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History and heroes. Intensity and triumph. Disappointment and death. Exhilarating. Captivating. Mesmerizing. Spectacular.
What you see and feel while viewing "Surviving Everest," an upcoming National Geographic Channel special, leaves you wide-eyed and breathless – and knowledgeable about the tallest mountain in the world and those who conquered it.
"Surviving Everest" is a two-hour trip to the top of the 29,035-foot peak with a National Geographic team commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent.
National Geographic successfully weaves the tale of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, who in 1953 were the first to summit Everest, with the anniversary expedition that climbed last year.
The featured trio from the anniversary team are Peter Hillary, Jamling Norgay and Brent Bishop. They are the sons of Edmund, Tenzing and Barry Bishop, who climbed Everest in 1963, during the year the first American was successful.
They were led by climbing legend Pete Athans, who has scaled Everest six times, more than anyone who is not a Sherpa.
Norgay went only as far as Base Camp, offering support from there. He climbed Everest in 1996 when 15 people died on the mountain. He kept his promise to his family that he would never climb it again.
Highlights of "Surviving Everest" are memorable:
A controversy was created from the start as to who set foot on the peak first, Hillary or Norgay. They agreed to become equal partners.
- The Sherpas are duly noted as unsung heroes whose livelihood is working behind the scenes to set ropes and campsites. A windstorm rattles tents and nerves. The noise from flapping tents is deafening.
- Weather forces the team to abort the first summit try from Camp 4. They retreat to Base Camp, prompting Hillary to say, "The thing that really counteracts that disappointment is that if you don't turn around, you're probably going to die. So the benefit is, you turn around and you live."
- The camera crew barely escapes falling ice in the Khumbu Icefall and abandons the trip. A Sherpa learns how to use a video camera.
- Climbers take step by painstaking step, pausing often to catch their breath.
- Spectacular views of Hillary Step, ridges and dropoffs.
- A traffic jam near the Hillary Step and 50 people sharing the top of the world, where Hillary uses a satellite phone to call his father: "Dad, it's Peter. We're on the summit."
"Surviving Everest," set to air at 8 p.m. April 27, grabs you from the beginning and pulls you up the mountain, where it leaves you in awe. Mark your calendars.
More Everest coverage: The folks at National Geographic Adventure magazine also commemorate the 50th anniversary in the April issue.
It features five breakthrough Everest climbs and the various routes and timelines on fold-out maps, and gives brief updates from the survivors of the 1996 catastrophe.
The photo of a climber on a snow-covered Hillary Step is impressive.
Locals on Everest: Jeff Mathy of Fullerton isn't the only Orange County resident making a summit attempt this climbing season.
James Clarke, 39, of Costa Mesa is on the same Alpine Ascents International expedition team.
Clarke has been high-altitude climbing for nine years, first learning mountaineering skills as an Army Ranger.
If successful, Everest will be the fifth of the Seven Summits for Clarke.
Mathy, who aborted an attempt at Everest last year because of illness, sent his first dispatch recently.
He arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 31, then flew by helicopter to Namche Bazaar at 11,000 feet.
From the Everest View Lodge in Namche Bazaar, team members saw their goal rising before them.
"Today was beautiful!" Mathy wrote. "We could see the summit of Everest in the distance, and we traced our planned route backwards from the summit, down the summit ridge, down the Hillary Step, across the southeast ridge, and toward the South Col.
"I could tell that everyone was excited to see their first glimpse of the mountain."
Since then, the team has moved on to Deboche as the long, tedious hike to Base Camp continues.
Daily dispatches from the team can be found at www.alpineascents.com under Cybercasts. Other sources enabling you to follow the Everest climbing season are www.mountainzone.com and www.everestnews.com.
By DAVE STREGE
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"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Re:Mount Everest revisited: soon on Nat Geo and Jeff Mathy update
« Reply #1 on: Oct 10 2003, 04:35 »
sounds really cool and interesting, i iwill check up on it
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Set amongst a rural backdrop amid bushland foliage.
A few kilometres along Bloodwood Rd in Arcadia is Kathleen Berney’s fashion design and textile studio. The studio is situated on Kathleen’s family property which is a beautiful place to work and a beautiful place to live. It feels as if you are really a long way from city life. The road continues on and ends in Murramurra National Park.
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Kathleen Berney has worked with textiles since the early 1970’s. She originally studied arts at Sydney University and then was drawn to a more practical hands on approach. She was self taught in batik and was a founding member of the Australian Textile and Surface Design Association (ATASDA) Kathleen spent a year in Sri Lanka and Indonesia furthering her studies and knowledge of batik. She then ran numerous batik and textile dyeing workshops both in her own studio and for the Arts Council and Australian Crafts Council in various parts of Australia.
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Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco
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By timothy from Slashdot's spreadsheet-fiasco-is-redundant department:
First time accepted submitter Bruce66423 writes "As a sometime computer programmer who was always very sniffy about the quality of the stuff being knocked up by amateurs aka power users, the current claim that it was a messed up spreadsheet that caused a multi-million pound fiasco is very satisfying. 'The key mechanism... mixed up real and inflated financial figures and contained elements of double counting.'"
Your Facebook Likes Conveyed As Simulated Hugs
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mikejuk writes "Next time you're dreaming up ways to make the users of your apps feel loved and wanted, think a little more wildly. How about giving them an actual hug? That's what MIT researchers Melissa Chow and her colleagues Andy Payne and Phil Seaton at MIT have come up with — a jacket that hugs the wearer when one of their friends 'likes' one of their posts on Facebook. The Like-A-Hug vest is described as receiving a signal when a Facebook friend 'likes' a post, then fills with air to give the wearer the sensation of being hugged."
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New submitter jefery23 writes with this excerpt from an Associated Press article (as carried by the Denver Post): "Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices." Friday's jump followed another big one just a day earlier, too. Texas gas prices have gone up, but not quite so dramatically ($3.59 at the station nearest to me); how are they in your neck of the woods? Those Bloom boxes and charging stations can't arrive too soon.
Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City
By timothy from Slashdot's welcome-to-our-prohibition-already-in-progress department:
Penurious Penguin writes "On October 2, City Commissioners of Delray Beach finalized a policy which prohibits agencies from hiring employees who use tobacco products. Delray Beach isn't alone though; other Florida cities such as Hollywood and Hallandale Beach, require prospective employees to sign affidavits declaring themselves tobacco-free for 12 months prior to the date of application. Throughout the states, both
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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Jailbroken
By timothy from Slashdot's rebel-in-the-library department:
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By timothy from Slashdot's we-need-more-hang-gliders department:
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Google Puts Souped-Up Neural Networks To Work
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By timothy from Slashdot's all-dinosaurs-are-currently-unusual department:
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Trailrunner7 writes "RSA's FraudAction research team has been monitoring underground chatter and has put together various clues to deduce that a cybercrime gang is actively recruiting up to 100 botmasters to participate in a complicated man-in-the-middle hijacking scam using a variant of the proprietary Gozi Trojan. This is the first time a private cybercrime organization has recruited outsiders to participate in a financially motivated attack, said Mor Ahuvia, cybercrime communications specialist for RSA FraudAction. The attackers are promising their recruits a cut of the profits, and are requiring an initial investment in hardware and training in how to deploy the Gozi Prinimalka Trojan, Ahuvia added. Also, the gang will only share executable files with their partners, and will not give up the Trojan's compilers, keeping the recruits dependent on the gang for updates."
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First time accepted submitter Random Data writes "Australia's initial part of the Square Kilometre Array has officially opened . 36 dishes out of the eventual 96 are now on line, with a data output of 40Gb/s (and the article includes LoC conversion!). More info is available from CSIRO ."
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alphadogg writes "While the Wi-Fi world is rightly abuzz over the rapidly approaching large-scale deployment of the new 802.11ac standard, experts at an Interop NY panel said this week that the 802.11ad standard is likely to be even more transformative. '802.11ac is an extension for pure mainstream Wi-Fi,' said Sean Coffey, Realtek's director of standards and business development. 'It's evolutionary. ... You're not going to see dramatically new use cases." By contrast, 802.11ad adds 60GHz connectivity to the previously used 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies, potentially providing multi-gigabit connection speeds and dramatically broadening the number of applications for which wireless can be used."
The Computer Science Behind Facebook's 1 Billion Users
By timothy from Slashdot's yet-they-keep-most-recent-instead-of-top-stories department:
pacopico writes "Much has been made about Facebook hitting 1 billion users. But Businessweek has the inside story detailing how the site actually copes with this many people and the software Facebook has invented that pushes the limits of computer science. The story quotes database guru Mike Stonebraker saying, 'I think Facebook has the hardest information technology problem on the planet.' To keep Facebooking moving fast, Mark Zuckerberg apparently instituted a program called Boot Camp in which engineers spend six-weeks learning every bit of Facebook's code."
Why Worms In the Toilet Might Be a Good Idea
By timothy from Slashdot's as-if-it-wasn't-obvious department:
derekmead writes "Billions worldwide still don't have access to proper sanitation, and those of that do still require a ton of water and electricity to keep waste flowing. A French company is offering one solution: Use turd-eating worms to compost waste right at the source. Ecosphere Technologies has developed an outhouse that, rather than relying on chemicals like a port-a-john, relies on about a pound of red wiggler worms. A new installation in Quebec uses imported worms, placed inside of a mixture of dung and straw underneath to toilet, to devour feces delivered to them by a conveyor belt system. (When someone uses the toilet, pee filters through sand to wash away, while a pedal allows the user to transport their poo to the worm space.) The whole system uses no water or electricity, and a series of passive vents allegedly keeps the toilet smelling great. The company claims it can be used 10,000 times without servicing, which is far better than what a port-a-potty can boast, although with a current price tag of $40k for the worm system, port-a-potties are still a lot cheaper."
Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production
By Soulskill from Slashdot's take-this-job-and-shove-it department:
itwbennett writes "That army of robotic assembly line workers we mentioned yesterday apparently can't get started soon enough. As many as 3,000-4,000 workers are on strike at Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory, upset at stricter quality control requirements with the iPhone 5 and having to work through a national holiday this week. 'According to workers, multiple iPhone 5 production lines from various factory buildings were in a state of paralysis for the entire day,' China Labor Watch said. Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo are both blocking searches in Chinese for 'Foxconn strikes.'"
Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte
By Soulskill from Slashdot's more-bits-per-buck department:
crookedvulture writes "SSD prices continue plummeting. In just the past quarter, street prices have fallen by double-digit percentages for most models, with some slashed by 30% or more. We've reached the point where the majority of drives cost less than a dollar per gigabyte, and that's without the special coupon codes and mail-in rebates usually attached to weekly deals. Lower-capacity drives seem more resistant to deep price cuts, making 120-256GB offerings the best values right now. It's nice to see a new class of devices go from prohibitively expensive to eminently affordable in such a relatively short amount of time."
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By Soulskill from Slashdot's wear-your-seat-belts-kids department:
snydeq writes "First, it was data caps on cellular, and now caps on wired broadband — welcome to the end of the rich Internet, writes Galen Gruman. 'People are still getting used to the notion that unlimited data plans are dead and gone for their smartphones. The option wasn't even offered for tablets. Now, we're beginning to see the eradication of the unlimited data plan in our broadband lines, such as cable and DSL connections. It's a dangerous trend that will threaten the budding Internet-based video business — whether from Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, Windows Store, or Google Play — then jeopardize Internet services of all sorts. It's a complex issue, and though the villains are obvious — the telecom carriers and cable providers — the solutions are not. The result will be a metered Internet that discourages use of the services so valuable for work and play.'"
Open Source Raspberry Pi WebIDE Alpha Released
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ptorrone writes "Adafruit, the NYC based open-source hardware company led by Ladyada released their open-source Raspberry Pi WebIDE alpha today. Its goal is to be 'The easiest way to develop code on your Raspberry Pi.' To get up and running head on over to learn.adafruit.com/webideand follow the installation and setup instructions. It uses Bitbucket, and any code changes you make will be synced to your Bitbucket account. Adafruit chose Bitbucket over GitHub because they offer free secure accounts, which is very important for a Web-based IDE."
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An anonymous reader writes "Like any popular platform, Android has malware. Google's mobile operating system is relatively new, however, so the problem is still taking form. In fact, it turns out that the larger majority of threats on Android come from a single malware family: Android.FakeInstaller, also known as OpFake, which generates revenue by silently sending expensive text messages in the background. McAfee says that the malware family makes up more than 60 percent of Android samples the company processes."
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sfcrazy writes "Samsung has created a new Linux file system called F2FS. Jaegeuk Kim of Samsung writes on the Linux Kernel Mailing List: F2FS is a new file system carefully designed for the NAND flash memory-based storage devices. We chose a log structure file system approach, but we tried to adapt it to the new form of storage. Also we remedy some known issues of the very old log structured file system, such as snowball effect of wandering tree and high cleaning overhead."
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The Stanley Museum: The quintessential museum on the Stanley Motor Carriage Company (located in Kingfield, Maine).
