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- Mark Robertson
- 7 May 2007
ABC2, Glasgow, Wed 23 May
The sides of the musical road less travelled are littered with well-intentioned souls whose big ideas never quite had the stamina to make it to fruition. The seasoned veterans in Battles are cannier than most, men who resiliently stuck it out on their own paths before this meeting of musical minds.
A pair of acclaimed EPs in 2004 and some bursts of serious touring whet appetites for the hypnotic grooves of this New York-based quartet, but it has taken until now to get a chew at their debut album. Where before their boundless energy shot hither and thither like a lightning bolt searching for an earth, they have found a conductor for all the wild elements in their album Mirrored. That's not to say they've mellowed. If anything, the introduction of more vocals (well, Tyondai Braxton's filtered cut ups and loops of vocals somewhere between the Pinky and Perky and Ming the Merciless) makes them sound even more peculiar, but there's less of a scuttle and more of a swagger to their sound, nailed with ruthless efficiency by sticksman John Stanier. Nowhere is this more brilliantly illustrated than in lead single 'Atlas' where they build a mountain of a song out of a nagging bass loop and Stanier's Glitter Band tom-tom rumble while guitars bray and squeak like zoo exhibits.
While all these wilful juxtapositions sound very impressive on paper, the truly great thing about Battles is that the snappy ideas transfer onto tape and into the live arena. They are an uncompromising beast and relish the chance to drag an audience out of the typical rock band comfort zone into somewhere odd, playful and new.
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The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has told stent manufacturers, importers, hospitals, cardiac centres and doctors to ensure uninterrupted supply and usage of "all makes" of the devices on patients' demands within their ceiling prices. NPPA, the country's drug pricing watchdog, reminded these stent suppliers that they had to do so to comply with certain provisions of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013, and the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
In case of non-compliance of NPPA's instructions, the regulator said it may be constrained to invoke provisions of legal prosecution under the EC Act (1955) apart from other provisions under DPCO (2013).
Certain hospitals and doctors have refused to use certain categories of stents, reasoning that manufacturers and importers have asked them to 'hold' these "high priced" devices and make them unavailable to patients, NPPA stated in a notice on Thursday.
Companies have also informed NPPA that a few hospitals have refused to order stents that they were using till now, the regulator stated, adding that distributors had also been vocal about shortages of stents.
"Probability of an 'understanding' between companies, the distributors and hospitals under such a situation cannot be ruled out," stated NPPA.
Among the provisions that stent suppliers across the trade channel have to comply with is Para 28 of DPCO (2013).
This paragraph states that manufacturers, importers and distributors can't withhold or refuse to sell to a dealer any drug without good and sufficient reason. The drug in this case would be a coronary stent, NPPA has said.
Going by this provision, hospitals billing patients too can't withhold from sale or refuse to sell any stent available with it to a patient intending to purchase such a stent.
NPPA's latest notification also mandates hospitals to replenish stocks of any stent brand that have been exhausted by issuing a written demand to the company concerned and informing the regulator of the demand they have raised.
Companies have also been advised to write hospitals and distributors who refuse to take a supply of certain brands of their stents that they used to stock before NPPA capped their prices, the body added. These companies also have to inform NPPA of such incidents so that the regulator and State Drug Controllers can inspect the hospitals' records.
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Be a Science Fair Volunteer! The Mount Washington Valley Regional Science & Technology Fair exists in part due to the generous time given by many volunteers. Besides judging exhibits, we need volunteers to greet participating youth and visitors, set up and break down exhibits and other important tasks throughout the day plus tasks that need to be completed in advance.
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• Can focus on the task of fairly judging exhibits in a timely and consistent manner
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Wave 1: 9-10:30 (Middle School)
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Curious how projects will be assessed? Preview the MWV SciFair 2016 Rubric.
Other Volunteers Needed
Set Up Crew
What: Helps set up tables and exhibits
When: Day before the fair – 12:00pm-5:00pm
Break Down Crew
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When: Day of event – 5:15pm-9:00pm
What: Greet and orient exhibitors, 5th & 6th gr passport students, and guests
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When: 2 hour shifts throughout the day of the fair from 8:30am – 6:30pm
If you would like to volunteer at the Science Fair please contact Claes Thelemarck at UNH Cooperative Extension at 447-3834 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Diane Ryan at the Mt. Washington Valley Economic Council at 447-6622 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Nominated by Graham Herbst
My nomination for Great American Tree goes to our State Champion swamp white oak, in Elmwood Park, Omaha Nebraska. This 249 point tree is over 13 ft in stem circumference, and at its' widest point spreads 110 ft. The park itself is 120 years old and the tree is estimated to be 70-100 years old, which is not too shabby for the Great Plains. While other swamp white oaks in Eastern Nebraska survived over 100 days under 4 feet of water during the Missouri River flooding of 2011, this woody sentinel stands on a hot, wide-open west-facing slope as a testament to the adaptability of the species.
The Nebraska Forest Service and Nebraska Statewide Arboretum partner each year to host a FREE recreational tree climb in this tree during Omaha's Earth Day celebration. When an adjacent maple was removed downhill from this tree, the crowding caused a spectacular, stage-like opening in the canopy that is perfect for unobstructed rope access. Hundreds of participants (ages 7-68) have ascended one of 14 ropes hung in the tree to get an amazing view of the festivities and a new experience with our community forest canopy.


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By John Okoh
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday urged investors and transnational companies to invest in the Nigerian economy,which is responding fast to new initiatives and policy drive of the Federal Government under the direction of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC, which he chairs.
Osinbajo who was speaking at the commissioning of the New Nestle Milo Ready-To-Drink Factory in Agbara, Ogun State, Nigeria, said government is committed to implementing the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) to keep the economy on the path of sustainable economic growth and global competitiveness.
He said that one important "component of the Plan is the provision of critical infrastructure, such as roads, rail and power, which this administration is fully committed to. We're fully committed to supporting companies such as Nestle as we spur growth and create jobs within the economy."
While congratulating the Chairman of Nestle Nigeria – Engr. David Ifezulike; the Managing Director – Mr. Mauricio Alarcon, as well as other members of the Board and management of Nestle Nigeria, on the inauguration of the new N4.1 billion factory, Osinbajo said government is fully committed to supporting companies such as Nestle to spur growth and create jobs within the economy.
