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D'Vonne Lewis and Limited Edition
For me, the pianist is the color of a world, and the drummer is the maker of the world. The drummer provides the ground, the pianist the flowers. It is said that 100 million years or so ago, there was a color revolution on earth. Flowers came alive at this time. Before them, the world was basically monochromatic; after them, the world was polychromatic. But the earth (which is roughly 4 billion years old) is much older than flowers in much the same way that the drum is much older than the piano. I thought about all of this one Sunday evening in the middle of August while watching my favorite drummer in Seattle, D'Vonne Lewis, play with the pianist Ron Weinstein at Vito's Restaurant and Lounge. D'Vonne Lewis, who received his initial formal training at Roosevelt High School's prestigious jazz program and is the drummer for Industrial Revelation (a group nominated for a Genius Award in music in 2014), always makes you aware of the ground (or grund) beneath the beat. But he is not simple, raw, or purely emotional. There is a richness in this drumming. Flowers only grow in fertile soil.
Tula's, 2214 Second Ave, 443-4221, tulas.com, 7:30 pm, $7
Earshot Jazz Festival
The biggest jazz festival in Seattle, Earshot Jazz Festival, opens today with a tribute to the genius of Thelonious Monk. If you do not know who this Monk is, then I recommend you watch the 1988 documentary Straight, No Chaser, which was produced by the old man who talked to a chair at the last GOP convention—yes, him, Clint "Make My Day" Eastwood. Monk, in my opinion, was not a great pianist, but he certainly was one of the greatest composers not just of jazz but of 20th-century music. His compositions have their visual equivalent in the mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder. Monk's "Well, You Needn't," for example, is at once elegant, minimal, and enigmatic. Earshot celebrates this giant of jazz with "Monk, 10/10," a program that includes "10 of Seattle's top jazz pianists performing one solo Monk piece each [and] a 10-piece ensemble, conducted by Wayne Horvitz." There is no better way to start this monthlong festival.
Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, 652-4255, earshot.org, 8 pm
Wally Shoup Quartet
Wally Shoup is a local saxophonist whose main thing is free jazz. I will not hide the fact that my interest in this particular branch of jazz, which began in the late '50s (listen to Charles Mingus's "Pithecanthropus Erectus"), has been weak. The music is often too hard on the ears and loses contact with the very body of music—the dance. Nevertheless, Shoup is an expert and highly regarded saxophonist, and though we can expect some edge in his performance tonight, which explores the shadowy moods of film-noir soundtracks, it will never collapse into the ear-hard abyss of jazz noise. Shoup will play with bassist John Seman and drummer Mark Ostrowski.
Vito's Restaurant and Bar, 927 Ninth Ave, 397-4053, vitosseattle.com, 9 pm
Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet
The drummer and vibraphonist Jason Marsalis is the youngest prince of jazz's royal family, the Marsalises. His father, the king, is Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr., and his most famous brothers are Branford Marsalis and Wynton Marsalis. Like the other princes in this family, Jason is a technically brilliant musician. Some vibraphonists are all about transforming a club into the planet of Venus (hazy, beautiful, voluptuous vibes). This is not Jason. He instead strikes the bars of his instrument in much the same way John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet struck the keys of a piano—with great accuracy. This is not about mists but precision. Jason is a serious man indeed.
Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave, 441-9729, jazzalley.com, 7:30 pm, $24.50, all ages.
This new jazz joint has booked my favorite local jazz pianist, Darrius Willrich, for two nights in September (19 and 20). He also performed here in August. It seems he might become the house musician. This is all very good news, as it shows that Shuga's booker or owner knows what he/she is doing. Willrich is the real deal. He is the kind of player who makes you stop thinking of other things (I must remember to pay that bill in the morning; she no longer loves me) and focus on the music, which is rich, elegant, but never delicate.
317 Main Ave S, Renton, 425-274-3074, shugajazzbistro.com
If you want to see and hear a jazz giant of our day, do not miss the saxophonist Joshua Redman, who plays here from October 9 to 12.
2033 Sixth Ave, 441-9729, jazzalley.com
The Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, which formed in 2004, meets on Sundays at Tula's and mostly performs compositions by locally known and unknown musicians.
2214 Second Ave, 443-4221, tulas.com
There are two important high-school jazz programs in this city. One is at Roosevelt High School and the other at Garfield High School. On October 20, players from the latter perform on the main stage.
216 Union St, 838-4333, thetripledoor.com
On September 11, Janis Mann, an LA-based jazz singer, will make her contribution to SAM's impressive Art of Jazz series.
1300 First Ave, 547-6763, earshot.org
Serafina claims that it is the only restaurant in Seattle—a city of nearly 650,000 people—that offers Sunday brunch with live jazz. Most likely this claim is true.
2043 Eastlake Ave E, 323-0807, serafinaseattle.com
First Hill
Great happy hour, excellent noir-ish atmosphere, and lots of first-rate jazz by musicians like the bassist Lamar Lofton, who performs here on September 24.
927 Ninth Ave, 397-4053, vitosseattle.com
Columbia City
One of the many shows to check out at this Columbia City jazz club is the Ivan Peña Quintet. Peña is a guitarist who teaches at the University of Oklahoma, and he is a member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Oklahoma City Jazz Orchestra. This man is not fucking around. He plays gypsy jazz the night of Wednesday, September 17.
5000 Rainier Ave S, 906-9920, theroyalroomseattle.com
Capitol Hill
Before the storm of the weekend drunks, there is always the peace of jazz on Thursday nights.
1510 11th Ave, 325-8263, barcaseattle.com
West Seattle
The bar, OutWest Bar, is in West Seattle. And every Tuesday, it hosts a jazz quartet that has the very interesting name Tutu.
5401 California Ave SW, outwestbar.com
This place is in Ballard. Check out their website to see if someone is playing jazz there.
1702 NW Market St, 789-1621, ballardjamhouse.com


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The fourth Quarterly Update features the usual wide variety of new and revised words and phrases, but there are a couple of major themes in this set. One is food items with intriguing—if not always appetizing!—names, like beaten biscuit, Belgian pie, belly-guts, and Biloxi bacon. The biggest group, though, is made up of terms for a slingshot. Research that began with bean-shooter soon led to other synonyms, and in the end nearly all the entries in the original text of DARE for this meaning had been greatly expanded, and many new ones added. Not surprisingly, old newspapers, always a rich source for anything that can cause injury or property damage, provide most of the evidence for the early history of these terms—and for the destructive habits of small boys.
On a more serious note, two of the terms display a casual racism that would now be universally—we hope—regarded as offensive. We remind you that our intention is not to offend, but, as always, to record objectively the facts of usage. Like any historical work, a historical dictionary occasionally confronts the reader with unpleasant facts, and would not be doing its job if it did not.

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By Dr. Henry Darrell - Temporal Anthropologist since 2605
Last month in "Orgy" magazine, they had this spread called "The Understanding of the Temporal Anthropologists". It had a bunch of ne'er-do-wells in costumes from different periods carrying on like Jackrabbits during mating season. I know a lot of you yahoos seem to think that Temporal Anthropologists have kinky sex lives or something. Nothing could be further away from the truth.
I have spent most of my life in the "field" (that's a T.A. term for the past.) My persona is that of a cowboy from the Old West. Not that much of a stretch, since I was born on a ranch in Wyoming, and descended from countless generations of cowboys. I have spent most of my life studying the life of the working man in 1800's America. If I had to do all over again, I'm afraid I would, because I'm not the sort to learn from past mistakes.
Let me tell you, son, life can get pretty lonely for us Temporal Anthropologists. We ain't allowed to get involved with the natives in the field. We got to leave them be and let them live the lives they was meant to live. We can visit brothels, but empty rendezvous get old mighty fast. Might not be too bad if we could at least make some friends to talk to, but we aren't even allowed that. You have to be a lone wolf out in the field.
We can have normal relations in the 27th century. You get yourself a girlfriend and you think everything will be fine. Problem is you're only in the 27th Century for a couple of days and the past starts calling you back. You got a pile of projects you have to finish in the field, so you're off again for weeks on end, only to show up on her doorstep for a few days. Don't take long for the most devoted woman to high-tail it and find herself a new beau.
Then there's the T.A. Groupies. I know, it's hard to believe that a bunch of boring old history scholars would have female followers, but we do. Not nearly as numerous as famous actors or musicians would have, but we have a few. I think every male Temporal Anthropologist has had his heart broken by one. You got yourself this woman, thinking everything is hunky-dory, then you find out you are just "the cowboy" to her. T.A. Groupies collect Temporal Anthropologists like stamps, trying to out do each other in an attempt to see who can collect the most. We aren't really people to them at all, we're nothing but baseball cards.
