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Tabman
Robert Talmage Crabb III
Patauxent River Naval Station, Maryland
April 18, 2011 (age 65)
Books by Tabman
Tabman (1945-2011), aka Tabby Crabb, a woodworker who made leather and later Mali covered close up magic tables used by magicians around the world.
Tabby Crabb (aka Tabman) discovered he had a talent for magical woodwork when he was just a kid and went on to popularize the Tabman Tables, classy leather and later Mali covered close up magic tables used by magicians around the world. Additionally Tabman had agreements with Eric Lewis and T A Waters and at other times worked with Scotty York and Jeff Busby making and selling top quality magic.
Crabb grew up in Americus, Georgia graduated from Americus High School in 1963, and from Georgia Southwestern College with a degree in political science.
Crabb got his nickname from Pete Biro on MAGIC! the original magicians only online forum long before the internet became a useful too. Pete put Tabman on the I.B.M. Convention Committee for five years as Hotel Shows Director and also introduced him to Paul Kozak, who along with Amazing Johnathan, hired Tabman to build a show and move to Las Vegas to work with them. Tabman also toured comedy clubs with Kozak the Magician as his onstage sidekick, Mr. Crabb, the 1000 year old magician.
Crabb was drawn to music at an early age and was a gifted musician. He played in several local bands, moved to Houston, Texas, where he was a member of the original Urban Cowboy Band at Gilley's and was an extra in the Urban Cowboy movie.
He pursued an individual music career and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he built a recording studio, Flatwood Studio in Lebanon, Tennessee.
He founded Tabman Magic, in which he built props and illusions for magicians all over the world. Crabb built magic under the El Tab brand having sold the rights to the Tabman Tables and other holdings of Tabman USA.
He was a member of a USO Tour in Vietnam, made videos, loved trains, photography and boating.
He authored two books about his hometown Americus and a book on his music career, "Music River of Life."
Tabman Magic (2009)
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Q: Why can't I edit my communities on stackexchange.com? On all established SE sites, using the Stack Exchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™, you can see your customized list of communities, and a search bar for all SE sites further down.
Clicking the small edit link allows you to edit that communities list.

Now if one were a member of many communities and needed a complete list of their communities, they'd go to their StackExchange profile page. Now that they're here, they might as well edit their communities list.

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USS Liberty Cover-Up Proves the Power of the Israel Lobby
The Crazz Files July 4, 2019
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After 57 years, the 34 sailors killed and 174 wounded in Israel's unprovoked, outrageous attack on the USS Liberty continue to deserve justice, and for the public to know the truth about America's "best friend" in the Middle East.
By Paul Craig Roberts
Earlier this month, the U.S. celebrated the 75th anniversary of D-Day with accolades to the armed forces and thanks to surviving veterans. The country stood strongly with the military. But, June 8, two days later, is the 52nd anniversary of a day of shame when Washington turned its back on the U.S. Navy. It was June 8, 1967 when the USS Liberty, a surveillance ship stationed off the coast of Egypt was attacked by Israeli fighter aircraft and torpedo boats. The Israelis were unable to sink the Liberty but managed to kill 34 American sailors and wound 174. Seventy percent of the crew were casualties of the Israeli attack.
The White House, fearing the Israel Lobby, prevented the U.S. Navy from going to the defense of the Liberty, thus sacrificing American lives, and further dishonored the U.S. Navy by ordering Adm. McCain, father of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), to orchestrate a coverup. The surviving crew were threatened with court-martial and imprisonment if they spoke about the event. It was 20 years before one of the surviving officers wrote a book about the greatest act of shame the U.S. government ever inflicted on the U.S. military.
n 2003, 36 years after the Israeli attack on the Liberty, Adm. Tom Moorer, former chief of Naval Operations and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, convened the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty, the Recall of Military Rescue Support Aircraft while the Liberty was Under Attack, and the Subsequent Cover-up by the United States Government. The commission consisted of Moorer, Gen. Raymond Davis, former Assistant Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Rear Adm. Merlin Staring, former judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy, and Amb. James Akins, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia. You can read the report online, at Wikisource, for example, by searching for "The Moorer Report."
