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Just a reminder to parents in reference to the Oceanside Unified School District’s Health and Safety Guidelines. Please do not send your child to school if they have a fever, vomiting, diarrhea or have frequent coughing and/or nasal discharge which could interfere with classroom instruction. Please remember that your child should be vomit and/or fever free for 24 hours without medication. If you have any questions please feel free to call the Health Office. We are in middle of a severe flu season and we all need to do our best to stay healthy. Thank you!
ATTENTION 6TH GRADE PARENTS!
As of July 1, 2019 the new California immunization requirement states that all students entering 7th grade have two doses of Varicella and a Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis (Tdap) booster given after 7th birthday, prior to entering 7th grade. Your incoming 7th grader will not be allowed to start the 2019-20 school year without proof. Some students may have already got the shot, but have not shown the proof to the Health Office. Please have your 6th grader present their updated immunization record to the Health Office before the end of this school year. If your student has not received the TDAP yet, please make an appointment NOW to get it. This way you will prevent your student from being excluded from school in August. Please call the Health Office if you have any questions.
Just a few reminders from the Health Office:
In accordance with Board Policy 5142 all ace bandages, braces, splints, casts and crutches must have a note from a medical provider to return to school. Students with casts and crutches will not be allowed to actively participate in PE activities because of potential danger to the student and others. Doctor note MUST state:
- Date student may return to school
- With: brace, crutches, cast, splint or ace bandage
- PE restrictions
Students will NOT be allowed to return to school until the Health Office has received this note.
All incoming 7th-12th grade students must have a Tdap shot on or before their 7th birthday documented on their immunization record. If your student has not met this requirement they will not be permitted to register or attend next school year. Please check your child's shot record now to determine if they need this booster.
Many students receive immunizations throughout the year, but do not present the record to the health office. Please make sure you bring in the record every time your child gets an immunization.
If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Cindi Donaldson in the Health Office.
END OF THE YEAR PROCEDURE
Summer is fast approaching and school will be out of session soon. Just a few reminders from the Health Office:
If your student has medication here at school, please make arrangements to pick up his/her medication before the last day of school. All medications left after school is out will be DISPOSED.
If you have an incoming 7th grader don’t forget to get the TDAP immunization. A letter was sent to all parents of students who still needed to show proof. Your student will NOT be allowed to start 7th grade without it. Make your appointment NOW, since clinics get very busy the week before school starts.
Summer is a prime time for accidents. Be aware of your child’s activities and make sure they have a fun and safe break.
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Remote services can be used in many different settings. The benefits of offering and using remote service assist with safety, reduce travel, enhance training, and set your company apart from the competition.
Improving Health and Safety
While health and safety are always important, the recent pandemic has added more definitions around what is required for being safe. One of the significant changes is the need to reduce or remove face-to-face interactions for employees and customers. Modern remote service tools, like wearables for Augmented Reality, greatly help in improving health and safety for both field workers and end customers.
Remote services that allow hands-free calling with the use of wearables like the RealWear HMT-1, quickly enhance workers ability to move safely and promptly. Workers can climb equipment, wear PPE and carry out tasks while on calls getting support or information without risking their safety.
Additionally, the increased need for limited or zero-touch work and reduced human contact is also enabled through remote calls on wearables, tablets, or smartphones. Furthermore, the mental health of remote workers can be checked-in on more regularly by supervisors and managers as technicians are dealing with the fatigue and uncertainty from the pandemic and solo work. | <urn:uuid:7098bf6e-e5de-48a2-97f0-c3ce2b15c555> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/doc/introducing-remote-services-into-your-digital-transformation-process-benefits-0001 | 2021-07-28T11:53:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153709.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20210728092200-20210728122200-00462.warc.gz | en | 0.952053 | 247 |
The audit found BSU did not ensure that all employees completed required cybersecurity awareness training. The audit examined the period of March 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021.
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Audit Audit of the Bridgewater State University
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In accordance with Section 12 of Chapter 11 of the Massachusetts General Laws, the Office of the State Auditor has conducted a performance audit of Bridgewater State University (BSU) for the period March 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021.
In this performance audit, we reviewed BSU’s use of funding from the Education Stabilization Fund (ESF) received through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, enacted by Congress on March 27, 2020, and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA), enacted by Congress on December 27, 2020. BSU received grant funding under two components of the ESF: direct funding from the United States Department of Education (US DOE), provided through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF),1 and funding from the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (MDHE), allocated through the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund. The purpose of our audit was to determine whether BSU administered the federal assistance it received in accordance with the criteria established by US DOE and MDHE. We also determined whether BSU complied with the Office of the Comptroller of the Commonwealth’s guidance by updating its internal control plan to address risks related to the 2019 coronavirus pandemic. In addition, we determined whether BSU’s personnel completed cybersecurity awareness training in accordance with Sections 6.2.3 and 6.2.4 of the state Executive Office of Technology Services and Security’s Information Security Risk Management Standard IS.010.
Below is a summary of our findings and recommendations, with links to each page listed.
BSU did not ensure that all employees completed required cybersecurity awareness training.
A PDF copy of the Audit of Bridgewater State University is available here.
1. HEERF consists of three separate grants related to the 2019 coronavirus pandemic emergency that were directly funded from US DOE under the CARES Act (HEERF I), CRRSAA (HEERF II), and American Rescue Plan Act (HEERF III).
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no cycling, at least it is not worth to mention as it was.
As I already cycled over 2000 km and I don’t have a chain tool on me, I decided to change my chain as it’s sometimes recommended after that many kilometers on not the nicest roads. Therefore I went to the bicycle shop of the brand Specialize. I already had a new chain on me, I bought it in Kathmandu. They replaced it for free😀 It was 2 km away.
Next task on the list was organizing a ticket to get down to the beach. My idea was to get the train. The alternative was the bus, but I wanted to take the train. Sadly I forgot one problem. No it was not the bicycle, the train was already full for tomorrow… So I had to get a bus ticket…
After all the non touristic tasks I got to my touristic part of today: visiting Tuol Sleng Museum. It was the prison where people were tortured during the time of the Khmer Rouge, before they were send to the killing fields (which I visited yesterday) to be executed. Again really great to visit this sad place. I got an audio guide and listened to everything there was to learn everything about the time of the Khmer Rouge.
For lunch I went to the russian marked again to get noodles as it was close by the museum.
After the museum it was 15 o’clock. I was told that my passport with the Vietnamese visa would be ready at 16 o’clock, but I went there anyway, as I had nothing to do anymore. My passport was ready with the approved visa😀
On the way to the Vietnamese embassy I saw this kids paradise 😍 I checked it out, the whole tower was full of activities for kids like climbing, laser tag, bumper cars,… Sadly the maximum age was 12 years… (Yeah that is my finder in the lens…)
I was lazy and took a tuk tuk back to the hostel
As I was so interested in the story of the Khmer Rouge, I watched a documentary over this topic as the audio guides only explained what happened at the places I was at but not how it really started and ended.
For the rest of the evening i was just chilling in the roof top bar and packing/preparing my stuff for tomorrow as I leave in the morning at 8:30 for the bus.
So that’s also what I will be doing tomorrow, taking the bus to get down to the beach, where I will get a ferry to get to an island where I met up again with Soraya and Andreas😀
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IAI S.A. and Moneybookers Ltd. concluded affiliate agreement. It is a second, concluded in short time, agreement concluded with international payment system, which of course emphasizes, how foreign markets (mainly British) are important for us. [/pr-press-release.phtml?id=1235324001 I March we launched Sofortbanking payments, very popular in Germany].
We have already cooperated with Skrill (Moneybookers) for a very long time, but the new agreement allows buyers in the IdoSell.com on-line stores to choose payment forms. In new approach, the buyer does not choose Skrill, but his well-known bank or credit card. Then he is redirected to his bank to pay for his order or he can do the same with a credit card.
On-line store owner can turn on Skrill payments for selected banks or credit cards. He can also assign different payment system for every bank. Buyer does not have to think about the system to choose. And store owners can choose payment system, that offers them the best conditions or its handling is the most optimal. | <urn:uuid:3cc2de4c-ddb7-44f0-b4a0-3fad190e3fdd> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.iai-sa.com/en/blog/skrill-moneybookers-now-with-payment-forms-1235324125 | 2021-10-17T16:24:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585178.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017144318-20211017174318-00147.warc.gz | en | 0.976099 | 235 |
by a boat, or by the race committee, technical committee or protest committee about an incident the committee observed in the racing area, shall be delivered to the race office within the time limit stated in the sailing instructions. If none is stated, the time limit is two hours after the last boat in the race finishes
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Monday, May 31, 2010
day 59: glory days
This morning we went to Festival Park in downtown Fayetteville for a pancake breakfast at the Glory Days Celebration. Though the breakfast was slightly unorganized (there were no tables to eat on) we enjoyed it and had fun!
Then it was time to say goodbye to Grandpa, Auntie Janne, and Uncle Adam so they could make the drive back to Maryland. Grandma, the kids and I stayed at Glory Days to check out the rest of the events. We looked at all of the booths and the kids loaded up on flags, POW pins, cookies, and balloons. They were excited to do the Bounce House (which we forgot to take pictures of) and we finished up the morning with a wagon ride.
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Why’s it so hard to find good parenting information?
She should have been overqualified for the job. She has a PhD and background in psychology, so she had no problem parsing even the most complex studies in academic journals.
But grasping complicated information wasn’t her problem – it was avoiding misinformation in parenting magazines and the mass media.
“As a researcher, I would look at these articles and think, ‘Good lord,’” she said recently. “It’s just not right. It’s not up to date with the science.”
Palumbo thought she could help. She pitched some of her own ideas to the top parenting publications, explaining the latest details on mothers’ and children’s health.
“I had editors tell me, ‘We’re not interested in talking about studies and evidence. They told me that I really had to tamp down language about research,” she said. “It was like, ‘Oh gosh, don’t say science.’
It took a few more years of frustration with the lack of quality parenting reporting for Palumbo to launch her own blog, called Momma Data. For more than a decade now, she’s explained the research on raising children from an evidence-based point of view, and been critical about outlets and columnists who exaggerate and distort reality.
Laura Sanders has a similar story. She’s a writer for Science News, and had her first child in 2013.
“When I was out on maternity leave, I started talking to my editor about how hard it was to find good information,” she said.
They came up with a dedicated parenting blog on Science News called Growth Curve, the tagline of which is “The inexact science of raising kids.”
“We’re fighting this ocean of misinformation, but hopefully we can add a drop of goodness with solid science,” Sanders said.
She’s not exaggerating. Publications like Momma Data and Growth Curve are still few and far between in the parenting media landscape, which accounts for all the books, magazines, websites, podcasts, etc., specifically targeted at parents, as well as the general interest outlets that occasionally produce parenting-related stories, from your local news station to newspaper op-ed pages. In this environment, for every Polly Palumbo and Laura Sanders, there are dozens of self-proclaimed gurus spouting pseudoscience, hundreds of reporters judged by clicks rather than accuracy, and thousands of bloggers and social media influencers who purely exist to push sponsored products.
“The Internet will give you unlimited advice and information. The problem is it’s a messy mix of opinions and parenting philosophy. Much of it is conflicting, and only some of it is accurate,” writes Alice Callahan, yet another mother who created her own blog, Science of Mom, because she was frustrated with the parenting media.
How can it be that something as fundamental to human existence as raising children has such a lack of reliable media sources? How is it that there are more sophisticated options for getting information about business, politics and even sports than there are about parenting? How is it that some of the best options available are from a few new parents who decided to take matters into their own hands, as if they’re enthusiasts of an obscure hobby?
In other words, why’s it so hard to find good parenting information?
If we can answer this core question, it might be a lot easier to get answers to all parents’ other questions.
EXPECTING TO BE DISAPPOINTED
Let’s get one point out of the way: for new parents, there’s no escaping the parenting media.
Sure, parents have traditionally relied on family members to pass down their knowledge, but they also didn’t have a choice. There simply weren’t countless other resources at their fingertips.
Besides sheer availability, there have been fundamental societal shifts driving almost all parents today to seek answers outside their families, one of which is a growing realization that older generations often aren’t reliable sources. Here’s how one comprehensive research review described this shift:
“Mothers have, so to say, become more isolated and have, to a great extent, lost the daily support that they previously received from their families and other close relations. Many women also highlight another form of problem coupled to the fast pace-of-change in modern society, namely that the information that they receive from their own mothers or elderly relations is ‘out-of-date’. Their experiences are not valid any more. Instead, parents are forced to trust the information they receive from various experts, in books, in parent magazines and on TV-shows et cetera.”
Of course, this has been the case for decades now, so there’s ample analysis available on how effective the media is at serving parents’ needs.
In 1998, the University of Wisconsin-Madison held a symposium on “The Media and Parenthood.” A. Rae Simpson, then administrator of the Family Resource Center at MIT, announced the key findings from a two-year research project with the Harvard School of Health Communication to examine the role of mass media in parenting education.
“A number of drawbacks seriously undermine the ability of the media to contribute effectively to the well-being of parents and families,” she said at the event.
She explained that information then was scarce, scattered, conflicting and confusing. The combination of too many disparate groups offering different types of advice, and inconsistency on the part of journalists, created a situation in which “researchers, practitioners, the media, policy makers, advocates, and parents have all been frustrated in their efforts to seek reliable information from each other.”
That was the same year Google was founded, and years before most people ever heard the term “blog.” Surely, the search for parenting information is easier today, right?
Not quite. It may be less scarce, but it’s certainly just as scattered, conflicting and confusing, if not more so.
A 2016 survey by non-profit Zero To Three and the Bezos Family Foundation found that while more than 80 percent of parents use websites and search engines to get parenting information, less than half find them helpful.
That’s a good point, because the Pew Research Center also recently found that while 75 percent of parents use social media, 65 percent of social-media-using parents said they hardly or never come across useful parenting information there.
At the same time, Pew didn’t ask how often parents find bad information through social media. After all, we live in a “fake news” era, and this includes hoaxes targeted at parents.
This doesn’t just mean that parents see a lot of junk when they’re scrolling through Facebook or browsing the web. Other research shows that parents encounter lots of questionable answers even when they are actively seeking serious information.
In 2015, researchers surveyed parents taking their children to a Toronto pediatric hospital, and in a paper titled, “Are Parents Getting it Right?” they explained that 98 percent of parents searched for information online before going to the hospital, but less than a quarter regarded what they found as safe, accurate and reliable.
“An unprecedented majority of parents and guardians are using the Internet for their child’s health information. Of concern is that parents and guardians are currently not using reliable and safe sources of information,” the researchers summarized.
That’s a massive problem, and it may only be getting worse. Even if 98 percent of parents already search for information online, Google’s data shows new parents are doing so more frequently, and they’re doing it in a way that suggests they want to find quicker answers, not spend substantial time vetting their sources.
“We’ve been seeing mobile use grow across the board, but it’s particularly pronounced among new parents,” reads a 2014 report from Google about parents’ search habits. “Why? Perhaps they’re constantly seeking answers to new questions, and mobile lets them do so right in the moment. They can also use their device with one hand, baby in the other.”
“Universally (and unsurprisingly), ‘health’ is the top concern,” the Google report also says, “but we can even see differences there depending on stage. Expecting and new parents are especially interested in ‘weight,’ whereas ‘fever’ is the top concern at the toddler phase.”
So, parents are most interested in getting quick, clear, credible information to important questions. That seems easy enough for the media to provide, right?
THE PARENT MEDIA TRAP
There’s a long list of reasons that journalists consistently screw up complex subjects like health, science and human behavior. The real goal for most news organizations is getting attention, not aiding understanding, so it’s really to be expected that they take the most sensational angles and don’t deliver what’s truly in their audience’s best interests.
On top of these generic journalistic problems, navigating parenting information poses specific challenges.
For one, new parents are essentially encountering a whole new media landscape. With general interest news, most people have sources they have come to trust (rightly or wrongly) over the course of their adult lives. When they become parents, suddenly they have to immediately figure out which sources are reliable and which aren’t.
Is Parents.com better than Parenting.com? Babble, or Bundoo? Motherly, or Motherwell?
If parents aren’t savvy or interested enough to look at multiple sources, they’re likely to just take whatever comes up in the first few search results. That’s not ideal, because search engine algorithms simply surface what’s most popular, not what’s most informative. One study published in the journal Neuro-Oncology found no correlation between the order of search result rankings and the quality of information those results offered, as rated by medical professionals. Many other studies have shown that online parenting resources are rife with incomplete, inaccurate or deliberately deceptive information, making those search results a minefield of falsehoods.
In our experience, the top results are often from random parenting message boards, which are practically vectors of inaccuracies.
If parents are willing to go above and beyond to curate only the most reliable sources, they’ll quickly find that there aren’t that many. Sure, there’s certainly a proliferation of books, magazines and websites on the subject. But so much of it is for entertainment, not education. The biggest parenting magazines, websites and social media platforms are filled with fluffy listicles, celebrity news and ad-stuffed slideshows, while thousands of parenting blogs out there are primarily dedicated to product placements. In fact, it’s safe to assume that much of the parenting media was primarily created to sell ads, not to inform parents.
(We’re not even going to get into the effect of the ads themselves, which naturally play a major role in sowing confusion. That takes an entire book.)
This is what people have come to expect of the parenting media, to the point that it’s hard to imagine it any other way. It’s why editors told Polly Palumbo they wanted less evidence and more emotion. It’s actually also what we heard from many people when we launched this site. Much of the initial feedback was along the lines of, “Where’s the love? This isn’t politics. It’s too serious. This is about raising children. It should be feel-good.”
Is it true that this is simply what parents want? It sure as hell doesn’t look like it. After all, that’s mostly what’s available, and yet most parents are unhappy with what they’re finding. It seems like people have a mistaken idea of what parenting information should look like. But why?
Here are Palumbo’s thoughts, from an article on Momma Data:
“I suspect it involves a complicated societal relationship with motherhood. Although the status of women and mothers has come a long way since the 1950s, at times, parenting, the greater burden still placed on women, garners disrespect. Perhaps this also explains why news about children more often lands in the lifestyle or culture pages and not the more vaunted front page (or homepage). It’s women’s work and frankly, anyone can do it.”
She’s trying to say publishers and broadcasters dumb down parenting content because they think women are simple. It sounds like a hot take, but it’s actually pretty clear that the media indulges in lazy caricatures of their audience. Just look at how it treats fathers.
“When journalists and editors hear claims casting aspersions on just about any other group of people, they know to be circumspect. But dads remain an exception,” author Josh Levs wrote in a Mediashift article, urging newsrooms to avoid stereotypes on Father’s Day. “After growing up with images of Homer Simpson, American Dad, and clueless men in ads who can’t handle changing diapers, the idea that dads are less hard-working than moms seems obvious to many people.”
This attitude is so taken for granted that the large majority of parenting sources are primarily focused on mothers. Just look at the most visited parenting websites. At the time we’re writing this, it starts with CafeMom.com, and goes on to include ScaryMommy.com, Mothering.com, WorkingMother.com, KellyMom.com, MotherAndBaby.co.uk, JustMommies.com, ModernMom.com and MomsWhoThink.com. You have to look outside the top 20 to find a father-focused site, with AllProDad.com at No. 21.
That partly makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy that fathers don’t consume parenting content. The fact that they’re practically ignored has convinced generations of dads that there’s nothing for them in the parenting media.
For instance, when Mike Rothman sought investors to start his own dad-focused site, he said most of the men he spoke with couldn’t imagine reading parenting information.
“They’d use themselves as a proxy for the addressable market,” he told Nieman Lab. “Like, ‘Oh, well, I don’t really read parenting content and I’m a guy and I’m your target user.’ For me, that was precisely the point.”
His site, Fatherly, now has millions of dollars in investor funding and annual revenue to go along with millions of followers and subscribers. There’s no better indication that the parenting media isn’t the result of pure supply and demand, but inaccurate profiling of parents.
There’s other evidence that people are increasingly rethinking these stereotypes. Last year, The New York Times changed the name of its parenting blog from Motherlode to Well Family, recognizing that the name itself effectively excluded half of parents.
“Over the years, Motherlode has challenged the notion that parenting is a women’s issue […] and it has also become clear that the name Motherlode is more than a little at odds with the larger conversation, which includes mothers, fathers, step parents, grandparents, children, siblings, friends, pets and every possible variation on family,” editor KJ Dell’Antonia said in announcing the change.
Even Palumbo notes that the media’s improved so much in this regard since she had her first child 17 years ago. It clearly still has many issues, but as long as these new brands bring with them content that doesn’t rest on inaccurate stereotypes, and actually solves parents’ problems, it should represent progress.
That said, even if the parenting media weren’t such a mess, there are still some intractable issues keeping parents from getting easy answers to all their questions.
NATURE VS. NURTURE VS. NOT SURE
The truth is, there simply aren’t always straight answers to a lot of seemingly basic questions about raising children, for a few key reasons.
First, there’s a genuine lack of science on pregnancy and child development. It’s pretty obvious why, though: no one wants to run tests on pregnant women or children.
“One thing I’ve found over and over again is the science isn’t very clear,” said Laura Sanders. “These studies are hard to do. A lot of them have a really small numbers of kids, in one small part of the country. There are like five caveats with each.”
Even seemingly fundamental questions are still being researched and debated. For instance, what’s a healthy amount of time for a child to sleep? In only the last two years, the leading U.S. authorities on healthy sleep have revised their recommendations on the appropriate range of sleep duration at certain ages. In September 2016, exactly a year ago as we write this, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, on which the American Academy of Pediatrics bases its sleep recommendations, said “no recommendations could be made in infants <4 months of age, due to the paucity of published outcomes in infants this young.”
Second, the “right” answer is often dictated by culture. Different parents in different locations, of different races, of different religions, etc., may have different goals in mind, which will change what they consider to be the ideal answer.
Sleep is once again an example of this. Gwen Dewar, who writes ParentingScience.com, looked at a number of different sleep studies from around the world, and found that the average amount of time babies sleep simply varies from culture to culture. She writes:
“In one study, sixteen-week old Kokwet babies—members of the Kipsigi ethnic group in Kenya—slept about 2 hours less per 24 hours than did American babies of the same age. In another study, 3-month old Dutch infants slept 2 hours more than American infants did. Such cultural differences in sleep duration may reflect important differences in the ways that babies are handled and fed during the day. For instance, American parents believe it is especially important to provide their babies with lots of sensory stimulation. Dutch parents are more likely to emphasize rest and regularity.”
But it’s not even a difference between parents in Africa, America and Amsterdam. These things vary by generation to generation in the same exact place. Here’s how A. Rae Simpson described this, in announcing the 1998 MIT and Harvard joint study mentioned earlier:
“Caught in the interaction of economic, intellectual, cultural, and social forces, the only constant in child-rearing advice has been change. For example, broad shifts from permissive to authoritarian approaches have occurred from century to century, and, within the twentieth century, from generation to generation. Within the pendulum swings, advice about specific issues also shifts from source to source, from expert to expert: consider, for instance, recent assertions about the value and the risks of spanking or the value and risks of building children’s self-esteem.”
Her examples of discipline and self-esteem bring up a third issue. So many of the questions parents ask are more about the art of parenting, not the science of parenting. Questions like, “How do I raise an honest kid?” and “How should I talk to my children about religion?” make great magazine columns and conversation on parenting message boards, but it’s unlikely there will ever be universally satisfactory answers. Maybe parents are simply expecting too much if they want straightforward solutions to those types of situations.
For that reason, we should really divide parenting information into two categories: questions of art, and questions of science. Knowing how much sleep a child needs to be healthy is a matter of science, while getting your kids to go to sleep at their bedtime is a matter of art.
But even then, science can greatly inform the art. As Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate in their excellent book “NurtureShock,” much of what parents call instinct is really just “a hodgepodge of wishful thinking, moralistic biases, contagious fads, personal history, and old (disproven) psychology.” Meanwhile, neuroscience and careful analysis of large groups of kids can give parents genuine facts about the way children develop, therefore improving and reducing the amount of philosophy parents need to develop on their own.
All these complexities don’t let the parenting media off the hook. Rather, they increase the need for a trustworthy parenting media. Parenting is genuinely a complex, difficult process, which is why we need more careful, clear, credible information, and less focus on celebrities, listicles and general sensationalism.
While we’re holding our breath for that happen, there are some immediate solutions parents can take to find better parenting information.
OUR MODEST SOLUTION
Before we launched Parentifact, we spent months looking for credible sources of parenting information. It was time well spent, because we tracked down people like Polly Palumbo, Laura Sanders, Alice Callahan and Gwen Dewar, all of whom have proven to be tremendously helpful sources for us.
However, we both have journalism backgrounds, so we have an interest and awareness that both motivated us and helped us get through the online obstacle course. It’s unrealistic to expect many other parents would have the enthusiasm or ability to do all that digging.
So, we not only compiled all the best parenting sources we found, but we also created a custom Google search engine that only searches those reliable websites.
How did we decide on which sources to include?
We first started with medical institutions and organizations. The internet makes it possible to get info straight from these trusted sources, rather than having to rely on media intermediaries. Hospitals like Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic have robust resources online, while sites like HealthyChildren.org, which is run by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Safe Kids Worldwide, run by Children’s National Health System, are tremendous resources targeted directly at answering important parenting questions.
We then added those blogs and publications we’ve found to consistently publish evidence-based information. This includes many of those blogs we’ve mentioned earlier, like Momma Data and Growth Curve. It excludes a few sites that do have some solid information but also have inconsistent quality, mixing genuinely helpful content with articles we found to be distracting or misleading.
Our list is surely incomplete, and we’re always keeping our eyes out for new sources to add. As we’ve tried to make the case, it’s more challenging than you might think.
But it’s getting better. There are more and more good sources out there. While they’re still disconnected and not easy to find, this should bring them together and direct more people to the right places.
Parents will always start out finding themselves asking the ultimate parenting meta-question: “Where can I find good answers to all these questions?”
Hopefully, one day, they’ll stop asking the dreaded follow-up question, “Why’s it so hard to find good parenting information?”
We recommend reading some of the sources we linked to throughout this article. We could only include a fraction of detail from each of them, so you can definitely learn a lot more about this topic by visiting those links as well.
To make it easy, we’ve listed here every link from the text, in the order at which they appear in the article:
- Momma Data, Polly Palumbo’s site.
- Growth Curve, Laura Sanders’ blog on Science News.
- “In a world of overwhelming internet advice, here are 8 things parents should know,” Alice Callahan’s article in the Washington Post
- Science of Mom, Alice Callahan’s site.
- “Parenthood, information and support on the internet. A literature review of research on parents and professionals online,” by Lars Plantin of Malmö University, and Kristian Daneback of Gothenburg University, published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Family Practice.
- “The Role of the Mass Media in Parenting Education,” by A. Rae Simpson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered at University of Wisconsin-Madison symposium in 1998.
- “2016 National Parent Survey Overview and Key Insights,” from Zero To Three.
- “Parents and Social Media,” a 2015 report by Pew Research Center. Scroll to the bottom of page 34 for the data we referenced
- “Did You Fall for This ‘Fake News’ Bogus Baby Wipe Recall?” from PJ Media.
- “Are Parents Getting it Right? A Survey of Parents’ Internet Use for Children’s Health Care Information.” a study from The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research.
- “Diapers to Diplomas: What’s on the Minds of New Parents,” a 2014 report from Google about parents’ search habits. This report is mainly intended for marketers targeting parents. We didn’t even touch on the role that marketing and advertising play in affecting parents’ knowledge, but it almost certainly doesn’t help.
- “Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook: Health News Edition,” from On The Media. There are 11 tips here, not all of which apply to parenting, but many of which could help parents better identify flimsy news, such as “newer isn’t always better” and “anecdotes are not data.”
- “Stop blaming the internet for killing newspapers. Start blaming editors.” from one of our cofounder’s (Lee’s) personal site. This post breaks down many issues with the content the traditional media produces, in far more depth than we could do so here.
- “Quality of health information on the Internet in pediatric neuro-oncology,” by researchers at Royal Marsden Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, published in Neuro-Oncology, the journal of the Society for Neuro-Oncology.
- “Mommy Blogs” and the Vaccination Exemption Narrative: Results From A Machine-Learning Approach for Story Aggregation on Parenting Social Media Sites,” from multiple researchers at Los Angeles health systems, published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, a journal that focuses on public health and technology.
- “Best and worst parenting websites of 2015,” from CuteMonster.com. It doesn’t look like they’ve done more up-to-date lists like this, but we wish they did, because the ones they did were useful for us.
- “Mommy Blogger Josi Denise Explains Why She Quit; Says Blog ‘Consumed’ Her Life,” from ABC News. We originally linked to the actual post this story references, but it looks like now that Denise took down her old site. The original post went into great depth about how companies simply pay mothers to post about their products, often in deceptive ways.
- “Google’s Richard Gingras encourages innovation in media outlets to fit technological environment,” from talk at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. This is a long and probably dry talk if you’re not interested in media history, but he discusses how so many sections in newspapers were created simply to sell ads, from automotive to gardening. That system absolutely applies to parenting as well.
- “Parenting Inc.” by Pamela Paul, an excellent book on all the products and marketing parents are bombarded with.
- “Parenting Books: Do parents deserve thought-provoking books?” from Momma Data.
- “This Father’s Day, an Online Battle to Correct the Media About Dads,” by Josh Levs in MediaShift.org.
- Alexa’s list of the most visited parenting websites. Note that these numbers are estimates made by their own system, not definitive rankings.
- “Fatherly wants to build “the leading digital site for parents” — and is counting on mothers to get it there,” from Nieman Lab.
- “Well Family: A New Name and New Home for Motherlode,” from The New York Times, announcing their parenting blog’s name change.
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The Beatles "White Album" was long awaited and there were rumour mills about it long before it hit the stores. One story was that it featured "Hey Jude" and songs from an upcoming movie. Another story that a radio DJ repeated was that the second disc was a jam, similar to Grape Jam by Moby Grape. In gym class I learned that the cover featured John Lennon and Yoko Ono sitting on toilet bowls.
Finally the album found its way to FM radio and Murray the K announced that he had, once again, gotten the album first and would be featuring it on his Saturday night program on WOR-FM. Homework done, chores done, I was looking forward to an evening listening to this historic album for the first time.
The radio was on in my room. Murray the K had just started the show and there was a knocking on my door. It was my father.
"Master Mustache, come on, Mr. Mills has the bed he's giving you and we need to bring it over before he changes his mind."
"Bed, what bed, I don't need a bed. I have a bed." Even then, I was resistent to change.
The rest of the night it was up and down Kaplan Avenue. We carried mattresses, box springs, bed boards. It must have taken ten trips. We disassembled the bed at the Mills bedroom and reassembled it in my bedroom. I got to hear snippets of the Beatles behind the grunts and swear words accompanying the bed assembly. My other bed was then removed and planted on the curb.
After the bed was set up, Mr. Mills brought a bottle of champagne which both families drank, sitting on my new bed. Thus the bed was christened.
Finally the Mills family went home and I got to hear the last two Beatles cuts, "the End" and "Good night".
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FRBSF Economic Letter
1999-11 | April 2, 1999
Dealing with Currency Crises
- Why bank runs are rare
- Why currency crises are frequent
- International lender of last resort?
- New approaches
Pacific Basin Notes. This series appears on an occasional basis. It is prepared under the auspices of the Center for Pacific Basin Monetary and Economic Studies within the FRBSF’s Economic Research Department.
The currency crises of the 1990s—the European Union’s in 1992, Mexico’s in 1994, East Asia’s in 1997, and Russia’s and Brazil’s more recently—raise concerns for a number of reasons. They are not only hard on the countries experiencing them, but if they spread widely they also may disrupt the international flow of credit, hindering trade, investment, and GDP growth in the world economy.
Currency crises reflect actions by investors that are very similar to bank runs or classic financial panics. They differ, however, in that currency crises are common, while bank runs have been relatively rare during the postwar period, particularly in industrialized economies. This Economic Letter discusses the similarities and differences between bank runs and currency crises as well as their implications for efforts to prevent future currency crises.
Banks do not fully back their deposits with reserves, which makes them vulnerable to financial panics or bank runs. During a bank run, each depositor fears that other depositors will withdraw their funds; since the bank does not have enough reserves to give all depositors their money, depositors race to be first to withdraw their money before the reserves are depleted. This process can drive an otherwise solvent bank to bankruptcy.
