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Before Ronald Hoffman, chief of the Linn Fire Protection District, and his colleagues took a University of Missouri Extension safety course on hybrid cars, he admits there was apprehension when working on such vehicles at a crash scene.
The firefighters feared electrocution. The hybrid cars, which run jointly from gasoline engines and battery power, have a 600-plus volt charge running through certain wires. Cutting one of those wires with a tool such as the jaws of life could kill a firefighter.
"I think there is a reluctance to work on a hybrid in an (victim) extraction scenario," Hoffman said, with "the rumors of what to touch and what not to touch."
For the most part, rescue workers shouldn't fear the new vehicles, said Alan Braun, an adjunct instructor with MU Extension's Fire and Rescue Training Institute. Braun also is part-owner of an auto repair shop and a volunteer firefighter and training officer with the Cole County Fire Protection District.
He teaches an MU FRTI course designed to help emergency responders deal with the potential hazards created by new car features. His curriculum includes hybrid car extraction safety and airbag safety.
Airbags can, in rare cases, deploy well after an accident potentially injuring both the crash victim and rescue worker.
"Every class I go to (firefighters) are scared to death of airbags and hybrids," Braun said. "You're scared of what you don't know."
His three-hour course is taught as a stand-alone class or is taught as a portion of a multi-day course on vehicle extraction with other FRTI rescue instructors.
"The manufacturers have installed several different ways to make hybrids safe," Braun said. "These vehicles have been built, in my opinion, very well."
Hybrid vehicles have relays that are designed to open during a crash and allow the car to de-energize. Some cars - the Toyota Prius is one - are being designed with a readily accessible fuse that emergency workers can pull to de-energize the car.
It takes roughly five minutes for a hybrid vehicle to de-energize.
Braun instructs emergency personnel to disconnect the 12-volt battery that supplies power to a vehicle's main computer. When the computer goes down the larger high-voltage batteries - the dual battery packs common in hybrids often total 600 to 650 volts - will shut down and the car will begin to de-energize.
Students are taught to remove the battery cable bolts, black first, red last. They then should either tuck the cables under the engine or tape them down safely away from the terminals. Braun does not recommend cutting the cables. He has seen rescue workers inexperienced in auto repair cut only some of the necessary cables.
Workers then should quickly inspect the car for other possible power sources. A cell phone plugged into a cigarette lighter can provide a charge back into the vehicle. He said young drivers sometimes power amplifiers and stereos with extra batteries, which also can leave a charge in the computer system.
After disconnecting all power supplies and waiting five minutes for the vehicle to de-energize, emergency personnel can use an extraction tool, being careful to avoid cutting areas where the orange-colored high-voltage wires run. The wires are located under the vehicle along the frame rail away from the exhaust system.
When extinguishing a hybrid vehicle fire, Braun said to avoid spraying water into the battery vents on the side of some vehicles. Water can cause a chemical reaction and the spewing of potentially toxic fumes.
Hoffman, the Linn fire chief, said firefighters have used what they learned from the MU course.
"We learned what to look for and how to disconnect batteries," Hoffman said. "It really put us at ease, informing us that it's not as dangerous as we had thought."
Braun said there is always some danger in emergency response work.
"You run into a burning building. Is this any worse?" Braun said of hybrid vehicles. "We're firefighters. We take risks. Dealing with this is not much different."
Braun said that to his knowledge passengers and drivers of hybrid cars are at little to no risk of electrocution based on their position in the vehicle, insulation and other safeguards designed into cars.


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It looks like the medical wonder that is marijuana may block Alzheimer's. In experiments rats were injected with an amyloid protein that forms Alzheimer's plaques and then some of those rats were given cannabinoids. The latter group apparently performed better on mental functions and had reduced inflammation of their brain tissue.
I'm off to take some preventative medicine.

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Most people are familiar with the concept of statistics based on exposure to every-day information, such as people polls, election results, weather or sports stats, commercial product comparisons, etc. Someone collects a set of data, does some number-crunching, and produces for us some interesting statistics. These sorts of sample statistics are called 'descriptive statistics'. Descriptive statistics summarize some aspect of the sample data on hand. For example, RBI's, average monthly high/low temperature, the percent of adults who vote, etc.
But, often of greater interest--even if only implied--is what the sample tells us about the population of values from which it came, or about the population of values that will be generated in the future. When we use sample information to estimate population statistics--called 'parameters'--we enter the world of 'inferential statistics'. Think about 'descriptive statistics' as the 'arithmetic' of the world of statistics, and 'inferential statistics', as the 'science' of statistics.
All too often, statistics in the media and on-the-job are presented only as descriptive statistics. And then we pretend (or hope or think) that they are adequate to infer what's going on in the population. Unfortunately, in most cases these inferences are at least a little bit wrong; and in some cases they are very wrong.
And I am not talking about the case of manipulating the numbers to present biased information, where the world of statistics gets the bad rap—you've heard all the lines about lying with statistics. We're talking about legitimate random samples and statistical calculations that produce sample values.
Consider the case of some random data, generated by Minitab, as depicted in the graphic below:
The black dots represent the population values. The red dots are 5 randomly selected sample values from this population.
It is clear from the picture that the sample does not provide an 'exact' depiction of population information.
A common statistic of interest is the average (aka, the mean). Since statisticians expect the sample average to be something different from the population average, we give them different names:
The sample average is called, "x-bar". The population average, "μ", is pronounced like a kitten sounds: "mew".
The population and sample averages are shown below:
As I'm sure you expected, the x-bar is less than μ. And there are other considerations:
- A different sample would provide a different x-bar—maybe closer, maybe not.
