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Daytona Nibbles (NASCAR Xfinity Series): Daytona Kicks Off a Highly Anticipated 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season
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Last February at Daytona International Speedway, the NASCAR Xfinity Series not only set the NASCAR national series record for the closest finish to a race ever (0.0004 secs. margin of victory), but did it in spectacular fashion, as the race reached a record five NASCAR Overtimes, and extended the race to a record 143 laps – 23 more laps and 57.5 more miles than originally scheduled.
Fast-forward a year and the NASCAR Xfinity Series has returned to Daytona to deliver more great racing action in the NASCAR Racing Experience 300 on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 2:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Edging his then-JR Motorsports teammate Elliott Sadler by the slightest of margins, 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Tyler Reddick, etched his name in the record books and took home the spoils of victory in last year's season-opener at Daytona. Reddick was able to use the win as a spring board to the Xfinity Series Playoffs where he closed out his rookie season with a win at Homestead-Miami Speedway to clinch the 2018 title. After winning the title with JRM last season, Reddick has made the move to Richard Childress Racing's No. 2 Chevrolet team for 2019.
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Last season wasn't an anomaly when it comes to close racing at Daytona. Over the last five years, the Xfinity Series season opener has produced finishes with a margin of victory of less than a second.
But the unpredictability doesn't end there, passes for the win have happened in the closing laps of the last five season-opening races at Daytona; including two on the last lap:
In 2014, Regan Smith passed Brad Keselowski on the last lap to win; in 2015 Ryan Reed passed Brad Keselowski on the last lap for the win, in 2016 Chase Elliott passed Joey Logano and led the last 14 laps to win; in 2017 Ryan Reed passed Brad Keselowski with two laps to go to take the checkered; in 2018 Tyler Reddick took the lead with 11 laps to go in NASCAR Overtime and then held off the field for two more overtime restarts to win the closest race in NASCAR history. (NASCAR PR)
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Roger Hanshaw
GOP Delegates Renominate Hanshaw For House Speaker
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The incoming GOP majority of the West Virginia House of Delegates today renominated Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, to continue serving as Speaker of the House for the 84th Legislature.
The nomination was made during a private caucus meeting this afternoon at the state Capitol.
"I am honored and humbled to once again receive this nomination from my colleagues and friends, and look forward to working with them over the next two years to improve the economy and opportunities available to all West Virginians," Speaker Hanshaw said.
"In the coming weeks, I will be working with all members to craft a 2019 legislative agenda that will continue our efforts to inspire job creation and economic development in our state, while also working to improve our education system, open up better healthcare opportunities, and continue our responsible fiscal management of this state," Speaker Hanshaw said.
"I sense a tremendous amount of energy in our caucus, and we have several new members who bring new perspectives to the Legislature," Speaker Hanshaw said. "I look forward to working with them to make our state a better place for all."
Speaker Hanshaw was initially elected House Speaker in August, following the resignation of former House Speaker Tim Armstead, who is now a Justice on the state Supreme Court of Appeals.
In addition to the Speaker nomination, House Republicans also nominated Steve Harrison to continue in his role as House Clerk.
The formal elections for House Speaker and Clerk, as well as other House officers, will occur on the first day of the 2019 legislative session, which is Wed., Jan. 9.

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Crop Diseases, Pests and Genetics Research: Parlier, CA
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ARS Home » Pacific West Area » Parlier, California » San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center » Crop Diseases, Pests and Genetics Research » Research » Publications at this Location » Publication #376979
Research Project: Identification of Novel Management Strategies for Key Pests and Pathogens of Grapevine with Emphasis on the Xylella Fastidiosa Pathosystem
Location: Crop Diseases, Pests and Genetics Research
Title: Functional foregut anatomy of the blue–green sharpshooter illustrated using a 3D model
WHITE, DANIEL - University Of California
Backus, Elaine
MARCUS, IAN - Drexel University
WALKER, SHARON - Drexel University
ROPER, M. CAROLINE - University Of California
Submitted to: Scientific Reports
Citation: White, D., Backus, E.A., Marcus, I.M., Walker, S.L., Roper, M. 2021. Functional foregut anatomy of the blue–green sharpshooter illustrated using a 3D model. Scientific Reports. 11. Article 6536. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85954-4.
Interpretive Summary: Xylella fastidiosa is an invasive plant-infecting bacterium that causes economically significant agricultural losses worldwide from diseases such as olive quick decline syndrome in Europe, citrus variegated chlorosis in South America, and Pierce's disease of grape in North America. Sharpshooter leafhoppers are important carriers of X. fastidiosa. Bacteria-containing fluids are taken up during feeding by sharpshooters on infected plants, and later injected into healthy plants. Such transmission is linked to fluid movements in and out of the carrier's functional foregut and colonization by bacterial cells. One key X. fastidiosa carrier is the blue-green sharpshooter, Graphocephala atropunctata. In this study, a three-dimensional model of the functional foregut of blue-green sharpshooter was developed from microscopy images. The model is used to illustrate anatomy of the functional foregut, as well as existing and newly defined anatomical terms that will aid in future studies of fluid movements in the sharpshooter functional foregut. The three-dimensional (3D) illustrations and supplementary interactive 3D figures provide resources for collaborating researchers from many disciplines, who may be unfamiliar with insect anatomy. The model can also be used in future computer simulations of fluid dynamics, to better understand transmission of X. fastidiosa. Improved understanding of the transmission processes from this research will lead to new targets for breeding crops that will be resistant to X. fastidiosa.
Technical Abstract: Sharpshooter leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) are important vectors of the plant pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. (Xanthomonadales: Xanthomonadaceae). This pathogen causes economically significant diseases in olive, citrus, and grapes on multiple continents. Bacterial acquisition and inoculation mechanisms are linked to X. fastidiosa biofilm formation and fluid dynamics in the functional foregut of sharpshooters, which together result in egestion (expulsion) of fluids likely carrying bacteria. One key X. fastidiosa vector is the blue-green sharpshooter, Graphocephala atropunctata Signoret. Herein, a 3D model of the blue-green sharpshooter functional foregut is derived from a meta-analysis of published microscopy images. The model is used to illustrate preexisting and newly defined anatomical terminology that is relevant for investigating fluid dynamics in the functional foregut of sharpshooters. The 3D illustrations herein and supplementary interactive 3D figures are suitable resources for multidisciplinary researchers who may be unfamiliar with insect anatomy. The 3D model can also be used in future fluid dynamic simulations to better understand acquisition, retention, and inoculation of X. fastidiosa. Improved understanding of these processes could lead to new targets for breeding crops that will be resistant to X. fastidiosa.