The report is devastating. Among the report's conclusions, these stand out:
That due to the influence of Israel's powerful supporters in the United States, the White House deliberately covered up the facts of this attack from the American people;
By Victor Thorn & Mark Glenn, available at the AFP Online Store!
That due to continuing pressure by the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, this attack remains the only serious naval incident that has never been thoroughly investigated by Congress; to this day, no surviving crewmember has been permitted to officially and publicly testify about the attack;
That there has been an official cover-up without precedent in American naval history; the existence of such a cover-up is now supported by statements of Rear Admiral Merlin Staring, USN (Ret.), former Judge Advocate General of the Navy; and Captain Ward Boston, USN, (Ret.), the chief counsel to the Navy's 1967 Court of Inquiry of Liberty attack;
That the truth about Israel's attack and subsequent White House cover-up continues to be officially concealed from the American people to the present day and is a national disgrace;
That a danger to our national security exists whenever our elected officials are willing to subordinate American interests to those of any foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling to challenge Israel's interests when they conflict with American interests; this policy, evidenced by the failure to defend USS Liberty and the subsequent official cover-up of the Israeli attack, endangers the safety of Americans and the security of the United States.
After interviewing many of the survivors, Capt. Ward Boston, who was assigned to cover up the attack and afterward repudiated the cover-up, and Bill Knutson, the executive officer of the USS Americafighter squadron that was called back on orders from the White House, and lengthy discussions with Moorer, my former colleague at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, I have written about the Israeli attack on the Liberty a number of times.
My conclusion: All who discount the influence of Israel on the U.S. government are ignorant fools.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Ronald Reagan and was associate editor and columnist at The Wall Street Journal. He has been a professor of economics in six universities and is the author of numerous books available at www.AmericanFreePress.net.
Source: http://americanfreepress.net/uss-liberty-cover-up-proves-the-power-of-the-israel-lobby/
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The Tucson Jewish community mourns the loss of local philanthropist, businessman, and real estate developer Donald R. Diamond, who died March 25 at the age of 91.
His daughter Rabbi Jennifer Diamond and Cantor Janece E. Cohen conducted funeral services March 27 at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Rabbi Diamond opened the ceremony with a light remark: "Father couldn't afford an outside rabbi, so we're doing this all in house," she said, as she gestured around the J's packed ballroom. Among many other leadership roles, Mr. Diamond chaired the committee for the J's new building, which opened its doors in 1989.
Born in New York to Nathan and Sylvia Brooks Diamond, Mr. Diamond first arrived in Tucson as a student at Brandes Boarding School in the early '40s. He was confirmed at Temple Emanu-El, which was then located on Stone Avenue. After service in the army in World War II, he attended the University of Arizona and was active in the Zeta Beta Tau Jewish fraternity. It was at the UA that he met Joan Brown from Des Moines, Iowa. They married Nov. 29, 1952. Joan died in 2016.
At the age of 37, Mr. Diamond retired from a successful career as a Wall Street commodities trader. With Joan and their three daughters, he moved from New York to Tucson in 1965, becoming involved in land development and entrepreneurship, as well as community causes. He told the AJP in a 2006 interview, "within a week, I was engrossed in Jewishness." He supported Temple Emanu-El, where he remained a member, and later also joined Congregation Or Chadash. He was involved in numerous local economic development, leadership, and social service organizations in the Jewish community throughout his life.
He served as head of the Combined Jewish Appeal in 1971 and was president of the Jewish Community Council (now Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona) from May 1974 to May 1976.
Donald Diamond and Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona President and CEO Stuart Mellan at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a Men's Next Gen trip in January 2005.
The Diamonds hosted the first major fundraising dinner for the Federation, Mellan says. In 2011, JFSA named that annual campaign effort the "Joan and Donald Diamond Lead Gifts Event." With Paul Baker, Mr. Diamond established the Men's Next Gen group to cement ties between Jewish leaders and mentor young community leaders.
Todd Rockoff, president and CEO of the Tucson Jewish Community Center, recalls that after his first meeting with Mr. Diamond, "I walked away with a feeling as if I had just been with an old friend. We kibbitzed, laughed, envisioned a bright future, challenged each other and just really connected.
"It is a source of great pride that the [Tucson J] building bears the name Diamond Family Building," he says.