He said; "Last week, PEBEC announced a National Action Plan (NAP 3.0), which commenced on February 5 and will run until April 5, 2018. This accelerated intervention programme will focus on implementing some of the most relevant ease of doing business reforms that have ever come within our radar within the next two months.
"For example, we are working with NAFDAC, SON, the Nigeria Customs Service, as well as the Nigeria Police Force, amongst others, to ease the burden of product registrations, quality standards regulation, as well as the movement of goods and services across the country.
"Since July 2017, the Council also began collaborating with State Governments to implement ease of doing business initiatives that will make States increasingly attractive investment hubs.
"From a broader perspective, two days ago, we launched what we call the Policy Laboratories, this is an intervention to accelerate the implementation of our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). The Laboratories will bring together all private and public sector stakeholders necessary to achieve the specific policy or project objectives of our economic plan. In the first instance, we are focusing on three specific areas; agriculture and transport, power and gas supply, and manufacturing and processing.
"The goal of these labs is to generate $24 billion worth of investment, 80% of which we expect will come from certain private sector participants, with 15 million jobs, projecting about 3.5% GDP growth this year, and 7% by 2020."
He said the government was collaborating with the National Assembly to achieve a better environment for doing business in Nigeria and urged investors to take advantage of the favourable business climate and investment opportunities.


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The Schomp Automotive Group has been owned and operated by the same family for nearly 75 years (if you don't know Lisa Schomp's voice by now, you must not listen to radio), but now a new generation has taken the reigns, in the form of 32-year-old Aaron Wallace. Wallace, the son of Lisa and General Manager Mark Wallace, is the fourth generation owner of Schomp Automotive Group, SW Insurance and Wallace Auto Group. He brings a new kind of energy—and look—to the company: Think ponytail and beard instead of traditional suit and tie. We got a glimpse of what a typical day (if there is such a thing) looks like for the fitness-minded Littleton businessman.
6:30–7:30 A.M Wallace travels a lot for work, but if he's in Colorado, his day always begins the same way: let out Twig, his 8-month-old Bernedoodle (an adorable mountain dog/poodle mix) and feed her. If he's up on the earlier side, he'll do some cardio before getting dressed and ready. He never skips his morning green tea.
7:45 A.M. Head to the office in his BMW i8 or Mercedes-Benz G550. Owning car dealerships has its perks.
8:00 A.M. The first thing he does in his office—inside the new Schomp Honda building in Highlands Ranch—is look over his daily list of metrics and pace reports. He spends about an hour reading and sending emails, all while talking to core members of his team. He drinks a protein shake while Twig looks on. (She accompanies Wallace to work every day.)
9:00 A.M. Schomp is big on investing in employees' health, so it's no surprise that the Schomp employee gym is pretty loaded. Each of the dealerships operated by Schomp holds a fully-equipped cross-fit gym. You'll find Wallace there whenever he's in town working out with the house trainers Ian and Joe. His routine typically involves a cardio warm-up followed by circuit and cross-fit training for an hour. The dealership also offers in-store yoga classes and massage sessions to keep everyone nice and relaxed.
10:00 A.M. Workout complete, Wallace downs a Muscle Pharm Coconut Water protein shake. After showering and getting dressed, he'll finally grab a quick, high-protein breakfast, which he eats while responding to emails and making phone calls.
11:00 A.M. Meetings and conference calls start. With a focus on growing the brands, aggressively pricing inventory and spearheading the growth of the automotive group, there's no shortage of decisions that Wallace has to make or consultants with whom he needs to advise. Every day is different, but the afternoon hours always revolve around meetings. "Basically I go where Kelly (Wallace's executive assistant) tells me I'm supposed to be until 6 p.m.," he says. "Somewhere in there I eat twice. Not really in any set order; just when it's convenient."
6:00 P.M. If he's finished up meetings and calls, he'll spend an hour or so wrapping up the day and talking with direct reports. With the recent openings of the brand new Schomp MINI and Schomp Honda dealerships in Highlands Ranch, there's no getting out of work early these days.
7:30 P.M. The sun is starting to set when Wallace leaves the office. Twig is excited to get home, get fed and get some quality one-on-one time with her dad. After the canine love, it's off to dinner. "I'm out of town 60–70 percent of the time, so when I'm in town I'm usually playing catch-up with business associates or friends and family, so I eat out a lot or have people over for dinner," he says.
8:30 P.M. Wallace is basically starving at this point, and tonight he meets friends at Sushi Sasha in Highlands for dinner. Denver's Bar Dough is another current restaurant favorite. Besides during his workouts, dinner is one of the only times in the day when Wallace isn't working, so he really values this personal time.
10:30–11:00 P.M. He comes home and gets in the hot tub or steam shower to relax. Wallace tries not to check email before bed, but sometimes gets roped into one thing or another. If all goes well, he gets to sleep by 11:30 p.m. or midnight. Then it's up again in the morning to do it all over again.


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French transport company Norbert Dentressangle has announced it is acquiring all the shares of Laxey Logistics Ltd, a holding company which owns the UK transport and logistics company Transport and Development Group (TDG) for £196m (€235m). Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2010
New port opening promises boost for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's GBP226m (US$353m) deep sea port at Magampura harbour, Hambantota, on the south coast of the island has been officially opened with the ceremonial docking of the first vessel to use the port facilities. Phase one of the port, operated by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority and completed in August this year ahead of the scheduled completion in April ... Read More »
Another record for Santos Brasil
The continuing recovery of international trade and strong domestic demand for foreign goods this year has pushed up cargo flows through Santos, Brazil's largest port. Within the port, Tecon Santos – Santos Brasil S.A (SBTP) located on the left bank, is the biggest container terminal in Brazil, handling approximately 18% of the country's total throughput. Read More »
Linde Material Handling transfers its US heavy truck business
Linde Material Handling has made the strategic decision to transfer its heavy truck business in the US to its Linde North American operation. "Our objectives are twofold; to strengthen Linde's position in North America and to improve its market presence" Francesco Chinaglia, managing director of Linde's Heavy Truck Division explained to CM. "Following the recent economic crisis, the launch of the new forklift trucks series 1401 and 1402 will ensure that we have suitable products to generate new opportunities for growth." Read More »
Nautilus bites back at Maersk's 'let them eat cake' message
Nautilus International (formerly NUMAST), the trade union for maritime professionals at sea and ashore, has condemned a message from container shipping giant Maersk urging its sea staff to "eat cake" to celebrate the company's recent announcement of increased profits. Read More »
NYK Logistics UK launches new LCL service
NYK Logistics (UK) has launched a new less-than-container-load (LCL) service from South East Asia to the UK. Read More »
Itajai Berth No 2 operational again
Exactly two years to the date (November 24) of the flood at the APM Terminals (APMT) in the Port of Itajai, Brazil, the CSAV vessel "Hammonia Roma" arrived, starting the first operations at the newly constructed Berth No. 2. Read More »
G-POS achieves 30% improvement in vehicle turnaround times
Royal Seaforth Container Terminal at the Port of Liverpool has invested in International Terminal Solutions (ITS) G-POS real time location system for its fleet of 34 straddle carriers. Read More »
Born Terminal heading for 300,000 teu
Barge Terminal Born (BTB), the multimodal terminal for continental, deepsea and shortsea containers, is to increase its capacity to 300,000 teu a year. Read More »


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First hand experience of the dangers of Liquid Nitrogen
Peak Scientific's Chairman, Robin MacGeachy, sees first-hand the danger of storing nitrogen in dewars during a recent visit to Australia. Labs can remove the dangers of nitrogen cylinders or nitrogen dewars by using a nitrogen generator to supply their instruments.
