regain his old form, such as these bombs that he hit for his first two career home runs.
4) The Cuban Missile is back
Personally, I was not a fan of the Yankees acquisition of Aroldis Chapman last year. Using a domestic violence scandal to buy low on an impact player was something I personally was not a fan of. I could go on for a while, but I’ll leave it at that. From a purely baseball perspective, Chapman can be a lot of fun to watch. Who wouldn’t be excited to have a 105 mph flamethrower as their closer? The pair of Chapman and Dellin Betances will be incredibly exciting, as long as you aren’t the batter facing them. The back end of the bullpen is once again one of the Yankees’ biggest strengths, which is something they lacked at the end of last year.
Photo Credit: Brad Penner | USA TODAY Sports
5) The incredible depth of the Yanks’ farm system
The Yanks don’t have one of, if not the best farm system in baseball just because of blue chip prospects such as Frazier, Torres, and Jorge Mateo. They have a boatload of players who project to be solid contributors at the major league level, such as James Kaprielain, Chance Adams, Tyler Wade, Jordan Montgomery, Dustin Fowler, and Domingo Acevedo, among others. They also have a lot of young pitching depth, with Luis Severino, Chad Green, Luis Cessa, Adam Warren, and Bryan Mitchell ready to compete for the fourth and fifth rotation spots for the coming season. There are so many more young players that will have a chance to contribute to this team in 2017, and it should be one of the most exciting years in a while.
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Did Joss Whedon think we’d essentially forgive Angel after BtVS S8?
Thread: Did Joss Whedon think we’d essentially forgive Angel after BtVS S8?
This has essentially been in my head since the end of A&F S9.
* I don’t know what Joss Whedon’s plan was. He makes Cursed Angel be Twilight. In A&F S9, it turns out that AngelTwilight did worse and was even more evil than we thought – the whole Pearl and Nash thing –, and almost everyone in A&F S9 is as okay with Cursed Angel as he or she was in AtS s5 or better than he and she was in AtS s5.
Did Joss actually assume Cursed Angel’s being catatonic for months and then helping to resurrect Giles going was going to be enough for the audience to forgive Angel? Did Joss actually approve of how everyone in A&F S9 regarded Angel?
Moreover, Angel received less than zero punishment for what he did in BtVS S8. He’s actually rewarded. He got to live in Rupert Giles’ former house free, he got Faith as his ‘sidekick’, Connor loves him more than ever, Willow hugs Cursed Angel (something I don’t remember her ever doing), Drusilla tells him she’s happy he made her a vampire, Spike commends Angel for they way he was able to ‘move on’ from Buffy (given what Angel did in BtVS S8, that made no sense), Giles forgives Cursed Angel, and by the end of A&F S9, Angel thinks he still has a chance with Buffy.
Compare that to:
BtVS S2: it turns out Cursed Angel was in a hell dimension for a long time. Cursed Angel tells his Fang Gang that it was 100 years. While Drusilla other than losing Spike is never really punished, she’s also not a regular in the Buffyverse and we’re not asked to consider her one of the main heroes of the Buffyverse. Spike helped Buffy save the world; he’s later chipped.
BtVS S3: While Faith was helping the Mayor to eat the town of Sunnydale, population around 35K, what she actually accomplished was killing a professor, killing an evil Deputy Mayor, and poisoning Cursed Angel. She was in a coma for many months and later goes to prison for years. She ends up doing a lot of good in BtVS S7 and after.
BtVS S4: Spike betrays the Scoobies to Adam but he’s also likely the only reason the Scoobies were even alive in “Primeval” (B 4.21) given that Adam would have simply killed Buffy’s Scooby Gang. In addition, the Combining Spell would have been broken had not Spike defended that door. Buffy and the rest of the Scoobies would have died. Moreover, his returning to Sunnydale resulted in his being chipped.
BtVS S5: Dracula is Dracula and ends up being helpful at times to the Scoobies. Other than biting and drinking from Buffy and killing at least one person, he didn’t do much damage in “Buffy vs. Dracula” while in Sunnydale.
BtVS S6: Willow after “Grave” (B 6.22) thought Giles was going to kill her and she accepted that. She goes to magical rehab. All she actually managed to accomplish was beat on some Scoobies including Buffy, kill the evil Warren, and kill the evil Rack. Before that, he had put Dawn’s life in danger and has to give up magic possibly forever. After attempting to rape Buffy, Spike goes away and goes through Trials to get his soul back, then he’s away for 4 months, then he’s used by the First Evil, then he’s almost murdered by Buffy’s quasi quasi quasi boyfriend and Rupert Giles. Spike then dies destroying Sunnydale and closing the Hellmouth.
BtVS S7: Jonathan Levinson was evil anyway and Andrew Wells ends up being very helpful during the BtVS S7. Buffy was determined to kill Anya because Anya killed 13 people and Anya was still dangerous. Anya is turned into a mortal, her BFF is killed by her father figure, and her father figure for months sends assassins after her. Anya ends up dying in “Chosen” (B 7.22).
BtVS S8: AngelTwilight’s actions resulted in 100s of Slayer deaths, many soldier deaths, there was the Vampy Cat thing, there was the blowing up of the Slayer headquarters thing, etc. What AngelTwilight did before glow-sexing SuperBuffy was more than enough to kill Angel. It is possible that no one but Twilight, Angel and Buffy know that AngelTwilight tried to keep SuperBuffy in Twilight and allow the world and all its life to be destroyed so that Buffy and Angel would be able to stay in Twilight together. I consider that Spike knows. Anyway, Buffy knows. SuperBuffy in BtVS 8.39 now considers that Angelus, Angel, AngelTwilight, and TwilightAngel are all the same person. Yet, Cursed Angel wasn’t killed in the Seed Chamber. Somehow, Faith is able to take Angel to London. The only negative thing that happens to Angel is that Nadira and Co. wanted to kill him. Nadira ends up asking Cursed Angel for help. The actual consequences come to Faith as Nadira and Co. leave Faith. Nadira over in A&F S10 seems to want to be BFFs with Cursed Angel.
What AngelTwilight did in BtVS S8 is worse than what Uncursed Angel was doing in BtVS S2. Yet instead of being killed, going to a hell dimension, or even going to any kind of rehab, he’s mollycoddled by Faith.
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Originally Posted by ashellygul
Jonathan had virtually no part in S7 aside from being used as a sacrifice for the First and eventually becoming one of the First's avatars and was hiding out with Andrew in Mexico or something, and I think referring to him as "evil" is a bit of an overstatement since it was Warren who killed Tara, plus Jonathan and Andrew both had basically been bumbling screw-up sidekicks until Season 7.
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* "Revelations" (B 3.07): The Scoobies have an intervention with Buffy merely because she was kissing Angel. Until Xander realizes that maybe there's another danger in town that maybe Faith should focus on; Xander wanted to go with her to try to dust Angel.
Angel in "Beauty and the Beasts" (B 3.04) proves he's still good by killing the danger to Buffy. In "Revelations" (B 3.07), he saves Willow. Still, the Scoobies until Angel leaves town are always concerned regarding Buffy and Angel getting 'too close' again.
In "Amends" (B 3.10), if not for some higher power, Angel would have successfully committed suicide.
Spike:
* After Dawn's is told of the attempted rape, she's not actually fully okay with Spike until after he helps save her in Season 9. Dawn is almost certainly the reason Spike didn't have an invite into the Xander/Dawn apartment.
* Before that, there's the "Crush" (B 5.14) example. In "Lovers Walk" (B 3.08), it seems Willow knows Spike helped Buffy save the world. Xander and Giles already knew. Spike is the reason Giles was chainsawed by Angel. Spike saved the Scoobies in "Primeval" (B 4.21). Spike was helpful in BtVS S5. Joyce and Willow had been very against the idea of Buffy/Spike. Xander had thought the idea humorous. Giles had been literally violently and murderously against the idea.
- Compare the above two to how Dawn acts with Angel in Season 10 and how Faith and Giles in A&F S9 and then Willow in Season 10 seem open to and possibly supportive of Buffy/Angel happening again.
* In BtVS S7, Buffy left Spike in that basement for weeks even though she sensed that there was something evil down there.
- Compare that to Faith's extreme mollycoddling of Angel.
Willow:
The Scoobies knew Willow was 'coming home' in "Same Time, Same Place" (B 7.03) yet Buffy and Dawn didn't make a room for Willow. Willow isn't listed in Buffy's phone book. Dawn is still against Willow. Buffy and Xander reasoned Willow's likely responsible for skinning the guy. Willow throughout the episode feels abandoned (she never liked Anya and Spike is currently 'crazy') and then reasons she's going to be eaten in that cave.
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I don't believe in punishment so I don't have a problem with Angel's story post-season 8 but when a character goes full madman I expect character development and OK, it's not like Angel didn't change at all but it's not enough. Angel in season eight was all big crazy plan so I can be with Buffy™ and season nine is more of the same basically. He still has this childish idea that one day he'll do something heroic and they'll be together, still expects that happily ever after, he's still in love with her (except it's not love because Angel doesn't even know Buffy anymore) and...she's not, she's all stay in touch, check out social media loser - no hard feelings, no drama, no angst, no passion. It's over.
At this point Angel's inability to move on, especially after season eight, is something between insane, creepy and pathetic. Characters that don't change are boring and until Angel can get on with his life he'll keep on being boring.
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Originally Posted by a thing of evil
I don't believe in punishment so I don't have a problem with Angel's story post-season 8
AngelTwilight in Twilight wanted the entire world and all its life destroyed because he wanted Buffy and he to stay in Twilight together.
Pre-BtVS S8, the fundamental reason Cursed Angel isn't killed in "Angel" (B 1.07) or after by the 'good guys' is because Cursed Angel wasn't likely to do something like The Judge, like Acathla, etc.
In TV AtS, the Fang Gang was always concerned whenever Cursed Angel was acting too "Angelus" or possibly "Angelus".
Post-BtVS S8 has been written as if Angel is still a good guy and essentially only Buffy is punished and blamed for all the horrors of BtVS S8. Even Willow somewhat only seems to threaten Angel in A&F S9 to 'guilt trip' him into helping her get her magic back.
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I think we are meant to assume that all the punishment Angel needs is self inflicted and that his mental anguish over what he's done is punishment enough. Buffy on the other hand, does not suffer the levels of guilt that Angel does, so other characters seem to feel it is their duty to verbally blame her for what happened in S8, especially Willow.
A&F S9 was Angel trying to put right what he'd done in S8 and the writers seem to feel that is enough and the audience understand that Angel is still a champion and Twilight was an error of judgement. A huge error of judgement. Massive. But still forgiveable.
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Look at the big picture @MikeB. It's been 3 seasons. Scoobies have become those amazing people, they've grown so much etc and Angel is still Angel, stewing in his manpain and his lack of character development. Isn't that enough of a punishment? Like, Buffy is mature and happy and amazing WITHOUT him. What more could a certified Angel hater™, such as yourself, ask for?
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A&F S9 was Angel trying to put right what he'd done in S8
The only thing Angel worried about was bringing back Giles, and according to Joss it had to do with being OK with Buffy again.
and the writers seem to feel that is enough and the audience understand that Angel is still a champion and Twilight was an error of judgement. A huge error of judgement. Massive. But still forgiveable.
Not that easy...
Let’s take a look on some of the Twilight’s– Angel’s crimes:
1. Viciously attacked Satsu, to the point the Slayer needed medical care:
With the same viciousness, not only attacked Buffy with brute force but also with harsh words:
2. Working with witch Amy Madison and her misogynist, disgusting, skinless boyfriend Warren Mears, ordered a magical bomb attack to the Scottish castle where Buffy, the Scoobies and their Slayer Squad were dwelling. Angel knew Buffy wasn’t going to be there (she had traveled to New York with Willow – it wasn’t in his best interest to kill his ex-girlfriend) – and he didn’t care enough about the lives of Xander, Dawn or the young Slayers: at least 7 of them died in the attack:
Let’s continue listing some of Angel’s crimes while playing masked man:
Having witch Amy Madison under his command, Angel-Twilight was able to find the location of the Scottish castle where Buffy, the Scoobies, several witches, and hundreds of Slayers were hidden, and launched an attack of an army of ferocious demons, causing the death of several Slayers and at least one witch:
Buffy, the Scoobies and the remaining Slayers and witches escaped using a submarine*; and with a powerful spell, Willow transported it to Tibet, where Oz was living with his wife and baby boy.
*A bunch of vamps had taken it from the Koreans, and Satsu took it back!
But Angel – with the help of an equipment to pinpoint magical energy plus Amy’s magic – located Buffy’s whereabouts again, and supervised another attack against them, yet more violent then the first one, which caused the death of many young Slayers (among them, Saabira, who had grew up under the Taliban) and almost killed Oz’s wife Bayarmaa,
not before ordering the death (Kill the man that found this “spikes”) of the technician who operated the machine – probably a Government employee who just believed to be doing his part in the war against the “Slayer terrorists”:
And then, few years later, we had the complete whitewashing of Angel’s role in this particular battle, laying all the blame on the Army,
men who clearly were following orders from Twilight!
SHAME ON YOU BUFFY! And dont’t give me that “he was possessed” line! (I wasn’t so pissed at Buffy when I read S10, but since this thoroughly reread of S8 I did last year, I've been).
After the big battle in Tibet, Angel/Twilight loses his three minions (not that he minds, at all, he’s now near to achieve his primary goal): Amy teleports herself, Warren and the General to the forest near the temple (where the Scoobies find them later), and in exchange Giles, Faith and Andrew are teleported into Twilight’s H.Q.
When the Scoobies take notice that three of their own are missing, Willow does a spell to find “the Slayer who needs” her most, thinking of Faith (“she has no friends”). However, instead of being taken to Faith, Will is teleported to several locations throughout the world (Malasya, Florida, Louisiana) only to find squads of Slayers slaughtered.
It doesn’t take much to conclude that all those deaths are the work of Angel/Twilight; we have a survivor (Nadira) who later will talk about the massacre of her own squad in the Azores – 29 girls – perpetrated by Pearl and Nash, under the supervision of their boss Angel:
(In the end, 206 Slayers were killed.)
Back in the H.Q., Angel finds Giles, Faith and Andrew and announces that they will die – and he is NOT kidding:
Faith attacks him, and ends up badly injured; before making his last strike against the three people, Twilight has to tell them about the inevitable event predestined for Buffy – which gives time for the Scoobies to locate the H.Q. When Twilight is about to attack Andrew (and probably kill him), Buffy (now with super superpowers too), intervenes:
Which soon will bring us to one more of Angel’s crimes (but not the last): he knows Buffy won’t accept what he has to offer – unless she is not in her rightful mind; so he is smart enough and keeps talking (which Buffy notices right away and yells at him: Stop talking! Your best asset was that you weren’t a talker!) to give time for Buffy getting… drugged (by the Glow).
After the Glow, Buffy gives in, has sex with Angel, and a new Universe (Twilight) is created: a world where, according to Angel’s own words, only “the most suitable candidates will enter”, criteria that surely doesn’t match any of Buffy’s friends, because when he sees them fighting for their lives on Earth, he dismisses it by saying “they’ll survive”:
Buffy is strong enough to see the truth, refuses to stay in the new Universe, and leaves; Angel follows her.
And then we have all the deaths caused by the creation of the new Universe… uncountable crimes committed by a non-possessed Angel.
Then, he gets possessed and kills Giles.
I discovered the BtVS comics in 2014, soon ordered the S8 TPBs (8 volumes) and liked it very much.
My only problem was with Angel being Twilight – I couldn’t believe he would be capable of becoming someone so despicable, someone who could hurt the woman he always claimed to love, and cause so much death and destruction. I even said so on a letter that was published in the Slay the Critics section of the Buffy books.
The thing is, after going through the stages of grief – Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression – and reading a lot of metas, I finally Accepted the truth; Joss Whedon, more than anyone, knew his character and knew what he was capable of. Angel was the perfect candidate to impersonate Twilight and the grandiosity of his plan. It’s funny how Joss once said he “didn’t get Angel”…
I think that for Angel, to be the Great Hero was always much more appealing than just “help the helpless” in a daily basis; he’s not someone for ordinary gestures, ordinary life, ordinary love.
Angel had been ensouled for years and years; he suffered, he brooded, he partied and saved puppies, he brooded some more, and he even helped to do some good (during the War, against the nazis, but it seems the experience didn’t stuck); and then, after one bad step he wallowed in self-pity for 20 years. It took Whistler to show him The Chosen One, for him finally decide to do something usefull with his life – only then, he had a purpose in life. Why didn’t he have a purpose before?
After leaving Sunnydale, Angel maintained a low profile for a few years working with a small crew in Los Angeles – but soon enough, he was joining an evil law firm to be its CEO, and next he was ready to play a yet bigger role.
So, Angel always had a penchant for these grand gestures (or according to Buffy “he’s kind of gullible when it comes to destiny”…), to make big statements without thinking much about the consequences, like when he decided to strike against the Circle of the Black Thorn – which caused LA to be sent to hell (of course it did, it should be expected that the Senior Partners wouldn’t take such an offense lightly).
So at last but not least, let’s make it clear: Angel didn’t get possessed, he chose to play Twilight.
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They originally intended to send him back to IDW as if nothing happened, so yes, they did think so.
Of course, I think S8 was originally intended to end differently.
Not a comic reader here - but I figured more had happened than that. Angel wasn't possessed - he believed a talking dog had been sent by the PTB. This is not an excuse - this is actually the problem.
I know this might look like an anti-Angel thread but I ship the guy. So can any Angel fans explain the why of this? How on earth was he dumb enough to believe a dog?
Can we agree that the writers made everyone do and say everything with a thought to getting good ratings and being renewed. This includes everything we love as well as everything we hate.
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Originally Posted by bespangled
I dunno - perhaps for the same reason Moses believed a burning bush? On reflection a) that sounds cruder than intended and b) there might be some mileage in what was intended partly to be a flippant remark. Bear with me while I flesh out the logic (for want of a better word).
It's a visitation but having an angel appear to Angel smacks of extreme narcissism. However, note the dog is licking its balls and is quite excited to find out it has balls. Is this addressing the age old question of whether angels have tackle or not? Therefore, is licking its balls actually a signifier for masturbation - or extreme narcissism? Is the dog, in fact, an angel/Angel? I always read Twilight as the logical conclusion of Angel's relationship with his earthly father but with his real father as an amalgam of a) an Old Testament heavenly father (a severe God) and b) Freud's severe father/Primal father (killed by the younger members of the Tribe then elevated to the level of a God). The Primal father took all the women. Angelus identifies with this aspect, which would explain why he wanted ownership of Darla and Drusilla. Also, why he killed nuns - mothers and sisters - he didn't want to share them with a heavenly father). The killing of Angel/Liam's actual father and the death of the primal father is repeated in the killing of Giles. Going back to Moses, his task was to lead his people into the promised land - Angel's promised land is only for Buffy.
Back to the dog, my guess would be that at some stage in his human life, Liam's father referred to him as a "dog", more likely a "cur", and it's an unconscious manifestation of Angel himself.
@ Betta - loved your post!
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Originally Posted by betta
Interesting run through aspects of Angel's choices/actions betta, it's been a good number of years since I read S8 so I had forgotten some of this. I think, for me, Angel being duped into the Twilight plan was coherent characterisation. His despondency over his role, purpose, achievements that lead to the kamikaze plan at the end of AtS scans in a similar light I think and his wish for a greater purpose, a grand point of redemption and destiny is consistent enough to believe he could get himself into the situation. It definitely, as Buffy acknowledged, falls to his hubris and even more so when he had Whistler who had brought him originally onto the path of making a difference, to be heroic, pushing him to believe in the balance it would restore. Warning bells should have been sounding loudly because of the aspects of the plan which required secrecy and pulling someone down, weakening them, before you even get into the death/destruction. None of that sounds likely to be 'good' any way you angle it, but the whole plan/grandiosity of it definitely played to his weaknesses. And then we have the fact that he was possessed at some points and, as unsatisfactory as it is to just have this acknowledged but not given specifics to it, it is just a fact that he wasn't in control of all that he did. This doesn't however remove the fact that he remains culpable. He did get himself into the position to be used willingly, albeit somewhat blindly. He just shouldn't have accepted something that had such questionable aspects so readily.
It's most definitely important to not brush aside that Angel chose to be Twilight as much as it is important to accept he wasn't always steering when some of the atrocities he committed occurred. I do find Angel falling to the same hubris time and again difficult, especially when it comes with such great cost, and I really want to see some character progression and change from him. But in terms of forgiving him for S8 I truly believe he'd genuinely convinced himself it was for the greater good and that makes some difference alongside the fact that he was manipulated too. It doesn't absolve him for sure, but it isn't something that breaks the character totally for me personally. But I think it drew a very stark line on what he can/can't come out of again in future.
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I see Twilight as Angel's bathroom scene. Something so huge and disturbing that it takes an effort of will to forgive. It equals the playing field between Spike and Angel in many ways. Both men wanted to create a world for themselves and Buffy, and many will never forgive Spike for what he did, and many will never forgive Angel. Buffy forgives both.
As TriBel suggests, Angel's story couldn't have gone in any other direction. He's always gone for the grand gesture, saving the world but only on his terms, and he's always been the one to choose who gets saved. He even sacrificed his own son (yeah, god metaphor intended) for what he believed was the greater good, while wiping the memories of everyone around him. Twilight makes perfect sense for Angel the character.
As for what he does while being Twilight, or being possessed by Twilight, or by trying to bring Twilight into being, well I doubt Joss could give a reasonable explanation. The season went on for too long, the writers forgot the starting premise by the time they got to the end, and Joss took his new found freedom, with no restrictions, and just ran with it. But I would say that Slayers know they're in a permanent war against evil, and Twilight killing Slayers is part of that war. It's terrible when a soldier dies, but those women were soldiers.
I understand why Twilight might seem unforgivable, but for me it comes down to Buffy. If she can forgive, then so can I. I've been on other forums were the majority cannot forgive Spike for the AR and declare the comics to be non-canon. (In fact many declare anything after S5 as non-canon). I do not want to be one of those people. I do not want to be someone who cannot forgive a character for a crime, when I can forgive Spike for the AR, Willow for wanting to destroy the world, Giles for trying to kill Spike etc. etc. Forgiveness is one of the major tenets of the show.
Angel was forgiven. He turned himself around and started again in London, he bought Giles back and set up his own team to fight the good fight. He has saved countless people since Twilight, and as always with Angel, he lives with the guilt and tries to do better. He will stand shoulder to shoulder with Buffy and Spike in Season 12 and although I find him to be a dreadfully dull character (Angelus and Twilight are the most interesting aspects of Angel imo) I'll be happy to see him.
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He wouldn't. Certainly not after S4 and S5 of Angel. The comics are full of characters doing really stupid OOC things for REASONS. They spent S9 A&F rationalizing by stating that he planned to save people, but nothing really makes sense. S8 states the exact opposite of that.
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[QUOTEI see Twilight as Angel's bathroom scene. Something so huge and disturbing that it takes an effort of will to forgive. It equals the playing field between Spike and Angel in many ways. Both men wanted to create a world for themselves and Buffy, and many will never forgive Spike for what he did, and many will never forgive Angel. Buffy forgives both.][/QUOTE]
@ Priceless - Totally agree. Moreover, I think the text elucidates forgiveness - or the very least - offers us a viable explanation of why these things "happen". I'm not necessarily convinced that either Angel or Spike are "tragic heroes" - for me, it's the system that's flawed rather than the individual.
Having said I agree, I'm now going to question myself (and you). Can we/should we make a comparison between the deaths of so many named (and nameless) people and the AR? The AR was an attack on one women - a women who could easily (as other women can't) fight off her attacker. Buffy - I think - had the right to forgive Spike (and forgiveness is a recognised strategy for dealing with sexual abuse). However, Betta's post was telling. Does Buffy have the right to forgive Twilight - given the immensity of the fallout of his actions? Is it beyond her scope?
The one problem I have is that the AR is fully a "real life" situation while Twilight isn't. I can find parallels in real life (hence the Freudian "analysis") but ultimately - not least because of the restoration of Giles by magic - Twilight remains a couple of levels removed from reality. Why, as a Spike fan, do I question myself about his actions (in bespangled words elsewhere, "disapprove and dislike" him for it but I'm ready to understand Twilight as metaphor and forget abut it? Does it say something about fandom that fans compare the two? Does it say something about our attitudes to femininity and women's bodies (why is potential violation worse than or equal to death)?
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I wouldn't compare the two any further than both open either condemnation or forgiveness. Spike wasn't the same being when unsouled in a meaningful way that separates him as capable of not choosing the same act on a different level when souled (though character notes stay consistent unsouled/souled that played their part, I'm not wiping the slate totally clean for him when his behaviour was partly driven from obsessive tendencies). Angel souled made the choice to buy in to the Twilight plan even though he wasn't in control for the entirety of it and, whether foolish or driven by his flaws greatly or not, he believed he was making a hard choice for the greater good. There was a wider scope of victims to one than the other but one was more personal a crime. They are different acts, different circumstances, different character issues involved. So yeah, I see them as only 'similar' in the sense of something the characters can be given the opportunity to work past or not. The show explores that we have the scope in life to take on board experiences and allow them to inform our current and our future through our next set of actions/choices. The chance to strengthen and empower others is always there as S7 showed and we often can do this through understanding and forgiveness as well as acts of kindness and support.
As Giles said in IOHEFY "To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's-it's... it's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it." and I think that works positively for the giver as well as the receiver. At some point we'll all experience being on both ends.
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I very briefly skimmed the new posts--I was surprised there were new posts in this thread and it's Easter and I don't have much time to post here.
ANGEL'S ACTIONS IN SEASON 8 AND SPIKE'S ATTEMPTING TO RAPE BUFFY IN "SEEING RED" (B 6.19) AREN'T COMPARABLE.
Spike's actions against Buffy in "Seeing Red" aren't even as bad as his actions against Willow in "The Initiative" (B 4.07).
Angel's actions in Season 8 are eviler than Angel's actions in BtVS S2.
It is beyond horrifying to try to equate attempted rape with world-ending evil. Angel's plan was to allow the entire world and all its life be destroyed merely so that Buffy and he can stay in Twilight together. Before that, Angel was responsible for mass murder merely to get Buffy to a place so Twilight could happen.
Spike and Angel aren't comparable:
Spike: (1) The Judge would have killed anything that had any humanity. The Judge was a birthday present for Drusilla and Spike didn't seem to know the full extent of the Judge's plans.
(2) the demon eggs things were a possible world-ending threat. Used to bring Riley to Sunnydale. The Initiative were already handling the situation and Spike likely reasoned the Initiative and/or Buffy would handle the situation.
Angel: (1) The Judge. Angel simply indulged Drusilla
(2) Acathla. Angel simply indulged Drusilla
(3) Twilight
Angel's more evil than Drusilla. Dru was following Harmony's Rules.
And, again, Spike's attempting to rape Buffy resulted in Spike's getting his soul back, later dying to destroy Sunnydale and permanently close the Hellmouth, later helping Buffy defeat Twilight, etc.
Angel's Season 8 actions result in Angel's resurrecting someone he killed resulting in death and misery in a part of London, England.
Arguably, Souled Spike has been less evil than Buffy (twice risks the entire world merely to save Dawn, possibly risks the world to save Spike, refuses to allow Xander to dust Angel post-BtVS 8.39) and Willow ("Grave" (B 6.22), risks the entire world merely to try to keep the Seed, wants magic back in the world even though that would result in magical apocalypses being possible again, decides to make a new Seed instead of keeping the Seedling inside her).
The extent of Spike's evil is he is attracted to partly evil beings: Drusilla, Buffy, Faith, Illyria, Spider and Co., Morgan, Harmony, even Beck is partly evil.
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I don't think Buffy is asking anyone else to forgive Twilight, or Spike for that matter. But I do think there is a sense of 'those without sin may cast the first stone'. Who in the Buffyverse can really stay angry at Angel, considering what they themselves had done. I think each character has to individually make a choice to forgive or not. Dawn couldn't forgive Spike for a long time. Twilight hurt Buffy, so I think she does have the right to forgive him for that. Compassion is one of Buffy's greatest and most important traits.
It is a different situation, with the AR being 'real world' and Twilight not. I wonder how they could have made Angel so hated in the same way Spike was after the AR, especially because of course Angel has a soul? Turning him back into Angelus would have been difficult to make believable and he's already done terrible things as Angelus and has been forgiven (such as killing Jenny). So I understand why the writers went for a different approach in attempt to achieve the same emotional reaction from fans.
In many ways I agree with you, but I do also think there are similarities between the AR and Twilight. You have two vampires in love with a woman, both of whom want to make a space where they can be with that woman, create a new world for them. One attacks the woman in an attempt to force her admit her feelings, while the other attacks the world so he can persuade the woman to help him create a new world. One vamp attacks the individual woman the object of his affections, while the other attacks all women. One is soulless, so controlled by a demon, the other has a soul, but is being controlled by a philosophy/prophecy. The attack on the woman, if it had worked, would have shattered the show's universe/mythology. If the attack on all women had worked, the 'real' universe would have been destroyed. in both cases, it's about a man attacking women and not understanding why what he is doing is wrong, or not caring.
I guess you could argue that the result of both attacks are that Spike 'resurrects' himself, and Angel resurrects Giles, both are attempts to make up for what they did in attacking Buffy/the slayer army.
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It's a visitation but having an angel appear to Angel smacks of extreme narcissism.
And it's not just about a talking animal; Angel is suddenly superpowered by the "dog", and heroically saves an airplane from crashing.
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Warning bells should have been sounding loudly because of the aspects of the plan which required secrecy and pulling someone down, weakening them, before you even get into the death/destruction. None of that sounds likely to be 'good' any way you angle it, but the whole plan/grandiosity of it definitely played to his weaknesses.
As Buffy said, you can't beat evil by doing evil.
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The Sharjah Airport International Free Zone, SAIF Zone, has recently participated in a business event entitled, ‘International Business Forum – Expanding Business Globally’, which was organised by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, BoI, and Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka, FCCISL, in Colombo.
Speaking at the forum, Saud Salim Al Mazrouei, Director of SAIF Zone and Hamriyah Free Zone Authority, HFZA, said that SAIF Zone is offering many opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors from Sri Lanka and the increasing pace of trade between the UAE and Sri Lanka is a positive sign of rapid growth at all levels.
“We are interested in Sri Lanka’s trade sector and we also want to open doors to Small Medium Enterprises, SMEs, for entrepreneurs from Sri Lanka. A number of Sri Lankan companies are keen to set up their businesses in the Sharjah’s free zones, hopefully by 2017,” he added.
Al Mazrouei emphasised the importance of enhancing economic and commercial cooperation between the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka and SAIF Zone.
Upul Jayasuriya, Chairman of the BoI, said, “Sri Lankans have emerged as important investors within the UAE, and Sri Lanka is an important export destination for UAE manufactured goods. BoI and FCCISL are extending full support to Sharjah Airport International Free Zone.”
Sarath Kahapalarachchi, President, FCCISL, said, “Concrete steps need to be taken to build a multi-dimensional collaborative framework that leads to sustained economic growth and job creation for both countries, translating into a truly win-win partnership.”
Thomas Joseph, Business Development Manager, SAIF Zone, said, “SAIF Zone has state-of-the-art facilities in addition to tax and duty exemptions, multiple license facilities and easy access to billions of consumers.”
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Large swaths of land across south Wales became part of the Bute Estate through marriages in the 18th century, and it is a reflection of the extent of this estate that we have 2 Bute Towns – in the south Cardiff Bay is known as Butetown, and on the northern edge of the South Wales Coalfield, on the edge of the Bute Estate, we find Bute Town – a unique workers' community built in the late 1820’s. This is the Bute Town that we’d like you to explore.
