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Lewis Krauskopf Wednesday, 13 July 2022 11:52 AM EDT
A surprisingly hot inflation report for June is darkening the outlook for markets, as investors brace for more hawkishness from the Federal Reserve and continued volatility in stocks and bonds.
'Rotten to the Core'
Wall Street met the number, which showed consumer prices rising by a greater-than-expected 9.1% in June, with a collective groan. Analysts at Wells Fargo called the report "rotten to the core" while BofA Global Research strategists said it confirmed their recent call for a mild U.S. recession.
The S&P 500 stock index was down 0.4%, after falling more sharply at the market open. The index is down over 20% this year. Treasuries shuffled between gains and losses. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield, which moves inversely to prices, was last at 2.95%, little changed from a day earlier.
"We still don't know what's going to happen but it's most likely we're going to have a recession because the Fed is going to have to act aggressively," said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Independent Advisor Alliance.
"Unfortunately we were looking for good news, and this is not good news," he said.
Recession worries have grown over the last few weeks, with several Wall Street banks calling for an increased chance of an economic downturn. The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday warned that avoiding recession in the U.S. will be "increasingly challenging" as it again cut its 2022 U.S. growth forecast. Huge Yield Curve Inversion
The benchmark U.S. two-year/10-year yield curve on Tuesday posted the largest inversion since at least 2010, once again flashing a signal that has preceded past recessions.
Following the inflation data, traders of futures tied to the Fed's policy rate swiftly priced in a higher probability of a 100-basis-point rise at the July 26-27 meeting. Central bankers over the past couple of weeks have already signaled support for a 75 basis point rate increase.
The hawkish outlook for the Fed compared to many other global central banks also rippled through currency markets, with the dollar surging to a 20-year high against a basket of currencies while the euro broke below parity against the greenback.
"The Fed is going to continue to be aggressive, and right now the Fed is not your friend, at least from an investor stand-point and until that changes, it's going to be hard for stocks to gain traction," said Anthony Saglimbene, global market strategist at Ameriprise Financial.
Some analysts said inflation could start to cool in the coming months, noting a recent drop in commodity prices.
Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities, said "the numbers are ugly" but added that "the hints that inflation might be beginning to decelerate are there."
Investors are now turning to second-quarter earnings season, which is just starting, to reinvigorate the market.
5.7% Average 2Q22 Earnings
S&P 500 earnings are expected to have climbed 5.7% from the year-ago period, but investors are skeptical companies will be able to achieve those estimates given the uncertain economic outlook, including high inflation that is raising costs for both consumers and businesses.
"We look for further market volatility as investors digest the combination of slowing growth, persistent inflation, and the likelihood that second quarter earnings season results in downward revisions for margins and profits," John Lynch, chief investment officer at Comerica Wealth Management, said in emailed comments.
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I know what you're thinking—"Ugh…not another rehash of the most trite and hackneyed argument in the history of gun magazines!" Yup. I'm afraid so. Why? Because the argument has not been settled yet.
The "revolver versus auto" argument has gone on for more than a century. The auto quickly won on the military side, but not until the last quarter of the 20th century did the American police establishment make the same decision. On the armed citizen side of the house, things were a lot more fungible. For most of the 20th century, the snub-nose revolver was the most popular concealed carry handgun among "civilians." Today, the autoloader collectively outsells it, but you'll still find Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) classes where more armed citizens bring snubby revolvers than semi-automatic pistols.
Go to a high-speed defensive shooting class, however, and you'll see predominantly, if not entirely, "square" guns instead of "round" ones.
The reason the debate persists is that there are some very solid arguments on either side of the debate. Anyone who thinks the matter is cut and dried for everyone has probably oversimplified the matter and missed a few points.
Let's look at the pros and cons of each. In many ways, the strength of one platform is the weakness of the other, and vice versa.
Why The Revolver Remains
Even taking the auto advantages into consideration, there are reasons why the revolver not only has yet to disappear into museums, but remains a strong seller—particularly in the personal defense-oriented small handgun market.
Simplicity of administrative handling remains a strong advantage of the double-action revolver, particularly the double-action-only style. From new shooters to the elderly and/or debilitated, it is easier to swing out a cylinder than to rack a slide against strong spring pressure. When that cylinder swings out naked, all its chambers are easy to check by sight and feel. It's easier for a live cartridge to be left un-noticed in an autoloader's firing chamber.
Reliability was the cardinal advantage of the revolver for most of the duration of the long-standing argument, though the super-reliable autoloaders of today, typified by the Glock, have largely lev-eled that side of the playing field. Even today, though, the revolver will run with everything from blanks to snakeshot loads to light "granny rounds" to Elmer Keith Memorial Magnums. The autopistol has a more finite window of reliability with this broad array of ammunition, being geared to the pressure curves of a limited range of power levels. Moreover, a revolver will fire if held in a limp-wristed grasp, and that's not true of most of even the most highly evolved semi-automatics.
Faster handling is sometimes a re-volver advantage, depending how it's carried. When the gun is hidden tight to the body—ankle holsters, belly bands and particularly pocket carry—the flat-sided grip frame of the auto requires the drawing hand to dig a little bit to get a secure drawing grasp. The rounded shape of a revolver's grip-frame allows the hand to slide more easily onto the stocks, allowing for faster access from the pocket and some other carry locations.
CQB muzzle contact shots definitely favor the revolver, as a rule of thumb. When the gun's muzzle must be pressed against the attacker's body in a truly desperate self-defense situation, most autopistols will have their barrel-slide assemblies pushed out of battery, and will not fire. (The service-size Springfield Armory XD and the pocket size Beretta Nano are rare exceptions to this.) Any modern revolver, however, will fire five for five or six for six in that situation, and the only side effect will be that the muzzle blast will be directed into our would-be murder-er's body, magnifying his wound(s) and stopping him all the sooner.
Accuracy out of the box will, dollar for dollar, generally favor the revolver. Back in 1988, the police department I then served traded in its Smith & Wesson Model 13 .357 Mag service revolvers for the same manufacturer's Model 4506 .45 caliber semi-automatics. The .45 ACPs proved to be satisfyingly accurate: they averaged about 2.5-inch groups at 25 yards. That was nice, but the revolvers we traded them in for could shoot about the same groups at twice the distance, 50 yards. This fine-point difference in accuracy is usually not decisive, but in rare instances, it can be. It becomes more important to the rural dweller whose sidearm might be used at a distance on a four-legged target, and not just "typical self-defense distance" against a two-legged deadly threat.
Lack of maintenance (as opposed to abuse, a different thing) is a situation that a revolver survives better than an auto. With most autopistols, manufacturers recommend that springs be changed every 3,000 to 5,000 rounds. By contrast, most revolvers in heavy use today are still running with the same springs that were in them when they were shipped new from the factory. Autos need regular lubrication on their slide/frame contact surfaces; even if they haven't been fired lately, lubricant can drain from its own weight in carrying, or evaporate. The revolver can run just fine with its innards completely dry. Thus, while losing to the auto in terms of resisting abuse, the revolver has a clear advantage in surviving lack of routine maintenance.
Revolvers have advantages in ankle carry. The upper rear edge of an auto's slide generally bulges the trouser cuff area; the revolver has no bulge in that area. Carried close to the ground where dust and dirt are stirred up with every step, an ankle-holstered gun quickly gets covered with a fine film of grit. Many small pocket autos can jam on that accumulated crud. Revolvers, even when coated with a film of dust and cobwebs, will still fire reliably.
Rise Of The Auto
Back around 1983, I wrote a book called The Semiautomatic Pistol in Police Service and Self-Defense. Prior to that, I had written in gun magazines why I felt the autoloader had certain distinct advantages for law enforcement.
