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For the last several months, various media outlets have been sharply critical of the Obama administration's unsuccessful attempt in July 2014 to rescue four American hostages held by ISIS in Syria. This coverage has been especially stinging since all the hostages have since died, most of them publicly executed by ISIS.
The public treatment ranges from the thoughtful to the thoughtless, but in all cases the coverage betrays a case of "Captain Hindsight"—and a woeful underestimation of how incredibly difficult a hostage rescue is to successfully carry out. To wit:
The Washington Post published an extensive article about the particular rescue operation, noting up front the "painful questions about whether more could have been done to save them." CBS News pointed out one of the hostages "may have been at site of rescue attempt." The Guardian got in on the act. Fox News trumped them all by essentially claiming the White House willingly allowed ISIS to kill its hostages.
The main point of contention appears to be that the Obama Administration was too slow and timid in acting on intelligence on the hostages' location in Ar Raqqah, ISIS' self-styled capital in Syria.
Let me offer a contrarian viewpoint, as I have one experience with the complexity involved in these types of operations. I was part of the mission in 2003 to rescue U.S. Private First Class Jessica Lynch, who Iraqi forces captured when her convoy was ambushed in An Nasiriyah. At the time, I was an E-4 SAW gunner in the Army Rangers, so beyond receiving the mission brief I was not privy to any intelligence information or planning. Subsequent press reports indicated U.S. forces received actionable human intelligence on Lynch's whereabouts before launching the mission to rescue her.
I remember being frustrated we had to stand around and tap our feet overnight in some desolate Iraqi airbase about an hour away from our objective. I am certain I was not alone in feeling this way. Eventually, the mission was a go, and we rescued Lynch and recovered 8 other American bodies in a soccer field next to the hospital.
The comparison between the Lynch rescue and the unsuccessful ISIS operation is instructive if the media is pushing the narrative that the administration was too timid. It's clear the operation in 2014 was much more difficult to pull off, the intelligence was weaker, and the risk of disaster was dramatically higher.
Rescuing PFC Lynch was a large-scale operation, involving Ranger elements from two different battalions as well as SEALs, and Marines. We had secondary goals too: we were to take the city of An Nasiriyah and retrieve our fallen comrades. But the logistics with the Lynch mission were much less complicated than in Syria in 2014. Americans controlled large parts of Iraq in 2003 and our mission launched near to the objective.
The ISIS mission, by contrast, needed to launch from much-farther-away Jordan—and hence be coordinated with the Jordanian government—and would require some 100 US personnel to fly many miles of hostile territory.
The intelligence also was superior in the Lynch operation. After the Marines received information on Lynch's location, they sent the informant back to collect more information before launching the raid—even though it delayed the operation—because precise intelligence raised the likelihood of success and lowered the risk of friendly casualties.
Compare this to 2014. The Pentagon and the President were forced to make the decision to launch based on piecing together accounts of debriefings of freed European hostages, who in those circumstances were likely to provide incomplete and potentially contradictory accounts. It's clear that the suggestion in the press that the administration had an unusually high threshold for intelligence doesn't square with past practice.
The potential for a disastrous outcome in Syria in 2014 was also much higher than in the Jessica Lynch mission. There were no persistent air surveillance assets to provide real-time intelligence over Syria. The size of the enemy force was unpredictable, and if a large-scale firefight erupted in an area that by most accounts is uniformly hostile to the U.S., there would be little chance to organize an adequate rescue mission.
The situation might have been much worse than the Battle of Mogadishu, when hostile fighters surrounded Task Force Ranger, killed 18, wounded 73, captured helicopter pilot Michael Durant, and paraded the dead bodies of two Delta Force soldiers on international television. All this happened even though TF Ranger's mission was little more than a mile away from its Forward Operating Base.
The media has consistently underplayed or ignored altogether this danger, which is critical to an operation of this type. Had the mission in 2014 resulted in a disaster, the same press now criticizing the administration for its timidity would be issuing hysterical headlines about reckless operations based on weak intelligence.
Interestingly, in the aftermath of the successful Lynch operation, the media reported wild and generally inaccurate rumors about the nature of the operation. Most egregious was a BBC article that claimed American soldiers and SEALS used blanks while rescuing Jessica Lynch. I wasn't in the hospital when Lynch was rescued — I was outside manning my SAW — but I can assure you American troops were not flying around Iraq with blank rounds in their weapons.** By the way, we were also wearing all our bulky chemical gear because at the time we still believed Iraq had WMD.
