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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A New York woman seriously hurt protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline faces multiple surgeries and could lose an arm, her father said Tuesday, and protesters and law enforcement gave conflicting accounts about what might have caused the explosion that injured her.
Sophia Wilansky, 21, was listed in serious condition and was undergoing surgery at a Minneapolis hospital.
Wilansky's father, Wayne Wilansky, said his daughter was hurt when law enforcement threw a grenade. The Morton County Sheriff's Office maintains authorities did not use concussion grenades or any devices that produce a flash or bang during a clash late Sunday and early Monday near the camp along the pipeline route in southern North Dakota where protesters have gathered for months.
The sheriff's office suggested in a statement Monday that an explosion heard during the skirmish might have been caused by small propane tanks that authorities said protesters had rigged to explode.
Dallas Goldtooth, a protest organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Wayne Wilansky disputed the claim by authorities, saying "there's multiple witnesses and my daughter, who was completely conscious, said they threw a grenade right at her."
The North Dakota Highway Patrol in a statement Tuesday backed up the sheriff's office's version of events, saying officers during the skirmish spotted protesters with "multiple silver cylinder objects."
"It was at this time an explosion occurred and several protesters ran to the area, pulled a female from under the burned vehicle, and fled the scene," the patrol said.
Officers who investigated found 1-pound propane tanks "including one that appeared to be intentionally punctured," the agency statement said.
During the clash, officers using tear gas, rubber bullets and water sprays against protesters who they say assaulted officers with rocks, asphalt, water bottles and burning logs. One officer was injured when struck in the head with a rock. At least 17 protesters were injured severely enough to be taken to hospitals, according to Goldtooth.
Wayne Wilansky denounced the law enforcement tactics, saying "this is not Afghanistan, this is not Iraq. We don't throw grenades at people."
Morton County Sheriff's office spokeswoman Maxine Herr on Tuesday said "authorities continue to defend our tactics."
A GoFundMe account for Wilansky had raised more than $194,000 in 18 hours, with more than 7,200 people contributing. It was the highest trending account on Monday night, according to GoFundMe spokeswoman Kate Cichy.
The $3.8 billion pipeline to carry North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois is largely complete outside of a stretch under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The tribe and others have been opposing the construction for months, saying the pipeline threatens the tribe's drinking water along with American Indian cultural sites.
Protests have intensified as the dispute plays out, with total arrests since August reaching 528 on Monday.
North Dakota officials may need to borrow more money to police protests, with costs exceeding the $10 million in emergency spending authorized by the state.
Total state law enforcement costs related to the protests reached $10.9 million last week, according to state Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong. Morton County has spent an additional $8 million.
Fong said it's "very likely" officials will go back to the state's Emergency Commission to request more money.
Kelcy Warren, CEO of pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners, told The Associated Press last Friday that he made a verbal offer to reimburse the state for policing costs during an earlier conversation with Gov. Jack Dalrymple.
Dalrymple's spokesman, Jeff Zent, said the governor doesn't recall Warren making an offer and that even if one was made, it's unclear whether the state could legally accept it.
"The bottom line is the governor has not received a formal (offer), nor are we seeking one out," Zent said, adding that "our focus is to continue to press the Obama administration to help cover these costs."


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EMC and VMware Partner to Deliver New VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, Powered by EMC Avamar Technology
Integrated with VMware vSphere® 5.1, Jointly Developed Solution Delivers Simple and Efficient Virtual Machine Backups Based on Proven EMC® Technology
VMworld®, San Francisco– August 27, 2012
News Highlights:
- VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, powered by EMC® Avamar® software, is an all-new backup and recovery solution to be included with VMware vSphere 5.1.
- VMware vSphere Data Protection is tightly integrated with vSphere, simple to set up and can be managed directly from the new vSphere Web Client.
- VMware vSphere Data Protection is ideally suited to protect SMBs and department-level virtualized environments with industry-leading backup and deduplication capabilities.
- VMware selected EMC Avamar software to provide the underlying technology for VMware vSphere Data Protection.
- VMware continues to be fully committed to enabling a rich partner ecosystem for backup and recovery solutions through the vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection.
Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced a new backup and recovery solution for VMware vSphere® 5.1. The new VMware vSphere Data Protection™ solution is built on industry-leading EMC Avamar deduplication backup software technology and is delivered as a part of VMware vSphere 5.1. VMware vSphere Data Protection replaces vSphere Data Recovery – previously available with vSphere - providing a more cost-effective, reliable and easy-to-use solution to protect VMware environments.
VMware vSphere Data Protection leverages EMC Avamar software's leading technology including variable-length deduplication, full support of Changed Block Tracking and single-step restores to minimize storage resource consumption, reduce backup windows and enable fast recovery. VMware vSphere Data Protection can be managed directly from the vSphere Web Client and takes advantage of the vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection to enable agent-less backup.
In addition to VMware vSphere Data Protection, VMware continues to foster innovation in the backup for virtual environments supporting a broad partner community. VMware plans to continue investment in the vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection to enable seamless integration of third-party backup and recovery with the VMware vSphere platform.
VMware Executive Quote:
Bogomil Balkansky, Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Products, VMware
"Backup and recovery is a critical element of virtualization implementations. Our selection of EMC Avamar technology enables us to deliver better backup and recovery capabilities directly from the VMware vSphere® platform. VMware vSphere Data Protection™ represents a tremendous value-add for our customers and delivers yet another point of differentiation for vSphere 5.1."
Industry Analyst Quote:
David Vellante, Co-founder, The Wikibon Project
"The inclusion of Avamar technology into VMware vSphere® 5.1 delivers a robust and highly integrated virtual backup and recovery capability that's easy to use. Smaller businesses and departments within larger organizations are the primary beneficiaries of this initial release, as well those who are at the outset of their virtualization journey. VMware has clearly taken virtual backup and recovery to the next level with this valuable addition to its platform."
EMC Executive Quote:
William "BJ" Jenkins, President, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division
"EMC has established a market leading pedigree in the backup and recovery space with its Avamar, Data Domain® and NetWorker® products. Avamar deduplication software and system has garnered tremendous acceptance in the VMware user community as an enterprise backup and recovery solution that's specifically optimized for VMware environments. The inclusion of Avamar capabilities into VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ helps ensure that VMware users always have a highly effective tool for virtual machine protection today and into the future."
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A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Track Number:9
Lyrics:I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored
I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use, well never mind!
I been Phil Spectored, resurrected
I been Lou Adlered, Barry Sadlered
Well, I paid all the dues I want to pay
And I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce
And all my wealth won't buy me health
So I smoke a pint of tea a day
I knew a man, his brain so small
He couldn't think of nothing at all
He's not the same as you and me
He doesn't dig poetry
He's so unhip that
When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talkin' about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright, ma
Everybody must get stoned
I been Mick Jaggered, silver daggered
Andy Warhol, won't you please come home?
I been mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled
Roy Halleed and Art Garfunkled
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In 1955 the Otto Link company moved from New York to Pompano Beach, Florida. The easiest noticeable difference in the mouthpieces is the New York stamp that used to be on the shank was removed. There were some things that crossed over in the transition, but eventually clear differences would be defined between the "New York" and "Florida" vintage Super Tone Masters.
