This collection compiles five volumes from Church Publishing that equip you and your congregation to sing the Psalms with passion, understanding and relevance. Use A New Metrical Psalter to sing paraphrased versions of the Psalms to familiar tunes and meters. The Emergent Psalter is the perfect resource for congregations seeking to contextualize the Psalms with more contemporary music. Connected: You and God in the Psalms and Meditations on the Psalms take a devotional approach to the Psalter and will deepen your understanding and love for these ancient songs. Finally, Prayers from the Darkness examines psalms of grief and pain and shows how to integrate them during challenging times.
The Logos editions of the Church Publishing Psalter Collection enhance your study with amazing functionality. Fully integrated into your digital library, the Timeline enables you to instantly contextualize the people, places, and ideas discussed in the journal with thousands of other biblical and world events. Perform powerful searches to instantly gather relevant biblical texts and resources together. Free tablet and mobile apps let you take the discussion with you. With Logos Bible Software, the most efficient and comprehensive research tools are in one place, so you get the most out of your study.
If you're studying the Psalms, you may find Spirituality of the Psalms helpful.
Coinciding with the appointed Psalms for the Book of Common Prayer lectionary, this psalter includes Psalm paraphrases in verse form with suggested familiar tunes for singing in Short Meter, Common Meter and Long Meter. Also included are Canticles and Invitatories for the Daily Office for both Rite I and Rite II.
Christopher L. Webber is an Episcopal priest who has led urban, rural, and overseas parishes. He is the author of several books, including Love Came Down and A Time to Turn.
Sometimes it's hard for people to reconcile their lives in this chaotic, energized, nonsensical world with their faith in God. They want to know what's really true, what they can count on, and on what they can build their futures. They want their lives to matter. And yet, to them the Bible often seems to be merely an ancient book about dead people who had no idea of the stresses and fears and challenges of living today.
This straightforward, real-world devotional guide is designed to help people of all ages connect powerfully with the God of the Bible as revealed in the Psalms—the Bible's songbook. Within the exquisitely emotional lyrics in these songs, young readers will find all the feelings, struggles, and fears they face each day. And they'll find the spiritual resources to help them thrive.
Using 90 selected passages from the Psalms, Peter Wallace has put together a stimulating new devotional full of fresh ideas for finding ways to connect with God, with one another, and with the world at large. As a result, readers will gain encouragement and strength to face their uncertain world with the wisdom and love of the God who so deeply loves them.
Peter Wallace is a beautiful thinker and a deep, humane soul; this book distills that beauty and reveals that depth. We could ask for no better guide to the comfort, the wisdom--and the poetry--that the Psalms hold for us searchers.
Peter Wallace understands the power of the psalms, and the need to engage them—all of them: praise and lament and confusion alike. Through the use of his own experience—his own inner life—he opens up each of the psalms for us so that we can see them anew, while in his concluding prayers for each section, he acknowledges the difficulty of many of these texts, the trials in many of our lives—and the ongoing goodness of God.
Peter Wallace is the producer and host of Day1, the weekly national, ecumenical radio program broadcast on 160 stations coast-to-coast and online. The vice president of production for Altanta-based Alliance for Christian Media, he is the author of seven devotional books, and winner of the 2005 Polly Bond Award of Excellence for Books.
Many alternative and emerging church communities have begun exploring ancient music and liturgical traditions despite a lack of high-quality, published liturgical music which does not require (or even desire) an organ and a four-part choir. The Emergent Psalter serves to provide that resource. Featuring music written for two emerging communities, this book is an excellent resource for anyone producing an alternative worship service or thinking of starting one.
Isaac Everett has served as artist-in-residence at the Church of the Epiphany in New York, a company member of Storahtelling, and the co-founder of Transmission, an underground church in New York City.
"I hope that the ancient texts upon which these reflections are based will come alive for you in a new way," writes Barbara Crafton in Meditations on the Book of Psalms. The Psalms, written by ordinary people, are filled with all the same emotions and issues that challenge, comfort, and confound us today. Their complaints, joys, celebrations, envy, doubting, fear, and hope are ours as well. In this book of meditations for each day of the year, best-selling author Barbara Crafton combines reflection on these ancient texts with contemporary stories to help us explore the spiritual nature of our lives.
From the desire to start anew in January, to time management and remembering to lighten up in December, Crafton's meditations are the perfect daily companion for anyone who finds nourishment in biblically based devotional reading.
Crafton writes with a combination of toughness and compassion; her stories are funny and tragic, and her observations about everyday life are well stated.
Crafton has a good eye for mystical moments and for the ways we can see God's presence in the midst of everyday life.
Barbara Cawthorne Crafton is a popular preacher, retreat leader, and writer. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, Episcopal Life, and other publications. She is the author of many books, including Let Every Heart Prepare, Some Things You Just Have to Live With, and The Sewing Room.
The "difficult psalms" which amount to more than a third of the Psalter, shock us with their cries of pain, anger, and alienation. They call on God for help in moving from suffering and grief to trust and mercy. Lyn Fraser, following the lead of Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann, shows how to integrate these "psalms of disorientation" in Sunday morning worship, pastoral care, and any situation of extreme need.
Lyn Fraser is the author of Water from the Rock, Finding Grace in Time of Grief. A volunteer hospice chaplain, she facilitates bereavement support groups, teaches creative writing to incarcerated youth, and has helped teen volunteers assist hospice patients record their life stories. Lyn has led workshops and retreats for religious, hospice, and academic groups.


Dream job as a child: An athlete.
But that changed in high school, when as a senior, he got his calling to work as a pastor. His basketball team was riding back from Lawrence after a loss in the first round of the state basketball tournament. The team was in turmoil, with two star players who wouldn't cooperate, which led to the loss.
"I was devastated, and I heard God say on the bus, 'There's no answers in athletics; it's a great tool, but a lousy guide,'" he said.
Hobbies: Swimming and spending time with his wife and grandchildren.
"I like to spend time with my grandchildren and have fun and teach them," he said.
Digging deeper: McCracken said two weeks after his revelation following the state basketball tournament loss, he was at a youth conference in Dallas, listening to Billy Graham speak about the call of God, which cemented McCracken's decision to enter the ministry. He completed seminary school and was ordained in 1979.
He had spent 10 years as a pastor in Fort Scott before he was called to Basehor. He said while he of course was happy to return to the Kansas City area, he feels like he is in Basehor because he is in God's will.
The First Baptist Church of Basehor has grown under his leadership, adding a full-time minister of youth and adults, a part-time music minister and children's ministry director. The church also now livestreams its 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. worship services at fbcbasehor.com.
"We'd like to invite people to either be our guest on Sunday in person or if they want to, visit first on the website and check us out," he said.


defendants contend that the trial court erred in denying their motion to transfer venue.
installed it on Larson's property.
property without Larson's knowledge or permission.
motion "as to liability" on these claims. (5) The case then proceeded to a jury trial on the remaining claims.
would get back in touch with him.
you don't mind." Larson agreed, believing that he was receiving "same day service" from Southern Energy.
Larson gave "Mike" directions to his property and the combination to the gate to access his property.
instructed Junek to "get [Larson's] home."
he was a Southern Energy representative who was going to Larson's property to look at "warranty work."
and he had not given Junek permission to enter his property to take the home.
Larson returned to his property the following Friday to find that his home had in fact been removed.
down payment, and that Republic was seeking, as damages, $39,000 as the balance of the home price.
"granddaughter cried for two days."
not have the money to pay Shipley.
he, Junek, Lone Star, and Shipley Brothers "made the decision" to take the home from Larson's property.