Bank runs have been limited by two institutional arrangements. First, the central bank serves as a lender of last resort; that is, it can increase the money supply and also lend funds to individual (typically solvent) banks that may be experiencing runs. A sufficiently large increase in liquidity can end the incentive to flee the banking system. The second arrangement is deposit insurance, which ensures that depositors’ funds are safe even if their bank fails. In the United States, deposit insurance explicitly covers $100,000 for each depositor in a given bank. In addition, implicit insurance operates in many countries where some banks may be considered “too big to fail;” thus, depositors (but not necessarily equity holders) are implicitly fully insured against any losses.
While lender of last resort and deposit insurance facilities explain why bank runs in industrial countries have been rare in the postwar era, they also create an incentive for banks to take on more risk than they otherwise would—this is known as moral hazard—which can contribute to future panics. To curb moral hazard, banks face extensive regulation and supervision. Regulators directly assess the riskiness of loan portfolios and require that financial institutions insure themselves against failure by holding adequate amounts of capital.
With the growing integration of financial markets, investors from developed market economies have acquired large claims in developing countries (for convenience I will use this last term also to refer to emerging markets). A central bank that pegs its exchange rate to a “hard” currency (one that is widely traded internationally) implicitly guarantees that any investors who want to exchange their local currency assets for that hard currency can do so at the prevailing exchange rate, that is, without experiencing a capital loss from a devaluation of the local currency. If investors fear a devaluation and think that the central bank’s foreign reserves are not adequate to make good on this guarantee, they may flee the currency, depleting hard currency reserves and forcing the devaluation they fear. Investors may fear devaluation for many reasons; for example, a rise in bad loans may create doubts about the government’s ability to raise interest rates in order to maintain a peg. Such weaknesses in the financial system often play an important role (Moreno 1998).
Thus, just as commercial banks are vulnerable to panics because they can run out of cash reserves, central banks that peg the exchange rate are vulnerable to panics because they can run out of foreign exchange reserves. However, in contrast to commercial banks from industrial countries, central banks in developing countries have no automatic access to lender of last resort facilities in “hard” currencies. This is one reason currency crises have been frequent, while bank runs in industrial countries have not.
In principle, industrial countries that issue hard currencies could prevent currency crises in developing countries by acting as lenders of last resort. They could adopt expansionary monetary policies or provide sufficiently generous access to hard currencies (directly or through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF)) to countries experiencing speculation against their currencies (Calvo 1994, Fischer 1999). However, industrial countries have had difficulty in fully assuming such a role for at least three reasons.
First, the monetary policies of industrial countries ultimately must be geared to their own national policy objectives. At times (for example, 1998, when industrial countries’ monetary policies eased), industrial countries’ policy objectives may help emerging markets experiencing liquidity pressures. However, conditions change, and the policy objectives of industrial countries and developing countries may not always coincide.
Second, developing countries cannot be required to adopt policies that may prevent currency crises. In contrast to commercial banks, which must submit to domestic regulation and supervision—in extreme cases they may be taken over by their regulators—developing countries are sovereign entities that cannot legally be required by foreign countries or international organizations to hold adequate reserves or to adopt macroeconomic and prudential measures that would make them less vulnerable to runs on their currencies. As a result, the access of developing countries to hard currency financing around times of currency crises has not been automatic, but has followed negotiations in which they agree to implement adjustment programs intended to facilitate recovery or prevent future currency crises. Developing countries typically accept adjustment programs after currency crises have broken out, but they have had little or no incentive to do so during good times.
Third, distributing the burden of adjustment in the wake of a crisis is very difficult. In deciding whether or not to provide hard currency support in the wake of a crisis, industrial countries and the international organizations they fund face a dilemma. On the one hand, such support can create moral hazard—that is, incentives for risky behavior on the part of developing countries and international investors. On the other hand, withholding support may mean delayed recovery in developing countries or, in extreme cases, the spread of crises to other countries.
The resulting difficulties in achieving smooth responses to crises are illustrated by the experience with the debt crisis of the 1980s. After this crisis broke out in 1982, the debt burdens of developing countries—already unsustainable—initially increased instead of declining. According to Dooley (1995), this reflected the unwillingness of bank lenders to forgive any portion of the debt and the unwillingness of the governments of industrial countries to assume any part of it. Ultimately, market forces and U.S. government initiatives that facilitated the securitization of developing country debt and its sale at a discount in the open market brought about reductions in debt burdens, the resumption of capital flows to indebted countries, and the resumption of growth in these countries in the 1990s. However, the process took years. Latin America experienced a “lost decade” in which living standards declined and the trade and investment opportunities offered by the region were very limited.
The experience with currency crises in the 1990s has prompted a search for new approaches for dealing with such crises. So far, the emphasis has been on the timely mobilization of large amounts of money and on crisis prevention.
More money. The financial rescue packages put together in response to crises in the 1990s are very large by historical standards, and they have helped end instability in currency markets relatively quickly. For example, the rescue package for Korea in the last quarter of 1997 totaled $58.4 billion (the IMF share was $21.1 billion), and an additional $22 billion in short- term debt (about 36% of the total short-term debt) was almost immediately rescheduled. While the package did not prevent a painful economic contraction, it stabilized Korea’s exchange rate a few months after the crisis broke out and set the stage for an expected recovery in the Korean economy in 1999.
Financial packages are now being geared to encourage the adoption of policies that could prevent crises in selected developing countries. Backed by a recent IMF quota increase of about $90 billion (including $17.9 billion from the U.S.), an enhanced IMF Facility is being considered to provide a contingent short-term line of credit that would be available before a crisis breaks out, but only if a country adopts certain policies that would limit its vulnerability. The line of credit is expected to be of short maturity and to charge interest rates above market rates to discourage misuse.
Another important feature of the new financial packages is that they do not rely exclusively on IMF funds. Governments and other international organizations are to make financing available along with the IMF, and private investors are encouraged to participate in providing financial relief. While the precise details are still being worked out, this may include arrangements which ensure that private investors or lenders do not flee financial markets during periods of uncertainty and instead voluntarily reschedule their loans to prevent or attenuate crises. As such arrangements would impose costs on private creditors in the aftermath of a crisis, they are also seen as a way of curbing moral hazard and preventing future crises. Recent financial rescue packages—including those for Korea in 1998 and Brazil in 1999, already contain some of these elements.
Crisis prevention. While large money packages can prevent or end panics in the short run, they also can create moral hazard, increasing the vulnerability to future crises. To avoid such an outcome, recent rescue programs have called for the adoption of structural reforms in the financial and corporate sectors, as well as improved prudential supervision. The idea is to improve risk management as well as the overall operation of the financial sector, thus reducing the chances of the type of panic that can trigger currency crises. In line with this, legal reforms in some countries that have experienced crises now allow more efficient and well-capitalized banks or firms to take over bankrupt institutions. Furthermore, sectors previously closed to foreign investment have been opened. Reforms also aim to enhance transparency in government, the financial sector, and the corporate sector in order to increase accountability and facilitate the assessment of risk.
Some actions are also contemplated at the international level. German Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer recently proposed enhancing the surveillance of the global financial system to reduce the chances of future crises. The enhancements include improving the information provided by financial institutions as well as national authorities, strengthening the coordination of national and international regulatory bodies, and assessing whether currently unregulated financial institutions should be regulated. Tietmeyer also proposed the creation of a G-7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, U.K., and U.S.) Financial Stability Forum that would identify and oversee actions to prevent crises.
While it is too early to assess their effectiveness fully, recent measures to strengthen the international response to currency crises appear to be facilitating the early recovery of countries affected by such crises and may also contribute to their prevention. Nevertheless, some of the obstacles to the smooth provision of international lender of last resort support that were cited earlier will remain. Under these conditions, developing countries may be well advised to give the highest priority to making their economic systems less vulnerable to crises. Experience with recent currency crises (Moreno 1998) suggests that countries may reduce their vulnerability by developing robust and well-supervised financial systems, with well-capitalized financial institutions that are more able to absorb shocks. Eliminating the government guarantee implied by a fixed exchange rate, by allowing greater exchange rate flexibility, may also reduce the likelihood of future currency crises.
Calvo, Guillermo. 1994. “Mexico: Stabilization, Reform and No Growth. Comments.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 0(1), pp. 298-303.
Fischer, Stanley. 1999. “On the Need for an International Lender of Last Resort.” Manuscript.
Dooley, Michael P. 1995. “A Retrospective on the Debt Crisis.” In Understanding Interdependence: The Macroeconomics of the Open Economy, ed., Peter Kenen. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Moreno, Ramon. 1998. “What Caused East Asia’s Financial Crisis?” FRBSF Economic Letter 98-24 (August 7).
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The Weeknd * Starboy
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When considering what room to remodel in your home, choose to do the project that will give you the most return on your investment; the best choices on that condition is to remodel the kitchen or bathroom. Unfortunately, each of these rooms are often the most expensive projects for remodeling. Luckily, there are several different ways that you can modernize and update the look of your rooms, without emptying your bank account.
Tin ceilings have been used throughout the decades as a way to increase the richness and design personality of a space. Recently, tin ceilings have experienced a renewed popularity for use in a wide range of spaces, including kitchens and bathrooms. Using a tin ceiling product is not only unique, but it’s also easy to install, and made in several more affordable forms. While there are cheaper ways to change the look of your ceiling through stucco or paint, tin ceilings are still lower in price than more expensive ceiling remodeling projects. Tin ceiling tiles also provide a way for you to still match the design of the ceiling to other metal elements in your room, such as fixtures or cabinetry hardware, through the wide range of metal and painted looks available. For those on a more strict budget, faux ceiling tiles are also available, which can be painted to fit the style of any room, at a more budget-friendly cost.
Glass tiles have become a favorite among some eco-friendly designers as a wider range of recycled glass tile products have entered the market over the years. Both new and recycled tile products come in a rainbow of different colors, allowing you to match the tile to the personal style of your kitchen or bathroom project. Glass tiles can be utilized in many projects including kitchen backsplashes, accent walls, shower walls or shower floors. Even better, glass tile installs nearly the same way as regular tile, making it easy to install, as well as easy to maintain.
Flooring is also seeing an increase in available green and eco-friendly options for home design in both the bathroom and kitchen. Teak, cork and bamboo are all commonly available options in both hardwood and engineered hardwood forms. Engineered hardwood flooring has the added benefit of being more affordable, as well as has a greater stability against moisture and heat, which is important in moist or wet environments like a bathroom or kitchen. While in the past hardwood has been more reserved for living rooms or bedrooms, the popularity of running hardwoods throughout the home to tie the design spaces together continues to increase.
Changing out the hardware of cabinets and drawers is easily one of the fastest, easiest and most affordable ways to change the look of a room. Outdated fixtures can quickly bring down the look and even the value of kitchen and bathroom spaces. With just an electric or manual screwdriver, you can easily remove old hardware and install new knobs, pulls or handles. In many cases you may be able to change the entire look of the room for less than $100. For those on a stricter budget, metal paint can also be used to change the look of your current hardware. Just be sure to thoroughly clean your old hardware first, and follow the manufacturer’s direction on the paint can.
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Styling your table tops by artfully displaying items of use or beauty is a wonderful way to avoid chaos. A tray provides parameters and a designated spot for items, for example; oils, and frequently used spices in a kitchen. Above are examples by Stylizimo (left), and the very instagram-worthy Kristin of Damernasvarld (right).
A clean desk is the best fresh start to the day, agreed? A tray is a great landing spot for items like a glass full of pencils, a pretty letter opener, or a pill-box full of stamps. The top right image is a simple acrylic tray with a pretty card stock cut to fit inside, see the tutorial here at Just A Girl. A deep sea-green tray houses desk curiosities (left) from The Everygirl.
So assemble the troops and get organized and stylized. Above is a collection of trays I have selected for every use (from top left to bottom right):
- Lucite and brass tray from the Jacques Collection by Jonathan Adler.
- Square marble tray from Williams Sonoma. *If placing an oil or wine bottle on true marble, try using a coaster to protect the porous material.
- Safari leather tray by Sarreid.
- Acacia rectangular wood tray by Lulu and Georgia.
- Greek key mirrored round tray by Williams Sonoma.
- Black melamine large serve tray by Target.
- Silver plate Malmaison tray by Christofle from Bloomingdales.
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Located off the Eastern coast of Australia, Fraser Island stretches over 123 kilometres in length and 22 kilometres at its widest point. With an area covering over 184 000 hectares it is known to be the largest sand island in the world.
Fraser Island is visited by millions of travellers year round, and it’s natural attractions and beautiful nature is what keeps these travellers wanting more.
A trip to Fraser Island will present with pristine lakes, beautiful towering rainforests and adventure beyond what you could ever imagine! It’s an absolute must do while travelling the East Coast of Australia and here is a list of the highlights of this World Heritage listed region explaining why!
Lake McKenzie is a perched lake located in the Great Sandy National Park. The sand around the Lake McKenzie is composed of the purest, white silica sand, which beautifully contrasts with the pristine blue that the lake water gives off.
Lake Wabby, also located in the Great Sandy National Park is a smaller green coloured freshwater lake. Lake Wabby is also known to be the deepest lake on the island. It is located on the eastern side of Fraser Island and is found adjacent to the Hammerstone Sandblow. Lake Wabby is the perfect spot for an afternoon dip, after a morning of exploring the rest of the island.
Eli Creek is a beautiful crystal clear freshwater creek, which flows through vegetated banks and right on out towards the beach. Eli Creek is a very popular picnic and swimming spot (commonly referred as a natural lazy river), with a beautiful boardwalk that follows the creek inland for you to wander along.
Maheno Shipwreck was brought ashore just north of Happy Valley during a cyclone in 1935. Today the hull lies slowly deteriorating in the harsh salt environment, about 10 km north of Happy Valley. This is a highlight for many travelling to Fraser Island due to its historical significance.
Indian Head acts as a lookout point from where you can watch for stingrays, sharks, sea turtles, and whales (when in season) swimming along! The distinctive rocky cliff landscapes make for stunning photo opportunities.
Champagne Pools are the perfect spot on the island to relax and take a dip into the magnificent waters of Fraser Island. There pools provide a very popular swimming hole with the ocean crashing over the rocks into shallow sandy pools. The bubbling water is where the name Champagne Pools (Fraser’s natural Jacuzzi) comes from.
Central Station is where many rainforest walks depart from. You can wander through the rainforest along Wanggoolba Creek boardwalk, stopping at the peaceful Basin Lake or stand amongst the towering satinay trees in Pile Valley.
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Six sparkling cubic zirconia are set into the top of this band for the brilliant look of this Gold Vermeil Twinkling Ring. Each 3mm cubic zirconia is embedded in this beautiful ring to create a seamless glow that draws the eye. The widest part of the ring measures 1/4 inch across the top, narrowing to 1/8 inch at the bottom of the shank. With this beautifully done vermeil, you can have the look of pure gold without the cost!
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I can;t believe these sneeky twats!
I was up at Edinburgh Cruise last saturday and i saw these 2 guys going round taking pics of cars, looking a bit out of place (as one was waring a tweed jacket ) i went up to them and asked them what they were taking pics for.
The said that they had never been to a cruise before and was just taking pics for their own intrest.
I thot fair enough untill he said he drove a supra...
but hey ho we continued to talk, then i noticed they had shared a nice little bit of interest with my mates CRX Del Sol.
The were saying its a nice car and loved the paint job ect..
turns out the man in tweed and his friend were shed hunters for the BB website
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Finally that time of year. I have already caught 10 minutes of NBC airing 'Santa Claus is Comin to Town', the day after Thanksgiving. Realized quickly I had never seen it before (don't know how I managed to miss that throughout my entire childhood). But got me thinking, what are some other Xmas films/features I have missed?
Anyways, wanted to start a 'what's your favorite Christmas movie' thread.
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Santa Claus, Home Alone, The Family Man, and The Family Stone.
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The Rhode Island School of Design
The Rhode Island School of Design - Comments and Student Experiences|
However like mentioned by previous reviewers, a lot of this work might seem redundant or like 'busywork'. This is partly because RISD is a heavily 'technical' school, if you are unaware. It is a bit 'outdated' this way- for example in the ID department we focus a lot more on metal and woodworking than any other school and less on the 'design'. But I personally like that, because in my opinion, if you want to go far, strong basic knowledge in your major is exactly the thing we're suppose to be learning in undergrad. Yes you could ask a school to teach you 'creativity', and for freedom to 'try your own projects', but to be bluntly honest at this point do you have enough SKILL to support your creativity (which btw is not something that can be taught).
Be aware though, if you are not someone who have a self-organized system that enables you to glean what needs to be learnt from the mass of information shoved at you, you might verywell be lost. But it's a wonder what you can learn if you step back from the mundane 'work'- it is also this work that enables you to do the stepping back.
I personally was and am very disappointed at the (majority of) staff and resources here. RISD doesn't seem to provide helpful aid in, well any way. But the students here are amazing, brilliant, but most of all motivated people. I learn 90% the time more from peers than the professors.I love RISD. I am an international student and I received quite substantial amounts of scholarship from many other schools, but like a senior student once passed down to me I will pass to you all- if you want to thrive in the long run come to RISD, it might be hard to find normal employment right off the bat because what it has equipped you are the 'things' essential to become leaders, not followers.
I did not really know what specific career I wanted, like most new freshmen.
It's been a year since I graduated with a 4 yr BFA, and I can say it was pretty easy to go on the wrong path due to peer pressure.
Between all the nonstop fatigue and illust+foundation work, I had NO time to think about "who I truly am". But this is the most important part of art college.
It is more important than following rules, or even playing it safe for your future's sake.
But risd's notorious for being extra structured and extra stiff with the intellectual side of art. I knew I was already like that--but turns out, it was my flaw, not my strength.
I deeply love animation, but nervously went into illustration, because that major's claim to fame is that it's "flexible" and "broad". So I thought I could "make it my own" and do tons of animation stuff by myself by picking a variety of essential electives, while staying in illust.
Don't trust that opinion.
For animation specifically, that doesn't work very well, if you're unsure and indecisive like me. Interdisciplinary study was very hard between illust and animation, so you must pick a concrete path and pick it ASAP in your RISD career. Preferably before sophomore year.
Also, true for all majors: Everyone agrees they had to "Bullshit a project idea they didn't want or hated, as long as it could be quickly executed and satisfy the teacher" more often then they wished. This left no freedom to really explore who you are, without fear. Fear of judgement ruled students, especially in Illustration. This adds to the fact that my decision was swayed too easily.
Now, back to animation:
Animation is packed and barely any classes are available for people who "aren't sure what they want to focus on yet." It was a very exclusive major, and the spots for course registration run out very fast. If you go in the major, you'll get what you need, in terms of computer program training and basic principles.
But! The animation facilities are not that great. Other schools specialize much better in animation and are more well equipped.
RISD animation is very, very experimental. They don't force this, but again it is an unsaid "peer pressure". All students tend to make their work on the grandiose, abstract, and deep side. This does not exclude the animation dept. I felt RISD animation looked down upon commercial style (what you see in disney/pixar, cartoon network, and nickelodeon). I can say I personally would have hated it even if I chose animation, because I prefer to make art that is meant for entertainment--unpretentious, accessible, humorous, and fun, yet still meaningful as well.
I was not able to learn this about myself...until I left the fine-artsy, clique-ish, and highly critical atmosphere of RISD (this is not necessarily bad for everyone, but it does create an inescapable mindset and kind of heightens one's nervousness).
Not the right college for someone who doesn't know EXACTLY what they want for their future right away. Even in freshman foundation, some teachers expected us to confidently state where we wanted to work.
Not good for people with anxiety. Not very forgiving towards nervous or worrisome types.
Remember, perfectionism is different from anxiety. If being perfect makes you feel happy or adventurous, it'll suit you. If it leaves you feeling more nervous than adventurous, seek more freedom in your education.
And if you're hoping and dreaming of a college to improve your self esteem and social skills, this is NOT the one.
Another thing worth noting:
It's hard to travel to buy basic amenities in providence. It rains all the time, windy, clammy, the town is often creepily empty looking, and grocery/dorm essential/appliance shopping is often more than 20-30 mins away on foot. Add in the steep hilly landscape and you'll wish there were just a simple hardware and grocery store were right near you.
This is seriously important, as art projects require you to buy weird supplies youd never imagine.
DO NOT LET THE SCHOOL'S FAME SWAY YOUR DECISION!
Every negative review on here is mainly people who thought art school would be fun, or people who hate one small thing so they decide to bag on everything else. You have to really know you want to go here to like this school.
The surrounding town is great, the people are friendly. Yes, there are weird people, but there are everywhere. The professors will critique you A LOT. Just be prepared for it. Remember, they're there to make you a better artist.I have had a great experience here. I made great friends, I fell in love, and I have became an even more incredible artist than I was when I first got here. I highly recommend this school. | <urn:uuid:4b7b40cd-46ac-437d-81c1-cfb088eb60a7> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://www.studentsreview.com/RI/RISD_comments.html?page=2&type=&d_school=The%20Rhode%20Island%20School%20of%20Design | 2016-09-28T06:53:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738661326.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173741-00244-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976411 | 1,454 |
1:39 pm - 08/29/2013
Namie Amuro Collaborates With Vogue And Gucci For Special Project Single, “Ballerina”
Fresh from the chart-topping success of her latest Platinum album, Feel, Namie Amuro has joined forces with Vogue Japan and Gucci for a special fashion-meets-music collaborative project.
Check out the official press release, below:
We are excited to announce the special GUCCI x VOGUE JAPAN x Namie Amuro collaborative project.
There will be a special GUCCI x VOGUE JAPAN x Namie Amuro collaborative event at the “FASHION’S NIGHT OUT” shopping event at GUCCI Aoyama on September 7th (Sat) which is being hosted by “VOGUE JAPAN”!!
In addition, Amuro-chan will appear in the October issue of “VOGUE JAPAN”, which goes on sale today, wearing the newly announced 2013-14 women’s fall winter collection from GUCCI.
Starting today, you will be able to watch a different SPECIAL MOVIE on each of the official sites which will have scenes from this special collaborative project.
Namie also posted a remix of Ballerina on her Facebook page:
Source 1 & 2
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What is bladder cancer?
Bladder cancer is the abnormal enlargement of cells that make up the bladder.
How common is bladder cancer?
Bladder cancer is answerable for approximately 3% of all malignancies diagnosed in Australia each year. It is more common in men than women and typically affects those over 60 years of age. Smoking is the biggest risk reason.
What are the symptoms of bladder cancer?
Bladder cancer at an early stage of enlargement may not produce any noticeable signs or symptoms. Common signs of bladder cancer include haematuria , which is generally painless and may appear only from time to time over a few months, a burning sensation during urination and a need to urinate often.
When bladder cancer cause noticeable symptoms, they are generally related to the irritation brought about by tumour growth. Irritable symptoms include urination that is frequent, urgent, painful or difficult.
If a bladder tumour blocks a urethra, patients may experience pain in the side of the body between the ribs and the top of the hip. In some cases, tumour growth may constrict the urethra and slow the flow of the urine. Bladder cancers may also shed pieces of dead tissue, fragments of other tissue and other forms of tumour-related matter that are then passed out with the urine.
If the tumour has spread beyond the bladder to the surrounding tissue, you may knowledge pelvic pain, bone pain at the site of the new cancer, leg swelling (edema) due to the involvement of lymph nodes, loss of weight and fatigue. Anemia and high blood levels of urea and other metabolic by-products, often due to urinary tract obstruction, may be further indications of late-stage bladder cancer.
Since such symptoms are also reason by bacterial infections and kidney stones, it is essential to see your doctor for an accurate diagnosis.
How is bladder cancer diagnosed?
When you experience symptoms of bladder cancer, your doctor will conduct physical examinations in order to formulate an exact diagnosis. Other tests such as cystoscopy biopsy and intravenouspyelogram (dye is injected and traced with CT).
How is bladder cancer treated?
Bladder cancer can be treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. A number of treatments may be used in conjunction with each other. The choice of treatments depends on a number of factors, including age, generally health and the extent and stage of the tumour. Discuss this with your doctor to ascertain the most appropriate course of treatment for you. | <urn:uuid:22de1451-3f58-4f8a-af8b-ca2d4329905d> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://www.drdevendradhaker.com/medical-conditions/bladder-cancer/ | 2019-03-20T20:11:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202450.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20190320190324-20190320212324-00401.warc.gz | en | 0.951288 | 518 |
Oral surgery (performed at Kiefer Family Dental) refers to any surgical dental procedure performed in or around the mouth and jaw. It is usually performed by a dental specialist who’s trained to perform these certain kinds of oral surgeries.
Some oral surgeries actually involve the repositioning of the jaw. In other more serious instances, oral surgery may involve the removal of a tumor. Oral surgeries might be performed by any one of a number of different kinds of dental specialists, including endodontists, periodontists, and prosthodontists.
Some of the most common surgeries for teeth and jaw include:
Impacted wisdom teeth, gum grafts, Maxillofacial surgery, and jaw and teeth repair following an injury.
There are two types of extractions when it comes to oral surgery. Simple extractions and surgical extractions. Take a look at how these two procedures differ from each other.
Simple extractions are used to remove teeth that can be seen and easily accessible, whereas surgical dental extractions typically require an incision into the connective tissue to gain access to the tooth to be removed. Simple extractions are relatively easy procedures that can be performed by your dentist in the office, requiring little to no major recovery time. A simple extraction is generally a quick procedure, and often multiple teeth can be removed at once if they need to be.
Sometimes teeth are broken, leaving only the root intact. Other times—like with most wisdom teeth removal—the tooth simply hasn’t erupted yet. This is when surgical extraction will be the best option for having it removed. Typically, a specialist known as an oral maxillofacial surgeon will perform your procedure, although some dentists are also trained to do so. Generally, surgical extraction can be performed with a local anesthetic, but sometimes general anesthesia is applied to make the process easier for patients and the doctor. Surgical extractions generally involve a more diligent aftercare routine in the days following your procedure.
We at Kiefer Family Dental hope that the information about oral surgery was helpful. The office of Kiefer Family Dental provides the best in modern dentistry for individuals and families including solving all dental issues you may encounter.
Our highly-qualified dentists and gentle hygienists work hard to combine knowledge and skill with the latest in technology to give our patients the best possible dental outcomes. With services ranging from periodontal therapy, oral surgery. dental implants, dentures and even being set up for Invisalign clear braces, Kiefer Family Dental is your Evansville, Indiana A+ dental choice. Call (812) 424-9506 or use the website to book an appointment online. | <urn:uuid:8c773c56-bd21-477a-8b29-226f7c0a1556> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://kieferfamilydental.com/2021/04/19/oral-surgeries-performed-gently-kiefer-family-dental/ | 2023-10-03T06:37:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511055.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003060619-20231003090619-00819.warc.gz | en | 0.93455 | 563 |
The very breath of music flows as dynamic nuances and minute details are reproduced with the gentle touch of a master’s brush. Thunderous low frequencies are delivered with authoritative and articulate control as you are transported into an environment of music that is effortless, natural, alive and whole.
Masterful in its pure revelation of music and magical in its ability to utterly disappear, the Pearl3 is a loudspeaker for music lovers that want to get off the upgrade merry-go-round and fall in love for life.
Housed in separate enclosures and linked by solid brass points, the Pearl’s tweeter and midrange are isolated from the dual woofers below. The input posts are the Patented Cardas vise-type design (CE approved) for maximum contact. The aluminum cone woofers were custom created with additional magnet mass, and copper pole piece for the cleanest possible bass reproduction. The zinc alloy cast frame has extreme rigidity and narrow fingers to minimize any internal reflections.
A field array of tiny yet powerful magnets are spaced around the edge of the tweeter’s voice coil, allowing the area behind the dome to remain clear of any reflective materials.
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Wondering where your indoor dog gets Roundworm infection from? Well, you might find the correct answer with us.
Several infectious agents can infect dogs during their lifetime, and Roundworms are one of them.
This unholy group also contains Hookworms and Whipworms as one of the most common infectious agents.
Although routine deworming can help with such parasitical infections, there is a lot more you must know and practice.
How did my dog get Roundworms?
If your dog recently got a Roundworm infection, chances are he/she ate/sniffed/licked the infected feces of another dog or cat.
Roundworm infection spreads through eggs in the feces of any suffering animal.
These animals can range from dogs, cats, birds, cockroaches, rodents, and earthworms.
Roundworms in Dogs – Symptoms, Causes, Treatments
Roundworms, also known as ascarids or nematodes, are common intestinal parasites that attack dogs.
These worms live freely inside the dog’s intestine and feed off of their partially digested food.
The name Roundworm comes from the round/ tubular shape of worms.
The two important species of roundworms found in dogs include Toxocaracanis and Toxascaris leonine.
The former is worse and can even spread across (from dogs) to humans.
Roundworm Symptoms in Dogs
- Potbelly appearance.
- Prolonged Weakness
- Pain in abdomen
- Dull coat
- Weight loss
- Loss of appetite/ Increased appetite.
- Worms in vomit
Roundworms in Dogs- Causes
Roundworms are common amongst dogs, especially puppies. The canines might get roundworms from:
- As puppies while feeding on their mother’s milk. It only happens if the mother dog is infected with a roundworm infection.
- From eating, licking, or sniffing an infected animal’s stool (containing roundworm eggs).
- By eating mice or other small animals that are infected.
Roundworm diagnosis in Dogs
The standard and easiest diagnosis for roundworm infection in dogs are through a sample of their stool.
The responsible Vet will take your dog’s poop, mix it with some solution and examine it under a microscope.
Roundworm treatment in Dogs
Treating roundworm infections in dogs is very straightforward. Once your dog is diagnosed with a roundworm infection, your Vet will suggest you some medicines.
These medicines most likely may include fenbendazole and pyrantel or milbemycin as dewormers. Piperazine and pyrantel, too, are some of the effective deworming medications for treating roundworm infection in dogs.
Depending upon the severity of the infection, Vet will prescribe one to three doses of dewormer for the dog. Follow-up doses after another diagnosis might be required.
Roundworms in Dogs- 6 Facts and Reasons
- Most dogs suffer from roundworm infection at least once in their lifetime.
- Puppies can catch roundworm infection right during birth if the mother dog is infected.
- Humans, especially children, and pregnant women are at more risk of catching an infection.
- Roundworms inhabit the inside intestine or gastrointestinal (GI) tract of dogs.
- Roundworms transfer through worm larvae or eggs from dog to dog, cat, or humans.
- Preventive dewormers can save dogs from roundworm infection.
Do dogs poop out Roundworms?
It is less likely for dogs to poop out roundworms. Instead, dogs suffering from a roundworm infection can poop worm eggs.
However, there are chances that the suffering dog may release some roundworms through vomiting.
It happens majorly when the dog suffers from a severe worm infection case.
Where do Roundworms come from?
Like any other parasitical worm, Roundworms can live in the environment for years. Not just the worm form, but even their eggs can survive for long.
Roundworms often come from sand, soil, or plants that once were contaminated by infected animal feces.
When an animal or human accidentally swallows such things, the chances of consuming worm eggs also become prominent.
How much does it cost to treat Roundworms?
The cost of treating roundworm infection can range from low to high. The overall cost dramatically depends upon the dog’s age and size, the area you stay at, and the level of infection.
The procedure will begin with a fecal test that will cost somewhere around $30 to $120. For dogs who have an infection, the Vet will suggest some deworming drug costing from $20 to $200.
The severity of the infection will require another round of medicine, adding more to the cost. Once the treatment is done, and the dog has recovered, another fecal test for satisfaction is recommended. The overall cost can range from $80 to $400.
Can I get Roundworms from my dog licking me?
Pet parents usually don’t bother much when their dog licks them; however, it isn’t as safe as it appears.
Worms, including Roundworm and Hookworms, can spread from dogs to humans through licking. Since your dog’s mouth may contain roundworm larvae/ eggs, it may happen.
Licking can also spread the Giardia parasite from dogs to humans. That is why, despite how much you love your dog, always maintain some hygiene while they are suffering from a worm infection.
Also, ensure your dog isn’t poking his face on shit and coming back home licking you out of love.
This, in the first place, is gross, and secondly can lead to you catching multiple infections and skin problems.