The Stanley Register: Website maintained by FAHP member Kelly Williams dedicated to tracing the origins and history of Stanley steam cars
StanleyMotorCarriage.com: A technical and restoration website maintained by F.A.H.P. charter member Robert Wilhelm devoted to his restored 1918 Model 735 Stanley
The Steam Automobile Club of America
Steam Car Club of Great Britain
SteamCarNetwork.com: Website dedicated to steam cars and bikes
Eckel Family Museum: Earle S. Eckel was an early figure in Stanley preservation
Hoke Family’s Stanley Steam Car Site: Website of longtime Stanley aficionados in Texas
National Steam Car Association: Corporation of steam car owners in England
Vintage Steam Products, LLC
Virtual Steam Car Museum
SITES ON LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVES:
SteamLocomotive.com
Little Engines website: 70+-year-old company; portions of the Auburn Valley Railroad locomotives came from Little Engines
Pennsylvania Live Steamers Inc.
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Derailment, Rail Safety
Latest oil train derailment
February 3, 2014 Roger Straw
Repost from Reuters
Train carrying fuel oil derails, spills in Mississippi
By Therese Apel
JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) – A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying fuel oil and other hazardous materials derailed and was leaking in southeast Mississippi on Friday, forcing the evacuation of nearby residents, officials said.
No one was injured in the incident which involved the derailment of 21 railcars, eight of which have spilled their contents, a Canadian National Railway spokesman said.
Several of the cars were carrying hazardous materials including fertilizer and methanol, but there was no fire, he said.
The accident, the latest in a string of North American train derailments over the past year, occurred in the city limits of New Augusta in Perry County, near a mobile home park, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
Emergency services were on the scene and responding to the accident, local officials said.
Local sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith said that fewer than 20 people have had to be evacuated at last count.
“They’ve got these spills pretty much contained and secured, and we’re working on starting the cleanup process at this point,” Smith said from the scene. “Hopefully we can get everything cleaned up this afternoon and get people in their homes tonight.”
Friday’s accident follows a spate of explosive derailments of trains carrying crude oil over the past year that has raised questions about safety, especially of some older tank cars prone to puncture.
Federal regulators have been studying railcar design and other issues after the accidents, including one last month when a 106-car BNSF Railway Co train carrying crude east crashed into a derailed westbound BNSF grain train near Casselton, North Dakota.
Last July, a runaway oil train derailed and exploded in the center of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, killing 47 people.
(Additional reporting by Solarina Ho in Toronto; writing by Edward McAllister in New York; editing by Matthew Lewis)
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What is Youth Work?
The definition as to what is youth work is described in the Youth Work Act 2001;
“a planned programme of education designed for the purpose of aiding and enhancing the personal and social development of young persons through their voluntary participation, and which is (a) complementary to their formal, academic or vocational education and training; and (b) provided primarily by voluntary youth work organisations.”
Youth work operates in various settings spanning the non-formal education through to informal education. Youth work engages young people from ten to twenty-four years of age, a significant period in terms of young people’s development. Youth Work’s primary concern is with the education of young people and is predicated on the voluntary participation of young people. Flexibility of approach and emphasis on the interpersonal, enables it to offer an educational process complementary to that provided through formal education. In addition, Youth work often acts as the point of contact and referral in the interface with other youth- related issues such as care, health, and welfare.
In the Youth Work Act, a “young person” is interpreted as a person who has not attained the age of 25 years.
Youth work is primarily focused on young people aged 10 to 24 years, although there is also a significant level of activity with the under 10s. Youth work achieves a range of outcomes for young people, for example, communication skills, confidence and building relationships, through activities combining enjoyment, challenge and learning.
In practice, this includes volunteer-led youth groups, as well as youth projects with paid workers. The latter category incorporates a wide range of projects, including ones supporting young people considered to be at risk of exclusion, youth information centres, projects supporting voluntary youth activity and general youth work services. Youth work is delivered by both paid staff and volunteers, who play a key role in ensuring that young people have opportunities to be active members of their local communities. Youth workers support a range of approaches, which allow young people to engage and help ensure that services are responsive to young people’s needs and circumstances.
The quality of youth work carried out in each ETB area is supported through national quality standards initiatives.
CMETB links with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Values of Youth Work
Cavan and Monaghan ETB Youth Work Functions
Cavan and Monaghan ETB – Youth Work Committee:
Volunteer-led Youth Work Provision in Cavan and Monaghan
DCYA Funded Youth Work Service Provision in Cavan and Monaghan
All Youth Service Provision in Co. Cavan
All Youth Service Provision in Co. Monaghan
Maureen Mc Intyre – Youth Officer
Cavan Office
Cavan Town
Co. Cavan Monaghan Office
Monaghan Town
Tel: 049 4361881 ext. 6
Fax: 049 4361180 Tel: 047 30888 ext. 207
E-mail: maureenmcintyre@cmetb.ie
Sonya McQuaid – Oversight and Monitoring
Monaghan Office
Tel: 047 30888 ext. 208
E-mail: sonyamcquaid@cmetb.ie
Title for Listing
Local Youth Club Equipment Grant 2019 Closing date for the 2019 Grant is 12 noon on 28th June 2019.
Information Sheet 2019
Local Youth Club Grant Scheme 2018 The scheme is now open. Closing date for the 2018 Scheme is 12 Noon, 11th May 2018.
LYCGS Application form 2018
LYCGS information sheet – 2018
Better outcomes Brighter Future: National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014 – 2020 View pdf
National Policy Strategy for children and young people’s participation in decision making 2015 – 2020 View pdf
A practical guide to including seldom heard children and young people in decision making 2015 View pdf
Quality Standards for Youth Club/Groups View pdf
National Quality Standards for Volunteer-led Youth Groups – ANNUAL PLAN AND PROGRESS REPORT View pdf
National Quality Standards for Volunteer-led Youth Groups – SAMPLE EVIDENCE View pdf
Youth Club/Group Resources and useful links View pdf
Youth Service Directory 2015-2016 for Cavan and Monaghan View Pdf
SIGNPOSTS View Pdf
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AFL Betting 2018
2019 Premiership Betting
All Australian bookmakers offer futures market on the 2018 AFL premiership betting, prior to the start of the season and throughout the year, with the odds constantly fluctuating.
Common AFL Markets
Handicap & points
Over & under
Scorecast
Tri-bet
Quarter-by-quarter
Futures/outrights
Head-to-head (H2H) Betting
The outright H2H wager simply asks who you think will win the match. The favourite will always be priced at less than $2.00 odds, and at a shorter price than the opposing team. On some occasions, both sides can be paying equal odds (for example, $1.90 each) if the contest is considered extremely even. Like other markets, bookmakers set their head-to-head odds via the opinions of an expert team who formulate prices based on public opinion, team form and history, and a range of other significant factors.
As always, setting early prices is a risky business, as the views of the team of experts might in fact differ to that of the public. Once the market is set, wagers placed on the two teams will force their starting prices to fluctuate, and can often lead to favourites becoming underdogs, and underdogs becoming favourites. H2H wagers can also be placed on who will be leading at quarter time, half time and three-quarter-time (3QT).
Handicap/Line Markets
The team at longer odds to win the match is, in the handicap market, given a precise head start on points, and the team at shorter odds is given a disadvantaged start, researched and chosen by the bookies, in order to create a bet with even odds (generally $1.92), designed to give both sides a 50 per cent chance of winning. For example: if Hawthorn is playing Carlton and the Hawks are considered slight favourites at $1.60 to beat the $2.25 Blues, the handicap/line betting could look something like this:
Hawthorn: -11.5 at $1.92
Carlton: +11.5 at $1.92
The $1.92 line odds for each side, and the accompanying handicaps of -11.5 and +11.5, was where the bookies decided the game would become an even contest (such odds are always equal). So the handicaps show the bookmakers believe Hawthorn is currently an 11-and-a-half-point better team than Carlton, which is the same as saying Carlton is an 11.5-point inferior side than Hawthorn. This line which is set, is therefore what the bookies believe will roughly be the winning/losing margin for the game.
If the final score for the match is Hawthorn 82 def Carlton 74, wagers placed on Carlton at +11.5 @ $1.92 would win, while wagers placed on Hawthorn at -11.5 @ $1.92 would lose. If you add on the 11.5-point head start given to the Blues to their final score, it is easy to see that 74 (which becomes 85.5) is greater than Hawthorn’s final score of 82. Conversely, if you subtract 11.5 from Hawthorn’s final score of 82, then its new score is less than Carlton’s original final total. If you calculate one, there is no need to calculate the other. The easiest way to distinguish which bet is the winning bet is to ask yourself: did Hawthorn win by more, or less than 11.5 points? If the answer is more, than it has successfully covered what is known as the spread, and a wager on the Hawks is successful. But in this case, they failed to cover the spread, so Carlton to get within 11.5 pays off. The reason for the 0.5 value given to either side is so if Hawthorn wins by 11 or 12 points, we can clearly see which selection is victorious.
Punters also can pick their own line, where set prices are given for a large scope of possible results, all in relation to the original line for the game. So $1.92 odds for each team at -11.5 and +11.5 will begin to increase and decrease when you start to change the line in a positive or negative direction for either team. For example, set a line of -19.5 for Hawthorn, and the odds might climb from $1.92 to $2.30, because according to the original line, it will obviously be harder for the Hawks to win by more than 19.5 points than 11.5 points, hence the rise in price. Handicap betting can also apply to each stage of the match (i.e. if a certain team covers a set spread by quarter time, HT or 3QT).
Bookmakers will often add another element of the same nature to line/handicap betting, but instead of offering odds of $1.92, the points market will provide the punter with slightly better value, where a handicap/head-start amount will be reached where both teams are usually paying around $2.10. In this example, such a market could be as follows:
Hawthorn: -16.5 @ $2.10
Carlton: +6.5 @ $2.10
So if the Hawks had won by more than 16.5 points, a bet on them at $2.10 would win, while if the Blues had got within 6.5 points, a bet on them would have won.
Note: There are scenarios with this form of wagering where both options may not come to fruition, and that’s why odds of over $2.00 can be offered, even though there are only two options in play. A final margin ranging from seven points to 16 points would not be a successful result for either of the $2.10 bets. As per the original final score above, the winning margin of eight points does no one any favours if they took either of the points wagers.
Hypothetically, if you saw a market with only two outcomes at the same bookmaker, and each was paying in excess of $2.00, by punting on both, you would guarantee yourself a profit, but this is why such markets would not exist within the same company – unless due to error – because the company would be haemorrhaging money.
Generally, backing all outcomes of one event would guarantee a loss of a small percentage (the bookmaker’s margin). However, there is such a form of wagering known as arbitrage betting which takes advantage of different odds from diverse companies to turn what would usually be a loss in to a guaranteed profit; scenarios which can arise due to bookmakers’ altered opinions on the outcomes of events, and fluctuation in prices at different times and organisations.
Margin markets are specific bets which cover the range/span which the winning margin of one side will fall within. There will often be multiple choices with a variety of differing prices, and obviously the more specific you get, the higher the odds become. You should always find the following markets in any AFL game:
Team A to win by 1-39 points.
Team A to win by 40+ points.
Team B to win by 1-39 points.
Team B to win by 40+ points.
Team A or B to win by 1-24 or 25+ points.
Team A or B to win by 1-19, 20-39, 40-59 and 60+ points.
Team A or B to win by 1-9, 10-19, 20-29 … 90-99 and 100+ points.
You can also choose to bet on Team A or B to win by a specific two-point margin spread (such as 14-15 points), or the exact margin (23 points). Within all these markets, the option to wager on the draw, and its price, is provided. Again, like the above markets, punters are given the choice to wager on a team leading by a certain amount at each break in the game.
Over & Under (Points Total*)
Points total betting is wagering on the accumulated number of points to be scored either by one team or both teams at certain stages of the match (quarter time, half time, 3QT and full time). An Over/Under approach is taken here; whether the total amount of points will be over or under a set aggregate. For example: sites will often set 192.5 as the aggregate benchmark for the scores of the two teams collectively, in any one particular game, by full time. The odds will, in most circumstances, be of equal value at around $1.92 each.
*This form of wagering is also available for the results at each designated break in the match, and should not be confused with the Points market, which was explained above.
Player Markets
There are several markets available which allow punters to wager on outcomes of individual players, which again can come to fruition at quarter time, HT, 3QT, and at the final siren.
Goal Scorer – Predict which player will bag the most goals, be the first goal-kicker, last goal-scorer, or simply anytime goal scorer at some stage in the match. Forward-line players will be at shorter priced odds than back-line players.
Most Possessions – Who will be the leading possession-winner on the ground at any of the four stages of the match? A list of selected players and their respective odds are offered by bookies, with highly-rated midfielders often at much shorter prices than defenders or forwards.
Doubles Wagering
There are a vast number of doubles offered by our bookies, where you can bet on two outcomes of a game as one overall wager, with both results needing to be achieved in order for you to win. The odds of each individual result are multiplied together to form one overall set price, thus creating higher returns. Some doubles include:
Line/Points Total Double: The handicap/line selection, along with the total amount of points to be scored in the match. For instance; St. Kilda has a handicap of +28.5, against Collingwood who has a handicap of -28.5, and the total points to be scored in the match is set at Over/Under 192.5 The four options would include:
Collingwood -28.5 and Over 192.5 (Collingwood to win by more than 28.5 points & the total sum of points to be greater than 192.5).
Collingwood -28.5 and Under 192.5
St. Kilda +28.5 and Over 192.5
St. Kilda +28.5 and Under 192.5
First Score/Head to Head Double: The combinations involving the first team to score in the game, and the team which will win. Using the above example:
Collingwood to score first and win the match
Collingwood to score first and lose the match
St. Kilda to score first and win the match
St. Kilda to score first and lose the match
Half-Time/Full-Time: Who will lead at half time in combination with who will be leading at the conclusion of the match, with the following possibilities:
Collingwood/Collingwood
St. Kilda/Collingwood
St. Kilda/St. Kilda
Collingwood/St. Kilda
A draw at the end of any quarter
All these doubles can also be used as single bet. For instance, you can simply place a wager on who you think will score first. You can also punt on what type of score the first score will be – a behind to Team A or Team B, or a goal to Team A or Team B.
