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Fields applied the Page 69 Test to Wrecked and reported the following:
As was the case with my other two books, page 69 is a pivotal scene, and introduces one of my favorite bad guys, Wally Follet. At this point in the story, Chief of Police Josie Gray has discovered that her longtime love interest, Dillon Gray, is not only missing, but his secretary was murdered in his office. When Dillon didn't show up for a planned event, Josie let petty jealousies keep her from checking his house and office. She imagined him spending the night with his pretty secretary, Christina. When Josie discovers Christina's body in Dillon's office the next morning she realizes her insecurities could have cost the woman her life. To further complicate matters, she discovers that Dillon's disappearance may be connected to her past involvement with a Mexican cartel.Learn more about the book and author at Tricia Fields's website and blog.
In the excerpt below, Josie and her partner Otto have discovered a key player in the murder of Christina and the disappearance of Dillon. Wally Follet, who appears to be a sleazy salvage dealer, has connections to the Medrano's, a Mexican cartel with a vendetta to serve against Josie. Wally Follet is connected to a con game that is worth millions and could cost Josie everything that matters in her life.
Excerpt from page 69:The office was cool and the shattered glass had been swept away. Christina's chair had been removed and taken to the police station as evidence. It didn't change the horror of what had happened, but it was a relief not to look at the bloodstained chair.
After spending another fifteen minutes checking through desk drawers and searching closets, they were ready to go back to the department to begin sifting through documents. Before they left, Josie found the key to Dillon's post office box in his desk drawer and took it with her. She occasionally picked up his mail and knew that his box was number 246.
Josie locked up the office and Otto drove to the post office, where she retrieved the mail with no issue. Seated in the car again, Josie flipped through the pile of bills and came across a letter addressed to Dillon from the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas.
"This looks like a summons for federal court," she said.
He glanced at the envelope. "Better open it."
Josie quickly read through the letter and said, "Dillon received a summons for the district court in El Paso. The case is against a Walter Frank Follet."
"Wally Follet," Otto said. "That's one of Dillon's clients. I remember seeing the name in the database."
"He runs the salvage yard. Wally's Folly."
Otto nodded and glanced at Josie. "I know who Wally is. I've never had a run-in with him, but I can't imagine him ever winning businessman of the year."
Josie turned in her seat and looked at him. "A federal indictment? Motive for a murder and kidnapping?"
"If a guy like Wally thought it would keep him out of jail? Absolutely."
The Page 69 Test: The Territory.
The Page 69 Test: Scratchgravel Road.
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Grammys Pays Emotional Tribute to Kobe Bryant Same Day as Lakers Icon's Death
The 2020 Grammy Awards began with an emotional tribute to Kobe Bryant.
"To be honest with you, we're all feeling crazy sadness right now," host Alicia Keys solemnly said during her opening monologue at the 62nd Grammy Awards on Sunday Jan. 26.
"Earlier today, Los Angeles and America and the whole wide world lost a hero. And we're literally standing here heartbroken in the house that Kobe Bryant built."
"Right now, Kobe and his daughter Gianna, and all of those who have been tragically lost today, are in our spirits, our hearts, our prayers. They're in this building, and I would like to ask everybody to take a moment and just hold them inside of you and share our strength and our support with their families," she added.
Keys was then joined by Boyz II Men to perform a heart-bare rendition of "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye."
Cameras panned to the audience, where stars like Bebe Rexha, DJ Khaled and Dan + Shay welled up with tears.
But Keys wasn't the only artist to honor Bryant.
"Tonight is for Kobe," Lizzo said before starting her show-opening performance.
"That was a beautiful opening to the @RecordingAcad @TheAwards2020 @aliciakeys @lizzo and @BoyzIIMen made me cry!!!! It's gonna be a beautiful show." Pink tweeted after, adding that "music heals"
A moment of silence was also held during the pre-telecast ceremony earlier in the day.
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We have used these several times in roadtrips and around town. They hold A LOT and secure in place very easily. When it's daylight, there is a reflection through the plastic for the tablets, but.... you can either put them in with case inside and just leave the tablet hanging outside. It holds 4 bottles/cans and multiple pockets for snacks/earbuds/books/whatever you can find to stuff in them... LOVE THEM!
Bought this backseat carseat organizer after my sister suggested it since I had a ton of stuff laying on the floor. This is a definite solution to alleviate that. Especially great if you have kids and need spare diapers, wipes, books, etc. Storage for car trips. There are 2 straps to hold the organizer in place...on the head rest and bottom seat. I have an SUV and the bottom strap needed to be the longest. It aldo loosened pretty easily with a gentle tug but not enough to dangle. There are plenty of pockets for all sorts of stuff you need to haul around. All in all, glad I got this to add some organization to my life.
