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Sleeping with Saddam, the lesser enemy?: realpolitik vs. the neocon agenda
Leftists often criticize our present intervention in Iraq by bringing up the point that the US supported Saddam back in the 80s against Iran in the ill-fated--and ultimately stalemated--war that cost many Iraqi and Iranian lives. For example, see this comment in a recent thread:
Are you [Neo} arguing that it's ok if the US practically created Saddam and supported him throughout much of his reign of terror, and eventually had to spend billions and sacrifice thousands to undo the damage, because we are, after all, but mere "imperfect players in an imperfect world."
First of all, I wonder at the logic of the point being made--obviously, if we really did create and support the monster Saddam, then we certainly have a deep obligation to take him out, and even to sacrifice thousands to undo the damage, regrettable though that would be. What's the alternative? Say "Oops, sorry!" and let his regime fester, uncorrected, forever?
Of course not. If the critics were sincere about their argument, it would be used to justify our more recent intervention, not to blast it. But somehow, I've never seen it used that way--odd, isn't it? It does me make wonder whether their argument might just be sophistry.
However, I'll assume this commenter's motivations were sincere, and respond to his/her argument on its merits.
The United States has choices about its actions in the world. The first choice is whether to act at all--not that total inaction is really possible, but relative inaction is. That's the course isolationists have advocated for years, if not centuries. It used to be more possible back when the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans represented huge gulfs of space and time, but it wasn't really possible even then.
And in the last century and this, it most certainly has become less possible. One of the reasons, of course, is that both action and inaction have consequences, although we are able to see the consequences of action more clearly. So, the US cannot help but act--even by refraining from action.
Initially, our attitude towards Saddam was largely shaped by the Cold War, and rightly so. Back then all third-world countries had a choice themselves--and that was, essentially, whether to ally with us, with the USSR (and/or China), or whether to play both sides against each other. In the real world--and that is the one in which we live (after all, we're talking about "realpolitik" here, are we not?) those alliances mattered greatly, and third-world countries were somewhat like chess pieces in the power play of the large states that were struggling with each other for dominance.
The Soviet Union was rightly seen as an evil empire, not only cruel and repressive, but openly interested in amassing as many "satellites" (remember that word?) as it could. Rumor from those old retired CIA agents with the loose lips has it that Saddam was originally supported by the US in 1959 in attempting the assassination of Iraqi ruler Qassim, who was allying with the Soviets at the time.
Whether or not it's true that the CIA recruited Saddam for such a plot--and again, let's assume for the sake of argument that it is--it was the way of the world in 1959. I don't like it at all, to tell you the truth. I wish the world were different. I wish we had found more of an Ataturk to support, someone who would reform and modernize the country with a strong but not an overwhelmingly harsh hand.
But would it have been better to have kept our hands clean, isolated ourselves from the world, and left the field to the Soviets? As I said, both inaction and action have consequences, and some of the consequences of either or both are always going to be bad. And nations must choose, given incomplete information.
What was the incomplete information here? Well, if you read that Wikipedia article on Saddam (and here it is again, in case you missed it the first time) you'll see who Saddam appeared to be back in the early 70s, when he first amassed power in Iraq as right-hand-man to his cousin al Bakr, the President. Not unusual for that time and area of the world, they already had a repressive security apparatus in place to deal with their enemies.
But there seemed to be quite a bit of good, as well. During the 70s, the amount of repressive violence there wasn't anywhere near the reign of terror it became under Saddam, who officially came to power in 1979. Saddam was Vice-President under al Bakr, whose regime in the 70s:
...was providing social services that were unprecedented among Middle Eastern countries. Saddam established and controlled the "National Campaign for the Eradication of Illiteracy" and the campaign for "Compulsory Free Education in Iraq," and largely under his auspices, the government established universal free schooling up to the highest education levels...The government also supported families of soldiers, granted free hospitalization to everyone, and gave subsidies to farmers. Iraq created one of the most modernized public-health systems in the Middle East, earning Saddam an award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
To diversify the largely oil-based economy, Saddam implemented a national infrastructure campaign that made great progress in building roads, promoting mining, and developing other industries. The campaign revolutionized Iraq's energy industries. Electricity was brought to nearly every city in Iraq, and many outlying areas.
On the basis of this, I don't think the US can be faulted for not having seen what was to come later, under Saddam's own watch as head of the country. Yes indeed, the Baath Party under al Bakr silenced many opponents in various harsh ways, including killings at times. But it was, unfortunately, nothing so out of the ordinary for the time and place.
Saddam began to show his true colors and to stand out in this regard only after he became President himself in 1979. I've referred before to the video he made of his early chilling and Stalinesque move to nakedly stamp out anyone who threatened his power.
But shortly after Saddam was flexing his newly-acquired muscles, we had a much greater problem on our hands: Iran. In fact, we still have that great problem on our hands, over a quarter of a century later, and the problem has only grown.
From their ascendance to power in 1979, the mullahs made it clear that their goal was to war against us in any way they could, and to dominate the Muslim world with a new type of totalitarian regime, one based on religious fundamentalism rather than a secular worldview such as Communism. But the goal was the same: "We will bury you.
Iraq's war against Iran started shortly thereafter, in 1980. At first we stayed out of it, but a few years later, when it seemed that Iran was actually going to win, we secretly helped Saddam with intelligence and facilitated Iraq's acquisition of arms from other countries. And yes, we even winked at his use of chemical weapons against the Iranians, and later against the Kurds (one of our very darkest hours):
Washington was strongly opposed to chemical warfare, a practice outlawed by the 1925 Geneva Protocol. In practice, U.S. condemnation of Iraqi use of chemical weapons ranked relatively low on the scale of administration priorities, particularly compared with the all-important goal of preventing an Iranian victory.
It seemed a no-brainer at the time to back Saddam. Not only did he appear to lack designs on us (unlike the Iranians), but it seemed back then that his regime--bad though it was in many ways--was one of the better (or at least the less dreadful) ones in a region not known for its enlightened rulers.
Everybody was wrong in their assessment of Saddam," said Joe Wilson, Glaspie's former deputy at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, and the last U.S. official to meet with Hussein. "Everybody in the Arab world told us that the best way to deal with Saddam was to develop a set of economic and commercial relationships that would have the effect of moderating his behavior. History will demonstrate that this was a miscalculation."
We dumped Saddam when he invaded Kuwait; dumped him for good. The rest of the history is more familiar than the earlier years; I won't bother to reiterate it here.
So what are we are left with? A messy business, the choices a country must make in the real world.
I'm not whitewashing how bad it was. But those who require moral perfection in our actions on the world stage are either hopelessly idealistic and out of touch with the consequences of what acting on that idealism would have wrought (in this case, the triumph of the Soviets, and later the Iranians), or they are cynically mouthing arguments they don't even believe.