Larson's home was in fact the missing home for which they had not received payment from Sweet.
pay the Shipley defendants after the sale to Larson was completed.
next day with a work crew and, without Larson's permission, took the home.
that when he went to Larson's home, he had not even seen a copy of Larson's list of warranty issues.
home to a customer and that the customer had in fact paid for it.
home that was ultimately delivered to Larson by Sweet "without notice or the opportunity to be heard,"
Texas Constitution and the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution." See U.S. Const.
amend. XIV, § 1; Tex. Const. art. I, § 19.
privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land."
generally construe the Due Course of Law Clause in the same way as its federal counterpart. Tex.
Workers' Comp. Com'n v. Patient Advocates of Tex., 136 S.W.3d 643, 658 (Tex. 2004) (citing Univ. of Tex.
that addresses due process issues in analyzing the Shipley defendants' constitutional challenge. See id.
for the issuance of a statement of ownership and location.
converts to a security interest in proceeds and cash proceeds.
for that home to the department.
hereinafter as "former section 1201.204").
manufactured home industry that require the surrender of the MCO before funding, there is no problem.
that arose in this case.
without notice or an opportunity to be heard," then they are deprived of their property without due process.
provide clear and marketable title.
[Shipley]: That is right. Its his obligation.
[Larson's counsel]: It is his obligation to, correct?
make that representation of warranty to the public. You know that?
that he is going to provide clear and marketable title?
[Larson's counsel]: And in this case Sweet did everything he was supposed to do except pay you?
We overrule the Shipley defendants' first issue.
entitled to damages for theft or conversion "merely because it [had] a security interest" in the home.
We overrule the Shipley defendants' second issue.
evidence of fraud by Junek, the other [Shipley] defendants would not have derivative liability."
than a scintilla, or (4) the evidence conclusively establishes the opposite of the vital fact. City of Keller v.
(Tex. 2001); Johnson & Higgins of Tex., Inc. v. Kenneco Energy, Inc., 962 S.W.2d 507, 524 (Tex. 1998).
knowledge of their existence or their competing claim to ownership.
stated, "I understand you're having some problems with a Southern Energy home that you purchased."
stating that he would already be in Larson's area looking at "some other issues with some other homes"
Larson had the missing home.
had never seen a list of the issues.
the evidence is legally sufficient to support the jury's fraud findings against all of the Shipley defendants.
part of the events giving rise to the claims occurred in Harris County.
An appellate court reviews a trial court's denial of a motion to transfer venue de novo. Killeen v.
the suit accrued." See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 15.006 (Vernon 2002).
The parties agree that the general permissive venue statute applies. See id. § 15.002 (Vernon 2002).
Larson had obtained title to the home, the Shipley defendants took his home without his permission.
and Republic in Harris County were fraudulent.
transferred to Larson. Based upon this evidence, the trial court denied the motion to transfer venue.
fraud that induced the payment by Larson and Republic."
undone because [they] did not [ultimately] take a judgment against Sweet for fraud."
supporting venue in the county where judgment was rendered. See Chiriboga, 96 S.W.3d at 677-78.
defendants and away from Sweet.
substantial part of events giving rise to the claims of Republic and Larson. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.
defendants because all of the claims arose out of the same series of transactions or occurrences. See id.
We overrule the Shipley defendants' seventh issue.
substantially remit" the award of exemplary damages.
Shipley defendants acted in bad-faith in removing Larson's home.
Transp. Ins. Co. v. Moriel, 879 S.W.2d 10, 30 (Tex. 1994)).
filed, we must reverse the trial court's judgment. Id.
home. The Shipley defendants agreed that Larson was a purchaser in good faith.
offensiveness of the Shipley defendants' conduct is extreme.
Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559, 568, 116 S. Ct. 1589, 1595 (1996); SAS & Assocs., Inc. v. Home Mktg.
that could be imposed for similar misconduct. BMW of N. Am., Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. at 574-75, 116 S. Ct.
at 1599; Tony Gullo, 212 S.W.3d at 308.
The first guidepost, the degree of reprehensibility of the defendant's misconduct, is the most important.
whether the harm was the result of intentional malice, trickery, deceit, or mere accident. State Farm Mut.
U.S. at 419, 123 S. Ct. at 1521 (citing Gore, 517 U.S. at 576-77, 116 S. Ct. at 1599)).
entered Larson's home without his permission-- conduct that involves a significant danger and risk.
some of the other factors suggests that the amount of the exemplary damages awarded is excessive.
Brothers. "The ratio of actual to exemplary damages alone is not determinative of excessiveness." Id.
the amount of compensatory damages might be close to the line of constitutional impropriety." Id.
individual with the compensatory damages awarded against that individual." Huynh v. Phung, No.
01-04-00267-CV, 2007 WL 495023, at *13 (Tex. App.--Houston [1st Dist.] Feb. 16, 2007, no pet.) (mem.
defendants to the amount of actual damages awarded against the Shipley defendants jointly and severally.
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Ann. § 17.47(c)(1) (Vernon Supp. 2008).
evidence, was so against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence as to be manifestly unjust.
defendants' fourth issue in part and overrule it in part.
is no evidence or jury finding to support an award of separate attorney's fees to Republic only."
separate blanks, because there was no evidence that would enable the jury to make that determination.
Larson elected a remedy that bars him from recovering attorney's fees.
(Tex. 1997)); see also K-2, Inc. v. Fresh Coat, Inc., 253 S.W.3d 386, 396 (Tex. App.--Beaumont 2008, pet.
time evidence of attorneys' fees is presented or at the time of the charge, the error is waived." Holmes v.
the judgment of the trial court and remand for a new trial.
Justice Bland, concurring and dissenting.
1. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 134.001-005 (Vernon 2005).
(current version at Tex. Occ. Code Ann. § 1201.204 (Vernon Supp. 2008)).
3. U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1; Tex. Const. art. I, § 19.
4. Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Ann. § 17.41-.63 (Vernon 2002 & Supp. 2008).
court granted both Republic and Larson summary judgment as to liability on these claims.
that they did not represent each other.
terms of which are unclear at best.
Larson. Act of May 26, 2003, 78th Leg., R.S., ch. 338, 2003 Tex. Gen. Laws 1471, 1477 (amended 2007).
Theft Liability Act did not present the risk of a double recovery.
conversion and Larson could not recover under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
wrongfully converted proceeds from the sale to Larson.
was at work in Harris County. The Shipley defendants dispute that there is such evidence in the record.
directly address the Shipley defendants' evidentiary dispute.
against Sweet," which they describe as an "absent and insolvent defendant."
17. In support of their argument that venue was not destroyed, Larson and Republic cite McIntosh v.
protecting the defendant against fraud or inaccuracy at the pleading stage." 894 S.W.2d 60, 64 (Tex.
relied upon by the trial court in making its venue ruling.
S.W.2d 812, 819 (Tex. 1997).


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College basketball predictions: SB Nation New York's Big East Conference, NCAA Tournament and Final Four picks
The men's college basketball season begins Friday, and SB Nation New York's college sports writer Jared Smith provides his predictions, including Big East Conference awards and Final Four picks.
By Jared Smith@JaredSmithCNY Nov 9, 2012, 4:45pm EST
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The men's college basketball season has commenced! And before it officially kicks into high gear, I wanted to toss out my 2012-13 predictions.
I'll start by doing a rundown of the Big East Conference, the main focus of SB Nation New York, and polish it off with NCAA Tournament predictions, Final Four participants and the Naismith Player of the Year Award.
Without further delay, here they are: (react @JaredSmithCNY.)
Final regular-season standings
The pick of the Bearcats may seem like a surprise, but I believe head coach Mick Cronin will reach his peak with this squad. Also, lets admit it, the backcourt combo of junior Sean Kilpatrick and senior Cashmere Wright is scary good. The question is: will the hole left by Yancy Gates be harder to replace than I expect?