The scorecast is a new type of bet where precise odds are given for a player to score the first goal of the game, along with the final winning margin spread of the match. For instance, if Melbourne is playing Gold Coast, you will find an option of Jesse Hogan to score the first goal and Melbourne to win by 10-19 points. Odds for these selections are always high and very attractive.
The Tri-Bet
A common selection which often presents good value for money. As the name suggests, such a market offers three different outcomes in any one match, with AFL games usually handed the following confines:
Team A to win by over 15.5 points
Team B to win by over 15.5 points
Either Team under 15.5 points (this includes the tie).
Quarter-by-Quarter Leader
Similar to the half time/full time double, here you can wager on which team will lead at each stage of the match. As there are four distinct periods of a footy game, there would be 16 different options to choose from, and picking the right one is always a difficult but entertaining task. The option to select ‘scores level’ at the end of any term is available, too.
Multi-Bet
A multi-bet is a wager involving a series of two or more individual selections combined, which produces a much greater dividend. Each individual selection is called a leg, and each leg must be successful in order for the entire multi-bet to pay off. If one or more of the outcomes does not occur, then the bet will lose. The multi-bet odds are calculated the same was as a doubles wager is calculated; by multiplying the price of each individual wager together. Thus, the overall price can stand to grow significantly.
Note: You cannot add multiple legs of the same game together to create a multi, or events which are deemed to be related (i.e. you won’t be able to multi Melbourne beating Gold Coast, with Melbourne winning the same game by 20-39 points).
Multis open up a plethora of options for us and are a thoroughly entertaining, high risk/high reward style of punting. Take one team paying $2.50 to win in a H2H market, multi it with a different match and take the favourite to cover the spread at $1.92, and then multi those two selections with an individual player in another game to be the leading goal-kicker at $4.75 odds. You will now have odds of $22.80.
AFL Futures/Outrights
Popular AFL futures markets include (events which will result later on in the season):
Premiership Winner
Minor Premiers (to finish top of the table at the end of the H&A season).
To Make the Top 4
Wooden Spoon Winner (to finish bottom of the ladder).
Grand Final Quinella (which two teams you think will make the Grand Final).
Brownlow Medal Winner (arguably the most respected medal, awarded to the best and fairest player of the Home and Away season, as deemed by the official AFL umpires).
Live Betting and Wagering on Mobiles
Live, in-play betting, while no longer allowed online by Australian sports bookmakers, is still completely legal by calling up your designated bookie and placing you selected bets over the phone. You will need an account with the bookmaker you decide to call up, and minimum wagers are usually AUD $5.
Each of our recommended bookies offer mobile betting, so you can punt on the AFL directly from your Apple iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry or any other phone/tablet device with a data connection. The phone layout and design of each site is clean, easy to use and extremely efficient.
Where to Watch AFL
You can watch all AFL matches live on Foxtel, while Channel 7 hosts four games free-to-air every round. AFL.com.au streams entire replays of every game 24 hours after the conclusion of the selected match, while the site also offers a link to listen to each and every game live on the radio.
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Hopkins Edged by Birmingham-Southern in CWS Round Two
Johns Hopkins Post-Game Press Conference
• Score: #17 Birmingham-Southern-4, #21 Johns Hopkins-3 (10)
• Records: JHU (36-12), Birmingham Southern (41-13)
• Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
• Pitching Decision: W – Misischia (10-1) • L – Betz (5-3)
• The Short Story: Rich Misischia scored from third on a drawn-in, five-man Johns Hopkins infield in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift 17th-ranked Birmingham-Southern to a 4-3 win over 21st-ranked Johns Hopkins at the Division III College World Series Saturday night.
• Birmingham-Southern, which trailed 2-0 and 3-1, loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the 10th and the Blue Jays responded by bringing in an extra infielder. Down 1-2 in the count, Tyler Wise bounced one up the middle that Blue Jay shortstop Mike Eberle fielded between the back of the mound and second base. Eberle's slightly off-balance throw bounced short of catcher AJ King and Misischia slid home with the game-winning run.
• After scoring just one run through six innings in its World Series opener a day earlier, the Blue Jays needed just five batters to grab a two-run lead in the top of the first. Junior Chris Festa's solo home run to right was followed by a double from classmate Nate Davis and then a run-scoring single from senior Chris DeGiacomo to account for JHU's two early runs against Panther starter Jake Cook; both runs came with two outs.
• The Panthers got one back it the bottom of the second as a Luke DePiero single up the middle was followed by an RBI-double by Alfredo Granier to make it 2-1 Blue Jays after two.
• Hopkins got that run back in the top of the fourth on an RBI-single from Tim Kutcher that plated sophomore Matt Ritchie, who had opened the inning with a single to right. The Blue Jays had a chance to get more in the fourth, but Cook and reliever Hanan Mauldin worked out of a two-on, one-out jam to limit JHU to the single run.
• The 3-1 Blue Jay lead held until the bottom of the sixth, when Birmingham-Southern got a two-out, solo home run of its own from senior Tyler Hamel.
• The Panthers pulled even in the bottom of the eighth as Cole Steadman opened the inning with a double down the right field line and advanced to third on a balk. He scored one batter later on a Brian Williams ground out to make it 3-3.
• Both teams had chances to win in the ninth as the Blue Jays stranded runners at first and third in the top of the inning and the Panthers had the potential winning run at second base with one out, but Blue Jay pitcher Preston Betz worked out of the jam by picking off A.J. Hunt and then DePiero popped out to end the threat.
• Johns Hopkins stranded one runner in the top of the 10th to set the stage for the Panthers' game-ending rally in the bottom of the inning.
Johns Hopkins:
Hits: DeGiacomo-2
RBI: Three with-1
Strikeouts: Bunting-8
Birmingham-Southern:
Hits: Granier-3
Strikeouts: Cook-3
• Johns Hopkins slips to 36-12 on the year and had its nine-game winning streak snapped.
• Hopkins in now 6-3 all-time in one-run games at the College World Series.
• Festa's home run in the first inning pushed JHU's school-record and nation-leading total to 82 on the year.
• Jack Bunting struck out eight Panthers without allowing a walk. His eight strikeouts are tied for the second-highest total by a JHU pitcher in a College World Series game.
• DeGiacomo went 2-for-5 and is 5-for-10 in JHU's two CWS games.
• The Blue Jays will meet Babson in an elimination game on Sunday, June 2 at 1:15 pm (CT).
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BBC Weatherman Gives One-Finger Salute on Air
BBC weathercaster Tomasz Schafernaker was caught live on-camera earlier this week giving his middle-finger reaction (known in German as the Stinkefinger) to a sarcastic introduction by the news anchor:
According to the UK Sun, this is not the first gaffe by the 31-year-old TV weatherman:
Last year he stumbled over his words in a live broadcast and forecast a "muddy sh*te" for Glastonbury instead of a "muddy site".
He was also forced to make an apology after referring to the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland as "nowheresville" in a weather bulletin in February 2007.
Early this year Tomasz caused controversy when he posed without his top on for the cover of Active - a supplement in gay magazine, Attitude.
The Beeb itself reported its regrets:
"The News Channel presenter in the studio acknowledged a mistake had been made, and we apologise for any offence caused," a BBC spokesman said.
"Tomasz was not aware that he was on air, and whilst the gesture was only shown for a second, it was not acceptable."
The Guardian's MediaMonkey blog comments
And, you guessed it... Schafernaker again who couldn't stop laughing after BBC News presenter Simon McCoy – him again! – suggested he had a "frozen ball". "Just the one," replied TS. Schafernaker, who as well as predicting warm fronts has quite an impressive front himself (as revealed in Attitude magazine earlier this year) has also been known to break into song, read out the wrong forecast and occasionally make no sense whatsoever.
Posted by Steve Scolnik at 10:03 PM
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Name: " Florence James-Gibbs "
D.O.B: 07-07-1919
State / Parish: St. Andrews
District Munich
Place of Death Brooklyn New York
01/05/2019 @ 9:30am
Viewing and Wake Service
Friday, January 4th 2019 from 5pm - 9pm
St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church
331 Hawthorne Street Brooklyn NY 11225
(between Nostrand & New York Avenue)
Saturday, January 5th 2019 at 9:30AM
Mass of Christian Burial:
Holy Family R.C. Church
9719 Flatlands Avenue (corner of Rockaway Avenue)
Brooklyn New York 11236
Canarsie Cemetery
1370 Remsen Avenue, Brooklyn New York
Special Info Florence James-Gibbs originally of Beaulieu, St. George’s, Grenada, lived in Munich, St. Andrew’s Grenada, and later, Brooklyn, New York, USA, has died at the age of 99years. Florence was the seventh of eight children born to the late Tina and Bobby Josiah James of Beaulieu, St. George’s, Grenada. She was the last survivor of her late siblings: Lettie Ashby, Doris Fraser, Ivy James-Watkins, Millie Cobb, Amos James, Neville James, and Elvina Payne. She was the wife of the late Anton Gibbs of Munich, St. Andrew’s, Grenada. Sister-in-law of the late Cyprian Gibbs and family of Munich, St. Andrew’s Florence was the mother of Agnita James, Harold James, Patsy Jones, Evodia Velda Gibbs, Brian Gibbs, Brenda Ingrid-Gibbs, Shirlin Ragin, Sylvester Gibbs (former President of Crochu Pomme-Rose Ex-Students Association) all in the USA, Stephanie Lumsden (Canada) and Selwyn Wayne Gibbs (Trinidad). Florence was the Grandmother of 18 grandchildren, 14 great- grandchildren, one great-great- grandson. Step-mother of Neil Mason, Neale Alexander, Anna Alexander, Curtis Alexander, Francis and Florence Gibbs, Joseph McSween, Medrie Braithwaite and the late Preston Joseph Gibbs and step-grandmother of Prescott Gibbs. Mother-in-law of Noreen Williams-Gibbs, Margaret McSween, Roslyn Gibbs, Devere Mike Lumsden, Sebastian Douglas and John Ragin. Close family and friends of the Payne, Cobb, James and Ashby family of Beaulieu, St. George’s; the Edwards, Neckles, Henry, Lord, George and Alexander family of Munich, St. Andrew’s; Margaret and Carmen Nathan of Grand Anse, St. George’s, Grenada; the Gibbs, Vincent, Watkins and James family of Trinidad and Tobago; the Fraser family of Aruba and Saint Maarteen and Lisa Matthews in New York.
my condolences to the entire family. may she rest in peace. god bless
JOANNA JAMES
NEW JERSEY [1/19/2019]
i'm terribly sorry for your loss. may our creator's promises at revelation 21:4; 22:1,2 and john 5:28,29 bring you comfort in this difficult time.
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Mo’City – “P4TG (Pray For The Gemini)”
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Phif – “Beautiful Nightmare”
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"Enzo (male) & Hera (female)"
Enzo is the fastest member of our team, hence the name. He is a Peregrine Tiercel (this is the falconry term for a boy falcon) He’s a very cheeky boy and make a lot of noise when he see's Emma as she is mum. Enzo can be seen diving and stooping at high speeds during the displays.
Hera is our 20 year old female peregrine who is now retired. She is like your great grandma, she likes to lie down on her shelf perch in the sunshine and watch the world go by. In the past she has had lots of babies and was flown for a few years until the muscles in her wing gave up. Now she has a 'climbing frame' in her aviary so she can walk around.
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PEREGRINE FALCON FACTS
Falco peregrinus
TERRITORY/LOCATION
The peregrine falcon has a worldwide distribution, occurring on every continent except Antarctica. The name ‘peregrine’ means ‘wanderer’, with most northern populations undergoing long-distance migrations to winter further south.
inhabits a diverse range of habitats, from cold tundra to hot deserts and tropics, and from oceanic islands, to forests, wetlands, savannah and mountains. It is also increasingly using urban habitats.
Least Concern
The peregrine falcon feeds mainly on birds, as well as some mammals, such as bats, rabbits and rodents, and occasionally insects, reptiles and fish.
Length of 34-58 cm and a wingspan 74-120 cm, weighing 550-1,500 g female measuring 20% larger than the male.
The breeding season varies with location, and may depend on weather conditions and prey availability. Reaching sexual maturity at one year, first breeds at around 2 years it mates for life and nests in a scrape, normally on cliff edges, laying 1-6 eggs.
12-16 years average age n the wild
20 years in the wild
F. peregrinus
The peregrine is renowned for its speed, reaching over 200 mph during its characteristic hunting stoop making it the fastest member of the animal kingdom. According to a National Geographic TV programme, the highest measured speed of a peregrine falcon is 242 mph.
It can be found nearly everywhere on Earth, except extreme polar regions, very high mountains, and most tropical rainforests
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"RECENT ACTIVITIES"
Danyel: Wait a minute… If Lenny is your imaginary friend, couldn't you make him whoever you want him to be?
Charlye: No. Lenny wouldn't be happy 'bout it. And that's not how it works.