I'd highly recommend these to anyone who a) has a lot of child-related mess in the back seats, and b) wants somewhere to hang an iPad or tablet for WATCHING ONLY. It wouldn't be feasible to have a tablet sitting in here for frequent usage as it'd be too far away. They have a lot of storage, are extremely easy to attach to the front seats and are a great colour as they don't stand out too much. Different sized pockets are very useful too.
I was a little unhappy because due to the photo it has a strap on upper slide to hold it when smaller objects were in that pocket. However overall I loved the product and it was nicer than off the rack versions from retailers. I used to to organize my car since I have two kids. I was thrilled that it was a pack of 2 for the price of 1 at retailer but better quality. Good investment for families!
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I drive a Subaru Outback and where this vehicle is great in space and comfort it lacks in storage options. I have 2 active children, oldest 7 and youngest 2. Our little family loves road trips and are constantly on the go! My car gets so unorganized and is a catch all for toys snacks and all kinds of things. These seat organizers are everything! I can keep their back seat neat and tidy while still bringing them their snack, toys, and extra set of clothes for emergencies! I love them. They seem very sturdy once I tightened the straps and I love that it has the clear pocket for my kids tablet. It allows for them to watch a movie on the go. I think these are definitely worth the price. All in all I give 5 stars!
My kids had rubbed their feet for years on the back of the front seats until the material is in bad shape. If I had this cover before my seats would still look new xD
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Just received and installed product. Fits what I expected so far. A bit of elasticity in the top border so it fits a bit closer to my seat may be an addition to consider for the future designs but Other than that.. will see how it does overall!
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Bully Dog was formed in 1998 in Aberdeen, Idaho. The founders of Bully Dog Michael, Phillip, and Daryl Klassen --were heavily influenced by their father Harold's interest in improving vehicle performance. Several years prior to the company's inception, Harold had experimented with increasing performance on his diesel farm tractor by injecting propane into the engine's combustion chamber. In 1998, Bully Dog's owners took this concept and developed and patented a safe and effective propane injection system to enhance diesel engine performance. These systems were first sold out of their farm shop, but as demand increased, the owners moved the company to another location and officially organized Bully Dog. Bully Dog's quest was now to be recognized as the leader in the diesel performance industry, which motivated us to stay abreast of new technology in this industry. With the introduction of electronic components and software to improve performance, we began to research new types of products like intake and exhaust systems to complement our electronic components. Bully Dog was now able to offer a complete performance package. In 2005, the company expanded its range of products to include performance products for gasoline powered vehicles.
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Art and beauty have the power to nourish and refine the soul. Beauty fosters a deeper appreciation of life and all creation. Art fosters harmony both within the individual and among communities. We encourage our members and friends to make art an integral part of their lives.
Amidst the abundant natural beauty in the Shigaraki mountains of Shiga, Japan, Shumei created the Miho Museum. The museum opened its doors in November, 1997 and has attracted visitors from around the world to this remote location since then. The museum was designed by architect I.M. Pei, who is renowned for works such as the the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris. The architecture is based on art and beauty, and it is for this reason that the space was used for the Louis Vuitton Fashion Show in 2018.


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Jane Jacobs was an American-born Canadian writer and activist with a primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times.
In my opinion Jacobs observes cities and she is a very careful observer. She watches the cities from a normal person's perspective. She analyses what she sees. She has the enthusiasm and sense of responsibility. She believes that people should be responsible for watching their own surroundings, thereby bringing safety and helping to make the area vibrant.
For example, Jacobs talks about sidewalks, neighborhood parks and city neighbors, and how these elements form a the peculiar nature of cities. How important are these elements? We are familiar with the things which Jane Jacobs talks about because they are around us. We can see them in our daily life, such as sidewalks, parks, neighbors and so on.
Opposing expressways and supporting neighborhoods were common themes in her life. In 1962, she was the chairperson of the "Joint Committee to Stop the Lower Manhattan Expressway", when the downtown expressway plan was stopped. She was arrested during a demonstration on April 10, 1968. In the same year, Jacobs moved to Toronto, where she lived until her death. She quickly became a leading figure in her new city and helped stop the proposed Spadina Expressway. A frequent theme of her work was to ask whether we are building cities for people or for cars.
Jane Jacobs's critique is that this kind of urban planning and lifestyle, will make the city lose its vitality, resulting in a loss of pleasure. She believed the city is an organism, detailed and diversified, so that economic and social activities mixed with each other produce vibrant city, so it should be seen in the context of life science urban rehabilitation, rather than cold figures, scientific planning razed to the name of a large-scale urban redevelopment. A great city values the diversity, and this diversity is the need to maintain a certain environment, such as street life, the importance of neighborhood life is to control the car and refuse repetition of the urban landscape.
Jane Jacobs thinks the first thing to understand is that the public peace - the sidewalk and street of the cities - is not primarily kept by the police, necessary as police are. It is kept primarily by an intricate, almost unconscious network of voluntary controls and standards among people themselves.