How likely is it to get roundworms from a dog?
Dogs cannot directly pass roundworms to humans, but it is more likely that you can catch this infection anyway.
Accidental contact with dog feces or contaminated soil can result in the ingestion of roundworm larvae in humans.
This, within a few weeks, will develop a roundworm infection inside your system.
A roundworm infection can lead to the human eye, lung, heart, and neurologic issues.
Can I touch my puppy if he has roundworms?
Yes, as a pet parent, you can definitely touch your puppy if he is suffering from a roundworm infection.
However, make sure you wash your hands with soap every time after touching your dog.
Also, ensure cleaning infected dogs’ poop as soon as possible. The idea is to clean it before it dries and scatters into the environment.
And since worm eggs can live for long in dog poop or soil, dispose of them far away from your garden.
Can a dog fully recover from Roundworms?
Yes, Roundworm infection isn’t incurable, and dogs can fully recover from it. Multiple safe and effective medicines kill adult roundworms in the intestine.
Vets can even suggest monthly dewormers that are effective for saving the pet from any future infection.
However, medication does not kill the eggs of the Roundworm.
Thus, dogs may need to be treated one to three times to get rid of the newly hatched worms or adult eggs.
While these doses are missed, chances are roundworm eggs may survive inside your dog’s intestine.
How do you know when Dog roundworms are gone?
Once you stop seeing worms out from your dog’s poop, it means he is recovering.
Improvement in symptoms of Roundworm also indicates that the canine is or has completely healed.
However, to make sure, getting a stool test is safe and advisable.
Will Roundworms Kill a Dog?
Though roundworm infection is curable, it may prove fatal for dogs if untreated.
It is crucial to figure out the symptoms of roundworm infection in dogs during an early stage.
It is when the parasites won’t have led to much harm.
However, once the infection becomes severe, it can lead to poor growth amongst canines and even death in some cases.
How long do dogs live after roundworm treatment?
Dogs can live a healthy and long life after roundworm treatment. Roundworm infection isn’t excruciating and generally doesn’t put much harm.
That is why a dog’s growth or lifespan doesn’t impact after its treatment.
However, if left untreated, the infection can hamper the dog’s development and even result in death.
Should I adopt a Roundworm positive dog?
There is no harm in adopting a roundworm-positive dog as long as you can dedicate care to them.
Dogs shelters these days have multiple dogs suffering from Roundworm or other parasitical infections.
It happens due to less space and more dogs in individual shelters.
While you are adopting a dog from a shelter or care center, the chances of them carrying an infection are prominent.
Individuals who can dedicate time, efforts, and resources to treating roundworm-positive dogs must go forwards for adoption.
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This was all about Roundworms in dogs, where they get from, and their treatment.
Roundworms spread quickly; thus, having an eye on where your dog pokes its face is very important.
Any movement when you are skeptical or concerned about roundworm infection in your dog, talk to your Vet soon.
An early diagnosis and treatment will make the canine suffer less.
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WWE legend Jeff Jarrett has insisted that Kurt Angle is "without question right up there in the top three to five" wrestlers of all time.
Hall of Famer Angle, 51, left WWE in 2006 and worked closely with Jarrett under the TNA banner.
Speaking to SPORTbible in an exclusive interview, TNA co-founder Jarrett said that the former WWE superstar's "timing was incredible" and "his storytelling ability [...] was brilliant."
The 52-year-old Hall of Famer explained: "It's almost like any sport: we're only as good as what we did last night because tonight there's another round of games, there's another round of matches, there's another television show, another pay-per-view [...].
"But he is without, in my opinion, without question right up there in the top three to five. He had, especially in his peak career, obviously his athletic ability [and] is right up there second to none.
"But his timing was incredible and his storytelling ability, from a physical standpoint, was brilliant."
Angle, who now works as a backstage producer in WWE, made his sensational return to WWE in 2017.
The WWE legend retired from wrestling last year after his defeat to Baron Corbin at WrestleMania 35 in New Jersey.
But Angle, who admitted he had four opponents in mind for his retirement match, was adamant that he was the best in the business during the 2000s.
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"I started when I was 31, I'd say around 41 or 42 was when I started seeing my level and status going down slowly. I was able to perform the way I wanted to until about 48."
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Welcome to Deskbound Traveller
Welcome to the opening day of Deskbound Traveller, a new home for travel storytelling. It’s going to be an accommodating home, roomy enough for geography, history, natural history, autobiography, memoir and verse, as well as a few fibs. The “About” page will tell you more.
Today I am publishing extracts from the joint winners of this year’s Dolman Travel Book Award, Britain’s only prize specifically for narrative travel writing: Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie and The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane. The passage from the former has inspired and is accompanied by an illustration from the artist Paul Cox, the man responsible for Deskbound Traveller’s beautiful banner.
Under “New writing” you will also find an extract from Peter Levi’s The Light Garden of the Angel King, a portrait of Afghanistan which, if not quite new, has just been reissued by Eland Books and reads as freshly now as it did on its first appearance in 1972.
Under “Picture stories” you will find images of this year’s monsoon in Bangladesh by GMB Akash, a past winner of the Travel Photographer of the Year prize (coupled with a passage from Alexander Frater’s Chasing The Monsoon, a book that makes you positively want to get soaked), and drawings made in Syria by George Butler, a talented and courageous artist specialising in travel and current affairs.
Over the next few days I will be adding extracts from two titles that were shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award: The Robber of Memories by Michael Jacobs and Meander by Jeremy Seal (both are about river journeys, one in Colombia, the other in Turkey).
I will also be publishing new poems with a strong sense of place from collections by Maurice Riordan (The Water Stealer) and Helen Mort (Division Street), both of which have been shortlisted for this year’s T S Eliot Prize. Over the next few weeks and months, I’m planning, too, to add work by novelists and short-story writers. Fiction, after all, is the greatest form of transport we have.
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Lake Ouachita State Park – Caddo Bend Trail Pt 1 Continued: As I traverse the tip of the peninsula the wind pushes my body as I balance on the narrow trail. At once I am transformed, a mountain goat perched on the side of the cliff one with the Earth, Trees, Wind and the small Birds singing above me. I look out over the water and want to know what is on the island that is so tantalizingly close. A tiny dark eyed Junco appears on a branch high above me, it turns it’s head as a gust of wind ruffles both our feathers. The narrow trail undulates light a serpent above the water and finishes in a steep rise through a rocky maze.
The winter Sun is lower barely hovering at the tops of the Trees casting long shadows across the land on the north side of the peninsula. This is a different landscape than what I saw this morning. Dense sleeping Trees populate the slopes, it is not as open and light as the sparse Pine Forest on the south side of the trail. I can already imagine the green that will explode throughout this wooded area of the park. This is a mixed Forest that includes Red Bud, Dogwood and Wild Plum Trees. I will be back for the floral show this coming spring, a Tree Bud on the trial edge indicates it might be an earlier than I thought.
As I wind through the Rocky Forest trail I notice in the distance a wood bridge, it is a wonderful sight. Although it is on the map its form was unknown until I arrive at this point on the trail. Stepping on to the boards I pause to enjoy the peace of the moment and look out over the water. Closing my eyes I can hear rippling Lake as it caresses the rocks, I breath to the rhythm of the water. It is wonderful to walk on a smooth surface suspended above the earth. Not long after I leave the bridge the trail winds back into the Forest and away from the water. It is in this dense and darker Forest I believe I am being followed, not by a human. I am not afraid, it is only a Forest creature that is curious about my movements through their home. I think it might be Coyote as it sounded low and paw like as if a dog were following me in the distance. Padding softly across the leaves my ghost follows me until the trail heads back toward the water.
Soon I can see the water and the trail now takes me along a rise above the Lake. The breaks between the Pine Trees create a flicker show of light and water. It is peaceful in the sparkling light. The trail drop down to pass a beach and I leave the path to walk on the Sand spread out before me. The Rocky Sand glitters in the sunlight and is dotted with an assortment of white shells. From here I can clearly see the Lake often hidden from view when I was hiking on the trail. I look around with the hopes I will find a deck chair to sit on at the water edge. This is a beautiful spot for meditation.
I reluctantly leave the beach and head back up to the trail and enjoy the view as it winds along the beach edge. Looking down from a rise I see another bridge in the distance, this is wonderful surprise as it is not mentioned on the map I picked up at the tourist center. This is longer and newer than the previous one I encountered earlier on my hike. It is another beautiful view location and in spring and autumn will be a favorite photography location. As I cross this bridge and hear my foot fall and I realize each board resonates a different tone as if I am play a muted Xylophone. It makes me wonder if that is what drew a woodland creature to follow me after I crossed the last bridge. The sound although not loud would be a signal that something new has entered the Forest. Each time I cross a wood bridge I will place close attention to the sounds that emanate from the within the Trees along the Trail.
For the next mile and a half the trail winds into and out of the forest crossing 2 dirt/grassy roads. For half a mile I am in a mixed Forest along a rise above the lake, a light breeze feel divine. As the trail winds into the forest on its way toward the Campground I spot a flash of white. Moving as quietly as I can across the crunchy autumn leaves I soon see the source of the white. Ahead of me are two Whitetail Does one is eating oblivious to my presence the other turns to face me. She stomps her hooves and turns to flash her white tail at me in protest and to warn the other Doe. Although I am getting her message the other Doe carries on as if I am not here. I am so use to the Deer on Hot Springs National Park running away this is an unexpected experience.
As I near the end of the trail I see a bright flash of orange crisscrossing the trail. For a brief moment it lands, a beautiful Angelwing Butterfly is escorting me to the end of my journey at Lake Ouachita State Park. Stepping off the trail I look up and see a Turkey Vulture flying over as a farewell. Although I completed the entire trail you can do it in segments and still enjoy all the beautiful places I have mentioned in this blog.
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This Used Collings OM1A Acoustic Guitar is in on trade and it is in great shape. It is clean cosmetically, and it is fully functioning. The neck is straight, the frets are still crowned, and the truss rod is functioning properly. Included with the guitar is the original hardshell case.
'OM' stands for "Orchestra Model," and the A stand for an upgraded Adirondack Spruce Top. 80 years after this body shape was first designed it has become the most popular 14-fret model with fingerstyle guitar soloists who choose to play on steel strings. Yet flatpickers also find it appealing, and when the graceful cutaway is added these OMs are often used by lead players who routinely explore all 20 frets much as they would on an electric guitar. The compact shape makes the Collings OM equally easy to handle onstage or when sitting on the couch, and the relatively shallow body (barely over 4 inches deep) results in balanced tone and an immediate response.
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Advantages of Living in a Small Town Part 1: Lower Cost of Living
Releasing our 2013 Top 10 Best Small Towns last week set my mind on the question, "What are the advantages to living in a small town anyway?"
To compile our top 10 list, we ranked small towns among other small towns using population and economic growth data, expert advice and resident perspectives, but what's so great about a small town, in general? Clearly, many people prefer it, or it wouldn't bear examining like we do with our annual ranking.
Just off the top of my head, it took no time to list more than a dozen specific examples of great experiences with small-town living, most inspired by recent experiences in some of our Livability.com cities.
So for my next few posts, I'm going to go beyond phrases you typically hear when people describe advantages of living in a small town and offer some firsthand examples, starting with my favorite, "lower cost of living."
Advantages of Living in a Small Town: Lower Cost of Living
With the exception of some affluent suburbs and vacation destination towns, "lower cost of living" in a small town doesn't apply just to big-ticket purchases like real estate, hence the word "living" and not "homeownership" within the phrase.
While you're probably going to pay the same for goods at a chain store, many items and services of the same or better quality you'd find in a big city simply cost less at independently owned businesses in small towns:
- That's why I'm happy to go to a nice salon in Pueblo, Colo. or Asheville, N.C. for a haircut, which costs me about 30 percent less than it would in my hometown of Nashville, Tenn.
- It's also why my jaw dropped in disbelief paying the same price for a round of drinks for four people in Pueblo that would have cost twice as much here.
- It's why I regret not budgeting for shopping in downtown Oxford, Miss., which has several great shops full of boutique-quality dresses.
- It's why I recommend antique stores for the best deals in small towns like Dickson, Tenn.
- It's also the reason a person can enjoy French toast prepared by two Culinary Institute of America chefs in Johnstown and Gloversville, N.Y. for approximately half the price of French toast at an IHOP.
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Stellar Apple Mail to Outlook 2011 Converter can easily export your Apple Mail data to a '.rge' file. You can view this file by importing it into MS Outlook for Mac 2011.
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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - The overcast skies, mud and threat of rain could not keep the smiles from the faces of Army Specialist Josh Hansbrough and his father Danny Hansbrough, Feb. 21, in Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
Deployed service members celebrate birthdays here every day. Most are uneventful with no special parties or celebrations and simply pass by as another day towards the end of deployment. However, Spc. Hansbrough’s 21st birthday was made special through the efforts of many and a little luck.
“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” said Mr. Hansbrough.
Mr. Hansbrough is a Department of Defense contractor with a Tampa, Fla. based communications firm. As the company’s corporate security manager, he travels to various military posts around the world performing checks on the company’s systems in use by the DoD.
“My visit to KAF kept getting pushed back,” he said. “This trip just so happened to line up with Josh’s birthday and his command let him come here to celebrate with me.”
When Spc. Hansbrough’s friends found out that his dad may be traveling to Afghanistan during his birthday they made their chain of command aware of the opportunity. Once dates had been verified his command arranged for him to travel from Forward Operating Base Smart to KAF so he could celebrate with his father.
Hansbrough, a cavalry scout assigned to Apache Troop, 5th Squadron, 7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, broke family tradition when he joined the army in 2009. His father, uncle and grandfather all served in the Air Force.
“I was actually signed up to go into the Air Force,” said Hansbrough. “They kept telling me they didn’t have a job for me. So, after six months I went to a job fair and talked to the Army recruiter. I had a job the same day.”
“I originally wanted to be infantry. Then the recruiter showed me a couple of videos, one of which was for cav (cavalry) scout, and after seeing it I said, ‘That’s what I want to do,’” he continued
Although he strayed from the Air Force tradition, his father said he couldn’t be more proud of his son’s decision to serve.
Hansbrough said friends back home are already planning a welcome home party for him, but for now being able to spend time with his dad while deployed is more than he could have hoped for.
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well really, it’s baby time.
i’ve been tectonically moving in that direction but am now thoroughly convinced that i’m ready, and this is what i want to do. my whole life i’ve had this sneaking suspicion that there was something i was meant to do. that i was a born expert, prodigy, natural at…something…but just hadn’t discovered what that was. didn’t have the passion to pursue what that was even if i felt a twinge of “hey i’m pretty good at this”. though i did pursue yoga and though there aren’t “good yogis” or “bad yogis” i’m pretty good at it…at least i’m a decent teacher and have good proprioception or body awareness…but maybe, i’m just meant to be a mama. maybe that’s been it all along. and i’m sure i’ll freak out about a gazillion things between now and then but there it is.
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
- Benjamin Button
perhaps i’m late to the party, but i went to see this film over the weekend and it rocked me to my very core. i’m still trying to put into words all that i felt and am still feeling. it is such a poetic piece and it has made me look at my life again with fresh eyes and it has reminded me to live a life i’m proud of every day. it’s just beautiful…the story, the cinematography, the message. i completely lost myself to it, and now i’m humbled and inspired…i moved here to the beach to live a simple life because i know in my heart and soul that it’s the simple things that really do make me the happiest, and if i’m unhappy, it’s because i’m not paying attention to the moments, the millions of tiny, daily miracles. none of us have a lot of time here, but just imagine how much more time you’d seem to have if you lived each moment.
(image used with permission by david alan harvey, a man who has lived a life without limits and, in his own way, starts over again every morning…)
“I finally settled on Buddhism, she said, but it’s more than just a fashion statement. I’ve always done some of my best work in my bathrobe.”
- brian andreas
thanks mads for sending this along! while i’m not usually a jason mraz fan – the island sound of this song just struck me on this cold winter morning. it warmed me up from the inside and i was able to appreciate the clear blue skies and the sunshine beaming through my windows. i rolled out my mat and found a nice little yoga flow dance to get my day started. and well, it’s just such a happy, bouncy, smiley, optimistic song i had to share it too…i love the message of love and taking a situation and simplifying it of its complications or turning it around into something beautiful.
“open up your heart and you’ll find love, love, love, love…”
see if you can listen and not smile yourself!
many blessings to you president obama…
the literal weight of the world is riding on your shoulders and i can see in your face that you completely understand the gravity of our situation. we are trusting you to lead our country and the world into a better place. i am thankful that you are such a thoughtful man, that you have chosen many wise advisors, and that you have such a smart and supportive family to give you strength. know too that there are millions of us sending you energy and prayers to help you guide our country and the world into peace and prosperity.
live this moment…with love and gratitude.
(image by shephard fairey)
i made this word up the other day. (i think…maybe it’s already out there in the world?)
barb‘s query “wherever did you go” to my i *might* be back post has been bouncing around in my brain…and i think living in this seasonal, touristy place had me offline and off in the world for the summer, and well, it appears the fall also. i was teaching & managing the studio, doing lots of private yoga classes, doing way too much driving up and down the bypass, working at a wonderful new restaurant at night, and working on a few writing projects. to be perfectly honest, the only thing i miss about the past few months is the warm sun.
it was a long summer and fall of soul searching too, with a little running away and avoiding thrown in for good measure. but now it’s cold and the soul searching has gotten deeper and i find i’m hibernating and spending much more time on-line seeking out kindred spirits – hence cybernating – and creating a little art space/office/cave while trying to find the bravery to do art. i have felt a block in my body for a long time about art… a deep ache reminding me of something i lost a long time ago. i’m trying to find my way back. to not judge and just do. to put brush to canvas or glue to image or fabric and make something. it’s been fun. and really hard – more than one ‘creative sunday’ has been tear-filled. but i’ve birthed one small piece. with another in the works…so we’ll see.
i guess that’s where i’ve been…what about you? do you have a similar seasonal, energetic or creative cycle?
p.s. i also found myself out in the redwoods in northern california, north of humboldt. months later i still dream about them….
without obligation or guilt, with honesty and love. yes to speaking our truths.
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A Chapter of the Axial City Campaign Cycle
In the wake of a great war for the planes, the New City (which can be thought of as another take on Sigil) at the center of the Multiverse teems with life of all shapes and forms, and all the complications therein: Hope, Fear, Joy, Despair, Love, Hate, Generosity and Greed.
The Accordant, the police force of the New City, are ever-vigilant in their defense of the populace from threats such as invading armies, unthinkable monsters, and perhaps most significantly, the populace themselves.
Special Police Unit 36, created at the behest of the Faction Council, is comprised of police, military, university, and political representatives. Their mandate is to stem the massive amount of power that the Iron Ring slave trading organization has come to possess witihin this gargantuan metropolis. Easy enough in concept, but the New City is a Layer Cake of political, criminal, and social power structures composed of infinite shades of grey.
Rules: Pathfinder base, the game also serves as a testbed for whatever bizare houserules the Storyteller or players want to try out. Like exploding dice!
Setting: Very heavily modified Planescape
Emphasis: Game is largely story-driven, with regular combat. Character backgrounds are a key element of the core game plot.
Firearms: Emerging Firearms
Starting Level: Original PC generation at level 6. New PCs will typically be one level or so behind group, though never lower than 6th level.
Starting Characters: Restricted and based on loose templates assigned by the Storyteller; players are given a baseline character concept that they are free to flesh out, though major alteration require Storyteller approval. Custom Character creation mechanics ensure developed character backgrounds.
Game Time: Usually Sundays at Noon, with a target of one game per month at an absolute minimum. There are occasional weeknight game sessions as well. Game sessions are almost always held at the Leaning Tower of Clifton or at the House of Becker.
Logistically, the campaign is run off of both Obsidian Portal and Google Docs.
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Andres Villas-Boas is committing managerial suicide by attempting to take revenge on the Chelsea old guard which backfired spectacularly when they were beaten 3-1 by Naples in the Champions League last 16 first round clash on Tuesday.
When details of Chelsea's team sheet were revealed there was widespread disbelief.
Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp said: "It has all the makings of managerial suicide."
Graeme Souness added: "If Cole is 90 per cent, he's still better than Bosingwa at 100 per cent."
Chelsea players were up in arms against the young Portuguese manager even before their Naples defeat for relegating Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and Michael Essien were dumped to the bench.
But it was a gamble which he may have to rue after having lost skipper John Terry for up to two months just hours before kick-off.
Villas-Boas was left clinging to his job desperately as Chelsea threw away the lead given them by Juan Mata to slip to a nightmare defeat.
Two goals from Ezequiel Lavezzi either side of an Edinson Cavani strike left Chelsea facing a second leg mountain to climb at Stamford Bridge next week but it was the selection decisions that put Villas-Boas under fire.
It was payback for criticising Villas-Boas who held a clear-the-air meeting on Sunday to get their honest opinions on their poor results.
Lampard and Essien were forthright in their views — but it was Cole who spoke out most strongly, according to The Sun.
The England left-back told AVB: "I came here to win medals and trophies, but I'm never going to do that with your tactics".
Cole is also unhappy as he feels "like a robot" with Villas-Boas telling him exactly how to play, rather than giving him freedom.
Chelsea's players were infuriated when their three team-mates were put on the bench for speaking out ahead of the Champions League clash.
The boss even told Cole "you made it personal".
England star Cole was further angered when he saw his manager on TV claiming that he had been left out over concerns that he was not fully fit.
Cole insisted he was 100 per cent ready to play and has the last laugh when he was called into action after 12 minutes following an injury to Jose Bosigwa while Lampard came on late in the match.
Villas-Boas did not attempt to explain his team selection and insisted he would be in charge for the second leg.
"Whatever explanations I gave you would be fantastic if we'd won but are now useless given the result of the game, so there's no point," said the Chelsea manager.
"We wanted two hard-working midfielders sitting in front of the defence. That's not to say that Lamps could not do it, for sure he could, but that was the decision we took.
"It was technical decisions. You can have your opinion but it was based on what was the best team in my thoughts.
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I am a Quest Institute trained Cognitive Hypnotherapist based in Marylebone, Central London. I can offer support for many different issues but I specialise with stress and anxiety and providing support for performance stress management.
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At the 10th anniversary of Carl’s Jr. yesterday, it was announced that an expansion of the popular fast food restaurant should be ready by Flag Day next year
Owner Barry Forsgren said they’re taking up more of the Laufou Center space to add 80 more seas, There’ll also be an indoor air conditioned play area complete with a two story jungle gum.
The owners are also adding in a meeting area equipped with its own drink fountain and service counter.
It was also announced that the Forsgren Family which owns Laufou is reinvesting even more in the community over the next two months.
Barry Forsgren credits the public’s support of Carl’s Jr. for the expansion.
The restaurant showed its appreciation with a huge birthday cake and free meals were given to hundreds of customers.
The staff sang happy birthday then Mrs Leone Forsgren did the honors of cutting the cake and offering praise to God for the enormous success of Carl’s Jr.
The fast food establishment has been a popular eating spot for many over the last ten years because of it’s large burgers, free drink refills, ever-expanding menu options and family-oriented service.
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As a new author, it has already been quite a learning process - from planning to writing and from submission to release day.
So, where do I start? For quite some time, I had been encouraged by others to try writing professionally and submit something for publishing. In the first instance, I thought sure I can do this, but there was always that lingering doubt. What if they reject my story? A story I worked really hard on. It'd be like they were rejecting me. But I'd never know if I didn't try, and that's half the battle - having the courage to try. And if things don't work out, take any advice or figure out where you went wrong and try again.
While I worked on my first story, I was fortunate enough to have a friend who had already made that transition to published author, RJ Scott. Through her I was able to get a taste of how the process worked by co-authoring a novel, The Art Of Words. It wasn't as scary as I thought and it was incredibly rewarding to see our hard work lead to something. Okay, an ebook isn't something you can hold as such, but the publisher she worked with, Silver Publishing have fantastic artists. I had a beautiful book cover with my name on it - that was something to be incredibly proud of.
The editing process was pretty straightforward. I know it will depend on the state of your story in the first place. Plot holes, grammatical errors, awkward sentences, repetition of phrases and words, redundant words like 'that', and for me, those nasty Britishisms as I write in American English. I have been through the editing process a total of four times now and each time I learnt something new that I never thought about before. It's been great that the three times for my solo stories I've worked with the same editor, I don't know if that's a common thing elsewhere, but it's helped and I like consistancy. I do find the more people who look at a piece of writing, they have slightly different views on structure, grammar, and word use - nothing major, just those little things that seem right either way.
Something else from editing... I am of the opinion that the publishing staff are there to help me and to shape my story into something that is saleable. Obviously, this is to both our benefits :D So any suggestions and comments I have fully embraced, and tried my best to make the changes. I remember putting in a joke in a story and the person who read it didn't get what I meant, and after looking at it, I could see why maybe they didn't. Just because I know what I mean when I write something, doesn't mean anyone else does :)
Release day - today is actually the release day of my first full novel, Dead Things, which follows The Art Of Words with RJ Scott and then a short story for a summer submission at Silver, Sex and Cocktails. As a new author, I get really excited and also nervous on release day. It's exciting because it seems such a long time since submission and editing, and then there it is, live on Silver and Amazon for the world to see. Maybe one day the novelty will wear off, but certainly at the moment I really look forward to it. The nervous part also kicks in here as, as much as you want to hear what people think, you really don't want to hear what people think. What you have to remember is that reviews are subjective - they may like a certain type, style, be in a certain mood when they happen to read. One thing to always remember, never get defensive and reply to these reviews. It could quickly spiral out of control and there are plenty of examples of this on various books on Goodreads and Amazon. Behave like a professional, take anything constructive from them, and move on to your next story.
This is my experience so far in publishing. Other things I've had to consider are the writing itself. Things like: having a plan (even of it's just key points), making notes about your characters to help continuity, if you get stuck try 'sprinting' (set yourself a short time limit and off you go - you can write several hundred words maybe more when focused for a simple 30 minutes), POV and tenses - make sure you stick to them (you can only be in one characters head at a time thinking and feeling stuff!) and US vs UK English. Another thing I was gently prompted to do is promotion. Get on facebook, get a blog, do your best to post stuff and be active and get involved (or bullied *sticks tongue out at RJ*). And most of all have fun.
As it is release day, I'd like to offer readers a chance to win a copy of Dead Things. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment with your email addy and a winner will be selected tomorrow at midnight (GMT). Competition closed. Congratulations, Terri!
Also RJ Scott is having a competition, along with links to the other posts in this blog hop here... http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/competition-writer-is-nothing-without.html
And find the resource facebook page for new and existing authors inspiring the blog hop here... https://www.facebook.com/GlbtqAuthorResource
A deadly virus rages indiscriminately across the United States and then beyond. The survivors face a new terror—the undead creatures created in the wake of the infection.
Devin Reid is part of a group surviving out of a high-security penitentiary near Kansas City. Resources are limited and it's down to a handful of people like Devin to meet the demands on food and supplies. The newly-made monsters are hungry, and the survivors risk their lives scavenging the cities and highways.
On one fateful venture, Devin finds something, someone, with the potential to change a dark future, destined for blood and heartbreak, into one of hope and second chances. He finds Noah Weber.
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Let's keep with the science theme shall we? Because I just love this study. Turns out, as I've been telling people that I am particularly self-aware, science backs me up! New evidence out: Lucid dreamers are more self-aware. Woop!
Now everyone calm down, I know this doesn't prove that every single lucid dreamer is an awesome self-awareness machine and everyone else sucks, take a breath, and allow me to take the tiniest victory lap for every time I've heard "Yeah, well, everyone thinks they're self-aware, but nobody actually knows they are, if you weren't you'd still think you were!"
OK, I'm done now, and a little back story for those who are interested (If you're not, skip ahead to the end).
It is very common for people to find it hard to escape their own context. For me, this was lucid dreaming and self-awareness. For a long time I thought that people who were not self-aware were simply being intellectually lazy, they were just not thinking about their own behaviors the way I would endlessly ponder my own, but if they just tried (perhaps with a little outside guidance) they could do it. I also didn't know until I went to college that most people could not, at the very least, notice they were dreaming and wake themselves up, if not change the landscape of the dream entirely.
The more I looked into it though, the more I discovered that I am actually particularly awesome at lucid dreaming.
One of my first memories of controlling my dreams was when I was no older than five, since I had not yet changed primary school at the time. I was often plagued by recurring nightmares, many of which I still remember in vivid detail. As they were recurring however I recognized them as dreams, though that didn't make them any less scary at the time. I then realized that I could wake myself up from them quite easily. It took me a couple of tries at first, squeezing my eyes shut and opening them again, until I managed to pop my real eyes open.
This, however, did not solve the problem of falling back asleep into the same nightmare, so as I got older my skills developed. I started confronting the monsters in my nightmare and telling them to piss off when I finally understood that they were not real, just in my head (though I also found out the hard way that lucid dreamers can feel pain in their dreams). When I was having one of those "oh no I'm late I have to get to this place now and I can't manage it" dreams and I recognized it I would stop trying to get to wherever it was and start opening up random doors along the street, knowing my brain had just put them there as backdrop, just for the amusement of seeing what my brain would put behind them when given such short notice to come up with something. I then realized that I could put whatever I wanted behind those doors and just step into a whole new dream if the one that I was in got boring. I also perfected my ability to fly, which I have been able to do for as long as I could remember and was astonished when I discovered I was in the minority. I can now flit through different dreams at will, fly like superman and even erase entire characters from my dreams by simply snapping my fingers at them.
OK, after that little window into the depths of my psyche, how about the actual science?
Recently, the Max Plank Institute published a study which correlated Metacognition, or "thinking about thinking", with lucid dreaming abilities.
Well, this makes sense, to an extent. Usually people are not aware they are dreaming when they are doing so, but if you are capable of lucid dreaming perhaps the part of the brain responsible for self-awareness is more developed, as it has had "more practice". This study simply gives evidence to that effect.
If you find the original article a little difficult to digest, IFLS sums it up very nicely.
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Name That Giraffe
Contest Ends August 14 @ 5 pm
As a thank-you to our marvelous members, all folks with an annual Fossil Rim membership have the opportunity to name our male giraffe calf that was born on July 20!
Our animal care department will choose their favorite name that has been submitted. If you sent us the selected name, you will get:
- A Guided Safari Tour for Two
- Lunch with one of our Animal Care Specialists
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Branding is one of the essential elements of online marketing plan. It helps in creating and establishing the presence of a business in the market. A brand presence helps in recognizing your business in the crowd and creating its strong foothold. If you want your customers to identify your brand or easily relate to it, you need efficient and well-target branding services.
Our branding services help you in portraying your business in its true essence to your target market.
You can easily reach your target market through the use of a wide variety of excellent and result-oriented branding media including logos, slogans, graphical representation, flyers, banners, posters, images, videos, business cards and more. | <urn:uuid:cbd31d8f-9ca1-477f-be22-86255fad3067> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | http://www.webmarketingvancouver.ca/services/brand-development/ | 2018-12-19T08:15:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376831715.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20181219065932-20181219091932-00101.warc.gz | en | 0.932725 | 135 |
DES MOINES – The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Department’s request to allow corn containing more than 20 parts per billion (ppb) of aflatoxin to be blended with corn with lower levels or no aflatoxin for animal feed. This allows the corn to be safely fed to livestock pursuant to the FDA’s long-standing guidelines.
Before doing any blending of corn containing aflatoxin, the grain dealers and the Department must sign a compliance agreement. A memorandum outlining the application process and a copy of the compliance agreement will be sent to all grain dealers licensed by the Department and can also be found on the Department’s website at www.IowaAgriculture.gov under “Hot Topics.”
The compliance agreement outlines the requirements for grain dealers that will be blending corn containing aflatoxin.
These requirements including that the blended product is below the appropriate aflatoxin action level in corn used as or in animal feed as outlined in FDA Guidance Document, Compliance Policy Guide- Section 683.100, “Action Levels for Aflatoxin in Animal Feeds.” FDA granted Iowa a similar request during droughts in 2003 and 2005 when aflatoxin was found in the state.
