Fall is in the air here and Christmas not far behind it! We have finally gotten settled in our new house so I finally have time to bake again. I haven't been able to do as much fall baking this year with our move, but I did manage to bake one loaf of pumpkin bread so far. I wanted to try something a bit different this time around and I thought a cinnamon bread would be quite good!
This recipe is really good. It has a great cinnamon to bread ratio and I love the addition of the nuts. I used walnuts because that's what I had on hand, but I think pecans would be great as well!
Preheat oven to 350*F. Grease and flour the bottom of a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. Set aside. In a small bowl, stir together 1/3 cup of sugar, the pecans, and cinnamon. Set aside.
In a large bowl stir together the remaining 1 cup sugar, the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a medium bowl beat egg with a fork. Stir in milk and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture, Stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy).
Spoon half of the batter into prepared pan, Sprinkle with half of the cinnamon mixture. Repeat with remaining batter and cinnamon mixture. Using a thin metal spatula or table knife, cut down through batter and pull up in a circular motion to marble the cinnamon mixture.
Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes our clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, Remove from pan, Cool completely on wire rack.
Use cranberries or blueberries to bake fruit and nut cinnamon bread!


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Data Shows a Spike in Senecavirus A Cases
July 27, 2016 — Paul Sundberg and Bob Morrison
The Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project (MSHMP) was developed in 2012 to monitor the incidence of PRRS virus. It has grown in representation across the country and today includes 29 systems with approximately 1,000 sow herds and 2.6 million sows. With primary support from the Swine Health Information Center, one of its objectives is to help monitor the emergence and movement of swine diseases across the U.S. Beginning late summer last year, the MSHMP started tracking the cases of Senecavirus A (Seneca Valley Virus, SVV) through reporting from the project's participants and the Iowa State University, University of Minnesota and South Dakota State University swine veterinary diagnostic labs.
These data include reports of positive accessions into the three participating veterinary diagnostic labs. They don't indicate if a positive accession is a new case or a previously identified case that is continuing to monitor. However, there is concern that, after a continued but relatively low incidence during the winter months, the spike in late July might be a predictor of increased incidence as we experienced last year.
Follow Proper Protocols, Know the Plan Cases of pigs or sows with vesicles are now showing up at packing plants. U.S. packing plants must continue to be able to operate normally with the number of pigs and sows being processed every day. Vesicular lesions in pigs or sows ready for marketing should be investigated, and if possible, the lesions should be allowed to resolve before shipping. If that isn't possible, communication between the packing plant, SAHO and USDA is essential if pigs or sows are to be shipped without significant disruption to the normal operations of both the plant and the producer involved.
The USDA has issued a guidance document, Recommendations for Swine with Potential Vesicular Disease for its field staff that provides a good description of their plan to properly handle potential FAD investigations where information suggests that SVV may be suspected. This guidance tells those doing the investigations that duplicate samples may be taken when appropriate, sending one to a National Animal Health Laboratory Network Veterinary Diagnostic Lab (NAHLN VDL) and another to the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory on Plum Island, New York. The federal and state animal health officials may use the clinical presentation and the NAHLN diagnostic test result to make initial decisions about movement of the pigs. The USDA lab on Plum Island, however, is the official lab that can confirm a negative FMD test.
A full series of webinars reporting on SVV research funded by the Swine Health Information Center and other sources (including length of shedding, effective disinfection, epi investigations and a case study of herd closure to eliminate the virus) and the latest on USDA guidance for investigation and responses are available on the SHIC website, https://www.swinehealth.org. Also on the website are fact sheets on SVV and other Swine Disease Matrix viruses.
The mission of the Swine Health Information Center is to protect and enhance the health of the United States swine herd through coordinated global disease monitoring, targeted research investments that minimize the impact of future disease threats, and analysis of swine health data. For more information, visit https://www.swinehealth.org or contact Dr. Sundberg at psundberg@swinehealth.org.

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Imagination Embossing Powders.. Pale Gold....and Copper..
I am Quite Pleased with my card thanks for the inspiration from Chrissie and Vicky last weeks GD.. they are so good at this type of card thanks to them both..
Gorgeous Silvie. Super colours and lovely stamps.
what a beautiful sympathy card, sylvie!! your friend will so appreciate receiving it!
I love your card! it's so beautiful!
Just beautiful Sylvie - a great theme for a sympathy card too.
Love your card, and the colours you used.
Simply beautiful Sylvie, I love this technique.
Thank you for such a lovely welcome back!
wow, sylvie, your card is beautiful! I have just got this stamp set so I'm loving all the ideas I'm getting.
You should think about entering your card over at the Simply Stampin' Challenge, this weeks challenge is 'leafy' so your card would be fab.
hola Sylvie, fantastic technique, great card!!, so elegant, good job Sylvie.
Sylvie you may want to try and re-enter your card for simply stampin, it's not sending anyone to your blog.
Hi Sylvie, I love this design...perfect for a sympathy card :) Good to see the weather is still good with you!
Oh, yes.. I love the background and your card is fantastique!
This is so beautiful, Sylvie. I love the colors and stamps you've used. I admire that French Foliage set every time I see it used. Just gorgeous. :) Ann Y.
Sylvie, this is stunning! Your bordered leaves are beautiful...love the display of colors...lovely:)!!
A beautiful card Sylvie - love the colours and the design.
Sylvie, the mix of colors you've chosen is perfect! LOVE the look of the masked area. Beautiful card...and I do believe you've found your mojo!