- If you increase the sample size, x-bar is likely to be closer to μ, but is unlikely to be exactly μ.
- How many sample values are needed to be close enough? Bear in mind that 'close enough' when testing shaving cream probably isn't close enough when testing drugs.
The moral of the story:
Every descriptive statistic you read, hear, or calculate--if intended to convey information about the population--is highly likely to be at least a little bit wrong.
In the next post we'll talk about a simple statistical tool that provides a reliable indication of what the population parameter might actually be, given the information available in the sample.


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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Thursday that the U.S. Coast Guard should train cruise ship passengers on emergency evacuation procedures before they head out to sea.
Boxer, who is chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said in a letter to Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp that after the accident of the Costa Concordia cruise liner in Italy, the U.S. Coast Guard should change its policies regarding American cruise ships.
Read the full story on The Hill's Transportation Blog.


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Friends of the Fine Arts, 2009
The life drawing circle Friends of the Fine Arts plays off the renewed interest in painting and aesthetic experience by both pointing to a traditional approach and transcending it in its format. All fifteen or so members of Friends of the Fine Arts are practicing artists coming from a wide variety of artistic backgrounds and working with media as diverse as sculpture, dance, writing, music, video, and painting. When it comes to rendering the figure, skill levels vary widely, from a high level of accomplishment to absolute beginners. We aspire to skill-sharing, however learning is transmitted equally between all members of the group—the vast difference in experience does not dictate who learns from whom. In this collective experience, the products are more than just the drawings we make.
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer and Ulrike Mueller initiated the life drawing sessions in the fall of 2008. Since then, Friends of the Fine Arts has been meeting in members' studios and homes. In the beginning, modeling for our peers seemed merely a means to the end of drawing. Before long, it became apparent that the experience of posing was as important and exciting as the activity of drawing. We had always lightly referred to the academic tradition, but while mining its tools and methods, we have been developing an entirely different approach and goal. As Friends of the Fine Arts, we aim for performance and (self-)representation; we foster exchange; we are interested in the physicality of the experience, bodies touching in multi-person poses, the sexuality of being looked at, and the intimacy of looking.


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Etihad 'bamboozled' Alitalia over Heathrow runway rights
ROME—Aviation giants Etihad Airways appear to have taken advantage of bankrupt Italian airline Alitalia in a business deal over the rights to five Heathrow landing slots, an investigation carried out by Il Fatto Quotidiano says.
Due to ongoing financial difficulties, commissioner of Alitalia, Luigi Gubitosi, decided to sell the company's rights to five highly-sought slots at London's Heathrow Airport, which would allow the buyer both landing and take-off privileges.
The offer was snaffled up by Etihad Airways, three years ago, as the Abu Dhabi company forged a partnership with the ailing Italian airline.
The figure agreed between the two airlines was 60 million euros, which works out at 12 million for each runway slot.
Recent investigations carried out by Il Fatto Quotidiano show that Etihad had acquired those slots at very low prices, considerably lower than the going rate of the market.
An anonymous source at the Italian Civil Aviation Authority told the paper, "We were all very surprised at that sale, for an airline the slots in London are like gold in moments of crisis. They never lose value, to have them in the safe box is a security."
"It's enough to think about the one million people that travel on the Rome to London route every year, and with huge profit margins because there is no competition from trains," the anonymous source said.
Heathrow is the third busiest airport in the world in terms of international passenger traffic and in 2016 over 75 million passengers passed through its terminals. The airport is especially popular for flights to America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The deal between Etihad and Alitalia is made all the more surprising by the 'sale and leaseback' agreement, which allows Alitalia to continue to use the slots.
Alitalia has agreed to pay Etihad three and half million each year for access to the slots for the next five years, with the option of renewing the contract for a further five years after its expiration.
As a result, if Alitalia continues with the deal for ten years, it will have paid Etihad 35 million euros, more than half of the initial figure.
The troubled airline recently filed for bankruptcy and the Italian flag carrier is now relying on a 600 million euro loan from the Italian government to aid the restructuring of the company.
Italian Minister for Transport, Graziano Delrio said that the objective of the loan is to "work out an industrial plan that will allow Alitalia to find business partners able to invest in the company and iron out historic flaws."
Etihad has ruled out further investment in Alitalia.
"We have done everything we can to help Alitalia as a minority shareholder, but it's clear that the company is in need of a major reorganisation, on a large scale, to survive and grow in the future," said James Hogan, CEO of the Abu Dhabi airline.


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Adventure Outdoor Fest Movie Awards" is one of the most recognized Outdoor&Adventure Film Contest , thanks to his prestigious jury and the signing of numerous short movies from the most important international productions.
This importance is also confirmed by the fame of the first prize, the famous Golden Ice Axe by Grivel, already awarded each year to the winners of the prestigious international Piolet D'Or for the best mountaineering feat achieved in the previous year, and only in this particular occasion, associated with a film competition.
All films selected for the film competition are screened, every year, at the Adventure Outdoor Cinema throughout the week of the Festival.
We have a jury composed of members who view all films screened at Adventure Outdoor Fest and provide the winners and the awards.
The Jury will provide the winners and the awards, in a strictly confidential form, by the 5th of July.
The Jury is built to be able to analyze all the Adventure Films aspects, and includes professional sports photographers, journalists and academics.
The winners will be immediately contacted in order to discuss either their arrival in San Candido – Innichen for the Ceremony or will be asked to provide a short video to substitute their presence at the Ceremony.