Some people think that the middle-class or upper-class family build good neighborhoods and poor families fail to. That is wrong. For example,within the poverty of the North End of Boston, or within the poverty of the West Greenwich Village waterfront neighborhoods, good neighborhoods were created. In the meantimes, within the upper-class Boston 's South End, bad neighborhoods were created, neighborhoods which internal failure grew greater with time instead of less.
Throughout the 1950s, the cost of building rose. There is a simple fact that no matter how steady the construction costs are. a old building requires less income that one which has not yet paid off its capital costs. Among the most admirable and enjoyable sights to be found along the sidewalks of big cities are the ingenious adaptations of old quarters to news uses. The town-house parlor that becomes a craftsman's showroom, the stable that becomes a house, the basement becomes an immigrants' club. the garage that becomes a theatre, the warehouse becomes a factory. These are the signs of life and are forever ocourring where a city has vitality.
Fifth Avenue in New York is an example has been mentioned many times in Jacobs' book. She thinks this is good area for preserving the aged buildings that makes this area vibrant. It shows how good a city can be. Between 40th Street and 59th Street it is tremendously diverse in its large and small shops, bank buildings, office buildings, churches and institutions. Its architecture express these differences in use, and differences accrue from the varying ages of the buildings, difference in technology and the history of taste. But 5th Avenue does not look disorganized.They are sensible and natural contrasts and differences. The whole hangs together remarkably well.
In contrast railway tracks, waterfronts, campuses, expressways, large parking areas, and large parks have much in common with each other, insofar their tendency to create vacuums. As many city elements as possible must be used to build a lively, mixed territory, and as few as possible must be used to create unnecessary boundaries.
Automobiles are hardly destroyers of cities. The fact is that there are too many cars on the roads! Today, cars and cities should have been allies, however, they seem to be enemies.
When life science developed quickly, people hoped that they would find a new method to analyse the city. As to whether there is some connection between science and urban planning, Jane Jacobs does not confirm her attitude. Personally, I believe Cities are different from nature. cities include economy, society, social activities. Urban planning can simply copy from life science.
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to overcome problems and needs outside themselves.


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Fisker May Never Build Electric Cars in US
Car company got $200 million Energy Department loan.
May 30, 2012 — -- The luxury carmaker Fisker Automotive continues to signal it could ditch plans to build its next generation hybrid electric vehicle in the United States, despite the nearly $200 million in Obama administration loan money it has already received.
Fisker received federal funds in part to help purchase a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware, where it predicted it would one day employ 2,000 auto workers to assemble the clean-burning gas-electric family car, known as the Atlantic.
But company executives began hinting in February that it would reconsider that plan and look for a cheaper place to build the car after the Department of Energy froze the $529 million green-energy loan the company had received, and had been drawing on since 2010.
Fisker used the first $169 million in taxpayer funds to bring to market the Karma, a flashy $100,000 hybrid sports sedan that it assembles in Finland. After a series of delays and stumbles, the company announced it had sold its first 1,000 Karmas, bringing in $100 million in revenues so far this year. The sleek, high-end model has been well received by critics, and the company reported this week it has started to sell in Europe, and could soon be on sale in the Middle East.
Earlier this year, one of the Karmas stopped working in the middle of a Consumer Reports road test -- an embarrassing breakdown that Fisker later blamed on a faulty battery. The lithium-ion batteries became the subject of a recall, including for a defect that raised the risk of fires.
More recently, one of the high-priced cars went up in flames in the garage of its Texas owner. Fisker said the car was unplugged at the time of the fire and the battery pack was intact and still working after the blaze -- all clear indications, they said, that neither the car nor its battery had anything to do with the fire. A spokeswoman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told ABC news the agency is "aware of the incident and is working with local authorities to evaluate whether there are any potential safety implications."
The U.S. Department of Energy has said little about its decision to freeze the balance of Fisker's loan, which was intended to pay for the development of the Atlantic. The department confirmed it hired a restructuring advisor to study the terms of the agreement and assess the performance of the company.
"The Department continues to review Fisker's financial and operating status and is working with the company to review its revised business plan, but no decisions have been made," an Energy Department official said in response to questions from ABC News.Click Here to Sign Up for Breaking News and Investigation Alerts From The Brian Ross Investigative Unit
"It is important to note that Fisker Automotive's success is not dependent on government money," Ormisher said. "We are primarily privately funded, having raised more than $1 billion in private equity financing since 2007."
One of the company's major backers is the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to published reports. The firm's partners include John Doerr, a billionaire tech mogul who serves on President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.


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A wheat field in the north of Israel. After 10,000 years of domestication, wheat has lost its resistance to disease and drought. Picture courtesy of Wikipedia.Bread might be the staff of life, but beyond the romantic images of amber waves of grain, there is a sobering reality: Cultivated wheat crops worldwide are constantly battling the effects of stripe rust, and often losing the fight.