Big East Tournament Final Four: Louisville, Georgetown, Syracuse and Pittsburgh (for old time sake.)
Big East Tournament Final: Syracuse vs. Georgetown (it's going to happen.)
Big East Tournament Champions: Syracuse (don't say I didn't tell you so.)
NCAA Tournament teams (8): Louisville (No. 2 seed), Cincinnati (No. 3), Syracuse (3), Georgetown (4), Pittsburgh (4), Notre Dame (5), South Florida (8), Marquette (12).
If Cincinnati wins the Big East regular season title, it will because Kilpatrick grows up and becomes an All-American candidate.
Player of the Year: Sean Kilpatrick, Cincinnati
Defensive Player of the Year: Gorgui Dieng, Louisville
Rookie of the Year: DaJuan Coleman, Syracuse
Alright, we're through the regular season and conference tournaments and are now onto the most important time of the year -- Selection Sunday.
I believe the Kentucky Wildcats and Arizona Wildcats will cruise through their respective leagues and tournaments -- sorry UCLA Bruins fans -- allowing them to earn No. 1 seeds. Meanwhile, the Indiana Hoosiers and Ohio St. Buckeyes will battle each other all year, however, in the end the selection committee will be forced to give these two programs No. 1 seeds.
The Cardinals have No. 1-seed talent but will be beaten up by the the Big East and will need to settle for a No. 2 seed. I like the Florida Gators' overall talent, schedule and head coach. The Kansas Jayhawks just always find a way to get a high seed and they have the talent to overcome their losses, while the Michigan St. Spartans prove the Big Ten Conference will be fun to watch this season.
The Orange and Bearcats both have enough talent to make a Final-Four run. The N.C. State Wolfpack will be everyone's sleeper pick while the Duke Blue Devils will want to be the team representing tobacco road.
No. 1 seeds: Kentucky, Ohio State, Indiana, Arizona
No. 2 seeds: Louisville, Kansas, Florida, Michigan State
No. 3: seeds: Cincinnati, Syracuse, N.C. State., Duke
No. 4 seeds: Michigan, UNLV, Georgetown, Pittsburgh
Everybody loves a Cinderella story, but by the time this time of year talent wins and these four teams could all be morphed into National Championship contenders. The Hoosiers win it all behind the nation's best player, Cody Zeller.
Final Four: Kentucky, Indiana, Syracuse, Louisville
Champion: Indiana
Naismith Player of the Year: Cody Zeller, Indiana

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What Fidel Castro and the ANC don't want you to know about Cuba and South Africa
"Cuba is the sea of happiness. Towards there goes Venezuela. " - Hugo Chavez, March 8, 2000
Open Letter from the ANC to the Communist Party of Cuba
Voice of America is reporting that South Africa has launched a campaign against US sanctions on Cuba. Reasonable people can disagree on the wisdom of sanctions and also taking into account the South African government's close relations with Cuba the position is not at all surprising and should not be a shock. Nevertheless, the call to release the remaining Cuban spies serving sentences for past crimes in the United States should give one pause. The misnamed "Cuban Solidarity Campaign" seeks to support the Castro regime. Finally what raised concerns about the future of South African democracy is an "Open letter from the African National Congress (ANC) to the Communist Party of Cuba" written by Gwede Mantashe and published on July 25, 2014 that not only celebrates the Cuban Communist Party but its guiding hand in shaping South African democracy while also quoting Lenin:
"In our quest to strengthen and consolidate our democracy, we still rely on the PCC`s willingness and ability to hold our hand against all odds. The ANC will continue to work closely with your party collaborating in all aspects of development and peace. As Vladimir I Lenin stated, 'taking power is easy the challenge is keeping it.' Demands on our 20-year-old democracy are many and varied. The glaring inequality and abject poverty of the majority of South Africans did not come in 1994. This is the legacy of centuries of oppression and deprivation."
However, ideas have consequences as does the belief that "it can't happen here." For example in Venezuela, under a flawed democracy, many thought that Hugo Chavez would shake things up but that it was impossible for the country of Bolivar to follow the path of Cuba under the Castro brothers. Despite the claims of President Chavez that this was precisely where he wanted to take the country. Fourteen years later and with a heavy Cuban presence involved in the repression of Venezuelans and the rule of law obliterated; opinions have changed. Many Venezuelans are risking their lives and freedoms to restore the rule of law, basic freedoms, and ending the rising violence in society.
Glorifying a false and violent narrative
Michael N. Nagler, in the Six Principles of Nonviolence observes that: "Violence sometimes 'works,' that is, forces a particular change, but in the long run leads to more misery and disorder." In the case of South Africa the decision of the African National Congress to adopt violence as a means to end Apartheid in 1961 may in fact have prolonged the life of the racist regime by decades. However, in the open letter by the African National Congress a different and self-serving narrative is constructed:
"We do not forget the great battle of Cuito Canavale where the myth of the invincibility of the might of racist South Africa was shuttered once and for all. The military skills of the cadres of both SWAPO and ANC trained by the Cubans sent the racists packing. The "Stalin Organ" or Katusha was so devastating it sent them running helter skelter all over the place. The South African Defense Force (SADF) was forced out and had to face the nation - albeit the white minority - to explain the body bags to parents and loved ones of the young men who had fallen illegally outside the borders of their country. Their grip on illegally occupied Namibia slipped away and the way was paved for the liberation of South Africa. The ANC was absolved by history as the unrelenting force for liberation and peace."
For the record both sides claimed victory in the above mentioned battle. What is disturbing is that the open letter uses the same language of being "absolved" while referencing another act of violence that took place in Cuba in 1953:
"We particularly wish to acknowledge this friendship of progressive forces in this month of July, which marks the 61st Anniversary of the raid on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, a campaign that is to the Cuban revolution what the sabotage campaign was to the ANC in the 1960`s at the beginning of the armed struggle against apartheid. We actually have one of our Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) detachments named the Moncada Detachment. This is after throngs of young people especially students from all over South Africa joined the ANC and MK to fight the scourge in our country that was condemned as a crime against humanity by the United Nations. The friendship between the CPC and the ANC is not accidental. ... We are working very hard to educate our people about this bond and the trials and tribulations of the Cuban revolution. In a tradition began by the likes of Jose Marti, our brother and comrade Fidel Castro and members of the PCC managed to lead Cuba to freedom. From as early as 1962, despite difficulties created by the imperialist forces, Cuba offered South Africans much needed military and academic training."
The Nonviolent Campaign that ended Apartheid
The narrative laid out by the African National Congress glorifies violence but does not reflect what happened. One thing remains clear the ANC's goal of lifting economic sanctions on the Castro regime is to ensure that the Cuban Communist Party thrive and remain in power in Cuba. The argument made by some, that engaging the Castro government with trade, investment and political recognition will lead to a democratic transition, was repudiated when made with regards to the South African Apartheid regime. For example consider the following statement by Immanuel Wallerstein, co-chairman of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars in 1977:
"Astonishingly, it is argued that strengthening the economic basis of the white apartheid regime will in fact bring change. This is nonsense, and those who speak it know it ... Continued American investment in South Africa in any form is continued American support for the regime in power. Those who wish to support change in South Africa have only two ways to do it: (1) active assistance to the liberation movement; (2) a call for United States economic disinvestment and political disengagement from the present South African state. The rest is sophistry."