Bute Town was built in around 1830 to house ironworkers but through its life it has welcomed people from across the UK and even from overseas, all seeking work and a happy life. If you visit this community you can discover the unique architecture of this "Model Village" where good quality houses with gardens and a sense of community must have been a real selling point for the Iron Company. You can also discover more about some of the people that lived here (on this website or by download the App or leaflet), and maybe meet some locals by calling for a drink at The Windsor Arms, the pub that has been at the heart of this community since it was built. You can also learn more about the area by visiting The Winding House at New Tredegar, a unique museum that tells the story of the people of Caerphilly.
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Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon, who was kidnapped by Maoists in Chhattisgrah almost two weeks ago, has been released by his abductors. "Alex Paul Menon has been released by the Maoists," the regional head of anti-Maoist operations in the state of Chhattisgarh, Ramniwas said. The Naxals kidnapped Menon last week, shooting his bodyguards dead as he toured a village in Sukma district.
The Chhattisgarh government, however, has said that an official confirmation will be given only after Menon reaches Sukma. Earlier on the day, BD Sharma and Professor G Hargopal, who represented the Maoists in the talks with the Chhattisgarh government for the 32-year-old IAS officer's release, left for Tadmetla to receive Menon, who was kidnapped on April 21. The state government has made all arrangements to bring out Menon safely from the jungles following which the officer will undergo a medical examination as he is an asthmatic, he said.
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Home » News » Nissan’s ice cream van has 99 problems but harmful emissions ain’t one
Nissan’s ice cream van has 99 problems but harmful emissions ain’t one
Posted in News By Eoin Cuttle On June 24, 2019
Most ice cream vans, particularly older models, have diesel engines which are kept running to operate the refrigeration equipment. These motors are criticised for producing harmful emissions, including black carbon, when left idling.
However, there is now a cool solution to this, as Nissan has whipped up this all-electric, zero-emission concept ice cream van with the help of ice cream maker, Mackie’s of Scotland.
The prototype van is based on the e-NV200, Nissan’s 100 per cent electric LCV. The concept is a working demonstration of Nissan’s Electric Ecosystem, combining a zero-emission drivetrain, second-life battery storage and renewable solar energy generation.
Whilst the van’s motor is driven by a 40kWh battery, the on-board ice cream equipment, including a soft-serve machine, freezer drawer and drinks fridge, are powered by the newly unveiled Nissan Energy ROAM.
The concept takes a number of new approaches to the ice cream van. Ice cream is served from a hatch that opens in the side of the vehicle, with the vendor dispensing ice cream standing next to the van – a customer-facing experience instead of being separated by an elevated counter. It even accepts contactless payments.
Nissan has even flaked the distinctive ice cream van jingle to attract customers and replaced it with a “smart button that generates a tweet of the van’s precise location using the global addressing service What3Words”.
No word on whether or not we’ll be seeing Nissan’s ice cream van serving the Irish public any time soon, but it’s certainly another positive step forward in reducing CO2 emissions.
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Dead of Night review
Oct 20, 2011AdminBooks3
Jonathan Maberry’s Dead of Night will be released Oct.25th. I had the great opportunity to preview it and WOW! Here’s the premiss: A condemned serial killer is injected with a virus by the prisons Dr. to keep him conscious while his body rots in the grave. However all drugs have side effects. Before he’s buried he awakes unleashing a deadly virus contaminating an entire town. Now he can finish the work he started in life….now he’s unstoppable. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang…but a bite..
Dead of Night is the type of novel which gets you thinking. It’s billed as a stand alone novel, but like many of Mr. Maberry’s stories he opens the door for a sequel. Through countless hours of research Jonathan Maberry has carefully crafted a zombie novel which may not be that far of a stretch from reality. The story has several conflicts including the military and police at odds with each other, the Federal government trying to take the quick and easy way out, and the fact an uncontrollable virus is quickly wiping Stebbins county PA off the map.
Multiple characters bring this story to life. Jonathan Maberry didn’t give us just one hero. Or two. He took us into the hearts and minds of each character.
Let’s start with Dez Fox. A police officer and Gulf War vet she’s full of insecurities stemming from family tragedy and a rough childhood. She’s portrayed as a sexy take no crap from anyone cop, but her emotional swings definitely reflect deeper issues. She’s torn between protecting her town , herself, her partner JT and her on and off again love interest Billy.
Speaking of which, Billy Trout is a reporter for a local cable network who’s spent the last few years in a dysfunctional relationship with Dez, however he’s not about to let her go. He’s come to understand her and through this, keeps up a glimmer of hope that she still cares for him. Caught in a balancing act he tries to uncover the facts of the developing crisis and keep himself and Dez safe at the same time.
JT is Dez Fox’s partner. He’s described as a large black man who treats Dez like his daughter. Like Billy, he has come to understand her and tries not be judgmental. When Dez first encounters the zombies at a funeral home It’s JT that backs her ridiculous sounding story.
Now the Villains. We have a serial killer named Homer Gibbons and a great explanation on how he came to be. There’s a former Soviet scientist Dr. Volker who created the virus which he injected into Gibbons in an act of simple retribution. But there’s more. Mr. Maberry also provided his readers more realistic antagonists…those that are supposed to protect society from evils. It’s clear that the breakdown in communication and a continual denial during the spread of the virus created monsters worse than the zombies.
I’m no stranger to Jonathan Maberry’s outstanding novels. Dead of Night like Mr. Maberry’s other zombie stories is fast paced, action packed and full of suspense. His characters are quite vivid … but that’s where the similarities end. This story is more “edgy” than some of his others due to the graphic dialogue . I However, found this a necessary evil considering the personalities of the characters. I even enjoyed the shorter chapters which were a deviation from his other books. The story pulled me in almost immediately and by the end I wanted the nightmare to end. I could “see” the families being devastated and the feeling of hopelessness. It wasn’t just about a small town and another zombie plague where the Calvary arrives and everything seems to “work out” in the end.
This is where Mr. Maberry’s talents really shine. His ability to take every zombie themed story in a different direction. He always does his homework so the scary thing is OMG what if? Jonathan Maberry made sure his readers had a lot to think about in Dead of Night. It was a very compelling and like so many of his other bestsellers this one too would definitely be worthy of a movie.
I know…I know..you thinking another zombie novel..If you’ve read one then you’ve read them all. Not true! Yes, while the country is being flooded with undead stories right now Jonathan Maberry is still leading the pack! Go to our Amazon .com link and order your copy today and good luck at putting it down!
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3 thoughts on “Dead of Night review”
Jonathan Maberry October 25, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Great review, thanks! Glad you enjoyed DEAD OF NIGHT.
John C. Farris October 25, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Jonathan, your talents never cease to amaze me! I’m sure this novel will be a best seller!
Sam West-Mensch December 31, 2011 at 1:19 am
If you enjoyed DEAD OF NIGHT, you can download seven free bonus scenes from Jonathan Maberry’s website. Here’s the link: http://jonathanmaberry.com/happy-holidays-from-jonathan
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September 6, 2018, By Sanjeev Ramachandran
Chrome is finally getting the much-awaited material theme design across all its platforms. With version 69, Google is updating the design and interface of Chrome browser with materialistic layout across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
The change is highlighted with the new rounded omnibox that combines the search and address bar. Search results get directly displayed on the omnibox, helping users to skip new tab creation. The buttons and the entire interface has now been made round to match with the materialistic design.
Both the Android and iOS variant also features a shift in the tab view window, with Google replacing the gray background with a white one. Also, tabs are now arranged horizontally, rather than vertically, giving users a more detailed view of the tab when swiping across.
The iOS version also takes the updates a step ahead by taking the toolbar to the bottom. Google has previously experimented with the same on Android. However, the option was taken down later on, with no signs of the feature making a return.
Google has also brought the materialistic design to desktop version, with round omnibox, corners, and buttons. The omnibox now displays suggestions and addresses more spaciously, matching with the materialistic interface of the browser. There’s a new profile button on the top right portion that gives quick access to options like password management, payment methods, address management, etc. The desktop version of Chrome will also have the Picture-in-Picture mode turned on by default.
Apart from material design upgrades, Chrome 69 also adds other features like improved autofill option, bettered password management etc. The latter will let Chrome create password for its users when required. These passwords will be unique for various sites, thereby ensuring improved security to the users. New Tab page also gets new features like new shortcuts and customizable options.
Chrome 69 also features other improvement and bug fixes like improved startup time, latency, memory usage etc. The browser can be now updated to the latest version through the in-app updated, or you can head to the respective app stores to get Chrome updated to v69.
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SPENT, BUT NOT GONE -- With no final destination, used nuclear material stays at San Onofre indefinitely
Union Tribune (2013-12-20) Morgan Lee
Media Link: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/25/tp-nrc-san-onofre-operator-violated-rules/
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The operator of the recently retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been cited by nuclear safety regulators for failing to properly check the design of faulty replacement steam generators that disabled the plant.
The violation notice from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission carries no explicit penalties but complicates efforts by Southern California Edison to recover an array of plant costs and remaining assets on behalf of its shareholders. The California Public Utilities Commission is considering an initial $94 million refund to customers of Edison and minority plant owner San Diego Gas & Electric, with more extensive plant costs still under review for additional and possibly larger refunds.
Edison has 30 days to appeal the nuclear commission’s determination.
“We will evaluate the final determination letter from the NRC and respond within 30 days with appropriate corrective actions,” Edison spokeswoman Maureen Brown said in an email.
The violation notice has the potential to undermine Edison’s assertions before the state utilities commission that it acted prudently and made no specific mistakes, said Matthew Freedman, attorney for The Utility Reform Network, a San Francisco-based consumer advocacy group.
“Edison is arguing with every fiber of their being that they are the victims and did nothing wrong,” Freedman said. “This kind of contradicts their version of events.
“If they are found to be imprudent, then there are a whole host of costs that can be disallowed. That’s the trigger for a billion-plus dollars of pain for them.”
San Onofre stopped producing power in January 2012 when a small radiation leak was detected and traced to rapid wear among steam generator tubes carrying radioactive water. The plant’s twin reactors were retired in June.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission found that, contrary to regulations, “design control measures were not established to provide for verifying and checking the adequacy of certain designs.”
Edison has laid the blame for the plant’s problems on generator manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan and botched computer calculations that underestimated steam velocities within the generators, installed in 2010 and 2011.
Rosemead-based Edison is seeking damages from Mitsubishi through binding arbitration. Mitsubishi is defending the limits of its $137.5 million warranty for its four replacement generators. Attempted repairs, consultants and replacement power have raised disputed costs to well over $1 billion.
Nuclear commission spokesman Victor Dricks said the violation notice itself, first outlined in a September draft, carries no penalties or sanctions.
The plant shutdown was determined to be of “low to moderate safety significance” in the federal nuclear agency’s final assessment, following 16 months of on-site inspections and detailed analysis at regional commission offices in Texas and headquarters in Maryland.
U.S. representatives for Mitsubishi were not immediately available for comment. Mitsubishi was faulted by the commission in September in a “notice of nonconformance” related to flawed computer codes used in the design of the replacement generators.
Mitsubishi says a generator design team that included Edison experts believed that vibrations had been addressed by installing additional tube supports. Mitsubishi contends it could not have anticipated the unprecedented type of tube vibrations that occurred in the exceptionally large generators commissioned by Edison.
Warnings emerged as early as 1983 in research showing tube supports might not guard against the type of vibrations that turned up at San Onofre. Faults in Mitsubishi’s design code were applied at four other plants, with none showing the problems seen at San Onofre.
Title SPENT, BUT NOT GONE -- With no final destination, used nuclear material stays at San Onofre indefinitely
Publisher Union Tribune
Author Morgan Lee
Media Link http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/25/tp-nrc-san-onofre-operator-violated-rules/
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The Bill McLaren Foundation
Bill McLaren was a man who represented all that is best about rugby union. He was known as “The Voice of Rugby” not just because of the beauty of his tone and the delight of his imaginative phrasing, but because he portrayed our game as we would always wish it to be.
The Charitable Foundation has been set up to raise funds to support the development of rugby and its values and also to recognise the contribution Bill McLaren made to rugby through education and the development of an interpretative centre including Bill's extensive archive including his big sheets.
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Minneapolis Comic Con Returns This Spring
Monday, December 29, 2014 by Tatiana Craine in Arts & Leisure
Last year, Wizard World's first-ever Minneapolis Comic Con brought thousands of sci-fi lovers, fantasy buffs, and comics fans out to the Convention Center to mix and mingle, see celebs, and pick up a bunch of geeky gear. Comic Con is back again in 2015, and we're excited for this year's shenanigans.
See also: Best Costumes at Minneapolis Comic Con 2014
This year's new, geeky guests (so far) include Karl Urban (Star Trek, Lord of the Rings), Christian Serratos (The Walking Dead, Twilight), Morena Baccarin (Firefly), and Christopher Judge (Stargate SG-1). The original duo from the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry will be one of this spring's big blasts from the past.
Later this spring, Wizard World will probably add a few more sci-fi heavy hitters so we'll keep you posted when we hear about them. Last year, there were rumors that Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch would make an appearance, which didn't pan out, but rumors of a Doctor Who reunion with Eleven and Amy Pond Matt Smith and Karen Gillan came true.
Tickets for all three days of Comic Con will run you $75 for general admission access or $199 for VIP access. If you're just checking out one or two days of the Con, you can get passes for individual days: $35 for Friday, $45 for Saturday, and $40 for Sunday (with a $10 jump at the door for both three-day and individual passes).
Keep up with Wizard World's Minneapolis Comic Con announcements here and on their website.
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UK-EU customs partnership ‘still on table’
May 7, 2018 Brexit News 1459 Views
A new “customs partnership” with the EU – which is fiercely opposed by some Tory Brexiteers – is still on the table, the business secretary says.
Greg Clark warned about the effect of border checks on manufacturing jobs, saying whatever replaces the customs union was of “huge importance”.
He added whichever option was chosen would “take some time” to put in place.
Eurosceptic backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg criticised “Project Fear” warnings about job losses after Brexit.
He said if the partnership model was adopted, “we would not in effect be leaving the European Union”.
But Mr Clark was supported by former home secretary Amber Rudd, while Remain-supporting Tories criticised pro-Brexit “ideologues”, saying they did not represent the party at large.
All EU members are part of the customs union, within which there are no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods transported between them. There is also a common tariff agreed on goods entering from outside.
The UK government has said it is leaving the EU customs union so that it can strike its own trade deals around the world, something it cannot do as a member. But ministers have not yet agreed how to replace it.
The UK is under pressure to make progress on the issue before next month’s EU summit.
Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Mr Clark said the UK would leave the customs union in 2019 with Brexit, and that finding the right replacement was of “huge importance”, pointing to the needs of manufacturers like Toyota to avoid friction at the borders.
At last week’s Brexit sub-committee meeting of senior ministers, several are believed to have voiced concerns about one of the two options put forward by the government – whereby Britain would collect tariffs on behalf of the EU for goods destined for member states.
Mr Clark said the ministers had had “a much more professional, collegiate discussion” than reports suggested.
And he said the partnership proposal had not been killed off, saying it offered the “very important” feature of avoiding paperwork at UK-EU borders.
But he added that this model was “not perfect” because arrangements would be needed to refund firms if they were only liable for lower UK rates.
He said this, and an alternative proposal of using technology and advanced checks to minimise border disruption, needed “further work”, and that whichever was chosen, “it will take some time to have them put in place and available”.
The business secretary said it was “possible” this could take two or three years after the UK leaves the EU, suggesting that different elements of the plan could be implemented at different times.
Former home secretary Amber Rudd – who resigned last Sunday over a deportations row – backed Mr Clark’s comments.
Ms Rudd, a leading voice in the 2016 campaign to stay in the EU, tweeted that the business secretary was “quite right” to argue for a “Brexit that protects existing jobs and future investment”.
The government’s two customs options
A ‘highly streamlined’ customs arrangement – This would minimise customs checks rather than getting rid of them altogether, by using new technologies and things like trusted trader schemes, which could allow companies to pay duties in bulk every few months rather than every time their goods cross a border
A customs partnership – This would remove the need for new customs checks at the border. The UK would collect tariffs set by the EU customs union on goods coming into the UK on behalf of the EU. If those goods didn’t leave the UK and UK tariffs on them were lower, companies could then claim back the difference.
Opposition from Brexiteers
Mrs May has been repeatedly urged by Brexiteers to abandon the partnership option, which critics say would keep the UK tied to EU rules.
The Sunday Telegraph quoted a cabinet source saying it would be “unimaginable for the prime minister to press on with the hybrid model after it has been torn apart by members of her own Brexit committee”.
Speaking on ITV’s Peston on Sunday, influential backbench MP Jacob Rees-Mogg – who has previously labelled the proposal “cretinous” – dismissed warnings about the impact on jobs if it is rejected.
“This Project Fear has been so thoroughly discredited that you would have thought it would have come to an end by now,” he said.
“We will have control of goods coming into this country – we will set our own laws, our own policies, our own regulations, and therefore we will determine how efficient the border is coming into us.”
The customs debate is central to the question of border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, with supporters of a customs union saying anything else will mean checks and a “hard border”.
But Arlene Foster, who leads the Democratic Unionist Party, said a “free flow” of trade did not require a customs union, adding that a border was already in place between the two different jurisdictions.
However, some pro-EU Tories are still pushing for much closer economic ties to the EU.
Asked about Mr Rees-Mogg and other Brexiteers, former education secretary Nicky Morgan told Pienaar’s Politics on BBC Radio 5 live people who “shout loudest” did not necessarily represent the majority of Conservatives.
She said Tory rebels on her side of the debate would be prepared to defy the party whip in key votes “in the national interest” but that the MPs who were “sabre-rattling about leadership” were those who wanted “the hardest of hard Brexits”.
And ex-business minister Anna Soubry told The Sunday Politics Mrs May had to “see off” those who operate a “party within a party” who do not represent “the country at large”.
“These are ideologues,” she added.
The CBI welcomed Mr Clark’s commitment to “frictionless” trade, saying the customs union should remain in place “unless and until an alternative is ready and workable”.
Labour Brexit splits
Labour, meanwhile, faced criticism of its position on Brexit from pro-EU voices in the party.
The leadership was accused of “complete cowardice” by Labour peer Lord Alli for not supporting a Lords amendment aimed at keeping the UK within the European Economic Area (EEA), like Norway, after Brexit.
EEA members get access to the single market – with free movement of people, goods, service and money – without being EU members.
But shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner said such an arrangement would reduce the UK to being a “rule taker” without a seat at the table when decisions on regulations are made.
Labour says it would seek to draw up a new customs union with the EU after Brexit, and would try to persuade Brussels to change the rules and allow it to strike deals around the world.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told the Marr show that despite the criticism, the party had not lost votes by not being “anti-Brexit” or “trying to reverse the referendum”.
“What people want is a traditional British compromise,” he said.
“Respect the referendum result, but get the best deal you can to protect our economy and protect our jobs.”
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The Life Story of Blessed Laura Vicuña (Biography of Laura Vicuña)
Part 1: The Child Laura "Carmen" Vicuña, Entrusted to the Queen of Saints
The aristocracy of Santiago had a particular devotion to Our Lady of Carmen. Even the army considered her its patron. Possibly because of this, on that 24th May 1891, Fr. Bernardo Aranguiz, when baptizing the child, added the symbolic name of "Carmen" to her first name "Laura". The tender bud now open to the life of grace, was in this way entrusted to the maternal care of the Queen of Saints. The baptismal register records that Laura Carmen was the daughter of Joseph Dominic Vicuña and Mercedes Pino.
He was an officer in the army. He belonged to a distinguished family, perhaps to one of the lesser branches, but he was always proud of his famous name of Spanish origin. His wife, Mercedes, was Chilean, high-spirited and very beautiful. There was a touch of nobility about her. Although the daughter of ordinary farming people, she had a knowledge of music and sewing. Here begins the tragic history of this family. In fact at the Baptism only the godfather, Wenceslaus Calderon, and the godmother Rosaria Rojas were present, no one else. The Vicuña family had disowned Joseph because he had married beneath him.
As far as they were concerned, Mercedes Pino did not exist. Notwithstanding this, her joy was very great as she held in her arms the little one to whom the priest had said: "Receive the white garment and carry it without stain to the tribunal of God, to gain eternal life...". Indeed, in spite of her unfortunate desiny, Mercedes guarded her child's 'stole of innocence' as if it were a most precious coat of arms.
Chile was going through days of dramatic change. The President of the Republic, Joseph Emanuel Balmaceda, who was supported by the Vicuñas of the conservative party, had to abdicate because he was unable to break with the rigid position of the old regime. In a desperate effort to avoid civil war, he proposed as candidate fro the Presidency a Vicuña, Claudio, but it was already too late. The revolution broke out because of the action taken by the navy.
Santiago was experiencing days of martyrdom, through steel, fire, and bloodshed. Joseph and Mercedes, living in the city center near the Church frequented by the nobility, quickly became aware of the danger.
Laura, born on the 5th of April, could be baptized only fifty days after her birth, on account of the war which raged relentlessly. With the fall of President Balmaceda, there erupted a violent reaction against his supporters, among the first of whom were the Vicuñas.
On August 28th the rebels entered Santiago and mowing down hundreds of victims, they seized power.
One eyewitness who remembers those days says, "It was sufficient to be called a Vicuña or a Balmaceda to be persecuted to the death." Having first been disowned by his family, Joseph is now on the run, rejected by the fatherland which he had passionately and loyally served. Mercedes follows him into exile. Laura rests close to her heart and would never know the desolation of those frightening months and months of fleeing from one countryside to another with few belongings, just the bare essentials.
Nights in the open, endless days on horseback over impossible roads, always searching for a way to the south, as far as Temuco, over 500 kilometers beyond Santiago. As the road lengthened under the footsteps of the refugees, Joseph, a loving and tender husband and father, lost the will to soldier on, but a spark of the old hope was rekindled as he entered the provincial town of Cautin, Temuco. It consisted of little hovels, and was the haven of those persecuted for their politics, of those condemned by the civil courts, of those exiled, as they waited for a turn of the tide which might relaunch them to power...
Laura Carmen, already eighteen months old, became seriously ill at Temuco. The anxiety of Mercedes and Joseph grew. Life was hard and poor and the climate was severe.
1893 dawned and saw the birth of a little sister for Laura, Julia Amanda. The joy experienced for this gift of life was short-lived. In Santiago the new government (non-conciliatory in approach), had got to power and the leader of the insurrection, George Montt, was nominated President of the Republic. Joseph, cut off from the life and happenings in the capital, alone and hopeless, felt like dying. He was a good, gentle type of man, dignified in bearing, and rather small in stature. This was how Mercedes later described him to Laura. He died of pneumonia within a few days.
Part 2: Laura's Mother, Mercedes
Emanuel Urrutia López, still alive in 1955 and a witness during the process for the beatification of little Laura, gives us this description of Mercedes Pino: "She was born like myself in Collipullí, in the province of Bìo-Bìo, so I knew her from her infancy. She was a self-possessed young lady who knew how to get on in life." But now, on account of this recent misfortune, her life again began to show the signs of tragedy. For love of Laura and Julia, the young widow -- barely twenty-eight years old -- began to spend long hours sewing. She took up dressmaking again. Then with the savings, she bought a shop, a haberdashery store, like those generally found in centers scattered in the deserts and out-of-the-way places. She was courageous and strong. She took in hand the tiller of her tattered boat and steered it through very difficult waters, careful of her two little ones, whom she tenderly protected. Laura reminded her, each time more clearly, of the features and gentle character of her lost husband. Julia instead reflected the liveliness of her own temperament. To go back to Santiago was out of the question. She did not search out either the Vicuña family or her own relatives. She worked and smiled for her customers, but in her heart she wept. Temuco was for her a terribly sad place, a land of exile, full of violent memories.
One night -- we are already in 1899 -- unknown thieves broke into the store and cleared everything. Who would claim justice for a widow in that country of outlaws? No one! Mercedes, defenseless, saw snares and threats increasing all around her. So she decided to leave for ever that land which had increased her sorrow and had placed her in the way of such dangers.
During the fine season, caravans of emigrants passed from Temuco towards the Neuquén in Argentinian away the key, Mercedes set off with her two children towards a new future. She was full of hopeful optimism but without any definite goal, without anyone to lean on. Was it inexperience on her part which made her do such a thing?
It was being said that the Neuquén offered great wealth in the newly growing centers. These spread out along the valleys, where races (estancias) were being marked out, with lands stretching away as far as the eye could see. All she needed to do was cross the Cordilllera of the Andes. Mercedes set out in the southern summer of 1899, joining up with a caravan of business people. A few weeks previously, along those very same mountain roads there had passed another caravan, and Mercedes knew about it. Fr. Milanese, a courageous Salesian, had then reached Temuco in 1898 with two Sisters and a young aspirant. They had intended reaching Junin de los Andes by crossing the Cordillera, but the early and long drawn-out winter prevented them.
They remained for nine months at Temuco, where they zealously sowed the seed of the Gospel. They left in January 1899. The whole town had watched that departure consisting of horses, guides, mountaineering equipment and a conquest for the Lord in the person of a young girl of Temuco, Frances Mendoza, who had followed the Sisters, attracted by their ideal.
Perhaps Laura Carmen, already eight years old, had seen and got to know the Sisters. One was Italian, Sr. Angela Piai, and she was in charge. The other was Chilean with the lovely name of Rose Azócar. The aspirant was Carmel Opazo. Mercedes was going right into the very heart of the mountains in search of a more tranquil life and an easier one, but the storm clouds were already closing in on top of her.
The good God was preparing a haven for Laura, but for her mother a 'lightening conductor'! The haven was to be the Salesian College (children's school) of Junin de Los Andes, and the lightning conductor was non other than Laura herself.
However, while Fr. Milanese's caravan was heading southwest towards the lakes, Mercedes went northwest. She crossed the Andes, made a first stop at Norquin, one of the few cities of Neuquén area, also called 'the strange land of the Triangle'. It was territory only recently opened up, and to it came those seeking adventure, speculators of every kind, traders avid for a quick haul of money, evaders and deserters of every race and nation.
The missionaries used to say: "Were it not for some women and girls who had a Christian education in Chilean schools, and served as a beacon in the middle of such moral darkness, Norquin would be a place of perdition." The Christian sense of the family had been lost and when this happens, everything collapses.
The undaunted Mercedes immediately senses the gamble, the risk of finding herself alone in this strange, unknown land, and without anyone to support her. She set off again, in search of better fortune at Las Lajas, towards the south. It seems that there she made friends with some people who were reputed to be more trustworthy and honest in their dealings, and whom Laura, later on, recalls with affection. However, the hard, uncertain life forced Mercedes to move a third time. Towards the end of 1899 we find her near Junín de Los Andes.
Understandably, from the human point of view, after so much effort, after such journeys, after pain and loneliness, Mercedes felt the need of support, of a shoulder to lean on...
Part 3: The Falcon's Haunt
The winter of 1899 was a severe one for southern Patagonia and the Neuquén area. Las Lajas was situated on the banks of the forceful waters of the Neuquén from which, in fact, the region gets its name. Torrential rains and heavy snows along the whole chain of the Andes resulted in swollen rivers whose angry waters left destruction in their wake.
This deluge of water from a love and below is a vivid image of Mercedes's own state. In a desperate effort to get on top of misfortune, she clung to a man, who in her eyes seemed to be a raft in the swirling vortex of her own insecure life. How did she get to know him? We do not know. He was a certain Manuel Mora, a South American cowboy (gaucho) of ill repute.
He came from Chos-Malal where he had served prison sentences for crimes unknown. he frequently had recourse to the dagger and the revolver. He stopped off at Las Lajas and 'swooped down' like a condor, a bird of prey, on the victim. he had belonged to a well-off family of Buenos Aires and had obtained from the Governor a permit to work a fine stretch of land along the folds of Chapel -- the chain of mountains which encloses the panorama towards the Andes.
He was a perverse individual, but capable and ruthless. He had built up two ranches (estancias) for raising cattle in a short time. Then he invited his two brothers to join him, to share his wealth and to accumulate more.
When Mercedes came to know him he was about forty; a good-looking, handsome man. On horseback, elegantly dressed, armed with a long dagger which had a silver hilt, he appeared superior to everyone else. He treated the natives like slaves, as he did the servants, horsemen, and shepherds, and used the whip on men and dogs alike.
This self-made lord knew how to be chivalrous and charming when he wanted to. Mercedes clung to him as though he were her anchor of salvation. She thought he would be the protector for herself and the children, so she followed him.
Perhaps she thought she could rebuild a home life. She dreamed of wedding bells, but she was deluding herself. In those out-of-the-way places, unfortunately similar cases were not infrequent at the time. Manuel Mora, intact, had no intention of marrying her.
Another woman, Tomasa Catala, had been his mistress at the Quilquihué ranch and she had been subjected to outrageous treatment. When Mora was tired of her, he tied her to one of the horses' posts. Then branding her flesh with the red hot iron used to mark his herds, he drove her away! These were the hands into which Mercedes was about to fall.
The wealthy ranch owner smiled in the direction of the widow as he crossed the threshold of the ranch. Finding again a home, perhaps Mercedes smiled too. Did Lura smile? No, it seems unlikely. Julia yes, for she was still very small. Anyone witnessing this step would pity the woman's fate and would fear for the two little girls, still so innocent.
All over the Neuquén area the world had spread that the FMA (abbreviation for the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, popularly known today as the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco) were opening a school at Junín de Los Andes, to provide for the education of young girls. Certainly Mercedes remembered the Sisters she had seen at Temuco. She would have known something about them. She wanted to put Laura and Julia into their care. Manuel Mora was willing to pay the monthly fee. He also paid for their clothes which were even elegant; they lacked nothing. For a short while the two children stayed at the Quilquihué ranch, "Quilquihué" meaning the 'home of the falcon'. Only a few days, yes, but already the alarm sounded for Laura. She was nine years old, but was a precocious child. She was fair skinned with dark eyes, and chestnut wavy hair.
Her deportment was that of a well-educated child. The ups and downs of her early years had brought Laura to a maturity extraordinary for her age. Innocent as the angels, she sensed, as though by an innate perception, that her mother's situation was anything, but healthy. Mora, the "condor" was already meditating how one day he would 'sink his claws' into that innocence too. In the meantime he willingly paid the fees for the school.
Part 4: Junín de Los Andes
The renowned Salesian missionary of South America, Mosignor Cagliero, having considered the location of Junín de Los Andes from his vantage point on horseback, drew up a plan of action. He proposed to Fr. Milanese that they open schools there to meet the needs of both boys and girls.
Junín was a border town. 780 meters above sea level in the folds of the Cordillera. This town had continued to expand through many difficulties and changes of climate from 1879 onwards. The following extract from the Salesian Bulletin of September 1899 gives a vivid description: “The building of these two schools cost us much fatigue and heartache, more easily imagined than described. The great distances, the means of transport which consisted solely of beasts of burden, the roadways which were almost impassible, the extreme poverty of the place and the hardships of the times, all these of themselves speak of the huge difficulties we had to overcome.
The river Chimehuin added a picturesque touch to the little city, and its abundant waters fertilized the surroundings. However, it also presented a danger, because its sudden floods made it treacherous.
That little center, then assumed great importance in the missionary’s eyes as he directed his thoughts towards the many inhabitants scattered on the high plains and in the surrounding valleys: natives and settlers, without schools or church, without help of any kind. And this area covered a radius of more than 100 km.
Monsignor Cagliero planned to make Junín de Los Andes a base from which to transmit civil and Christian values, a base much more important for Argentina than the military one set up there to guard the last outpost of the Aracauni who had fled into the mountains.