Charecteristics of Florida Super Tone Masters:
During the end of the "New York" STM run Link began to start using the smaller bite plate that they use still today, but there are some very early vintage "Florida" STM mouthpieces that still have the long bite plates. These are very, VERY rare mouthpieces!! The "Florida" vintage Super Tone Masters are also the series in which Otto Link began to phaze out the double line, or double ring on the shank.
As stated in the "New York" Super Tone Master description in the Saxophone.org museum, the double line STM Otto Link mouthpieces are considered by many to be the best playing metal Otto Links ever made. To recap from the "New York" STM description:
"John Coltrane is probably the biggest name out there that ever played on these mouthpieces. It was said that he travelled around with his tenor in a case, and a gigbag full of New York and Forida vinatage "Super Tone Master" mouthpieces. Because John Coltrane is the biggest name to have played these mouthpieces there is a common misconception that has formed about them that they tend to be fairly bright and edgy pieces. This is in fact the opposite of how these pieces generally seem to play. While John Coltrane did get a fairly bright sound, he also had nearly all of his mouthpieces worked on by mouthpiece specialists Frank Wells and Ralph Morgan."
Trane played on both "New York" and "Florida" vintage tenor mouthpieces during his career, and even played on vintage "Tone Masters" for a brief period. Some other famous artists who played or still play on vintage Otto Link Super Tone Master mouthpieces are:
Eric Alexander - Tenor
Gary Smulyan - Bari
Sonny Stitt - Alto
Hank Mobley - Tenor
Otto Link was a very contemporary company during the time that it was manufacturing "Florida" Super Tone Master mouthpieces. Taking notice of what the players wanted, another big difference is the mouthpiece tip openings. Otto Link expanded its standard tip openings from around 6 and 6* all the way up to 10 and 10*. "New York" vintage Super Tone Masters had a longer facing length to them which didn't really allow for very big tip openings. "Florida" vintage Super Tone Masters changed this by switching to a medium facing length, which was much better for the larger tip openings.
Eventually in the late 1950's Otto Links would go on to phaze out the double line models, and move to having the "Super Tone Master" stamp in between two lines. These are commonly referred to as "Single Line" Florida vintage Otto Links. The baffle would slightly change during the course of the double line models too. The very early "Florida" double lines are very similar to "New York" models in that the baffle is pretty much identical, having a very slight roll-over baffle. At the end of the double line run and during the whole run of the single lines the baffle would change to a higher roll-over, which allowed for a little more edge and brightness to the sound. Even with this difference in the baffle, by todays standards vintage "Super Tone Master" mouthpieces whether it be "New York" or "Florida", are still pretty dark mouthpieces.
The next chapter of Otto Link Super Tone Masters would move on to getting rid of serial numbers in the mid 1960's. These models are commonly known as the "No USA" and "USA" Florida vintage Super Tone Masters. These mouthpieces were produced all the wasy into the mid 1970's. The "No USA" models are the older of the two styles, and contrast drastically from piece to piece because they were all hand finished with the higher roll-over baffle. Otto Link changed the baffle again when switching to the "USA" models by levelling it out more, and using less roll-over. This made the pieces darker yet again, but it also helped in producing a bigger sound that more easily optainable.
Otto Link also made changes in the way they plated their mouthpieces during the end of the "No USA" models and into the production of the "USA" vintage models. They began using Nickel, or Rhodium plating underneath the gold plating. Before they used to use silver plating. It is more common to see more plating wear in the mouthpieces because the gold plating doesn't stick to nickel as well as it does to silver.
Otto Link would go on to change its ligatures again during this time as well. The top screw of the ligature got a little smaller, and the alto and tenor ligs were stamped with an A or T depending on the size they were made for. Bari ligs were left blank.
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Orthodox Church Fathers: Patristic Christian Theology Classics Search Engine
Letter CLII1
To Victor, the Commander.2
IF I were to fail to write to any one else I might possibly with justice incur the charge of carelessness or forgetfulness. But it is not possible to forget you, when your name is in all men's mouths. But I cannot be careless about one who is perhaps more distinguished than any one else in the empire. The cause of my silence is evident. I am afraid of troubling so great a man. If, however, to all your other virtues you add that of not only receiving what I send, but of actually asking after what is missing, lo! here I am writing to you with joyous heart, and I shall go on writing for the future, with prayers to God that you may be requited for the honour you pay me. For the Church, you have anticipated my supplications, by doing everything which I should have asked. And you act to please not man but God, Who has honoured you; Who has given you somegood things in this life, and will give you others in the life to come, because you have walked with truth in His way, and, from the beginning to the end, have kept your heart fixed in the right faith.


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Free Fight
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - If we've learned one thing in combat sports, it's to never say never. This old adage was solidified once again today, as UFC President Dana White announced the November 15th return to the Octagon of heavyweight champion Randy Couture to face Brock Lesnar in the main event of UFC 91 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
By Thomas Gerbasi
If we've learned one thing in combat sports, it's to never say never. This old adage was solidified once again today, as UFC President Dana White announced the November 15th return to the Octagon of heavyweight champion Randy Couture to face Brock Lesnar in the main event of UFC 91 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
The announcement comes after nearly a year of contentious relations between the organization and Couture, who walked away from the UFC in October of 2007 with two fights remaining on his contract. But in August, the heavyweight champion and the organization worked on a renegotiation of his contract that will enable 'The Natural' to finish his Hall of Fame career with the UFC.
"We had some problems with Randy, we've resolved them all, and he's always been the heavyweight champion of the UFC," said White. "It took us some time to get everything straight, but I think we're all good now and ready to move forward and get Randy back out there fighting again."
"I think we cleared the air and addressed a lot of the issues, we're both in a different place, and both the company and myself are trying to move forward," said Couture. "I think we understand each other, and I certainly would much rather fight in the Octagon than anywhere else. Spending the last year in legal fights is not someplace where I've had a very good time. At 45, I can't sit around in court rooms for very long – I want to fight."
Couture's first order of business – taking on the imposing 6-3 ½, 265 pound Lesnar, a former NCAA Division I National Wrestling Champion whose arrival in the UFC earlier this year shook the foundations of the MMA world. Add in the former pro wrestling superstar's spectacular victory over Heath Herring at UFC 87 in August, and the stage is set for what will most certainly be one of the most highly-anticipated heavyweight title fights in history.
"I haven't looked at tape yet and studied him," said Couture of Lesnar. "Obviously, he's a great big guy, and on the ground or standing, he poses some interesting problems, so I've got to go to work and find the answers to those questions."
"My whole goal coming into this company was to get a shot at the UFC heavyweight title, so for me, this is a great opportunity, one that anybody in my position wouldn't turn down," added Lesnar. "Randy poses all kinds of threats, and we're gonna try to nullify them and try to win the title that night."
You don't have to convince White when it comes to the importance of this matchup.
"I can tell you this right now," said White. "Couture vs Lesnar will be the biggest fight in UFC history."
And though some might question whether Couture - 45 years old and more than a year removed from his last fight – will be able to keep up with a younger, faster, and stronger challenger, keep in mind that the Las Vegas resident has made a career of baffling oddsmakers, most recently in March of 2007, when he returned from a year-long retirement to shutout 6 foot 8, 263 pound Tim Sylvia to win the UFC heavyweight crown a record third time.