Mr. Diamond was among the largest private landowners in Pima County. Notable acquisitions included the 5,000-acre Rocking "K" Ranch, one of Tucson's largest master-planned developments; 12,700 acres of the Howard Hughes Estate; and The Canyons, a 160-acre, luxury community in the Catalina Foothills. Until his death, he continued as chair of his company, which encompasses residential, industrial and commercial projects across the United States and Mexico.
With Paul and Alice Baker, he purchased Old Pueblo Traders direct-mail retailer in the 1970s. Mr. Diamond was one of a group of original franchise owners of the Phoenix Suns and a general partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks. He owned KVOA-TV 4, the NBC affiliate in Tucson, from 1971 to 1983. With partners, Mr. Diamond bought the lease in 1984 for the county-owned Old Tucson Studios.
Mr. Diamond gave generously of his time and resources in local, national and international ventures. In 1973, he served as chair of the United Way, running its general campaign, and in 1995 was the first chairperson of the United Way of Tucson's Alexis de Tocqueville Society. He sat on the board of directors of the Rincon Institute and the Sunstone Cancer Support Foundation of Southern Arizona. Mr. Diamond was the national co-chairman of the finance committee for Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential run.
Mr. Diamond was named an honorary life member of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade for fostering U.S. business with Mexico and was presented an honorary humane letters doctorate from the UA for his continued support.
As a UA alumnus, Mr. Diamond was a member of National Board of Advisors for the university's Eller College of Business and Public Administration and a supporter of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. He helped fund McKale Memorial Center renovations. With Joan, he received the UA Alumni Achievement Award in 2011.
For more than four decades, the Diamonds played a major role in supporting hundreds of Tucson's health, education and charitable service organizations. The Diamonds supported the UA Steele Children's Research Center; their interest in children's health care, particularly research on pediatric lung disease, stemmed from the death of their daughter Deanne at age 14 due to asthma complications. Mr. Diamond and Joan provided the lead gift for the Diamond Children's Medical Center at the University Medical Center, which opened in 2010. "He was interested in business, politics, beautiful women, deep sea fishing and big parties that celebrated him," says his daughter Helaine Levy. Struggling with health issues over the last year, he wanted to die in the home he called his castle, she says, but died at Diamond Children's Hospital.
Each of Mr. Diamond's grandchildren eulogized him with fond praise. Nathan Levy spoke about their connection over history and remembered a road trip to historic sites. Gabby Levy attributed her love of fashion to his "affliction for patterns" and his kitsch wardrobe. Carly Levy said her love for sports and the sports business came from her grandfather. She sang "They Can't Take That Away From Me," as she had at her grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary.
Survivors include his daughters, Helaine Levy of Tucson and Rabbi Jennifer Diamond of Sun Valley, Idaho; grandchildren, Nathan Levy of Denver, Carly Levy of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Gabby Levy of New Orleans; and his sister Joyce Eskwitt of New York, New York. Interment was at Evergreen Cemetery.


The gathered knowledge from the craftsmen & women working here is truly unique and a rare thing these days. I feel equal parts blessed and proud to be part of a company who takes pride in local sourcing and in house production.
Our belief in high quality, sustainability and nearby produced raw materials is what makes us so special. I'm glad to be a part of a company that is so unique and that possesses so much knowledge.
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Maintaining brand integrity is harder than it used to be. In the past, brands were able to bolster their images with the reputations of their associates—as long as their friends were trustworthy, then they would be similarly regarded. But the last decade has seen a number of high-profile breaches of public trust: the financial industry ushered in the worst recession in 80 years, the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year for 2017 was aptly named "fake news," and Facebook is in hot water after compromising the data of millions of users.
Blockchain technologies are well equipped to rise to the occasion. Since information on a blockchain is public and immutable, consumers can hold brands accountable. We would know if they back out of a pledge or if their profit margins are appropriate. This transparency would discourage companies from breaking promises or ripping us off, and encourage practices that are consistent with a brand's values.
Blockchain-based smart contracts can also improve brand integrity. Jeremy Epstein writes in Venture Beat, "Just as blockchain can serve as a trusted intermediary in transferring value from one person to another, it can do the same in transferring brand values into a corporate governance blockchain." If a brand's claim to fame is customer service, smart contracts can ensure that specific policies are encoded into its operations. A new hire would be unable to mistake the terms of a return policy, and a savvy opportunist would be unable to bend the rules at a customer's expense—all services are mathematically ensured and cryptographically enforced, guaranteeing fair treatment to everyone.