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10th June 2016, 08:00 PM #161
Here's an idea guys... accept you lost the argument, lick your wounds, and plan to fight another day. OK?
It's good to see vitally important matters are at the top of the agenda for both Parliament and the media!
O Canada bill championed by Mauril Bélanger, MP with ALS, advances to final vote.
Yep, the anthem containing "in all thy sons command" is just outrageous and disgusting and sexist and exclusionary! Change it! CHANGE IT!
I think most people think it's just outdated and stupid. "God keep our land"? Wait until that bill comes out if you really want to see people posture over why progressives are idiots.
I think most people think it's just outdated and stupid.
[citation needed]
Seriously, are we to believe that supposedly adult persons can't understand that by context the lines mean all Canadians, and not literally 'sons'?
"God keep our land"? Wait until that bill comes out if you really want to see people posture over why progressives are idiots.
I'm an atheist, and that line doesn't bother me. I file it under the same category of "doesn't even rise to the level of a tempest in a teacup" as the lines they are trying to change now. It's all posturing nonsense, through and through. It's political theatre.
No, there is no citation needed, as there is no poll on this (I guess) and so I'm telling you my opinion. I also think buying a Harley just because you're old and bored is stupid.
No. This strikes at the heart of Conservative values. Tradition. You know it's stupid, you just don't like that it's being changed. My thought is, wow it's a stupid *********** song in the first place who cares if someone changes one word? It makes no sense.
Im an atheist, and that line doesn't bother me. I file it under the same category of "doesn't even rise to the level of a tempest in a teacup" as the lines they are trying to change now. It's all posturing nonsense, through and through. It's political theatre.
OK I know how you feel but you didn't make a point. My point is that one day it will be taken out or changed. You know this, I know this. It's reality. It means very little politically. So stop trying to make hay, this is my point.
You shouldn't be phrasing things in such a way as to speak for other people then.
"Conservative values"—your own bias is showing. You apparently think anyone who objects to changing it is of that stripe. Sorry, you are incorrect. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
I'll reiterate, since it apparently did not register the first time: Seriously, are we to believe that supposedly adult persons can't understand that by context the lines mean all Canadians, and not literally 'sons'? Have people become that ridiculously oversensitive to language that, by contextual usage, obviously refers to all an not the specific group?
What's next? Maybe we should edit Neil Armstrong's quote from the surface of the Moon. I mean, he said "mankind"! That clearly excludes all the women in the world! Maybe people in offices need to stop referring to mixed groups of people, or a group of women only, as "guys". Oh, wait, that's actually happening.
This is the irrationality that is gripping some people. I suppose it wouldn't be so bad, except that these folks insist on forcing everyone else to adopt their insanity. Sorry, no sale.
My point is that one day it will be taken out or changed. You know this, I know this. It's reality.
The underlying matter remains: No compelling, evidence-based case has been presented that the change must be made; no compelling, evidence-based case has been presented that the current phrasing does any harm to anyone. Bring me evidence, real evidence, demonstrating harm and the necessity for change, then I am prepared to reconsider changes. Lacking such evidence, I see no reason to kowtow to the language irrationality that grips some.
It means very little politically. So stop trying to make hay, this is my point.
The entire matter is political theatre. It's as much a meaningless, useless gesture as was Trudeau's gender-balanced cabinet. Neither move addresses any real problem, achieves anything of actual substance, and is simply is done to score political points with a certain small (but very loud) constituency.
You may like or at least tolerate that sort of thing, but my patience for it is thoroughly exhausted.
I have no idea in regards to what absolutely asinine nonsense you could possibly mean by this babble.
What I said aligns with conservatives does actually align with them most of the time. Whether or not you agree that this biases your view means jack **** to me.
No one is asking you to think this. What they are saying is that the song isn't perfect. You think the song is perfect?
Are you a Roosh V fan? Sorry I don't think you are I'm just illustrating how stupid that sounds.
When the song was written it was a male dominated society. Now it is not that kind of society. Thanks for exposing how seriously you feel about this.
Well, one of us is going to be bothered by it for the foreseeable future, try winning the election next time.
12th June 2016, 09:08 AM #168
While important business does get discussed and debated in the House of Commons, in my opinion the House is almost as much political theatre as airport passenger screening is security theatre. I'm not an expert on how business in the House is scheduled, but reading between the lines of the news reports on this bill, it appears every member of the House gets an opportunity to introduce and advance legislation. So this is more Bélanger's baby than it is Trudeau's.
I have no idea if the Prime Minister has a veto (or even a say) in the which Private Member's Bills get introduced or moved through the legislative process. I do know a large majority of them fail to become law.
Trudeau seems determined to try and run a country on the principles of Tumblr. He really doesn't have any other foundations for his policies.
What are the "principles of Tumblr" that you're referring to? And did you have any specific policies in mind when you wrote that?
Trying to go "it's the current year" and be supreprogressive, for the cameras. In other words, he's all style no substance and as corsair puts it, he acts as though tumblr is a how-to guide for government policy.
Trolling. Or, no sense was intended to be made when this post was written.
I also hear that Obama is a Muslim/terrorist sympathizer?
Same thing.
Saying it's 2016 and not 1956 means we have progressed and certain people are not catching up and that's why corrective measures are being taken. It's actually a polite attack, so you must make fun of it as not meaning what it means. I bet you don't think the natives need a hand up either?
In other words, he's all style no substance and as corsair puts it, he acts as though tumblr is a how-to guide for government policy.