I wish the world were otherwise. But it's not, and pretending the lion has already lain down with the lamb is an absurdity, or worse. There are plenty of lions out here, about to devour huge herds of lambs, and sometimes all we can do is back the lion who seems less voracious.
The funny thing about the whole thing (and I mean funny-strange, not funny ha-ha) is that it is the neocon philosophy that represents one of the only strategies offering a possible way out of the realpolitik dilemma. And yet those who criticize our realpolitik decisions to back dictators also criticize our neonconnish decisions to overthrow them and try to institute a better and more democratic form of government. Odd, isn't it?
Make no mistake about it, however: the neocon notion that we should attempt actions designed to transform these countries into something better is not an easy one to execute, as Iraq has demonstrated (and, by the way, it does not always involve our waging war--sometimes it involves our supporting internal forces within the country itself, as suggested presently for Iran).
I'm disappointed in the missteps of the Bush administration while occupying Iraq (examples: not stopping the looters, not taking Sadr out, way back when). But I don't believe any of these to be insurmountable even now--if we had the political will in this country to understand how important it is to succeed at the task.
This is the stark choice we face: (1) realpolitik business as usual, "he's a thug but at least he's our thug;" (2) inaction, allowing totalitarian Islamism (or Communism before it) to take over most of the world; or (3) trying to transform these regions into functioning democracies that protect human rights.
The latter is the neocon agenda, and I'm all for it. I consider it the best alternative of the lot. But I don't consider myself naive about how difficult it is to do this and how much of an investment in time, energy, money, blood, and will it would cost to succeed. But the alternatives would ultimately demand a greater human sacrifice, and entail even more suffering.
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Earlier this week I vented my frustration over the use of the term "recruiting" when applied to volunteer management. Terminology is often a conundrum. Do we use words that the majority of people will understand, and not concern ourselves with their response (after all, we can't control what others think or feel). Or do we adopt words that more effectively describe our point, but may be confusing and require explanation?
Frankly, I don't have the answer… Except for the term "recruit" (and its various grammatical forms)! I much prefer to invite people into ministry than to recruit them for ministry. You may want to repeat that last sentence a time or two to let it sink in.
As a ministry leader, when I work with folks to help them understand how God has equipped them to serve, I want to develop a relationship. I ask God to help me see beyond our conversation to what he has done, and is doing, in their life. My goal is to help them find the ministry that God has prepared for them (Ephesians 2:10) and which will contribute to their spiritual formation (Romans 8:29).
As we enter into the matching/placement phase of equipping, I am not only thinking about the person I'm working with, but now I also turn my attention to the various ministries. I want to invite this person into a ministry that will be fulfilling; I also want to serve the ministry area by matching someone with gifts and graces that spur it on to meet its objective. I want to extend an invitation to participate in something that is mutually beneficial. This process is motivated by a genuine concern for the servant minister and a deep love for the ministry of the Church.
Recruiting doesn't convey that same sense of care and concern… in my mind, at least. It doesn't speak of the asking, listening, discerning, and guiding that goes into an invitation to serve. Rather, it speaks to me of a slot-filling, meet-the-quota mentality. I regularly run across churches that have that same mentality when it comes to getting ministry done. Many of them speak of the need to "recruit more volunteers" and having "recruitment drives." Before they know it, they are treating volunteers like tools–objects to be used to get the job done–rather than who the really are: children of the Most High God and ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I encourage you to take some time to seriously consider the terminology you use and how it impacts those you serve. Which terms do you use that may have a negative connotation? Do you need to change them? Perhaps more importantly, how do the words you choose shape your perspective towards ministry? How do they reflect your objective? If your objective is to fill slots, then using "recruitment" terminology is fine. But if your objective is to lovingly guide people into ministry, you will want to adopt "invitational" terminology!


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Women and victim-survivors are active in their resistance to perpetrators' use of tactics of coercive control, abuse and violence. They use sophisticated strategies of maintaining the safety of themselves and their children. These strategies and ways of resisting domination and surviving can sometimes be at odds with dominant discourses and ideas about how a woman, a victim-survivor 'should' respond and act, particularly when the woman victim-survivor uses physical strategies of resistance and survival. As workers, we need to be able to analyse the ways that power and control is being used by perpetrators in the relationship through patterned tactics of coercive control, rather than an individual incident focus, and distinguish who is doing what to whom and with what impact.
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Parties in Power Like National ID Systems
In a recent post, I noted how Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano was "taking the national ID tar baby in a loving embrace." Now the administration seems to be similarly embracing the E‐Verify government background check system.
Starting September 8th, it will go forward with a Bush administration plan to require federal contractors to check their employees against federal databases. The E‐Verify program is riddled with problems, and it will send many American workers and legal immigrants into Kafkaesque ordeals when they find they aren't approved by the federal government to earn a living. Ultimately, "internal enforcement" of immigration law, which is what E‐Verify is about, requires a biometric national identity system.
Wasn't a Democratic administration going to be the antidote to the aggressive security‐statism of the Bush administration? Well, no. Once in power, either political party will see merit in national ID systems. After all, a national ID gives the government direct regulatory control over individuals — and that's a sweet sound to the powerful, regardless of political affiliation. This is why it was so interesting to see the left begin to embrace a national ID as it anticipated an Obama victory in November.
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text: Boomstick Bruce 663 Posted April 12, 2019 So I found this brand of holsters on eBay. The guy makes them to order and they are quite expensive. Before I spend a pile of money on a rig, I'm looking for someone with experience with them. Anyone have this guy's holsters? Are they worth the $300 they will set me back? Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I can't do anything about it anyway. So I might as well not try.
Sound familiar? Dealing with the anxiety of climate change and the destruction of the planet for the past two weeks has almost sent our cast into a paralysis. Cosmic Fear is all about three people trying to deal with this paralysis – three people trying to take action instead of just talking. So after a week of table work, highlighting facts and events in the style of good old Stanislavski, we've now moved on to do what might actually be the first step to personally save planet earth – experiencing the problem in our bodies. It seems like the only way we can really explore the weight of this issue is to actually embody it. Talking about it will just end in the team's collective mental breakdown.
Director Kay Michael has been working with the cast on embodiment and exploring the game within the play through various exercises that have literally turned our little hub of Room One into an apocalyptic consumer-explosion. Costumes and props galore have been covering the floor for two weeks now, providing the actors with plenty of opportunities to play. They've created a superhero film trailer for climate change SAVE PLANET EARTH to cut to the core of the issues the characters are trying to solve. They've mirrored clips of Brad and Angelina in famous scenes, trying to replicate their tempos (Laban style) and qualities, creating the heroes of our Cosmic Fear. With movement director Sara Green they've explored how a mental paranoia can manifest itself through movement and personal tics. They've even created their own survival uniform for when destruction is knocking at the door.
