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CF-100
Mk. 4B
Served with No. 409 and 423 Squadrons, dates unknown. With No. 440 Squadron in Europe when struck off.
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Taken on charge
Struck off, after Category B damage on 14 June 1962.
Served with No. 440 and 445 Squadrons.
Struck off
With No. 440 Squadron at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ, when canopy opened in flight and blew off on 14 January 1956. Aircraft landed with fuselage damage, and navigator's drogue chute deployed. Operated by Central Experimental and Proving Establishment at CARDE, Val Cartier in Operation SPRINT (Sparrow Interception Trials) developing fire control system for Mk. 5M, c.1957. Used in Operation Lookout, aerial infrared measurements of nose cone re-entries over Ascension Island, in 1960. Carried instrumentation in modified wing tip pods. To Patrick AFB, Florida in 1961 for similar tests.
Struck off, later scrapped.
With No. 445 Squadron.
Served with No. 409 Squadron at RCAF Station Comox, BC, 1957. Struck by lightning in the circuit in March 1957, causing all wing tip rockets to fire. With No. 432 Squadron at time of crash.
Struck off, after Category A crash at Toronto on 5 September 1957.
Served with No. 445 Squadron at RCAF Station Uplands. To RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta for training at the Weapons Practice Unit, August 1956. With No. 440 Squadron in Europe on 22 December 1961, when both rocket pods inadvertantly jettisoned during formation takeoff. Also with No. 409 and 423 Squadrons, dates unknown.
Served with No. 440 Squadron at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ in 1955 and 1956. One of seven squadron aircraft that visited USAF bases in Maine in March 1955. (Reported in Milberry, doesn't match t.o.s. date?). Damaged by early gear retraction on take off on 26 April 1956 at Bagotville, crew ejected safely.
Struck off after Category A damage, see comments.
With No. 440 Squadron at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ, when one engine exploded on take off at night on 3 March 1956. Flew quick circuit and landed safely. With Central Experimental and Proving Establishment at time of crash.
Struck off, after Category A damage at Gimli, Manitoba on 22 January 1958.
With No. 432 Squadron when it crashed on 19 June 1956, after one flap left aircraft in flight. 2 fatalities.
Struck off after crash, see comments.
Served with No. 409, 440, and 445 Squadrons. Was in Europe when it was vectored on to unknown target on 29 July 1960. Turned out to be Air France Caravelle.
Served with No. 433 Squadron, RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario. Took part in flying display for Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto, September 1956, basing out of RCAF Station Trenton. Also with No. 445 Squadron, dates unknown.
With No. 445 Squadron at Marville, France, early 1960s. Also with No. 419 Squadron, dates unknown.
Mk. 4B / 5
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Served with No. 423 Squadron at Baden-Soellingen, Germsany in 1960. Visited weapons range at Decimonannu, Sardinia that year. Also with No. 445 Squadron, dates unknown.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 428 AW(F) Squadron at RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario. Also with No. 433 Squadron.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Served with No. 414 and 428 Squadrons. Later with Electronic Warfare Unit at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ in the 1960s. Taken on charge by Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, but retained RCAF serial number.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 414 Squadron at RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario in 1959, coded "AQ*466". With No. 445 Squadron, dates unknown. With No. 3 AW(F) Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ in the early 1960s.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 432 Squadron.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Served with No. 428 AW(F) Squadron, RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario, in the 1950s.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 409 Squadron, dates unknown. Being operated by No. 129 Acceptance and Ferry Flight at time of crash.
Struck off, after Category A damage at RCAF Mountainview, Ontario on 27 September 1960.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Became instructional airframe A687. Taken on charge by Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, but retained RCAF serial number.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 414 and 433 Squadrons.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). To RCAF Station Cold Lake for weapons firing, late 1950s. Served with Weapons Practice Unit, RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta in 1956, coded "HY*472". Served with Electronic Warfare Unit and No. 414 (EW) Saquadron, at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ. To CAF.
Became CAF 100472 (which see).
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 423 Squadron of St. Hubert, PQ, when it visited Trenton in September 1956. Later with No. 414 Squadron at RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario, coded "AQ*473". Part of this unit's team in the first Air Defense Command rocket meet, September 1957.
Mk. 4B / 5 / 5C
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Served with No. 419 and No. 440 Squadrons. Converted to Mk. 5C ECM trainer at Malton, Ontario by de Havilland Canada in 1964. With Electronic Warfare Unit and No. 414 (EW) Squadron at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ in the 1960s. Taken on charge by Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, but retained RCAF serial number. With No. 414 Sdn. when it crashed into farm house near St. John, PQ on 20 August 1968.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With no. 409 AW(F) Squadron at RCAF Station Comox, BC, late 1950s. With No. 3 AW(F) Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ in the early 1960s. Taken on charge by Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, but retained RCAF serial number.
Reported struck off, but transferred to CAF on 1 February 1968?
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Served with No. 445 Squadron, RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario. Took part in flying display for Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto, September 1956, basing out of RCAF Station Trenton. Operated by Central Experimental and Proving Establishment at CARDE, Val Cartier in Operation SPRINT (Sparrow Interception Trials) developing fire control system for Mk. 5M, c.1957. Converted to Mk. 5C ECM trainer at Malton, Ontario by de Havilland Canada in 1964. With Electronic Warfare Unit and No. 414 (EW) Squadron at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ in the 1960s. To CAF. Now preserved, wearing original RCAF serial number, at CFB Edmonton, Alberta.
Became CAF 100476.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 423 Squadron at time of crash.
Struck off, after crashing at Bedford, PQ on 4 December 1956.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 413 and No. 432 Squadrons. Also with No. 3 AW(F) Operational Training Unit.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With Electronic Warfare Unit at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ in the 1960s. Taken on charge by Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, but retained RCAF serial number.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 414, 433, and 440 Squadrons, dates unknown. With No. 3 AW(F) Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ in the early 1960s.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 416, 419, and 433 Squadrons, dates unknown. With Electronic Warfare Unit at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ in the 1960s.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 410 AW(F) Squadron at RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario, c. 1956 / 1961, coded "AN*483". Also with No. 416 and 428 Squadrons, dates unknown.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 3 AW(F) Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ in the early 1960s. Also with No. 414 Squadron, dates unknown.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 433 Squadron. Later became instructional airframe A688. Taken on charge by Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, but retained RCAF serial number.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With Electronic Warfare Unit at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ in the 1960s. also with No. 410, 432 and 433 Squadrons, dates unknown.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 409 AW(F) Squadron at RCAF Station Comox, BC, c.1957 / 1962.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With Electronic Warfare Unit at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ in the 1960s. Taken on strength by Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, but retained RCAF serial number. On display at Centennial Park, Moncton, New Brunswick.
Struck off (or classified as instructional airframe?)
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 410, 425 and 440 Squadrons.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Served with No. 428 AW(F) Squadron, RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario, in the 1950s. Served with No. 410, 419, and 432 Squadrons, dates unknown. Arrived at Hamilton, Ontario by rail car for scrapping on 27 October 1963.
Struck off, scrapped, see comments.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 413 Squadron from RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ. Detached to Sept-Isles, PQ on 13 and 14 October 1961 for Exercise Sky Shield. Also with No. 410, 416 and 433 Squadrons, dates unknown.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). To CAF. Converted to Mk. 5C ECM trainer at Malton, Ontario by de Havilland Canada in 1964. Used by Electronic Warfare Unit at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ. In storage at CFD Mountainview, Ontario in 1980, still with RCAF serial number? Reported to have 5244 hours airframe time when stored. Had been used in training film, "A Man for All Occurances".