Hmmm, I think I've said the former more than the latter. Be that as it may, I have been very consistent on that first opinion right from the moment he was being touted as a possible Liberal leadership candidate: the guy is an empty suit, riding off the coattails of his daddy's name. If he wasn't the son of a famous former Prime Minister he would be a nobody and of no political note whatsoever. He sure as heck wouldn't be Liberal leader.
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No, it's garbage. It means nothing, it justifies nothing, it explains nothing; his "Because it's 2015" was deservedly mocked and has deservedly become an internet meme.
He had to resort to that because he couldn't even begin to offer a rational and evidence-based case for a 'gender balanced' cabinet. Actually, it's worse than that: the concept of and argumentation for this sort of (artificially forced) gender balance rests on highly dubious assumptions and reasoning that could easily be described as anti-democratic. It was also pandering of the most obvious kind to a particular electoral demographic.
But then, this ought not to be all that surprising since the guy is an empty suit.
I think it's obvious that there are many people who could do each job equally well and making it equal is good the same way making it all men would be bad. It's really simple and easy to understand.
It's a *********** minister's job, not the special forces or firefighters, to put it in a context I'm sure you can appreciate.
Niche Geek
1. It's not undemocratic in that they are all elected members and you and I don't vote for Cabinet. Are you arguing that the cabinet must reflect the population of elected MP? If so, how? By race? Age? Gender? Region? Or should the represent the country? Their party?
2. I've seen very little mocking of "it's 2015" in my neck of the woods. In fact it was praised. Reflecting the Canadian population including gender and ethnicity is not a novel concept and is, for a vast number of us, so obvious that a pithy comment is all that is required.
3. Im not sure pandering is the right word when you are talking about at least 51% of the population.
4. How is it artificially forced? Cabinet jobs have, historically, gone to people with no expertise in the area they oversee, people with no experience in that area either. Cabinet has been used to rewarded loyalty or influence a rival camp.
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See the bolded in your statement? That's the problem. Trudeau had decided ahead of time that 50% of the cabinet would be women. That is a preordained quota. Quotas are antithetical to a merit-based system.
Originally Posted by Niche Geek
Are you arguing that the cabinet must reflect the population of elected MP? If so, how? By race? Age? Gender? Region? Or should the represent the country? Their party?
Quite the opposite. I'm arguing the quota system the current PM has opted for is opening the door to that sort of thing, and making it more prominent and important.
Here's the bottom line: please explain logically why 50% of the population being a certain classification mandates that cabinet (or elected officials in general) must also be of that certain classification.
I ask because inherent in any case made that such mandated classification quotas are appropriate is the idea that only members of group X can represent group X, and only members of group Y can represent group Y, and so on. That is a recipe for disaster and chaos.
I've seen very little mocking of "it's 2015" in my neck of the woods. In fact it was praised.
Then you need to branch out and view more than whatever particular narrow segment of the internet you frequent. There's a great big body of ideas and comment out there, many of which challenge long-standing assertions which all too many simply accept without challenge.
As for 'praised', yes, I don't doubt there was praise for it. But that praise comes from folks whose rational and evidence-based thinking would appear to be extremely shallow.
Reflecting the Canadian population including gender and ethnicity is not a novel concept and is, for a vast number of us, so obvious that a pithy comment is all that is required.
Except that this 'reflecting' was done by enforced quota. Quotas are the opposite of merit.
Im not sure pandering is the right word when you are talking about at least 51% of the population.
So, you are assuming all women are in favour of enforced cabinet quotas?
As for the constituency pandered to, it was the loud section of feminism which continually advocates for this sort of forced gender balance.
(There are, for example, several countries which have laws mandating that a specified percentage of corporate boards must be women. In other words, forced quotas. What is interesting to me is why such quotas or general efforts to get more women into a field are only ever for high-status, prestigious jobs, with the three most commonly mentioned being STEM careers, elected officials, and corporate boards. Such actions are hardly ever suggested for lower status, working class jobs, even when such jobs are far more male-dominated than STEM, politics, and company boardrooms. Or, for that matter, neither are forced quotas or campaigns to reduce the number of women in a field suggested for any profession where women currently dominate.)
How is it artificially forced?
Trudeau said it would be so, and it was so! How is that anything other than enforced? He did not say, "We're going to get the best people for the cabinet, and we're going to try out best to try and get
Cabinet jobs have, historically, gone to people with no expertise in the area they oversee, people with no experience in that area either. Cabinet has been used to rewarded loyalty or influence a rival camp.
And that only makes it worse. Merit has become a dirty word, it seems. (I remember, years ago, the Liberals criticizing the Conservatives for patronage appointments. Of course, when the Liberals had their hands on the reigns of power, what happened? They made their own bunch of patronage appointments. A pox on them both.)
What you still don't understand is that in a merit-based system with plenty of equally qualified people, it's actually not costing anyone anything to choose gender equal, or geography equal, or life experience (old/young/politician/newbie) there simply isn't a serious argument that they are choosing poorly qualified people to be ministers. You're the one deciding ahead of time that since they are choosing women, they are choosing women over better-qualified men, which is your claim to explain, not mine, good luck with that, pure butt hurt.
Trudeau's statement was wildly admired and reported on throughout the world. That you tried to make an argument from authority that "the internet" made fun of it... ahhhhhh, yeah. Maybe on the kinds of facebook accounts that you are associated with?
And that only makes it worse. Merit has become a dirty word, it seems.