Firepower was the big reason cops changed. There were the occasional cases where a cop ran his six-shooter dry and was trying to reload when the bad guy—more often than not, armed with a higher-capacity autopistol—shot him dead. Such incidents led LAPD to go from the six-shot S&W .38 Special to the 16-shot Beretta 9mm, and later other autos… which led NYPD to move forward from the .38 revolver to "officer's choice" of three 16-shot 9mms…which led California Highway Patrol to switch from six-shot .38s and .357s to Smith & Wesson .40s with twice the revolver's cartridge capacity—the list goes on.
Faster reloading was part of the firepower advantage of the auto, though some advocates thought of it as one more, separate item on the credit side of the semi-automatic's ledger. While a skilled revolver shooter can reload a six-gun faster than a new shooter or a clumsy criminal can reload an auto, with equal levels of skill and practice the auto is simply faster to recharge. That's true in an extended firefight, and it's true in households where, to please an anti-gun spouse, the pro-gun member of the household has compromised by keeping the handgun unloaded and will have to load it to bring it into action to defend self and family.
Hit potential generally im-proved with the autos. The reason was that their more modern designs put out the same or greater power level with less recoil and muzzle jump, and many autoloaders (including traditional double-action autos, at least after the first shot) had shorter, easier trigger pulls than the revolvers they replaced. Starting in 1967, when they became the first big department to go with 9mm Smith & Wesson pistols, the Illinois State Police saw their hit ratio in actual gun-fights almost triple over the Colt and S&W revolvers they'd had before—with the same excellent level of training.
Proprietary nature to the user was a much-overlooked factor. Autos could be had with manual safety devices as part of the platform. The skilled, legitimate owner would reflexively off- safe the gun as part of the draw, losing no real tactical advantage…but if the bad guy got the gun away from him and tried to shoot him with it, the criminal would have to fumble with the unfamiliar pistol to find and release the safety. This has saved many lives in the past. It's not present on autos that don't have manual safeties, of course, but this factor has simply saved too many lives to be ignored.
Similarly, pistols with magazine disconnector safeties allow the legitimate user to press the magazine release button and "kill the gun" if he feels the bad guy is gaining control of the weapon in the struggle. There are police de-partments coast to coast that insist on this feature for this reason. The revolver has no such analogous mechanism.
Relevant training was another bonus that came with the auto. With the revolver, it was customary among police then and some armed citizens now to train and practice with low-power target loads, which ill prepared them for the recoil
and muzzle blast of the full power ammunition they would be using "for real." The design of the autoloader was such that it would often jam on low-power loads, forcing the user to practice with full-power ammunition that was more "reality-based" and "street-relevant."
Abuse resistance was a big factor in the early adoption of the autopistol by the military powers of the world, and while less important on the street than on the battlefield, was still a consid-eration. A finely fitted double-action
revolver, if dropped in the thick mud of a World War I trench or in a mucky ditch alongside a modern American roadway, might be out of action for the duration. Most "mil-spec" service autos would continue to fire after such abuse, their slide mechanisms literally chewing up the dirt and spitting it out.
Human Factors
There are more than just the mech-anical pros and cons to consider. Habit-uation can certainly be a factor. The retired cop who carried and qualified with a revolver for his entire career may simply be more comfortable with that familiar platform in retirement. The Marine Corps pistol team member who has logged a six-figure round count with
a 1911 .45 will probably be more com-fortable carrying that same kind of .45 ACP on his own time.
For concealed carry, the size and shape of the gun may be determining factors. The flat silhouette of the auto-loader tends to ride more comfortably inside the waistband for all-day carry than the lumpy cylinder of a revolver.
The rounded profile of the revolver may allow a faster "grab and draw" than the square-edged auto when a pocket holster is the chosen method of carry.
And if the shooter is still in a quandary as to what to choose, the option remains to go with one of each. There
was no stronger advocate of the double-action revolver than Bill Jordan. I knew the man. He generally carried the
Smith & Wesson .357 Combat Magnum revolver he conceptualized under his sport coat…but he told me he also had a 15-shot Smith & Wesson Model 59 9mm semi-automatic in the glove box of his car. Col. Jeff Cooper was the high priest of the 1911-pattern large caliber semi-automatic pistol, and he almost always wore one on his right hip. I knew him, too, and he wrote that he occasion-ally carried a J-frame Smith & Wesson snub-nose .38 when wearing a tailored suit, and that he bought one for his wife to carry as well.
If revolver or semi-automatic is too tough a question to resolve, then a revolver and semi-automatic pistol is a perfectly satisfactory answer.


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The Jan. 6 Committee's primetime Thursday presentation offered a sweeping view of former President Trump's conspiracy to stay in office.
The panel attempted to illustrate several key points about the effort to subvert the 2020 election, connecting dots and identifying patterns that appeared in its investigation. They include the closeness of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers militia groups to the conspiracy, the extent to which Trumpworld figures knew it was all a lie, and the central role that Trump himself played in the entire effort.
Below is a list of the main points that the committee's presentation attempted to convey.
Putting Trump at the center of it all
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) laid it out succinctly: none of this could have happened without President Trump.
But beyond that, Cheney suggested, Trump was involved in the details from start to finish.
That included his efforts to stoke the Big Lie, claiming that there was fraud in the election. It included him searching for arcane legal maneuvers — including an effort to replace senior DOJ leadership — for a way to stay in power. And, she said, it included the violence on Jan. 6.
"President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of the attack," Cheney said.
When the violence came, Cheney said, Trump was silent.
"He placed no call to any element of the U.S. government to instruct the Capitol to be defended," Cheney said.
The point was made even more clearly at the end. Not only did Trump stoke the lies that led to the riot, not only did he egg on the rioters and then refuse to use his powers to defend the Capitol once it began, but the insurgents who attacked believed they were doing it for him.
"Trump has only asked me for two things," one said. "He asked me for my vote, and he asked me to come on January 6."
Getting Trumpworld to turn against itself
The Jan. 6 panel persuaded some of former President Trump's closest allies, advisers, and event family members to reveal what the world knew all along: that the Big Lie was just that — a lie.
That included famously loyal Attorney General Bill Barr.
"I told the president it was bullshit," Barr said in an on-camera clip from his testimony, referring to claims that the election was stolen.
Barr was famously close to Trump as attorney general, running interference for him on multiple investigations and bending the office to his will like none of his predecessors had before.
But to the committee, Barr was willing to burn it down. "I didn't want to be a part of it," Barr said, referring to the campaign to allege that the election was stolen. He called it "complete nonsense" and "crazy stuff."
Barr was a denizen of Trumpworld, albeit one with limits: he had a career pre-Trump — the former President did not make him.
The same cannot be said for Jason Miller, the communications strategist whose star rose with his role as 2016 Trump campaign spokesman. Miller spent the following years working as a Trump surrogate, and as a senior adviser to his failed 2020 election bid.
But, video played at the hearing showed, he was ready to relate to the panel how clearly the Trump campaign understood internally that it had lost.
Recalling a meeting at the Oval Office, Miller said that a Trump campaign data staffer had told the President "in pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose."
But all of Barr's loyalty and Miller's subservience was outmatched by the bloodline: Ivanka Trump saying that she listened to Barr, and was persuaded: "I respect Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he was saying."
Tying the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers
Throughout the whole timeline that the committee established — from the days after the November 2020 election through to the evening of Jan. 6 — were the actions of two far-right militia groups: the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.
The leaders of both groups currently face federal criminal charges of seditious conspiracy related to their alleged efforts to plan the assault on the Capitol.
But video released during the hearing on Thursday night showed how closely they were following Trump's instructions. One video showed Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes proclaiming his loyalty to the former president, and his willingness to fight for him to stay in office.
One committee investigator screened a video of Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader, standing in front of the Capitol wearing a black cape.
"In fact, it was individuals associated with the Proud Boys who instigated the initial breach," he said.