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Delivered direct to Central Experimental and Proving Establishment at RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta in November 1955, for Operation Banana Belt - USAF funded durability testing at Cold Lake and Elgin AFB, Florida, leading up to US funding of CF-100 purchase for Belgium. Later served with No. 409, 419 and 433 Squadrons.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Delivered direct to Central Experimental and Proving Establishment at RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta in November 1955, for Operation Banana Belt - USAF funded durability testing at Cold Lake and Elgin AFB, Florida, leading up to US funding of CF-100 purchase for Belgium. Later served with No. 419, 425 and 433 Squadrons. Taken on strength by Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, but retained RCAF serial number.
Struck off, (or classified as instructional airframe?) later scrapped.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Delivered direct to Central Experimental and Proving Establishment at RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta in November 1955, for Operation Banana Belt - USAF funded durability testing at Cold Lake and Elgin AFB, Florida, leading up to US funding of CF-100 purchase for Belgium. With No. 3 AW(F) Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ in the early 1960s. Later with No. 413 and 428 Squadrons, and No. 3 AW(F) Operational Training Unit.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Served with No. 440 Squadron, RCAF Station Bagotville, PQ in 1956. Took part in Greenwood, NS airshow on 9 and 10 June 1956. Practice intercept of B-52 on 4 October 1956. Also with No. 425 Squadron, dates unknown.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). With No. 409 Squadron at RCAF Station Comox, BC at time of crash. Double flame out during night Ground Controlled Approach in bad weather. Both crew ejected, one survived, no trace of F/O McLaren.
Struck off, after crashing on 16 December 1958.
Converted to Mk. 5, date unknown (before delivery?). Served with No. 428 AW(F) Squadron, RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario, in the 1950s, coded "HG*500". Converted to Mk. 5C ECM trainer at Malton, Ontario by de Havilland Canada in 1964. With Electronic Warfare Unit and No. 414 (EW) Squadron at RCAF Station St. Hubert, PQ in the 1960s. To CAF.
Became CAF 100500
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Updated: Day of the Zune
By Dwight Silverman on September 14, 2006 at 7:10 AM
Is today the official unveiling of Microsoft's MP3 player, the unfortunately named Zune? [Update: Yes, indeed. See below.]
The Seattle Weekly, one of that city's alternative newsweeklies, says so:
"Wicked!" exclaims Richard Winn, as he stands on Seattle Center's Broad Street Lawn during Bumbershoot, expressing appreciation for the French band Nouvelle Vague. "That's weird. I got goose bumps." He pulls up the sleeve of his blue sweat jacket to prove it.
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On this breezy end-of-summer evening, though, Winn is here on behalf of his new employer, Microsoft. He's part of the team that, on Thursday, Sept. 14, plans to show the press the Redmond company's answer to Apple's fantastically popular iPod. Winn is head of artistic development for Microsoft's new device, dubbed Zune. His sortie is to integrate the device with the music scene, in part by promoting emerging artists, so he's been checking out music venues like mad since he moved to the area two and a half months ago.
Microsoft hopes that its emphasis on the music, rather than just the gadget, will help set Zune apart from its dominant rival. The company is also loading Zune with a 50 percent larger screen than current iPods, as well as wireless capabilities that will allow users to send their favorite songs to other users with devices in close proximity.
Shockwaves continue to reverberate after Tuesday's Apple hypefest — see this nice analysis at from John Gruber at Daring Fireball. While Mac zealots will offer their predictably dismissive one-liners about stealing ideas from Apple, etc., it will be interesting to see what kind of reaction the Zune receives from more objective observers of the consumer electronics space once all is revealed.
Update: Zune details are now out.
Zat's the Zune.
Here's a virtual Zune press room at Microsoft's site.
The specs are as expected: 30 GB of storage, WiFi support, 3-inch screen, an FM receiver. It plays music and video and shows pretty pictures and comes in three colors — black, white and brown.
As you'd think, the WiFi is the most interesting part. From Engadget:
As for ballyhoo, wireless Zune-to-Zune sharing is where the real action is at, and it works pretty much like we've been hearing: you can share a full-length track with a friend, and they've got three times to listen to it over a three day period, after which they can flag the song for purchase on the Zune Marketplace — unless they're an unlimited "Zune Pass" subscriber, of course. You can also share playlists and pictures with your buddies, along with what we suppose are "unprotected" homemade recordings. So far Microsoft isn't mentioning Live Anywhere functionality, but they do hint heavily at future software updates to take even better advantage of the wireless capabilities.
I'm still very wary of the Digital Rights Managment in Zune, but the ability to listen to full-length tracks from someone else's player provides a glimmer of hope. From Crunchgear:
It features 802.11 b/g wireless that allows users to send music to one another. You can actually send a file to another Zune user, but it will only be playable three times or stored for three days, whichever comes first. This applies to all songs. Even if you decide to make an MP3 of your cat mewling, even though it's your own intellectual property (or maybe your cat's if you're carrying a PETA card), it's still restricted by the Zune Rule of Three. It's not perfect, but I guess it's better than just being able to stream tracks.
Of course, you'll have to actually know someone who also has a Zune to share with them. That may be hard to find, at first.
No word yet on availability (other than before the holiday shopping season) or pricing.
My co-TechBlogger Jim Thompson will offer his thoughts later today. Stay tuned.
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Avery, a sports journalist for the Pasadena Citizen newspaper since 1990, has also received Houston Press Club awards in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2011. In 1997, Avery was presented with journalism awards in three categories - sports photography, sports column writing and sports writing from the Associated Press.
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Arnold Likely To Be Wooed For CEO Jobs
By Joann S. Lublin and Ellen Byron
In stepping down from a top post at Procter & Gamble Co. , Susan Arnold , a longtime trailblazer at the consumer-products giant, becomes a hot commodity for other major corporations in the market for a CEO.
Executive recruiters have for years tried to interest the 55-year-old P&G executive in taking the helm of another big company, where she would join the rarefied ranks of female chief executives.
Late last year, for instance, Walgreen Co. considered her during the first external CEO search in the drugstore chain's 108-year history, according to people familiar with the situation. But Ms. Arnold soon pulled out of the running for the Walgreen job, one informed individual said. A spokesman for Walgreen, which filled the vacancy with an insider, declined to comment on whether it approached Ms. Arnold.
Ms. Arnold wasn't available for comment.
She also previously showed interest in feelers from other consumer-goods companies, "but she always got yanked back by P&G," and was urged to stay put, another knowledgeable person said.
Following her exit from P&G in September, Ms. Arnold probably would accept the No. 1 spot only at a company that was "really big and really global," predicted Patricia Cook, owner of an executive-search boutique in Bronxville, N.Y. Among the big companies seeking a new leader are Sears Holdings Corp. , Playboy Enterprises Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc.
Under terms of her stock-options award, Ms. Arnold -- like other participants in the P&G options plan -- is bound by a noncompete agreement. It requires her to get written consent from the company before engaging in any activity that competes with it within three years of her departure, a P&G spokesman said.
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As head of P&G's global business units, a post she is relinquishing immediately, Ms. Arnold oversaw more than 300 brands, which yielded $83.5 billion in annual sales.