Hydrogen cylinders are a potential safety risk in the laboratory
Can a laboratory which uses hydrogen gas cylinders ever be considered safe? We look at some of the safety concerns of having hydrogen cylinders in the lab in light of recent tragic events and how a hydrogen generator is a safer solution for providing hydrogen for laboratory applications.
Gas Safety in the Laboratory
Modern laboratories use a number of gases as part of their daily operations. This blog details two of the most common methods of laboratory gas supply, and their associated safety risks and benefits.


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Happy Nü Year, FrüzNation!
Are you one to kick-start the new year with a list of resolutions?
With the help of the internet, we've compiled a short list that can be done easily and will make for a happier start to the Nü Year:
– Give to a charity
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– Eat healthy. Increase antioxidants and probiotics with fresh fruit & dairy in your daily diet.
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DENVER — The mother of a 6-year-old boy whose mouth was taped shut by a school secretary is suing the school system.
An elementary school secretary, Jennifer Carter, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor child abuse charge after the October incident. Carter, 45, taped the unruly child's hands and mouth with masking tape.
Ashlye Tenner, the mother of the student, filed a legal notice to Denver Public Schools that she intends to sue for $500,000.
Carter was sentenced last month to probation and has been fired.
The boy's mother told KMGH-TV that her son was taped after he was sent to the principal's office for misbehaving in class.
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Walking through the labyrinths of my mind Like a crystal maze, going back in time Stories create fractals of light Piercing the retina of my soul I spent too long trying to be Someone else's friend But now I'm remembering the friend I left back home who held the keys To portals where we could be wild and free She gave me a chance to explore The universe with fresh eyes With… Read More
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I have been a fan of the songs of Pete Atkin and Clive James for all my adult life, ever since a friend turned up at a flat I was living in in my late teens with a copy of their second LP, Driving Through Mythical America. It was obvious at first hearing that these were songs of a different order, from the very first song, 'Sunlight Gate', a lyric about the Vietnam war which never names it and manages, at the same time, to be timeless. And that's not even one of the best songs on the record, by some way.
So I've been looking forward to reading Ian Shircore's book, Loose Canon, on their lifelong collaboration. I wasn't disappointed.
These lyrics aren't a sideline for James: while I tend to think that his poetry is over-rated, the constraints of the song lyric seem to suit him well. As he said on the John Peel Show in 2000, "This is the work I'm known least for, but which is closest to my heart." Atkin's arrangements, which are given good consideration here, are often rich and subtle.
Close reading
How do you write about a 50-year partnership that has produced close to 200 songs, with few duds among them, but which are not well-known to many of those picking up the book? Shircore's strategy is to build the story around a set of songs that repay close reading, both lyrically and musically. Unusually for a book about music, most of the chapters conclude with a full song lyric.
For example, take Canoe, which I heard Atkin sing in a folk club in the late '70s but which didn't appear on record until The Lakeside Sessions in the 2000s. The song connects a trio of Polynesians drifting in a canoe with the crew of the stricken Apollo 13, but leaves the listener to make the connection. Certainly when I first heard it the sudden realisation of what the lyric had just done was powerful–powerful enough for me to remember the song, unrecorded, for 20 years. Shircore says:
The Polynesians have missed the island. They are lost, adrift in the vastness of the Pacific, and their fate is sealed. What happens next iss extraordinary. The two lines that follow form a hinge pointt, facing both forwards and backwards and wrenching the song in a totally new direction.
'The time had come for all of us to die/"She's out a whole degreee" takes us straight from the canoe to the spacecraft.
Key changes
One of the strengths of the book is that Atkin, whose music is sometimes overlooked in the afterburners of Clive James, gets his dues here. Just one example: the way in which, in All the Dead Were Strangers, the song moves from F at the end of each verse to G at the start of the next one, something I'd understood viscerally without understanding the technicalities. All The Dead is about the My Lai massacre, and as Shircore notes, "there is a simple restrained arrangment, with subtle guitar and piano fills."
I would have welcomed more of this about one of his finest songs, The Faded Mansion On The Hill, which gets a short discussion here, but Shircore's brief observation is illuminating, that the tune for the verse, which follows "an unexpected key change," and suddenly opens up into a heavily disguised 12-bar blues.
And of course, one can argue with some of the songs that Shircore has chosen to highlight. For my money, The Road of Silk is a better song about ageing than Senior Citizens, and Driving Through Mythical America uses James' vast knowledge of cinema more meaningfully than the 'catalogue' song, Screen-freak. But some of these choices, I suspect, are about telling the story, as Salman Rushdie once said about Desert Island Discs.
Nearly famous
These are, in effect, Shircore's highlights from a recording career that covers six records in the 1970s, and another four (or five, depending on how you count them) in the 2000s and 2010s. Only one, Live Libel — a "contract filler" for RCA — is misjudged. All of them are full of unexpected surprises and private pleasures, both musically and lyrically. Indeed, in the 1970s the NME writer Charles Shaar Murray included James and Atkin in a list of contemporary songwriters that also referenced David Bowie, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Lennon, McCartney, the BeeGees, Jagger and Richards and Cat Stevens. Ian MacDonald, who wrote the definitive book on the Beatles' music, was also a fan.