A video montage of the violence of the day showed Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leading the charge, in organized fashion, into the Capitol.
It was a broad, sweeping conspiracy
Cheney characterized the plan that Trump and his acolytes settled on for Jan. 6 as not something narrow, or thought up on the spur of the moment. Rather, it was well-planned out, aimed at stopping Biden's victory in November 2020 from going through.
Cheney said that the panel had uncovered a "sophisticated seven-part plan" which aimed at blocking the transfer of power.
Co-chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) described it as a "sprawling, multi-step conspiracy," and added that it was an "attempted coup."
Evidence released during the course of the hearing included video recordings of multiple former Trump administration and campaign officials admitting that they knew, or were told, that the election was not stolen.
Trump knew he lost, and still lied
Barr laid it out clearly: he spoke with Trump three times about the election, and told him that he lost.
"I made it clear that I did not agree with the idea of saying that the election was stolen," Barr said. "You can't live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power, based on its view, unsupported by specific evidence, that there was fraud in the election.
Others, directly from within the Trump campaign, made the same point.
Alex Cannon, a Trump campaign attorney, recalled telling Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that the campaign had found nothing to suggest that voter fraud influenced the result of the election. "So, there's no there there," Cannon recalled Meadows as saying.
It all gets close to establishing a basic and fundamental point: that Trump knew he had lost. If the committee can show that, it will demonstrate that Trump himself wasn't deluded; rather, he was directing a conspiracy to mislead millions of people, one that ended in mass violence and tragedy on Jan. 6.


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- Uncover the Pulwama Attacks in 'As Far As The Saffron Fields'
In March 2019, two militants were killed during a siege at a house in Nowgam, on the outskirts of Srinagar. One of them was known simply as 'Idrees Bhai'. The encounter was forgotten for the most part, until investigators came upon a mangled phone that had been destroyed by Idrees Bhai. When the Samsung smartphone began to reveal its secrets, investigators realized they had hit upon a motherlode.
This is the story of a state in conflict, told through the story of a single terror attack. As Far as the Saffron Fields is by far the most definitive book on the Pulwama attack, going where no book on the Kashmir conflict has gone before. This is war at its worst, tearing apart families and dreams, leaving only mangled bodies and phones behind.
Read an excerpt from the first chapter of the book here:
29 March 2019
Had the investigators not recovered a mangled phone from a house in Nowgam, on the outskirts of Srinagar, they would perhaps not have known much about the Lethpora bombing, now known as the Pulwama attack that killed forty CRPF personnel and nearly sent India and Pakistan to war.
Nowgam, or 'new village', is a large settlement of clustered hamlets between Budgam and Srinagar districts that sprawls on both sides of the road connecting Srinagar with Baramulla. The majority of its residents settled here in the 1990s, after the spike in armed insurgency—especially in the restive north Kashmir region—necessitated migration from rural areas. In later years, people from south Kashmir too began to shift here. This is why we can see a mix of incongruous distinctive social and economic classes in Nowgam today, the red or green sloping roofs of the richer residents' palatial houses sitting alongside the modest dwellings of the not-so-wealthy.
The hamlet of Suthsoo Kalan sits at the far end of Nowgam. This settlement is primarily inhabited by Shia Muslims, and has more or less remained indifferent to the long conflict that has lingered all around. Only in the month of Muharram, when the men of the village, both old and young, gather at the Imambara to mourn Hussein ibn Ali and his family, does it come into prominence. During this time, young men roll up their trousers and walk briskly across a pitch of burning coals in a ritual known as Naar Matam, or 'mourning of the fire', to beg forgiveness for the martyrs of Karbala. The village's narrow alleys are dotted with grocery shops, bakeries, small pharmacies and barber shops.
One night, forty-three days after the Lethpora blast, security forces began to lay siege to Suthsoo Kalan.
The late Ghulam Ahmad Ganie's family was among the few Sunni families living in Suthsoo Kalan. A farmer by profession, Ganie had toiled hard to raise his four children. His two-storey house stood by itself, as if it had been ostracized. It was secured by a wall on three sides, the back wall partially consisting of conjoined tin sheets. The house had not been painted from the outside, and the plastered walls gave the impression it was still under construction. The ground floor stood on a concrete plinth and opened up to a lawn with an arborvitae plant right at the centre. The lawn extended towards the street. To its left was a kitchen garden, which seemed part of the mustard field behind the house. White flowers blossomed on the almond trees behind the mustard field.
Ganie's eldest son, who worked in the state Public Health Engineering Department, lived on the first floor with his wife and children. Another son worked as a labourer in the paddy fields and fruit orchards. The youngest, twenty-six-year-old Fayaz Ahmad Ganie, had dropped out of school and worked as a labourer, like his elder brother. In due course, he saved some money and, aided by a bank loan, bought a freight carrier. But Fayaz had another side to him.
By virtue of being on the highway, Nowgam is easily accessible to terrorists who come in from the districts of north Kashmir. To the west of Nowgam is a maze of roads coming in from Pulwama and Budgam districts, therefore rendering the place approachable from both north and south Kashmir. This makes it one of the safe pads from which to launch attacks on the highway and Srinagar city. The militants find support from some of the locals, which is ideological, coercive and influenced by monetary considerations, all in equal measure.
One of these Nowgam locals was Fayaz, who came in contact with operatives of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), 'the Party of the Holy Warriors'. He was slowly motivated to work for the proscribed organization as an overground worker (OGW), collectively referred to as 'uppers' by militants.
In Kashmir, drivers, cleaners, truck owners and taxi operators are considered to be high-quality assets that militants look to recruit and induct into their organizations. One of the reasons the conflict has sustained itself for so long is the formidable network of OGWs, who extend logistical support to insurgents. Though fully involved in furthering the conflict, these OGWs remain in public and deceptively indulge in subversive activities by sheltering, aiding and providing information to militants about the movement of security forces.
After his initiation into the organization, Fayaz started running small errands for HM and soon found himself getting sucked deeper into the quagmire. He was tasked with sheltering terrorists in his house from time to time. On one such night, three terrorists came to his house unannounced.
The stillness of the night was occasionally broken by dogs barking when security forces quietly laid a cordon around Fayaz's house, plugging the outer lanes and approach roads to prevent anyone from escaping.
Perhaps the hiding terrorists had got an inkling of the siege, or perhaps they simply surrendered to their fate once they knew about the security forces, but they hurriedly got up from their blankets and prepared to escape. It is not clear whether one of the three, Sameer Dar from Gundibagh, Pulwama, was on lookout duty. Nonetheless, Sameer ran to the right of the house, from where he hurled a grenade into the backstreet, scaled up the wall, landed in the mustard field and disappeared among the almond trees.
One of the remaining two terrorists called up Bahawalpur in Pakistan several times, but at that hour no one answered. 'Allah protect us. We have been found out,' he murmured, fear dripping from his face. 'Try to break the cordon and don't stay put in the house,' he told his mate. 'And break that damn phone of yours. Do it now,' he said, repeating, 'Destroy your phone.' Both of them fished out their phones and smashed them on the floor several times. The OLED display, batteries and phone sets were destroyed. Gone with them were photographs, numerous selfies, text messages, saved YouTube videos and voice notes.
The two then tried to break through the front of the house, immediately coming under the shooting arc of the security forces, who had already taken up positions on the house's three sides. The first round of gunfire felled one of the terrorists who sprinted out into the street. The bullet pierced his head, and he dropped dead near a drain. The other hid behind the arborvitae shrub, looking for a chance to scamper through the bushes and flower beds to safety. Fayaz, meanwhile, peered out from a window and saw the second terrorist cowering behind the shrub. As the man crawled away, he tossed a grenade into the street, but was pinned down by machine-gun fire that strafed the house from three sides. Shot in the arm and stomach, the terrorist lay dead. 'Khodoyah,' Fayaz gasped, then murmured a prayer, 'Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return).'