Colleagues describe Ms. Arnold -- who attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate and received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh -- as a hard-charging executive unafraid of taking on a fight. That trait has served her well as she has climbed the ladder at P&G. While running the global beauty business, she helped transform the Olay brand into a billion-dollar skin-care blockbuster.
But Ms. Arnold may surprise P&G watchers by not immediately pursuing a new management position. Ms. Arnold is among the most prominent gay executives in corporate America -- colleagues say she neither hides nor makes a point of her sexual orientation -- and she and her partner have a teenage son and daughter. "I think she'll take some time off," because "she really had wanted more time for family," one Arnold acquaintance suggested. "She doesn't need the money."
Ms. Arnold might pursue additional directorships, according to the acquaintance. The P&G executive joined the board of McDonald's Corp. last year and Walt Disney Co. the year before.
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PSNC reminds pharmacies to report drug quota issues
The PSNC has reminded pharmacy teams across the UK to report any difficulties drug quotas have caused them in sourcing medicines.
The negotiator says it has received more than 230 reports from contractors relating to over 60 drugs that have been affected by quotas from manufacturers or wholesalers since the launch of its reporting form in June.
The PSNC said the report had unearthed four main issues: problems with prescription validation processes; challenges with reduced wholesaler arrangement (RWA) distribution models; pharmacy teams spending significant time navigating quota allocation processes to get hold of individual products; and a few reports of quotas causing harm or risking harm to patients.
Almost half of the pharmacists who responded said they had failed to get hold of stock despite carrying out wholesaler or manufacturer-led prescription validation.
Nearly a third said quotas meant they were spending over two days trying to get hold of a drug.
"The quota arrangements that PSNC is receiving feedback on applies to a relatively small number of branded medicines only, ie, mainly those distributed by manufacturers and the three national wholesalers," HDA executive director Martin Sawer told Independent Community Pharmacist.
"The PSNC has shared all their feedback with HDA and we are actively working with PSNC and other pharmacy bodies to ensure and communicate better understandings throughout the supply chain on the need for quotas and the equitable management of the stocks available to distribute.
"HDA member companies, supported by other stakeholders, report to HDA that without quotas in place on a small selection of products, shortages and supply shocks would be far worse for pharmacists.
"For example, the very large number of wholesale dealers' licences in the UK (over 2,000) creates inequitable demand pressures on some of these products."
The PSNC said it is working with the Department of Health and Social Care, Healthcare Distribution Association, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and manufacturers to try and resolve the issue.
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Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin described the plot as "Islamic-inspired", saying four men had been arrested in a series of raids across Sydney on Saturday.
The men, whose ages have not been released and have not yet been charged by police, were arrested Saturday when armed police stormed homes in at least four neighbourhoods, including in the inner city.
"The primary threat to Australia still remains lone actors, but there's still the ability for people to have sophisticated plots and sophisticated attacks still remain a real threat," he told reporters Sunday.


Pain @ the base of 2nd & 3rd toes Left foot.
This started as I was walking on a golf course about 3 months ago.
1st podiatrist took an ex-ray, but didn't offer any explanation.
2nd podiatrist pointed out a what looks to be a bone chip lodged in the joint.
What is the best, least invasive procedure to remove the chip?
I would actually have to see the x-ray to really be able to give you a definitive treatment plan. In any event let me discuss the two possibilities.
The first would be where the bone chip is disengaged from the main bone, either the metatarsal head or the base of the toe bone (proximal phalanx).
If the bone chip is broken from either site but still partially attached then there is the possibility that the bone chip could heal itself back to the main portion of bone.
This would be accomplished by complete immobilization of the foot for at least six weeks, possibly longer depending on a number of factors such as your age, the density of the bone, whether or not you are a smoker, perhaps a diabetic or a few other medical issues that may preclude the bone from healing. If this is your situation then you could try complete immobilization with the knowledge that it might not work. That would be your best case scenario.
Your worst case scenario is one where the bone chip is totally disengaged from the bone and is sitting freely in the joint space. Its movement is acting as an irritant and thus is giving you pain when you walk.
In this situation your only logical treatment is removal of the bone chip.
As far as I know there is no arthroscopic procedures available for problems with the metatarsal-phalangeal joint, simply because the joint is too small.
would have to be opened, the bone chip identified and then removed.
Yes, it is an invasive procedure but in the grand scheme of things, this should be the worst surgery you ever have to face.
By that I mean it is not a terribly involved procedure. The actual procedure should take no more than twenty minutes and the recovery period would be relatively quick.
Since no bones are being remodeled (other than removal of a small chip) and no soft tissue is being removed (such as a ganglion), then there should be minimal restrictions put on you during recovery.
Sutures stay in for two weeks and so you will not be on the golf course during that time; in fact during that period until the sutures come out, your goal will be to keep the surgical site clean as potential infection is your biggest concern.
You will be able to walk and should not be on crutches. You will just have a dressing and a surgical shoe.
Since it is your left foot, it will not impact your ability to drive unless of course you have a clutch in your car.
The only thing that concerns me is whether you actually have a bone chip as the first podiatrist did not notice it.
You do not need a medical degree to understand what a bone chip is, so if the second podiatrist actually pointed it out to you, then you may assume it exists.
I think the best advice I can give you would be to get one more opinion from a local doctor in your area to confirm the presence of the bone chip. You certainly would not want to undergo surgery if a bone chip did not actually exist.
Comments for Pain @ the base of 2nd & 3rd toes Left foot.
An MRI confirmed the chip and we're planning surgery to remove it in about 3 weeks.


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Neon Lights, Large soda, and a handful of quarters...
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So lately I've been reminded of one of my life goals was that I wanted to one day build my own arcade for myself. Get all the games I grew up on and just have a fun little place devoted to letting me play through the classics and relieve the arcade scene I grew up in. I've been discussing this with friends as we try to create a list of the games we would add to the arcade. Of course there would be the classics like Galaga, Gauntlet, Pac-Man, Paperboy, Frogger, and Dig Dug but I also thought about some of my own personal favorites that really stuck with me and got me really invested in gaming such as the two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle arcade machines, the original Street Fighter II, Aliens Vs. Predator, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, X-Men, Super Puzzle Fighter, Street Fighter III, Darkstalkers, Virtual-On, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sengoku, World Heroes, Mystic Warriors, and maybe a few more.
Feeling nostalgic...
Tags: 80s, 90s, arcade, gaming, nostalgia
FFNut - 08-01-2015 04:50 PM
I had a room dedicated to video games when I was a little better off before everything went south and I was forced to sell my home. In it I didn't have an arcade but I had every system from the NES, to a Dreamcast, to the PS3 and an X-box 360. All had their own TV and I had a couple of Lazyboys un the muddle that swiveled to all of them. It was my games room which I loved and I can't wait to build it again too. I was looking at arcade as well but just didn't have the space yet.
Slothy - 08-01-2015 06:22 PM
Buying arcade cabinets can be pricey. But a more DIY solution (and maybe even more enjoyable if you're that sort of person) is to build your own cabinet(s) and have computers running MAME inside. You can even get into some crazy stuff like custom sticks, buttons, layouts. Decorate the outside with some classic arcade game artwork. Or even get a cab where the game no longer works on the cheap, gut it, and use it instead of making your own.
So many options. I may have thought about this a bit myself.
Wolf Kanno - 08-03-2015 05:59 AM
I don't know, part of me would prefer the original cabinets just because of nostalgia and to really give it that arcade feel. I may build my own if the game in question is too expensive or difficult to acquire but I would like to pretty much build an old school arcade.