A brand's integrity is among its most valuable assets. With help from blockchain technology, companies can slow the erosion of trust that has been plaguing institutions across the globe.


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Welcome to the 2019 Trés Chic Hair Show Competition & Fundraiser, inspired by Vincent R. Johnson, creator of Creme De La Do. Trés Chic is a hair show competition benefiting HIV/AIDS organizations throughout New Mexico. Our runway show will feature statewide salons bringing their "A" game. This event will crown a hair salon champion. The salon with the best show and hair will win an award to display in their establishment and a cash prize. We take 10 salons for the event.
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Lucas CorVatta is a powerhouse of talent and a true authentic character, all to his own. He is a Vegas comic and a regular at Stratosphere, The Dirty at 12:30 inside South Point Casino, and other numerous venues in and around Las Vegas. He also performs at Pride and LGBT events nationwide. He is the resident comedian for numerous Comic Cons throughout the country, opening for such artists as Marsha Warfield, Rich Vos, Cameron Esposito, G-Tom Mac, Corey Feldman, Vicky Shaw, and Verne Troyer (Mini Me). Lucas has been published in Medical Marijuana Journal and Pride & Equality magazine. As Co-host and a Producer of the popular CW television show, "Duke City Comedy League", he has performed at colleges and speaks about suicide awareness and prevention. As an advocate, Lucas is passionate about bringing awareness to individuals whether young or old, gay or straight.
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Home	Manufacturing	Why has shipping between the UK and China become so expensive?
by Joe Cash 31 March 2021
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The cost of shipping increased by over 350% last year as lockdowns unleashed unprecedented demand for consumer goods from China, and there is no indication that costs are going to come down anytime soon.
The cost of shipping between China and the UK increased by over 350% last year, severely impacting companies that rely on being able to move goods and manufactured parts between the two markets economically.
The cost increase can be attributed to numerous factors, but none more so than the impact of Covid-19 on the shipping industry and a mismatch between the timing of lockdowns around the world. In both the US and the EU, lockdown resulted in higher demand for consumer goods manufactured in China. While this incentivised Chinese manufacturers freed from lockdown to pack their wares into shipping containers for export, it has been difficult for US or European companies still affected by lockdowns to refill these containers for a return journey to China — leaving them effectively stranded.
Other low-cost manufacturing hubs, hoping to ship more goods to the locked-down US and EU, are reportedly now muscling in on the established China-Northern Europe route, meaning that any available ships and containers are being diverted to parts of Africa and South Asia.
With ports in the EU and the US at capacity in terms of the number of containers they can take, ships stuck in ports or lacking a crew, and warehouses either unstaffed because of lockdown measures or, as in China, perennially oversubscribed, companies are electing to store their goods in containers, limiting supply even further.
This briefing will explain why it has become more difficult for companies to secure containers to ship goods between the UK and China, the impact this is having on industry, and the steps that companies and governments are considering to reduce its impact.
The shipping industry can perhaps best be conceptualised by imagining a Russian doll: The commodity the consumer wants moved is itself transported inside a series of other commodities: ships, shipping containers, cardboard boxes, the consumer good. Covid-19, and the lockdowns most markets have introduced to curb its spread, has resulted in each of these commodities attracting premium prices because they are all in high demand.
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There is no easy way to resolve this problem. For example, expanding the global supply of ships would take at least three years due to the time it takes to build new ones. Similarly, increasing shipping container supply is tricky while the factories that manufacture them – and their suppliers– are affected by widespread lockdowns. Shipping companies are anyway reluctant to order more containers, given that that the problem isn't so much with supply — it's more that the world's containers aren't currently where they are most needed.
So where are the shipping containers?
The established trade routes of pre-pandemic times have been distorted to reflect the markets that are open for manufacturing and those that are open to taking more cheap consumer goods. As a result, the bulk of the world's shipping containers appear to be in one of three places:
Stuck in the EU or the US: China came out of lockdown as the EU and the US entered lockdown. As people resigned themselves to spending more time at home, there was a surge in demand for consumer goods that are often manufactured in China, leading China's shipping companies to send more ships and containers to these markets. However, there has been little or no incentive to return the shipping containers to China; with economic activity in large parts of the EU still limited, many of the containers would likely return empty.
