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In the midst of Syrian war drums' cheer and confusion, Donald Trump shreds his perceived political independence for short-term political gains.
It could hardly have been scripted any better or worse.
The US missile strikes on an Bashar al-Assad-controlled airbase near Homs, in Western Syria, shift America's military approach to the Syrian civil war. Somewhat paradoxically, it signals a retraction to the initial stages of the war when Assad – a longtime American foe – was perceived as the main threat for Syrian stability and the primary US target.
America promptly armed Syrian rebel fighters after the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, but Barack Obama remained passive against the Syrian government with the brutal emergence of ISIS, despite strong demands from Democrat and Republican leaders to remove Assad from power.
Trump, meanwhile, has tagged ISIS as the sole enemy and he repeatedly warned Obama against attacking Syria, unsurprisingly starting in a tweet storm in 2013. He has also frequently expressed willingness to collaborate with unlikely state adversaries – such as Assad-backers Russia and Iran – to "wipe ISIS off the face of the earth."
With this backdrop it is beyond stunning that Assad, who has been under immense international pressure, would dear to use sarin gas against his own people and thereby risk burnt children all across Western media. There can only be two options: either Assad is far more pressured domestically than what is communicated in the mainstream press; or, alternatively, Assad is testing Trump's boundaries because of the president's perceived military docility, as hawks like John McCain suggested when he said that Trump-administration was "partly to blame" for Syria's use of chemical weapons.
Needless to say, both options are utterly irrational because the inefficient use of chemical weapons only magnifies Assad's initial desperations without any conceivable gains.
Thus we must entertain a third option: that either Assad or some of his close associates have simply turned insane. Up to this point, the internationally disputed Syrian president has at least managed to remain in power into the bloody war's sixth year – nothing would undermine this more than the use of chemical weapons.
In another curious twist, Vladimir Putin declared that Russia had "multiple sources" showing this was a "false flag attack" to set up the Assad-regime, which is abnormal even by Russian conspiracy-pushing standards.
Entertaining this conspiracy theory is beyond the scope of this article, although it is clear that the Trump administration instantly capitalized on the chemical weapons reports – in typical self-assured fashion – to strike Assad.
The repeated bipartisan allegations that Russia was involved in the US election to benefit Trump has weighted the president like a nightmare. Had Trump appeared weak and hesitant in response to Assad's alleged use of chemical weapon these accusations would swell into the stratosphere. Fear of this outcome seems to be a likelier reason why Trump attacked the Syrian government than a sudden change of heart over the horrific use of sarin gas.
The other likely reason why Trump attacked so determinedly is his historically low polling, which surely is detrimental to America's foremost popularity-seeking buffoon.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that his low approval ratings is related to the loud Trump-Putin speculations, especially considering that labeling Trump as an illegitimate, treacherous Russian puppet has been the primary strategy employed by the president's political adversaries.
And as Trump launched a dozen cruise missiles targeting the Syrian regime, a united popular press corps loudly cheered – for obvious reasons. CNN pundit Fareed Zakaria captured the media frenzy shortly after the attack when he declared: "I think Donald Trump just became President of the United States".
In their longstanding feud with the president, the mainstream press has finally gained traction: they've learned that their Russia smear campaign works, and now we'll certainly never see the end of it.
The reassured support from the Democratic leadership is also quite telling. America's hyper-investment over the last decades in global military dominance is the sacred marriage vow between the two major parties. Trump threatens the balance of power between liberal interventionists and neo-conservatives because he undermines their premise of US moral superiority, which is the "humanitarian" basis for America's interventionist foreign policy.
Having a populist in charge of America is unacceptably terrifying to the two party elites; for one, a populist might actually determine that what is beneficial to elites is not necessarily beneficial to most hard-working Americans.
Most Trump supporters, though, clearly voted for a leader that would represent their nationally bound territory and interests, and not a global symbol. This clashes with America's status as world's policeman, which coincides with its mission to be the main "power broker" in the Middle East – despite becoming ever more unpopular in the region as they proceed in vain.
These conflicting forces explain why Trump's political opponents and the mainstream press have mostly neglected the sheer hypocrisy in Trump's reaction to Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons. Since Trump assumed office, reports have shown a huge increase in civilian casualties caused by America's indiscriminate bombings of ISIS controlled cities, especially in Raqqa.
After all, to Western interventionists, American war casualties are an inevitable outcome of their necessary burden. American caused casualties are certainly worth far less than Russia's casualties, considering how Trump's primary GOP competitors and Hillary Clinton publicly entertained the option of going to war against Russia over their "inhumane" bombing in Syria.
Nonetheless, military brutality in fighting ISIS – contrary to the military strikes against the Assad regime – is completely in line with Trump's campaign promises: stay out of conflicts with limited national interest, but unleash the full might of the military when involved in combat. That is why he even went to great length defending Putin's Syria bombings.
A "humanitarian" strike against Assad, however, was a complete U-turn. For some Trump voters any military action makes him appear strong and determined, many who are hawkish themselves and others who are Trump loyalists regardless of his actions. For many other Trump supporters, though, it made him seem like a wounded dog – an actual puppet to the permanent political elites in their own nation.
The mainstream media and the two-party elites found Trump's air strike "beautiful" – to borrow MSNBC's Brian Williams' phrasing – precisely because it signals that he can be controlled. And to many of his fans it indicates the same.
One of Trump's greatest advantages has arguably been his lack of strong ideological convictions which contributed to his anti-establishment credentials. Now this appears like a foundation for external influence, as he no longer stands in opposition to the foreign policy of neither Clinton nor to the last GOP nominees, Bush, McCain and Romney, which, to many Trump-voters, is loosely associated with sacrificing national interests.
Trump was never a neo-conservative. In fact his strategy was to openly mock them. GOP establishment darling Jeb Bush was ridiculed by Trump partly on the basis of his hawkish brother. Yes, Trump talked aggressively – manly – from times, but he fervently railed against not only the Iraq War, but also the Libyan intervention and a potential intervention in Syria. On foreign policy he was the odd man out.
Trump's "America First" approach did not merely delegitimize his fellow Republican hopefuls' reckless foreign policy; it also undermined the planned Republican strategy against the Democratic presidential nominee, which conceived of placing Clinton in the Obama camp of military passivity. The GOP was supposed to flex American muscles – to preserve the empire – against the backdrop of the alleged hesitant Commander in Chief which they deemed responsible for the chaos in the Middle East. Yet in an event that took most GOP insiders with surprise, the Republican candidate was now clearly running to the "left" of Clinton on foreign policy.
