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#351 Fact sheet - Mandatory vaccination in medical practices
Employers face possible legal risks in imposing a mandatory requirement that employees are vaccinated against COVID-19. Issues relating to mandatory vaccination have not, to date, been decided by the courts so it is not possible to state with confidence a definitive legal position.
In general, an employer can give direction to its employees, and employees must comply with directions, if they are lawful and reasonable. A medical practice could direct its employees to be vaccinated if such a direction is both lawful and reasonable. Whether or not such a direction will be reasonable will depend on a number of factors. Factors that weigh in favour of a direction being reasonable include:
Medical practices are in most cases an essential service that needs to continue to operate for the public good regardless of lockdowns or community spread of disease.
Medical practices (as is the case with any employer) have a statutory and common law obligation to ensure the health, safety and welfare of their employees and others who attend their workplace, to the extent that it is reasonably practicable to do so.
Medical practitioners owe a duty of care to their patients, and may therefore also be exposed to the risk of a negligence action in the event that a patient contracted COVID-19 through contact with an infected member of practice staff and the medical practitioner did not discharge that duty of care.
Employees of medical practices will generally be required to have close contact with at-risk patients who may be vulnerable to the health impacts of COVID-19.
Phase 3 trials and real-world evidence have shown that vaccination is moderately to highly effective in reducing COVID-19 infectivity, by preventing infection and through reducing viral shedding.
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has provided guidance on mandatory vaccination in workplaces. In most cases, employees of medical practices would fall under the FWO's definition of Tier 2 work, which is where employees are required to have close contact with people who are particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of COVID-19. In the case of Tier 2 employees an employer's direction to employees to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination is more likely to be reasonable, given the increased risk of employees giving coronavirus to a person who is particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of coronavirus.
This approach is consistent with the position adopted by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in a number of cases involving mandatory influenza vaccinations (Barber v Goodstart Learning, Kimber v Sapphire Coast Community Aged Care, Glover v Ozcare, and Arnold v Goodstart Learning). In each of those decisions the Commission made it clear that the outcome should not be extrapolated to apply to COVID-19 vaccines, but it is reasonably clear that the view that has been adopted is that requiring an employee to have a flu vaccination in higher risk industries, and being able to take action against an employee who refuses to do so (without sufficient medical evidence) is likely to be considered to be a lawful and reasonable direction that can form a valid basis for the termination of employment.
In Victoria, a public health order currently requires mandatory vaccination of workers in residential aged care facilities. Unless an exception applies, workers could include medical practitioners who attend residential aged care facilities to provide care to residents. A direction by an employer to a medical practitioner who attends a residential aged care facility to be vaccinated is likely to be a lawful and reasonable direction.
Possible legal risks
The legal risks an employer could face in implementing a mandatory vaccination policy for existing employees (at the time of writing all untested) include:
Discrimination action, possibly based on alleged unlawful discrimination on the basis of an attribute, such as disability, or political or religious belief or activity.
Unfair dismissal action in the FWC, alleging that refusal to comply with a requirement to be vaccinated is not a valid reason for termination.
General protections action in the FWC, based on alleged unlawful discrimination.
Breach of contract claim, based on the employer's unilateral variation of the terms of the contract of employment.
The Commonwealth Privacy Commissioner has suggested that employers may contravene the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) by requiring employees to disclose their vaccination status. In the practical application of a vaccination policy an employee may choose not to consent to disclosing their vaccination status, in which case it may be that disclosure cannot be required, and it would be necessary to treat them as though they are unvaccinated. This may have consequences for the way the employees do their work or for their ongoing employment.
There are possible risks related to alleged unlawful discrimination that would arise from imposing an unreasonable mandatory requirement of proof of current COVID-19 vaccination status as a condition of employment.
There is also a risk that employers could be exposed to a workers compensation claim, given the apparent links between vaccinations and serious blood clotting disorders with the Astra-Zeneca vaccine, and cardiac disorders with Pfizer. If an employee suffered from a side effect of vaccination, and there was a clear link between the vaccination and their employment, such as their employer encouraging, inducing or requiring them to be vaccinated, the employee may succeed in a worker's compensation claim or a common law claim (based on fault if a mandatory vaccination was not warranted) against the employer. Similarly, an employee who contracts the COVID-19 virus in connection with work may also succeed in a worker's compensation or a common law claim against the employer.
Practical implementation of a mandatory vaccination policy
Accepting that a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy could constitute a lawful and reasonable direction, there is a number of practical and legal considerations in the implementation of the policy.
It is recommended that the direction be principally set out in a workplace policy, and supported by appropriate clauses in contracts of employment. Compliance with a workplace policy can be the subject of a lawful and reasonable direction, with which an employee must comply. The policy may need to change over time, for example to accommodate a requirement for booster doses, if indicated, and there would be scope to amend a workplace policy to deal with current circumstances.
An effective policy would cover:
any requirement of mandatory vaccination
privacy issues
applicable processes, including requests for exemption.
The Awards that cover employees of medical practices oblige employers to consult with employees when an employer makes a definite decision to make major changes in production, program, organisation, structure or technology that are likely to have significant effects on employees. "Significant effects" is defined to include termination of employment. It would be very unwise to implement a mandatory vaccination policy which could ultimately lead to termination of employment without undertaking a process of consultation.
Testing the reasonableness of the direction
A defence to a possible unlawful discrimination claim would be that vaccination is an inherent requirement of the employee's role for which there are no reasonable adjustments in the circumstances. Similarly, if implementation of a policy led to termination of employment, a defence would be that non-compliance with a vaccination policy is a valid reason for termination.
If that defence is to be available, genuine consideration would need to be given to whether the risk of an infected employee infecting a vulnerable patient could be eliminated by alternative measures such as subjecting the employee to regular testing; requiring the employee to wear a mask such as an N95 mask at all times in the workplace; effective social distancing, or whether they can work remotely or with telehealth arrangements.
Availability of vaccine
Timing must be considered. It would arguably not be reasonable to impose a double dose vaccination requirement on an employee who did not have practical access to vaccination because of vaccine availability, and must wait the required time to be eligible to receive their second dose.
Where an employee refuses to comply
There may be numerous reasons why an employee could refuse a vaccination. Each instance of refusal should be managed on a case by case basis.
The employer should ask the employee for their reason for refusal and be prepared to discuss the reason with them. Where mandatory vaccination is a reasonable direction, it should also be reasonable to require an employee to provide reasons for their refusal to comply, and any evidence which supports that reason.
If an employee believes that there is a medical reason for them not to be required to be vaccinated they can be assessed by a general practitioner, who is able to issue a medical exemption if their concerns are valid.
Disability, religious or political beliefs are included in the protected attributes under anti–discrimination legislation and may be a proper basis for refusal.
In cases of refusal, it would be important to consider whether the alternatives to vaccination (subjecting the employee to regularly testing; requiring the employee to wear a mask such as an N95 mask at all times in the workplace; effective social distancing, or whether they can work remotely or with telehealth arrangements) would be effective in providing vulnerable patients with protection.
Because individual employee and practice circumstances will be different in each case, legal advice should be obtained when managing instances of refusal to comply.
Public Health Directions
The Victorian Government has foreshadowed an intention to extend to other practices its Public Health Direction on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of workers in residential aged care facilities and on construction sites. That has not occurred to date. If the Direction is extended to medical practices this advice will be revised to take the Direction into account.
DISCLAIMER: The above is not intended to be, and should not be taken to be, legal advice. It is intended only to provide a general summary of the major considerations that would need to be taken into account, and is not intended to be comprehensive. Specific legal advice should be sought in particular cases.
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Healing the heart in a troubled & divided world with Buddhist nun, Gen Kelsang Suma. Many people are interested in mindfulness & meditation, but what exactly is mindfulness? How do we do it, and how does it help us in our daily life?
Mindfulness training and meditation have been understood by Buddhist practitioners for centuries to be key to a happy and fulfilling life. They are skills cultivated not merely in the formal setting, but as a regular part of a practitioner's everyday life.
The practice of mindfulness is about more than just "being in the moment". Originally taught by Buddha, it is a training that prompts us to always remember – and thus constantly practice – beneficial ways of thinking and acting that will protect us from problems, and bring ever more happiness into our lives.