Stuck in China: China's warehouse storage is oversubscribed, meaning that companies that are unable to export goods because the US/European ports are at capacity have little choice but to store stock in any available containers, usually portside, until the West comes out of lockdown and this congestion can start to be cleared.
On ships diverted to Africa and South Asia to serve the US and EU markets: Low-cost manufacturing hubs across Africa and South Asia are reportedly vying to supply high levels of demand for consumer goods in the US, meaning that containers are increasingly stretched across competing supply chains.
All three outcomes result in the price of shipping increasing because there is greater demand and less certainty regarding shipping times, costs and loads. So even though demand for international shipping dropped overall by as much as 14% in volume and 21% in value last year, according to the World Trade Organization, a container that before the pandemic cost around £600 to ship from Harwich to Shanghai is now going for as much as £4,500.
How is it impacting industry?
Shipping companies are reportedly passing on costs incurred by holding containers at ports for longer through extra fees. Companies must then either absorb the increase in costs or pass it on to consumers, which might make their price points uncompetitive.
UK companies are beginning to report that the increase in shipping costs means they are making a loss on some sales; importing from China is, in turn, becoming a less viable business model. The UK's Association of Domestic Appliances has said its members have reported increases in shipping costs of up to 300% since the start of 2020. "Signs of strain are building up and the situation is likely to intensify before it eases," according to Capital Economics.
The picture is no prettier in China. Aware of the fact that shipping a container to the UK or Europe is not likely to make financial sense, come January shipping companies in China had reportedly began charging as much as £10,000 to ship a 40ft container that used to go for around £2,000 to the UK.
Be warned, there is no such thing as free shipping
How is it impacting consumers?
Companies appear unwilling to push increased shipping costs onto consumers with markets for consumer goods currently so competitive. Shifting costs to consumers is anyway not always possible, especially if the company operates in business-to-business logistics or offers an end-to-end delivery model where contracts are drawn up months in advance, with liability for shipping costs often factored in. A particular issue currently is that the backlog caused by the pandemic goes back into 2020, meaning that companies are struggling to honour contracts drawn up when the cost of shipping was a third of what it is now.
Still, it looks like consumers will only be able to avoid higher prices for so long, with economists predicting that supply shortages and higher freight rates will restrict trade growth and contribute to temporarily higher inflation pressures over the course of the year.
What are Governments planning to do about it?
CBBC has made enquiries to both the British and Chinese Governments and has ascertained that both are aware of the rising cost of shipping and are seeking to remedy the issue.
China has reportedly been subsidising its shipping companies to bring back containers from the US or Europe empty because it is worried that the pile-up is putting its position as the preferred low-cost manufacturing hub in jeopardy. Of course, this is making it harder for US or European companies that are able to export to get hold of containers. In addition to this, at a press conference held by Li Xingqian, head of foreign trade at the Ministry of Commerce (MOCFOM), in January, it came to light that MOFCOM and the Ministry of Transport have been considering applying anti-trust measures against shipping companies in a bid to keep costs down, as well as other steps aimed at stimulating vessel supply, such as putting pressure on foreign shipping companies to resuming sailings that they had suspended due to poor profitability.
The CBBC understands from those with knowledge of the situation that it would be difficult for the UK Government to introduce measures aimed at controlling the increasing cost of shipping to China, and not only because the UK is a free-market economy. The risk is that subsidising the cost of shipping between the UK and China would further artificially adjust trade flows and could, in effect, subsidise Chinese exports to the UK to the detriment of UK manufacturers.
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CBBC is aware that in an environment where costs are on the rise across the board, increases in shipping prices are having a particularly detrimental impact on the ability of UK firms to trade with China. Companies of all sizes need to move goods between the two markets, be they large multinationals exporting parts for assembly or small wholesalers in the UK that source the bulk of their merchandise from China. The CBBC will continue to monitor this issue and aim to keep members informed following any conversations it has with the British and Chinese governments and any other relevant stakeholders.