Within the raids of those 100 km were the two ranches of Manuel Mora. Mercedes traveled on horseback the 20 km separating Quilquihué from Junín, she introduced herself to Sr. Angela Piai and asked for two places for her daughters. She spoke little, and the Superior, Sr. Angela, did not ask questions. The lady had on an elegant silk cape and looked young and full of life. She gave the particulars necessary for the register as follows: Julia Amanda, six years; Laura Carmen, nine years, both Chilean; Parents: Dominic and Mercedes Pino, Chileans.
At that time almost all the houses in Junín were made of wood and rough bricks and the school of Mary Help of Christians was not different. It was among the poorest of mountain dwellings with a zinc roof, narrow doors and low windows. It was in the form of right-angle and had a garden and well in the center and an uncultivated vegetable garden facing the open country. In the house everything was primitive. The sofa on which Mercedes sat was none other than the trunk they brought from Chile covered with a cloth. In the whole house there was only one table which served every possible need and this meant that it was continually being moved about. They also had a chair and some benches, and that was the sum total of the furniture they possessed.
A ‘school’ with a difference one could say! From this ‘border refuge’, as someone called it, a transformation was taking place. It was becoming a ‘center of virtue’ because the Sisters who had come from far away, lived solely to love and served God in their neighbor. Junín de Los Andes with its solitude, silently draped in the virgin-green of the conifers, with the magic spectacle of its white, snow-covered peaks, seemed to be given added splendor and importance by that poor and somewhat drab building which was the school — a splendor and glory far superior to that of the marble constructions and enchanting squares of the grandest metropolis. Young Sr. Azócar wrote: “I began to consider myself as in an earthly paradise in that solitude, because of the peace and tranquility I enjoyed there.”
And she reveals the source of her peace as she adds: “Spiritual help was more available than the School in Chile. They lacked nothing a religious needed to be faithful to her sacred commitment.” The Salesians had the boys’ school; it was beside the girls’ one, and so spiritual assistance was not lacking. The FMA (Salesian Sisters) arrived in Junín carrying with them their priceless possessions — the Crucifix and Don Bosco’s motto: “Give me souls.”
Laura sensed this charity, rooted in the Gospel, from the moment she first entered the College. At Junín there were plenty of opportunities to practice a spirit of sacrifice. For example, the washing was done int he waters of Chimehuin; the bread was kneaded and baked at home once a week; the vegetables often consisted of wild grass taken from the fields.
Poverty, extreme poverty! However, as Sr. Azócar shrewdly noted: “The rooms were painted bright green and that cheered our hearts!” Then, with her missionary enthusiasm, she continues: “What consoled us most of all was to see how, little by little, the people of Junín, originally so far from God, gradually moved towards Him, through their frequenting the Church and being won by kindness and persuasion.”
Part 5: The Wonderful Discovery
Laura and Julia had arrived at the school on January 21st. It was summer and holiday time. Why did Mercedes not wait for the beginning of the school year before parting with her daughters? Her heart was broken, but she had to do it. The ranch at Quilquihué, the ‘falcon’s haunt’, would never be home for them. Those two children were always the center of her life; the living heritage of Dominic Vicuña to whom she was devoted and whose memory could not have been for her in her situation, anything but a bitter reproof. He would have had them educated in a manner worthy of their ancestors. So it was better that they left Quilquihué immediately.
Julia, or Amandina as she was called in the school, burst into tears as she clung to her mother’s dress. Laura too seemed sad and thoughtful, but for other reason. She threw her arms around her mother, assuring her that she would take care of her little sister. When the moment of parting was over, Laura felt happy as her inner feelings of anguish quietened, and so she set out to face a new life.
Fr. Crestanello assures us: “She was overjoyed.” And he tells how Mercedes was amazed at her reactions when she knew that she was going to the school.
Laura then confessed to the priest that she could not explain the reason for this deep joy which took over like a fountain of clear water. “It's true, however, that I was happy,” she used to say. “Baby Jesus must have been pleased with my mother’s decision.” Mercedes, therefore, must have given God a place in the hearts of her children.
“Laura was happy because Jesus would be pleased.” This is something to be said for Laura’s mother in such a difficult position. Sr. Azócar assures us that Laura could read and write a little and could say some prayers. She had very little religious knowledge, but she had plenty of what could lead her to understand the Divine.
Her Innocent heart was ready to discover God, that most fascinating of all discoveries. We could compare her first days at the college to an ‘overture’. One breathed in the poor college of Junín an air of Gospel love, an atmosphere of fervent piety and serene joy, all of which is the result of the family spirit which is typically Salesian.
Being holiday time, the days passed happily, and the rhythm was not too regular. There were only the Superior and Sr. Azócar in the house, and Laura followed them everywhere and chatted spontaneously with them. She noticed their patience with Julia who was moody and at times capricious. She admired their serenity and peace, and was drawn by their pleasant ways, since she found them always available and approachable.
Soon she learned to live according to a timetable, to look after herself and her personal belongings as well as those of her sister. But above all she learned to follow the Salesian Sisters into Chapel for prayer. It was there that she made the marvelous discovery of a personal God, who is above all Father; of the Son, God made man, a victim of love for man and put to death because of sin. On her knees in the plain little room, which served as the Chapel and housed the Blessed Sacrament, the innocent child repeated the prayers she knew and those she was learning.
The Superior says that “from her first days in the school, they noticed Laura a sense of judgement well beyond her age and a real inclination to piety. her devotion, for a child, was serious without affectation or exaggeration of any kind.”
February and March passed by quickly and the scholar began on April 1st. Laura listened to the reading of the school rules: “Remember that we are created to love and serve God our Creator and that knowledge and all the wealth of the world are nothing without the fear of God.”
So there was a serious meaning to life. Santiago, Temuco, Norquin, Las Lajas were only stepping stones along the way to this discovery. And she also heard: “Try to practice virtue from your earliest years because to wait for old age is to put yourself in very grave danger of being eternally lost.” Eternally lost! Because of Sin!
And immediately her thoughts flew to her mother, to Quilquihué. What had the child seen at the ranch? A pure soul is capable of deep intuition. It can distinguish between what is opportune and what should not be done. It reacts instinctively to evil.
Laura would not have been able to put into words the very big change she had seen taking place from the time her father was alive in Temuco. Yet in a confused way, she understood that her mother had gone far away from God. Alongside the first wonderful discovery, the terrifying fact of eternal perdition pierced her soul like a dagger.
Love for Laura, meant a desire for the loved one’s peace with God, the priceless gift called grace! The crucifix from the altar spoke to her more clearly every day, of cruel martyrdom and she did not realize yet that Junín was going to be for her the mountain of sacrifice!
Part 6: God in First Place
In the little School of Junín, they taught a variety of subjects, both academic and practical. There was reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as domestic science, home-management and the first elements of civic education. The students, fourteen boarders and seventeen day-students, were all girls “who found it easier to handle the horse’s reins than the pen and the needle.” They came from the Cordillera, from as far as six hundred miles away. Used to the free life of the vast open spaces, they opened up and grew strong, almost like wild plants, usually docile and inclined to piety, but self-centered and inconstant.
They were taught singing too, for its refining influence, and so that they would be able to perform in Church and at the little family celebrations. But above all Christian formation was given first place in the education of these girls, on whom depended the first announcing of God’s message in the Neuquén. Laura drank deeply at the spring of religious knowledge. Sr. Azócar was her teacher since the child had been admitted to a course for the older girls. It would correspond to our second or third class in the elementary school.
Part 7: A Crown of Three Stars
The school year finished with solemn prize-giving on January 1st, 1901. Laura got the one and only prize for conduct as well as the prize for hard work and application. Then the children set off in the direction of the Cordillera and their distant homesteads. Mercedes, who had come for the prize-giving, brought back her daughters to the ‘estancia’ at Quilquihué.
Fr. Crestanello assures us that Laura had not wanted to go. The college was for her a ‘paradise.’ But it is easy to understand that her hesitation to follow her mother was through her fear of the ‘sparrow hawk.’
She had been told that at the ranch she would be able to pray… that God was near to those who call him. The Salesian Sisters at Junin were not really aware of Mercedes’s true situation.
Laura returned to Quilquihué in fear and trembling. The herdsmen, horsemen, shepherds and their families all looked at her with great admiration.
Mercedes was rather anxious, but for that summer, Manuel Mora treated Laura with respect. She, however, shivered at the very sight of him! As often as she could she sought refuge in prayer. But her mother obliged her to pray in secret. Why?
The long rides on horseback, life in the open, the plentiful food helped her health immensely, so that her physical development seemed to speed up to keep pace with her precocious spirit.
The days followed each other without great variety and yet they only served to increase in the child an indefinable torment. She feared for herself and she felt a great compassion for her mother.
When she was told that it was time to go back to the college she jumped for joy. “I am going back to my favorite place!” She was thrilled to get back there.
Right away she wanted to go to confession. She opened her heart to Fr. Crestanello and renewed her commitment to grow in virtue. She enjoyed meeting her teachers and companions again.
Laura was a happy child and she willingly took part in the lively recreations. However, a keen eye could notice a trace of sadness in her. The Superior understood, a secret sorrow was gnawing at her soul. And to give her comfort, the only comfort possible, she admitted her with two other companions to her first Holy Communion. When she told her the good news, Laura remained speechless. But immediately her thoughts flew to Quilquihué, to her mother and she broke into sobs.
“Crying, Laura? Are you not happy?” asked Sr. Piai. “O yes, I am happy, “ stuttered the child. “I am thinking of my mother, my poor mother.”
Fr. Crestanello says, “She had always been obedient and submissive, affable and humble, but after that day one noted a greater perfection in her actions.”
Laura loved to think often of the presence of God. Does not scripture say: “Walk in my presence and be perfect.”
She had a special love for Confession. Rising from the confessional her face was full of the joy and contentment which flooded her heart. When her sister poked fun at her for these frequent confessions she replied, “Afterwards I feel stronger against temptation, and everything becomes easier.”
There was a new teacher at Junín, Sr. Anna Maria Rodriguez, who had the job of preparing her for the great day. She did it in a manner worthy of the One who was coming and of the soul who was waiting.
The ground was well prepared and the seed was first-class. The solemn function took place on June 2nd and it was the first time such a celebration took place in the school.
Mercedes arrived in Junín on the eve. She brought Laura a white gown, sewn by her own hands; there were many other little gifts too, like soaps, perfume, sweets. The child would have wished for something very different. When she was told that her mother was in the parlor, she ran and threw her arms around her joyously.
“Mother!” she said, “tomorrow I will be making my First Holy Communion. Forgive the displeasures I have given you. If in the past I have been naughty, from now on I want to be your consolation. I will pray for you.” And she began to cry.
Then she received the Lord, and began preparing herself to be a ‘little host.’
These are her resolutions:
1. O my God, I want to love and serve you all my life, so I give you my heart and my soul, my whole being.
2. I want to die rather than offend you by sin, so I intend to mortify myself in all that might take me away from you.
3. I propose to do all I can that you may be known and loved, and to repair the offenses which you receive each day, especially from the members of my own family.
4. My God, give me a life of love, of mortification, of sacrifice!
Francesca Mendoza, the young lady of Temuco who had joined the Sisters, afford, and then repeated it under oath, that observing Laura as she came back to her kneeler after Communion, dignified and composed, she noticed a crown of three stars on her head.
Everyone noticed this singular child, who they said, seemed like a little queen, but no one else saw what Francesca maintains she saw. Mercedes, lost among the crowd, was measuring the abyss which separated her from her little angel!
Part 8: Nothing is Ready-Made
A sculptor is not born such, neither is a surgeon, a teacher, a seamstress, and much less a saint. Who was it that said, "Saints are born that way?" It is not true. We are all born sinners. The grace of Baptism opens the way towards great heights, but it does not substitute for nature which down the years carries its old wound.
Laura felt humiliation deeply. The three stars which Francesca Mendoza had seen shining on her head could not have been an impression, but it is true that in the life of this young Chilean girl every virtue shone as a star and acquired greater splendor from humility. It in turn maintained its own radiance because of her heroic spirit of mortification.
Her appearance and early physical development were no indication of excellent health, in fact she was rather delicate. Actually, if we remember her infancy and early childhood, this is not surprising: always on the move, poverty, fears, had been her lot.
She suffered from a humiliating discomfort which became worse in winter. At Junín de los Andes there was no heating and in the cold season the temperature went down below zero. Laura suffered from enuresis (bed-wetting). How many humiliations because of this weakness!
While the boarders were getting up a young girl acted as vice-assistant, as the Sisters were in Chapel for meditation. That young girl forced Laura on more than one occasion, to carry the wet sheet on her shoulders. The affair was mentioned to the Superior and she intervened and forbade such a cruel punishment.
And Laura? She was extremely sensitive. From her expression one could sometimes see the effort it cost her to be silent and humble herself, as attested Sr. Grassi, who belonged to the Junín community in 1901.
One morning Merceditas Vera, one of the first boarders and already aspiring to Salesian religious life, burst out crying while Laura underwent the humiliating punishment.
The two girls were great friends. They shared the same aspirations. Merceditas was a few years older. Laura, however outshone her where spiritual formation was concerned.
The following dialogue proves it:
"Why are you," asked Laura "Did you by chance cause some displeasure to Jesus?"
"I'm crying because of what they did to you," replied Merceditas.
"It's not worth it," said Laura. "Didn't they dress Jesus up as a fool? Why shouldn't I accept a little humiliation, being so naughty?..."
Neither Laura nor Merceditas liked beetroot. Sr. Piai, knowing their virtue and wishing to prepare them for religious life, ordered beetroot for the two of them three times a week. At table their little friends offered to eat their share instead.
Merceditas questioned Laura with a glance, "Will I? Won't I?"
"No," replied Laura with a firm voice, "our obedience must be perfect. Jesus suffered so much for us on the Cross!"
It happened that once the two friends were in the workroom, Laura asked, "Merceditas, who are you working for?"
"For Jesus and Mary," replied Merceditas.
"Right! Let's do like Mother Mazzarello and make every stitch an act of love of God!"
It was evening, after supper when Laura and Merceditas asked permission to leave the game to run and say a prayer at the statue of the Sacred Heart, which stood on a fairly high pedestal near the entrance. The statue was so high that the two, even though they wanted to, could not reach the feet that evening to kiss them. How were they to do it?
Twenty-five years later, Sr. Merceditas recalls, "Laura prayed with such fervor and trust that the statue came down to us, giving us the joy of paying it that homage..."
Naturally such things were told to no one...
Each of the older boarders had the privilege of cultivating a flower-bed in the garden and she could pick the flowers to decorate the altar. Laura and Merceditas had their flower-bed side by side. One day Sr. Piai ordered Merceditas to put down a stake to support a climbing plant in her plot.
"Will you help me?" asked Merceditas. While putting the dry stick into the ground, Laura mused, "From sticks planted in obedience roses bloom. I believe it is easier for a stick to bloom than for the words of a Superior not to be the will of God."
Some time afterwards, in fact, the stick blossomed. It was called the "stick of obedience." Monsignor Cagliero who came to Junín a year later, on a pastoral visit, listened to the unusual story. He wanted to see the stick. It was bearing the last flowers of the season, since the winter was coming. These flowers were picked, at Monsignor's request, and place near the tabernacle for his intentions.
After Laura's death, her school friends vied with one another to have her flower-bed, and it was an ardently-desired prize to be allowed to gather the first blooms from the 'stick of obedience."
Such as life, a bit like the "little flowers of St. Francis," and perhaps much more.
Someone, who knows who, suggested that Laura be given cold baths to cure her of her organic weakness.
Outside, a pure mantle of snow extended over the mountains and valleys. The severe temperatures made one dream of a warm hearth! When the infirmaries had prepared the cold bath, she called the heroic child, who put up no resistance whatever. Laura humbly and calmly undressed, and, in spite of teeth chattering and her body trembling all over, she went into the water, without a word! She accepted this repeatedly, even though the harsh "remedy" was doing her no good. On more than one occasion she fainted.
However, nothing is "ready-made." From her frequent visits to Chapel, Laura drew strength to conquer herself, to mortify herself.
Had she not made up her mind to do all in her power to make up for the offenses against God, especially from members of her own family? Her mother! Her mother was the "thorn in her flesh."
For her no sacrifice seemed too great. Her continual penance was leading her with giants strides towards perfection.
The Superior of the college affirms, "No one could ever accuse Laura of consciously breaking the rule. Everyone noticed her constant effort to grow in perfection."
Julia was asked if it were true that her sister was "a little impatient" with her. She replied, during the informative process for the Cause of Beatification, "She was always loving and patient with, ready to forgive my weaknesses, my bursts of anger, my flightiness."
But virtue costs. It is not to be had "ready-made."
Part 9: The Condor and the Dove
The end of the second year of school was fast approaching for Laura.
Before beginning the final exams on the feast of the Immaculate (called "La Purissima" in Spanish), the school had its first enrollment of the Children of Mary Sodality. It was another step in the formation of the young girls of Neuquén, who would later be the nuclei of Christian families there.
On the morning of December 8th, dressed in white, veils on their heads, and blue sashes around their waists, the best girls in the school reminded everyone of the Roman martyr, St. Agnes.
One by one they approached the altar to receive the blue ribbon and the medal of Our Lady--a visible sign of their belonging to the Blessed Virgin Mary and of their promise to live in fervent charity and as pure as lilies.
It was Laura's turn. Over her the priest said, "Receive this medal and ribbon as a special emblem of Mary and an external sign of your consecration to this tender mother..." Laura's heart was overflowing with joy!
During the informative process in Viedma (the initial stage of investigation into Laura's life by the local bishop as part of the process to be declared a saint), Julia spoke out about her sister's virtue, "The day on which Laura received the medal of a Child of Mary was one of her happiest days." Returning to her bench with that spiritual treasure on her heart, Laura proclaimed in her heart, "Death, rather than sin" -- just like St. Dominic Savio.
She was pure as a dove! Rather than become stained with sin, she chose death. It was said that Laura had a presentiment of what was awaiting her at Quilquihué. She intensified her prayer, her fervor, and her mortifications. She also did very well in her exams.
After Christmas, Mercedes came to bring her daughters back with her for the holidays. While Laura was delighted to see her mother, she lowered her head fearing what is to come. Before leaving she sought advice from her confessor, and asked for the prayers of the Superior, her teachers, and companions.
She was very tense when she arrived at the falcon's haunt. The condor circled high and distant, waiting for the moment when he would swoop down on the prey.
Laura sensed danger in the air. Did Mercedes know? Did she think about it? Did she see it?
Manuel Mora, arrogant and tyrannical, vulgar and cruel, was not gentle even with her. Her life at the ranch was becoming more difficult and more pathetic every day. However, her foot was already chained and each day that passed was a fresh blow of the hammer driving her deeper into slavery. It had already been said that the owner of the Quilquihué did not intend to marry Mercedes Pino. One of Laura's companions, Julia Cifuentes, notes that "Mora's preference was for Laura and that he was having her educated to marry her." But the man was to realize that he was making a mistake.
Manuel Mora's house, rich and comfortable, surrounded by green and warmed by the summer sun, would have been an ideal place for a rest for Laura, were it not for that "evil," that danger.
When Mora tied his horse to a post and entered the house by way of the veranda, where they normally passed the day, Laura would quickly vanish.
He swore, "One day..."
Let's hear the story in the words of Claudia Martinez, a lady of Junín, who was on very close terms with Mercedes after Laura's death, "One day, Mora threw Mercedes out of the house, wishing to be alone with Laura. The girl, however, resisted him and managed to save herself from his assault."
Mercedes, heart-broken, watched from the window. Mora defeated, planned another attack. Fancy being faced up to by a twelve-year-old girl!
Some time after this episode there was a celebration for the branding of the animals born within the year: sheep, goats, and calves.
The shepherds and their numerous flocks came from long distances. First there was the dipping and shearing of the sheep, then the branding with fire, and on the last day, a great feast which ended in excessive drinking. The ranch resembled a countryside fair. Besides the shepherds, the servants and their families, there were present also the rancher's friends--owners of the neighboring ranches.
There were drinks, games, and singing as they waited for the supper, and to be followed by a great dance at night. The women, dressed for the feast with dazzling shawls on their shoulders, were coming and going with refreshments and drinks.
Manuel Mora was already enjoying the conquest. Like the condor, he was trying to hypnotize the dove.
Laura, seeing the perfidious eyes fixed on her, called on the Madonna to help her.
The supper was almost over. The dancing began. The young girl would have liked to retire. But how could she? Pale as a ghost, she waited for the show-down which she felt was near. Mora began the celebrations and took the floor for the first dance. Laura saw him coming towards her.
She swore in her heart, "Death, but not sin." To his invitation she gave a firm and decided "No!" Manuel Mora felt his anger rise; nevertheless he blandly insisted. The girl repeated, "No!" The guests were watching. His tone became stronger, he insulted her. He was in his own house and Laura, still firm as a rock, refused.
Mercedes was anxious and tense. What could have happened? After all Mora had only asked for a dance.
A dance? She well knew how that type of dance could end. Mora now passed from words to deeds.
Ah, yes? She didn't want to dance, the little saint?
He seized her by the arm, and threw her out into the dark with the dogs. Having closed the door he turned round, red with rage and humiliated, and went towards Mercedes. He shouted at her and ordered her to force her daughter to come in, to ask pardon and to dance with him.
Mercedes went out.
What did the mother say to her daughter in the dark of that Andean night? The fear of worse evils made her implore Laura to go back in. In the end, what's in a dance? Perhaps the woman had forgotten the scene she had just witnessed through the window.
But Laura certainly remembered it!
Only too well did she know what the condor wanted...
So the girl said no also to her mother. She took refuge among the trees in the dark.
In the house the dance went on. Not, however, for Manuel Mora, who haughtily watched the entrance.
The door opened and Mercedes entered alone. Mora launched his imprecations at Mercedes. She would pay! He took her by the wrists and dragged her outside. If the fires had not been put out, and the brand beyond arms reach, the unfortunate woman would have had the same fate as Tomas Catala.
The dancing was over. Mercedes was tied to a post. No one, not even Mora's brother dared to intervene. He whipped her until the blood flowed.
The friends mounted their horses and left.
Part 10: The Consequences
Part 11: Drop by Drop
Part 12: The Best Advice
Part 13: A Beautiful Girl
Part 14: Hand in Hand
Part 15: The Flooding
Part 16: The Bitter Chalice
Part 17: Somewhere to Die
Part 18: Manuel Mora
Part 19: Alone
Part 20: Friendships
Part 21: "I am Dying for You"
Part 22: Afterwards
Part 23: The Flight
Part 24: Testimonies
Part 25: In Her Words
Quotes and Thoughts from Blessed Laura Vicuña
"Mary is my mother. What consoles me most is the thought that I am a Child of Mary."
"We must offer sacrifices to God for the salvation of souls."
"Be devout to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary Help of Christians. Be constant in virtue."
"It is Mary who gives me strength and joy in these moments. She is my mother."
"Love Jesus and Mary and you will be happy at the moment of death."
"My God, give me a life of love, of mortification, of sacrifice."
"We will be reunited in heaven."
"Be loving and kind to your neighbor. Do not despise the poor. Do not treat anyone with coldness and you will be respected by all."
"If Jesus wants it that way, then I do too."
"Yes, I suffer gladly. My one desire is to please Jesus and Mary."
"I hope to go soon to see Jesus and Mary. I would like to go to confession so as to prepare myself better for the big step."
"You must know how to suffer and to forgive each others' failings, and love each other as good friends."
"Since I cannot work and I am near the end, it is right that you should pray a lot for me, so that the Lord will give me patience and happiness in my pain and suffering, and His holy grace to others."
"Virgin of Carmel, take me to Heaven."
"It seems to me that God Himself keeps the memory of His presence alive in me. Wherever I am, at school, in recreation, everywhere, the thought of God is with me, to help and console me."
"If we remembered often that God sees us, how many failures we would avoid. There would be no need for Assistants! We would do everything well."
"What good fortune it would have been, for me to die in your house, O Mother."
"We must live only for Jesus. I will consider myself a little fool for Jesus."
"I cannot keep back my tears when I think of how Jesus humbled himself for love of us."
"O longed-for Heaven, when will you come?"
"O Jesus, since I cannot be accepted among those who consecrate themselves to you in the Institute of the FMA (Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Salesian Sisters), I offer myself completely to your love. I want to be all yours, even if I have to remain in the world."
"From sticks planted in obedience roses bloom. Remember, Merceditas, just as a dry stick can bloom, so can God speak through the voice of Superiors."
"Let us make an effort every day, Jesus suffered so much for us on the Cross."
"O Mary, we confide to your Immaculate Heart our consolations and our griefs, our fears and our hopes. Be our peace in the storms, our shield in battle, and our refuge in time of need."
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REVIEW: Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Going Bovine by Libba Bray is absolutely incredible. Seriously one of the funniest and most heart-felt books I've ever read. It's emotional and intelligent and just down-right weird. Before I started, I'd mentioned to a few people that I felt slightly intimidated to start a book that some had found confusing and the advice I was given was to 'just go with the crazy' - so that's what I did. And I'm kicking myself now for waiting so long to get this one. This book is worth buying and reading IMMEDIATELY. I can't stress that enough.
At the start, Cameron didn't come off as a very sympathetic character. He's a teenage boy who doesn't really have any ambitions, he doesn't seem to care about much and he mostly lazes about doing as little as possible. But I definitely believed in his character. It felt realistic, Cameron's attitude towards his surroundings and the people around him in general. Plus Libba Bray is so funny and sarcastic and the observations on life that stream out of Cameron's head make me incredibly jealous of Libba Bray's writing skill. So it didn't take long at all before I really felt for Cameron and really felt emotionally invested in his story and his journey.
This is such a strange story, really reminiscent of Don Quixote. Because when Cameron is diagnosed with a terminal disease (Mad Cow!), he goes off on this crazy road trip because Cameron is visited by a punk rocker angel, Dulcie, and told that if he goes off to find a mysterious Dr X, that he will be cured. Is she a hallucination? What about his travel-mates, the talking yard gnome who is really a Norse god in search of his mythical ship? Or the video gaming hypochondriac dwarf with attachment issues with his mother?
What I love so much, is amidst the humour and the wackiness of this story and the sheer fun of their adventurous road trip with all its mishaps, there is so much that pulls so much at my heart-strings. The transformation of Cameron from uncaring and distant from his life, into someone with friends and appreciates music and small moments and who falls in love is absolutely heart-breaking knowing that he is so close to death.
I really loved the layers to this story, the way in which all aspects of Cameron's life are added into the narrative, from his mother's interest in Norse mytholgy, to snow globes and Coyote and The Roadrunner. There's time travel and jazz music, and it all just fit together so beautifully. I love how Libba Bray's pokes a little fun at society as well as giving us a cracking good story, one that made me think and question and most importantly a book that really made me FEEL.
Going Bovine will stay with me for a very, very long time.
Labels: Books, contemporary, DBiTL, diversity, reviews, YA
Jenni @ Juniper's Jungle 3:07 pm, June 22, 2011
I've seen lots of people saying good stuff about this, sounds like a great read.
Liz. R 8:21 pm, June 22, 2011
I've been wanting to read this for ages but have avoided it because I have absolutely no idea what it's about :P. But I think I could "go with the crazy" and give it a try - it definitely sounds hilarious!
Cliona 9:18 pm, June 22, 2011
Haha! This sounds so funny! I'm still not entirely sure what it's about though... It sounds quite eccentric and...random!
Clover 11:52 am, June 23, 2011
Jenni - It really, really is! You must read it. Fantastic, fantastic book.
Liz - It's SO WORTH IT. Really, really. Read it.
Cliona - It's a very strange book - but it's mostly just these teenage boy on a crazy road trip looking for a guy. But way more interesting than that :)
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Compression-Only CPR and Standard CPR Appear to be Similarly Effective for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest When Performed by Untrained Bystanders
In cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) initiated before the arrival of trained emergency services may improve a patient’s chances of survival. However, untrained bystanders may be reluctant or unable to correctly perform the rescue breathing portion of standard CPR. Improper rescue breathing may reduce the effectiveness of standard CPR. Observational results have suggested that CPR with chest compression alone may be at least as effective as full CPR when performed by untrained people (Lancet 2007 Mar 17;369(9565):920).
Two recent randomized trials compared these two approaches in patients with suspected cardiac arrest. In both trials, bystanders with no previous CPR experience who were calling for emergency assistance were instructed by dispatchers to perform either compression-only CPR or standard CPR (compression and rescue breathing) prior to the arrival of paramedics. In 1 trial with an analysis of 1,941 patients, survival to hospital discharge was 12.5% in the compression-only group and 11% in the standard group (not significant), with 14.4% vs. 11.5% surviving with favorable neurologic status (not significant) (N Engl J Med 2010 Jul 29;363:423). In the second trial, with an analysis of 1,276 patients, 1-day survival was 24% for compression-only vs. 20.9% for standard CPR (not significant) and 30-day survival was 8.7% vs. 7% (not significant) (N Engl J Med 2010 Jul 29;363:434). The analyses in both trials included only about one-third of the randomized patients due to exclusions following randomization (level 2 [mid-level] evidence).
These results do not suggest that chest compression alone is a substitute for standard CPR performed by trained individuals. However, this simplified approach to resuscitation may make untrained people more likely to start CPR. Medical offices receiving emergency calls from families of patients might wish to consider compression-only CPR as an immediate intervention.
For more information, see the Cardiac arrest topic in DynaMed.
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Tips/Tricks
Nintendo officially decides the Wii U is less important than cardboard
Emma Schaefer
ON Jan 19, 2018 @ 4:30PM
In case we needed any more proof that the Wii U is completely, utterly dead, Nintendo is now removing the console from its website—at least, in the U.K.
Nintendo has already been pushing many of the Wii U’s best games to the Switch in the form of ports and definitive editions of games. In less than a year, the Switch has already sold more units in Japan than the Wii U sold in the same country over its entire lifespan. Now, with the recent reveal of the cardboard-based building accessories Nintendo Labo, the Wii U has been pushed off of Nintendo’s U.K. website entirely.
As users on Reddit pointed out, a tab on the website that used to be dedicated to taking viewers to the Wii U portion of the site has now been replaced with a link to Nintendo Labo. We know that Nintendo is excited to push the new project, but to replace an entire console with cardboard? Ouch, that’s harsh. Here’s a picture of the site from Reddit user BordyDogue, with the tab in question pointed out with an arrow.
It’s been a long, slow death for the poor Wii U. Even before the Switch came out, the NES Classic was beating it at its own game, and Nintendo has been shutting down its services—such as Miiverse—over the last year or so. Now, it seems as if Nintendo is finally burying the poor thing.
R.I.P, Wii U. You were never popular, but you had some good games. At least we’ll probably get to see them all again on the Switch.
Source: r/Nintendo on Reddit
About Emma Schaefer
Emma’s early gaming was mostly done in secret, as the only gamer in a family of normal people. She still retains skills from this dark period in her life, such as the ability to teleport instantly across the house away from the computer, and holds a gold medal in the Olympic sport of “Hide the Gameboy.” Sorry, Mom, now you know. Find her on Twitter @Emma4EGM
Stop, stop. It's already dead!
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Conradstraat Tower
The London architect Matthijs La Roi has developed a project to develop the tallest skyscraper in the Netherlands.
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Design is a response to the strategic ambitions of the city of Rotterdam to build two new skyscrapers next to the central station. The new spatial planning rules allow one of the two 180-meter high skyscrapers to be built.