The only woman that can really understand you and put up with you, is another Temporal Anthropologist. Sounds good except she's usually in the field when you're home and home when you're in the field. Not the best arrangement. If you just happen to be luckier than most you might find a T.A. willing to go in the field with you, but female T.A.s are rarer than hen's teeth and always seem to be specializing in an era that you ain't. So you get to see each other a few times a year. You form an "understanding". If one of you decides to throw in the towel and quit the business, you can't expect the other one to do the same. And if you retire and find someone permanent that's gonna stick around, your former partner can't get all riled about it. Anywho I got me a T.A. I got an understanding with.
Don't ask, I ain't giving out names. You don't make public who you got an understanding with. I will say though that she is a mighty fine lady. Sweet as wild huckleberries and pretty as a sunrise. First met her at one of the Annual Association of Temporal Anthropologists Balls. She was just out of training and looked as nervous as a mouse in a room full of cats. I'm a sucker for a lady in distress. I went over and started talking to her, showing her the ropes. I became her mentor, then I became her friend, and eventually I became more. On lonely nights out in the field I think about her. Only thing that keeps me going sometimes. I think if I ever retired I would gladly wait for her.
Things was going just fine for several years, then it got to be too much for her. One day, after we met after months of separation, she lit into me, telling me off. After awhile she cooled off and started crying, saying she didn't know why she had done that. I shrugged it off, figured it was one of them woman things. However our next meeting, she done the same thing. It was then I realized, it was getting to her. She couldn't handle it anymore.
It's more than just the loneliness you have to contend with in this business. The debriefings take it out of you. The Enforcers call them "debriefings." Temporal Anthropologists call them "interrogations." The Institute of Time Travel Enforcement Agency has the job to make sure nobody messes up history. So they have to know everything we did--everything. To make sure we tell them everything and don't try to pull a fast one, they slap a Compliance Disk on the back of our neck. You probably have no idea what that is like unless you're a dangerous criminal or a Time Traveler. Those dang prongs stick into your spine like angry scorpions. It burns and sets your head on fire for a few seconds. Then it stops, so that ain't too bad. The bad part is that when they tell you to jump, you jump. You are a puppet. Trying to fight it just gives you a headache. You then answer any questions and tell them everything, even stuff that ain't any of their dang business. It's humiliating and frightening. Not sure why it's so scary. The Enforcers are pledged not to harm you or make it any worse than it has to be. I've heard rumors that they brainwash into being afraid of them so you'll cooperate even more. Not sure if that's true, but you wonder sometimes.
After that you feel physically and emotionally drained. You just want to be with someone who'll understand. Preferable a lady T.A., if not you make due by grabbing another male T.A. and you go out and get drunk together. Is it any wonder more than one Temporal Anthropologists has gotten washed out as an alcoholic? It's gotta be even harder on the ladies. After that ordeal all my lady friend wanted was for me to be there for her, and I wasn't. Is it any wonder she was mad? Poor thing.
There's another part of the "Understanding". Neither party can expect the other to be faithful. She needed someone to fill in for me when I couldn't be there. I suggested that to her, and she was appalled. She's pretty old-fashioned. Then I suggested someone she knew and liked, this fella I've worked with in the field a few times, since we both work the 19th Century. He's a gentleman in both senses of the word. He's old-fashioned himself so he would understand her dilemma. I knew he would never do anything to hurt her. Okay, I'm old-fashioned myself, so I wasn't crazy with the idea. But if I had to leave her in someone else's hands, he would be the one I would choose.
I don't know if she took my advise, but I think she did. She seemed much calmer when we hooked up again. Shoot, next time I saw my friend, he looked a whole lot happier. You never ask, and never tell in an "understanding". It's funny, but out there in the field late at night when I would think of my lady, the thought of her in someone else's arms should have made me jealous, but it didn't. It brought me a little peace of mind that she wasn't alone, and that he was there for her when I couldn't be. I knew he'd take care of her and treat her like the lady she was.
So there you go. That is what an "understanding" is. Now, if you find that funny or shocking or titillating, well, I really don't care. I'm just trying to take care of the lady I love in the best way that I know how.
Dr. Henry R. Darrel is a Temporal Anthropologist with the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Life on the Trail: Diary of a Modern Day Cowboy in the Old West and Working Stiff: The Everyday Life of the 19th Century Working Man.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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It's increasingly possible that the world may never run out of fossil fuel. The cheap and plentiful natural gas that fracking has brought to your local pipelines may be just a precursor to a much larger and more global reserve stored as methane hydrate – basically frozen natural gas – in vast volumes in the world's seabeds.
The cover story of the latest Atlantic magazine asks, "What if we never run out of oil?" By which it mainly means natural gas. Ten years ago, author Charles Mann notes, mainstream analysts dismissed the potential of fracking (short for hydraulic fracturing) to unlock new stores of gas. How wrong they were. Now the promise of methane hydrate, he suggests, could be vastly greater, and that scenario is a mixed bag: long-sought energy independence for nations such as Japan; cleaner emissions from countries such as coal-burning China; curtailing of the power of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; some greater instability as fewer countries around the world need to trade for energy; perhaps even sea-bottom territorial disputes. But the biggest downside pointed to by Mr. Mann is that plentiful natural gas, while relatively clean, could delay moving to a post-carbon world altogether.
Wealth doesn't always end poverty
Oil and gas often lead to the so-called resource curse, whereby countries blessed by the revenue that comes out of their ground – whether oil, diamonds, or manganese – find both their economies and politics stunted and narrowed by the single-source wealth. A World Bank study of Africa adds a couple of new brush strokes to that picture. Not surprisingly, resource-rich countries such as Nigeria and Gabon have grown 2.2 times faster than resource-poor countries since 1996. Yet, counterintuitively, poverty declined by 16 percentage points in resource-poor countries such as Rwanda and Ethiopia, compared with only seven percentage points in resource-rich ones. The upshot: Oil and mineral wealth brings growth, but doesn't spread it very far.
What 'Occupy Wall Street' missed
Speaking of spreading the wealth, whatever happened to the "Occupy" movement that caught such a wave of anti-Wall Street sentiment in 2011? Several books on the movement have come out recently, and Financial Times economics writer Martin Sandbu reviews them together. At one point, polls showed far more popular support among Americans for Occupy Wall Street – and its argument that the economic and political systems were run for the benefit of the "1 percent" – than for the tea party movement on the right. But the tea party was action-oriented, elected its own activists to Congress, and still has a powerful influence on the Republican Party. Occupy Wall Street is a memory, its legacy mostly defined by establishing a line in Western minds between the 99 percent and the empowered 1. Mr. Sandbu's take is that Occupy Wall Street was clear about what it was against, but not at all clear about what to do about it. The leaders of the self-consciously leaderless movement refused to engage the existing political system at all. "A sympathetic reader of these books will end up with the slightly exasperated feeling that Occupy wasted its chance as a political movement," he writes.
Removing 'obstacles to growth'
Mexico has long been plagued by crony capitalism, in which political power too often is used to enrich an elite few rather than promote economic growth for many. So Daron Acemoglu, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and James Robinson, a Harvard political scientist, view new Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's first months in office with some optimism. In their Why Nations Fail blog, they note that Mr. Peña Nieto has made a national priority of reforming Mexico's "terrible" education system. He has further removed what the authors call a major obstacle to reform: the head of the teachers union, Elba Esther Gordillo. Known as La Maestra, she had used the union "like a personal fiefdom for two decades, enriching herself and blatantly intervening in elections." Peña Nieto has had her arrested on charges of embezzling some $200 million. The test, the authors say, will be whether Peña Nieto proves to be truly trying to reform the system or is merely doing what earlier Mexican presidents have done: change out one elite for another.
Who are the Tsarnaevs?
The story of the Tsarnaev family, whose sons are accused of the Boston Marathon bombings, has many interesting parts. Perhaps the best overview so far is in The Washington Post, written by Marc Fisher and reported by legions.
Things started well for the immigrant family. "But over the past four years, even as members of their extended family found their piece of the American dream, the Cambridge Tsarnaevs' experience in their new land curdled. Money grew scarce, and the family went on welfare. Zubeidat was accused of stealing from a department store. Anzor's business, never prosperous, faded," writes Mr. Fisher. As the family fell apart, older son Tamerlan grew increasingly radical in his religion under the influence of an Armenian-American friend who was a recent convert. "The change in Dzhokhar, now a college sophomore, became apparent only in the past few weeks, and even then seemed to be tacked on to his existing lifestyle rather than displacing it," he writes.


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PlayStation Network Now the Most Secure of its Kind Says Avalance Producer
Sony was shoved between a rock and a hard place in late-April when their network was hacked at a monumental level. Since then, users have found out that Sony didn't do everything in their power to keep their multi-million dollar system in check with the most recent security features. It's safe to say after losing hundreds of millions of dollars and tons of support that they've improved the setup, but just how much?
