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Major VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers has brought on Square product lead Megan Quinn as a partner today, just a week after partner Ellen Pao sued the company for gender discrimination.
Quinn has spent the last year with Square, the mobile payments company founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. There, she headed up Square's product team, which has recently released a number of new payments-oriented apps (we've spoken with her a few times) to go along with its iOS-and-Android focused credit card reader. Prior to her time at Square, Quinn spent seven years at Google leading the Google Maps team.
She will join Kleiner Perkin's digital group as a partner after taking a short break between Square and the firm. Quinn is the firm's thirteenth female partner and will focus on early stage consumer Internet companies for Kleiner's KPCB 15 $525 million fund.
The timing of Quinn's hire is intriguing as Pao recently made her lawsuit against the firm public, naming a number of Kleiner Perkins' managing partners, including John Doerr, in the suit. Doerr released a statement yesterday saying that Pao's allegations of sexual harassment were unfounded. In her complaint, Pao alleged that one of the firm's male partners asked her to have a sexual relationship with him. After complaining to the partners, Pao says she was retaliated against and denied performance reviews.
The firm is otherwise known for bringing women into an otherwise male-dominated industry and the process of hiring Quinn almost certainly is not connected to the lawsuit.


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The Horse Forum
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- - neutrena xtn vs safe choice, need more bulk.
neutrena xtn vs safe choice, need more bulk. anybody use Nuetrena xtn? i have a ottb, 7 year, moderate exercise shows 2'3. needs to bulk up more. right now mixing 1/2 safe choice and xtn. thinking of switching all to xtn. have tried wheat germ oil, weight builder, beet pulp, a daily dewormer, nothing wants to bulk him up, he gets plenty of hay daily. any comments or reviews???? thanks |
Have you tried SmartGain by SmartPak? I tried EVERYTHING and it's the only thing I've seen a noticeable difference with. |
No, I havent I will check into that! thanks |
ive been told purina ultium is good for gaining weight and, i wouldnt recommend a daily feed threw dewormer, my BO swears it doesnt do anything, and ive met several horses (including mine) who were on the daily dewormer, and then had a fecal test, and were actually full of worms. the daily dewormer didnt do anything. i no longer feed it. i would recommend every 60 days a rotational deworming schedule |
I'd try some alfalfa pellets and flax. Or look in to calf manna. |
Rice Bran is what is being used on an underweight Appendix here in my barn, and it seems to be working well. I use Safe Choice on my horse, but that is more for maintaining weight than gaining. |
The daily dewormer is not doing anyhing, his fecal is negative so I will fiish up the bucket and then im done with it:) I dont like to use any alfalfa, for him it might cause kidney probloms so I dont think its worth the risk. It can cause calcium build up, and alittle to Hot. I only use timothy hay. I think im going to go back to beet pulp. i am going to try the pellets. I mean heis def more thicker than 80% of his ottb counterparts. I would just like his top line thicker. I may never get it, its just a thouroghbred for u! |
Beet pulp, and Weight Builder powder on top his grain will help. |
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text: Cops: Tyler Thigpen Arrested After Falling Asleep At Wendy's Drive-ThruBarry Petchesky11/25/14 12:13pmFiled to: tyler thigpenpolice blotterduinfl254EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkFree-agent NFL QB Tyler Thigpen was arrested early Sunday morning in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and charged with DUI. Police claim that Thigpen's car sat in a Wendy's drive-thru for 20 minutes, with him asleep at the wheel.AdvertisementAccording to the police report obtained by the Sun News, officers needed several minutes to awaken Thigpen, who was slumped in the driver's seat of his black Cadillac SUV. When he awoke, the report claims, Thigpen didn't know where he was or how he got there.The report says Thigpen smelled of alcohol, but told cops he hadn't been drinking. He refused sobriety tests at the scene, and a breathalyzer test back at the police station.AdvertisementThigpen was booked on a DUI charge and bonded out on Sunday afternoon.Thigpen, who starred at Coastal Carolina, last played in 2012 for the Bills, and was waived by the Browns in camp this past August. [Sun News]Reply25 repliesLeave a reply


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The compressor has a large center bolt and a set of J hooks at each end,you set the hooks and air gun the spring together.I've had mine for 20 years and I think its the safest way.
yes, the inside spring compressor is the safest way. there is one 10mm? bolt that you remove and then the rag joint comes off the steering rack. dont worry about the steering wheel being crooked, because the steering rack (at least on my 90) has a D-shaped shaft. theres only one way it can go back on.
Hmmm, my rack wasnt in the way - it was relatively close (the bolt touched the bellow but that was it). You could just blast the steering bolts and nuts off to give some room (sliding the rack forward and up a little should help). I'm sorry to see that it's such a PITA for ya. For the LCA bolts, I just jack or unjack the arm real slow (and carefully!) while pulling lightly on the bolt. When the bolt starts to move, I stop the jack. Dt Lions fan, if you can, you will want to post up the model of spring compressor you used. The first time I swapped springs I used an internal compressor (loaned from the parts store) and it was an ueber-PITA with vert springs. I'm always up for a really clean way of doing springs.
I thought that the LCA bolts hit the steering rack with only pre-87 K-frames? The pre-87 k-frames move the FCA in, and that causes the bolt to interfere with the steering rack when taking the bolt out/putting it in.. I mentioned before about the bolts rusting to the sleeves. You can try o To use an impact wrench to spin them fast enough to break the rust bond o Use an air chisel to cut the bolt/sleeve o Use a cut-off disc and tool to cut the bolt/sleeve o Use a sawsall to cut the bolt/sleeve Since I have an 86 and 3 of the four bolts were rusted *forever* to the sleeves, I cut the bolts/sleeves. So, I didn't have to remove my rack. When I installed the new bolts, I put the head on the inside and custom trimmed them so that there was ~2 threads exposed after the nut was fully on.
I may go run to the parts store and see what i can come up with thanks for the discription for the bolt that i thought had ceized - that i did was put an air impact gun on the one end of it and she broke free, i figured out moving the jack around would help me get that loose and sure enought she came out. the side with the rack in the way is the only think stopping me now. I dont have time to work on it until next saturday, but the first think im going to try is loosening up the rack and see if i can get it to move enough out of the way so that bolt will come out my car is a 90, so i guess the rack is still in the way im thinking this - if loosening the rack doesn't give me the clearence i need, do you think a saw-zaw will cut thru that bolt? i would probably try to cut it between the a arm and the k member so this way it will just come right out, and ill replace the bolt. thankyou everyone for all your help.. this is what makes this site so great
I'm losing track of events here but if you cut the bolt, will you still not have an issue getting a new (full-length) bolt back in? I'm betting that S&2B's will be able to tell you exactly what needs to be done to finagle around the FLCA bolt-rack situation since it sounds like something he encountered on his '86. Since I didnt encounter this before, unfortunately I'm not able to lend first hand experience with what will be the smoothest work-around (I simply posted how I'd try to deal with it). Good luck.
what i was saying was try your way first - im going to loosen up the rack a bit so i can slide her forward. Hopefully this will give me enough clearence... My backup plan if that doesnt work is to cut the bolt off at the point between the a arm and k member. What i would do is, after purchasing a new bolt, install it from the inside out and have the nut side on the side of the rack instead of being inside the a arm.. if that makes any sence?