The design of the project consists of an eight-story "landscraper" combined with a 42-storey skyscraper. The podium of the complex will host both commercial spaces and offices, while the 42 floors of the skyscraper is reserved exclusively for housing. The building will be located next to the monumental post-war "Groothandelsgebouw" and the new central station building with its iconic canopy.
The brick was chosen as the main external cladding material of the building, giving the whole scheme a monolithic appearance. The façade consists of a variant of protruding windows and balconies. The windows start flat towards the tower podium and become more undulating upwards. The more undulating windows allow a wider range of views towards the surrounding environment and reach a wider area for the adjoining floors.
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Saturday morning videos
Via Papa Giorgio, Red Pill Black explains how it’s allllllllll just media drama:
Via McSimonus, Ali Velshi interviews Breitbart’s Joel Pollak on MSNBC. It’s not bad. Which shocks me. Velshi’s tone is respectful and he listens to Pollak’s answers. What a difference from, say, the Mad Cow.
Filed Under: Big Journalism, Breitbart Lives!, National Politics, Racism (Real / Reverse / or Faux) Tagged With: Big Journalism, Breitbart Lives!, charlottesville, msnbc, National Politics, Racism (Real / Reverse / or Faux)
Climate of Hate – roundup
June 19, 2017 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)
Much of this is from Breitbart; they do a great job of covering it. But I added a few other things.
James T. Hodgkinson wasn’t going to stop with Scalise; he had a list of Republican names in his pocket.
The list of names included Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan and Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, TheDC has confirmed. Fox News reported after this story that Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais and Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith are also on the list. All six congressmen are members of the House Freedom Caucus…
But they still don’t know his motive.
Democrat strategist James Levine has launched #HuntRepublicans, an implied endorsement of Hodgkinson’s actions.
In the tweets that followed, he repeated the Gabby Giffords blood libel (on Sarah Palin). Lefties do love that libel.
By the way, I think it’s no accident that lefties would perceive the House Freedom Caucus as an existential threat. I wrote not long ago that it’s Producers vs. Looters. Socialists are looters, and the House Freedom Caucus, though not perfect, comes the closest to expressing the rights and views of producers.
CBS’ Resident Idiot Scott Pelley wonders aloud if the shooting of Steve Scalise was “self-inflicted”.
Pretending to be even-handed, he casts the matter in terms which simultaneously obscure that Republicans were the target and imply that Republicans are at fault. Blame the victim…while hiding her.
Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren is practically foaming at the mouth against President Trump. Imagine an election between those two.
Breitbart has a roundup, A Year of Hate: 9 Times the Radicalized Left Engaged in Violence in the Trump Era.
Lowlights include multiple unprovoked, physical attacks on Trump supporters (including vulnerables such as older people and high school kids); a firebombing on GOP a office; and multiple Antifa rampages.
It goes on to say, “This list is by no means exhaustive. Indeed, it does not even scratch the surface of calls for violence in rhetorical discourse. To give perspective, over 12,000 tweets have called for Trump’s assassination since his inauguration.”
That’s correct. For example, they left out when Loretta Lynch suggested more blood and death in the streets. (“[People] have always had to work to move this country forward…They’ve marched, they’ve bled, yes some of them have died. This is hard. Every good thing is.”)
And they left out many attempts at violence that have been thwarted; for example, when Antifas plotted to gas the DeploraBall with butyric acid.
For dessert:
A journey into the freak show at Evergreen State.
Ann Coulter’s recent column asked if anyone remembers when the Left was super keen on having people respect the results of elections?
Vegetarian lady drowns rabid raccoon with her bare hands. Hmm, is that a metaphor for something? What?
Filed Under: Ann Coulter, Breitbart Lives!, Civil Discourse, Democratic demagoguery, Hysteria on the Left, Leftist Nutjobs, Mean-spirited leftists, Unhinged Liberals, Violence on the Left Tagged With: Ann Coulter, Breitbart Lives!, civil discourse, climate of hate, Democratic demagoguery, Elizabeth Warren, Hysteria on the Left, James T. Hodgkinson, Leftist Nutjobs, Mean-spirited leftists, steve scalise, Unhinged Liberals, Violence on the Left
Some scandal updates
May 19, 2017 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)
Anthony Weiner is to plead guilty “to a single charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, pursuant to a plea agreement…”
This is the same Anthony Weiner who
is still married to Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin
had thousands of Hillary Clinton’s illegally-handled emails on the same laptop that he used to commit his sex crimes with minors
caused former FBI Director Comey to reappear in the news last October, which many Democrats believe (probably wrongly) to be the cause of Hillary’s election loss.
It’s sad how Clintonites deflect the blame to Comey and Russia for all that, rather than putting it where it belongs on Weiner, Abedin and the Clintons themselves.
“A likely result of the plea is that Mr. Weiner would end up as a registered sex offender, although a final determination has yet to be made…”
UPDATE: Huma has finally just filed for divorce.
In other news, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Rape Investigation Is Dropped in Sweden.
The accusations were always of a “he said, she said” nature, with Assange saying that he had met the alleged victim several times amicably, for consensual sex.
The announcement represents a victory for Mr. Assange, 45, an Australian…
[but] In Britain, he still faces a warrant for failing to appear in court, and the Metropolitan Police in London said on Friday that they would arrest Mr. Assange, who has maintained his innocence, if he were to try to leave the [Ecuadorian] embassy…
[U.S.] Prosecutors have long been exploring the idea of charging Mr. Assange as a conspirator in the underlying offense of illegal theft of documents…
[but] The Obama-era Justice Department, which had gone as far as to present some evidence about WikiLeaks to a grand jury in Alexandria, Va., was deterred from pursuing the case further because it proved difficult to distinguish what WikiLeaks had done in publishing the classified information provided by Ms. Manning from what The New York Times and many other mainstream news organizations do.
Most news organizations that cover national security and foreign affairs regularly publish information from sources that is considered classified by the United States government. By long-established tradition, however, only the government officials who provide such information have been prosecuted, not the journalists who publish it.
IN STILL OTHER NEWS: Evidence has emerged that, while still just a candidate, the President conspired with Iranian mullahs to undermine the foreign policy of the existing administration. Which meets a reasonable definition of treason!
Oh, wait – it was President Obama, while still just a candidate, conspiring with Iranian mullahs to undermine the foreign policy of the Bush administration. And lefties haven’t given the tiniest crap about it.
Filed Under: 2016 Presidential Election, Breitbart Lives!, Democratic Scandals, Democrats & Double Standards, Hillary Clinton, National Politics, National Security, Obama Lies / Deceptions Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Election, anthony weiner, Breitbart Lives!, Democratic scandals, Democrats & Double Standards, Hillary Clinton, huma abedin, julian assange, National Politics, National Security, wikileaks
Once more, the media lied to me
The last few weeks, I’ve explored the so-called “alt-Right” a little. Not joining it per se, just looking at material produced by people who are supposed to be it.
I keep having the same, strange experience. I’m told that these people are supposed to be neo-Nazi white nationalist fringies. But they aren’t! Milo, Mike Cernovich, the handsome Jack Posobiec, Rebel Media, Breitbart.com, Diamond and Silk, Jesse Lee Peterson – None of them are like that.
For sure, my search isn’t objective. When I come across some web site or material that starts to get racial – like, say, therightstuff dot biz – I go “Ugh!” and don’t look much further. Because assigning importance to race is dumb, whether it’s from the Left or the Right, I usually don’t want to waste my time on people/sites that do it. (Fuller comment in this thread.)
So I’m sure there must be some swathe of the alt-Right, somewhere, that gets racist. But again: left-wing protestors and media promised me that the names mentioned above would be that way… and they just aren’t.
As to the alt-Right: the names mentioned above talk about it in much the same way, like “I don’t know if I’m part of it. If it’s white nationalists, I’m out. If it’s challenging the Left / Deep State / Big Government / globalists in ways that are persuasive and fun, I’m in.” That’s roughly how I feel.
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He’s Baaa-aaaaaack
After Milo’s trouble in February, I knew he’d be back. He has a lot to say, he needs the attention, he’s fun and the camera loves him.
Via Breitbart.com, it’s MILO’S FREE SPEECH WEEK. (I think the all-caps are part of the shtick?)
In light of recent controversies, I am planning a huge multi-day event called MILO’S FREE SPEECH WEEK in Berkeley later this year. We will hold talks and rallies and throw massive parties, all in the name of free expression and the First Amendment. All will be welcome, regardless of political affiliation.
During MILO’S FREE SPEECH WEEK, we will give out a new free speech prize — the Mario Savio Award — to the person we believe has done most to protect free expression at UC Berkeley and its surrounding area. Each day will be dedicated to a different enemy of free speech, including feminism, Black Lives Matter and Islam.
If UC Berkeley does not actively assist us in the planning and execution of this event, we will extend festivities to an entire month. We will establish a tent city on Sproul Plaza protesting the university’s total dereliction of its duty and encourage students at other universities to follow suit.
I intend to return Berkeley to its rightful place as the home of free speech — whether university administrators and violent far-left antifa thugs like it or not.
– MILO
Mario Savio was, per Wiki, “a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially the ‘put your bodies upon the gears’ address given at Sproul Hall…on December 2, 1964.”
P.S. I respect and admire Ann Coulter, but do you want to know the difference between her and Milo? A penis and $20,000. (My understanding is that she charges 20K to speak to College Republicans, while he charges them zero. If that’s incorrect, I would be happy to hear it in the comments.)
Filed Under: Breitbart Lives!, California politics, Conservative Ideas, Conservative Movement, Conservative Positivity, Constitutional Issues, Free Speech, Gay America, Gay Conservatives (Homocons), Islamic War on Gays, Social Issues Tagged With: berkeley riots, black lives matter, Breitbart Lives!, California politics, Conservative Ideas, Conservative Movement, Conservative Positivity, Constitutional Issues, feminism, Free Speech, Gay America, gay conservatives, Islam, mario savio, Milo Yiannopoulos, MILO'S FREE SPEECH WEEK, Social Issues
The Steve Bannon kerfuffle
November 15, 2016 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)
I don’t know a great deal about it. This is a post where I’m not presenting information, so much as asking for it.
But, to set up the question: Via Instapundit we have this from The Hill: Breitbart News planning lawsuit against ‘major media company’.
Breitbart News is preparing a lawsuit against a “major media company” over claims that it is a white nationalist website…
The website has been under intense scrutiny since President-elect Donald Trump named Stephen Bannon as a senior White House counselor and strategist. Bannon is the former executive chairman of Breitbart News…
“…Breitbart News rejects racism in all its varied and ugly forms. Always has, always will,” [said a statement.] “The diversity of the company’s news coverage and its staff continue to embody Andrew Breitbart’s colorblind, distinctly American commitment to ‘E pluribus unum’—out of many, one.”
Critics have taken aim at the site’s coverage in recent days. While Bannon was executive chairman of Breitbart, the website published a story by David Horowitz referring to conservative commentator Bill Kristol as a “renegade Jew,” something that has been mentioned repeatedly in media coverage calling Breitbart a white nationalist website.
So, here’s what I “think I know”, at present.
Breitbart.com was one of the first to go all-in for Trump. They are pro-deportation of illegals, but in no way white-supremacist.
Just as the media’s knickers are in a twist over Trump and over the Alt-Right, they’re in a twist over Trump keeping Bannon as a senior, Karl Rove-type advisor.
But it’s ridiculous. If all that the media has is one Jew (David Horowitz) slagging another Jew (Bill Kristol) over something to do with Jewishness, on Breitbart.com while Bannon presided, let’s face it: They’ve got nothing.
Correct? Agree/disagree? What I would be most interested in here, is actual evidence – not mere assertion or opinion – that Steve Bannon and/or Breitbart are “white nationalists” or white supremacists. If any exists. (I have a gut-feeling against it.)
UPDATE – I didn’t see this coming: Trump Wants To Deport [Only] As Many Undocumented Immigrants As Obama Already Has.
UPDATE: Spengler (David P. Goldman) describes Bannon as “100% pro-Israel” – which would be unusual for a white supremacist. And the worst against Bannon that Jonah Goldberg can muster, is that Bannon is part of the alt-Right. Yawn, so is Milo. Sorry, Jonah. I do love you, most of the time.
I am open to a point suggested in the comments, that under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart.com has declined journalistically. But that’s a different matter. Being a poor journalist (arguably) doesn’t make you a racist.
Filed Under: 2016 Presidential Election, Breitbart Lives!, Civil Discourse, Democratic demagoguery, Donald Trump, Liberal Lies, Liberalism Run Amok, Media Bias, Racism (Real / Reverse / or Faux) Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Election, Breitbart Lives!, civil discourse, Democratic demagoguery, Donald Trump, Liberal Lies, Liberalism Run Amok, media bias, racism, steve bannon
Grow the Hell Up
February 11, 2016 by V the K
Gay conservative gadfly Milo Yiannopoulos gave a talk at Rutgers University where he was interrupted by Social Just Us Wankers behaving like spoiled idiotic children.
Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ tour of U.S. university campuses has started off with a bang. His first event, at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was disrupted by feminists and Black Lives Matter protesters, who chanted slogans and smeared fake blood on their faces before storming out of the auditorium.
After their two minutes of fame, the progressives stormed out of the auditorium, leaving a trail of red paint for the janitors to clean up.
This is why I have no respect whatsoever … and actually thorough contempt… for the Progressive Left, for everything the Progressive Left stands for, and for anyone aligned with the Progressive Left.
Filed Under: Breitbart Lives!, Civil Discourse, Liberal Intolerance
True conspiracies?
March 3, 2014 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)
It’s healthy to be skeptical of conspiracy theories; especially ones whose truth would require bad science, illogical motives, the implausible silence of thousands of people, etc. For example, the Rosie O’Donnell form of 9-11 Trooferism, in which absurd claims are made that fire somehow can’t melt nor weaken structural steel, that employees spanning vast security agencies of multiple nations conspired in vast deceptions, etc.
But occasionally, a conspiracy might be real, or partly so. I recently web-surfed to this interesting video from the folks at list25.com. They claim to list 25 true conspiracies.
Note: I DO NOT AGREE with, or vouch for, their entire list. For example, their item 18 (the Nayirah al-Sabah war propaganda case) specifically asserts a CIA connection that Wikipedia does not mention at all. Or their item 15 (about polio vaccine containing a cancer-inducing agent) appears to be weakly sourced.
Still, here are three of their items which were new to me – and which did seem to be supported, when I did quick Google searches for them. If true, they would be historically interesting. If untrue, please feel free to say so in the comments (hopefully with links).
25. Did the NSA in the early 1960s propose to foment war with Cuba, by means of false terrorist incidents that would kill Americans? Search for Operation Northwoods. Again, if this story is false, please let us know in the comments. ABC News reported it as true. If it was a real proposal, then President Kennedy deserves kudos for rejecting it.
24. Did technology exist, as early as the 1970s, to assassinate people ‘trace-free’? A senate.gov page says that:
At the first televised hearing [of the 1975 Church Committee]…Chairman Church dramatically displayed a CIA poison dart gun to highlight the committee’s discovery that the CIA directly violated a presidential order by maintaining stocks of shellfish toxin sufficient to kill thousands.
Some say the point was to deliver a tiny dart, and a toxin, that would decay on impact and become undetectable, after having induced a massive heart attack. I (Jeff) would add that, if the CIA had it in the 1970s, then surely others must have it in the 2000s; which must be why some people wonder about the sudden heart attack of Andrew Breitbart. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Breitbart Lives!, National Politics, National Security, Post 9-11 America, Social Issues Tagged With: Breitbart Lives!, National Politics, National Security, Post 9-11 America, Social Issues
Anthony Weiner: Poster Boy for narcissism
September 4, 2013 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)
I know this clip is everywhere today, but it’s everywhere for a reason: Weiner’s angry cluelessness is almost too appalling for words.
It shows one of life’s classic moral confrontations.
The normal person (“normal” just meaning, “takes for granted that there are norms of personal behavior”) expresses a viewpoint like: There are norms; you are aware that you violated them when you repeatedly betrayed and humiliated your wife with your deviance, right? I’m not judging you, you can go home and have a good life, but you really don’t belong in the public eye. Have a nice life, but please stop bothering us here in the public square.
While the malignant narcissist expresses a viewpoint like: How DARE you tell me that I don’t belong in the public eye, being adored (e.g., voted for – and given power)?! You small person, you coward, you ignoramus, you self-appointed judge, you [insert names of choice]!
Hat tip, Michelle Malkin.
Filed Under: Breitbart Lives!, Democratic demagoguery, Democratic Scandals, Liberalism Run Amok, Unhinged Liberals Tagged With: anthony weiner, Breitbart Lives!, Democratic demagoguery, Democratic scandals, Liberalism Run Amok, Unhinged Liberals
Today’s Appalling Facebook Meme
June 8, 2013 by Kurt
Wow, just wow, is about all I can say in response to this piece of leftist rationalization which I saw today on Facebook. It goes without saying that we’d be hearing something VERY DIFFERENT from this fellow if there was a Republican president.
The message here boils down to: freedom doesn’t matter, liberty doesn’t matter, rights don’t matter, and the most important role for government is to stand for “social justice.” Here’s the link, but I’ve quoted the whole thing in its appalling entirety below:
Things I’m more worried about than my phone being tapped:
Global warming. The richest 1% controlling more wealth than the bottom 50%. Homelessness. Gutting the food stamp program. The rich hiding several Trillion untaxed dollars. Secretaries paying more in taxes than billionaires. Politicians being bought and sold. Malaria and starvation. More people per capita in prison than any other country. The “war” on drugs. More black men in prison than in college. Rising cost of education and health care. The rise of extremism. The continued oppression of women. The general lack of compassion in the world. The degree to which we all blame our problems on others and close our eyes to our own irrationality.
That more people are outraged by a small loss of privacy than any of these other issues.
Should I add “People who write in sentence fragments” to his list of outrages more “worrisome” than a government which spends all its time monitoring its people, or is that just my pet peeve?
Not surprisingly, the best responses to this kind of thing date to the founding of the Republic. We’ve always got the classic from Benjamin Franklin: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
But in this context, where the message is to sacrifice liberty for “social justice,” I think Sam Adams might be better, though trying to choose just one passage that is appropriate is rather like an embarrassment of riches. I have long admired this one:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Perhaps this one is better: “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
And just in case the Obamalaise is getting to you, here’s one worth repeating regularly: “Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.”
Filed Under: American History, Arrogance of the Liberal Elites, Big Government Follies, Breitbart Lives!, Bush-hatred, Coalition of the Oppressed, Constitutional Issues, Democratic Scandals, Democrats & Double Standards, Free Speech, Freedom, IRS/Tea Party Scandal, Liberal Dhimmitude, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberals, National Security, Obama Arrogance, Patriotism, Political Scandals, Tea Party Tagged With: Barack Obama, Big Government Follies, Constitutional Issues, Democratic scandals, Democrats & Double Standards, Liberal Hypocrisy, nsa spying on verizon phone records, Social liberalism, Tea Party
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Just Putting This Out There
April 28, 2017 by V the K
No comment. None whatsoever.
Former President Barack Obama considered being homosexual as a young man, according to a forthcoming biography of the president.
Obama wrote somewhat elusively to his first intimate girlfriend that he had thought about and considered gayness, but ultimately had decided that a same-sex relationship would be less challenging and demanding than developing one with the opposite sex.
OK, one comment. How could Obama “consider being gay.” We know that’s impossible right? You’re hard-wired gay or straight from whatever point in the womb you cease being a blob of parasitic cells and become a potential human life. Nobody chooses to be gay. It’s not possible. The science is settled.
Filed Under: Obama and Gay Issues
Obama’s Lame Duck Commutations Show His True Colors
January 17, 2017 by V the K
Along with the 10 terrorists Obama is releasing from Guantanamo Bay this week, Obama is also commuting the sentence of the Transexual Traitor Chelsea Manning.
As many people have observed: Leaks that hurt US national security are meh at worse, but leaks that hurt Democratic political ambitions? Unforgivable.
Yeah, that. But also this is a huge middle finger to the military (and every soldier who served honorably), and a big wet sloppy pajama-hug to the radical LGBT left. So, for Obama, a two-fer.
The Democrat-Media Complex will be giving Manning interviews, followed by the inevitable book deal and perhaps a tenure-track position teaching “Gender Issues in National Security” at a university.
Oh, and Obama also released a terrorist who set off bombs in the United States for the purpose of advancing Communism.
And these aren’t the last. What’s over-under on Cop-Killer Mumia Abu Jamal getting a commutation?
Update: And, once again, the left is upset about pronoun usage and offending a transgendered criminal’s feelings.
Update to the Update: A “guy from Obama’s neighborhood” could not be happier about the release of his fellow domestic terrorists.
Does Obama’s Gay Pandering Make Up for His Disastrous Presidency?
July 1, 2014 by V the K
Does Obama’s endless pandering and ego-stroking make up for his disastrous economy, his endless abuses of executive power that crack the very foundations of our democratic republic, his eight trillion dollars in accumulate debt, the havoc he is wrought on our health care system, the corruption and incompetence of his VA which has led to scores of veteran deaths, losing Iraq and unleashing ISIS, collapsing the southern border, the domestic spying, and all the other scandals in this horror show of a presidency?
In the past few days, in order to pander to gays, Obama has…
Talked about the gay professor he had in college. (Maybe he knows where the records are)
His Department of Health and Human Services made a poster about gay and transgendered children. It had a rainbow and everything.
Issued an Executive Order to combat Trichotillomania in Transgender Federal Employees. (“Transgender people in the federal government are pulling their hair out.”)
Put sanctions on Uganda for mistreating homosexuals (but not on Iran, Saudi Arabia, or the Palestinian Authority)
Does all this empty pandering really work for you guys? Does it make up for all the disastrous domestic and foreign policies? Does it really?
June 23, 2014 by V the K
The Middle East is on fire. The United States’ image abroad has so deteriorated that once-close allies are calling their alliance with the USA worthless. And central America is pointing a flood of underage refugees to the United States to swell our already overwhelming welfare roles.
But, don’t worry, John F. Kerry and Barack Obama have their eye on the ball.
“I am very proud of the progress that we are now making even in appointing LGBT ambassadors. I worked with the committee here at the State Department – with the D Committee, and I worked with the White House. And as a result, Ted Osius, sitting here, whom I’ve known a long time, and his family I know, will be the first openly LGBT officer nominated to serve as an ambassador in Asia. And on confirmation, he’s going to join five openly gay ambassadors who are now serving their country. I’m working hard to ensure that by the end of my tenure, we will have lesbian, bisexual, and transgender ambassadors in our ranks as well.”
The country is in the very best of hands.
[Sort of Hat Tip to Peter H. Sort of]
Gay Marriage and Obamacare
The Administration that has done such a fantastic job with providing health care to America’s Veterans wishes to make sure gays and lesbians have that same quality of health care.
Getting married means you have new options for health care: http://t.co/fQtLbS2lAp. #LoveIsLove #GetCovered pic.twitter.com/ahNcJMgkpe
— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) June 21, 2014
Filed Under: Obama and Gay Issues, Obama Health Care (ACA / Obamacare)
Obama Figures Out Another Way to Shake Down Gullible Gays for Money
Obama’s Fascist Army* (OFA) is selling T-shirts so that LGBTQRWXZY people can demonstrate that love is all that matters… love for Obama, that is.
President Obama Throws the Low-Info Gay Voters a Bone
So, President Obama has destroyed the economy. He has run up more debt than all previous presidents combined. The southern border has completely collapsed and is being flooded with illegal immigrants. A band of Islamists so extreme even Al Qaeda rejected them is running amok in Iraq and Syria. He just turned five of the worst terrorists in the world loose from GITMO. His IRS is harassing conservative opponents and then lying about it. New EPA regulations will destroy a quarter million jobs per year and send energy prices skyrocketing.
And some people think none of this matters because he signed is working on an essentially meaningless Executive Order telling Federal contractors not to discriminate against gay people, which none of them do anyway.
An empty gesture from an empty suit.
But it will excite the low-information voters and they will forgive all of his corruption and incompetence., because nothing matters but gay people’s feelings.
Update: Angry Gay Lefty groups demand that the Executive Order cover religious non-profits doing charitable work as well.
“It is now vitally important for all of us to insist that this executive order, when eventually signed by the president, does not include religious exemptions that would permit taxpayer dollars to be spent on discrimination,” said a statement from Heather Cronk, the co-director of the GetEQUAL advocacy group.
No gay victory is complete until Christians (but not Muslims) are forced to bow before Big Angry Homo.
Mr. Obama’s Choom Supplier Beaten to Death by Intimate Male Companion
This isn’t a recent thing, but it is quite sordid, isn’t it? His name was Raymond Boyer, known as “Gay Ray” to Mr. Obama back when he supplied Mr. Obama’s “Choom Gang” with marijuana. His list of clients included many at the exclusive private school where Mr. Obama “spent the last two years of high school in a daze.”
President Obama’s high school pot dealer who (sic) he thanked in his yearbook for the ‘good times’ was beaten to death by his lover after a series of fights over flatulence and drugs.
Ghastly business, that.
Mr. Boyer’s post high school experience has a certain resonance with the experience of Millennials unfortunate enough to have come of age under Mr. Obama’s economic policies.
Since getting high with Obama and his private school educated friends he lost his job as the manager of a local pizzeria and ended up on welfare living above a car repair shop.
One expects this sort of thing from Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, but it is a bit of a surprise coming from Mr. Obama’s direction.
‘Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted “Intercepted!”, and took an extra hit.
Now, that sounds more like the Mr. Obama we have come to know.
MSDNC Must Know Something About Those Man’s Country Rumors
December 16, 2013 by V the K
MSDNC – the network that makes Leni Reifenstahl say “You guys are a little over the top” – declares Barack Obama the first gay president.
Eat it, James Buchanan! (Or was it Abe Lincoln that liberals claim was the first gay president despite… you know… having four kids?)
Update: Deranged MSDNC Quote of the Day, from Huffington Post correspondant/MSDNC Religion expert Frank Schaeffer. “I’ve changed because if this country will lynch a brilliant, civil, kind, humble, compassionate, moderate, articulate, black intellectual we’re lucky enough to have in the White House, we’ll lynch anyone.”
Meth is a hell of a drug.
I guess he’s the MSDNC religion expert because their religion is Obama-worship.
MOAR MSDNC Stuff: Angry Porcine life form Ed Schultz who describes himself as a proud tax-and-spend liberal — dodges taxes and doesn’t provide health insurance to his employees. Rather typical of the left, isn’t it?
Filed Under: Gay Politics, Obama and Gay Issues
Fun Obamacare ad hits college campuses
September 19, 2013 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)
Generation Opportunity, “a free-thinking, liberty-loving, national organization of young people”, has set up OptOut.org to let young people know that they needn’t (and probably shouldn’t) sign up for Obamacare. Their current ad for young women:
(Male version, here.)
Now for the ‘media bias’ angle. I learned about this from Yahoo! which, naturally, has titled their article “Creepy Obamacare ad hits college campuses”.
In other words: Even after all the government-spying scandals, Big Government-run health care (that costs a young woman far more than she’ll get from it, despite the fine they’ll extort for her saying ‘no’) still doesn’t strike Yahoo! News as creepy. But ads against it, they’ll suggestively title as ‘creepy’.
FROM THE COMMENTS (thank you Kurt): Get ready for Obama(care) to ask detailed questions about your sex life. Umm…I thought that was only supposed to happen under the Religious Reich Theocracy that the Left always warns us against?
The president’s “reforms” aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary…
Doctors and hospitals who don’t comply with the federal government’s electronic-health-records requirements forgo incentive payments…
…the new requirements are turning it “into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential.” Lack of confidentiality is what concerned the New York Civil Liberties Union in a 2012 report…
Privacy and confidentiality will just be for the rich:
The administration is ignoring [various] protests from privacy advocates. On Jan. 17, HHS announced patients who want to keep something out of their electronic record should pay cash.
“Thanks, Obama!”
Filed Under: American Youth, Big Government Follies, Conservative Ideas, Gay America, KIDS (Koch Industries Derangement Syndrome), Liberal Hypocrisy, Media Bias, Obama and Gay Issues, Obama Arrogance, Obama Health Care (ACA / Obamacare) Tagged With: American Youth, Big Government Follies, Conservative Ideas, generation opportunity, KIDS (Koch Industries Derangement Syndrome), media bias, Obama Health Care Tax/Regulation, optout.org
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Prince of Wales opens biomass plant and whisky bottling centre
The Prince of Wales brought his environmental and whisky interests together as he opened a biomass plant and a whisky bottling centre at a 173-year-old distillery on Tuesday.
Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland, was at Glen Grant distillery and the Helius Corde plant in Rothes, Moray at the start of a three-day visit to the north of Scotland.
He met staff and toured the distillery to see how the whisky is matured and bottled.
Wearing a Stuart Hunting kilt and green tweed jacket, Charles unveiled a plaque on a pyramid of whisky barrels outside the distillery and quipped: "Is this the emergency supply?"
The new bottling plant produces 2000 bottles an hour, which are mainly exported to mainland Europe and Asia.
Glen Grant managing director Dennis Malcolm said Charles's visit is the first by a member of the royal family in around 50 years.
"Our last royal visit was by Princess Margaret in 1959 so it was nice to have another member of the family up today to mark the new site," he said.
"The Prince is certainly a big whisky fan and I think he asked more questions about the bottling hall than I've done. He wanted to know how many bottles we can produce in an hour, what we do if it breaks down and where all the bottles go."
At the end of the tour Charles chatted with children from the nearby Rothes primary and nursery school.
Senior nursery nurse May Wilson said the children watched a video earlier in the day, just to make sure they recognise him.
"Most of the nursery children only know about princes from fairytales, so this is a first to actually meet a royal and they loved it," she said.
"He asked them if they enjoyed their Easter holidays and joked that they will all have to wait a long time before they can try whisky."
Earlier in the day Charles had a tour and opened the new Helius Corde heat and power biomass plant, designed to recycle the waste created from making whisky.
It takes pot ale and draff by-product from 12 distilleries around Speyside and recycles it as animal feed. It also creates electricity by burning draff and woodchip.
Operators say it will generate 8.32MW of electricity every year which will be sent back to the National Grid, enough to power 9000 homes.
Alan Lyons, chairman of Helius Corde, said: "The Prince was very much into the fact that we're using recycled woodchip and with our environmental credentials as we aim to maintain low C02 levels. It was a delight to have him here and he really took time to speak to all the workers and showed an interest in what they do and the whole process of the plant."
During the visit to the neighbouring Rothes businesses, Charles was accompanied by Scotch Whisky Association chief executive Gavin Hewitt, who organised the tour.
Mr Hewitt said: "It's been an excellent day and the opening of these new sites shows the strength of the industry, and is great for Rothes and Speyside.
"I was asked to suggest opportunities for a royal visit and I thought this was the ideal site as it has an environmental aspect as well as the traditional whisky making. I knew Prince Charles had a great interest in both those areas and he was particularly impressed by the Helius plant and was fascinated by how it worked.
"He thoroughly enjoyed his visit and always likes to show his support for this particular Scottish industry.
"There were a couple of bottles given to him, one at each site, and I could see the delight in his eye and no doubt he'll add it to his cabinet and can enjoy a wee dram when he puts his feet up later."
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Dante Kun’s new book, The Land of Whores and Honey, shakes up the political world and Dante has no qualms about telling the truth
In his new book, “The Land of Whores and Honey: A comprehensive look at the delicate ballet between the emerging Western matriarchy and the ancient Eastern patriarchy.” Dante Kun gives a logical perspective on western society; the social conditioning and gynocentric behavior of our matriarchy and the difference between the stern beliefs of the East. This book gives insight into what could be called a “True threat assessment for America’s impending collapse in direct proportion to the fall of the Rome.”