If the winner does not reply within 5 working days from the notification the prize will be automatically assigned to the second in the ranking.
the prize will consist of 750€ and the prestigious Grivel Axe
the prize for the best story or expedition. The prize will consist of 500€
A special award which will receive a kit of products from our sponsors.


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Tuesday, 23 December 2014 12:59 PM
Assam has a history of sectarian bloodshed and armed groups fighting for greater autonomy or secession from India.
Police suspect militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were behind four attacks that took place on Tuesday within the space of an hour. The group is fighting for a separate homeland for indigenous Bodo tribesmen, saying that the tea-growing state has been flooded with outsiders.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a Twitter post that the killings of innocent people were an act of cowardice.
Villagers who fled the carnage told police that the rebels came on foot, armed with assault rifles and wearing military uniforms. They forced open the doors of their thatched huts and opened fire.
Some people were pulled out of their houses and shot at point-blank range.
In one village in Sonipur district, 21 people were killed. "They didn't even spare women and children," said a police officer, adding there were at least 10 women among the dead.
Indian security forces launched a campaign last month to flush out the rebels from their hideouts, prompting a threat from them to kill outsiders.
Police inspector general S. N. Singh told reporters in the main city, Guwahati, that additional forces were being sent in to hunt down the militants. He said villagers at risk will be evacuated to safer places.
The Bodo group had last struck in May, killing dozens of Muslim settlers and prompting a heavier police presence in Muslim neighborhoods. But on Tuesday they struck at settlers more broadly.
Assam is one of seven states in India's remote northeast, a region bounded by China, Myanmar, Bhutan and Bangladesh. For long residents have accused the federal government of plundering its natural resources and ignoring local development.
Modi has vowed to accelerate development of roads and rail networks in the area to narrow the gap with Chinese infrastructure just over the border.
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Margaritas are perfect for summer parties. But at a party, you don't want to be stuck behind the bar.
You want to be out enjoying your guests and party! There's no need to hire a bartender. With a few simple steps, you can make margaritas party friendly.
First, choose your recipe. The classic Margarita is probably the best one to serve at a party because it is simple to make and generally enjoyed by everyone. The quality of the ingredients you choose will determine the quality of the drinks you make.
When it comes to tequila, everyone has their preferred brand and type. The best tequilas for margaritas are silver and gold. Gold tequilas are actually silver tequilas to which flavorings and colorings have been added.
Many people believe this gives them a more mellow taste that lends itself to mixed drinks. Other people believe that silver tequilas have a fresher, more authentic taste, and prefer them. Choose the type and brand you prefer. Most authors do not recommend the more expensive, aged reposado and anejo tequilas for mixed drinks.
Take the time to squeeze the lime juice yourself. The freshness of the lime juice will add an added accent to your margaritas that bottled juice just cannot compete with. Squeeze the limes on the day of the party and keep the fresh lime juice stored in the refrigerator, tightly covered. You will need additional limes for rimming the glasses and as a garnish.
Choose your orange liqueur carefully. Choose one actually made from oranges, and not just flavored to taste like oranges.
You will need salt for your glasses. You can buy all different types of salt sold specifically for margaritas. You can choose from different colors and flavors. But, simple coarse kosher salt is a perfect choice. It is inexpensive, readily available, and you probably already have some in your pantry.
Before the part, take the time to rim your glasses with salt. To do this, pour some salt in a small dish or on a small plate. Take a wedge of lime and run it around the rim of the glass, wetting the glass. Dip the rim of the glass into the salt, and move it in a circular motion a few times. Lift the glass up, and the rim will be coated with salt. Do this ahead of time, and store the glasses in a cool dry place until party time.
The kind of ice you choose can also make a difference. As ice melts, the water it was made from will become a part of your drink. Commercial ice is generally made to last longer. You can make your own clear, long lasting ice by boiling water, allowing it to cool, boiling it again and allowing it to cool, and then freezing it in ice trays. You should plan to do this ahead of time, and have some commercial ice available as a backup. Few things are worse than running out of ice at a party!
When it's party time, you'll be ready to toss your ingredients into the blender, blend and pour. In no time at all, you will have a round of margaritas for everyone. Ole!


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Fathers day for Two Dads
Do you ever wonder what father's day is like in a house with two dads? In a home with gay parents raising children, the emphasis is on Father's day being about 'Fathers' or parents rather than on an individual.
Father's day in a house with two dads can be an extra special event. The only challenge however, is that when you are celebrating both of your dads on the same day, then father's day doesn't actually celebrate either parent as an individual. Instead of being about one parent it is about both parents which makes it more of a family day.
Other challenges which differ in a house with two dads include: which adult does the organising if the children aren't old enough themselves? How do you make sure both parents feel equally important? How does special attention between parents get divided? For example who makes breakfast in bed if the children aren't old enough to do it by themselves?
In Michael and Paul's house their two sons who are now 4 and 6 years old, delight in making special handmade gifts and individual father's day cards for both of them, and they both rush excitedly into their bedroom in the morning, so not much of a lie in can be had! Michael and Paul fostered the two brothers for 2 years before deciding to adopt them after the certainty that they would not be returned to their biological parents.
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Richie McCaw's days as openside flanker could be numbered.
Following the reappointment of Graham Henry, it has been hinted that McCaw could be moved to the blindside in order to lengthen his career and improve his ability to communicate with referees.
The other reason to move McCaw to the number six jersey is to increase his ability to play back-to-back games.
French openside Thierry Dusatoir made a remarkable 38 tackles in Cardiff, but was no where to be seen a week later in his team's semi-final loss in Paris.
There was also good news today for Jerry Collins. Henry's admission that the reconditioning and rotation did not work is exactly the message the flanker wanted to hear.