The first week was all about dissecting this beast of a play. Digging deep into the issues most of us have ignored – things we all know but have stored somewhere at the back of our brains. The actors brought in images, research and videos and by trying to create a very real environment and relationship for the three, the otherwise slightly obscure structure of the text now makes perfect sense to all of us (or so we hope!). Kay's work searches for detail and imagination, and with our brilliant cast members Sam Ducane (B), Jessica Sian (A) and Jack Gordon (C) what seemed like a hurricane of complex ideas is now a piece of performance that demands a presence in the room. With this process of fine textual detail and a vast physical exploration I feel this play is becoming something that will turn New Diorama and Edinburgh upside down. We're two weeks in, and already marrying the physical exploration with the almost overwhelming research – one more week and our three paranoid Brad's will be ready to give global warming a good kick.
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Cosmic Fear or The Day Brad Pitt Got Paranoia previews at New Diorama's Incoming Festival on 3rd July, before transferring to Bedlam Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August.


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The City of San Angelo issued a press release on area lakes which serve as our water supply. The last time they gave an update was in November.
The City of San Angelo's Water Utilities Department continues to monitor the level of Lake Nasworthy to advise citizens who live around the lake and those who use the reservoir for recreational activities of the changing conditions.
The City continues to release water from Nasworthy downstream to water rights holders in accordance with the Concho Water Master Program, as stipulated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
The City has pumped all the water it can from Twin Buttes into Nasworthy. Without replenishing rainfall, Nasworthy's level will continue to decline. During the remaining fall and winter months, the decline should be minimal as cooler temperatures result in reduced water usage and evaporation rates. Also, water usage is lowest in the winter – about 9 million gallons per day. Summertime usage can be two to three times that amount, depending upon the watering restrictions in place.
The City is currently relying on O.H. Ivie Reservoir for most of its raw water needs. The City will continue to use O.C. Fisher Reservoir as a resource until that source is depleted. San Angelo has about 15 months of available water supply, assuming no rainfall or runoff during that span.
Without adequate rainfall, Lake Nasworthy's water level will see dramatic changes during the spring and summer of 2014. Increased demands and evaporation will have a significant impact on lake levels. As of Jan. 15, Nasworthy was at 72 percent of its capacity; Ivie was at 14 percent, and Fisher and Twin Buttes were at 1 percent each.
The Texas Water Development Board estimates San Angelo's reservoirs lost more than 5 feet of elevation to evaporation in 2013.
The City urges lakefront homeowners to monitor the lake for changing conditions.
Area windsurfers should be aware of a large rock just off the boat ramp at Mary Lee Park. There could be other obstructions. That said the South Pool at Twin Buttes was up nearly four feet last time I checked. I plan to go out soon to record its current level.
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text: mjollnir #26 Posted 30 April , 2018 I have some more photos that I'll post here when I'm back with my files in a few days' time. I spent quite a few hours during my visit walking the fields around the Quadrilateral - those that had been ploughed but not yet tilled. Interestingly, the field next to the small agricultural 'hard' (parking area and dumping ground) that lies within the Quadrilaterial had very few surface artefacts - a smattering of shrapnel bullets, some very small fragments of driving band and a few 7.92 cartridges. There is hardly any chalk in the topsoil here, by comparison with the fields around Guillemont and Ginchy. I think that the topsoil layer must be deeper here and the usual range of heavier metal artefacts such as shell fragments and parts of fuzes must lie below the reach of ploughing. The spoil heaps had indeed been graded - I watched it happen to the one in the photo above. I did do a furtive exploration one evening (there are Keep Out signs) but found very little, unsurprisingly - the spoil excavated from the upper layers with war material must lie buried in the lower parts of the pile, covered by soil from the deeper excavation. Regarding human remains, I saw quite a few fragments of bones in the ploughsoil elsewhere in this area. I am an archaeologist and once directed the excavation of a medieval cemetery in a ploughed field, so perhaps have an eye for them! One cluster of bone parts I saw near Ginchy close to leather pouching material and a clip of unused 7.92 rounds may be the relatively substantial remains of a German soldier; the rest I assume represent what is left when men are blown into small pieces. I left all that I saw in situ (it will all have been tilled by now), but I did photograph it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Today I came across Eric Lee's post about copying work items. I also discovered this function quite accidentaly and have been happily using it for several months already.
So you right-click on selected Work Item in Query Results or on open Work Item, and click "Create Copy of Work Item..." - and voila! New item with identical data is displayed for you, so you can modify and save it. It allows one to avoid hassle of copying common fields or easily copy item to another project.
All goodness, but there are some not so obvious features within...
First, the newly created work item will be linked to the source work item (work item you copied a new work item from). If that is not your intention, and you do not glance on "Links" tab contents - you are in for surprise. And if you do that for some time then you have a whole lot of links. For example, if you have Item 1, then created Item 2 (by copying from Item 1) and then created Item 3 (by copying from Item 2) - now, how many linked items you will have in Item 3? You will have two - Item 1 and Item 2. That is surely a feature to be aware of (especially if you do not want to link those items)! I have discovered it only after I created the whole bunch of interlinked items...
Additionally, there is something very interesting in the history of the newly created work item. If you are creating items one after another (as in example above), all that information will be saved in history!
Here you can see copied work item history:
And here the first history entry expanded (and that is only a part of it):
Not that I care much about that information currently. It may be useful if you are trying to propagate bug through several Team projects (say bug found in "Project 1" will be copied to "Project 1.1" and then to "Project 1.2" - the data will be visible in history); but with current implementation of Team projects I doubt it is of much use. On the other hand, if you are copying items only for convenience, I do not see how that information is useful to anyone.
Those two I have discovered in a course of some two months of usage; but I will not be surprised if there are additional goodies in that function. And I wonder - what was the idea of the original author?
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Copying work items - hidden gotchas
Today I came across Eric Lee's post about copying work items. I also discovered this function quite accidentaly and have been happily using it for several months already.


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I suppose in the final analysis, it all started with Janie. She's my girlfriend, you see, and about a year ago, they cut off her leg.
"Shit! Really?" Sam Hastings asked me.
"No shit. I... I can't believe it," I told him. We were sitting at a corner table at Common Grounds, the coffee house that pandered to the high school crowd in the area. "This guy just plowed into the right side of her mom's car... it really fucked her leg up... they cut it off above the knee just as soon as they got her to the hospital!"
"Goddam! That's fucked up."
Sam looked across the table. "You okay?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
Sam looked away for a minute like he didn't want to go on, but finally said, "I mean, how do you feel. I know the two of you were tight. But, like, she's not gonna be able to do a lot of stuff now..."