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Red Sox end season in last again after loss to Indians
Tom Withers The Associated Press
Oct. 4, 2015 Updated: Aug. 12, 2017 3:29 p.m.
Dustin Pedroia fields a ball during the eighth inning on Sunday.Ron Schwane — The Associated Press
CLEVELAND >> They finished in last place again, way out of playoff contention. The Red Sox were never really in the race.
And yet, as the 2015 season ended long before New England's trees burst with color, the future didn't look so bleak in Boston.
"I'm proud of what we did here," interim manager Torey Lovullo said. "I couldn't be more thrilled with what they did to lead into 2016."
The second straight disappointing season for the Red Sox concluded Sunday with a 3-1 loss to the Cleveland Indians, who got a solid outing from Danny Salazar and finished their own inconsistent campaign one game over .500.
This isn't the way it usually goes for the Red Sox. But two years after winning the World Series, they're at the bottom of the AL East for the second year in a row and it took a 28-20 finish just to get within seven games of .500.
However, the season finale included some uplifting news: The Red Sox announced that manager John Farrell, who recently ended his last round of chemotherapy treatment for cancer, will be back in the dugout in 2016.
"It's great news," said Lovullo, Boston's bench coach and Farrell's close friend who took over the club on Aug. 14. "We're excited because we're looking for his good health."
Boston starter Rick Porcello (9-15) came up short in his bid to reach double-digit wins for the seventh straight season. He allowed two earned runs and 10 hits in seven innings.
"I know I made some mistakes," Porcello said. "But other than that, I was pretty happy with the way I finished the game and the way I finished the season."
Farrell was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in August, and his departure was another blow to an underachieving team. The 53-year-old Farrell hopes to come back in 2016, as do the Red Sox, who went 78-84 and finished last in the AL East for the second straight year. The Red Sox have posted consecutive losing seasons for the first time since 1993-94.
"With a couple of key additions I think we're going to be exactly where we want to be, and that's win a world championship," said Luvollo, who waived right to pursue managerial opening and signed a two-year extension to remain as Farrell's bench coach.
David Ortiz drove in Boston's only run with a double in the second. Big Papi was lifted for a pinch-runner after walking in the sixth, ending a season in which he surpassed 500 career homers and finished with 108 RBIs, his most since driving in 117 in 2007.
Porcello's throwing error on a pickoff attempt and Jesus Aguilar's RBI single gave the Indians a 3-1 lead in the third.
With runners at the corners and one out, Porcello tried to catch Lonnie Chisenhall off the bag at first but threw wildly, allowing Michael Martinez to score. Chisenhall moved up and scored on Aguilar's base hit.
Boston took a 1-0 lead in the first on consecutive doubles by Bogaerts and Ortiz, who was then retired trying to steal third. The Indians tied it on rookie Giovanny Urshela's run-scoring single in the second.
Tip of the caps
After the final out, the Red Sox players gathered in front of their dugout and tipped their caps toward Don Orsillo, the team's long-time TV announcer who will not be back next year. Orsillo was visibly moved by the salute.
"That was something we collectively thought would be a very nice gesture for Don," Lovullo said. "He means a lot to all of us in different ways and means so much to the community and the Boston Red Sox. We wanted to acknowledge him for all his hard work and dedication."
Streak snapped
CF Mookie Betts has his on-base streak ended at 36 games. During the streak, he batted .360 (54 of 150) with 14 doubles, one triple and seven homers. It's the longest streak since Dustin Pedroia reached in 37 consecutive games in 2011.
Sox shakeup
In addition to announcing Farrell's return and Lovullo's extension, the Red Sox will bring back hitting coach Chili Davis, pitching coach Carl Willis and third-base coach Brian Butterfield in 2016. First-base coach Arnie Beyeler is not being retained, and Lovullo had him bring out Boston's lineup card before the game, a classy gesture.


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AFC Asian Cup 2019: India need goals in opener against Thailandhttps://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/afc-asian-cup-2019-india-need-goals-in-opener-against-thailand-5524685/
AFC Asian Cup 2019: India need goals in opener against Thailand
A number of question marks hang over the Indian contingent in Thailand for Asia's premier football tournament and they have a chance at answering some of them with a good performance in the opener.