So why are they not more famous for these songs? Shircore has a number of theories, all of which could be true. One was that they set out to write songs for others to record (which is why Beware of the Beautiful Stranger was recorded in nine hours and sounds like a demo), just as musicians were starting to write songs for themselves. Or that the clever lyrics were out of their time in another way, owing more to Broadway's Golden Age than the spirit of rock'n'roll. Or that releasing singles with good songs on both sides confused DJs at a time when radio play was often critical. Another is down to the incompetence of RCA, which pressed too few copies of their third and fourth records when the demand was there. Their agent wasn't ideal. Shircore also observes that they were obsessive about every aspect of the song-writing craft except their titles (Why An Array of Passionate Lovers, and not Troops of Love" or Children of the Dream?). And looking at this list, one's reminded that most people don't succeed in the record business, and the margins of failure are often wafer thin.
Budget constraints
I have a simpler theory: they didn't want it badly enough, in the same way that Graham Parker was happy not to be a superstar. Atkin has always been a reluctant performer and James had too many other things to be getting on with. I don't mean this in a derogatory way; the people who break through as stars are driven people, sometimes to the point of being sociopaths. Atkin hints at this when he says that he could have got a much better sound on the '70s records had he overspent the recording budget like everyone else did.
The reason an album like The Road of Silk sounds the way it does is because it was done for tuppence-ha'penny. I didn't realise it then, but it would have made no difference to RCA if we'd spent £150,000, rather than £10,000, on the studio time and musicians we used to make the album… Being over-cautious was a huge mistake on my part. RCA wouldn't have minded… I should have spent their money and piled their resources in.
They were unlucky in other ways too, though Shircore doesn't mention this. Demon, the masters of repackaging records, unlocked the legal issues around the '70s recordings, and reissued them in handsome packages with well documented notes. The warehouse which held the stock was torched in the 2011 riots. It is not surprising that when the pair returned to making music, in the late 1990s, after discovering through the internet that they still had a fan base out there, that Atkin made sure he maintained control of the recordings.
Musical craft
If you know these songs, or even some of them, then Shircore's reading of them here is a pleasure. If you don't, many of them can now be streamed through Atkin's website, and a selection of the records can also be found on Spotify. One of the critical tests of a music book is whether it lets you hear the songs in a new light, and Loose Canon certainly succeeds in this.
But even if you don't know them, there's much to enjoy here. The detail of the lyrical and musical craft involved in writing these songs is fascinating, and it struck me that "craft" was, in its way a theme of many of the songs. This might be the craft of the metal-workers in Carnations on the Roof, "With gauge and micrometer, with level and with rule/ While chuck and punch were pulsing like a drum/ He checked the finished product like a master after school."
Or it might be the craft of the circus performers, in The Wall of Death, referenced but not discussed here, or of the guitarist in Thief in the Night, or of the session men involved in making many of the '70s records, celebrated in the song Sessionman's Blues. The telling of the recording of No Dice, in a single take by Herbie Flowers, Alan Parker and Barry Morgan is a revelation.
James, I realised, reading this, has an endless eye for detail, from aircraft spoilers to the height marks on a kitchen door to the piano player's brindled crew cut to mob security to the exact names of the colours in The Colours of the Night. This extends to the detail — even the precision — of writing. Clearly Atkin does too, steeped in 20th century popular music, as he sifts through these lyrics (always written first) to find the best way to set them. I suspect that it is this shared love of exactness that has kept them collaborating together for 50 years, still, even now, full of admiration for the work the other brings to the partnership. And it's rich technique and deep craft that make the songs endure.
Pretty much all of the Atkin-James songs can be streamed at his website. There is a selection of the records on Spotify. The picture of the younger Pete Atkin and Clive James is from Rock's Back Pages, and is used here with thanks.


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Well in such a short notice I actually had no time to purchase these stamps so I printed the images with a laser printer on a 160gsm plain white card.
At the beginning I did some accurate colouring with watercolour pencils, but then I went over with different Distress inks and small Tsukineko sponge dauber.
Edges of image are distressed with my handmade paper distresser - you may find how I did this here.
Some slight highlighting was done with my Gelly Roll pens and some parts were accented with Glossy Accents.
Printed sentiment says: Who's not 30 jet - the one can! And it is attached with a nail head style brad from Ryher.
I also added some Ryher metallic numerals saying 29 and whole image is mounted on a blue card embossed with Tim Holtz Bricked Texture Fade and slightly inked with Stormy Sky Distress ink. It took me some thinking and aligning to make bricks go horizontally on this landscape card.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Garnering conference accolades after highly-productive seasons, four Harvard men's lacrosse players have earned All-Ivy League recognition. Seniors Morgan Cheek, Joe Lang and Robert Shaw were selected to the second team, while senior Joe Kearney tallied honorable mention status.
Cheek became the fifth Harvard player in program history to reach 200 points, ending his senior campaign with 59 points on 25 goals and 34 assists. Cheek also concludes his Crimson tenure sixth all time with 105 goals and fifth with 95 assists. Cheek is on the All-Ivy League second team for the third-consecutive season, while he has also been on the Tewaaraton Award watch list in each of the last two seasons and a USILA honorable mention All-America honoree last season. In February, Cheek was honored as the National Player of the Month after scoring a program-record 13 points against Boston University, and he was a midseason All-America honorable mention selection by Inside Lacrosse.
Lang became a four-time All-Ivy selection with the second team nod, as the midfielder was named to the first team as a sophomore and junior and as honorable mention his freshman year. A team captain, Lang posted 15 goals and 16 assists for 31 points this season, ending his career with 127 points and 77 goals. Lang was a USILA All-America honorable mention selection a year ago, and he posted a career-high with nine points against Boston University.
Shaw is on the All-Ivy League second team for the second-consecutive year, as the goalie averaged 12.85 saves per game in 2018, which ranked fourth in the country. Shaw made at least 10 saves in 12 of 13 contests this season, including all six Ivy games this season. He totaled a season-high 18 saves in the 2018 finale at Yale. Shaw became the sixth player in program history to record 500 career saves, finishing with 504 for the Crimson.