but then the end of the bolt would be hitting the steering rack...no? dude...I think you need to abandon this a-arm removal idea and just pay the $70 to have them done in an hour...lol
to take the old springs out. I put the car on jackstands so it sits pretty damn high, put a floor jack under the a-arm and removed the caliper (used a cable to keep it in the air), un bolted the strut from inside the engine bay. I USED A CHAIN TO SECURE THE SPRING TO THE CAR, SO IT WON'T POP OUT AND KILL ME. I then lowered the a-arm using the jack. once the a-arm down I was able to get the spring out using a 5 foot pry-bar. The spring just fell out and because I had secured it with a chain, the spring didn't do any harm to anything or anyone. To put the new springs in, you can take them to a suspension specialist and have them compress it and they tie it, so you install it jack up the a-arm and then release the ties they put on it. I couldn't do this because the place was closed, I used a cheapo spring compressor (goes inside the spring) to compress it. Once installed I had to take apart the tool INSIDE THE SPRING, it's a PITA but all in all it took me less than an hour to do the front... The rear is funny, the stock springs just fall out once you unhook the shocks and quads lol
whats the fun in that? sissy i was just about there before. i had the strut unbolted and caliper off, had the a arm dropped but i thought the tie rod was holding me up cause the spring was still kind of in there so i abandoned that and put it back together.. everyone said taking the a arm out of the k-member would be easier and safer. i can see how it would be easier in theory, but the damn rack is holding me up.. so much for being quick I'll have next saturday to work on it, i have some things i need to pick up from the swap meet in english town NJ
I'm doing my front springs this weekend. I had the entire suspension taken apart ready to drop them when I figured out there wasn't enough weight on the front to compress the arm w/o the engine in it. Anyway I'll post pictures hopefully when I do it this weekend.
oh I forgot, you also need to remove the steering tie-rod end from the a-arm and the link kit. The spring was still in place a little, but a little force gets it out since it's mostly uncompressed anyway. I did chain the spring in place as to eliminate any chance of it launching into orbit. The car needs to be pretty high on the jackstands. It's not a big job, but I see how removing the other end of the a-arm makes sense though. I wouldn't remove the balljoint, too much hassle for nothing.
actually i tried to remove the balljoint, but the tool I have isn't the right tool for it and it only came half way out. if this method im trying doesnt work, ill go back to the old way, but im determined!!!
I have to redo the whole thing when I put my other 5.0L in there (going to put my tubular k-member while I'm at it)...
Dude, it would have been over a grand to replace my FCAs and springs. Maybe you need to read up on RUST. Also, the LAST thing you want on a 15-20 year-old car is some hack mechanic going at it with an air chisel or sawsall no giving a damn. The supports for the FCAs aren't that think to begin with. You do NOT want then being bent all around, to be band/chiseled, to to have deep sawsall marks in them. Yes, with a lift, the bolts and sleeves could have been sawsall off in about 1/2 to 1/3 of the time (I had very limited blade range and when through blades like crazy). But, again, if you think that a most local mechanics take "great care" on older cars, you're in fantasy land.
actually i have an old friend who owns a repair shop who said he would do them for 70 bucks.. still thats besides the point i have done them on my old stang, no reason i can't do them on mine, im more then capable! anyways when you cut your bolts off, did you have alot of trouble? or did they cut fairly easy?
They're hardened bolts in hardened sleeves in a hard to reach area with minimal space to work in. So, yea, cutting them sucked big time! It took me ~45 mins PER CUT and ~15+ blades PER CUT. And, it's *two* cuts for each bolt. (You have to cut on both sides of the sleeve) Yea, for *me* ONE bolt came right out. Gee, very quick and easy! The other three bolts are rusted to the sleeves for *life*. There are different degrees and types of rust. Some people can use an impact gun to spin the bolts free of the sleeves. Some one used an air cut-off tool and cut-off disks. Much faster, but that requires cutting from under the car and if/when the disk explodes, you better be well protected (as you should *always* be when working with cut off disks). My *guess* is that if a a sawsall was used on a car on *a lift*, one cut might be able to be done with 3-5 blades and in 5-15mins per cut. Because of the limited space, I could use less than 24% of the blade. So, the blades heated up quickly and got dull. Regardless, when you cut the sleeves & bolts, you need new bolts and sleeves *& bushings. In my case, one of my springs is *forever* rusted to the right FCA. So, a needed at least one new FCA. If someone is replacing the bushings on a 15+ year-old FCA, they might as well just replace the whole FCA and get new ball joints. Also, like most cars, my lower isolators where worthless. So, add in new isolators. Yup, it all adds up very quickly if you have a local shop do it.
actually so far the 2 bolts ive come in concact with aren't rusted to the sleeves. my problem is the damn rack being in the way. And if loosening the rack doesn't give me the room i need, sawzawing the bolt off will fix that problem
I heard that! I can't figure out why these guys are having so much trouble. Just lower A-arm all the way down, spring should just fall out, replace spring and raise A-arm w/ jack.


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- What kind of frickin' dumb ass shows up to what was clearly labeled a WALKING tour in three-inch, platformed, spike-heeled, pointy-toed stilettos? "I just couldn't find anything else to go with my Lily Pulitzer!" I wanted to rip off her ridiculous shoes and stab her in the eye with them every time she complained about how much her feet hurt.
- Being in charge of several children who are not your own is exhausting, due to heightened situational awareness and hypervigilence. Strangers, street crossings, making sure they don't wander off...it is a lot like taking six goats to market without lead ropes.
- I should have hired a sherpa to help me buttle all of the girls' stuff, and they shed sweatshirts, jackets, lunches, cameras and souvenir bags constantly, and guess who got asked to hold it all?
- The standard Mom Kit -- first aid stuff, water, wipies, hand sanitizer, hair elastics, hard candies, gum, loose change and a good evil glare is indispensable.
- So is a bellow that will halt forty-seven little girls in their tracks.
- Merchants who festoon their window displays with trashy lingerie, sex toys and bondage accouterments should be forced to answer the questions that such displays will encourage from young girls on the cusp of puberty, and endure the ensuing shrieks of "Oh, that's GUH-ROOOOOSS!"
- Security at the Liberty Bell is ridiculous, the guards have no sense of humor, and I did not appreciate having a large woman in purple nitrile gloves fondling my personal regions and showing the world my C-section scar.
- I feel really, really naked and vulnerable wandering around Philly without my firearm. The historic zones are...unique in flavor, to say the least.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Field trip nonsense
I chaperoned SnarkGirl's field trip yesterday -- a walking tour of historic Philadelphia! We saw the Liberty Bell, Betsy Ross' house, the Old Christ Church and Franklin Court. The weather was chilly and gray, but the rain (mostly) held off. However, a few observations:
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I was a Cub Scout Den Leader for a year, and went on two overnight field trips with my daughter. At the end of all that, I have realized that I'm not a fan of children that aren't my own. Good on ya for doing this for SnarkyGirl. She'll remember it forever, and will appreciate what you've done for her after she does her first field trip as a parent.
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Nothing official yet. Aaron blogged something about it here: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bert.../sql-server-11-denali-setup-walk-through.aspx, but frankly I guess it's simply too early in the CTP cycle.
Next week I'll migrate my last client from 2000 to 2005 (3rd party application does not work with 2008). I am a caveman....[]
Hah, we're also still on 2005 and might consider moving to 2008. Denali is far, far away here as well.
CanadaDBA, Hope you are doing well, the release will be sometime this year. Though it is under NDA the features are getting build good. Do you have any potential customers who are looking to work in Denali (SQL11)?


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Riata Defibrillator Leads Recall Lawsuits
Because they can cause serious injury or death, two medical devices manufactured by St. Jude Medical—the Riata Lead and the Riata ST Silicone Endocardial Defibrillation Lead—were officially granted U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Class I recall status in late 2011. Although St. Jude had discontinued the products a year earlier, the FDA estimates 79,000 patients still have Riata and Riata ST leads inside them.
What Are Riata Defibrillator Leads?
St. Jude Medical's Riata Defibrillator and Riata ST Silicone Endocardial Defibrillator Leads are used in "implantable cardioverter defibrillator" (ICD) and "cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator" (CRT-D) device implantation procedures. The leads connect to the defibrillators and monitor and regulate recipients' heart rates by controlling the voltage the defibrillators deliver.