Couture went on to successfully defend the title with a third round TKO of Gabriel Gonzaga in August of 2007, but two months later, the title was left in limbo, leaving Brazil's Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira to swoop in and take the interim belt by submitting Sylvia in February. Nogueira is scheduled to clash with his fellow Ultimate Fighter 8 coach (and former heavyweight champion) Frank Mir in December, with the winners of these two heavyweight megafights to meet sometime in 2009.
"The winner of the Brock-Randy fight will be the heavyweight champion of the UFC," said White. "Obviously, the reality show is already in motion, and those two (Nogueira and Mir) are already scheduled to fight, so they'll fight for the interim (title) and then it will be Champion vs Champion when this thing's all done. So it's a pretty interesting little tournament."
Of course, Lesnar will have something to say about putting a dent in Couture's fighting plans, and he'll get his chance to say it on November 15th.
"Things happen in mysterious ways, and I'm fortunate and honored to get in the Octagon with Randy, so it's very exciting all the way around," said Lesnar.
As for Couture, it's been a long, strange trip to get to this point, but suffice to say, he's happy to put acting, book tours, and speaking engagements on the side for now in order to get back to where he belongs – the Octagon.


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Study strengthens link between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and problems in protein production machinery of cells and identifies possible treatment strategy
Researchers have tied mutations in a gene that causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders to the toxic buildup of certain proteins and related molecules in cells, including neurons. The research, published recently in the scientific journal Cell, offers a new approach for developing treatments against these devastating diseases.
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Colorado, Boulder, led the work.
The findings provide the first evidence that a gene named VCP plays a role in the break-up and clearance of protein and RNA molecules that accumulate in temporary structures called RNA granules. RNAs perform a variety of vital cell functions, including protein production. RNA granules support proper functioning of RNA.
In ALS and related degenerative diseases, the process of assembling and clearing RNA granules is impaired. The proteins and RNAs associated with the granules often build up in nerve cells of patients. This study shows how mutations in VCP might contribute to that process and neurodegenerative disease.
"The results go a long way to explaining the process that links a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS, frontotemporal dementia and related diseases of the brain, muscle and bone known as multisystem proteinopathies," said the study's co-corresponding author, J. Paul Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology. Roy Parker, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), is the other corresponding author.
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is diagnosed in about 5,600 Americans annually and is associated with progressive deterioration of nerve cells in the brain and spine that govern movement, including breathing. There is no effective treatment, and death usually occurs within five years.
"A strength of this study is that it provides a unifying hypothesis about how different genetic mutations all affect stress granules, which suggests that understanding stress granule dynamics and how they can be manipulated might be beneficial for treatment of these diseases," Parker said.
Earlier work from Taylor's laboratory identified mutations in VCP as a cause of ALS and related multisystem proteinopathies. Until now, however, little was known about how those mistakes caused disease. The latest findings appeared in the June 20 issue and are highlighted in a review article published in the August 15 issue of Cell.
The research also tiesVCP mutations to disruption of RNA regulation, which prior studies have connected to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, said Regina-Maria Kolaitis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Taylor's laboratory. She and Ross Buchan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Parker's laboratory, are co-first authors.
The work focused on a class of RNA granules called stress granules. They are formed by proteins and an RNA molecule called mRNA that accumulates in the cell cytoplasm in response to stress. Stressed cells do not want to waste energy producing unnecessary proteins. Stress granules are one mechanism cells use to halt production until the cellular environment normalizes, which is when stress granules typically dissolve.
Proteins found in stress granules include RNA-binding proteins like TDP-43, FUS, hnRNPA1 and hnRNPA2B1 that regulate gene activity. Mutations in those proteins can also cause ALS and related disorders.
"VCP has many functions in cells, but it is not an RNA-binding protein and until now it was not connected to stress granules or RNA processing," Kolaitis said. "This study provides a new window into the disease process, highlighting VCP's role in keeping cells healthy."
For this study, researchers used yeast to identify a network of 125 genes that affect the formation and behavior of stress granules. One of the genes that appeared to play a central role in the network was CDC48, which functions like VCP in yeast. In addition, many of the genes identified are involved in a process called autophagy that cells use to break down and recycle unneeded molecules, including proteins.
Working in yeast and mammalian cells, researchers showed that stress granules are cleared by autophagy, which stalled when VCP was mutated. Researchers also reported that stress granules accumulated following mutation of either CDC48 or VCP.
"This work suggests that activating autophagy to help rid cells of stress granules offers a new approach to neurodegenerative disease treatment," Taylor said.
The research was supported part by the ALS Association, the Packard Center for ALS Research, the HHMI and ALSAC.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and cures childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to 80% since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. To learn more, visit stjude.org or follow St. Jude on social media at @stjuderesearch.


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Researchers at the University of Adelaide have shown how a complex mix of plant compounds derived from ancient clinical practice in China – a Traditional Chinese Medicine – works to kill cancer cells.
Compound kushen injection (CKI) is approved for use in China to treat various cancer tumours, usually as an adjunct to western chemotherapy – but how it works has not been known.
This study, published in the journal Oncotarget, is one of the first to characterise the molecular action of a Traditional Chinese Medicine rather than breaking it down to its constituent parts.
"Most Traditional Chinese Medicine are based on hundreds or thousands of years of experience with their use in China," says study leader, Professor David Adelson, Director of the Zhendong Australia – China Centre for the Molecular Basis of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
"There is often plenty of evidence that these medicines have a therapeutic benefit, but there isn't the understanding of how or why.
"If we broke down and tested the components of many Traditional Chinese Medicines, we would find that individual compounds don't have much activity on their own. It's the combination of compounds which can be effective, and potentially means few side-effects as well.
"This is one of the first studies to show the molecular mode of action of a complex mixture of plant-based compounds – in this case extracts from the roots of two medicinal herbs, Kushen and Baituling – by applying what's known as a systems biology approach. This is a way of analysing complex biological systems that attempts to take into account all measurable aspects of the system rather than focussing on a single variable."
The Zhendong Australia China Centre for Molecular Traditional Chinese Medicine was established at the University of Adelaide in 2012 in a collaboration with the China-based Shanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Zhendong Pharmaceutical Company.
The Centre was established with a donation by the Zhendong Pharmaceutical Company, with the aim of understanding how Traditional Chinese Medicine works, and the long-term aim of possible integration into western medicine.
The researchers used high-throughput next generation sequencing technologies to identify genes and biological pathways targeted by CKI when applied to breast cancer cells grown in the laboratory.
"We showed that the patterns of gene expression triggered by CKI affect the same pathways as western chemotherapy but by acting on different genes in the same pathways," says Professor Adelson.
"These genes regulate the cell cycle of division and death, and it seems that CKI alters the way the cell cycle is regulated to push cancer cells down the cell death pathway, therefore killing the cells."
Professor Adelson says this technique could be used to analyse the molecular mechanisms of other Traditional Chinese Medicines, potentially opening their way for use in western medicine.
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Dr. Murray Targeting Jurors Who Take Responsibility
With jury selection beginning tomorrow in the manslaughter case involving Michael Jackson's death .... TMZ has learned ... Dr. Conrad Murray is targeting 12 men and/or women who take responsibility for their actions ... this according to sources who have seen the jury questionnaire.