Up until this post, you've expressed your argument purely in terms of Trudeau. My position is that he hasn't done anything fundamentally different than any of his predecessors, at least not in terms of procedure or merit. On this, it appears, we agree. If you argue that this cabinet makeup was artificially forced then so was every single cabinet that preceded it. Why is it that cabinets have almost inevitably included representation from every region of the country? Is it possible that this, too, was preordained by every incoming prime minister? Is that situation natural or artificial, in your view? What is your evidence that previous cabinets were significantly merit based? Why do you assume that a majority male cabinet is more merit based? What is the evidence for that assertion?
As for your suggesting that I need to branch out where I read, that's rather entertaining given that your premise was the the 2015 quip was condemned. My whole point was that the condemnation was far from universal.
21st June 2016, 08:55 AM #182
I'm not an expert on how business in the House is scheduled, but reading between the lines of the news reports on this bill, it appears every member of the House gets an opportunity to introduce and advance legislation. So this is more Bélanger's baby than it is Trudeau's.
I believe any private member can introduce a bill. Which ones get selected for debate and voting is done both randomly, and via committee. (Since the government does have a majority in the commons, I suspect they also have a majority on the committees that decide which bills are worthy of voting.) So it may be Belanger's baby, but Trudeau does seem to be forcing things along.
There is one other issue: one of the rules is that the member who proposed the bill has to be present at the time of the vote. That's one of the reasons the vote is being rushed (before his health means he can't attend the commons anymore.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privat...7s_bill#Canada
One of the accusations by the conservatives is that the bill is being rushed through parliament without any real consultation. (Changing the anthem certainly wasn't an election issue, at least not that I'm aware of, and they haven't really held any hearings to get input from non-politicians.) After all, wasn't that supposed to be one of the goals of the Liberals? Be more open? Even if a person has no problem with a change to the anthem, it would still be a good idea to discuss it with the (potentially) millions of Canadians who might want to have a say in it.
So you get a case of trying to decide what is more important: trying to actually run an open government, or giving Belanger a "legacy".
I actually live in the riding that Belanger represents. For the most part, I consider him a bench-warmer (apart from about 30 seconds that he spent in the cabinet of Paul Martin). No major screw-ups, but then nothing to get excited about either. He represents probably the safest Liberal seat in the country. He certainly doesn't deserve to get ALS, but perhaps if they were going to give him a legacy, they should consider changing the rules of the commons to loosen up attendance requirements for the votes.
Looks like we may be hit with either a Canada post lockout or strike.
From: https://www.thestar.com/business/201...nion-says.html
Canada Post filed notices of dispute on Monday with the minister of labour, requesting conciliation help in negotiations — a move which essentially starts the clock on a countdown to a strike or lockout....The union estimates a legal strike or lockout date could come in early July.But Canada Post spokesman Jon Hamilton said negotiations began late last year with little progress being made on key issues.
From the looks of things, Canada Post wants to take steps to cut costs. The Unions on the other hand seem to be arguing that Canada Post should expand its business into things like banking in order to give them what they want.
- I have very little sympathy for the Liberals if they have to deal with a strike. The Liberals have been in bed with the Unions since long before the last election, and they made restoration of Canada Post home delivery an election issue. Now they're finding that, after being all buddy-buddy with unions, they find that now they have to pay the piper.
- This has the possibility of spectacularly backfiring on the Liberals, Canada Post, and the unions. Mail delivery has already been on the decline for years, and a strike or lockout will do a lot to show Canada Post's irrelevance in many people's lives.
I hope a lockout and/or strike does happen. I hope the unions get burnt big time. I hope Canada post walks away with a business plan that works, and concessions from the union that may actually keep the post office profitable.
21st June 2016, 06:27 PM #184
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Seems far more irrational to get this worked up over the issue. Making a change would apparently make some people happy and give a more direct sense of inclusion. While at the same time doing no harm to anyone.
Pretending that having the words changed equates to a forcing of your opinion to be changed is downright silly. You would still be perfectly capable of maintaining whatever opinion you choose to have no matter what string of words happens to be written down somewhere for the anthem.
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23rd June 2016, 10:12 AM #185
Saw this today at CBC News: Lifting Mexican visa rules runs counter to official advice.
The Canadian government is proceeding with a campaign promise to lift the visa requirement for Mexican travellers on Dec. 1, even though public servants are warning the move comes with significant risks.
Information obtained by CBC News shows government officials have cautioned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government about proceeding ahead of a thorough review.
It'll be interesting to see how this pans out.
Bah... what to public servants know anyways?
They should bring in a law forbidding them to talk to the press.
5th August 2016, 08:39 PM #187
Am I right that Parliament is not in session right now, to return in some weeks/months?
Yes, until Sept 15
6th August 2016, 01:30 AM #189
Yeah, it's the current year, we shouldn't have to listen to public servants and experts.
There are sources suggesting that the Liberal cabinet has decided to purchase the F18 Super Hornet. (However, they would label it an "interim measure" in order to get around the fact that they haven't had any sort of competition.)...
We need new fighters desperately, but the current CF18s have enough years on them to allow us to run a proper competition...
Then there is the double standard... Conservatives sole-source F35=bad, Liberals sole-source F18=good.
It should be pointed out that this is not official yet. I suspect its just a "trial balloon", and many in the media who had supported the Liberals could turn on them, which might change their minds.