Now it seems like the governing pressure finally has gotten to the old populist, though it is crucial to bear in mind that Trump always was a faux revolution. That's why the GOP candidates' insistence on the campaign trail that Trump was not sufficiently "conservative" and a secret big government zealot proved to be so ineffective. Trump won because he was a mere imitator of the smear tactics of the left; and he was elected by voters who sought to humiliate and limit – but not to destroy – the actual radical social engineers who many perceive as a threat to their cultural ways.
However, when the fake revolution wears off and the channeled energy no longer has a coherent message and platform, it will only leave his voters more disenchanted. Now their man in Washington fights alongside Congressional elites and special interests groups. And Trump has just steered their most important element – the war-machine – back in its right direction.
It remains to be seen if this was a one-time warning against Assad for "crossing the line", or if this signals, like Rex Tillerson indicated, a new Syrian approach based on the conventional American principles of forced regime change and "democracy-building". The nature of war is nonetheless equally true now as it was when George Orwell wrote: "every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
One thing, though, is apparent already. The stench from Washington has covered America with its bad smell – and President Trump just got himself very, very dirty.


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There is something absurd and rather tragic about setting out on a journey around a country, knowing that if you speak the language of that country you will not be understood. It is even more absurd when the country is your native one and you are speaking its native language.
Irish (Gaelic) is the first official language of Ireland, spoken for at least 2,500 years until the British outlawed the use of Gaelic in schools in the 19th centuries.
The death of any language is heartbreaking, as recounted in the NPR article What Happens When A Language's Last Monolingual Speaker Dies?
"She [Emily Johnson Dickerson, last monolingual Chickasaw speaker] lived like our ancestors did a long time ago," Hinson says. "What's important in Chickasaw is quite different than [what's important] in English. … For her, she saw a world from a Chickasaw worldview, without the interference of English at all."
Note that there are still plenty Irish speakers left, but very few whose only language is Irish, so the language isn't actually dead, but will these speakers teach Gaelic to their own children? Looking at America, where native tongues have historically been lost to a family with the grandchildren of immigrants, it takes a special effort to make sure a language is preserved. As noted by the author of the Guardian article, it's very difficult to travel around Ireland speaking only Gaelic — most people don't speak it.
Listen to this man, one of the last monolingual speakers of the melodic Irish language.
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Roman Games and Limes Day 2016
The event Roman Games invites visitors to experience the history of ancient Rome. This year the event has been joined with the Limes Day event.
The main theme of the 19th year of the Roman Games is Roman wisdom. A new element is the Roman Kindergarten, which is open for children of 3 to 6 years.
You can look forward to the legionnaire line-up, a lecture on Roman food as well as gladiator combat to the death. All this from 10:00 to 18:00 in the Museum Ancient Gerulata Rusovce.
Roman Games 2016 – Museum Ancient Gerulata, Rusovce
10:00 – opening ceremony
11:00 – legionnaire line-up and evaluation of the competitions
12:20 – Ab ovo ad malo. A lecture on Roman food, dining, evaluation of competitions
14:00 – Roman Wisdom
15:00 – rhythms of Ancient Rome, evaluation of competitions
16:00 – gladiator combat to the death, evaluation of competitions
17:40 – closing ceremony
Tickets can be purchased free of charge at the Bratislava Front Office during the office hours (weekdays, 9:00 to 15:00).
A shuttle Archeobus will be driving to Gerulata, leaving from these bus stops: SNP Bridge 11:00, Rusovce Gerulata 11:45. Route: SNP Bridge, Rusovce Gerulata, Jarovce, Kittsee, Berg, Edelstal, Prellenkirchen, Archeo park Petronell Carnuntum and back.


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When I was doing the MMO course the first ever migration had a pivot table in it.
Subsequent changes to the database never involved a pivot table, just modifying a table or adding a new table.
Here's the problem - I get an error trying to rollback any change that involves a pivot table. Never have a problem with just a table mod or a new table.
Here's an example of the Down method from the very first commit in the MMO course:
When rolling back the database withCode:public override void Down() { DropForeignKey("dbo.UserRoles", "Role_Id", "dbo.Roles"); DropForeignKey("dbo.UserRoles", "User_Id", "dbo.Users"); DropIndex("dbo.UserRoles", new[] { "Role_Id" }); DropIndex("dbo.UserRoles", new[] { "User_Id" }); DropTable("dbo.UserRoles"); DropTable("dbo.Users"); DropTable("dbo.Roles"); }
I get an error that according to all the google searches seems to be a fairly vague error caused by any number of things.Code:update-database -TargetMigration:0 -verbose
In other words it falls at the first hurdle with a 'type is not resolved' error.Code:alter table `dbo.UserRoles` drop foreign key `FK_dbo.UserRoles_dbo.Roles_Role_Id` System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Type is not resolved for member 'MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException,MySql.Data, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d'. at System.AppDomain.DoCallBack(CrossAppDomainDelegate callBackDelegate) at System.Data.Entity.Migrations.Design.ToolingFacade.Run(BaseRunner runner) at System.Data.Entity.Migrations.Design.ToolingFacade.Update(String targetMigration, Boolean force) at System.Data.Entity.Migrations.UpdateDatabaseCommand.<>c__DisplayClass2.<.ctor>b__0() at System.Data.Entity.Migrations.MigrationsDomainCommand.Execute(Action command) Type is not resolved for member 'MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException,MySql.Data, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d'.
Now it never mattered in the MMO course, but I am currently adding the Post and Tag tables from the SimpleBlog series and I really hate to have a migration that I cannot rollback.
Tried a lot of things, but nothing's worked so far. Since I'm running out of ideas I thought I would post here just in case there is something simple.
By the way, deleting the foreign keys, indexes and tables work fine in MySQL workbench.
Code:ALTER TABLE `dev_buzzmmo`.`userroles` DROP FOREIGN KEY `FK_UserRoles_Roles_Role_Id`;


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I was living in Marburg for about a month when the semester has begun. Most of my lectures were canceled in the first week and my Russian course was the first I should attend. There was I, a little bit lost, with navigation on my phone searching a building where lectures were held.
In that moment, I realized the real meaning of "other cities have universities, Marburg is a university", a sentence told by tutors nonstop during the orientation program. My navigation guides me to a building that looks like an old family house. I was afraid to enter, but it was said we could skip the class only 4 times if we want to get the credits. I haven't had many choices.