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Inside Monsanto's Day in Court: Scientists Weigh in on Glyphosate's Cancer Risks
U.N. cancer scientists and Monsanto experts face off over the science surrounding the world's most widely used herbicide.
By Pam Strayer
Food Policy, HEALTH, Pesticides
Posted on: March 29, 2018 | 34 Comments
[Update: On August 10, the jury in Lee Johnson's trial awarded him $289.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages; Monsanto has said it plans to appeal the ruling.]
[Update: On June 10, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria allowed these trials to proceed to court, opening the door to hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto and its new parent company, Bayer, arguing that exposure to weedkiller glyphosate caused their cancers.]
Lee Johnson, a 46-year-old resident of Vallejo, California developed a severe skin rash in 2014, two years after he started spraying Roundup as part of his groundskeeping job at the Benicia Unified School District. "He read the label on the container," says his lawyer, Timothy Litzenburg, "and he followed all the safety instructions, which were written by Monsanto."
The rash turned into an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Doctors estimate Johnson has six months left to live; he will leave behind a wife and two children. His is one of 2,400 lawsuits filed against Monsanto by cancer victims in courts across the country, and Johnson's case is the first one scheduled for a jury trial.
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These victims are suing to hold Monsanto accountable, claiming that glyphosate, the listed, active ingredient in its popular herbicide Roundup, caused their non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
"About half of [our firm's] cases are from people who sprayed Roundup for school districts or parks, while the others are from people who sprayed it around their homes," Litzenburg said. Another law firm, representing around 600 plaintiffs, described their clients as consisting of roughly 60 percent residential glyphosate users, 10 percent school and park groundskeepers, and 30 percent orchard owners and farmers.
Plaintiffs are seeking monetary settlements in jury trials that could potentially amount to billions of dollars—settlements that could zero out the $2.8 billion in revenue Monsanto expects to make from Roundup this year alone. With more than 276 million pounds of glyphosate used in 2014 on farms, business, schools, parks and homes around the world, the stakes are high.
The lawsuits raise the question of whether the courts can accomplish what U.S. regulators have not: control or accountability over glyphosate, a chemical that international authorities in the U.N.'s top cancer group have deemed a probable carcinogen.
Earlier this month in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria began the process of determining whether or not scientific experts in these trials are using sound methods to reach their conclusions, and which experts can be called to the stand during upcoming federal trials.
Field test-spraying of glyphosate. (Photo credit: Boasiedu)
The 2,000 cases pending in state courts are not subject to Chhabria's gatekeeping decisions and are already proceeding with the first case—Johnson's—which is scheduled to begin in June.
To rule on the validity of the scientists and science, Chhabria heard from the 10 experts attorneys brought forward for the cancer-victim plaintiffs and for Monsanto in evidentiary hearings. He dubbed the Daubert hearings "Science Week," and they served as his crash course on how world-class experts conduct cancer risk assessment.
"The judge's role in a Daubert hearing is to find out if any of the evidence shouldn't be presented to a jury because it lacks validity," said Dr. Steven N. Goodman, an outside observer who is the Chief of Epidemiology for Health Research and Policy at Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Goodman also been an instructor in judicial education courses on Daubert hearings.
Plaintiffs' attorney Michael Baum agreed. "It's supposed to keep 'Ouiji board' science out of the courtroom," he said.
Good Data, Bad Data? IARC's Experts vs. Monsanto's Scientists
Daubert hearings permit both sides to present science, and in most cases, the lawyers present the scientists and studies that support their side of the argument. The scientists who testified under oath and on camera were experts in toxicology, animal studies, biostatistics, and epidemiology—all disciplines involved in cancer risk assessment.
The hearings marked the first time that Monsanto scientists faced off in court against three top scientists who had served on the U.N.'s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which in 2015 labeled glyphosate as a probable carcinogen. It was also the first time the three U.N. scientists had spoken in detail about the data and analysis underlying their decision.
Testifying for the plaintiffs, Dr. Charles William Jameson, an animal toxicology expert retired from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health, explained how scientists work together to consider the totality of the evidence published in peer-reviewed studies. Animal studies come first. If rodent studies show evidence of carcinogenicity, scientists turn to studies of human populations to see if humans in the real world—at real-world exposure levels—are similarly affected.
Jameson told the court that IARC benefited from what he said was an "extraordinarily high amount of animal study data" on glyphosate and that animal studies consistently showed that glyphosate causes cancer.
After listing a dozen studies showing replication of different cancers in mice and rats, Jameson concluded, "It is my opinion that exposure to glyphosate not only can cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma [in humans], but it is currently doing so, at current exposure levels today."
Farm tractory spraying crops. (Photo credit: hpgruesen)
Another of the plaintiffs' expert witnesses, Dr. Chadi Nabhan, an oncologist and medical director for Cardinal Health in Chicago, testified to the conservative nature of IARC's history of labeling compounds as carcinogenic.
First of all, Nabhan said, there are barriers to getting IARC to even undertake an analysis. "You have to prove that there is enough human exposure to get IARC's interest, and that there's enough animal data," he said. Over IARC's 53-year history, he said the group had considered 1,003 compounds and found only 20 percent of them to be either carcinogenic or probable carcinogens.
"I firmly believe in the conclusions of the IARC, and that actually makes a huge difference for us as clinicians," Nabhan said, adding that he tells his patients not to use Roundup and glyphosate. "These are modifiable risk factors," he said.
Monsanto has vigorously opposed IARC's ruling, spending millions of dollars on a wide-ranging campaign to discredit these scientists as well as IARC itself, calling its methodology "junk science."
Monsanto's experts, who specialized in biostatistics, veterinary medicine, and prostate cancer, challenged the validity of the plaintiffs' experts' data and studies and presented their own views of the data as well as conflicting research.
Animal studies expert Dr. Thomas Rosol, an Ohio University veterinary medicine professor, for instance, challenged the widely held scientific concept of biological plausibility, which assumes a substance found to be carcinogenic in mice should also be presumed to cause cancer in humans, citing one instance where a new drug that caused cancer in mice did not cause cancer in humans.
Dr. Lorelei Mucci, an associate professor at Harvard whose research focuses on prostate cancer, relied heavily on a 2017 paper that analyzed data from a long-term study of 90,000 commercial pesticide applicators, farmers, and farmers' spouses from Iowa and North Carolina and found no relationship between glyphosate exposure and cancer. The plaintiffs' epidemiology experts, in response, highlighted the flaws they observed in that study, pointing instead to multiple studies that showed an association between glyphosate and an increased risk of getting non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
This kind of back-and-forth, with each side presenting data that supports its point of view, is common in Daubert hearings, said Stanford's Goodman. "It's very hard for a judge to understand in the adversarial context what are legitimate criticisms and what aren't," he said. "And then often what happens is minor or moderate disagreements or uncertainties are blown up or magnified to make the really big distinctions just seem like differing judgments."
He added that, while scientists can "clearly tell the difference between reasonable scientific differences and unreasonable scientific differences," judges often cannot. But, he cautioned, the judge's role in such hearings is not to decide the case itself, but to allow a jury to hear from all of the expert scientists who meet professional standards.
At the end of Science Week, Chhabria shared what he had learned from it—both as his first Daubert hearing as well as a crash course in cancer risk assessment. A week later, Chhabria invited two of the plaintiffs' experts back for further questioning. While he felt confident that the science shows that glyphosate causes cancer in animals, he said, the epidemiological conclusions were not as clear.