Kearney anchored the defensive unit, en route to his first All-Ivy accolades as an honorable mention selection. The Duxbury, Massachusetts native started all 13 games, collecting 17 ground balls with eight caused turnovers. He ended his senior campaign with a career-best three ground balls in each of the final two outings, and helped hold five opponents to 10 goals or fewer.


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After covering WIZO's newest annual tradition of giving out a most-chauvinistic-ad award (2008, 2009), I thought I'd one-up myself and actually suggest a couple of ads for next year's shaming ceremony. Following are two TV spots that caught my eye, one is gratuitously sexual in a let's-find-an-excuse-for-leering kinda way:
Israeli Lottery – Gitam BBDO
The other is much less overt, much more complex, filled with misogynistic messages about work, kids, shoes and dieting:
Osem's Lachmit whole wheat cracker – Gitam BBDO
I should probably mention that I have discussed these ads with a couple of female friends who did not see anything particularly shocking with these ads. They did note the ads' sexist nature, they just didn't think it was any different from most other Israeli ads.
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David Sharpe, a former Air Force senior airman and Iraq war vet, started an animal rescue service called Pets2Vets. It helps veterans find a homeless animal to adopt by way of local shelters. Mr. Sharpe believes this service will not only help save hundreds of needy pets, but also help war veterans to heal.
Washington Animal Rescue League Executive Director Dr. Gary Weitzman said the
partnership with Pets2Vets was an ideal fit for his organization, which in the past
has worked with veterans at nearby Walter Reed on an individual basis. Pets can be
matched with vets up to two months before their discharge date and make weekly
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animals for soldiers who can't yet be matched with pets of their own.
It's a win-win situation for the shelter and the vets, Dr. Weitzman said: "We
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our animals, many of which are recovering from traumas themselves."
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What does John Rees have in common with Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor? On the face of it, not very much.
And on the face of it, there's nothing much to be said about Pope Benny's appointment of Cormac to two positions in the Roman Curia, at the Congregation for Bishops and at whatever Propaganda Fidei is calling itself these days. If you're willing to take the statement from the Catholic Communications Network as the last word on the matter, this is quite simply the Holy Father registering his esteem for a distinguished prince of the Church by giving him these important responsibilities. This is quite plausible in its own terms – even Cormac's sternest critics will acknowledge that he's a thoroughly decent man who has given decades of selfless service.
On the other hand, if you look at it from another, more cynical perspective, this can appear like the kind of slick manoeuvre of which Machiavelli would have been proud, addressing several problems with one fell swoop. It is said that Vinnie Nichols and Bernie Longley are exercised at the possibility of Cormac getting in their feet – given the long history of previous primates dying in office, the English hierarchy doesn't really have any experience of the backseat driver phenomenon. As for those Anglo-Catholics who might be considering a defection to Rome, their jittery nerves aren't going to be soothed by Cormac hanging around, when it's well known that he opposed the new Apostolic Constitution. Cormac himself would like a Curia job commensurate with his status. And Benny would probably like to have Cormac where he can keep an eye on him – if the rumours are true that the ferociously orthodox Cardinal George Pell of Sydney is taking over the Congregation for Bishops, that would certainly count as keeping an eye on any cardinals stationed there.
Slick, indeed. It's even better than the way Cardinal Des Connell, a Ratzinger ally of long standing, abruptly found himself spending more time with his study of French philosophy.
The Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party must be wishing they had found a similarly inventive way of dealing with the shambling miscreant Rees. Rather, since his defenestration from the CC at the start of the year, John and Lindsey have been holed up in their Stop The War fastness, nursing their grievance. And lo, with the pre-conference discussion period having opened, John has gone and got himself a faction.
There's a write-up of this in the current issue of the Weekly World Worker News, which has got some ground to make up after the blogosphere has caught it napping several times in the last couple of years. They can run lots of good articles on Iran, and learned exegeses of Marxist-Leninist thought from Dr Macnair, but that's not what people read the Weekly Worker for – if they can't provide decent gossip, they've lost their USP. So anyway, Peter Manson is covering this – given the publication, the usual caveats about imaginative filling in of gaps apply, but you might find it of interest.
The reader will find more of interest than usual in the leaked IB, and there's quite a bit there of political as opposed to prurient factional interest. Certainly I have no interest in the minutiae of how many papers were sold in Southampton last week, or how a comrade got a motion passed at a union meeting in Reading. On the other hand, there are a few debates on the go that are of broader interest to the left, because they're touching on issues those of us outwith the SWP have to deal with. A serious and open discussion around issues like the economic crisis, No Platform, the antiwar movement, electoral strategy, developments in the unions and what have you would be all to the good. It's entirely possible that there will be insights that everyone can profit from.
Anyway, this blog knows what the punters want, and what the punters will primarily be interested in is the factional barney. Now, it is not strictly true that this is purely a fight for position without political content. I think the fight for position is its motive force, but it's picked up some political content as it's gone along. It has done so, however, in a confused way, and there's no obvious right side or wrong side.
Let's begin with the grubby business of position, though. John Rees is evidently still aggrieved about his unceremonious dumping from the leadership. Although I don't particularly like Rees, I can well understand his position – he's had to walk the plank for things that many other people shared responsibility for, and after many years of being accustomed to a party culture wherein being a member of the CC meant never having to take responsibility for anything, not while there was someone further down on the food chain who could be dumped on. One particularly thinks of Cliff's old party trick, when a "turn" didn't work out, of blaming "conservative elements" in the party for failing to make the turn with sufficient enthusiasm, and then setting loose the apparat's attack dogs on any poor sod in the branches who happened to be on the outs at the time. A year or two later, Cliff might announce that the turn had failed due to objective circumstances, but that was scant consolation to anyone who'd been fucked over in the interim.
The trouble is that, having dumped Rees less than a year ago, it would be an immense climbdown for the CC to take him back now, and unrepentant forbye. A Rees who had gone off and quietly spent four or five years doing an unglamorous job might have been rehabilitated, but not in these circumstances. Moreover, it's hard to see how the CC could justify putting him in charge of a whelk stall, given the deconstruction of his failings that took place in the last pre-conference discussion. Here is Professor Callinicos:
The problem was rather that the crisis in Respect exposed certain systematic weaknesses in John's methods of working – in particular a failure to respect the collective decision-making of the party and, in large part as a result, to make serious mistakes that caused him to lose the confidence of the majority, not just of the leadership, but of the party cadre as well…
The problem with John isn't that he disagrees with the CC majority. Disagreements are necessary to the development of a living party. But John sees everything through the distorting lens of the struggle to maintain his personal position. This leads him to inflate real, but quite specific disagreements into systematic differences and to rubbish aspects of the party's work for which, as a CC member for the past 14 years, he must share responsibility.