One of the more revealing questions: "Do you believe patients have the responsibility to tell their doctors about their complete past and current social habits, including use of drugs, alcohol and prescription medications?"
A central part of Dr. Murray's defense is that Michael Jackson was a hard-core Propofol addict who hid his drug dependence from the doc ... thus Murray wasn't operating with full knowledge.
Other questions laser in on what people think of the case, with a heavy emphasis on social media.
-- Do you have a blog? If so, describe.
-- Are you active on social networks. If so, which?
The answers will lead Murray's lawyers to spontaneous comments of prospective jurors that could be more revealing than answers they give in court.
And the questionnaire asks: "Do you financially support others outside your immediate family?"
Dr. Murray has had money troubles that could make him sympathetic to certain jurors.
Other questions include: "At what age should a person be held accountable for their decisions, actions and consequences."
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Battle of Champion's Hill
Jon Stephenson
Well after dark on May 15, 1863, the tired foot soldiers of Confederate Colonel Francis Marion Cockrell's Missouri brigade slumped gratefully to the side of the Ratliff plantation road, southwest of Edward's Station, Mississippi. They'd gotten as far as they had by way of a winding route from the station, after a day fraught with delays and back luck. The hillsides east of the Missourians were dotted with campfires, hundreds of them, none of them friendly.
Two weeks earlier, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had ferried two army corps across the Mississippi in an amphibious campaign that would not be surpassed until World War II. Having fought and won a battle at Port Gibson, Grant's army occupied the evacuated Confederate river batteries at Grand Gulf, south of Vicksburg. From there, Grant sent word to Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman to bring up his XV Corps from the Federal winter camp at Milliken's Bend, La. Wrote Grant, 'The road to Vicksburg is open; all we want now are men, ammunition, and hard bread.' That road would prove to be a rough one, but this Union commander was no stranger to adversity.
Without question, Grant was on shaky ground when he began his spring campaign for Vicksburg. Five months earlier, he'd been forced into retreat by Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest when he tried to take the river city from the north. Sherman led an army downriver in December 1862, only to expend himself bloodily and uselessly against the formidable Confederate works on Chickasaw Bluffs, just north of Vicksburg.
There followed four separate attempts to cut a passage through the marshes and bayous of Mississippi and Louisiana that would allow the Federal armies and gunboat fleets to bypass Vicksburg. None was successful.
With these failures, the chorus of demands for Grant's replacement reached a peak. In a blistering editorial, the New York Times wrote that 'Grant remains stuck in the mud of northern Mississippi, his army no use to him, or anybody else.' Rumors of Grant's drunkenness resurfaced, and neither Union General-in-Chief Henry Halleck nor Secretary of War Edwin Stanton had much confidence in the general.
But Grant was anything but 'stuck in the mud.' Actually, he'd held out little hope for the expeditions of early 1863, allowing them largely to keep his troops busy and to occupy the attention of his critics. By early April, he'd come up with a plan he thought workable to capture the vital Confederate city.
Grant began with a series of raids in eastern and northern Mississippi to distract the Confederates while he got his army across the Mississippi. Once safely on the east bank, Grant envisioned striking the Southern Railroad of Mississippi east of Vicksburg, between Edward's Station and Bolton Station, severing the city's supply artery. The Union army, about 32,000 strong, began to move northeastward on May 12. There was little opposition until Maj. Gen. James Birdseye McPherson's XVII Corps ran up against a brigade of Confederates at Raymond. The resulting battle was sharp enough, even though the grayclads were driven back to Jackson, to convince Grant that he could not turn westward to Vicksburg without first securing Jackson.
Accordingly, he attacked on the 14th, driving out the 6,000 men led by General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Western theater of operations for the Confederacy, who had just arrived in the city. Sherman set his men to destroying the military facilities and stores in Jackson. They were so zealous in their work that most of the city was burned, earning Mississippi's capital the unwanted sobriquet of 'Chimneyville.'
That night, Grant learned that Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton had marched from Vicksburg with 25,000 men and was encamped at Edward's Station. Grant decided to attack before Pemberton could join forces with Johnston. By first light on the 15th, Maj. Gen. John McClernand and McPherson were moving west.
If Grant was confident, Pemberton was not. He had found it increasingly difficult to resolve the conflicting orders he was receiving. Confederate President Jefferson Davis had admonished him to hold Vicksburg at all costs, while Johnston was just as insistent that Pemberton leave the river city and attack the Union forces, beginning with a Federal division at Clinton.
After conferring with his officers at Edward's Station on May 14, Pemberton decided instead to move on a Union supply train reported to be encamped at Dillon's plantation, west of Raymond. If this train could be captured, Pemberton reasoned, Grant's army would be stranded in hostile country. Unaware that Jackson had fallen, Pemberton sent a courier to inform Johnston that he would march on the 15th.
After a frustrating, morning-long wait for supplies to be brought up from Vicksburg, the Confederates marched out of Edward's Station along the Raymond Road, only to be halted a few miles later when they found that the bridge across Baker's Creek had been carried away during a thunderstorm. The Confederates had to detour along the creek bank north to the Jackson Road, where they crossed an intact bridge and then turned south again on the Ratliff plantation road, a little-used country lane that returned them to the Raymond Road just over a mile beyond the washed-out Baker's Creek bridge.
It was well after dark by the time the lead division, Maj. Gen. William W. Loring's, halted at the Ellison plantation, where the column was to turn south for Dillon's. Pemberton established a roadblock on the Raymond Road and ordered his other two divisions to bivouac where they had halted. These were Brig. Gen. John S. Bowen's 3rd Division at the lower end of the plantation road and Maj. Gen. Carter Stevenson's 2nd Division from Bowen's rear back to the crossroads—an intersection of the Jackson Road, the plantation road, and the Middle Road, which led southeastward to Raymond.
As the sun rose on the 16th, Col. Wirt Adams' 1st Mississippi Cavalry encountered Union pickets near the roadblock. With a sharp firefight breaking out, Adams galloped back up the road to warn Pemberton. He rode into the front yard of the Ellison house just as a Federal battery opened fire on the roadblock.
While Pemberton talked with Adams, another rider drew up with a dispatch from Johnston, who was furious that Pemberton had not obeyed his earlier orders. Now, with the enemy force of unknown size in his front, Pemberton tardily elected to comply with Johnston's instructions. He ordered Loring to delay the Federals while the rest of his army reversed its course.
Two miles away, as the rumble of artillery fire rolled across the countryside, Stephen D. Lee, at the left of Stevenson's division, began to worry about the still-quiet Jackson Road. Lee gathered a squad of videttes (mounted sentries) and sent them up the road to a plantation house owned by one of Pemberton's officers, Col. Sid Champion. While his pickets moved out, Lee marched his brigade up the face of a 75-foot-high bald-crested hill about 800 yards southwest of the Champion house. This, Champion's Hill, was the highest prominence in the area and commanded the surrounding terrain for miles.
Lee had barely gained the hilltop when a picket rushed up with word that a Federal column of at least division strength was approaching. Lee stepped to a spot where he could see the Jackson Road. When he raised his binoculars, he saw Union troops deploying in the fields on either side of the Champion house.