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In a December 2010 letter, St. Jude Medical informed physicians that the company was discontinuing sales of Riata Defibrillator Leads and Riata ST Silicone Endocardial Leads. The company followed up in November 2011 with a "Physician Advisory Letter" to doctors informing them that the conductors in those devices because could become "externalized" through abrasions in the wires' silicone insulation—a condition that could prevent the defibrillator from delivering the electrical impulse the heart requires, or worse, cause the defibrillator to deliver excessive voltage. Both events can cause injury, cardiac arrest, and death.
The FDA doesn't technically recall drugs itself; the agency issues recall requests to companies, publicizes recalls, and classifies recalls. On December 15, 2011, the FDA classified St. Jude Medical's November 2011 Physician Advisory Letter as a "voluntary Class I Riata Defibrillator Lead recall." A Class I recall is the most serious of the agency's classifications.
On August 16, 2012, the FDA issued a Riata Leads Safety Communication advising all Riata and Riata ST Lead recipients to undergo either two-view x-rays or fluoroscopy to determine if their leads show signs of insulation breaches that might cause injuries.
Riata Defibrillator Leads Might Cause Injury or Death
According an October 2012 Wall Street Journal article, some doctors report having encountered abrasion problems with the St. Jude leads in their own practices "between 2006 and 2009. When these doctors brought the incidents to the attention of St. Jude they say they were told by company officials and field representatives that the incidents were isolated."
A study of 212 recipients of Riata and Riata ST Leads showed that 15% of them had "insulation breaches," which cause wire externalization and the accompanying side effects of inadequate or excessive voltage discharges, according to a Minneapolis Star Tribune article. In April 2012, the New York Times cited research showing that defective Riata Defibrillator Leads played a role in 20 patients' deaths.
Riata Defibrillator Leads Lawsuits Are Being Filed
According to the Wall Street Journal, by early April 2013, 30 people filed St. Jude Medical Riata Defibrillator leads lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and Los Angeles Superior Court. The plaintiffs allege that the leads delivered unnecessary shocks and that St. Jude Medical should have reported problems to the FDA but did not do so. For example, one woman claims she was shocked several times while lying in bed. When her defibrillator was removed, she was told that her device had faulty wiring.
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I'm one of the persons that has found out this year that I've got the St Judes Riata 7000 lead wire implanted in Oct. 2007. Now that has brought me to this point in my life and here's what has happened. I was scheduled in Feb. 2012 for the new pace maker/defib and the procedure was postponed because the Chief of Cardiology decided that it would better serve me if I had the procedure done at a more accommodating heart facility. So I was scheduled to be done in Tucson, Az. for the 5th of May 2012, but then it was postponed until the 25th of May 2012. I had the surgery done and the Cardiologist decided that it would be better for me just to leave the former wire inside of me, but they capped it, and now it has fallen into my heart. On July 12th of 2012, I had an electrical shock at 4:30am and I was told that I needed to wait until I could get to a VA hospital so I waited until around 8am on the 13th of July and then I went to the VA in Mesa. I was rushed to Gilbert/Chandler hospital with a heart rate of 266 and the doctor told me that the pacemaker didn't function properly.Join the Discussion
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Dripping with exaggerated glamour and indelible suntans, the Strega crowd is an awesome sight. In classic Felliniesque contradiction, this strident finery spreads its colours against the cool cinquecento elegance of the Villa Giulia, with its frescoed colonnades and heavily scented gardens.
Significantly absent this year is homo politicus - not a single Christian Democrat or Socialist grandee graciously displaying his cultural connections is to be seen. In post-scandal Italy, politicians of most hues have become socially unacceptable, particularly Giulio Andreotti, a former Strega fan now awaiting trial as an accessory to murder and for alleged links with the mafia. He clearly judges it wiser not to join in the feast of Spumante and roast porchetta.
Meanwhile, little or no attention is paid to events on stage, where a bizarre mixture of game show and local election is taking place. Some 400 more or less literary figures have the right to vote for the Strega winner - these votes are collected during the evening, to the accompaniment of a deafening countdown.
A strangely humiliating and monotonous process then commences as the five finalists are brought on stage and the votes are read out one by one, marked up on a large blackboard by the ubiquitous lovely assistant. Losing the Strega thus becomes an exquisitely slow and precise torture: as the votes mount inexorably beneath the name of your rival, so the television cameras gradually cease to include you in their close-up shots and your editor's smile freezes over.
Guideo Alberti, sole remaining founder- patriarch of the Premio Strega, defends this apparent dislocation between the genuine literary status of the award and its jackpot format. 'We started the Strega with the aim of bringing decent narrative fiction to the attention of a wider public - and we are succeeding, helped greatly by the television. If this means creating a spectacle, so be it. The result is that a winner can expect a good 100,000 extra sales.' He or she can also expect to be on the front page of all the newspapers and on national television news throughout the following day.
The abashed victor of this 47th Premio Strega, awarded on 1 July, is the 73-year-old Neapolitan writer Domenico Rea, otherwise known as don Mimi or the Magician of Napoli. It is a well-merited recognition of a career carved out against a background of a family who could neither read nor write and an education which finished with primary school. His current book Ninfa Plebea (The Plebeian Nymph) easily outstripped that of his nearest rival, Dacia Maraini, former lover of Alberto Moravia, whose novel Bagheria charts a voyage through her family's past in Sicily.
The financial reward for the Strega is small - a mere million lire, about pounds 500. However, Rea's book, published by Leonardo, a part of Mondadori, adds him on to an august list of winners including Alberto Moravia's Short Story (1952), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard (1959), and Primo Levi's The Wrench (1979). Notable absences include Pavolini, who angrily tried to withdraw in 1968, declaring - with some justification - that the votes were rigged against him, and Italo Calvino, who only made it as far as the shortlist.
Ninfa plebea is a rich fable of southern Italy, where heady Catholic ritual and ripe sensualities are unashamed bedfellows. It opens with the Festival of the Madonna Mater Domini, where the spiritual impulse is soon engulfed by a shoving, Jonsonian crowd of seamstresses, whores and tinkers, gorging on dishes spiced with garlic and pepperoncino which heat the blood to carnal acts. Rea's characters may be poor and spat-upon, but they remain creatures of pure instinct and vitality.
His heroine, a scarcely adolescent girl, undergoes sexual manipulation from just about everybody who crosses her path, a fact of life she accepts with candour. Rea angrily dismisses feminist attacks: 'I am not a person who writes about issues. I came from this life and portray it as it is. To say there is 'a lot of sex' in my book is an inaccurate and irrelevant remark.'
Refreshingly unaware of political correctness, with his Boccaccian imagination and visceral vocabulary, Domenico Rea has set forth an exuberant feast for gourmands and voyeurs.
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Obituaries for May 4, 2011
Joe Thomas Boone, 37, of Dyersburg, died Monday, May 2, 2011 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City.
He was a self-employed construction worker.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Dyer County Memorial Gardens with Bro. Mac Daniels officiating.
The family will receive visitors from 5-8 p.m. Thursday at Johnson-Williams Funeral Home.
Survivors include his parents, Roy Boone and Cheryl Johnson, both of Dyersburg; three sisters, Melissa Hardin and husband, William, of Newbern, Deborah Capps and Kristin Hammond, both of Dyersburg; and a brother, Roy Boone of Dyersburg.
Pallbearers will be Roy Boone, William Hardin, Jimmy Lee Pleasant, Blake Pilgrim, Ty Capps and Cary Dale Enochs. Honorary pallbearers will be Jason Escue, Chad Hicks and Coby Kimbrell.
Sign online condolences at www.johnson-williamsfuneralhome. com
Irene Elizabeth "Beth" Haynes, 87, of Tiptonville, died Monday, May 2, 2011 at Jackson Madison County General Hospital.