The first trailer arrived in December and showed off a desolate world following Thanos' triumph in Infinity War which saw half the universe disappear.
More details were given on Sunday and the trailer appeared to confirm a sizeable chunk of time had passed between the end of Infinity War and beginning of Endgame.
Chris Evans's Steve Rodgers, AKA Captain America, is seen sitting in what appears to be a support group while there were also glimpses of Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark and Karen Gillan as Nebula.
Endgame, due to be released in April, also stars Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Brie Larson.
The previous three Avengers films were also shown during the Super Bowl, which is one of the biggest pop culture events of the year in the US.
Avengers: Endgame will be released April 26 in the US.


About 20 years ago, Cartier did have a few stunning Pasha tourbillons, in their Collection Privée series (1998-2008). At that time 'La Maison' relied for these watches, on calibers from Girard Perregaux, like the 493MC. Absolute nothing wrong with that, since these are master pieces when it comes to tourbillon movements. But from the late 1990's, Cartier decided to develop and produce, most of their own calibers themselves and the 9452MC flying tourbillon caliber, that we're discussing here, was one of the first examples of Cartier's watchmaking, together with the automatic 1904MC caliber, that was build to power several mainstream models.


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Q: Switch from i3 to i3-gaps - cannot launch i3-gaps I use Ubuntu 18.10. I installed i3 before, but I wanted i3-gaps now. So I uninstalled it.
sudo apt purge i3*
sudo apt autoremove

This however did not remove the i3 option from the login screen (the gear button next to the login button, it has Ubuntu, Ubuntu on Wayland, i3 and i3-debug options).
I than followed this article about installing i3-wm at Ubuntu 16.04. It should work, the only problem I had was that I had to create ~/.i3 directory manually, it was not created after install.
But nothing changed on the login screen - there is no new i3-gaps (or whatever should it be) option. When I select the i3 option, the i3 bar is empty with error message (Error: status_command not found or is missing a library dependency (exit 127)) and half of the features doesn't work - for example I cannot launch the d-menu (mod+d). When I open multiple terminals, there are exactly next to each other (as in i3) without gaps.
Directly after install I made ~/.i3 directory, copied there global config and added following lines:
for_window [class="^.*"] border pixel 0

gaps inner 30
gaps outer 20

Edit: Could it be possible that i3-gaps is installed, but just doesn't work, like missing some dependencies? Because adding exec i3 into ~/.xinitrc and running startx from TTY does the same as logging into i3 from login screen. So I think that either i3 somehow survived or i3-gaps didn't really install correctly. If that's the case, almost nothing is installed and it doesn't even read my config file (~/.i3/config). Any ideas?
Edit 2: New config location solved it, thanks @nephilim ! The correct config location is .config/i3/config. The dependency problems were solved by installing some i3 packages, such as i3status.

A: You're using the wrong config location.
The correct location is :

$HOME/.config/i3/config  or ~/.config/i3/config

not

$HOME/.i3/config or ~/.i3/config

That is something that's mostly only used in the Manjaro i3 ISO.
Missing bar is due to missing dependencies such as i3-status. Check through your config and see which one is used there(might also be i3-blocks).
I'm writing this as an answer, so people that stumble upon this page can easily find the answer. Many tend to skip "unanswered" questions.

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Donna Francis Named a 2019 Women in Business Honoree by Triangle Business Journal
Architect Donna Francis has been named among the top Women in Business by the Triangle Business Journal. The 2019 list includes 25 leaders celebrated for their valuable contributions to the community in over a dozen categories. Donna is the sole recipient in the mentorship category.
Donna is a principal at Clark Nexsen who has established a reputation as an exceptional mentor, a visionary educational facility planner, and a trusted advisor to clients throughout North Carolina. In 2018, Donna was named Planner of the Year by the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) North Carolina chapter, an honor given to an individual who has made significant and lasting contributions to the educational facility planning industry.
Her committed mentorship of young architects ensures that regional students will benefit for years to come from designers who care deeply about how a facility impacts the students within.
Additionally, she has led her team through design and construction phases on multiple K-12 projects in the Triangle, including Apex High School, Conn Elementary School (renovation and addition), and E-35 Elementary School, the 15th iteration of Wake County's elementary school prototype originally designed by Donna's team in 1995.
Long regarded as a thought leader within the field of education design, Donna served as the project principal on the nationally recognized Hunt Library at NC State University, which Clark Nexsen designed in collaboration with Snohetta. She is a central force in Clark Nexsen's Raleigh presence who has established the firm as an expert in educational design.
Donna's leadership is highly regarded by clients and colleagues alike. Sheri Green, ALEP, Wake County Public School System's Director of Planning & Design (retired 2018), spoke to Donna's expertise and commitment to mentorship, saying: "Her knowledge, passion, creativity, and diligence have made her an expert in planning and designing innovative learning environments that inspire students and teachers, and support the entire community. Donna's mentorship, and the example she sets daily, will have a wide ripple effect on K-12 school design for many years to come."
Julie Leary, an architect on Donna's team, says of working with and being mentored by Donna: "Donna's leadership style is part of what makes her a terrific mentor. She never leads top-down, but instead encourages an open environment to collaborate and share in the decision-making process, which is empowering. She has given me chances to grow, supported me when I needed it, and celebrated when things work out well. Her passion for the work she's doing is contagious!"
The Women in Business honorees were celebrated in a luncheon held March 28, 2019. Recipients were selected from more than 200 nominations in this year's tribute to outstanding women leaders in the Triangle. TBJ will feature the winners in a special section of the March 29 print issue.
Designing K-12 Learning Environments that Promote Critical Thinking, Problem Solving
Terri Hall Receives Women in Business Achievement Award
Susan Drew Receives Women in Business Achievement Award