Honestly, everything and everyone in Marburg is somehow connected to the first Protestant university in the world, established 1527 by Philip I. Brothers Grimm and Russian physics Lomonosov and even philosopher Cohn studied here. And now me.
There are more than 25 thousand students at the university, about 10% of them are foreign. There's a big problem with shortages of classrooms. It's nothing new when lectures are held all around the city in various buildings. Sometimes that could be a bit of a problem when you must come from one lecture to another one on the opposite part of the city. But somehow you always made it.
It's good taken care for foreign students. From personal experiences, I could say that they found a solution for every problem I came up with. A great thing is also so-called semester ticket which you purchase at the beginning of semester and then use it for public transportation around German state Hessen.
My life in Marburg really push me from my comfort zone, so I grabbed the hook and entered the building. It showed that navigation was right. That was the place for my Russian 101, that was held in German.


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Masaman Curry is another Thai Curry but the word massaman is not a native of Thailand, it seems to have been derived from the Malay word masam, which means, "sour". The flavoring for Massaman curry is called Massaman curry paste although ready-made pastes are now readily available but with all those artificial flavoring they are nothing in taste compared to homemade pastes prepared with fresh ingredients.
With grinders and food processors around working in the kitchen has become so – so easy and much more time saving, my generation has still seen their mothers or grandmothers grinding masala in stone mortar and pestle but I guess for the coming generation all that will be a part of history. But the masala grounded in mortar and pestle has an earthy taste to it and the final curry made out of that masala is simply scrumptious.
In Thailand still many families prefer to ground pastes for curries in stone mortar and pestle, the mortar there is broader and wider so that ingredients can be easily turned into paste. This Masaman Paste is much more spicier than other Thai Curry Pastes so do not add too much of it in curry, the quantity given below for Masaman Paste is sufficient to make curry twice and each will serve 3 – 4 people.
Recipe: Thai Masaman Curry Paste
Yield: 250g or 1 medium sized bowl
10 dried red chilies
1 onion, roughly chopped
10 – 12 cloves of garlic
1 thumb size piece of ginger, chopped
2 Tbsp cumin seeds
4 Tbsp coriander seeds
2 Tsp fennel seeds
4 cloves
1 Tbsp black peppercorns
2 inch stock of cinnamon
¼ Tsp grated nutmeg
Seeds of 2 brown cardamom
Rind of 1 lemon
For making paste, dry roast all the ingredients in a wok or pan for 5 minutes or till aroma is released from the spices.
Grind all the roasted ingredients to a paste using 4 – 6 tbsp of water until smooth.
Store in a clean, dry airtight container in the fridge, use as per the requirement. It can be stored in the fridge for a week or so, make sure to use clean dry spoon to scoop out the curry paste everytime you use it.


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The Cambridgeshire Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provides assessment and treatment for children and young people up to the age of 17 living in Cambridgeshire who are experiencing emotional and behavioural problems and eating or neurodevelopmental disorders, and support for their families.
How this service can help you
We can help children, young people and their families where difficulties have become hard to manage and/or where there are substantial worries about a child's behaviour or emotional well-being.
Most of the treatment we offer involves talking to understand the nature of problems and thinking about things in a different way. Our approach is to work in an open, co-operative and supportive way with children, young people and their families, agreeing treatment goals and care plans at each stage. Our multi-disciplinary out-patient and community teams work closely with education, social services and child health services to offer children, young people and families:
- Assessment and planned treatment programmes, including individual work, play therapy, family work, supporting families to manage difficult behaviour
- Assessment and treatment for children and young people experiencing more severe persistent mental health problems and disorders
- Assessment, treatment and support for children and young people with learning disabilities and/or complex health care needs and their families
- Direct advice on managing behaviour or emotional difficulties
- Family appointments to think about ways to resole problems together
- Individual therapy for young people to help them understand their feelings better and find new ways of coping
- Medication (occasionally) prescribed by a child and adolescent psychiatrist
We also work closely with, and offer support for, other professionals about how best to help individual children and young people providing advice, training and joint working with education staff on school issues and social care staff on school and social issues.
Facilities available
We try to provide a service that is accessible to everyone who needs it. We hold clinics all across Cambridgeshire and can also arrange appointment times and places which are most convenient for children, young people and their families.
We can refund transport costs for families who receive Family Income Support or Working Families Tax Credit.
Interpreters are available if needed.
In Huntingdon and Fenland we provide out patient services from:
- The Newtown Centre, Nursery Road, Huntingdon PE29 3RJ (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). There is a small car park on site with a bigger Sainsbury pay-and-display car park across the road
- Alan Conway Court, Doddington Hospital, Doddington PE15 0UG (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). Free car parking on site.
How do I access this service?
The Community CAMH central team accepts referrals from GPs and primary and social care teams for children and young people up to the age of 17 registered with a GP in the Huntingdonshire and Fenland areas of NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Where is it?
Referrals should be made to:
CAMHS Single Point of Access Team
Newtown Centre
Nursery Road
E firstname.lastname@example.com
Out patient clinics are held :
The Newtown Centre, Nursery Road, Huntingdon, PE29 3RJ
Alan Conway Court, Doddington Hospital, Doddington, PE15 0UG
Contact the service
Monday to Friday
For enquiries /appointments:
- Huntingdon CAMHS: tel: 01480 445281
Fax: 01480 445349 (secure)
- Fenland CAMHS: tel: 01354 637087
Fax: 01354 644262 (secure)
Who provides the service?
The Cambridgeshire Community CAMH service is provided by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Children's Business Unit and offers pathways for core child and adolescent mental health, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic spectrum disorders. Our multi-disciplinary team includes a wide range of clinicians and other professionals so that we are able to respond to specific needs including:
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Specialist nurses
- Therapists
- Family therapists
- Nurses
- Mental health practitioners
- Administrative support staff
Who is this service for?
The Central CAMHS Team accepts referrals from GPs and other professionals working with children and young people up to the age of 17, registered with a GP in Huntingdon or Fenland who are experiencing:
- Feeling low or more than normally worried
- Feeling more than normally anxious
- Thinking about deliberate self harm
- Obsessive habits that can't be stopped, such as obsessive compulsive disorder
- Major eating problems, such as anorexia nervosa
- Having lots of worrying thoughts about themselves or others
- Psychosis
- Mental health problems with associated behavioural difficulties, such as worrying levels of conflict or fights
And where primary care or other health and support services have been unable to resolve these issues.