The gunfight lasted barely a few minutes. When the firing stopped, the fearful silence was broken by para bombs that illuminated the night and lit up Fayaz's house, as well as the mustard fields and almond trees. A few minutes later, a searchlight's powerful beam scanned the surroundings and fell on the bodies of the two dead men, their weapons glinting. The outer cordon was tightened and the wait for first light began.
The muezzin's fading call for the fajr namaz, the first prayer of the day, signalled a new dawn. The two bodies were now clearly visible. The second militant, the one who had hidden behind the arborvitae shrub, wore blue jeans and a brown leather belt. Blood and dirt now covered his blue sports jacket as he lay prone on the ground. His right arm had been completely blown off under the elbow. The first militant, who lay near the drain, had been hit on the forehead, leaving his sparsely bearded face bloodied. His black tracksuit was now soiled with dust. His clothes and shoes, like his companion's, were dishevelled.
Initial investigations identified the two dead terrorists as Ali Bhai and Idrees Bhai, both Pakistani nationals. The real identities of insurgents often remain shrouded behind their kunyahs—their adopted battle names, aliases or noms de guerre—such as Hamza, Qari, Ghazi, Huzaifah, Musa and Saifullah.
Further investigations revealed the identity of Ali Bhai—who had hidden behind the shrub—as Mohammad Kamran Ali, a dreaded terrorist on the most-wanted lists of Pulwama district police. In a photograph available with security forces, he wore a black fez, spectacles and a pheran, the Kashmiri cloak that falls well below the knees. He looked leaner in the picture, and now, with his life snuffed out, his body had grown stiffer and more fragile. His face was gaunt and his beard sucked up in his cheeks.
The Indian security forces were so elated to have discovered they had got Kamran that they did not even try to uncover the real identity of Idrees Bhai. It would be another nine months before the precious discovery of the mangled phone divulged the story of the twenty-three-year-old, whose real name was Muhammad Umar Farooq Alvi.
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Most everyone knows that Oark General Store is the state's oldest general store – but it's not the only historic general store in Arkansas. There's also Hawkins Variety Store. It hasn't been around for nearly as long as Oark General Store; however, just like its famous counterpart, it's sure to transport you to another era.
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Having a healthy body weight is important. If you want to lose weight, it's a good idea to find a workout program that suits your needs. Different people have different goals when it comes to their weight. Some people want to lose a lot of weight for a specific function or event while others want to tone up for the summer and leave the extra weight behind.
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Focus On Strength, Endurance, And Flexibility
When you are starting your weight loss journey, it's important to focus on strength, endurance, and flexibility. People with stronger muscles, more stamina, and greater flexibility are usually able to lose weight faster than those with lower muscle strength, lower stamina, and less flexibility. It's also important to focus on what you are able to do and not what you are trying not to do. For example, if you want to lose weight to prepare for a family vacation to Italy in the summer, it might be a good idea to skip the gym for a while and just do some light workouts at home. However, if you want to lose weight because you are unhappy with the way you look, it's definitely a good idea to work out at the gym.
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When you are starting your weight loss journey, it's important to have a variety of tasks to keep your body active. A good workout routine should be something that you look forward to. If you are bored of doing the same routine every day, it's a good idea to change it up a bit. Variety is the key to keeping your workout interesting and fun. If you feel like your body has gotten lax at certain points, mix up the intensity to work out different muscles. You should be able to recognize the difference in your body when you do a variety of workouts. For example, if you do squats one day and leg presses the next, you will be able to tell the difference in how you feel after each workout.
If you want to lose weight, it's a good idea to set some goals for yourself. There is no point in losing weight if you are not able to enjoy your life how you want to. It's important to find a workout program that you can stick with and that helps you reach your goals. Once you find that perfect program, it's time to move on to the next step.
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There is a lot of conflicting advice when it comes to diet and nutrition, especially when it comes to weight loss. It's important to not only follow what your doctor or nutritionist recommends but to also trust your instincts and what works best for YOU. If you are not sure where to start or what to do, it's a good idea to consult with a dietician or nutritionist. They can help you find the right diet and workout plan that suits your needs and goals.
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When you're looking for new products or plans, it's important to look at reviews as well as advice and tips from others who have used it before you. In the same way you'd read reviews for a product before purchasing it, you can read reviews for various workout programs and decide which one is right for you. If you don't have much experience with different types of workouts and exercises, it's a good idea to look at reviews for the different types of programs so that you can find the one that's right for you.
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No matter what kind of workout routine you are trying to follow, having a coach or a mentor can help you get there quicker and with less strain. A good coach can help you find the right intensity and the right time to work out. They can also help you change up your workout routine if it gets a bit monotonous. A good coach or mentee should be someone who's got your best interests at heart and is helping you reach your full potential. When you find that person, everything else will seem less important.
If you're looking for a workout program that gets your heart pumping and keeps your muscles busy, you can't go wrong with Tabata training. The founder of Tabata training, Ryuho Sakakibara, conducted a lot of research and determined that a 20-minute workout involving high intensity exercises followed by 10 minutes of slow and easy cardio is the perfect formula for weight loss. He developed the workout routine after noticing that many of his students were lacking in stamina and were unable to complete all of the exercises in his classes. As a result, some of them were dropping out to continue their studies elsewhere. To save his students, Sakakibara created the 20/10 workout, which is now known as Tabata training.
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My name is Maddie and I'm a graduate of the MLIS program at the University of Washington (Spring 2020). I've worked as a student reference specialist in Special Collections since February 2019.
If you've ever read about the horseback riding librarians of Kentucky during the Great Depression, how Alam Wagen was the first female guide with Mt. Rainier National Park, or how Louise B. Marshall established the Washington Trails Association, you'll know women have historically made an impact in the outdoors through rain, snow or shine. Seattle and the surrounding area hold a population which is passionate about the natural landscape and culture of the Pacific Northwest; it is also rich with historical women defying social expectations to climb mountains, join training teams, participate publicly in causes, and build trails which are still used today.
The role of libraries and archives is to make information readily available and to help make the past part of the present. This research guide is not exhaustive, but rather a reminder to open the research door and remember how women contributed to outdoor preservation, education, storytelling, and advocacy. As a capstone project, and as a way to transition from student to librarian, my goal was to encourage researchers to include women in their thinking and studying of the past. I hope it is a useful tool, and in the meantime, I'll see you on the trails and in the libraries.
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Bill Brierley established WLC Brierley Lawyers in 1991 and the practice has been an integral part of the Newtown and Wellington community ever since. The clients come from all over New Zealand as well as overseas, and with technology he can service them no matter where they are.
Based on a platform of strong values and ethics, Bill provides pragmatic, quality and professional legal advice using plain English delivered in a cost-effective, affordable and friendly manner.
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University's Employer Assisted Housing Program offers homebuyer assistance
Employer-Assisted Housing:. programs to offer $50 per month per employee for rental assistance up to 24 months when homes are completed. with $7,500 down payment assistance for University employees (with help of local housing expert) and has
Employer-assisted housing programs help employees meet their housing needs, which in turn helps employers to achieve their business goals. Such programs provide tremendous resources and support to employees by leveraging state and local financial assistance programs, organizing homebuyer workshops, and providing discounts toward housing.
Each of the companies offers housing benefits, which include help with down payments, education and counseling as well as rental, renovation and construction assistance. Homes for Working Families is distributing a guidebook on housing programs to about 2000 employers, local governments and advocacy groups.
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The program is not restricted to first-time home buyers but you are ineligible if you currently own a home. It is strongly recommended that you review the lihp employer assisted housing highlights to determine if you meet their expectations prior to applying for the bnl employer assisted housing Program.