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Indigenous women express support for Andrea Rosal
by Campaign for Human Rights Philippines | 7 Jun 2014 | Press Releases
In a protest action at the gates of Camp Crame this morning, traditionally-clad indigenous women demanded the release of Andrea Rosal, a suspected communist leader and the daughter of renowned Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army leader Ka Roger Rosal. The indigenous women, from the BAI Network of Indigenous Women, expressed condemnation at the "lack of humanity extended by state forces" to Rosal.
"Not a shred of humanity was extended to Andrea Rosal. It is unimaginable suffering to languish in a cramped, sticky, blistering hot jail cell while pregnant. Proper and adequate medical attention was bereft from Andrea while in jail. Even after the death of her child, Andrea was kept from mourning. This is a disgrace, a well-publicized violation of women's rights," Bai Norma Capuyan Manobo woman leader and BAI convener, said.
"Jails in the Philippines are already a hard place to live in. For a pregnant woman, it is hell. For a pregnant woman treated as an enemy of the state, it is worse," Capuyan added. "As marginalized women, we feel the pain and hardship imposed upon her by our government and justice system."
Same predicament
May 28 is also the International Day of Action for Women's Health. Capuyan says that the conditions suffered by Rosal while incarcerated is very similar to the situations of Lumad women in Mindanao.
"Lumad communities suffer the same persecution from government forces. Our communities are used as barrack. We, too, are accused of rebel activities because of our defense of our land and rights. The military activities staged in our lands fall heaviest on women and our children," Capuyan said.
Recently, an exodus of Manobo people happened because of combat operations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines against the New People's Army in Talaingod, Davao del Norte. According to Capuyan, the evacuation, with evacuees reaching 1,353 individuals, bore most heavy on women. "Women gave birth in the evacuation center, suffering from cold, heat, lack of proper shelter and exhaustion. Two women miscarried, while an infant died in the evacuation center. This state is harsh, inconsiderate, and insensitive to the marginalized women's plight," Capuyan claimed. "It is no news to us that another woman has suffered the same maltreatment in the hands of the government."
Capuyan said that President Aquino's internal security plan Oplan Bayanihan decrees rights abuses against women such as Rosal. "Oplan Bayanihan's end goal to defeat insurgency by means of deception and violence will surely violate human rights, including women's rights," Capuyan said.
Peace talks must resume
The protesting indigenous women demanded that Rosal and other political prisoners be released, and urged the Philippine government to resume talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. "It is high time for both parties to go back to the negotiating table and resolve the roots of the armed conflict. Indigenous women bear the brunt of massive attacks of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the hills, Oplan Bayahinan is grief and suffering for us women and indigenous peoples," Capuyan said.
The Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms, regarded as the "meat" of the peace talks with the communists, is the next on the agenda of the stalled talks.
"The Philippine government has been hell-bent in capturing whom they consider as leaders of the rebel movement, and have flaunted its 'successes' in defeating insurgency. However, it has done naught to address the roots of one of the longest-running insurgency in the world," Capuyan said.
President Aquino "must stop coddling his allies and friends" implicated in the massive corruption scandal, Capuyan claimed. "Andrea is languishing in jail. Yet none of the senators, congressmen, and their cronies implicated in large-scale corruption of public funds have been put behind bars. It is these plunderers and the human rights violators that should be in jail," Capuyan added.
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National Alliance of Indigenous Peoples Organizations in the Philippines
Room 304 NCCP Building, near Quezon Avenue corner EDSA, West Triangle, Quezon City
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Сан-Франциська конференція — міжнародна конференція, що відбувалась з 25 квітня до 26 червня 1945 року у Сан-Франциско. У конференції взяли участь 50 держав, які були засновниками Організації Об'єднаних Націй. Конференція була скликана від імені Республіки Китай, Великої Британії, СРСР і США.

Конференція приділяла основну увагу цілям, принципам, структурі та повноваженням представництв ООН. За основу було взято положення, розроблені на конференції в Думбартон-Оксі, що проходила 1944 року.

Значних труднощів викликали питання про колонії та залежні території, про міжнародну безпеку, про права Ради безпеки, про процедуру голосування у Раді безпеки.

Країни-Засновники

  Бразилія
  Білоруська РСР

  Венесуела
  Королівство Греція

  Ефіопська імперія
  Королівство Єгипет
  Британська Індія
  Ірак
  Іран

  Канада
  Республіка Китай

  Мексика

  Парагвай

  Південна Африка

  Саудівська Аравія

  Сирійська Республіка

  Українська РСР
  США

  Чехословацька республіка
  Федеративна Народна Республіка Югославія

Підсумки
 На конференції було започатковано Міжнародний суд ООН.
 26 червня 1945 року було підписано Статут ООН, що набув чинності 24 жовтня 1945 року.