Despite the current propaganda offensive, inside South Africa it was not the ANC and the armed struggle that brought the Apartheid regime to the negotiating table but the United Democratic Front (UDF). ANC and Castro apologists have generated a so-called secret history that is propaganda that has successfully glorified a failed violent struggle as successful. What is often overlooked is the real history of how the Apartheid regime was brought to an end. This is the history of the UDF and the successful nonviolent struggle it carried out that is documented in A Force More Powerful:
In the city of Port Elizabeth, Mkhuseli Jack, a charismatic 27-year-old youth leader, understands that violence is no match for the state's awesome arsenal. Jack stresses the primacy of cohesion and coordination, forming street committees and recruiting neighborhood leaders to represent their interests and settle disputes. Nationally, a fledgling umbrella party, the United Democratic Front (UDF), asserts itself through a series of low-key acts of defiance, such as rent boycotts, labor strikes, and school stay aways.
Advocating nonviolent action appeals to black parents who are tired of chaos in their neighborhoods. The blacks of Port Elizabeth agree to launch an economic boycott of the city's white-owned businesses. Extending the struggle to the white community is a calculated maneuver designed to sensitize white citizens to the blacks' suffering. Beneath their appeal to conscience, the blacks' underlying message is that businesses cannot operate against a backdrop of societal chaos and instability.
Confronted by this and other resistance in the country, the government declares a state of emergency, the intent of which is to splinter black leadership through arbitrary arrests and curfews. Jack and his compatriots, however, receive an entirely different message: the country is fast becoming ungovernable. Apartheid has been cracked.
Undaunted by government reprisals, the UDF continues to press its demands, particularly for the removal of security forces and the release of jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela. White retailers, whose business districts have become moribund, demand an end to the stalemate. The movement also succeeds in turning world opinion against apartheid, and more sanctions are imposed on South Africa as foreign corporations begin to pull out many investments. In June 1986, the South African government declares a second state of emergency to repress the mass action that has paralyzed the regime.
End of the Cold War coincides with End of Apartheid
If further proof were needed that the violence and militarism of the African National Congress (ANC) and Castro's troops did not achieve change in South Africa then one need only consider that negotiations to end Apartheid began in 1990 after the collapse of the East Bloc and ended in 1991 the year the Soviet Union ended. The ANC no longer had the weapons and financial support provided by the Castro regime and Soviets from the 1960s into the early 1980s. There are those in South Africa who in 1989 mourned the passing of the Berlin Wall but if not for the end of the Cold War things may not have changed. Paul Trewhela in politicsweb offered the following analysis:
On 9 November 1989, twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall cracked open, the Cold War in Europe came to an end, the Soviet empire tottered to its grave and the ANC military option lost whatever teeth it might have had. The military/security state erected by the National Party never lost a centimeter squared of its soil. Umkhonto weSizwe, the military wing of the ANC and the South African Communist Party, never won a centimeter squared of soil. True, the repeated mass mobilizations and popular uprisings within South Africa through the Seventies and the Eighties placed a colossal strain upon the regime, and, true, the economic strain upon the state - especially in conditions of attrition exercised against it by the US banking system - placed it under further serious pressures. Nevertheless, honest accounting must say that, given the continuation of the Cold War system in Africa, this nuclear-armed state at its southern tip was nowhere near collapse.
The international situation that undermined the ANC's armed struggle combined with the successful nonviolent campaigns of the United Democratic Front (UDF) facilitated the end of Apartheid in South Africa. This is because in South Africa there was a far older tradition of nonviolence going back to 1893 - 1914 with Mohandas Gandhi's experiments with nonviolence in South Africa. It was in South Africa on September 11, 1906 that the word Satyagraha came into existence. In the same way that in Cuba there are dueling legacies one violent; one nonviolent the same holds true in South Africa. It is this legacy of nonviolence that has endured and gives hope for the future unfortunately abandoning it and embracing the false and violent narrative of Castroism is a recipe for endangering South African democracy. Under the Castro regime, nonviolent Cuban opposition leaders, such as Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, and Harold Cepero Escalante have been killed under suspicious circumstances reminiscent of what was done to Steven Biko during the Apartheid regime.
Castroism's corrosive impact on democracy
Replicating the Cuban model in Venezuela has not brought the South American country into a sea of happiness the rule of law, free speech, and freedom of association have been decimated and violence has exploded in the country making it one of the most dangerous places on the planet. In Africa Cuban involvement in Ethiopia led to mass murder and war crimes bordering on genocide. In Cuba opposition leaders such as The obvious question that presents itself is what are the consequences presently of the ANC's embrace of the Cuban Communist Party to "hold [their] hands against all odds."
Amnesty International has been reporting that human rights defenders are being harassed and improper pressure is being placed on institutions, including the Office of the Public Protector and senior prosecutors. Freedom of expression is under threat in South Africa and laws have been passed restricting the rights of journalists. In 2013 the Index on Censorship made the following observation: "the past five years have seen worrying moves against free expression. These range from verbal threats to legislative measures to the irregular arrest of a journalist." On May 30, 2014 the Committee to Protect Journalists reported on another structural threat to a free press in South Africa: "Freedom of expression advocates in South Africa are concerned that the new Ministry of Communications, announced by President Jacob Zuma when he unveiled his cabinet on May 25, will compromise the independence of the public broadcaster and serve as a propaganda office."
The takeover of the media by the government and the ruling party while restricting freedoms of the press and of expression is an important step on the road to taking on Castroism's totalitarian model. Thankfully, in South Africa there is a vigorous civil society resisting these moves, but the fact that the ruling party sees in the Communist Party of Cuba an example to follow should be of great concern to democrats and human rights defenders.
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The city of Pensacola is asking citizens what they envision as the future of the Port of Pensacola.
Mayor Ashton Hayward's office announced in early June it had hired Moffatt & Nichol, an international infrastructure advisory firm based in Southern California, to develop a new strategic plan for the port. In the announcement, the mayor's office noted that it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep the port self-sufficient and competitive, especially in a time when local, state and federal funds were tightening.
As part of its planning process, Moffatt & Nichol is holding two days of "open houses" to gather public input on how citizens want to see the port used over the next 50 years. The firm is also encouraging people to document their thoughts and priorities in an online survey at portsidepensacola.com.
Addressing a packed audience at an open house in City Hall on Tuesday, Scott Lagueux, director of waterfront planning for Moffatt & Nichol, said, "This presentation is about me having zero preconceived notion of what your waterfront should look like."
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Lagueux said in his opinion, there were three very general paths forward: a "balanced" approach giving equal focus to downtown, the port and the rest of the waterfront; an "unbalanced but complementary" approach that retained some of the port's functions but found new uses for the remainder of the space, or "dissolving" the port as it exists today to allow the port to "morph into part of the broader downtown and waterfront."
Lagueux pointed out that the port comprises about 50 acres, a footprint roughly large enough to contain Palafox Street from Garden to Main streets and several of the surrounding blocks.
Attendees of the open house Tuesday voiced diverse opinions on the viability of the port and the best usage of the land.
Several people, including a representative of the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, said they supported seeing the port become a hub for marine research and technology.
Others attendees said they believed the port could thrive, but it would take better management, more aggressive marketing and long-term commitment from the community. A few attendees wondered if there is a specific "niche" the Port of Pensacola could fill that's not already being served in Mobile, Alabama, or Panama City.
Lagueux said his firm planned to talk to stakeholders like the local colleges and universities, the U.S. Navy and IHMC to see what they envisioned for the port. He said his firm has had some preliminary discussions already with a few local developers, some city department heads and consultants and the mayor himself.
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When pressed on whether the planning process would remain transparent and citizen driven or whether there was some predetermined outcome favored by local officials, Lagueux said, "There's not something in the kitchen, that I'm aware of."
"I've had one meeting with the mayor and that was at the very beginning," Lagueux said. "His charge to me and the team was think broadly and be inclusive. Talk to the community and see what they want."