The simplistic coverage of the hostage rescue shows once again that major media outlets are often more interested in clickbait than in seeking the truth of the story. In June 2003, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a highly critical oped about the Lynch operation, stating, it "was a complex tale vastly oversimplified, partly because of genuine ambiguities and partly because they wanted a good story." At the time the "they" was the Bush Administration, and his point was (and is) well taken. But I wonder if he would say the same thing about our media's coverage of subsequent hostage rescues.
I'm sure the soldiers who risked their lives on the 2014 operation deep in Syria to rescue Jim Foley, Kayla Mueller and others are annoyed that they hit a dry hole. It's also easy to blame the President for sending them into harm's way for what turns out to be nothing. Rescuing hostages is almost always high-risk. Next time POTUS authorizes a dangerous mission deep into enemy territory, I hope the media will be a little more understanding that these things are often ugly, bloody, and doesn't always conclude with a happy ending.
**Great, short first-hand accounts of the Jessica Lynch mission written by other enlisted Rangers can also be found in Violence of Action.
Kevin Strouse ran for Congress in 2014 in Pennsylvania's 8th District after serving as an analyst for the CIA and as an Army Ranger who deployed Iraq and Afghanistan. Kevin lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife Amy and two young children, Walter and Charlotte.
photo: U.S. hostages arrive at Rhein-Main U.S. Air Force base in Frankfurt, Germany, after their release from Iran, on January 21, 1981. They are among 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days after their capture at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. (Department of State)
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I watched this video on Connie's blog and felt it necessary to share. I've spent most of the day in a weird tumult of emotions--wanting to find my center, yet having a hard time doing so.
Yesterday I decided that it is time to head north. Ever since the geese started flying I've felt a deep magnetic pull towards the place I come from. I miss it there. I miss the trees, the fresh air, the stars, the sounds of loons and wolves. I feel like I have been running to keep up with something--what it is, I'm not even sure. I am becoming a shadow of myself. This running, it has depleted me. Today I don't remember who I am. I don't remember what I'm good for. I don't remember what I'm worth.
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Looks like the European Summer is no obstacle for the outdoor crushers. Russian Vadim Timonov, Czech Martin Stranik and Spaniard Cesar Quero have recently established new V15's | 8C's in their respective countries.
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Brad Greenspan, the Los Angeles-based entrepreneur who is best known as founder of MySpace, believes the the digital assets of Dow Jones have not been properly valued. Moreover, he believes that management has not effectively integrated its online properties.
He has organized a group of investors with the hope of acquiring a 25 percent ownership of the company. His effort has come together quickly, as the News Corp bid for all of Dow Jones has been revealed.
(He told the Los Angeles Times earlier this week that he may join Los Angeles-based billionaire Ron Burkle who is aligned with the Dow Jones newspaper union as a possible DJ buyer.)
Brad told me late today that he is in discussions with representatives of Dow Jones and shareholders. He hopes to meet to make a formal offer shortly. He declined to identify the members of his investment group, except to say that there are both strategic investors, with business objectives, and financial investors.
Brad thinks one of most undervalued and potentially profitable assets of Dow Jones is the Factiva unit. He believes that there are opportunities for the subscription-based business-information service to evolve into something of a public search engine for business.
He is also keen on creating a linear global business channel carried by satellite and the Web. He thinks there are big opportunities in business television. (He told me that one of his strategic partner is involved with satellite television distribution.) This sounds like the approach at Bloomberg: operate a continuous, global television program — and also use video as an adjunct to Web text reports.
Not sure if Brad and his group have much of shot against the Murdoch juggernaut, but it's great to see the scrappy contender entering the fray. Whatever happens, you can count on a bigger and better presence for the Dow Jones digital assets — that's inevitable. Also, the emergence of business television is going to happen. I personally believe it will be non-linear, not schedule-based, but better stay tuned. Who would have thought that business TV would be a hot sector?
Update: 7/9: The New York Times reports that the Dow Jones board is looking at alternatives to the News Corp overture and will meet with Ron Burkle.
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I'm glad I'm a member of Romance Writers of America. My chapter group, MRW (Midwest Romance Writers) is so wonderfully helpful. Last night, Alfie Thompson gave a spectacular program about point of view. I'd learned about it in college, sure, since my major was writing. But that was very generalized and broad based. Alfie narrowed it down to writing for the romance genre and explained why you use different points of view for different types of stories.
I just want to blab all and share everything she said, but she worded it more eloquently than I ever could. You should just buy her writing help book, Lights! Camera! Fiction! It gives all sorts of great writing advice. Her presentation really jazzed me up. I wanted to call in sick to work today and stay home fixing all my POV mistakes.
I also wanted to call in sick because I'm dead tired. After getting off at work at 4pm yesterday, I drove two hours straight to make the meeting. Then, after we adjourned at nine, I had to drive the two hours back home. And this morning, I got up to return to work at 7:30 sharp. Yuck.