Джерела та література
 О.С. Черевко. Сан-Франциська конференція 1945 //

Посилання
 Сан-Франциська конференція Об'єднаних Націй 1945 //
Міжнародні конференції
Історія Каліфорнії
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DuPont to build a photoresist factory for EUV in Korea
DuPont, a U.S. chemical materials company, is planning to invest $28 million (about 32.5 billion) by next year to build a photoresist development and production plant for EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) in South Korea.
Photoresist for EUV is an export-regulated item that Japan announced to Korea in July last year and Korea has relied on imports from Japan for more than 90 percent of its total products. Analysts say that South Korea has prepared new suppliers for major semiconductor materials and has set the stage for accelerating 'departure from Japan'.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said that DuPont has finalized its plan to build a "photoresist development and production facility for EUV" in South Korea and submitted an investment declaration to KOTRA.
Industry Minister Sung Yun-mo held a private meeting with DuPont President Jon Kemp in Silicon Valley on Jan. 9 and concluded talks on investing $28 million in photoresist for EUV. As a result, DuPont is planning to complete its investment by next year and establish photoresist and CMP pad development and production facilities for EUV in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province.
In addition, it is understood that the ministry is negotiating further with the company to procure raw materials necessary for the development and production of photoresist for EUV in Korea. Because there is a high possibility that material items that DuPont develops and produces in South Korea will be added, final amount of investment is expected to increase to more than $28 million.
South Korean semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and others imported about 90 percent of their total supplies from Japanese companies such as JSR, Shin-Etsu Chemical, and TOK.
"We contacted DuPont while looking at the trends of its plan to supply such semiconductor products after Japan's export regulations, and we formed a task force with local governments and KOTRA to actively negotiate investment, and Korea was selected as the final destination for investment," said an industry ministry official.


We've got way too much paved impervious surface.
It's making our cities flood and our streams unhealthy.
If you know of a place that needs a little less pavement and a little more green space, please let us know by emailing the location to info@cuyahogariver.org.
Impervious surface covering our watersheds is the most widespread obstacle to restoring water quality in rivers and streams, and has significant negative effect on our ability to restore and protect Lake Erie.
Aside from increasing runoff volume, parking lots contribute nutrient and chemical loading and contaminants from road salt, degraded asphalt, worn tire treads, automotive fluids, fertilizer, and herbicides. 31% of the land in Cuyahoga County alone is covered in impervious surface. Parking lots represent 14% of that total. The Center for Watershed Protection sets 25% impervious as the level above which serious damage to water quality is seen. If we could convert half of that 14% to absorptive greenspace, we could reach the point where we begin to protect rather than damage water quality, air quality, and human health.
It's not only a problem in urban areas, it stretches through suburban and exurban land as well. Opportunities to shrink paved areas abound wherever businesses have more parking lot than they need, or where abandoned lots in urban neighborhoods have disintegrated into particles of asphalt that wash into storm drains. It degrades water quality and lessens the chance for aquatic life to thrive.
Some green infrastructure provides stormwater storage on areas that are already green, or is built to slow rather than prevent runoff at the source. Rain gardens are often placed on greenspaces where infiltration is already happening. Bioswales are built to receive runoff but send the bulk of it down the drain.
The most effective way to reduce the effect of impervious surfaces is to remove the cause - depave the impervious surfaces altogether and replace them with naturalized areas.
DepaveNEO focuses specifically on removing areas of parking lot to reduce the source of runoff.
Sewer districts and wastewater management departments do a limited number of big projects to reduce combined sewer overflow that results when grey infrastructure - pipes - are overloaded in heavy rains.
DepaveNEO is designed to create hundreds of smaller permeable surface areas, distributed throughout watersheds, to infiltrate more stormwater and snowmelt right where the runoff begins.
DO YOU HAVE, OR KNOW OF, A PARKING LOT THAT COULD USE A LITTLE GREENING?
Anything you know about the property - owner name and contact, for example.
river, and lake, and increase the watershed's forest canopy.
Thanks to the CWRU fraternity brothers for depaving at Community Greenhouse Partners!
by funding the depaving, planting fruit trees, and giving away 160 trees in Cleveland's Hough neighborhood.
DepaveNEO thanks our mentors at depave.org in Portland, Oregon for putting us on the path to paradise.
Check out their website and see where it all began!


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Capitals sign free agent centre Keith Aucoin to two-year contract
ARLINGTON, Va. - The Washington Capitals signed free-agent centre Keith Aucoin to a two-year contract Thursday.
The 29-year-old Aucoin split last season between the Carolina Hurricanes and the American Hockey League's Albany River Rats. He played 38 games for Carolina, scoring five goals with eight assists.
Aucoin played U.S. college hockey at Norwich, where he became the school's career leader in goals (114) and assists (124).


The First Division, in its last season before the Premier League, had decided to go back up to 22 clubs having had reduced numbers in the previous four seasons and that had caused the problems further down the league.
And so Burnley had to sit and watch as the rest of the league played. We'd dropped to 8th place after the defeat at Hereford on the Saturday and thankfully that's where we remained after the midweek games.
There were four teams at the top on 13 points before the games but it was Hereford and Barnet who stole ahead of the rest with wins whilst the other two, previous leaders Rotherham and Rochdale, had to settle for draws.
Scarborough, the last team without a win, finally did it with a 1-0 home win against Doncaster. They'd kicked off as the bottom two clubs but an Adrian Meyer goal was enough to dump Donny back on the bottom with Scarborough climbing to 19th.
Rochdale remained the only unbeaten team in the league. Steve Whitehall scored to give them a draw against Rotherham. With Burnley keeper David Williams on loan they were doing well and were Burnley's next opponents.