In the US alone, stripe rust wreaks $150 million in damage per year. In developing countries, where wheat is a central staple, the consequences to populations can be much worse.
The key to protecting the world's wheat crops from this rapacious disease is growing wild in Israel, according to Professor Tzion Fahima of Haifa University's Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology.
Wild wheat, which was discovered in Israel 100 years ago by Romanian-born botanist Aaron Aaronsohn, is believed to be the original wheat plant, before wheat became domesticated. And like wild animals, wild wheat is much tougher and more resistant to diseases than its domesticated counterpart.
In collaboration with a team of researchers at the University of California-Davis, Fahima is researching the genetic characteristics of wild wheat, with an aim to improving cultivated wheat through biotechnology.
Vital traits lost during domestication
They've discovered a gene in wild wheat that provides resistance to stripe rust, which, if transferred to cultivated wheat, can help prevent eight different strains of the disease. Their findings were recently published in Science Magazine.
The wheat crop from which we make bread, pastas and other foods today is the result of 10,000 years of domestication.
"During domestication, the wheat plant was improved, and more yields were achieved, which fits with agricultural practices today," Fahima tells ISRAEL21c. "But many traits and genes were lost during domestication. Now we're looking for genes which were lost, to bring them back to cultivated wheat."
These lost genes can be transferred into cultivated wheat via one of two ways: Either through a process called "classical breeding" which can take about five years, or through genetic engineering, which would take six months to a year.
Fahima favors genetic engineering, and believes that despite the controversy that surrounds the topic, genetically engineered wheat is the way of the future.
Fahima's research into the genetic advantages of wild wheat doesn't stop at resistance to stripe rust. His lab, in collaboration with the group led by Prof. Jorge Dubcovsky at UC Davis, has also discovered a gene that can increase the grain protein and mineral content in wheat – wild wheat is much richer in these nutrients than cultivated wheat. These findings were published in Science Magazine in 2006.
A major source of proteins and minerals
"We tend to think of bread as a major source of carbohydrates, but it's also a major source of proteins," explains Fahima. Protein is also important for the quality of breads and pastas.
Meanwhile an increase of the mineral content in wheat, such as the amounts of iron and zinc, can be vital for nutrition. This is especially true for poor populations, which get most of their calories from bread. In some developing countries people often get up to 60 percent of their daily caloric intake from bread.
"If the bread they consume is not rich in protein and minerals, nutrition becomes problematic," says Fahima.
Yet another aspect of Fahima's research is the study of making wheat resistant to drought, since wild wheat is far more drought-resistant than cultivated wheat. The research is particularly timely, as drought is one of the predicted effects of climate change.
The process of making wheat drought-resistant is complex, since there are multiple genes involved, but it is one of Fahima's long-term projects, in collaboration with Prof. Yehoshua Saranga, at the Hebrew University in Rehovot.
Right now, though, Fahima's focus is on the resistance gene that can protect so many wheat crops from disease. "This gene does not exist in the gene pool of cultivated wheat, and can be used to improve cultivars around the world," Fahima concludes. "We need to transfer this gene."


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British adults could get fourth Covid jab as deal agreed for 114m extra doses
The Government has announced a deal for 114 million additional Covid vaccines in a move that brings a fourth jab for British adults a step closer.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the deals for the Moderna and Pfizer jabs would "future proof" the country's vaccine programme.
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The additional doses, which will be delivered in 2022 and 2023, have been confirmed amid concerns surrounding the Omicron variant.
The deals also include access to modified vaccines if they are needed to combat any variants of concern, The Department of Health and Social Care said.
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This 400 by 900 light-year mosaic of several Chandra images of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy reveals hundreds of white dwarf stars, neutron stars, and black holes bathed in an incandescent fog of multimillion-degree gas. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Galaxy is located inside the bright white patch in the center of the image. The colors indicate X-ray energy bands - red (low), green (medium), and blue (high).
The mosaic gives a new perspective on how the turbulent Galactic Center region affects the evolution of the Galaxy as a whole. This hot gas appears to be escaping from the center into the rest of the Galaxy. The outflow of gas, chemically enriched from the frequent destruction of stars, will distribute these elements into the galactic suburbs. Because it is only about 26,000 light years from Earth, the center of our Galaxy provides an excellent laboratory to learn about the cores of other galaxies.


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Researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), in collaboration with the CSIC and Macquarie University in Australia, have developed a new technique, similar to the MRI but with a much higher resolution and sensitivity, which has the ability to scan individual cells. In an article published in Nature Nanotech, and highlighted by Nature, ICFO Prof. Romain Quidant explains how this was accomplished using artificial atoms, diamond nanoparticles doped with nitrogen impurity, to probe very weak magnetic fields such as those generated in some biological molecules.
The conventional MRI registers the magnetic fields of atomic nuclei in our bodies which have been previously excited by an external electromagnetic field. The collective response of all of these atoms makes it possible to diagnose and monitor the evolution of certain diseases. However, this conventional technique has a diagnostic resolution on a millimetric scale. Smaller objects do not give enough signal to be measured.