But it was totally worth it. Can't wait to do it next month again.
I'm excited I made the trip though. I'm a country girl, raised on a dairy farm, so I've never done any big city driving before. Biggest town I ever navigated was 15,000. But this meeting was in Kansas City. Granted, it wasn't in downtown KC, but I drove during rush hour and it got a little crowded there. I'm just so proud of myself for making it without wrecking or having a nervous breakdown. Let's me know I can accomplish something anyway.


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The singer has been given the KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Great Prize.
Robyn has been honoured with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm's Great Prize.
The electronic pop artist has been awarded the prize because of her "artistic contributions and embrace of technology". She has won 1.2 million Swedish kronor (£117,197), which she will be donating to a cause of her choosing. "I will make a donation to a cause that I know is specifically consistent with the character of the prize. I'm still thinking. There are so many important issues, but I would like it to reflect the vision of the future, education and have a scientific foundation," said Robyn in a statement.
Upon winning the prize, Robyn commented: "I can honestly say that it is difficult to process. The fact that the jury finds that I correspond to the description of KTH's Great Prize – it's overwhelming to think about. I am truly humbled to be one of the winners for this amazing, fine prize."
Previous winners of the prestigious Great Prize include Spotify's Daniel Ek, Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén and Jensen and Volvo's co-founder Assar Gabrielsson. KTH President Peter Gudmundson says of Robyn's win: "Through her music, her entrepreneurship, and her integrity, she is an amazing role model to many and she makes use of new technology in an exciting way. Music and technology have many similarities – both are borderless and affect people in their everyday lives. Also, I personally like several of her songs."
Earlier this year a group of students at KTH started building a robot in honour of Robyn. The mechatronics class at Sweden's biggest technical university plan to dedicate an entire year to The Robot Project, in which they will build a live robot inspired by the singer, whose tracks like 'Fembot' and 'Robot Boy' show she has a penchant for all things android. The project will be completed in January 2014.
As Pitchfork reports, the singer visited the students to chat about how the robot would look. According to the KTH blog, Robyn "came up with a lot of awesome ideas. Particularly what the robot should look like, material-wise, and thoughts about different kind of dance moves."


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"My name is Alberto Nunez, I am a 27 year old lifetime natural bodybuilder. I started competing in bodybuilding in 2007, and quickly moved up the amateur ranks. Earning pro cards in the PNBA, NGA, and finally earning my WNBF Pro card as a light weight in the INBF Capital City show in 2008. I then competed in my first pro show, the WNBF Mid-America Pro-Am in 2008. I just completed my 2011 contest season where I was able to showcase a much improved physique, and correct many of the errors I made in my 2008 season. I am also completing my degree in dietetics.
Considering where I started, or rather how small I started, the fact that I am bodybuilding is still something that is hard to believe at times. Even more is the fact that I have indeed found some success in this sport. I attribute this to hard work, and a passion for this sport. I apply my work ethic to scientifically sound approaches to my training, nutrition, and supplementation. I have spent a great deal of time over the years researching, and learning, sifting through what is often sensationalism, and pseudo-science based approaches that plague this sport. This has been the biggest key to my success.
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This Week's Pick of the Pulls:
Butterfly #1 by Arash Amel & Antonio Fuso
I'm not familiar with either the writer or the creator here, but the premise is solid in my opinion.
An undercover agent is framed for murder and compromised. She is forced to seek refuge and unknowingly finds her father she thought was long dead. It turns out he was also part of the same covert group she was a part of. Now I know you can get this kind of story from Image's Velvet right now, but the preview pages I saw read well and the art was well drawn. Plus, those Phil Noto covers always grab me.
This book is worth a shot!
The Fade Out #1 (2nd print) by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
I missed my chance to plug The Fade Out the first time around, so here's a kind of preview/review.
Story is set in 40's Hollywood. A screenwriter wakes up in a house that he doesn't remember.
He had been drinking the night before, and as he puts together the pieces of his broken memory, he stumbles upon a dead up-and-coming actress.
Brubaker & Phillips have, in my opinion, reached master status when it comes to noir and crime stories. Brubaker's ability to weave character sub-plots around a main theme or individual allow him to very easily create a world with depth. You become invested in the characters and what they are doing, because you know from issue one that there is more to them than what you first see. His love for the genre is evident in his writing. The guy was born to write dark gritty sagas. You can pretty much hear the somber trumpet playing in the background while you read. Then you have Sean Phillips, whose art provides the misty realism you want, nay need, in a story set in 1948 Los Angeles.
I really liked this book, people! If you haven't yet picked it up, please do so this week.