Also, each batch of blended corn must be analyzed to determine the aflatoxin level. The analysis must be performed using approved sampling and analysis protocols and testing procedures outlined by the USDA Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). These results must be provided to the purchaser of the blended corn. The purchaser must also provide written assurance that the corn will be used for feed consistence with FDA guidance.
Finally, the blended corn must be clearly identified and labeled for animal feed use only and corn containing aflatoxin levels greater than 500 ppb cannot be blended.
On August 15, 2012 the Department submitted a request to FDA to allow corn containing more than 20 ppb of aflatoxin to be blended with non-aflatoxin containing corn for animal feed.
The Department has also started requiring the testing of all milk for aflatoxin starting on August 31, 2012.
The FDA has established guidelines for acceptable aflatoxin levels in corn based on its intended use. Corn containing aflatoxin in concentrations of greater than 20 ppb cannot be used for human consumption and cannot be used for feed for dairy animals or for immature livestock of others species. Corn containing aflatoxin at 100 ppb or less can be used in breeding cattle and swine and mature poultry. Corn with 200 ppb or less can be used with finishing swine greater than 100 lbs. in weight and corn with 300 ppb or less can be used in finishing beef cattle.
More information about aflatoxin in corn can be found on the ISU Extension and Outreach “Dealing with Disasters” page at www.extension.iastate.edu/topic/recovering-disasters. | <urn:uuid:efe5cba2-ffff-4534-9d0a-27effc91aed3> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.iowaagriculture.gov/press/2012press/press09182012.asp | 2015-08-03T10:36:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042989826.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002309-00009-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919097 | 624 |
How to extend your existing boat battery with lithium
Connect a lithium to a lead-acid battery system? Yes, you can! LE300 Smart Battery System is full of innovative hybrid functions and allows you to add what you want while you keep what you have.
Choosing between a lead-acid battery and a lithium system can be tough. Both have their pros and cons. While lithium requires less space and weight for the same storage capacity, it is complex to install and does not function well in the cold. Plus: It requires a high initial investment. Lead-acid batteries are affordable and simple. However, they are also heavy and tend to have a short life span.
For all those who would love to have the best of both, there is good news: You can! LE300 Smart Battery System is a plug and play lithium extension for existing 12 V lead-acid battery systems (that includes AGM and gel). Simply connect the battery cables to the positive and negative poles of your current battery and that is it. No programming, no changes to the electronics. It takes a couple of minutes.
What you get: More capacity and even more unique features. For example, an extended lifespan of your lead-acid battery by up to ten years. LE300 will also keep it fully charged during winter, even in standby mode. With the right lithium-lead ratio, you can simply forget about batteries during the cold months and get back on the water in spring.
LE300 is modular and scalable: You can combine as many of the 28 Ah modules as you want. Well, up to 24 of them. More than enough even for long excursions. The good thing: You can adapt your capacity whenever you need it. You could start with one or two for example and add more next year – just as you need and as your budget allows it. The German manufacturer BOS AG recommends a minimum of one module per 100 Ah of lead-acid battery. Each module of LE300 weighs 3.4 kg. Thus, they even fit into small boats.
Pricewise, the fact that you can simply keep using your existing battery plus charging technology is a plus. It means that for the total usable battery capacity, the price per ampere-hour is significantly lower than in pure lithium systems. Simply because you already own a part of your total capacity. And why throw out what still works? Keep what you have and add what you want, that is the core principle.
By the way: This is also useful if you are thinking about an additional lead-acid battery. It is not recommendable to connect new lead-acid batteries to used ones. With LE300, you do not need to replace the existing battery to get more capacity. Just install the lithium modules.
BOS AG and IMTEK are developing a concept for innovative hybrid electricity storage
The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) build an education and rescue park for injured and endangered orangutans in the middle of the Sumatran Rain Forest – Orangutan Haven (OUH). Together with our partner Alva Energi, we developed an off-grid solution to equip the 48-hectare nature reserve with a sustainable and reliable power supply. | <urn:uuid:e6dabf78-69c4-4795-80fd-c6ef9346fe5d> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.bos-ag.com/how-to-extend-your-existing-boat-battery-with-lithium/ | 2021-08-02T02:58:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154302.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802012641-20210802042641-00391.warc.gz | en | 0.93601 | 665 |
15-year-old Palestinian critically injured by IDF fire in West Bank
Palestinian also wounded by IDF fire in north Gaza; 15 Palestinian and Israeli activists arrested, including a woman with her two-year-old baby, trying to access Palestinian lands in the South Hebron Hills.
A fifteen year old Palestinian was severely wounded on Friday after being shot by soldiers. The youth, wounded after confrontations between soldiers and youths at the A'ida refugee camp near Bethlehem, was taken first to the local hospital and later to Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem.
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The University is committed to continuously improving the delivery of information technology (IT) solutions within budget, on schedule, within scope and in such a way as to best contribute to accomplishing the University's strategic mission. This policy furthers that goal by establishing the common and consistent application of project management best practices in the management of IT projects. A uniform project management framework promotes consistency and better control of IT projects, thereby reducing risks and increasing project successes.
Information technology projects are managed in accordance with best practices promoted by the nationally recognized Project Management Institute (PMI), appropriately tailored to the specific circumstances of the University. For example, project managers possess professional credentials and/or an appropriate level of project management training or experience. Projects that engage leading IT consulting or software development firms to assist with project management may apply additional best practices provided by these firms.
Methods used for project auditing, such as Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), are aligned with industry best practices, consultant expert guidelines, and known industry accepted standards such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard 1012-2004 for Software Verification and Validation, International Standards Organization (ISO) 9000-2000 series, and Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model (SEI-CMM). These methods are tailored to the Higher Education environment by internal departments and in coordination with consultants as warranted.
Exclusions: The scope of this policy does not extend to research projects, research initiatives or instructional programs.
An overview of the University's IT Project Management Framework, along with procedures, templates, and tools is posted here.
IT Project: A project having as its primary purpose the creation of a unique information technology product or service. Research projects, research initiatives and instructional programs are not included in the scope of this policy.
PMI: Project Management Institute
Project: A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result (PMBOK, 2000 edition).
Project Management: The application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to mitigate risk, control budget and manage scope of tasks.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard 1012-2004 for Software Verification and Validation – Software Verification and Validation (V&V) processes determine whether the development products of a given activity conform to the requirements of that activity and whether the software satisfies its intended use and user needs. Software V&V processes includes analysis, evaluation, review, inspection, assessment, and testing of software products.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) – Quality Management (ISO 9000:2005) – ISO 9000:2005 specifies requirements for a quality management system for any organization that needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements and aims to enhance customer satisfaction.
Project Management Institute – The world's leading not-for-profit professional association in the area of project management.
Software Engineering Institute - Capability Maturity Model Integration (SEI-CMMI) – The CMM outlines the methods to obtain software process maturity. Several levels of maturity can be reached as an organization's software project management evolves from that of chaotic non-repeatable performances to repeatable mature disciplined software processes. The model focuses on key attributes of each improved maturity level and provides guidance on the best practices used to achieve each level. The goal is to reach an efficient and disciplined approach to software management.
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When to Use Shellac Wood Finish When to Use Shellac Wood Finish
For creating a fine wood finish on your indoor furniture there are so many materials available. Apart from the usual stain, varnish or paint, there is also wax, polish and shellac. Shellac is not suitable for use on outdoor furniture because it is not in the least bit water resistant and it will no protect the wood at all.
When to Choose Shellac
Shellac has very fast drying properties, so it is not as susceptible to surface dust that oil based or slow drying coatings will be. Shellac can be brushed on or wiped on with a cloth and it also comes in many different forms. If you need to have a coating on your furniture which will be retardant to heat (not fire) shellac is a highly suitable option. If furniture is kept in a sunny room, a shellac finish will help to prevent sun damage.
Shellac also offers a more natural finish to wood, as opposed to some stains, dyes or varnishes. It brings a luster to the surface of the wood and dries in a hard forming way that creates a firm film over the surface for extra protection. Whilst you can buy oil based shellac as well as water based and powder, oil based shellac will in fact deepen the tone of the wood and darken its color. Choose the shellac you want, carefully. Decide on what effect you wish to create before you purchase it. | <urn:uuid:f4f73d80-a72c-4232-87f2-e67446ec6e29> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.doityourself.com/stry/when-to-use-shellac-wood-finish | 2018-12-12T11:58:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823872.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212112626-20181212134126-00428.warc.gz | en | 0.961775 | 303 |
Geely Coolray 1.5T – Stage1 95RON
What do we know about Chinese cars? Not very much. For many years in Russia, they caused distrust because of their specifications and quality. Recently, everything changed dramatically for the better. With the advent of truly popular cars like the Geely Coolray. In Russia, this car can be purchased with a 1.5-liter turbocharged engine by Ford, which is a complete analogue of the T3 engine from Volvo. In stock form it develops 177 hp, but for the Russian market it was downgraded to 150hp via software and equipped with a duel clutch automatic transmission. This was confirmed by measurements on dyno using 95 gasoline. The development included an analysis of the world experience of @etuners, after which it was adapted to Russian conditions. The car passed bench tests and behaved itself perfectly after numerous runs in different acceleration modes.
- 95RON fuel
- #Etuners stage1 ECU remap
Stock software: ?150 hp ?255nm
#Etuners Stage1 software: ✅191 hp ✅310 nm
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If you’ve got the $75,000 asking price, this 1999 Nissan GT-R R34 (or GT-R R34 replica, we can’t tell the difference) can be added to your personal collection. The seller claims the silver Nissan was Universal Pictures’ “Car #25,” and was one of four silver-with-blue-graphics R34 Skyline GT-R’s built for the movie.
Car #25 was used to make the actual jump seen in the movie, and it’s missing the rear wing since this broke away upon landing. The seller claims the car is stock except for safety modifications, which include a trunk-mounted fuel cell.
It’s also street-legal and currently registered, although we wouldn’t want to drive a car that had survived a six-foot jump (the actual distance used in the filming) further than across-town. It’s not clear what kind of documentation comes with the car, but we’d want verification that it really was used in filming before parting with that kind of cash.
We’re also not intimately familiar with the intricacies of JDM Nissan models so we can’t say with any certainty that this is, as claimed, a 1999 Skyline GT-R R34. As with any potentially-collectible used car, we’d encourage you to know exactly what you’re buying before you make an offer.
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Heartland Country Corn Maze - Open Labor Day!
Great family, group, or business activity - Navigate through this 11 acre corn maze in the design of prairie dogs!
Located southeast of Harrisburg, SD, Heartland Country Corn Maze offers fun for the whole family! Enjoy a walk through the wonderful natural environment provided by maturing corn. Our 11-acre life-size maze carved out of towering corn stalks is a fun and unique experience sure to please! With a maze map and a list of questions in hand, find your way to ten checkpoints which contain answers. Find the hidden checkpoint and receive a FREE treat from the Concession Barn. Whether young or old, the maze offers a fun outing with a twist of education!
Date & Time
Weekly on Saturday
Sep 03, 2022 through Oct 21, 2022
12:00PM - 9:00PM
Heartland Country Corn Maze - 27455 SD Hwy 11, Harrisburg, SD, 57032 27455 SD Hwy 11 Harrisburg 57032 SD US https://www.thehoodmagazine.com/businesses/sd-harrisburg-heartland-country-corn-maze | <urn:uuid:f5ba57a4-281b-4cbf-b120-00ca9899199f> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.thehoodmagazine.com/events/243024/heartland-country-corn-maze-open-labor-day- | 2022-10-03T01:32:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337371.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003003804-20221003033804-00283.warc.gz | en | 0.872062 | 245 |
Apache Spark is written in Scala programming language. PySpark has been released in order to support the collaboration of Apache Spark and Python, it actually is a Python API for Spark. In addition, PySpark, helps you interface with Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) in Apache Spark and Python programming language. This has been achieved by taking advantage of the Py4j library.
Py4J is a popular library which is integrated within PySpark and allows python to dynamically interface with JVM objects.
PySpark features quite a few libraries for writing efficient programs. Furthermore, there are various external libraries that are also compatible.
Here are some of them:
- PySparkSQL: A PySpark library to apply SQL-like analysis on a huge amount of structured or semi-structured data. We can also use SQL queries with PySparkSQL. It can also be connected to Apache Hive. HiveQL can be also be applied. PySparkSQL is a wrapper over the PySpark core.
PySparkSQL introduced the DataFrame, a tabular representation of structured data that is similar to that of a table from a relational database management system.
- MLlib: MLlib is a wrapper over the PySpark and it is Spark’s machine learning (ML) library. This library uses the data parallelism technique to store and work with data. The machine-learning API provided by the MLlib library is quite easy to use. MLlib supports many machine-learning algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, collaborative filtering, dimensionality reduction, and underlying optimization primitives.
GraphFrames: The GraphFrames is a purpose graph processing library that provides a set of APIs for performing graph analysis efficiently, using the PySpark core and PySparkSQL. It is optimized for fast distributed computing.
Advantages of using PySpark:
• Python is very easy to learn and implement.
• It provides simple and comprehensive API.
• With Python, the readability of code, maintenance, and familiarity is far better.
• It features various options for data visualization, which is difficult using Scala or Java. | <urn:uuid:dbe4d21d-0474-4100-91d3-7cb2f21a8e43> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://databricks.com/glossary/pyspark | 2019-12-14T20:49:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541294513.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20191214202754-20191214230754-00131.warc.gz | en | 0.90862 | 450 |
Interviewer: James A. DeVinney
Production Team: A
Interview Date: June 2, 1989
Camera Rolls: 1100-1105
Sound Rolls: 146
Produced by Blackside, Inc.
Housed at the Washington University Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.
Interview with Jane Byrne, conducted by Blackside, Inc. on June 2, 1989, for Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965 to 1985. Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.
These transcripts contain material that did not appear in the final program. Only text appearing in bold italics was used in the final version of Eyes on the Prize.
OK, Ms. Byrne, if you could just start with putting yourself in the Daley Administration--
The first time that I ever met with ah, Mayor Daley was back in 1963, '64. And ah, I had been in an event that h--and ah, had seen him and had been introduced to him. And he invited me to come down to his office. And the reason that he did invite me to come down to his office is that I had been very active as a paid staff member in the John Kennedy campaign of 1960. And I really was not getting involved in politics or anything. I just liked John Kennedy and what he stood for. And I believed very strongly in this walk across the New Frontier. So this was after he was dead. He died, as you know, un-unexpectedly, and this was an event that took place at our parish ah, very shortly after John Kennedy had died. And after I was introduced to the Mayor, it was at his request that I came down to see him. So I went there and I sat in his office and I, I felt very flattered. You know, here I am sitting in Mayor Daley's office. And the very first thing that he said to me is, "Why did you go them?" And I didn't even know who he meant. And I said, "To whom? What?" And he said, "Why did you go to them? Why did you go to the Kennedys and not us?" And I was not from "The Machine." I hadn't been schooled in it. And I didn't know that us meant them. And so I said, "Well who do you mean?" He said, "Why, the Democratic Party of Cook County." And I looked at him, you know. I was really surprised because I thought this was going to be a rather nice meeting. And he said to me, "What can they do for you? What did they do for you?" And I looked at him again and I said, "Well, I wasn't really looking for anything." I said, "I just believed in the man." And he looked at me and he said, "We have a speaker's bureau. We could have promoted you all over the, all over the city, all over the county." I said, "I wasn't looking to be promoted." He then said to me, "Did they offer you a job?" And I said back, "No, but" I said, "They wrote a letter of recommendation to you over a year ago that I have if I wanted to this, I, I didn't know what I wanted to do." And he's--I said, "They offered me a job in Washington with Sarge Schreiber [SIC]. " But I said, "You know, my daughter's only three and I didn't want to move her." Well, that took him back a little bit. And then he looked at me again and he said, ah, "Are you interested in government, politics?" And I said, "I might be, yes." I said, "I might be." And I said, "But ah, I don't know yet. I really--" And he went on again to talk about the powers of this Democratic organization. And then the next thing he said is, "People call it a machine, you know. And it's no more a machine than General Motors is a machine." He said, "General Motors," he said, "Why they have a structure and an organization. And that's what we have. They sell a product, so do we. We sell candidates." And I said--So then I thought, Oh, he's a little defensive here. He thinks that the words that used to go around that the Kennedys had opened this office because they looked down on the machine, he bought it. He believed it. I'm, I'm at least thinking that. And so, and there was a lot of talk about that. In fact, it took Joe Kennedy to come in here personally and intervene to get a Kennedy headquarters in Chicago. And there was a lot of friction between the two organizations throughout Kennedy's campaign. But it was always over control and power. And so I finally you know, I'm Irish myself. And I looked at him and I said, "You know, do you have anything else you want to talk about now?" And he said, "No." He said, "I just wondered and, if you wanted me to, to sort of look after you or something I, I would be very happy to." And he said, "But you got to make up your mind." He said, "I can put you on anything. I can put you on committees. I can appoint you." And he said, but he said, "You know, are you against the machine?" And I said, "I don't even know it." Then he said to me, "Are you adverse to ringing doorbells and--" And I said, "Well, I've never done that." And he looked at me again and he said, ah, "Do you know how to do it?" And I said, "Well, no." He said, "Well, it's all people. It's your neighbors. You just go to your neighbors, you ring the bell and you say, 'Hello, can I come in and talk to you about some of the candidates'?" And he went on to tell me how you do it. He said, "Would you dislike doing that?" Now you have to understand, I was not prepared for this conversation. And I said, "No, I, I don't have any grudges against this organization." And he said to me, "What ward do you live in?" And honest to God, I didn't know. I, I sort of was like ah, I said, "I live in Sauganash." And he said, "That's the 39th ward." And I said, "Well, that's where I live." And so then he looked at me and said, "Well you go over and you introduce yourself to the ward committeeman." And he said, ah, "You can tell them I suggested you go." I said, "Well, all right. I'll, I'll do that." And so then I did. And he said, "Be a volunteer." So I went and became a volunteer. And you know, it was, I wasn't really in like the rest were. I wasn't a job holder. I wasn't--I was a volunteer. But I went to some of their events and I went to the big convention in Springfield, ah, Democrat Day. And I sort of liked it. I mean, I sort of liked--I knew where I fit, which was nowhere, but I sort of liked it anyway. And, but before that day ended you know, as I'm getting ahead of myself, he turned back and he went on to tell me that if he did appoint me and I didn't go to that organization, they'd get me. I said, "Who'd get me?" He said, "They'll get you." And of course, Daley is famous for not--You have to almost think what he's means. And he said, "They've been in it a long time. You know, they've been ahead of you a long, long time." I said, "Who?" He said, "The precinct captains." He said, "That's why I'm telling you. If you'd come to us, we could have gotten you known." And he said, "So I can't appoint you." He said, "I have the power, but they'll get you. You go on out and ring those doorbells." Then he went right back to this Kennedy scene about they didn't take care of their people, but the machine did. And that if I did these things, he was--It was all this you know, difference between the two. And frankly, he bugged me. You know. And I took a good look at him and I said, "You know, I wanted to come here. But you know, I think I'm sorry I came here." I said, "You know, I re--I think I am sorry I came here." I said, "You and I have nothing at all in common." I said, "I do want you to think for a minute that I did not know that there was an antipathy between the Kennedy headquarters and the Democratic machine." I said, "I don't want you to think for a second that I wasn't aware when you would change everything that we did overnight, when the Kenne--when Kennedy's plane would be changed where it was going to land because you hadn't decided." I said, "I knew those things." I said, "I didn't think much of those things." And I said, "But now, you're bringing it up now. And it means it's still on your mind." And I said, "I find that hard to believe." And I said, "But I have come to the wrong place." And he's--looked at me and he said, "What does that mean?" I said, "It means he's dead." And I said, "This conversation has made me think, Why did I go and work for him?" And I said, "I went to work for him because I believed in him." And I said, "I'll tell you. It was a very close election. And everybody says you did it and everybody said you produced. But I'll tell you, if we got one vote, two votes or three votes, then I got out of it exactly what I wanted to get out of it. I saw John Kennedy become the President of the United States. That's what I wanted. That's what I got. I wasn't looking for anything else." With that, his chair went back. Now, I mean, I can really be angry when I'm angry. His chair went back and it hit the wall. It was pretty close to the wall--
We just had a roll out here, so we'll change rolls. Do you have a finish to that story?
Yes. It's very important. I thought it was important if you want to know Bailey. You may not even want to use the story, but it is my kind of relationship with him.
OK. The chair has gone back.
His chair went back against the wall, as I said. And all of a sudden he put his head down under the desk. And he said from down below, "Excuse me, I'm tying my shoelace." And I thought, boy, have I blown this. I have come in here, I have insulted the Mayor of Chicago. He's down tying his shoelace. I'm standing, wanting to leave. He comes up and he keeps his head this way, away from me for a minute. And then he turns back and the tears are running down his face. And I said, "Oh. You did like the man." And with that, after the argument and misunderstanding I think that was probably the day that whatever it was that we were going to do was decided, because I don't think a lot of people would have gone in there. And I suppose if I were, had been older or more mature or something I would never have dared do it. But it's how I truly felt. And I think people didn't do that for him. And I think he was used to, yes ma'am, no ma'am, I'm sorry, et cetera. And perhaps a respect was there. And at least I had the understanding. OK, there's a lot of defense--defensiveness here. There's a lot of um, ah, p--feelings somehow that the machine is a terrible thing. And so he's going to defend it, but he knows it and he understands it. But basically he was a decent man. That's how I viewed it.
I would like to move forward now after Daley has died, 1979. Bilandic is mayor. You decide to run against Bilandic. What made you think you could beat him?
Well, before Mayor Daley died ah, Mayor Bilandic was an interim mayor after he died. But before he died he had had several strokes. And I was the co-chairman of the Democratic party. And I shared an office with him at Democratic headquarters. And I knew things weren't going the way they had gone prior to the stroke. I knew that the, whether people call the Grey Wolves, or the committeemen, or whatever they wanted, cliques were forming. And they were banding together and they were, they were really disregarding him quite a bit. He knew it. Those that were very close knew it. And it was a sad thing to watch. And it was also the beginning of major splits that would be there for good. I then, as the Commissioner of Consumer Affairs with the new Mayor, ah, got involved in something that I thought was wrong. And again, I decided this is not for me. And so ah, it blew into a big fracas in Chicago. And um, I, I don't know whether you'd say I was fired or quit. I had gone public ah, with a memo and it stated certain things that had taken place regarding a taxi increase that I thought were illegal, and I wouldn't participate. And I didn't like the clique that was surrounding ah, Mayor Bilandic. At the same time, I thought Mayor Bilandic was being used. And he hadn't been in the game the way it was really played. He had been an alderman not for very long. And he came from Bridgeport, the Home of the Mayors. And they had had the Office of Mayor at that time for maybe sixty years. And so it was sort of like he gets it. And ah, those around him ran it far more than he did. And so it was a coming together of all of these things. I wasn't going to stay and be part of it. Ah, I didn't think that he had all that it took to run it. I thought there was a lot of breaking down of what had been there. And I felt that this was the tip of the iceberg. The taxi rate increase to me was just a sign of all the rest of it. And I just felt I'll leave. And I had no intention of running for mayor. I thought I'll go do something else. But after it happened and I had become this instant celebrity, and I had had a lot of press. I mean, I had been the commissioner at that time for nine years. Co-chairman of the Democratic party, national committee member, re--Chairman of Resolutions of the National Committee. And I'd had a lot of press. But this was a different kind of press. And after it's over, once you turn on that machine, forget it. Forget what they're going to do to you. Forget what your family will have. Forget all of it. It's not nice. And it was sad because I'd been in it now for fourteen years. And I, ah, all of a sudden went to go Christmas shopping. And I wasn't feeling really gung-ho about the holidays. This happened at Thanksgiving. And wherever I went people would be going this way, or go get him. You know, and I'd be thinking to myself, go get him? Go, who? You know, and crowds would form. I left Marshall Fields because I had to get out of there, because I was down low getting candles, and I kept up and this crowd was around me. And they were all cheering me on. And it was like I don't know what these people think I can possibly do. You know. I am out. I am out, out, out. People would not speak to me that I, that had worked for me. They were afraid. And then a couple of very fine organizations, um, neighborhood organizations invited me to come and tell my side. Well, I didn't have much else to do. It was not going to be easy to get a job in Chicago. Ah, when you, when you take 'em on you're taking on the whole establishment. And so I went. I was very surprised. At one, down here on the Gold Coast, ah, after I had been invited and this group really wanted me, I was called in the afternoon and was, was told that this very social fancy club on the gold coast had asked them to please cancel. They did not want me to come. And you begin to feel very, oh my God. I'm like the scourge. Ah. And it was meant to be that way. And you were meant to be punished. But they fought, that club, and I got to speak. Well, what they were doing really ah, by--these mistakes is letting the people see what they were. And the press would come and cover it because here was the big issue--can she speak or can she not? And pretty soon it was growing. And finally, I thought, in the dark, coming into this building, which is in a very heavily trafficked neighborhood, I, I'd pull up my car and they'd say, "Go get him, Jane." So finally I took a poll. And it was very fragile, but you could see between the northwest side, the Black community and much of the lake front who didn't like to see a person treated like this, they were sympathetic. Didn't show I was going to win, but it showed my numbers were solid. So I thought about it and I decided I would go for it.
OK. We're going to stop down just for a moment here.
OK. Tell us what you intended to accomplish.
My, wha--the main thing I wanted to accomplish is that I wanted to open the city up. I wanted to open it, let it breathe and, what I said that night is the city ventilated. And I wanted to see that happen. And I didn't want to see the suppression, I didn't want to see this closed, "captive city" as someone had once written, because I believe that it was. I believed it from my toes to my head. And I believe it to this day. Ah. To me, that meant fixing the things that needed to be fixed--in an open way. Maybe too open. But, I had seen housing on Sixty-third Street that was, you know, should have been ripped down ten years before. I wanted to see it come down. I wanted to see children playing on a sidewalk, which I saw, without balconies hanging off buildings over their heads. I wanted to see people in public housing have a more decent lot. And I didn't want them ever again to be afraid that if some candidate like Jane Byrne stood up to The Machine that they'd be told "If you vote for that woman, you're gonna lose your apartment." I wanted to see those things end. If you call that reform, I accept reform. The practical side of the government, however, is having the votes to get those buildings torn down. And to have the issuance of the money by working with a council to get your twenty-six. You need your twenty-six. If you don't get your twenty-six, nothing happens. Harold Washington went through the first two and a half years of his term in a battle with the council and very little was accomplished, ah, foll--excepting for what he fought for and that was the way he wanted it and the representation for that Black community was going to be done. That he accomplished.
You're getting a little bit ahead of the story, but I think we must be almost out on this camera roll.
OK. if, I want to know what you needed to reach out and get a broad base of support, since maybe you didn't quite have one.
It wouldn't, I wouldn't have done that. That was not my decision to do. One of the most--
OK, hold that answer till we get rolling here.
Tell us what you needed to, to get the support you needed.
I would not have changed at all from the way I planned to be throughout that campaign and going into the mayor's office, excepting the timing for that became impossible for everyone. Ah, as an example. People think of The Machine, I'm afraid, and especially outsiders as just this Democratic party.
Just a moment here.
I think that most people think that the machine is just those fifty aldermen and the fifty committeemen. It is not, OK? The machine in Chicago was, for all practical purposes, the establishment of Chicago with its law firms, with its construction people, with its ah, ah, contractors, with bond council, with everything. They control it. And they really control it. It's decided right there on the fifth floor who this major corporation will use for their attorneys. It's all done that way. It was established that way for years. When all of a sudden this person comes along and whacks into that, and rips it apart for all practical purposes, they all felt they were on the wrong side. And they all got real scared because they all thought, oh, the mayor knows how to retaliate because that's the way it had always been. So within twenty-four hours of my victory my consultant, whose name is Don Rose, ah, ver--considered very, very liberal, considered by the machine radical, ah, called me and said, "There is the beginnings of an aura of instability because nobody has ever done this before. And they're all shaking out there. The city is because this cuts so deep into what had been established for sixty years." He said, "You're going to have to get back out and, and pull it together." It was not my thought to do that at all. And I was, don't forget, Daley trained.
Let me just stop you, hold right at that point. We're just changing the roll here.
Well, that all of a sudden became the password--
The feeling of instability immediately became the password. Now you must remember I'm not the mayor. I didn't do anything to anybody. I just won. And all of a sudden this most liberal consultant, the, the, the hatred of the Democratic party, Don Rose, my consultant, is saying to me, "You've got to pull it together. You've got to bring stability. You've got to meet with the chairman of the party." Well, to me, I--You know, this is a man that wouldn't ah, of given me the time of day the day before. And every inch of me wanted to say, "Look, I'm going on a vacation. I'm tired. Let them go some, you know, let them go." So I went to the meeting for the good of Chicago, as I was being told and pull it together. And the first breakfast meeting went fine. The second breakfast meeting consisting of ten more committeemen, where one was ah, everybody was eating and all of a sudden the door opened and Matt Biastat[SIC], committeeman came in. Very ethnic, very old-fashioned, very old school. I'm sitting there. I expect him to be courteous. He jumps up and down on the floor with his hands and his fists. "I will not break bread with this damn woman!" shouts he. He said, "She plans to give the city employees a union contract that's further going to break the machine. I won't talk to her. I won't sit here." Walked out and slammed the door. Well, everybody was a little embarrassed and around the table some of them laughed, at which time Congressman Daniel Rostenkowsky leaned forward in hi--in a very condescending manner and stated, "I don't know about that." He said, "I was at a prayer breakfast yesterday morning and with the President in the White House. And he said to me, 'Oh, Dan. What's going to happen to Chicago now?' He said, 'My God. You have a lot of work to do.'" And it was probably intimidation. But to me, I sat there and it was like, holy fright. All I did was win and now even the President's concerned about the new mayor of Chicago. That's how it is.
Let's just stop down.
Because my blood was boiling. I had to sit with these jerks, you know, I don't think you realized they tried to get me yanked off the national committee, they were calling , I would go to their darn meetings--
Yep. Talk about public housing and your approach.
Ah, my approach to public housing was ah, it wasn't all to be to the, the projects as you know them. My approach was to make, fulfill the commitments that I had made on bad housing, yank it down and build new housing. And if you were to drive out to 63rd and, and ah, Ashland, you would see block after block after block of what went up under me. Ah, it, it's quite beautiful. It was ah, federally funded and city funded with churches. And it's single family housing, and it is my real belief in ah, for the poor that they not be in these high rises. The issue of moving into Cabrini Green, there were two issues basically as I recall it. One, during the campaign of '79 when I was on Division Street, close to Christmas--before I won, right before I won--ah, two young Black women came up to me--and they had babies in their arms--and they said, "Aren't you Jane Byrne?" And I said, "Yes." And they said, "We're going to vote for you." And I looked at them. Now they lived at Cabrini. And one of the little babies was you know, cold looking. And so I you know, sort of pulled the baby's foot. And I said, "Is Santa going to bring you--What's Santa going to bring you?" And the one looked at me caustically and she said, "We live in Cabrini Green and Santa doesn't come there." And that made a very big impression on me. Now, granted, ah, I knew what it was like to be an outer myself at the time. And it made a tremendous impression on me. And so after I won and was, it was amazing. We had to borrow the money, 75 thousand, to win the campaign to put commercials on. It's all we spent. And Bilandic spent two million. And the day after, everybody's coming to see you. The old way, you know. Well, they weren't coming to me, but they were not going to the committee and making contributions for the general election. And I got within, I bet you, two weeks. I think I was told seven hundred thousand dollars, not talking to anybody. And I thought of those two women a long time. And so when I became the mayor I made up my mind that every apartment would have a Christmas tree. And seeing that you know, the money was there, that's what I did. And we went from public housing project, every one of them, and every senior citizen center. And I think expended about four hundred thousand dollars. But I located the two girls at Cabrini. And they remembered. And they remembered that I had said that, if I won, the children would not grow up without a Christmas tree. So they all had them. And I rather enjoyed it. And I rather enjoyed taking all this money that was pouring in and doing something that I thought--Now this is just me, OK? M-Me personally. I knew what it was like to be on the outs. And I knew you're saying you could straighten up your lives when you're ten or twelve. But don't ever get or enjoy the things that other babies are enjoying, or the myth or the lure of the Santa or the tree. You know, you stay there and you, you make it on your own. And that was just me. Now maybe it's because I was a woman. I don't know. But I enjoyed doing that. And they enjoyed getting them. By the time of the campaign that was turned into she's buying votes in the projects, because after the first year you couldn't stop because then you would look bad. So we changed it to food, which was more, had more substance. And without even thinking that people would think it because it had come so much from the heart, every family instead then got a turkey for Christmas. Well, that was used against me in the heat of the campaign. If you said to me am I glad I gave them the turkey? Yeah, I'm glad I did. If you said to me am I happy and am I happy to this day, when I go by those projects and I see little Christmas trees in the window, am I happy that those children had one? Yes, I am. If people didn't like it, I'm sorry. But those that received it liked it and wanted it. Those that--didn't like it and thought it was a put-down, I understand their position. But would I have done it the same way? Yes I would have--
Well, we're talking about--
When you talk about projects and condos and was that ever going to go condo? Nothing like that ever crossed my desk. When I moved to the projects it's because for six weeks, eighteen people--in six weeks eighteen people had been shot, killed, knifed. And I thought those were lousy statistics. And I also thought that if it was a town the size of 25 thousand people, that if eighteen people had been shot, killed or knifed, the mayor should be kicked out of office who didn't do something like that. And I pushed on the police department at the top. And there were no changes. It's not far from here. And I would drive through there and I wouldn't see police. And it was going on and going on and going on. And finally, through such a scene in my office, and taking the superintendent and the chairman of public housing personally to the project and saying, "Show me the police. Let's go in and talk to these people," did every start to change. And after it began to change, and I'm still driving through there. I'm there on a Saturday. And I see a sergeant that I met going very quickly down the street in a car and a foot chase going on all around. And I said--he slowed the car. And he said, I said, "What happened?" He pointed. There was a fourteen year old little girl on the back seat of this unmarked squad car being taken to Henrotin who had been gang raped by three. But there was a difference, because this time the police were there. And the policeman shouted, "Don't worry, Mayor. We got 'em." And I thought if I hadn't been kicking what they call butts, whoever did this would be free. And it made me think how much more I could do and how much I could establish if I made this the prototype of what was going to take place in the projects.