I honestly don't see a big difference between #7 or #6 --since sometimes, Richie McCaw plays #6. It's not like they were thinking about him as #10 or #15 -positions where I am quite sure he could play quite well !!!
Another point : that's great to :
a. see the reference to a French player in this report! (Thierry Dusautoir from Stade Toulousain -playing with Byron Kelleher now. Thierry has some common points with Richie, including their passion for flying.)
& b. understand that Richie is likely to keep the "second greatest job" i.e. captain.
And last --but not least :
congratulations to Graham Henry!
to Robbie Deans : We want you for the 13th Crusade!!!!!!!!!


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Some people say why waste taxpayers money on this, some say we better utilise these funds to preserve the forts which were build by Maharaj. Then few argue that it is only a political move, and part of them would say Maharashtra is most debt written state and this statue is useless.
Among all these negativity, did anyone, for a moment thought that it also has positive side and in long run this can show incremental returns.
There will always be a segment of people who would oppose new projects. And doesn't matter if projects are some advance technology projects like "Bullet train", "Nuclear Power Project" or social cause projects like "Swachh Bharat". Every time they would cry about poverty, farmer issues or some irrelevant issues.
In reality it cannot happen that we can completely eradicate poverty and then start investing on such projects. America which is considered to be a super power today also has issues like poverty, unemployment, some people there are still homeless. Tackling the current issue and focusing on future grown has to go hand in hand. The statue of Liberty which is very famous tourist attraction was built when America was not the leader. Though it was gifted by France, expected maintenance cost was huge.
Though we understand that this is not technology project, but it is very closely related to people's emotion. Chhatrapati Shivaji is an idol not only for Maharashtrian's but for the whole country. History tells about his good governance schemes. He never gave importance to caste and religions. He was born in well to do family and could have easily spent his life in luxury without so many risks he took to build a Swarajya. But he chose to oppose the then cruel emperors and established an Ideal empire in which everybody has a right for justice.
Vietnam is a very tiny country in front of America. When America started war with Vietnam they thought it would be over in few days. But can you believe Vietnam who adopted guerrilla war tactics invented by Chhatrapati Shivaji survived war which lasted almost 20 years.
If we are creating a Memorial of such a huge Personality, it is bound to happen that it will be very famous tourist attraction for International travellers. And tourist can act as catalyst to create many jobs for the locals. Be it a jetty and boat transportation, foods stalls, hotel and guesthouses stays. It would surely boost an employment for locals people.
Key points of the Master plan:
- Complete plan is spread over 15.96 hector area in the Arabian Sea in Mumbai.
- The Memorial would be 190 meter statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj which will be taller than Statue of Liberty
- Also has an amphitheatre (capacity of 500) and auditoriums (capacity of 2000)
- The project will have an exhibition gallery.
- Project plan also has an art museum (4000 sq. meter.)
- A world class Aquarium would also accompany the memorial
- The project would also include a library based on information on Shivaji Maharaj's life.
- The statue is said to have viewing galleries
- The master plan also includes jetties, helipads, sea wall and breakwaters.
- Egis India company would be responsible for management consultancy services
A decision should not be taken only considering monetary returns; emotions, pride and satisfaction of people are definitely beyond that!


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Uncle Joe Biden has been caught saying a "Very nasty word." However, he gets a pass because he's NOT Donald Trump.
The "Far-left-wing" of the Democratic Party has become "The Hall Monitors of our Nation." Their motto is; "Do as I say, not as I do."
One cannot believe half of what the Far-left says, and the other half of what they say, you can't trust.
You're digging yourself another hole, barb.So you didn't have to be black or a democrat to realize that Trump's statement was despicable and racist. Trump himself seems to realize it as he is now denying what he said.
No matter how often you call truth a "vicious slur" it's still truth. Truth is not, and never has been, a slur despite all your allegations.
What follows is a list of all synonyms for the word slur from Moby's Thesaurus. Notice that the word truth is nowhere to be found.
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182 Moby Thesaurus words for "slur":
accent, accent mark, affront, asperse, aspersion, attaint,
bad-mouth, badge of infamy, bar, bar sinister, baton, bedaub,
befoul, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespatter,
bestain, black eye, black mark, blacken, blink, blot, blow upon,
blur, brand, broad arrow, calumniate, calumny, cancel, cantando,
carefully ignore, cast aspersions on, cast reflections on, censure,
champain, character, cold-shoulder, custos, cut a corner,
cut corners, darken, daub, defame, defile, demilegato, denigrate,
dip into, direct, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit,
disparage, disparagement, disregard, dodge, dot, examine cursorily,
execution, expose, expose to infamy, expression, expression mark,
fermata, fingering, fudge, garble, gibbet, give the once-over,
glance at, glissando, gloss over, hang in effigy, hold, ignore,
imputation, innuendo, insinuation, insult, intonation,
key signature, lead, legato, libel, ligature, lisp, malign, mark,
mark of Cain, measure, metronomic mark, mezzo staccato, mumble,
music-making, notation, obloquy, odium, onus, page through,
parlando, pass over, pass over lightly, pause, performance,
personal remark, personality, pianism, pillory, pillorying,
pizzicato, point champain, presa, put-down, reflection, rendering,
rendition, repercussion, reprimand, reproach, rubato, scamp, scan,
scorch, sear, segno, sign, signature, singe, skid, skim, skim over,
skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slam, slander, slidder, slight,
slip, slip through, slubber, slubber over, slur over,
sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smutch, soil,
spiccato, spot, staccato, stain, stigma, stigmatism,
stigmatization, stigmatize, stricture, stutter, suggestion, sully,
swell, symbol, taint, tarnish, tear down, tempo mark,
thumb through, tie, time signature, touch, touch upon,
touch upon lightly, traduce, uncomplimentary remark, vilify,
vinculum, whispering campaign, zip through
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It looks like a man can't even go to Church on Sunday without the "Pastor" railing on the President of the United States. Vice President Mike Pence was visiting a Church in Maryland this past Sunday and while he and his Wife were sitting there in the Pew, The Black Pastor of the Church ranted on about how Trump should be held accountable for his use of the "Foul word" and his disparaging remarks about certain Black countries. The so-called Pastor basically stated that; "He Felt led by God to speak up." It appears the Far-left has infiltrated the Church. It was a "Baptist Church." What a SHAME.