The Student Government Association has had an exciting and busy month as they are currently in the middle of hosting a majority of Civility Month events and preparing for election season.
On Monday evening, Dr. Bernice King, the daughter of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., spoke to a large crowd as part of Civility Month.
This event was made possible by SGA along with the President's Office, Multicultural Center, Office of Equity and Diversity, Student Affairs, Sherrod Library, Summer & Winter Sessions, the Academic Health Sciences Center, Enrollment Services, Residence Hall Association, Women's Resource Center and the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement.
"I think last night's speaker was the largest civility event we've ever had in the five or six years that we've been doing civility events," said ETSU Dean of Students Jeff Howard.
There is a civility event scheduled every day until April 1, including the Privilege Walk, International Sports Day, Relay for Life and the Pridewalk Street painting.
The school year is close to coming to an end, which means SGA elections are coming up. The application deadline was Tuesday at 4 p.m.
The apportionment, the percentage of seats per college, is the same as last year.
There will be eight seats for the College of Arts and Sciences, six seats for the College of Business, four seats for the College of Education, three seats for the College of Nursing, two seats for the College of Public Health, two seats for the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences, two seats for undecided students and one seat each for the Quillen College of Medicine, Quillen College of Pharmacy and the College of Continuing Studies and Academic Outreach.
SGA has also acquired more money for Buc Fund. After distributing money in the Buc Fund in February, only $88.88 remained in the account, but now there is over $3,000 in the account.
The Quidditch Club returned $637 because they could not host one of their events. Sexual Health Week hosted their events without spending all of their Buc Fund allotments and will be returning a little over $2,600.
ETSUCon was very successful again this year and they will return $12,793 as well. This money is not in the Buc Fund yet. However, it is en route.