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Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
Is it possible to think pain away?
By Doug McPherson • Published: Aug. 30, 2019
Answer to chronic back pain relief may not be in our backs but in our heads, CU Boulder research suggests
A walk in the park shouldn't yield 15 years of pain, but it did for Lindsay Lord. When she was 10 years old, a kid on a swing crashed into her.
Lindsay Lord
"It knocked me out," Lord says. "I remember I had a lollipop in my mouth."
When she came to, she began a long journey in search of relief for her lower back pain: orthopedists, chiropractors, physical therapists, spas, massages—name a treatment, she tried it. In between the treatments, she faced a deluge of different diagnoses, but no respite for 15 years.
That is, until she found help from an innovative lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at CU Boulder is wrapping up the largest study of its kind for a way to treat chronic back pain (CBP)—a treatment without surgery or drugs—but instead a change in the pain-sufferers' thinking.
And the results, while still unpublished, so far look promising with a "dramatic reduction" in chronic pain, according to Jonathan Ashar, a PhD candidate in psychology at CU Boulder and one of the researchers.
If successful, this research could help many of the 261 million Americans who, according to the American Chiropractic Association, will face back pain at some time in their lives. What's more, the research might ease the opioid crisis; earlier this year the American Medical Association reported that back pain is one of the most common reasons physicians prescribe opioids even though there's no evidence that opioids actually treat the problem.
In 2017, the study began welcoming Lord and others like her who may have "healed physically" but continued to suffer CBP.
Yoni Ashar
"Oftentimes, CBP persists even after the body has healed," Ashar says. "This is about how the brain processes input from the body—the pain is essentially a false alarm in these cases and there's no threat to the body."
Asher explains via an analogy: "If there's a fire (threat) at a school, the alarm rings (equal to pain in humans), firefighters come and put out the fire. The threat is gone, but sometimes the fire alarm keeps ringing (the pain continues). Over our evolution, we've come to see that pain equals harm, but now we're learning sometimes pain is a false signal, it's just stuck in the on position."
In the study, researchers first examined CBP sufferers for physical reasons for their pain. If none was found, subjects began eight, 50-minute psychotherapy sessions over four weeks with Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist who specializes in treating chronic pain.
Gordon used a relatively new treatment called pain reprocessing therapy (PRT). "The premise is to teach the brain to interpret signals from the body accurately," Gordon says. "The brain sees these signals as dangerous, but if we teach the brain that these signals aren't actually dangerous, the brain flips off those signals, and the pain goes away."
That's apparently what happened to Lord during her PRT sessions. "I was able to wrap my mind around it and to realize there wasn't a real reason for the pain," Lord says. To keep the pain at bay, she now tells herself, "You're trippin'; it's not real."
Today, at age 27, Lord says the pain is 99 percent gone and she has kept it away, which was the case with most subjects, researchers say.
Both Gordon and Ashar say chronic pain sufferers should feel a renewed sense of hope.
The brain sees these signals as dangerous, but if we teach the brain that these signals aren't actually dangerous, the brain flips off those signals, and the pain goes away."
"There's a paradigm shift happening in science that's being disseminated out to practitioners—much of it is about the brain—treatments are still being worked out, (but) in some cases psychological treatment can lead to complete reduction in pain," Ashar says. "Before, that reduction was about 30 percent. So we believe chronic back pain can be significantly reduced."
Gordon adds the CU Boulder study and others related to brain-body treatments could be a tipping point for more acceptance and use of PRT.
"Now there's a lot of new research on the brain … and that can lead to us to start training an army of practitioners and start a certification program (for PRT)," Gordon says. "I believe 40 million of the 50 million people in chronic pain in this country don't have to be in pain."
Gordon sees a day when people will bypass therapy and relieve their pain on their own. "They can deactivate the danger signals on their own—learn the techniques themselves without being in therapy," Gordon says. In fact, Gordon has just co-authored a book called The Way Out, due out in 2020 and designed to help readers treat themselves.
Ashar agrees people will likely be able to treat themselves but adds more research is needed. "Researchers need to replicate our results in other settings, with other kinds of pain and with other therapists. If more research turns out favorable, work will begin to make treatment scalable."
As for Lord, she's just grateful for having been in the study and learning a new way to think about pain.
"I think this definitely has potential to help people move through their pain … and enjoy their lives more," she says.
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Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter
claimed UFO incident
The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter (a.k.a. Hopkinsville Goblins Case, Kelly Green Men Case) was a claimed close encounter with extraterrestrial beings in 1955 near Kelly and Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky, United States. UFOlogists regard it as one of the most significant and well-documented cases in the history of UFO incidents, while skeptics say the reports were due to "the effects of excitement" and misidentification of natural phenomena such as meteors and owls.[1] The United States Air Force classified the alleged incident as a hoax in the Project Blue Book files.
Psychologists have used the alleged incident as an academic example of pseudoscience to help students distinguish truth from fiction.[2]
1 Claims
2 Press coverage
4 UFOlogists
Claims[edit]
Location of Hopkinsville, Kentucky
On the evening of August 21, 1955, five adults and seven children arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small alien creatures from a spaceship were attacking their farmhouse and they had been holding them off with gunfire "for nearly four hours". Two of the adults, Elmer Sutton and Billy Ray Taylor, claimed they had been shooting at "twelve to fifteen" short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.[1][3]
Concerned about a possible gun battle between local citizens, four city police, five state troopers, three deputy sheriffs, and four military police from the nearby US Army Fort Campbell drove to the Sutton farmhouse located near the town of Kelly in Christian County. Their search yielded nothing apart from evidence of gunfire and holes in window and door screens made by firearms.[1][4]
Residents of the farmhouse included Glennie Lankford, her children, Lonnie, Charlton, and Mary, two sons from a previous marriage, Elmer "Lucky" Sutton, John Charley "J.C." Sutton, and their respective wives, Vera and Alene, Alene's brother O.P. Baker, and Billy Ray Taylor and his wife June. Both the Taylors, "Lucky" and Vera Sutton were reportedly itinerant carnival workers that were visiting the farmhouse. The next day, neighbors told two officers that the families had "packed up and left" after claiming "the creatures had returned about 3:30 in the morning".[1][4]