The innovative technique proposed by the group led by Dr. Quidant significantly improves the resolution at the nanometer scale (nearly one million times smaller than the millimeter), making it possible to measure very weak magnetic fields, such as those created by proteins. "Our approach opens the door for the performance of magnetic resonances on isolated cells which will offer new sources of information and allow us to better understand the intracellular processes, enabling noninvasive diagnosis," explains Michael Geiselmann, ICFO researcher who conducted the experiment. Until now, it has only been possible to reach this resolution in the laboratory, using individual atoms at temperatures close to the absolute zero (approx. -273 degrees Celsius.)
Individual atoms are structures that are highly sensitive to their environment, with a great ability to detect nearby electromagnetic fields. The challenge these atoms present is that they are so small and volatile that in order to be manipulated, they must be cooled to temperatures near the absolute zero. This complex process requires an environment that is so restrictive that it makes individual atoms unviable for potential medical applications. Artificial atoms used by Quidant and his team are formed by a nitrogen impurity captured within a small diamond crystal. "This impurity has the same sensitivity as an individual atom but is very stable at room temperature due to its encapsulation. This diamond shell allows us to handle the nitrogen impurity in a biological environment and, therefore, enables us to scan cells" argues Dr. Quidant.
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Having nothing to do, and having searched in vain among the notes of a piano for something to think on, I started off on a walk, trusting that I might scent a scandal on the breeze, or see God's toe peep through the sky. I passed a barbershop, a grocery store, a little Italian girl, a chicken coop, a roadhouse, an abandoned quarry, a field of nervous wheat. All this distance I had walked under God's blue sky, and still without a thought. But at last, after trudging on for hours, I came upon a thought. Miles upon miles I had walked for a thought, and at last I came upon an anthill.
Idly curious, I stopped to look at the ants. They would go from one place to another and return to that first place again, and for no reason that I could see. Little ants with big burdens, big ants with bigger burdens, and ants with no burdens, the most frightened and panicky of them all. As I watched them they seemed so human to me that my heart went out to them. "Poor little devils," I said.
But I grew tired of watching the swarming mass of them. "I shall watch just one of them," I said to myself after much deliberation. And I picked out one frightened little ant to watch. He went running about unaware of my presence, not knowing that a great god was looking down on him, just as I did not know but that a great god might be looking down on me. And with the toe of my shoe I marked out a rut in his path, so that he had to climb over it. And then I began dropping little bits of sand on him, and turning him over with a blade of grass. "I am his destiny," I whispered; the conception thrilled me.
As the poor little fellow rushed about in terror, I realized how massive his belief in life must be at this moment, how all-consuming his tragedy; my pity went out to him. But my blade of grass was too limber; I picked up a little stone to push him with. I drew a circle. "May God strike me dead, little ant, if you get out of that circle." I took that oath, and the battle was on. It was long and uncertain, with victory now on his side, and now on mine.
The little ant, in a last despairing burst, made for the edge of the circle, and crossed it. I was aroused. "I'll kill the ant," I shouted, and brought the stone down on his body, his passions, his dreams. Destiny had spoken. For an instant I was ashamed, for I had been unfair. He had beaten me under the terms I had made for myself. I should have let him go free.
I began watching other ants. They irritated me—they were so earnest, so faithful. Two ants came up and touched. I wondered what that could mean. Do ants talk? Then I watched one of the ants which had touched the other to see if it touched still other ants. For it might be a herald of some sort; perhaps ants do talk.
One little ant was tugging and pulling at a dead bug. Slowly, carefully, I took my stone and drew it over two of his legs, so that he was wounded grievously, and began writhing in agony. My face was distorted with compassion; how my heart bled for him!
I ran the stone across his other legs, and the motion was like a thrust into my own flesh. I was almost sick with pity for the poor little ant, and to end his suffering I killed him. Wide regret came on me, "Perhaps," I thought, "perhaps, he was a poet. Perhaps I have killed a genius."
And I began stepping on the other ants, digging up the anthill, scattering destruction broadcast about me. When my work was finished, and only a few mangled ants remained alive, my sorrow for the poor little ants had grown until it weighed on me, and crushed the vitality out of me. "The poor little ants," I kept murmuring, "the poor, miserable little ants." And I was bitter with the thought of how cruel the universe is, and how needlessly things must suffer. I stood gazing at the death and slaughter about me, stupefied with calm horror at what I had done. I prayed to God.
"O Great God," I prayed, throwing back my head towards Heaven and stretching out my hands like Christ on the Cross, "O Great God"—but I didn't really throw back my head, for I still kept looking at the ants, and I did not address God, for at times I even wonder if there be no God. I didn't do these things, I say, since I was too intently watching the ants. "O Almighty God," I thundered out in mighty prayer, throwing back my head towards Heaven and stretching out my hands like Christ on the Crucifix, "Thou who art Ruler of us all. Now I know why we suffer, and ache, and I pity Thee, God."