The Learning Disability Team accepts referrals for children and young people up to the age of 18 who have a learning disability and/or complex health care needs.


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Jianjun Cheng, associate professor of materials science and engineering and part-time faculty member in the Bioimaging Science and Technology Group, will present on Thursday, March 20 at noon in Beckman room 1005. Lunch will be provided.
Size controlled nanomedicines for cancer therapy and imaging
Nanomedicine is potentially a new modality for cancer diagnosis and therapy. To advance the development of nanomedicines, it is crucial to address various formulation and development issues of nanomedicines and investigate and understand the correlation between the properties of nanomedicines and biological responses, to lay the foundation for the design of next-generation nanomedicines with optimal efficacy against cancers. In this seminar, I will discuss the development of size-controlled nanoconjugates and systematically evaluate their applications for cancer treatment and diagnosis.
Jianjun Cheng earned his Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2001. He was a senior scientist at Insert Therapeutics, Inc. from 2001 to 2004 and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT from 2004 to 2005. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and is an associate professor of materials science and engineering and a Willett Faculty Scholar. Cheng is the co-inventor of 18 patents, seven of which are in active use in industry. He has co-authored more than 100 publications. He received a Prostate Cancer Foundation Competitive Award in 2007, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2008, Teaching Excellence Awards at U of I for five times in 2008-2010, a Xerox Award for Outstanding Research at U of I in 2010, and an NIH Director's New Innovator Award in 2010. He was appointed as an associate of the Center for Advanced Study in 2014. Cheng is also an associate editor of Biomaterials Science, Royal Society of Chemistry.


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Christian Living & Discipleship
There is a reason we look at others as rivals and limit ourselves to comparison and competition. We have an enemy assaulting our mind, will, and emotions in the hope that we'll turn on ourselves and each other. It's a cycle that isolates us from intimate connections, creates confusion about our identity, and limits our purpose.
In Without Rival, bestselling author Lisa Bevere shares how a revelation of God's love breaks these limits. You'll learn how to stop seeing others as rivals and make the deep connections with your Creator you long for--connections that hold the promise of true identity and intimacy. With biblically sound teaching filled with prophetic insight for our day, Lisa uses humor and passion to challenge you to
· Flip rivalry so it brings out the best in you
· Stop hiding from conversations you need to be a part of
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· Dismantle gender rivalry and work with the men in your life
It's time to step forward to live a life without rival.
Lisa Bevere's authentic, passionate, and hilarious approach weaves profound biblical truths with practical application. Her books - which include Fight Like a Girl, Lioness Arising, and Girls with Swords - are in the hands of millions worldwide.
Lisa and her husband, John, are bestselling authors and the founders of Messenger International, and she is a grandmother and Sicilian mother of four sons.


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IAN RUSH, Liverpool's greatest striker, believes young pretender Michael Owen should be named European Footballer of the Year.
And Wales legend Rush reckons Owen could already have had twice as many goals as he stands on the brink of a goalscoring milestone.
If Owen, who lives at Hawarden in North Wales, scores against Fulham at Anfield tonight it will take him to a century of goals for the club in only 180 matches.
It has taken Owen just over four years to reach 99, and one more will make him only the 15th Liverpool player to hit a century of goals for the club.
But Rush maintains that had Owen not suffered so often from hamstring problems, his current total could have doubled. Rush said, "If he had not struggled with injuries, he would have been well on the way to 200.
"When you think about the goals he has scored in the Premiership, Champions League, FA Cup Final and that hat-trick for England, the European Footballer of the Year award has got to be his." Owen, who will be 22 on Friday, scored his first senior goal for the club in May 1997 as a 17-year-old on his debut at Wimbledon.
It was a strike seen many times since. Put through, one on one with the goalkeeper, Owen was deadly.
The following season he scored 23 and then came France 98 and the wonder goal against Argentina.
He returned to England a national hero and the following season he managed another 23 goals.
Then came the first of the serious injuries with only 12 goals the following term but last season, despite more injuries, he netted 24 goals, including two that won the FA Cup Final against Arsenal in Cardiff. This season he has hit 20 in 21 games.


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It's no secret that I love desserts, and one of my biggest challenges with being vegan is making satisfying desserts. I've found that cobblers are an easy way to solve this dilemma. Today I was pleased to find blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries on sale at my grocery store. This Mixed Berry Cobbler with a cornbread topping was the fruit (yes, pun intended) of my labor.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A car-safety advocate on Wednesday urged the lawyer overseeing General Motors Co's program to compensate victims of accidents linked to a faulty ignition switch in its vehicles to take a more active approach to finding cases of injury or death.
Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said in a letter to Ken Feinberg, the lawyer overseeing the GM program, that Feinberg should expand outreach efforts and scour federal car-safety databases for accidents in recalled vehicles to determine whether the switch was to blame for additional injuries or deaths.
The switch, which can slip out of position, cutting power to air bags and brakes, prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles this year.
The program headed by Feinberg, which began accepting claims on Aug. 1, had received 1,851 claims as of Friday. So far Feinberg has deemed 67 claims eligible, including 32 for deaths and 35 for injuries.
Ditlow's letter said reports in federal car-safety databases suggest there may be more switch-related accidents, and that "further search is necessary" to identify possible claimants. He pointed to a recent report from the New York Times that said that the family of a woman killed in an early ignition-switch crash had not been aware that they were eligible to make a claim.
"The Center for Auto Safety is concerned that the GM ignition compensation program will turn out to be little more than a public relations ploy for General Motors," Ditlow wrote.
A spokesman for GM, Jim Cain, said the company is taking steps to notify all known current and former owners of recalled vehicles about the program. Since July, about 5.3 million letters have been, or will be, sent to those owners, with a final batch of mailings scheduled for next week, Cain said.
Feinberg said in an email to Reuters that he had received Ditlow's letter and would take it under advisement. He noted that the program has already recognized 32 deaths, nearly three times the 13 originally attributed to the switch by GM.
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Topic Page: Fugard, Athol
South African playwright, director and actor. Fugard achieved international acclaim for his plays The Blood Knot (1961), Sizwe Bandi is Dead (1972), and My Children! My Africa (1990). His work often explores the effects of apartheid on South Africa's black population and the country's rapidly changing modern politics. He published an autobiography, Cousins: A Memoir, in 1997.
A pioneer in breaking racial barriers in South African theater, Athol Fugard used theater to build bridges between blacks and whites from the 1950s to the present. Many of his plays are set in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province where he was raised by an English father and an Afrikaner mother. Instead of completing his studies at the University of Cape Town, Fugard hitchhiked throughout the African continent. Two years after returning home to South Africa, in 1956, Fugard married Sheila Meiring.