Recent activities have been recorded in a penalty book*. Repetitive writing of a hundred lines, a forfeit unsure of its worth—for now, for the actions intended yet undone. What are you talking about? This is not about the 4 pre-schoolers who were punished for opening the damn door for a stranger on the street and humiliated by the class of 20 adolescent accomplices, having to re-enact with the bathroom?? door as of a hundred times. No. That was a ridiculous counter-action, too much a rightist. This, on the contrary, is voluntary; believed not that, of the thought that counts. More than 700 lines hitherto, a short story that may well be too indulgent for a proper reader. The ending yet unknown, the story can not be continued as the subject of the writing seemed to have vanished and banished from the author's castle in the air. Could the subject not been real, real as of alive and of tangible existence, after all? Úna Elfred anticipates the conclusion but all she can do is, wait. And wait.
"Kim and Jessie, they have a secret world in the twilight.
Kids outside worlds, they are crazy about romance and illusions"
If Kim and Jessie be neighbors at Walker House or friends at The Book Club, she'd love to hang out, chat about the outside world and be invited to their hideout. Úna had ready the-run-for-it-sack, in the last 2 decades it sat in the blue painted built-in wardrobe of o-eight-o-six on Coco Hill. In case of emergency, she had in mind, packed were the precious ones; death was a constant query and has recently returned. What were in the suitcase? Cutesified trolls with bright-colored hair in a themed land printed on both sides. A juvenile she was, ironically in defiance of death, she'd not realized until now. Little ponies and po-la-la-la-polly pocket paradise, some pencils, the best outfit and a pair of socks. No diary, no money, no worries. Always ready, just not today, she thought. Left alone. To the lighthouse, safe at sea. She needs a name, at least.
Úna Elfred did it again. Today, she ran away. Hold that thought.
Recent activities fed onto this other world, coded in ones and zeros, it is quite bizarre. As is with using the bluetooth device and having your digital files transferred from the mobile phone to the computer. Without blinking your eyes, you still couldn't see, except the presence of creepiness felt. Got ghost. No. Maybe. To be fed on the computer screen, the private lives of friends-once-strangers, or more likely of strangers-once-friends. Zuckerberg's design of this social platform is plausible and questionable. You know what I am talking about, I hope. A strangers' reunion, rather than a high school reunion. Some of these people, no longer who you thought them once to be. A is married to B, and so did C to D, E has a newborn F, G is all grown up, H has broken up with I, J must have been stalking abouts K's, L no longer on M's list, N poked O: vice versa, P is having a party where Q, R and S were invited except T, U had a bad day and V is ecstatic, W is now at X's while Y was tagged in Z's. The edited versions of A-Z, people she'd known from places they'd been in different phases of her life, now all kept uninvited to her birthday party. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em; such a theory kept Úna dwelling in this crimson whirlpool of cynics. Though not all bad, Úna caught up with Eryc last summer after a decade thanks to that and recently, daily updates of Bob-the-ranger-cat recovering from multiple death threatening surgeries. A documentary-soap-drama. But what do we know about how Bob really feels? And all those pictures of what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Oh come on! Grey, it is! Though not all bad, she'd love being fed updates of certain people on her list, 4 or 5 in particular she'd like to know if they are kicking on, the others being closest friends who live in different cities, thumbs up for random funny feeds and information regarding shows not to be missed. What a hypocrite, I know.
The first time Úna Elfred met Bob, it was 11ish one evening. She sat, on the wooden picnic bench table outside a 24hours bistro, as she watched Bob scouted the grass patch on the other side of the road. Sniffing around in the dark, the lone ranger strolled his turf. Looking, looking for something. "Bob!" Ty shouted for him as Bob was ready to roam further down into the alley behind the motel. "Back here!" Of which he hesitatingly did. Bob is a grey tabby, not a regular stray you bump into on the streets but the adventurer, amongst the 7 or 8 cats that Ty+Bllr took in from the streets. Bob gets to wander outside in the day and returns promptly at dusk. His buddy, a blind feline, walked by an elderly; they started talking. The cats did. An unfamiliar conversation went on. We waited and care not to stare. Something about nothing we know of. The second time Úna Elfred met Bob, it could have been 11ish one evening. She was waiting for Ty as she watched Bob came down the stairs; from inside the car she spied. Bob snooping around and down the 5-foot pavement, making his rounds. Looking, looking for something. "Bob!" Ty shouted for him and he came resting on the passenger seat. They talked. Úna and Bob. 'Bout everything and nothing we know of. "How's the bladder doing?" she asked. "Not good," Bob replied. Both took a sip of the stout and quenched their thirst in unison as Úna took the wheel and drove through the pitch-black heath. The headlights were off. The accelerator held down further as she lit up the cigarette. It was quiet. Too quiet. "Life sucks but it is short," Bob advised. "Dude, you've got 9!" She retaliated. It was a slight bump, onto a gravel road and within seconds, they felt the plunge. The tires on no ground felt, they were falling, not floating. On the next beat that their hearts skipped, Úna opened her eyes and all she could see were the converging lane markings illuminated by the headlights. They chuckled. Úna took the next exit and drove Bob back to Ty's. "Hey, what were you looking for?" Úna shouted out of the window from the driver seat as Bob walked away. "I found it tonight actually thanks to you," he answered. "You're not answering the question… Hey!"
Úna Elfred rode on. The regular route 4.5 miles southwest, to southwest. From the glass dome, along the serpentine, out of the park from the barracks, on to the knights' bridge, then the square, pass the river on Chelsea towards the power station, round about queen's town, up the damn slope on Silverthorne, freewheeled down Wandsworth and Walker House in a minute to two. She tried to catch her breath as she brought the racer into the flat. By routine, she managed in the dark; the bike stationed in the corridor, keys tossed on the chest of drawers, gloves and coat removed, still catching her breath and the sweat felt on her back and underarms, before she could blow her nose, lights first please. Never fails to crash her pinky toe against the steel legs of the dining chair, a lesson never learnt, slouched over for the switch and a cup of tea, she thought. "AAAHH! What the?!" she was startled by Ohl, lying on her stripy red couch.
Ohl: This book's… funny, funny brilliant!
Úna: How the hell did you get in here?
Ohl: Your neighbor's well nice. He let me in. Chrys, I think his name is.
Úna: You stood me up yesterday. I waited by the mews, forever. Damn it Ohl.
Ohl: I'm hungry. I love the part about how she gave swimming lessons to the grannies. It's hilarious.
Úna: Me too. I mean I'm hungry and yes, that story's well good. Listen to the audio version. She narrated it. Eggs on toast?
Ohl: Mmm, ok.
Úna: So what do you want?
Ohl: Tuna melt.
Úna: Not supper. What do you want?
Úna: Right.
Ohl: I've got a message from Waltr. Here.
Úna: Quit teasing. What 'bout it? It's not funny.
/ Úna grabbed the note off Ohl's. She squinted through his handwriting, solemnly.
Úna: He found it.
Ohl: What?
Úna: I've got to go.
Úna picked up the keys and slammed the door behind her. Lowered the window of the Skybird and took a deep breath. She drove, she couldn't think of anything else. She headed further south east where Waltr would be, somewhere along the 3-mile coastline. The wind roared against the raging waves, yet chaotic it was ordered and rhythmic. The chalk cliff seen from a distant edge shimmered in the twilight. The lighthouse erected from the water slightly off the shore emitted the cone of light, in a waltz. There he was.
Úna: Ey?
/ She went up and sat next to Waltr under the fleece.
Waltr: You made it.
/ She saw the bliss in his eyes and felt a lightness in his arms.
Waltr: Look.
/ He woke her up from her nap.
/ A red dot rose above the horizon at the end of the world and the light reflected a line that separated the ocean in two.
Waltr: It is, but temporary. Every moment, everything changes. Every color, every thought, every fall.
Úna: And it holds it all up again.
Charlye: Len… Would you come to the party with me?
Lenny: No, I am fictional.
Charlye: But Dan said I can make you whatever I want you to be.
Lenny: Right.
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[April 25. 2019] Colorful World of Quantum Dots
Prof. Sungjee Kim (Pohang University of Science & Technology)
Thu. 25 Apr. 2019
Colorful World of Quantum Dots
A few imaging applications using quantum dots (QDs) will be introduced, which will cover from visible to infrared(IR) for the wavelengths and from cellular super-resolution to whole body in vivo imaging for the object scale. (1) QDs were conjugated to tumor-specific antibodies(Abs) with zwitterionic surface coating to reduce nonspecific bindings. The Ab-QD probes were used to diagnose tumors for sectioned mouse tissues, fresh mouse colons stained ex vivo and in vivo, and also for fresh human colon adenoma tissues. The probes successfully detected not only cancers that are readily discernible by bare eyes but also hyperplasia and adenoma regions. Multiplexed QD, spray-and-wash, and endoscopy approach provided a significant advantage for detecting small or flat tumors that may be missed by conventional endoscopic examinations. QD-Ab probe was also used in conjunction with a ratiometric fluorescent molecular probe, cresyl violet–glutamic acid derivative, that ratiometrically switches between two fluorescent colors in response to the enzyme activity of λ-glutamyltranspeptidase. Co-application of the two kinds of probes, QD-Abs and the ratiometric molecular probe, afforded accurate visualization of carcinomas, hyperplasia and adenoma regions. (2) Amphiphilic polyethyleneimine derivatives (amPEIs) were synthesized and used to encapsulate dozens of QDs. The QD-amPEI showed very efficient QD cellular fluorescent labeling. Co-encapsulation of QDs and oxygen sensing phosphorescence Ru dyes allowed accurate and reversible oxygen sensing capability by the ratiometric signals, which was successfully applied to cellular and spheroid models. (3) Photo-modulating QDs were designed by conjugating crystal violets (CVs) on QD surface. The QD CV conjugates (QD-CVs) shows a single cycle of emission burst as go through the stage of initially quenched off to photo-activated on and back to photo-darkened off stage. The QD-CV probes were introduced into cells, and the visible light excitation yielded photo-modulation nearly ten folds in intracellular environment. Exploiting the stochastic PL burst of QD-CVs and multiplexing capability of QDs, simultaneous multi-color super-resolution localizations were demonstrated. (4) Recent technological advances have expanded fluorescence imaging into the second near-infrared region (NIR-II; wavelength = 1000–1700 nm), providing high spatial resolution through deep tissues. However, bright and compact fluorophores are rare in this region, and sophisticated control over NIR-II probes has not been achieved yet. We showcase an enzyme-activatable NIR-II probe that exhibits turn-on fluorescence upon matrix metalloprotease activity in tumor microenvironment.
1. (a) Y. Park et al, Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28, 1703450. (b) Y. Park, et al, ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 8896.
2. J. Park et al, ACS Nano, 2015, 6511.
3. S. Jung et al, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 7603.
4. S. Jeong et al, Nano Letters, 2017, 17, 1378.
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Cher - Icon (2017 Billboard Music Awards)
Published 2 years ago by Cherlove in Awards
Tags: 2017, cher, billboard, awards, believe, turn back time
Cher - ET Billboard Music Awards (1998)
Cher - Billboard Music Awards (1998)
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Cher - American Music Awards (1988)
Cher - MTV Video Music Awards (1987)
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Cher - The American Music Awards (1999)
Cher singing "I Hope You Find It" on Late Night With David Letterman (24.09.2013)
Cher - We All Sleep Alone (Version 2)
Cher - Woman's World (2013)
Sunday Night: at home with Cher (22.09.2013)
Cher - "The Voice" Season 4 Finale (18.06.2013)
Cher - 5th Annual AmfAR Inspiration Gala Sao Paulo (10.04.2015)
The Very First Glen Campbell Television Special (1973) Pt 2
Cher looks radiant in sequinned gown at Met Gala in NYC (04.05.2015)
Cher - PrimeTime Thursday (2002)
Cher - Will & Grace (2002) A.I. Artificial Insemination
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IRL Fans Upset With NASCAR And ESPN
Rarely do we hear from IRL fans, but this past weekend certainly proved to be an exception. While Tropical Storm Hanna turned Richmond into a doubleheader, IRL fans got quite a double whammy of their own on Sunday.
Open wheel fans tuning-in to ESPN2 for the 12:30PM season finale of the Indy Lights series instead found themselves being welcomed to NASCAR Countdown by Allen Bestwick.
Originally, veteran announcer Bob Jenkins was scheduled to call the live IRL support series race from Chicagoland as the end to a full season of open wheel racing. Instead, at the very last minute, the Indy Lights were moved to the ESPN Classic Network. That is a place that Nationwide Series fans know all too well.
In today's world of technology, that meant the DVR's and the TiVo's recording the Indy Lights race were on the wrong channel. Cable listings did not have this change and neither did the ESPN.com website.
Network executives had finally decided that the Sprint Cup Series race from Richmond on ESPN needed a pre-race show. Since the NFL Countdown program on ESPN could not be touched, NASCAR was moved to ESPN2 and it was the Indy Lights that took it right on the chin.
Later that day, it was Marty Reid and the ESPN crew who produced the IRL race from Chicagoland on ABC Sports. As many fans know, ESPN just wrapped-up a brutal TV negotiation with the IRL. The network wanted the Indy 500 and perhaps a couple of other selected races that fit the program schedule, but nothing more.
Even with the new unified series, the IRL could do nothing more than cave. SPEED expressed no interest and the TV options were limited. The remaining IRL events wound-up alongside NHL Hockey on the Versus Network. TV viewers may remember this as the former Outdoor Life Channel. Comcast has bought the network, moved it to Philadelphia and is trying to build an ESPN-style national sports network of its own.