The producer at Avalanche Studios, which you may identify with the Just Cause series, has shown his full confidence in the new and better than ever PSN security model. When speaking to CVG, Andreas Thorsen stated:
I think the new system that they bring now will probably be even more secure than the competitors'. I don't think this is something that is unique to the PSN, it's just that this time it happened to them
The full extent of the security upgrade hasn't been publicly disclosed, so it's all up to educated guessing at this point, but you can be sure that the most hateful hackers on the planet did everything they could to try and re-hack the system as soon as it came back up about two weeks ago. Judging by the fact that it's still up and running, we're relatively sure that it's as rigid as they come. As Andreas stated, it's nothing new for a big company to get hacked, but now that the PlayStation Network as probably the most secure in the industry, Sony is in a much safer place than before. Sorry hackers, but you'll have to find someone else to toy with.


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Understanding Facebook, Apple, Kindle, & Milk That Doesn't Need Refrigeration
The Original Apple
I am old school.
This often makes interaction with the modern world somewhat difficult.
I am so traditional that I think people are talking about fruit when they discuss their 'Apples'.
I still 'Kindle' the blaze in my fireplace with real wood. I don't own a gas log, a paper log, or even a corn log. I do like a good corn dog.
I am pretty sure an eye pad is something women use to apply their eye liner.
Facebook? That's easy. I know what that is. Police have been using it for decades. It's a big book full of pictures of criminals that police show to victims. "Is this the guy?", they ask.
Change? Sometimes it is good.
I sure would not want to give up my microwave oven, washing machine, television, cell phone, or four wheel drive SUV. My Dad's car started with a crank. His father's car was a horse.
I don't want to turn the clock back - I just wish it would go a little slower.
A Modern Product Everyone Will Love
There's one recently developed product that I find excellent and very useful. I am going to share it with you.
It's milk. Yup. M-I-L-K.
But it's not the old kind of milk. This milk is a product you do not have to refrigerate. You have probably seen it in the supermarket and walked right by it. There are several brands but the one in the stores in my area is called "Parmalat".
It comes in a one quart size in a special package that DOES NOT HAVE TO BE KEPT IN THE REFRIGERATOR! It is perfect for those times when you lose electricity.
Some people affected by hurricane Sandy lost power for several days. Others were without electricity for even longer. The people who had a stock of Parmalat milk did not have to go without.
I usually buy a dozen quarts at a time and put two or three in the fridge and leave the rest in the pantry.
How about shelf life? The Parmalat that I bought in October 2012 had a 'use by' date of June, 2013.
It makes this milk perfect for people travelling. Ideal for emergency use during hurricanes or other storms. Fabulous for camping, tenting, and use in Rvs.
Often 'Parmalat' and other brands such as 'Gossner' are available at the Dollar Tree Stores. The price of one buck is half what the market charges. Either way the specially packaged milk that does not need refrigeration is a great bargain.
Sometimes, as in the case of milk, progress is a wonderful thing. Not so much with cell phones. The only way they are ever going to make a 'drop' proof cell phone is; if it comes with strings and you tie it to your hand. That way you will still lose calls, but at least you won't be able to drop the phone.
If cars functioned as poorly as cell phones, we would all be driving my grandfather's ride - you may recall , that was a horse!
Now that you have made us aware of this wonderful product, please tell us how it tasted and how it is made. When you do not like milk in the first place it does make one curious if this might be something you would like or not. It certainly is worth a try and hope it will show up in Sandusky, Michigan soon. I would not have to waste milk. Now it sours on me since it sits in the refrigerator too long before I can use it up.
What a great hub. I'm old school to so I certainly enjoyed the first part of this hub. The milk is a wonderful tip. We are all experiencing more severe storms than in the past and this milk with a box of cereal could sustain whole families for several days. Consider me a convert as I will certainly be on the lookout for it. Great job!
This looks like a great product. I wish I liked milk. You did a great review. I love the new language it is everywhere. Just when you get used to the words, new ones take over. As you said Bill...lets slow this life down it is going way too fast.


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This starts tomorrow so I thought we should have a discussion thread. Watching Boy Meets World to prepare. :boss1:


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1988 Fires
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 have been described as being instrumental in the public's understanding of the role of fire in ecosystems, history-making, and career-building. In June of 1988, park managers and fire behavior specialists allowed 18 lightning- caused fires to burn after evaluating them, according to the fire management plan. Eleven of these fires burned themselves out, behaving like many fires had in previous years. The spring of 1988 was wet until the month of June, when hardly any rain fell. Park managers and fire behavior specialists expected that July would be wet, as it had been historically.
Rains did not come in July as expected. By late July, after almost two months of little rain, the moisture content of grasses and small branches reached levels as low as 2 or 3%, and downed trees were as low as 7% (recall that when fuel moisture falls below 13%, fires can grow quickly). In addition, a series of unusually high winds fanned flames that, even in dry conditions, would not have moved with great speed.
Because of the extremely dry conditions, no new natural fires were allowed to burn after July 15 except those started adjacent to existing fires that were clearly going to burn into existing fires. Even so, within a week the fire acreage in the park doubled to about 17,000 acres. After July 21, all fires—including those started naturally—were fully suppressed as staffing would allow. (Human-caused fires had been suppressed from the beginning.) On July 27, during a visit to Yellowstone, the Secretary of the Interior reaffirmed that all fires would be fought, regardless of their origin.
Fighting the Fires
An extensive interagency fire suppression effort was initiated in mid-July in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in an attempt to control or contain this unprecedented series of wildfires. The extreme weather conditions and heavy, dry fuel accumulations presented even the most skilled professional firefighters with conditions rarely observed.
Accepted fire fighting techniques were often ineffective because fires spread long distances by spotting, a phenomenon in which wind carries embers across unburned forest to start spot fires ahead of the main fire. In the severe conditions of 1988, fires were spotting up to a mile and a half ahead—jumping roads, rivers, even the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
Fires often moved two miles per hour, with common daily advances of five to ten miles. The fast movement, coupled with spotting, made direct attacks on the fires impossibly dangerous, as fire crews could easily be overrun or trapped between a main fire and its outlying spot fires. Even during the night, fires could not be fought. Typically, wildfires "lie down" at night as humidity increases and temperature decreases. But in 1988, the humidity remained low at night, and fire fighting was complicated by the danger of falling trees.
Fire fighting efforts were directed at controlling the flanks of fires and protecting lives and property in their paths. The fire experts on site generally agreed that only rain or snow could stop the fires. They were right: one-quarter inch of snow on September 11 stopped the advance of the fires.
By the last week in September, 42 lightning-caused fires had occurred in or burned into the park, but only eight were still burning. More than $120 million had been spent in control efforts on fires in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and most major park developments—and a few surrounding communities—had been evacuated at least once as fires approached within a few miles. The fire suppression efforts involved many different federal and state agencies, including the armed forces. At the height of the fires, 10,000 people were involved simultaneously. This was the largest such cooperative effort undertaken to date in the United States.
Confusion in the Media
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 received more national attention than any other event in the history of national parks up to that time. Unfortunately, many media reports were inaccurate or misleading and confused or alarmed the public. The reports tended to lump all fires in the Yellowstone area together as the "Yellowstone Park Fire;" they referred to these fires as part of the park's natural fire program, which was not true; and they often oversimplified events and exaggerated how many acres had burned. In Yellowstone National Park itself, the fires affected—but did not devastate—793,880 acres or 36% of total park acreage.
A number of major fires started outside the park. These fires accounted for more than half of the total acres burned in the greater Yellowstone area, and included most of the fires that received intensive media attention. The North Fork Fire began in the Targhee National Forest and suppression attempts began immediately. The Storm Creek Fire started as a lightning strike in the Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness of the Custer National Forest northeast of Yellowstone; it eventually threatened the Cooke City–Silver Gate area, where it received extended national media coverage.
Additional confusion resulted from the mistaken belief that managers in the Yellowstone area let park fires continue burning unchecked because of the natural fire plan—long after such fires were being fought. Confusion was probably heightened by misunderstandings about how fires are fought: if crews were observed not taking action on a fire, casual observers might think the fire was merely being monitored. In fact, in many instances, fire bosses recognized the hopelessness of stopping fires and concentrated their efforts on protecting developed areas.
The most unfortunate public and media misconception about the Yellowstone fire fighting effort may have been that human beings can always control fire. These fires could not be controlled; their raw, unbridled power cannot be over-emphasized. Firefighters were compelled to choose their fights very carefully, and they deserve great praise for working so successfully to save all but a few park buildings. Continue: Post-fire Response and Ecological Consequences
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Los Angeles, CA – July 25, 2011 –Just off the heels of Comic Con, Fox International Channels (FIC) today announced October 17th as the kickoff launch date for the highly anticipated second season of the television series The Walking Dead.