One would think that the Church would be a place where the "Word of God; the Bible was preached?" A place where Politics were left outside of its doors, where a Believer could hear a good Sermon and have fellowship with fellow Believers. But instead, "Politics is the "Name of the Game" in some instances. Especially, when the Vice President is held captive by an "Attention Seeking, supposed Preacher." This just goes to show how bad things are getting in our Nation. The divisiveness is both, rampant and palatable. We are now divided by color and politics. I believe it only gets worse from here on.
I get that it doesn't bother you. Notice that it bothers most Americans. There's a reason for that. It's the same reason that Trump is now denying that he said it. Even Trump realizes that he crossed a line that's going to cost him.No matter how often you call truth a "vicious slur" it's still truth.
Let's say that I suffer from a delusion. I will call this delusion "Fact-check Syndrome." I respond by citing facts.
Most people online don't want to be corrected. They do not care about anything that does not agree with them.
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The CROP poll may peg NDP support a tad high, unlike others, I've never taken it as the "gospel" poll for Quebec. That said, CROP really isn't different, in the sense all the polls show an NDP gaining traction. That Duceppe is now consumed with Layton, tells you all you need to know about the polls, the NDP may well have reached that "tipping point", wherein some buzz, leads to more attention, and the cyclical momentum just feeds to a frenzy. Looking at this morning's Nanos, you can see how buzz in Quebec, positive news stories about one region can spill elsewhere. a party on the move in one province, never a bad thing elsewhere, particularly for a party always fighting for ink.
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See also "The Quotable Gunplay: 'Hos,' 'Pills,' and the 'Gift and Curse of Being Under Rick Ross.'"
Gunplay has been a known commodity on Miami's rap scene for years thanks to his association with Rick Ross and Maybach Music Group.
But only recently have mainstream audiences started warming up to his raw, reckless and occasionally insightful brand of rap. For those of you just coming around to the merits of the self-professed "Human L.A. Riot," here's an introductory primer, spotlighting Gunplay's most brazen mixtape tracks, wildest freestyles, and tightest collaborations.
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Drake's pop radio-certified 2010 hit "Miss Me" might not be the most obvious canvas for a rapper as raw as Gunplay, but the combination of his blunt, forceful rhymes ("Call me Gunplay, Maybach black sheep/Rifle longer than my rap sheet/Love skinny girls/Shout out to the fat freaks") and Boi-1da and Noah "40" Shebib's emotive instrumental makes for some truly impactful listening.
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7. "On My Lap" (Inglorious Bastard, 2011)
Gunplay is at his most ratchet (and that's saying something) on the energetic "On My Lap," depicting Charlie Sheen-worthy levels of depravity and excess with enough chest-thumping, testosterone-fueled bravado to make DMX sound like Drake. He also offers one of the best of his many (yes, many) fish-themed double entendres: "Aw hell, yo' fishcale ain't no tilapa. Ain't even tuna. Yo hustle need a tune-up!"
6. "Cherish the Day" (Sniffahill, 2008)
The best track from 2008's brazenly-titled Sniffahill: The First Gram mixtape, Gunplay's freestyle over Sade's 1992 single "Cherish the Day" was one of his first to show his human side, going beyond the usual sex, drug and gun talk, and into autobiographical nuggets and observations about Miami rap ("E-Class, I respect an OG/I wrote this sober, so try and respect a young chief," "I miss the old Piccalo") As he explains on the intro, "There's always two sides to life, four corners on every block, four sides to every story, two sides to every blade."
5. "Straight Up Menace" (Off Safety, 2011)
A video for "Skrate Up Menace" shot in the aftermath of Triple Cs associate Raymond "P-Nut" Adderly's murder added further depth to what was already one of Gunplay's most layered tracks.
4/3. "All On You" (Inglorious Bastard, 2011)/"Rollin" feat. Waka Flicka Flame (Internet, 2010)
The best song on his best mixtape to date, Inglorious Bastard's "All On You" revealed Gunplay's depth as a lyricist with lines like: "Never met a reverend doing damn good for a low income tenant/Holding onto my last two dubs independent/Future look bright though/Despite balancing on a tightrope/I still try and maintain slight hope/Devil on his job but the devil not God."
Gunplay out Waka Flockas Waka Flocka Flame, meanwhile, on "Rollin," the hedonistic anthem that launched him as a viable solo artist following Triple C's poorly received Custom Cars and Cycles and his Colombia coke-sniffing flap. For DJs holding down large-room hip-hop clubs during peak hours, it's a must-play, right up there with Rick Ross' "B.M.F." and Meek Mill's "Ima Boss."