Lee sent a courier to warn Stevenson and shifted his brigade to the left along a ridge that jutted out from the hilltop to the northwest. He placed Captain James Waddell's Alabama Battery on his right, just north of the crossroads, backstopped by four companies from Brig. Gen. Alfred Cumming's Georgia brigade. The rest of Cumming's men followed Lee's Alabamians up the hill. Bowen dug in along the crest of a ridge running north from the Raymond Road. His artillery unlimbered atop a rise commanding Jackson's Creek, which ran through a ravine about 600 yards to the division's front. Loring, meanwhile, had deployed along the creek bank.
The blocking force soon came back to the line at a run. Right behind it was Brig. Gen. A.J. Smith's lead brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge. The Federals made a hasty attempt on Loring's line, only to be driven back when Bowen's artillery opened a raking fire on them.
With the blocking force safe, Loring pulled back to the ridge occupied by Bowen's division. The 1st Division dug in around the Coker house, a stately Greek Revival home with a line of towering cedars running from its broad front porch to the Raymond Road. Loring's surgeons hastily converted the home into a field hospital.
By this time, Union Brig. Gen. Alvin P. Hovey's 12th Division, XIII Corps, had reached the Champion house, only to discover Confederates on the big hill ahead. The opposing forces were separated by intimidating terrain. Champion's Hill rose precipitously to the northwest of the Jackson Road, its steep slopes covered with tangled, dense undergrowth. The hillside gave way abruptly to thickly forested ridges and brier-choked ravines.
Brigadier General George F. McGinnis put his 1st Brigade into line of battle and sent skirmishers forward. No sooner had they moved into the trees than an intense firefight broke out. McGinnis, satisfied as to the strength of the grayclads, pulled his men back to await further orders.
Unknown to Pemberton, a third Union column was also near, moving along the Middle Road. Brig. Gen. Peter J. Osterhaus' 9th Division spearheaded this column. Its advance had been uneventful until Osterhaus' vanguard came under fire from the 20th Mississippi Mounted Infantry. Osterhaus reacted at once, sending forward two regiments that quickly and painfully discovered Cumming's and Waddell's roadblock.
At that moment, as the battle-tested Westerners of Maj. Gen. John A. 'Black Jack' Logan's division reached the Champion house, Lee realized he would have to extend his line still farther to the left to protect his flank. He shifted his brigade into a stand of trees behind a rail fence that bordered a large open field. To Lee's right, Cumming organized his men into an angular front. A section of the Boutetort Virginia Artillery was positioned at the point of the angle, along with two of Waddell's guns.
Grant arrived at the Champion house and assessed the situation. He immediately decided to assault the Confederate position on Champion's Hill. McGinnis' brigade was still in double line of battle astride the Jackson Road. Hovey's 2nd Brigade, commanded by Col. James R. Slack, deployed in a field of rye on McGinnis' left. Logan arrayed three brigades on Hovey's right and unlimbered his artillery in the rear of the infantry.
At 10:30 a.m., the blue line swept forward into the deep ravines. As he watched the attack unfold, Logan noticed that Lee's left appeared to be hanging in the air. He quickly brought forward Brig. Gen. John D. Stevenson's 3rd Brigade. Logan ordered Stevenson to strike this weak point.
Confederate Maj. Gen. Carter Stevenson fathomed the Federal intentions quickly enough. He sent a courier to bring up Brig. Gen. Seth Barton's 1st Brigade, then on the right of the division, just southeast of the crossroads. The Georgians double-quicked the mile and a half to the left, barely arriving in time. The Cherokee Georgia Artillery's four 10-pounder Parrotts unlimbered in Barton's rear, along with four guns of the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery, commanded by Captain Samuel J. Ridley.
The assault then began in earnest. The cannon behind Cumming's salient waited until the Union line drew to within 300 yards before opening with double canister. The blast staggered the blue line, and might have shattered it had not the Federals discovered a ravine that afforded them some cover less than 75 yards from the Confederate salient.
Here, McGinnis came up with an interesting plan. His brigade was to charge, and then drop when he signaled. The men came boiling up out of the ravine. They'd taken but a few steps when McGinnis slashed his saber to the earth. The Federals dropped as one, just as the Confederate infantry fired. Before Cumming's men could reload, the Yankees were up and among them. The fist and the musket butt were used freely and the Georgians began to give way, exposing the Alabama brigade's flank. Lee, realizing he was about to be overrun himself, pulled his men back off the hilltop to the Jackson Road.
Slack's Federals doggedly clawed their way through the tangled ravines until they sighted Waddell's remaining four cannons across a cornfield. The Iowans fixed bayonets and stepped forward. The Southerners were caught completely by surprise. Waddell ordered his cannoneers to limber up, but Union sharpshooters killed or wounded most of the horses. Waddell's men gamely tried to pull the cannons away by hand, but the Iowans were upon them too fast. The gunners fled, leaving four cannon in the hands of Slack's men.
On the Confederate left, Barton's line was crumbling, his Georgians unable to stem the blue tide. John Stevenson's Yankees crossed an all but impassable hollow as if it weren't there, charging up the ridge where Barton's eight cannon were emplaced. As the Rebel infantry melted away, the cannoneers switched to double charges of canister, but even that couldn't stop Stevenson's assault.
The 1st Mississippi's Ridley found himself standing alone at a cannon. Faced with the choice of running or giving up, he chose neither, opting instead to work the gun alone. At that moment, Union General McPherson rode up. Seeing the gallantry of the young Confederate captain, the general tried to save his life, but before McPherson could intervene, Ridley fell, struck by no less than six Minie bullets. Only eight of the 82 men Ridley had taken to the ridge top survived.
As Carter Stevenson's line weakened, Pemberton sent a staff officer to bring up Bowen's and Loring's divisions. The staffer galloped off down the plantation road to Bowen's position. One of Loring's officers was there. He promised to pass the order along, although he had some doubts that Loring would comply.
Loring was not exactly known for his willingness to cooperate. Besides this, Loring had little faith in Pemberton, a Pennsylvania native who had 'married South.' When the Civil War broke out, Pemberton had chosen to cast his lot with his adopted homeland. Many politicians and officers distrusted Pemberton, and Loring had been overheard to say that he would not care if Pemberton lost a battle, so long as it resulted in the Pennsylvanian's being relieved of command.
Back at the Roberts house, Pemberton was growing increasingly impatient. Fuming and cursing, he mounted up and rode off down the plantation road to bring up the troops himself. A short distance away, he found Col. Cockrell's brigade, double-quicking up the road. Pemberton directed Cockrell to the crossroads to bolster Carter Stevenson's sagging line.
Cockrell's brigade arrived just as Slack's charge struck. The 3rd and 5th Missouri went into line of battle at once, only to find themselves under horrendous fire. The 2nd and 6th Missouri then came up and threw their weight into the fight. Seeing that his men were gaining a foothold, Cockrell sent the 1st Missouri into line and ordered his artillery to unlimber. Bowen's 2nd Brigade, Brig. Gen. Martin Green's Arkansans, came up on Cockrell's right.
Cockrell rode up and down behind the line, clutching his reins and a large magnolia blossom in one hand and his saber in the other. At a signal from Cockrell, the division unleashed an ear-splitting Rebel yell and tore into the Federals. Cockrell's hard-charging Missourians stormed up the face of Champion's Hill, where the fighting became, in the words of a regimental historian, 'desperate and bloody.' One company of Missourians reached the hilltop to find McGinnis' Yankees just beyond. The Missourians fired with 'one unbroken, deafening roar of musketry.'