For a year now the Central Committee has had to grapple with the unrelenting struggle of an undeniably talented comrade to shield himself for being held to account for the mistakes he has made. For those of us with a long history of party membership, who remember the many personal sacrifices made by individual comrades and their disciplined acceptance of unwelcome decisions, John's behaviour is nothing short of a scandal.
And here is John Molyneux:
Despite the odd nod in favour of democratic debate John makes it clear that really he is opposed to the idea of the 'democracy commission', while I strongly support it. John has never seen anything wrong with the state of democracy in the party and neither as far as I can tell have Lindsey or Chris B or Chris L . This may be true of other members of the CC as well but they at least seem to be shifting their position – John is not. John also makes it clear that he wants 'firmer' more 'decisive' leadership of the kind he has always been keen to provide. I have always disagreed with John about this. I always disliked those speeches John gave in which he would explain 'the real nature of political leadership' and it would turn out to be what he had done recently. Nor is this just a question of personal arrogance, I also think John holds an elitist theory of leadership derived from Lukacs' concept of the party as bearer of working class consciousness (but perhaps that is a debate for another time). At any rate I think the question of John's removal from the CC is bound up with the question of improving party democracy because it is seen by the members as asserting the principle that no one is 'above' accountability and that is why it is popular in the party.
John's views on the Rees question have remained consistent for many years, as anyone who's had the opportunity of talking with him will know. Alexander is slightly disingenuous, I feel. The reason I feel this is that the new regime is basically the old regime minus Rees and German, and that the people who a year ago felt Rees was unfit to hold a leadership position are the same people who for years protected him, promoted him, supported his brainstorms, went along with his pretensions to be the successor to Cliff, and went to war with important allies in his defence. Again, if we're talking about serious fuckups, Alexander's managing of the international tendency doesn't seem to have undermined his position. (Although, to be fair, he seems to have calmed down a bit in recent years, and isn't as promiscuous with the anathemata.)
What then are the political aspects? Well, the only real line in the sand that's been drawn has been on the No Platform issue, and that's not so much sand as mud. To recap: some while back John Molyneux, in his established role of loyal opposition, wrote a letter to SW arguing that No Platform should be re-examined – not that it should be dropped, but that it should be refined and amended. This seems sensible to me, especially given that no platform for fascists was conceived as an approach to be operated within the labour movement, and it's only recently that it seems to have been extended to petitioning the state broadcaster not to interview fascists. This drew a swift response from the CC maintaining its total adherence to No Platform. Which in turn drew a response from the Reesites also proclaiming their total adherence to No Platform, while accusing the CC of having abandoned the policy. More heat than light then, and an example of how factional considerations can obscure an issue just as easily as bringing one into the open.
There's also a more general issue of orientation – and this is where I think Peter Manson is off the mark when he accuses the CC of making up reasons for Rees' defenestration after the fact. There were at least implicit differences a year or more ago, certainly since the parking of Left Alternative, and those have firmed up slightly although they're still inchoate. Partly it comes out in scrapping over whether Stop The War or Unite Against Fascism is more important at the moment. For me, this is a tactical issue – while in general terms imperialist war is more important than a Mickey Mouse outfit like the BNP, the huge kerfuffle over Griffin on Question Time obviously required a response. It's also easy to view this in purely cynical terms, based on who's working in STW or UAF respectively. There's something to that, but there's also a political conception tied to it.
John and Lindsey's insistence on the transcendent importance of Stop The War may be self-serving, but it's linked to this view they've developed whereby the operation of various united fronts (mar dhea) is conceived as the path through which the party progresses. The CC, on the other hand, is cleaving much closer to a 1990s perspective whereby the party attempts to raise its own profile through agitprop, while operating fronts on a more ad-hoc and less permanent basis. This, by the way, is implicit much more than it's theorised. Perhaps it will become more explicit as the debate rumbles on.
As I say, there's no obvious right and wrong side in this. John and Lindsey had things their way for the best part of a decade, and to give them their due, they had the imagination to push outwards. (They also assembled a very talented team around them to give initiatives like Stop The War an impact previous campaigns hadn't had. Where are those people now, I wonder?) They were much more open than previous leaderships in building links with the rest of the left. However, they also racked up a tremendous record of buggering up those relationships they had built and leaving a lasting legacy of bitterness behind them. It says something when Martin Smith, of all people, has to present himself as the smiling non-sectarian face of the SWP and try to rebuild those bridges they had burned.
From a Reesite perspective, the current CC must seem dreadfully insular, conservative and lacking in ambition. And such a critique could easily attract people who aren't natural Rees groupies. On the other hand, many members must see the current regime of Democratic Martinism as quite a relief – certainly, spirits seem to be a bit higher these days. A steady-as-she-goes approach of routine party-building, broader initiatives on a more ad-hoc basis and professionalising some basic activities that had fallen into disarray – these things have an obvious attraction to party cadre whose heads have been left spinning from the party throwing all its energy into John and Lindsey's various punts, year after year.
We also have the outworkings of the Democracy Commission, which I'm cautiously optimistic about. My instinct remains that a democratic revolution led by Martin Smith, Chris Harman and Alex Callinicos is almost by definition going to be a self-limiting revolution. But at least they have been willing to recognise there was a problem. As Molyneux says, neither Rees nor German, in their whole time as party leaders, expressed any sentiment that party democracy was less than perfect. They do now, but only by way of adopting the Jools Holland Fallacy. Viewers of Later will be aware of Jools' theory that there is no piece of music that can't be improved by the addition of some boogie-woogie piano. The counterpart of this is the theory that there's no revolutionary leadership that can't be improved by the addition of John Rees. I find both theories equally unappealing.
It may be that we're just seeing John and Lindsey embarking on a path to political self-destruction, for which they would only have themselves to blame. But if they are intent on destroying themselves, let them do it themselves. Any short-circuiting of the discussion by administrative measures would cast the new friendly regime in a deeply unflattering light. To return to where we started, it's a bit like the Personal Ordinariate. Whether the Anglican defectors number in the dozens or the thousands is probably less important than how much sensitivity the iniative is handled with. The Orthodox Churches will be watching keenly, as will traditionalist Lutherans in Germany and Scandinavia. Likewise, one hopes that Martin realises that there's a tension between putting on a smiling face externally and continuing with the old head-on-a-stick politics internally. If he's forgotten, it won't hurt to remind him.