She was a retired bookkeeper for Federal Compress, member of Holy Angels Catholic Church, she was active in Tiptonville Women's Club, Tiptonville Library, past President of PTA, and a poll worker for many years for the Lake County Election Commission.
A private family Mass will be at 9 a.m. Friday at Holy Angels Catholic Church with Father Robert Stellini officiating. Burial will be at New Haven Cemetery. Dyersburg Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include her two sons, Charles A. Haynes of Sanford, NC. and Brian M. Haynes of Dana Point, CA.; a sister, Delores Higdon of Libertyville, IL.; and three grandchildren, Michael Haynes, Jennifer Haynes and Kimberly Morris.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Derrell H. "Billy" Haynes; and her parents, Charles and Irene Dagger Graf.
Dyersburg Funeral Home Staff will serve as pallbearers.
The family requests that memorials be directed to Holy Angels Catholic Church.
Lisa Michelle Newhouse, 42, of Dyersburg, died Monday, May 2, 2011 at her residence.
She was a homemaker.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with Mr. Larry Fowlkes officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
The family will receive visitors from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Survivors include her husband, Jackie Lynn Newhouse of Dyersburg; a daughter, Erica Newhouse of Dyersburg; two sons, Westley Newhouse of Dyersburg and Randall Newhouse of La Crosse, WI.; her mother, Doris Riggs of Dyersburg; two sisters, Debbie Blunk of Dover and Vickie Henson of Dyersburg; three brothers, Steve Riggs, Tony Riggs and Darren Riggs, all of Dyersburg; and a granddaughter, Layla Newhouse of La Crosse, WI.
She was preceded in death by her father, Elvis D. Riggs.
Pallbearers will be Heath Rogers, Jason Pilkerton, Todd Henson, Garry Hinson, Dustin Campbell and Randy Campbell.
Montelle H. Weaver, 79, of Dyersburg, died Sunday, May 1, 2011 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center.
She was a retired nurse aide for Parkview Hospital and a homemaker.
Survivors include three sons, Bob Weaver and wife Lee Anne of Murfressboro, Travis Weaver, and Ronnie Weaver and wife Sharon, all of Dyersburg; three grandchildren, Lynn Weaver, Matthew Weaver and Elizabeth Weaver of Murfressboro; and two step-grandchildren, Allison Hodge and Zach Hodge, both of Dyersburg.
Mrs. Weaver was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Weaver; and parents Finis and Ida Reasons Hopper.
Memorial services will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7, 2011 in the Chapel of Johnson-Williams Funeral Home. Officiating this service will be the Rev. Ronnie Turner. The family has asked that memorials be directed to the Community Cancer Fund, P.O. Box 1002, Dyersburg, TN 38024.
Michael Eugene Willover, 57, of Finley, died Monday, May 2, 2011 at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis.
He was a truck driver and a member of Finley Baptist Church.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Bellevernon Cemetery with Bro. Charlie Halliburton officiating. Dyersburg Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
The family will receive visitors from 4:30-8 p.m. Wednesday at Dyersburg Funeral Home.
Survivors include his wife, Donna Willover of Finley; three daughters, Debra J. McDavid of Russellville, KY., Erica Martin of Ridgely and Regina Rattiger of Memphis; two sons, Daniel C. Sane of Monroe Center, IL. and Bobby Ray Willover of Cullowhee, NC.; a sister, Brenda Bickle of Arcade, NY.; nine grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Paul and Mary Belle Jerge Willover.
Pallbearers will be Devan Pierce, Dylan Widner, Wade White, Robert Rattiger, Michael Martin, Ronnie Shaw, Tommy Smith and James Smith.
Martha E. Horn, 92, of St. Louis, Mo. died Monday, May 2, 2011 at Pemiscot County memorial Hospital in Hayti, Mo.
Services are incomplete at this time and will be announced later by Curry Funeral Home.
Mary McIntosh of Obion died Tuesday at Dyer Nursing Home.
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Safety and Efficacy Study Evaluating Dimebon in Patients With Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease on Donepezil (CONCERT)
This study has been completed.
Medivation, Inc.
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First received: January 23, 2009
Last updated: September 24, 2016
Last verified: September 2016
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The purpose of this study is to determine if Dimebon is safe and effective in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease on Donepezil.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Alzheimer's Disease |
Drug: Dimebon Drug: Placebo comparator |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | CONCERT: A Phase 3 Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Twelve-Month Safety and Efficacy Study Evaluating Dimebon in Patients With Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease on Donepezil |
Resource links provided by NLM:
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Further study details as provided by Medivation, Inc.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study - Activities of Daily Living (ADCS-ADL) [ Time Frame: Week 52 ]
- Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognitive Subscale [ Time Frame: Week 52 ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Clinician's Interview Based Impression of Change, plus caregiver input (CIBIC-plus) [ Time Frame: Week 52 ]
- Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) [ Time Frame: Week 52 ]
- Resource Utilization in Dementia Lite (RUD lite) [ Time Frame: Week 52 ]
- Euro Quality of Life 5 (EQ-5D) [ Time Frame: Week 52 ]
Enrollment: | 1003 |
Study Start Date: | March 2009 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2011 |
Primary Completion Date: | December 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: 1
Dimebon, 5 mg orally three times daily
Drug: Dimebon
5 mg orally three times daily
Experimental: 2
Dimebon, 20 mg orally three times daily
Drug: Dimebon
20 mg orally three times daily
Placebo Comparator: 3
Placebo orally three times daily
Drug: Placebo comparator
Placebo orally three times daily
Ages Eligible for Study: | 50 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD)
- Probable AD (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV-Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR))
- Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score between 12 and 24, inclusive
- Stable on donepezil for at least 6 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- Other causes of dementia
- Major structural brain disease
- Unstable medical condition or significant hepatic or renal disease
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00829374
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Responsible Party: | Medivation, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00829374 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | January 23, 2009 |
Last Updated: | September 24, 2016 |
Keywords provided by Medivation, Inc.:
Alzheimer's disease clinical trial mitochondria memory loss |
neurodegenerative disease dementia investigational drug |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alzheimer Disease Dementia Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases Tauopathies Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders Mental Disorders |
Donepezil Cholinesterase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Cholinergic Agents Neurotransmitter Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs Nootropic Agents |
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Forum topic by RussellAP | posted 04-14-2013 07:24 PM | 2074 views | 1 time favorited | 46 replies |
Is a Festool ROS 300-500 times better than a DeWalt, or a Ridgid? Can someone please explain how this company survives. Or are there woodworkers out there with more money than smarts? What's the deal? I just don't get it. -- A positive attitude will take you much further than positive thinking ever will. |
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#1 posted 04-14-2013 07:35 PM |
Different strokes for different folks. Festool has a huge worldwide following. Their tools are great for the woodworker who takes tools to the jobsite. I have a bunch of Festools, and also Grizzly, Rigid, Makita, Porter Cable, Jet, Shop Fox, Kreg and others. Festool is a "system", their sanders for example work with their dust extractors (vacs). Yes they are pricey. I don't think it has to do with more money than brains – I think people who buy Festool know they are buying a quality tool that will fit their needs. If you don't need a $300 sander or a $1300 SCMS, that's cool too. I find bad opinions and "reviews" of Festool based solely on price (not directed at you Russell) useless. Festool has a 30 trial period. Give one a shot, if you don't like it, send it back. No, I don't work for them! |
#2 posted 04-14-2013 07:35 PM |
From what I've read online, the festool sanders excel in dust collection and vibration. Aside from that, the festool sanders don't cost 300-500 times what the others do. Regardless of brand, good sanders are priced at $80 and up. My current ros (dewalt d26456/pc 390) cost me $85, while my finishing sander (pc 330) cost me $90. In a lot of instances, festool is overpriced for what you get (kapex, jigsaws) but for a lot of their tools (sanders, dust collection, domino) you get your $ worth. -- He who dies with the most tools... dies with the emptiest wallet. |