Let me argue with you just a moment, because eighty-four percent of the people who lived in public housing were Black. And you were criticized because you appointed quite a few White people to the CHA board. Why did you do that?
Well, now, that's a different issue than what you asked me about the condo.
Well, let's take that issue.
Ah, it was done two ways. There was a Black director appointed, all right? No, there were, there were--I inherited a board with terms. All right? With, with terms. Each one of them. And there was one Black on it, as I recall, two Whites and a community member who was Black. And that was like officio, ex-officio. And the projects were not being run very well. And I didn't make the switch to put those two White women on that you will always hear about until after I lived there. And after I saw that it was a very, very woman-dominated society. And that by virtue of the structure, very few husbands or fathers lived in the projects. And I wanted to put women on the board, and one was Black, who could relate to the women and the sufferings that were going on in there. And I didn't uh--I, I didn't think that was wrong. Ah, I felt--But that became an issue that I was putting down Black men because I made the statement. And it didn't change the facts to me that it's true. And the way that women would empathize and one had been a s--ah, an acting superintendent of schools, education was horrible in the projects. Recreation or a place to study was horrible. And I saw those things. And quite frankly, I didn't think that the men had done that great a job, Black or White. They'd been there. And I thought, this woman, you know, this, this ah, superintendent, former su-superinten--acting superintendent, she cared about kids. And I'm going to tell you very candidly, I knew that a lot of the older kids, that were in the gangs, the high school ones and, and beyond, nobody was going to be able to help them very much. But if you could save this next generation and turn things around such as we did by going in there and creating the ba-basketball teams and the baseball teams and competition, and paint-outs and all the different things that took place, and stop the drugs, which is what the killings were all about. If you could do that and you could do that throughout the projects, you're starting a base because nothing else worked. And if by putting women who were educators on it could bring about an interest to those children to go
OK, So you did put Renault Robinson on the then Chicago Housing Authority board?
I appointed Renault Robinson to the Chicago Housing, Housing board--
I appointed Renault Robinson, who had been the Black Afro ah, policemen's president ah, which was a, a group within the Chicago police department. And I appointed him to the CHA in '79, one of my first appointments. And Renault, in my opinion, and it was borne out later, but in my opinion he was not ready to be the chairman. He was also not ready in many ways, because he had never been in an administrative position before he'd been a policeman, which I understood, and I figured grow in the job. Ah. He um, I don't think he did a good job. Ah, I let him stay there, but I did not think that the things he was doing ah, were anything more than getting his name in the paper. He was making crusades about the elevators. And of course they didn't work. But there was nothing anybody could do to make them work consistently, due to the heavy loads of traffic on these poorly constructed elevators that are no bigger than ah, the smallest closet in your house. They were going to break. There was a lot of vandalism in the projects. Well, he marched to the Grand Jury. And the Grand Jury investigated. They found nothing wrong. But he was forever saying that that was something wrong. I guess the proof of the pudding is that after I lost, Harold Washington made him the chairman of public housing.
Before we get up to Harold Washington, I want to follow up because he said that there was a point where you called him into his office and said, "Renault, we had a deal. You're screwing that up by coming against my man, Swibel." And I would like to understand a little bit more about the deal and how he crossed you on that.
I had no deal about Swibel. I didn't appoint Swibel. Swibel was one of the holdover commissioners and chairman, and had been for fifteen years under Mayor Daley. Ah, I would grant this to Swibel--he knew what he was doing. He was not a, a humanist in any way, shape or form. But he knew how to bring the federal dollars in to keep it working. And he knew how to go to Washington and get it done because he had been doing it for fifteen years. Ah, there was no conversation between me and Renault Robinson at any given time about "you're going against my man, Swibel." Nothing. Ah, he was embarrassing me as my own appointment to be going to the Grand Jury with all these charges and becoming this crusader, and then always to have them go up in smoke. It was embarrassing. On the other hand, ah, he then went very strongly out front for Harold Washington, which was fine. And I don't blame him in the least for that and he had every right in the world to do it. But two weeks before the election, with every poll in the city of Chicago, every poll--two, five, seven, nine, Tribune, Sun, Times--showing me 22 to 26 points ahead of both of the men. He asked the commissioner of my human resources if he could come and meet with me and make amends. Ah, when the surprise happened and Mayor Washington won, he was the first one to go back. So I don't, you know, I don't like to tell these stories.
They're part of politics, maybe, but the charges were made. There's no doubt about it. But they weren't true. Ah, and the charges that he took twice, I believe, before the Grand Jury were also not true. And the U.S. Attorney refused to even investigate one, because it is impossible to think--let me tell you--that those elevators are going to function. They aren't. And the buildings should come down. And children shouldn't be on the fifteenth floor. And gangs shouldn't have the use of them to break them when they wish so that the police can't get to them. But it had nothing to do with the corporations that put them in. They're a sick place structurally, emotionally, in every way. And you can ride on it if you wish, and you can make political points if you wish, because the people basically are unhappy. And you can use that to further an end.
So the solution is--
But it doesn't make it right.
Tear them down and start over again?
My goal would have been to take a lot of the abandoned housing, ah, and I, I discussed this with ah, the President, President Reagan at a meeting of U.S. conference of mayor's small group. And we all felt the same. That they're a, they're a disservice to the poor. That you would put so much money into trying to keep them up. Some of them have been up for forty years. And if you could take that money and put it into rehabbing three flats, two flats, single family you know, they would--children would not have--the mothers wouldn't be fifteen floors away from a kid on the street with a gang banger. And they're s--laying all over the city. South Side, west side. There's abandoned housing all over. Structurally sound. And I would like to--If I had stayed, I can guarantee that's what I would have done.
I don't know that you would need to tear them all down. But you could surely put seniors in them. And they would be safe. But you can't put a family of eight children in about eleven hundred square feet and in any way think they're going to be happy.
Let's change the subject to something that may be a little bit lighter. The ChicagoFest.
No, let's go a little bit further.
Mayor Washington did appoint Renault Robinson chairman and he had to remove him, the job was so bad. Now, I don't fault Renault. Renault was a, if he'd gotten in there, in my opinion, and learned. And was placed in a position to become a great spokesman. But he didn't ever do that before, any more than he was prepared to be the chairman. And you could have predicted that what happened under Mayor Washington was going to happen. All the plumbing broke on the coldest day of the winter. It froze because none of the boilers had been serviced. People had to be moved out to hotels. People were freezing for ten days before. It was a mess. And finally, the mayor that put him there had, had no better luck with him than I did.
Chicago Fest was regarded as your brainstorm--
I thought that you originated that.
No, Nope. Mayor Bilandic originated Chicago Fest.
Is that right?
I, as a matter of fact, wanted to cancel it when I walked in the door. And I wanted to cancel it because I thought it's not enough in the neighborhoods. It's all downtown. I'm on record for this. Check the Tribune. And that we were expending a lot of money but we weren't getting out there into the communities. And a wave of protest hit me. And editorials from the Chicago Tribune hit me. That it was mean, it was petty. And it was probably that I was jealous that Bilandic had established it. So I said, "Fine, let it go on." But no, I didn't--I was not the inventor of Chicago Fest. As it went on I came to see that it was very good. And it did bring people together. But I didn't allow it to go on alone. I established sixteen neighborhood festivals to go with Chicago Fest so that the neighborhoods were taken care of as much as the out-of-towners, the suburbanites who really went to the fest. And we brought in top talent to perform at every neighborhood festival. Ah, people that are still stars today.
You know I'm going to ask you then about the boycott of the Chicago Fest. How did you feel when Jesse Jackson and others--You said they wanted to boycott because they were sort of upset with you.
I didn't believe it, number one. And I didn't think that it was Jesse's original intention in any way, shape or form. He was on a talk show, I think, in Indiana. And he was not involved in it at all, as a matter of fact. But in one of those call--in shows, somebody called in and said to him on this radio show, "We ought to boycott Chicago Fest, Reverend Jackson ah, over--" I forget if it was--No. It was definitely CHA. Ah, we ought to boycott it over Mayor Byrne's actions. And he replied that might be a good idea. From that, vavoom! It was off and running. There was going to be this huge boycott. And that's exactly how it happened. And at first I thought there were no more than, than twenty people in the boycott. Now, that was it. And we said, "Fine. You can boycott it." Or my people did. And they were given an area. And Jesse was really only there maybe five, six times for the whole two weeks of Chicago Fest. His people were there. And Operation Push was there. But again, the numbers were never bigger than twenty or thirty. And I did not see this, quite frankly, as an outpouring against me of the Black community when I'd see twenty people. But what was taking place is it was being picked up on all the Black radio stations as an issue, a major, major issue. The superficiality to me of what took place there was absolutely nothing as to what was taking place in the community. Nothing. It was an effective boycott in that it stopped all Black talent from coming. The day the tickets went on sale, all the Blacks were in line to buy them. And the boycott had been announced. And they were all in line, you know, to get their tickets. Almost as if you know, we love the Fest. And it grew. Ah, so it is--People say that it, it was the turning point. And I know that it's, it, it can be said if people want to say it. Ah, to me, it, it was not the turning point. To me, it was an unfortunate situation. It was a situation that I felt bad about because it was polarizing the city in that many Whites were saying, "This is going to be the best Fest we ever went to--we won't have Blacks," which I hated. And we had ah, the Blacks responding and reacting. And it wasn't good for Chicago.
If Chicago Fest wasn't the turning point, what was the turning point?
The turning point began before 1979 when I was first elected and proceeded in the feelings of the people right up until 1983. And in cold, analytical numbers two weeks before the election, I was 26 points ahead of Washington and Daley, the weekend before I was carried by all the newspapers and television stations as 22 points ahead. Ah. There was a rally held twelve days before Harold Washington's election. It was held at Circle Campus and it was from the heart, and it was with great emotion. The Black community poured out to the tune of fifteen thousand people. And it was huge. And it was the spark--
We've have to stop you just had a roll out--
it was the spark, it was the spark.
You were telling us that the Circle Campus rally was really sort of a turning point--
That was the turning point. That was the spark and it became a religion from that day on. And the words were, "Don't vote with your head. Vote with your heart. We might make it. This is our chance." The Black women who had been my 48 percent, I, I, you know, I understand. They looked at their sons. They said, "Maybe." Maybe one day. Is that different than the American dream? No. That's the way it should be.
How did you feel when Harold Washington first announced? Did you really believe there was any serious challenge--
No. There was no serious challenge there when he first announced, and he was a reluctant candidate. And he put up as many you know, road blocks to being the candidate as he could possibly find. He liked it in Congress. And ah, he told them you go out and register, what? Fifty thousand or I, I don't know how many. And he kept giving them more and more to do. And I believe a statement that he made to the press when the press conference was called for the next morning, the statement that he made was, they asked him, "Are you going to be the candidate?" He said, "Unless you see another big Black man standing here tomorrow, I'm it." And that was sort of the way he took it, you know? And ah, I think that was however ah, somewhat disarming. Ah, and I don't think he really thought he was going to win it at all himself ah, in the very beginning. And he didn't campaign hard. He didn't do a lot of things. And that's why I tell you. Timing and, and the emotions and a three-way race. But I think um--He, he was asked by the press, "How can you possibly win?" He said, they said, "You have no money. You have no organization. You, you've got nothing going on out there." And he put his hand up, giving him full due for this, and said, "You don't understand the Black community. You can't keep them revved up any longer than two weeks." And I tell you, two weeks before--boom. It began.
Was there a moment when you sat down with your own advisors, the people who'd been taking the polls for you and they just looked at you and they said, "You're in serious trouble."
No. No, there was never--I tell you that if you were to look at the record there wasn't a pollster polling Chicago that didn't have me twenty points ahead.
After the rally.
But my--Still, it held. But we polled every night. So we saw a point and a half slippage in the Black community every night. We knew. But when you're 22 points and you're into your last week you don't think you're going to lose t--by 22 points. You think--And it was readjusted the Saturday before to me that it would be anywhere from six to seven points and get out there. OK? Well, and that was still calculating a point and a half. The day came and that went to minus three, still holding sixteen percent of the Black community.
Did you change your campaign in those last few days?
I'm not sure it was even smart, and it wasn't my decision. It was the--the thought of most of the advisors. Um. There were two things happening with the media. One, they did not take Harold Washington serious at all. Two, things were happening to me, and I assume Daley, when we would go into the White--the Black community. Jesse Jackson had m-made a statement at Operation Push the Saturday before the rally, two weeks before that woe be to any Black minister that allowed the White candidates into their churches, which put them in a bind because a lot of the Black churches were city funded. Ah. Second of all, just by my own conversations with the managers of television stations, when they'd say to me, "When's the fight going to start?" And I'd say, "There isn't going to be a fight." This was at Christmas. They'd say, "Why not?" I'd say, "It's a three-way race. I'm caught in the middle." They'd say, "Harold Washington?" And I'd say, "Look, see who do you hang on right now? Prime time. Three stations. Harold Washington down at the prisons. OK? Working hard. Sending a message, a strong message. He went to the prisons." And they, they, the, the, the general manager thought I was crazy. And I said, "I'm telling you I am not the least bit afraid of Daley. Harold is the candidate to beat." No one believed it. No one. And everybody was in shock that night when it happened. Now along those lines while we polled the Thursday before we asked the entire city of Chicago, "Do you think you can get a Black mayor?" Eighty percent said never. So the change that took place the Saturday before, which I think might even have been the three points if we, I'd done it my way, but these were pros, was that we had to get on TV the emotion that was really taking place in the Black community so that people began to say, "Harold is a real challenge here. It's not Daley," because the old machine and that part of it that belonged to Daley was pumping up that he could still win. And he'd been out of the race since December 7th. So they wanted to get this message out. So my press secretary made an announcement that I was canceling --to this day I think it was stupid--that I was canceling all my stops in the White community. All of them. And I was going strictly to the Black community to shore up my vote with the thought if I went nowhere else under equal time, they would have to put on what was really happening out there to Jane Byrne when she went into the Black community. And it was violent what happened. To go to Cabrini Green, I mean, everything from human excrement was thrown out the window at me. And to try to walk across the lawns where the kids were that I had loved and see the basketball courts and the baseball courts that I'd put in--I mean, forget it. You know, forget it. Harold, Harold, Harold. White bitch. You know, everything. You name it, I had it. And they wanted that on the tube. And that way they r--thought people would, would know, OK? That, that we've got a real race here. Forget this Daley business. And so we went with that. When I say I think it was stupid is there were people lined up all over the north side, my base, OK? Rallies that were planned for the last weekend. I didn't show. And that was because the two things with the media--A, they didn't take Harold seriously, and B, they did not want to be perceived as showing rac--racial things. So while they were happening they would not get on. And therefore, that was the feeling of the consultants. I felt I insulted too many north side people by not showing up. Coffee parties, rallies, church rallies. You don't go. So that was that. The following morning, Sunday, I get up early. I look at the headline in the Tribune and Chairman Vrdolyak has made a statement--Now, we're holding our own well Sunday. Real well. We're not going to be 22, but we're going to win it. He has made a statement at a, what he thought was a closed meeting of precinct captains on the north side: "Don't kid yourself. This election is about race," said he. And it's the headline and it's now the news all day Sunday. The Black support that I had at that time was still in the projects and independents on the lake front. And when he challenged them, "this election is about race," Sunday, the numbers that night dropped another--whatever we were, sixteen to eight in the Black community. That's what did it.
I want to stop down right there.
Did Jane Byrne make a deal?
There was no deal made, surprisingly enough. They didn't even ask for a deal. You have to understand, they were scared. Basically, deep down inside, they were scared. They had never taken--They had never done to a person what they had done to me. Who could ever have forgiven them? Because I'm telling you, that campaign was hell. What they wanted was the right to walk in and in the back of their minds I'm sure what they wanted was to have the good old days the way they always were. And they weren't going to have 'em. And it didn't make any difference to me if they came to my office or if they weren't--didn't come to my office. The mayor has great power in so far as the mayor can say, "No." And so it was fine with me if they wanted to come. It was fine with me if they wanted to put their projects before me. They had the right to. They represented fifty thousand people in every ward. They had the right to be recognized, but they didn't have the right to get me to turn inwardly on the things that I still believed had to be done.
And why did you continue to support Swibel after demanded his resignation.
Because that is a very big--
I continued--I didn't continue to support Swibel after HUD demanded his resignation because HUD did not demand his resignation. HUD asked for the resignations of the entire board, not Swibel. They asked it of Renault Robinson, Swibel, Nash, Letitia. They wanted all of it out. And they wanted to send in a consulting board from New York, made up of the man that had made the study, and his people to run it until a formal board could be appointed. Ah. Every board member knew it. All right? They all knew. They all had the letter. And they, he had asked, they had asked for every one of them to go. They all said no. And they all said, "That's HUD's way of really getting Swibel." Now, Swibel had been around, as I say, twenty years under Mayor Daley. He had been around--What? I was there three years. I'm sure that there was no massive difference in the three years that I was there and the twenty that Mayor Daley was there. But he was in a position now to be a target. You know. You get, by, baggage and mileage and god knows you can make an issue of the projects any day you want, because they're hell. And it seemed to me all of you go and he can go with you. But don't pull this on me that all of a sudden he's Mr. Dirty and we're all innocent victims here. HUD demanded all of them resign.
I would like you to talk about the whole thing around the snow storm and how you went on campaign on elevated platforms then.
I went to the people. I mean, it was the people that kept saying to me in the beginning, "Go get him." And I didn't go to the structure. It was impossible to go to them anyway. So I went to the people. And where do you see the most people? You see them going to work in the morning. You see them going into the factories. So yeah, I was up on the El platforms. And in the middle of all that they, someone made a decision not to have the train stop at every stop. And here were these people--I mean, my toes--I had ice within my shoes by the time this blizzard ended. I mean, they got in there with boots on. And here these people were standing, freezing, late for work, getting yelled at when they got there. You'd hear them. You know, you'd hear them what they were saying. And boom, right past them would go the train. And again, that was taken, even though I never thought this was intended to be an insult to the Black community. But apparently when they decided to do this they only decided to do it in the Black community. You see, to me, being a little more reasonable in my thinking, I just assumed there were so many people that couldn't get their cars out that the trains literally could not stop. You know, they were packed. But when I heard they only did it on the south side of Chicago I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it.
We heard that you ended up with some nicknames because you won as a result of the snow problem and--
Oh, yeah. I was Snow Queen. I was um--Well, I gu--some people used to call me Mount Saint Helena. Ah, I don't know how that related to the snow. But I had you know, I had--Let me tell you. From Ayatollah to Mount Saint Helena to Snow Queen, for the first woman, one expects it, OK? But I had 'em all. There wasn't a name that anybody ever skipped. From Good Jane, Bad Jane to the worst.
This is your chance, Jane Byrne. Make up your own question and provide your own answer. Anything that we haven't talked about that you think should go on the record.
I would just like to say that you know, Chicago's a very, very wonderful city. And I don't think that anything happened here shouldn't have happened here. Whether it was the first woman or whether it was the first Black. And I think every city goes through stages of growth. And I think every ethnic group in America has come to the major cities as the melting pots and fought for their own place in the sun. And I think that's all you see happening in Chicago. And I think sometimes it was painful, always was. Whether it was the Irish and the Wasps or the ah, the whatever group it was. They fought for where they had to be. And I think that's what makes Chicago great. And I hope that forever Chicago remains that way. Great city of neighborhoods. Great city of family, great city of belief in their own ethnicity. Because if it stays strong like that, so does America.
I thank you very much for your energy and for your honesty.
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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Sophomore Sasha Kuebel pitched seven strong innings and the University of Iowa baseball team’s offense erupted for nine runs in a 9-2 triumph over Maine in its Snowbird Classic opener.
Kuebel (1-3) allowed eight hits and two runs over seven innings en route to his first victory of the season. The left-hander had four strikeouts to two walks. Freshman Josh Martsching closed out the victory, allowing one hit and striking out three over the final two innings.
“Sasha didn’t have his best stuff, but he made some big pitches when he needed to in some key situations,” said UI head coach Jack Dahm. “He really settled in. They had a couple of key situations where we turned two big double plays and Sasha made the big pitches when he needed to.”
The Hawkeyes used two big innings to propel the team to the win, scoring three runs in the fourth and six in the sixth.
Junior Keith Brand opened the fourth with a single before freshman Blake Hickman and senior Dan Sheppard followed with two-out singles to load the bases. Brand crossed the plate on a Black Bear balk before sophomore Kris Goodman’s RBI infield single plated the second run. Sheppard also crossed the plate on the play via a Maine throwing error.
“We came up with some big hits,” said Dahm. “The good thing is once we got the lead we kept the pressure on them. That’s important for our guys to learn. We executed from an offensive stand point and that led to us scoring nine runs.”
In the sixth, Iowa scored six runs on four hits in the inning. Hickman led off the frame with a double down the left field line before junior Taylor Zeutenhorst and Goodman followed with a walk and single to load the bases. Hickman made the score 4-0 when sophomore Jake Mangler was hit by a pitch.
Sophomore Jake Yacinich followed with a two-run single through the left side to chase Maine starter Tommy Lawrence from the game. After loading the bases a second time, Iowa plated three more runs via a fielder’s choice, a throwing error and an RBI single by freshman Jimmy Frankos — his first career hit.
The Hawkeyes pounded out 11 hits in the game and four players — Goodman, Mangler, Brand and Hickman — all had two-hit games. Goodman was 2-for-5 with an RBI and run scored, Mangler was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Brand was 2-for-2 with two runs and Hickman was 2-for-4 with two runs.
“Brand had an outstanding day, two hits and three hit by pitches,” said Dahm. “We were down a couple of guys — Eric Toole was sick — and we had a little different lineup in there today. The guys battled and found a way to get it done.”
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It’s suicide, Shyla. You’re the prize they want.’
Through her courage and tenacity, Shyla Sun-Kissed has awoken the power of The Eyes of Tamburah. But this feat only marks the beginning of the challenges that the magical order, the Invisible Sword, faces to free the underground city of Zirdai.
Though they have allies among the monks and splinter cells inside the city, Shyla knows the Invisible Sword doesn’t have the strength to win. With the group fracturing due to the strain of losses from their latest ordeal, thinly veiled suspicions and endless disagreements, it’s up to Shyla to forge a new united order.
When both the draconian Water Prince and brutal Heliacal Priestess learn of Shyla’s new powers, life becomes even more complicated as they will stop at nothing to capture Shyla and take the magic of The Eyes for themselves. Hunted at every turn and unable to hide, Shyla and the Invisible Sword must use every resource at their command – and unearth new ones – in their race to save the city from destruction. But their enemies always seem to be one step ahead. And the cost to win the battle may be more than Shyla would ever be willing to pay…
Published 2 June 2021| Publisher: Harlequin Australia | RRP: AUD$19.99
My Blurb (4 / 5 stars)
The very long awaited sequel to The Eyes of Tamburah is finally here! In this instalment, Shyla is safely ensconced with some people who believed in her and wanted to make changes in the city, as she does. People are suffering and it is time to shake up those in power; problem is they are hidden away and very poor in resources. And it seems, there is also a mole…
I loved the strong female protagonists written by this author. They are all always such empowering and inspiring characters; definitely kick-ass ones! Shyla grew to be such a one in this novel. The romance is always so lovely with male protagonists who are protective but totally supportive of her having to fight her own battles.
What really got me in this novel is the big twist in the middle of it. I mean, I don’t know who feel betrayed most, Shyla or ME! Indeed, Maria V. Snyder lives up to her villainous author reputation. My heart hasn’t recovered yet even as the ending offers such beautiful healing. There’s something else in the air though… book 3 is coming and as this particular issue appears settled in this book, I’m not quite sure what will be in book 3 but I’m excited for it.
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|The Best of the Achaeans|
Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
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§1. It is an overall Iliadic theme that Achilles is "best of the Achaeans," as I will now try to show. The title is hotly contested. The central grievance of Achilles in the Iliad is that Agamemnon has dishonored him, and in this context the hero of the Iliad is regularly called aristos Akhaiôn 'best of the Achaeans' (I 244, 412; XVI 271, 274). During his quarrel with Achilles, Agamemnon, too, is specifically described as one who lays claim to the title aristos Akhaiôn:
hos nun pollon aristos Achaiôn euchetai einai
who boasts that he is now by far the best of the Achaeans
hos meg' aristos Achaiôn euchetai einai
who boasts that he is by far the best of the Achaeans
The first of these verses is spoken by Achilles himself, whose very actions in Iliad I had challenged Agamemnon's claim.
§2. When the great Catalogue of Iliad II, recounting the resources of each major Achaean hero, reaches Agamemnon, the men who followed him to Troy are described as polu pleistoi kai aristoi 'by far the most numerous and the best [aristos plural]' (II 577). Later, Agamemnon himself is said to excel:
hounek' aristos eên, polu de pleistous age laous
because he was the best [aristos], and he led the most numerous host
The tradition here grudgingly assigns him the title of "best" by virtue of his being the leader of the "best." But the Catalogue comes to a close with the words:
houtoi ar' hêgemones Danaôn
So now, these were the leaders of the Danaans.
The poet then follows up with a question:
tis t' ar tôn och' aristos eên, su moi ennepe Mousa
Who, then, was by far the best [aristos]? Tell me, Muse!
The simple question is then expanded into a compound question: who was the best among the Achaeans and among their horses (II 762)? The Muse's answer is an elaborate exercise in ring composition. First, let us look at the horses: those of Eumelos were best (II 763-767). Then the men: well, Ajax was best [aristos] (II 768)--that is, so long as Achilles persisted in his anger and refrained from fighting:
ophr' Achileus mênien: ho gar polu phertatos êen
so long as Achilles was angry; for he was by far the best [phertatos].
Which brings us back to the horses: those of Achilles were actually the best after all (II 770). But since Achilles was out of sight when the first superlative came around, his horses were out of mind. Achilles, however, is never out of mind in the Iliad when it comes to asking who is best of the Achaeans. The great Ajax, then, is here being demoted from the best to the second best of the Achaeans by what seems to be premeditated afterthought. He also gets the same sort of treatment from the epic tradition in Iliad VII, in a passage that deserves detailed attention.
§3. Hektor is about to challenge Achaiôn hos tis aristos 'whoever is best [aristos] of the Achaeans' to a duel (VII 50). He boasts that this unnamed Achaean will be killed and thus become part of an epic story glorifying the deeds of Hektor. The hapless unknown Achaean, by performing an aristeiâ, would become part of a kleos, but the kleos would belong to the winner, Hektor. Here is how Hektor says it:
kai pote tis eipêisi kai opsigonôn anthrôpôn,
nêï poluklêïdi pleôn epi oinopa ponton:
"andros men tode sêma palai katatethnêôtos,
hon pot' aristeuonta katektane phaidimos Hektôr."
hôs pote tis ereei: to d' emon kleos ou pot' oleitai.
And some day, someone from a future generation will say,
as he is sailing on a many-benched ship over the wine-dark sea:
"This is the tomb of a man who died a long time ago,
who was performing his aristeiâ when illustrious Hektor killed him."
That is what someone will say, and my kleos will never perish.
The tomb of this unknown Achaean challenger would be at the Hellespont (VII 86), clearly visible to those who sail by. And it so happens that epic tradition assigns such a tomb to Achilles himself:
aktêi epi prouchousêi, epi platei Hellêspontôi,
hôs ken têlephanês ek pontophin andrasin eiê
tois hoi nun gegaasi kai hoi metopisthen esontai.
on a jutting headland, by the broad Hellespont,
so that it may be bright from afar for men coming from the sea,
those who are now and those who will be in the future.
It is Achilles who should have answered Hektor's challenge to the one who is best of the Achaeans. This is the hero whose father had taught him "to be best [aristos] always" (aien aristeuein: XI 784). Achilles will die, yes, and his ashes will indeed be enshrined at the Hellespont. But, ironically, it is Hektor who will be killed by Achilles. It is Hektor who will become part of an epic story glorifying the deeds of Achilles. By performing his fatal aristeiâ, Hektor will become part of a kleos, as he says it at VII 91, but the kleos will belong to the winner, Achilles. The Iliad belongs to Achilles. It is to Achilles that the Iliadic tradition assigns the kleos that will never perish. Achilles himself says it:
ôleto men moi nostos, atar kleos aphthiton estai
I have lost a safe return home [nostos], but I will have unfailing glory [kleos].
We may have lost countless other epic compositions, but the Iliad has survived and endured. The confidence of the Iliad in its eternal survival is the confidence of the master singer. For Achilles, the kleos of the Iliad tradition should be an eternal consolation for losing a safe return home, a nostos. There is also irony here for Achilles. Hektor's insulting boast hits the mark in that Achilles will be killed and will be buried where Hektor's words predict. But the greatest irony is reserved for Ajax, the second best of the Achaeans. Before we can get to him, however, other things have yet to happen in Iliad VII.
§4. After Hektor issues his challenge, no one dares to respond but Menelaos. If no one takes up the challenge, he says in the form of a public reproach, it will be a subject of future public reproach as well for the Achaeans (VII 96-97), and that will be a "thing without kleos" (aklees: VII 100). The Achaeans had better behave as heroes, for Epos is keeping them under observation. As Menelaos prepares to fight Hektor, the poet of the Iliad turns away from the audience of his performance and addresses directly the persona in his composition:
entha ke toi, Menelae, phanê biotoio teleutê
Hektoros en palamêisin, epei polu pherteros êen
At that point, Menelaos, the end of your life would have appeared,
in the clutches of Hektor, since he was better by far.
What prevented the death of Menelaos from appearing here in the narrative was the intervention of his fellow Achaeans. In particular, his brother Agamemnon is holding Menelaos back, urging him not to fight "a better man" (ameinoni phôti: VII 111). Menelaos is told that even Achilles would not fight, "and he is far better than you" (ho per seo pollon ameinôn: VII 114).