Written by Rohit Mundayur | Updated: January 6, 2019 11:21:49 am
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There is a lot of noise around the Indian contingent that are in the United Arab Emirates getting ready for the opening match of what is arguably the biggest tournament any of the players have been involved in. Sunil Chhetri is the only surviving member of the team that played in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup alongwith Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, who was an understudy to Subrata Paul at the time. Unfortunately for them, the noise hasn't been positive.
They are the second best-ranked team in their group, which includes UAE (79), Thailand (118) and Bahrain (113) and almost anything they did in 2018 was seen as a warm-up for the Asian Cup. Rankings, though, can be deceiving when it comes to international tournaments and it is especially true when it comes to India. They enjoyed an unprecedented surge in the FIFA standings between June 2016 and November 2018 when they played 13 matches out of which they won 11 and drew two. But a majority of matches were friendlies or qualifiers for the Asian Cup against lower ranked opposition, none of whom are in the same class as the teams that are in India's group.
Coach Stephen Constantine's selection for the team has also come under the scanner. The exclusion of Bengaluru FC's Rahul Bheke, who has enjoyed a breakthrough season this year in the ISL, and the near-complete omission of I-League players from the 34-man probables were the biggest factors that raised eyebrows. Constantine was dismissive when questioned about these decisions during the pre-departure press conference.
Sandesh Jhingan has not had the best of seasons with Kerala Blasters. (Twitter/IndianFootball)
Sandesh Jhingan and Anas Edathodika make up the Englishman's preferred centre-back pairing. Jhingan has not had the best of seasons with Kerala Blasters while Anas has only played five matches. Subhasish Bose, who was one of the designated captains when the Indian played the SAFF Cup, has emerged as a reliable figure in the left-back role but the right-back remains a huge question mark with Narayan Das and Pritam Kotal being far from their best in the league.
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu has shown through performances that he has the calibre to justify the number one role he has been entrusted with but he is prone to mistakes.
Despite deficiencies in their performances for respective clubs, India's defence, which has involved these players in some form or the other over the past two years, has proven to be a difficult one to breach. Notably, they managed to hold China to a goalless draw despite the slew of chances that the opposition got to score. They have not conceded more than two goals in any of the matches they have played since March 2017.
Attack remains a major headache for the Indian team. 34-year-old Sunil Chhetri remains the only guaranteed source of goals up front. Jeje Lalpekhlua has not scored in any of the 11 matches that he has played in for Chennaiyin FC while the rest of India's options – Balwant Singh, Manvir Singh, Sumeet Passi, Farukh Chaudhary – share less than 10 goals this season.
The onus will be on Gurpreet Sandhu to shield India's lacklustre midfield (Twitter/IndianFootball)
In the last 15-odd years, Thailand have surged, plummetted and come back up again. Kiatisak Senamuang was the man who oversaw the recent surge and Thailand drew eyeballs in the 2014 Suzuki Cup in which they played possession-based, expansive football and went on to win it. He resigned after heavy defeats to Saudi Arabia and Japan in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers and Milovan Rajevac replaced him.
Rajevac had first promised to address the defensive frailties that emerged during the qualifiers and The War Elephants have since abandoned their attractive style for a more pragmatic approach. This hasn't resulted in improved scorelines and that has drawn the ire of fans. In 20 games so far, Rajevac's side has won 8 games, lost 6 and drew the rest. In this period, they have kept nine clean sheets, shipping in only 20 goals, while scoring 31.
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To: LSHTM School Council
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Divest
We did it! LSHTM has released a full divestment commitment - lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/introducing/environmental-sustainability
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As of December 2020, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has £116,507 invested in fossil fuel companies.
We call on the University to:
1. Divest its £ 24,163,411.00 endowment fund from all fossil fuel companies
2. Exclude all future investments in fossil fuels
The School states there are ethical restrictions on its investments, that its guiding values include environmental sustainability and that among its aims are to 'ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the School' (3). It is clear the School's values, aims and ethical responsibilities would converge on a commitment to divest from fossil fuels.
Environment: The School funds research into the effects of climate change on health whilst simultaneously profiting from fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report chapter on 'Human Health: Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-Benefits' edited by Prof. Andy Haines, has raised awareness about the health impacts of climate change and pollution. The IPCC report states that 'People who are socially, economically, culturally, politically, institutionally or otherwise marginalized are especially vulnerable to climate change' (4). Climate change is, according to the Lancet, 'the greatest threat to human health in the 21 century'. One of the guiding principles of medical practice is 'do no harm'; as a school rooted in medicine and health these values should not only be applied to immediate practises, but to the full range of the School's activities.