Jeff Helms, senior project manager added, "We're trying to get a broad cross section, but we're really trying to get at the 'folks' — All of us who get up at 6 a.m. and contribute to the community and have aspirations in this community."
Lagueux said once there were a few points of consensus, his firm would develop some relevant case studies that might help Pensacola chart out its own path. Lagueux said his plan was to implement an online dashboard with some baseline information on the port and its operations.
Lagueux said his firm's aim is to produce something that was actionable, attainable and maintainable, "not pie in the sky" ideas.
Moffatt & Nichol has another full day of open houses planned for Wednesday at City Hall's Hagler/Mason Conference Room, 222 W. Main St., second floor.
There will be an informal open house from 8-11 a.m. where citizens can stop in and ask questions about the project and process. There will be another informal session from 1-5:30 p.m., and from 5:30-7 p.m. there will be a repeat of Tuesday's formal presentation and a community question and answer session.
According to a timeline Moffatt & Nichol presented, the group plans to finish its planning within the next few months.
The firm plans to review the community's input, then hold another community input session in late July or early August. From there, the firm plans to refine the ideas and concepts into a "final vision plan and reinvestment strategy" it plans to present Sept. 17.
That plan will go to the Pensacola City Council for further review Oct. 11.
Kevin Robinson can be reached at krobinson4@pnj.com and 850-435-8527.
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Su Jian thought that it would be difficult for him to admit that he liked a man. Unexpectedly, he felt much more relaxed after he confessed his feelings to An Yize.
Seeing An Yize's moved face, which was a very rare sight, Su Jian's heart felt warm.
The previous feelings of being reluctant to leave or infatuation seemed to have found their place. Su Jian came to a sudden realization while also feeling a sense of relief.
Thus, when An Yize leaned forward for a kiss, Su Jian didn't avoid him.
In the past, when An Yize kissed him, he would react unconsciously. Now that he was reacting consciously, it would naturally be different. One could react physically, but it was much harder to stop reacting from one's heart.
The two of them who were having a sincere talk earlier were now acting intimately on the sofa.
An Yize slipped his hand underneath Su Jian's clothes. Su Jian then undid his buttons himself. An Yize removed his belt and Su Jian removed An Yize's pants.
An Yize stopped his movements. Then, he got up and carried Su Jian in his arms.
An Yize was currently feeding Su Jian with a cup of water. Hearing that, the water in the cup swayed.
I've just accepted An Yize and now I'm being asked to bear a child. Can life not rush at me so intensely and quickly!
On their way back home, Su Jian sat beside An Yize while feeling distressed.
He almost forgot. If he stayed together with An Yize, he couldn't escape from giving birth to a child. It would've been great if he was a guy since he couldn't give birth. But now that he had the required system, giving birth to a child was just a matter of time.
It's not that I'm unwilling to give An Yize a child, I'm just scared of the thought!
Su Jian couldn't help but touch his own tummy.
And, what if I can't persevere? Su Jian didn't say anything and gave An Yize a cursory glance.
Even an ordinary woman needed to love the man a lot to be willing to give birth to a child for him, not to mention Su Jian who was had such a special circumstance. I admit that I like An Yize now. However, honestly speaking, I'm not sure whether this like is enough for me to be willing to give birth to a child for An Yize.
Su Jian didn't tell An Yize that he signed up voluntarily initially.
The school had planned to send another female colleague over. However, the female colleague wanted to take care of her child who was still in school, so she wasn't very willing. The school wasn't willing to dispatch the teachers who were teaching the senior classes and most of the teachers had children. As for the few sophomore year teachers without children, they were still inexperienced in teaching. Therefore, Su Jian was the most suitable choice.
Therefore, when that female colleague who had given Su Jian a lot of guidance on how to teach well asked if Su Jian could go instead of her embarrassingly, Su Jian hesitated for a moment and agreed.
He thought: This might be good. If I'm separated from An Yize for a while, I might be able to think through some things clearly.
Although he was leaving soon, he realized that he and An Yize had been interacting much more intimately than ever before and he felt much more content now.
When he woke up in the morning, An Yize would kiss him and greet him with a "good morning". When An Yize was choosing his necktie, he would offer his suggestion on the color and design. He also personally helped An Yize put on his necktie.
At night, there were times when An Yize would be looking through documents on the sofa. Su Jian would use his phone while using An Yize's lap as a pillow.
Su Jian could rub his fingers in between his toes without worry in front of An Yize, and An Yize would lie in Su Jian's embrace obediently for Su Jian to pick his ears.
After the bout in the office, they didn't do it again. However, they still kissed and touched each other without restraint.
Is this the legendary love?
Su Jian laughed secretly, but he soon wrinkled his nose. Why do we seem like an old couple?
Before Su Jian left for the village, they went to watch a movie.
An Yize chose the hall that had couple seats, while Su Jian helped An Yize choose a horror film thoughtfully.
The movie was proceeding at a good pace. The scary atmosphere was also sufficient. Thus, only the screams of women and the sound of men taking the chance to comfort them could be heard.
Su Jian thought for a moment and nestled in An Yize's embrace thoughtfully.
Within the screams filled with fear, the two of them stuck close to each other, seemingly in their own world.
"Dong dong." Just when they were immersed in talking within the screams, a head suddenly stretched over from the neighboring seats.
On the day Su Jian set off, An Yize had to go on a business trip to sign an important contract. An Yize had wanted to push back his business trip to send Su Jian off personally, but he was rejected.
Su Jian looked at him and suddenly laughed with a "hehe".
The conditions of the middle school he was supposed to help at couldn't be considered good. However, there was a mountain and a river in the surroundings. The scenery was quite nice.
The school gave Su Jian a dorm room to live in. There wasn't much in the room: only a bed, a table, and a cabinet. Fortunately, the room had its own restroom, so Su Jian was happy with it.
Su Jian cleaned the room and added an induction cooker as well as some other daily necessities. Then, he stood with his hands on his hips in his somewhat tidied room, showing a satisfied smile.
Su Jian was having his dinner when he received An Yize's call.
Author's notes: I see that everyone thought that aid education meant going to a faraway place and not returning for one year? That's not it. The response support is just for teachers from the city who go to a village to work for a period of time.
Also, it seems that some of you feel that Su Jian isn't clear-cut and avoided giving a definite answer. How should I say this? I guess it depends on how people look at it. For me, I feel that Su Jian didn't avoid the issue. With his dense personality, he didn't notice his feelings at first. And now that he finally realised he actually liked uncle An, he confessed almost immediately. He even did it honestly. Talking about the depths of their feelings, Su Jian's feelings are definitely less than that of uncle An. Therefore, he admitted it honestly. I don't see anything wrong with that. I like you, but probably not as much as you like for me. I can't be sure if I'm able to persevere staying together with you. Therefore, I'm hesitant since I'm afraid of hurting you ultimately—Maybe, some of you feel that this is not being clear-cut. However, I feel that this is the reality, so why should we cover it up? If Su Jian acted like Ji Yan, always saying misleading words even though she doesn't even like uncle An, that would hurt uncle An more!
Although Jian Jian had become a woman, his always felt that he liked women. If he wasn't hesitant when he realised he fell for a man all of a sudden, that would be weird. Just like he said, their relationship would be a little more troublesome than a normal male-female relationship. He had never been in a relationship before and he always liked women. If his feelings for uncle An were not strong enough and he just blindly promised that he would be with uncle An forever, he will be much more tempted when he meets a woman who catches his eye compared to a normal couple. At that point, the damage done to uncle An would be much greater.