"My biggest takeaway is that epidemiology is a loosey-goosey science and that it is highly subjective," said Chhabria, adding that he found the population health study evidence on the plaintiffs' side to be "pretty sparse."
Chhabria said, "I have a difficult time understanding how an epidemiologist could conclude … that glyphosate is in fact causing non-Hodgkin lymphoma in human beings…. But I also question whether anyone could legitimately conclude that glyphosate is not causing non-Hodgkin lymphoma in human beings."
Whatever the judge's beliefs may be, Chhabria noted that they are outside his purview within a Daubert hearing. "My role is to decide whether the opinions offered by the plaintiffs' experts are within the range of reasonableness," Chhabria said. "And the courts tell us that even a shaky opinion can be admissible because … that expert will then be subject to cross-examination. And the jury will get to hear all of the evidence, and decide who's right and who's wrong."
Corn seed genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate spray. (Photo credit: Orin Hargraves)
Ricardo Salvador, a senior scientist and director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said it's hard for a non-scientist to assess the validity of epidemiological studies. "I think that epidemiology is being held to standards here that it cannot possibly meet because it's an observational science," he told Civil Eats. "The precision of the measurements are not going to be like controlled studies and lab bench work."
Epidemiology, he explained, "is the tool that we have to detect signals at the population level. And when then a signal turns out to be something like non-Hodgkin lymphoma, there's a public interest reason why we should pursue potential triggers or causes of that sort of epidemiology."
Stanford's Goodman notes that Daubert hearings require a judge to be willing to do "a lot of reading and homework outside the courtroom." Since so much of what is said in the court is part of the arguments, he added, "The lawyers can always make little disagreements sound big, and sometimes big disagreements sound small."
For instance, at the end of the oral arguments, Monsanto's attorneys summed up the proceedings and told the judge that the plaintiffs' experts had not used adjusted odds ratios in some of their calculations. The plaintiffs' attorneys countered by citing the precise instances where their experts had used the proper methodology.
The tactic illustrates what Goodman says is one often used in Daubert hearings. "If a judge is not anchored by something outside of what he hears in the courtroom," he said, "it's going to be very hard—they're trying to throw sand in his eyes. And it's very, very difficult to see."
Meanwhile, Michael Baum, an attorney for some of the plaintiffs, said that the Monsanto Papers—emails and internal memos received from Monsanto as part of the discovery process of these trials, and which revealed the company's efforts to discredit IARC and mainstream science—had already made waves elsewhere in the world.
"It's like the Wizard of Oz," Baum said. "When you pull back the curtain, and when we sent all this evidence to E.U. decision makers, regulators, and legislators, they started seeing they've been fooled. Decision makers are starting to make different decisions."
The E.U. voted in 2017 to limit glyphosate's license renewal for a period of only five years, and many European countries have announced plans to end its use within three years. "Countries like France and Italy and Austria are saying … 'we're not waiting three to five years, we're moving as soon as there is a viable alternative,'" Baum added.
Salvador cautioned that the process works differently in the U.S. In Europe, "the default is to be precautionary, so that the interest of the public, and public well-being and health are paramount," he said. "In the United States, the worldview is that the interests of industry and their right to make a profit are dominant … which is very convenient for folks that profit from spewing chemicals into the environment."
Chhabria last week scheduled followup hearings April 4-6 for more in-depth questioning of two of the plaintiff's experts on their epidemiological conclusions. He is expected to rule in May about scientific evidence and experts permissible in federal cases. Meanwhile, lawsuits against Monsanto in state courts are set to start in June.
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Tont Davies
You failed to mention that the main Plaintiff expert was a university professor who was heavily quizzed by the judge and defendant attorney for why she contradicted her our deposition testimony and that she didn't use scientific methods to assess the risk. For example she ignored the data that said there was no cancer effect and she said she likes to analyze the data many different ways to find an effect. This is not sound science. There are an infinite number of ways to analyze data and if it shows an effect that is not statistically significant it is not real.
pam strayer
Tont,
First of all, because you refer to the "main Plaintiff expert" as a "she," I guess you are referring to Dr. Beatrice Ritz, from UCLA, who was the only woman expert for the plaintiffs. (The other woman expert -Dr. Lorele Mucci - testified for the defendants.
I'd love to hear more about your scientific interests, but since a Google search of your name only brings up an anti-organic comment on a website from a few years ago, it's hard to know who you really are excpet that you have a lot of comments on your Disqus ID. So it would be great to know more about your degrees and your studies that have led you to the conclusions you've posted - i.e. "she didn't use scientific methods to assess the risk." That is a serious accusation to make and one that is hard to understand given that Dr. Ritz is a leading authority in her field.
You may disagree with her conclusions, but she has based them on sound science. Scientists often debate, which is a process that leads them to explore the data in greater depth. Scientific debate is a valuable pursuit.
Here is Dr. Ritz's professional profile from the UCLA web site:
https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/ritz
I wonder why you would choose to single out Dr. Ritz from the other experts among the five days of testimony. Perhaps you can share more about what in particular you disagreed with in her testimony.
ralph a. applegate
How can anyone comment on or before March 30, 2018 . None of those opinions are fit because none have stated any basis for them and those study opinions stated no basis in 1st instance . Ritz has ignored my inquiry of her .
Mary Mangan
I was kind of impressed with the judge when reading his comments on the hearing. He was definitely attentive and sharp. But I think you missed one of the key things he said.
"The Court [Judge Chhabria]: Does the IARC's conclusion that glyphosate is a probably carcinogen, you know, get the plaintiffs where they need to go?
Answer: No."
So I think that's a problem for people who thought they were gonna coast on the IARC.
The judge's comments on IARC are very curious. Again, he is not called upon in this situation to evaluate the outcome of the case and the various strengths and weaknesses of the attorneys' arguments posed by both sides. He may however express an opinion but it is not his role to decide the cases. He is a gatekeeper for the scientific evidence, but it does not necessarily mean that the IARC ruling will not inform juries. All of the evidence underlying the IARC scientists' study and evaluation remains and each IARC expert looked at that data and evidence long before the IARC meeting was convened and came to their own conclusions.
As the judge says, it is his job to rule on, "whether the opinions offered by the plaintiffs' experts are within the range of reasonableness."
I'm familiar with the science. And when the IARC report came out, I know a lot of scientists were perplexed at how they managed to avoid relevant studies and misuse other ones.
What I'm saying is that people outside the glyphohate litigation bubble are finally running into people who are not buying the unfounded claims and handwaving. In the echo chamber it sounds good as y'all slap each other on the back, but when people take an actual look at the weakness of the IARC conclusions it unravels. It's clear they thought they could coast on IARC, and that's not the way it's working out.
Merle Noll
Mary sounds like she works for Monsanto or their legal team. Which is it?
Chrystal Hewitt
is Round-up the reason wild life is dying off at alarming rates. Things did start dying off around the same time Round-up was introduced. Could the court, prosecute Monsanto's board of directors, or anyone at the company, if the courts finds they knew round-up caused cancer produced and sold it anyway?
Yes, to all.
Brian Hayes
You fail to mention that the IARC is the only agency to find a cancer risk with glyphosate, and that their process in making that finding is under question from many sources for being neither open, transparent, nor scientifically sound. In fact there is evidence of potential fraud. Failure to report on the controversy on the IARC finding is a failure of journalistic responsibility.