Lastly, the Liberals missed a payment to stay a member of the F35 partnership. (This allows Canada to bid on various contracts related to the F35 construction.)
This is the subject that made me think about Parliament being out of session right now. The last few weeks/months have been an interesting time in F-35 news, none of it the kind of "interesting" that the anti-F-35 crowd wanted, so these things have sort of piled up waiting for Canada's government to come back and answer...
USAF declared IOC (initial operational capability, meaning they could be sent to war at any time now) for its first F-35A squadron a few days ago. Depending on how you read previous statements about when that was going to happen, that's either in the first couple of days of a five-month window, or a couple of months ahead of schedule. USMC went first a year ago with F-35B and an earlier version of the software, so that's two out of three models (including the one Canada would get) for two out of three American services. (The Navy is last in line because model C has the smallest planned quantity and they have the youngest current air fleet to replace; the plane is up to their standards already but there aren't enough of them yet.) By the time Parliament is back, USMC might have added another operational squadron. And, although most are still tied up (for now) in the final steps of the most extensive "testing" program the world has ever seen, there are now more F-35s than F-22s, which have been operational for a decade. Remember how one of the arguments against F-35 was that it was so "delayed" (by Congress, not by problems with the plane) that the time it would be ready, just a few more years in the future back then, would somehow never ever ever come? That would be about now.
There have been a series of several reports this summer on different kinds of training exercises in which no type of ground-based or airborne opposition has been able to scratch F-35s' impunity to complete missions faster, more accurately, and with fewer planes in the air than earlier types, all with zero losses, as if the opposing team weren't even there. They're starting to try to find ways to rig training missions against them, such as having them fly with transponders/beacons on or unnecessarily carry bombs externally or fly with half of the group unarmed, just to come up with some scenario that might really challenge them at all, and they're still making it look too easy. The one other type of plane that's most often compared with it by those with experience in these things is F-22, the only other plane that's ever made its predecessors look so utterly helpless (and for generally the same reasons). That's not bad for a plane that "doesn't work and isn't anywhere near working".
A recent pilot survey showed an unprecedented level of willingness/eagerness to switch over to the new plane. (Pilots tend to be prone to first-love syndrome, preferring to stick to what they've known the longest, until the reasons in favor of switching get overwhelming.)
Someone in Canada's government ended up paying their F-35 consortium dues in the last few weeks. Why, after the promise not to even consider buying the plane?
We need new fighters desperately, but the current CF18s have enough years on them to allow us to run a proper competition.
Canada has already done comparative evaluations, with the same obvious result that all of their plane-shopping allies got, before declaring that their own conclusion (along with everyone else's) doesn't count and the obvious winner was the one and only plane they would definitely not choose. That puts any new competition they could do now in a rather unusual perspective: because everyone already knows that there is only one possible winner, their three choices are to either get that plane anyway after saying they wouldn't, avoid it by not running a competition after saying they would, or run a competition that still avoids it by being obviously staged for that goal and thus not really a competition at all anyway (although the bill would still look about the same as the bill for a real one). They've managed to eliminate even the possibility of taking any course of action that wouldn't be flamboyantly dishonest.
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The only caveat I would add to the above is that is peace time training exercises. The history of weapons development shows that, sometimes, things that worked great in peace time testing don't perform quite as well in actual combat. See, for example, the torpedoes with which USN submarines entered WWII.
It may well be that the F-35 in actual combat will be as dominant as it was in peace time training exercises. But it's possible combat conditions might produce less dominant results.
* USAF declared IOC (initial operational capability, meaning they could be sent to war at any time now) for its first F-35A squadron a few days ago.
But, but, Trudeau said the plane was "Far from Working"! How can it be considered combat-ready if Trudeau himself said that it is far from working. He is our prime minister after all, with a distinguished career as a teacher and motivation speaker, perfect background to be making judgement on the F35.
* There have been a series of several reports this summer on different kinds of training exercises in which no type of ground-based or airborne opposition has been able to scratch F-35s' impunity to complete missions faster, more accurately, and with fewer planes in the air than earlier types, all with zero losses, as if the opposing team weren't even there. They're starting to try to find ways to rig training missions against them, such as having them fly with transponders/beacons on...
See? That proves that the plane is not ready, since it can't even be tested properly.
* Someone in Canada's government ended up paying their F-35 consortium dues in the last few weeks. Why, after the promise not to even consider buying the plane?
Well, paying into the consortium does make some economic sense... With our latest payment of $33 million, we have payed a total of around $300 million. However, Canadian companies have earned contracts totaling over $800 million building various components for the plane.
The problem is what happens if Canada ends up not buying the plane in the long run.... Countries like Denmark and the U.K. (who are both consortium members AND who have purchased the plane) may get a bit peeved that a non-customer is getting these contracts. We may find ourselves kicked out of the consortium.
Canada has already done comparative evaluations, with the same obvious result that all of their plane-shopping allies got, before declaring that their own conclusion (along with everyone else's) doesn't count and the obvious winner was the one and only plane they would definitely not choose.
We may have done some comparisons, but it wasn't exactly a full-scale competition. But, the F35 is such an obvious choice that the various parties should have put politics behind them and said "you know what? We don't need to waste time and money".