The pair relocated to Johannesburg in 1958 to work in theater. Fugard took a day job in the court system where he learned of the injustices of the pass law system. In his spare time, he established close ties with the black artists of Sophia-town, who worked with him on his first production, No Good Friday, in 1958, followed by Nongogo in 1959. Both plays featured black casts that depicted life in the townships. The many plays that followed addressed race relations in South Africa, including The Blood Knot (1961) and Boesman & Lena (1969).
In 1963, Fugard collaborated with a black performing arts group in Port Elizabeth called the Serpant Players. Fugard and two key members of this group, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, teamed up to write Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (1972) and The Island (1973). Bansi portrayed the hardships of South African migrant laborers, while The Island explored the lives of two inmates on Robben Island. From 1958 to 2008, Fugard wrote numerous plays, a novel, and two memoirs. Although not all of his plays discuss race and politics, his drama is known for creating interracial dialogue between groups. The 2005 adaptation of his novel Tsotsi was the first South African film to win an Academy Award for best foreign film.
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This poor girl is covered by Germany's universal health care system, one of the best in the world. In spite of this, Germany spends half of the amount per person that is spent in the United States per person for health care. The system was nationalized by the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck. This poor girl has access to some of the world's best dental care as well, and nursing homes and MRI's when necessary. She may indeed be hard working at her sausage job, but is respected by the health care system and doesn't have to jump through hoops to get decent medical care. Her body is not for sale the way ours are here in the US, where there is a price on our heads, literally.
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On Monday, fourteen MLB players are expected to be suspended in the Biogenesis case. A-Rod's suspension/ban is expected to be the worst of the all suspensions, which are expected to mostly be 50 game bans.
A-Rod was involved in Anthony Bosch's Miami clinic, which had sold PEDs to major league players. ESPN's Outside The Lines first reported that the clinic had been distributed PEDs to players. Major League Baseball continued to investigate the case, and suspended Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun. Braun did not appeal, and many other players are not planning on appealing their suspensions, if given. Jhonny Peralta, Francisco Cervelli, Fautino de los Santos, Nelson Cruz, Jesus Montero, Fernando Martinez, Jordan Noberto, Cesar Puello, Bartolo Colon, Melky Cabrera, Yasmani Grandal, and Gio Gonzalez have all been on Bosch's records. Colon, Gonzalez, Cabrera, and Grandal are not expected to be suspended.
Rodriguez's contract ends in 2018, and if he is suspended for the 214 games, he will not return until 2015. He has not appeared in any games for the Yankees this year, and started a new rehab appearance yesterday. In 14 minor league games this season, Rodriguez is hitting .214 with 3 HR and 10 RBI.


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A little while back I posted Helium Helping Writers Fulfill Their Dreams and I think it's time for a little update. In that post I discussed how Helium was a great site that would help people improve their writing skills and I thought that being the case it would be of interest to a lot of bloggers.
I also mentioned that your articles will be rated by other Helium members, and I think that may have put people off, which is a real shame. One important fact you should know about rating articles is that no-one knows who the article belongs to making it probably one of the most honest appraisal schemes around.
Just the other day I noticed that one of my articles slipped from a 5 out of 10 rating to a 10 out of 18. I wasn't at all impressed with the sudden drop and so I had a look at some of the articles above me and I decided that I could do better. That is one of the good things about Helium, you are allowed to edit your articles, within reason, to provide a much improved one. Anyway, I edited the article and resubmitted it and low and behold the next time I looked it was rated No.1! Sweet! Here is the revised article.
When offering advice on parenting, one of the first things people want to know is whether or not you have the necessary credentials to offer said advice. Unlike some who have taken courses on the subject but have never raised a child themselves, I can say that I have helped raise two children, a 21 year old male and an 18 year old female, and it's this experience that I would like to share with you.
I admit I have made my mistakes, but I believe that have learned by them. You may well find some books written by so called experts that may contradict what I am about to say, but I don't care, it worked for me, it will hopefully work for you and at the very least, it give you some ideas.
The Bundle Of Joy Arrives!
The birth of your first child is truly a miracle, and I like to think of every newborn as a fresh piece of clay, one whose future shape will depend largely on how you work it on the wheel of life. It's a scary thought for many a new parent, and so it should be because the way we bring up that child not only shapes his or her life, but those who come in contact with the resulting adult. The first few years are very important as every child will need the gentlest of touches and all the loving care and nurturing you can give. The more time you devote in the early days the greater the bond and truer the form it will take.
There will be many times when the baby will cry and scream, but no good will come of it if you rant and rave back as the baby doesn't understand a word your saying and the emotions you convey will only scare the child exasperating the problem. You first have to find out whats wrong. Is it overly moist, or are there other lumps present in the clay? If so, then a diaper change is in order. Is it too dry and cracking it may be that a temperature check is called for, as something may be amiss. Not taking on the right shape or is the size of your work of art not what it should be? Then perhaps some food is the answer. If all seems to be in order then then perhaps all that is needed is a bit of loving attention.
One important point to make for all first time parents is that you are not alone. There are many people out there who can help you so do not be afraid to ask for that help.
A Toddler Emerges.
So you've given it all the loving attention that you think is required and you place it in the kiln, after a while you take him/her out and you now have a little toddler running around getting into all sorts of mischief. Patience is definitely a virtue now. The child will be looking for all sorts of attention; the trick is to reward good behavior and to ignore or give a firm NO to bad behavior. This can be tricky sometimes because if ignoring does not get the reaction he's looking for he will recommit the crime.
Remember as frustrating as it can be anger on your part is not the answer unless its controlled anger.
The first is a useless emotion that has clouded your thought process leading to improper action on your part. Controlled Anger occurs when you can step back for a moment take a couple of breaths, count to ten and access the situation. Perhaps no anger at all is needed and you merely have to take the child aside and explain the consequences of what he is doing.
Controlled Anger is to be used sparingly and in dire situations and done on the spot. No point saying "wait till your dad gets home" as this is totally useless because children have a short attention span at that age and they will have forgotten what they've done and won't know what they are being told off for. The action required may be raising the voice or a smack. Once again sparingly because those parents who do this at the drop of the hat, smacking their child every time it makes a mistake will cause the child to become immune to this sort of teaching practice.