IARC is not the only agency to find a cancer risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The EPA did so in 1983 and numerous studies since then have also found links between Roundup and glyphosate and NHL The animal studies are incontrovertible, and no agency has disputed them.
IARC is one of many scientific groups, but IARC is the gold standard. It is removed from the politics that regulators are subjected to. The three IARC members from the U.S. who testified are all former heads of U.S. government health agencies with credentials that are impeccable.
In addition to IARC, more than 166 scientists signed a consensus agreement in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health attesting to the soundness of the IARC classification, which you can find here:
"The IARC WG carefully and thoroughly evaluated all available epidemiology data, considering the strengths and weaknesses of each study. This is key to determining that the positive associations seen in the case–control studies are a reliable indication of an association and not simply due to chance or methodological flaws. To provide a reasonable interpretation of the findings, an evaluation needs to properly weight studies according to quality rather than simply count the number of positives and negatives. The two meta-analyses cited in the IARC Monograph11 are excellent examples of objective evaluations and show a consistent positive association between glyphosate and NHL."
In Europe, top scientists have questioned EFSA's failure to see the link. They say EFSA did not follow EFSA's own guidelines. You can find this 2018 article published in the same scientific journal Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health here:
http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2018/03/06/jech-2017-209776
"....[EFSA] not classifying glyphosate as a carcinogen by the European authorities, including the European Chemicals Agency, appears to be not consistent with, and in some instances, a direct violation of the applicable guidance and guideline documents...proper application of statistical methods and WoE criteria inevitably leads to the conclusion that glyphosate is 'probably carcinogenic' (corresponding to category 1B in the European Union)."
I hope you will read these papers and learn more about the breadth of evidence.
Karen Leclaire
Epidemiology, while constantly pointed out as hearsay evidence, is the only basis to start investigations.
If we do not notice trends and begin to investigate what the causality is of those trends, we bypass all aspects of science that have allowed us to advance in medicine and technology over the last one thousand years.
Epidemiology is the beginning of the search for truth.
Howard Stone
Great article, well written and full of relevant content.
May the great Monsanto fall and organics working with the earth rise.
Thanks for the update...
H Stone, New Zealand
Linda Chapley
Great information about the background and challenges ahead. With such widespread use on yards, public spaces and food, we're all affected and should have more articles like this. Thank you for publishing.
Dennis blake
Saturday, March 31st, 2018
Worked for the parks Department of a fairly large city sprayed gallons of this stuff Round Up, once my Backpack sprayer sprung a leak Round up went down our back down or butt Developed a rash so far no Ill affects thank God.
Get a biopsy. The rash is the Cancer.
They got's to pay!
Merle Noll ,proof is in what happened to blood of all 8000 plaintiff's , and now there are 150 more plaintiff's that could be asked and who could answer what their diagnosis IgM was , we have not yet heard what Dewayne Lee Johnson's diagnosis IgM was , and it should be telling ! Dewayne Lee Johnson's exposure seems to have been an average consecutive 2.5 days per week, which was less than my 7 days .
What's Right is Right!
Our Earth is NOT Going to be mismanaged as they employ GREED. This is a subtle from of chemical warfare. Knowing you are causing death thru sickness is STILL
murder! How Pleasant could Your Dreams Be Monsanto? We All are Subject to the Supreme Court! How will YOU be Judged? The Pope should read Psalms 37 to the World or would He Also be KILLED!
"He is going to bring to ruin those ruining the Earth!" Revelation 11:18 It is TOO LATE for EVIL! jw.org
Matthew Churney
Monsanto has people in every area of government influencing policy, because if they didn't, their known history of producing poisons like Agent Orange & DDT & other nefarious products like Roundup would weigh in on removing their role in tainting our food supplies. The fact that President Obama appointed a former Monsanto employee to head up the FDA is conclusive proof of complicity & conflict of interest between corporations & government. This alone should be enough of a cautionary aside to allow for judgment in favor of the plaintiffs & for banning glysophate from use & marching Monsanto moles out of all corners of government.
Wendu
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Thank you for putting this info out there!!! People need to wake up and be aware of what is happening to our beautiful environment, and our health!!
BOB W
Some us people out here know whats going on with our environment!! Dow and Monsanto know also however they are blinded by $$ they want it for their pockets saying nothing is wrong with roundup, believe that one I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge!! Our dept of defence (dod) belived them during Bietnam both companies said: It wont harm the troops in the field" guess what -- Wrong !!!!
it sounds as if this glyphosate is a "relative" of agent orange giving cancer to people that use "roundup" even after reading all the directions and wearing safety clothing /equipment this sounds very familiar with Monsanto having their hands in a "weed killer"
I have been trying for 7 months to reveal truth about how Roundup causes NHL , and no one is listening . Most of these study scientists have been getting more and more stupid ! NHL is not caused by glyphosate unless polyethoxylated tallow amine is an aide to glyphosate , and it could be because P.O.E.A -15 is many more times toxic than glyphosate alone , says Ceralinii , who because he is a biologist , he can not discuss how what happens to blood is what proves Roundup caused my Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia .
Dr. John Gardiner
Salvador's comments in the penultimate paragraph expose the underlying difference between the EU's precautionary approach that protects its citizens, and the US approach that emphasizes industry and 'profit' that externalizes the social and environmental costs. The EU tries for all-round sustainability and the US does not, which is why the world is doomed unless the EU approach prevails somehow. It's now clear to anyone who has an open mind that the corporate for-profit game is over
A really useful review of the science behind the decision. Article could have been more explicit about the democratic function of juries, which has led to their historic role in upending many incorrect rules by governments.
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Despite protests from animal rights activists, tens of thousands of animals are being slaughtered in Gadhimai
In line with the Supreme Court's order to work towards eliminating animal sacrifice, the temple has decided to stop sacrificing pigeons.
Several thousand animals, mostly buffaloes, await sacrifice at the Gadhimai festival every five years. Post File Photo
Laxmi Sah
Published at : December 2, 2019
Updated at : December 2, 2019 20:20
On the premises of the Gadhimai Temple, a massive slaughterhouse sprawls across 26 ropanis of land. On Tuesday, within this structure, over 30,000 animals will be sacrificed, its floors running red with blood.
The slaughterhouse currently houses 3,000 buffaloes, guarded by police and a wire fence. Half-a-dozen of the animals that were left out in the open have already died due to the cold while many others are sick and have been plied with medicine. Journalists and the public are not allowed to enter or take photos.
Five years ago, after vocal protests from animal rights activists, numerous reports in the media had said that the Gadhimai Temple had banned all animal sacrifice. But the herd of buffaloes awaiting sacrifice at the slaughterhouse says otherwise.
"We didn't ask people to bring their animals to slaughter," said Ramchandra Sah Teli, chair of Gadhimai Temple Management Committee. "They came on their own. After all, it's a tradition that they have adhered to and it is what makes the festival so popular. We do not support the mass slaughter nor do we oppose it."
The festival, which takes place every five years in honour of the goddess of power Gadhimai, is attended by millions of people from across Nepal and India. As of Monday, thousands had already arrived at the temple premises with their sacrificial animals.
"I have great respect for goddess Gadhimai," said Bishwanath Kalawar from Motihari in India. "We provide our offering happily. It is our choice."
Sacrificing animals, including buffaloes, goats, chickens, ducks and pigeons, has been a longstanding feature of the festival. According to Mangal Chaudhary, the main priest at the temple, the auspicious date to sacrifice buffaloes is Tuesday, and Wednesday for other animals.