#3 posted 04-14-2013 07:37 PM |
I played with one at a Woodcraft last year. I think – and it's my personal opinion, I know some Festool owners who will vigorously disagree with me – that it's a name thing. They're good, but in the end random can only be so random and sanding is sanding and it's the same paper doing the cutting. -- This Ad Space For Sale! Your Ad Here! Reach a targeted audience! Affordable Rates, easy financing! Contact an ad represenative today at JustJoe's Advertising Consortium. |
#4 posted 04-14-2013 07:47 PM |
copcarcollector, I did at my local lumber store. Like I say, 425$ compared to 60$ – 85$. It should sand by itself for that. DC is a problem with most ROS, but a little innovation fits them right up to the DC if you need it. I do a lot of sanding and really the only thing that DC's my dust is being outside. I don't like the hose, it makes the ROS harder to handle. I don't just use my ROS for flat surfaces, I can contour with it to a degree, so the hose is hard to work with. -- A positive attitude will take you much further than positive thinking ever will. |
#5 posted 04-14-2013 07:55 PM |
russel, I was on the same side of the fence as you. I have performed many hours of sanding over the years. I too considered the festool thing to be a lot of hype. I also am never convinced by a sales person at specialty stores such as woodcraft,etc who typically will have very limited experience with such things. I know too that the only way to know for sure is to buy one myself and put it to work ! I did just that about three months ago. I came home with a ct26 and an ets 125. Within the first two minutes of use I was able to discern that this system was on much higher plateau than the other sanders I have used. Within two weeks of that original purchase I added yet two more sanders and a jigsaw to my arsenal. When it comes to sanding it makes lots of sense , especially if dust has become a problem for you as it has for me. Once you use one, you'll forget all about the price. Enjoy ! JB |
#6 posted 04-14-2013 07:57 PM |
There's a tool dealer near me that has Festool. I went in for a Makita sander and he showed me the Festool for hundreds more. He said 'we had a guy who bought one – used it every day for a year. It died and we shipped it back to them (Festool) and they rebuilt it for $200. Makita won't do that.' Well no – you could buy a whole new Makita for a lot less than $200, and it probably wouldn't crap out after only a year. A Mercedes and a Ford will both get you there, just how much prestige do you need? |
#7 posted 04-14-2013 08:17 PM |
Festool sanders are very good in terms of dust collection and vibration. Bosch makes some sanders in Germany that share some |
#8 posted 04-14-2013 08:31 PM |
Festool products aren't, to me, worth the premium price asked for them. But I understand and respect the fact that others might have a different opinion. It's like comedy – some things are funny to one person that aren't funny to another. -- I'm selfless because it feels so good! |
#9 posted 04-14-2013 08:34 PM |
I have felt the same way about Festool products as you Russ but after having some folks bad mouth a tool I use that I owned but they had never used I realized I was doing the same thing with festool products,This is when I decided not to have negative input on tools or products I've never used or owned. Even though I feel that Festool products are very expensive and I don't own any of their tools nor do I plan on buying any of their tools I will still leave judgement of their performance and value to those who have used and owned their tools . This works for me but to each their own. -- http://artisticwoodstudio.com Custom furniture |
#10 posted 04-14-2013 08:40 PM |
You might as well object to Lie Nielsen and other premium plane If having a superior tool for a job lets you finish a $300 job |
#11 posted 04-14-2013 08:44 PM |
Loren I was just going to suggest the same type of thing. Some are perfectly happy with a $10.00 set of chisel's from Walmart…..Some…a $350.00 set of Veritas chisels. They both cut wood….buuuut. -- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle |
#12 posted 04-14-2013 08:45 PM |
I have a 5" Bosch ROS and a 6" Festool ROS. Both are well made and designed and both should last me for years. The Festool is better than the Bosch at dust collection and has less vibration. A 6" Bosch ROS advertised as less vibration than a "normal" ROS was only about $100 cheaper than the Festool. For me, the extra $100 was worth it for the better DC, but I can understand others feeling differently than that. Some of the other Festools I don't understand their appeal, eg. the hugely expensive router and the Kapex MS, but then again, I've never tried them. -- Sometimes the creative process requires foul language. -- Charles Neil |
#13 posted 04-14-2013 08:50 PM |
In my view if they were not a viable product and a value for the money they would not sell. Pure market forces. -- Jerry |
#14 posted 04-14-2013 09:02 PM |
The better the dust extraction the longer the consumables last. So which one is more expensive in the long run? Which one has a better resale value? Festool's customer service is legendary, whereas, others not so much. |
#15 posted 04-14-2013 09:19 PM |
Loren, I'll pay $350 for a LN plane knowing that I can (or my descendants can) resell it in the future for probably $349. So LN products represent value to me. I can part with a large chunk of money now, use the tool for as long as I want, then get my chunk back. -- I'm selfless because it feels so good! |
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This is so interesting and a little funny too. I haven't told you, but we have a family who has been attending oar church from Ukraine (long story). She has had us in her home to eat (delicious), and also she jphas given us several loaves of homemade bread. She gives it to us in a plastic grocery bag! At first I was a little taken back by that. You know, we usually wrap food in plastic wrap or put it in some type of container! It didn't bother us for long though, 'cause we eat it like we've never seen bread before! It does get hard quickly though. I'm glad you explained why! She also gives us delicious muffins that she makes. As a matter of fact she brought a bunch to our soul-winning breakfast this morning. She also makes a chocolate sauce to o over the muffins that is delicious! Everyone loved it! She is a blessing.
ReplyDeleteI love both this post and the last one! They are exactly the same here in Russia! Actually, I should say that both were the same when we lived in Krasnodar (loved those bread trucks!) but in St. Pete though the baby stuff still applies, we never see bread trucks anymore. =( Too big-city I guess. I loved the smaller town feel and miss it greatly, though I certainly love the incredible culture here as well. I hope you're having a great week!
ReplyDeleteI remember when we first visited Ukraine in 1997, it was strange seeing bread being sold out of the back of a truck! Now its usually sold out of little kiosks or at the grocery stores. Do you have a store chain called "Kopeika" near you? We have one that is near the end of the bus line, close to our Russian tutor's apartment. They have a bakery inside the store there, and if we go at the right time, the bread we buy "baton" is still warm and oh, so good!
ReplyDeleteRepliesWe are really missing our Ukrainian bread now that we are in Israel and it costs nearly $3 for the cheapest loaf!
No, we don't have a "Kopeika" store in our area (in Ukraine) that I'm aware of. But, we do get the warm bread at our local grocery store called "FM." Love it! And missing it right now!
My bread story is from when I was working in a Russian school (not a Christian school). We had a little girl visit from America, and she threw away the bread from her lunch. The teachers called her and me over to the side of the room, and wanted me to explain to the poor child that wasting bread is SIN.
ReplyDeleteRepliesYes, I have definitely heard that before - that the children are taught that it is literally a SIN to waste… even the heels of the bread. To the contrary, the village kids where we used to live are told that the heel of the bread is where all of the vitamins are. (I'm assuming that is to get them to WANT that part! LOL!)
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2011, Norway, 76 minutes, 35mm, New Yorker Films
Written and directed by
Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Based on Olaug Nilssen's novel
Starring Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjørhovde,
Beate Støfring, Matias Myren
In Norwegian with English subtitles
Wed & Thu: 7:30 pm
"The best film about teenagers since Gerardo Naranjo's I'm Gonna ExplodeSmart and short and sweet as can be."
Michael Atkinson, Time Out Chicago
"A new, offbeat Norwegian sex comedy (that) deals with adolescent female sexuality in a way you rarely see on film. The film is refreshing in that it features an
empowered female protagonist who stays true to herself."