“In a world where politics are dictated by personal gain and information dispensed by media experts; today’s politics seem to have no stake in the personal lives of the constituents who placed them in office in the first place,” Dante says, and has no qualms about the honesty imparted upon the readers of the book.
As a former professional body guard, Mixed Martial Arts trainer, holder of two degrees, and many certifications in conflict resolution, one might not expect Dante to have such a political voice. Instead, he has published his first book, and has committed his life to the passion of writing.
“When the antics of the current political system impressed upon me the need to write this book, I realized the citizens of the United States needed to understand the truth,” Dante says. “There are many reasons that our population is lead astray and the conglomerate news media plays a huge part in spinning the truth.”
Dante B. Kun is a graduate of Executive Security International, the Harvard of bodyguard schools, and a well-trained threat assessment expert. Dante worked with gang members of all races at Pelican Bay state prison and examined the populations ideologies which gave insight into the radicalization process rarely understood by most Western citizens. Dante holds degrees in education and psychology and has certifications in anger management and domestic violence intervention. Dante served in the US army as an 11 Delta/19 Delta and was decorated with the Imjim Scout Citation for meritorious service.
“I have no investment in consensus; especially when to agree to blatant societal conditioning is akin to leading animals to slaughter,” Dante says. “I can only present what I discovered through trial and error. As you begin to see behind the veil of deceit, people will not be so willing to agree with the conditioning that allows you to believe in the American Pipe Dream.”
According to Dante, “The real enemy of any free society is fascism because it affects the mind the way a virus affects its host. Yet fascism has a signature that can be easily recognized before it manifests as a radical human being. This book will instruct how to recognize the smiling, friendly fascist. To become radicalized is to be a fascist in the first place.”
A delight for readers who may rarely get a behind-the-scenes look at society; this book serves as a refreshing wake-up call. Dante’s message is: “Right action and true discernment can only come through a true understanding of how a human being becomes radical, and political correctness is not part of that equation.”
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Latest Digital Media Service Drive Launches To Assure Sustainable Brand For Pro Athletes
New digital media service Drive is recently launched this April by The Drive Media that focuses to ensure a sustainable personal brand for professional athletes in the digital world.
Los Angeles, April 13th, 2016: Great news for professional athletes looking to garner premium endorsements- Latest digital media service Drive by The Drive Media has recently made its launch with the assurance to ensure a sustainable personal brand for professional athletes.
Added to athletes, the new service will also cater to professional coaches.
“We are excited to announce the launch of our latest digital media service that would render a new edge to a pro athlete’s career by offering them a sustainable personal brand. We will create a lasting brand for athletes through content marketing that will enable them to garner their online audience & gather premium endorsements- so that athletes can relish in a sustainable impression in the industry even after they leave the field”, stated a leading spokesperson from The Drive Media.
Scott Warren, The founder of The Drive Media is an erstwhile collegiate athlete himself who spoke of his lifelong fascination with the deep dedication of athletes to training & competing. Driven by the plight of several athletes ending up in bankruptcy being victimized by poor investment schemes, the entertainment media pro thought of helping them with a sustainable brand presence- and thus Drive was born.
In his words, a lot of athletes don’t take advantage of their opportunities in professional entertainment sports that would have helped them in building a sustainable backup in case they are forced to lose career from injury or after retirement.
“We are here to help out the pro athletes in winning the edgy digital game by creating an enduring brand for them as they hang their sneakers”, stated the company CEO.
“Most of the athletes have no such career to fall back upon in case they are suddenly ruled out from the field due to unexpected injury. Moreover, several athletes have fallen preys to scam investments and ended up in bankruptcy. They have given us so much and hence as an entertainment media pro backed by more than 10 years of combined experience in radio & TV media- I felt the need to introduce a service that will help brand, strategize, manage & create highly impactful content for these heroes.”
The Drive squad will help the athletes with a game plan & personalized strategy along with dynamic content. The firm CEO stressed on a one-on-one interaction with each client & usage of their unique passions to come up with an exclusive personal brand. It would be followed by expert support in building an audience for the athlete that will bring endorsements from advertisers & create post athletic-life opportunities for the sportsman.
As a part of the Drive launch, The Drive Media has also produced its own Original digital content particularly meant to target viewership from social media platforms. It’s a 5-part social media video series which follows 2 rising pro beach volley players in their pre-season process. The video series was released on Facebook on April 1.
For more information, please visit www.thedrivemedia.com.
Company Name: The Drive Media
Contact Person: Scott Warren
Email: scott@thedrivemedia.com
Address:1533 S. Dunsmuir Ave Los Angeles, CA 90019
Website: http://www.thedrivemedia.com/
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The Boulder Group Arranges Sale of a Single Tenant Net Leased Louisiana CVS Pharmacy
Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented the seller in the transaction.
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a single tenant net leased CVS Pharmacy property located at 329 Superior Avenue in Bogalusa, Louisiana for $4,580,000.
The 11,945 square foot CVS Pharmacy is located along Superior Avenue, a primary east-west thoroughfare in the area. The property was built in 2007 and replaced two former CVS Pharmacy locations in Bogalusa. The property is located near the entrance to a Walmart Supercenter. Retailers in the immediate area include Tractor Supply, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, AT&T, Aaron’s and Hibbett Sports.
Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented the seller in the transaction. The seller is a private investor. The purchaser was a private 1031 investor.
The CVS Pharmacy lease has more than 15 years remaining in the primary term that expire in August 2032. The original 25 year lease features ten 5-year renewal option periods with 5% rental escalations. CVS is the nation’s second-largest drugstore chain and is a publicly traded company with a market capitalization in excess of $105 billion. CVS is an investment grade rated company with a Standard and Poor’s rating of BBB+.
“CVS drug store properties with proven operating histories continue to garner significant investor interest,” said Randy Blankstein, President of The Boulder Group. Jimmy Goodman, Partner of The Boulder Group, added, “The market for long term lease net lease properties remains active as these assets are in high demand amongst investors.”
About The Boulder Group
The Boulder Group is a boutique investment real estate service firm specializing in single tenant net lease properties. The firm provides a full range of brokerage, advisory, and financing services nationwide to a substantial and diversified client base, which includes high net worth individuals, developers, REITs, partnerships and institutional investment funds. Founded in 1997, the firm has arranged the acquisition and disposition of over $4 billion of single tenant net lease real estate transactions. From 2012-2017, the firm was ranked in the top 10 companies in the nation for single tenant retail transactions by both Real Capital Analytics and CoStar. The Boulder Group is headquartered in suburban Chicago.
For more information, visit: www.bouldergroup.com
Company Name: The Boulder Group
Contact Person: Randy Blankstein
Address:666 Dundee Road #1801
City: Northbrook
Website: http://www.bouldergroup.com/NNN-Properties-For-Sale.html
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Democrats introduce mens rea reform
Monday, July 18th, 2016 — Sam Lee
Congressional Democrats move to extend FBI Director Comey’s Clinton mens rea standard to all Americans.
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Two weeks after FBI Director James Comey announced that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted because she lacked the mental capacity to form intent, Democratic lawmakers have introduced important mens rea reform. Democrats say that their reforms will extend the protections Clinton received to the everyday American.
Republican reformers, who have been trying to introduce mens rea reform into the law for years were surprised Wednesday when Democratic lawmakers introduced a more sweeping version of reform than they ever dared try.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch signed off on the Democratic proposal which would, if enacted, gut the Attorney General’s power to prosecute, after a one-hour meeting with Bill Clinton in a disused Arizona airport basement lavatory with a sign on the door saying “beware of the leopard”.
Democrats argue that there are “just plain too many laws out there for people to know what they’re doing wrong. It’s time to remove the foot of big government from the face of the American people.”
Democrats were adamant that drunk drivers, for example, should not be held responsible for the accidents and deaths that happen to occur when they drive off of a bridge and leave their passenger to drown, “because people do not have the mental clarity, when drunk, to be prosecuted.”
FBI Director Comey agreed, saying that “even without this reform, we always look at, for example, was the person drunk when they committed the act, or was the victim wearing a short dress when she was assaulted? All of these go into whether or not a person should be prosecuted.”
Democrats also noted that this bill should not be considered a response to the Clinton email non-scandal. According to Comey, “The statute that Secretary of State Clinton violated does not require intent. It states that only gross negligence is necessary for a crime to be committed. Since Ms. Clinton was extremely careless, therefore, there was no crime.”
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Comey also noted that Clinton does not have the mental development necessary to form intent.
Republicans remain skeptical that Ms. Clinton lacked intent to destroy government documents when she destroyed the emails. During congressional hearings last week, Comey seemed to backtrack a little from his initial statements.
“True,” said Comey in response to questioning by House Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC), “the evidence does point to intent, but not to wicked intent.”
After a merciless waterboarding by Representative Gowdy, Comey added that, “perhaps the evidence does show wicked intent, but she did not grill a baby on a barbecue and eat its liver. Her intent was not evil.”
Comey clarified further that “no baby grilling happened in front of me, or at least there’s no transcript of it.” Comey emphasized that he has not talked to the agents who attended the barbecue.
Comey described his decision not to recommend prosecuting Clinton as “simple logic. No reasonable prosecutor wants to attract the attention of the Internal Revenue Service under a future president.”
Comedian Steve Martin, who once played an inspector in a national law enforcement agency in a movie, testified that you, too, can destroy government documents and not go to jail. First, he said, change your name to Clinton. Then, destroy thousands of government documents. When you’re caught, apologize.
“Just tell them, I’m sorry. I didn’t know destroying government documents was illegal.”
“Also,” Martin added “threaten to use the IRS on them after you’re elected President.”
Comey: Hillary’s FBI testimony wasn’t under oath or recorded, but it would still be a crime to lie: Ian Hanchett at Breitbart
“During testimony before Congress on Thursday, FBI Director James Comey stated that the FBI’s interview with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not under oath or recorded, but it still would be a crime to lie to the FBI.” (Memeorandum thread)
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“He makes a simple point: Prosecutors almost never have direct evidence of intent, unless a defendant kindly confesses, ‘Yeah, not only did I do it, I intended to do it.’ Rather, intent is established through indirect evidence—chiefly false exculpatory statements, statements designed to mislead about the facts, because the defendant knows the facts show his guilt. Thus, lies are used to show consciousness of guilt, which in turn indirectly establishes intent. Comey’s answer to this was to hem and haw and just look vaguely confused.”
Rudy Giuliani: Hillary Broke The Law; “Gross Negligence Equals Extreme Carelessness”: Tim Hains at Real Clear Politics
“The definition of gross negligence under the law is extreme carelessness,” he said… “It’s the first definition that comes up in the law dictionary”… “It’s the definition the judges give to juries when they charge injuries on gross negligence. Negligence equals carelessness. Gross negligence equals extreme carelessness.”
Saucier attorney on Hillary non-indictment: “Clearly a double-standard”: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air
“However, there seems to be little difference between Saucier’s attempts and the efforts by Clinton’s team to ‘wipe’ her server rather than submit it to the State Department when requested—actually, a number of servers, as Comey pointed out.” (Memeorandum thread) (Hat tip to Ace at Ace of Spades HQ)
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In the Shadow of Glacial Lakes, Pakistan’s Mountain Communities Look to Climate Adaptation
By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio Reprint | | Print |
A boy grazes his cattle on farmland close to the site of a landslide in northern Pakistan’s Bagrot valley. Credit: Saleem Shaikh/IPS
BINDO GOL, Pakistan, Jan 15 2015 (IPS) - Khaliq-ul-Zaman, a farmer from the remote Bindo Gol valley in northern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has long lived under the shadow of disaster.
With plenty of fertile land and fresh water, this scenic mountain valley would be an ideal dwelling place – if not for the constant threat of the surrounding glacial lakes bursting their ridges and gushing down the hillside, leaving a trail of destruction behind.
“We can safely say that over 16,000 have been displaced due to [glacial lake outburst floods], and remain so even after several months.” -- Khalil Ahmed, national programme manager of a climate mitigation project in northern Pakistan
There was a time when families like Zaman’s lived in these distant valleys undisturbed, but hotter temperatures and heavier rains, which experts say are the result of global warming, have turned areas like Bindo Gol into a soup of natural hazards.
Landslides, floods and soil erosion have become increasingly frequent, disrupting channels that carry fresh water from upstream springs into farmlands, and depriving communities of their only source of fresh water.
“Things were becoming very difficult for my family,” Zaman told IPS. “I began to think that farming was no longer viable, and was considering abandoning it and migrating to nearby Chitral [a town about 60 km away] in search of labour.”
He was not alone in his desperation. Azam Mir, an elderly wheat farmer from the Drongagh village in Bindo Gol, recalled a devastating landslide in 2008 that wiped out two of the most ancient water channels in the area, forcing scores of farmers to abandon agriculture and relocate to nearby villages.
“Those who could not migrate out of the village suffered from water-borne diseases and hunger,” he told IPS.
Now, thanks to a public-private sector climate adaptation partnership aimed at reducing the risk of disasters like glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), residents of the northern valleys are gradually regaining their livelihoods and their hopes for a future in the mountains.
Bursting at the seams
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), there were some 2,400 potentially hazardous glacial lakes in the country’s remotest mountain valleys in 2010, a number that has now increased to over 3,000.
Chitral district alone is home to 549 glaciers, of which 132 have been declared ‘dangerous’.
Climatologists say that rising temperatures are threatening the delicate ecosystem here, and unless mitigation measures are taken immediately, the lives and livelihoods of millions will continue to be at risk.
One of the most successful initiatives underway is a four-year, 7.6-million-dollar project backed by the U.N. Adaptation Fund, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the government of Pakistan.
Signed into existence in 2010, its main focus, according to Field Manager Hamid Ahmed Mir, has been protection of lives, livelihoods, existing water channels and the construction of flood control infrastructure including check dams, erosion control structures and gabion walls.
Labourers construct flood-control gabion walls – structures constructed by filling large galvanized steel baskets with rock – in northern Pakistan’s remote Bindo Gol valley. Credit: Saleem Shaikh/IPS
The project has brought tremendous improvements to people here, helping to reduce damage to streams and allowing the sustained flow of water for drinking, sanitation and irrigation purposes in over 12 villages.
“We plan to extend such infrastructure in another 10 villages of the valley, where hundreds of households will benefit from the initiative,” Mir told IPS.
Further afield, in the Bagrot valley of Gilgit, a district in Gilgit-Baltistan province that borders KP, NGOs are rolling out similar programmes.
Zahid Hussain, field officer for the climate adaptation project in Bagrot, told IPS that 16,000 of the valley’s residents are vulnerable to GLOF and flash floods, while existing sanitation and irrigation infrastructure has suffered severe damage over the last years due to inclement weather.
Located some 800 km from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, Bagrot is comprised of 10 scattered villages, whose population depends for almost all its needs on streams that bubble forth from the Karakoram Mountains, a sub-range of the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the world’s most heavily glaciated area outside of the Polar Regions.
Residents like Sajid Ali, also a farmer, are pinning all their hopes on infrastructure development that will preserve this vital resource, and protect his community against the onslaught of floods.
An even bigger concern, he told IPS, is the spread of water-borne diseases as floods and landslides leave behind large silt deposits upstream.
Just as risk reduction structures are key to preventing humanitarian crises, so too is building community resilience and awareness among the local population, experts say.
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So far, some two million people in the Bindo Gol and Bagrot valleys have benefitted from community mitigation schemes, not only from improved access to clean water, but also from monitoring stations, site maps and communications systems capable of alerting residents to a coming catastrophe.
Khalil Ahmed, national programme manager for the project, told IPS that early warning systems are now in place to inform communities well in advance of outbursts or flooding, giving families plenty of time to evacuate to safer grounds.
While little official data exists on the precise number of people affected by glacial lake outbursts, Ahmed says, “We can safely say that over 16,000 have been displaced, and remain so even after several months.”
Over the past 17 months alone, Pakistan has experienced seven glacial lake outbursts that not only displaced people, but also wiped out standing crops and ruined irrigation and water networks all throughout the north, according to Ghulam Rasul, a senior climatologist with the PMD in Islamabad.
The situation is only set to worsen, as temperatures rise in the mountainous areas of northern Pakistan and scientists predict more extreme weather in the coming decades, prompting an urgent need for greater preparedness at all levels of society.
Several community-based adaptation initiatives including the construction of over 15 ‘safe havens’ – temporary shelter areas – in the Bindo Gol and Bagrot valleys have already inspired confidence among the local population, while widespread vegetation plantation on the mountain slopes act as a further buffer against landslides and erosion.
Scientists and activists say that replicating similar schemes across the northern regions will prevent unnecessary loss of life and save the government millions of dollars in damages.
Edited by Kanya D’Almeida
Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF)
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de bono code
When Edward De Bono Contradicts De Bono
With its restricted dissemination, I somehow feel that Edward De Bono contradicted himself with the book The De Bono Code. (01/6) The book is all about using number or codes to impart a thought or intention to avoid misinterpretation. I agree with the premise that language, although it has allowed us to communicate with each other, has also become a barrier as there are situations where we have different understanding. Hence, description is not perception.
I feel that with the emergence of 140 character message services, like Twitter, using the De Bono Code can help us in communicating with each other. But alas, despite what I know, I can't share the code and promote its use as license is required.
I hope that if Edward De Bono really wants the code to grow, it should be opened and shared (02/2). With that, it may spark further interest to the code and lead to widespread use. Else, there's no incentive for avid followers like me to remember and use when it can hardly be used to communicate with others as there's not much would know. Else, it will just become an elitist language.
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Mesa Exploration Files NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Bounty Potash Project
February 16, 2012 13:47 ET | Source: Mesa Exploration Corp.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 16, 2012) - Mesa Exploration Corp. (TSX VENTURE:MSA)(PINKSHEETS:MSAJF) ("Mesa") is pleased to announce it has filed on SEDAR a NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Bounty potash project in the Great Salt Lake Desert of western Utah. The report was prepared in accordance with the guidelines of National Instrument 43-101 by independent consultant and qualified person Dana Durgin. In addition to the property ownership, physiography, and regional geology, Mr. Durgin reviews the technical aspects and potential of the project.
In the report Mr. Durgin stated, "From his review of the available data, it is apparent to the author that there is a substantial potash resource present at the Bounty Project. As shown by the drilling, sampling and mapping done by Quintana Petroleum, the US Geological Survey and the Utah Department of Natural Resources in the area, the geologic and hydrologic setting is directly analogous to that at the Intrepid Potash operation in the Bonneville Salt Flats 25 miles to the south. The size of the drainage basin is somewhat smaller, but dissolved solid (KCl, NaCl, MgCl2) contents of the brine are quite similar."
The author further stated, "The completion of the drilling program, both confirming the Nackowski results and closing the drillhole spacing, should lead Mesa to the point where a new resource estimation can be completed in a NI-43-101 compliant manner. Assuming positive results, this will lead to preliminary engineering studies for the design of a system of drainage ditches, evaporation ponds and processing facilities."
The report recommended an exploration program of at least forty auger holes to be drilled to the base of the shallow aquifer. Drilling will infill and verify the historic sampling and map brine aquifer depth, thickness, lithology and potash content. Additionally a minimum of four reverse circulation drill holes will be drilled to 500 feet to test for deeper brine aquifers typically found in the region. The budget for this program is $118,000 and Mesa is currently working on securing drill permits.
About the Bounty Project
The project is 15 air miles north of Intrepid Potash's Wendover operation, a potash mine which is chemically and physically analogous to the deposit at the Bounty project. The Wendover mine has been in production for 75 years utilizing a system of potash brine collection ditches and solar evaporation ponds, with potash and salt being processed in a simple flotation mill. The Wendover mine has annual production of 100,000 tons of potash and 200,000 tons of magnesium chloride, grossing $60 million per year.
Positive Features of Surface Potash Brine Operations:
Low capital expenditure
Low operating costs
Inexpensive to explore
Simple milling process
Simple permitting
Long mine life
The Bounty project consists of 90 square miles of potash prospecting permit applications from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and 14 square miles of Potash Leases from the State of Utah.
About Mesa Exploration
Mesa is developing and exploring a portfolio of mineral properties in the United States where it controls significant land holdings. All projects are within proven mining districts with excellent access and infrastructure. Mesa currently has 14 million shares issued and outstanding, 50% of the shares are controlled by insiders and institutions. For further information please visit our website at www.MesaExploration.com.
This Press Release has been prepared and revised under the supervision of Dana Durgin, AIPG Certified Professional Geologist, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 guidelines.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
MESA EXPLORATION CORP.
Foster Wilson, President and CEO
This news release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, including the likelihood of commercial mining and possible future financings are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include unsuccessful exploration results, changes in metals prices, changes in the availability of funding for mineral exploration, unanticipated changes in key management personnel and general economic conditions. Mining is an inherently risky business. Accordingly the actual events may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. For more information on the Company and the risks and challenges of its business, investors should review the Company's annual filings that are available at www.sedar.com.
The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the contents of this news release.
www.MesaExploration.com
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Source: CAE Inc
June 21, 2017 13:00 ET
CAE Healthcare introduces CAE Juno clinical skills manikin at INACSL nursing simulation conference
WASHINGTON, DC and MONTREAL, CANADA--(Marketwired - June 21, 2017) - (NYSE:CAE)(TSX:CAE) -
Note to Editors: There is a photo associated with this press release.
On the eve of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) annual conference in Washington, D.C., CAE Healthcare announced the release of CAE Juno, a newly designed clinical skills manikin for nursing programs. As access to clinical practice hours with live patients continues to diminish, CAE Juno will deliver consistent and effective simulation-based training to prepare nursing students and interprofessional teams for today's healthcare environments.
The U.S. National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) released a multi-year study in 2014 on the effectiveness of simulation training in pre-licensure nursing programs. Among other findings, the study reported that nursing students who spent up to 50 percent of clinical hours in high-quality simulation, using the INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Simulation and conducted by trained facilitators, were as well-prepared for professional practice as those whose experiences were drawn from traditional clinical practice. (Read more at https://www.ncsbn.org/685.htm.) CAE Juno is designed to help bridge that gap between classroom and hospital settings.
"CAE Juno rounds out our family of high-fidelity patient simulators by helping to ensure that nursing students master critical, fundamental clinical skills before they interact with real patients or participate in interprofessional team simulations," said Dr. Robert Amyot, president of CAE Healthcare. "As an affordable manikin backed by the power of CAE's simulation expertise, CAE Juno will allow us to offer CAE simulation to a broader audience of healthcare students and professionals."
CAE Juno was designed with guidance from clinicians and healthcare educators to provide ease of set up, operation and maintenance within busy skills labs. She is fully wireless and tetherless, and can easily convert to a male manikin, which will save costs and space within simulation programs. With a new tablet-based software program and ten Simulated Clinical Experiences (SCEs) developed by the CAE Healthcare Academy, CAE Juno will include evidence-based learning content that instructors can immediately integrate into their nursing programs.
CAE Juno is available for sale at the INACSL conference, the HPSN (Human Patient Simulator Network) UK 2017 conference and through CAE's global sales team, with delivery expected in time for fall semester nursing courses. For more information, visit caehealthcare.com/juno.
About CAE Healthcare
CAE Healthcare offers cutting-edge learning tools to healthcare students and professionals, allowing them to develop practical experience through risk-free simulation training before treating real patients. CAE Healthcare's full spectrum of simulation solutions includes surgical and imaging simulation, curriculum, the LearningSpace audiovisual and center management platform and highly realistic adult, pediatric and baby patient simulators. Today, approximately 12,500 CAE Healthcare simulators and audiovisual solutions are in use worldwide by medical schools, nursing schools, hospitals, defence forces and other entities. www.cae.com/healthcare
About CAE
CAE (NYSE:CAE)(TSX:CAE) is a global leader in the delivery of training for the civil aviation, defence and security, and healthcare markets. We design and integrate the industry's most comprehensive training solutions, anchored by the knowledge and expertise of more than 8,500 employees, our world-leading simulation technologies and a track record of service and technology innovation spanning seven decades. Our global presence is the broadest in the industry, with 160 sites and training locations in 35 countries, including our joint venture operations, and the world's largest installed base of flight simulators. Each year, we train more than 120,000 civil and defence crewmembers, as well as thousands of healthcare professionals.
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Let us make it clear first. What is Bollywood? It is known to all Indians that Indian film industry is mainly Bombay based & the name comes from it. Movie, the mirror of society is the thing which really reflects our lives through different characters. Many persons are needed to make a complete movie. They are actors, actresses, directors, music directors, sound engineer, choreographer, producers etc. Various kinds of movies are made in the Bollywood industry. Romantic movies like ‘dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge’, action movies like ‘international khiladi’, theme movie like ‘black’ etc have been made in our film industry.
Influence of Michael Jackson on Bollywood
On the death of Michael Jackson, the whole world has been astonished and speechless including Bollywood. Michael Jackson was the first emperor of Pop and an excellent dancer. He is the one who became the inspirations of various actors, dancers and musicians all over the world, as well as Bollywood. He became a trademark for various kinds of new fashion, a hallmark for the youth generation. His classy and amazing dance steps make the whole world crazy including Bollywood.
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The Bollywood Film Industry before 1990s
Bollywood is a part of the Indian film industry which is located in Mumbai. This industry may also be called the national film industry as the films produced here are mostly in Hindi language though it is not the one and only film industry in India. Currently it is not only the most number of movies producing film industry in India but also one in the world. The Bollywood film industry has derived its name from the famous American film industry, Hollywood. Though according to standard of films, the former is not even near if compared with the latter.
Language used by the Bollywood:
Before 1990s, the Bollywood was found to produce films which used Hindi as their main language and they also used poetic Urdu words (though not in every film) frequently.
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The Jewish Musem’s Balancing Act
By Steve Feldman and Kevin Ross
You are visiting the playground with your kids or grandkids. Four kids are sitting on one end of the seesaw. The other side is empty. The seesaw, of course, is not moving, and the kids are just sitting there on the ground. Their guardians don’t want any of your kids or grandkids to sit on the other side — that might spoil things.
A similar lack of balance played out at the National Museum of American Jewish History on April 17. The museum presented a panel discussion titled “America’s Israel Policy: Next Voices.” But with three avowed progressives and a fourth person left of center — and no one on the other side — it was (almost) pointless.
The museum billed the program as a discussion about “What matters to young American Jews when it comes to Israel?” with the following description: “In the last decade, new voices have emerged at the forefront of discussions and debate on U.S.-Israel policy — voices that are shaping conversations on college campuses and marching in the streets. In this lively discussion, students join policy experts for a discussion on the present and future of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East (including Israel and Iran), what matters to young American Jews, and what’s at stake on all sides.”
But it really was not about “all sides,” and apparently was never intended to be.
The event perverted the state of affairs with regard to the Jewish state within the Jewish community. Any viewpoints from the right of center or from observant Jews were intentionally shut out by the museum. It is as if they did not exist. Out of sight — and hearing — out of mind?
The panelists were: Jeremy Ben-Ami, national president of J Street; Matan Arad-Neeman, listed as a “Haverford College sophomore and member of the J Street National Student Board”; Amanda Berman, co-founder and president of Zioness Movement; and Sophia Kruger, former head of PIPAC, AIPAC’s on-campus presence at the University of Pennsylvania.
While J Street describes itself as “pro-Israel,” its actions and activities are anything but. Notorious Israel critics such as George Soros, Bill Benter, Mehmet Celebi and the Foundation for Middle East Peace, the Ploughshares Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund have been among J Street’s donors. J Street has collaborated with other anti-Israel groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace and it opposed the Anti-Israel Boycott Act.
Arad-Neeman’s Facebook timeline includes a post opp-osing Birthright and another in support of the radical anti-Israel group IfNotNow.
Berman’s Zioness Movement is a self-described “progressive” organization.
Kruger made it clear that she no longer had a connection to AIPAC and was representing herself and not that organization. Some of her remarks included, “People can and should be critical of Israel,” “Being pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian — for me — very much go together” and an admission that she would not have voted for Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli election.
Does the panel seem balanced to you?
It did not seem balanced to Greater Philadelphia ZOA either.
In fact, when ZOA pointed out to museum officials the obvious lack of balance in the panel that they assembled, we were told that that was only our opinion, and that their “consultants” said it was balanced.
We even reached out to the foundation that funded the event. When ZOA pointed out the imbalance, a foundation official agreed that another perspective should be added to the panel. But museum officials still refused.
Thus, a distorted view of young Jewish attitudes about Israel, plus the J Street leader’s lies and distortions, were offered to the paltry audience and whomever may have been watching the event online.
Ben-Ami actually said, for example, that between the three parties in the peace process — the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority — it is only the Palestinian Authority that wants to reach “a diplomatic agreement.” In reality, the Palestinian Authority has rejected every diplomatic offer.
Yes, the majority of Jews are on the political left — but do those of you entrenched there really only want an echo chamber?
There are indeed Jews under 35 who agree with a majority of Israeli Jews and the positions of the democratically elected government of Israel headed by Netanyahu, and/or who also appreciate the moves that President Donald Trump has made thus far which recognize that Jerusalem is the undivided and eternal capital of Israel and which strengthen Israel.
The Jewish museum of course is not the only place where there is imbalance when it comes to Israel.
ZOA officials recently met with the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center representatives to discuss the center’s bias as well as its lack of diversity — a violation of Title VI rules.
The Middle East Center rarely brings in a speaker or offers a program that could be described as pro-Israel, yet offers a cornucopia of anti-Israel programs, presenters and information. In the last year, for example, it has hosted Breaking the Silence, Juan Cole, Rashid Khalidi and other anti-Israel academic luminaries.
The center’s presenters for its K-12 teacher training have included instructors who have signed online anti-Israel petitions. Materials on its website are decidedly Islam-centric.
While we do not expect organizations and institutions that have an ideological or political tilt to have balanced programs, ZOA expects more of communal, cultural and educational institutions. We all should.
But since apparently they do not always, ZOA will continue our vigilance. When the Jewish museum and other supposedly apolitical institutions ignore or shut out voices and perspectives from the center or the right of center, then each of us who resides there ideologically — one-on-one or in other forums — must educate those we communicate with the facts about Israel’s enemies.
Steve Feldman is executive director of the Zionist Organization of America’s Greater Philadelphia Chapter. Kevin Ross is a co-president of Greater Philadelphia ZOA.
Museum as Safe Space for Civil Disagreement
by Ivy L. Barsky
Our recent program “America’s Israel Policy: Next Voices” featured a lively conversation by college students, recent graduates and policy experts on current and future U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, what matters to young American Jews and what Jewish students are experiencing on campus. The event was free and open to the public and livestreamed on Facebook.
“America’s Israel Policy: Next Voices” was designed to address a complicated topic and provide a platform for young people who are often talked about but not included in this discussion. It has become increasingly difficult for American Jews to talk to each other about Israel because it sparks so much passion and disagreement. We are proud of the program that included articulate, smart, respectful participants — including impressive young voices. Our established organizations must do more to lift up these young voices and help them navigate their complex environments and shape the American Jewish communities of the future.
Our museum strives to be a “big tent” and trusted source of information to have these conversations. But if we want to fully explore the stories of American Jewish life, we have to be able to tackle conversations like this one, fully admitting that they will always be imperfect and that it is impossible to represent every opinion on the spectrum.
We sought expert opinions from across the political spectrum in creating a balanced, substantive conversation. The panel we assembled reflected a genuine diversity of perspectives, with real, material disagreement among the discussants — all of whom passionately support Israel but have widely disparate views on how to secure its future. The audience question-and-answer session also reflected a variety of viewpoints. Responses to the program were generally appreciative — attendees thought the conversation was meaningful and were glad they attended, though of course, they heard things they agreed with and those with which they disagreed.