"Despite campaigns by animal rights activists, the number of visitors has not declined," 67-year-old Chaudhary, who expects about five million pilgrims this year. The committee expects over 30,000 animals will be sacrificed this year.
Gadhimai is located in Bariyapur, six kilometres north of Bara's headquarters Kalaiya. The site has two small, nondescript temples sitting by the banks of the Pasaha River. There's a pond on the temple premises, flanked by paddy fields, and there are two dharmashalas.
But every five years, this quiet space comes alive with pilgrims and animals. Food stalls and entertainers spring up overnight. There are even mini-circuses. For many, the mass slaughter is what gives the festival its 'glory'. But since 2009, there has been increasing pressure on the temple authorities to ban the wanton animal sacrifice.
In anticipation of protests, security has been intensified, with a total of 1,500 security personnel deployed to the area. There are 70 closed-circuit cameras and security along the Nepal-India border has also been tightened.
"We are being especially careful about the security of pilgrims," said Superintendent Bikash Raj Khanal.
A slaughterhouse in Bara houses 3,000 buffaloes, including this one. Photo Courtesy: FAWN
In August 2016, the Supreme Court, responding to a petition filed against the mass slaughter, had issued an order to the government to stop animal sacrifices at Gadhimai fair. The Gadhimai Five-yearly Festival Main Committee has said that it will follow the court's orders and has decided not to kill any pigeons.
"We have decided not to sacrifice pigeons since they are believed to be signs of peace," said Naresh Shah, committee coordinator. There's also an age criteria for sacrificial buffaloes—younger animals will not be sacrificed, according to the committee.
The District Animal Office and Animal Quarantine Office, which works towards safeguarding the country from infectious animal diseases, have jointly launched a campaign to spread awareness about the communicable diseases that animals carry. There are also no proper roads, electricity, parking, drinking water, dumping site and latrine facilities, increasing the chances of diseases spreading.
"These campaigns have inspired us to protect animals. We are starting with pigeons," said coordinator Sah.
But despite protests, the mass slaughter is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday. The slaughter will proceed after sacrificing seven animals—mice, pigeons, chickens, ducks, pigs, and buffaloes. In the last iteration of the festival, an estimated 10,000 buffaloes were slaughtered, along with thousands of other animals.
In the past, Chamar communities from the Gadhimai area consumed the sacrificed animals and traded their meat. Unlike other Hindu rituals, the slaughtered animals are not taken home by their sacrificers. This year, however, a section of Chamars has planned to boycott the festival.
"Firstly, carcasses are not good for health. They have made many of us sick previously," said Raj Narayan Mahara Chamar, secretary of the boycott committee. "It's also a subject associated with the prestige of our community. Many look down upon us because we trade the sacrificed meat. The Festival Committee can manage the carcass."
According to Chamar, they will only be accepting vegetables, coconut, sweets and tika as the festival's prasad this year, not the meat.
Meanwhile, the Animal Welfare Foundation, an animal rights organisation, has also launched a campaign against sacrifice at the festival. But the campaign has not really taken off, said Sneha Shrestha, chair of the foundation.
"In Nepal, we don't have an act about animal welfare. We demand that the government introduce laws towards animal welfare," Shrestha said. "Sacrificing animals is superstitious. Where in the religious text is it written that gods and goddesses want dead animals?"
Legend has it that in the 17th century, one Bhagvandas Tharu was jailed in Makwanpur for murder. Tharu prayed to Gadhimai goddess, who promised to free him if he would take her to Bariyapur, the site of the festival. The festival, according to priest Chaudhary, then started by Tharu in honour of the goddess.
But according to Shrestha, sacrificing animals cannot always be defended as being a part of the tradition.
"There once was a sati system, which has now been abolished," she said. "Animal slaughter should also be abolished, like the sati. The gods won't be happy if innocent animals are killed."
Laxmi Sah is the Bara correspondent for Kantipur Media Group.


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M.D. of Taber hoping for further MELT clarifications
By Cole Parkinson
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Municipal District of Taber council is hoping to get a better understanding of the Mandatory Entry-Level Training (MELT) program as the exemption for ag drivers officially expired last month.
The MELT program requires 113 hours of training, including classroom and on-road time for Class 1 (tractor-trailer) learner licence holders and Class 2 (bus) licensing, which is for 50 hours of training and any drivers that have had a full Class 1 licence for less than one year, are required to complete the program to obtain that class of licence again. During council's regular meeting Feb. 23, councillors once again discussed the program and the effects it could have in the municipality.
"The exemption for ag drivers comes off on (Feb. 28). We're definitely in a time crunch here and the province doesn't seem to be moving on this," said Coun. John Turcato. "We're going to be in a real pickle here come spring and fall because I know of a number of people that can't even get in to get their tests done. So with the backlog, I'm surprised they haven't extended this and I think it's imperative upon them to do that. It needs to be extended to allow for the ones in the system to get tested. There's a number of them who completed it and now as soon as that exemption comes off, they now have to get the $10,000 fee to get their licence. Some of them already received all of their training, but that would be gone and now they're just waiting for tests."
For a Class 1 licence, 40.5 hours of the MELT program is designated for classroom time, 15.5 hours for yard training and 57 hours of practical training. The Alberta government did introduce a cap of $10,000\ for the Class 1 MELT program and the exemption only applied to Class 1 drivers that only operate for farming use, and only upon a review of the drivers' history.
"I've known some people with this and they passed the original and then they do the MELT program. It sounds like it's a completely different ball game once they start to do the MELT testing," stated Coun. Leavitt Howg. "I think there needs to be almost a difference between commercial driving and the ag driving type thing when it comes to logbooks and things of that nature. When you have to do your minimum of 100 hours of testing for driving and book work, it's different. A lot of people will know how to drive the truck, but maybe not the interpreting, reading and writing and just doing tests, in general, that way. If there was like a weekend course, like there is for first aid, for the written version of this MELT program. But for someone to first spend $10,000 for the testing plus more than likely have to take time off work for that too, it gets pretty pricey to do that. There's a way of doing this."
In order to get some clarification on how the province is going to move forward with this, a suggestion was made to invite some MLAs to attend a meeting virtually.
"Maybe we should take a different approach to this. Maybe we should invite Minister (Ric) McIver and transportation down, and invite our local commodity groups to a Zoom meeting or something to have a conversation. From what I'm hearing, he's telling people he hasn't heard many concerns, so he doesn't think it's an issue. Maybe we need to address that. There are concerns," said Coun. Brian Brewin.
Turcato once again stated his desire to see a resolution soon instead of in the middle of harvest.
"I understand why this came out, but think it's become very challenging and I think we're going to have huge problems in the future here, there's no question. This needs to be addressed sooner than later," he said.
"I also think we're at a disadvantage that we live in an area with irrigation and the amount of product coming off per acre is a lot higher than other areas. We've got four or five times as much trucks coming off per acre. The need is greater," added Brewin.
"I think we should probably work with the local ASBG (Alberta Sugar Beet Growers), PGA (Potato Growers of Alberta) rather than duplicate what they are trying to do," suggested Reeve Merrill Harris.
A motion to work with local groups and to get a meeting with Minister McIver to discuss the MELT program was carried unanimously.


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Soldiers and others who served in Afghanistan for more than a decade have been officially welcomed home in parades across Australia on Saturday.
From late 2001 to the end of last year, about 35,000 defence personnel, officials, police and diplomats served in what was called Operation Slipper.