Let me waste some time to talk about two true cases that happened around me. One of them was my classmate from university, namely student A, a female and a lesbian. During our university days, she liked another female student B. Thus, A treated B well. B is actually not a lesbian. However, she might have been moved by A or perhaps she felt lonely after studying far away from home, or maybe some other reason. In any case, B and A got together. During their years in university, the two of them had a pretty good relationship. From an outsiders' point of view, they looked like girlfriends with a good relationship. From an insiders' point of view, they looked like the type that would stay together for life. After graduation, B was guaranteed a place in a university in another city for further education. A found a job that had good pay, so she decided to stay behind as she wanted to save money to buy a house. However, in less than a year, B wanted to break up. The reason was that she found her boyfriend after leaving A. B realized that she still truly loved men. She said to A: I really liked you. However, at that time, I didn't understand my feelings well enough and mistook friendship for love.
Another one was just a normal male-female relationship. My colleague C was getting older, but she still wasn't married. She had high expectations for her other half. However, as she aged, her family started forcing her to find a husband. She herself was also feeling anxious. Thus, she went on a blind date. Meeting someone who was acceptable in all aspects, they married each other. After being married for a year and a half however, she wanted a divorce. According to what she said, she had met her true love. We advised her to think twice. She said she never had a boyfriend in highschool and university and never met anyone suitable from blind dates she had while she was working. One could say that she had no experience in love. She had married out of necessity. She thought that the pleasant feeling between her and her husband was love. However, when she met her current man, she realized that true love wasn't like that. She said she was aware that it was immoral to have a divorce. However, she was unwilling to waste the rest of her life for this little moral. Therefore, she took the chance to divorce when she still didn't have a child. We were speechless.
Alright, looks like I've wasted too much time. What I'm trying to say is that Su Jian's hesitation may look like he's not being clear-cut to all of you and him not being a man. However, I feel that if some cautiousness can make the ending more complete, it isn't so bad to be a little indecisive. My friend who is a high school teacher said that in a class of fifty to sixty students, one-third of them come from a divorced family, which something to sigh about. Even if one is cautious now, it's hard to guarantee that there won't be any problems in the future. However, we don't have to be worried about Jian Jian and uncle An, because—this author is a fairy tale lover! The prince would either not stay together with the "princess" at all or have many kids and live happily ever after if they stayed together!
What about your sickness Snowy-sama???
Please don't force yourself to please us… Though I'm very happy you still translate in the middle of therapy and medication period ….
I'm impressed with how thoughtful the author is being about the whole scenario.
Considering Author's rant: For me I actually like this vagueness. It's more real-like and in line with Jian's personality. He's confused. First time to feel different, especially to a man. It's hard when all he had experienced and felt is not intense. I get the feeling of that gentle, steady love from between and JianJian is.. dense. So he needs time. I approve of his decision because he considered everything and set boundary incase something happens.
Gotta find me someone who'll spoil me.
Agreed! It reminds me of chasing my hubby. We dated for 5 years because he needed time to get over his past and confirm that our relationship was true… Then my health exploded, and he realized he would rather be the person at my side going through this than not. BAM! Got hitched. There was alot of time spent quietly contemplating if it was the right decision, and both of us are happy for it now.
The author has some very interesting insights, things to think about.
Love how much longer this chap is and wow they are banging now.
I really like this author. Everything they've said and the time they took to say it really inspires me.
It really would be weird if Jian Jian accepted Uncle An like that when it's clear to us readers that his feelings are still on the shallow side. For a really good HE, I think nothing should be abrupt and having Jian Jian take the time to sort everything out would definitely feel more realistic.
This is sooo good. Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you. I think their relationship is more realistic because as humans we're constantly changing our minds about relationships as we discover more about our love interests. I think people should be overly cautious about selecting a lifelong mate. Your examples remind me of friends I have. Thanks for adding them.
Thank you for the chapter!! I think what Su Jian did was right, he was honest, if he is not sure of his feelings is better to say it.
I think what we feel about marriage and divirce depends a lot of the culture. In my country (Argentina) couples that last long are rare. Women who have 3 kids all from different fathers without geting married once is considered normal. People give more importance too fleeting feelings than responsability.
I feel like this might possibly be the scariest part of the horror movie.
I really enjoyed that author's note.
Just recently found out about this novel and binge read the entire thing and hungrily waiting for more xD!
Love the author's realistic take on life/love. ❤ thanks for translating that note too!


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FDA Grants Marketing Authorization of Diagnostic Test for Zika Antibodies
MAY 23, 2019 | MICHAELA FLEMING
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized marketing of the ZIKV Detect 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA, the first diagnostic test to detect Zika virus immunoglobulin antibodies in human blood.
This test is the first Zika diagnostic test that the FDA has permitted to be marketed in the United States, as previous tests have only been authorized for emergency use. With this marketing authorization, the FDA has revoked the Emergency Use Authorization for this product, which was previously granted in 2016.
The FDA's decision was based upon data from a clinical study of 807 test samples and a multitude of analytical studies, which demonstrated that the test was safe and effective at identifying immunoglobulin antibodies against Zika virus in the blood.
The test, which is marketed by InBios International, Inc., has been designed to identify antibodies produced by the immune system when testing for Zika virus infection in the blood. The immunoglobulin antibodies indicate an early immune response.
Results of the test are intended to be used alongside clinical observations, epidemiological information, patient history, and other laboratory evidence to make decisions on patient management.
Negative results may be observed in specimens collected before day 4 of the onset of symptoms or after the window of detectable immunoglobulin closes, and "therefore does not preclude the possibility of Zika virus infection, past or present."
ZIKV Detect 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA is intended for use solely in patients with clinical signs and symptoms of Zika and/or who meet the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Zika virus epidemiology criteria, which include individuals with a history of residence in or travel to a region with active Zika transmission at time of travel.
The test is not authorized for screening blood or plasma donors.
According to the FDA, the agency is considering whether the ZIKV Detect 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA test is an adequate, approved, and available alternative to the 18 other available Zika virus antibody diagnostic tests that are permitted for use under Emergency Use Authorization. The FDA is communicating with the 4 EUA holders that produce products that detect Zika virus antibodies like the ZIKV Detect 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA to gather information to evaluate whether the Emergency Authorization Use for these specific tests should be revoked. However, the FDA indicates that the marketing authorization does not impact the availability of the 14 other Zika nucleic acid diagnostics available under EUAs.
The marketing authorization was conducted through the de novo premarket review pathway. Along with this authorization, the FDA is establishing criteria that determine the requirements for demonstrating accuracy, reliability and effectiveness of tests intended to identify Zika virus antibodies.
"Today's marketing authorization is a great demonstration of the FDA's work to protect the public health in emergency response situations," FDA Acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless, MD, said in the statement. "We ensured there were tests made available quickly under EUA, but we continued to work with diagnostic manufacturers to take the next step of ensuring products were FDA reviewed for safety and effectiveness and authorized under our traditional premarket authorities."
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An important agenda item is to present, discuss and formally accept policies for data sharing & publication and the constitution of the EHDN.
EHDN 2006 will be a shorter meeting compared to EHDN 2005: one and a half days.


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The 1970 Topps Tony Taylor baseball card is not shooting straight with you.
Not completely.
And not right up front.
Now, don't get me wrong …
It's a gorgeous card, a tremendous card.
In fact, when you first stumble across this card, it might take your breath away, for just a beat.
Hailing from an era when hatless coifs, bad airbrush jobs, silly poses, and dingy photos abound, this beauty sticks out like John Kruk "in" the batting box against Randy Johnson.