Once the IRL race at Chicagoland was underway, ESPN had a tough time. They completely missed Sarah Fisher's hard crash and Reid said the network "did not have cameras on that portion of the track." Fisher was OK.
The IRL cars at Chicagoland are like NASCAR at Talladega. Side-by-side, lap-by-lap no one could pull away from anyone else. The key to the race was going to be gas mileage and while the action was high-speed it was less than exciting. No one could pass.
As the final laps wound-down, Scott Dixon seemed poised to win the Championship and was leading the race by holding the low line lap-after-lap. The ESPN Director chose to feature Dixon's cute wife Emma on the screen for the final laps. Rather than show the other racing action behind the leaders, ESPN was once again building the drama on a single car and driver.
Dixon came to the finish line with Helio Castroneves alongside. Reid was overjoyed that Dixon had won the race and the championship in style. Pictures of his happy wife were everywhere as she hugged and kissed her friends. Dixon was sent to Victory Lane and TV veteran Jack Arute was waiting for him.
While Dixon got parked and removed his helmet, ESPN replayed the great finish. There were lots of compliments for Dixon right up until the replay of the finish-line camera.
ESPN veteran Reid said it best. "Uh oh," he muttered.
Amid all the hype and pictures of Dixon's pretty wife, one little element had slipped through the cracks with the ESPN broadcast team. Castroneves had won the race.
Clearly flustered, the ESPN Producer went ahead with Arute's interview of Dixon in Victory Lane. Arute never told Dixon he had lost the race, but limited his awkward questions to the Championship. Dixon wanted to talk about the race. It was a TV mess of the highest order.
Next-up was an ESPN pit reporter catching-up with Castroneves as he left the garage area. Always smiling and gracious, Castroneves stopped to chat. The pit reporter said to him "you won the race." The awkwardness of this moment made the Arute interview seem like Sports Emmy material.
Castroneves is a class act. "I knew it," he said. This was a bitter pill for him to swallow after a season of second-place finishes. To be denied Victory Lane simply because the TV network and the IRL botched the finish was beyond embarrassing. Helio excused himself by saying he needed to go climb a fence.
Just who put the cart before the horse is still being debated. Dixon and Castroneves could both have simply been stopped on pit road until things were sorted-out, but that did not happen. Click here for the link to the official IRL explanation.
As the last race in the final season of exclusive ESPN coverage, this was not how the drivers and teams in this series deserved to go out. Whether it was time pressure from ABC that caused the ESPN crew to push forward without the correct information or just the lack of communication with the IRL officials, it certainly was a weekend that open-wheel fans would like to forget.
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Dixon's car had a faulty transponder in it ... Therefore, Brian Barnhart made the WRONG call in awarding the win to Dixon ... Only to realize that Helio had actually won the race ...
Sarah Fisher had a right rear shock failure ... that got her into the SAFER barrier ...
I thought it was ironic that the grand marshal of the Indy Lights race is one of the guys from the CHAMP Atlantic series ...
This is yet another problem with Disney sports channels ... Too many LIVE sporting events all over the country ... and they usually wind up bleeding over into someone else's time slot ...
Thank you for this column, JD.
This house was LIVID with the ending..and complained during the race due to lack of cameras....on a ONE mile oval track. This was not a convoluted road course where cameras sometimes miss something.
IRL deserved better.
It was like cub scouts were running the show.
It was very sad.
THE LAST RACE OF THE SEASON. Insulting to the fans, and the Sport.
As you can see, I am still ticked from the HORRIBLE faux paux at the end.
Just IMAGINE if this had been NASCAR with a larger audience? Switchboards (provided you can find a number!) and email boxes would've burned up and exploded.
I wonder if Robin Miller will address this.
I wonder if I can find his column on the SPEED site.
Thanks for for writing about the IRL JD. You had a busy weekend.
Hope you stay safe and dry from the storms.
Anon 1:38PM,
I am not sure what you are posting there. Barnhart never made a call at all. Once he reviewed the tape it was changed at the track, but ABC was already gone.
IRL says they made the call in a timely fashion but TV plowed ahead with the interviews. The rumor is they had to be off the air at a certain time. Seems to me that perhaps waiting a couple of minutes to figure out who won might not have been a bad idea.
It seems funny that this is exactly the kind of drama that NASCAR loves, but everyone on the TV broadcast seemed to be flustered.
Just because the ESPN script is not followed to the letter should not cause reality to be avoided.
I wish I could publish some of the emails from the IRL fans. Let's just say that had a tough weekend.
I personally will be glad to see the races on Versus next year. I'll miss the on-air folks from ESPN but not the production elements. They do a fine job with the Indy 500 but the rest is just an afterthought for them.
I'm sure Versus will have a weekly IRL show, plenty of post-race coverage and other programming to tie in with the series. Maybe they'll even be able to get Bob Jenkins and John Kernan.
Village Idiot Intern said...
Congradulations to ESPN for resurrecting the ghosts of USAC past!
The month of May, 1979 is generally considered the focal point of the CART-USAC war, and until the Scott Goodyear pace car fiasco at Texas, it is also remembered as USAC's most public display of incompetence.
This, my friends, could very well be ESPN/ABC's Waterloo with open wheelers and their fans.
If Comcast, in their infinite wisdom{smirk}, would partner with the two American satellite providers, all other American cable-tv providers and one national network they may be able to usurp Disney's seemingly insurmountable advantage in sports programming. But Comcast had rather play 'king-of-the-hill' with rather predictable results, so the status quo with IRL will probably remain, much to our chagrin. After all, as one racing series go at Disney, so go they all.
Correct me if I am wrong, isn’t the “sanctioning body” responsible for putting the winning car in Victory Lane? Barnhart has not has the best month…
Who cares about IRL and especially INDY LIGHTS. They played that race on ESPN2 after the Nationwide race was over. I watched the first 5 minutes maybe when there was 2 cautions in the first 5 laps, one in the very first corner. Those boys (and gals) are talented! Why doesnt ESPN bring back some good racing like USAC or maybe even the Modifieds running at New Hampshire? Looking at the number of people in the stands for that Lights race I cant even believe that series is still running.
The issue was fairly controversial, especially since the transponder mistake caused the problem. The announcers were also at fault for not reviewing the replay themselves before calling a winner.
Dixon was set to be part of the winner's ceremony, besides, for his 2008 IRL Championship that he won by finishing second (needed to finish 8th or better). But ESPN made such a bad call on the finish that even the Fox crew would have called Castroneves the winner since they are traditionally one who look out the window and not the monitor.
This is not going to go away anytime soon. The IRL is basically saying they were reviewing the tape while ESPN went ahead with the interviews.
Since the race was on ABC, they may have been trying to get off the air in a hurry.
I certainly wished that veteran Marty Reid had asked to see the finish before he and the production team moved forward live on-the-air to say Dixon was the winner.
It really ended the ESPN and IRL relationship on a bad note.
speedangel said...
I'm not ready to put blame on Marty Reid and the announce team for calling Dixon the winner when it initially happened. The race was too close to call by the human eye, so they put trust into their electronic means.
However, I do think that the producer, director should have waited until the winner was made official before they proceeded with the interview. Between the time Castroneves and Dixon crossed the line until Dixon turned into Victory Lane, Reid had time to tell us that the IRL was taking a closer look at the finish. (I can't recall if they showed the replay in that time as well.)
Also, the IRL booth should've called down to have the cars stopped on pit road until it was resolved. Don't have either pull into Victory Lane if they were unsure. I remember a few years ago when NASCAR officals had to pull Jimmy Spencer and his truck team out of Victory Lane at Daytona when they came to the conclusion that Bobby Hamilton had actually won the race. Needless to say that was an awkward situation as well.
As so many others have said, it was just a bad ending, especially since it was the season finale.
It wouldn't be such a big deal if ESPN went ahead and changed ESPN C to ESPN3, brought it out on HD and let the cable providers have it cheap. Now, both cable and ESPN don't like budging much and that is easier said than done,.
Does the A in ABC stand for ah***s? What was on after the race that they had to leave on time? Let me guess, football? How many times does football bleed into other programming? (if this was the case). Two or three minutes wouldn't have hurt anybody. Better to be running late and get things right than having your series/broadcast partner look like idiots.
Beware NASCAR fans, this is the channel we'll be watching for the next 10 races.
If there wasn't a car and driver in victory lane, there wouldn't have been anyone to interview. IRL was the one who screwed this one up. ESPN didn't push the car there.
Speedangel said ...
(I can't recall if they showed the replay in that time as well.)
They did and it was very clear Dixon had not won. Major screw-up.
It definitely was a hot mess on Sunday! I was running around and the only reason I realized Helio had won was because I heard him say he was going to go climb the fence now, so had to back it up and see what was going on. I had flipped it over to the race just in time to hear Marty say they didn't have enough cameras so they didn't have tape of her crash. Truly a shame :(
I hope Vs. does them justice...I haven't watched much on it. @bevo--if Vs. does put on all that I'll be in HEAVEN! And yes, John Kernan, John Kernan!
@dot--here there was some local show that didn't look important enough to me that it couldn't wait 5 minutes.
@Karen,
Thanks for clearing that up. I remembered seeing the replay, I just couldn't remember where it fit in the sequence of events.
this is certainly awkward. I watched some of the race, but not the finish. I have to say, it sounds like it was a shame Marty Reid didn't send up a red flag. But the announcers are trying to do a big job and the *producers* are supposed to help them, and it appears they didn't. We can only hope the other networks learn from this, cause weird circumstances always seem to happen....
Adam T. Martin said...
I feel for the IRL fans and I was disappointed that I missed the Indy Lights series so I could hear Bob Jenkins.
The IRL and it's fans deserve better TV coverage.
From Robin Miller's Q/A-page 2 (note - RM is not a fan of ABC coverage: ABC stands for Always Bad Coverage in his eyes)
RM: It wasn’t ABC’s fault because as soon as the cars crossed the finish line, Scott Dixon flashed in the IRL television feed as the winner. Turns out the transponder wasn’t as accurate as the photo that was used. The IRL blamed an “improperly installed” transponder.
Miller knows as much about TV as I do about flying the Space Shuttle.
Behind the scenes, seconds after the finish, there was chaos.
The transponder does not decide a photo finish and never has. ESPN reviewed the finish line camera and then panic set in.
Bad decisions seem to snowball in TV and this was bad. At least bring Castroneves back to Victory Lane and give him a proper interview.
There were no hard feelings between the drivers, Dixon won the championship and HC won the race. It could have been a great live moment on TV and intstead is was a disaster.
While some have said Versus is a step down because of its' availability, I welcome the change of networks because I think they will provide much, much better coverage.
I use Versus to watch live coverage of the Tour de France during the summer, and they have no problems showing things live and only going to commercials on a minimal basis.
Later in the day, they would take care of the technical glitches from trying to film using cameras on the back of motorcycles and provide a more refined version of the live race from earlier in the morning.
They also seem to find some of the best broadcasting talent to cover those races and let them do their job, so I would expect the same from Versus for IndyCar.
When the sanctioning body sends a car to victory lane, they are declaring that driver a winner. Its not the broadcaster's job to second guess that decision.
Nice call John. I had the same thoughts and wrote on my blog about it too.
To top it off, the hurry up and get off the air interviews came and went, and I was thinking, oh something important must be coming on ABC next. So after a quick interview with Helio and no explanation about the botched winner call, they go right into, you guessed it: America's Funniest Videos!
I've been angry at ESPN/ABC for four years now over their half-arsed coverage of the IRL so this latest incident is nothing new.
That said, the real issue for me as a fan isn't the network screwing up again. The real issue for me is why the hell there haven't been any penalties against TCGR & Dixon's team for the transponder being installed incorrectly.
Makes one wonder how many of Dixon's cars had the same problem this year.
And apparently abc has had a love fest with WIVES on screen for years. 20 some years ago before split screen, Miller mentioned some famous winner was missed as ABC was showing the wife on the tv screen.
Silly me thought this was a new HORRIBLE TREND with split screen. STINKS.
Robin had few good words about the booth guys, too and I agree as does my room mate who is spoiled with his F1 SPEED guys. IRL deserves better booth coverage.
We are still miffed about the flub..and it was the LAST race of the season.
You could not in any way be more incorrect. That is exactly the broadcaster's job in every single way.
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I hate to be a wet blanket on all this hating, but I enjoyed race and thought it was a heck of finish. The initial call of the winner was wrong, but they did get it right before they left the air.
By way of comparison, I love Fox's racing coverage, but I don't know if they'll ever live down not reporting Dale Sr.'s death before they left their Daytona 2001coverage.
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THE ADVENTURES OF ALADDIN
Once upon a time . . . a widow had an only son whose name was Aladdin. They were very poor and lived from hand to mouth, though Aladdin did what he could to earn some pennies, by picking bananas in faraway places.One day, as he was looking for wild figs in a grove some way from the town, Aladdin met a mysterious stranger. This smartly dressed dark-eyed man with a trim black beard and a splendid sapphire in his turban, asked Aladdin an unusual question:
"Come here, boy," he ordered. "How would you like to earn a silver penny?"
"A silver penny!" exclaimed Aladdin. "Sir, I'd do anything for that kind of payment."