Roche Limit #1 by Michael Moreci & Vic Malhorta
I'm a fan of books that mix genres. Sci-fi/Western, Fantasy/History, etc etc. Roche Limit is promising to deliver a book which blends noir and sci-fi. The author is known for his work in Hoax Hunters and Curse while the artist is a relative newcomer it seems. Story is set in a space colony rampant with crime.
It will be told in three different volumes each containing 5 issues. The volumes will be years apart and each will have their own cast. The key is they will all be linked by a common location and theme.
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We've all heard of wine-related travel. More and more companies and wineries are partnering up to offer travelers some fantastic travel packages. Wine regions are some of the most sought-after destinations in the travel market right now.
Heck, even cruise ships are getting in on the wine craze. Several ships, luxury and mass market, are offering wine pairing classes and bringing in wine experts for lectures and as guides in ports-of-call.
Wine travel has a new competitor though, and it's one that may surpass wine travel in the flash of an eye. It's Beer Travel.
You read right. Traveling for beer. (You know Al Bundy would be all over this in a heartbeat.) While there are those Al Bundy types that you might find touring your local Coors factory, I'm speaking of a more refined Beer Experience: The Craft Beer market.
As the popularity of craft beer has exploded over the past decade, brewery-driven travel is increasing all the time. Destinations, suppliers, and breweries quickly realize the monetary possibilities this tourism market represents. They are now developing more products to cater to the new demand for "beercations."
Hello beer-centric culinary experiences, beer pairing courses, beer tastings, you get the point.
I must say, I am thrilled to see this market exploding and excited to partake in offering my clients these unique experiences. I have family members that are involved in their local craft beer clubs and organizations and I know several friends who love to try local beers when they travel. I, myself, tried a fantastic lavender lemon ale with the Lambowski at the Riff Raff Brewing Company while on vacation in Pagosa Springs, Colorado this past summer.
That's the great thing about Beer-Travel, it can be almost anywhere. Most wine travels concentrate on where the wineries and fields are located. Craft beer is being brewed in every part of the US and all over the world. Pick almost any destination that you've wanted to visit, and there's sure to be some great local beer, just like with food travel.
Combine food travel with beer travel and that, my friends, will make for one great getaway in my opinion! Partake in some craft beer, experience local flavors through food and then take in the local sights and hear about life in the area from people who live there. THAT is what travel is ultimately all about. EXPERIENCES.
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Education in Pakistan has not geared up to the level it is required to be or as compared to other countries in the region. As per a study by the UNESCO, although the overall literacy rate stands at 46 per cent, independent sources and educational experts, however, are sceptical. They place the overall literacy rate at 26 per cent and the rate for girls and women at 12 per cent, contending that the higher figures include people who can handle little more than a signature. There are 163,000 primary schools in Pakistan, of which merely 40,000 cater to girls. Of these, 15,000 are in Punjab Province, 13,000 in Sind, 8,000 in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and 4,000 in Balochistan. Similarly, out of a total 14,000 lower secondary schools and 10,000 higher secondary schools, 5,000 and 3,000 respectively are for girls, in the same decreasing proportions as above in the four provinces. There are around 250 girls colleges, and two medical colleges for women in the public sector of 125 districts. Some 7 million girls under 10 go to primary schools, 5.4 million between 10 and 14 attend lower secondary school, and 3 million go to higher secondary schools. About 1.5 million and 0.5 million girls respectively go to higher secondary schools/colleges and universities.
The situation gets worse in rural areas due to social and cultural obstacles. In some places, particularly northern tribal areas, the education of girls is strictly prohibited on religious grounds. The situation is the most critical in NWFP and Balochistan, where the female literacy rate stands between 3 per cent and 8 per cent. Some government organizations and non-governmental organizations have tried to open formal and informal schools in these areas, but the local landlords, even when they have little or nothing to do with religion or religious parties, oppose such measures, apparently out of fear that people who become literate will cease to follow them with blind faith.
The present government has however taken some very concrete steps to boost education, specially the basic and higher education in the country by establishing the Higher Education Commission under veteran Dr Atta ur Rehman. The Commission has been set up to facilitate the development of the universities of Pakistan to be world-class centres of education, research and development. The Commission is also making concerted efforts to encourage individuals to undertake doctorate studies. Due to liberal policies of the government, recently the trends in education are changing and a large number of educational institutes have come up in the private sector. This includes chain of schools, medical colleges and universities in all major cities of Pakistan. However, standardization of the education system remains a big challenge for the governments, since the basic education rests on two streams, that is the government sponsored schools, where the medium of instruction is in Urdu and the private sector sponsored schools where medium of instruction is English.