Washington, D.C. offers several programs to help people realize their dream of owning a home in the city. In the second part of our series on D.C. homeownership assistance programs, we explain help available to city employees through D.C.'s Employer Assisted Housing Program.
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It was the type of neighborhood that could attract crime, not necessarily first-time homebuyers. already spent about $169.2 million from the Housing and Urban Development's Neighborhood.
The University of Scranton's Employer-Assisted Housing Program is a two-part program that is intended to help revitalize Scranton's Hill Section. The program consists of University-owned properties that are available to faculty and staff for rent and a forgivable loan program to assist faculty and staff in purchasing a home in the eligible.
The program also offers onsite homebuyer workshops, discounted housing services and linkages to other housing programs. EXAMPLE: After two years of service, George is now eligible for his employer's housing benefits program that provides a one-time $2,000 grant to purchase a home in Philadelphia.
increase the supply of affordable housing in the community. Employer assistance can be designed to benefit both renters and homeowners. Each of the employer-assisted housing options listed below is described in detail on the following pages. Several of these options are illustrated with case study examples later in the resource guide.


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We imagine a debate between dog people and cat people about which animal is most intelligent will result in a heated conversation! While not as much research has been done on the intelligence of cats compared to how much has been done on dogs, the fact is that they both show unique levels of brainpower.
Cats vs dogs
You might wonder why researchers have not done quite as many studies on feline intelligence. Well, that is mostly due to cats being cats and their aloof natures. In other words, they are hardly interested in our experiments and simply don't play along with researchers if they don't feel like it! Herein lies the biggest difference between cats and dogs. As the well-known saying goes: "Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you."
Many dogs are eager to please their people and enjoy working when they are trained with positive reinforcement methods. We see many dogs who work as service dogs, police dogs and much more – and it's easy to assume that cats are lacking in intelligence because they don't do these types of jobs. But the research that has been done shows that cats are far from dumb, and many cats have been successfully trained to do a variety of things – it's simply their independent natures that at times make them decide that they simply couldn't be bothered. In fact, some might argue that cats are more intelligent than dogs for not catering to humans' every whim!
Clever kitty
As with dogs and humans, it is believed that some cats are smarter than others. You can do a simple test to try to get an idea of your cat's level of intelligence. Simply show your cat an object that catches her interest, such as a toy or treat. Do this in a room that is free of excessive clutter, helping your cat to focus on the chosen item. Now, hide the object behind something else, making it impossible for the cat to see. If your cat knows where to look for the hidden object, her IQ is around the same as a human child of 18 months old. This is because she realised that the object was still there, only hidden, and that it didn't completely disappear.
If your cat is very smart, she will be able to predict an object's movement without actually seeing it. For example, if a ball rolls in under a couch where she can't see it, and she is able to predict where it comes out, your cat's intelligence is similar to that of a two-year-old child.
You can also use your cat's daily activities as a measure. Does she remember the schedule at home, such as what time she gets fed? Does she display good survival skills (which are natural for cats) as well as social skills, such as greeting you at the door when you come home from work? Are there any words she recognises, including her own name? Maybe you have managed to teach her a trick or two?
Of course, none of this really matters. All cats come with unique personalities and quirks, and even those who perhaps don't fare so well when it comes to being smart deserve the best care we can offer them.
Some of the world's smartest cat breeds include the following:
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- Cornish Rex
- Bengal
- Tonkinese
- Burmese
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Shaquem Griffin played college football at the University of Central Florida with his twin brother, Shaquill. Both players had NFL buzz, and Shaquill is a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars even to this day.
Shaquem, however, also had a more difficult path after having his hand amputated as a child. Yet, he defied the odds, made the NFL, and enjoyed a decent career with the Seattle Seahawks.
On Wednesday, Shaquem Griffin announced his retirement from the NFL in a Player's Tribune post.
Shaquem Griffin has announced his retirement after four seasons in @PlayersTribune.
The first one-handed player drafted in the modern NFL.
An inspiration 🙏 pic.twitter.com/GPt0W6NlIq
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 24, 2022
Griffin is set to join the NFL Legends Community, and he seems at peace with his decision. After all, he made it in the NFL. He played in all 16 games in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Griffin has been an inspiration to everybody, and he will be remembered forever for his courage and relentless work ethic.
NFL fans from all over reacted to the news of Griffin's retirement.
Shaquem Griffin showed the world anything is possible at the 2018 Combine.
A true inspiration. Congrats on your retirement, @Shaquemgriffin. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/zH6yXV0q1O
— NFL (@NFL) August 24, 2022
Absolute goat. Forever a knight. One of my favorite athletes ever. We'll always love you Shaquem and you're welcome in the bounce house any time. https://t.co/rqvRxTTg8o
— astro_naught (@wooley_aero) August 24, 2022
Beautiful. Can't wait for your next act in Plan A, @Shaquemgriffin. https://t.co/JvTnuySUeD
— R33D (@iReedifer) August 24, 2022
Don't care what nobody says this man @Shaquemgriffin just made a generation of kids suffering from any rare disease dreams come true making anything possible and that what really counts . 🐐 https://t.co/kURjoMMzPo
— Amir (@KidClement) August 24, 2022
Griffin spent some time with the Miami Dolphins last summer but did not make the final roster, so he had been searching for a team since then.
Nonetheless, Shaquem Griffin is headed to the next chapter of his life and he seems content with his decision. Hats off to an improbable career for Griffin.


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The length of the life of diesel generator set is not only necessary to do the usual scientific and regular maintenance, but also has a lot to do with the correct use at ordinary times. It is also important to know when the diesel generator set runs the load. The best load running time of different brands of diesel generator sets is analyzed as follows.
The diesel generator set should be prepared as follows before running the load:
1. After the diesel generator set is successfully started, the no-load voltage is 400V, the frequency is 50HZ, and the three-phase voltage balance has no major deviation. If the voltage deviation from 400V is too large, and the frequency is lower than 47HZ or higher than 52HZ, the diesel generator set should be checked and maintained before the load operation can be carried out;
2. The coolant in the radiator should be in a saturated state, the temperature of the coolant can be closed with a load above 60 degrees Celsius, and the operating load should be gradually increased from a small load to regular operation;
3. The oil level is within the specified scale line, and the oil pressure should not be lower than 0.2MPA after starting;
4. The engine air filter pollution warning sign should be green, if it shows red, replace the new air filter before running the load;
5. The whole diesel generator set is firmly and effectively grounded, and the cable connection is correct and firm without skin breakage;
6. The generator air switch can be switched freely and flexibly, and the capacity of the air switch should be close to the current size of the generator and effectively protected;
7. The last, simplest and most important link is that there is enough diesel generator set in the mailbox of the diesel generator set to run under load.
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In the early 18th century, the Italian naturalist Lazzaro Spallanzani was studying the sensing of bats. He found out that bats can orientate themselves in absolute darkness without their eyes, but that this is not possible without the help of their ears. But it was only later in the end of the 1930s that the US researcher Donald Griffin and some of his colleagues succeeded in making the calls of bats audible and revealing the bats' acoustic mode of orientation. Echolocation is found not only in bats but also in toothed whales, some cave-dwelling bird species and shrews. Put simply, in echolocation, the brain forms a picture of the environment by analysing echoes produced by self-produced sounds. In most bats, echolocation calls are produced in the larynx. Lips and skin appendages at the nose and mouth area serve as so-called acoustic lenses, which help to focus the calls more precisely, similar to a camera. Bats produce very different echolocation calls that vary in volume, length and pitch depending on the species and situation. Most of the time, these calls are so high-pitched that we, as humans, cannot hear them, which is why they are also called ultrasonic calls. The human hearing range extends from about 2 to 20 kHz. Bat calls are usually higher than 20 kHz and in exceptional cases can reach frequencies of up to 300 kHz. Echolocation calls are also subject to some physical limitations. High frequencies are very quickly attenuated in the air. This means that the higher the frequency used by the animals, the shorter the range of the corresponding call. However, the use of high frequencies also brings advantages. The higher the tone, the smaller structures the bats can acoustically detect. Thus, it is not possible for the animals to achieve a large range with their calls at the same time as high resolution. This problem is solved by the animals in a very flexible way. Most bats can change the calls they emit to adapt them flexibly to the respective environment and situation. In habitats with dense vegetation, such as forests, high-frequency calls are advantageous, because here a precise resolution ensures that obstacles can be avoided and prey can still be detected against the background of the vegetation.