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Home Eco-Photo Explorers U.S. Coast Guard Removes Oil from World War II Wreck Coimbra
U.S. Coast Guard Removes Oil from World War II Wreck Coimbra
The COIMBRA is often visited by Technical Divers because if its depth
The violence of war has taken an immeasurable toll on human civilization and has left deep scars on both the people that inhabit this planet and the Earth itself. Conflicts have results in death, destruction and disruption the world over. Many of these wounds remain, in the form of painful memories, eliminated lives and damage to the environment.
Article and photos by Eco-Photo Explorers Michael Salvarezza and Christopher P. Weaver
In World War II, catastrophic battles took place in Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and beyond. When the hostilities ceased, over 60 million people had died and the world needed to slowly rebuild. But lying beneath the waves of the world's oceans were untold numbers of ships, sunk in battles carrying cargo and people to their watery graves. Many of these remain, bearing silent witness to the horrors of war and the terrible acts of violence that we inflict on one and other.
On January 15, 1942, the supply ship Coimbra set off from Bayonne, New Jersey and was heading to Halifax, Nova Scotia when it was torpedoed by the German U-Boat U-123. The cargo of 2.7 million gallons of oil ignited in a spectacular explosion, ripping the ship into three pieces.
Only nine men out of forty-five on board survived the explosion and sinking.
Shipwrecks in the northeast, including the Coimbra, are covered with anemones.
Although an assortment of lifeboats and rafts were launched, the men not immediately killed in the blast succumbed to the cold of the icy Atlantic one by one until they were sighted by a US Army patrol plane, which radioed a nearby destroyer that eventually came and rescued the survivors.
This was the second sinking by a U-Boat off the East Coast and it marked the beginning of the American "Battle of the Atlantic". For the German commanders of these submarines, this was considered "the happy time", when ships off the eastern seaboard of the United States were easy targets.
Because of the United States' reluctance to join the fighting in Europe, complacency had taken over. Cities near the water failed to adopt evening "blackout" measures, and the light from these cities effectively shined a spotlight on the vessels plying these waters. The U-Boats had an easy time of it.
The Coimbra settled to the bottom, bringing with her hundreds of thousands of gallons of lubricating oil trapped in its cargo holds. The wreck lies in three sections 64 miles southeast of Jones Inlet and 30 miles south of the Shinnecock Inlet in 190 feet of water. This wreck is for advanced divers only due to its distance and depth but visibility can exceed 80 feet in this section of the ocean. Divers who venture to the wreck can spot Ocean Pout, Red Hake and other deeper water species lurking in the rusting remains of the sunken tanker.
Divers surfacing from a deep dive
She lies in an area of ocean that often boils with life. Besides divers, the wreck site is a favorite for local fishermen who come here in search of Tuna and other pelagic species. Whales and Dolphin are sometimes seen feasting on bait balls swirling in the water column above the wreck.
But despite this healthy marine environment, a ticking time bomb of an environmental calamity was tucked away in the cargo holds of the wreck. When she sank, the Coimbra took the remaining oil that did not burn in the explosion to the bottom and this oil has been slowly dribbling out of the wreck ever since the sinking. Indeed, divers and fishermen visiting the wreck over the years have often reported a sheen of oil in the area. As the ship deteriorates, many began to fear that the tanker would "give way" and release the oil in an environmental disaster.
After several years of monitoring the site, and after a recreational diver was reported to have emerged from the wreck covered in oil, the Coast Guard decided something needed to be done.
The Coimbra is one of 87 wrecks that have been identified as a high oil pollution risk according to a 2010 NOAA study. The Remediation of Underwater Legacy Environmental Threats (RULET) project is a joint effort between NOAA and the Coast Guard and over 20,000 known shipwrecks were assessed before the 87 high priority wrecks were identified.
In early 2019, a contract was secured with Resolve Marine Group to first assess and then, if possible, recover the oil.
Red Hake are often found on the deeper shipwrecks like the Coimbra
The initial assessment of the wreck showed that oil was found in eight of the ship's tanks. Commercial divers then found that the oil was slowly leaking from a pinhole opening in one of the tanks and evaporating before reaching the shore. A decision was made to attempt the recovery of the oil.
In May of 2019, a joint operation of the Coast Guard and DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation) began the removal of the oil supported by more than 100 governmental, industry and conservation specialists. A 6000-pound ROV was an essential tool in the recovery, as were divers and other resources.
By July, the operation concluded, and the Coast Guard reported that 450,000 gallons of oil were successfully removed from the wreck. Remaining on the Coimbra is a small amount of leftover oil, which poses minimal risk to the environment according to NOAA officials.
World War II era wrecks, and wrecks from more modern-day conflicts, litter the bottom of the world's oceans. Some have long ago discharged their environmentally dangerous cargos, but many continue to hold on to these fluids, oils and other harmful substances deep in their cargo holds. Efforts like RULET are vitally important to help prevent additional damage from these long-ago military catastrophes.
The COIMBRA is home to deep water fishes such as the Ocean Pout
The Coimbra rests uneasily on the bottom of the Atlantic, slowly deteriorating and occasionally visited by technical divers. It is home to a thriving marine environment as an artificial reef. Happily, the oil it once contained has now been removed and the Coimbra no longer poses an environmental threat to the area. At least this one lingering wound from the war that convulsed the world over 75 years ago has finally been healed.
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Services & Worship
St Mary's
Remembrance Sunday, 8th November 2020
This Week's News & Notices
Lockdown Response
As we have now entered another lockdown unfortunately we can no longer open for public worship on a Sunday. We are still waiting to be updated as to how the restrictions affect us specifically, but we will continue to worship online at 10am on Sundays as usual.
As soon as we know more, we will let you know.
If you are on a rota to read or lead the intercessions, we will get in touch about how you can still help to lead us in worship.
Click or tap on the link below to access our videos. You can watch YouTube videos on all computers, phones and devices, and even on your smart TV!
We will still be open for Private Prayer on Wednesdays as usual.
Head to our YouTube Channel to join us Live at 10am on Sunday, and access other videos. You can do that by clicking or tapping on the link below:
Our YouTube Channel >
Remembrance Sunday Flowers
A few close-ups of the flowers in church for Remembrance Sunday.
When you go home tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today
The Poppy Appeal 2020
You can visit the Royal British Legion website and download a poppy poster for your window or a poppy colouring sheet and both are free. You can of course support the Poppy Appeal by making a donation through this website too.
Visit the Poppy Appeal Website >
You can also view the Poppy Appeal 2020 Video from the Royal British Legion below:
Church is open for Private Prayer from 9am on Wednesdays in church until midday for those who wish to visit during these times and all are welcome to attend. Face coverings must be worn.
The Parish Office
Dot and Carol continue to work from home. Phone messages or emails will be checked regularly and correspondence can be popped through the letterbox in the north door and will be responded to as soon as possible.
100 Club November winners
£50 Olivia Pratt, £30 Bryan Young, £20 William Walker.
NEW Contact Groups
In previous years St Mary's had a system of Contact Groups to encourage regular congregation members to look out for one another in an informal way. As we face a winter of lockdown and restrictions on how and who we can meet, St Mary's Staff Team are proposing to resurrect this scheme. Read more in the letter to the Congregation below:
Contact Groups for a Covid Winter
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News from Anne Otter
Anne Otter has now moved not too far away and we send our love and best wishes to Anne in her new home. Do contact the office if you'd like to have Anne's new address. Anne is hoping to attend a church service once we are allowed to open again on a Sunday and we look forward to seeing Anne then.