The present government has established 987 Community primary schools at Union Council level, along with 5,953 Literacy Centers, 554 Early Childhood Education Centers (ECE), 8,400 Non-formal basic education Community schools. Education has been declared free up to matric level in two provinces and free text books distributed to primary school children throughout the country. Additionally, 441 Technical Workshops established in secondary schools and 6,240 schools have been upgraded through Public-Private Partnerships; 60.7% such schools are for girls. PhD output increased from 60 p.a. to 250 p.a. Seven new IT universities and degree awarding institutes have recently been set up, while two new educational channels launched in June 2004 under Virtual University Endowment Fund of over Rs.1.3 billion set up for public sector engineering universities. Budget for higher education increased from Rs. 800 million to Rs. 9.1 billion.


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At Corner Church, they always start out the service with a kids' song. This past Sunday, they sang the above song, which I had never heard before. It has been running through my head ever since. Like, ALL DAY LONG. I can't get it to go away. It's a cute song and all, but it's starting to drive me nutty.
Volleyball season is over! Yay! I mean, my team was great and all, but I'm ready to go back to a normal work week. We lost our last game of the season, which is too bad - always nice to end on a good note - but for fun, Romelie and I went to the Varsity game last night. Last season, one of the girls on my team got me a hooded sweatshirt that says "Little Red Knight" on it, so I got Romelie all dressed up and we cheered on the players. It was fun, she was well-behaved (Cheerios helped), but it went long so we had to leave before everything was done. Not before I got this super cute picture of us in our Red Knights gear, though!
Three more days to Houston...yay again! I'm in a yay kind of mood this morning. Perhaps it's the coffee. I'm excited to see everyone and to have an excuse to take lots of pictures - the picture-taking slows down when I don't have an event to take pictures during. And Angel, I got pictures printed up and they should arrive at my house tomorrow, so hopefully they won't get lost in the mail or anything!
What else...ooh, I know...I got Romelie a Halloween costume! Also will be arriving in the mail. I got it on zwaggle.com - if you haven't been to the site before, you should check it out. People put their gently used family items on their that they don't need anymore (kids clothes, DVDs, furniture, etc.) and you can get "zoints" for every item you "sell." Then you use your zoints to buy other stuff. I got rid of most of my maternity clothes on this site, and I've used my zoints to buy Baby Einstein DVDs and some cute clothes for Romelie and now, a Halloween costume! I won't spoil the fun and tell you what it is - I'll wait until I have an excuse to take pictures. Romelie's too young for trick-or-treating, but she is going to a pumpkin carving party at a co-worker's house and a Halloween party at my cousin Sheila's house and she may go up to visit Gramma Carol and check out a haunted house. So plenty of opportunities to wear the costume - hope she likes it!
Look for a Houston happenings blog entry later next week!
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Peter Hain said an extension of Commons hours would be required to accommodate the debate.
Despite a free vote on the issue on all sides, Labour's huge majority and anti-hunting backbench sentiment make it all but certain the bill will be passed, before moving to the Lords for consideration.
If, as seems equally likely, peers reject the move as they have done before, the government will then invoke the Parliament Act to force the legislation through.
Confirming that the bill will allow a two-year delay to disband hunts, Mr Hain said opponents of a ban would thus have an intervening general election in which to register their views. The Conservatives have pledged to revoke any ban, although Michael Howard's MPs will also have a free vote on Wednesday.
Mr Hain said: "This is an inhumane sport, but it is important that we deal with it in a humane way. The RSPCA have offered to help in the relearning of dogs."
He dismissed threat of civil disobedience from the Countryside Alliance, saying: "Threats of action will be totally unjustified. Pro-hunters will be free to vote accordingly at the election."
However, the bill will outlaw hare coursing within three months of enactment.
For the Tories, Oliver Heald accused Mr Hain of pressing the "nuclear option" in going for the Parliament Act, and complained that the government had failed to address the issues of compensation and the legal breadth of the proposed offence.
The Commons has repeatedly backed a ban by large majorities since Labour came to office in 1997 but efforts to resolve the controversial issue had foundered in the Lords.
Mr Heald appealed to ministers to think again about rushing the bill through the Commons in just one day and possibly using the Parliament Act.
But Mr Hain said the will of parliament must be upheld and insisted one extended Parliamentary day would be sufficient for MPs to settle an issue they had debated "time and time again".
He defended the proposed delay in implementing the ban, insisting this would allow those involved in hunting to "refocus" on other activities like drag-hunting.
This morning one of the logistical objections to banning foxhunting was rejected by the police, when the chief constable of Suffolk said that the cost of preventing hunting would be the same as the current expenditure on policing hunt saboteurs.
Alastair McWhirter, who speaks on hunting issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said he expected the cost of dealing with illegal hunts if the bill is passed to be no more than is currently spent on policing legal meets.