Basically, two types of echolocation calls can be distinguished: Constant-frequency calls and frequency-modulated calls. The latter start at very high frequencies and then pass through a frequency band of lower frequencies. This frequency band can be more or less steep and the modulation of frequencies often occurs in a very short time (2-5 ms). So-called simple-nosed bats (vesper bats), which include most bat species found in Germany, can produce echolocation calls in particularly wide frequency bands. By increasing the bandwidth of the calls, the bats increase the information content of the echo. Especially the distance to an object or a prey insect can be estimated very well this way. Very broadband calls therefore occur mainly in bats that hunt in dense vegetation, such as the native Bechstein's or Natterer's bats (Myotis bechsteinii; Myotis nattereri).
As a mixed type of these two calls, another call type can be distinguished: the quasi-constant-frequency call. Such calls begin with a small frequency-modulated section that can vary greatly from call to call, even in individual animals. The information that can be obtained with this call is not aimed at the exact localisation of an object, but at the detection of objects in a large range. Therefore, this call type is mostly used by bat species that hunt in open areas and fly very fast, such as common noctules (Nyctalus noctula). Then, as soon as an object is detected, the bats switch to frequency-modulated echolocation, which provides more information about the exact location, size or shape of an object.
Fruit bats are the only group within bats that have not evolved echolocation, in which calls are produced via the larynx. However, some fruit bats (of the genus Rousettus) produce echolocation calls via rapid tongue clicks. Therefore, it is possible for these flying foxes to fly in caves where there is total darkness. Flying foxes that cannot echolocate, on the other hand, can only use entrance areas of caves where sufficient daylight makes visual orientation possible.
When listening to echolocation calls with the Batdetector, we distinguish between "wet" and "dry" calls depending on the auditory impression. It is one of the most important distinguishing features for species recognition with the Batdetector.
Pure frequency-modulated calls produce a "dry" auditory impression because the bats call so quickly from top to bottom (i.e. from high to low frequencies) that our ear does not manage to recognise the calls "translated" into our auditory range with the Batdetector as sounds. It simply happens too fast for us. Therefore, these calls have no sound quality for us. These calls are called "dry".
In the case of so-called quasi-constant-frequency calls, the calls are lowered quickly at the beginning but change only very slowly at the end, which is why these calls are almost constant-frequency at the end. The auditory impression is reminiscent of a splash or drops of water falling on a water surface, which is why we speak of "wet" calls here.
When a sound source moves towards us or we move towards the sound source, the frequency of the perceived sound shifts to a higher range than when the sound source moves away from us or we move away from it. This means that we hear a higher tone when the sound source is approaching us (compare approaching ambulance).
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Keith and Denis Knight's 1938 Morris 10/4
Hi guys long time no contact .
Thought I better keep you up to date, after reading in your booklet the rag, about your southern most member bruce marshall coming to visit. It inspired me to send you photos of the painting of the 1938 10/4 belonging to your other southern member Jack Knight from the Catlins, Owaka, and myself Denis Knight, Gore, Southland.
Its finally getting closer to being finished after all - we have only owned it for 26 years. Good things take time. Everything has been done by dad and myself so the finished product will be something to be proud of.
Thankyou so much for your mag. I know dad looks forward to receiving it in the mail and having mum read it to him because of his failing sight. Its always a highlite for him.
Many thanks, Denis Knight.


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Itching in your Dreams
To dream of an itching represents a problem or difficulty of unknown origin that it needs to be necessary to be resolved. An itching in a dream can denounce the alteration or the damage of something settles down and necessary as the work, the love or the friendship. If you dream of an itching in your left arm you should check the current situation of the finances to know the figures of credit and debit. Dreaming of an itching in the right ear seeks advice to check some approaches of your parents about some personal friends.
However, this dream will always allow leaving doubts or distrusting before any person that seeks to hide the real face before the other ones. This way, all nuisances will leave to exist with the good advice of this premonition.
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Invest More in Oxygen Generators, Not Ventilators—Minister
By Dipo Olowookere
Minister of Health, Mr Osagie Ehanire, has called for more investment in oxygen generators, saying situations have showed that they are more needed in the management of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) than ventilators.
Last week, Mr Ehanire inspected the 063 Nigeria Air Force COVID-19 Observation, Treatment Centre located at a side of the 063 NAF Hospital along the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Road, Abuja.
The facility is about 25-bed COVID-19 Observation and Treatment Centre with a Small Operation Theatre (when that becomes necessary) and sections to treat serious symptomatic COVID-19 cases, observation and treatment of mild and asymptomatic cases.
Speaking at the event, which had officials of the ministry in attendance, the Minister said, "You may consider that based on health team's management of cases of COVID-19, majority of our patients do well with oxygen supplementation because the ventilators have not come in so useful."
He further said in Lagos, "We've seen out of every 400 cases, only 4 requires ventilators. So, the percentage of those who require ventilators are not as high as what we feared in the beginning.
"A large number of persons will require oxygen supplementation. So, we are advising investing in oxygen generators now as you invest also in ventilators, but don't put all your hopes in ventilators."
"I understand that the Air Force has an oxygen plant in Yola. So, you can supply yourself generously with oxygen," the Minister stated.
He expressed gratitude to NAF for donating 30 cylinders of oxygen to the ministry. He said the items have been deployed to the General Hospital, Asokoro, Abuja.
However, the Minister requested for more oxygen cylinders from the Air Force to be used at the Lagos Mainland Hospital, Yaba, where there is an isolation for COVID-19 treatment of COVID-19 patients.
Mr Ehanire, who was invited to inspect and possibly direct on further things necessary for the centre to be accredited, charged the 063 NAF COVID-19 Observation, Treatment Centre, said with COVID-19, not much was known about it initially.
"But we proceed by learning. Several treatment drugs have been touted and trials reveal that many of them have not proved useful.
"A new one has come up now, we know it, we know its side effect, it is not something you buy off the shelf, you have to be extremely careful in its dispensing and uses. It's only a doctor that should prescribe it prescribe the exact dosage," he said.
Impressed with the state of the 063 NAF Observation and Treatment Centre, the Minister directed the accreditation team to proceed with other things necessary and to note the facility to be added to the nation's assets along with the Defence Reference Laboratory at Mogadishu Cantonment along Nyanya Road also in Abuja. The Lab, the Minister, was told has already handled more than 560 samples.
On the future of national response to any health emergency post-COVID-19, Mr Ehanire disclosed that even before COVID-19, his Ministry had been working on a national response that bring together a national emergency management response system.
This, he said, was already built into the National Health Act whereby 5 percent of Basic Healthcare Provision Fund will form the seed money for medical emergency response.
"We realise that the private sector up to 60 – 70 percent of health services is delivered by the private sector. So, we know that the private sector has to be included in this response system.
"We have a committee already working on this and it is headed by somebody from the private sector and the armed forces are members," he noted.


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Here is the fly pattern sheet for Barr's Meat Whistle.