* "The Excursion" originally appeared in The Dial 69 (July 1920): 27-28. [Also in The White Oxen and Other Stories and Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke by Kenneth Burke (Black Sparrow Books, 2005)]
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To call someone a racist is a serious charge. A racist is someone who believes that one person is superior (or inferior) to another person simply based on their skin color. It's a belief that is both foolish and stupid. But conservatives are accused by progressives of being racist on an almost daily basis. Is it a fair accusation? Or, is it just political posturing? And, if it is political posturing, what does it say about the people making the charge? Derryck Green of Project 21 has some provocative answers.


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As of Sept. 15th, the Chamber had aired more than8,000ads on behalf of GOP Senate candidates alone, according to a study from the Wesleyan Media Project. The Chamber's spending has dwarfed every other issue group and most political party candidate committee spending. A ThinkProgress investigation has found that the Chamber funds its political attack campaign out of its general account, which solicits foreign funding. And while the Chamber will likely assert it has internal controls, foreign money is fungible, permitting the Chamber to run its unprecedented attack campaign. According to legal experts consulted by ThinkProgress, the Chamber is likely skirting longstanding campaign finance law that bans the involvement of foreign corporations in American elections.
In recent years, the Chamber has become very aggressive with its fundraising, opening offices abroad and helping to found foreign chapters (known as Business Councils or "AmChams"). While many of these foreign operations include American businesses with interests overseas, the Chamber has also spearheaded an effort to raise money from foreign corporations, including ones controlled by foreign governments. These foreign members of the Chamber send money either directly to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, or the foreign members fund their local Chamber, which in turn, transfers dues payments back to the Chamber's H Street office in Washington DC. These funds are commingled to the Chamber's 501(c)(6) account which is the vehicle for the attack ads:
– The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has created a large presence in the small, oil-rich country of Bahrain. In 2006, the Chamber created a local affiliate called the "U.S.-Bahrain Business Council" (USBBC), an organization to help businesses in Bahrain take advantage of the Chamber's "network of government and business relationships in the US and worldwide." As the USBBC's bylaws state, it is not an actual separate entity, rather it is simply an office of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's 501(c)(6) trade association. Many of the USBBC's board members are Bahrainian, including Aluminum Bahrain, Gulf Air, Midal Cables, the Nass Group, Bahrain Maritime & Mercantile International, the Bahrain Petroleum Company (state-owned), Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company, and First Leasing Bank. With each of these foreign board members to the USBBC contributing at least $10,000 annually, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce raises well over $100,000 a year in money from foreign businesses through its operation in Bahrain. Notably, the membership form provided by the USBBC directs applicants to send or wire their money directly to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The membership form also explicitly states that the foreign-owned firms are welcomed.
– Like the Chamber's involvement in Bahrain, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce operates in India through a group called "U.S.-India Business Council" (USIBC), which has offices around the world but is headquartered in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Dozens of Indian businesses, including some of India's largest corporations like the State Bank of India (state-run) and ICICI Bank, are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce through the USIBC. Annual membership dues range from $7,500 to $15,000 or more, and the money is given directly into the Chamber's 501(c)(6) bank account. Like the USBBC, the USIBC generates well over $200,000 a year in dues for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce from foreign businesses. On the USIBC website, many of the groups lobbying goals advocate changing American policy to help businesses in India. Under the manufacturing policy goal, USIBC boasts that it "can play a helpful role in guiding U.S. companies to India, while supporting various policy initiatives that will enhance India's reputation as a major manufacturing and investment hub."
– Many foreign "AmChams" or Business Councils operate outside the direct sphere of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce but nonetheless send dues money back to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. For instance, the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt is a separate entity based in Cairo that raises hundreds of thousands of dollars from both Egyptian firms and American businesses. However, the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt calls itself "the most active affiliates of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the" Middle East. Another foreign chamber, like the Abu Dhabi AmCham, which includes American firms and Esnaad, a subsidiary of the state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, claims that it is a a "dues paying member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and part of the global network of American Chambers of Commerce." In Russia, the relationship between the American Chamber of Commerce there and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce here is opaque. This might be because many of the dues-paying members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia are Russian state-run companies, like VTB Bank, and controlled by the Russian government. Asked by ThinkProgress if the Russian Chambers pay dues back to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ksenia Forsheneva, the membership development manager at the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, replied, "Unfortunately the information that you require is closed for the public."
Previously, it has been reported that foreign firms like BP, Shell Oil, and Siemens are active members of the Chamber. But on a larger scale, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce appears to rely heavily on fundraising from firms all over the world, including China, India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Russia, and many other places. Of course, because the Chamber successfully lobbied to kill campaign finance reforms aimed at establishing transparency, the Chamber does not have to reveal any of the funding for its ad campaigns. Dues-paying members of the Chamber could potentially be sending additional funds this year to help air more attack ads against Democrats.