Mr McWhirter told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "We spend a lot of resources at the present time policing what is currently legal.
"If this becomes illegal, I suspect we will spend about the same resources on policing any civil disobedience that will follow.
"I don't think it will be any more of a problem than it is now. It will just be different and we will develop tactics in dealing with it effectively and well."
Asked what he expected the scale of flouting of a ban to be, he responded: "It depends on what is in the law. When the law is passed we will see how it is going to work in practice.
"It also depends on the people who are prepared to get involved in civil disobedience. We will have to wait and see."
But hunting's supporters point to Scotland, where a bill attempting to ban hunting has proved largely ineffective.
The Countryside Alliance said it was a "vicious, prejudiced attack on families across the country."
Chief executive Simon Hart said it would "signal an outright assault on everyone who believes in freedom and tolerance".
"The alliance, its members and supporters, having always acted in good faith, are furious that the government has abandoned its promise to resolve this matter on 'evidence and principle' in an act of political vandalism.
But the move - seven years after Labour came to power promising to outlaw the sport - was welcomed by animal rights' campaigners.
Douglas Batchelor, chief executive of the League Against Cruel Sports, said: "We are absolutely delighted that the hunting bill is coming back to the House of Commons.
"This heralds the high point of our 80-year campaign to expose foxhunting as a cruel sport and to get it banned."
But he added: "There is absolutely no reason why there should be a two-year delay, because it is going to be a free vote on both the hunting bill and the amendment to extend the deadline.
"We are confident that, given a free vote, MPs will stick to their guns, vote with their consciences and stick to the original timetable.
"As far as we are concerned, three months is more than adequate for every hunt in England and Wales to convert to drag-hunting. There is no need for a single job to be lost or a single dog to be put down."


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- March 28, 2018
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West Ham v Southampton: Value in Crucial Relegation Clash
With just over a month to go until the end of the Premier League season, each week gives us crucial matches at both ends of the table. On Sunday, attention will turn to West London and the battle between Chelsea and Spurs but before that, we start at the other side of the capital where struggling West Ham host Southampton with both teams staring firmly at the drop zone.
There will be extra focus on the Hammers following a number of pitch invasions during their previous home game with Burnley so the pressure is on for manager David Moyes and his team.
Match Odds
Going into this match, West Ham are just one place and two points ahead of Southampton who currently occupy the last relegation slot. The Saints sacked their manager Mauricio Pellegrino following their previous league game, a 3-0 defeat to Newcastle United but can new boss Mark Hughes turn their season around?
The bookies actually side with Southampton here although the result betting is very close: The Saints are narrow favourites for the win at best odds of 43/25 with MarathonBet while the same bookmaker has the Hammers out at a top price of 97/50. Completing this option is the draw at a best of 9/4 with bet365 and Black Type and that's a bet that many will jump on for Saturday's game.
Before we make our own verdict, let's look at the players most likely to decide the outcome.
Individual Goalscorers
The big team news ahead of this game suggests that Southampton's Charlie Austin could be fit and ready to lead the line at the London Stadium. The England international remains the most potent striker for the Saints but his chronic injury record has struck again this season.
Austin is favourite to open the scoring in this fixture at best odds of 11/2 with BetFred and BetBright but after such a long absence, Hughes may decide to start him on the bench. That leaves three joint second favourites with West Ham's Javier Hernandez and Marko Arnautovic plus Southampton's Manolo Gabbiadini all at the same top price of 11/2 with BetFred and BetBright again.
Other options further down the pitch may include West Ham's Michail Antonio at best odds of 15/2 with Black Type while Unibet have an interesting best of 8/1 for the Saints' Dusan Tadic. James Ward-Prowse has also scored important goals for Southampton this season and will interest many at his top price of 10/1 with BetFred and BetBright.
Rather than commit to the first goalscorer betting ourselves, we'll switch to a familiar tactic and look for an anytime scorer. We think that West Ham will be more cohesive and a more potent threat going forward than they have been in recent matches and the man to watch here is Mark Noble.
A threat from set pieces and the Hammers penalty taker, you could be braver than us and take Noble to open the scoring at 16/1 with William Hill or 188Bet but we'll stick with that anytime tip at a generous best of 7/1 with Sun Bets.
Other Side Bets
West Ham's suspect defence makes the prospect of Both Teams to Score a potential addition to our betting slip at best odds of 10/11 with William Hill and Sport Pesa. Goals could be in the offing but while both of those defences have been shaky at times, the strike force on either side has been a little blunt so we wouldn't be looking to back higher than over 2.5 goals which is available at a top price of 33/25 with MarathonBet.