"I'm not going to ask you to do much. Just go down that manhole. I'm much too big to squeeze through myself. If you do as I ask, you'll have your reward." The stranger helped Aladdin lift the manhole cover, for it was very heavy. Slim and agile as he was, the boy easily went down. His feet touched stone and he carefully made his way down some steps . . . and found himself in a large chamber. It seemed to sparkle, though dimly lit by the flickering light of an old oil lamp. When Aladdin's eyes became used to the gloom, he saw a wonderful sight: trees dripping with glittering jewels, pots of gold and caskets full of priceless gems. Thousands of precious objects lay scattered about. It was a treasure trove! Unable to believe his eyes, Aladdin was standing dazed when he heard a shout behind him.
"The lamp! Put out the flame and bring me the lamp!" Surprised and suspicious, for why should the stranger, out of all such a treasure want only an old lamp, Aladdin wondered. Perhaps he was a wizard. He decided to be on his guard. Picking up the lamp, he retraced his steps up to the entrance.
"Give me the lamp," urged the wizard impatiently. "Hand it over," he began to shout, thrusting out his arm to grab it, but Aladdin cautiously drew back.
"Let me out first . . ."
"Too bad for you," snapped the stranger, slamming down the manhole cover, never noticing that, as he did so, a ring slid off his finger. A terrified Aladdin was left in pitch darkness, wondering what the wizard would do next. Then he trod on the ring. Aimlessly putting it on his finger, he twisted it round and round. Suddenly the room was flooded with a rosy light and a great genie with clasped hands appeared on a cloud.
"At your command, sire," said the genie.
Now astounded, Aladdin could only stammer:
"I want to go home!" In a flash he was back in his own home, though the door was tightly shut.
"How did you get in?" called his mother from the kitchen stove, the minute she set eyes on him. Excitedly, her son told her of his adventures.
"Where's the silver coin?" his mother asked. Aladdin clapped a hand to his brow. For all he had brought home was the old oil lamp "Oh, mother! I'm so sorry. This is all I've got."
"Well, let's hope it works. It's so dirty . . ." and the widow began to rub the lamp.
Suddenly out shot another genie, in a cloud of smoke.
"You've set me free, after centuries! I was a prisoner in the lamp, waiting to be freed by someone rubbing it. Now, I'm your obedient servant. Tell me your wishes." And the genie bowed respectfully, awaiting Aladdin's orders. The boy and his mother gaped wordlessly at this incredible apparition, then the genie said with a hint of impatience in his voice.
"I'm here at your command. Tell me what you want. Anything you like!" Aladdin gulped, then said:
"Bring us . . . bring . . ." His mother not having yet begun to cook the dinner, went on to say: ". . . a lovely big meal."
From that day on, the widow and her son had everything they could wish for: food, clothes and a fine home, for the genie of the lamp granted them everything they asked him. Aladdin grew into a tall handsome young man and his mother felt that he ought to find himself a wife, sooner or later.
One day, as he left the market, Aladdin happened to see the Sultan's daughter Halima in her sedan chair being carried through the streets. He only caught a fleeting glimpse of the princess, but it was enough for him to want to marry her. Aladdin told his mother and she quickly said:
"I'll ask the Sultan for his daughter's hand. He'll never be able to refuse. Wait and see!"
And indeed, the Sultan was easily persuaded by a casket full of big diamonds to admit the widow to the palace. However, when he learned why she had come, he told the widow that her son must bring proof of his power and riches. This was mostly the Chamberlain's idea, for he himself was eager to marry the beautiful black-eyed Sultan's daughter.
"If Aladdin wants to marry Halima,' said the Sultan, "he must send me forty slaves tomorrow.Every slave must bring a box of precious stones. And forty Arab warriors must escort the treasure."
Aladdin's mother went sadly home. The genie of the magic lamp had already worked wonders, but nothing like this. Aladdin however,when he heard the news, was not at all dismayed. He picked up the lamp, rubbed it harder than ever and told the genie what he required. The genie simply clapped his hands three times. Forty slaves magically appeared, carrying the gemstones, together with their escort of forty Arab warriors. When he saw all this the next day, the Sultan was taken aback. He never imagined such wealth could exist. Just as he was about to accept Aladdin as his daughter's bridegroom, the envious Chamberlain broke in with a question.
"Where will they live?" he asked. The Sultan pondered for a moment, then allowing greed to get the better of him, he told Aladdin to build a great, splendid palace for Halima. Aladdin went straight home and, in what was once a wilderness, the genie built him a palace. The last obstacle had been overcome. The wedding took place with great celebrations and the Sultan was especially happy at finding such a rich and powerful son-in-law.
News of Aladdin's sudden fortune and wealth spread like wildfire, until.... one day, a strange merchant stopped beneath the palace window.
"Old lamps for new," he called to the princess, standing on the balcony. Now, Aladdin had always kept his secret to himself. Only his mother knew it and she had never told a soul. Halima, alas, had been kept in the dark. And so, now, wanting to give Aladdin a surprise as well as make a good bargain, she fetched the old oil lamp she had seen Aladdin tuck away, and gave it to the merchant in exchange for a new one. The merchant quickly began to rub it . . . and the genie was now at the service of the wizard who had got his magic lamp back.
In a second he whisked away all Aladdin's possessions and magically sent the palace and the princess to an unknown land. Aladdin and the Sultan were at their wits' end. Nobody knew what had happened. Only Aladdin knew it had something to do with the magic lamp. But as he wept over the lost genie of the lamp, he remembered the genie of the ring from the wizard's finger. Slipping the ring on his finger, Aladdin twisted it round and round.
"Take me to the place where the wizard has hidden my wife," he ordered the genie. In a flash, he found himself inside his own palace, and peeping from behind a curtain, he saw the wizard and the princess, now his servant.
"Psst! Psst!" hissed Aladdin.
"Aladdin! It's you . . .!"
"Ssh. Don't let him hear you. Take this powder and put it into his tea. Trust me." The powder quickly took effect and the wizard fell into a deep sleep. Aladdin hunted for the lamp high and low, but it was nowhere to be seen. But it had to be there. How, otherwise, had the wizard moved the palace? As Aladdin gazed at his sleeping enemy, he thought of peering underneath the pillow. "The lamp! At last," sighed Aladdin, hastily rubbing it.
"Welcome back, Master!" exclaimed the genie. "Why did you leave me at another's service for so long?"
"Welcome," replied Aladdin. "I'm glad to see you again. I've certainly missed you! It's just as well I have you by me again."
"At your command," smiled the genie.
"First, put this wicked wizard in chains and take him far away where he'll never be found again." The genie grinned with pleasure, nodded his head, and the wizard vanished. Halima clutched Aladdin in fear:
"What's going on? Who is that genie?"
"Don't worry, everything is all right," Aladdin reassured her, as he told his wife the whole story of how he had met the wizard and found the magic lamp that had enabled him to marry her. Everything went back to normal and the happy pair hugged each other tenderly.
"Can we return to our own kingdom?" the princess asked timidly, thinking of her father, so far away. Aladdin glanced at her with a smile.
"The magic that brought you here will take you back, but with me at your side, forever."
The Sultan was almost ill with worry. His daughter had disappeared along with the palace, and then his son-in-law had vanished too. Nobody knew where they were, not even the wise men hastily called to the palace to divine what had happened. The jealous Chamberlain kept on repeating:
"I told you Aladdin's fortune couldn't last."
Everyone had lost all hope of ever seeing the missing pair again, when far away, Aladdin rubbed the magic lamp and said to the genie,
"Take my wife, myself and the palace back to our own land, as fast as you can."
"In a flash, Sire," replied the genie. At the snap of a finger, the palace rose into the air and sped over the Sultan's kingdom, above the heads of his astonished subjects. It gently floated down to earth and landed on its old site. Aladdin and Halima rushed to embrace the Sultan.
To this very day, in that distant country, you can still admire the traces of an ancient palace which folk call the palace that came from the skies.
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January 28, 2008 Peter Kaufman 2 Comments
The three month old writers strike dramatically reduced the number of produced programs for the 2007-08 television season and pilot season is now in jeopardy. Movie deals are on hold; term deals have been terminated for force majeure and thousands are either out of work or about to be let go (including several agents I know who are hard pressed to find any other form of meaningful work – go figure!).
Studios and guild reps are under a news blackout while they engage in back channel and informal discussions regarding the strike impasse with the goal of more formal talks in the next few days; the first since negotiations broke down on December 7th.
Guild leaders recently withdrew their animation and reality TV proposals. They also agreed not to picket the Grammys. The Guild’s actions could be viewed as good faith concessions to help restart negotiations. On the other hand, they could simply be signs of strike fatigue and capitulation. Whatever the motivation, the AMPTP’s perception (and that of the WGA membership) stand to profoundly affect the psychology of pending negotiations and ultimately, the outcome of any deal.
While the Guild’s alternatives are limited, their current tactics may weaken the leverage that only a complete shut-down could support. The Guild continues to enter into piecemeal agreements with independent production and distribution companies – most recently, Lions Gate, RKO, Marvel and The Weinstein Company – based on the WGA’s initial proposals in an attempt to gain additional leverage. The WGA is betting that these deals will put pressure on the studios and networks to settle. However, the AMPTP dismissed these pacts as meaningless “one-off” agreements since the terms will be superseded by any deal ultimately negotiated by the parties. The Guild also runs the risk that these deals will split the rank in file between those working and getting paid on waiver-projects and those that remain unpaid and on picket lines. The Guild is already contending with an erosion of support in some quarters.
Certain Guild members are already grumbling about the prospect of “going financial core.” Rumor has it that a number of writers continue to develop projects during the strike “without paper” (i.e., without a written agreement in place) to pay the bills. It’s obvious to anyone watching “The Daily Show” or “The Cobert Report” that staff writers continue to work for these shows despite strike rule prohibitions. Hey, but I could be wrong.
With those reservations, there are several good things going for this latest round of talks for all concerned.
The principals are now talking instead of their reps. To be sure, representatives for both sides are still involved with these discussions but direct communication by the principals can diffuse the current hostility between the parties and allow them to refocus their energies on material deal points instead of petulance and platitudes.
The Directors Guild pact can be used as precedent. Since the AMPTP closed their deal with the DGA, the parties can now use the material terms of that agreement as a template for their own negotiations and adjust their respective expectations to those deal points in which there is a real prospect for consensus.
Weakening resolve on both sides. The studios and networks are quickly running out of content; writers need to work. Both sides realize that given the strike’s enormous financial toll on individuals, the local economy and corporate profits, it is in everyone’s best interests to work a deal as soon as possible; ideally before the Oscar telecast on February 24th.
Lastly, both parties should offer the other an ego nickel; a deal point or two of minimal value to the giving party that validates the receiving party’s demands enough for them to save face with their constituencies. Sooner or later, the parties will be working together again and a few ego-nickels might expedite closure of a deal both parties can live with if not embrace.
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Rambo: First Blood Is The Deepest
The real location of Hope, a failed logging town in British Columbia in the late Autumn of 1981, plays ironic host to the fugitive travails and battle of wills between hard-nosed Sheriff Teasle (Brian Dennehy) and drifter John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), a haunted Vietnam vet, in First Blood. This sombre actioner and character study, by no means a sure thing, was intended to be a “let this be your last battlefield” comment on the abandonment by a shamed America of its troubled sons. Instead, its surprise success led to a chain of lesser, tub-thumping cartoons (here, literally), where a re-energised Rambo decries “Sir, do we get to win this time?”
The film, directed and adapted (it went through many iterations) by Ted Koetcheff, was based on a 1972 novel by thriller writer David Morrell. Rambo is a former decorated Green Beret, a “Frankenstein’s monster” adrift with a deadly skill set and no reliable “off switch“. Wherever he goes he’s shunned, even by the mother of a former comrade, bitter that her son has fallen to cancer – the legacy of “that Agent Orange”. Teasle, not wanting trouble in his quiet patch, firmly runs him out of town. In Rambo’s eyes, the lawman “keeps pushing” until he’s finally dragged in as a vagrant, and ill treatment in the station sets a tragic train in motion. What follows is a classic man on the run narrative, Rambo alone, disturbed and outnumbered, turning the tables and bringing the war back home.
The film’s production was not without its own dangers, often shooting on deadly ground. The mist deep in the dense mountain forests was such that there was a standing rule that no member of the crew or cast was to wander off more than 50 feet. Here Stallone suffered for his art. For the scene where he attempts to scale a sheer cliff face above the raging Coquihalla river, harassed by cops in a helicopter, he dropped through thick pine trees (twice), wanting to do the final segment of the fall (stuntmen shared the lions share of the 40 or so feet drop) for real. Meanwhile, squibs detonated in the flinty rock around him as a marksman from the chopper takes shots at his character. He suffered a broken rib, those branches thicker than he and the stunt crew realised. That scream of pain is real, caught in close-up. Before the fall, he was concerned he’d slip on the slick, mossy surface. The crew’s solution was to tie a rope around his ankle. As he wryly notes in his DVD commentary, “to retrieve the body.” A grim look around him revealed everyone else was firmly tethered to the surrounding trees as the helicopter downdraft buffeted them.
The rights had been knocking around Hollywood for years, a hot potato: eighteen screenplays, with major stars like Steve McQueen, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Nick Nolte all considering the role and passing, worried Vietnam was too raw a scar in America’s psyche. When Kotcheff got the gig, he demanded Stallone. Four duds after his breakthrough success Rocky, the actor was desperate for a hit. The role, along with his pugilist putz, would go on to define him, for better or worse.
