Written by Wolf Brigade founder, Greg Walsh, Theft of the Age follows a boy and girl of high-school age, blessed and cursed with adult sensibilities, and each possessing a certain moral flexibility. Caring and vicious, insightful but immature, and confused but crystal-clear, they struggle and excel in equal measure and on parallel tracks. As they move towards an intersection that neither could have ever expected, everything surrounding them descends into chaos.
The timeless ache of alienation is both the catalyst for creation of this work and the driving storyline within.
The book follows a boy and girl of high-school age, blessed and cursed with adult sensibilities, and each possessing a certain moral flexibility. Caring and vicious, insightful but immature, and confused but crystal-clear, they struggle and excel in equal measure and on parallel tracks. As they move towards an intersection that neither could have ever expected, everything surrounding them descends into chaos.
Theft of the Age was written out of need for escapism, and out of desire to affirm to the reader that there are others out there who see below the surface, and are affected by the view.


Insurance Europe has published its response to the European Commission's consultation on its proposed investEU programme, which aims to bring together various EU financial instruments and expand the Investment Plan for Europe.
At the same time, it is equally important for the prudential rules defined in Solvency II, which play a key role in investment decision making, to correctly reflect the risks and economics of the business. Action is needed now to remove unnecessary barriers to long-term investments and ensure the natural and significant role of the insurance industry in the investEU initiative. Important first steps can be taken in the Solvency II 2018 review and completed in the wider 2020 review.


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At UGBC we feel that the clients should be the focus by offering smaller class sizes with personalized attention and by getting to know all about them, their needs and what their goals are.
For those who want more personalized fitness & boxing instruction can schedule a session or more with one of our trainers. Recently becoming a USA Boxing gym means individuals wanting to compete can do so through UnderGround.
Most memberships include unlimited access to group fitness classes, heavy bags and fitness equipment.
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All classes use various types of heavy bags. There is no sparring (one on one fighting). Classes will start with a warm up and end with cool down and stretching. Free weights and other equipment will be used for some classes.
Work one on one with one of our trainers on boxing, kickboxing, strength training and general fitness. Fees are not included in memberships.
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Baker Hughes, a GE Company announced today an agreement with Emirates National Oil Company (Enoc) to co-develop VitalyX, a real-time lubricant monitoring system.
Baker Hughes, a GE Company (NYSE: BHGE) announced an agreement with Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) to co-develop VitalyX*, a real-time lubricant monitoring system. VitalyX can be deployed in multiple industries using large machinery, and the advanced cloud-based system is designed to detect and measure key lubricant properties in real-time while simultaneously converting the data into actionable insights. ENOC, which will not only co-develop but has also signed the first order for VitalyX, announced the project with BHGE leaders at BHGE's Annual Meeting in Florence.
Lubrication oil is the lifeblood of many machines and assets, and it not only protects those assets but also can be used to determine the overall health of a system. Real-time monitoring of lubricants also helps safeguard end users' and operators' equipment by offering a new level of predictive maintenance, thus enhancing efficiency, reducing downtime and improving asset's lifetime. Without continuous monitoring, catastrophic failures due to fluid issues are a reality; for example, the cumulative cost of a top drive gearbox failure due to fluid loss can be up to $1 million dollars.
VitalyX's advanced cloud-based solution can measure key lubricant chemical and physical properties in real time across an operator's fleet while simultaneously converting the data into alerts and alarms to identify potential issues. The user-friendly dashboard can show fleet-wide data down to the individual asset level and stored either in a shared cloud or locally.
"Digitization is playing an integral role in in driving the transformation of the energy sector, and has contributed significantly to enhancing operational efficiency," said Saif Al Falasi, ENOC Group CEO. "We believe that our agreement with BHGE – will play a key role in revolutionizing lubricant quality testing and physical asset management. We at ENOC are pleased to have been able to work with BHGE on the development of this innovation and look forward to developing many other projects in the near future."
"Our joint focus on lubricant monitoring is a critical and essential element towards making industries safer and more efficient," said Diarmaid Mulholland, CEO of BHGE's Measurement & Sensing business. "Our co-development of VitalyX with ENOC not only ensures we deliver technology that works in real-world extreme conditions but also has proven experience in the field. This technology is a prime example of the Industrial Internet of Things in action – hardware and software working seamlessly together, taking sensor data to deliver new insights we could never achieve before. We are excited for this journey with ENOC and many more customers to come."
About BHGE
Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE: BHGE) is the world's first and only fullstream provider of integrated oilfield products, services and digital solutions. We deploy minds and machines to enhance customer productivity, safety and environmental stewardship, while minimizing costs and risks at every step of the energy value chain. With operations in over 120 countries, we infuse over a century of experience with the spirit of a startup, inventing smarter ways to bring energy to the world.
* trademark of Baker Hughes, a GE company
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Brooklyn multi-genre venue adds Waves system to answer variety of needs.
Brooklyn, NY (May 29, 2018)—At more than 24,000 square feet, Elsewhere, a live music venue, nightclub and arts space in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood has a lot to offer—and among those offerings is the 250-capacity venue, Zone One. Serving up nine shows and nearly 30 artists a week, Zone One is a busy place with an equally busy FOH position based around a Waves eMotion LV1 live mixer.
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Part of the decision to go with the Waves mixer was the variety of acts playing the venue, he noted, as Zone One often hosts anything from Indie Rock to Techno to Underground Hip-Hop. As a result, the system and various plug-ins offered had to be tools that would best answer the needs of a variety of different musical styles.
"For the retro bands, it is great to have vintage vibe tools like the Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates, API 2500 on drums and CLA-76 Compressor/Limiter for vocals, along with the F6 to control problem frequencies," said Levin. "For Live Electronic bands, we use the Waves L3-LL Multimaximizer and Smack Attack plug-ins to fit live drums into the drum loops or playback, and it is better than in any other live mixing situation I've been in.