Coming back to the result and there is very little to encourage backers of West Ham United right now. The form table shows three straight defeats and in that time they have conceded no fewer than 11 goals so, while they have the home advantage, the Hammers are the outside punt right now.
However, we see no real reason to make Southampton favourites: There is the theory that a new manager improves the fortunes of his side and we have seen that with Premier League teams this season but if you discount that FA Cup win over Wigan last time out, the Saints' only victory in their last six came against bottom of the table West Brom.
It's a tough call and it's tempting to avoid making a real decision and coming down on the side of the draw. However, while they are arguably under the greater pressure, West Ham should have the better quality to come through on the day and convert some or maybe even all of these tips into a nice overall profit.
Best Bets:
- West Ham to win at 97/50 with MarathonBet
- Mark Noble to score anytime at 7/1 with Sun Bets
- Correct Score of West Ham 2 Southampton 1 at 11/1 with bet365


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Alice Lillian Burdette, 92, of South Hutchinson died July 4, 2018, at Mennonite Friendship Communities, South Hutchinson. She was born May 13, 1926, in Hutchinson, to Paul Washington and Laura Pearl (Sims) Thomas.
Alice Lillian Burdette
Alice Lillian Burdette, 92, of South Hutchinson died July 4, 2018, at Mennonite Friendship Communities, South Hutchinson. She was born May 13, 1926, in Hutchinson, to Paul Washington and Laura Pearl (Sims) Thomas.
She graduated from Buhler High School in 1945 and attended St. Elizabeth School of Nursing, Hutchinson. Alice retired from K-Mart and was a member of First Christian Church, Hutchinson.
On August 30, 1946, she married Ralph Robert 'Bob' Burdette in Hutchinson. He died September 17, 2004.
Alice was preceded in death by: her parents; grandson, Jonathan Paul Winkler; a sister, Edith Lucille Hoffmeier; and two brothers, Paul Edward and Walter Milton 'Sonny' Thomas.
She is survived by: daughters, Carrolyn Sue Miller (Danny), Kathryn Louise Winkler (Stephen), Linda Colleen Burdette; sons, Kenneth Eugene (Linda G.), Daniel Wayne (Frankie), all of Hutchinson and Christopher Allen of Salina; grandchildren, Carrie Poersch, Paul Miller, Joseph Winkler, Michael Winkler, Tessa McCoy, Megan Burdette, Staci Dater, Kassidy Corwin and Kris Rupp; great-grandchildren, David, Eric, Nathan and Laura Poersch, Emily, Britney, Finley and Rowan Winkler, Adylae, Alycea, Amauri and Blaide McCoy, Nataylie Pina, Bennett Moss, Abigail and Timothy Dater, Christopher, Kaleb, Kalton, Kimberlynn and Kolleena Stubbs; and sister, Flo Ann Johnson, Kansas City, Missouri.
Memorial service will be 9 a.m. Monday, July 9, 2018, at Mennonite Friendship Communities Chapel, 600 W. Blanchard, South Hutchinson, with the Reverend Lou Gomez officiating. Private family burial will take place in Fairlawn Burial Park, Hutchinson, with Pastor Bob Phipps officiating. Friends may call from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 8 p.m. with the family here from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Elliott Mortuary. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to Friendship Meals, in care of Elliott Mortuary, 1219 N. Main, Hutchinson, KS 67501.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Brown Girls Brunch started as an organization that connected women of color in Knoxville.
Two years after it was created, it is working to tackle and debunk health disparities among women of color.
"I'm gonna be honest we don't have a lot of people of color or women of color who look like us in healthcare," UT nurse practitioner Carrie McCoy said. "We have so many issues that are not addressed and sometimes we are so afraid to address them."
On Sunday, McCoy was one of many health professionals in Knoxville who attended Brown Girls Brunch's dialogue on health.
She said women of color need to pay special attention to various parts of their health.
According to the American Heart Association, African American women are more likely to have a stroke and heart failure.
"When we talk about heart disease, it looks different in women and especially in black women," she said. "We look for those symptoms of arm tingling, chest pains, jaw pain and women don't have that in general."
Paying attention to disparities is what led Kartesha Riley to help bring the dialogue into fruition along with Brown Girls Brunch founder Enkeshi El-Amin.
"It felt really isolating not really knowing anyone dealing with the same things," she said.
But women from all walks of life got to share their stories in hopes of changing the way women of color handle and look at their own healthcare.
However, McCoy said a lot of the power lies with those who provide health services.
"There needs to be more education around what we look for, how do we have that communication no matter what our healthcare provider looks like," she said.