Press coverage[edit]
The family's claims received widespread coverage in local and national press. Early articles did not refer to "little green men"; the color was later added to some newspaper stories. Estimates of the size of the alleged creatures varied from two feet to four feet, and details such as "large pointed ears, clawlike hands, eyes that glowed yellow and spindly legs" later appeared in various media.[1][5]
Explanations[edit]
Psychologists Rodney Schmaltz and Scott Lilienfeld cite the alleged incident as an example of pseudoscience and an "extraordinary claim" to help students develop critical thinking skills.[2]
It is plausible, if not likely, that the 'aliens' were Great Horned Owls, and there is some evidence that the eyewitnesses may have been intoxicated during the 'alien attack' (Nickell, 2006).
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry member and skeptic Joe Nickell notes that the family could have misidentified "eagle owls" or great horned owls, which are nocturnal, fly silently, have yellow eyes, and aggressively defend their nests. According to Nickell, meteor sightings also occurred at the time that could explain Billy Ray Taylor's claim that he saw "a bright light streak across the sky and disappear beyond a tree line some distance from the house".[1]
According to author Brian Dunning, "there are simply too many similarities between the creatures reported by the families and an aggressive pair of the local Great Horned Owls, which do stand about two-thirds of a meter tall".[4]
UFOlogists[edit]
French ufologist Renaud Leclet also argued in a publication that the explanation of the case is great horned owls.[6]
UFOlogist Jerome Clark writes that the supposed creatures "floated" through the trees and the sound of bullets striking them "resembled bullets striking a metal bucket". Clark describes "an odd luminous patch along a fence where one of the beings had been shot, and, in the woods beyond, a green light whose source could not be determined";[7] however, this description was consistent with foxfire, a bioluminescent fungus on decaying wood.[4]
Clark also wrote that investigations by "police, Air Force officers from nearby Fort Campbell, and civilian ufologists found no evidence of a hoax"; however, Brian Dunning reports that "the claim that Air Force investigators showed up the next day at Mrs. Lankford's house has been published a number of times by later authors, but I could find no corroborating evidence of this." Dunning also observes that "the four military police who accompanied the police officers on the night of the event were from an Army base, not an Air Force base."[4][7]
Some UFOlogists compared the alleged creatures to gremlins, which have since often been referred to as the "Hopkinsville Goblins" in popular culture. UFOlogist Allan Hendry wrote "[t]his case is distinguished by its duration and also by the number of witnesses involved."[8] Project Blue Book listed the case as a hoax with no further comment.[4]
Popular culture[edit]
The Kelly-Hopkinsville sighting is at the origin of the popularization of the words "little green men" (prior to this sighting, flying saucer occupants were called "little men"; "little green men" were limited to the science-fiction culture, in particular in Mack Reynolds' The Case of the Little Green Men (1951) and in Fredric Brown's Martians Go Home (1955). But the day following the sighting, the local reporters started to call the creatures "little green men" and the words were soon reproduced in many newspapers, quoted on the radio, and translated into other languages).[9]
The Kelly Community now celebrates the anniversary of the event on the third weekend of every August with an event called the Kelly "Little Green Men" Days.
According to the book Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914–2008 by Bruce G. Hallenbeck, the 1986 movie Critters is loosely based on the Kelly-Hopkinsville case.
The Pokémon Sableye, introduced in Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire, is based on the goblins described in the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter. In the games, they are animated with a swaying or "wading" motion, based on the creatures' reported gait.
In the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, the "hobkins", a type of gremlin from the Bestiary 5 book, is based upon the goblins described in the encounter.
The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter was the basis for the Annoyance Theater's musical "It Came From Kentucky" in Chicago.[10][11]
The American television series Project Blue Book's fourth episode, second season on the History Channel focuses on the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, first airing on February 11, 2020.
List of UFO sightings
^ a b c d e f Nickell, Joe (November–December 2006). "Siege of 'Little Green Men': The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident". Skeptical Inquirer. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. 30 (6).
^ a b Schmaltz, Rodney; Lilienfeld, Scott O. (April 17, 2014). "Hauntings, homeopathy, and the Hopkinsville Goblins: using pseudoscience to teach scientific thinking". Frontiers in Psychology. 5: 336. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00336. PMC 4028994. PMID 24860520.
^ Offut, Jason (2019). Chasing American Monsters. Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications. pp. 113–114. ISBN 978-0-7387-5995-1.
^ a b c d e f Dunning, Brian (October 9, 2012). "Skeptoid #331: The Kelly–Hopkinsville Encounter". Skeptoid. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
^ "Story of Space-ship, 12 Little Men Probed Today". Kentucky New Era. August 22, 1955. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
^ Leclet, Renaud (2008). "Que cache les entités de Kelly-Hopkinsville ?". Plaquette du Cnegu.
^ a b Clark, Jerome (1993). Unexplained! 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. ISBN 0-8103-9436-7.
^ Hendry, Allan (1980). Ronald Story (ed.). The Encyclopedia of UFOs. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. pp. 190–92. ISBN 0-385-13677-3.
^ Lagrange, Pierre (2005), « Les petits hommes verts débarquent ! » (Little Green Men Have Landed!), L'Histoire n° 304, décembre 2005, pp. 26–27; Lagrange, Pierre (2016), « Qui croit aux petits hommes verts? De l'iconoclasme sociologique aux cultures visuelles. » (Who Does Believe in Little Green Men? From Sociological Iconoclasm to Visual Cultures), in Gil Bartholeyns (dir), Politiques visuelles, Paris, Presses du Réel, 2016, pp. 229–271.
^ Kidder-Mostrom, Christopher (August 23, 2015). "Review: It Came From Kentucky/The Annoyance Theatre". Newcity Stage. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
^ "A Hopkinsville Alien Tale Has Inspired A Yearly Festival, A Musical and Pokémon | WKMS". Retrieved October 14, 2020.
Joe Nickel interview about the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter on the podcast Monster Talk: Episode 137: American Goblins – Part 2
Index of ufology articles
Claimed sightings
List of reported UFO sightings
Sightings in outer space
Tulli Papyrus (possibly 15th century B.C.)
Ezekiel's Wheel (circa 622–570 B.C.)
1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg
1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel
José Bonilla observation (1883)
Los Angeles (1942)
Kenneth Arnold (1947)
Roswell (1947)
Mantell (1948)
Chiles-Whitted (1948)
Gorman Dogfight (1948)
Mariana (1950)
McMinnville photographs (1950)
Sperry (1950)