Thanks for prayers
"I was delighted when Clare Connors, a long-standing friend of mine, suggested going on your prayer list. I had major surgery just over two weeks ago and have made a very good recovery. I'm back at home now and improving all the time". Shirley Williams
Prayer Shawl thanks
"A very big thankyou to my friends at St Mary's who have sent me such a beautiful prayer shawl. It is indeed a great comfort to feel its warmth and love around me as I continue in my recovery. Thank you so very much for thinking of me. Sending love and prayers to you all". Jennifer Stephenson
Coffee Morning this Tuesday
Our next Online Coffee Morning is on Tuesday 10th November. If you are able to join us online between 10:30am and 11:15am we'd love to see you.
RSVP to our next Coffee Morning >
Click the link above, or go to 'Events' on our website to RSVP and get a link to join via Zoom. You would need to click on RSVP and enter your name and email address and click on 'submit'. An email is then sent to you with a link to the Coffee Morning.
A Call to Prayer for the nation
The Church of England has called on us all to unite as a nation in prayer every day at 6pm using the following prayer topics:
Sunday - family, friends, and loved ones.
Monday - Schools, colleges, kids and young people.
Tuesday - The elderly, the isolated, and vulnerable.
Wednesday - Businesses, workplaces, and the economic well being of all
Thursday - NHS and other key workers.
Friday - national and local government.
Saturday - the grieving, suffering and unwell.
Find out more from the Church of England website here.
Plants Sale for Church Funds: New Website
Dave Haddock who has been selling his plants to us over the summer has now put all of his new stock on his new website, including an easy order form.
Check out his website here >
Or you can contact Dave on 0191 2524985 or 07976 687973. 30% of sales will be donated to St Mary's, so be sure to mention St Mary's when you order! So far £260 has been raised through this scheme. So spread the word!
Are you in a bubble?
We are aware that there are some people living alone who are not part of a support bubble. If this is you, have you considered forming a support bubble with another household? It could be you and another 'single adult household' or it could be you and a couple or family. It doesn't have to be a member of your family—you can be in a bubble with any household. Once you're in a bubble you can have all the benefits of all being in one household—you can see each other, go round for tea etc. If you're on your own and you're not in a bubble, why not think about forming one. Or you can get in touch with us and we'll see if there are others in your situation that you could 'bubble' with. Perhaps you are a family or couple that has no bubble, and you'd be happy to support others on their own? Get in touch. Always check with your next of kin—once you are in a bubble you are advised not to form any other bubble—including with your own family.
For more information visit the government website: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household
Derek's Book
Derek's book 'Scripture Messages' now has been renamed 'A Light To My Path' and is available to order from Waterstone's in Newcastle and from Amazon.co.uk. The new version has a foreword by Tony Garland along with a dedication and has some reviews at the back.
Click here to take a look >
The Bay Foodbank
Please continue to donate non-perishable items at Sainsbury's & Morrison's.
For your prayers this week:
Your Prayers are requested for
Martin Cooper
Rona Lawrie
Emma Campbell
Michael Hampson
Albert Rider
Olya Bouchard
Norman Searle
Edna Davis
Don't forget, you can add someone to the prayer list by emailing or phoning as usual, but you need to get their permission before adding them to the sick list. You can also use the form on the website here to submit a prayer request online.
Remembrance Sunday's Hymns & Readings
God, our refuge and strength,
bring near the day when wars shall cease
and poverty and pain shall end,
that earth may know the peace of heaven
A Reading from the Wisdom Of Solomon
Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her. One who rises early to seek her will have no difficulty, for she will be found sitting at the gate. To fix one's thought on her is perfect understanding, and one who is vigilant on her account will soon be free from care, because she goes about seeking those worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in their paths, and meets them in every thought.
Wisdom of Solomon 6: 12-16
A reading from the first letter of Paul to the Thessalonians
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Thessalonians 4: 13-end
The Gospel According to Matthew
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a shout, "Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him." Then all those bridesmaids got up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out." But the wise replied, "No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves." And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet; and the door was shut. Later the other bridesmaids came also, saying, "Lord, lord, open to us." But he replied, "Truly I tell you, I do not know you." Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Matthew 25: 1-13
Offertory Hymn
O God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
our shelter from the stormy blast,
and our eternal home;
Under the shadow of thy throne
thy saints have dwelt secure;
sufficient is thine arm alone,
and our defence is sure.
Before the hills in order stood,
or earth received her frame,
from everlasting thou art God,
to endless years the same.
Communion Anthem
Lux æterna luceat eis, Domine: Cum Sanctis tuis in æternum: quia pius es. Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis. Cum Sanctis tuis in æternum: quia pius es.
May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord, with thy saints for evermore: for thou art gracious. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them: With thy saints for evermore, for thou art gracious.
Sir Edward Elgar (Nimrod from Enigma Variations)
℗ Decca Music Group Ltd.
God save our gracious Queen.
Long live our noble Queen.
God save the Queen.
Send her victorious,
happy and glorious,
long to reign over us.
God save our Queen.
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Govindgarh is the summer capital of Mahraja Rewa is about 13 k. M. from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. The Rewa, with an area of about 13,000 mi², was the largest princely state in the Bagelkhand Agency and the second largest in Central India Agency. The British political agent for Bagelkhand resided at Satna, on the East Indian railway. The Bagelkhand Agency was dissolved in 1933 and Rewa was placed under the authority of the Indore Residency.
It was bordered to the north by the United Provinces, to the east by Bengal and to the south by the Central Provinces. On the west, it met other princely states of Bagelkhand, namely Maihar, Nagod, Sohawal, Kothi Baghelan and Panna. The south of the state was crossed by the Bengal-Nagpur railway, (the branch between Bilaspur and Katni) which taps the Umaria coal-field.
The region is also known for its natural beauty and Waterfalls. The main waterfalls of the region are Quonti, Chachai and Bahuti. River Bichiya and Beehar confluences. Khando is famous for its beautiful topography and " Govindgarh Lake", prepared by Baghela Kings. The main attraction of the region is Rewa Fort, City Museum of antique items. In the center part of the city you can visit summer palace of Baghela's, it is having very beautiful architecture. An underground tunnel is also there which was used as a secret path for kings between Govind Garh & Rewa.
The Department of Tourism, Government of Madhya Pradesh State has recently leased out Govind Garh Fort to a Delhi based Company for converting into a Heritage Hotel & Resorts and developing other tourism related activities on the related lands. It is a small Islands within the lake which is known for its scenic beauty and lush green surroundings. The Sunderja Mangoes of the Govind Garh are famous in the country. The people of the area are decent and have higher human values. The law and order situation of the area is also good. This is being developed as a future tourist destination to attract International Tourists.
The Govind Garh is also known as `Mini Vrindavan` and a large number of famous temples are situated in the region. Major temples are Ram Govind Temple, Panchmukhi Temple, Chowandi Temple, Shiv Temple, Hanuman Temple. All these temples are within the vicinity of the famous Govind Garh Fort. It is also believed that the name Govind Garh was based on the Govind Temple now situated within the Govind Garh Fort Premises.
The main crops of the region are rice, millets and wheat. More than one-third of the area was covered with forests, yielding timber and lac.