We don’t endorse one viewpoint over another, but we value being a forum for them. This happens in our Core Exhibition every day, where a wide range of information is presented and discussed, and participants have the chance to think about its relevance in their own lives and form their own opinions.
Programs like “America’s Israel Policy: Next Voices” are just one part of what we do to educate visitors of all backgrounds about the American Jewish experience. We work to break down barriers and combat hate through education, welcoming more than 10,000 schoolchildren each year and providing teacher professional development that reaches thousands more. We are recognized by leading Jewish funders for our American Jewish history curriculum, used in classrooms around the country. And we create original, widely respected special exhibitions, many of which go on to tour the country, that reach a broad public about how Jews have shaped and been shaped by America.
We will continue to ask hard questions and invite criticism in our endeavor to be a safe place for civil discourse, healthy debate and respectful disagreement around the challenging and often divisive issues affecting the Jewish community and beyond. We are privileged that the same freedoms that have made it possible for Jews to thrive in this country enable us to continue this civil discourse in the Jewish Exponent. We look forward to welcoming your readers — and visitors of all backgrounds — to find ways to connect to the Museum that are meaningful for them as we continue to explore, preserve and celebrate 365 years of Jewish life in America.
Ivy L. Barsky is the CEO of the National Museum of American Jewish History.
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Clayton Miller May 6, 2019 at 1:01 pm
A panel discussion with only members of the left and far-left? Seems balanced to me.
Joe Flaschner May 8, 2019 at 12:51 pm
Having a panel discussion with left and far left without any opposing view is extremely unbalanced. What is your rationale?
Albert Reingewirtz May 7, 2019 at 12:48 pm
“What matters to young American Jews when it comes to Israel?” Those are American “Jews.” If they were Jews, they would care about Am Israel. Maybe their ancestors were Jews, but they are not since they are mostly on the side of the PLO and its diverse gangs of Islamic terror sworn to exterminate all Jews and the Jewish state of Israel to replace it with an Islamic state.
Cheryl Levin May 9, 2019 at 11:41 am
This museum has been left-leaning for some time now. Over and over, the CEO and the museum has made it clear that the leadership and programming staff do not support the Jewish state, but instead lift up J Street and other like-minded organizations that say they are “pro-peace” but are clearly not. They were also the only Jewish organization that did not support the Israeli peace rally in Philadelphia during the war in Gaza. If the reason is to not be a political organization, then don’t bring in the speakers you did to further that agenda. Young American Jews should be taught that throughout history (this is a history museum), Jews have needed to stick together to have a place to call home when no other country would admit them, Israel. Jeopardizing Israel’s safety by spreading falsehoods is not the job of a museum that should only be providing facts, if anything. This is a shame, and I will no longer be supporting this institution.
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Research Progress of Translational Medicine in Breast Cancer
TAN Mi-duo
Hepatobiliary Surgical Department, the Central Hospital of Zhuzhou City, Zhuzhou, Hunan, 421000, China
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies and the most common causes of cancer-related deaths in women. And translational research in breast cancer has infiltrated into various aspects of breast cancer, such as screening of molecular markers, molecular subtyping and individualized treatment, molecular targeted treatment as well as prognostic assessment. Many achievements have been gained in recent years, such as anti-HER2 targeted therapy, molecular subtyping-guided clinical treatment, detection of multiple genes to predict the prognosis of breast cancer, etc. This article mainly reviewed the targeted therapy and individualized treatment for breast cancer, the facing problems as well as the importance of precision therapy in translational medical research on breast cancer.
Key words： Breast cancer Translational research Targeted therapy Precision therapy
Corresponding Authors: TAN Mi-duo, E-mail: 329688020@qq.com
TAN Mi-duo. Research Progress of Translational Medicine in Breast Cancer[J]. Journal of International Translational Medicine, 2017, 5(2): 86-91.
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Year : 2018 | Volume : 9 | Issue : 1 | Page : 37-
Implementing the DICOM standard for digital pathology
Markus D Herrmann1, David A Clunie2, Andriy Fedorov3, Sean W Doyle1, Steven Pieper4, Veronica Klepeis5, Long P Le5, George L Mutter6, David S Milstone6, Thomas J Schultz7, Ron Kikinis3, Gopal K Kotecha1, David H Hwang6, Katherine P Andriole8, A John Iafrate5, James A Brink9, Giles W Boland10, Keith J Dreyer11, Mark Michalski11, Jeffrey A Golden6, David N Louis5, Jochen K Lennerz5,
1 MGH and BWH Center for Clinical Data Science, Boston, MA, USA
2 PixelMed Publishing, LLC, Bangor, PA, USA
3 Department of Radiology, Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
4 Isomics, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
5 Harvard Medical School; Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
6 Harvard Medical School; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
7 Enterprise Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
8 MGH and BWH Center for Clinical Data Science; Harvard Medical School; Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
9 Harvard Medical School; Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
10 Harvard Medical School; Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
11 MGH and BWH Center for Clinical Data Science; Harvard Medical School; Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Jochen K Lennerz
Department of Pathology, Center for Integrated Diagnostics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, GRJ 1015, Boston, MA 02114
Background: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM®) is the standard for the representation, storage, and communication of medical images and related information. A DICOM file format and communication protocol for pathology have been defined; however, adoption by vendors and in the field is pending. Here, we implemented the essential aspects of the standard and assessed its capabilities and limitations in a multisite, multivendor healthcare network. Methods: We selected relevant DICOM attributes, developed a program that extracts pixel data and pixel-related metadata, integrated patient and specimen-related metadata, populated and encoded DICOM attributes, and stored DICOM files. We generated the files using image data from four vendor-specific image file formats and clinical metadata from two departments with different laboratory information systems. We validated the generated DICOM files using recognized DICOM validation tools and measured encoding, storage, and access efficiency for three image compression methods. Finally, we evaluated storing, querying, and retrieving data over the web using existing DICOM archive software. Results: Whole slide image data can be encoded together with relevant patient and specimen-related metadata as DICOM objects. These objects can be accessed efficiently from files or through RESTful web services using existing software implementations. Performance measurements show that the choice of image compression method has a major impact on data access efficiency. For lossy compression, JPEG achieves the fastest compression/decompression rates. For lossless compression, JPEG-LS significantly outperforms JPEG 2000 with respect to data encoding and decoding speed. Conclusion: Implementation of DICOM allows efficient access to image data as well as associated metadata. By leveraging a wealth of existing infrastructure solutions, the use of DICOM facilitates enterprise integration and data exchange for digital pathology.
Herrmann MD, Clunie DA, Fedorov A, Doyle SW, Pieper S, Klepeis V, Le LP, Mutter GL, Milstone DS, Schultz TJ, Kikinis R, Kotecha GK, Hwang DH, Andriole KP, Iafrate A J, Brink JA, Boland GW, Dreyer KJ, Michalski M, Golden JA, Louis DN, Lennerz JK. Implementing the DICOM standard for digital pathology.J Pathol Inform 2018;9:37-37
Herrmann MD, Clunie DA, Fedorov A, Doyle SW, Pieper S, Klepeis V, Le LP, Mutter GL, Milstone DS, Schultz TJ, Kikinis R, Kotecha GK, Hwang DH, Andriole KP, Iafrate A J, Brink JA, Boland GW, Dreyer KJ, Michalski M, Golden JA, Louis DN, Lennerz JK. Implementing the DICOM standard for digital pathology. J Pathol Inform [serial online] 2018 [cited 2019 Jul 16 ];9:37-37
Available from: http://www.jpathinformatics.org/text.asp?2018/9/1/37/244882
Tissue-based diagnostics relies heavily on optical (bright field) microscopy. Digital pathology promises advances over this 150-year-old technology.[1] First, scanned slides may be navigated seamlessly on a display at multiple magnifications for diagnosis and research (“virtual microscopy”).[2] Second, different pathologists may remotely review the slides simultaneously in real time (“telepathology”).[3] Third, images may be analyzed by computer algorithms and the resulting quantitative biomarkers can be integrated with clinical data (“computational pathology”).[4],[5] Despite these potential benefits, widespread adoption of digital pathology in a clinical setting has not yet been achieved. Regulatory hurdles in the United States can, in part, be held historically accountable;[6] however, the US Federal Drug Administration recently cleared the first whole slide imaging system for marketing[6] based on a recent multisite clinical trial (NCT02699970) that demonstrated noninferiority to optical microscopy across a range of use cases.[7] It is now clear that digitized slides provide an acceptable level of clinical performance when compared with conventional light microscopy.
Whole slide imaging applications extend well beyond interactive viewing on screen. In particular, computer vision and machine learning techniques hold great promise to unlock the potential of digital pathology by extending human capabilities with decision-support tools and automating laborious mechanical tasks.[8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15] These tools require machine-readable data in a standardized format–not only for the image pixel data but also for their annotations and associated descriptive metadata. In the current digital pathology landscape, whole slide imaging systems store image data in proprietary file formats. While these systems allow interactive viewing, the proprietary nature of data formats and interfaces create vendor lock-in and impede data access.[16] Open-source and commercial software solutions to read proprietary formats have been developed.[17],[18],[19] However, these solutions primarily provide access to image pixel data whereas crucial metadata related to the clinical context (and the acquisition process) remain largely inaccessible. Furthermore, proliferation of competing vendor solutions increases the number of proprietary formats, which represents a barrier for interoperability and maintainability.[20] In other words, there is a compelling need for data standardization in digital pathology to facilitate the clinical integration and to support the computational development streams.[21],[22]
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the globally accepted standard for communication and management of a wide range of medical images and related information.[21],[22],[23] DICOM further supports encoding, storage, and exchange of image annotations as well as quantitative measurements derived from images.[24] While the standard has been extended to support digital pathology,[25] it has seen little adoption in pathology practice. Specifically, the DICOM standard comprises an extensive set of documents that specify various technical aspects of digital pathology. DICOM addresses primarily information technology experts who have the necessary technical expertise to implement it. In contrast, practicing pathologists without a solid computer science background may not instantly appreciate the value of DICOM data models and communication protocols for their everyday work. This disconnect has resulted in an apparent lack of prioritization of interoperability,[20] and vendors lack a compelling return on investment for building DICOM turn-key solutions.
There are several misperceptions among pathologists about the scope, applicability, and suitability of the DICOM standard. For example, DICOM is often perceived as being only an open file format for storage of image pixel data whereas the metadata integration, communication, and data exchange aspects are often disregarded. Recently, the need to achieve interoperability of whole slide imaging between different systems has been emphasized by the Digital Pathology Association[26] as well as DICOM Working Group 26.[27] These groups (in which many vendors participate) recently met for the first time to evaluate the image data exchange using DICOM representations and protocols.[28] Intellectual property obstacles, which previously hindered implementation by vendors, have been resolved.[28],[29] Vendors now generally embrace the standard and agree on implementation details for improved interoperability.[28] These large-scale efforts need to be supplemented by pilot implementations in pathology departments for various practical reasons: (1) the evaluation of capabilities and limitations requires first-hand experience at the user level (especially by content experts in pathology); (2) the demonstration of compatibility with existing clinical systems (e.g., pathology laboratory information systems [LIS], enterprise-wide Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) requires local, laboratory-based proofs of principle; and (3) reliance on external advice and guidelines cannot replace local stakeholder involvement and active definition of resource requirements. Importantly, adoption of the DICOM standard represents an opportunity for pathology to leverage established enterprise medical imaging infrastructure and software solutions. Ultimately, a common data standard will enable convergence between radiology and pathology for multidisciplinary integrated diagnostics.[4],[30],[31]
Based on the compelling need for data standardization and interoperability in digital pathology, we initiated a cross-departmental prospective quality improvement project to implement the DICOM standard for digital pathology and outline resource requirements for implementation. The solutions presented here empower pathologists to gain an appreciation of and enable the assessment of the appropriateness of the DICOM standard for pathology practice. In addition, we demonstrate that existing software solutions developed for radiology can be reused for pathology through conformance with the DICOM standard.
Study sites, ethics approval
Two pathology laboratories and a clinical data science center within the authors' tertiary healthcare network served as the study sites. The project is part of a prospective and ongoing interdepartmental clinical quality-improvement initiative (institutional checklist, Human Research Committee, version May 25, 2012). Use of deidentified patient samples was performed under institutional review board approval “Feasibility Assessment of a Standard File Format for Digital Pathology” (IRB: 2018P000082); research was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
The primary goal was to assess whether DICOM is a practical format for digital pathology. We generated DICOM files from available pixel and metadata. For pixel data, we used proprietary image files from four different slide-scanning systems (Aperio CS2, Leica Biosystems, Buffalo Grove, IL, USA; Hamamatsu NanoZoomer S60, Hamamatsu Photonics, Boston, MA, USA; Motic EasyScan Pro6, Motic Microscopy, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada; Philips IntelliSite Ultra Fast Scanner, Eindhoven, The Netherlands). For metadata, we extracted the relevant information from two LISs (CoPathPlus™ 6.1MR1, PowerPath 10.0.1.10, Sunquest Information Systems, Tucson, AZ, USA). Secondary goals were: assessment of performance, evaluation of compatibility with existing DICOM software, assessment of pixel compression, pixel load times, evaluation of querying and retrieving data, and tracking of development efforts.
Selection and encoding of DICOM attributes
DICOM defines application-specific representations of images and their metadata in information object definitions (IODs), which are composed of a set of attributes grouped in modules. DICOM defines some attributes as mandatory, those always required to be present or present under specified conditions, and others as optional, which may be included or omitted at the implementer's discretion. For our main routine surgical pathology use case, we chose to implement 114 attributes (93 required or conditionally required, 21 optional) of the Whole Slide Microscopy Image IOD, defined in DICOM PS3.3 IODs.[32] The attributes we selected are listed in [Supplementary Table 1]. The rules common to all applications for encoding, transmitting, and storing these attributes are defined in other parts of DICOM.[33],[34],[35],[36] DICOM also defines an extensive set of controlled terminology for various applications by reference, when possible, to external lexicons, such as the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT).[37] The coded values to use for attributes of the Specimen module, which includes both identifying and preparation descriptive attributes, are defined by DICOM in templates and context groups (value sets) in PS3.16.[38] Templates and context groups represent generic mechanisms to describe the information in coded form and are cataloged by their corresponding template identifiers (TIDs) and context group identifiers (CIDs), respectively. We used the standard template TID 8001 (Specimen Preparation) to code items of the Specimen Preparation Step Content Item Sequence (FHIR) attribute and a variety of standard context groups to code different concepts contained by items. To code the Preparation Step Type concept, we used the coded values from context group CID 8111 (Specimen Preparation Procedure) and to code specific preparation steps, we used the following standard context groups: CID 8109 (Specimen Collection Procedure) for the collection step, CID 8110 (Specimen Sampling Procedure) for the sampling step, CID 8112 (Specimen Stains) for the staining step, and CID 8113 (Specimen Preparation Steps) for the processing step. Fixatives and embedding media can be applicable to one or more of the above steps, and we accounted for this variability by including values from CID 8114 (Specimen Fixatives) and CID 8115 (Specimen Embedding Media) as appropriate.[INLINE:1]
Generation of DICOM files
To create DICOM files, we defined a program that consists of the following steps: (1) extract pixel data and pixel-related metadata from proprietary file formats of different whole slide imaging vendors (see above); (2) obtain patient-and specimen-related identifying and descriptive metadata from the LIS (see above); (3) populate DICOM attributes with the obtained data; (4) encode attributes as DICOM data elements; and (5) store DICOM data sets in files on disk. We implemented this program in Python, using the pydicom Python package (version 1.0.2).[39]
Pixel data and pixel-related metadata were extracted from proprietary image file formats using the open slide-python Python package (version 1.1.1),[18],[40],[41] which depends on the OpenSlide C library (version 3.4.1).[40],[41] The OpenSlide library enables accessing regions of pixel data through a uniform active programming interface (API) that abstracts the specific details and encoding issues of the proprietary pixel data organization and representation. Pixel data were extracted through this interface from the original lossy JPEG compressed images and re-encoded in compressed form to enable comparison of different compression methods. Specifically, we compared JPEG (lossy), JPEG-LS (lossless), and JPEG 2000 (lossless) compression methods. JPEG and JPEG 2000 compressions were performed using the Pillow Python package (version 5.1.0)[42] together with the libjpeg-turbo C library for JPEG (version 1.5.3)[43] and the openjpeg C library for JPEG 2000 (version 2.1.2).[44] The C libraries were installed from source with default compiler flags. A lossy quality factor of 95 was used for JPEG. JPEG-LS compression was performed using the CharPyLS Python package[45] interfacing with the CharLS C++ library.[46]
Patient-and specimen-related metadata were extracted from the LISs. Patient-related information is captured in discrete fields, and its extraction was straightforward. However, extraction of specimen-related information proved difficult due to the variability in capturing this data. For example, anatomic location and certain details of the sampling, fixation, embedding, and staining process are not tracked explicitly and had to be inferred from other data fields or even standard operating procedures stored outside the LIS. For this study, we focused on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded, and hematoxylin and eosin -stained surgical pathology specimens. We obtained the values required to populate the corresponding DICOM attributes in the Specimen module by retrieving relevant data fields from the LIS in the form of comma-separated value files (.csv), using a proprietary database API to perform queries using slide identifiers. It was not possible to retrieve these values using a standard API -such as by Health Level Seven (HL7) version two queries or messages- since this is not a functionality available in generic LIS systems. We created dictionaries to map composite LIS data fields to discrete HL7 key-value pairs and to map these values to their corresponding SNOMED CT codes (when such coding was required by DICOM). For input to our DICOM conversion program, the mapped patient-and specimen-related metadata key-value pairs were then stored in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) documents, structured according to the JSON template of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Specimen resource.[47] To speed up DICOM file generation through parallelization, the conversion program was installed and executed on an IBM Platform LSF Linux cluster comprised of HPE blade servers with Intel Xeon processors and RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system, Panasas PanFS parallel network attached file system and 40 Gb/s network.
Validation of DICOM files
It is important to note that the DICOM standard does not specify any testing or validation procedures to assess conformance to the standard. However, software tools have been developed for the validation of DICOM files. We used the dciodvfy tool from the dicom3tools package[48] to validate the generated files in an automated manner. The validation tool checks whether metadata are encoded in conformity to the standard; however, it does not attempt to decode and interpret the pixel data. To ensure that the generated DICOM files fully conform with the latest 2018b edition of the DICOM standard and that compressed pixel data can be decoded and displayed correctly, we further performed an in-depth manual review using a variety of DICOM software libraries including pydicom (version 1.0.2),[39],[49] GDCM (version 2.8.6),[50],[51] and DCMTK (version v3.6.3).[52]
Performance measurements
To assess the performance of our conversion program, we evaluated the conversion times (in minutes per gigabyte) and relative file sizes by submitting separate jobs for each combination of the compression method and image/metadata file pair to the cluster. We tracked total elapsed execution times using the GNU “time” command[53] and measured file sizes using the Unix “du” command. To assess the performance of DICOM as a file format for pixel data access, we considered the reading of individual frame items (within a DICOM series) as a typical use case; for example, the steps necessary to automate pixel data retrieval for building machine-learning applications. Specifically, we emulated pixel data access using a custom-built Python command line program that: (1) reads and decodes metadata of each DICOM image instance of a given series stored in PS3.10 files on disc, (2) identifies the image instance that contains the pixel data frame item for a given tile position within the image pyramid based on the corresponding DICOM metadata attributes, (3) determines the position of the frame item within the Pixel Data element (using the basic offset table item), (4) reads the frame pixel content into memory, and (5) decompresses the pixel data. To assess pixel data access efficiency, we measured the access times across three DICOM series from different vendor-specific file formats and compared performance between compression algorithms using the pydicom Python package (version 1.0.2)[39],[49] as well as the Python interface of the GDCM C++ library (version 2.8.6).[50]
Network storage and retrieval of DICOM data
To enable interchange of images over both local and wide-area networks, DICOM provides various protocols and services for communication. Conventionally, DICOM has defined its own services, messages, and protocols that form the backbone of radiology departments worldwide;[33],[54],[55] however, the standard has recently been extended with a family of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)-based resources and transactions, particularly to facilitate the access by browsers and mobile devices. The family of RESTful resources[56] and transactions specified in DICOM PS3.18, collectively referred to as DICOMweb™, includes storage (STOW-RS), query (QIDO-RS) and retrieval (WADO-RS).[57] We used the open-source DICOM archive DCM4CHEE,[58],[59] which exposes DICOMweb RESTful services, as the origin server.[59] To assess appropriate web-based network functionality for storage, query, and retrieval, we implemented DICOMweb user agent (client) interfaces in Python[60],[61] and JavaScript.[62]
Effort tracking and data analysis
To estimate resources for DICOM implementation we prospectively tracked project efforts of personnel using Jira.[63] For visualization of results, we used the Pandas Python package (version 0.22.0)[64] and the Plotly Python package (version 2.5.1).[65] For repeated measures, we provide averages ± standard deviation; statistical significance was defined as P ≤ 0.01.
In the following, we first present the DICOM data models and describe how the standard represents multi-scale, tiled whole slide image pixel data together with related clinical metadata, including detailed descriptions of pathology laboratory workflows. Then, we report the generation of DICOM files from existing vendor files and assess encoding, storage and access performance using different lossy and lossless compression methods. We demonstrate the query as well as retrieval of image data over the web using DICOM RESTful services (DICOMweb) and report our implementation efforts.
DICOM enables modeling of image pixel data together with clinical metadata
Clinical diagnosis by light microscopy requires integration of image and clinical metadata. At the very least, a pathologist needs a slide label and a patient identifier to uniquely assign a diagnosis to a given patient (currently captured in the LIS) and part-type (typically referring to an anatomical region). We consider the integration of additional imaging-derived (e.g., annotations of the slide findings) and imaging-related information (e.g., tumor stage, biopsy sampling approach) invaluable. This level of integration will also allow for reuse of the clinical data for training and testing of machine learning applications, as well as automated data queries. To account for various use cases, the DICOM standard provides the syntax and semantics to describe both pixel and metadata by defining two data models: (1) the Model of the Real World and (2) the Information Model.
The Model of the Real World defines real-world entities and their relationships [Figure 1]a. The relevant entities for digital pathology are patient, study, series, image, container, and specimen. Importantly, the DICOM model follows the nomenclature of laboratory specimens in HL7,[66] which differs slightly from the terminology commonly used in anatomical pathology practice. For example, a DICOM specimen represents any distinct tissue unit that may be subject to processing in the pathology laboratory (and not necessarily just the surgical specimen). In other words, according to the DICOM nomenclature, parts, blocks, and tissue sections may all represent DICOM specimens (of different types). Likewise, a DICOM container refers to any physical object that holds a specimen such as a jar, a syringe, a cassette, or a glass slide. Specifically, the DICOM container that is relevant in the context of digital pathology is most often the glass slide, which holds the imaged tissue section specimen. A DICOM series typically comprises all the digital images of a tissue section specimen mounted on a single physical glass slide container. A slide tray (paper folder, or multiple folders) with numerous physical slides in the real world would typically map to a DICOM study when digitized. In general, a DICOM study is equivalent to one case with one accession number. It is particularly important to mention the slide as a container because it generally also holds a label (with or without a barcode) for identification of the imaged tissue section specimen [Figure 1]a. There is a great variation between sites (laboratories) as to what information this label includes, ranging from identifiers of the patient, study, specimen, and/or container through human or machine-readable descriptive data such as the patient's name or the stain. In current pathology workflows, different sites and systems variously track studies, containers and/or specimens, depending on local standard operating procedures and naming-conventions. While the DICOM standard contains an informative, nonexhaustive description of various use cases that extend beyond current anatomic pathology practice,[67] the priority for the purpose of managing digital images in the clinic is to track the slide container and link it to other information entities in the Model of the Real World (the patient, study, series, image, or specimen) as necessary.{Figure 1}
The DICOM Information Model provides a set of IODs to describe the properties of entities of the Model of the Real World. The model uses object-oriented semantics to define IODs (classes) and attributes for a description of real-world entities in the context of distinct imaging modalities. Importantly, IODs do not map to individual entities one to one, but an IOD includes a variety of attributes that hold information about different entities. Specifically, the Visible Light Whole Slide Microscopy Image IOD provides attributes to describe the actual image as well as the related patient, study, series, image, specimen, and container entities [Figure 1]b. For storage and exchange, IODs are instantiated by populating attributes with actual values and are serialized into data sets by encoding each attribute as a separate data element [Figure 1]c. Each data element is identified in the data set by a tag and data elements are ordered in the data set by their tag's numerical value. The encoded dataset represents data in “unnormalized form” in database parlance, which in practice means that all information (including information about the patient, study, series, specimen, and container) is encoded at the level of the image. While this introduces redundancy (the complete information is entirely repeated in every image instance), it assures that each image can still be identified and interpreted safely in an unambiguous and self-describing manner, even when completely separated from any management system.
DICOM allows encoding of multiscale, tiled whole slide images
A digital slide is typically represented as a multiresolution image pyramid. The scanned image, for example, acquired at 0.25 or 0.5 μm resolution (corresponding to ×40 or ×20 objectives), forms the base (highest resolution) level of the pyramid. Other magnifications (higher levels of the pyramid) are derived computationally by successive down-sampling [Figure 2]a. In DICOM, unlike most proprietary formats, each resolution level is represented as a separate instance of the VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image IOD and therefore encoded as a separate DICOM data set and stored in a separate DICOM file. The two-dimensional array of pixel values that represents the image is referred to as the total pixel matrix [Figure 2]b. For improved access performance and to circumvent limitations on total frame size, each matrix is tiled into smaller, continuous, rectangular, equally sized pixel regions along the row and column dimension [Figure 2]c. Each tile is compressed and encoded as a separate frame [Figure 2]d, each of which is encapsulated as one or more fragments (frame items) within the pixel data element. For example, a digital slide with five magnification levels may be represented in DICOM as a series consisting of five image instances. DICOM provides two options for organizing and encoding the tiled pixel matrix: Full and sparse. Which method is used is indicated by the value of the Dimension Organization Type attribute.{Figure 2}
In the case of full organization, a frame must exist for every tile of the rectangular total pixel matrix; the order in which the tiles are encoded in the pixel data element is predictable. Specifically, for two-dimensional images, the order is such that frames are encoded first along the row direction and then along the column direction of the pixel matrix. Since the position of frames is defined implicitly, the explicit tile coordinates may be omitted. A recipient may need to re-compute them based on column and row dimensions of the tiles and the total pixel matrix. In the case of sparse organization, tile coordinates and position are required to be explicitly recorded for each tile, not all tiles need to be present, and the frame items can be encoded in the pixel data element in any order. The position of each frame item is encoded in the Per-frame Functional Groups Sequence attribute [Figure 2]e. The full organization was recently added to DICOM as a result of preliminary implementation experience that suggested improvement was needed for the most common use case due to the size of the Per-frame Functional Groups Sequence.[68] We chose to implement the full encoding scheme because it improves access performance by reducing overhead when transmitting metadata over the network as well as loading and parsing it into memory.[28] The DICOM standard thereby enables encoding of multiscale, tiled whole-slide images in a standardized fashion.
DICOM enables encoding of pathology laboratory workflow metadata
Documentation of clinical metadata in pathology is complicated by the fact that the imaging subject is not the patient itself, but tissues obtained from the patient. Before digitization, tissues undergo several preparation steps including one or more sampling steps [Figure 3]a. At first glance, this may appear trivial to pathologists because they receive, sample, subsample, process, and stain hundreds of specimens per day. However, capturing and describing this information digitally in a standardized format is by no means trivial, regardless of whether optical or digital microscopy is used, because workflows differ greatly between laboratories and use cases. Here, we applied the terms part, block, and section to refer to different steps in a typical surgical pathology workflow [Figure 3]a. It is important to note, however, that DICOM does not provide designated attributes for these concepts. Instead, it provides a generic mechanism that enables encoding a variety of different laboratory workflows in a general and flexible manner. For example, based on the DICOM Specimen Preparation template, we defined a set of five preparation steps that apply to the vast majority of our routine surgical pathology use cases: Collection (e.g., surgical procedure), receiving, sampling (e.g., grossing or sectioning), processing (e.g., decalcification), and staining (e.g., trichrome stain) [Figure 3]a. The fixative (e.g., formalin) and embedding medium (e.g., paraffin wax) can be specified as part of the appropriate preparation step. This allows, for example, distinguishing specimens received fresh for frozen sectioning (original frozen section) from subsequent sections after fixation and from those received in formalin. Attributes for a description of patient and study (in a typical workflow, assigned during accessioning of the case) are part of the Patient General Study and Patient Study modules. Attributes for description of containers (e.g., glass slides) as well as specimens (e.g., tissue sections) are part of the Specimen module [Figure 3]b. DICOM requires that preparation steps be coded using a defined coding scheme, such as SNOMED CT, to permit the standardized interpretation of specimen-related information beyond the confines of one department and one LIS. Thereby, DICOM enables the encoding of relevant metadata together with the pixel data.{Figure 3}
The level of detail described by DICOM attributes of the Specimen module is generally not reflected in the pathology report: Specifically, a surgical pathology report contains sufficient information to uniquely identify the patient (name, sex, date of birth, medical record number, etc.) and the study (accession number, accession date, etc.) and it provides a gross (and sometimes a histological) description of the parts [Figure 3]c. When viewing the images to render a diagnosis and to create the report, DICOM metadata are crucial to the display software for visualizing the images correctly and providing related information to the pathologist who needs to interpret the image in the appropriate clinical context. The identifiers for the glass slide (container) and the tissue section (specimen) are generally not explicitly provided in current pathology reports, which makes it difficult to map the free text description in the report to the corresponding digital image and the spatial position within the image. In the future, there is considerable opportunity for improvement of such reports, particularly when they are encoded as synoptic (structured) or multimedia reports, at which time inclusion of links and hyperlinks to individual slides, images, and annotations become feasible in an integrated digital imaging environment. The level of detail in the DICOM attributes is also critically important for machine learning workflows, whether it be for the simple task of selecting the appropriate images to route for digital processing, or for more complex parameterization of algorithm behavior. Regardless of the downstream use case, implementing DICOM effectively requires integrating relevant data across different information sources into one data model [Figure 3]c.
DICOM data sets can be generated from existing vendor files
Only very recently have commercially available whole slide imaging systems started to produce images encoded according to the DICOM standard.[28],[69] In the interim, to support the installed based of scanners – only capable of producing proprietary format images, commercial and open-source implementers have begun to develop conversion tools.[70],[71] To evaluate the capabilities and limitations of DICOM for the representation of digital pathology whole slide images, we implemented a process to generate DICOM PS3.10 files based on existing vendor-specific file formats and validated their integrity and standard conformance using established automated validation tools as well as manual expert review as described in the Methods section.