The thought sobered me. I had been so shocked at the news that I hadn't had time to consider the ramifications of having a one-legged girlfriend. Would she ever be able to dance at the raves again... even when she got a wooden leg? Would she barricade herself in her room and never come out? What would it be like to make love with a girl who didn't have both her legs to wrap around me?
I finally spoke. "I guess I'll know when I know," I said simply.
"Janie Spencer," I said to the young woman at the information desk. "She's a patient here."
It had been four days since the accident. I, of course, had come directly to the hospital when I heard, but Janie's parents had told me that the doctor was recommending that she not have visitors for a few days. It had been only last night that Mrs. Spencer had called and told me that it would be okay for me to drop by. She'd told me the room number, but I'd left the scrap of paper in yesterday's jeans.
I knocked on the door of room 3714 and a small voice said "Yeah?"
I had been prepared for the shock of knowing that her right leg was missing. What I was not prepared for was the shock that she was sitting up on the edge of the bed, her bandaged stump in full view! She saw me and bit her lip, looking down at the remains of her amputated limb.
"God, Randy," she said, breaking into tears, "I'm fucked!"
I walked over to the hospital bed and sat down on her left, putting my arms around her. "Hey," I finally managed, "don't cry baby. Please don't cry. You'll get me doing it," I added with a small smile.
She slightly raised the mass of bandages, winced a little, then put it back down. "I'm not going to be able to do anything any more," she said, sniffing back tears.
"You don't know that," I told her. "Why, I bet when they get you a new leg, you'll be up and around just like before."
"Now you sound like my doctor and that brain-dead shrink who comes in here a couple of times a day," she said sourly. She paused. "It doesn't matter how good an artificial leg is, I'll still have to put it on every morning and take it off every night." She sighed. "Besides, it's going to be three or four months before my stu.... my leg heals well enough." She looked up at me. "I'm going to have to go around on crutches until then, Randy! God! I can already see everyone staring at it!" She shuddered.
"We deal with all that as it comes," I reassured her. "Besides, the gang is all asking about you. They're going to come up and see you this evening... I already spread the word that the wardens were allowing the inmate to have visitors."
She giggled for the first time. It was my first glimpse of the old Janie.
"These bandages are sure a sight, aren't they?" she said sadly. "I gotta do something with them."
"I've got just the idea!" I told her. "Be back in about 30 minutes!"
"What do you think?" I asked her when I returned.
"Awesome!" she answered. She turned the huge toboggan cap over in her hands again.
"And see?" I asked, "It's got the same dragon on it that I used for my tattoo!" I illustrated by extending my left arm for her to see more closely, the serpentine coils of the dragon completely encircling the limb three times from wrist to just below the elbow. I grinned. "Try it on."
Janie gently pulled the huge knitted head cover over the mass of gauze that covered her stump. The completely unrolled article extended quite high enough to go under the hem of her hospital gown. She smiled. "I guess I'm ready for visitors," she announced.
The evening DID go well. The gang came in by twos or threes and most of them did a good job not freaking out over Janie's new look. The ones who didn't handle it were at least decent enough to say little, do little, and therefore do no harm.
Time passed. One week turned into two and Janie was home. I came by daily ostensibly to bring her homework assignments by but actually it was just to hang out and spend some time. I didn't try anything with her, although I must admit I wanted to. But I didn't want to hurt her while she healed, plus the fact that her mother was always flitting in and out. One thing that charmed me was the toboggan... Janie never stopped wearing it over her stump. She seemed to really like it.
She was still wearing the silly dragon the first time that she came crutching into Common Grounds, some two months after her accident. Of course, by that time the bandages were all off, and the mass under the cap was considerably less. I must admit to having quite a bit of curiosity about what her leg looked like now, but I figured she would let me see it when she was ready.
"Janie! Good to see you back!" The voice belonged to Harry, the round little man who runs the coffee shop.
"Good to be back," she smiled, raising one forearm crutch as she waved to him.
Come sit over here," Sherry Gay called.
Janie crutched over with me in tow and we both sat down.
"It's been so long," Sherry began. "When are you going to be back in school?"
"I start back Monday," she answered. "I'm all done with my rehab until I get my first new leg, and that's still a while off. The doc said I could go back as soon as I wanted to!"
"Hell, I'd stay home as long as I could get away with it," Al Franklin quipped.
Janie raised a black made-up eyebrow. "Believe me, stayin' at home gets to be the pits! Especially when you've got a mother that goes around being weepy on you all of the time!"
Eyes collectively cut to the table top, lines of sight converging on where they knew the dragon cap to be resting.
Janie smiled. "I think it's time for us to do something," she announced. "My shrink told me that when I first got back 'out' my friends were all going to be afraid to talk about my leg and that it was going to help if I'd talk about it to you." She pushed her chair back from the table a little. "So, let's talk about it." She grinned a little crookedly. "After you have surgery they say everyone goes around wanting to show their scar. Well, let me show you my scar!"
Janie was wearing a pair of shorts, so there was no skirt to lift. She simply took the end of the cap in her hand and slipped it off. I was surprised by the responses.
Sam spoke first. "Wow."
"Wow?" Janie asked not understanding.
"Yeah," he said, getting control of himself a bit. "As in, like I though it'd be all ugly. You're right. Even the scar doesn't look bad. It's kinda neat and compact."
Of course, I was busy taking in the sights as well. I was surprised that Janie hadn't shown her nub to me first as a sort of trial run, but I guessed that for some reason this time and place seemed more friendly to her. I felt my cock turn rock hard for some unexplained reason.
The group grew larger as more of our friends drifted into the cafÈ. They chatted on for about thirty minutes with Janie asking all sorts of questions.
How much it had hurt? Oddly, not a lot. She didn't remember a thing until she woke up, and they had her full of pain killers.
What did it feel like? Janie had full phantom limb sensation, although very little pain.
And on and on.
When we were driving home, Janie had a sort of twinkle in her eyes.
"What are you up to?" I asked her.
"Nothing," she lied, then added, "Did I mention to you that my folks have gone to the symphony concert tonight?"
"No," I grinned back, seeing where she was going.
"You interested in us making some music of our own?"
"Thought you'd never ask!" I answered.
I got the answer to one of the first questions that had crossed my mind after Janie lost her leg: What would it be like to make love with a girl who didn't have both legs to wrap around you? The answer is: Dynamite! As far as keeping you close goes, one leg has plenty of strength to keep you close. Nothing to that.
What I hadn't thought about was what she was going to do with her shortened leg. Janie had about twelve inches of stump left after the surgery. I hadn't thought about it, but she's still able to move to around every bit as well as she can her remaining leg. She later told me it was even easier because the stump feels quite 'light.' I was afraid to touch it, because I didn't want to hurt her. She finally whispered in my ear: "Lay on top of me Randy. There's something I want to do."