2. Maybach Music Group feat. Kendrick Lamar, "Power Circle" (MMG Presents: Self Made, Vol. 2, 2012)
Contractual reasons kept Gunplay from being more prominently featured on Maybach Music Group's June LP Self Made Vol. 2, even as his buzz was peaking. Too bad: The painfully mediocre LP would have benefited greatly from more Gunplay. The album pretty much peaks with the rapper's album-opening lines on "Power Circle": "It's all on me now, as you can see now/I'm gon' get this money and I will not be de-nied/Been shittin' on you fucks a long, time to pee now!" Top that, Stalley.
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1. Kendrick Lamar feat. Gunplay, "Cartoon and Cereal" (Internet, 2012)
Complex recently called "Cartoons and Cereal" one "of the most ambitious, innovative releases in recent memory," naming it the 11th best song of the year so far, but we'd put it even higher on our list of the same. It's more than five minutes into the nearly seven-minute opus before Gunplay gets to say his piece but he makes his presence felt throughout, building things up with machine-gun onomatopoeias before offering his most personal and intense verse to date. Gunplay's been through a lot of ups and downs in the last few years but ever since he got "Cartoons and Cereal" off his chest in February, it seems like things have been coming up roses for him.
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As for this chapter--it's a goddamn sex scene. And you know what that means.
Nicca had scooted down low on the bed so he could rest his head on my stomach, his hair spilling out behind him like a cloak of brown silk.
Hair fetish: Check.
"From the look on your face," Rhys said, "I'm not sure whether you mean as food or sex."Food fetish: Check.
"It was never my wager," I said, "and the next time you make wagers with my body as prize, you should think long and hard before you do so without asking me first."Non-con kink: Ch---whoa whoa wait a goddamn second here. Is that an LKH female exhibiting agency? Policing her own body? Saying no and making it stick? Oh, be still my beating heart!
"One day of being back to your godhead, and already you're falling into bad habits," I said.I'm sorry. All that godhead shit makes me think is that Rhys has priapism. After a 'godhead' lasting more than four hours, you need to go see a doctor.
Sage touches Merry, and this sends orgasmic thrills through ALL OF THEM.
...why is orgasm-via-touch such a hardline fantasy? LKH has it in spades, but I've seen it in other sources. I'd think that an orgasm without the preliminary build up would just feel like a sneeze through the wrong orifice...
He wrapped his legs around my wrist and I was suddenly aware that he wore nothing under his gossamer skirt. He was tiny, but the touch of that bit of sex felt more intimate than it should have, more important than it should ever have been.Oooooh somebody went to this sex scene commando. God forbid the barbie-doll sized fairy rapist forget to raid Ken's wardrobe for underoos. But seriously, where the fuck would the sex crazed tinkerbell knockoff get underwear from? That's a human affectation that isn't even endemic to all of humanity. Why is Merry expecting sage to wear breifs?
Also: Laurel, you are a grown ass woman. It's not a "bit of sex". It's a dick. You need to use your words.
We are treated to the lovely imagry of Sage humping Merry's wrist. You're welcome.
Were the flowers as joyful to be ridden?
I felt Rhys's pulse like a distant line of music, a bass rhythm that you heard only through the walls at night, as you lay in your bed, and wondered where it was coming from.Laurell's neighbors started a garage band. Either that, or her kid was listening to Daft Punk late at night.
We then are treated to another ambiguiously described penis scene. It is probably supposed to be Rhys dry-humping Merry's hip, but it seriously sounds like he's just impaled her.
My body pulsed white as if I'd swallowed the moon,This is about the third time Merry has done that. You'd think she'd learn.
Nicca had begun to glow softly , the wing tattoo on his back pulsing faint traces of pink and blue and cream, and black. It was only the beginnings of his power, the first promise.LKH has consistantly described Nicca's butterfly-wing birthmark as a tattoo. This irks me. A tattoo is a thing you have to have done to you. A birthmark, which is what Nicca has, is something you are born with. This basic misunderstanding of terms irks me.
He screamed, a second before he spilled over me in a scalding wave that flowed and dripped down my hip.
One: nobody has that much semen in their penis.
Two: Apparently Rhys is not dead-eye dick with his...erm...dick.
And then Sage feeds on Nicca, and...things...happen. That involve a lot of screaming and clawing and Merry's Magic Vag of Holding gets involved somehow, and the only thing that makes anything near coherant sense is that Nicca's birthmark turns into for-real wings, for real, while Sage blows up to full size because why not.
And then Merry gives Sage his promised blow job while Nicca has traditional intercourse.
I have no idea how safe or fun that might be, but it sounds uncomfortable as fuck to me. Correct me if I am wrong.
I swallowed sunlight over and over; and the sun beat between my legs, and above all of it their wings shimmered, the colors dancing, fleeing through the air, until I saw that the room was full of butterflies carved of neon and power.Wow. Just...WOW. Merry is literally shooting sunshine and rainbows out of her vagina.
Then there's something about Nicca and Sage...erm...meeting in the middle and burning Merry to death, so I can't be sure but I think their penises just turned into lava. Either that or LKH really sucks at writing sex scenes.
Now, there is one point in all of this where Nicca's wings basically pump themselves out like a newborn butterfly's, which is a nice image, but it's immediately before sex. So logistically Nicca should have damaged the fuck out of his new wings, because those suckers need time to stabalize and harden.
The chapter ends with them all realizing that Sage is now Sidhe. He's got the mood ring eyes and everything.


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Episodes Suggesting A Friendship
In War De Guacamole, Knife asked OJ and Nickel if they wanted to see the wonders of static electricity. Nickel responds yes, and Knife then sneaks up on Marshmallow and shocks her. Knife, Nickel and OJ laugh at Marshmallow as Knife points out that it is she is "so much fun to mess with".