Lubbock Lights (1951)
Carson Sink (1952)
Nash-Fortenberry (1952)
Washington, D.C. (1952)
Flatwoods monster (1952)
Ellsworth (1953)
Kelly–Hopkinsville (1955)
Lakenheath-Bentwaters (1956)
Antônio Villas Boas (1957)
Levelland (1957)
Trindade Island (1958)
Barney and Betty Hill abduction (1961)
Lonnie Zamora incident (1964)
Solway Firth Spaceman (1964)
Exeter (1965)
Kecksburg (1965)
Westall (1966)
Shag Harbour (1967)
Finnish Air Force (1969)
Pascagoula Abduction (1973)
Travis Walton incident (1975)
Petrozavodsk phenomenon (1977)
Operação Prato (1977)
Zanfretta UFO Incident (1978)
Valentich disappearance (1978)
Kaikoura Lights (1978)
Robert Taylor incident (1979)
Val Johnson incident (1979)
Cash-Landrum incident (1980)
Rendlesham Forest (1980)
Trans-en-Provence (1981)
Japan Air Lines (1986)
Voronezh UFO incident (1989)
Belgian UFO wave (1990)
Varginha (1996)
Phoenix Lights (1997)
USS Nimitz UFO incident (2004)
Campeche, Mexico (2004)
O'Hare Airport (2006)
Alderney (2007)
Norway (2009)
USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents (2014)
Confirmed hoaxes
Maury Island incident
Aztec, New Mexico, UFO incident
Morristown UFO hoax
Sightings by country
Spain (Canary Islands)
Types of UFOs
Ghost rockets
Green fireballs
Mystery airship
Space jellyfish
Types of alleged
Energy beings
Grey aliens
Nordic aliens
Reptilian humanoids
The Flying Saucers Are Real (1947–1950)
Project Sign (1948)
Project Grudge (1949)
Flying Saucer Working Party (1950)
Project Magnet (1950–1962)
Project Blue Book (1952–1970)
Robertson Panel (1953)
National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (1956-1980)
Condon Report (1966–1968)
Institute 22 (1978–?)
Project Condign (1997–2000)
Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (2007–2012)
Identification studies of UFOs
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (current)
Cryptoterrestrial
Interdimensional
Nazi UFOs
Trotskyist-Posadism
Storm Area 51
Bob Lazar
Project Serpo
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Contactee
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GEIPAN
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Updates on The Kentucky Oaks Race
ANGELA RENEE/ESKENFORMONEY – The two Longines Kentucky Oaks-bound fillies out of the Todd Pletcher barn were up and at them early Thursday morning at Churchill Downs, heading out at 6 a.m. for gallops under the lights at the big Louisville oval.
Exercise rider Adele Bellenger was at the controls on Angela Renee and they went for a mile and one-quarter gallop. The pilot for Eskenformoney wasCarlos Cano and he covered one mile in their exercise.
Pletcher has secured the services of two of racing's top riders for his fillies – Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez for Angela Renee and America's current leading rider for purses won in Javier Castellano for Eskenformoney. The trainer was asked what his conversations with those two would be like in the paddock prior to the Oaks.
"I don't get too much into detail with riders, especially riders like them," he said. "They both have ridden these horses before, so that has to be considered. I'm not the kind of trainer that's going to tell a jockey to be fifth at this or that pole. Too many things happen too fast in a race to be thinking like that. If I talk to a rider it might be to remind them of a special quirk – maybe saying that his horse has a short burst and he'll need to save that punch for as long as he can – something like that. It's likely to be more general than specific."
Pletcher has saddled 16 horses previously in the Oaks and has won it three times – with Ashado in 2004, Rags to Riches in 2007 and Princess of Sylmarin 2013.
BIRDATTHEWIRE – Several partners in Forum Racing's Birdatthewire were watching as the Gulfstream Park Oaks (GII) winner galloped Thursday under exercise rider Faustino Aguilar for trainer Dale Romans.
Paul Murans, a principal partner, said the Forum group comprises people from throughout the country and "came together from all walks of life." Murans, who lives in Indianapolis, played on the Southwest Missouri State basketball team that was eliminated by Duke in the Sweet Sixteen in 1999.
Forum has four horses with Romans, who is a 20 percent owner of Birdatthewire. Murans is confident that Birdatthewire will be a serious contender will be competitive in a strong Oaks field.
"She proved herself, I think, in her last race, the (Gulfstream Park) Oaks, the things she had to go through, with jockey fighting with her on the backside," he said. "I thought the race was over for her at that point. I didn't think she was going to able to recover from that. … That was the biggest eye-opener we've had with her, and she's been training lights out. She's dead fit. She can't be any fitter than she is now. She's healthy. She's happy. … "It's about as good an Oaks field as you could ask for. There's tons of talent. There ares four or five horses that could easily win this thing."
CONDO COMMANDO – Trainer Rudy Rodriguez had to keep a tight hold on Condo Commando Thursday morning during parts of a spirited gallop.
The speedy filly owned by Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stable and The Elkstone Group wanted to run fast when she was on the track and Rodriguez made sure that she didn't do too much the day before the race.
"She's pretty good," he said. "You don't want her to gallop nice and easy. That's the way she's been galloping. So far, so good."
Rodriguez is pleased with the way Condo Commando has done things this week.
"I'm very happy with the way she's coming to the race," he said. "She looks strong. She's feeling good. She's healthy."
Rodriguez said there is no need to do a lot of handicapping because of his filly's running style. He said he would be happy to see her on the lead and expects that she will be there.
"I don't want to change anything," he said. "(Jockey Joel) knows the filly. Come and catch me. It's a very good field.Very good
horses. I don't need to look again. I know what they did. Hope for the best. Hopefully she breaks good and takes it from there."
FOREVER UNBRIDLED – Trainer Dallas Stewart said he isn't visualizing a specific trip for Charles Fipke's Forever Unbridled after she breaks from the rail in the Kentucky Oaks. All he wants for her is room to run in the stretch.
"You want a clean trip the last quarter-mile, even if she's down inside," Stewart said. "We know she won't be on lead. She's just a grinder. Just needs a good, clean trip the last part of it and finish strong. She needs to finish strong. … It'll be a lively pace, for sure. It (the opening half-mile) might be 47 (seconds) or 46-and-change. "She's ready to go. She's in the race. She's got a good rider (Mike Smith). I think she's feeling good. We'll take it like that."
Forvever Unbridled galloped a mile-and-three-eighths Wednesday under exercise rider Emerson Chavez at about 6 a.m.
I'M A CHATTERBOX/LOVELY MARIA – Grayson Farm's Fair Grounds Oaks (GII) winner I'm a Chatterbox and Brereton Jones' Ashland Stakes (GI) heroine Lovely Maria each jogged five furlongs and galloped five furlongs under trainer Larry Jones, the same as they did the previous morning. As Jones put it earlier this week, his goal for the final days leading up to Friday's Kentucky Oaks is to "get the feel-good" into them.
"They had a good morning and all is well," Jones said as he went from stall to stall clipping the manes of his star fillies. "They'll walk tomorrow and then tomorrow afternoon we'll take them over there and try to run them."