Once again, a few hours after AMC's premiere Sunday, October 16th, FIC will begin its second season rollout on Monday, October 17th. All FIC markets will be launching the first episode during the week of [CORRECTION] October 17th and before the second episode is released in the US.
"The Walking Dead audience wants to see this show live," said Sharon Tal Yguado, SVP of Scripted Programming. "The first season became a hyped global water cooler event and we feel obligated to bring the show to international viewers right after its US launch."
Second season of The Walking Dead will reach FOX audiences in 122 countries, speaking 35 languages and will be seen by over 200 million internationally. Markets include: Australia, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Balkans, Baltic, Norway, Netherlands, all Latin America, all Middle East, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Africa.
FIC and AMC are working closely on a global marketing campaign and communication strategy for this year's thirteen episode series.
Season one of The Walking Dead marked the best performance for a US cable show in the international market. It delivered record breaking ratings in both the US and internationally. It was nominated for several awards including but not limited to: Best Television Series Drama at the 68th Golden Globes and has also been nominated for three awards for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards in the US. Internationally, season one won Best Series, Best Writer and Man of The Year for Robert Kirkman at the Stan Lee Awards in the UK and has been nominated by the Seoul International Drama Awards for Best Series and early this year, Fox International Channels won a Promax Award for best global campaign for the first season.
Earlier today, FIC released The Walking Dead second season trailer to the international community with a message about the global launch. The trailer will be available on http://thewalkingdead.foxinternationalchannels.com/.
The Walking Dead is AMC's first wholly-owned original series. FIC owns all international rights for the project, in all international markets outside of North America and recentlymade a deal with eOne to handle Broadcast TV rights and Digital/DVD rights in all markets.
The Walking Dead is based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. Kirkman serves as an executive producer on the project and three-time Academy Award-nominee Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) serves as writer, director and executive producer. Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Aliens, Armageddon, The Incredible Hulk), chairman of Valhalla Motion Pictures, serves as Executive Producer. David Alpert from Circle of Confusion serves as Executive Producer. [CORRECTION] Glen Mazzara (The Shield, Crash, Life), also will serve as Executive Producer.
About FOX International Channels
FOX International Channels (FIC) is News Corporation's international multi-media business. We develop, produce and distribute 200+ wholly- and majority-owned entertainment, factual, sports and movie channels across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, in 35 languages. These networks and their related mobile, non-linear and high-definition extensions, reach over 370 million subscribing households (1 billion cumulative) worldwide. We also operate a global online advertising unit, .FOX (pronounced "dot-fox") specialized in online video and display, and four TV production houses. In operation since: August 14, 1993.
About AMC
AMC reigns as the only network to ever win the Golden Globe® Award for Best Television Series – Drama three years in a row and the only basic cable network to win back-to-back Primetime Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. Whether commemorating favorite films from every genre and decade from the most comprehensive library or creating acclaimed original productions, the AMC experience is an uncompromising celebration of great stories. AMC's original stories include the Emmy® Award-winning dramas Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and insightful non-scripted programming such as AMC News. AMC further demonstrates its commitment to the art of storytelling with curated movie franchises like AMC Hollywood Icon and AMC Complete Collection. Available in more than 95 million homes (Source: Nielsen Media Research), AMC is a subsidiary of Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, which includes sister networks IFC, Sundance Channel, WE tv and Wedding Central. AMC is available across all platforms, including on-air, online, on demand and mobile. AMC: Story Matters HereSM.


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OAKLAND, Calif., March 21, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tauriga Sciences Inc. (OTCQB:TAUG) or ("Tauriga" or "the Company"), a diversified life sciences company with key assets that include license agreements, topical medicinal cannabis lotions, and a proprietary technology platform in the nanorobotics space, is pleased to disclose to shareholders that the Company entered into the March 11, 2014 definitive merger agreement ("definitive agreement") with Oakland, California based Honeywood LLC ("Honeywood"), an affiliate of Doc Green's Healing Collective ("Doc Green's"). Honeywood, co-founded by Daniel Kosmal, Elie Green, and Ramona Rubin, is a visionary enterprise that has been researching and developing cannabis based healing products since 2010. Honeywood's main business models and industry capabilities include: the ability to manufacture medicinal Cannabis based products, the licensing of brands and delivery technologies, and the infrastructure to provide valuable laboratory services to the fast growing medicinal cannabis industry. Honeywood currently generates revenues through the development of proprietary formulations, such as Doc Green's Therapeutic Healing Cream (www.docgreens.org). Since 2009, the Doc Green's brand has been distributed to more than 100 dispensing cooperatives and collectives (http://www.docgreens.org/find) fully compliant with California State medicinal cannabis laws and regulations.
Since its inception, Honeywood has been responsible for overseeing the product development of Doc Green's Healing Collective, formulating and licensing its line of Doc Green's Therapeutic Healing Cream, a cannabis infused shea butter lotion, that delivers the healing power of cannabis through the skin, without psychoactive side effects. Doc Green's itself is a California not for profit entity that strictly adheres to all pertinent California laws, regulations, and guidelines applicable to the State's medicinal cannabis industry. Doc Green's lotion was the first professionally packaged and widely distributed cannabis product on the California market, and has won much acclaim including a first ("1st") prize award at the 2013 High Times Cannabis Cup ("Cannabis Cup") for Best Non-Edible Medically Infused Product.
Honeywood is currently focused on increasing its capacity to produce and develop products, and is actively pursuing intra-state expansion opportunities in the 27 states where state law allows for medicinal cannabis products, and especially in the two states, Washington and Colorado, that allow sales of cannabis for profit. Honeywood has already developed strong relationships with current cannabis producers and distributors in many states, and is in the process of procuring a custom spec large scale supercritical CO2 extraction technology ("CO2 extractor") to meet the increasing demand for high grade medically sterile cannabis extracts that can be infused into its topical and other medicinal cannabis products. The market for cannabis products is emerging rapidly since the federal government has signaled an intention to refrain from enforcement activity against businesses complying with state laws. By completing the merger with Tauriga, Honeywood is confident that the significant influx of working capital will enable both the acceleration of organic growth and expansion to new markets.
People around the world have been healing and relieving pain with the cannabis plant for millennia. A common preparation of cannabis was to extract the medicinal elements of the cannabis by soaking the plants flowers in oil or other substances to dissolve the medicinal compounds into the oil. These cannabis extracts were then applied to the skin (topical application) where the medicinal cannabinoids would enter the skin and body tissues, bringing the medicine directly to the area of the body that was in need of healing and pain relief from injury, tension, inflammation muscle strain, bruising, and other ailments. Modern scientific researchers have discovered that cannabis interacts with a network of pain regulatory receptors that can be found all over the body, called "CB2" receptors (http://www.docgreens.org/product-information).
Cannabinols, the medicinal molecules produced by the cannabis plant, have been found to bind with the CB2 receptors in the body, activating the body's own systems for reducing inflammation and pain. Doc Green's Therapeutic Healing Cream combines the active properties of select strains of cannabis into deep penetrating shea butter lotion that quickly and effectively delivers the cannabinols to injured and painful areas of the body, anecdotally providing relief within seconds that lasts for hours. Quick absorption into the skin and tissues means the cream can be reapplied as needed to calibrate the healing effect. The cannabis is absorbed and remains substantially in local body tissues, and does not cause the psychoactive "high" associated with smoking or ingesting marijuana/cannabis. Preliminary tests have shown that even heavy usage of Doc Green's cream did not show up in urine-analysis screens for cannabis. However Doc Green's cannot guarantee undetectable amounts of THC in blood or urine samples after use.
Doc Green's Therapeutic Healing Cream has a light and pleasant scent of Vanilla or Lavender (from essential oils) and is now also available in "Unscented". The cream absorbs quickly into the skin, and does not leave an oily residue on the skin that stains clothes. One application of Doc Green's when in pain, or every few hours, is usually sufficient. Many people experience great benefits from applying the cream before bed and first thing in the morning, reporting that Doc Greens Therapeutic Healing Cream provides relief to their muscles and aches, while keeping them clear-headed.
Please See Below Personal Bio(s) for Three Principals of Honeywood LLC
Daniel Kosmal, Esq. age 41 (President, co-Founder)
Daniel Kosmal, Esq. grew up in Los Angeles. He has a foundation in chemistry and biology from his undergraduate degree in Resource Conservation at UC Berkeley, class of 1999, and was admitted to the California State Bar in 2003.
Elie Green, age 35 (co-Founder)
Elie Green grew up in the New York area and attended business school at Touro College. He has been involved in the cannabis industry in California since 2007, cultivating deep connections throughout the emerging industry.