What she wanted to do was to take that soft cone of flesh and rub it all up and down the insides of my thighs, right up to the point where they meet! My cock was like a rock. She teased me unmercifully with her new toy until I thought I was about to explode!
We did it three times. After the second, I got up the courage to ask if I could touch her leg. She said "Sure, if you want to," and that was all I needed. You'd have thought I was playing with her tits the way I caressed and squeezed it. Something in my brain must have gotten cross-connected, because it was getting just as hot playing with her there as I got sucking her nipples. I finally kissed her on the upper side of the rounded end. That was when she pulled me tight and I realized round three was about to begin!
There might have been a round four, except we got worried about the time. As I drove home, all I could do was smile. Part of me didn't quite know what to do. I was so pleased and excited by the new Janie I couldn't speak, yet part of me was saying "You shit! You're enjoying the fact that someone actually cut a whole leg off her!" It was something that I wouldn't worry much about after the next two or three times we slept together. It just turned into something that was.
**********Once again, the gang at Common Grounds was gathered around Janie looking at her leg. This time, however, it was not at the amputated stump, but at the remarkable device she had chosen to replace the missing limb.
Janie's new leg was not in any way an attempt to disguise the fact that she was an amputee. Quite the opposite. It had no cosmetic covering. The only part of it that appeared to be life-like was the foot. She had worn sandals, having placed a bit of double-sided tape between the heel of the false foot and the right shoe. The toes of the foot seemed perfectly at home in the open front shoe.
The rest of the leg was quite something else. From the foot up to the black finished knee was a simple metal pipe, bright blue in color. The knee assembly was filled with an assortment of mechanical-looking parts, and was attached to the bottom of the most notable part of the leg. The upper part was made of plastic or something like that and was shaped around the contours of her stump. It was covered completely by what appeared to be decals advertising every heavy metal band in existence!
"I actually had them laminated into the leg," she giggled to Sherry. "They're like tattoos! You can't take them off! It really pissed my mother off when she saw it!"
"Really?" Al asked.
"Yeah. She wanted me to get one of those Barbie Doll legs... you know, that look fake as shit?"
"I like it," I offered. "This makes a statement."
"You're damned right!" she answered proudly.
I looked at the dragon tattoo on my own arm. Lord knows the old man had shit bricks when I'd come home all bandaged up from having had it done. He'd been trying to get me to go to a plastic surgeon and get it burned off, but fuck that noise! It was my statement. I was proud of Janie for making hers.
Al giggled. "I hadn't thought about your losing your leg this way until now," he said, "but you know Janie girl, you've had the ultimate body mod!" He looked around at a couple of faces frowning at him. "No shit!" he continued unabated. "It's a damned site more radical than tats, or piercings, even metal implants! It's way more cool than pinky stumping, even!"
Janie giggled. "I guess it is at that. But some how, I don't see it catching on. Most people wouldn't want to wear one of these contraptions all the time," she added, tapping the composite shell of her leg.
"I dunno..." Al muttered under his breath. "I dunno 'bout that..."
**********Spring meandered into summer and summer was about to become fall. I hadn't seen Al Franklin all summer, but that didn't mean anything. He and I weren't tight beyond school, him being quite a bit more well off than my family was. Still, it had been odd not to run into him down at 'Grounds' all summer. When he came into the place in late August, I understood why!
"Whatcha think o' the new me?" he asked brightly.
"Damn!" I managed. "What happened? When?" I couldn't believe the coincidence of Al losing his leg... the same leg at the same place... so soon after Janie!
Al grinned even more broadly. "Which story you want?" he asked. "The official bullshit or the truth?"
"Start wherever you want to."
"Well, June 24th the cops got a call that a kid had been shot over on the east side in one of the amateur pharmaceutical neighborhoods. The ambulance came, and there they found me. I had taken three slugs in the leg... one had torn the fuck out of my knee." He paused. "Hollow points tend to do that shit."
I was amazed. He was recounting this tale without a trace of pain or fear or anger!
"They took me to the hospital and I guess it was two days that they had me in and out of surgery. Finally, I woke up and all that was there was bandages. Here I am!"
"And they never caught the guys who did it?"
"Naw. The cops had me do a composite and all that crap, but they didn't ever find anyone."
"God, I'm so sorry, Al."
He giggled. I looked back at him oddly.
"So much for the official bullshit." He bit his lip and giggled. "You want the truth?"
"Okay," I answered, almost sure I was there ahead of him.
"At the beginning of the summer, I started hanging around over at the University in the student union. I mean, hell, we're high school seniors. We look enough like college freshmen that we can pass."
I nodded.
"If you use your eyes, it's easy to find the medical students," he continued. "They often come in for a bite there after their shifts at the hospital. I started to try and get to know some of them." He paused, as if remembering. "It's interesting. There's two kinds of medical students. The first group are basically doctor's kids. The old man pulled some strings and got them seats and they're paying all the bills. They're basically assholes."
"And the second group?"
"A far more interesting bunch of bastards," he answered. "Poor kids. A fair number are minorities. They're there because of quotas or because they have families that are willing to sacrifice everything for ten years against the idea that the kid will make it and then take care of them at the end of things." He looked around. "Well, I struck up a friendship with one of those guys," he continued. "I promised never to mention his name, but I can tell you he's a sweetheart, Hispanic kid. We started meeting there several times a week, and I always picked up the tab. Over the time we were spending together, I got to talking to him about Janie and how cool everyone thought she was, especially with that rad leg!"
"I finally came right out and asked him if he could cut my leg off for me!"
"Holy shit! You've got to be pulling my cock!"
"Nope. I asked him, just like that. He just about shit, too, although I don't think he was as surprised as you seem to be. At first, he started giving me all of the reasons why I didn't want this done." He looked around again. "Did you know that the doctors know all about people who want legs cut off? They even have a name for them. It's long and starts with a 'a,' but it means 'want-to-be.'"
I was speechless.
"He did bring up one point, though. He asked me: 'what are you going to tell the police and your parents when you just show up without the leg, and it's all bandaged up nicely. Who did it for you? Why? How?"
"I'd never thought about it, but yeah."
"So I said, 'well, what would you say do?' He thinks a minute and tells me that it'd be a lot easier if I could just set the situation up where the sawbones in a regular hospital had to take it off. I said, 'yeah, but how?' He told me he needed to think about it for a while. I said, okay, and to sweeten the pot, I added: 'There's a cool $5000 in it if you can make it happen!'"
"Yeah. Like where were you gonna get $5000?"