Here's how it works. Regular dues from American firms to the Chamber can range from $500 to $300,000 or more, depending on their size and industry, and can be used for any purpose deemed necessary by the Chamber leadership. For example, the health insurance giant Aetna has reported that it paid $100,000 in annual dues to the Chamber in the past. But for specific advocacy or advertising campaigns, corporations can hide behind the label of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and give additional money. Last year, alongside their regular dues, health insurance companies like Aetna secretly funneled up to $20 million to the Chamber for attack ads aimed at killing health reform (publicly, health insurance executives claimed they supported reform). Last week, Politico reported that News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, gave an extra $1 million to the Chamber for its election season attack campaign.
There are many reasons foreign corporations are seeking to defeat Democratic candidates this November. The Chamber has repeatedly sent out issue alerts attacking Democratic efforts to encourage businesses to hire locally rather than outsource to foreign counties. The Chamber has also bitterly fought Democrats for opposing unfettered free trade deals. To galvanize foreign businesses, the Chamber has commissioned former Ambassador Frank Lavin — who served as the McCain-Palin Asia campaign director and has appeared on television multiple times recently saying a Democratic Congress is bad for business — to speak before various foreign Chamber affiliates to talk about the stakes for the 2010 midterm elections.
Because campaign finance laws prohibit foreign entities from contributing to political races here in America, we asked the Chamber to defend the legality of its fundraising operation. We have yet to receive a response. But as word of our investigation began to leak out yesterday, the Chamber informed Politico's Mike Allen that it is now "preparing a response."


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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — When Russian forces invaded Ukraine, 47-year-old Anna Krylova was working the night shift as a gas purification operator at Azovstal, a massive steel processing plant in the southern port city of Mariupol.
Her 14-year-old daughter, Maiia, came with her — no one was at home to watch her.
"We didn't leave that plant for the next 70 days," says Krylova. "As the bombing got worse, we moved further underground."
Russian forces began bombing Mariupol at the very start of the war. Most of the besieged city is in Russian hands now, but reduced to rubble. The Azovstal steel plant, badly hit, is the last holdout.
The Krylovas are among dozens of civilians who were evacuated from the plant this weekend, in a joint effort by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which convinced Russia to hold its fire until some civilians got out. The evacuees arrived in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday. Some are now heading to various cities in Ukraine.
A vast network of tunnels with bunkers lies under the sprawling, Soviet-era plant, reportedly the last Ukrainian-held post in Mariupol. Hundreds of civilians as well as up to 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers sheltered there. But those inside say they never felt truly safe.
"It was really scary because we couldn't go outside," Krylova says. "It was just too dangerous. And inside we kept going from shelter to shelter, because the bombs kept hitting. We were hungry, we were scared, we were under constant shelling."
She calls the experience "like the apocalypse, like a horror film." Her daughter says, "Each day felt like it would be our last one alive."
Osnat Lubrani, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, told reporters that the U.N. was already planning another evacuation. But last night, Russian forces reportedly began storming the steel plant.
"It's horrifying to think what could be happening there," says English teacher Alex Dybko, who was evacuated along with his wife and young children. "It was already so terrible when we left. The steelworks looked like a mass of stone, iron and dust ... like something out of the Second World War. I never thought I would see this with my own eyes."
Dybko shared an underground bunker with the Krylovas. They pushed together benches to use as beds. The bunker shook, especially at night, when the bombing and shelling was the worst. His kids told him they were afraid to get up and go to the toilet.
"The [steelworks] was hit several times, it was burning several times," he says. "We were trying to manage the fire and not to suffocate. So every day was a fight for survival."
The only bright spot, he says, was that a plant worker sheltering with them found a generator, so there was sporadic electricity.
Many others lived in near-darkness for two months, including 57-year-old Oleh Yurkin, a Mariupol native. He used a headlamp to get around, "but only in areas where we were covered because otherwise the drones and fighter jets would spot us."
He and his wife cooked on a stove made out of bricks blown loose from explosions. Soldiers had stockpiled goods inside the plant and shared them with civilians.
Yurkin is a musician who used to perform in the city's restaurants and cafes. Every single one of those buildings is gone, bombed to rubble by the Russian military.
"Now," he says, "the city is no more."
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 25, 2006
Black Music Month, 2006
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
African-American musicians have added to the rich culture of our country and of countries around the world. During Black Music Month, we recognize the African-American artists who have enhanced our lives and created some of our Nation's most treasured art forms.
Throughout history, African-American artists have produced music with the power to change hearts and shape our national conscience. From gospel to blues, from jazz to rock and roll, the songs of America's black musicians have defined our times and enriched our culture. Performers such as Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie and vocalists such as Lizzie Miles and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson have made their mark as great American musicians, strengthening our Nation's diversity and lifting the human spirit.