Bowen's men, considered by some as 'undoubtedly the best combat troops in either army,' swept on, driving the Union troops 'like chaff before the wind.' The Federals fell back so far that Cockrell's men caught sight of Union teamsters frantically whipping their horses, desperately trying to get their ordnance wagons out of the path of the charging Confederates.
Lee, seeing the tide turn, urged his own troops onward. Private W.T. Moore, standing nearby, heard Lee shout, 'For God's sake, rally and drive them back!' The Alabamians re-formed, as Moore put it, 'as if by magic,' and charged. They came to a rail fence bordering a field in which Captain Samuel DeGolyer's 8th Michigan Battery was emplaced. DeGolyer opened fire just as Lee's men began to throw down the fence rails. The Michiganders' aim was right on. The Federal shells burst on the fence line, sending dirt, fence rails and mangled bodies flying through the air. Even the Union gunners were shocked by the sight. The shattered Alabamians began to fall back.
McGinnis had been pleading for reinforcements and, finally, Brig. Gen. Marcellus Crocker's 7th Division of McPherson's corps came swinging up to the front. Col. George Boomer had barely gotten his 3rd Brigade into line of battle in a field south of the Champion house when he learned that Hovey's front had collapsed.
Boomer responded instantly. He shifted his brigade about by the left flank and double-quicked it up the hill, only to be almost bowled over by McGinnis' fleeing men. Boomer's troops faltered briefly. Stragglers told them that they had left 1,200 bodies behind on the hilltop. Boomer worried that the panic would spread to his own men, but the 3rd Brigade pressed on.
The momentum of the battle again began to favor the Federals. Col. John B. Sanborn's 1st Brigade was moving up the hill, and Hovey had pulled together 16 cannons on a rise in an open field southeast of the Champion house. These guns showered Green's line with canister and shot. Ordered to turn the Union left, the Arkansans pushed on into the storm, only to run squarely into the last of Crocker's brigades, Col. Samuel Holmes' 2nd. The firing intensified terrifically, until the men could barely make out those on either side of them. They fired by guess, aiming at muzzle flashes in the dense, sulphurous clouds of powder smoke. Eventually, the combined force of the three fresh brigades and the artillery barrage broke the Confederate charge.
Cumming, having finally rallied his men, was leading them to Bowen's support when the Union counterassault struck. The Georgians broke and fled again, leaving behind Lee's Alabamians, who had been sheltering in the trees since their own charge had been crushed by DeGolyer's guns. The 30th Alabama managed to get clear before the Union line rolled over them, but Col. Michael Woods' 46th Alabama was cut off and forced to surrender. Woods had gone into battle with more than 300 men. He surrendered just over 70.
Pemberton was furious that Loring had still not appeared. He sent Major Jacob Thompson, his assistant inspector general, to again order the recalcitrant Loring to come up with all possible speed. Thompson dutifully galloped off to the Raymond Road, where he discovered that Loring had realigned his division somewhat, but had made no attempt to move to the left. Loring had shifted two brigades onto the ground that Bowen had vacated, and Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman's 1st Brigade sat astride the Raymond Road on Cotton Hill, about 600 yards west of the ridge where sat the Coker house. Burbridge now held the ground near the Coker house, which was filled with Confederate wounded.
Although Burbridge had not pressed further, Loring was still unwilling to disengage. Thompson returned to the Roberts house with this unpleasant news just as Osterhaus renewed his drive on the Middle Road. Exasperated, Pemberton mounted to go after his errant commander himself. As before, he'd gone only a short distance when he sighted Brig. Gen. Abraham Buford's brigade. The much-relieved Pemberton told Buford to send two regiments to the crossroads to support Green and the remainder of his brigade to the Jackson Road. These orders delivered, Pemberton continued his search for Loring.
The 12th Louisiana and 35th Alabama rushed to the support of Cockrell's artillery, which had opened fire on Osterhaus' line. This barrage slowed the Union drive somewhat, but the Federals kept up the pressure. Many of Bowen's battered foot soldiers, having endured more than they could take, broke and ran. In the course of the melee, Waddell's unlucky cannon changed hands for the third time.
Pemberton, unable to locate Loring, returned to the Roberts house. There, he was told that Bowen's line had broken. Sadly, Pemberton ordered a general retreat. The Confederates would have to pull back to the Raymond Road, where they could cross a bridge that Pemberton's engineers had labored all day to build. The general mounted and rode away with his staff officers.
Pemberton had been gone only a few minutes when Loring appeared on the scene, leading Winfield S. Featherston's 2nd Brigade. He saw that many of Carter Stevenson's troops were still on the field, as were Buford's. Loring began to piece together a counterattack, but before he could complete his disposition, word of the retreat order reached him. Loring countermanded his attack orders and began to disengage.
The Confederates flowed back down the plantation road, pouring across the Baker's Creek bridge. Harried sergeants got them back into line along the west bank of the creek. At the crossroads, the Federals pulled up. The heat was taking its toll on the soldiers, and their officers allowed them to rest.
East of the Baker's Creek bridge, Tilghman's brigade still blocked the Raymond Road. Suddenly, A.J. Smith's artillery opened fire. A moment later, the Confederate batteries responded. Shells arched across the valley, landing short of the Union guns.
Tilghman cursed and went to the nearest gun, sighting it himself. Satisfied, the general stepped back to observe the fire. As he did, the Union battery spoke again. A shell exploded directly over Tilghman. He staggered back a few steps and fell, a chunk of shrapnel in his chest. A minute later, he was dead.
Col. A.E. Reynolds took command of the brigade. Learning that his artillery was almost out of ammunition, Reynolds moved off the road and turned toward Baker's Creek. He neared the bridge just as the rest of Loring's division regained the Raymond Road. Reynolds fell in at the rear of the division as it hastened for the bridge. Before Loring could get there, however, artillery shells were falling across the creek. A Federal brigade had crossed the creek on the Jackson Road and had pushed south, hoping to cut off the Confederates' escape.
On the west bank, Bowen and Stevenson put their divisions on the march at once. Realizing he could not cross the bridge, Loring turned south, moving down the east bank in search of another ford. After darkness and muddy roads forced him to abandon his artillery and ordnance wagons, Loring gave up on rejoining Pemberton. He followed a circuitous route to Crystal Springs and entrained his men for Jackson.
Pemberton's remaining two divisions painfully marched to fortifications built earlier at the railroad bridge over the Big Black River. The battered grayclads gratefully bivouacked there for the night, joined by the fresh troops of Brig. Gen. J.C. Vaughn's East Tennessee Brigade.
The Union forces encamped on the bloodied slopes of Champion's Hill. They struggled for sleep as hospital teams prowled among them by torchlight, searching for wounded. Hovey was almost in shock as he surveyed the battlefield. 'Champion Hill was, after the battle, literally the hill of death,' he wrote. 'Men, horses, cannon, and the debris of an army lay scattered in wild confusion. Hundreds of the gallant Twelfth Division were cold in death or writhing in pain, and…lay dead, dying, or wounded, intermixed with our fallen foe.'
The Confederates had suffered 381 killed and better than 3,400 wounded or missing. The Union army lost 410 killed and just over 2,000 wounded or missing.