DICOM provides efficient lossy and lossless compression methods
Whole slide imaging data sets are generally relatively large (GB range for individual slides) compared to other medical imaging applications and are therefore usually stored in compressed form. DICOM supports three image compression schemes relevant for visible light microscopy images: JPEG, JPEG-LS, and JPEG 2000.[16] Most systems routinely apply a baseline lossy JPEG compression algorithm, before storing the images in their proprietary format. This allows for reasonable file sizes suitable for rapid access balanced against sufficient image quality for most current diagnostic tasks. Some systems can be configured to allow the user to select alternative compression schemes, including lossy forms of JPEG 2000 and other proprietary formats.[28]
We measured the influence of all three compression schemes supported by DICOM on overall relative data size [Figure 4], left x-axis] and encoding times for VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image instances [Figure 4], right x-axis] generated from original lossy compressed vendor images. Recompressing previously lossy compressed images potentially biases performance measurements; repeated lossy compression also degrades image quality and should not be used in production. Recompression can be avoided by copying the binary pixel data “blobs” directly from original files into DICOM data sets without decoding and re-encoding. However, the recompression approach was necessary for our comparison of different methods since original uncompressed (or lossless compressed images) were not available. The resulting data size after DICOM conversion depends on many parameters including tile size, number of resolution levels, the compression method and in the case of lossy compression, the quality factor or target bitrate. When the same compression method, tile size and number of resolution levels are chosen for DICOM encoding or when the JPEG blocks are simply moved from the TIFF container to the DICOM datasets, the resulting data size will be almost identical [Figure 4], left axis, top]. The conversion time is primarily a factor of the data size and the compression method. As expected, the lossy baseline JPEG method has the overall smallest data size and lossless JPEG-LS and JPEG 2000 compression results in larger files [Figure 4], left x-axis]. Notably, the JPEG-LS method compresses images more efficiently when compared to JPEG 2000 (6.85 ± 2.17 versus 9.90 ± 3.14 min/GB; P < 0.000001, t-test). The baseline JPEG method also has the shortest encoding times [[Figure 4], right x-axis]. Interestingly, JPEG-LS encoding is almost as fast as baseline JPEG (37.03 ± 19.86 min/GB versus 26.58 ± 19.20 min/GB; P > 0.01, t-test) and orders of magnitude faster than JPEG 2000 (37.03 ± 19.86 min/GB versus 405.56 ± 239.52 min/GB; P < 10 − 17, t-test) [Figure 4]. The observed performance gains with JPEG-LS over JPEG 2000 are not surprising given the low complexity of the underlying algorithm and are consistent with the performance of the same schemes on digital photographs.[72]{Figure 4}
DICOM enables efficient frame-level data access from local files
Most digital pathology applications require efficient access to subsets of pixel data without having to load the entire data set into memory. We evaluated existing, actively maintained software libraries for retrieving individual frames from the DICOM PS3.10 files that we previously generated. As a use case, we considered a machine-learning program that requires the loading of specific frames from files on disk into memory [Figure 5]a. Specifically, in contrast to reading all pixel data into memory, our program reads and interprets the image metadata to locate and to load only relevant subsets of the pixel data. Since many machine-learning algorithms are often orchestrated using the Python programming language, we explored software libraries that provide Python interfaces for reading of metadata as well as pixel data of VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image SOP instances stored in DICOM files. We identified the four libraries, which support loading of JPEG, JPEG-LS, and JPEG 2000 compressed multiframe DICOM images in encapsulated format: GDCM,[50] ITK,[73] SimpleITK,[74] and pydicom[39],[49] [Figure 5]b. However, only two of the four libraries [Figure 5]b expose interfaces for fetching individual frames without loading the entire pixel data element into memory. We measured the time to retrieve an individual frame for a given position in the slide coordinate system and resolution level using the pydicom library and compared retrieval times between compression methods [Figure 5]c. Our results show that JPEG (average: 0.29 ± 0.02s; P < 0.0001, t-test) and JPEG-LS (average: 0.37 ± 0.05s; P < 0.0002, t-test) allow significantly faster pixel data access when compared to JPEG 2000 (average: 0.65 ± 0.09s). We consider these observations good evidence that DICOM enables efficient retrieval of pixel data from files (e.g., for machine learning applications).{Figure 5}
DICOMweb facilitates remote frame-level data access
Working directly with files stored on local disk is impracticable in a clinical setting and DICOM enables exchange of image data between devices over network. In the past, accessing data in DICOM format over network required specialized client programs that implemented the DICOM networking protocol.[54] Recently, RESTful web services have been made available for storage, query, and retrieval over HTTP protocol.[75] We decided to use DICOM PS3.18 RESTful web services (DICOMweb™) and investigated the compatibility of VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image instances with existing DICOM archives [Figure 6]a. A key feature of DICOMweb is that it allows efficient access to subsets of server-side DICOM data sets from thin clients, such as smartphones, and tablet computers. Specifically, clients can request representations of DICOM objects in web-friendly formats, such as JSON and JPEG from a DICOMweb server using the HTTP protocol. Functionally, this service-oriented architecture allows clients to first search for objects in the archive and retrieve only relevant subsets of the data [Figure 6]b. The approach is particularly useful for whole slide imaging because it avoids the unnecessary transfer of large amounts of data over the network when only a small fraction of the pixel data is required, as is usually the case for virtual microscopy. We created DICOMweb client implementations in JavaScript[76] and Python[59] to facilitate the programmatic access to remote DICOM objects for visualization and machine learning applications. For visualization, we built a browser-based viewer for interactive display of whole slide images in DICOM format,[77] which uses our JavaScript DICOMweb client implementation to search and retrieve DICOM objects from an archive over the web [Figure 7]. The viewer provides users an intuitive graphical interface for selection of available DICOM studies and series, interactive multiscale viewing of pixel data, and inspection of specimen-related metadata. By allowing pathologists to review the images next to relevant clinical information in the same user interface, our implementation demonstrates a key feature of DICOM, the ability to interpret pixel data and metadata in context. For machine learning, we established a computational workflow that leverages our Python DICOMweb client implementation to dynamically retrieve frames from a DICOMweb server to feed the pixel data into a machine learning-based image analysis algorithm.{Figure 6}{Figure 7}
DICOM standard can be implemented with reasonable efforts
To obtain a real-world estimate of the time, skills, and budget necessary to implement DICOM for digital pathology, we prospectively tracked our implementation efforts. At time of submission of the manuscript, our efforts encompassed 120 h of documentation review, 273 h of software/algorithm development (including code review, writing documentation and developing tests), and 86 h of consultation with content experts. These numbers will equate to 0.8 full-time equivalents (FTE) for a 120-day period or 0.4 FTE over 1 year if one assumes that person can focus 100% on the DICOM implementation. With respect to the required computational expertise, in our case, the lead computational physician-scientist (MDH) had 4 years of in-depth coding experience in image applications. A project budget estimate accounting for the personnel salary USD $95,687 (expressed as fraction of average salary from publicly available resources for the FTE fraction described), plus computational resources (USD $28,434) amounts to roughly $125,000. Since we had direct access to DICOM experts and received support from the open-source DICOM community, the above estimates may differ in other settings. We provide these data as a reasonable point of reference for similar efforts.
We implemented a pilot of the DICOM standard for whole slide imaging for digital pathology in a multisite, multivendor healthcare network setting. Since a reference implementation is currently lacking, we generated valid DICOM files by combining pixel data from vendor-specific file formats with clinical metadata from LISs. We used the generated data sets to test storage as well as access performance and evaluated overall practicability, placing an emphasis on compatibility with existing software libraries, and available archives.
The complexity of the DICOM standard is initially daunting and its adoption poses several challenges. A common misperception among pathologists is that DICOM is merely yet another file format, and there is uncertainty about what benefits and drawbacks adoption of the standard would entail. We hope we have convinced the reader that, although the standard does include a file format, its scope is much broader than the typical proprietary file format and includes standardized communication of image data and a rich and extensible model describing related identifying and descriptive information between devices and over network. Another misperception is that the standard is static and unchangeable. DICOM has proven to be a living standard that has been continuously adapting to technological change. Most notably, DICOMweb services and the DICOM JSON model have significantly improved data accessibility over the web. One can now understand DICOM as a set of URI templates for RESTful API endpoints and standardized JSON schemas for the corresponding resources. Crucially, these are defined in a manner consistent with the use of DICOM for all other imaging specialties. Our results demonstrate that once implemented, DICOM enables data access and exchange in a practical and vendor-neutral manner. We further show that, by relying on DICOM, one can leverage available medical imaging infrastructure and software systems to store, search, and retrieve whole slide imaging data efficiently.
Despite the obvious advantages of DICOM with respect to interoperability and enterprise integration,[16],[21],[22] challenges remain. In the following, we discuss some key open questions that need to be addressed.
First, large whole slide imaging data sets complicate storage and network transmission. DICOM was originally designed for radiology image data sets more than a quarter of a century ago.[78] At the time, data sets were orders of magnitude smaller than whole slide images in pathology. The total length of the compressed Pixel Data element itself is theoretically unlimited. The number of frames (tiles) is somewhat arbitrarily limited to 4 gigabytes; however, this is generally more than sufficient. An optional Basic Offset Table allows the sender to encode an index of the physical byte offsets to the positions of individual frames within the Pixel Data element. In other words, the receiver does not have to build its own index of the frames. However, currently, only 32-bit integers are used in the Basic Offset Table, which means that images larger than ~4 gigabytes have to omit it. There is no need to include the Basic Offset Table for a server since it can easily build its own index to satisfy frame-level retrieval requests; however, it is a significant convenience when attempting to retrieve selected frames from a PS3.10 file stored on disk. Given the typical size of pixel data in pathology, this size limit can be easily exceeded, in particular when lossless rather than lossy compression methods are applied [Figure 4], left axis]. A simple extension of the DICOM standard is in progress that addresses this Basic Offset Table weakness and will allow for an Extended Offset Table with 64-bit pointers as well as length information.[79] That said, the information will remain optional and recipients will need to be prepared to rebuild their own index if necessary.
Concatenations are a DICOM feature that provides a workaround for size-related issues. Specifically, concatenations allow splitting a multiframe DICOM data set into several smaller parts. For example, with a pixel size threshold at 100MB, the number of concatenation parts in our series ranged from 11 to 46. Concatenations offer several other advantages, such as storing large DICOM objects over the web. Unfortunately, existing DICOM archives don't interpret concatenations they receive as a single image instance for the purpose of query and frame-level retrieval. Since each concatenation part still represents a valid DICOM object, archives can handle storage and retrieval of instances that are parts of concatenations; however, this places the burden on client implementations, which need to understand concatenations to retrieve the appropriate frames. A new generation of archive implementations that understand and reassemble concatenations would be highly desirable.
Second, vendors currently do not store files in DICOM format. Converting images from existing vendor proprietary file formats introduces overhead, requires constant maintenance to track variations as well as generate updates for each new model/vendor, and important information about the image acquisition process may be lost. For example, the orientation of images and the absolute position of tiles relative to the slide-based coordinate system are generally not specified in proprietary file formats and need to be assumed. Obviously whole slide scanning systems should store data directly in DICOM format and do so efficiently such that DICOM generation does not become a rate-limiting and error-prone step. We embrace ongoing efforts by whole slide scanner vendors to implement DICOM,[69] and we anticipate that adoption of DICOM will advance digital pathology by providing standardized access to pixel data together with clinical metadata.
Third, choosing the optimal image compression method represents a challenge. Our comparison of the three image compression methods currently supported by DICOM highlights the importance of the choice of compression algorithm for data encoding and decoding performance. Currently, vendors store images in lossy compressed format, sometimes using proprietary compression schemes. Lossless compression would maximize image quality and circumvent potential issues related to recompression; however, its benefits may not justify the considerably larger data size. Our performance measurements indicate that JPEG-LS is considerably faster than JPEG 2000 for lossless compression and decompression, at speeds comparable to lossy, baseline JPEG. Since potential consequences of lossy image compression for machine learning applications are yet unexplored, JPEG-LS may present a potential solution for storing and accessing images efficiently without losing information. However, there is limited support for JPEG-LS in existing enterprise-level or radiology DICOM archives and the appropriate color space transformation to use for lossless schemes like JPEG-LS remains an open question.
Fourth, we emphasize the importance of integrating imaging and information systems. Digital pathology involves more than digitizing slides. It requires the integration of image pixel data with clinical metadata to be useful in pathology practice. Current anatomic pathology LISs are generally designed around graphical user interfaces and optimized toward reporting and billing rather than digital pathology workflows. As a result, these systems often do not expose an application programming interface (API) for programmatic communication of image-related information between systems. Creation of custom middleware represents a solution;[80],[81] however, integration with imaging systems remains challenging because relevant details may not even be tracked by the information system in structured form. In particular, information about specimen preparation steps is generally not readily available. Interpretation of acquired images in clinical context demands substantially different approaches to tracking specimen-related information, which are less case-centric and place more emphasis on the imaged tissue sections. There are various alternative standards routinely used for communicating information from departmental information systems; to DICOM acquisition devices and clinical laboratory devices, specifically DICOM Modality Worklist (MWL) and various HL7 version 2 messages. Existing profiles for anatomical pathology and laboratory workflows[82] are under investigation by the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)[83] Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM) group[84] in collaboration with DICOM Working Group 26,[27] for whom standardization of the LIS to scanner interface is a high priority. However, mapping proprietary LIS internal data structures to standard HL7 specimen representations or the DICOM Specimen Preparation template is nontrivial and currently may require customization of the HL7 message triggers, segments, and fields (including private segments) with the vendor, or use of third-party middleware solutions for extraction and transformation of the data. The IHE PaLM group has recognized that the underlying HL7 V2 messages and Domain Analysis Model (DAM) for histopathology and slide specimen description have gaps and need mapping to the model that was defined in DICOM Supplements 122 and 145, and are in the process of submitting a Project Scope Statement from the Orders and Observations Work Group to fill these gaps.[85] The earlier effort by the predecessor of IHE PaLM, IHE Anatomical Pathology, which defined a DICOM MWL-based Anatomical Pathology Workflow profile for communication between anatomic pathology AP-LIS and scanners, has not been adopted. We hope that the next generation of LIS will implement any new HL7 V2 messages and future IHE PaLM technical framework(s) to provide standard-compliant interfaces for data query and retrieval. In the interim, it would be desirable if LIS would use customized HL7 messages and fields to allow automated query and retrieval of specimen information, rather than relying on completely proprietary mechanisms.
Fifth, the operational challenges of incorporating DICOM for digital pathology should not be underestimated. One major difference between implementing whole slide imaging and other technologies into routine practice is the need for expert IT involvement (to establish the necessary IT infrastructure, storage, and personnel). Regardless of the selected storage format, any implementation of digital pathology requires storage of vast amounts of data.[16] If the same compression scheme and parameters are used, a DICOM file containing a multiframe image with encapsulated pixel data element is similar in total size to a TIFF or proprietary format file. The DICOM file serves as a container for compressed pixel data blobs (frame items) and the additional metadata is minimal in size by comparison. Some optimizations may be lost (such as factoring out JPEG tables and only sending them once, which TIFF allows for but DICOM does not); however, these have minimal effect. There are exceptions though, for example, significant size expansion may occur when images are lossy compressed with a proprietary scheme by the scanner vendor and can only be recompressed without further loss using a standard lossless scheme. Accordingly, scanner vendors should be strongly discouraged from using proprietary schemes and only use standard schemes supported by DICOM such as JPEG, JPEG-LS and JPEG 2000. Thus, there is normally no storage size penalty for using DICOM.
The storage requirements remain enormous. For example, the lead authors' clinical facilities are characterized by ~185,000 cases/year with a slide output of 3800–5800/day, which equates to approximately 1,420,000 slides per year. Assuming lossy compressed data storage (e.g., 1–3 GB per slide), we will require ~4.3 petabytes storage space per year. We have established IT divisions and a center for clinical data science with extensive experience in enterprise medical imaging (20+ years); however, digital pathology images are on average 10 times the size of radiology images and will require significantly more resources for image management. One should not overestimate the impact of this factor, however, since radiology too has been faced with periodic challenges involving nontrivial leaps in data volume, such as thin slice CT and breast tomosynthesis; one just needs to be suitably prepared. By relying on DICOM as a data format for storage and exchange of whole slide images, healthcare enterprises can leverage a wealth of already existing medical imaging infrastructure representing billions of dollars of investments and build on the extensive DICOM expertise of IT specialists in hospitals and companies around the world.
Finally, clearly defining the “added clinical value” remains as the key challenge of implementing digital pathology into routine clinical practice. The core vision of digital pathology is that availability of pixel and metadata can unlock the full potential of integrated histopathological data analytics. We foresee that decision-support tools and machine-learning applications will facilitate adoption; however, these solutions require interoperability of systems and effective data access. Once completely realized, the advantages of digital pathology will be clear and fundamentally change how pathologists work. Researchers, practitioners, and vendors are now tasked to collectively navigate the transition from theoretical availability towards a meaningful return on investment. An enterprise-level communication standard (i.e., DICOM) is an essential component of streamlining data workflows to ultimately improve patient care.
The authors would like to thank A. Smith, N. Jones, B. R. Friedman, L. Chen, and P. H. Norwood for expert technical assistance. We thank C. Ayala, J. Floyd, S. Shafieha, and H. I. Paik for help with LIS access and E. Ziegler for technical discussions. We also thank N. Tenenholtz and R. W. Larson for project management as well as K. Burke and J. Reyes for administrative support. We further thank Enterprise Research Infrastructure and Services at Partners Healthcare for their support and for the provision of the ERISOne cluster. A special thanks is extended to J. Gilbertson and J. Kalpathy-Cramer for advice and for being awesome.
This work was funded in part by the NIH (RO1 CA225655) to J.K.L, NIH (U24 CA180918, P41 EB015898) to A.Y.F., NIH (P41 EB015902, U24 CA180918, U24 CA199460) to S.P, and the content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Health or any other organization.
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Oakley and Shaun White present Air + Style 2010
22 Oct 2010 - 10:31 AM
Oakley, Inc. today announced that the company has partnered with legendary snowboard & skate champion Shaun White to co-present the 2010 Air + Style event in China.
Air + Style is a world-class contest and one of the most progressive freestyle snowboarding event formats in existence. The December 4 spectacle is set to pave the way for the entire snowboarding industry to enter the emerging Chinese market.
“We are excited to team with Shaun for Air + Style 2010,” said Oakley CEO Colin Baden. “Shaun isn’t just a world champion — he’s a global icon who brings his own unique style to whatever he does. Shaun has been part of the Oakley family for a long time, and this event will allow us to showcase some of the performance and style innovations we developed in collaboration with the superstar".
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Aired Oct 31, 2006
Excerpt from Kevin Sting's new book President Evil, page 23:
"She was trapped now, in that room with those men, those men with those masks, horrific plastic masks that looked like US Presidents, but no, they weren't masks at all, they were their FACES! Hideously deformed Nixon faces, waving guns around, demanding that she give them her precious necklace, the one Lilly had given her so long ago. And as they took it from her, she gasped and she knew that Keith wouldn't be able to help her (he was too busy trying to track down a deadbeat dad for the Dean's wife so his stepson could have a bone marrow transplant) or even Wallace (whose mind had cracked under the pressure and had tried cheating, but had gotten caught) and then she thought of Weevil, Weevil the criminal, Weevil the delinquent. He could have hired these men, he could have taken her necklace and she had to get it back. But what if it wasn't him? What would she do? Then she would search for whoever had done it, just as she searched for the hideously evil Hearst rapist and she would find them and she would make them pay."
Excerpt from page 365:
"And now that she had figured it out, figured out that the deformed culprits were actually the Hearst security guards and that her necklace had been around the neck of a snotty, bratty little girl, she was ready for the next person she was to revenge herself upon: the rapist, the person who stood behind Claire in the ATM photos. Little did she know, however, that the Halloween colloquialism 'trick or treat' would apply in this instance, because there was definitely a trick: the man Claire hadn't recognized, the man behind her in the photo, was her BOYFRIEND. And so Veronica's vengeance was waylaid until she could figure out her next step and fling back the trick that had been imposed upon her."
Wallace is failing his mechanical engineering class. His teammate recommends a tutor who gives him a "study guide" (an old exam) for the price of $100 and the answers for another $100. After the exam, Wallace is called to meet with the professor, presumably having been caught cheating.
Veronica uses Weevil as a guest speaker for her criminology class. He says he is trying to stay crime-free, but sometimes he misses being in a gang.
Weevil isn't happy to learn that Veronica is dating Logan again. He's very surprised, considering everything Logan did to Lilly.
Veronica goes to the dorm room casino and waits there for Logan. While she is waiting, two armed men wearing masks rob the casino. They take her necklace, which was a gift from Lilly.
Veronica assumes Weevil was one of the robbers, and he is very angry at her for accusing him. Weevil is arrested when some of the stolen items are found in his car.
Veronica tracks down the masks and guns, which were props from the film club. She discovers that the campus security guards were the culprits. She takes her necklace back from one security guard's daughter.
Dean O'Dell and his wife Mindy hire Keith to track down the wife's first husband, Steve. He is a match for a bone marrow transplant for his son, who is dying of bone cancer. Steve isn't willing to help and is very bitter toward his ex-wife.
Steve disappears, and Keith becomes the prime suspect since he was seen entering Steve's apartment shortly before his disappearance. The bone marrow transplant is successful, and Steve shows up at the sheriff's department with Keith, saying he went camping for a week and didn't tell anyone.
Veronica scans the photo of Claire and the Asian guy into her computer. She sees "Waterloo Camp" on his t-shirt, and tracks him down. His roommate answers the door and recognizes Claire. The roommate says Wang Yi couldn't have raped Claire because that is Wang's girlfriend.
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Keeley Hawes: I love mullets on men
Keeley made the comment to the Sun, regarding her husband's appearance on Ashes to Ashes.
Keeley: I love mullets on men
By NADIA BROOKS
KEELEY Hawes really is getting into the 80s revival - she even thinks her hubby looks magnificent with a mullet.
The Ashes To Ashes star admits her actor hubby looks 'incredibly handsome' with the short-on-top long-at-the-back hair don't.
Mathew Macfadyen, who Keeley met on the set of Spooks, hasn't had a fight with a crimper and lost - he's had to don the barnet for an appearance he makes in the time travelling cop show.
But far from turn Keeley off she admits he wore it well.
Keeley, who plays DI Alex Drake in the BBC One show, said: "I am quite capable of loving a man with a mullet.
"My husband has a role in one episode of Ashes To Ashes, and wears the most ridiculous mullet. It's more a case of the mullet wearing him."
She added: "But he still looked incredibly handsome."
Matthew pops up in one of the later editions of the brilliant show which airs on Thursday nights at 9pm.
And his mulleted character is in good company.
Even Brad Pitt and George Clooney had mullets back in the day!
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10 Japanese Automotive Trends In 2016
by admin | Jun 6, 2016 | Automotive, Luxury, Racing | 0 comments
Car makers in Japan sold more cars in the years 2015 than previous years, but this year; the market has been significantly affected by the fuel economy scandal that erupted earlier in April. This means that 2016, is a year that has not been easy so far, for all the automakers. However, to make the best out of their models, auto manufacturers have become very keen in identifying the current trends to ensure they remain competitive with the incoming car models from UK and US. As a buyer, here are ten new car trends in Japan that you need to be aware of this year:
1. Autonomous driving
The Toyota Motor, Nissan, Honda, and other auto electronics manufacturers recently joined hands when it comes to making autonomous driving the next big thing. Although they have been working separately on map technology, when it comes to usage methods and standard, they have been working together consistently. Some, like Nissan Leaf, Toyota Lexus, and the prototype Honda has been able to take their car’s control autonomously; however, the driver has to intervene whenever the system malfunctions or doesn’t perform as expected.
2. Self-parking
Major new cars can be able to park themselves’, even when the driver isn’t behind the wheel. Nissan recently announced that they would introduce the fully automated parking system across a wide range of vehicles. Tesla, one of the major American automotive company, has a parking system that is still in beta, but there’s hope the system will become mature enough to be used anytime soon.
3. Rise of Lounge seating
A recent release by Japan automobile manufacturer association indicated that many people are not ready to accept that cars can drive themselves. But once people begin to trust the system, there will be no need for the conventional layout rather the Lounge seating will be the trend many car makers will be implementing. The Lounge seating allows the passenger to sit and interact on a real living room sofa in the car. Models like Mercedes’s Vision and a Nissan’s cabin that can change between two configurations are the best examples.
4. Fuel –cell technology
JP Nippon, Toyota Motor, and several other automakers have recently joined a venture to establish a hydrogen filling station for their fuel-cell vehicles countrywide. Fuel-cell cars mix hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity or power the car. Currently, according to JAMA recently press release, there are over 500 fuel cell vehicles on the road. Marcedes and Lexus have shown the concept behind the technology, and Honda seems to be a step ahead.
5. Sports cars are more than sports car
For the last couple of months, many buyers have been asking for fuel efficient automobiles but is seems a majority of these customers still have that deep rooted desire for performance and majority of manufacturers has listened. Recently, for instance, Mazda revived the famous RX-7 badge to a better fuel economy performing car. Lexus has also rolled their cars across their board and so has Toyota.
6. The smart glass
This new car trend has been widely used on different car models mirror, to prevent glare from headlights, to reduce the amount of light and heat to the vehicle and to prevent individual passengers from seeing each other. This is a trend among the few that is expected to spread to many car models across the globe, and more improvements are also expected.
7. Ever improving safety
Active safety systems come in various subsystem like the auto lock braking, tire pressure monitoring system, electronic stability control and for a couple of years, all automotive manufacturers have steadily made an improvement on their car safety system, and each of them competing using different technology to improve their safety systems.
8. People are buying cheaper electric cars
Even though people are aware that the petrol and diesel-driven cars are going to improve their fuel efficiency, many are still buying the more affordable electric vehicles. These cars are not likely to replace gasoline in the near future, but as times goes it seems they will become more prevalent.
9. Vehicle-to-vehicle communications.
Several automotive manufacturers are using the V2V system allowing a car to car communication to reduce the flow of traffic within the city. Toyota has taken the technology mainstream, and so has Honda. Honda system, for instance, combines the vehicle’s position and the speed data within the formation on the traffic light and advise the driver on the correct speed and in which route to use without stopping.
10. Engine downsizing
This is not a new trend; has been ongoing since the seventies and it’s probably not going to stop anytime soon. However, unlike how manufacturer’s in the seventies used to downsize the engine power, today it’s the other way round. Two cylinders and three cylinders engines are now powering larger cars, and the small ones are becoming more powerful and efficient.
11. Reducing Vehicle Weights
A couple mentioned tricks we suggested including lowering vehicle weights as well as wheel weights, we tested a set of esr wheels as they were roughly 5 pounds lighter than the OEM wheel setup. Less weight means less power and or force required to obtain a set speed. Light wheels can make a massive difference in terms of acceleration speeds.
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Carter Capps 24 P
El Paso Chihuahuas
MLB Parent Club: San Diego Padres
Status: Free Agent
Full Name: Carter Lewis Capps
Age: 28 (August 7, 1990)
Birthplace: Kinston, NC
Draft: Compensation B (2011, SEA)
School: Mount Olive College
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October 9, 2018 RHP Carter Capps elected free agency.
August 12, 2018 RHP Carter Capps assigned to El Paso Chihuahuas from Lake Elsinore Storm.
July 1, 2018 RHP Carter Capps assigned to Lake Elsinore Storm from Tri-City Dust Devils.
March 26, 2018 San Diego Padres sent RHP Carter Capps outright to El Paso Chihuahuas.
November 6, 2017 San Diego Padres activated RHP Carter Capps from the 60-day disabled list.
September 12, 2017 San Diego Padres placed RHP Carter Capps on the 60-day disabled list. Blood clot.
August 7, 2017 San Diego Padres recalled RHP Carter Capps from El Paso Chihuahuas.
July 17, 2017 El Paso Chihuahuas activated RHP Carter Capps from the 7-day disabled list.
July 4, 2017 El Paso Chihuahuas placed RHP Carter Capps on the 7-day disabled list.
June 10, 2017 San Diego Padres optioned RHP Carter Capps to El Paso Chihuahuas.
June 10, 2017 San Diego Padres reassigned RHP Carter Capps to the minor leagues.
May 21, 2017 San Diego Padres transferred RHP Carter Capps from the 10-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list.
April 16, 2017 San Diego Padres sent RHP Carter Capps on a rehab assignment to El Paso Chihuahuas.
April 11, 2017 San Diego Padres sent RHP Carter Capps on a rehab assignment to Lake Elsinore Storm.
April 1, 2017 San Diego Padres placed P Carter Capps on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to March 31, 2017.
July 29, 2016 San Diego Padres traded Andrew Cashner, Colin Rea, RHP Tayron Guerrero and cash to Miami Marlins for RHP Jarred Cosart, RHP Carter Capps, RHP Luis Castillo and 1B Josh Naylor.
April 3, 2016 Miami Marlins placed RHP Carter Capps on the 60-day disabled list. Recovering from March 2016 Tommy John surgery
October 5, 2015 Miami Marlins activated RHP Carter Capps from the 15-day disabled list.
August 3, 2015 Miami Marlins placed RHP Carter Capps on the 15-day disabled list. Right elbow strain
May 19, 2015 Miami Marlins recalled RHP Carter Capps from New Orleans Zephyrs.
April 16, 2015 Miami Marlins optioned RHP Carter Capps to New Orleans Zephyrs.
April 13, 2015 Miami Marlins recalled Carter Capps from New Orleans Zephyrs.
March 24, 2015 Miami Marlins optioned RHP Carter Capps to New Orleans Zephyrs.
September 1, 2014 Carter Capps roster status changed by Miami Marlins.
August 30, 2014 Miami Marlins sent RHP Carter Capps on a rehab assignment to Jupiter Hammerheads.
August 25, 2014 Miami Marlins sent RHP Carter Capps on a rehab assignment to GCL Marlins.
June 4, 2014 Miami Marlins transferred RHP Carter Capps from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list. Right elbow sprain
May 27, 2014 Miami Marlins placed RHP Carter Capps on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to May 26, 2014. right elbow sprain
April 23, 2014 Miami Marlins recalled RHP Carter Capps from New Orleans Zephyrs.
December 13, 2013 Seattle Mariners traded RHP Carter Capps to Miami Marlins for RF Logan Morrison.
August 6, 2013 Seattle Mariners recalled Carter Capps from Tacoma Rainiers.
July 11, 2013 Seattle Mariners optioned Carter Capps to Tacoma Rainiers.
July 31, 2012 Seattle Mariners selected the contract of Carter Capps from Tacoma Rainiers.
July 27, 2012 Carter Capps assigned to Tacoma Rainiers from Jackson Generals.
April 4, 2012 Carter Capps assigned to Jackson Generals from Clinton LumberKings.
March 9, 2012 RHP Carter Capps assigned to Seattle Mariners.
August 13, 2011 Carter Capps assigned to Clinton LumberKings from Seattle Mariners.
August 10, 2011 Seattle Mariners signed RHP Carter Capps.
Carter Capps Awards and Honors
Selected by the Seattle Mariners in the third round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft out of Mount Olive College. ... Recorded the first-ever nine-inning no-hitter in school history on March 12, 2011, against Coker. ... Set an NCAA Division II record with 24 straight wins from 2010 to 2011, going 10-0 in 2010 and 14-1 in 2011.
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Rohingya crisis is a test case for all
Published: 00:30, Feb 15,2019 | Updated: 21:45, Feb 28,2019
Humayun Kabir
Former diplomat Humayun Kabir shares his insights into the crisis with New Age diplomatic correspondent Shahidul Islam Chowdhury
The UN has definitely stumbled in dealing with the Rohingya issues and Bangladesh’s friendship with other countries has been tested in this crisis, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute vice-president Humayun Kabir says in an interview with New Age.
For Bangladesh diplomacy, this is quite a challenging time, Kabir, a former ambassador and secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says.
‘Because there are larger issues beyond the humanitarian face of the Rohingya crisis, we have seen our friendship with other countries tested,’ he notes.
How would you relate recent flows of Buddhists, Khumi and other ethnic community people into Bangladesh from Myanmar with the process of repatriation of Rohingyas to the country?
Rohingyas come to Bangladesh as local environment in Myanmar is hostile, both in Rakhine and in other parts of the country. What we see now is that members of other ethnic communities are coming into Bangladesh as a result of protracted conflicts.
What is important here for a sustainable, safe and dignified return of the Rohingyas is also linked to creation of an enabling, safe and peaceful environment within Myanmar. That now relates to both the Rohingyas and the communities coming to Bangladesh as a result of conflict in Myanmar.