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We had the beautiful Heather Ryan on the show today to talk about friendship, community and battling cancer. She was joined by Mary Miller, her best friend and angel. Heather urges women to not be afraid to go to the doctor and that resources are out there for you, no matter what your financial needs. We were joined on the phone by Michele D'Amour's. She set up a fund for Heather to pay for her bills and other needs. We urge you to LIKE the Facebook page for the Blues Angel Benevolent Fund . If you know someone who can use the help, please contact Michele at: [email protected] and she can tell you what she did to raise money for a friend. It all starts with our community, please make sure you reach out to someone in need and give today!
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National Hamburger Month
May 12, 2016
May is National Hamburger Month. I conducted research for this post and learned two things: 1.) It is unclear where the first American hamburgers were served – the Lookout House Restaurant in Cincinnati, Ohio (mid-1870's); Louis Lassen's lunch shop in New Haven, Connecticut (1895); etc., etc., etc. Regardless, Americans now eat an estimated 50 billion burgers per year; and 2.) Hamburger historians are uncertain when National Hamburger Month was first launched. Numerous chains and independent operators support the special month, including White Castle which was first established back in 1916, but did not begin selling hamburgers on a bun until the early 1920's.
Given I could not pinpoint the origin of National Hamburger Month, I thought I would share some factual insight about burgers based on some online content I read recently. QSR hamburger chains went back to combo meals and consumers responded positively according to new NPD research. Combo meal visits increased by 1 percent for year ending February 2016 versus the prior year. The Big Three were collectively responsible for order increases – an additional 110 million combo meal deal orders; 686 million in total for a rate of 8 percent (year ending 2/16) up from a total of 6 percent (year ending 2/15).
One ongoing trend that our culinary team is monitoring is the transformation of the American palate. More consumers are seeking unconventional food like ethnic cuisines and global flavors. Operators in recognition that ethnic flavors are trendy, are now jazzing up their burger menus by adding global flavors via signature sauces and condiments. Some are even infusing their carriers (a.k.a. hamburger buns – Wayback Burgers Sriracha infused buns).
Given Custom Culinary® is a leading sauce manufacturer and our credo is Be True To The Food, signature hamburger sauces sounds like a market opportunity. Stay tuned! We have some new news ("Craft Toppings") to share with you. Our next hamburger post will be in conjunction with National Hamburger Day, Saturday May 28th.
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The next instalment in our cycling series, this week focusing on the Col du Corbier…
Situated beneath the twin peaks of Mount Ouzin and Mount Drouzin, the Col du Corbier links the Vallée d'Aulps and the Abondance Valley. For centuries the main thoroughfare between the two great Abbeys at St Jean d'Aulps and Abondance, it has more recently become part of a pilgrimage of a different kind, as cyclists from around the world come to test themselves on the same Alpine roads as those frequented by the professional peloton. In 2012 the Col du Corbier featured as the final climb of the Criterium du Dauphiné, won by Tour de France Yellow Jersey Bradley Wiggins; in 2014 it is scheduled to play a key role in stage 7, the Queen stage of this year's Dauphiné, from Ville-la-Grand to the Finhaut-Émosson.
The western ascent of the Col du Corbier is a little over 6 kilometres in length, rising from 720m at the valley floor to 1237m at the pass, with an average gradient of 8.6%. There are two official entrances to the climb: from Pont du Gys to the north, or from the Route des Grand Alpes between St Jean d'Aulps and La Baume to the south. This latter approach ramps up to 8 and 9% respectively for the first two kilometres, with an energy sapping section of 10.7% shortly before the picturesque village of Le Biot. Approached from this side, the climb skirts the edge of the village itself, winding up for two kilometres through tree lined roads at an average gradient of 8.5%. On occasion, the trees open to the left, providing breath-taking views across the valley to the village of Seytroux and the imposing Roc d'Enfer.
Brief respite is provided at the village of Le Corbier, where the road levels for some 300m, before hair-pinning once again for the final two kilometres – a consistent 9% gradient, with stretches at 11%. Tough though this final ascent is, the vista that awaits you at the Col itself is infinitely rewarding – the Abondance Valley stretching below, with the snow capped peaks of the Swiss Alps in the distance. The pass itself is home to the ski station of Drouzin-le-Mont; treat yourself to drink at Chez L'Henri, the first permanent building to be constructed at the Col in the early 1960s, or simply fill your bidons from the fresh water trough in preparation for what awaits on the way down…
For the descent of the Col du Corbier is truly breathtaking – a series of fast, sweeping, open hairpins, through the village of Bonnevaux down to the Abondance Valley. Turn right at the crossroads to head toward Chatel, Morgin and the Col de Bassachaux, or left to ride down the valley towards Lake Geneva and the beautiful Col du Grand Taillet. Or simply turn round, grin broadly, and start it all over again.
For elevation data, profiles, route maps and of course those all important segments, please click here.


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