Taylor stands in front of a bright bank of Philadelphia Phillies hats and wooden baseball bats across a wide spectrum of color tones, having just selected a hunk of lumber to accompany him on his next trip to the plate. The design is clean, and the photo is crisp enough to make even the ancient dugout phone in the background seem more contemporary, somehow.
There is a lot happening in the picture, to be sure, but there is so much pure baseball going on that you just want to stare at it for hours.
But there's something else going on here, too.
Tony Taylor and Topps seem to be trying to tell you something about the player himself. Take another look and you'll see …
Taylor has a death grip on his bat, and it couldn't break free even if it wanted to.
It doesn't even really matter how Taylor grabs a bat, because he can fling it around using whatever haphazard grip he ends up with.
Taylor is kind of hulked forward a bit, like he's ready to step into a club-swing to take care of whatever troubles might be emerging in front of him.
Taylor's left arm hangs to his side, almost out of frame, but you can see that he has some swole in that bicep.
Taylor wears a batting glove on his left hand, ready for some sting.
Taylor's hat is pushed back on his head, granting the sun full access to the scowl that's developing on his face. He wants to know if you're seriously pointing that blinkety-blank camera at him.
Viewed in one shot, especially the first shot, and maybe with a bit of a squint — this is the card of a slugger. The bookend match for card #(40) of teammate Richie Allen.
But then you notice … Taylor's position is listed as "2B-3B."
Today's third basemen might hit dingers at a decent pace, but in the late 1960s and early 1970s — B.S., or Before Schmitty — home runs weren't the name of the game at the Hot Corner. And second basemen?
They were just middle infielders (unless they were Joe Morgan or Davey Johnson or Bobby Grich or Davey Lopes or …).
The point is, no power-hitting second or third baseman was likely to sneak through nearly 50 years on the front of a card this good-looking without said cardboard becoming a classic. And, the number of Tony Taylor master collection want lists floating around out there is probably fairly small as we near the end of another decade.
He's just not a legend in the same way that Mike Schmidt or Brien Taylor or Oscar Gamble is a legend.
In fact, unless you grew up following the Phillies or were a pretty hardcore baseball fan up through the middle 1970s, well, you might not even really know who Tony Taylor is.
But that doesn't mean Taylor isn't worth learning about, because he is.
So you flip the card over, where you learn that, by 1970, Taylor had already logged enough Major League (and minor league) service time to make his stats box big and crowded. So expansive was his record, in fact, that Topps deprived collectors of one of those nifty 1970 cartoon just to fit in all of Tony's good stuff.
At that point, with the 1969 season in the bag, that good stuff included more than 1600 hits and north of 800 runs in 1600+ games spread across 12 seasons. Taylor had also accumulated 229 doubles and 66 triples, which spoke to his speed. So does the blurb at the top of the card:
Leader of 2 loops in Triples, Tony also led his league with 38 Stolen Bases in 1955. 1st on Phils with 19 swipes in 1969.
And if we cruise over to his Baseball Reference page, we can see that, eventually, those legs wrought 234 steals over the course of 19 Big League seasons. His other career totals include 298 doubles, 86 triples, 1005 runs, and 2007 hits.
All of that is pretty amazing when you consider that he began his professional career at the age of 18 in 1954 when the New York Giants signed him and sent him down to the Texas City/Thibodaux Pilots of the old Evangeline League. And that he spent three more years after that without a sniff of the Majors.
The big break came in December of 1957, though, when the Chicago Cubs picked Taylor in the Rule 5 Draft. That meant they had to keep him on the roster all season long in 1958 or send him back to the (then-San Francisco) Giants.
The Cubs didn't just stick Taylor in a dark corner of the dugout that summer, however. Instead, manager Bob Sheffing handed him the starting second base job, and the 22-year-old responded with 21 steals and 63 runs to bolster a weak .235 batting average. The youngster also showed a decent eye at the plate by drawing 40 walks, and he played at roughly league-level in the field.
Taylor held onto his job in 1959 and improved his numbers pretty much across the board. He entered 1960 as a young veteran with plenty of good years ahead of him — and the Philadelphia Phillies took notice.
On May 13, the Phils sent Ed Bouchee and Don Cardwell to the Cubs in exchange for the speedy middle infielder.
In Philly, Taylor became an All-Star (in 1960) and a key part of the club that would eventually break the city's heart with a late collapse in 1964. A year before that, Taylor had logged career highs with 102 runs and 10 triples, adding 23 steals for good measure. That performance earned him a few MVP votes.
He plugged away for the Phils for parts of 12 years until a trade sent him to the Detroit Tigers for Carl Cavanaugh and Michael Fremuth on June 12, 1971. At that point, Taylor was 35 years old but had hit a career-best (for a full season) .301 in 1970. Still, with little glitz and an aging body, he wasn't the type of player you build a team around, so no one was surprised when his playing time dipped to 55 games in the Motor City that summer (he played in 91 total contests between the two clubs).
In 1972, Taylor made the most of his 78 games by batting .303 but slid all the way to .229 in 1973.
After the Tigers released him that December, Philadelphia decided to take another shot at their former infielder.
Taylor found a little-known offshoot from the fountain of youth in a corner of the Phils' clubhouse and batted .328 in 62 appearances in 1974. That performance brought him a bump in playing time to 79 games in 1975, and he capped his career by hitting .261 over 26 plate appearances for the Bicentennial Phillies in 1976.
When Philadelphia released Taylor in November of that year, his 19-year run in the Big Leagues was done.
It was a really good run, though, and a long one. And we might have missed it — or forgotten about it — if not for that wonderful 1970 Topps card.
You know the one, right?
It's the one where Tony Taylor is doing his slugger-at-the-rack impression.
Oh, yeah — about that.
Taylor ended up with 75 home runs, including a career-best of nine in 1970.
Maybe he felt that spike coming when Topps asked him to stop for the camera the year before. Or maybe the photographer annoyed him to such a degree that a Hulk-sized surge of anger poured over him and infused his muscles with a 34-year-old burst of power.
Whatever the case, Tony Taylor looked right at home surrounded in the baseball lumber, and he knew how to coax some hits out of those bats.
Power or not.
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A 508 million year old sea predator with a 'jackknife' head
Fossil specimen of Habelia optata from the Royal Ontario Museum. This specimen spectacularly shows some of the very large jaws under the head shield. Note also the long dorsal spines on the thorax.
Credit: Photo by Jean-Bernard Caron. Copyright: Royal Ontario Museum
Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto have entirely revisited a tiny yet exceptionally fierce ancient sea creature called Habelia optata that has confounded scientists since it was first discovered more than a century ago.
The research by lead author Cédric Aria, recent graduate of the PhD program in the department of ecology & evolutionary biology in the Faculty of Arts & Science at U of T, and co-author Jean-Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the departments of ecology & evolutionary biology and Earth sciences at U of T, is published today in BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Approximately 2 cm in length with a tail as long as the rest of its body, the long-extinct Habelia optata belongs to the group of invertebrate animals called arthropods, which also includes such familiar creatures as spiders, insects, lobsters and crabs. It lived during the middle Cambrian period approximately 508 million years ago and comes from the renowned Burgess Shale fossil deposit in British Columbia. Habelia optata was part of the "Cambrian explosion," a period of rapid evolutionary change when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record.
Like all arthropods, Habelia optata features a segmented body with external skeleton and jointed limbs. What remained unclear for decades, however, was the main sub-group of arthropods to which Habelia belonged. Early studies had mentioned mandibulates — a hyperdiverse lineage whose members possess antennae and a pair of specialized appendages known as mandibles, usually used to grasp, squeeze and crush their food. But Habelia was later left as one of the typically unresolved arthropods of the Burgess Shale.