That was Australia's contribution to the conflict in Afghanistan, launched after the 11 September 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
Forty-one Australians died in Afghanistan during this mission.
Marches and ceremonies for serving personnel and veterans were held in Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Sydney.
Troops at the Victorian welcome home parade on Saturday. Photograph: Angus Livingstone/AAP
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, had encouraged people to get out and show their support to make sure Australia's Afghanistan veterans don't return "unloved and unappreciated" as did some Vietnam veterans.
"We've had almost 35,000 Australian personnel, mostly armed forces personnel serve in Afghanistan and it's important that that service, over a decade in our longest war, is properly saluted," the prime minister told Macquarie radio on Friday.
Speaking on Saturday, Abbott thanked Australian defence personnel and others who served in Afghanistan.
In an address at the welcome home ceremony in Canberra, the prime minister said Afghanistan was a better place for the service of about 35,000 Australians.
He said the war in Afghanistan had ended not with victory or with defeat, but with hope for a better Afghanistan and a safer world.
"We are grateful to have you home, we acknowledge your achievements, and we thank you for your service," he told the large gathering at the Australian War Memorial.
Australian defence force personnel who served in Afghanistan as a part of Operation Slipper are officially welcomed home in a parade in Canberra. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said he saluted those who had served in Afghanistan who had brought new honour to the Anzac tradition.
More than 2000 soldiers, sailors and airmen plus members of government agencies and veterans marched past the Australian War Memorial.
Defence head Air Chief Marshal Mark Binksin said Australian personnel had given new hope to the people of Afghanistan. "We can never repay the debt of those who served," he said.
Thousands of returned ADF personnel marched through central Sydney, too.
Proudly dressed in their military uniforms, many with medals pinned to their chests, the servicemen and women made their way down George Street, cheered on by hundreds of spectators.
The parade finished at Hyde Park, where the commemorative ceremony was held at the Anzac Memorial at 11.30am.
Earlier, one of Australia's highest ranking military officers described the march as a "fantastic" opportunity to recognise the work of the nation's defence force.
Vice-Admiral Ray Griggs said the event gave many more Australians the chance "to acknowledge the contribution" of those who had served in the Middle East.
He also touched on the issue of mental health of soldiers returned from the conflict zone.
"The whole mental health issue is one that is hugely important, we've put an enormous amount of effort into that over the last few years," he told reporters.
A Royal Australian Navy sailor and his partner listen to The Last Post during the Canberra ceremony. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Families of soldiers who died in Afghanistan gathered at the Melbourne parade to welcome home troops returning from the war.
More than 1400 defence personnel marched down St Kilda Road to a ceremony at the Shrine of Remembrance.
Philomena Wolahan, whose son served in Afghanistan, said it was important to say thank you to the troops who served overseas and their families.
"Particularly to support the families who have lost members. I think that's one of the most important things today, to be here for them," Wolahan said on Saturday.
"Because we're very lucky that we have some of our sons and daughters, but a lot of them here today don't. So we're here to support them mainly."
Henry Polis, who was conscripted into the Vietnam War, said he was there to see the troops receive public recognition.
"Which is the sort of thing we did not get when we came back from an unpopular war," he said.
Polis said those who served in Afghanistan deserved to know their country respected the risks they took.
The defence minister, Kevin Andrews, praised the members of the ADF, Australian federal police and other government agencies for their service in Afghanistan.
"Australia has also felt deep sorrow for the 41 soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice," Andrews said.
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The Writer's Ego
The Egoic Beast lives, not so silently, in every writer's mind.
Authors who endure are passionate "Word-Smithers" and "World-Builders" juxtaposing their products between the voluminous choices prepared for world consumption. Here the Ego finds its home.
Urged to feed the beast, and under the guise of searching for helpful comments, I recently asked a relative, to review something I'd completed. What I wanted was unsolicited praise.
"You did a great job!"
"Definitely an improvement."
"You had me at…"
The individual did precisely as requested. Studiously pouring over each line, they searched for errors. I took solace upon discovering only a few red marks on the pages, but the scene was returned with the uninterrupted chirp of crickets. A few moments later came their only query:
"Is that what you expected?"
"Yes. Thank you," I replied.
My Ego screamed, "NO!!!!"
What did the mute response mean to me? It meant they didn't care for my work. It was another "meh" piece of manuscript dutifully considered.
My mother-in-law once told my husband that "if you don't want to know, don't ask." Wise words – so I decided not to probe either for the reassurance, or for the ugly truth I feared.
The incident was a stark reminder of the strong and silent partner that sits within us at the keyboard. Do I continue to write, despite the silence that surrounds me? Art has its critics and fans. Neither dictate an author's passion for expression. And so, today I push forward once more hoping the words I produce will bring pleasure to someone, somewhere...
"Trunking" a Book
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Lisa Vanderpump Still 'Grieving' Brother 1 Year After His Death & Wants To 'Honor' His 'Legacy'
Lisa Vanderpump can't believe it's been a year since her late brother Mark Vanderpump's tragic passing from suicide at the age of 59, and she's hoping to use his life to help others struggling through hard times.
Lisa Vanderpump, 58, still has raw feelings after the shocking suicide death of her brother Mark Vanderpump at the age of 59, and even though Apr. 30 makes it a year since his passing, she's allowing herself to patiently work through her emotions day by day and she's making sure his legacy is and stays strong.
"Lisa really can't believe that it's been a year since she lost her brother," a source close to Lisa EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife. "It seems like it was just yesterday she found out the horrible news of her only brother taking his life. Lisa took the news like anyone would and was at a complete loss and very devastated and sad trying to reason and figure it all out. She really was close to her brother and she misses him immensely and is going to take today to think about him and honor his life and remember all the good times. Its the least she can do."
"She is going to take a lot of her grieving and leave it behind closed doors though because she doesn't want to exploit it," the source continued. "Every day since he passed she has been able to take a moment and think of him. Today will be no different as she will put everything to the forefront once again being that it's the anniversary. She is going to miss him forever, she will mourn the loss every year the same. Years from now it still will be hard. You can never really change the outcome of your feelings with situations like this and she would like nothing more than to have her brother still be alive but now that he is gone she wants to honor him and help anyone out that might be in trouble."
Lisa's plans for helping others will most likely include sharing Mark's story as a way to prevent people from doing what he did, and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star is already thinking about how she could make it all happen. "Lisa wants her brother to have a legacy, so she is looking to do something eventually in his honor, something special," the source explained. "Whether that is in a charity fashion is still being determined. She is still feeling the impact of the loss, today is going to be rough but it will eventually get better somehow. Time is her friend and she is going to be in her own feelings today. She expects tears but she expects smiles while remembering Mark, it's a grab bag of emotions that Lisa has to go through to heal and she is ready to take on everything that comes to her today."
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee drew rare criticism from Israel on Tuesday for comments in which he accused President Barack Obama of marching Israelis "to the door of the oven" in a nuclear deal with Iran.
Israel has called the agreement a threat to its survival and has urged U.S. lawmakers to reject the deal, saying it would give Iran a "sure path" to nuclear weapons.
"The response from Jewish people has been overwhelmingly positive. The response from Holocaust survivors, from the children of Holocaust survivors ... People were overwhelmingly supportive," Huckabee said on NBC's "Today" show.
"The particular comments of Mr. Huckabee are, I think, part of just a general pattern that we've seen that ... would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad," he said.