§5. At this point, Nestor too reproaches the Achaeans (VII 123-161). His words are in fact so compelling that all nine of the "pan-Achaean champions" (aristêes Panachaiôn: VII 159) volunteer straightway to face Hektor. They are Agamemnon, Diomedes, the Ajaxes, Idomeneus, Meriones, Eurypylos, Thoas, and finally, Odysseus (VII 162-168). Lots are drawn to narrow the list down to one. The Achaeans are meanwhile praying that the winner of the lottery should be Ajax or Diomedes or Agamemnon (VII 177-180). The effect of the prayer on the narrative is that our attention is narrowed down to three out of nine. Of these three, we have already seen Agamemnon claiming the title "best of the Achaeans." Diomedes, too, gets this title, but only in Book V of the Iliad. Book V is his finest hour, his aristeiâ, and this is where he is twice called aristos Akhaiôn 'best of the Achaeans.' Both times, however, the specific moment is sinister. In one passage, the archer Pandaros has just shot Diomedes with an arrow, and he is boasting that he has wounded the "best of the Achaeans" (aristos Achaiôn: V 103). For an audience brought up on the tradition that Achilles himself was killed by the arrow of another archer, the superlative of this boast has an ominous ring in the Iliad. In the other passage, the goddess Dione is consoling her daughter Aphrodite, who has just been wounded by Diomedes (V 406-415). He should beware, she says, lest a man stronger than her daughter should fight him (V 411); then Diomedes would be killed and his wife would have to mourn him, the "best of the Achaeans" (ariston Achaiôn: V 414). Elsewhere in his aristeiâ, Diomedes is described only one other time as "best" (ariston: V 839), but not specifically as the best of the Achaeans. So much for Diomedes, whose heroic momentum is finally thwarted by Zeus himself at VIII 130-171. As for Agamemnon, he, too, gets the general epithet "best" one other time besides the instances already discussed. This time, the setting is Book XI, the setting for his own aristeiâ. And here, too, the specific moment is sinister. Hektor has just wounded Agamemnon, and he is exulting that his enemy, "the best man," has withdrawn from the fighting ( ristos: XI 288). So much, then, for Agamemnon.
§6. We can finally turn to Ajax, second best to Achilles among all the Achaeans. Here is a man destined by epic tradition to lose the most important contest of his heroic existence, a contest of aristeiâ with Odysseus. But the Iliad allows him to win a lottery this time. His winning changes nothing in the course of oncoming events, since Ajax and Hektor then proceed to fight to a draw. At the end of their inconclusive duel, Hektor even compliments Ajax by calling him "best of the Achaeans" (Achaiôn phertatos: VII 289), on the grounds that he excels in both might and artifice (VII 288-289). Ajax himself had boasted of his excellence in these very qualities (VII 197-198). Since the audience has already been made aware that Ajax is second best, Hektor's words and the outcome of a draw have the effect of presaging the outcome of a fatal defeat for Hektor when he comes to confront Achilles himself. As for Ajax, he will fight on, even as the situation of the Achaeans keeps getting worse and worse in the face of Hektor's onslaught. But finally even Ajax is turned back by Zeus himself (XI 544; XVI 102, 119-121). The stage is now set for Hektor's confrontation with Achilles--or with whoever must stand in for Achilles.
§7. Besides Diomedes, Agamemnon, Ajax, and Achilles, no other Achaean in the Iliad gets the epithet "best of the Achaeans." Others also may be best, but only in categories that are restricted as subdivisions of the Achaeans. Thus Periphas may be "best of the Aetolians" (V 843), Kalkhas may be "best of the bird-watching seers" (I 69), and Teukros may be "best of the Achaeans in archery" (XIII 313-314). Similarly, in the Games of Book XXIII, different Achaeans turn out to be best in different athletic events. Thus Diomedes is best at driving the chariot (XXIII 357), Epeios is best at boxing (XXIII 669), and Agamemnon is best at spear throwing, as Achilles himself acknowledges (XXIII 891). Such a restricted acknowledgment, however, is all that Agamemnon will ever get from Achilles in the Iliad.
§8. There are two isolated instances that at first seem like exceptions to the proposition that only four Achaean heroes vie for the epithet "best of the Achaeans" in the Iliad. In one passage, Menelaos is telling Antilokhos the ghastly news of Patroklos' death:
êdê men se kai auton oïomai eisoroônta
gignôskein hoti pêma theos Danaoisi kulindei,
nikê de Trôôn: pephatai d' ôristos Achaiôn,
Patroklos, megalê de pothê Danaoisi tetuktai.
I think that you already see, and that you realize,
that a god is letting roll a pain upon the Danaans,
and that victory belongs to the Trojans: the best [aristos] of the Achaeans has been killed,
Patroklos, that is; and a great loss has been inflicted on the Danaans.
Patroklos, however, had not vied overtly with Achilles for the title "best of the Achaeans." Rather, he became the actual surrogate of Achilles, his alter ego. The death of Patroklos is a function of his being the therapôn of Achilles: this word therapôn is a prehistoric Greek borrowing from the Anatolian languages (most likely sometime in the second millennium B.C.), where it had meant "ritual substitute." In death, the role of Patroklos becomes identified with that of Achilles, as Cedric Whitman has eloquently reasoned. The death of Patroklos inside the Iliad foreshadows the death of Achilles outside the Iliad. At the very beginning of his fatal involvement, the Patroklos figure had immediately attracted an epithet otherwise appropriate to the prime antagonists of the Iliad. It is Achilles and Hektor who are appropriately isos Arêï 'equal to Ares' in the Iliad, except for the one time when Patroklos leaves the tent of Achilles and comes out of seclusion:
ekmolen isos Arêï, kakou d' ara hoi pelen archê
He [Patroklos] came out, equal to Ares, and that was the beginning of his doom.
When Achilles recalls the prophecy that the "best [aristos] of the Myrmidons" will die while he is still alive (XVIII 9-11), he is under the spell of a premonition that Patroklos has just been killed. Within the Iliad, however, the "best of the Achaeans" is surely also the "best of the Myrmidons," in that the Myrmidons of Achilles are a subcategory in relation to the Achaeans. By dying, Patroklos gets the titles "best of the Myrmidons" and "best of the Achaeans" because he has taken upon himself not only the armor but also the heroic identity of Achilles. The death of Achilles is postponed beyond the Iliad by the death of Patroklos.
§9. The other isolated instance that seems at first to be out of step with the rest of the Iliad occurs in Book X, the Doloneia. The Achaeans are deliberating about who should accompany Diomedes on a special expedition against the Trojans; both Ajaxes volunteer, as well as Meriones, Antilokhos, Menelaos, and, finally, Odysseus (X 228-232). Agamemnon at this point tells Diomedes to choose the "best" hero out of the group (ariston: X 236) and not to pick someone inferior for reasons of etiquette, not even if the inferior one should be "more kinglike" (basileuteros: X 239). Agamemnon's motive is made clear by the narrative: "he feared for blond Menelaos" (X 240). For the second time now, we see Menelaos being spared from death. Without hesitation, Diomedes then names Odysseus, with whom he is sure to return in safety and who "excels at thinking" (perioide noêsai: X 247). If that were all that there was to it, Odysseus might seem to be eligible for the title "best of the Achaeans." But at this point the words of Odysseus himself break in:
Tudeïdê, mêt' ar me mal' ainee mête ti neikei:
eidosi gar toi tauta met' Argeiois agoreueis
Son of Tydeus! Give me neither too much praise nor too much blame;
you are saying these things in the presence of Argives who know.
It is as if he were saying: "the Achaeans are aware of the tradition, so please do not exaggerate." With the words of Odysseus himself, the epic tradition of the Iliadhas pointedly taken Odysseus out of contention. And the contention is here expressed by neikeô (neikei: X 249), a verb derived from the same noun neîkos that was used to designate the quarrel of Achilles and Odysseus in the first song of Demodokos (neikos: viii 75).
§10. In contrast to the Iliad, it is an overall theme of the Odyssey that Odysseus is indeed aristos Akhaiôn 'best of the Achaeans'. In its elaboration of this theme, as I will try to show, the Odyssey deploys subtle references not only to a Doloneia tradition in particular but also to an Iliadic tradition in general.
§11. In the First Nekuia of Odyssey xi, when Odysseus meets the shade of Achilles, he addresses Achilles as "best of the Achaeans" (phertat' Achaiôn: xi 478). But the Odysseythen has Achilles saying that he would rather be alive and the lowliest of serfs than to be dead and the kingliest of shades (xi 489-491). As Klaus Rüter sees it, Achilles seems ready to trade places with Odysseus, whose safe homecoming will be marked by a painful transitional phase at the very lowest levels of the social order. The words of Achilles in the First Nekuia are ironically conjuring up the glorious days of the Iliad when he had said:
ôleto men moi nostos, atar kleos aphthiton estai
I have lost a safe return home [nostos], but I will have unfailing glory [kleos].
The destiny of the Odyssey is that Odysseus shall have a nostos 'safe return home'. From the retrospective vantage point of the Odyssey, Achilles would trade his kleos for a nostos. It is as if he were now ready to trade an Iliad for an Odyssey. By contrast, at a moment when Odysseus is sure that he will perish in the stormy sea, he wishes that he had died at Troy (v 308-311):
... kai meu kleos êgon Achaioi
... and then the Achaeans would have carried on my kleos.
§12. If Achilles has no nostos in the Iliad, does it follow that Odysseus has no kleos in the Odyssey? How can someone have the kleos of the Achaeans if he calls someone else the "best of the Achaeans"? As in the Doloneia, Odysseus again seems to be taking himself out of contention--this time by giving the title to Achilles, at xi 478. Also at xi 550-551, he calls Ajax the most heroic Achaean "next to Achilles" (met' amumona Pêleiôna: xi 551). But Odysseus can afford to be generous in spirit to the two most heroic Achaeans of the Iliad tradition; the Odyssey will make him the most heroic Achaean in the Odyssey.
§13. In the Second Nekuia of Odyssey xxiv (15-202), the narrative again looks back to an Iliad tradition and beyond. We find here the shades of Achilles, Patroklos, Antilokhos, Ajax, and Agamemnon. Achilles himself concedes that Agamemnon too has left behind a kleos for the future (xxiv 33). Agamemnon in turn says that Achilles will have kleosfor all time (xxiv 93-94); he adds that his own nostos was sinister, that it resulted in an unheroic death (xxiv 95-97). At this point, the retrospective preoccupation switches from Iliad to Odyssey. The shades of Amphimedon and the other suitors arrive in the underworld, and Amphimedon retells the Revenge of Odysseus (xxiv 121-190). The story covers the heroic deeds of Odysseus, what amounts to his kleos, in the second half of the Odyssey. When the retrospective tale is done, the Agamemnon figure speaks again, and his effusive words function as a song of praise not only for Odysseus, to whom they are addressed, but also for Penelope:
olbie Laertao paï, polumêchan' Odusseu,
ê ara sun megalêi aretêi ektêsô akoitin:
hôs agathai phrenes êsan amumoni Pênelopeiêi,
kourêi Ikariou: hôs eu memnêt' Odusêos,
andros kouridiou. tôi hoi kleos ou pot' oleitai
hês aretês, teuxousi d' epichthonioisin aoidên
athanatoi chariessan echephroni Pênelopeiêi,
ouch hôs Tundareou kourê kaka mêsato erga,
kouridion kteinasa posin, stugerê de t' aoidê
esset' ep' anthrôpous, chalepên de te phêmin opassei
thêluterêisi gunaixi, kai hê k' euergos eêisin.
O fortunate son of Laertes, Odysseus of many wiles!
It is truly with great merit [aretê] that you got a wife.
For the mind of blameless Penelope, daughter of Ikarios, was sound.
She kept her lawful husband, Odysseus, well in mind.
Thus the kleos of his aretê shall never perish,
and the immortals shall fashion for humans a song that is pleasing
for sensible Penelope,
unlike the daughter of Tyndareos, who devised evil deeds,
killing her lawful husband; and among humans,
she will be a hateful song
She will make for women an evil reputation,
females that they are--even for the kind of woman who does noble things.
As my translation shows, I find myself interpreting this passage to mean that Penelope is the key not only to the nostos but also to the kleos of Odysseus. I understand kleos at verse 196 as belonging primarily to Odysseus himself and that it is his aretê 'merit' to have won a Penelope (rather than a Clytemnestra). If this interpretation is correct, then we see in the Second Nekuiaa triadic assignment of kleos to Agamemnon, Achilles, and Odysseus. Odysseus gets the best kleos, through his wife. Through Penelope, he has a genuine nostos, while Agamemnon gets a false one and Achilles, none at all.
§14. Such an interpretation is not ad hoc; rather, it takes into account the overall structure of the Odyssey. The Revenge of Odysseus is treated throughout the Odyssey as a genuinely heroic theme, worthy of kleos. And the prime stimulus for revenge is Penelope herself. Already in the First Nekuia, Odysseus is asking his mother in the underworld whatever happened to Penelope: is she steadfast ...
ê êdê min egêmen Achaiôn hos tis aristos
or has whoever is the best [aristos] of the Achaeans already married her?
The Odyssey can afford to let Odysseus put the question in this form, if indeed the narrative is confident of his heroic destiny in the Odyssey. Since his prime heroic act in the Odyssey is the killing of Achaeans who are pursuing his wife, Penelope is truly the key to his kleos. Penelope defines the heroic identity of Odysseus. Significantly, the expression Achaiôn hos tis aristos 'whoever is best [aristos] of the Achaeans' is restricted in the Odyssey to the single question: "who will marry Penelope?" (xvi 76, xviii 289, xix 528; cf. xx 335). The Homeric audience is being conditioned for the aristeiâ of Odysseus.
§15. In particular, there are two passages that accentuate the inevitable outcome, the incontrovertible conclusion, that Odysseus is the "best of the Achaeans." At xv 521, Telemachus is telling the seer Theoklymenos that the suitor Eurymakhos, "by far the best man" (pollon aristos anêr), wants to marry Penelope. At this point in the narrative, a hawk appears, with a dove in its talons. The seer is quick to interpret: the omen is good, for it shows that no family in Ithaca is "more kingly," basileuteron, than that of Odysseus (xv 525-534). The omen has corrected the misuse, the misapplication, of the epithet "by far the best man." There is an even more drastic correction in the case of the obnoxious Antinoos, another prominent suitor. The stage is set when Odysseus, in the guise of a beggar, is asking for alms from Antinoos:
dos, philos: ou men moi dokeeis ho kakistos Achaiôn
emmenai, all' ôristos, epei basilêï eoikas
Give, friend! For you seem to be not the worst of the Achaeans,
but the best [aristos], since you seem like a king.
Noblesse oblige, but Antinoos crudely refuses. Later on in the Odyssey, he is the very first suitor to be shot dead by the arrows of an angry Odysseus (xxii 8-21). At this point, the other suitors are not yet aware that the archer is Odysseus himself; thinking that the shooting was accidental, they rail at Odysseus, exclaiming that he has just killed "the very best" of the Ithacan fighting men (hos meg' aristos / kourôn ein Ithakêi: xxii 29-30). In view of the previous action, the characterization "best" seems ironically misapplied. Antinoos may have looked like a king, but he did not behave like one.
§16. To sum up: unlike Achilles, who won kleos but lost nostos (IX 413), Odysseus is a double winner. He has won both kleos and nostos. Accordingly, in his quest for his own heroic identity, Telemachus is confronted with a double frame of reference in the figure of his father:
noston peusomenos patros philou, ên pou akousô
I am going to find out about the nostos of my father, if I should hear.
patros emou kleos euru meterchomai, ên pou akousô
I am going after the widespread kleos of my father, if I should hear.
§17. Curiously, in all these instances where Odysseus is the "best of the Achaeans," he earns the title not for doing what he did at Troy but for doing what he did within the Odyssey itself. This restriction is all the more remarkable in view of the tradition, displayed prominently within the Odyssey itself, that Odysseus, not Achilles, can take credit for the destruction of Troy; Demodokos himself tells how it all happened in his third performance, a composition about the Trojan Horse (viii 499-520). We too have already heard of it in verse 2 of Book i. Moreover, in the first song of Demodokos, "the kleos of which at that time reached the vast heavens" (viii 74), Odysseus was characterized along with Achilles as "best of the Achaeans" because one of these two heroes was destined to be the destroyer of Troy. In the epic composition of Demodokos, Odysseus is implicitly "best of the Achaeans" because tradition upholds his claim to have destroyed Troy. The poet Demodokos lives up to the challenge of Odysseus that he recite the story of the Trojan Horse kata moiran 'according to destiny' (viii 496). Within the conventions of epic composition, an incident that is untraditional would be huper moiran 'beyond destiny'. For example, it would violate tradition to let Achilles kill Aeneas in Iliad XX, although the immediate situation in the narrative seems to make it inevitable; accordingly, Poseidon intervenes and saves Aeneas, telling him that his death at this point would be "beyond destiny" (huper moiran: XX 336). Demodokos, then, is hewing to tradition in giving Odysseus the credit that is his due for having destroyed Troy. The triumph of the Iliad, however, is that Achilles becomes explicitly the "best of the Achaeans" without having destroyed Troy. Because of the Iliad tradition, it seems that the kleos of Odysseus at Troy was preempted by the kleos of Achilles. Such a triumph, however, could have been achieved only through sustained artistic reaction to the predilections of audiences who listened generation after generation to the kleos of the Achaeans.
§18. In this connection, it seems appropriate to reaffirm my general opinion about the Iliad and the Odyssey: the structural unity of such epics results, I think, not so much from the creative genius of whoever achieved a fixed composition but from the lengthy evolution of myriad previous compositions, era to era, into a final composition. In other words, I think that the kleos of Achilles and the kleos of Odysseus, through generations of both shifting and abiding preferences in performer-audience interaction, have culminated in our Iliad and Odyssey. These epics are Panhellenic in the dimension of time as well as space. If, then, our Iliad and Odyssey are parallel products of parallel evolution, it becomes easier to imagine how the extraordinarily renowned kleos of Achilles could preempt the kleos of Odysseus at Troy. The audience will have to hear about the destruction of Troy by Odysseus not in the Iliad but in the Odyssey. This feat of Odysseus at Troy, which entitles him to be ranked with Achilles as "best of the Achaeans" in the first song of Demodokos, has been sidetracked in the Iliad--but not entirely.
§1n2. Cf. also IX 110, where Agamemnon is said to have dishonored andra pheriston 'the best [pheristos] man'.
§2n1. The word for "best" here is phertatos, synonymous with aristos at lines 761 and 768. Although the first form has a separate heritage of social connotations (cf. Palmer 1955.11-12), it is clearly a synonym of the second form in the diction of Homeric poetry. Achilles (and he only) is twice in the Iliad addressed as phertat' Achaiôn 'best [phertatos] of the Achaeans' (XVI 21, XIX 216).
§2n2. My general thinking on the aristeiâ of Achilles has been much stimulated by the perceptive observations of Segal 1971b.
§3n1. Hektor's challenge was formulated for him by the seer Helenos (VII 47-53), who himself thinks that Diomedes is kartiston Achaiôn 'best [kartistos] of the Achaeans' (VI 98).
§3n2. At Ch.1§11n4, I approximated this complex word with the notion of "grand heroic moments."
§3n3. For further discussion of this passage: Ch.20§22.
§3n4. For other instances of Homeric irony where a hero's speech is partially validated but also partially invalidated by the events of the traditional narrative, see XVI 241-248 as discussed at Ch.17§4 (the valid and nonvalid aspects are made explicit at XVI 249-252). See also XX 179-183, as discussed at Ch.15§3.
§3n5. When the moment of his death at the hands of Achilles approaches, Hektor expresses his wish to die eükleiôs 'with good kleos' (XXII 110) and not akleiôs 'with no kleos' (XXII 304). Cf. Ch.10§13n2.
§3n6. On the semantics of aphthito- 'unfailing' as a mark of immortality, see Ch.10§§3,5-19.
§4n1. As Menelaos begins to speak, he neikei oneidizôn 'made neîkos, making oneidos' (VII 95). Both neîkos and oneidos mean `blame, reproach' and indicate the language of blame poetry; the whole subject will be discussed at length in Ch.12.
§4n2. The potential reproach that is in store for the Achaeans is called lôbê by Menelaos (VII 97). Again, lôbê means `blame, reproach' and indicates the language of blame poetry: Ch.14§§5(n1),6.
§4n3. On the antithesis between the kleos of epic poetry and the shame of blame poetry: Ch.14§10.
§5n1. VII 161: hôs neikess' 'thus he made neîkos [reproach]'.
§5n2. It is precisely this kind of boasting that a hero seeks to avoid hearing from his opponent, in order to protect his epic prestige. Thus when Glaukos is wounded by the arrow of Teukros, an archer on the Achaean side (XII 387-389), the Trojan ally tries to hide "lest one of the Achaeans see him wounded and boast [verb eukhetaomai] with words [epos plural]" (XII 390-391). The use of epos [plural] is of special interest here: this word can refer not only to the words of a figure in epic but also to the poetic form of the given words (see Ch.15§7 and n1).
§5n3. On the killing of Achilles by Paris: Ch.4§4.
§5n4. Diomedes himself admits defeat at XI 317-319 (on which see Ch.5§25). See also Whitman 1958.134.
§5n5. Even the diction of Homeric poetry affirms that the wounding of a hero thwarts his aristeiâ. For example, when Paris wounded Makhaon, he pausen aristeuonta 'stopped him from performing his aristeiâ' (XI 506).
§6n1. Cf. Little Iliad/Proclus p. 106.20-23 Allen. For a review of the details, see Kullmann 1960.79-85.
§6n2. The excellence of Ajax in both might and artifice is thus implicitly bested by the excellence of Achilles in might. It will also be bested by the excellence of Odysseus in artifice (n1).
§6n3. The words of Ajax himself set the significance of his eventual withdrawal. Those who flee, he says, get no kleos (XV 564). All the same, the heroic status of Ajax as second best after Achilles is reaffirmed at XVII 279-280.
§6n4. It is said more than once in Book XI that by now all the heroes who are aristoi 'best' have been incapacitated: lines 658-659, 825-826 (cf. also XVI 23-24). Achilles himself observes in particular that Diomedes and Agamemnon have been put out of commission (XVI 74-77). His words contrast the inability of Diomedes with the ability of Patroklos "to ward off the devastation" at the Battle of the Ships (loigon amunai/amunôn at XVI 75/80). See Ch.5§12 and n1.
§7n1. I do not count the sporadic instances of aristos in the plural, as at V 541 (Krethon and Orsilokhos are called Danaôn andras aristous 'men who are best [aristoi] among the Danaans').
§8n1. See Ch.17§4.
§8n2. See Van Brock 1959; cf. Householder/Nagy 1972.774-776 and Lowenstam 1975.
§8n3. Whitman 1958.136-137, 200-202. Note that Achilles is acknowledged as aristos 'best' by Glaukos at XVII 164-165 on the basis of the feats performed by Patroklos, who is called the therapôn of Achilles in this very context.
§8n4. See Pestalozzi 1945.
§8n5. For a listing of attestations: Ch.17§5.
§8n6. Cf. Nagy 1974.230-231; further discussion at Ch.17§5. Other than Hektor and Achilles/Patroklos, the only other Iliadic figure who is called îsos Arêi 'equal to Ares' is the hero Leonteus (XII 130). The evidence of Homeric diction indicates that the epic traditions about Leonteus were parallel to those about Patroklos, in that both figures are connected with the theme that the hero in death is a therapôn of Ares: Ch.17§5n8.
§8n7. For more on the wearing of Achilles' armor by Patroklos: Ch.9§33n2.
§9n1. On the semantics of noun noos 'thinking' and verb noeô 'think' in Homeric poetry: Frame 1978. On the use of noeô to express the notion of taking the initiative: Ch.3§13n.
§9n2. The verbs aineô 'praise' and neikeô 'blame' indicate the poetry of praise and blame: Ch.12§3.
§9n3. It is an established theme of praise and blame poetry that the audience is well aware of the traditions with which it is presented: Ch.12§§18-19.
§9n4. The figure of Diomedes himself is here directly pertinent to the epic reputation of Odysseus, since there are numerous epic traditions featuring these two heroes on joint expeditions (for a list: Fenik 1964.12-13). Significantly, different epic traditions give more or less credit to one or the other figure. In the Little Iliad, for example, it is Diomedes and not Odysseus who brings back Philoktetes (Proclus p.106.24-25 Allen); see Fenik, p. 13n2 and Severyns 1938.365-369.
§9n5. Besides meaning `quarrel, fight, contention', the word neîkos also designates the poetry of blame: Ch.12§3.
§10n1. Cf. Muellner 1976.96n43.
§11n1. Rüter 1969.252-253.
§11n2. On the semantics of nostos in Homeric poetry: Frame 1978. On nostos as not only `homecoming' but also `song about a homecoming': Ch.6§6n2.
§13n1. In Ch.14§5n1 and n3, I propose that this passage reflects a formal tradition of praise poetry centering on the theme of Penelope, as distinguished by the contrasting blame poetry about Clytemnestra.
§13n2. The adjective chariessan that describes aoidê 'song' here at line 198 is derived from kharis, a noun that conveys simultaneously the social aspect of reciprocity as well as the personal aspect of pleasure. Cf chariessan amoibên 'compensation that has kharis' at iii 58; on the reciprocity between poet and patron, see Ch.12§21n3. In the Homeric Hymn to Hestia (Hymn 24), the poet prays that his aoidê 'song' have kharis (line 5); by implication, the pleasure that it gives is linked with the reward he will receive. See further at Ch.5§39.
§13n3. These themes correspond to the actual name Klutaimêstrê, a form indicating that the wife of Agamemnon is "famed" (Klutai-, from the same root *kleu- as in kleos) on account of what she "devised" (-mêstrê, from verb mêdomai). The element -mêstrê, from mêdomai 'devise', corresponds to the theme of kaka mêsato erga 'she devised [mêdomai] evil deeds' at line 199. As for the element Klutai- `famed', it corresponds to the theme of stugerê ... aoidê 'hateful song' at line 200. This hateful song will be not simply about the wife of Agamemnon. Rather, the song is being presented as the very essence of Klutaimêstrê. (On the formal variant Klutai-mnêstrêas in the latinized Clytemnestra, see Nagy 1974.260; for more on the semantics of mêdomai, see Nagy, pp. 258-261.)
§13n4. To my knowledge, instances of epi + accusative in the sense of "among" are restricted in Homeric diction to anthrôpous 'humans' as the object of the preposition. This syntactical idiosyncrasy can be correlated with an interesting thematic association: the expression ep' anthrôpous 'among humans' is conventionally linked with kleos (X 213, i 299, xix 334, xxiv 94) and its derivatives (XXIV 202, xiv 403). It is also linked with aoidê 'song' at xxiv 201. Because of this parallelism between kleos and aoidê, and because kleos designates the glory conferred by poetry (Ch.1§2), I infer that ep' anthrôpous 'among humans' in these contexts indicates an audience in general listening to poetry in general. Calvert Watkins suggests to me that the original force of epi in this collocation may indeed be directional.
§13n5. To continue with the inference that the collocation of aoidê 'song' at line 200 with ep' anthrôpous 'among humans' at line 201 implies a sort of universal audience listening to the song about Clytemnestra: what men will hearabout Klutai-mêstrê is of course not the positive kleos of praise poetry (on which see Ch.12§3). Rather, it is blame poetry (see Ch.14§5n1). Ironically, when he had set out for Troy, Agamemnon had left behind an aoidos 'singer, poet' to guard Clytemnestra (iii 267-268). When Aigisthos persuaded her to betray Agamemnon by way of adultery, he took the aoidos to a deserted island (iii 270-271). In this way, the aoidos could not have seen the adultery, but the shameful behavior is nevertheless heard by the audience, which listens to the hateful aoidê 'song' about Clytemnestra. We see here a striking Homeric attestation of two traditional themes concerning the generic poet. One, he does not need to be an eyewitness and thus actually to see deeds in order to tell about them, since he can hear about them from the Muses (Ch.1§3). Two, he can regulate social behavior with his power to blame evil deeds (cf. Ch.14§12n4, Ch.15§8n8, Ch.16§10n6). On iii 267-268, see also Svenbro 1976.31 and n88.
§13n6. Compare the maxim told by Penelope to the disguised Odysseus at xix 329-334 (on which see further at Ch.14§6), where the good host gets the kleos of praise while the bad host gets the ridicule of blame. In being hospitable to the would-be beggar, Penelope is striving to match the former hospitality of Odysseus himself, who is described as the ultimate good host (xix 309-316). By implication, the kleos of being a good host belongs primarily to Odysseus. But Penelope herself is part of this kleos: at xix 325-328, she says that her own excellence will be recognized only if she is a good host to the would-be beggar. So also at xxiv 197-198: the aoidê 'song' about her is part of the overall kleos of Odysseus. A similar interpretation is possible at xix 107-114. See now Foreword §16n17.
§15n1. Cf. Whitman 1958.341n13 on the traditional device of misstating for the purpose of soliciting an omen to correct the misstatement.
§15n2. There is more irony when the psûkhai of the suitors reach Hades. Agamemnon wonders whether they had all been "chosen" as the aristoi 'best men' in a community (xxiv 107-108).
§17n1. More on this composition at Ch.6§9.
§17n2. For a stimulating discussion, see Pestalozzi 1945.40. On destiny and epic plot, see Kullmann 1956; cf. also Fränkel 1962.62-64. For a recent synthesis, I cite Mathews 1976. My translation of moîra as `destiny' in the contexts of XX 336 and viii 496 does not reveal the full semantic range of the word, which will be discussed further at Ch.7§21. The context of viii 496 is pertinent to that discussion, in that Odysseus rewards Demodokos for his songs by giving him a choice cut of meat (viii 474-483). The poet receives this award at a feast, where the portions of food are actually designated as moîrai (viii 470). To repeat, Odysseus challenges Demodokos to recite the story of the Trojan Horse kata moiran 'according to moîra' (viii 496).
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Highland County supporters of presidential candidate Donald Trump are excited about his visit to the region on Thursday and are making plans to attend, according to the chair of the local Republican Party.
Paulette Donley said Tuesday many local Trump supporters have been registering online for tickets to the event, which was announced Monday. Tickets were made available to the public Monday evening via Trump’s website. He will speak at a noon rally Thursday at the Roberts Centre near Wilmington, where gates will open at 9 a.m.
Donley said local Republicans had “a hint” over the weekend that a Trump appearance in the area might be a possibility, but she had the rumors confirmed around 6 p.m. or so Monday.
“There are several who are anxious to go,” said Donley. “They’ve been waiting for this. I expect quite a turnout.”
The leader of the Clinton County GOP echoed Donley’s sentiments.
“We’re absolutely thrilled that Mr. Trump is coming to Clinton County,” said Clinton County GOP Chairman Tim Inwood. “This may be Clinton County, but as he showed in the primary, it’s Trump country, as he handily carried the county.” Trump also won Highland County during the Republican primary earlier this year.
Staff at the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office met Tuesday morning with Secret Service. The local deputies will assist Secret Service in securing the Roberts Centre, said Clinton County Sheriff Ralph Fizer Jr., “to make sure everyone has a pleasant rally with hopefully no incidents.”
Fizer noted this is not the first time a national candidate has held a public rally at the Roberts Centre, mentioning vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and Dick Cheney when he was a sitting vice president. In addition, Ohio Gov. John Kasich gave his annual State of the State address at the Roberts Centre in early 2015.
While helping provide security at a presidential campaign rally is a big responsibility, the sheriff also can appreciate the event as an event, saying it is “neat” to have Trump visit Clinton County.
Wilmington Chief of Police Duane Weyand said Tuesday that his department will be engaged in security, too.
Clinton County Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Debbie Stamper said it’s difficult to put a dollar figure on the local economic impact of such an event.
“While the majority of attendees will drive in for the day and return home, we are keenly aware of the opportunity it presents to showcase the Roberts Centre,” Stamper said. “You never know how much future business may be cultivated. And there will, of course, be spending at our local eateries and gas stations, another positive takeaway.”
In the national spotlight
“This is an exciting opportunity for the people of Wilmington and southwest Ohio to participate in the political process and hear first-hand from a presidential candidate,” said Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, a Republican of Clarksville in Clinton County.
“Ohioans probably know better than anybody the importance of the presidential election and understand just how vital Ohio is to determining the next president. Every person in Ohio holds a great deal of influence over the future direction of our country, which is a privilege that not every state can claim,” said Rosenberger.
He added, “I encourage men and women in Wilmington to attend the rally and show the entire nation the kind of spirit and enthusiasm that our city shares.”