Daiichi 4660 #2
6/0 Danville olive
Gold 6.3 mm brass
Copper wire – brassie size
Diamond braid – gold (Hareline code FD153)
Rabbit strip – tan (Hareline code RS43)
Crazy legs – blue/silver flake (Hareline code CL23)
Flashabou – electric blue (Hareline code FLA6908)
Marabou – peach (Hareline code MSBQ281)
For step-by-step instructions, see Charlie's Fly Box. He does an excellent job describing how to tie the fly.
Personal tying notes:
- Begin thread at 1/4 mark. This leaves enough space to tie in all materials and slide cone over ends.
- Use thread base to prevent material slippage.
- Tail is about 1 1/2 body lengths.
- Use 5 strands of Flashabou and double over for 10 total.
- Cut leg material half-length of tail.
- Cut Flashabou about 1/2 inch past end of hook.
- Flashabou same length as marabou.
- When tying marabou on top and bottom, use thumb nail to spread material half way around hook.
Barr's three favorite color combinations are watermelon (olive), pumpkinseed (rust), and black and blue. The one above are the materials for a custom streamer I tied for a customer – a Virile Crayfish.
For a little more information about Barr's Meat Whislte, check out this Throw Back Thursday Fly post.


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Too much screen time is placing Queensland kids at a high risk of obesity and chronic disease, with one in three children sitting at screens for more than the recommended maximum two hours per day.
The new stats, to be officially released in the upcoming Chief Health Officer's 2016 Report, also found more than half of Queensland children aged five to 17 aren't active every day.
Cancer Council Queensland spokesperson Katie Clift said young people were particularly vulnerable to the adverse health effects of sedentary behaviour, in the short and long term.
"The stats show 38 per cent of Queensland kids – more than 300,000 are spending more than two hours on screens for entertainment every day," Ms Clift said.
"Older children spend more time on screens and only one in five meet the recommended physical activity guidelines by the time they reach age 16 or 17.
"It's important that all Queensland children meet the recommended guidelines for physical activity to maintain health and happiness.
"Encouraging our kids to live less sedentary lives is also about establishing lifelong habits that promote overall wellbeing.
"Children aged five to 12 should be encouraged to avoid sedentary behaviour and limit screen time to under two hours daily – engaging in exercise for at least 60 minutes every day.
"Queensland cannot afford to ignore a looming health crisis created by the obesity epidemic – as a community we must find ways to be more active and improve our overall health."
One in four Queensland children and one in two Queensland adults are currently overweight or obese.
Cancer Council has urged Queenslanders to enjoy screen-free time every day.
"Families can make small changes to cut down on daily screen time – try turning off electronic devices during meal times or cut back to 30 minutes of television a day," Ms Clift said.
"Encourage the kids to get outdoors and spend time being active – whether it's enrolling in a team sport, spending time at the pool or kicking a ball around in the backyard.
"Sedentary lifestyles can contribute to overweight and obesity later in life – try to spend less time sitting and more time up and about every day."
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Since 1968, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. CPB provides essential operational support for the nearly 1,400 locally-owned and operated public television and radio stations, which reach virtually every household in the country. Siouxland Public Media is a recipient of CPB grant funding, an annual grant that is approximately 1/4 of our operational budget.
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General Manager: Mark Munger
Operations Manager/Chief Engineer: Steve Smith
In compliance with CPB's transparency requirements we are pleased to provide the following disclosures and information.
Scheduled meetings, which are open to the public.
The Friends of Siouxland Public Media meets on the second Thursday of January, April, July, and November. All meetings are at noon at the Sioux City Public Museum, 607 4th St, Sioux City IA, 51101.
Board President: Angie Schneiderman
Board Vice President: Semehar Ghebrekidan
Board Treasurer: Greg Giles
Board Secretary: Jim Sorvaag
The Western Iowa Tech Community College Board of Directors meets on the second Monday of each month at 4:00 p.m. Most meetings are on the WITCC Campus - Sioux City, Board Room A507.
Board President: Russell Wray
Board Vice President: Tricia Sutherland
Board Treasurer: Troy Jasman
Board Secretary: Brenda Wright
Siouxland Public Media Statement of Diversity
Siouxland Public Media recognizes that diversity makes for a stronger and fairer news gathering organization, one that better understands the many experiences and values of the people that, together, make our home. We strive to employ management, reporters, staff, interns, and officers that represent our community's diversity, and we aim to create programming that provides all people in Siouxland with valuable information and meaningful music.
- Objective: curate a program that amplifies non-dominant voices thus expanding outreach to diverse audiences.
- Program Ideas: Oral History Project; AMPLIFY
- Set a schedule of events for recording oral histories in the spring where we reach out to non-dominant communities
- Train board members to help gather oral histories both at the events and independently.
Develop AMPLIFY, a project that will provide a platform for diverse voices and focus upon the issues that impact non-dominant communities
- Identify and bring together people who will help to develop AMPLIFY
- Define the mission and goals of AMPLIFY
- Create a strategy for bringing AMPLIFY on-air
- Train the participants in content creation
- Begin distributing AMPLIFY content
- Objective: Building a talent pipeline that will intentionally diversify the media field and develop the skills of people who may become possible employee candidates for staff
- Personnel Development Ideas: Internship Program focused on teaching interns newsgathering and storytelling skills while focusing on the issues of non-dominant cultures
- Work with WITCC to create an internship program
- Develop relationships with departments and institutions that may direct prospective interns to the program
- Define the goals and objectives of the internships
- Define the review process for the program
Training/Learning Exchanges
- Objective: to increase awareness and education of staff on the media's relationship with non-dominant populations in the local market (80 mile radius of Sioux city)
- Training Ideas: Develop a training program for staff
- Actions: Work with WITCC's DEI department and the Friends of Siouxland Public Media to develop a training program that educates our staff.
Western Iowa Tech Community College, the license holder of Siouxland Public Media, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, gender, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, or any protected class prohibited by law. WITCC is committed to diversity and inclusion.