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The new analysis by the U of T-ROM researchers suggests that Habelia optata was instead a close relative of the ancestor of all chelicerates, the other sub-group of arthropods living today, named for the presence of appendages called chelicerae in front of the mouth and used to cut food. This is mostly due to the overall anatomy of the head in Habelia, and the presence of two small chelicerae-like appendages revealed in these fossils.
"Habelia now shows in great detail the body architecture from which chelicerates emerged, which allows us to solve some long-standing questions," said Aria, who is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, in China. "We can now explain why, for instance, horseshoe crabs have a reduced pair of limbs — the chilaria — at the back of their heads. Those are relics of fully-formed appendages, as chelicerates seem to originally have had heads with no less than seven pairs of limbs."
Aria and Caron analyzed 41 specimens in total, the majority of which are new specimens acquired by ROM-led fieldwork parties to the Burgess Shale.
The research illustrates that the well-armoured body of Habelia optata, covered in a multitude of different spines, was divided into head, thorax and post-thorax, all bearing different types of appendages. The thorax displays five pairs of walking legs, while the post-thorax houses rounded appendages likely used in respiration.
"Scorpions and the now-extinct sea scorpions are also chelicerates with bodies divided into three distinct regions," Aria explained. "We think that these regions broadly correspond to those of Habelia. But a major difference is that scorpions and sea scorpions, like all chelicerates, literally 'walk on their heads,' while Habelia still had walking appendages in its thorax."
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The researchers argue that this difference in anatomy allowed Habelia to evolve an especially complex head that makes this fossil species even more peculiar compared to known chelicerates. The head of Habelia contained a series of five appendages made of a large plate with teeth for mastication, a leg-like branch with stiff bristle-like spines for grasping, and an elongate, slender branch modified as a sensory or tactile appendage.
"This complex apparatus of appendages and jaws made Habelia an exceptionally fierce predator for its size," said Aria. "It was likely both very mobile and efficient in tearing apart its preys."
The surprising outcome of this study, despite the evolutionary relationship of Habelia with chelicerates, is that these unusual characteristics led instead the researchers to compare the head of Habelia with that of mandibulates from a functional perspective. Thus, the peculiar sensory branches may have been used in a similar fashion as mandibulates use antennae. Also, the overlapping plate-like appendages in the middle series of five are shown to open and close parallel to the underside of the head — much as they do in mandibulates, especially those that feed on animals with hardened carapaces.
Lastly, a seventh pair of appendages at the back of the head seems to have fulfilled a function similar to that of "maxillipeds" — appendages in mandibulates that assist with the other head limbs in the processing of food. This broad correspondence in function rather than in evolutionary origin is called "convergence."
"From an evolutionary point of view, Habelia is close to the point of divergence between chelicerates and mandibulates," Aria said. "But its similarities with mandibulates are secondary modifications of features that were in part already chelicerate in nature. This suggests that chelicerates originated from species with a high structural variability."
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The researchers conclude from the outstanding head structure, as well as from well-developed walking legs, that Habelia optata and its relatives were active predators of the Cambrian sea floors, hunting for small shelly sea creatures, such as small trilobites — arthropods with hard, mineralized exoskeletons that were already very diverse and abundant during Cambrian times.
"This builds onto the importance of carapaces and shells for evolutionary change during the Cambrian explosion, and expands our understanding of ecosystems at this time, showing another level of predator-prey relationship and its determining impact on the rise of arthropods as we know them today," said Caron, who was Aria's PhD supervisor when the bulk of this research was completed.
"The appearance and spread of animals with shells are considered to be one of the defining characteristics of the Cambrian explosion, and Habelia contributes to illustrate how important this ecological factor was for the early diversification of chelicerates and arthropods in general."
Cédric Aria, Jean-Bernard Caron. Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017; 17 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7
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I have a thoracic scoliosis and so I am well used to upper back pain. However, since I started working full time 4 months ago, the pain and slowly but surely increased and become more unbearable. My job requires me to be on my feet for 50 hours a week. I t is certainley not ideal, but there is nothing else and I need to work.
Has anyone else ever experienced change in location of pain? Or pain in th ribcage, as this is what worries me the most?
I have upper thoracic scoliosis with a 46* curve in the greater curve. My pain pattern is quite similar to yours. Sometimes the ribcage pain hurts so badly that I find it difficult to breathe and have had to go to the ER. My lower back pain ended up being a bulging disc pinching a nerve root. I had an epidural steroid injection for that and it feels much better. I have trouble with muscle spasms under my shoulder blades and I have actual pain in my spine. My neck hurts quite profusely, too. Why are they making you wait 3 months for an X-ray? I would find an SRS doctor in your area. Go to the Scoliosis Research Society and click on find a doctor. They will be in the best position to tell you what is going on. And I'll bet you won't have to wait three months to get in!! (maybe one or two) Best wishes!
Unfortunatley I live in northern ireland and the only option over here is to wait..have you any idea though why the onset of this rib pain was so sudden..it feels more like its bruised than anything and is quite swollen but there are no marks on the skin?
I hope you have a complete physical. Your NHS should be good for that (?). You never know what could be going on and blood work and a mammogram, chest X-ray etc. are in order just to be on the safe side. Not everything is scoli related. Not an MD but this sounds like one. Maybe SOME symptoms could put you to the head of the queue. Was reading a scoli blog by a young Brit, and she was able to expedite even an MRI because of her scoliosis. Seems to me she was able to leave her job on account of it too.
It's a real shame you have to have that horrid standing job. I myself couldn't do it now as I need a walker for walking and standing for any amount of time (>three minutes). I'm afraid it's making your scoliosis worse, while a great PT regime and maybe a brace, might help you avoid later surgery - certainly a most worthy goal. You don't want to become bionic unless you absolutely must! Are you SURE there's nothing else you can do, however, boring or menial?
If you could just get yourself to the States, I'll bet you could get a receptionist job. Yanks just LOVE that brogue!
I regard you as an emergency emigrant = seeking asylum from a devastating health problem. That's assuming you really can't change jobs there. If you don't take it as seriously as you ought, you may find you get to the point where you have no choice.
You'd lose your "great" NHS but pretty soon there will be "exchanges" for folks unable to get insurance otherwise (and besides. you might luck out and get a job with insurance. You might even start as a nanny (which could pay your way, too), specifying you couldn't do any heavy lifting or housework - just the kids' laundry. Or would that be even worse than what you have now?
Sorry, I get kind of carried away with bright ideas for others :o...Here I don't even know if you have your own kids to look after! I'm just so disturbed at the thought of a fellow "scoli" going through that all unnecessary pain (job-related, anyhow) . Most of all, it's critical to avoid if at all possible, creating an absolute need for surgery when it might be warded off with the right attention now.
Best of luck with all this!
also, can you ask the doctor you will see about pain management...? does your doctor specialize in scoliosis?
i really hope you can find a solution to help you get some relief...i know how hard it is to live with constant pain! and then to have to work on your feet all day..well, that is just too much pain on top of existing pain!
If your skin is swollen, I would have that investigated ASAP. That doesn't sound scoli related. I'm not even going to venture what it might be, but you might be able to get that one figured out without an X-ray.
I myself had thoracic scoliosis then also a lumbar scoliosis as well. The thoracic one was a lot worse and I can remember that my ribs moved towards my right side, hard to explain. Then I had the operation and of course all improved for a long long time.
Sometimes it can make it hard to breath as the scoliosis gets worse. Figgy I would go back to the doctor I had already saw, this is only a suggestion, and just explain your symptoms are getting worse. That may hurry up the Xray, fancy 3 months waiting period, that's terrible.
Good luck, don't be scared though but just go back and make your doctor realise its not pleasant. You should not have to put up with the pain in the thoracic part of the spine either, you are having it tough.


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