"You'd be surprised what rich kids have laying around in safe deposit boxes," he said with a smirk. "Anyway, the next time I meet him at the student union, he asks, 'Were you for real with all this amputation shit?' I tell him I was, and he says he's got it all worked out!"
"Fuck me..."
"Yeah! He's got a guy lined up who'll meet me in an alley and shoot my leg so it'll be screwed up majorly, and they'll have no choice but to cut it off. Well, I say 'you know, that sounds like 'way more pain than I'm interested in' and he answers 'no, because I'm going to be there to give you a shot in the back before he does it. You ain't gonna feel a thing after that!'"
"So, he... you..." I was amazed and feeling all sorts of weird feelings.
"So, we met in the alley, he gave me this shot just above my ass. It hurt some, but not that bad. In just a few minutes, I started losing all the feeling there. Next, he took a piece of brick from the alleyway there and scraped it across the bottom of my back. That was so no one could see the needle mark. I just fell on something, see, and cut my back that way." He paused to catch his breath. "This black dude shows up about ten minutes after, and asks 'This him?' and the intern says 'Yeah, do it' and he hightails it out of there. Well, goddam, Randy... this guy whips this big-ass heater out of his jacket and casually starts shooting me in the leg! The first one caught me near the ankle. I started to scream, then realized that I didn't feel it. He shot me again in the calf, and then took careful aim at my knee. It was over just that fast and he ran off."
"Man, weren't you afraid you'd bleed to death?"
"Naw. My intern friend said he'd stay nearby until the EMT's got there. As it was, they were then in just a few minutes. I just moaned a lot and made like I was nearly passed out. No one suspected a thing."
"But..." I was trying to get my thoughts in some sort of order. "... why? What was the point? Why'd you want the leg off?"
"The statement, man," he returned quickly. "The statement! How the hell else am I going to wear one of those wicked legs like Janie's?" He grinned evilly. "You ought to see the one I've ordered. It's as rad as I could make it! I'm going to get it in about two weeks. There was something about the knee that they had to order or have made special or something. Man! I can't wait!"
I debated a long time about whether or not to tell Janie about Al. It was a couple of months later, but I finally did. She didn't say much. She hadn't said much when Al had come in sporting his new leg, which I thought was odd. She'd just commented on how neat it looked. At first I thought she was upset, then I found out that Al wasn't the only one to get the ultimate body mod idea.
"At first I was horrified by the idea," she told me. "Sherry actually came over one evening and started talking to me about what it was really like being one-legged. I told her about all the hassle. Then she tells me that she's trying to figure out a way to lose her left leg... you know... so we could be mirror images!" She laughed. "I didn't speak to her for three days until I figured out that she was serious and not... you know... screwing with me."
"So, am I going to see a new her before long?" I asked.
"No, she hasn't worked out how to do it yet. I may still be able to talk her out of it."
The love we made was deep and sweet and passionate that night. When it was over, we both got dressed and went out for burgers. The soft hiss of Janie's knee alternated with her animated chatter as we walked in. Even yet, she turns lots of heads when she shows up at a place where people don't know her. Yes, that leg makes quite a statement.
It was that night that I made the decision. I'm really getting goddam tired of the old man bellyaching about my tattoo. Fine. He's right. I'm going to get it removed. But I bet it shocks the shit out of him just how I'm going to have it done! It's time that someone in this crazy group got a hook hand.
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In the lush, tropical world of Martinique where slavery is a distant memory and voodoo holds sway, Emilie Dujon discovers that her fiancé, a rich sugar planter, has been unfaithful. Desperate to leave him, she elicits the aid of a voodoo witch doctor and is lured into a shadowy world of black magic and extortion. When the volcano known as Mount Pelée begins to rumble and spew ash, she joins a scientific committee sent to investigate the crater. During the journey she meets Lt. Denis Rémy, an army officer with a mysterious past. At the summit, the explorers discover that a second crater has formed and the volcano appears to be on the verge of eruption. But when they try to warn the governor, he orders them to bury the evidence for fear of upsetting the upcoming election. As the pressure builds, a deadly mudslide inundates Emilie's plantation and she disappears. With ash and cinders raining down, chaos ensues. Left with no choice, Lt. Rémy deserts his post and sets off on a desperate quest to rescue Emilie. But with all roads blocked, can they escape the doomed Pompeii of the Caribbean before it's too late?
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Visual therapy, or vision therapy, is a program of vision exercises designed to correct vision problems, especially in children, that may interfere with reading, writing, and education. Vision therapy also may include training glasses or other medical equipment. Sometimes a child's teacher will recommend visual therapy if the child has trouble reading or writing. To find a visual therapist, look for a developmental optometrist near you and schedule a comprehensive exam. [1] X Research source
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Finding a Developmental Optometrist
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1Search the COVD directory. The College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) is a professional organization for developmental optometrists. You can locate a developmental optometrist near you on their website.
- Go to www.covd.org. If you live in the United States, you can enter your ZIP code at the top of the organization's home page.
- The organization also has chapters in Canada and South Korea, so if you live in one of those countries you can find your national directory by clicking the link for your national chapter.
- Other countries may be available on the main website. Check the advanced search features.
2Check with the Optometrists Network. The Optometrists Network is a global network of developmental optometrists. You may be able to find developmental optometrists near you by searching their online directory.[2] X Research source
- The website for the Optometrists Network is www.optometrists.org. Once there, click "Find a Doctor" to look for a developmental optometrist near you. In addition to the U.S. and Canada, the Optometrists Network also includes optometrists in Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and the UK.
- The website also has additional information you can read through to learn more about vision therapy.
3Talk to your primary health care provider. If you are unable to find a developmental optometrist online, your physician or your child's pediatrician may be able to refer you or your child to a developmental optometrist in your area.[3] X Research source
- The child's pediatrician also is a good source for a recommendation for an ophthalmologist, who you may want to see to rule out any eye diseases that are causing the vision problem.
- Keep in mind it is possible your primary care physician may not know of anyone for whom they can offer a referral. However, they may have a good idea of where to look or be able to give you some additional tips on how to go about your search.
4Confirm your insurance. While insurance often will cover the exams, it may not cover vision therapy if the developmental therapist recommends it. You need to make sure you understand what your insurance will cover from the outset.[4] X Research source
- Ask separately about examinations and vision therapy. Some insurance companies will cover one but not the other.
- Make sure the developmental optometrists that you've located take your insurance.
- You also need to find out how many total sessions are covered, and how much of the cost is covered. Keep in mind that you may need to make several calls to your insurance company's customer service line to know for sure.
5Interview several developmental optometrists. In some areas, there may not be many developmental optometrists near you. In that case, you may have no choice but to go with the first one you find.[5] X Research source
- If there are several in your area, talking to each of them can help you choose the one that best suits your budget and the needs of your child. Particularly if your child is shy or anxious around other adults, you also can try to find the one with whom your child is most comfortable.