Early on the 17th, McClernand's fired-up XIII Corps struck the Big Black line with such fury that the battle-weary Confederates broke and ran. Their panic spread to Vaughn's Tennesseans and very quickly they, too, were fully routed. The stunned Confederates retreated to the Vicksburg fortifications. Grant was right on their heels. He laid siege to the river city and, nearly seven weeks later, it was his.
Grant would no longer have to worry about his critics. He went on to establish the 'cracker line' at Chattanooga, breaking Braxton Bragg's grip on the Union army trapped there, and to the bitter fighting at the Wilderness, where Grant swore that his army had taken its last backward step. He moved on through Cold Harbor and Petersburg, until eventually he caught up with Robert E. Lee in Wilmer McLean's parlor at Appomattox.
But had Pemberton joined his army with that of Joe Johnston right away, had Loring moved his division to Carter Stevenon's aid when Pemberton first summoned him, or had Grant been defeated that day on Sid Champion's plantation, Vicksburg might not have fallen. Grant would almost certainly have been relieved of command, and history would now read very differently, were it not for the drums of Champion's Hill.
This article was written by Jon Stephenson and originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of America's Civil War magazine. Used with permission from historynet.com.
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Before the pandemic, a roller coaster is exactly where you could find Eric Hall and his family. One summer day in 2019, something was getting in the way of his ride.
"The guy did everything he could to get me in," recalled Hall. "Which was not only super humiliating and humbling, but obviously at the same time it was very eye opening for me because something that I love to do, especially with my family, now my weight and my health was restricting me from doing that."
Hall knew he needed to change. But changing takes time, time he didn't think he had.
"Prior to the pandemic, I was kind of hoping for more work from home, that's not necessarily what I had in mind was this," said Hall.
With an opportunity to be more healthy. Hall jumped on it. He insists he's not a paid spokesperson, but he swears by the app Centr. It's Chris Hemsworth's fitness app.
"It wasn't like these like gargantuan bulky bodybuilders," added Hall. "It was real people."
Hall weighed 330 pounds at his heaviest. Now, he weighs 165. He believes more time at home helped make that transformation a reality. Hall wants everyone to know losing weight can be done, just start slow.
"It's not nearly as complicated as you think it is," added Hall.
He says it's a lot of hard work.
This story was originally published by Jeff Rusack at WKBW.


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How to Separate Critical and Creative Thinking
Does your team have agreement around vision, but lack ownership and alignment?
Effective teams do not just agree on vision, they own it and align every ounce of energy and effort toward accomplishing the vision. As a leader, you can sense the difference between your team liking the vision and your team leading toward vision.
In most instances, simple agreement feels like an invisible wall sits somewhere within the team. A divide of mistrust, misunderstanding, or missed input often exists in the origination of the vision. This always leads to misalignment and missed opportunity in the execution of vision.
Every busy week brings a fresh truckload of glass bricks for your team to stack on this invisible wall. No one has ill motives. No one intends cement separation, but the walls go up without conscious notice as the pace of ministry continues.
The good news is that it's NOT rocket science to take down a wall. Haven't you noticed it's easier (and usually more fun) to demolish than it is to build? What your team needs are sledgehammers to take down these hard-to-see barriers.
How do you tear down your team's invisible walls?
Separate Critical and Creative Thinking
THE QUICK SUMMARY – Hatch! by C. Wilson McNair
Most Corporate Brainstorming Isn't Brainstorming… not even close. (Usually what's going on is playful arguing with snacks on the table.)
McNair Wilson spent a decade inside Disney – mostly at Disney Imagineering designing theme parks. His teams hatched so many ideas he was invited to teach his methods through Disney University. His "7 Agreements of Brainstorming" will assist your team in launching world-class products, services, and programs. You will create competition-crushing concepts using brainstorming that works! (And you can keep the snacks on the table.)
Whatever's next for your organization, why not make it best? HATCH! is a highly entertaining book filled with the author's witty drawings and scores of examples of McNair's 7 Agreements in use by big corporations and small non-profits.
The problem with brainstorming is that everyone thinks they already do it.
The reality is that nobody knows how to brainstorm anymore. It's not your colleagues' fault – or yours. Nobody knows how to brainstorm anymore because it is likely every model we have seen contains significant roadblocks to actual innovation.
Far too often, the "way you've always done it" is the wrong way – the least productive and the most frustrating.
According to former Disney Imagineer C. McNair Wilson, real brainstorming is both fun to do and very productive- all at the same time.
Done right, brainstorming produces amazing results because "we are smarter than me."
Start your brainstorming by separating Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking.
Both must be done, but they must be done separately if anything of lasting value will be accomplished.
Creative thinking is idea generating, imagining, wondering out loud, dreaming, "what-iffing." The decidedly different activity of Critical Thinking is not so much thinking negatively as it is thinking with analysis, focus, intentionality, and purpose.
You will have made huge strides toward powerful Creative Thinking once your team embraces and agrees to this important distinction: Creative and Critical Thinking are not part of the same activity and do not, cannot, must not occur simultaneously. It doesn't work. They cannot occupy the same space. They are the beginning and end of the process whether it is five minutes or five months. Folding them together means doing neither activity effectively. And it is not brainstorming.
You cannot be fully, actively, creative if you are simultaneously thinking critically.
It is vital that you learn to postpone judgment, evaluation, and analysis until you and your team get everything out of your head and up on the wall. You are hatching a plan. Every chicken, eventually, leaves the egg. During Creative Thinking you are offering thought fragments, whims, notions, doodles, bits, and pieces.
The key to Creative Thinking is to learn not to care. That is to say, get to a point where you learn not to care of your ideas make sense, are possible, or if they fit into the project budget. You will care about all that later. This is true for all the ideas that flash through your mind during Creative Thinking.
Don't deliberate, divulge.
Don't analyze, add.
Don't decide, confide.
Don't edit, say it.
You cannot possibly know when a tiny, fleeting thought will be just the spark to ignite a bonfire of creativity in other team members.
C. Wilson McNair, Hatch
Auxano developed a team collaboration tool that we use with every church team. The Collaboration Cube specifically addresses this need for separation between creative and critical thinking.
The Cube is built around the three modes of good collaboration: Blue Sky, Discuss/Challenge, and Decide/ Commit. Each mode represents the ground rules for how the team is interacting at any given time. A facilitator, team leader, or team member can use the Cube to signal a shift or recommend a change of the team's mode.
Blue Sky mode is the classic brainstorming time where it is critical to generate a great volume of ideas while delaying judgment or critique. The basic principle of creativity is that great ideas are generated through many ideas. While many teams are familiar with the general idea of brainstorming, few practice it, because of the discipline required to suspend judgment, or Critical Thinking. Use the Cube to strengthen this mode of Creative Thinking.
Discuss/Challenge is the default mode where four Critical Thinking roles are put into play and where feedback and pushback are openly discussed. Discuss/ Challenge is the dominant mode that occurs during collaboration. Remember, each role is a default style that each team member tends to play, but during collaboration, each person can pass in and out of each role as collaboration progresses to Decide/Commit.
Decide/Commit is the mode signaled by the facilitator when moving toward a consensus decision or clarifying final action steps. In this mode a leader is able to "land the plane" on the meeting or session. This is the time when the facilitator or leader senses that enough dialogue and "ah-ha moments" have occurred to move toward a meaningful conclusion. When it comes time to Decide/Commit and you poll your team, use this definition of consensus: "Consensus is not when 80% of people feel 100% good about an idea; consensus is when 100% of the team feels 80% good about an idea."