Ramona Rubin, age 36 (co-Founder)
Ramona Rubin is a health-focused researcher and epidemiologist. She grew up in California and comes from a long line of prolific scientists. Ramona has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan, class of 2005 and a BA in Cultural Ecology from UC Santa Cruz, 1999.
Honeywood LLC President Mr. Daniel Kosmal stated, "Our flagship brand Doc Green's has been pioneering the topical cannabis market for several years, and has recently experienced a surge in market interest and demand. We have been approached by a number of interested investors and companies and our principals have confidently made the decision to combine our business with Tauriga Sciences Inc. and its impressive and talented management team. We believe that integrating our business into Tauriga's can provide us with the requisite capital resources and expertise to increase revenues in the State of California as well as expand into other states in an accelerated and efficient manner. Tauriga's successful completion of its acquisition of Pilus Energy was also a major factor in our decision, because we were impressed with that business model and the potential diversification that it may represent to us long term."
Tauriga CEO Dr. Stella Sung commented, "We are pleased to be adding Honeywood and the Doc Green's product line to our portfolio of assets. The topical cannabis space is compelling from a scientific standpoint, and there is a large addressable and growing market for this legitimate product."
As of March 21, 2014, the Company has paid a total of $175,000 USD to Honeywood pursuant to the definitive agreement, all of which has been credited towards Tauriga's financing obligations at closing. In addition, as of today's date, the Company reports that its current cash position (inclusive of approximately $70,000 USD in marketable securities) exceeds $1,000,000 USD; its highest reported cash level since October 2012. The Company has decided to disclose its current cash position, due to several recently published articles that are relying on historical financial figures (from the Form 10Q ending 12/31/2013) that no longer accurately reflect the fundamentals of the Company.
On March 10, 2014, Tauriga Sciences signed a definitive agreement to Acquire California based Honeywood LLC ("Honeywood"). Founded in 2009, Honeywood has developed both an extensive line of medicinal cannabis products as well as delivery technologies. Honeywood is a revenue generating company whose formulas have been distributed to more than 100 cannabis dispensaries in the State of California. This definitive agreement is in effect for a period of 120 days (from the date of signing) and both parties are working diligently to complete the transaction.
About Tauriga Sciences, Inc.:
Tauriga Sciences, Inc. (TAUG) is a diversified company focused on generating profitable revenues through license agreements and the development of a proprietary technology platform in the nano-robotics space. The mission of the Company is to acquire and build a diversified portfolio of cutting edge technology assets that is capital efficient and of significant value to the shareholders. The Company's business model includes the acquisition of licenses, equity stakes, rights on both an exclusive and non-exclusive basis, and entire businesses. Management is firmly committed to building lasting shareholder value in the short, intermediate, and long terms. On January 28, 2014 the Company completed its acquisition of Cincinnati, Ohio based Pilus Energy LLC ("Pilus Energy"), a developer of alternative cleantech energy platforms using proprietary microbial solutions that creates electricity while consuming polluting molecules from wastewater. The Company's corporate website can be found at (www.tauriga.com).
About Honeywood LLC
Oakland, California headquartered Honeywood LLC, co-founded by Daniel Kosmal, Elie Green, and Ramona Rubin, is a visionary enterprise that has been researching and developing cannabis based healing products since 2010. Honeywood's main business models and industry capabilities include: the ability to manufacture medicinal Cannabis based products, the licensing of brands and delivery technologies, and the infrastructure to provide valuable laboratory services to the fast growing medicinal cannabis industry. Honeywood currently generates revenues through the development of proprietary formulations, such as Doc Green's Therapeutic Healing Cream (www.docgreens.org). The Doc Green's brand has been distributed to more than 100 dispensing cooperatives and collectives (http://www.docgreens.org/find) fully compliant with California State medicinal cannabis laws and regulations.
Forward-Looking Statements: Except for statements of historical fact, this news release contains certain "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation expectations, beliefs, plans and objectives regarding the development, use and marketability of products. Such forward-looking statements are based on present circumstances and on TAUG's predictions with respect to events that have not occurred, that may not occur, or that may occur with different consequences and timing than those now assumed or anticipated. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the events or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include general economic and business conditions, the ability to successfully develop and market products, consumer and business consumption habits, the ability to fund operations and other factors over which TAUG has little or no control. Such forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this release, and TAUG assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. Readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and other factors are discussed in documents filed from time to time by TAUG with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release does not and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any offer to buy any of the securities, nor shall there be any sale of the securities, in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. The securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration, or an applicable exemption from registration, under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
CONTACT: Tauriga Sciences, Inc.: Dr. Stella M. Sung Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tauriga Sciences, Inc. www.tauriga.com San Diego: + 1-858-353-5749 Montreal: + 1-514-840-3697 Email: email@example.com
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Free MLB Baseball Prediction From Strike Point Sports : Take UNDER 7.5 Milwaukee at Miami (7 p.m., Friday, May 20) We have two very underrated hurlers on the mound today, and I think that were going to see a tight, low-scoring affair here. Tom Koehler has been a revelation for the Marlins this year. He has a scant 2.25 ERA and has thrown at least seven shutout innings in three of his last four starts. This guy has absolutely dominated opponents at home this year, and in his last three starts in Miami he has given up zero runs and just six hits in 22 innings. That is absolutely remarkable. The under has cashed in four of his last six starts, and I think that Koehler will keep humming along against a Brewers lineup that isnt clicking right now. Marco Estrada has been very good for the Brewers as well. He has a 3.64 ERA and has seven quality starts in his last 10 times on the mound to go along with a 3-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. The Marlins have been hitting the ball very well lately. But they are due for a letdown after a tough series with Philadelphia. I think that this game has 3-1 written all over it, and this one will stay under.
Free MLB Baseball Prediction From Robert Ferringo : Take OVER 8.0 Colorado at Atlanta (7:30 p.m., Friday, May 23) I smell runs. The Rockies have one of the best lineups in baseball, and they never need an excuse to put up crooked numbers. They have been scoring so much, however, that the books have overadjusted their totals, and heading into this weeks series with San Francisco they had gone under in eight of 11 games. The idea will be that now that the Rockies are away from Coors Field they will be scoring less. Well, not exactly. It is going to be hot in Atlanta this weekend, and the ball always carries at Turner Field when there is high heat and low humidity. I think the Rockies will get their cuts in against Fridays starter, Gavin Floyd. I am a huge fan of Floyds work from his time back with the White Sox. But after an awesome opening start hes been touched for four runs in each of his last two starts. I think hell be good again at home. But I still think the Rockies can scratch out a trio of runs against Floyd, who is more of a pitch-to-contact kind of guy. On the other hand we have Jordan Lyles. Now this guy is pitching way over his head. He had a career ERA well over 5.00 before joining the Rockies. And how many pitchers do you know see their ERA go down once they go to Colorado? The answer is none. Lyles got lit up for six runs in three innings his last time on the hill. I expect that to mark the beginning of his descent. The Braves offense has been horrific over the last few weeks. But all that has done is water down their totals. This team is night-and-day different when it plays at home. The Braves are a homer-happy, all-or-nothing offense. But this weekend I expect them to launch some bombs, and the stats show that they are due for a breakout offensively. We started to see just that in the Milwaukee series, and the Braves scored 20 runs in three games from Sunday to Tuesday. Expect more of the same at Lyles expense in this one.
Free MLB Baseball Prediction From Allen ******* : Take Cincinnati over St. Louis (7 p.m., Saturday, May 24) The Cardinals are the heavy favorite in the Central this year, but I dont think they have played up to their reputation. I think that this is a very good chance for the Reds to earn a much-needed victory against their division rivals. The main reason I like the Cardinals is that they have struggled against left-handed pitching a lot this year. They are just 3-7 in their last 10 games against a lefty starter. They will be facing Cincinnatis lefty ace Tony Cingrani. He is back healthy after some time off and will be sharp. Cingrani set a record earlier this year with his 16thstraight start with five or fewer hits allowed. The Reds have their bullpen secure with Aroldis Chapman, another lefty, back in the fold. I think the Reds will need this game more than the Cardinals. And I think they get the job done with a winner here.
Free MLB Baseball Prediction From Jason Sharpe: Take #927 Houston (-105) over Seattle (10 p.m., Saturday, May 24) It's never easy to back the Houston Astros, but there is one guy you should be looking at every time he pitches for them, Dallas Keuchel. The 26-year-old left-hander has turned into an ace with over a 4 to 1 strikeout-to-walk ratio, an ERA under 3.00 for the season and a WHIP hovering right around 1.00 overall. He even looks like he's getting better also as he has posted an ERA of just 1.42 with 22 strikeouts to only 1 walk in his last three outings, and those came against the Angels, Rangers and Tigers, which are solid offensive teams. Probably the most impressive stat of them all though is the fact that the lowly Astros have won six of his nine starts this season.