Clinton County Commissioner Mike Curry said it’s always a good thing when a national candidate visits the community and “sees what we’re about.”
“It’s a good opportunity for our community to be in the spotlight again,” said Curry.
He plans to be at the mid-day Thursday event. Curry declined to say how he feels about Trump as a presidential candidate.
Clinton County Commissioner Patrick Haley said anytime a presidential candidate comes to Clinton County, it puts a spotlight on the local community, “which I think is a good thing for a variety of reasons.”
He said he thinks Trump has run an effective anti-status quo campaign.
“Many people in America feel there is a time for change, back to a more conservative philosophy, and that has broad appeal to the electorate,” said Haley. He said he is going to attend the rally where he anticipates a massive turnout from the region.
Clinton County Commissioner Kerry Steed has registered for event tickets. He said Trump is a businessman who knows how to turn failure into success – something that Clinton Countians have had to address after devastating job losses in 2008-09.
Trump “exhibits a lot of qualities we need for success in this country,” added Steed.
The abilities to build businesses and serve customers and take the business risk everyday provide motivation to improve, work hard and look toward the future, he said.
First-year Wilmington Mayor John Stanforth said he has been invited to be on the stage at the rally. “That was a shock,” he said.
“Boy, am I glad he’s coming to Clinton County,” said Stanforth, a Republican. “He is our presidential candidate,” the mayor said, wondering aloud about members of political parties who do not get behind the party candidate after the primary elections.
Two weeks in the making
Inwood told the News Journal that the local Republican organization first heard about a possible local visit by Trump about two weeks ago.
“He’s coming to the national American Legion convention in Cincinnati and we were given a heads up that the campaign was looking for another venue in Southwest Ohio,” Inwood said. “Clinton County was very appealing to them and we got confirmation today (Monday) that he’s coming here.”
Inwood said he hasn’t been told what Trump may be speaking about, but he pointed out that “all his speeches are newsworthy.”
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The city of Harker Heights and the Harker Heights Veterans’ Council will pay tribute to all individuals, past and present, who served or are serving in the armed forces, at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Veterans Monument, 300 Miller’s Crossing. Guest speaker will be Brig. Gen. Douglas Gabram, deputy commanding general, 1st Cavalry Division, with remarks by Mayor Mike Aycock and the traditional wreath laying to honor those who gave their lives. In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved into the Recreation Center.
For more information, call 254-953-5465.
The Belton Senior Activity Center, 842 S. Mitchell St., is having Movie Day at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. The featured movie will be “New in Town.” This activity is open to all area seniors and their guests. Free popcorn and drinks will be provided.
For more information, call the Belton Senior Activity Center at 254-939-1170 or the Activities Director at 254-718-1859.
Cold weather drive
The Nolanville Police Department’s Chaplains Program is collecting cold weather items, such as socks, gloves and hats, along with nonperishable foods through Nov. 26. Donations can be dropped off to the police department, 100 North Main St.
For more information, call Chief Gary Kent at 254-698-6334.
The Belton Senior Activity Center will have a Celebration of Veterans at 8:30 a.m. today at the Belton Senior Activity Center, 842 S. Mitchell St. The speaker will be retired chaplain Dr. Al Lowe. The Junior ROTC from Belton High School will post the colors and the Belton High School Madrigal singers will provide music for the celebration. This event is open to the public and all area veterans and their families are invited. For more information, call the Belton Senior Activity Center at 254-939-1170 or the activities director at 254-718-1859.
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The Friends of the Stewart C, Meyer Library, 400 Indian Trail, will have its semi-annual book sale 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Books, audio books, VHS tapes and DVDs will be for sale. All proceeds support library programs. For more information call 254-953-5491. | <urn:uuid:6a628a37-1e1f-4106-b6ac-b022ca154d0c> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://kdhnews.com/harker_heights_herald/community/honoring-veterans/article_ccd8f4fc-483b-11e3-a4e3-0019bb30f31a.html | 2017-08-19T05:26:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105304.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170819051034-20170819071034-00006.warc.gz | en | 0.909874 | 504 |
Mycroft felt a little bad as he hadn't heard him at the door.
He might have been there for quite awhile seeing as My had been in his study in his city flat.
He wandered over and opened it and got the meanest look for such a lack of respect.
"Terribly sorry Montmorency."
He got no response and he shut the door behind him and he simply sauntered past Holmes.
Holmes watched him awhile and then returned to the bedroom to fetch his laptop and then sat in his usual seat in the living room.
Montmorency occasionally simply turned up and stayed awhile before disappearing again, but Mycroft always thought of him as his.
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In today's NBA, a dollar doesn't buy what it used to.
That's not a comment on any kind of inflationary trend in the league's economy. Rather, it's a signal that the amount of money teams spend nowadays doesn't matter nearly as much as the people who are doing the spending.
Essentially, a brainier class of NBA executive has arisen over the past few seasons. General managers like Sam Hinkie of the Philadelphia 76ers, Ryan McDonough of the Phoenix Suns and Neil Olshey of the Portland Trail Blazers are proving that spending smart is more important than buying big.
As a result, teams in major markets who've never had to think critically about every penny are struggling to live up to expectations, while leaner, sharper franchises are rebuilding at light speed.
Trouble at the Top
The stunning failure of the Brooklyn Nets has been one of the most fascinating early-season storylines, thanks largely to the expectations that came along with such a cosmically bloated payroll. Brooklyn has more than $102 million devoted to player salaries this season, which doesn't even count the tax payment of at least $80 million it will have to make at the end of the year.
General manager Billy King has always operated under Prokhorov's "Win now" mandate, and that edict has led the Nets to where they are today. Lacking any flexibility, Brooklyn is stuck paying a collection of aged and infirm veterans as though they were still stars.
Of the Nets' many massive contracts, only Brook Lopez's deal, which pays him around $47 million over the next three seasons, could be categorized as reasonable.
The New York Knicks aren't too far behind, boasting the NBA's second-highest payroll while struggling to the Eastern Conference's second-worst record. If anything, the Knicks are far worse off than the Nets because of James Dolan, the mercurial owner who doesn't seem to understand how to employ people who'll spend his money intelligently.
The Knicks' mismanagement of assets also extends to their draft picks, which means that even if they wind up "earning" a high lottery selection this season, the pick won't belong to them. They gave up their 2014 first-rounder in the deal to acquire Carmelo Anthony more than two years ago.
New York is hitching its hopes to Anthony re-signing with the team when he exercises his early-termination option this summer. Of course, if 'Melo sticks around on a long-term deal, the Knicks might even be worse off than if he had walked away for nothing.
As you can see, things are looking pretty grim for the NBA's two most free-spending organizations. They've shelled out top dollar but have wound up at the bottom of the standings.
Smart Mainstays and Fast Risers
On the opposite end of the spectrum, there are a couple of wildly successful teams that have parlayed smart spending into prime playoff positions.
The historically shrewd San Antonio Spurs are one of those teams, but it's not particularly revelatory to mention them among the NBA's sharpest squads. According to ShamSports.com, no fewer than 19 teams have spent more than the Spurs on this year's rosters, but just two—the Indiana Pacers and the Blazers—have higher winning percentages.
Portland, in particular, is a terrific example of how fresh thinking can help get the most out of every cent.
Olshey told Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports:
It's so important that this team performs well – and does it with the right kind of guys. It's not just winning, but how we win, how we lose, how guys play, how guys treat the fans.
And you know, that's what accelerated it for me. It would be great to come in with a three-to-five-year plan, slowly rebuild, but about five minutes after I got here, I realized: We're going to have to pick the pace up on this.
Despite a sense of urgency and an owner with some of the deepest pockets in the league (Paul Allen's net worth is approximately $15.8 billion, according to Forbes), Olshey spent wisely in signing Dorell Wright and Mo Williams to below-market deals. He also swung a couple of slick moves to get Thomas Robinson and Robin Lopez, bolstering the team's previously nonexistent frontcourt depth.
Basically, he did the little things. Now, Portland is enjoying big success, despite the league's No. 19 payroll.
There are sharp teams outperforming expectations everywhere. The Atlanta Hawks are looking like the third-best team in the East, despite spending more than just three other NBA clubs.
Even the teams many suspected would lose games on purpose this year are putting together surprising starts.
The Suns are above .500 because McDonough and head coach Jeff Hornacek have embraced analytics, given young players the freedom to develop and generally caught the rest of the NBA sleeping. In fact, Phoenix's rebuilding efforts might be hampered by the team's sudden and surprising success.
All McDonough cares about is building a long-term foundation, though. So seeing as the Suns are way ahead of schedule, he's probably OK with some sooner-than-expected, draft-damaging wins.
Per Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe:
"Walking in there, the main thing I wanted to do is upgrade the talent," said McDonough, who moved or released five of the team’s top nine scorers from last season. "And do it in a fashion that was sustainable for the long term. I didn’t want to try to take any shortcuts or try any quick fixes."
To slightly lesser extents, the Sixers, Orlando Magic and even the Charlotte Bobcats are enjoying surprising success while working with limited resources. All three of those teams have forward-thinking coaches and executive staffs that have either fully embraced analytics or are at least warming up to the idea.
In short, there's a smarter way to build winners in the NBA. And some of the league's smaller markets have wised up faster than the big boys.
This is the part where we mention that the 2013-14 campaign is only a quarter of the way finished. As such, it's only right to point out that many of the early-season trends we've seen so far are likely to level off—or even reverse entirely.
Seeing as smart cookies like Hinkie and McDonough are big on analytics, they'd probably be the first to mention that regression to the mean is coming.
The Nets and Knicks can't possibly be this bad all season. And sooner or later, mounting losses could sap some of the good vibes from the Sixers, Magic and Suns.
But the Blazers look legit, and nobody should even have to mention that the low-payroll Spurs aren't going anywhere.
The league is changing, and teams are finding out the hard way that they can't just buy their way to the top anymore. Brains matter more than big bucks.
As long as the smart teams continue to get more for their money, and the lumbering, outdated big-market behemoths still blow cash like it's going out of style, the gap between the haves and have-nots is only going to get narrower.
The NBA won't be totally upside down all year, but the trends we've seen so far indicate that it has reached some kind of tipping point.
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Milwaukee native Dan Harmon says, 'I'm back, I'm back' on 'Community'
Milwaukee native Dan Harmon says he is back producing "Community," the NBC show he created and was fired from last year.
He tweeted the news in response to a followers question, according to TheWrap.com.
"Yes yes yes!," Harmon tweeted. "I'm back I'm back I'm back. You can thank @joelmchale."
The reference is to the show's leading actor Joel McHale. "Community" also stars Marquette University alum Danny Pudi.
According to the site, however, no deals have been signed. Harmon was let go amid low ratings and a public feud with co-star Chevy Chase. Despite continued low ratings, the show was picked up for a fifth season earlier this month.
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When you think of romance and California, no doubt the gorgeous vineyards of Napa and Sonoma valleys come to mind. Not to mention wine tends to evoke a sense of passion. From the eroticism of ancient Greek gods to a dinner picnic in the park under the stars, wine has always been synonymous with romance.
With its rolling hills and vineyards set against a stunning mountainous backdrop, California’s wine country offers couples a taste of intimacy. However, planning a trip to Napa or Sonoma can be stressful.
There are so many wineries and wine tastings that it can be overwhelming to research destinations — much less book and pay a driver for the day. Plus, embarking on wine tours in large groups can feel uninspired, generic, and disappointing.
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Not everyone likes to take highly popular tours when they visit a new place. You know the kind; where you run from one attraction to the next with nary a moment to breathe — much less have a meaningful experience.
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Couples looking to ignite the passion in their relationships can embark on the Wine Lover’s Tour, a small group outing that’s more intimate than others they may have experienced. This tour pampers couples with VIP treatment, plenty of room, and a great sound system. Perfect for wine connoisseurs and neophytes alike, all that’s required is an eager palate.
Guests visit Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley, or both — depending on the time of year and the featured wineries. Your wine range will be expanded by visiting not only grand wineries but also smaller, boutique wineries, many of which are off the beaten path away from the larger tours. Your guide will customize the trip for you — selecting the best sites on the day of your trip.
Tours include far more than just tasting, as guests learn about the winemaking process firsthand. While visiting the first two wineries of your excursion, you’ll have the opportunity to tour a wine cellar, cave, or barrel room — and even get a chance for a barrel tasting. Then, enjoy a picnic lunch at a winery before you move on to two more wineries in the afternoon.
“Most of the experiences are more than just wine tasting. It is learning about wine and having conversations with winemakers. It’s about learning the stories of the wine,” Gary said. “So it’s a more immersive Napa and Sonoma Valley experience than the typical wine tour. People will come away having learned something and having a shared experience about wine.”
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Extranomical Tours provides a diverse range of tours for exploring San Francisco and the surrounding areas — from wine tours to bike trips to Yosemite and more. The company is always adding new tours to look out for.
“We’ll be launching new, more immersive specialty tours. These are tours of Lighthouses of the Bay Area or the Missions of Northern California,” Gary said. “They’ll be far more experiential and not just see places but get under the skin of the culture.”
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This year, Rural Revival will again have a display table at Schmeckfest. This year, the display will be in the Heritage Hall Museum building instead of Sterling Hall as in years past. All are encouraged to visit the display to learn more about Rural Revival. Local producers will also have information at the table. The theme of this year’s display is Beekeeping, and there will be an informative video playing during the festival.
South Dakota’s agriculture secretary says new rules covering the production, testing and labeling of raw milk sold in the state will take effect Dec. 11. The Agriculture Department had been trying to pass the rules since last spring and has held three hearings on the issue. The Legislature’s Rules Review Committee approved the changes earlier this month.
BROOKINGS, SD – SDSU Extension regional centers in Sioux Falls and Watertown will host soil health educational forums next month. The SD’s Soil Health Challenge: Don’t Get Left in The Dust events will feature information on soil organic matter, weeds, cover crops and wet soils. Each will also feature a panel of farmers who will share some tips on what has, and what has not, worked on their farms.
A reader’s theatre production of the play Look Who’s Knockin’ by Doug Nopar will be presented at the Freeman Community Center on Tuesday, April 10 at 7:30pm. The play will be presented by Phyllis Schrag and Jim Graber in the roles of Nettie and Gerald, a retiring farm couple trying to decide the future of their farm. The play raises questions of land ethics and the moral dilemma posed by wanting to get top dollar for selling one’s land while desiring to help the next generation of farmers get started farming.
Rural Revival is hosting an informational program on “Establishing New Farms: Passing Land on to the Next Generation of Farmers,” at the Salem Mennonite (South) Church, 28103 443rd Avenue, Freeman, on Sunday evening, May 15, at 7:00 p.m. The program will feature a panel discussion of representatives from Dakota Rural Action, Brookings, S. D., and Center for Rural Affairs, Lyons, Neb. Each of these organizations facilitates the generational transfer of land from established to incoming farmers throughout the Midwest, with specific “farm beginning” programs.
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It's shaping up to be a busy day for President-elect Joe Biden. He's already working on a campaign promise to contain the coronavirus pandemic, and he's tapping a local doctor to join his team.
Biden said throughout the campaign that the coronavirus would be his top priority and that's evident with Monday's announcement. Biden is not wasting any time preparing for the White House.
"Our work begins with getting COVID under control," Biden said while addressing the nation after his win on Saturday. "That plan will be built on bedrock science. It will be constructed out of compassion, empathy and concern."
On Monday, Biden introduced his coronavirus task force. Eyewitness News confirms a doctor from the University of Pennsylvania is among a group of leading health professionals on the list.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn.
"It is a great honor to serve for the President and Vice President-elect to address this pandemic and get the country moving again," Emanuel said of the appointment.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and former FDA Commissioner David Kessler will lead the group.
"Joe Biden is going to make good on his promises on the campaign trail," Symone Sanders, Senior Advisor to President-Elect Joe Biden, said.
CBS News has learned Biden is expected to unveil a series of executive orders on his first day in office. They include rescinding President Donald Trump's travel ban, reinstating the DACA program and re-joining the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement.
"This is what the American people voted for, this is what they want to see," Kate Bedingfield, Biden deputy campaign manager and communications director, said.
Trump has yet to concede the election while his campaign pursues legal challenges in several battleground states. Many elected Republicans are supporting his fight.
"Do not concede Mr. President, fight hard." South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said.
"Seventy million Americans voted for Donald Trump, and they and the president deserve to have this process play out," Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey said.
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Biden is ahead by about 45,000 votes in Pennsylvania and 10,000 votes in Georgia.
Senior White House officials tell CBS News the president will concede if the final numbers reflect a Biden win, and all legal options are exhausted.
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Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch trial LIVE: ‘Gangland court case of the decade’ begins
Gerry Hutch, 59, will stand trial over the killing of Kinahan associate David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin
Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch pleaded not guilty to the murder of Kinahan associate David Byrne as his trial got under way on Tuesday.
Mr Hutch, 59, is standing trial for the killing – in what is expected to be the gangland court case of the decade.
He was arraigned at the start of proceedings shortly after 11am and formally entered a not guilty plea, signalling the start of his trial which is expected to last up to 12 weeks.
The case will hear details of how Byrne, 34, was shot dead at a boxing weigh-in at the North Dublin hotel on February 5, 2016. The incident is alleged to have been an attempt by the Hutch gang to murder top target Daniel Kinahan, 45.
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Prosecuting Counsel Sean Gillane SC has just stated that the State is alleging that the attack at the Regency Hotel was carried out by a group of people “of which Mr Hutch was one.”
It is also alleged that Jonathan Dowdall met with Gerry Hutch in a park in Whitehall Dublin, and discussed the publication of a photo of the gunmen dressed as gardai going into the Regency Hotel.
And during that conversation it is alleged that Gerry Hutch said that “they had carried out a murder and that he had been one of the team that shot David Byrne in the Regency.”
There will be tight Garda security at the court for the trial, which may last into the new year. If convicted, Hutch faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. | <urn:uuid:85c9398a-2470-44cf-a54f-554f8bf018f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://watchers.ie/2022/10/18/the-trial-of-the-decade-begins-sean-gillane-outlines-the-case-against-the-monk-for-the-state/ | 2022-12-02T03:51:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710890.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202014312-20221202044312-00050.warc.gz | en | 0.977497 | 371 |
I’ve always harbored a secret dream of seeing SuperNanny Jo Frost cast on Dancing With the Stars, but never moreso than during this week’s blowout battle between Maksim Chmerkovskiy and our maddening panel of judges. The thing is, though, I’m not sure who was more in need of some stern British discipline.
Oh sure, Maks should’ve been sent directly to the Naughty Step — without passing go, and without collecting $200 — for freaking out over a not-unwarranted negative critique and suggesting Len Goodman was too old for primetime, but there was a legitimate point behind his temper tantrum: Some dancers get big gold stars from Carrie Ann, Len, and Bruno just for putting in the effort, while others get critiqued right down to their heel leads.
It’s a fair point, as is the fact that if you’re partnered with, say, Karina or Tony, you’re generally going to get far less effusive feedback than if you’re dancing with, say, Cheryl or Derek. But that’s the way the mirrorball refracts, as they say.
Let’s review how Broadway Week (aka the first week after Carson’s ouster) played out:
Dance of the Night: J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff (Quickstep)
Did we need the whole “he’s perusing the newspaper” and “she’s a famous songbird” setup? Probably as much as our contestants need Brooke Burke’s probing cue-card readings right before they get their scores. But why complain (or even consider a ‘9’ paddle, Len) when the duo’s lightning-fast footwork and undeniable exuberance (complete with J.R.’s freshly patented tongue wag) provided the telecast’s most joyous segment? Bruno, take it away…TEN!
Runner-Up: David Arquette and Kym Johnson (Quickstep)
If I had to use alliteration to describe David and Kym’s routine (set to Grease’s “We Go Together”), I’d choose fun, flirty, and flawed. But in a season where the overall quality of dance has been slightly below par, it’s contestants like David — who doesn’t have to remember to act like he’s having fun, because he actually is having fun — that ensure DWTS maintains its status as appointment television. Plus, dude seriously needs to adopt the pompadour as his signature hairstyle. I’m not even kidding.
Will Go Home: Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer (Tango)
Yes, Chaz is still getting the “everyone has their own journey on this show” critiques (um, thanks, Carrie Ann?) but at least everybody’s stopped pretending that Cher’s son is (to borrow a Randy Jackson-ism) in it to win it. Bruno said it best that Chaz’s “Phantom of the Opera” tango, complete with too-early-for-Halloween Phantom Mask, was akin to watching a “cute little penguin” try to play a menacing bird of prey. And at this point in the DWTS season, Lacey is bringing 100% of the “Dancing,” 90% of the “With,” and 95% of the “Stars.” Chaz is only responsible for the “The,” and alas, that’s not enough.
Should Go Home: Nancy Grace and Tristan MacManus (Fox Trot)
Okay, so maybe Casey Anthony’s Enemy No. 1 outdanced Chaz and Hope this week (though her leaderboard position over David and Rob is Rated JP…for Judges, Please). But honestly, I don’t want to have to endure another week of this woman bitching and moaning about being displeased with Tristan’s jaunty choreography. And more importantly, I don’t want Tristan to have to endure another week of this woman bitching and moaning about being displeased with his jaunty choreography. (Choreography that, I might add, Nancy delivered competently, but without any joy.) I’d suggest Nancy study Carson’s old rehearsal montages for tips on humility, charm, and self-deprecating humor, but I’m guessing she’d probably just use them to point out flaws in Anna’s routines.
Biggest Music and Fashion Predicament: Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy (Rhumba)
Okay, so Maks flew off the handle this week, but I’d have been in a cranky mood too if I’d been forced to dance a rhumba to Rent‘s “Seasons of Love.” I mean, what next, a Viennese Waltz to House of Pain’s “Jump Around”? While the music was incongruous, though, I thought that Hope’s attitude was more open during rehearsals, and it was evident in her improved hairography. I just wish she’d worn some proper dancing shoes instead of clomping around in those heavy-duty snowboots.
Was That Really Worthy of the ’10’ Paddle?: Ricki Lake and Derek Hough (Quickstep)
You knew Ricki was going to deliver a solid performance when she got the patented “redemption edit” in rehearsals. But while the couple’s “Luck Be a Lady” routine was beautifully choreographed, I thought it lacked just a little of the luster of their Psycho tango, or some of their other greatest hits. Heck, Derek’s lipsynching alone was enough to knock it down a point. But then again, after Carrie Ann used the ‘9’ paddle on Nancy, where else could she go but ’10’ for Derek and Ricki?
Couple I Can’t Bring Myself to Get Excited About: Rob Kardashian and Cheryl Burke
The judges seem to think Rob is a legit Top 3 contender, but it always looks to me like the guy is in a step aerobics class and desperately counting in his head to keep up with the hot instructor. Plus, I just can’t deal with the “not a boy, not yet a man” theme being foisted on us by Rob’s own mother, unless of course “manhood” can be described as the tender age at which a youth proves he has enough of a public following to score his own reality spinoff and contribute accordingly to the family juggernaut.
Brooke’s Inappropriate Question of the Week (To Ricki)
“How much weight have you lost?”
Weirdest Personal DWTS Reverie
I don’t even know why I’m sharing this, but I got my biggest laugh of the night after Chaz’s low scores came in and our Robot Hostess asked how he was feeling. “There’s not much to say, is there?” said Chaz, and suddenly Brooke got all empathetic: “I can relate,” she said, as though she’d been some kind of midpack player, and not the eventual winner of DWTS‘ seventh season. At which point, I began imagining Brooke in LOLCats mode: “I can haz relate?” And suddenly, everything she said and did finally made sense.
Line of the Night
“We’re not dead yet. Liiiive!” –Tom Bergeron cueing up Nancy’s Spamalot-themed dance
And now, for this week’s scores
Judges’ Leaderboard (Carrie Ann, Len, Bruno: Total)
Ricki Lake and Derek Hough: 10, 9, 10: 29
J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff: 10, 9, 10: 29
Nancy Grace and Tristan MacManus: 9, 7, 8: 24
David Arquette and Kym Johnson: 8, 7, 8: 23
Rob Kardashian and Cheryl Burke: 8, 7, 7: 22.
Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy: 7, 6, 7: 20
Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer: 7, 6, 6: 19
What did you think of this week’s DWTS? Who was your favorite couple? Where do you stand on Maksimgate? Who do you think will and should go home? Sound off below! | <urn:uuid:7dac4fec-d116-4a87-8c02-2017bec869a3> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://tvline.com/2011/10/25/dancing-with-the-stars-dwts-recap-season-13-week-6/ | 2014-12-21T12:47:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802771164.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075251-00130-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938046 | 1,892 |
* sorry for my bad english,I speak chinese,google help me
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LiteBoardLiteboard is an advanced scoreboard plugin which has many features, it can have a max of 48 characters per line and it's free!And it also has animated tab header/footer feature,you can edit it in tab.yml too.
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/pEvY55J
✪ Up to 48 characters per line (color codes included!)
✪ Compatible with other plugins(such as healthbar,nametag....etc)
✪ Anti-Flicker(Unlike other animated scoreboard,liteboard never flicker,even when change board line size)
✪ Simple configuration
✪ Animated Title/Line
✪ Permission setting for scoreboard
✪ World setting for every scoreboard
✪ Animated Scoreboard!
✪ Async Task(Anti Lag)
✪ Command Trigger Board *NEW
✪ Event Trigger Board *NEW
✪ mvdwPlaceholderAPI support *NEW
✪ Powerful API for developers *NEW
✪ Build-In Placeholder(%ping% and %tps%) *NEW
✪ Animated TAB Header/Footer *NEW
✪ Toggle the scoreboard * NEW
✪ Scoreboard Priority* NEW
1. PlaceholderAPI or mvdwPlaceholderAPI
How to install:
1.Download the plugin
2.Drag it into your plugins folder
3.Start your server and make sure you have installed the dependencies plugin
4.Edit the config as you want
The default scoreboard:
- liteboard.reload - use the liteboard reload command
- liteboard.commandboard - use the command board command
- liteboard.toggle - Toggle the Scoreboard
- liteboard.see.xxxxx.yml - To see the scoreboard.For example: if you want players can see the board "pvp.yml",you should give them "liteboard.see.pvp.yml"
- liteboard.seetab - See the animated tab footer/header
- liteboard.switch - Switch board command permission
cb command example:
- /liteboard reload - Reload the liteboard
- /liteboard cb <player> <title> <lines> <duration> - send player a temporary scoreboard
- /liteboard switch <board name> - Force switch a board
/liteboard cb Notch &aBoardTitle |`|Enjoy this server!|`|&ewww.spigotmc.org 100
Then,player Notch will received a scoreboard:
100: 100 ticks duration
`: space character
|: new line character
Event Trigger Board:
What is event trigger board?
An "Event Trigger Board" it's a scoreboard that shows up when certain action (event) happens.
For example, when you break a block a "special" scoreboard will show up and tell you how many blocks you broke till that moment.
For every event, there are some additional placeholders you can use!
How does this works?
Normal scoreboard -> Event triggered -> "special" scoreboard shows up -> timer ends -> Normal scoreboard
PlayerBreakEvent(%block_type% = Block Type Name)
PlayerPlaceEvent(%block_type% = Block Type Name)
PlayerChatEvent(%message% = Chat Message)
AttackEvent(%target_health% = Target Enitty Health, %target_type% = Target Entity Type Name)
I will add more events soon™!
if you want some events,please tell me at discord!
* You can use API to call custom events if you are a java developer
if you want to record a video to introduce liteboard,please contact me,thank you very much!!!!!!!
Animated TabList Header/Footer:
You can use %break% to break a line
If you have any other good ideas,please tell me!
Please don't post errors on the review page:
Posts about problems regarding this plugin in the review page will not be replied, please post them in the discussions page!
If you find any other bugs,please report it at Discussion Page or Discord Server,DO NOT report it at review pages,thank you!
Terms & Conditions
1) You can't sell/redistribute this plugin.
2) You can't decompile this plugin,the plugin is obfuscated to anti someone steal code
3) You can't claim this plugin as your own.
if you like my plugins,you can donate me a coffee,xd
LiteBoard - Animated Scoreboard | Event / Command Trigger Board | API | 48 chars | No-Flicker 4.2.1
Maybe it is the best free scoreboard plugin? | <urn:uuid:66fc8d2b-6f72-4c5f-b31d-1bdbf9e2686c> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/liteboard-animated-scoreboard-event-command-trigger-board-api-48-chars-no-flicker.49266/ | 2018-06-23T23:43:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865438.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623225824-20180624005824-00153.warc.gz | en | 0.796979 | 1,032 |
THE STATE OF
Linda Angus, Respondent,
Burroughs & Chapin Co., Myrtle Beach Herald, Doug Wendel, Pat Dowling, Deborah Johnson, Chandler C. Prosser, Marvin Heyd, Chandler Brigham, and Terry Cooper
Burroughs & Chapin Co., Doug Wendel, Pat Dowling, Myrtle Beach Herald and Deborah Johnson are Petitioners.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO
THE COURT OF APPEALS
J. Michael Baxley, Circuit Court Judge
Opinion No. 26127
Heard February 1, 2006 - Filed March 20, 2006
Robert L. Widener and Celeste T. Jones, of McNair Law Firm, P.A., of
Columbia, for petitioner Burroughs & Chapin Co.
L. Morgan Martin, of Hearn, Brittain & Martin, P.A., of
Conway; Thomas C. Brittain, of Hearn, Brittain & Martin, P.A., of Myrtle Beach; and Scott B. Umstead, of Myrtle Beach, for petitioners Doug Wendel and Pat Dowling.
William E. Lawson, of Lawson & Gwin Law Offices, of
Myrtle Beach, for petitioner Doug Wendel.
Jay Bender and Holly Palmer Beeson, of Baker, Ravenel & Bender, L.L.P., of Columbia, for petitioners Myrtle Beach Herald and Deborah Johnson.
L. Sidney Connor, IV, of Kelaher, Connell & Connor, of
Surfside Beach, for respondent.
JUSTICE MOORE: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision reversing the grant of summary judgment to petitioners in this civil conspiracy case. We reverse.
Respondent Linda Angus was hired as county administrator for
All the defendants moved for summary judgment. The trial judge granted summary judgment on the ground that the termination of at-will employment cannot support a cause of action for civil conspiracy, citing Ross v. Life Ins. Co. of Virginia, 273 S.C. 764, 259 S.E.2d 814 (1979). Angus appealed. The Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment as to County Council members based on Ross, but reversed as to Newspaper and Developer.
Can a public official who is an at-will employee maintain an action for civil conspiracy?
A civil conspiracy is a combination of two or more parties joined for the purpose of injuring the plaintiff, thereby causing her special damages. Lawson v.
We disagree with the Court of Appeals’ analysis and find Ross controlling. The critical factor here is Angus’s status as an at-will public official. In our democratic society, a public official is answerable to the public; members of the public are not third-party interlopers. Because of Angus’s status as a public official, we conclude her action for civil conspiracy cannot be maintained against any of these defendants. The Court of Appeals’ decision overturning the grant of summary judgment to Newspaper and Developer is therefore
TOAL, C.J., BURNETT, PLEICONES, JJ., and Acting Justice Brooks P. Goldsmith, concur.
Angus v. Burroughs & Chapin, 358 S.C. 498, 596 S.E.2d 67 (
Her causes of action for tortious interference with contract, defamation, and unfair trade practices were dismissed. | <urn:uuid:8df91d9d-20cd-473a-894d-e912fffc9adc> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://www.judicial.state.sc.us/opinions/displayOpinion.cfm?caseNo=26127 | 2015-10-10T10:52:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737951049.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221911-00028-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873557 | 722 |
I'm happy to announce the release of my second set of 6 makeups for the"April" face, April 2. These 6 makeups include 2 makeup variations with each skin.
Makeups included are:
Drop by Curio and take a look at the demos!