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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Frank Zappa, Zappa '75: Zagreb/Ljubljana (Zappa/UMe) (Zappa Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Zappa '75: Zagreb/Ljubljana captures The Mothers' first and only concerts in Yugoslavia. Zappa referred to the dates as "The Mothers of Invention Yugoslavian Extravaganza," and the performances lived up to that mighty moniker. The shows were staged in Zagreb and
This fall, Omnivore will be revisiting the back pages of two California artists with whom the label has become associated: Dean Torrence and Buck Owens. Back in 2017, Omnivore issued Filet of Soul Redux: The Rejected Master Recordings from Jan Berry and Dean Torrence, the innovative surf-rock duo and Beach Boys pals who transformed the sound of SoCal pop. But Dean was always much more than "just" one-half of that pioneering musical pair. As a graphic designer, Torrence won the Grammy Award
We'll be havin' fun all summer long... For nearly sixty years, the sun-drenched harmonies of The Beach Boys have provided the soundtrack for summer - from those welcome first days and first rays through the season's bittersweet final moments as autumn's chill approaches. They're the rare band whose compilations, beginning with 1974's chart-topping Endless Summer, have become nearly as key to their legacy as the core studio albums. 2003's Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach
On October 1, 1962, The Beach Boys released their album debut Surfin' Safari on Capitol Records, beginning an extraordinary musical odyssey that continues to this day. Since then, brothers Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson; cousin Mike Love; and friend Al Jardine - along with fellow travelers including Bruce Johnston, David Marks, Blondie Chaplin, and Ricky Fataar, and dozens of key collaborators including Gary Usher, Roger Christian, Tony Asher, Van Dyke Parks, Billy Hinsche,
"Add Some Music to Your Day," The Beach Boys' paean to the power of music, anchored the group's 1970 album Sunflower. The song's imagery conjures music from the seemingly mundane to the undeniably transcendent, expressing the belief that "the world could come together as one/If everybody under the sun" would add some music to their day. Now, the gentle, uplifting Brian Wilson-Mike Love-Joe Knott anthem is anchoring a new album for a very worthy cause. On April 23, Omnivore Recordings will
It's only appropriate that Jeffrey Foskett's new release on the BMG label is entitled Voices. For it's the beauty of the human voice that's the key ingredient here - specifically the artist's rich, supple, and multi-faceted vocal instrument which has lent support over the past four decades to The Beach Boys in their various incarnations. While Foskett has recorded numerous solo albums for the Japanese market, his own works are somewhat less known here in the United States. Happily, Voices
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! James Taylor, The Warner Bros. Albums 1970-1976 (Warner/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino has a newly remastered box, supervised by Peter Asher, of James Taylor's six studio albums for the label including Sweet Baby James (1970), Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971), One Man Dog (1972), Walking Man (1974), Gorilla (1975); and In the Pocket (1976). Available on CD,
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Kinks, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society [Various Formats] (BMG) 5CD/3LP/3-7″ Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Kinks are going back to the Village Green - and it's grown quite a bit in size! The band's legendary fifth album, 1968's The Kinks Are The
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Queen, News of the World: 40th Anniversary Edition (UMC (U.K.) / Hollywood (U.S.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) Queen's sixth album, 1977's News of the World, is being generously expanded for its 40th anniversary in a new 3CD/1DVD/1LP box set. The original album is presented on CD and LP. The first bonus CD, the entirely unreleased Raw Sessions, presents an alternate version of the original album from demos, outtakes and live
Mike Love is a lot of things--a charter member of The Beach Boys who owns the band name and continues to tour with it alongside longtime touring member Bruce Johnston (currently in support of Wild Honey and 1967 - Sunshine Tomorrow), a devoted meditator, perhaps the most memorable speaker at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction--but right now, he's a guy with a solo double album coming out. Unleash The Love, due out November 17 on BMG, features 13 new tracks produced by Michael Lloyd and
The Beach Boys are promising a bright forecast for summer 2017 with a new 50th anniversary collection due on June 30 from Capitol/UMe. Sunshine Tomorrow, a new 2-CD and digital collection, not only premieres the first-ever true stereo mix of 1967's Wild Honey, but also premieres a whopping 54 rarities recorded that year including the live album Lei'd in Hawaii, session material from both Wild Honey and Smiley Smile, and further live recordings (spanning 1967-1970). The new stereo mix of Wild


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Lucky Sweynesse might be given the chance to extend a phenomenal season in search of a ninth victory after matching Beauty Generation's record for the most wins in a single Hong Kong campaign with a dominant performance in the Gr3 Sha Tin Vase Handicap at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Posting his eighth win from 10 starts this season, and his sixth in a row, Lucky Sweynesse (135lb) powered to a comfortable one-and-a-quarter length victory over Victor The Winner despite conceding the runner-up 20lb, while clocking 1m 08.00s under Zac Purton.
Improving a stunning career record to 13 wins, two seconds and a third from 17 starts for Manfred Man, the prodigious four-year-old took his prize money earnings to HK$51,108,200 – and still might be given one more opportunity to snap the record for the most wins in a season the gelding now shares with Beauty Generation, who won all of his eight starts in 2018/19.
Man suggested Lucky Sweynesse – the world's highest-rated sprinter – might attempt to add the G3 Premier Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin on 25 June to a bulging list of 2022/23 credits, which already include Gr1 triumphs in the Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m), Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m) and Chairman's Sprint Prize (1200m).
"I need to discuss with the owner first, it's too early to give an answer. I will look at the horse after the race. We will do the morning gallop to see how he feels. Now the weather is very hot, so I don't want the horse to feel hot," Man said of possible Premier Cup plans. "He is in really good form and I think maybe next season he can still improve a little bit."
Purton said the solid tempo set by Victor The Winner and Sight Success played into Lucky Sweynesse's hands as the favourite tracked the speed in third place until the home straight before angling out to settle the matter with a terminal charge inside the last 200m.
"Once he jumped as well he did, it made it easier and then with the extra pace in the race and with the weight on his back, it just allowed him to get into a nice rhythm and to come into the race when he was ready," the Australian said.
"I looked after him for as long as I could and he did the rest. He's turning into some horse. It was a pretty soft win. He's something else, he's starting to turn into a very, very good horse."
Five-time Hong Kong Champion Jockey Purton said he is surprised by Lucky Sweynesse's continued progress which has seen the strongly-built speedster advance from a rating of 98 to 130 before today's race.
"The last three or four months, he's improved so much it's scary to think that with a break he might build up even more – I'm hoping that's the case," Purton said.
Lucky Sweynesse's win sealed a black type double for Purton, who earlier won in the G3 Lion Rock Trophy Handicap (1600m) on Beauty Eternal for John Size as Lyle Hewitson continued a stellar season with a treble, striking with Colourful Prince, Sweet Briar and Golden Empire to take his season's tally to 43 wins.
"It's fantastic, things have picked up recently again to how we would like them – it's been a little while between trebles, so it's nice to get one again," Hewitson said after his first Sha Tin three-timer, having last posted a treble at Happy Valley on 27 April, 2022.
"I had six rides today and I thought I would be very competitive. I thought I had one or two standout rides, so for three of the first four to come home, I'm ecstatic. Everything worked really well, we got luck in some of the races – to keep having winners, you do need the luck – and today it fell my way."
Douglas Whyte and Hewitson combined successfully for the 14th time this season when Colourful Prince snared the Class 4 Sha Tin Hoi Handicap (1200m, dirt). Hewitson then twice teamed with Francis Lui to prevail on Sweet Briar in the Class 4 Fo Tan Handicap (1200m) and also atop Golden Empire in the Class 3 Kau To Shan Handicap (1200m).
Frankie Lor cut his deficit to Size in the trainers' championship to eight – 66 to 58 – with a three-timer with Flamingo Trillion, Youthful Deal and A Pal to preserve hopes of successive trainers' titles.
Flamingo Trillion slotted his second win in a row when victorious in the Class 4 Tolo Harbour Handicap (1400) under Derek Leung, Youthful Deal bolted in with the Class 2 Penfold Park Handicap (1200m, dirt) for Vincent Ho to claim a HK$1 million PPG Bonus and A Pal closed the meeting with a comfortable win in the second section of the Class 3 Shing Mun River Channel Handicap (1400m) for Leung.
Earlier, Brenton Avdulla notched his first Hong Kong win at his 50th attempt, piloting Man's Go Go Sixteen to victory in the Class 4 Ma Liu Shui Handicap (1600m).
"Very exciting, I haven't been too disheartened. I came here with really no expectations. There have riders who have come here with better credentials than me in the past and have struggled. Obviously, Hong Kong is a very tough jurisdiction and I'm very thankful for Manfred to give me an opportunity on a horse like this to get the job done," Avdulla said.
Caspar Fownes-trained Storm Legend made it two wins in a row, sweeping along the inside for apprentice Ellis Wong to clinch the first section of the Class 3 Shing Mun River Channel Handicap (1400m).
Hong Kong racing continues at Happy Valley on Wednesday 7 June.


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By Phelps, Edmund
Capitalism & Society Vol. 16, Issue 1 (Jun 2022)
Date Published: Jun 17, 2022
This paper, adapted from a presentation at the Center on Capitalism and Society in November 2021, is in three parts. The first notes the demands being made by various groups of actors in the economy. The second, recalling the principles of Frank Ramsey on the optimum national saving and John Rawls on optimum wage distribution in a neoclassical economy, ponders how far society will want to go beyond these beginnings. The third brings in my thesis on what is, for most people, the huge importance of work—particularly work's role in the good life—and on the role of capitalism in enriching work and enabling grassroots innovation.
Dynamism, Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth, Economic Development: Income Distribution, Innovation, Research and Development, Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives, Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity, Employment, Unemployment, Wages