What preconditions do you think must be ensured for enabling environment for sustainable return of Myanmar nationals?
It needs building up an inclusive state with presentation of all communities and giving them rights to live in Myanmar as dignified citizens of their country.
Depending too much on a mono-dimensional interpretation of nationalism can create difficulties that have been proved many a time and in many countries.
For example, Bangladesh is largely a Muslim majority country. But people of other religions and communities are also part of our national fabric in making an inclusive and participatory nationalism, in which everyone will have equal opportunities.
We are in the vicinity of Myanmar and we can offer them lesson on building an inclusive state and creating opportunities for all people in economic growth and other development processes.
There is an impression among people that the world in general and the UN in particular have failed in tackling the Rohingya crisis to stop atrocities in Myanmar. What do you think?
I would not say that this kind of criticism does not exist. But look at the realities on the ground. We’ve been observing many other places in the world.
The UN is an organisation by member states. So when we are to make a judgement on the UN, we need to keep in mind that it reflects instincts and policies of the member states.
I see the UN in two layers — one where the secretary general and other UN offices sit. In that places, the UN speaks about the Rohingya crisis quite strongly about atrocities in Myanmar and efforts are on to make people responsible for the crimes accountable.
They extended support both to Bangladesh and Myanmar for creating an enabling environment for return of victims.
When we see the member-based UN, there we see some challenges. Some countries have indeed maintained certain stances which have not been that helpful to resolve the crisis.
Some members in the UN Security Council are not comfortable about going the whole hog to hold accountable and press Myanmar to compel them to take back the Rohingya people.
The international environment is a fluid area. There, perhaps, we need to do more work to get the membership-based UN more active so that it can contribute to the solution of this problem.
On that count, if the UN has failed, I would say that it is a mixed one. I would not say that the US has failed, but the UN has definitely stumbled. I believe, at the interests of the international community we all should help the UN to become successful in resolving the crisis.
How do you see the role of China, a big friend of Bangladesh and which has strategic relations including investments in many areas?
China is playing a nuanced game. We cannot say that China is against the repatriation of Rohingya people. But the question is if China is doing what it could do to help us on the issue. China wants Bangladesh and Myanmar to solve this problem bilaterally. But we know solving it bilaterally would not be easy, and there I think some pressure or persuasion on Myanmar could be perhaps helpful. China could play a positive role on this aspect, and I still believe China can act on that, which is not for Rohingyas alone, it is also important for China’s own interests to maintain peace and stability in the region.
Now we are talking about Asian century in which China is the leader. China has a huge strategic and economic stakes both in Bangladesh and Myanmar and in South Asia. A peaceful South Asia and South East Asia could benefit China and the two regions. Rohingya could be a test case for China from this aspect.
How do you see the role of the US, which considers itself the global leader?
As for leadership of the world, the US has been sending mixed signals over last several years. The US has withdrawn from the TPP, a major economic instrument and system. They now come up with an Indo-Pacific Strategy.
They, however, have taken strong position on the Rohingya issue and fully supported the point of safe return of the community. They want to hold people accountable. They have imposed sanctions on a section of Myanmar persons found involved in atrocities in Rakhine.
But in terms of global priority, we understand that the US has certain limitations and the US does not want to put much pressure on Myanmar lest it should go into further hold of China. The US is in fact playing a balancing game here.
But I see the US’s overall role on the issue has been positive, and I believe that the US can still put in coordination with India and Japan much pressure on Myanmar for facilitating rightful return of Rohingya from security, strategic and economic interests of America.
What do you think about role of the EU and its member countries?
We should not take the Rohingya crisis as a zero-some game as all can gain as the Europeans can work with China, Americans can work India and Japan as solution to the crisis is not that difficult. The only thing is Myanmar needs to understand the reality on the ground as they cannot deny their own people and they cannot disenfranchise their own people. They cannot deprive them of citizenship and other rights.
What about ASEAN?
ASEAN is a little handicapped in the matter. Initially, Indonesia and Malaysia were quite open, but we understand that ASEAN has been following a non-interfering principle in the internal affairs of the member states.
But I still believe ASEAN could perhaps take some pro-active role here as this is not a problem for Bangladesh and Myanmar only. It could [adversely] affect the other ASEAN member States as well as there are risks for anybody from possible desperate acts from Rohingyas.
How do you assess the role of India, next door neighbour to both Bangladesh and Myanmar?
India has been playing a safe game as they are acting on the humanitarian side. We hear that they are supporting the Bangladesh position, but in terms of putting pressure on Myanmar, they are playing on both sides. I understand that for India it is a difficult situation as they want to safeguard their strategic and economic interests.
We, however, expect India to play a moral role here persuading Myanmar to see the light of the day in a sense that an unresolved Rohingya crisis would create difficulty for all of us.
How do you assess diplomatic and other steps the Bangladesh government has taken so far to face the crisis?
The government has been quite active. The government has become initially successful in pursuing Myanmar to accept that the Rohingyas are from Myanmar. They in principle accepted the fact that they should take them back, although they are providing some barriers putting in the verification process. There, I believe, Bangladesh diplomacy has seen some degree of success. But diplomacy is a dynamic process and the crisis we are facing is itself continually evolving.
There we need to continue to remain innovative in terms of diplomacy and explore extra grounds until this problem is resolved.
For Bangladesh diplomacy, this is a quite challenging time. Because, there are larger issues beyond the humanitarian face of the Rohingya crisis, as we have seen our friendship with other countries tested.
In the evolving contexts, we need to think afresh on how to manage the regional environment in our benefit. There I think we need to update our understanding, increase our efficiency and the level of our effectiveness.
This is not only for Rohingya issue, it is also important for our engagements in South Asia and maintaining our economic and strategic interests at the global levels.
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Volume 58, Issue 8, August 2011 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.05.019
Clinical Research - Interventional Cardiology
Hospital Variability in the Rate of Finding Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease at Elective, Diagnostic Coronary Angiography
Pamela S. Douglas, Manesh R. Patel, Steven R. Bailey, David Dai, Lisa Kaltenbach, Ralph G. Brindis, John Messenger and Eric D. Peterson
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vol. 58 no. 8 801-809
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2011.05.019
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Received October 4, 2010
Revision received April 26, 2011
Accepted May 3, 2011
Published online August 16, 2011.
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Pamela S. Douglas, MD⁎,⁎ (pamela.douglas{at}duke.edu),
Manesh R. Patel, MD⁎,
Steven R. Bailey, MD†,
David Dai, PhD⁎,
Lisa Kaltenbach, MS⁎,
Ralph G. Brindis, MD, MPH‡,§,
John Messenger, MD∥ and
Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH⁎
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↵⁎Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. Pamela S. Douglas, Duke University Medical Center, P.O. Box 17969, Durham, North Carolina 27715
Objectives The purpose of this study was to describe hospital variability in the rate of finding obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) at elective coronary angiography.
Background A recent national study found that obstructive CAD was found in less than one-half of patients undergoing elective coronary angiography.
Methods We performed a retrospective analysis of 565,504 patients without prior myocardial infarction or revascularization undergoing elective coronary angiography using CathPCI Registry data from 2005 to 2008 to evaluate the rate of finding obstructive CAD (any major epicardial vessel stenosis ≥50%) at coronary angiography at 691 U.S. hospitals.
Results The rate of obstructive coronary disease found at elective coronary angiography varied from 23% to 100% among hospitals (median 45%; interquartile range: 39% to 52%), and were consistent from year to year and when alternative definitions of coronary stenosis were applied. Sites with lower rates of finding obstructive CAD were more likely to perform procedures on younger patients, those with low Framingham risk (33% in lowest yield quartile vs. 21% in highest yield quartile, p < 0.0001); with no or atypical symptoms (73% vs. 58%, p < 0.0001); and with a negative, equivocal, or unperformed functional status assessment. Hospitals with lower rates of finding obstructive CAD also less frequently prescribed aspirin, beta-blockers, platelet inhibitors, and statins (all p < 0.0001). The CAD rate was lower at facilities with small-volume catheterization laboratories and was not associated with hospital ownership or teaching program status.
Conclusions The rate of finding obstructive CAD at elective coronary angiography varied considerably among reporting centers and was associated with patient selection and pre-procedure assessment strategies. This institutional variation suggests that an important opportunity may exist for quality improvement.
institutional variability
patient selection
Diagnostic invasive coronary angiography is an important tool for identifying those patients with obstructive coronary disease who may benefit from coronary revascularization. However, this procedure has associated costs, exposes patients to radiation, and has a small but well-described risk for procedural complications. As such, the decision to perform coronary angiography should be selective and ideally limited to patients with moderate to high pre-test probability for obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) (1,2). A recent national study found that less than one-half of patients undergoing elective coronary angiography had obstructive CAD (3). However, previous studies have not investigated the degree to which the finding of obstructive CAD varies among centers nor the potential correlates of variation, if it exists. Such investigation is important, as several groups have proposed that using centers' rate of finding of obstructive CAD at coronary angiography may be a potential quality metric (4–6). Additionally, identification of providers with a consistently lower rate of finding obstructive disease may offer an opportunity for improving quality and efficiency of cardiac care.
We analyzed data in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CathPCI Registry to determine variation in hospitals' rate of finding obstructive CAD at elective coronary angiography performed in patients without known CAD. We also examined patient and hospital predictors of this rate, as well as temporal trends and stability of these measures over time.
The CathPCI Registry, sponsored by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), is a large, ongoing registry of clinical data and procedural outcomes associated with diagnostic cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) derived from more than 1,000 participating sites across the United States (7). Data are captured by NCDR-certified databases at participating hospitals and include patient and hospital characteristics, procedural findings, interventions, and outcomes based on explicit data elements pre-specified by an NCDR committee (8). All data were collected using version 3 of the data collection form. An auditing program ensures the validity of the collected data; only institutions whose submissions meet quality criteria for data reporting are included. The institutional review board of the Duke University Health System approved this study as exempt from formal review.
From the overall CathPCI Registry cohort, only patients without a previous diagnosis of CAD who were undergoing elective coronary angiography were identified. We specifically excluded patients with prior history of myocardial infarction, PCI, coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac transplant, or valve surgery. We also excluded those whose procedure was classified as emergent or urgent indications, such as acute coronary syndromes, acute myocardial infarction, and those in whom their catheterization may not have been done to “rule out” CAD, such as evaluations before transplant or valvular surgery or cardiomyopathy evaluation. Finally, to assure more stable estimates of site performance, we excluded sites with low numbers (i.e., <50 cases) of elective diagnostic cardiac catheterization per year (Fig. 1).
Population Flow Diagram
Flow diagram showing the process used to define the study population. ACS = acute coronary syndrome; AMI = acute myocardial infarction; CABG = coronary artery bypass surgery; CAD = coronary artery disease; cath = catheterization; lab = laboratory; MI = myocardial infarction; PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention; r/o = rule out; Sx = symptoms.
Patient characteristics and definitions
Patient demographics, clinical risk factors, symptom status, and noninvasive test findings were collected as specified in the NCDR registry. Patient symptoms were categorized as no symptoms/no angina, atypical chest pain, or stable angina. Atypical chest pain was defined as pain, pressure, or discomfort in the chest, neck, or arms not clearly exertional or not otherwise consistent with pain or discomfort of myocardial ischemic origin. Stable angina was defined as angina without a change in frequency or pattern for 6 weeks before the catheterization laboratory visit. Sites recorded if a noninvasive diagnostic test was performed “to rule out ischemia prior to the procedure either during that visit or prior to that visit.” Noninvasive tests were defined to include “[electrocardiography], exercise or pharmacologic stress tests, radionucleotide, echo, [computed tomography] scans or other heart scans” (8). The results of these tests were categorized as positive, negative, or equivocal.
For the purpose of the primary analysis, obstructive CAD was defined as being present in patients with ≥50% stenosis in any major epicardial vessel or branch vessel >2.0 mm in diameter in accordance with the ACC/American Heart Association coronary artery bypass grafting surgery practice guideline 2004 update (9) and that is associated with a fractional flow reserve of <0.80 in 63% of patients (10). Alternate definitions of obstructive CAD that included any lesion ≥70% stenosis (≥50% left main) and ≥20% stenosis were used for a sensitivity analysis. Determination of the degree of stenosis was made by site physicians. Data regarding possible fractional flow reserve were not available.
Hospital characteristics and definitions
Hospital characteristics were determined from the site profile information supplied by each institution to NCDR using standardized data definitions. These included several measurements of size, including the number of inpatient beds and annual volumes of diagnostic catheterizations, PCI, and electrophysiology studies. The presence or absence of an onsite cardiac surgery program was recorded. Administrative data included geographic region, ownership or profit type (private, university, or government), and setting (urban, rural, or suburban). Additional data included the presence of a teaching program, inclusion as a clinical trial site, and years of NCDR participation.
The rate of finding obstructive CAD was calculated for each hospital by quarter and overall. Demographics, risk factors, symptom status, and noninvasive test findings were compared across hospitals by quartiles of overall rate of finding obstructive CAD. Continuous variables are presented as medians; categorical variables are presented as percentages. Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for continuous variables, and Pearson chi-square tests were used for categorical variables in all descriptive tables.
The stability of each hospital's diagnostic yield over time was tested by fitting a linear mixed-effects regression model clustering on hospital with a fixed effect for time in quarters (11). Rates over time were allowed to vary randomly across institutions; this appropriately fit our data as well as allowed us to make inferences about the population of institutions. Unbiased estimates of variance parameters were obtained by fitting the model using restricted maximum likelihood (12). In addition, a “sensitivity analysis” was performed by comparing results of a mixed-effects model with both random intercepts and slopes and to another mixed-effects model with only random intercepts. The model with both random intercepts and slopes provided the best fit based on Akaike information criterion and was used in the analysis. Annual trends were assessed using Spearman rank correlations of hospital median annual yield for consecutive years. Spearman rank correlations were also used to determine the association between diagnostic yields for different cut points of CAD.
Individual patient risk was estimated separately by applying a previously published logistic regression model with generalized estimating equations to predict patient likelihood of having obstructive CAD (3). The variables in this model are presented in Table 1 (patient-level variables). Hospital-level variables (Table 2) were candidates in this previously published model, but were excluded from the final model due to lack of association with obstructive CAD. Within each hospital, median predicted patient risk was calculated as a summary of patient risk at that hospital.
Characteristics of Patients Undergoing Elective Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization Stratified by Hospital Quartiles of Rates of Finding Obstructive CAD
Hospital Characteristics Stratified by Quartiles of Rates of Finding Obstructive CAD at Elective Catheterization
A value of p < 0.05 was considered significant for all tests. All statistical analyses were performed by the Duke Clinical Research Institute using SAS software (version 9.2, SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina).
From 2005 to 2008, 565,504 patients were treated at 691 CathPCI Registry participating centers and met criteria (Fig. 1). Reported rates of obstructive CAD varied among hospitals from 23% to 100%, with a median of 45% and an interquartile range of 39% to 52% (Fig. 2). Ninety-one hospitals (13%) had diagnostic yields <35%, whereas 82 had diagnostic yields ≥75%. The overall rate of finding obstructive CAD was constant over time at 44.4% in 2005 and 45.6% in 2008 (p = 0.90 for time trend). Individual hospital rates were also stable over time, with high correlation in year-to-year individual hospital performance: rho = 0.72 (2005 vs. 2006) and rho = 0.73 (2006 vs. 2007), both p < 0.0001.
Impact of Using Varying Cut Points of Coronary Artery Abnormalities to Define Rate of Finding Obstructive CAD at Elective Angiography
Distribution of hospitals' rates of finding coronary artery abnormalities using different cut points to define abnormal. Cut points used are as follows: any lesions ≥70% stenosis; any lesions ≥50% stenosis; any lesions ≥20% stenosis; any lesions >0% stenosis. CAD = coronary artery disease.
Characterization of sites with low versus high rates of finding obstructive CAD
Relative to those institutions in the highest quartile rate of finding obstructive CAD, those with the lowest rates performed coronary angiography more often in younger patients, women, blacks, and outpatients (all p < 0.001) (Table 1). Similarly, those centers with the lowest rates studied patients with lower Framingham risk (33% vs. 21%, p < 0.0001), with atypical symptoms (45% vs. 27%, p < 0.0001), and a negative, equivocal, or not performed functional status assessment (33% vs. 29%, p < 0.0001) compared with the highest quartile. Patients studied at low-rate centers were also less likely to have stable angina symptoms (27% vs. 42%) or a positive stress test before coronary angiography (66% vs. 71%), both p < 0.0001. Patients treated by hospitals with low rates of finding obstructive CAD were less likely to have been prescribed cardiac medications before angiography (aspirin, beta-blockers, platelet inhibitors, or statins, all p < 0.0001). Other hospital characteristics significantly associated with a low CAD rate in univariate analyses included smaller hospitals and those with lower annual interventional laboratory volumes. CAD rates were higher in the West and at clinical trial sites, whereas teaching program presence, ownership (private vs. university), and setting did not differ across CAD rate strata.
As a summary of the relationship between patient risk and the rate of finding obstructive CAD, we applied a previously published logistic regression model based on data elements in CathPCI (3) incorporating Framingham risk score, other clinical variables, chest pain characteristics, and noninvasive testing results to predict patient likelihood of having obstructive CAD and compared this with the actual rate at each institution. Hospitals with the lowest rate of CAD had only a 39% median predicted likelihood for obstructive CAD versus 55% in the highest quartile rate of CAD (p < 0.0001). Furthermore, the median predicted patient likelihood of having obstructive CAD at each institution was significantly correlated with the actual median finding of obstructive CAD at that institution (Spearman rho = 0.71, p < 0.0001).
As a sensitivity analysis, we changed the definition of CAD to include either more severe or milder lesions and to account for possible slight site variation in classification of lesion severity. As expected, varying this definition progressively shifted the distribution of CAD rates such that if the cut point for CAD was redefined as any lesion ≥70% stenosis (or ≥50% left main), the median CAD rate fell to 37%, but if set at ≥20%; the median rate was 61% (Fig. 2). However, there remained a similar, wide variation in hospital obstructive CAD rate at coronary angiography, regardless of what definition was used. In addition, using different definitions of CAD did not alter institutional rankings: rho = 0.96 for comparison of ≥70% with ≥50%, rho = 0.83 for comparison of ≥50% with ≥20%, and rho = 0.76 for comparison of ≥70% with ≥20% cut points (all p < 0.0001) (Fig. 3). Finally, to investigate potential under-reporting of normal coronary angiography findings by high-yield sites, we removed the data from the 72 sites with a >90% rate of finding CAD and recalculated patient characteristics by quartile, but our findings were essentially unchanged (see Table 1 for recalculated quartile 4* descriptors and p values).
Sensitivity of Each Institution's Obstructive CAD Rate to Varying Cut Points of Coronary Artery Abnormalities
(A) Comparison of any lesion ≥50% versus ≥70% cut point (rho = 0.96, p < 0.0001); (B) comparison of ≥20% versus ≥50% cut point (rho = 0.83, p < 0.0001). CAD = coronary artery disease.
Modeling the potential impact of altering hospital obstructive CAD rates
Given the degree of hospital variability, we sought to investigate what could be the potential impact if a CAD evaluation and coronary angiography referral strategy similar to that of centers with the highest CAD rates could be applied to systems with lower rates. Specifically, the highest quartile hospitals had a median rate of finding obstructive CAD of 70%. If this rate could be achieved by all institutions in the study, the number of patients undergoing coronary angiography in quartiles 1 through 3 and found not to have obstructive CAD could be reduced by 70% (from 281,758 to 85,235). If the CAD rate of the lowest 2 quartiles of centers were to increase to the median U.S. performance (45%), then the number of patients without obstructive disease undergoing coronary angiography in these hospitals would be reduced by 23%, from 209,236 to 161,258.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine hospital-level variability and its predictors in the rate of finding obstructive CAD at elective, diagnostic coronary angiography. Our study found marked variation in the institutional rate of finding obstructive CAD among patients undergoing elective diagnostic cardiac catheterization, which was stable over time at each center. This variation was predictable based on the characteristics of the patients selected for the procedure and their pre-catheterization evaluation, testing, and treatment. Centers with a low rate of finding obstructive CAD undertook procedures on patients who were younger, had a lower likelihood of disease, and who were less likely to have had a noninvasive evaluation demonstrating ischemia before coronary angiography. Finally, modeling suggests that up to one third of elective, diagnostic cardiac angiograms might not be required if low CAD rate centers were able to adopt similar patient selection, treatment, and testing patterns as currently practiced in those institutions with the highest rates of finding CAD.
The robustness of an assessment of the institutional rate of finding obstructive CAD in patients undergoing elective diagnostic coronary angiography is supported by several factors. First, although our definition of obstructive CAD was based on the finding of any stenosis ≥50%, sensitivity analysis found that even if we varied the diagnostic threshold for CAD from 20% to 70%, the relative hospital performance rankings were quite constant (Fig. 3). Second, the association between patients' predicted likelihood for disease in each hospital and that actually found supports that these findings are real as opposed to artifactual. Finally, the consistency in the degree of variability in hospital CAD year in and year out may help to partially allay concerns that sites may vary what they self-report as a percentage stenosis or may underreport results of diagnostic procedures in favor of PCI.
Prior studies examining anatomic findings at diagnostic coronary angiography in patients without known CAD have used varying cut points, sometimes assessing obstructive CAD and sometimes assessing its absence. Comparison of these studies is further plagued by the use of varying cut points, with “normal” coronaries sometimes including patients with stenoses as high as 30% or even 50%. In the few studies providing information regarding rates of finding obstructive CAD at elective diagnostic angiography, rates as high as 88% (13) and as low as 57% (14) have been reported. In CASS (Coronary Artery Surgery Study), 3,136 of 21,487 consecutive angiograms (14.6%) were “entirely normal” (15), and 4,051 (81%) showed stenosis ≥50%. Furthermore, these studies and current NCDR benchmarking efforts do not always exclude those with known CAD (i.e., prior myocardial infarction or revascularization) from their cohorts (4) or those with acute coronary syndromes, both of which can substantially increase the CAD rate. This serves to obscure the outcome of decision making in the subset of interest—elective patients without known disease—for whom the decision to proceed to angiography is an important clinical process.
The rate of finding obstructive CAD may be related to both the appropriateness of the procedure, which in turn may be related to the population utilization. Substantial variation in population utilization rates can be noted, even among Western countries, ranging from 83 per 10,000 in the United States to 12 per 10,000 in the Netherlands (16). In the United States, geographic variation in diagnostic angiography rates are often not tracked or reported, unlike angioplasty and bypass surgery rates, although they may also be expected to show similar variation (17). Few recent assessments of the appropriateness of angiography have been performed in the United States; in a study published in 1987, Chassin et al. (18) noted 72% to 81% appropriateness and 17% inappropriateness. More recently, in the United Kingdom, with a population rate of 26 catheterizations per 10,000, 62% of diagnostic angiograms were rated as appropriate, 33% uncertain, and 5% inappropriate (19). Some authors have noted that coronary angiography may be overutilized due to factors such as an abundance of catheterization facilities, a surplus of interventional cardiologists, and monetary reimbursement to physicians (20), whereas others note the role of patient, family, and colleagues' expectations as well as fear of liability as important contributors to the propensity to order these procedures (21). Although these population studies and determination of appropriateness shed light on patterns of utilization, the rate of finding obstructive CAD provides a powerful clinical correlation between angiogram performance and disease presence, an important patient outcome.
The finding that hospital variation in performance was not random suggests that there may be opportunities to utilize different patient selection criteria at institutions with a very low frequency of finding obstructive CAD at angiography. Indeed, the parameters most powerfully associated with finding CAD are those well known to be predictive of CAD, including advancing age, male sex, risk factors, and typical symptoms. Patients undergoing angiography in the lowest rate hospitals were more likely to have a low Framingham risk score, atypical symptoms, and a normal noninvasive test result. Although our data cannot indicate what the ideal or “optimal” CAD rate is for elective coronary angiography, these associations suggest that improved patient selection could increase the rate of finding CAD in these institutions. Consistent use of clinical risk stratification algorithms (3) and improvement in the use, accuracy, and quality of pre-procedural noninvasive testing, and perhaps future coronary angiography appropriate-use criteria, may help raise the rate of finding obstructive CAD.
The finding of stability of each hospital's rate over time suggests that it is reflective of the system rather than individual providers. This makes clinical sense, as 1 or several providers may be involved in the sequential decisions to pursue a diagnostic coronary angiogram, beginning with the provider that first began the search for coronary disease, the provider who performed and interpreted a pre-procedural noninvasive test, the referring provider (who recommended an invasive procedure), and the catheterization laboratory physician. Each of these individuals and decisions may be influenced by many factors, including the need for a definitive diagnosis, even if it is the exclusion of CAD; patients' and families' expectations; and the potential legal impact of not performing the “gold standard” study. Thus, the system rate of finding obstructive CAD may offer a way to assess the overall process by recognizing the end result of the process of diagnostic evaluation of CAD in patients under its care.
Study strengths and limitations
The NCDR is a large, national, real-world data registry, which uniquely represents contemporary clinical practice in the community. Building on this strength, our analysis provides current information on the frequency of an important outcome of diagnostic coronary angiography, the rate of finding obstructive coronary disease during elective diagnostic coronary angiography in a broad sample of U.S. hospitals. We cannot address the appropriateness of the decision to proceed to coronary angiography; our use of a registry database precludes detailed knowledge of clinical circumstances and decision-making process or of long-term clinical outcomes. Similarly, we are unable to address the possibility of any underuse of coronary angiography by sites with too high a threshold for performing the procedure. Further, the accuracy of this analysis depends on the accuracy of site coding for the indication for the procedure, patient symptoms and risk factors, noninvasive testing, and severity of coronary stenoses. Significant details are not available, including those regarding the pre-catheterization evaluation, such as severity of symptoms and risk factors; the type of noninvasive testing utilized; and the extent and severity of ischemia on noninvasive testing; as well as the physiological significance of intermediate lesions, the intensity or optimization of medical therapy, or individual operator data. Finally, in the absence of any information regarding patients not undergoing cardiac catheterization, we are unable to assess the accuracy or value of risk stratification or diagnostic testing in guiding the decision to proceed to catheterization, as there would be substantial verification/selection bias inherent in our cohort.
Implications for potential use of rate of finding obstructive CAD at elective diagnostic cardiac catheterization in quality improvement
Although assessment of the institutional rate of finding CAD has been encouraged by ACC/SCAI and other entities as an important step in assessing quality of care and integral to efforts to improve it, in the absence of national data, it has not been previously explored (4–6). Most current, well-established catheterization laboratory quality metrics focus on angioplasty, for which complication rates are often used to assess quality. However, given the very low frequency of such complications associated with diagnostic catheterization, other parameters may be needed to contribute to the assessment of quality. Similarly, recommendations for patient selection for catheterization have focused on the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria for Revascularization (4,9) and to date have not addressed diagnostic coronary angiography diagnostic procedures.
Quality assessment should be evidence-based, measurable, interpretable, linked to outcomes, and actionable (22). The extent to which the rate of diagnosing coronary stenosis meets these characteristics would indicate its suitability for potential initial voluntary use for internal feedback and improvement. Indeed, quality metrics are defined by the ACC/American Heart Association as “those measures that have been developed to support self-assessment and quality improvement at the provider, hospital, and/or health system level” (23). Before broader application can be recommended, further definition, research, field testing, and operational consideration would be needed (22). For example, as noted previously, the optimal CAD rate is unclear. Medical-legal concerns, patient and family preferences, the incontrovertible value of excluding CAD in a symptomatic patient, microvascular disease (23–25), and the roughly 10% rate of normal coronary arteries in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients (26) make the elimination of all cases without obstructive CAD both impractical and undesirable. However, because obstructive coronary disease is associated with patient symptoms (angina) that can be relieved with revascularization (9), it is generally reasonable to conclude that improving the CAD rate would be good for patients by avoiding exposure to costly invasive procedures in those who are unlikely to benefit from revascularization. Indeed, our modeling of the potential impact of improving hospital CAD rates to optimal or even median levels indicates that a substantial reduction in coronary angiography in patients without obstructive CAD, between 12% and 24%, might result.
There is significant interhospital variation in the rate of finding obstructive CAD in patients undergoing elective, diagnostic coronary angiography to exclude significant CAD. The institutional CAD rate was associated with baseline cardiac risk, chest pain characteristics, noninvasive test performance and results, and intensity of pre-procedural medical therapy, but there were few relationships with nonclinical or institutional factors. This suggests that local clinical practice patterns may be the most influential factor in guiding use of diagnostic coronary angiography and could be a target for quality-improvement efforts, including appropriate use criteria development. A balanced consideration of all the relevant steps inherent in a decision to proceed to elective invasive coronary angiography, as well as the finding of CAD at catheterization, is needed to optimize coronary angiography utilization.
The primary sponsor of this study was the American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry.
Dr. Peterson has received grants/research support from Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi, Merck/Schering, Lilly, and Johnson & Johnson. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
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Revision received April 26, 2011.
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Best of 2016 List
Chris Gratien
Jonathan Wyrtzen
Colonialism and the Politics of Identity in Morocco
with Jonathan Wyrtzen
hosted by Chris Gratien
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In many countries of the Middle East and North Africa, European colonial rule lasted only for a matter of decades, and yet its influence in the realms of politics and economy have been profound. In this episode, we talk to Jonathan Wyrtzen about the legacy of colonialism in Morocco for the politics of identity, which is the subject of his new book entitled Making Morocco. As Dr. Wyrzten explains, colonial rule shaped understandings of issues such as territoriality, religion, ethnicity, and gender that remain relevant to this day.
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Jonathan Wyrtzen is an Associate Professor of Sociology, History, and International Affairs at Yale University. His research focuses on empire and colonialism, state formation and non-state forms of political organization, and ethnicity and nationalism in North Africa and the Middle East. His book Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity was published by Cornell University Press in 2015. His current book project comparatively analyzes five sites of conflict from Morocco to Iraq to examine how new political topographies were forged in the Middle East and North Africa during the interwar period.
Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.
Episode No. 269
Recording Location: Yale University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts: From archive.org - Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; From Excavated Shellac - Lili Labassi - Mazal Haye Mazal; Louisa Tounsia – Ya Bent El Nass
Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro music
Bibliography courtesy of Jonathan Wyrtzen
Cornell University Press
Brubaker, Rogers and Frederick Cooper. 2000. "Beyond 'Identity'" Theory and Society, 29: 1-47.
Boum, Aomar. 2013. Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Burke III, Edmund. 2014. The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Lawrence, Adria. 2013. Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Martin, John L. 2003. "What if Field Theory?" American Journal of Sociology, 109: 1-49.
Penell, C.R. 1986. A Country with a Government and a Flag: the Rif War in Morocco, 1921-26. London: Menas Press.
Rivet, Daniel. 1988. Lyautey et l'institution du Protectorat français au Maroc 1912-1925. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Salime, Zakia. 2011. Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Scott, James, 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Wyrtzen, Jonathan. 2015. Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
________. 2013. "Performing the Nation in Anti-Colonial Protest in Interwar Morocco." Nations and Nationalism, 19: 615-34.
________. 2011. "Colonial State-Building and the Negotiation of Arab and Berber Identity in Protectorate Morocco." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 43: 227-49.
Labels: Best of 2016 List Chris Gratien Colonialism Gender Jonathan Wyrtzen Morocco Nationalism Sociology tajine
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Esat Sabri Özçubuk said…
Osmanlıyı anlamak sanıldığı gibi hiç öyle kolay değil, hindistan ve çini anlamadan Osmanlı anlaşılamaz, ingilizce de öyle.
Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 2:44:00 AM GMT+3
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