TP to Curio
Thanks for looking | <urn:uuid:8f987977-6cf0-4169-8cb2-14a618a2f4cd> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://whatsnewinsecondlife.blogspot.com/2009/04/whats-new-curio_30.html | 2018-02-17T19:09:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891807660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180217185905-20180217205905-00148.warc.gz | en | 0.939006 | 65 |
When Trisha leaves to go see her counselor he thinks he might just get in his truck and drive down to Biloxi where his friend Dave runs his own motorcycle shop. He’d have time to think at the beach listening to the waves crash on the shore and watch the sandpipers dodge the tides. Even the counselors and psychiatrists didn’t know what to do with her. Anytime he complains about her people look at him like he’s your typical misogynistic male and maybe he is, but what they don’t realize is that she has serious emotional problems. She is hard working and kind. She is beautiful. You have a daughter with her. How could someone who looks like that have any real problems they wonder?
She says her low self-esteem makes her believe she must work 50-60 hours a week managing the Matador Restaurant and Lounge or she feels she is somehow not a good person. No matter what he says she just looks at him with her dark brown eyes and tears well up, but he’s not fooled. He’s seen this before. There’s no breakthrough here. Her tears signify her frustration, that while she knows the truth she will be compelled to run off to work after the appointment to get the waitresses ready for the lunch crowd. She’ll be furiously doing paperwork, answering calls; telling Mike to change the tanks on the soda; prepare the wait staff for the Pachyderms; remind Anne the cook to inventory the freezer; make sure Beth is ready in the lounge for the afternoon business men, lonely hearts, alcoholics, ex-cons, and the rest that are simply too far gone to notice; until the lunch crowd descends on them—a lull in the afternoon before the diners hit and she loses herself in the business. The barely controlled chaos of work is like grace to her.
Don’t think about how hard it will be to setup a new checking account and transfer just enough money to survive on. You could take Audra out of Kindergarten and just head out, but Trisha will need her more than you do emotionally. Without someone to need her, a reason to keep going, she might totally collapse. The anger she’s suppressing will only fuel her for so long. Your parents left you with the neighbors when you were a boy and you said you would never run out on your own child if you ever had one and now you do and now you know the weight of the responsibility that somehow your parents felt and fled from. You have your own inner demons, but you’ve mashed them down there deep inside so that you can help Trisha fight hers. Her demons are fifty feet all. You’ve been trying to help her for years, but it’s gotten worse as the years have gone by. Neither of you is getting any younger. You’ve been laid off from the brick plant again. You might have to get a job bartending like you did the last time this happened. She is drinking two bottles of wine at night. Just cheap stuff. She gets friendly then. She wants to go to bed and things seem so good that any grudge or argument melts away. It almost seems like the old days when she would slide over next to you in the truck. The two of you used to go on dates to the city park and make-out because you didn’t have any money to do anything else.
When you are pissed you say things like: I told you the same thing as the shrink—that’ll be two hundred dollars! But nothing you can actually say seems to make any difference. You sound crazy even to yourself—especially to yourself. The school nurse called to say Audra’s having an allergic reaction to some cookies they gave her. They gave her Benadryl but she is clawing at her throat and they tried to call Trisha first but nobody could track her down at work. You’ve got to go pick her up and she’ll probably be fine by then anyway. It makes you wonder if she is having an affair with another man. Maybe that’s where she is now. Maybe she’s not ever really working late, but with him in one of those crappy motels out on the business loop the Indian family runs. She’s paying the bills while you are unemployed. You should not feel so resentful but you do. When you argue neither of you plays fair. She ends up saying you can have her job and she’ll stay home, but it’s her way of saying she makes the real money. She says if you don’t find a job soon you might want to consider moving out until you do even though you have been with her since she was in high school.
Now you understand why spouses kill each other in all those 48 Hours stories instead of just getting a divorce. You think about choking her to death, bashing her head in with a bat, using the deer rifle on her, and it’s hard to say what she’s considered. You talk to yourself. This is it! you say. I’m not putting up with it anymore! If she doesn’t want or need me, then the hell with her! Then you remember taking her to prom and her tan skin looked so good against her sparkling gold dress—the dress you picked out for her. You remember the day Audra was born after two days of labor you said, I am in love.
A few years ago you thought she was going to die from breast cancer and they did the double masectomy. She was bandaged with tubes protuding from under her arms where her breasts had been and the blood pooled in what looked like transparent alien eggs. She did not want you to help her empty the draining blood down the sink because she was afraid you would never want to touch her again. You had to keep her pills straight for her. She had pills for pain, pills for sleeping, and pills to keep from getting an infection. A woman who sent her little boy to Audra’s daycare died from an infection after a minor surgery earlier in the year. You’re not the praying kind, but you prayed on your knees next to where she lay on the couch for the better part of three days.
The three of you made it through all that somehow as a family, but it felt temporary. A dapper old plastic surgeon did the reconstruction, but it’s hard to explain to people that it’s not the same as a boob job. Great! They think. Now you’ve got big boobs! She feels better about herself now, but things are still not perfect. You keep trying. Even though you grew up leaving places and people, you do not want to leave your wife and daughter ever. Your own family did not care about sticking around and maybe that’s why you feel the way you do about Trisha and Audra. Trisha thinks she has low self-esteem, but you think it is probably suppressed rage leftover from her own shitty childhood. Something men know about and drink to keep the animal low down. You don’t want to sound like a baby, but it wouldn’t do to tell her that you are not as strong as she is. You will only leave if she makes you. | <urn:uuid:53d54c04-7329-41e7-bac5-b79c2551f71f> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://fictionsoutheast.com/furious-by-daren-dean-3/ | 2019-09-22T12:33:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514575513.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20190922114839-20190922140839-00146.warc.gz | en | 0.982744 | 1,529 |
It’s official. We took over the Internet!
We’re amazed at the incredible actions taken across the country on the Net Neutrality Day of Action, this past Wednesday, July 12!
CMJ, MAG-Net, and our partners pushed record-breaking numbers of people to submit comments to the FCC and Congress in defense of Title II Net Neutrality protections.
Here’s a rundown of the stats: Our friends at Fight for the Future report that over 2 million comments were sent to the FCC! This number is almost triple that of a similar action for Net Neutrality in September 2014. In addition, we helped send over 5 million emails to members of Congress and made nearly 125,000 phone calls to their offices. (1) Some estimates even report that social media posts about the Day of Action reached a potential 2.44 billion people! (2)
CMJ Organizing Director, Steven Renderos, was on the ground in Washington, D.C. – check him out in the picture, speaking at U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s press conference on Net Neutrality!
Here’s what our executive director, Malkia Cyril, had to say about the action: “Today, thousands of people of color and civil rights leaders raised our voices to say loud and clear: we won’t let our internet become like cable TV, a white, middle class, and male bastion where we are shouted down daily. We’ll keep joining with allies of all kinds across the lines of difference to fight for our digital voice, and ensure that an open Internet protected by Title II net neutrality delivers political power and economic opportunity for those long excluded from both. The stakes are too high to do anything less.”
We’ll continue to defend the Open Internet, where communities of color and organizers can speak out for justice, access economic opportunities, and more. Support the fight with a $10 donation today. | <urn:uuid:53336144-124f-40ce-bee4-78c5e44931dd> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://centerformediajustice.org/2017/07/14/heres-what-we-accomplished-net-neutrality-day-of-action/ | 2018-07-17T05:43:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589573.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717051134-20180717071134-00563.warc.gz | en | 0.953053 | 405 |
Landulf VII of Capua
Landulf VII (died 1007), also numbered Landulf IV or V (if Landulf I and II, who were not princes, are not counted), called Landolfo di Sant'Agata, was the prince of Capua from 1000 to his death. He was the second son of Landulf III of Benevento, who was only a co-ruler. Thus, he was easily removed from the succession on his father's death. His brother Pandulf eventually succeeded in becoming Prince of Benevento.
In 1000, the reigning prince of Capua, Adhemar, was overthrown. The brother of the reigning prince of Benevento was called in. Before he was elevated to princely status, he had been compensated with the county of Sant'Agata de' Goti, the site of a great fortress. Landulf ruled for seven years. He was succeeded by his young son Pandulf II and by his brother, who ruled Capua as regent and prince as Pandulf III.
- Caravale, Mario (ed). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: LXIII, Labroca–Laterza. Rome: 2004.
|Prince of Capua
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A Godfrey tavern argues that a patron who sued over injuries suffered during an altercation, was himself complicit because he procured the intoxication of the persons who allegedly hurt him.
In answer to a Madison County suit filed by Steve Kelley, Beer Barrel Pub says the plaintiff provoked an incident which caused him to suffer injuries, including a fractured bone beneath his eye.
But in his suit, Kelley says the attack was provoked by co-defendants Alan L. Cox Jr. and Cody J. Elfgken.
Kelley alleges he was visiting the bar at 205 Montclair Ave. when Cox and Elfgken used their fists to hit him in the face, knocking him unconscious.
Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth presides. He allowed Kelley to amend his complaint in May.
On Aug. 27, Beer Barrel Pub, represented by Stephen J. Moore of Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr and Smith in St. Louis, filed an unopposed motion "for leave to file answer out of time."
Kelley, who is seeking a judgment of more than $400,000, is represented by Michael R. Wesley of Wood River.
In a separate suit, Don Seals claims he suffered a fractured bone at the bar at the hands of Cox and Elfgken on the same occasion. He also claims Cox and Elfgken used their fists to hit him in the face, knocking him unconscious.
Seals also is represented by Wesley.
Seals: Madison County Circuit Court case number 14-L-146.
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s opinion is that the deadline has passed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, a finding supported by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala, and others, however, say the protections for women are needed, and Alabama’s fight against its passage is misguided.
The Equal Rights Amendment, if ratified by a 38th state, would ban discrimination based on sex. Proponents of the amendment hope that Virginia’s new Democratic majority means a second chance for the protections for women.
The 38-page DOJ opinion released Monday received praise from the amendment’s opponents who say its passage would give courts too much power, but a vote to ratify remains likely in Virginia and would set the stage for an all but certain court battle.
“We conclude that Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a deadline on the ratification of the ERA and, because that deadline has expired, the ERA Resolution is no longer pending before the States,” wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney General Steven Engel in the opinion.
Congress passed the amendment in 1972 and five years later it was ratified by 35 states, but the deadline to gain the needed 38 states passed in 1979, so Congress extended the deadline to 1982.
Nevada in 2017 became the 36th state to ratify it, and was followed by Illinois in 2018.
Democratic wins in Virginia’s House and Senate revived hope among the amendment’s supporters, and the state’s Gov. Ralph Northam supports ratification.
The Equal Rights Amendment text states:
Section 1: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3: This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
“The DOJ opinion reaffirms that understanding and sets forth why the ERA expired in 1979 when the deadline passed without ratification from three-fourths of the States,” Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement Wednesday.
Marshal in December joined attorneys general for Louisiana and South Dakota if filing a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama asking the federal court to rule that the time to ratify the amendment has expired.
“If this constitutional bait-and-switch is successful, there will be dire consequences for the rule of law,” Marshall said in a statement in December.
Both the House and Senate have introduced bills to remove the deadline and restart the process of ratification, and supporters of such say the original amendment contains no deadline and the Constitution does not require one, but that the deadline was only added in a joint resolution after the fact.
Rep. Terri Sewell in a message to APR on Thursday expressed support for ERA’s ratification. Sewell is one of 224 lawmakers to have cosponsored the House bill to remove the deadline.
“It is disgraceful that nearly 100 years after women fought for and won the right to vote, our equality as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution remains a matter of contention. As an Alabamian, I am particularly saddened by our state’s role in attempting to block the Equal Rights Amendment’s ratification,” Sewell said in the statement. “While I am deeply disappointed in the DOJ’s decision, I am proud to cosponsor H.J.Res.79, which seeks to strike the ERA deadline. There should be no deadline on equality.”
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, in a statement sent to APR Thursday from a spokeswoman, also supported the amendment’s ratification.
“Senator Jones supports ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment and believes it would be a strong statement of support for the women of our state for Alabama to do so,” said Caroline Stonecipher, Jones’s press secretary, in the message.
If Virginia lawmakers do ratify the ERA, Virginia’s Attorney General Mark Herring has said he’s ready to fight to ensure the protections are afforded to women.
“It is wholly unsurprising that the Trump Administration has found yet another way to oppose women’s equality,” Herring said in a statement Wednesday. “The ERA should have been passed by Virginia and other states a long time ago. It should have been unanimous. Women in America deserve to have equality guaranteed in the Constitution. The fact that Republican attorneys general are suing to block the ERA, and that they now have the support of the Trump Administration, is absolutely repugnant.
“When Virginia becomes the 38th state to ratify the ERA I am going to do everything in my power to make sure that the will of Virginians is carried out and the ERA is added to our Constitution, as it should be,” Herring said.
Lilly Ledbetter, the Jacksonville resident whose fight for equal pay for women resulted in the Little Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, told APR on Thursday that the Equal Rights Amendment should have already been passed.
Ledbetter sued Goodyear tire plant in Gadsden after learning that she’d been underpaid for years as a manager compared to her male management colleagues. An Alabama court agreed with Ledbetter, but Goodyear appealed and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that she’d waited too long to file a complaint under the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter ACT into law nine days after his inauguration, which allows women to file a claim at the time they discover they’ve been underpaid, removing the deadline to file shortly after the underpayment occurred.
Ledbetter said she’ll travel to Virginia later this month to participate in a march in support of the amendment’s ratification.
“I support ERA and believe all women’s lives would be better if this had been passed years ago,” Ledbetter said.
Doug Jones praises end of state Democratic Party lawsuit
U.S. Senator Doug Jones, D-Alabama, on Thursday applauded the end of a lawsuit over control of the state Democratic party.
Montgomery County Circuit Judge Greg Griffin on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Alabama Democratic Party chairwoman Nancy Worley, which means that state Rep. Chris England, who was picked to lead the state Democratic party by a reform group championed by Jones, is the party’s chair.
“This is a great day for Alabama and her Democratic Party. Throughout much of last year, countless Democrats in our state worked to create a more open and diverse state party, while recognizing and being true to the crucial and historic role held by African-American voters,” Jones said in a statement Thursday.
“The by-laws of the Alabama Democratic Party now reflect the growing diversity in our state — including representation for Hispanic voters, Native American voters, Asian voters, voters with disabilities and voters from the LGBTQ community. And most importantly, the Alabama Democratic Party has dramatically increased leadership opportunities for young voters. Around 70 new caucus members were added to the state party Executive Committee last year—many of them young people from diverse backgrounds throughout the state. I’m proud to continue to work alongside a more unified, diverse and inclusive state party.
“With the dismissal of this lawsuit, it is time that all who have been involved in this challenge, resolution, and expansion of the Democratic Party come together for a common good. Our state benefits from the ideas and engagement of a competitive two-party system. We have now demonstrated that we have the ability to be inclusive within our own party while working to expand the number and experiences of people who play a role in moving it forward.
“Chairman Chris England and First Vice Chair Patricia Todd have my complete support and I call on Democrats throughout the state to unite behind them as we move forward in modernizing, re-invigorating, and expanding the Alabama Democratic Party.,” Jones said.
11th-hour smear campaign against Byrne linked to opponent Tuberville, sources say
A story published February 24, on Gateway Pundit alleges, “Bradley Byrne kicked his brother’s widow off her land,” but the land was never owned by Byrne’s sister-in-law.
Whether the reporter at Gateway Pundit didn’t read all the court records or there were other motives, the erroneous accusations on the popular right-wing blog are now being used to smear Byrne in the final hours of a heated U.S. Senate race.
Political consultants not tied to Byrne’s campaign say that operatives working for his rival, Tommy Tuberville, are promoting the story to damage Byrne. Random text messages are being sent to distribute the story as well as numerous calls to Alabama media outlets to report on the false claims. State political reporters have rejected the story due to its inaccuracies.
Several calls and voice messages to Tuberville’s campaign have gone unanswered.
The land in question was part of the estate of Byrne family matriarch, Elizabeth Patricia Langsdale Byrne.
In her original will signed July 23, 1996, Mrs. Byrne left her property in Baldwin County to her three children, Dale, Bradley and Patricia.
However, on Feb. 25, 1999, she amended her will, removing her eldest son leaving the property to only Bradley and Patricia.
On Dec. 6, 2000, Mrs. Byrne again amended her will, leaving one-third to Bradley, one-third to Patricia and one-third as a “life estate” to Dale. According to the will, the life estate left to Dale would go back to Bradley and Patrica upon Dale’s death because a life estate means ownership of land is only for the duration of a person’s life.
Mrs. Byrne died in 2008; she was followed in death by her son Dale in 2014, at which time the life estate bequeathed to him expired.
Bradley, who his mother selected as executor of her estate, then filed the necessary paperwork with the Baldwin County probate office to address Dale’s death as stipulated in Mrs. Byrne’s will.
The Gateway Pundit story leaves out crucial details and in its interview with Dale’s fourth wife, Gloria, repeats claims she made that are not grounded in facts.
There is also a false claim that Byrne refused to leave the campaign trial when his brother died, but he did in fact cancel a scheduled event in the family’s time of morning.
Court records clearly show Byrne acted in accordance with his mother’s wishes as they were detailed in her last will and testament.
Atlanta Mayor to campaign for Biden in Alabama
Thursday, the presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden (D) announced that Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will travel to Tennessee and Alabama to campaign on behalf of Joe Biden.
On Friday, Mayor Bottoms will travel to Tennessee, where she will host a Women for Biden event with State Senator Brenda Gilmore, moderate a health care roundtable, and host a meet and greet with State Representative Harold Love in Nashville. She was supposed to have hosted a GOTV kickoff event with Mayor Lee Harris and State Senator Raumesh Akbari in Memphis, Tennessee; but that event has been reportedly cancelled.
On Saturday, Mayor Bottoms will travel to Alabama, where she will host community events in Huntsville and Birmingham before speaking at the Alabama Conference of Black Mayors.
Biden has promised that his campaign will carry South Carolina, where he is leading in the polls. Biden hopes that he can win several southern states, including Alabama, on Super Tuesday to emerge as one of the leaders in the race for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
The Huntsville community Event with Keisha Lance Bottoms in Huntsville will be 9:30 a.m. at the Huntsville Country Club 2601 Oakwood Ave NW, Huntsville, AL 35810. Doors open at 9:00 a.m.
The Birmingham community Event with Keisha Lance Bottoms is somewhere in Birmingham at 12 noon; but the Biden campaign has not given us a location. We will update this story once the details are available.
UPDATED at 10:27 a.m. 2/28 The Biden event will be at Iron City Grill 2208 6th Ave S, Birmingham, AL.
Mayor Bottoms will address the Alabama Conference of Black Mayors in Selma at 3:00 p.m. pm Saturday. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. C.S.T. at Browns Chapel A.M.E., 410 Martin Luther King Street, Selma, AL, 36703.
Biden has been endorsed by both Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-Selma) and U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-Alabama).
Biden is the favorite to win both the South Carolina and Alabama Democratic Primaries. Biden however is trailing in most of the Super Tuesday states to frontrunner U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). Sanders carried 47 percent of the vote in the recent Nevada Caucus. Sanders won the New Hampshire primary and won the most votes in the Iowa Caucus; though South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg won the most number of Caucuses, and thus the most delegates in Iowa.
Biden was the early front runner in the polls; but has been hurt by Republican charges of nepotism benefitting his son, Hunter Biden, while he was Vice President from 2009 to 2017.
The Alabama Democratic Conference has endorsed former New York City Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg was a late entry into the race, thus was not even on the ballot in Iowa, Nevada, or New Hampshire and won’t be on the ballot in South Carolina either. Bloomberg has spent over $350 million of his own money to buy TV and media ads. Bloomberg is a billionaire with a fortune estimated to be worth over $66 billion.
Moderate Democrats like James Carville have expressed fears that the Democratic Party will suffer tremendous losses in November if Sanders, a self-declared Socialist, wins the nomination.
The Alabama Democratic presidential primary will be on Tuesday.
Bloomberg making final Alabama push
The Michael Bloomberg campaign is making Alabama one of its top Super Tuesday priorities — hoping that state Democratic voters will help catapult the former New York City mayor into the running for the party’s presidential nomination.
Bloomberg has already spent more time in Alabama than most of the other candidates — including kicking off his presidential run by qualifying first on the Alabama ballot and speaking at an Alabama Democratic Conference meeting — and has flooded the state with workers and cash, buying advertising spots and building infrastructure the likes of which Alabama has rarely seen.
With the primary less than a week away now, Bloomberg’s campaign is making a last push.
That will be highlighted by the former mayor’s visit to the state over the weekend and a number of surrogates making their way around Alabama throughout the coming days.
That starts in earnest on Thursday, when former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, one of the first mayors to endorse Bloomberg, travels to Miles College for a “community conversation” with students and others.
The visit to a historically black college is no coincidence, as Bloomberg’s campaign looks to regain the support of black voters after his history as NYC mayor drew major fire from his Democratic primary opponents. Having the endorsement of the ADC, the state’s black caucus, will certainly help, but former Vice President Joe Biden maintains strong support among black voters and moderates in Alabama.
Nutter will be joined at Miles by former Birmingham Mayor William Bell, who also has announced his support for Bloomberg.
Following the event at Miles, Nutter will travel to the Alabama State House in Montgomery for a meeting with the Alabama Baptist Association Leadership and then on to Selma, where he’ll attend a reception for the Alabama Conference of Black Mayors.
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Studies have also confirmed that long-distance runners are more economical than middle-distance runners, and high-mileage runners have better running economy than lower-mileage runners. In fact, as a group, high-mileage runners (over 60 miles per week) outperformed lower-mileage runners in all race distances of 10-K or longer. Clearly, the more we run, the more efficient we become.
When it comes to speedwork, studies have found that tempo runs and long repetition training (repeats of three to six minutes in length) are more effective than short repetition training for improving running economy. These longer forms of speedwork are believed to boost running economy by reducing heart rate, breathing rate, and core temperature, which makes running easier to sustain.
1. Adding Plyometrics
Try the following exercises two to three times per week after an easy run on a soft surface, such as grass or wood chips.
Power Skip. (40 meters, 2 to 4 repeats) Drive the lead thigh parallel to the ground. Accent with powerful opposite-arm action.
Bounding. (40 meters, 2 to 4 repeats) The emphasis here is on distance not height. Imagine tires several feet apart that you're trying to land in with each foot as you bound forward and drive with opposite arms.
Two-Legged Forward Jumps. (5 jumps, 2 to 4 sets) Take 5 forward jumps for distance, jumping frog-style with both legs. Swing both arms forcefully in the direction of the jump.
2. Adding Intensity
Even just adding one of the following tempo runs or interval workouts a week will improve your running economy.
6 minutes at 10-K pace, 5-minute recovery, 3 to 4 repeats
4 minutes at 10-K pace, 4-minute recovery, 4 to 6 repeats
3 minutes at 5- to 10-K pace, 3-minute recovery, 6 to 8 repeats
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Competition Time! The National Parents Council Big Book Review 2020.
Here is a great opportunity for your child to win some fabulous prizes kindly donated by Dunnes Stores while reading a book they love or a book they’ve never read before. This competition is open to all primary school children and early years children. Full information in prizes and how to enter in the link below. | <urn:uuid:7d746709-15ee-4a87-a2ec-2b4b827bd4e0> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://stanthonys.ie/news/npc-competition/ | 2021-10-16T09:42:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323584554.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016074500-20211016104500-00008.warc.gz | en | 0.847243 | 77 |
So, these dang cats have been hanging around the house for about a month. I swore one was prego, and didn't want ANYTHING to do with it. I guarded over Heath's food since he would let the one I thought was prego eat while he laid on the steps. If he didn't eat I would bring it back inside. I just refused to be the cat lady or feed anything else.
Then I had this psycho looking white cat that hung out on top of a building outside my kitchen window, and STARED at me constantly. It gave me the heebies, so I would squirt it with the water hose. (I know, I'm mean)
Well, they outlasted me and I gave in.
The first pregnant one warmed up quite quickly, and I think is actually a boy instead of a preg. girl. Looks like he has some boys, but they don't look like Heath's so I just really didn't know for a while. Though I'm pretty sure now that he's a boy just not full grown or something. So, this is Max.
Almost near impossible to get a picture of because he's so dang lovable. He follows us around like a puppy, and is quite into whatever your doing. I thought I found his home, and got all excited but there cat was declawed and he is not.
Then we have psycho cat ~ now known as Sheba. She has taken a little work, but is now warming up to some pats on the head, and a little scratch here or there YET only on her terms of course. She is a very pretty cat, and I'm worried she may be pregnant yet I have no clue. She's extremely FAT too, but I don't know how to tell other than popping some kittens out, or knowing her before hand. I'm pretty sure she's a girl, unless it's been spayed.. Who knows.
She definitely keeps the guys in line though, and they lay around until she's done eating. Otherwise they get a spat in the face if they forget. She can be quite the butt though the three of them exist quite peacefully otherwise. Heathcliff has chased her before but only twice when I was trying to pet her. Cats are weird. She clearly looks evil, yet she's beautiful too. It's her slanted eyes, they are really different than any other cat I've seen.
For FAT sake...
I'll throw one in of Heathcliff because he's such a freaking goober.
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This meeting was held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Center in Abuja, Nigeria from 22 – 24 October 2009. It was organized jointly by the Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria, African Association of Psychiatry and Allied Professions and World Psychiatric Association with support from the World Health Organization. This excellent meeting enjoyed active participation from a number of countries including the USA, Jamaica, Australia, UK, Japan, Turkey, Italy & other European countries, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Liberia, Kenya, Nigeria and other African countries. There was minimal support form the pharmaceutical industry but local support from various Nigerian Hospitals, Universities, private sector and Government sector was commendable.
The overall organization under the leadership of Prof Oye Gureje was excellent. The official opening of the conference was graced by messages of support from the office of the President of Nigeria and also from the Ministry of Health in Nigeria. There was a good selection of presentations for key note addresses and symposiums. The opening session was dedicated to the late Prof Ayo Binitie from Nigeria. It was marked by a thought –provoking presentation from the WPA President, Prof Mario Maj on “Depression vs Normal Sadness: towards the DSM-V and ICD-11. In the same session Prof N Sartorius took us through concerns and recommendations on “Strategies of mental health care in the 21st century”. Additional programs included a session chaired by Dr Frank Njenga and Dr Femi Olugbile on issues related to collaboration with the Royal College of Psychiatry; training in child and adolescent psychiatry led by Prof Brian Robertson; leadership training for young psychiatrists led by Prof Norman Sartorius; and the WHO session on “Mental Health Gap Action Program (mhGAP)” led jointly by Prof Oye Gureje, Prof Mario Maj and Dr S Saxena. The conference dinner was marked by a presentation from N Sartorius dedicated to the late Prof Adeoye Lambo. The dinner ended with an official hand over of the presidency of AAPAP from Dr F Njenga to Prof O Gureje.
In keeping with the theme of the conference “Scaling up and reaching down – addressing unmet needs for service”, there were excellent scientific papers, evidence based presentations identifying gaps in the mental health services in Africa, and others addressing best practice in management of an array of disorders including schizophrenia, mood disorders, HIV related problems, PTSD, substance abuse and others. Of note was a session with a presentation on “Choosing Psychiatry as profession or specialty”. This is in line with the WPA interest in finding best ways to encourage young doctors to specialize in Psychiatry.
AAPAP was able to hold a general assembly and an executive committee meeting in keeping with the constitutional requirements. Various future plans and recommendations for membership of the association, membership of the board and a series of next meetings were tabled for discussion. The following were confirmed:
- The next AAPAP meeting will be held in Khartoum, Sudan 10 -12 December 2010
- The 2011 and 2012 AAPAP meetings will be in South Africa and Uganda and could be changed based on any new developments
- The next WPA Regional meeting in Africa will be confirmed after communication with the WPA executive committee (will most probably be in Uganda)
- Individual membership fee of USD25 should be collected by national associations of psychiatry and forwarded to the treasurer of AAPAP
- The constitutional provisions allowing for the inclusion of representatives of Interest Groups/Task Forces in the Executive Committee will be implemented by inviting representatives from the Association of Young Psychiatrists, . The President was also mandated to nominate at least one member of the Allied Professions to the EC.
- Appointments to the AAPAP Executive and Board include:
- President of AAPAP: Prof Oye Gureje (Nigeria)
- Treasurer of AAPAP: Dr Fred Kigozi (Uganda)
- Secretary General: Prof Solomon Rataemane (South Africa)
- Ex-officio Members:
- Dr Frank Njenga (Kenya & past president of AAPAP)
- Prof R Emsley (South Africa):
- Prof C Szabo (Chief Editor of AJOP)
- Dr Abdallah Abdelrahman (Sudan):
- Prof Mesfin Araya (Ethiopia)
- The next General assembly to review the Association’s activities and engage its membership will be held during the next AAPAP meeting in Sudan
AAAPAP will intensify efforts to promote leadership in research and teaching among young psychiatrists with publications in the African Journal of Psychiatry, WPA newsletter & Journal, including other international journals.
The President of AAPAP, Prof Oye Gureje, closed the meeting by thanking all the participants for their contributions and WPA and WHO for a strong presence at this conference. All the generous contributions from the private and public sector were also acknowledged.
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That was fast. A few hours after White House press secretary Sean Spicer gave an ambiguous answer about whether the administration is considering a carbon tax, the White House took it off the table.
"The Trump Administration is not considering a carbon tax," an official said.
Why it matters: The statement puts a cork in the longshot idea that the White House would throw its weight behind a carbon tax plan.
Former Secretary of State and the Treasury James Baker and other backers had pushed the idea in a meeting with senior White House officials early last month.
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‘Middleman’ revealed to sister those behind Percy Lapid murder – report
MANILA, Philippines — The alleged middleman in the murder of Percy Lapid apparently revealed to his sister those behind the killing of the radio commentator, according to an exclusive report on ABS-CBN News’ “TV Patrol” on Monday.
The sister, whom the report referred to only as “alias Marisa,” said she got a message from her brother Cristito “Jun Villamor” Palaña. She explained that her brother, though sentenced to life imprisonment at the New Bilibid Prison, still had a phone.
Speaking in Filipino, the sister said: “On the 18th [of October] at 11:59 [a.m.], he suddenly sent a message. He said: Ate [Filipino address to the oldest sister], whatever happens to me, if I were to die, keep this a secret. If I die, then reveal it. But as long as I’m alive, keep it to yourself.
“But when I’m gone, let Joel [Escorial, the self-confessed gunman] that the order came from three commanders here — Sputnik, Happy Go Lucky, and BCJ. Their order came from the office.”
Asked which office Jun Villamor was referring to, the sister said: “The one there in Bilibid.”
Villamor died later in the day, on Oct. 18, the same day the police announced the surrender of self-confessed gunman Joel Escorial.
Marissa said his brother was also acquainted with Escorial, as well as the second pointed “middleman” Christopher Bacoto, who lived in the same “barrio” as theirs.
According to the sister, she believes the three really did commit the crime. But remained firm that she would want to hold accountable those behind the murder of Percy Lapid, the on-air name that Percival Mabasa used.
Fear for her life
Marissa also bared that she and her other sibling have started fearing for their lives after receiving text messages from random numbers.
“They asked: Did he [Jun Villamor] text or call you? They reversed his name. Idoy is his nickname. They reversed it. Then I thought that if we knew them that’s not the name they would use [the reverse of Idoy],” she said.
She became more suspicious after her sibling was not allowed to visit the funeral home where Villamor’s body was kept and instead was only shown a picture of his face.
Her sibling told her that no cause of death was indicated in the death certificate.
“Then there someone there, a guard or a police officer, said: ‘Be careful. They seem to be hiding something’.”
Marisa was put under the Witness Protection Security and Benefit Program after she sought help from Sen. Raffy Tulfo and Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo to get the body of her brother back.
Senator Tulfo has yet to publicly comment or release a statement regarding Villamor’s sister, but ABS-CBN cited a report from his web show “Tulfo In Action” saying that the senator had contacted Justice Secretary Boying Remulla regarding her request for assistance.
Remulla then assured Marissa that her brother’s remains would be returned once a second autopsy has been conducted by an independent medico-legal surgeon.
Lapid was gunned down on Oct. 3 by motorcycle-riding men while inside his car at a gate of the Las Piñas subdivision where he lived.
Villamor, meanwhile, died inside the NBP, according to the National Bureau of Investigation.
But a leading forensic pathologist, Dr. Raquel Fortun, raised questions about the autopsy done on the middleman. She pointed out there was a lack of a clear timeline of the autopsy and Villamor’s body had undergone embalming procedures.
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