In 2005, Americans witnessed the power of music to help bring our country together. Following the devastation of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, the musicians of that great region sought to preserve their unique musical style and culture and share it with the rest of the Nation. The soulful music of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remains one of our national treasures, a symbol of creativity and hope.
Black Music Month recognizes some of the brightest lights of American creativity and honors the African-American men and women whose art entertains and inspires us. The incredible talents of black musicians continue to speak to every heart, reflecting the beauty and pride of our great Nation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2006 as Black Music Month. I encourage all Americans to learn more about the history of black music and to enjoy the great contributions of African-American musicians.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.
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The Day Paul McCartney Met Linda Eastman
It was just another night out in London for Paul McCartney. After attending Brian Epstein's dinner party to celebrate the completion of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles' bassist hit the town with some buddies. McCartney headed to Soho's Bag O'Nails club, where he was a regular with his own table. That night, May 15, 1967, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were playing.
A little before McCartney showed up, a young photographer by the name of Linda Eastman had been taken to the Bag O'Nails by some of her friends, members of British rockers the Animals. She had become acquainted with rock royalty, such as the Animals, through her work as a shutterbug. What could be loosely described as a career began when she shot the Rolling Stones, followed by her role as the unofficial photographer at New York's Fillmore East. She would capture rock icons including Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and many others.
But in May 1967, Eastman was in the U.K. because of an assignment to shoot photos for a book titled Rock and Other Four-Letter Words. The American was also there to enjoy the height of swinging London, with its mind-bending substances and free love. As one of the London scene's pillars, McCartney was enjoying himself too.
During Georgie Fame's set that night, McCartney remembers that he caught Eastman's eye. He's said that he was attracted to her smile.
"The band had finished and [Linda and the Animals] got up to either leave or go for a drink or a pee or something, and she passed our table," McCartney told Barry Miles in Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. "I was near the edge and stood up just as she was passing, blocking her exit. And so I said, 'Oh, sorry. Hi. How are you? How're you doing?' I introduced myself, and said, 'We're going on to another club after this, would you like to join us?' That was my big pulling line! Well, I'd never used it before, of course, but it worked this time! It was a fairly slim chance but it worked."
Down the road, after becoming a family man, McCartney would often make fun of his corniness when telling the story. Apparently being a member of Beatles in 1967 didn't require one to be too slick with pickup lines. As McCartney said, his line worked and they moved on to the next location, the Speakeasy. Eastman remembered the night not just for meeting her future husband, but for hearing a certain song for the first time.
"I remember everybody at the table heard 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' that night for the first time and we all thought, 'Who is that? Stevie Winwood?' We all said Stevie," she told Miles. "The minute that record came out, you just knew you loved it. That's when we actually met."
Years later, the McCartneys would consider Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" to be their song, because of their musical memory. But the night didn't end at the Speakeasy. McCartney, soon to be 25, welcomed Eastman, soon to turn 26, back to his place under the auspices of showing the photographer his original paintings by the surrealist Rene Magritte. McCartney was impressed that Eastman was also a fan of the Belgian painter. Memories are hazy as to if the pair impressed each other in any other ways that evening.
McCartney and Eastman would meet again a few days later at Epstein's house in London. Eastman sought to shoot photos of the Beatles for her book and Epstein agreed for her to come to a press party for Sgt. Pepper on May 19. She took more than a few famous shots of the boys, but also had her photo taken – the first picture of the future Mr. and Mrs. McCartney.
But, after that, McCartney and Eastman went their separate ways for a year, with Eastman returning to America, raising her daughter Heather and becoming involved in other romances (even if she declared that McCartney remained whom she was in love with). McCartney even got engaged to longtime girlfriend Jane Asher later in 1967, although many thought it was a desperate attempt to save their romance.
Eastman and McCartney met up again in May 1968 in New York, after which the former Beatles star invited Eastman and her daughter to come to London. A relationship blossomed and the couple married in March 1969.
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More than 75% of those with mental disorders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) do not receive care despite substantial disability. Where treatment is provided, it frequently is below minimum standards and often lacks respect for human rights. The Lancet Global Mental Health (GMH) Series concluded that "funding should be given to research that develops and assesses interventions that can be delivered by people who are not mental health professionals, and that assesses how health systems can scale up such interventions across all routine-care settings."
The Columbia University Research Fellowship in GMH provides implementation science training to the next generation of GMH scientists with a two-fold focus. (1) The first is deployment-focused interventions research, whereby fellows learn to develop interventions ready to be deployed in resource poor areas. Adaptation of evidence-based interventions, with community collaboration, that directly address prevention, recognition, assessment, and treatment, will be followed by field-testing. (2) The second focus is intervention dissemination, implementation and services research, through which fellows examine how mental health prevention, assessment and treatment interventions can be translated for utilization in specific LMIC settings and study outcomes.
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