The Mariners counter with another up-and-coming pitcher in Brandon Maurer. I tried earlier on to be a fan of Maurer, but it's obvious he's just not quite ready for this yet. He did pitch his best outing of the season two starts back against the Royals, but overall he sitting at a 6.00 ERA and a 1.67 WHIP as well. The Astros should be able to score against Maurer as their offense has actually been pretty good of late as they come in 7th in all of baseball in team batting average in the last 20 games.
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South Africa: Basic Education On Exam Leak Suspect
Exam leak suspect denied bail
Tinyiko Elphas Khosa, the man charged with fraud and corruption for his alleged involvement in the leaked National Senior Certificate examination paper, appeared in the Giyani Magistrates court on Wednesday and Thursday (today) where the court heard his formal bail hearing.
The Magistrate has denied Khosa bail in the matter, saying it is not in the interest of justice that he continues to live in the vicinity of the affected learners especially considering the allegations that he had tried to intimidate witnesses. The Magistrate said the intimidation of witnesses needed to be investigated further.
Khosa was remanded in police custody and is due back in court 19 December 2016.
The Department of Basic Education is pleased with the outcome of the bail hearing which will ensure that learners who may be witnesses are left in peace as they continue with the last few examinations.
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|Who are we? - Management structure
The EB implements decisions on executive management, prepare decisions to be approved by the SSC and the MGA and makes decisions on executive management. It meets annually at the consortium meeting and monthly by phone, web or email and is chaired by the Project Coordinator.
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WASHINGTON, July 23 -
Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
My amendment cuts aid to Pakistan in this bill in half. This is the same amendment that passed this House last year by voice vote.
Pakistan seems to be the Benedict Arnold nation in the list of countries that we call allies. They have proven to be deceptive, deceitful, and a danger to the United States.
The day Osama bin Laden met his maker will go down in history as an important moment. Our manhunt did not end in a remote cave in the mountains, but in a palace in a bustling military town 35 miles from Islamabad. To think that the most senior levels of the Pakistani Government did not know he was there requires, as Secretary Clinton has said, the ``willing suspension of disbelief.''
Soon after, our suspicions were confirmed. Instead of celebrating with us the capture of the number one terrorist in the world, Pakistan arrested the one person that helped the United States capture Osama bin Laden. And last year, Pakistan sentenced Dr. Afridi to 33 years in prison.
In February of 2012, a NATO report said ISI--which is Pakistan's CIA--is aiding the Taliban and other extremist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan by providing resources, sanctuary, and training. In June of 2011, Pakistan tipped off terrorists making IEDs not once, but twice, after we told them where the bomb-making factories were and asked Pakistan to go after them. But they did not. They told the terrorists that we were coming.
Throughout 2011, Pakistan tried to cheat the United States by filing bogus reimbursement claims for allegedly going after militants when they weren't even doing that. On September 22, 2011, Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that:
With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack, as well as the assault on our Embassy.
The truck bombing he mentions here wounded more than 70 Americans and NATO troops, who were injured because of that bombing. Admiral Mullen went on to say that this terrorist network acts as the arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency.
It doesn't seem to me that Pakistan deserves any more of our money. We've been doing the same thing for the last 10 years. Since 2002, Pakistan has collected a total of $26 billion of American money. And what have we gotten in return? Treachery. It's time for a new strategy with Pakistan.
There are some who say we need to pay Pakistan to help with our withdrawal. All their shutting down of the southern route showed was that we don't need Pakistan. We were able to pursue our mission even though they shut down that route. What really endangers our troops is not whether or not we have a southern supply route but whether or not we have access to Pakistan's tribal areas. Of course that has been off limits, according to the Pakistan Government.
This bill gives Pakistan over $1 billion. Cutting funding in half hopefully will send a message--long overdue--to the Pakistanis that they can't play us anymore, that we mean business.
To add a few more comments, Mr. Chairman, a poll conducted in Pakistan showed that 64 percent of the Pakistanis consider the United States the enemy, and yet we are paying them $1 billion a year? Doesn't make any sense to me. Plus, Americans who have an unfavorable view of Pakistan is 81 percent.
So why do we pay Pakistan to be our enemy? Why do we pay them to hate us? Mr. Chairman, I submit they will do both of those things for free.
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|Back to this week's Parsha
Parshas Vayikra
And He called to Moshe (1:1).
Sefer Vayikra is composed primarily of halachos, Jewish laws -- very difficult and demanding laws. Limited narrative appears in the text. It is, therefore, interesting to note that this Sefer specifically has traditionally been used as the starting point for a child's educational journey. Commentators suggest many explanations for the significance of exposing a child to Sefer Vayikra. Is this starting point consistent with educational guidelines? Pedagogues and psychologists offer the critique that confronting such difficult material at a young age is self-defeating. A child should be taught stories, tales, and legends, but not dry halachah -- or should he?
While, undoubtedly, textbooks for young children focus on the simple narrative, the Torah is not merely a textbook. It is the Jew's blueprint for life. Hence, it is important to lay down the rules immediately at the onset of a child's educational development. A child must know that life is not comprised simply of stories and games; rather, life consists of commitment, action and service to the Almighty. Rules and regulations govern a Jew's life. We are not free to do what we please. There are rules to live by, obligations to fulfill, and observances to perform. This perspective might sound overwhelming, but it depends on the way it is perceived. If parents and educators transmit the idea with a positive expression, with excitement, enthusiasm and joy, then the child will respond accordingly. If he cannot present the orientation in this manner, then that person should not be teaching. Life should be vibrant; Torah gives meaning to this vibrancy.
And He called to Moshe (1:1).
Moshe Rabbeinu personified humility in the truest sense of the word. Despite being able to speak to Hashem face to face, Moshe would still not enter the Kodesh Hakodashim, Holy of Holies, unless he had been called. Chazal derive from Moshe's behavior that a talmid chacham, Torah scholar, who does not possess daas, knowledge, manifests a lesser value than an animal's carcass. Chazal's use of the word "daas" begs elucidation. We are addressing Moshe's derech eretz, manners, not his knowledge. Why do Chazal critique the scholar who lacks daas, rather than the one who is deficient in his derech eretz?
Responding to this question, Horav Mordechai Gifter, Shlita, first defines "daas." The concept of daas is usually found in conjunction with the terms of chochmah, binah, daas -- wisdom, understanding and knowledge. The three represent ascending levels of knowledge, of which daas is the most eminent. Chochmah and binah are both levels of understanding which are restricted solely to the mind. In other words, one may have chochmah and binah, but these attributes may not necessarily be integrated into his lifestyle. The wisdom and understanding that they project are exclusive of their behavior. Daas has a different connotation. Indeed, the English translation for daas, knowledge, does not provide an accurate description of this concept. One who achieves daas possesses a knowledge that governs his every move. It becomes part of one's psyche, as it transforms his personality. Hence, when one comprehends an idea on the level of daas, he will surely live by it.
Moshe Rabbeinu's derech eretz was the result of his daas. It was not etiquette, but rather the manifestation of a profound level of Torah knowledge that governed every aspect of his life. Thus, Chazal emphasize that a Torah scholar elevates his Torah knowledge to the level of daas, so that it controls and directs his every action.
This is expected of man, for man is the only creature capable of achieving such a level of knowledge. This is his purpose and goal in life. If he fails, he is worse off than an animal whose potential is not as high. The animal that does not have daas can still fulfill its potential. A man who lacks daas has failed in his primary goal in life. Hence, such a person is worse off than an animal's carcass. The animal, at least, attains his own potential.
When a man among you brings an offering to Hashem: from animals (1:2).
Horav Shlomo, zl, M'Radomsk, renders this pasuk homiletically. A man who goes about his way with limited closeness to the Almighty, may take a lesson from an animal that becomes consecrated as a sacrifice by virtue of man's utterance. A man points to an animal and says, "Harei zu Olah," "This shall be an Olah sacrifice." He, thereby, sanctifies this animal, designating it to be a Korban Olah merely by the words that exit his mouth. The animal has not changed one iota. It is man's expression, his articulation of his intentions regarding this animal, that effect its spiritual transformation. What does that tell us about man's dibur, power of speech? Imagine how holy his words of Torah or tefillah, prayer, are. Speech is but one aspect of the human condition. It is probably the most powerful of his capabilities, since it distinguishes him from the animal world, but it remains only one dimension of his essence.
"When a man among you brings an offering to Hashem": When a man seeks to bring himself closer to the Almighty - "from animals" - he can learn a lesson from the manner in which an animal becomes holy - through his own speech. When a man realizes the power vested in him, he will become closer to Hashem. Our greatest deficit is our lack of self-recognition, our unawareness of our own unique spiritual qualities.
He shall remove its crop with its innards, and he shall throw it next to the Mizbayach (1:16).