Progressive Asheville icon Cecil Bothwell used a sharp wit and combative style to help reshape city politics. But that same style also was his undoing.
ASHEVILLE - When Cecil Bothwell moved to Western North Carolina he seemed to be a ready-made icon for the nascent 1980s progressive movement quietly bubbling around the region.
Progressives were looking for a political outlet in a city run by moderates and centrist Democrats.
Bothwell was an environmentally conscious homebuilder, writer, social activist, poet, musician, artist and organic gardener living in an off-the-grid home. He offered liberal wit and political criticism through poetry performances, public radio segments and later as a popular reporter for the alternative weekly Mountain Xpress.
"That's one reason I think I was well-known early on — from the poetry and the radio show. It actually kind of weirded me out at first, how many people would say 'hello' to me when I came into town," the former city councilman said in an interview almost three months after his unsuccessful bid for a third term in Asheville government.
His ability to enunciate ideas and his confrontational style made Bothwell a leader in the early 2000s in reshaping the area's politics and playing a role in dramatic city policy shifts on the environment, green spaces and development.
He logged political victories in office, and many of his views are reflected on the new City Council that he's not a part of.
"I can't think of anybody better than Cecil Bothwell to slow down the developers' rush to turn Asheville into the next Atlanta," longtime supporter Laura Thomas said during one of Bothwell's first political campaigns.
But his bombastic style that earned him wide support eventually worked against him, he acknowledged. Bothwell, 67, described his approach at times as "prickly" but straightforward. Critics called it uncompromising and harsh.
Robin Cape, a progressive and former councilwoman, recounted her relationship with Bothwell, saying their friendship ended over a conflict in styles.
"I don't understand that kind of politics," Cape said.
In one of his more notable public statements he denounced the Democratic Party and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Less than a year later, he lost the October 2017 City Council primary in a stinging defeat for an incumbent.
"Because I was outspoken, I lost a lot of Democratic votes," he said.
Bothwell was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to a mother who had trained airplane navigators during World War II and a father who built homes, worked as a purchaser for Sears and later was a small-business consultant.
Bothwell graduated high school in Winter Park, Florida, and, with the Vietnam War in full swing, enrolled at Emory University in Atlanta. "I went to college generally because my family expected me to go to college," he said.
The war was high on the minds of students, including Bothwell, who protested it in Washington. When the military draft made Bothwell's conscription chances slim, he dropped out of school.
He painted "terrible abstract paintings," found construction work during a Florida housing boom and got married. He lost jobs but also had a tendency to "fail forward," he said.
In 1975, his marriage broke up. Bothwell left Florida with a woman who would become his partner for 25 years, Susan Minor. The two traveled, settling in New Hampshire, where Minor wanted to study agronomy.
Bothwell also began to visit Buncombe County, where he worked on a home belonging to a family acquaintance. He got more work in the county, and the couple eventually moved to WNC. In 1979, he built an off-the-grid home near Bat Cave using 50 percent recycled materials, solar panels and a composting toilet that provided fertilizer for an organic garden.
In the Asheville area, Bothwell performed poetry, winning the 1993 Southeast Poetry slam. He submitted writings to the Green Line news publication, and when that paper became the Mountain Xpress in 1994, he wrote the first cover story, offering evidence the D.A.R.E. youth anti-drug program was failing. The front-page picture was a rabbit smoking crack.
In the mid-1990s he became a contributor to WNCW with his "Duck Soup: Essays on the submerging culture" series offering cultural and environmental commentary. The relationship with the Spindale public radio station ended in 1998, but "Duck Soup" lived on for 10 years, syndicated on the Alternet news site.
In 1999, Minor began treatment for breast cancer. The cancer had metastasized to her brain, Bothwell said, and Minor went into "an incredible anger spiral," giving away the home, which was in her name, to a nephew. She died in 2002 in Ohio with her family.
"That was a very painful few years," he said. His relationship with Minor became a theme in his 2010 book "Whale Falls," one of several he self-published through his company Brave Ulysses Books.
Bothwell moved into Asheville and paid rent as an eBay vendor before landing a full-time job as the managing editor for Mountain Xpress. But he didn't like the role. "I wanted to write and edit," he said, and in 2004 shifted to a staff reporter. One of his chief subjects was Bobby Medford, the Republican sheriff who in 2008 was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for corruption and extortion.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and subsequent U.S. military actions, Bothwell had taken on high-profile activist roles, organizing a peace rally with more than 1,000 people — a large turnout for Asheville at the time — and running the WNC campaign for 2002 progressive U.S. Senate candidate Cynthia Brown.
In 2003, he organized an Asheville stop by the "Rolling Thunder" traveling political tour featuring left-leaning politicos, such as Texas liberal Jim Hightower.
"That really got the progressive ball rolling," Bothwell said. "There were nonprofit and other groups that were able to network for the first time. There was definitely a shift happening."
Managers at the Mountain Xpress didn't like Bothwell being politically active while he was a reporter. He now acknowledges it was a professional conflict. "But I didn't directly participate in local politics," he said.
An important behind-the-scenes role he played was to meet with people like Cape, encouraging her and other progressives to run for local office.
Cape, who is now a real estate agent, had won a write-in campaign to the Woodfin Water District board in an attempt to stop a planned logging of the watershed.
Asheville's council at the time was officially nonpartisan, but the majority were conservatives and Democrats with more moderate views.
"It didn't seem reflective of the community around us," Cape said. "It felt a little too conservative.
"So Cecil and I started meeting and holding meetings at his place, at his apartment, with a few people to talk about the potential of turning Asheville more progressive."
Cape was elected in 2005. That cemented the city's first liberal majority, along with Brownie Newman, Holly Jones and Bryan Freeborn.
The group won votes to ban gated communities and clamp down on mountainside development and construction erosion that was getting into streams. They preserved a swath of land that became Beaucatcher Overlook Park, and created an ambitious plan to cut the city's carbon footprint and offer green building incentives to private developers.
Despite the victories, Cape said she wouldn't run again, though she later recanted and tried an unsuccessful write-in campaign.
She cited family and monetary reasons for her original decision not to run, though in an interview this month Cape also said she felt supporters, including Bothwell, had turned on her. She had given air time to moderates and conservatives and met one-on-one with other progressive council members outside public meetings. That's allowed by state law absent a majority of council members, but it riled Bothwell and others, she said.
"From my experience, Cecil got very aggressive. He and I had some very serious disagreements and arguments."
Bothwell said he remembered having differences of opinion with Cape on city policies and being "kind of annoyed" with her for changing her mind on running. "But liberals always form circular firing squads," he said.
In general, he said his confrontational style was about honesty.
"I am inclined to be prickly and tell people what I think," he said. "I much prefer that people be straight about where they are coming from."
In 2007, Bothwell was tapped for the second time as best local reporter in the annual Mountain Xpress "best of" reader submitted poll. Then he was laid off.
Bothwell said management never told him exactly why, but the move freed him to be an overt political actor.
He ran for the county's Board of Commissioners but lost in the eight-way Democratic primary won by Councilwoman Holly Jones. He joined dozens in applying to be appointed to Jones' vacated seat but was passed over.
Bothwell said he was done with electoral politics.
Then longtime friend Brian Sarzynski pointed out that while he'd lagged in parts of Buncombe, he had won a very large chunk of the city vote. So in 2009, Bothwell ran for the council. Supporters said he would bring a grass-roots emphasis to city government.
"I have come to deeply value his unwavering honesty and integrity," said Bruce Mulkey in a letter to the Citizen Times. "Furthermore, I have witnessed his ability to draw diverse groups together to successfully accomplish the task at hand."
Bothwell came in first in the nine-way primary then third in the general election, enough to earn one of the three contested seats. His election was contested by conservatives, citing an obscure passage of state law forbidding anyone to hold office "who shall deny the being of Almighty God."
They said Bothwell was an atheist, though he described himself as a "post-theist" not concerned about the existence of a deity. Later he said he did abide by the "golden rule" of treating others as you would be treated.
The challenge failed but the incident became international news. Bothwell was championed by secular and humanists societies around the U.S.
In 2012, he ran for Congress, first against incumbent conservative Democrat Heath Shuler, then Shuler's chief of staff Hayden Rogers when Shuler dropped out. Bothwell lost the primary.
He won re-election to council in 2013, taking third again in the general election.
In his eight years on the council, Bothwell was a chief advocate for a new "Big Blue" container recycling program that diverted an additional 4.2 million pounds of material from the landfill or roadsides in its first year. He helped residents get discounted composters and pushed to grow the city's annual carbon reduction from 2 to 4 percent, "which we continue to beat or hit every year," he said.
Outside of environmental issues, he served as chairman of the public safety advisory committee that oversaw the reorganization of a troubled police evidence room and the creation of a new use-of-force policy that was held up by some as a national model.
He wanted Asheville to become a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants, but the idea faced fierce opposition from a Republican General Assembly. A version of the plan did pass years later in the form of a city civil liberties resolution declaring Asheville's government wouldn't discriminate based on race, nationality or other such characteristics.
Even among progressives, he found himself in a minority position on several key votes. Bothwell opposed a plan to partner with the Aloft Hotel to build the parking deck below it and said the city got a bad deal selling the naming rights of the Civic Center to U.S. Cellular.
His stances on Asheville's course of development often ran counter to the majority at the time but now receive more favor.
In 2010, he voted against loosening downtown development rules. The change put all but the biggest projects in the hands of the appointed Planning and Zoning Commission rather than City Council. Proponents said it would depoliticize the development process during a time of national economic crisis. He called it an abdication and "passing the buck."
Following the city's recent hotel boom, City Council reversed the decision and made the lodging facility approval process even stricter.
On the hot-button topic of short-term rentals, Bothwell wanted homeowners to be able to tap into the booming tourist economy. But the majority voted to keep the practice illegal in residential areas and to increase enforcement. Those council members said the practice commercialized neighborhoods and reduced housing options for locals.
Despite his October loss, a majority of council members now support loosening some restrictions on STRs in backyard cottages and other so-called "accessory dwelling units."
Bothwell's time on City Council also included some of his familiar harsh words, as well as an arrest.
In 2011, he questioned whether Councilman Jan Davis' contract to supply tires from his store to city ABC vehicles was a conflict of interest. That spurred a defense of the centrist Democrat Davis by Republican former Councilman Joe Dunn, who said in a letter to the Citizen Times that Bothwell "showed his total ignorance as to how a small business might work."
Bothwell and other progressive council members "do not reflect the mainstream of thinking for the majority of Asheville citizens," Dunn said.
Bothwell phoned Dunn, leaving a now famous message on his answering machine.
"I thought I'd call you and tell you you're full of (expletive). I can't believe the (expletive) you laid out in your letter to the editor of the Asheville Citizen Times." He added that he had a run business and that the former councilman was "beneath contempt."
In 2014, Bothwell was pulled over in a newly purchased car without a license plate and charged with driving while intoxicated. He pleaded guilty to the lowest-level DUI offense and received a 30-day suspended sentence and a year unsupervised probation. Political fallout was limited.
In a struggle focused on city-owned downtown property across from the Basilica of Saint Lawrence on Haywood Street — popularly known as "the Pit of Despair" — Bothwell pushed for a park, while other council members contemplated a private development that would foot the bill for some adjacent public space.
But when a council-appointed task force recommended a vision that appeared to include structures, Bothwell wrote an email to volunteer task force chairman Andrew Fletcher, calling the report "a pile of crap" and "utter b*******."
Manheimer, who became mayor in 2013, publicly admonished Bothwell for interfering with the task force. He insists now he was just being upfront about problems with the process.
In another post-loss victory, the new council now has a majority backing the park-only idea. Charlie Thomas, park supporter and major donor to Bothwell's campaigns, declined to be interviewed. But in a letter to the Citizen Times, Thomas praised Bothwell.
Bothwell's criticism of Clinton before the general election likely had the biggest impact on his candidacy.
A vocal supporter of primary presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, he announced he would quit the party after Clinton's win and switch to unaffiliated.
He called Clinton a "felon" and "congenital liar" and said a Donald Trump win might actually be a good thing for Democrats. His announcement set off a heated Facebook debate.
Prior to the October 2017 City Council primary, Bothwell switched back to Democrat, saying he "felt some confidence that the party was returning to fairness," though he wasn't entirely sure.
While council races are nonpartisan, the incident likely had a negative effect for him, said Kathy Kline, Democratic chair for the high-turnout Kenilworth precinct.
Kline said Bothwell has been controversial but that many progressives like her had backed him until the Clinton incident.
Part of Bothwell's routine remains unaltered. He still wakes up at 4 a.m., a habit he developed so he could write before going to construction jobs.
But a big part has changed. He said he's no longer constantly thinking about the job or being button-holed by constituents at grocery stores.
"Honestly, it's really 50-50 about in terms of losing the election. It's a part-time job, but it's always with you. And I have really felt much more relaxed.
He reflects on his political career in part by looking back at the Mountain Xpress "best of" polls where he got "best local politician" seven out of eight years and "best local hero" several times but was always in the top three. In 2013 and 2015, he placed third for "best local villain." For 2017, he placed second for hero and second for villain.
At 67, he collects Social Security, does some construction work and has few expenses. He's lost his mother, father and younger brother.
He volunteers at the WNC Nature Center, cleaning turtle and snake areas, and said he may apply for a job there or at a hardware store job.