Jeff Mills, Nerve
"Sexy, sardonic lovely as well as honest. TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! will likely find the most
favor for its frank portrayal of adolescent eroticism, female division, which seldom gets portrayed onscreen at all, much less at this affectionately candid level."
John Anderson, Variety
"Enormously entertaining. Both sexy and wholesome Turn Me On, Dammit!, is that rare thing, a movie that says shame on sexual shame and double shame on the double standard.
Bergsholm's poker-faced performance creates the effect that we are watching the misadventures of an actual teenager."
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Charming. A disarmingly earnest film about teenage sexuality. Whereas 'American Pie' and its studio-produced kin went for raunchy laughs, 'Turn Me On, Dammit!' goes one step further in dealing with a teenage sex drive: it takes it seriously. Peppered with inventive fantasy sequences that have slight tinges of 'Belle de Jour,' with Buñuel's surrealist edge replaced by playful, youthful exuberance. The brazen honesty of Turn Me On, Dammit! sets it apart as a refreshingly confident film, giving the teenage sex comedy a much warranted human dimension."
Daniel Loria, L Magazine
"Funny, embarrassing and poignant without ever seeming leering or exploitative. The way salty-sweet comedy Turn Me On, Dammit! treats the hormone-addled turmoil of its 15-year-old heroine Alma (Helene Bergsholm) feels something close to revolutionary. I don't want to overburden this mild-mannered 76-minute Norwegian debut, but it's true."
Alison Willmore, Movieline
"An honest, raw, multidimensional portrayal of a 15-year-old girl's sexual complexity. It's hard to think of examples of such clear-eyed adolescent female desire in Hollywood. Adolescent sexuality as seen through Hollywood's lens is often so goofy and anxiety-ridden that it comes off a caricature. While there are other subjects under examination in Turn Me On, Dammit!loneliness, boredom, existential impatienceAlma's libido is unapologetic. It's hungry, a little bit awkward, and entirely realistic. Her erotic urges are not a manifestation for something hidden or faulty about her character. Alma's just horny. The story of Alma, at its core, is one of a sexually confident adolescent facing a world that feels awkward about adolescent female sexuality."
Emma Pearse, Slate
"Jacobsen's frank, funny but nonexploitative approach to teen libido has the feel of honest memoir, a look back at those years that recognizes, with the benefit of distance, that there's plenty of humor to be found in even the most arduous of growing pains."
Ian Buckwalter, NPR
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Miranda Siegel, New York Magazine
"A shockingly forthright blast of thwarted hormones. A funny, bittersweet reminder of what it's like to be young, horny and perpetually frustrated. Alma is a great character, tough, resourceful and funny, and first-time actor Bergsholm projects an active, restless mind as well as a libido. She carries the movie with a winning combination of resilience, unaffected sexiness and gawky comic timing."
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Welcome to the 2015 State of Hate Report, our annual review of hate politics in the UK and across Europe.
This year's report has been compiled against a backdrop of increasingly depressing political circumstances. The refugee crisis – the largest movement of people ever across Europe – and the terrorist attacks in Paris, have contributed to an atmosphere of mounting antipathy to immigrants and a growing fear and suspicion of Muslims.
Attitudes are hardening and, in response, virtually every government across Europe is pulling up the drawbridges and trying to discourage refugees and migrants from crossing its borders.
Against this bleak political backdrop, people might be surprised to learn that Britain's far right continues to be isolated and in retreat. Splintered and fractured, it is leaderless and rudderless. However, because of all this, it is becoming more extreme and violent, a trend we believe will continue over the coming year.
This 68-page report charts the fortunes of Britain's far right groups, assessing individual organisations and profiling the movement's leaders but also estimating the trends shaping the movement and its future direction.
It explores the state of hate across Europe, both investigating the rising anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies by EU Governments but also profiling the main far right organisations in each country.
And, in a new development from previous reports, we also examine Islamist extremism, many of these groups and individuals push as divisive and hateful an agenda as any far right group. HOPE not hate believes that we need to be consistent in our approach and challenge extremism and hate in whatever guise they manifest themselves.
Smaller but more violent: The far right in 2015
The political and economic conditions could not be better for Britain's far right. Why, then, is it doing so badly?
HOPE not hate explores the fortunes of Britain's far right in 2015.
2015 was a year of violence and humiliations for the British far right, the general election proving its political impotency, the EDL continuing its steady decline into oblivion and, while the number of far right demonstrations increased, especially in the north of England, the overall numbers involved in the far right declining.
The year was best summed up by the spectacle, in August, of National Action (NA) activists scrambling to pull down the shutters of Liverpool Lime Street's s left luggage office in a bid to save themselves from pursuing anti-fascists.
On the surface, it really should not be like this. Difficult economic conditions and austerity policies, compounded by the refugee crisis which has resulted in the biggest ever movement of refugees into Europe, have produced a toxic mix that the far right should have exploited and prospered from.
Similarly, the terrorist attacks in Paris, coupled with feared attacks in Belgium and Germany, have fed the worries of homegrown Jihadism and even of the incompatibility of Islam with Western Civilisation.
Despite all this, 2015 was not a good year for Britain's far right.
The key political event of 2015 was May's General Election but whereas the BNP contested it properly in 2010, saving its deposit in 73 constituencies, this time its results hardly registered. The party stood a mere 8 candidates, compared with 338 in 2010, averaging just 0.44% of the vote. Nowhere did the party score even 1% of the vote in what turned out to be its worst result since 1987.
A significant reason for the far right's disastrous showing was UKIP which stole the media limelight and most of the BNP's voters. While it won one parliamentary seat, over four million people voted for the party and gained 14% of the national vote.
It would be wrong to attribute the far right's failure entirely to UKIP as internal infighting, poor leadership and an identity crisis over the very future of racial nationalism have greatly affected the movement's fortunes.
Knock-on effect
The ramifications of the BNP's decline continue to have significant effect on the far right scene. It is almost hard to imagine now but, in 2010, it seemed that it stood a very real chance of breaking out of the marginalised political ghetto and into the mainstream like no other far right party in the post-war period. Yet, it was not to be and the years that followed have been increasingly schismatic, resulting in the rapid and dramatic decline of the party into a state of near irrelevance.
At its height the BNP was a dominant and almost monolithic force within the movement but its decline has resulted in a more diffuse scene made up of numerous small and often irrelevant groupuscules scrabbling for influence and members.
2015 saw the further splintering of the BNP with numerous new breakaway groups, most notably towards the end of the year when Jack Sen left to form British Renaissance, taking with him sections of the party's North West and London branches.
To find a comparable period when the British far right lacked any predominant party and was splintered to this extent one has to go back to before the National Front's formation in 1967.
This has not gone unnoticed within the movement itself and talk of the need for new alliances is getting louder. However, the often-bitter disputes and splits that have so devastated the BNP are still relatively recent making any attempts at greater cooperation in 2016 difficult.
These problems are exacerbated by the absence of a credible and respected prospective leader, something that would be essential to bringing the nationalist movement back together and out of the wilderness.
Combined, these factors go some way to explaining why the British far right – unlike some other far right parties in Europe – has been so unsuccessful.
In addition to affecting the makeup of the far right, the BNP's demise, coupled with the simultaneous rise of UKIP, has altered the nature of the scene as it has become more polarised.
The BNP's earlier successes meant that it could hold together a broad church of activists ranging from the far right of the Tory party through to the fascists and nazis that make up the extreme far right of the political spectrum.