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- 3 Eggs
- 4 T Whole grain mustard
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- 1 T Crushed red peppers
- Sea salt and black pepper to taste
- Lightly mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
- Form into 4 oz. patties.
- Lightly coat the patties in seasoned bread crumbs.
- Saute crab cakes in vegetable oil until golden brown.
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"Spill the Tea" is a refreshing India Pale Lager brewed with green tea and citrus peel, which will pair beautifully with crab cakes! The subtle green tea and more prominent citrus peel will bring out the delicate flavor of the crab without overpowering it and the hops will stand up to the Siracha mayo. "Spill the Tea" is collaboration between Jacks Abbey, a Massachusetts brewery that specializes in lagers, and a persona favorite, Finback Brewery from Queens.
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5 T Mayo
1 T Sriracha
The juice of one lemon
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For most people affected by the recent housing market crash, the impact was strictly financial. In Emily Lous inventive debut, hero Richard Scarry discovers an additional burden: the paranormal. Worried by his mothers increasing medical problems, the overly nice real estate agent cooks up a grand moneymaking scheme. He and his friend Dave will buy a house, fix it up and flip it for an amazing profit. In the days before the bubble pops, this seems like a grand idea, and the pair sets to work on a quick sale. However, it soon becomes clear that not only are they in danger of losing money on the place but its also haunted by the victims of a notorious serial killer called the Sleepstalker. In the wake of overflowing toilets and bleeding walls, a plague of wasps and a bad bout of demonic possession, the plucky salesman soldiers on, scheduling showings and even hosting an open house. Sometimes the closet becomes a portal to another realm, he helpfully warns one horrified couple. Scriptwriter Gabriel Diani (who also plays Scarry) cleverly employs the tropes of haunted house stories to witty and original ends. Besides Richards frequent fisticuffs with phantasms, the film offers tongue-in-cheek casting (Rocky Horror Picture Shows Barry Bostwick plays a demented exorcist), a crisp visual style and keen up-to-date satire. Deftly juggling humor and horror, The Selling is one short sale genre fans wont want to miss out on.
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Speculation rode rampant on the internets and in FLGS all over the place as we all hoped against hope that FFG would release the set for Christmas as many of us are "those guys" who are into all kinds of odd stuff and are "hard to buy for."
Alas, that was not to be.
Those of us who have bought FFG product (including this one) for awhile, look at release dates with kind of a tired skepticism- a bit like that friend of yours who always has some can't miss cockamamie get rich quick scheme idea.
Anyway, almost as if in the form of a non-verbal apology, FFG released some more info on Imperial Aces back on 2 January.
And the email came flooding in. What did I think about this pilot? Had I heard about this Modification? But of course, the most important question- when will it be released?
Well, I still don't know. Unfortunately, even though I do all this writing and you guys come by here all the time, I still don't get any inside info from FFG or anything. More or less, I usually know what you know- with the slight exception of having dozens of you guys emailing me when some kind of X-Wing news does break (which is awesome, by the way- it's much appreciated and keep it up, please!).
What I can tell you is that the expansion is "On the Boat."
What exactly does that mean? Well, they're on the boat from the factory, I guess. FFG says they could be coming from China, Germany, or here in the States, depending and that this step can take 4 to 6 weeks. I have no idea when the status of Imperial Aces went to On the Boat, so I can't say when that 4 to 6 weeks might expire, but they're supposed to be released Q1, so that could be anywhere from tomorrow to what, March? For what it's worth, Wave 2 had a Q1 release after it was all said and done, and those came out right around my birthday which is 3 March. I was talking about it on here if you're really curious as to the exact date.
So after On the Boat, there are two more steps- Shipping Now, which as you'd expect is the distribution after the miniatures arrive at FFG in Minnesota and In Stores Now which should be self-explanatory.
I figure though since I've finally wrapped up the Wave 3 stuff, now would be a fun time to kill a week talking about Imperial Aces, so the next four days I'll be talking about each of the named pilots in my usual TMB style. I don't know if all of the upgrade cards have been fully revealed, and I'm very curious about the scenario that's included as it seems to point towards a newer TIE model, so I'm sure we'll still have stuff to talk about once the ball really drops and we all get these fighters in our hands, but we can at least run through the spoiled named pilots and talk about fun ways we can roll them in our own Imperial Squadrons.


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In 2014, virtualization surpassed 50 percent of all server workloads, according to Gartner, which believes it will reach 86 percent in 2016. That's phenomenal for a relatively young technology. But due to other shifts in technology and the demands they produce, it's a framework whose time has come.
The ubiquity of mobile devices and the rapid adoption of cloud-based services has led to astronomical quantities of data being produced. This in turn has led to the rise of the virtual machine (VM). In virtual environments, a software program reproduces the functions of physical hardware, which in turn creates new levels of hardware flexibility, utilization, and cost savings.
The growing popularity of virtualization enables organizations to run several applications simultaneously, creating a need for heightened levels of storage. This sudden spike in demand has warranted a novel approach to storage – specifically, a solution that offers effective management, efficiency, and interoperability.
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The benefits of server virtualization to enterprises are numerous — namely, cost savings and flexibility. Virtualization allows organizations to efficiently utilize data center hardware. In a typical data center setup, physical servers are simply idling for a significant percentage of the time. By implementing virtual servers within the hardware, the organization can optimize the use of its central processing units (CPUs), allowing enterprises to take advantage of virtualization's benefits and cost efficiencies.
Enterprises also have more options with virtualization. They have the convenience of reducing the need for physical machines within their infrastructure, enabling an easy transition to VMs. For example, if an organization decides to change hardware, the data center administrator could easily migrate the virtual server to the newer, more advanced hardware, achieving improved performance for a reduced cost.
Before virtual servers, administrators had to install the new server and then reinstall and migrate all the data stored on the old server, a complex and time-consuming approach. It is remarkably simpler to migrate a VM over a physical machine.
Growing Pains
Demand for virtualization is spiking in data centers that host a large number of servers – somewhere in the range of 20-50 or above. By embracing virtualization, organizations can achieve significant levels of cost savings and flexibility.