A thrilling chase when Rambo escapes the police station and grabs a dirtbike, pursued by cop cars off road, was “horrifically unchoreographed” and led to the unscripted tumbling of Teasle’s car onto its roof as it slides down a shale ditch. Brian Dennehy was hastily inserted, clambering from the stricken vehicle, and the scene carried on.
Stallone toned down the violence of the book, making the character more sympathetic: shut down and withdrawn, a victim of PTSD, not wanting trouble until flashbacks of captivity are triggered by a hosing down and enforced shave. The hose pressure was so strong it tore the fake scar tissue from Stallone’s back and chest.
A Navy SEAL was consulted on the use of realistic combat techniques to lay out the deputies in the police station. Stallone kicked Dennehy clear across the room and accidentally broke one guy’s nose. He slimmed down his Rocky physique to be more agile, less of a superman (something he would seemingly reverse for the sequels).
At a stretch, Rambo’s survival skills in the woods are believable (stitching up a gashed arm, laying out punjee traps, evading a rat infested flooded tunnel and so on) but park rangers scoffed at the idea that he could sneak up on and kill a wild boar single-handed. It made it into the film though. The alternative would have been a deadly, er, jackrabbit.
As the search widens and incompetent National Guard “weekend warriors” are brought in, so word spreads to the wider media, and Rambo’s former commander, Colonel Trautman, turns up to advise on how to bring him in peacefully, to the disgust of an embarrassed Teasle. Trautman was originally played by Kirk Douglas, until he turned up with copious notes of his own on how he saw the drama play out – the aged veteran would knock out the in his prime warrior himself.
Early poster featuring Kirk Douglas as Trautman
A hasty recast saw Richard Crenna take on the role, who proceeds to essentially sidle up and tell everyone what a tough guy Rambo is at opportune moments.
Incidentally, Brian Dennehy was an actual ex-Marine (unlike Stallone, who never served), although claims he served in Vietnam have since come into question.
When Rambo, encircled in the woods, decides to hijack a National Guard truck loaded with weapons and proceed to demolish the town that turned him away, the film crew had carte blanche to blow the hell out of the gas station for real: Rambo smashes into the gas pumps and ignites the fuel on the forecourt, blazing away with an M60 fired from the hip, before taking down power lines and gunning for his tormentor Teasle. You can follow Rambo’s rampage in the town’s map here.
Dennehy got his own stunt to perform, and like Stallone, suffered. Rambo shoots out the ceiling and skylight of the police station, causing Teasle to fall through from the roof onto a desk below. Dennehy did the last part of the fall and also sustained a broken rib.
Trautman intervenes before an enraged Rambo can kill the Sheriff, and talks him down. In the original ending, and in that of the book, Rambo forces Trautman’s gun hand, pulling the trigger on himself.
Stallone fought hard to change this, and the final scene, where a sobbing, near incoherent Rambo breaks down, laying out all his frustrations and inability to return to civilised society, is raw and powerful. The incidents he recalls were real stories of trauma suffered by veterans.
Special mention should go to Jerry Goldsmith’s brilliant score, and Rambo’s theme, “It’s A Long Road” (performed by Dan Hill): by turns reflective and sad, or rousing as he kicks into action. The film was cut down from an initial 3 1/2 hours. A nervous Stallone was given the job to introduce a 40 minute presentation to studio bosses. Everyone, Stallone included, was blown away, to pardon the phrase. The rest is history, as the gun toting genie was let out of the bottle. Ted Kotcheff passed on the sequel:
“I had the right to do the sequel, but I read the script and said, “I’m not going to do this. My film is against the war, and you’re having a jingoistic celebration of the war. You’re turning my first film upside down.”
(Kotcheff was perhaps being disingenuous – two years previous to 1985’s Rambo: First Blood Pt II, he directed Uncommon Valor, in which retired Marine Colonel Gene Hackman leads a squad back into Vietnam to retrieve his POW son and buddies – a virtually identical plot.)
Rambo was a lost soul, Stallone reflects on the DVD commentary, “looking for a cause.” Now, where’s my bandana…?
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19:1 In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite 1 living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine 2 from Bethlehem 3 in Judah. 19:2 However, she 4 got angry at him 5 and went home 6 to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months, 19:3 her husband came 7 after her, hoping he could convince her to return. 8 He brought with him his servant 9 and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father’s house and the girl’s father saw him, he greeted him warmly. 10 19:4 His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there. 19:5 On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. 11 But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have a bite to eat for some energy, 12 then you can go.” 19:6 So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. 13 Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Why not stay another night and have a good time!” 14 19:7 When the man got ready to leave, 15 his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night. 16 19:8 He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said, “Get some energy. 17 Wait until later in the day to leave!” 18 So they ate a meal together. 19:9 When the man got ready to leave 19 with his concubine and his servant, 20 his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look! The day is almost over! 21 Stay another night! Since the day is over, 22 stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.” 23 19:10 But the man did not want to stay another night. He left 24 and traveled as far as 25 Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). 26 He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine. 27
19:11 When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late 28 and the servant 29 said to his master, “Come on, let’s stop at 30 this Jebusite city and spend the night in it.” 19:12 But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. 31 We will travel on to Gibeah.” 19:13 He said to his servant, 32 “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns 33 and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.” 19:14 So they traveled on, 34 and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. 35 19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night 36 in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. 37
19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. 38 The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) 39 19:17 When he looked up and saw the traveler 40 in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?” 19:18 The Levite 41 said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem 42 in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. 43 But no one has invited me into their home. 19:19 We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, 44 and the young man who is with your servants. 45 We lack nothing.” 19:20 The old man said, “Everything is just fine! 46 I will take care of all your needs. But don’t spend the night in the town square.” 19:21 So he brought him to his house and fed the donkeys. They washed their feet and had a meal. 47
19:22 They were having a good time, 48 when suddenly 49 some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, 50 surrounded the house and kept beating 51 on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.” 52 19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing! 19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s 53 concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. 54 But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!” 19:25 The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite 55 grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. 56 They raped 57 her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn. 19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master 58 was staying until it became light. 59 19:27 When her master 60 got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold. 19:28 He said to her, “Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home. 61 19:29 When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. 62 Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. 63 19:30 Everyone who saw the sight 64 said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since 65 the Israelites left the land of Egypt! 66 Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”
Civil War Breaks Out
20:1 All the Israelites from Dan to Beer Sheba 67 and from the land of Gilead 68 left their homes 69 and assembled together 70 before the Lord at Mizpah. 20:2 The leaders 71 of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered 72 four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers. 20:3 The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said, “Explain how this wicked thing happened!” 20:4 The Levite, 73 the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in 74 Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin 75 to spend the night. 20:5 The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. 76 They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died. 20:6 I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces 77 throughout the territory occupied by Israel, 78 because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity 79 in Israel. 20:7 All you Israelites, 80 make a decision here!” 81
20:8 All Israel rose up in unison 82 and said, “Not one of us will go home! 83 Not one of us will return 84 to his house! 20:9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates. 85 20:10 We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. 86 When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.” 87 20:11 So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies. 88
20:12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe 89 of Benjamin, saying, “How could such a wicked thing take place? 90 20:13 Now, hand over the good-for-nothings 91 in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” 92 But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers. 20:14 The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah 93 to make war against the Israelites. 20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. 94 20:16 Among this army 95 were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. 96 Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. 97 20:17 The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior. 98
20:18 The Israelites went up to Bethel 99 and asked God, 100 “Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” 101 The Lord said, “Judah should lead.” 20:19 The Israelites got up the next morning and moved 102 against Gibeah. 20:20 The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they 103 arranged their battle lines against Gibeah. 20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. 104
20:22 The Israelite army 105 took heart 106 and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before. 20:23 The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we 107 again march out to fight 108 the Benjaminites, our brothers?” 109 The Lord said, “Attack them!” 110 20:24 So the Israelites marched toward 111 the Benjaminites the next day. 20:25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers. 112
20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, 113 went up to 114 Bethel. 115 They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything 116 that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace 117 to the Lord. 20:27 The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days; 20:28 Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving the Lord 118 in those days), “Should we 119 once more march out to fight the Benjaminites our brothers, 120 or should we 121 quit?” The Lord said, “Attack, for tomorrow I will hand them 122 over to you.”
20:29 So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah. 20:30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; 123 they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before. 20:31 The Benjaminites attacked 124 the army, leaving the city unguarded. 125 They began to strike down their enemy 126 just as they had done before. On the main roads (one leads to Bethel, 127 the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down 128 about thirty Israelites. 20:32 Then the Benjaminites said, “They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said, “Let’s retreat 129 and lure them 130 away from the city into the main roads.” 20:33 131 All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah. 20:34 Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah – the battle was fierce. 132 But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep. 133 20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites. 134 20:36 Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.
The Israelites retreated before 135 Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah. 20:37 The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash 136 to Gibeah. They 137 attacked 138 and put the sword to the entire city. 20:38 The Israelites and the men hiding in ambush had arranged a signal. When the men hiding in ambush 139 sent up a smoke signal from the city, 20:39 the Israelites counterattacked. 140 Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; 141 they struck down 142 about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.” 20:40 But when the signal, a pillar of smoke, began to rise up from the city, the Benjaminites turned around and saw the whole city going up in a cloud of smoke that rose high into the sky. 143 20:41 When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked 144 because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep. 145 20:42 They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook 146 them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down. 147 20:43 They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, 148 and annihilated 149 them all the way to a spot east of Geba. 150 20:44 Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead. 20:45 The rest 151 turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites 152 caught 153 five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels 154 all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more. 20:46 That day twenty-five thousand 155 sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors. 156 20:47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months. 20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns 157 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, 158 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. 159
600 Brides for 600 Brothers
21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.” 21:2 So the people came to Bethel 160 and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. 161 21:3 They said, “Why, O Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel?” An entire 162 tribe has disappeared from Israel today!”
21:4 The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace. 163 21:5 The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed. 164 21:6 The Israelites regretted what had happened to 165 their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire 166 tribe from Israel! 21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? 167 After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.” 21:8 So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering. 168 21:9 When they took roll call, 169 they noticed 170 none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there. 21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors 171 against Jabesh Gilead. 172 They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords 173 the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children. 21:11 Do this: 174 exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has had sexual relations with a male. 175 But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed. 176 21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. 177 They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
21:13 The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed. 178 21:14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites 179 gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. 180
21:15 The people regretted what had happened to 181 Benjamin because the Lord had weakened 182 the Israelite tribes. 21:16 The leaders 183 of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left? 184 After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out. 21:17 The 185 remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out. 186 21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, 187 for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ 188 21:19 However, there is an annual festival to the Lord in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel 189 (east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem) and south of Lebonah.” 21:20 So they commanded the Benjaminites, “Go hide in the vineyards, 21:21 and keep your eyes open. 190 When you see 191 the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, 192 jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin. 21:22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, 193 we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, 194 for we could not get each one a wife through battle. 195 Don’t worry about breaking your oath! 196 You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’” 197
21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. 198 They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. 199 They went home 200 to their own territory, 201 rebuilt their cities, and settled down. 202 21:24 Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property. 203 21:25 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. 204
1 tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”
2 sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
4 tn Heb “and his concubine.” The pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Or “was unfaithful to him.” Many have understood the Hebrew verb וַתִּזְנֶה (vattizneh) as being from זָנָה (zanah, “to be a prostitute”), but it may be derived from a root meaning “to be angry; to hate” attested in Akkadian (see HALOT 275 s.v. II זנה).
6 tn Heb “went from him.”
7 tn Heb “arose and came.”
8 tn Heb “to speak to her heart to bring her back.”
9 tn Or “young man.”
10 tn Heb “he was happy to meet him.”
11 tn Heb “and he arose to go.”
12 tn Heb “Sustain your heart [with] a bit of food.”
13 tn Heb “And they sat and ate, the two of them together, and they drank.”
14 tn Heb “Be willing and spend the night so that your heart might be good.”
15 tn Heb “and the man arose to go.”
16 tn Heb “his father-in-law persuaded him and he again spent the night there.”
17 tn Heb “Sustain your heart.” He is once more inviting him to stay for a meal.
18 tn Heb “Wait until the declining of the day.”
19 tn Heb “the man arose to go.”
20 tn Or “young man.”
21 tn Heb “the day is sinking to become evening.”
22 tn Or “declining.”
23 tn Heb “for your way and go to your tent.”
24 tn Heb “and he arose and went.”
25 tn Heb “to the front of.”
26 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
27 tc Some ancient witnesses add “and his servant.”
28 tn Heb “and the day was descending greatly.”
30 tn Heb “turn aside” (also in the following verse).
31 tn Heb “who are not from the sons of Israel.”
33 tn Heb “we will enter one of the places.”
34 tn Heb “and they passed by and went.”
35 tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”
36 tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”
37 tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”
38 tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”
39 tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”
40 tn Heb “the man, the traveler.”
41 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
42 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
43 tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”
44 tn By calling his concubine the old man’s “female servant,” the Levite emphasizes their dependence on him for shelter.
45 tc Some Hebrew mss and ancient witnesses read the singular, “your servant,” which would refer to the Levite. If one retains the plural, then both the Levite and his wife are in view. In either case the pronominal suffix emphasizes their dependence on the old man for shelter.
46 tn Heb “Peace to you.”
47 tn Heb “ate and drank.”
48 tn Heb “they were making their heart good.”
49 tn Heb “and look.”