Episodes Suggesting A Conflict
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10/14/17, "Fueling More Bloodshed in Ukraine," Consortium News, James W. Carden
"Exclusive: In the U.S., Russia-hating liberals are joining the neocons in seeking more war in Ukraine, as the prospects for a rational and peaceful resolution to the crisis continue to fade, explains James W. Carden."
"Last January, Sen. John McCain led a delegation along with his longtime sidekick, Sen. Lindsey Graham, to a contingent of Ukrainian troops not far from the front line in eastern Ukraine. In the presence of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Graham told the soldiers: "Your fight is our fight … 2017 will be the year of offense. All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia."
|Jan. 2, 2017, McCain, Graham in Ukraine
McCain promised the assembled troops, "we will do everything we can to provide you with what you need to win."
When contemplating the long careers of the two Republican senators, it is hard to escape the conclusion that McGeorge Bundy's quip about the famed Cold War columnist Joe Alsop – that he had "never known him to go to any area where blood could be spilled that he didn't come back and say more blood" – applies equally to McCain and Graham.
Indeed, last month's National Defense Authorization Act shows that – if nothing else – McCain and Graham are as good as their word: the recently passed defense appropriations bill provides for $500 million, including "defensive lethal assistance" to Kiev, as part of a $640 billion overall spending package.
The aid comes at a good time for the embattled Ukrainian President Poroshenko, whose approval rating hovers around 16 percent. In a bid to stave off the possibility of a far-right coup d'etat, Poroshenko is back to banging the war drums, promising, well, more blood.
In a little covered speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Sept. 19, Poroshenko promised that "American weapons will help us liberate the Donbas and return Ukrainian territories." He also noted that Ukraine spends roughly 6 percent of its GDP on defense, "a figure," he observed, "much bigger than the obligation for the NATO members."
Clearly Washington's condemnation of governments that wage war "against their own people" remains selective, contingent upon who is doing the killing and who is doing the dying. In this case, it would seem that Russian-speaking Ukrainians simply don't rate.
In addition to promising a wider war in the Donbas, Poroshenko has repeatedly promised that he will seek NATO membership. In August, during a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, Poroshenko declared: "Our Ukrainian caravan is on a roll and we have one road to travel upon — a wide Euro-Atlantic highway, leading to membership in the European Union and NATO."
Ukraine's Human Rights Abuses
There are a number of objections to yet another round of NATO expansion. As I reported in February 2015: "The current [Ukrainian] government has, according to organizations that could hardly be described as Kremlin friendly (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), committed war crimes in its attempt to defeat the Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas. …
NATO's principal consideration should not be whether NATO will make Ukraine more secure, but whether Ukraine will make NATO more secure. The answer is self-evident."
It is true that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, as recently as this month, insisted to Russian state media that NATO is not contemplating Ukrainian membership, telling Sputnik that "There is no MAP [membership action plan] on the agenda." Yet Stoltenberg has also said, as he did in a speech to the Ukrainian parliament in July, that he believes Ukraine "has the right to choose its own security arrangements" further noting that "last month, NATO welcomed Montenegro as the 29th member of our Alliance. This shows that NATO's door remains open."
So the issue doesn't seem to be going away.
Poroshenko's push to join NATO, which is being made against the backdrop of ever-worsening relations between the U.S. and Russia, ignores, perhaps purposefully, one of the principal causes of the morass in which Kiev and Moscow find themselves. It was Moscow's not unfounded fear that Ukraine might join NATO that helped spark the Ukrainian crisis in early 2014.
In the weeks prior to Russia's annexation of Crimea (and just over a month before the outbreak of full hostilities in the Donbas), three former presidents of Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko) called on the post-Maidan regime to renounce the 2010 Kharkiv agreement which allowed for Russia to base its Black Sea naval fleet in Crimea (in return for discounted prices on Russian natural gas).
It is perhaps not unreasonable that this last move, in addition to the foreign policy and security protocols embedded within the European Union Association agreement (which Poroshenko signed in June 2014), would cause the Russian government to at the very least suspect that NATO was setting the stage for Ukraine's eventual absorption into the alliance.
Indeed, Kiev's launch of its violent and indiscriminate "Anti-Terrorist Operation" against the Donbas – with the effect of intimidating and alienating otherwise loyal Russian-speaking citizens in the eastern part of the country – surely played a role in the Kremlin's decision to come to the aid of the rebels later in the summer of 2014 and again at Debaltseve early the following year.
Less Dangerous Options
One reasonable alternative to NATO membership would be a treaty along the lines of the 1955 Austrian State Treaty, which was an agreement reached between the four post-World War II occupying powers (U.S., USSR, Great Britain and France) that granted Austria its independence "with the understanding," according to the U.S. State Department, "that the newly independent state of Austria would declare its neutrality, creating a buffer zone between the East and the West," meaning it would join neither NATO nor the Soviet-run Warsaw Pact....
The situation in postwar Austria – occupied by East and West – is not perfectly analogous to the situation that obtains in Ukraine today, but there seem to be lessons...that might be drawn upon to inform Western diplomacy.
But instead of trying to implement the Minsk peace agreement (which calls for the Donbas to remain as part of Ukraine but with more autonomy from Kiev) or search for a reasonable alternative to what are indeed perplexing and pressing matters of national security, Poroshenko has continued to ring the alarm over the another, this time illusory, Russian invasion.
In a recent speech before the Ukrainian parliament, Poroshenko claimed "there is more and more evidence for [Russia's] preparations for an offensive war of continental proportions."
Yet perhaps the danger isn't as clear and present as Poroshenko portrayed it. As Mary Dejevesky of the U.K.'s Independent has observed: "Nato itself had held exercises in the Black Sea and before that in and around the western borderlands of Ukraine. Who, it has to be asked here, is threatening whom?"