Moreover, servers are far easier to manage once virtualized. The sheer challenge of physically managing a large number of servers can become arduous for data center staff. Virtualization empowers administrators to run the same number of servers on fewer physical machines, simplifying data center management.
Though virtualization has undeniable pluses, it is straining traditional data center infrastructure and storage devices. The original VM models used local storage found within the physical server, making it impossible for administrators to migrate a virtual machine from one physical server to an upgraded one with a more powerful CPU.
The introduction of shared storage—either network-attached storage (NAS) or a storage area network (SAN)—to the VM hosts solved this problem, introducing the ability to stack on several virtual machines. This eventually evolved to the current server virtualization scenario, where all physical servers and VMs are connected to a unified storage infrastructure.
However, this scenario creates its own problem: data congestion. Since data is moving through one access point, it gets bottlenecked during periods of excessive demand. Considering that the amount of VMs and data are only expected to increase, it is obvious that storage architecture must be improved to keep up with the pace of data growth.
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The early adopters of virtualized servers already experience the problems associated with single-entry points and are working towards mitigating its impact. Fortunately, there is hope for organizations looking to maximize the benefits of virtualization. These organizations are able to prevent data congestion created by traditional scale-out environments by eliminating the single point of entry.
Current NAS or SAN storage solutions unavoidably have a single access point that regulates the flow of data, leading to congestion during heightened demand. Alternatively, organizations should opt for a solution that has several entry points and distributes data uniformly across all servers. Even if several users access the system at any given time, it will retain optimal performance while reducing lag time.
This is currently the most straightforward method to address the problem. However, the next generation of storage infrastructure presents novel alternatives.
Rethinking Compute and Storage
There is a new storage architecture strategy designed to overcome the storage challenges that scale-out virtual environments encounter. This new approach involves running VMs within the storage node themselves (or running the storage inside the VM hosts) – consequently turning it into a compute node.
This in effect creates a "flat earth" storage environment. For example, if an organization uses shared storage in a SAN, normally, the VM hosts from the highest storage layer, ultimately reconstructing it into a unified, single-entry storage system. In order to solve the data bottleneck issues associated with this approach, many organizations are moving away from the traditional two-layer architecture that has both VMs and storage running on the same layer.
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As with any new technology, there were initial snags when virtualization was under development. However, its current widespread adoption demonstrates that those snags are a thing of the past, and that this technology is worth its salt.
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Today, President Trump announced his intent to start the process of withdrawing the United States from official party status to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Once the process is finalized in 2020, the United States will join only Syria and Nicaragua as the lone countries not party to the agreement. The agreement, which entered into force on November 4, 2016, has been signed by 195 countries and ratified by 147. China, India, the E.U., and dozens of other countries have reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement in recent weeks.
A recent Yale Program on Climate Communication poll found that 7 in 10 Americans believe that the U.S. should participate in the Paris Agreement, and that Trump voters believe the same by a nearly 2-1 margin. These majorities join over 1,000 businesses, 14 governors, and 75 mayors in support of the Paris Agreement.
In response, national organizer and spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, released the following statement:
"With his decision today, President Trump has once again positioned himself on the wrong side of history. By characterizing the Paris Agreement as a top-down constraint on economic growth that is "a bad deal for America", he betrays his ignorance of the actual structure and spirit of agreement. He damages both America's reputation abroad and its economic competitiveness in the coming clean energy revolution. He may hope to negotiate a "better deal", but will find a world unwilling and uninterested in engaging an America that has willingly shut itself out.
More than the economic and geopolitical consequences, however, the impact that this rash and unnecessary decision will have on the lives of the world's most vulnerable people is staggering. Already, millions of people in the U.S. and around the world are struggling to adapt to rising seas and more extreme weather. These are the very people that we are commanded by our Lord to love with the same commitment and tenacity that we show to ourselves and our own loved ones. The President's open disregard for their well-being is a moral travesty and an affront to our faith as followers of Christ.
So, we invite the President and every other political leader that stymies climate progress to take note: young evangelicals overwhelmingly support the Paris Agreement and strong climate action. We will continue to take hopeful action to address climate change and to love our neighbors both here and around the world. As we do, we reject your disdain for the well-being of those suffering from the impacts of a changing climate. We bear witness to your moral failure, and we will not forget it."


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For the first time since her sister, mother, niece and nephew were brutally murdered in their Winchester, Mass. home, the sister of Laura Stone Mortimer is speaking out.
"Last week we lost four incredible souls, and nothing will ever completely absorb the pain that this tragedy has left behind," said an emotional Debra Stone Sochat.
Sochat says it's a tragedy that will never be completely explained.
"Everyone asks, 'Why did this happen?' The truth is, we don't know and we may never know," said Sochat.
A week ago, police in Winchester, Massachusetts found the bloodied bodies of Laura Stone Mortimer, her two-year-old Charlotte, her four-year-old Thomas and her mother Ellen Stone. A day later, the children's father, Thomas Mortimer IV, was arrested and charged with their deaths. The Avon-native has pleaded not guilty, even though police say he left two handwritten confessions in the house.
"We will not talk about the circumstances that have stripped us of my mother, my sister, my nephew and my niece. Rather we want to tell you who they were," said Sochat.
The family says Ellen, the grandmother, was a selfless person who put others ahead of herself. It was a trait she passed down to her daughter, Laura, who was a smart, loving mother who family says "embraced life with an energy few can muster." Charlotte, who would be three in July, was a dare devil who loved adventure, while Thomas was a little boy who others loved to be around.
"We will always know that we were blessed to have them in our lives," said Sochat.
The family plans to honor the young children by establishing a foundation for a church preschool in their names at the Parish of the Epiphany Church in Winchester.


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Through classroom and private instruction, students in UNR's Jazz and Improvisational Music Program are encouraged to compose, arrange and produce their own music. The process advances from theory to composition and arrangement, to the design and formation of performance options, whether solo or ensemble. The practical, logistical procedures for booking actual live performances are also explained and explored on campus, in downtown Reno, on stages at Lake Tahoe and beyond.
In addition to the promotion of live performance, the Jazz faculty also emphasizes the professional studio experience. Advice on how to approach the prospects of professional recording begins with an emphasis on devising a well researched plan of approach. From choosing music, to creating and deploying a strict rehearsal schedule, to finding the appropriate studio, students explore the recording industry first hand.
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