- If you have the option, find someone who does office-based vision therapy themselves, rather than referring your child out. The exam typically will be more accurate and more comprehensive, because they'll know what to look for and what a therapist needs to know.
- Ask about total cost of therapy, and how many sessions they typically recommend. Compare this to what you've found out about your insurance coverage.
6Contact references. A good developmental optometrist should be able to provide you with the names and contact information for several satisfied parents who have used their services. Talking to these parents can give you a better idea of what to expect.[6] X Research source
- If a developmental optometrist gives you people to call, be professional and courteous but up-front with these parents. Don't be afraid to ask about anything you want to know, including the total cost of the treatment.
- Find out what problems their children had, and whether they noticed a significant difference through therapy.
- You also might ask about their personal experience with the developmental optometrist and their office. Find out things such as how communicative the staff and optometrist were, what happens if you have to cancel an appointment, and how patients and parents are treated generally.
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Getting a Comprehensive Exam
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1Do a home vision assessment. If visual therapy has been recommended for your child, you may want to go through a home vision assessment to determine if therapy is necessary or would be beneficial.[7] X Research source
- You can find assessments online, typically offered by dyslexia organizations. Check the "about" page of any website where you find an assessment, and review the organization's credentials.
- An assessment is helpful if your child has had trouble with reading at school, particularly if you have limited finances. Getting vision therapy can be very expensive. The assessment will help you determine if the problem is vision-related at all, or if your child simply doesn't like to read for another reason.
- A thorough at-home assessment involves both your observations as well as the child's observations.
2Schedule a visit with an ophthalmologist. Getting a comprehensive eye examination is a lengthy process, and can be expensive – especially if it's not covered by your insurance. For that reason, it may be best to take your child to an ophthalmologist first.[8] X Research source
- Look for an ophthalmologist who has experience working with kids. If possible, you also want someone who has experience working with kids who have difficulties similar to those your child is having.
- An ophthalmologist can screen for pediatric eye diseases and other disorders that may be causing symptomatic problems with vision.
- If a disease is identified, typically treating that disease will remedy the problem without the need for extensive vision therapy.
3Have visual skills tested by a developmental optometrist. A comprehensive eye examination will test all visual skills, including the function and performance of your child's eyes. This examination helps determine whether the child has eye problems that may be causing developmental delays or learning problems.[9] X Research source
- Typically when your child gets their eyes tested at a school vision screening, it only tests for the sharpness and clearness of the child's vision at a distance. However, other eye functions, such as focus and depth perception, are important to a child's growth and development.
- The comprehensive eye exam also will test color vision, the ability of the eyes to work together, and the ability of the eyes to work together with other senses.
- Keep in mind that many problems with these other visual skills, if detected early enough, can be improved with vision therapy.
4Talk to the developmental optometrist about the results. Once the examination is complete, the developmental optometrist typically will prepare a report for you that summarizes the examination and their recommendations based on that examination.[10] X Research source
- The developmental optometrist should provide you a plan, including the total number of sessions they recommend. They also will talk to you about potential outcomes as a result of the therapy.
- Even if you decide not to go through with the therapy immediately, it's still helpful to get the examination done. The report can help you work on the issue at home and improve your child's vision.
5Consider getting a second opinion. If you haven't already taken your child to an ophthalmologist, you may want to do so after getting the results of the comprehensive eye exam to rule out any disorders or diseases.[11] X Research source
- Bring the comprehensive eye exam report with you so the ophthalmologist can review it themselves.
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Starting Vision Therapy
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1Get an estimate of overall costs. Vision therapy often is fairly expensive. You should expect each visit to cost several hundred dollars. This could put the total cost into the thousands, depending on how many visits the developmental optometrist recommends.[12] X Research source
- You may be able to lower the costs by doing more therapy exercises at home and only going once every other week instead of once a week.
- If the overall cost is outside your financial means, talk to the developmental optometrist about what you can do to bring it down.
2Search for alternatives. If in-office vision therapy is completely off the table for you from a financial standpoint, there may be lower-cost options you could pursue that would have similar effects to the vision therapy recommended.[13] X Research source
- In some areas, you may be able to find free or reduced-cost vision therapy from government institutions or nonprofit organizations. The developmental optometrist may be able to point you towards resources in your area.
- Some developmental optometrists also work with computer-based programs online, which can not only reduce your costs but cut your travel time – especially if you're having to travel a long distance to get to their office.
3Schedule in-office therapy sessions once a week. Vision therapy has the best results if you can get your child into the office to do sessions with the developmental optometrist at least once a week. There are exercises and procedures that can be done in the office that can't be done at home.[14] X Research source
- The therapy plan will be designed specifically to suit the needs of your child, and typically will require several 30-minute to hour-long sessions.
- These exercises aren't necessarily designed to strengthen eye muscles, but rather to improve or help develop visual skills and abilities. The specific exercises and procedures used will depend on your child's vision needs.
4Oversee daily exercises at home. Depending on your child's vision needs, the developmental optometrist may prescribe daily exercises, or "homework," to be done on a daily basis between in-office sessions.[15] X Research source
- The exercises prescribed typically will be ones that reinforce the work done during in-office sessions, or that encourage development of particular skills.
- For example, your child may be assigned "pencil push-ups," an exercise in which something is written on a pencil and held at arm's length, with the child slowly bringing the pencil closer to their face.
- However, most exercises prescribed by a developmental optometrist as part of a vision therapy program will be more specifically tailored than pencil push-ups.