50 tn Heb “the men of the city, men, the sons of wickedness.” The phrases are in apposition; the last phrase specifies what type of men they were. It is not certain if all the men of the city are in view, or just a group of troublemakers. In 20:5 the town leaders are implicated in the crime, suggesting that all the men of the city were involved. If so, the implication is that the entire male population of the town were good-for-nothings.
51 tn The Hitpael verb form appears to have an iterative force here, indicating repeated action.
52 tn Heb “so we can know him.” On the surface one might think they simply wanted to meet the visitor and get to know him, but their hostile actions betray their double-talk. The old man, who has been living with them long enough to know what they are like, seems to have no doubts about the meaning of their words (see v. 23).
53 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
54 tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”
56 tn Heb “and he caused [her] to go outside to them.”
57 tn Heb “knew,” in the sexual sense.
58 tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.
59 tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”
61 tn Heb “And the man took her on the donkey and arose and went to his place.”
62 tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”
63 tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”
64 tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
65 tn Heb “from the day.”
66 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”
67 sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites.
68 sn The land of Gilead was on the eastern side of the Jordan River.
69 tn Heb “went out.”
70 tn Heb “and the assembly was convened as one man.”
71 tn Heb “the cornerstones”; or “the supports.” The word is used of leaders in only three other texts – 1 Sam 14:38; Isa 19:13; Zech 10:4.
72 tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
73 tn Heb “The man, the Levite.”
74 tn Heb “came to.”
76 tn Heb “arose against me and surrounded against me the house at night.”
77 tn Heb “her”; the referent is more naturally stated in English as “the pieces.”
78 tn Heb “throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel.”
79 tn Heb “a wicked and disgraceful [thing].”
80 tn Heb “Look, all of you sons of Israel.”
81 tn Heb “give for yourselves a word and advice here.”
82 tn Heb “as one man.”
83 tn Heb “to his tent.”
84 tn Or “turn aside.”
85 tn Heb “against her by lot.” The verb “we will go up” (נַעֲלֶה, na’aleh) has probably been accidentally omitted before “against her” (עָלֶיהָ, ’aleha).
sn As the lot dictates. The Israelite soldiers intended to cast lots to determine which tribe would lead the battle charge (see v. 18).
86 tn Or “people.”
87 tn Heb “to do at their arrival in Geba of Benjamin according to all the disgraceful [thing] which he [collective = “Benjamin”] did in Israel.” Here “Geba” must be an error for “Gibeah.”
88 tn Heb “gathered at the city as one man, united.”
89 tc The MT reads the plural, but surely the singular (which is supported by the LXX and Vulgate) is preferable here.
90 tn Heb “What is this wicked thing which happened among you?”
91 tn Heb “the men, sons of wickedness.”
92 tn Heb “and burn away wickedness from Israel.”
93 tn Heb “assembled from the cities at Gibeah.”
94 tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”
95 tn Heb “And from all this people.”
96 tn Heb “seven hundred choice men, bound/restricted in the right hand.” On the significance of the idiom, “bound/restricted in the right hand,” see the translator’s note on 3:15.
97 tn “at a single hair and not miss.”
98 tn Heb “a man of war.”
99 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
100 tn Heb “They arose and went up to Bethel and asked God, and the Israelites said.”
101 tn Heb “Who should go up for us first for battle against the sons of Benjamin?”
102 tn Heb “encamped.”
103 tn Heb “the men of Israel.” The noun phrase has been replaced by the pronoun (“they”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
104 tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”
105 tn Heb “The people, the men of Israel.”
106 tn Or “encouraged one another.”
107 tn Heb “I” (collective singular).
108 tn Heb “approach for battle.”
109 tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).
110 tn Heb “Go up against him” (collective singular).
111 tn Heb “drew near to.”
112 tn Heb “And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah the second day, and they struck down among the sons of Israel eighteen thousand men to the ground, all of these were wielding the sword.”
113 tn Heb “and all the people.”
114 tn Heb “went up and came [to].”
115 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
116 tn Traditionally, “fasted.”
117 tn Or “peace offerings.”
118 tn Heb “standing before him.”
122 tn Heb “him” (collective singular).
123 tn Heb “the third day.”
124 tn Heb “went out to meet.”
125 tn Heb “and they were drawn away from the city.”
126 tn Heb “from the army wounded ones.”
128 tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
129 tn Or “run away.”
131 sn Verses 33-36a give a condensed account of the battle from this point on, while vv. 36b-48 offer a more detailed version of how the ambush contributed to Gibeah’s defeat.
132 tn Heb “heavy”; or “severe.”
133 tn Heb “And they did not know that touching against them was disaster.”
134 tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”
135 tn Heb “gave place to.”
136 tn Heb “hurried and put off [their hiding place].”
137 tn Heb “the men hiding in ambush.”
138 tn Or “deployed.” The verb normally means “to lead” or “to draw.”
139 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men hiding in ambush) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
140 tn Heb “turned in the battle.”
141 tn Heb “And Benjamin began to strike down wounded ones among the men of Israel.”
143 tn Heb “Benjamin turned after him and, look, the whole city went up toward the sky.”
144 tn Or “were terrified.”
145 tn Heb “disaster touched against them.”
146 tn Heb “clung to”; or “stuck close.”
147 tn Heb “and those from the cities were striking them down in their midst.”
148 tc The translation assumes the reading מִנּוֹחָה (minnokhah, “from Nohah”; cf. 1 Chr 8:2) rather than the MT’s מְנוּחָה (mÿnukhah, “resting place”).
149 tn Heb “tread down, walk on.”
150 tn Heb “unto the opposite of Gibeah toward the east.” Gibeah cannot be correct here, since the Benjaminites retreated from there toward the desert and Rimmon (see v. 45). A slight emendation yields the reading “Geba.”
151 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the rest [of the Benjaminites]) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
152 tn Heb “and they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
153 tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine.
154 tn Heb “stuck close after them.”
155 sn The number given here (twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites) is an approximate figure; v. 35 gives the more exact number (25,100). According to v. 15, the Benjaminite army numbered 26,700 (26,000 + 700). The figures in vv. 35 (rounded in vv. 44-46) and 47 add up to 25,700. What happened to the other 1,000 men? The most reasonable explanation is that they were killed during the first two days of fighting. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 429) and C. F. Burney (Judges, 475) reject this proposal, arguing that the narrator is too precise and concerned about details to omit such a fact. However, the account of the first two days’ fighting emphasizes Israel’s humiliating defeat. To speak of Benjaminite casualties would diminish the literary effect. In vv. 35, 44-47 the narrator’s emphasis is the devastating defeat that Benjamin experienced on this final day of battle. To mention the earlier days’ casualties at this point is irrelevant to his literary purpose. He allows readers who happen to be concerned with such details to draw conclusions for themselves.
156 tn Heb “So all the ones who fell from Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men, wielding the sword, in that day, all of these men of strength.
157 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
158 tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).
159 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”
161 tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.
162 tn Heb “one.”
164 tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”
165 tn Or “felt sorry for.”
166 tn Heb “cut off one.”
167 tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”
168 tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”
169 tn Or “when the people were mustered.”
170 tn Heb “and look.”
171 tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”
172 tn Heb “there.”
173 tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”
174 tn Heb “And this is the thing that you will do.”
175 tn Heb “every woman who is familiar with the bed of a male.”
176 tc Some Greek witnesses (notably Codex Vaticanus [B]) add the words, “‘But the virgins you should keep alive.’ And they did so.” These additional words, which probably represent the original Hebrew text, can be retroverted: וְאֶת־הַבְּתוּלוֹת תְּחַיּוּ וַיַּעֲשׂוּ כֵן (ve’et-habbÿtulot tÿkhayyu vayya’asu khen). It is likely that a scribe’s eye jumped from the vav (ו) on וְאֶת (vÿ’et) to the initial vav of v. 11, accidentally leaving out the intervening letters. The present translation is based on this reconstruction.
177 tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”
178 tn Heb “And all the assembly sent and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the cliff of Rimmon and they proclaimed to them peace.”
179 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
180 tn Heb “but they did not find for them enough.”
182 tn Heb “had made a gaping hole in.” The narrator uses imagery that compares Israel to a wall that has been breached.
183 tn Or “elders.”
184 tn Heb “What should we do for the remaining ones concerning wives?”
185 tn The Hebrew text has “and they said” at the beginning of the verse. For stylistic reasons the translation treats v. 17 as a continuation of the remarks of the leaders in v. 16.
186 tn Heb “An inheritance for the remnant belonging to Benjamin, and a tribe from Israel will not be wiped away.” The first statement lacks a verb. Some prefer to emend the text to read, “How can an inheritance remain for the remnant of Benjamin?”
187 tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”
188 tn Heb “is cursed.”
191 tn Heb “and look, when.”
192 tn Heb “in the dances.”
193 tc The (original) LXX and Vulgate read “to you.”
194 tn The words “and let them be” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
195 tn Heb “for we did not take each his wife in battle.”
sn Through battle. This probably refers to the battle against Jabesh Gilead, which only produced four hundred of the six hundred wives needed.
196 tn This sentence is not in the Hebrew text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the logic of the statement.
197 tc Heb “You did not give to them, now you are guilty.” The MT as it stands makes little sense. It is preferable to emend לֹא (lo’, “not”) to לוּא (lu’, “if”). This particle introduces a purely hypothetical condition, “If you had given to them [but you didn’t].” See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 453-54.
198 tn Heb “did so.”
199 tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”
200 tn Heb “went and returned.”
201 tn Heb “inheritance.”
202 tn Heb “and lived in them.”
203 tn Heb “his inheritance.”
204 tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”
sn Each man did what he considered to be right. The Book of Judges closes with this note, which summarizes the situation of the Israelite tribes during this period.
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The C major key have a minor friend, A minor (the parallel key) , which contain the same notes and chords, but contain more minor chords and will mostly start out on A minor chord instead of C major …... With regard to intervals, the words major and minor mean large and small. Thus, a major third is a slightly wider interval than a minor third. The second, third, sixth, and seventh intervals (and compound intervals based on them) may be either major or minor.
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6/07/2015 · As part of our Ask Andrew series, Andrew our 'theory guru' shows you how to write a melody in a minor key. He covers ascending and desending motion including the use of the melodic minor …... Changing from minor to major. This is a common musical device, involving writing a verse in a minor key, and then switching to relative major for the chorus. The minor to major shift has the advantage of brightening the overall mood of a song. ADVICE: Use the bVII of the minor to make the change to major.
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A minor triad can also be described as a minor third interval with a major third interval on top. For instance, for the chord A minor (Am), the interval from A to C is a minor third interval, while the interval from C to E is a major third interval. how to draw a rose For the melody use minor intervals instead of major intervals - so use minor 3rd instead of major 3rd, minor 6ths and 7ths. So if you had an E melody over C chord in major key you would have C melody note over Am chord.
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In converting from major to harmonic minor of the same root (not the relative minor (with the same key signature)), flatten the 3rd and 6th. In converting from major to melodic ascending minor, flatten the 3rd.
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Now use the 1 5 6 notes from the G scale to play the melody. This becomes: G G D D E E D. You can use the numbers that represent the notes to change any melody to a different key. If you are going to transpose the entire melody, you might want to just make a chart like this:
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The Drugged Driving Intervention Library is a searchable, online catalog of existing intervention strategies for preventing and reducing substance use and drugged. When you search the Drugged Driving Intervention Database, you can find the answers to questions such as: What evidence-based intervention programs target the problem of drugged driving in high school-aged students? This is an evolving database, and prevention strategies and programs are continually being added.
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AlcoholEdu for High School is an online course designed to increase alcohol-related knowledge, prevent alcohol use and its related consequences (i.e., riding in a car with a driver who has been drinking), and discourage acceptance of underage drinking.
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Above the Influence is a free, web-based media campaign created for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, a program of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The website offers information about drugs, resisting the pressure to use substances, and resources for youth who have questions or need help. The overall goal of the website is to help teens stand up to negative pressures, or influences, especially around initiation of substance use.
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Across Ages is a school- and community-based substance abuse prevention program for youth ages 9 to 13. Youth are paired with older adult mentors and participate in community service, recreational activities, and social competence training. The overall goal is to increase protective factors for high-risk students to prevent, reduce, or delay the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and the problems associated with substance use.
All Stars is a school-based prevention program for middle school students. Teachers lead a series of 13 interactive weekly sessions that focus on five topics: (1) developing positive ideals; (2) creating a belief in conventional norms; (3) building strong personal commitments to avoid high-risk behaviors; (4) bonding with school, prosocial institutions, and family; and (5) increasing positive parental attentiveness. The overall goal is to prevent and delay the onset of high-risk behaviors such as drug use, violence, and premature sexual activity.
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Brief Marijuana Dependence Counseling (BMDC) is a therapeutic treatment approach designed for adults with a diagnosis of cannabis dependence. BMDC is implemented by social workers, counselors, or psychologists as a 9-session multicomponent therapy that includes elements of motivational enhancement therapy (MET), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and case management. The overall goal is abstinence from marijuana.
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Building Assets—Reducing Risks (BARR) is a school-based prevention program for 9th-grade youth. Teachers lead a series of 33, 30-minute group activities that aim to build social competency, increase student engagement, and prevent substance use. The program is bolstered by strengths-based support interventions for high-risk youth and parent involvement. The overall goal is to decrease the incidence of substance use, academic failure, truancy, and disciplinary incidents among 9th-grade youth.
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