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Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Science, Vienna, and a New York Times contributing writer. Together with Stephen Holmes, author of The Light that Failed: How the West Won the Cold War and Lost the Peace (Allen Lane, 2019).
'The future was next to you'
An interview with Ivan Krastev on '89 and the end of liberal hegemony
Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that illiberalism in central eastern Europe today is part of a global contestation of western liberal hegemony. In an interview with Eurozine, Krastev elaborates on this thesis, discussing what happened to the hopes of '89, why dissidence cannot be equated with anti-capitalism or even liberalism, and why explaining the new authoritarianism as a backlash against the 'imitation imperative' is not to trivialize its ideological substance.
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Explaining eastern Europe
Imitation and its discontents
For countries emerging from communism, the post-1989 imperative to 'be like the West' has generated discontent and even a 'return of the repressed', as the region feels old nationalist stirrings and new demographic pressures. The origins of illiberalism in central and eastern Europe are emotional and pre-ideological, rooted in rebellion at the humiliations that accompany a project requiring acknowledgment of a foreign culture as superior to one's own.
Utopian dreams beyond the border
If the financial crisis divided the EU between creditors and debtors, opening a gap between North and South, the refugee crisis re-opened the gap between East and West. What we witness today, writes Ivan Krastev, is not what Brussels describes as a lack of solidarity, but a clash of solidarities: national, ethnic and religious solidarity chafing against our obligations as human beings.
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How to avoid Europe's disintegration
History is replete with examples of how the political logic of disintegration sets in. But is the European Union next in line? You can be sure that it is, writes Ivan Krastev, so long as the European project remains a haven for elites over which people have no control.
Don't fear political emotions
Both parties in the debate surrounding France's ban on wearing a full-face veil in public appeal to European values. It is this, writes Ivan Krastev, that makes the discussion between Martha Nussbaum and Alain Finkielkraut on the nature of tolerance so relevant.
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The global politics of protest
The new wave of revolutionary politics, from the Arab Spring to the Turkish Summer, is an insurgence against representative democracy that offer no alternatives, writes Ivan Krastev in a new book. Is protest really a better instrument than elections for keeping elites accountable?
In defence of decadent Europe?
Who lost Ukraine?
Almost overnight, Ukraine ceased to be a "kingdom in the middle". Now there are only three options left, writes Ivan Krastev: sign the agreement with the EU, as the majority of Ukrainians want; join Putin's Eurasia, as the endangered political elite desire; or go bankrupt.
Is China more democratic than Russia?
Power rotation, listening to the people, tolerance of dissent, recruitment of elites and experimentation: the truth is that, in all of these respects, China is more democratic than Russia. And China's decision making is undoubtedly superior too, argues Ivan Krastev.
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The transparency delusion
Disillusionment with democracy founded on mistrust of business and political elites has prompted a popular obsession with transparency. But the management of mistrust cannot remedy voters' loss of power and may spell the end for democratic reform.
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The European dis-Union
Lessons from the Soviet collapse
Too big to fail? Too crisis-hardened to go under? The collapse of the Soviet Union has something to teach Europe's politicians if another leap from the unthinkable to the inevitable is to be avoided in the case of the EU, argues Ivan Krastev.
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Blatantly rigged elections are the easiest way for the Putin regime to mimic the authoritarian power it does not possess. December's protests destroyed Putin's reputation of being in control; even genuinely competitive elections would be unable to restore his legitimacy.
The EU: The real sick man of Europe?
Democratic deficit, enlargement fatigue and ever more rescue funds: is there still a future for a common Europe? In a discussion in Eurozine's series "Europe talks to Europe", prominent intellectuals and opinion makers from western and eastern Europe diagnosed causes for the current malaise of the EU.
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The politics of no alternatives or How power works in Russia
An interview with Gleb Pavlovsky
Gleb Pavlovsky, the Ukrainian-born former dissident turned "political technologist", abruptly fell out with the Kremlin in April, reportedly over "indiscreet comments" made about the 2012 presidential elections. In interview with Transit a short while before, Pavlovsky gave a revealing inside view of the workings of political power in the former Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia.
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Russia's authoritarian regime owes its tenacity to the reversal of two central communist precepts, writes Ivan Krastev. First, its abandonment of the ideology of public interest prevents it being measured against its own standards. Second, its policy of open borders diffuses protest potential from a dissatisfied middle class.
The crisis of the post-Cold War European order
How should the West react to Russia's unrestrained pursuit of national interest? A policy of engagement defined as a focus on national interest, and a radical turn from value-based foreign policy to nineteenth century Realpolitik, is not a workable option for relations between Russia and the West, argues Ivan Krastev.