Finance: The share prices of the companies the school is invested in are dependant on the value of their known carbon reserves. More than 100 countries have adopted a global warming limit of 2 °C or below (relative to pre-industrial levels) as a guiding principle for mitigation efforts to reduce climate change risks, impacts and damage (6). In order to keep global warming below this threshold 80% of known carbon reserves will have to remain in the ground (7). Recently the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, told the World Bank that 'the majority of the world's reserves are unburnable' (8) and commissioned the bank to examine "the vulnerability that fossil fuel assets could pose to the stability of the financial system in a carbon constrained world" (9). The School is unnecessarily exposing itself to stranded assets. The current low price of oil and instability of the market are reflected in the share values of the School's three direct fossil fuel investments, all of which have fallen 20% since June 2014. It must be recognised that these investments are inherently unstable and not a sustainable place to invest the School's endowments.
We, students and staff at LSHTM, demand that the School must break ties with the fossil fuel industry. We want LSHTM to:
•	Identify and publicly report all financial ties, contracts and agreements with the fossil fuel industry including direct and indirect (e.g. via banks and co-mingled funds) investments, sponsorship and advertising agreements, and research funding.
•	End current investments in fossil fuel companies immediately and shift funds to lower risk, ethical investments.
•	No longer partner with or accept funding from fossil fuel companies.
•	Terminate existing agreements and contracts, including sponsorships, advertising, and funding.
•	Make no future investments or partnerships with fossil fuel companies.
•	Set and publish timelines for completion of all demands, including regular progress reports and an analysis of potential risks and causes of delay, all of which are easily accessible online, not just by request
1.	Freedom of Information Request, 3/12/2014
2.	http://fossilfreeindexes.com/the-carbon-underground-2014/
3.	http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/introducing/mission/strategy_2012_2017.pdf
4.	IPCC Fifth Assessment Report Summary
5.	http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29310475
6.	Meunshausen, M. et al., 2009. Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 degrees C. Nature, 458(7242), pp.1158-62.
7.	350.org
8.	http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/13/mark-carney-fossil-fuel-reserves-burned-carbon-bubble
9.	http://www.carbontracker.org/news/bank-of-englands-momentous-move-on-climate-change/
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THE success of Music Makers Music School continues as proud music director and founder Merle Albino de-Coteau turns young children into well-rounded teens and adults.
The pan pioneer and educator is a shining light in Laventille as many youths, teens and adults look up to her for taking them along a path of success.
She is "proud to be Laventille" and every year boasts and shows off the success of Music Makers Music School. This year was special, Albino-de Coteau received 100 per cent passes in the Associated Board of The Royal School of Music (ABRSM) and the Graded Examinations in Solo Steelpan Performance of the University of the West Indies. The school received two distinctions, nine merit and four passes all from Preliminary to Grade 8.
Last Saturday Music Makers kept its annual Achievement Day Celebrations at the school (Albino-de Coteau's home) 206 Eastern Main Road, Laventille. The occasion was also a celebration of Albino-de Coteau's 80th birthday.
Despite the noise from vehicular traffic, blaring horns and roaring engines, the students stood tall, played their instruments and collected their certificates and medals in front of very proud parents.
Special guests performer at the celebration was Roderick Chuck Gordon who is currently working with Albino-de Coteau.
Cailen Gill a Music Maker student for the past eight years made a special appearance honouring his teacher with a performance of Tarrus Riley's She's Royal. Albino-de Coteau is very old-school and believes in discipline and respect and she goes beyond the music with her students. She said, "If you fill up young people with music they will not have time for anything else. Once you teach them music their lives will change forever."
Two former students who are living examples of this are winning Panorama arranger Duvone Stewart and Mia Gormandy.
By Gary Cardinez
steelpan, Steelband, Trinidad and Tobago, Panpodium, music for youth, youth music, music Makers, T&T Newsday Newspapers
Jul 4 The History of Steelpan in Notting Hill Carnival and Steelband Panorama.


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