Visit collaborationcube.com to learn more and to purchase Cubes for your team.
Excerpt taken from SUMS Remix 50-3.
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Wynonna Judd Says She'll Keep Singing, 'Though My Heart Is Broken,' After Naomi Judd's Death
The Judds were one of three legendary acts inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday (May 1), with a ceremony that's been in the making since the Hall of Fame announced its 2022 class of inductees last August.
The members of the mother-daughter duo, Naomi and Wynonna Judd, intended to attend the Hall's Medallion Ceremony, but those plans took a tragic turn when Naomi died at the age of 76 on Saturday (April 30), just one day before the event. Per the Judd family's wishes, the Country Music Hall of Fame moved forward as planned with the ceremony, and the younger Judd attended with her sister, actor Ashley Judd.
Both sisters gave emotional speeches, with Ashley detailing some of her young memories of growing up in a musical family and describing Wynonna as the "G.O.A.T."
When it was her turn to talk, Wynonna spoke candidly about her grief and shock. "I didn't prepare anything tonight because I knew mom would probably talk the most," she told the audience. "I'm gonna make this fast, because my heart's broken, and I feel so blessed. It's a very strange dynamic, to be this broken and this blessed."
She went on to express her gratitude to her support system, family and friends, as well as the songwriters in attendance.
"You all know that I'm all about the songs. The music. I could give a rip, really, about the rest, because it all comes and goes," Wynonna continued. Though she had said she felt underprepared to speak, there was one point about which she was very confident: "Though my heart's broken, I will continue to sing, because that's what we do," she said.
The Judd sisters concluded their time onstage with a Bible verse.
In addition to remarks from Wynonna and Ashley, the Judds' induction was marked by tribute performances from some of their fellow artists. Tommy Simms performed "Love Can Build a Bridge," Gillian Welch and David Rawlings performed "Young Love (Strong Love)" and Carly Pearce performed "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)."
The 2022 Country Music Hall of Fame incoming class also includes Ray Charles and recording musicians Eddie Bayers and Pete Drake. Garth Brooks and the War and Treaty were two more performers celebrating the incoming Hall of Famers with tribute performances.


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Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) is a critical aspect of ensuring electrical safety in rental properties. As a landlord, it's essential to understand your legal responsibilities regarding PAT testing to maintain compliance and safeguard your tenants. This article delves into the key aspects of PAT testing laws and best practices for landlords.
What is PAT Testing?
PAT testing involves the examination of electrical appliances to ensure they are safe to use. The process typically includes visual inspections and electrical tests on devices like kettles, microwaves, and other portable electrical equipment. The aim is to detect any faults that could pose a risk of electric shock or fire.
Legal Requirements for PAT Testing
The Legal Framework
- The Landlord and Tenant Act 1985: This act mandates that landlords maintain their properties and ensure they are safe for tenants. Although it doesn't explicitly mention PAT testing, it implies that all electrical systems and appliances must be safe.
- The Housing Act 2004: This act includes the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), which requires landlords to keep electrical appliances safe to avoid potential hazards.
- The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016: This regulation requires that all electrical equipment provided by landlords is safe and complies with safety standards.
- The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974: Though primarily focused on workplace safety, this act extends to rental properties, requiring landlords to ensure that all electrical equipment provided is safe for use.
Specific Requirements for PAT Testing
While there is no specific legal requirement mandating PAT testing for rental properties, landlords must ensure the electrical safety of the appliances they provide. This responsibility makes PAT testing the most reliable method to fulfill these obligations.
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The frequency of PAT testing is not legally defined but depends on the type of equipment and the environment in which it is used. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) provides guidance suggesting the following:
- For high-risk environments (e.g., kitchens, laundries): Testing might be needed more frequently, such as every 12 months.
- For lower-risk environments (e.g., bedrooms, living rooms): Testing intervals might be extended to every 2 to 4 years.
- For new equipment: Visual inspections should be sufficient for the first year.
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- Keep Records: Maintain detailed records of all inspections and tests conducted. This documentation can serve as evidence of your compliance with safety regulations.
- Regular Inspections: Conduct regular visual inspections of all electrical appliances, looking for signs of wear, damage, or misuse.
- Qualified Testers: Ensure that PAT testing is performed by a competent person, ideally a qualified electrician, to accurately assess the safety of the appliances.
- Tenant Awareness: Educate tenants on the importance of electrical safety and encourage them to report any faulty appliances immediately.
- New Tenancies: Conduct PAT tests before a new tenancy begins to ensure all provided appliances are safe.
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While PAT testing is not explicitly mandated by law for landlords, it remains a critical practice for ensuring the safety of electrical appliances in rental properties. By adhering to best practices and staying informed about relevant regulations, landlords can protect their tenants and themselves from the risks associated with electrical hazards. Regular PAT testing is not just about legal compliance; it is a fundamental aspect of maintaining a safe and habitable rental property.


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ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Material Handling Equipment documents more than 40 cases of structural and/or functional failure involving conveyors, forklifts, and overhead cranes as well as winches, hooks, slings, eyebolts, and wire rope. The cases describe the investigation, identify the primary cause, and include remedial solutions. These case histories have been compiled from a wide variety of ASM International publication types, including ASM Handbook volumes, conference proceedings, technical books, journals, and magazines.
The compilation project involved reviewing hundreds of potential source publications to identify and select articles and chapters that address the investigation and analysis of specific component failures. The goal of compiling and organizing this content is to make it easier for failure analysts, design engineers, and other technical personnel to learn from the experience of others and to find information, examples, and methods that may be relevant to their own work.
Because these compiled case histories come from disparate sources published over several decades, they vary significantly in terms of the amount of detail provided, the tools and techniques utilized, and the conclusions and recommendations presented. All of the cases have been taken from credible, peer-reviewed sources, but no attempt has been made to certify that any given document reflects the current state of the art at the time of original collection and adaptation (2004-2005) or the organization of the present volume (2019). Despite these caveats, this collection is a treasure trove of examples and insights documented by failure analysts working at the highest levels of their profession.
This collection is possible because of broad-based involvement by members of ASM International who participate in the contribution and review of failure analysis information. In 2016, the Failure Analysis Society (FAS) was formed as an affiliate society of ASM International. The FAS is dedicated to advancing the important role failure analysis plays in the materials industry. The affiliate society emerged from a long-standing ASM Failure Analysis Committee that organized conference programs and provided oversight to ASM content activities, including the project that resulted in the publication of this compilation.
ASM International and the FAS continue to serve the failure analysis community through conference programming, education courses, and publications. Failure analysts are invited to submit new case histories and technical articles to the Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, the flagship publication of the FAS.
Preface, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Material Handling Equipment, ASM International, 2019
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With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes -- and the pulse rate -- higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself -- and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.
What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill?
We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. He has Mitch's wife and he's named the price for her safe return. The caller doesn't care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough . . .
Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He's got sixty hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he'll pay a lot more. He'll pay anything.
From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation . . . until it lets you go, unmistakably changed.. This is a Dean Koontz novel, after all. And there's no other experience quite like it.
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