The Teen Years
OMG! What have I got myself in for, is the reaction of many parents, once their child has reached the dreaded teens. If you have taught the child in the early years, when you were able to shape and mold them, the teen years can be a whole lot easier. If you have waited until now to instruct a child you will have a hard time ahead of you. All I can say good luck, just remember, whatever the pain and sacrifice you have to go through, it will all be worth it.
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Participating in a guided launch tour of Lake St. Lucia is one of the most memorable experiences to be had in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. Several operators offer tours lasting about two hours and departing at different times of the day. In this time the cruisers move about 8km up into the lake from the jetties in St. Lucia town, bringing visitors close to a variety of aquatic life and giving an interesting glimpse into the ecology of the lake system.
During our recent visit to iSimangaliso, we enjoyed a tour on the 80-seater Santa Lucia, a joint operation between Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and Thompsons Tours. A cashbar on board sells drinks and snacks while a guide gives detailed explanations of the surroundings and wildlife encountered along the way. We passed several pods of hippos (witnessing one naughty youngster chewing on another tourboat), a few crocodiles, numerous birds, wildlife on the shore, got a chance to view the mangrove marshes and even saw a shark's dorsal fin briefly break the water's surface.
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Large-scale solar plants are massive construction projects, that cover hundreds or thousands of acres of land in photovoltaic (PV) goodness. This amazing video shows how they go from concept to reality.
When it's finished, this 550-megawatt plant, called Topaz Solar Farms and situated in San Luis Obispo County, will contain more than eight-million PV modules. Its 4,500 acre sprawl will provide enough electricity to power 180,000 average households. [MidAmerican Renewables]


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It has been a lovely project to work with. No difficult stitches to crochet and I found it satisfying to join each flower when almost done. I was even good enough to remember to trim in the ends when the new flower was joined to the shawl!!!!
The colours chosen for this soft accessorise were 5, but each row is formed by 16 flowers, so I had to decide for a 6th shade…. For a long while it was orange…
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Great River Energy Launches Redesigned Economic Development Website
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Maple Grove, MN - Great River Energy, a wholesale energy provider to 28 member cooperatives, has launched a revamped website that highlights its economic development efforts in Minnesota. Site selectors, entrepreneurs and business owners will find a comprehensive suite of user-friendly tools and information on the site.
The new economic development portal is a comprehensive repository featuring data from its member cooperatives that span the state, in-depth information on industry sectors, resources for businesses looking to relocate and more.
The site was rebranded with an updated look and feel. It features an interactive map of Great River Energy's 28 member cooperatives and their service territories. Users can click on portions of the map to bring up individual co-op profiles with key data points.
The portal also features a wealth of information and resources tailored to four key industry sectors: data centers, agricultural/forest products, advanced manufacturing and mining.
Great River Energy is a leader in data center site selection services and was the first in Minnesota to develop a site assessment program specifically for data center development. The website will soon feature cutting edge virtual reality site selection tours of Great River Energy's certified data center sites.
To create and design this sophisticated online portal, Great River Energy selected Golden Shovel Agency, a national economic development communications firm recognized for its award winning design and expertise in business and workforce attraction.
"We are very excited to launch our new website and virtual site selection tour. As the role of media keeps evolving, Great River Energy and our members rely on our communications partner, Golden Shovel Agency, to provide us with cutting-edge technology to successfully position our economic development efforts," said Tom Lambrecht, Great River Energy's economic development services manager.
"We are really proud to be working with Great River Energy. Their leadership as an energy cooperative continues to push us to innovate, both to meet their needs and further the entire industry," said Golden Shovel Agency CEO Aaron Brossoit.
Visitors can view the newly designed site at http://econdev.greatriverenergy.com/.
Great River Energy provides wholesale electric service to 28 member cooperatives, which distribute electricity to approximately 685,000 member consumers in Minnesota — or about 1.7 million people.
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Are You Prepared for the New Google Policy Changes?
Back in August, Google announced a change to their Mobile Search Engine Ranking Policy. They will start penalizing sites that use intrusive interstitials on mobile web pages from January 2017. January 10th, to be exact. That's today.
What do you need to know about Google's interstitial policy?
Firstly, what are these intrusive interstitials that Google are talking about?
In a nutshell, intrusive interstitials are mainly pop-ups. Pop-ups are one of the biggest sources of email acquisition on our websites, accounting for up to 50% of leads each month.
Unfortunately, pop-ups are also annoying. They slow down your site and are terrible for user experience. They block the viewer from seeing the content on the page they've clicked through until they engage with you. That could be by submitting their email address or clicking on the X to close the pop.
In the past 18 months, Google has begun to place a huge emphasis on user experience and site speed. The introduction of AMP last year allows websites to load four times faster and use 10 times less data than a normal mobile web page. The new rules surrounding interstitials help create a better mobile user experience. Together, they help create a better mobile web, which long-term, is good for everybody.
That's long-term, though. Short-term, the new interstitial rules create a headache for marketers, which we'll get to a little later. Before that, we'll look at what Google has to say.
The official word from Google
There are times when it's difficult to get a definitive answer from Google, but they're pretty open about the new interstitial changes. The official line from Google is that the following can result in your pages getting penalised:
- Showing a popup that covers the main content, either immediately after the user navigates to a page from the search results, or while they are looking through the page.
- Displaying a standalone interstitial that the user has to dismiss before accessing the main content.
Using a layout where the above-the-fold portion of the page appears similar to a standalone interstitial, but the original content has been inlined underneath the fold.
- One important thing to note is what Google's John Mueller confirmed on Twitter. Google isn't looking to penalize all pages with interstitials. It is only going to penalize the ones which searchers can land on from search results. It's still OK to display a pop-up when a user navigates from one of your pages to another.
Here are six websites, viewed on mobile, that may look familiar to you. They've one thing in common. They all fail the new Google rules. The pages on these sites that have pop ups could potentially get penalised by Google.
Scary, right?
It is, but let's not panic…just yet.
What does it all mean?
The big thing right now is that the changes only affect mobile visitors. We also don't know how this is going to impact our rankings. It's a new ranking signal, one of at least 200. How much emphasis Google will place on it is anybody's guess.
Does that mean that we can ignore the new rules? Ignore them at your peril.
Short-term, you might be OK.
Looking at the bigger picture, speed and user experience are becoming very important in eyes of Google. Google are hell bent on creating a cleaner mobile web and rightly so. From a user's point of view, the mobile web sucks. The majority of websites are built for desktop with little thought given to mobile viewers. The new rules help improve user experience, which should indirectly help your rankings by reducing bounce rate and increasing time spent on your site.