Rashi notes that regarding the Olah, burnt offering of an animal -- which eats only from the feeding trough of its owner -- the Torah states that the innards are washed and placed on the Mizbayach and burnt. Regarding a fowl, however -- which generally takes it sustenance from that which has been stolen -- the Torah demands that its innards be discarded. Hashem does not want to derive any pleasure/benefit from a forbidden object or from something that has been realized through inappropriate means.
In its mussar shmuessen, ethical discourses, Yeshivas Bais Sholom Mordechai cites a number of sources to substantiate this thesis. In the Talmud Megillah 12a, Chazal state that the Jews in Persia during the reign of Achashveirosh were indicted by the Heavenly Tribunal for the pleasure they derived when they participated in the king's feast. While they were compelled by the law of the land to join in the festivities, no one dictated that they had to enjoy it! While attending the feast of a wicked anti-Semite might be necessary, having a "good time" and partaking in the festivities as if one "belongs," is a grave sin.
Descending Har Sinai, Moshe Rabbeinu observed the Golden Calf together with the revelry that accompanied it. His response was swift and decisive; he broke the Luchos, Tablets containing the Ten Commandments. The Torah seems to emphasize that the Golden Calf alone did not prompt Moshe's action; it was also the revelry, the music and dancing. What does the revelry add to the Golden Calf that intensities the iniquity? How does one "add" to a sin of such magnitude? In accordance with our thesis, we may suggest that a person may fall prey to his evil-inclination, his mind may even sustain a momentary loss of seichel, common sense. How can one, however, enjoy the fruits of his error? When one obtains benefit, when he has the gall to celebrate his iniquity, he takes the transgression to a new low, to the nadir of depravity and ingratitude. The contemptuousness of his actions is magnified by the enjoyment he sustains.
During World War I, a great hunger reigned throughout Europe. Indeed, people were dying from malnutrition. The leading rabbis at the time permitted people to eat whatever they could, even if the food was not kosher, so great was the famine. The story is told that the Chofetz Chaim once noticed a Jew who, due to extreme hunger, was compelled to eat a piece of non-kosher meat. When the person finished the meat, he proceeded to suck the marrow from the bones. The Chofetz Chaim turned to him and said, "It is permitted to eat the meat, but to suck the bones dry is forbidden." At times we are forced to engage in, or to be sustained by, forbidden foods. This is merely a temporary dispensation due to the extenuous circumstances. It does not give the individual license to take pleasure and derive benefit from it.
In summation, in certain circumstances we are forced to act in a manner which otherwise would be considered inappropriate. We must view these situations as beyond our control. We must, therefore, act in a manner which bespeaks our coerced/negative attitude. Otherwise, it might even seem that we were waiting for such an opportunity.
For you shall not cause any leavening or fruit-honey to go up in smoke as a fire offering to Hashem… you shall salt your every meal-offering… you shall offer salt on your every offering (2:11,13).
Horav Mordechai Gifter, Shlita, offers a profound, yet practical, explanation for the difference between leavening, honey and salt. These condiments have a varied effect on food. Leavening and honey add a foreign taste to food. Salt, on the other hand, enhances food by bringing out the taste of the food itself. Food that has been enhanced by leavening or honey has an artificial taste. Not so food that has been treated with salt. Its own inner taste is brought forth, enhancing it internally. The Torah teaches us to serve Hashem in a manner mimicking the characteristics of salt. Rather than seeking external, artificial means for expressing our avodas Hashem, service of the Almighty, we should conjure up our own unique qualities to serve Him. These inner qualities and talents might be lying dormant, imbedded in our psyche, waiting for that opportunity when they may attain their full potential. It is our duty to "salt" them, so that they achieve their complete potential.
All too often, people get "turned on," inspired, to Torah observance through artificial means. While there is no dispute that different people respond to different methods, it is essential that the artificial not be transformed into reality. These means exist to serve one purpose - to awaken and arouse the Pintele Yid, the Jewish soul that lays dormant, concealed under layers of assimilation and indifference. Once it has been laid bare and given the opportunity to thrive, it should be exposed to bona-fide observance through Torah study and mitzvah performance.
We may add that Horav Gifter's thesis applies equally to Torah chinuch, education. The teacher should arouse the student's inner qualities and abilities. He should be inspired to use his mind, to think on his own, to take the rebbe's lesson as a springboard for greater depth and understanding of the Torah. A teacher should focus on enhancing the student's mind, as he challenges his acumen and aptitude, thereby motivating him to achieve his full potential.
When a person will sin unintentionally from among all the commandments of Hashem that may not be done (4:2).
The Toras Kohanim states that the phrase, "From all the commandments of Hashem," includes an eishes ish and a niddah, married woman and a menstruant. They add that a married woman is different from a niddah in the sense that an eishes ish is at least permitted to her husband, while the niddah is permitted to no one. It seems that according to the Toras Kohanim, the heter, dispensation, permitting a married woman to her husband is a kula, leniency, in regard to the issur, prohibition, of eishes ish. This is supported by the Talmud in Gitten 83a. How are we to understand this? A married woman is considered a married woman to other men, but not to her husband - or is she?
Horav Moshe Shternbuch, Shlita, cites the Rogatchover Gaon, zl, who explains that when a woman marries, she is designated to a life of kedushah, holiness. She is permitted to her husband only because this is the purpose of her holiness. During those times in which she is ritually unclean, she is thus prohibited to her husband as if she would be an eishes ish. She is in a holy state once she gets married, and she is permitted to her husband only during those times in which she is tahor, ritually clean. Otherwise, she remains in a state of kedushah as an eishes ish. The Rogatchover applies this exposition to explain why in the Sefer Hapardes, Rashi says that if one were to have relations with his wife during the time that she is a niddah, the resulting child would be a mamzer, illegitimate. Most other poskim, arbitors of Jewish law, dispute this, claiming that one is not illegitimate if he is the product of a niddah. According to the previous thesis that a woman is considered an eishes ish even in regard to her own husband, one who has relations with his wife when she is a niddah is also in violation of the prohibition of eishes ish.
Despite the fact that most poskim disagree with this theory, there is, nonetheless, a profound and novel lesson to be derived from here. We have an understanding of the Torah's mandate regarding the husband/wife relationship. It boils down to one word: kedushah, holiness. The act of marriage is called keddushin, because it renders the woman holy. She is holy to everyone. She is, however, permitted to her husband during those times that she can enhance her kedushah through physical relations. The purpose of marriage is to elevate kedushah. That is what Judaism is all about.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
1) How many times are statements in the Torah made to Moshe and Aharon together?
2) How many times are statements made to Moshe, exclusive of Aharon?
3) A. May one bring an offering from that which is stolen?
B. May a Yisrael slaughter a korban?
4) When the Torah says that honey cannot be offered on the Mizbayach, what is the meaning of honey?
5) What is the "azkarah" of a Korban Minchah?
6) A Korban Chatas is brought for a sin whose intentional violation is prohibited by a ____ ______ and is punished by ______. Its unintentional violation must be atoned for by a Korban _______.
1) Thirteen.
2) Thirteen.
3) A.Yes. The Kohen's domain begins with the kabollas hadam, receiving of the blood.
4) Anything sweet which comes from fruit is referred to as honey.
5) This is a reference to the "Kemitzah," three finger-full scoop of flour that is separated.
6) a) Lo Sa'asei. b) Kares. c) Asham.
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Hey Guys,
Australia beat Pakistan by 57 runs in the 5th ODI to win the VB ODI series 4 to 1. Here is the full scorecard and commentary.
A blast on Australia day for the Aussies. The fireworks in the day of classic hundreds by David Warner and Travis Head were followed by the fireworks in the night. A record breaking partnership between Warner and Head was the highest Australian ODI partnership with 284 runs to its name. More records could have been broken if Warner had stuck around for a little bit longer but this was not the case. The match was called dead rubber by many pundits but for the Aussies it was a bouncy innings.
Australia finished with a mammoth total of 369 for 7 and looking at the batting of the Pakistanis it looked like a impossible total for them but as we know Pakistan is one of the most unpredictable teams on Earth so the result could still go either way. For the win, Pakistan would have to chase the 3rd highest successful ODI chase but it was just too big of a task despite a century from Baber Azam and and entertaining 79 from Sharjeel Khan. The good news from Pakistan was that they made their highest score of the series with 312 but still lost. They have arrived home with 4-1 in the ODI series and 3-0 in the test series.
The only disappointment for the Aussies was that Warner could not turn his 179 into a 200. It was Warner's 13th ODI century propelling him to the position of No. 1 ODI batsman. However, the hundred that was appreciated was the maiden one from Head, who replaced Usman Khawaja as the opener for the last ODI and is slowly cementing his position in the Australian side. Head scored a 128 of 137 balls.