Year | No. of candidates | Total votes | Avg. votes per candidate | % of vote | Saved deposits |
1983 | 53 | 14,621 | 276 | 0 | 0 |
1987 | 2 | 553 | 277 | 0 | 0 |
1992 | 13 | 7,631 | 587 | 0.1 | 0 |
1997 | 56 | 35,832 | 640 | 0.1 | 3 |
2001 | 33 | 47,129 | 1,428 | 0.2 | 7 |
2005 | 119 | 192,746 | 1,620 | 0.7 | 34 |
2010 | 338 | 563,743 | 1,668 | 1.9 | 73 |
2015 | 8 | 1,667 | 208 | 0 | 0 |
With the BNP's demise, those former members from the extreme wing of the party, many of whom have formed and found homes in groups like the British Democratic Party, have dropped the moderate façade demanded of them by the BNP's modernisation programme. While tolerated when the tactic seemed to be garnering electoral success, it has been increasingly jettisoned.
The result is that a number of the BNP splinter groups active last year were more markedly extreme than the BNP had been.
UKIP's rise has accelerated this rightward shift in two ways. Firstly, a section of the BNP's more moderate supporters made their way over to UKIP leaving the BNP and its splinter groups with just the more radical and extreme elements.
Then, with UKIP setting up camp on a portion of the electoral landscape previously occupied by the BNP, the far right sought to distinguish itself by shifting back towards its more traditional, and extreme, homeland, a move that deposed BNP chief Nick Griffin supported.
The decline of the BNP and the rise of UKIP have thus brought a halt to the UK far right's modernisation programme and seen the jettisoning of the moderate stance.
In addition, large portions of the far right have become disillusioned with electoral politics all together. Even Griffin, formerly the leading advocate of the tactic, did a volte-face in 2015 declaring: "It is time for radical nationalists to learn from the success of the left that has come from their clear recognition that 'There Is No Parliamentary Road to Socialism'".
In some ways, the internal discussion regarding the validity of the electoral route to power is purely academic, a point explained in Heritage and Destiny, the leading UK-based racial nationalist newspaper: "While nationalists continue to debate the value of electoral campaigning, in practise the decision seems to have been resolved (at least for the time being) by the sheer inability of our various parties to organise candidates anywhere outside literally a handful of viable branches."
More Splintered and More Extreme
2015 also saw the continuing decline in the English Defence League, which was now a mere shadow of its former self.
The group held twelve demonstrations throughout the year, down from twenty-five in 2014, with the largest being just 150-strong. Most demonstrations were considerably smaller.
This situation compares with the 3,000 who marched in Newcastle in 2013, admittedly just after the murder of Lee Rigby, but also the 2,500 who marched in Stoke-on-Trent in 2010 and the 2,000 in Dudley in the same year.
The EDL's decline began some time before founder and former leader Stephen Lennon walked out but last year saw a demoralised and faction-riven leadership slip further into oblivion. National organiser Dave Bolton was ousted, not before debilitating faction fighting and resignations, and others jumped ship when it was clear that former leader Stephen Lennon was making a political comeback.
In reality, however, he had never lost contact with several EDL activists, including West Midlands-based Steve Eddows and the EDL's "security team" who were merely treading water in the EDL until their former leader returned.
A far more worrying development in 2015 was the continuing growth and militancy of the Infidels, a network of regional fascist gangs pursuing a far more confrontational and violent agenda. Most prominent amongst the Infidels groups is the North West Infidels (NWI), led by Blackburn-based thug Shane Calvert.
With about 25 in its core and another 15-20 in a wider periphery, the NWI is one of the most active of these groups. During 2015, it organised or supported twelve demonstrations, twice the number of the previous year.
The NWI was involved in several serious clashes with left wing opponents, in addition to its general harassment and intimidation of trade unionists and anti-UKIP campaigners across the region.
Others in the Infidel network include the North East Infidels (North East), the Valley Front Line Firm (South Wales), the South East Alliance and a small gang in the Coventry area, led by Tommy Law. Nationally, they have a combined core of 150 violent and confrontational people. The NWI is closely aligned to the National Front, attending many of their events and sharing some activists.
The most violent confrontation of 2015 was NA's "White Man March" in Liverpool, which ended in utter humiliation for the group as its supporters were forced to take shelter in Liverpool Lime Street station's left luggage department.
The Liverpool debacle severely damaged the reputation of a group that had captured media headlines in 2014 and re-confirmed the view of the group by others on the far right, including NWI, that is was just a bunch of brash kids without much backbone.
NA appears to be the most organisationally sophisticated far right group on the scene currently, however,having its own internal internet forum and highly guarded public fora with many of its activists using fake personalities to engage online. It is also the only UK far right group to make active use of the Dark Web.
While this type of online behaviour and encrypted security is now quite common amongst environmental and anti-capitalist organisations, it is unique on the British far right.
The growing radicalisation and militancy of the far right, coupled with the humiliation and bruised faces from Liverpool has led to rising participation in survivalist and martial arts training.
Among the groups offering this training are Misanthropic Division and Legion, formerly known as Sigurd Legion. The former is led by Francesco Saverio Fontana, a former member of the fascist Azov Battalion in Ukraine and a member of the Italian nazi group, Casa Pound, and involves Jimmy Hay, a MMA trainer who runs a gym in Greater Manchester.
Legion is led by Craig Fraser and a video of one of its camps, held in Wales, shows two men stripped to the waist pummelling each other as they practice unarmed combat and others training with knives.
In his book Centurion Method, Fraser tells his followers: "Violence is the key to manhood, a man who cannot do violence, either to himself, his comrades or his enemies is a dead man...Practice violence then, harm yourself, experience pain, practice the traditions of the day, learn to hunt, to kill, to maim and to dominate in battle."
NA, the NWI and unaligned activists are among the 80-100 people who went through these training camps during 2015.
It has not all been plain sailing for the more militant end of the far right, with some older activists and groups being on the slide. 2015 was a bad year for Eddie Stampton, a veteran nazi who has been through a plethora of groups in recent years. He became increasingly marginalised and isolated after falling out with virtually everyone.
Also on the decline is the Racial Volunteer Force, led by former Combat 18 activist Mark Atkinson. With Stampton, Atkinson was heavily involved in a bid to march through the heavily Jewish area of Golders Green, in north London, last summer. Forced to change their plans after widespread community opposition, just twenty-seven nazis ended up marching in central London instead.
The National Front also suffered serious splits within its ranks and towards the end of the year Kevin Bryan resigned as leader. Just a hundred people, compared with three hundred in 2014, attended the NF's annual Remembrance Sunday demonstration. The NF's new leader is Scottish and that alone is deemed unacceptable to many party members.
Britain First's year was one of stagnation. Its huge social media footprint was not translated into any growth in offline activism and the group failed to mobilise more than two hundred people for any single event.
Party leader Paul Golding appeared more obsessed about selling merchandise but even this appeared to be on the wane as the year wore on.
One growth area during 2015 was the far right intellectual think tanks, especially the London Forum, led by former British Army Corps of Signals officer Jeremy 'Jez' Turner. The group has attracted leading national socialists, Holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists from across the globe to its meetings. More significantly, the Forum, and in particular Turner and his side kick Larry Nunn, have become increasingly influential on the far right, especially with NA.
One foreign speaker who never made it to a British Renaissance luncheon was US Nazi Matthew Heimbach, who was barred from entering the UK by Home Secretary Theresa May in November 2015.
In last year's State of Hate review we reflected on the loss of the movement's three most prominent figures, former BNP leader Nick Griffin, EDL founder Stephen Lennon and Britain First's Chairman Jim Dowson. All three tried to make a comeback in 2015.
Griffin and Dowson tried to rekindle a formerly successful working relationship, but this time solely for their own personal benefit. In connection with the Italian fascist Roberto Fiore, the pair began establishing contacts with Russian extremists in the hope of getting funding for their projects back home.
When that proved unsuccessful, Dowson took to hawking Griffin around dusty old churches in central and eastern Europe building relationships with Catholic anti-abortionists worried about the influx of non-Christian migrants.
Meanwhile, Lennon was released from prison for his mortgage fraud conviction and set about re-establishing himself in the Counter-Jihad world. As part of a bid, with Anne Marie Waters, to make her Sharia Watch UK a financial lucrative operation, Lennon sought out Dowson to join the business and run the online operation.