I'm a Chatterbox seeks to become the latest in a remarkable line of fillies that have pulled off the Fair Grounds Oaks and Kentucky Oaks double in the last decade. Six of the past 10 winners of the marquee 3-year-old filly race in New Orleans have gone on to wear the garland of lilies at Churchill Downs (the Fair Grounds Oaks was not run in 2006 when the meet was canceled in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, although that year's Kentucky Oaks winner, Lemons Forever, trained by Fair Grounds mainstay Dallas Stewart, could very well have added one more to the list).
"We're going to try to carry on the Fair Grounds tradition," Jones said. "That's what we're banking on. I see no rhyme or reason for it, as far as why the fillies do so well compared with the colts. They should all do well because it's a very good track and they all come off of it sound and ready to run when you come out of there. That track's very kind and they try really hard to keep it that way."
Fair Grounds Oaks-Kentucky Oaks winners this century: Ashado (2004), Summerly (2005), Proud Spell (2008), Rachel Alexandra (2009), Believe You Can (2012) and Untapable (2014).
INCLUDE BETTY – Brereton Jones and Timothy Thornton's Include Betty is "very happy" and "looks good" the morning prior to the Kentucky Oaks, according to jockey Rosemary Homeister Jr., who has been checking in frequently on her mount this week. Homeister was especially pleased about drawing post No. 3 for the peppermint-addicted Include filly.
"I really like it since she'll be coming from off the pace," Homeister said. "I don't have to waste any ground trying to get over out of the gate. It looks like there's going to be plenty of pace in the race and there are only maybe three closers, like she is. Hopefully I'll be able to save some ground but if not she likes to come around anyway. You want to try to save as much ground as you can and make that one big run."
MONEY'SONCHARLOTTE – George and Lori Hall's Money'soncharlotte jogged a mile under exercise rider Jesus Gomez, with trainer Kelly Breenalongside on a pony before 6:30 Thursday morning.'
"That's it. We're done," Breen said. "She won't go to the track in the morning."
Money'soncharlotte earned her way to the Oaks with a third-place finish in the Gazelle (GII) behind Oaks rivals Condo Commando and Puca. That came after a dismal showing in the Davona Dale (GII) in which she was 10th, beaten 37 ¼ lengths.
"In the Davona Dale, she broke bad that day on a speed-biased track," Breen said. "(Jockey) Edgar (Prado) came back and said she never had a chance. You can just draw a line through that."
Breen was asked what he would like to see in Friday's race to enhance the chances of his filly.
"There figures to be a good pace up there and a lot of them are the favorites,' Breen said. "So if they could help me out a little, that would be nice."
OCEANWAVE – Gary and Mary West's Oceanwave galloped 1½ miles at Churchill Downs Thursday in preparation for a scheduled start in Friday's Kentucky Oaks.
"She's doing good. She's ready to go," trainer Wayne Catalano said.
Catalano has enjoyed success with fillies during his careers, most notably Dreaming of Anna, Stephanie's Kitten and She Be Wild.
"Tomorrow is going to be a test for this filly. She's shown progress in every race. She stacks up pretty good. Tomorrow we'll see how she compares with the other ones," said Catalano, whose trainee finished second in both the Honeybee (GIII) and Fantasy (GIII) at Oaklawn Park following less than ideal trips.
PUCA – Donegal Racing's Puca galloped 1 3/8 miles Thursday morning at Churchill Downs to the satisfaction of trainer Bill Mott.
"She's doing good. We're happy with her," Mott said.
Puca broke her maiden by 16 lengths before finishing a troubled sixth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (GI) last fall. This season, she finished fourth in the Davona Dale (GII) at Gulfstream and second behind Condo Commando in the Gazelle (GII). The daughter of Big Brown drew the No. 14 post for Friday's Oaks.
"A lot of it is about the trip. The trip is important. We drew the 14 hole, so we're going to have to get lucky. We might get hung out wide on both turns," Mott said. "I would hope there was enough pace for her to close into.
"I think they all have to step up if they want to win this race. She could very well do that. She was fourth and then second; she could be going the right way."
SARAH SIS – With owner Joe Ragsdale from Tulsa, Okla., looking on, Oaks hopeful Sarah Sis galloped 1 ½ miles after the renovation break with exercise rider Jesus Esquivel aboard for trainer Ingrid Mason.
This is Ragsdale's first time at Churchill Downs since 2003 when he came for Derby Weekend and watched Funny Cide get the roses.
"We are just blessed to be here," Ragsdale said. "I have been an owner for two and a half years and am very fortunate to have this filly. There are people who have been in the game for 20, 25 years who are more deserving of this than me."
Sarah Sis was a $20,000 purchase last year at Ocala.
"Ingrid picked her out," said Ragsdale, who has six horses under Mason's care. "She has a good eye for a horse and I trust what she says."
Mason said that Sarah Sis would tack-walk the shedrow in the morning and that all the heavy lifting was done for the Oaks.
"She is doing well," Mason said. "I just hope she gets a clean trip and likes the distance. With a 14-horse field, the clean trip is huge."
SHOOK UP – Exercise rider Mike Callaham said he likes how Regis Racing's Shook Up, the Fair Grounds Oaks (GII) runner-up, has been training for the Kentucky Oaks.
Callaham, a 25-year-old former jockey who has been working for trainer Steve Asmussen for 5 1/2 years, has been getting on Shook Up since she arrived at Churchill Downs after the conclusion of the Fair Grounds meet. "I feel like she's been training really well," Callaham said. "She's relaxed a lot here. I feel like she's just kind of chilled out, been very happy and she's just been taking things in stride. Her works have been much nicer and more relaxed. In New Orleans, they were a little bit on the edge, a little keen and rank at times. But she's really relaxed nicely. I'm really happy."
Callaham said he thinks Shook Up will be able to deal with breaking from the inside (No. 2). "I think she'll be able to get away fine, and post position only means so much," Callaham said. "Once you come out of the gate, it's anybody's game."
A bullet workout on April 19, five furlongs in 59 seconds, displayed Shook Up's natural speed. "She did that very easily, in hand, just exactly what Steve wanted," Callaham said. Callaham galloped Shook Up on Thursday in the second set after the track opened.
STELLAR WIND – Kentucky Oaks favorite Stellar Wind, owned by Hronis Racing, was on the track at 5:45 a.m. for an easy gallop around the Churchill Downs oval under Ricardo Peniche. Trainer John Sadler left town soon after for a visit to Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Ky., near Lexington, to see the stallions, including his former charge Twirling Candy and Stellar Wind's sire Curlin.
Even while the Santa Anita Oaks (GI) winner impressed in her final work in California and thrived in the mornings at Churchill Downs, pundits have raised questions about Sadler's ability to ship and win outside of the Golden State. "That's pretty much the random results of races," Sadler said. "We've won some big races out of town. The last few years we haven't, really, but there have been variables like weather. You would have to take them one by one but we ran some horses in the Derby here one year where there was the slop, they hated the track. That's what they have to write about but I don't think it means anything."
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