Indeed, if Russia was on the precipice of launching a land war in Eastern Europe, would it have cut its defense budget by 25 percent to $48 billion a year, as was recently announced by the Kremlin?
As difficult as it might be for our hearty band on new cold warriors to believe (some of whom have scant knowledge about the topic of U.S.-Russia relations on which they so frequently choose to declaim), the push for a peaceable settlement in Ukraine is coming not from Washington, but from Moscow and Berlin.
Nevertheless, the stalemate continues: a resolution to the Ukrainian conflict – through the implementation of the Minsk agreements, as well as a settlement of the outstanding security concerns of all parties to the conflict – seems to remain tragically out of reach."
"James W. Carden served as an adviser on Russia policy at the US State Department. Currently a contributing writer at The Nation magazine, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Quartz, The American Conservative and The National Interest."
Above McCain Ukraine image: "Jan. 2, 2017, In Ukraine, video published Jan.2, 2017, "President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko time s amerikanskimi senators pid Shirokіno," google translation
Added: More on McCain in Ukraine inciting bloody overthrow of the Russian government funded by US taxpayers:
2/2/17, "Interfering in Ukraine - A Breach of U.S. law?"
"Recent news that John McCain and Lindsey Graham made a trip to Ukraine in early January 2017 was rather surprising. What is even more surprising is this commentary from Lindsey Graham and John McCain, made in the presence of Ukraine's President Poroshenko on the front lines of the Ukraine civil war, comments which seems to fly directly in the face of Donald Trump's approach to Russia:
Urging a restart of the stalled Ukrainian civil war, here's what Lindsey Graham had to say:
[At 1:20 in video, following remarks by a Ukraine official, possibly Pres. Poroshenko, dressed in military garb]:
"Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense. All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia. Enough of a Russian aggression. It is time for them to pay a heavier price.
Our fight is not with the Russian people but with Putin. Our promise to you is to take your cause to Washington, inform the American people of your bravery and make the case against Putin to the world." [In the video, Lindsey Graham rubs his hands together as he speaks]
John McCain had this to say:
"I believe you will win. I am convinced you will win and we will do everything we can to provide you with what you need to win. We have succeeded not because of equipment but because of your courage.
So I thank you and the world is watching and the world is watching because we cannot allow Vladimir Putin to succeed here because if he succeeds here, he will succeed in other countries."
Given that some theorize that actions taken by former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Victoria Nuland, may have engineered the regime change in Ukraine, the comments by both Graham and McCain seem particularly malevolent since they obviously are not making any kind of personal sacrifice in restarting this conflict.
What is even more interesting is a little-known federal law called the Logan Act, dating back to 1799, which reads as follows:
"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
In addition, a very influential Supreme Court decision from December 1936, United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation looked at the sale of unauthorized/illegal munitions of war and the delicate balance between the powers wielded by the Executive Branch when it acts without congressional authorization in foreign affairs.
Here are the key paragraphs in the decision:
"Not only, as we have shown, is the federal power over external affairs in origin and essential character different from that over internal affairs, but participation in the exercise of the power is significantly limited. In this vast external realm, with its important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates. Into the field of negotiation the Senate cannot intrude; and Congress itself is powerless to invade it. As Marshall said in his great argument of March 7, 1800, in the House of Representatives, 'The President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations...
The President is the constitutional representative of the United States with regard to foreign nations. He manages our concerns with foreign nations and must necessarily be most competent to determine when, how, and upon what subjects negotiation may be urged with the greatest prospect of success. For his conduct he is responsible to the Constitution. The committee considers this responsibility the surest pledge for the faithful discharge of his duty. They think the interference of the Senate in the direction of foreign negotiations calculated to diminish that responsibility and thereby to impair the best security for the national safety. The nature of transactions with foreign nations, moreover, requires caution and unity of design, and their success frequently depends on secrecy and dispatch." (my bold)
With Donald Trump still being President-elect while the warmongering John McCain and Lindsey Graham were pontificating in Ukraine, it certainly appears that they were not representing the future president and it is highly unlikely that they were representing the last days of the outgoing Obama Administration given that they are both Republicans.
At the very least, it looks like both men were meddling with Trump's moves to soften America's approach to Russia and their interference certainly has the appearance of breaching U.S. laws." Image above is screen shot from video


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This locomotive was purchased from the army in working order (although adapting the charger to run from a 13A plug rather than a heavy 3 phase supply required some ingenuity) and arrived on site on 16th December 1994. It had been rebuilt by Hunslet Barclay in 1986, and worked at RAF Chilmark until that depot closed.
The two axles are separately powered, each having a 25 HP flameproof 100V DC motor driving through a worm gear reduction. Two completely separate sets of control and power electronics and reversing contactors are fitted. Control ranges from the exceedingly delicate to the totally brutal depending upon the whim of the driver.
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The battery, consisting of 50 lead acid cells, is estimated to have had a capacity of approximately 750 Ampere hours when new, and comprises about half of the loco's 8 tons total weight. If the electronics can be made reliable and the battery sufficiently rejuvenated, the loco could be equipped for air braking and (theoretically) work 6 or 7 return passenger trains between charges. During construction of the railway, it was used to haul trains of up to 20 tons from Newlands Inn.


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I have a 89GT, 2.8l V6 Would cutting the top of the air filter box increase performance at all. Also, would it make my car sound any different, such as when i step on the gas when at idle will there be any change in sound. And if it increases power, what it the quickest way to cut it.


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