What do we need to do right now?
The first thing you need to do is figure out how many of your current signups come via mobile. Having this information will make it easier to make a decision on the new rules.
If you redirect signups to a Thank You Page, a quick and easy way to find out how many signups come via mobile is as follows.
In Analytics, click into Behavior > Site Content > All Pages.
In the secondary dimension field, enter your Thank You Page URL. It should look something like this.
In segments, add Mobile, Tablet, and also Desktop. Remove the All Users segment.
Your segments should now look like this.
Look at the Unique Pageviews column. This will give you the data you need.
Once you have this data, you need to decide what action needs to be taken.
At a minimum, you should monitor your rankings, and traffic, in the coming weeks. If you see a drop, you can act quickly to rectify any problems that may be caused by popups.
If mobile signups are low, the safest bet is to change your pop-ups to a solution that passes Google's new rules. Optin Monster have stated that their floating bars are compliant with the new rules. Here's an example of one company that has already made the change:
If you use Listrak as your pop up software, they've also introduced a Google compliant solution. They sent an email update about it on January 3rd and followed up with another mail, yesterday. Reach out, if you'd like me to forward it on.
Other pop-up solutions will likely follow suit. If you use different software on your site, be sure to check out if there's a compliant pop that you can use.
The bottom line on the Google interstitial policy changes
There are a lot of things we don't know about the upcoming changes. We don't know how much impact they're going to have on our business. Long term, it could be a game-changer. Pop-ups play an important role in building our lists.
Now is not the time to dwell on that, however.
Right now, you need to decide if you should take immediate action and change your mobile pop-ups to ones that are compliant or if you should take a risk, and see how it plays out.
Use the analytics data to help you decide. If a large amount of your signups come via mobile, it might be worth considering a third option. That is, testing your current mobile pop-up against a new compliant one to see if it impacts the number of names you acquire via the mobile pop-up before rolling it out fully.
Initial testing shows a drop in signups via a compliant pop-up.
Whatever option you decide to take, we'd love to know the rationale behind your decision.
Reach out, and we can discuss the pros and cons of making the change now vs waiting it out to see the initial results in the coming weeks.
Until next time,
Colm O'Sullivan
SEO Specialist, AIM


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Knight of the Order of the Thistle
I've been thinking about establishment. Partly it's because, in my new job as a journalist on EU affairs, I've been in contact with several MEPs and commissioners and this morning I was taking pictures of the president of the European parliament for a feature on, yep, you've guessed it, electric bikes.
What also prompted these thoughts is the fact that the "in-house" style at the magazine follows the same style as the Guardian newspaper, i.e. to use lowercase words wherever possible. Writing in this way got me thinking about titles and honours and the establishment in general.
It'll be interesting to see how my opinions change as I come into more frequent contact with politicans and heads of different organisations. At the moment, I still read a title like "Professor Sir Gilbert Knockbottle OBE PhD FRS LLM FRCP KCB PRA MSTA" with a certain amount of awe, even though I know that for a lot of these titles, it's a case of approaching the right people with the right words and the right wine.
The other day I was trying to get in touch with somebody who is a professor and a knight, and again as I was dialling the numbers I thought about what I was going to say to somebody who was considered of great importance both in society and also in academic circles, i.e. on paper, both brilliant and charming. I'm not a particularly tied to social convention as such – I've worked for Greenpeace, for example – but there's something about knowing that this person was an established authority that makes me want to make a good impression.
My guess is that the more time you are able to spend on the "inside" – in government departments, royal colleges, academic circles, international institutions and so on – the more you become aware of the tricks used to build up a favourable reputation. Perhaps I'll come across these tricks the more contact I have with EU officials. Of course, there are exceptions where genuine hard work merits proper recognition. However, I have my suspicions that most post-nominal letters might turn out to be less about long-term committment and more about long-life Chateau Latour.


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Horrendous Domino Ajax bug and world's most useless technote (Updated)
Michael Brown November 17 2012 07:30:00 AMUpdate 5/5/2013
I recently updated my Domino server to Domino 9, and the bug that I described below appears to be fixed. Certainly, it is not triggered in my Web NAB picker. If you click on the live demo there, you'll see that I've modified the second name in the list to contain an exclamation mark.
This afternoon I was writing some jQuery/JavaScript to return JSON data from a Domino view using the "?ReadViewEntries&OutputFormat=JSON" syntax. This is something that I have done many times in the past without problem. But I was mostly using Domino 7 servers then...
This time, the server was 8.5.3 and the jQuery.ajax() call was failing. After a while scouring through Firebug, I spotted a JSON parsing error about not properly escaping a backslash character. Except, I knew that there were no backslash characters in the view's data. But there it was in the returned JSON data: a backslash character in front of an exclamation mark... in front of every exclamation mark!
A bit of Googling has turned up the following technote, which has to be read to be believed:
It's a bug in the readviewentries&outputformat=json syntax in Domino 8.5.2/8.5.3.
The character "!" appears as "\!" in the JSON response but should be "!".
No shit?
No explanation given as to how this has happened. Let alone any apology for screwing over one the best features that the product has had in years. Not to worry though, they do give us a "Local fix":
Do not use character "!" in queried data.
Where would be all be without IBM Support? It sure was a weight off my mind I can tell you. All I have to do is tell all my users to keep their fingers away from that pesky exclamation mark key and all will be well. Maybe I could have the desktop guys go around the building and physically pry it off the keyboards? They'll still have their right-hand number pad if they need to use a "1" ever (although we can always try to ween them off that too, I guess).
The technote is marked:
This APAR is closed as FIN. We have deferred the fix to a future release.
Can anybody translate "closed as FIN" into English? And what "future release" is this filthy, stinking, howler of a regression bug actually going to be fixed in? For that matter, why the f*** hasn't it been fixed before now?
Note: a further Google turned up a posting on the Domino 8 forum claiming that the greater than symbol (>) is similarly affected by the Domino Development Team's predilection for sprinkling unwanted backslashes upon us all.
Update 17/11/2012 - Proposed Workaround
I am now implementing the jQuery/JavaScript workaround below. I need to test it further, especially in IE, but it's looking good so far.
In Firebug, I saw that when a JSON.parse error is triggered in the $.ajax() call, jQuery passes in a second parameter to the error function, and that second parameter's value is set to "parsererror". Also, the first parameter is an object, which has a .responseText attribute whose value is the source text of the JSON data that was returned. (The jQuery documentation confirms these parameters.)