Warner fell 6 runs short of the highest ODI score by an Australian – the record is still held by Watson which was a 185 against Bangladesh in 2011. It was visible that Warner was feeling the cramps towards the end of his innings and was finally (for the Pakistanis) out courtesy a slower ball bouncer from Junaid Khan that he slashed at and a good low catch was taken by Babar Azam.
Pakistan had gone 41 overs without a wicket but then got Warner and 2 balls later Smith skied one which was caught by a running Wahab Riaz, who jammed his knee in the ground when diving for the catch. It was a good enlightenment to the poor fielding throughout the series. Its going to be a hard year for Steve Rixon if Pakistan keep fielding like they did in every match against the Australians.
Dropping Warner on the 1st ball of the match – a out swinger of the bowling of Amir – was definitely the turning point even when the journey had just started. 179 runs later the damage had already been done. Another chance was dropped when Amir dropped a sitter. Pakistan did take some catches in the last 10 overs but by now it was too late and damage had already been done.
Australia scored exactly 100 runs of the last 10 overs, but the openers led the path for the huge total. Warner went to a 50 of 34 balls (his fastest in an ODI) without smashing his trade mark six. However, as that hurdle was passed he smashed 2 consecutive sixes of the bowling of Mohammed Hafeez. He continued to smash but on the other end Head payed a watchful innings. Warner reached his 100 (with his patented celebration) before Head could get to his 50. This tells you at the tempo he was playing. Although the difference between strike rate, they both got to their milestones at their 78th ball – for Warner his 100 and Head his 50.
This definitely became Warner's fastest ODI hundred although he had scored a test hundred before lunch against Pakistan off just 69 balls. With the way he was batting, a double century was definitely on the table as he raced to his 150 of just 107 balls but the cramps were coming in and pain was one of the main factors of his wicket.
Warner scored runs all around the ground with almost an even spread of leg side and off side shot. He struck 19 fours and 5 sixes before his high jumping innings finally came to an end. Head got his 100 in the previous over of his 121st delivery. He played a textbook innings with many of his shots front of the wickets including 9 fours and 3 sixes. He then skied a catch to Hasan Ali. Paksitan had 2 centurions with Hasan Ali being the first who gave 100 hundred off his 10 overs and then there was Babar Azam.
Going against a colossal total like 369, Pakistan needed the right start with a strong start but the loss of Azhar Ali off a LBW to an in-swinger by Mitchell Starc for 6 was not the best start. Enter Babar Azam. Sharjeel and Babar sailed the ship through choppy waters with a partnership of 130 that frustated the Australians. Sharjeel continued his decent form in Australia with his up trend of scores: 18, 29, 50, 74 and now 79 off 69 balls which included 2 sixes but ended his Australian tour when he top edged a hook Starc.
Starc looked dangerous from the start and when he took the wicket of Mohammed Hafeez that theory was vindicated before Shoaib Malik chopped one onto the forearm and retired hurt and did not come back to try to help Pakistan. Babar completed his 4th ODI century and the next ball was gone by a leading edge of Josh Hazlewood for 100 of 109 balls. Umar Akmal a steady innings of 46 of 59 with 7 fours but when he got the required run-rate hit the roof with over 15.
The series was wrapped up and given as a gift to the Australians from the Pakistanis when Mitchell Starc saw the lighting up stumps of Wahab Riaz to finish with figures of 4 for 42. Warner was once again the dominating force in this match but he will rest for the Chappel-Hadlee series against New Zealand. He was the dominating figure in the whole series being awarded the man of the match and the man of the series. The Australian summer was finished with 2 types of fireworks
There is no doubt that Pakistan will need to work more on their fielding as well as adapting to the modern game. We all know that the Pakistani people are very emotional so I wish all the best to the Pakistan cricket team and I hope they stay safe from the general population and the media.
Peace Out,
The Cornered Tiger


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Whether you're at work, shopping, or running errands, activewear is now considered suitable attire for many of these occasions. People are increasingly choosing comfort over other factors, making activewear a part of the everyday dress code. Another important trend in recent years is the proliferation of yoga pants. This makes the activewear category a very interesting one to look into, as it expands its influence beyond the gym and running track.
The Indix Cloud Catalog carries more than 445,000 in-stock activewear products spanning 385 brands and selling across 231 stores. Out of these, active tops, bottoms, jackets and coats comprise 86% of the products, which formed the dataset we used for our analysis.
Among other things, it was notable to see the increasing number of traditionally non-active brands engaged in the industry. Whether it's Aeropostale or Forever 21, everyone is going for a piece of the athleisure pie. We also uncovered a lot of interesting insights on product assortment and price, and distilled them into an infographic. Check out the full infographic here.
Note: All datasets were pulled from the Indix Product API in August 2016 and include only "in stock" products. The sample comprised more than 445,000 products spanning 385 brands and selling across 231 online stores.
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Jack O'Donnell was a great athlete who was fortunate enough to find a sport he loved, and to receive the support he needed to enable him to achieve his potential.
Tragically, in the summer of 2010, just as Jack was looking forward to his 16th birthday, he suffered a fatal accident. Despite medical efforts Jack passed away on the 27th of July 2010.
The Jack O'Donnell Foundation's primary aim is to give other children the inspiration and financial support that Jack received, so that they too can achieve their potential in the sport they love. It is also our aim to fund life changing/saving medical treatment to young people who are in great need, just as Jack was.
Jack was a young man who loved to play and support many sports. He loved football, especially his beloved Manchester United. Albeit talented in many sports, Jack's gift was for Ice Hockey for which he had a driving passion.
He played his first game out on the rink when he was just 8 years old, and his too-brief career grew from strength to strength. After a couple of seasons at Oxford City Stars, he moved to the Swindon Wildcats. His commitment was as strong as his talent, and with great facilities and coaching, Jack flourished.
Jack represented the South West of England and also went on to play for England. He trained and played as much as possible visiting many counties and countries along the way. Jack's skills as a player and a leader were rewarded with the great honour of becoming captain of his country at junior level. Jack decided to become a professional ice hockey player and left school after his GCSEs in the summer of 2010. He was due to start his apprenticeship with the Swindon Wildcats senior team after the summer holidays.


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In a previous announcement, Sen. Casperson and the Senate Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing Committee scheduled a hearing at the Delta County Road Commission on Friday, August 19. That event has since been cancelled. Please note the new time of the committee hearing that will still be held at the Care Free Dental Clinic that day. Thank you.
Who: State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba; Senate Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing Committee; and members of the public.
What: The committee will hold a public hearing on the matter of providing dental care to those lacking means to afford treatment.
When: Friday, August 19
Where: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT
Care Free Dental Clinic
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Brief: The committee launched the website MIReform.com in February to offer Michigan residents a simple way to submit their ideas for reinventing Michigan. Topics of reform include everything from budget and corrections to taxes and health care.
For more information, please contact Casperson's office at www.SenatorTomCasperson.com or by phone at 517-373-7840.


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Wow, it's been almost two weeks since my last post! It's almost spring break, and I've been studying like mad for midterms. I've been in the lab very little the past two weeks. <sad face>
Monday Anthony and I went on a little excursion to the Bosque looking for tardigrade habitats. Read his post here. It was an interesting experience. Anthony had mentioned tardigrades a few months ago. I did a Google search and found lots of interesting information about these little creatures:
- They are found everywhere in the world, from the Himalayas to the Artic. They live in Hot Springs and Forests.
- They can survive in extreme environments because they can pause their metabolism and enter a state of suspended animation, called cryptobiosis.When they are in this state they are in a tun.
- They can survive without water for over 100 years while in tun.
- They can withstand 1000 times more radiation than any other living creature known.
- They can also survive in space (without space suites or spaceships).
All in all they are very impressive little critters.
So why were we looking for them? Well, since I've been here, all our research on D2O and DDW has been with tobacco and Arabidopsis seeds. We are now moving into the next phase of research, using yeast and e.coli. One day we were talking about this next phase, and Anthony mentioned that it would be cool to see what effects D2O and DDW have on other life forms. Since Tardigrades are so adaptable, we started looking into getting some for our experiments. Since they are found everywhere we decided to go on a Tardigrade hunt.
The following steps are how to find them (taken from Sarah Bordenstein's page at Carleton College):
- Collect a clump of moss or lichen (dry or wet) and place in a shallow dish, such as a Petri dish.
- Soak in water (preferably rainwater or distilled water) for 3-24 hours.
- Remove and discard excess water from the dish.
- Shake or squeeze the moss/lichen clumps over another transparent dish to collect trapped water.
- Starting on a low objective lens, examine the water using a stereo microscope.
- Use a micropipette to transfer tardigrades to a slide, which can be observed with a higher power under a compound microscope.
Today we started step 2.