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- ↑ http://www.optometrists.org/findeyedoctordirectory/
- ↑ https://www.aapos.org/terms/conditions/108
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text: ETR:LHADeutsche Lufthansa Stock Price, Forecast & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Deutsche Lufthansa AG Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add €10.87 +0.56 (+5.43 %) (As of 06/5/2020 04:00 PM ET) Add Compare Share Today's Range€10.13Now: €10.87▼€11.1150-Day Range€7.18MA: €8.25▼€10.3152-Week Range€7.02Now: €10.87▼€18.02Volume25.59 million shsAverage Volume3.43 million shsMarket Capitalization$5.20 billionP/E Ratio4.26Dividend Yield10.18%BetaN/A ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartCompetitorsHeadlines Deutsche Lufthansa AG operates as an aviation company in Germany and internationally. The company operates through Network Airlines, Eurowings, and Aviation Services. The Network Airlines segment offers passenger services through a route network of 287 destinations in 86 countries. The Eurowings segment provides passenger services through a route network of 197 destinations in 62 countries. The Aviation Services segment offers a range of cargo transport services for various cargos, including live animals, valuable cargo, mail, dangerous goods, and temperature-sensitive cargo serving approximately 300 destinations in approximately 100 countries. This segment also provides maintenance, repair, and overhaul services for civilian commercial aircraft serving original equipment manufacturers and aircraft leasing companies, operators of VIP jets, and airlines, as well as develops and manufactures cabin products and digital products. In addition, it offers catering, in-flight sales and entertainment, in-flight service equipment, and the associated logistics services; and consulting services, as well as operates airport lounges. Further, this segment provides consulting and IT services for the aviation industry; aviation and transport insurance, and reinsurance products, as well as risk management services; training courses in simulator training, emergency and service drill, or e-learning; and business travel management solutions in the area of payment and analysis of corporate travel. As of December 31, 2018, it had a fleet of 763 aircraft. Deutsche Lufthansa AG is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.Read More Beat the Market (BTM) Rank™ 1.7 Analyst's Opinion Consensus RatingDeutsche Lufthansa has received a consensus rating of Sell. The company's average rating score is 1.41, and is based on 2 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and 12 sell ratings.Price Target Upside/DownsideAccording to analysts' consensus price target of €9.39, Deutsche Lufthansa has a potential downside of 13.6% from its current price of €10.87.Amount of Analyst CoverageDeutsche Lufthansa has been the subject of 14 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock. Previous Next 2.2 Community Rank Outperform VotesDeutsche Lufthansa has received 945 "outperform" votes. (Add your "outperform" vote.)Underperform VotesDeutsche Lufthansa has received 1,178 "underperform" votes. (Add your "underperform" vote.)Community SentimentDeutsche Lufthansa has received 55.49% "underperform" votes from our community.MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Deutsche Lufthansa and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe LHA will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe LHA will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. Previous Next 2.5 Dividend Strength Dividend LeadershipDeutsche Lufthansa is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 10.18%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.Dividend GrowthDeutsche Lufthansa does not have a long track record of dividend growth.Dividend CoverageThe dividend payout ratio of Deutsche Lufthansa is 31.37 %. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Previous Next 0.0 Company Ownership Insider Buying vs. Insider SellingIn the past three months, Deutsche Lufthansa insiders have not sold or bought any company stock. Previous Next 1.9 Earnings and Valuation Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the MarketThe P/E ratio of Deutsche Lufthansa is 4.26, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 16.50.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. SectorThe P/E ratio of Deutsche Lufthansa is 4.26, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Industrials sector average P/E ratio of about 12.16.Price to Book Value per Share RatioDeutsche Lufthansa has a P/B Ratio of 0.51. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities. Previous Next Analyst Opinion: 1.7Community Rank: 2.2Dividend Strength: 2.5Insider Behavior: 0.0Valuation: 1.9 5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -Overall Beat the Market Rank™1.66 out of 5 stars Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange ETR Industry Airlines Sub-IndustryN/A SectorIndustrials Current SymbolETR:LHA Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A CIKN/A Webwww.lufthansagroup.com Phone+49-69-6960Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio97.96 Current Ratio0.71 Quick Ratio0.57Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio4.26 Forward P/E RatioN/A P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$36.50 billion Price / Sales0.14 Cash Flow€8.34 per share Price / Cash Flow1.30 Book Value€21.22 per share Price / Book0.51Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)N/A Net IncomeN/A Net MarginsN/A Return on EquityN/A Return on AssetsN/AMiscellaneous Employees136,795 Outstanding Shares478,193,984Market Cap$5.20 billion Next Earnings DateN/A OptionableNot Optionable LHA Rates by TradingView Receive LHA News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for LHA and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Deutsche Lufthansa (ETR:LHA) Frequently Asked Questions How has Deutsche Lufthansa's stock been impacted by COVID-19 (Coronavirus)? Deutsche Lufthansa's stock was trading at €10.20 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, LHA shares have increased by 6.6% and is now trading at €10.87. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus. Do Wall Street analysts recommend investors buy shares of Deutsche Lufthansa? 17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Deutsche Lufthansa in the last year. There are currently 12 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View analyst ratings for Deutsche Lufthansa. What price target have analysts set for LHA? 17 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Deutsche Lufthansa's stock. Their forecasts range from €2.00 to €18.00. On average, they expect Deutsche Lufthansa's share price to reach €9.39 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.6%. View analysts' price targets for Deutsche Lufthansa. Has Deutsche Lufthansa been receiving favorable news coverage? Headlines about LHA stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Deutsche Lufthansa earned a daily sentiment score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutDeutsche Lufthansa. Who are some of Deutsche Lufthansa's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Deutsche Lufthansa include Qantas Airways (QAN), Air Canada (AC), easyJet (EZJ), Wizz Air (WIZZ), Air New Zealand (AIZ), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Exchange Income (EIF), Chorus Aviation (CHR), Alliance Aviation Services (AQZ), Ryanair (RYA), Regional Express (REX), Canada Jetlines (JET), Adyen (WZZAF), Air New Zealand (ANZFF) and AIR/Shs H Vtg 1.00 (AICAF). View all competitors. What other stocks do shareholders of Deutsche Lufthansa own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Deutsche Lufthansa investors own include Petra Diamonds (PDL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), AT&T (T), Boeing (BA), Bank of America (BAC), Intel (INTC), Coca-Cola (KO), AbbVie (ABBV), Alibaba Group (BABA) and Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW). Who are Deutsche Lufthansa's key executives? Deutsche Lufthansa's management team includes the following people: Mr. Carsten Spohr, Chairman of the Exec. Board & CEO (Age 53)Mr. Ulrik Svensson, CFO & Member of Exec. Board (Age 58)Mr. Harry Hohmeister, Chief Commercial Officer Network Airlines & Member of Exec. Board (Age 55)Dr. Bettina Volkens, Chief Officer of Corp. HR & Legal Affairs and Member of the Exec. Board (Age 56)Mr. Thorsten Dirks, Chief Commercial Officer of Eurowings & Member of the Exec. Board (Age 56) What is Deutsche Lufthansa's stock symbol? Deutsche Lufthansa trades on the ETR under the ticker symbol "LHA." What is Deutsche Lufthansa's stock price today? One share of LHA stock can currently be purchased for approximately €10.87. How big of a company is Deutsche Lufthansa? Deutsche Lufthansa has a market capitalization of $5.20 billion and generates $36.50 billion in revenue each year. Deutsche Lufthansa employs 136,795 workers across the globe. What is Deutsche Lufthansa's official website? The official website for Deutsche Lufthansa is www.lufthansagroup.com. How can I contact Deutsche Lufthansa? Deutsche Lufthansa's mailing address is Von-Gablenz-Strasse 2-6, KOELN, 50679, Germany. The company can be reached via phone at +49-69-6960. This page was last updated on 6/7/2020 by MarketBeat.com Staff


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