Of course, it all went horribly wrong. Lennon, Waters and Alan Ayling (aka Alan Lake) spilled the beans about their plan to hold a "Muhammad cartoon" event in the UK in order to provoke a violent reaction. Dowson, who genuinely believed the plot was so mad that it could have been a police entrapment, immediately went public to denounce them.
The resulting publicity, following the publication of a HOPE not hate report, forced Lennon to back away from rejoining the fray but this proved to be just temporary as within a couple of months he began building a relationship with the faltering Pegida movement in Germany.
Of the three, Lennon has best chance of making 2016 a success. Not only is he more of a household name and media savvy but Counter-Jihadism is, in the present circumstances, far more likely to have resonance than either the racial nationalism of Griffin or the conspiratorial anti-Islam and anti-Zionist rhetoric of the Christian evangelical Dawson.
However, it would appear that Lennon's stock is not as high as he thinks. If he really believes that he can build a respectable middle-class movement, like Pegida, in the UK, he is badly mistaken. Not only is he badly damaged goods but the people who he has surrounded himself with in the Pegida leadership – Paul Weston and Anne Maria Waters – are both politically extreme and unlikely to attract any normal people.
Muslims and Transnational Cooperation
A major trend that was accelerated and cemented in 2015 was the shift of anti-Muslim politics to the top of the British far rights agenda. There are of course exceptions to this with a number of small groups who, while not wanting Muslims in the UK, see common cause with Muslims and the Palestinian cause because of their visceral, and often conspiratorial, antisemitism.
However, in the last decade or so a significant shift has occurred as anti-Muslim hatred has increasingly dominated the British far right's ideology.
While attacking Muslims is nothing new, the 2015 migrant crisis and the Islamic State's mass murder in Paris have confirmed it as the undisputed number one issue for most of the movement.
For some groups, such as the EDL and Britain First, Islamophobia forms the core of their ideology and dominates everything they do.
They form what we describe as the "Counter-Jihad" movement. There are other groups, though, who outwardly make anti-Muslim hatred central to their rhetoric while internally continuing to perceive the Jews as the real threat.
If anti-Muslim hatred is becoming ever more common on the far right so traditional racial nationalism – as espoused by groups like the BNP and the NF – is struggling to find traction. Not only is Counter-Jihadism now dominant but fewer Britons can remotely envisage a "white-only" society.
The Counter-Jihad ideology is more internationalist in its outlook. Unlike the traditional belief that the enemy, namely the Jews, is within, the far right increasingly views the threat as external, namely Islam and Muslims.
More activists and organisations, especially within the Counter-Jihad movement, perceive the threat to be the "Islamisation" of Europe or the West.
While lamenting the presence of Muslims and Islam within Britain, already there is a general feeling – deepened by the 2015 migrant crisis – that Muslims are invading and conquering Europe as a whole. This has led to increasing attempts to forge genuinely transnational coalitions such as the failed European Defence Leagues and now the "international" Pegida movement announced in late 2015.
This internationalisation was also evident beyond the Counter-Jihad movement with the New Right, a UK- based far right pseudo-think-tank, entertaining an unprecedented number of speakers from across Europe and North America.
Whether this trend will continue throughout 2016 is hard to say. In terms of the Counter-Jihad movement, primarily a cultural rather than racial nationalist ideology, international cooperation is a central aspect of its plan of resistance.
The Mainstreaming of Far Right Rhetoric
One of the most disturbing trends of 2015 was the seeming normalisation of far right rhetoric, especially in connection immigration and Muslims. With the rise of ISIS, terrorism in Paris and the migrant crisis, the traditional language and even polices of the far right became worryingly mainstream.
Rhetoric and behaviour that was once the preserve of the out-and-out extremists has now become increasingly mainstreamed.
Papers such as The Express, Sun and Daily Mail have published articles on the refugee crisis that would not have been out of place in the propaganda of the BNP or the NF. Notable low points included Katie Hopkins' Sun article describing migrants as a "plague of feral humans" and claiming that "Some of our towns are festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants and asylum seekers".
Another low was the Daily Mail cartoon that portrayed migrants as rats swarming across the border in an image not just reminiscent of but very close to the Nazi antisemitic propaganda of the 1930s.
PM David Cameron, too, hit the depths describing migrants as "swarm". While the far right is more marginalised and ignored than it has been in decades its ideas now have an all-too-evident resonance in the mainstream.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It will be a Kentucky Derby reunion of sorts Friday at Churchill Downs when three members of the Derby class of 2013, Will Take Charge, Golden Soul, and Mylute, cross paths again in the $300,000, Grade 2 Alysheba. Normandy Invasion, who also ran in the 2013 Derby, was entered in the Alysheba but scratched Thursday afternoon after suffering a quarter crack while training that morning.
Golden Soul was best of the trio in the Derby, finishing second behind Orb, but it will be Will Take Charge who will command most of the attention in the 1 1/16-mile Alysheba.
Will Take Charge, one of two horses Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas ran in last year's Derby along with Oxbow, struggled through the Triple Crown season. He was beaten double digit lengths in all three races, finishing eighth in the Derby, seventh in the Preakness, and 10th in the Belmont.
Will Take Charge's metamorphosis began last summer at Saratoga when he won the Grade 1 Travers and finished second in the Jim Dandy. He also captured the Grade 1 Clark Handicap and missed by a nose to Mucho Macho Man in the Breeders' Cup Classic to close out his championship 3-year-old campaign.
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Will Take Charge has started three times this year, finishing second in both the Donn and Santa Anita handicaps before posting a hard-fought victory over another graduate of the 2013 Derby, Revolutionary, in the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap.
"He's doing well and I'm anxious to run him," said Lukas. "A mile and one-sixteenth is not his ideal distance, but that might be countered by the long stretch, which should help him."
Lukas said he's not concerned about Will Take Charge coming back in the Alysheba on just three weeks' rest.
"The way he's been training, I'm not worried at all about the short turnaround," said Lukas. "In fact it might be a plus. I thought he won on his class last time at Oaklawn. I don't think he handled that track very well, it had a lot of moisture in it and was kind of sticky."
Gary Stevens will replace Luis Saez aboard Will Take Charge in the Alysheba.
Golden Soul has not hit the board in five starts since his runner-up performance in last year's Derby. Mylute finished fifth in the Derby and third in the Preakness but made only one more start at 3. He returned from a long layoff to open his 4-year-old campaign with an optional claiming win at the Fair Grounds.
Golden Ticket, runner-up in the 2013 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, stretches out around two turns for the first time this season. He proved no match for Will Take Charge when the pair met here last fall in the Clark.
The presence of Moonshine Mullin, who has won his last three starts, and Bradester, should assure a rapid pace in a field that also includes the steadily improving Coin Broker and Appealing Tale.
Gary Stevens will replace Luis Saez aboard Will Take Charge in the Alysheba. WHY ?
D"OH where did the stormin Norman d go? Good for them, let's run big sandy.


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Edited: Oh, perhaps I have the wrong Leo??
Quote from: Fr. George on January 15, 2017, 04:25:33 PMI don't typically presume to speak for Mor You can presume to speak for Mor.
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I'm afraid so...no worries, mate!Pope Leo III lived a couple of centuries later.
He seems like he should be sort of a bugaboo for the West, considering his fiercely strong stance towards protecting the Symbol of the Faith. For a good study of his role in the Carolingan controversy, read "Franks, Romans, Feudalism, and Doctrine" by Romanides or "God, History, and Dialectic" by Farrell. I believe that most Easterns would find him a champion for the Orthodox Faith.
He's probably not a "bugaboo for the West" because even though he opposed putting the filioque in the Creed, he believed that it was a true doctrine.


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