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The Right Way to Help Someone Suffering from Cardiac Arrest
Everything you've been taught about CPR is wrong.
By Best Life Editors October 3, 2017
By Best Life Editors
A Seattle 911 dispatcher receives a call from a woman whose husband has just collapsed and has no pulse. Believing correctly that the man has gone into cardiac arrest, the operator coaches the woman to perform CPR, a rotating series of quick chest compressions followed by two quick breaths into his mouth to provide oxygen. "Why is it that every time I press on his chest, he opens his eyes, and every time I stop and breathe for him, he goes back to sleep?" the woman asks.
"When I heard the tape of this conversation, I was astounded," says Gordon Ewy, M.D., professor emeritus of cardiology and director emeritus of the Sarver Heart Center at the University of Arizona. "This woman had learned in 10 minutes what it took us 10 years of research to find out."
That is to say, giving mouth-to-mouth to someone in cardiac arrest is not only wrong—it could also be deadly.
Every year, about half a million Americans go into sudden cardiac arrest. It's the leading cause of death in America, and 95 percent of its victims die within minutes. Yesterday morning, the rock icon Tom Petty was found lying unconscious in his Malibu home, suffering from cardiac arrest. Later in the day, the 66 year-old was pronounced dead at the UCLA Medical Center.
Cardiac arrest happens when the heart stops pumping blood because its rhythm becomes disordered and unsynchronized (called ventricular fibrillation). This happens most often as the result of underlying heart disease. Experts have taught for more than 40 years to give someone in cardiac arrest mouth-to-mouth between chest compressions, but in a study published in The Lancet, scientists found that survival rates of cardiac victims were higher when compressions were not accompanied by mouth-to-mouth (echoing studies that have been coming out for more than a decade). That's because a person's blood remains fully oxygenated when the heart stops. The only time mouth-to-mouth is necessary, some heart specialists now believe, is in the case of a drowning or a drug overdose. In those cases, the heart is still pumping blood, so the body's oxygen levels are quickly depleted.
"If you see someone drop to the ground suddenly with abnormal breathing and no pulse, that's cardiac arrest," says Dr. Ewy, who has been recognized by the American Heart Association for his contributions to the science of CPR. "What you need to do is immediately call 911. If there's a defibrillator around, send someone to get it while you start continuous chest compressions (CCC) at a pace of 100 per minute."
A defibrillator is the only thing that can depolarize the muscle fibers that are spasming out of sequence (i.e., jump-start the heart). Chest compressions simply buy the person time by moving blood into his heart and brain, keeping the blood pressure from falling to zero and the person from slipping into a coma while medical services race to the scene. It takes only six minutes for someone to go from ventricular fibrillation to flat line if nothing is done, but—as we now know—there is a twofold increase in survival when chest compressions are applied. If you find yourself in a situation where someone is having a cardiac episode, follow these four steps immediately. And for more great health advice, be sure to read how to Slash Your Heart Attack Risk with This Expert Test.
Roll the victim on their back.
After calling 911, roll the victim on their back, put the heel of one of your hands in the center of his chest (right between the nipples) and the heel of your other hand on top of the first hand.
Get ready to work.
Lock your elbows, put your shoulders directly over the center of their chest, and fall, performing fast, forceful compressions at a rate of 100 per minute. The weight of your body will help you compress the chest about an inch and a half, and when you come up, the chest wall will spring back and help push the blood around the body. Lift your hands slightly to let the chest spring back.
Be diligent and attentive.
Continue at a rate of 100 per minute. If there's someone around to help you, have that person get on the other side of the victim and take over after you do 100 compressions. Switch every minute until help arrives.
Look for a defibrillator.
If there's a defibrillator available, attach it to the victim and follow the directions.
A version of this story originally ran in the September 2007 issue of Best Life.
How to Build a Heart of Steel
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'''
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Before running this Airflow module...