That puts any new competition they could do now in a rather unusual perspective: because everyone already knows that there is only one possible winner, their three choices are to either get that plane anyway after saying they wouldn't, avoid it by not running a competition after saying they would, or run a competition that still avoids it by being obviously staged for that goal and thus not really a competition at all anyway (although the bill would still look about the same as the bill for a real one). They've managed to eliminate even the possibility of taking any course of action that wouldn't be flamboyantly dishonest.
Yup, the liberals have certainly stuck their foot in poop, and have no way to clean it off. It should have been obvious to anyone that this was going to be a replay of the Sea King/EH101 fiasco.
Frankly, I have absolutely no sympathy for the Liberals over this matter. They were the ones playing politics, going way back to the whole contempt of parliament "gotcha". And now its blowing up in their face.
27th August 2016, 03:00 PM #193
Prime Minister Trudeau decides to gender something that doesn't need to be:
Justin Trudeau joins gender inequality campaign, says 'poverty is sexist'
Trudeau endorses Bono's ONE campaign; 'I wholeheartedly agree: poverty is sexist'
That's right, everyone, poverty is sexist! All those homeless men—who, incidentally, comprise the large majority of the unsheltered homeless—evidently don't exist...or are victims of The Partiarchy...or something...
That's the most poorly argued hack political puke I've seen in awhile, thanks for the laugh, made my day.
Is this the kind of **** you gripe about at the coffee shop out in Etobicoke or whatever? I gotta get out there, this is funny stuff.
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29th August 2016, 10:29 AM #195
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That's right, everyone, poverty is sexist! All those homeless men—who, incidentally, comprise the large majority of the unsheltered homeless—evidently don't exist...or are victims of The Partiarchy...or something... [/quiote]
I think the problem is that Trudeau/Bono were talking about poverty on a global scale (where it may be true that women suffer with poverty disproportionately), whereas Corsair was concentrating more on the Canadian experience. (Roughly 3/4s of the homeless in Canada are men.)
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp...6/SOHC2103.pdf
A few developments with our federal government:
First of all, Trudeau has promised ~600 troops to be used on U.N. "Peacekeeping" missions. However, the government hasn't yet decided where they will be deployed or what the mission will be.
Now, I have no problem with Canada committing troops to help stabilize some of he troubled spots in the world. (We are a relatively prosperous country, and as such we should be willing to contribute.) There are a couple of issues though:
- Trudeau contributed troops/equipment, but our military is still in urgent need of new equipment. I really wish they would have put more money into military procurement in their first budget.
- I am also concerned that they made the announcement of troops before they actually knew where they would be deployed. Seems a little... premature.
- I wonder how many of the anti-Conservatives feel about Trudeau's plans. After all, the conservative's military plans were regularly criticized by many... I remember a thread here discussing the F35, and the purchased was contemned because "We can do more good giving non-military aid". Well, here's Trudeau, about to spend hard-earned Canadian taxpayer dollars and risk Canadian lives all to help people in far-off lands. Basically the type of things the conservatives were criticized for.
In other developments... looks like a few minor spending scandals have popped up...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/phil...robe-1.3732575
- It was found Health Minister Jane Philpott spent ~$7000 on luxury car services during a few visits to the Toronto/Hamilton area, as well as ~$500 on airport VIP services. (She has said she will pay back the airport VIP services, but only after it was discovered)
- Environment minister Catherine MacKenna hired ~$6000 to hire a professional photographer to take pictures at a conference in France. (The conservatives also spent money to have photographers on hand when they were in power, although MacKenna's spending seems to have outstripped that of the conservatives when considered on a per-event basis.)
31st August 2016, 04:11 AM #197
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Yeah the problem is that they didn't take enough time to think about that, so eager was their desire to troll the liberals on JREF.
It's like when you try too hard to fart and a poop comes out... who's laughing now?
Stupid comment by Trudeau is still stupid. If only he had had the presence of mind to use proper qualifications in his statement.
And I'm still waiting for an explanation as to how a condition is sexist. People? Sure. That I can see. One person can hold a sexist attitude towards another. But a condition? Is it sexist in the way air conditioning and the dictionary is sexist? Or might it be the word 'sexist' has been so overused that it's meaning has been watered down to pointlessness?
Is basic logic and reason dead? It would seem so.
ETA: It's also cute how you assume that someone criticizing Trudeau = someone who's not a liberal. There's your first problem. You seem to think liberal/left is a tiny, narrow little thing with only one precise, rigid point of view.
It isn't.
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lol, with that kind of restriction you could criticize any statement or action for what it did not address such is the endlessness of concepts and relations... priceless.
Well, language is actually what people understand, and most people understand that it means that sexism causes poverty. This is a great time to remember the words Christopher Hitchens said about the cure for poverty...
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Pedantic nonsense has never been part of the philosophical tradition.
Yeah you probably don't have a problem with sex education or hang out in etobicoke, I'm joking about stereotypes, I know and am related to lots of other human beings. The only people I know who fit stereotypes are politicians, as that's their job.
Wow you schooled me good!
It also came out that the car service was owned by a Liberal campaign volunteer and that the fee was well above the rate charged by other companies for similar services.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-too-much.html
Brought comparisons to Bev Odas orange juice and limos. Seems like a stupid way to generate a scandal. If I ever get elected to public office, I promise that all of my scandals will involve weird sex, cocaine or truly vast amounts of money.