Putting all that together, I am able to trap the "parsererror" within the $.ajax() call's error function. I then run a couple of chained regular expressions to remove the extraneous backslashes from the .responseText data source. I then parse the scrubbed JSON string data manually before passing it to my success function.
Here's the code:
url: '/mydb.nsf/myview?readviewentries&outputformat=json',
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) { {
error: function(arg1, arg2) {
if(arg2 ==="parsererror") {
var parseFix = true;
var parsedJSON;
try {
var jsonSource = arg1.responseText;
jsonSource = jsonSource.replace(/\\\!/g, "!").replace(/\\\>/g, ">");
parsedJSON = $.parseJSON(jsonSource);
catch(e) {
parseFix = false;
alert("Error: " + e);
if(parseFix) {
else {
alert("Error: " + arg1);
Of course, it's still a huge pain the arse to add this code to every $.ajax() call, but the beauty of doing it this way is that once the bug is finally fixed (see comments), the fix code should never be triggered again.
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Bob Grant, the radio talk show host who for more than 25 years has provoked outrage with his derogatory comments about black and Hispanic people, was abruptly taken off the air yesterday after facing criticism for a remark he made following the death of Ronald H. Brown, the Commerce Secretary.
Through his afternoon radio show on WABC-AM, which is broadcast throughout the New York region, Mr. Grant has become a flashpoint in the debate over whether talk radio has gone too far. He has referred to blacks as "savages," and has got prominent politicians into trouble for appearing on his program.
A two-sentence statement released late yesterday by Capital Cities/ABC Inc., said the relationship between the company and Mr. Grant "has been terminated by mutual agreement." But several industry officials said there was no doubt that Mr. Grant had been dismissed.
The last straw, they said, was a comment by Mr. Grant on his show on April 3 after initial news reports about the crash from Croatia said there might be one survivor. "My hunch is that he is the one survivor," Mr. Grant said, according to a transcript of his program provided by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog organization based in Manhattan. "I just have that hunch. Maybe it's because, at heart, I'm a pessimist."
Neither Mr. Grant's agent nor Phil Boyce, the WABC-AM program director and Mr. Grant's chief champion at the station, returned calls seeking comment yesterday. Julie Hoover, a spokeswoman for Capital Cities/ABC, said the company would have no other comment.
But Robert A. Iger, the president of Capital Cities/ABC, is known to have been uncomfortable in the past about some of Mr. Grant's remarks on race, and to have admonished Mr. Grant about them.
Industry executives who know Mr. Iger said that he had learned of the comments about Mr. Brown's plane crash a few days after the comments were made, then had asked for verification of them, and then had decided to terminate Mr. Grant's program.
Former New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, speaking on his own WABC-AM talk show last Saturday morning, called attention to Mr. Grant's comment about Mr. Brown, saying, "I was disgusted by it."
Mr. Grant, 66, whose real name is Robert Gigante and who lives in Manalapan, N.J., has worked in radio for more than 45 years, and has consistently expressed the view that black and Hispanic people are genetically inferior to whites.
At various times in the past few years, Mr. Grant has used a crude sexual epithet in referring to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and has also described former New York Mayor David N. Dinkins as a "washroom attendant."
He also said that if the basketball star Earvin (Magic) Johnson, who is H.I.V.-positive, developed AIDS and deteroriated, then he would "make a contribution" to society. In addition, he said that he hoped that President Clinton would "exchange bodily fluids" with an H.I.V.-positive immigrant.
Although many people expressed outrage about such comments, WABC-AM and its parent company have generally defended Mr. Grant's First Amendment right to speak his opinions.
In March, Alan M. Dershowitz's Sunday-night talk show was canceled by Mr. Boyce, the WABC program director, after Mr. Dershowitz called Mr. Grant a racist, a bigot and "a despicable talk show host" on his March 17 program. At the time, Mr. Boyce said he would not allow one host to talk about another that way, and added that Mr. Dershowitz's ratings were minuscule compared to Mr. Grant's.
"He's the one who shot Bob Grant in the foot," Mr. Dershowitz said of Mr. Boyce, in a telephone interview yesterday.
"Until they took my show off the air in New York, they were able to justify Bob Grant on free-speech grounds. And my preference would be for everybody to be on the air, but once they began to exercise some censorship, they couldn't pick and choose, and choose a racist over a non-racist."
Recently, and before Mr. Grant's comment about Secretary Brown, several advocacy groups and black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the group FAIR, had begun a campaign to put public pressure on WABC and on The Walt Disney Company, which bought Capital Cities/ABC last August, to take Mr. Grant off the air.
FAIR, based in New York, placed a quarter-page advertisement on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times on March 31 in March, after Mr. Dershowitz's show was canceled, giving examples of what it called Mr. Grant's bigotry, and asking the company to consider whether Mr. Grant's views were "in keeping with Disney's image as a provider of family entertainment, to families of all colors."
FAIR also has made a two-hour tape of Mr. Grant's comments through the years. Mr. Dershowitz said he had made copies of that tape, and was planning to send them to Disney and ABC executives.
He said he had not sent the tape to Mr. Iger or other executives yet, but added, "The point is they knew this whole campaign was about to begin."
In a statement yesterday, Steve Rendell, senior analyst at the research and advocacy group said, "While FAIR has never called for Bob Grant's removal from the airwaves, we are heartened that at long last, the issue of Grant's hateful rhetoric has apparently been taken seriously."
Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels leader who has also been a radio host in New York recently, took over Mr. Grant's time slot yesterday, and is expected to do so on an interim basis for an undetermined time.
IN HIS OWN WORDS Bob Grant, On the Record
Bob Grant, the talk radio host, lost his show on WABC-AM yesterday following comments he made about Ronald Brown when the Commerce Secretary died in a plane crash. The comments come after years in which Mr. Grant has made disparging remarks about other groups and public officials.
"I can't take these screaming savages, whether they're in the African Methodist Church, the A.M.E. church, or whether they're in the streets, burning, robbing, looting."
"I'd like to get every environmentalist, put them up against a wall and shoot them."
"The sleazebag in the White House."
"The ideal situation -- you know what the ideal situation would be -- if they drowned them, then they would stop coming."
"The only hope we have is something that we're not brave enough to do. But if there is a brave new world of tomorrow, they will enact the Bob Grant Mandatory Sterilization Act." ON MAGIC JOHNSON
"Unfortunately, all he has is the H.I.V. virus and that could last for a long time."