  Install StarThinker in cloud composer from open source:

    pip install git+https://github.com/google/starthinker

  Or push local code to the cloud composer plugins directory:

    source install/deploy.sh
    4) Composer Menu
    l) Install All

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DV360 API Patch From BigQuery

Patch DV360 API endpoints.

Specify the name of the dataset and table.
Rows will be read and applied as a patch to DV360.

'''

from starthinker_airflow.factory import DAG_Factory

# Add the following credentials to your Airflow configuration.
USER_CONN_ID = "starthinker_user" # The connection to use for user authentication.
GCP_CONN_ID = "starthinker_service" # The connection to use for service authentication.

INPUTS = {
  'auth_write': 'user',  # Credentials used for writing data.
  'patch': '',
  'auth_read': 'service',  # Credentials used for reading data.
  'dataset': '',  # Google BigQuery dataset to create tables in.
  'table': '',  # Google BigQuery dataset to create tables in.
}

TASKS = [
  {
    'dv360_api': {
      'auth': {
        'field': {
          'name': 'auth_write',
          'kind': 'authentication',
          'order': 0,
          'default': 'user',
          'description': 'Credentials used for writing data.'
        }
      },
      'patch': {
        'field': {
          'name': 'patch',
          'kind': 'choice',
          'choices': [
            'advertisers',
            'advertisers.campaigns',
            'advertisers.channels',
            'advertisers.channels.sites',
            'advertisers.creatives',
            'advertisers.insertionOrders',
            'advertisers.lineItems',
            'advertisers.locationLists',
            'advertisers.locationLists.assignedLocations',
            'advertisers.negativeKeywordLists',
            'advertisers.negativeKeywordLists.negativeKeywords',
            'floodlightGroups',
            'inventorySourceGroups',
            'partners.channels',
            'users'
          ],
          'default': ''
        }
      },
      'bigquery': {
        'auth': {
          'field': {
            'name': 'auth_read',
            'kind': 'authentication',
            'order': 1,
            'default': 'service',
            'description': 'Credentials used for reading data.'
          }
        },
        'dataset': {
          'field': {
            'name': 'dataset',
            'kind': 'string',
            'order': 2,
            'default': '',
            'description': 'Google BigQuery dataset to create tables in.'
          }
        },
        'table': {
          'field': {
            'name': 'table',
            'kind': 'string',
            'order': 3,
            'default': '',
            'description': 'Google BigQuery dataset to create tables in.'
          }
        },
        'as_object': True
      }
    }
  }
]

DAG_FACTORY = DAG_Factory('dv360_api_patch_from_bigquery', { 'tasks':TASKS }, INPUTS)
DAG_FACTORY.apply_credentails(USER_CONN_ID, GCP_CONN_ID)
DAG = DAG_FACTORY.execute()

if __name__ == "__main__":
  DAG_FACTORY.print_commandline()

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Abe in Feb. 2013 [Image courtesy of Creative Commons]
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Sunway TaihuLight [Image Courtesy of ExtremeTech/TOP500]
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