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Pundri is a City and a municipal committee in Kaithal district of the Indian state of Haryana. Pundri along with Pundrak was named after the sage Pundarik, who is highly revered by all Hindus. Pundri is the seat of a Tehsil and also a Haryana Vidhan Sabha constituency currently represented by Randhir Singh Gollen.

Pundri is also known for its Firni, a sweet which is so popular that nearly 100 quintals of it are sold in the month of August around the festival of Teej.

Water Flour Mill few remaining in India now, but one of them is a mill which is 123 years old near pundri. This mill was built in 1890 and it is located at the ground floor. Pundri is also known as Fatehpur-Pundri for the village of Fatehpur adjoining it.

Geography
Pundri is located at . It has an average elevation of 224 metres (734 feet).

Demographics
As of the 2011 India census, Total population of Pundri is 33,484.[1] The sex ratio is 888 (F/M) and 12.02% of the population is under six years of age. The effective literacy rate is 67.8%; male literacy is 74.04% and female literacy is 60.75%. Punjabi, Haryanvi and Hindi are major languages.

Religious places
Guru Bharamanand Aashram
 Pundrik tirth
 Gyarah Rudri Shiv Mandir
 Devi Mandir Fatehpur
 Gurudwara Shri Pundri Sahib

Transport
Pundri is well connected with road network as it many cities Kaithal, Delhi, Chandigarh, Karnal, Kurukshetra.

Educational institutes

Government Schools
 Govt. Senior Secondary School
 Govt. Girls Senior Secondary School
 Govt. Senior Secondary School, Fatehpur

Private Schools
 DAV Public School
 BPR Public School
 RN Public School
 Shweta Royal Public School
 Dhruv public school
 Anglo sanskrit senior secondary school

College

 DAV College
 KMV College
 Maharaja Aggarsain College of Education
 Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Institute of Technology
 Govt. ITI

Gurukul

 Pundri Gurukul
 Gurukul Takshshila 5 milestone Pundri karnal highway

Notable people

 Randhir Singh Gollen is the current MLA. He is also chairman of Haryana state tourism.
 Dinesh Kaushik (politician)
 Ishwar Singh

References

See also
 Kaithal

Cities and towns in Kaithal district
48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra

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Busy fall for Visual Arts faculty
by John Threlfall | Sep 21, 2017 | Alumni, Faculty, indigenous, Visual Arts
It's a busy season for our Visual Arts professors, a number of whom have exhibits of new work on view, both locally, nationally and internationally.
Robert Youds, "City Cut Flowers"
Visual Arts professor and alumnus Robert Youds presents City Cut Flowers, a solo exhibit of new works, until Sept 30 at Winchester Galleries Downtown (665 Fort). Featuring three related painting projects and two light-based works, City Cut Flowers explores picture/objects as imagined and remembered fragments drawn from our urban world. Each piece explores the core perceptual conditions of light, shadow, colour, surface, and their communicative relationship to our aesthetic, cultural, and ideological values.
"I have been thinking about consciousness in our time, and that age-old question: how do we as individuals shape it?" says Youds. "For example, is a home a home without personal choices evidenced through the careful spatial choreography of pictures, colours, surfaces, and light? Where do our aesthetic dispositions evolve from? Can the growing digital and AI realms alter our future understanding of the physical world or will they simply reinforce the same elements through a different means?"
Youds also has another solo exhibit coming up this winter: For Everyone A Fountain runs Nov 17 – Jan 2, 2018, at Open Space. He'll be hosting an artist's talk at 2pm Saturday, Nov 18.
New work by Daniel Laskarin
Visual Arts professor and sculptor Daniel Laskarin presents his latest solo exhibit, ruins and reclamation, which continues until Oct 7 at Deluge Contemporary (636 Yates). His work combines industrial forms with elements of minimalist sculpture, material exploration and the lyrical sensibility of visual metaphor. He describes his work as means for thinking through the world, a process by which he might give sensory experience to consciousness.
Objects and materials, combined and manipulated, form things that find their own order in a condition of disorder and yet refuse that which orders everything. Independent materials congeal to create an interdependent network, resulting in unique forms that generate a complex and shifting subjective experience. His diverse media incorporates photography and video, optics, robotics systems, installation and sound. He has been involved with set design, public image projections and large-scale public commissions in Vancouver and Seattle, and has exhibited in Canada and internationally.
Kelly Richardson's "Leviathan"
New Visual Arts professor Kelly Richardson is in the midst of a very busy few months, with work in a variety of exhibitions. Her hyper-real digital films of rich and complex landscapes that have been manipulated using CGI, animation and sound, have caught the eye of galleries around the world. Her latest solo exhibit, Kelly Richardson: The Weather Makers, runs at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland from Sept 23 to Nov 26. Weather Makers was previewed in this article from The Herald newspaper, which describes her "thought-provoking, post-apocalyptic art in its spectacular large-scale form" as both "visceral and provoking" and "a wonderful fictional and imaginary element tied in to stark scientific fact and research."
Weather Makers features three of Richardson's video works and a series of chromogenic prints, Pillars of Dawn, which posits a desertscape of environmental desiccation in which trees and plants have been physically crystallized by some unknown environmental event. "The questions that she's asking about the way we're mistreating the world around us, about global warming, the constant consumption of resources and how we're going to manage after mismanaging it for so long are so incredibly pertinent and urgent right now," says DCA curator Eoin Dara of Richardson's show. "Magnificent and complex, Richardson's work asks us to consider what our future might be like if we continue on our current trajectory of planetary pillaging and consumption, and why we have allowed ourselves to arrive at such a moment of global environmental crisis."
Richardson also has work at the following group exhibits this fall:
Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always at the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne, UK (until Oct 8)
Art Encounters on the Edge at theBonavista Biennale in Newfoundland (until Sept 17)
Stress Field at the Hubei Museum of Art in China (Sept 15 – Oct 20)
Turbulent Landings: The NGC 2017 Canadian Biennial at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton (Sept 30 – Jan 7)
"Embassy 2017" by Cedric Bomford & Verena Kazimierz
Visual Arts professor Cedric Bomford and department LTA Verena Kaminiarz are working together on "Embassy, 2017" an outdoor project for the Calculating Upon the Unforseen portion of Toronto's upcoming Nuit Blanche on Sept 30. "Embassy, 2017" is described as a large-scale structure "designed to adapt to the site where it is located; which can be seen as opportunistic, parasitic and political . . . Given the current trend of hardening nationalism around the world, it seems fitting to reflect on notions of national identity. Forever in progress, Embassy requires visitors to complete the structure in their minds." The piece was featured as a highlight of the Toronto Star's Nuit Blanche preview article.
Professor Emeritus Sandra Meigs opens her latest solo exhibit this fall. Room for Mystics will run at the prestigious Art Gallery of Ontario starting October 18. A recipient of the Governor General's Award in 2015, and the 2015 Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Meigs was also recently named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her new installation, Room for Mystics (which includes work by School of Music Director Christopher Butterfield), emerges from her Iskowitz Prize.
For over 35 years Meigs has created vivid, immersive, and enigmatic paintings that combine complex narratives with comic elements. She derives the content of her work from her own personal experiences, and develops these to create visual metaphors related to the psyche. Meigs will provide an overview of her work and speak about her new installation, Room for Mystics, at an AGO public talk on Oct 18—but more locally, she'll also be speaking as part of the "Treasures & Tea" series at UVic's LIbraries from 1-2pm Wednesday, Sept 27 in room A003 of the McPherson Library.
Meigs will talk about what it was like to be a painter in the '70s and '80s, and why the donation of her archive from that period to UVic's Special Collections might be of interest to researchers. She will also show a brand new artist flap book project she collaborated on with poet Ron Padgett.
Sessional instructor and noted local artist Charles Campbell is involved in a pair of international exhibitions this fall: Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at Los Angeles' Museum of Latin American Art (running Sept 16, 2017 – February 25, 2018) and En Mas: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean at San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora (Sept 20, 2017 – March 4, 2018).
And busy MFA alumni Lindsay Delaronde, and Hjalmer Wenstob were both involved in the One Wave Gathering on September 16. As Victoria's Indigenous Artist in Residence, Delaronde had a featured performance, while Wenstob worked with local Indigenous youth to create four longhouses on the lawns of the BC Legislature. Wenstob's involvement was mentioned in this Victoria News article.
Finally, the department's acclaimed Visiting Artist program is in full swing again, with a number of guests coming in this fall:
Amie Siegel (Sept 20) – Ranging from photographs, video, film installations and feature films for the cinema, American artist Amie Siegel's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the US and around the world.
Léuli Eshrāghi (Sept 27) – The work of this Sāmoan / Persian artist centres on ceremonial-political renewal, languages, embodied futures, diasporic and local indigeneities.
Valérie Blass, "She Was A Big Success"
Valérie Blass (Oct 4) – This Montreal-based sculptor contrasts notions of visibility and invisibility, as well as the boundaries between volume and surface.
Kimberly Phillips (Oct 25) – This writer and curator spent the past four years as the Director / Curator of Access Gallery, a Vancouver artist-run centre committed to emergent and experimental practices. She recently joined Vancouver's Contemporary Art Gallery as curator.
Dominique Pétrin (Nov 1) – A multidisciplinary artist living and working in Montreal, Dominique Pétrin was recently longlisted for the prestigious Sobey Award, and has exhibited across Canada, France, the US, Belgium and the UK.
Patrick Howlett (Nov 22) – Abstract painter Patrick Howlett is a UVic MFA alumnus and has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is currently based in London, Ontario.
All Visiting Artists talks happen at 7:30pm in room A150 of UVic's Visual Arts building, and all are free and open to the public. Please join us!