What would a Minecraft party be without the star of it all?
We printed and cropped the image and glued them to brown paper bags.
And well, we all need a little LIFE during game play.
These cubes were purchased at Joann Fabrics in the wedding favor aisle.
We downloaded the Minecrafter 2.0 font and a pixleated heart.
bubbles bottles that had been previously tied with cord.
Then using a stencil font we created and printed a TNT label.
Here are the finished dynamite.
they helped with the perler bead creeper party favors.
Looks like the chest is full of treasure!


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Logistics databases - various different systems, that track the parcel, calculate charge/cost, track POD's, generate invoices/payment slips etc. Some of these systems make the use of scanning of barcodes.
Financial databases – Medical aid, Pension Fund Administration, Investment tracking.
Workflow tracking systems – These systems track the entire workflow in a business. History is kept of all transactions noting who processed the transaction and on what date/time. These systems can also automatically produce output (Reports or PDF files) that are attached to an e-mail which is produced automatically at a specific step in the workflow. The system creates user specific to-do lists and can auto-escalate in-complete tasks. These type of systems can be tailored to be specific to any business.
Property tracking system – This system tracks the entire sales cycle of properties. All history is recorded from the canvassing of the property to the sale and ultimately the transfer. Medical waste disposal tracking system - uses cell phone based technology to transmit data remotely to the database.
Commission tracking systems – data is imported from suppliers and commission statements as well as other reports are created. Data conversion and comparisons – These systems can import data from most sources and do comprehensive analysis and produce reports. Please refer to the Projects section for more information about each database that has been developed. I have long been fascinated with photography. My interest started as I have always been a very keen bird watcher.
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Q: powershell watch over folder and log changes to windows application log As the description, I need to write a powershell script that watches over a folder. And when changes have been made(creation of file, delete, modification) I need to get these changes to get to the windows application log.
This is my code:
$watcher = New-Object System.IO.FileSystemWatcher
$watcher.Path = "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\delete-file-event"
$watcher.Filter = "*.*"
$watcher.IncludeSubdirectories = $true
$watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = $true

$action = {
            New-EventLog -LogName Application -source "logs"
            Write-EventLog -LogName Application -Source "logs" -EntryType Information -EventId 1 -Message "nothing in here"
            $path = $Event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
            $changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
            $logline = "$(Get-Date), $changeType, $path"
            Add-content "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\delete-file-event\log.txt" -value $logline
          }

Register-ObjectEvent $watcher "Created" -Action $action
Register-ObjectEvent $watcher "Deleted" -Action $action
Register-ObjectEvent $watcher "Renamed" -Action $action
while ($true) {sleep 5}

At this moment it will get to the application logs but that's because of
Code:
New-EventLog -LogName Application -source "logs"
Write-EventLog -LogName Application -Source "logs" -EntryType Information -EventId 1 -Message "nothing in here"

I would really appreciate some help here. Thanks in advance.

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Multiuse Pavilion in Gondomar
Gondomar, Porto, Portugal
Alvaro Siza +
Opened in June 2007 by the architect Alvaro Siza Vieira, the site built on five hectares of land had cost 20 million euros. In practice this flag football, volleyball, gymnastics, basketball and also concerts and exhibitions.
It holds 4216 spectators and has 1000 parking spaces.
The sports complex is located on the edge of the highway, on a plot of almost thirty thousand square meters, on the outskirts of the municipality of Gondomar, East of Oporto in northern Portugal. This town has about one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants.
In the construction of this sports complex, the architect can be influenced by the work of Louis Khan platonic sensuality and some works of Oscar Niemeyer.
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With 48,000 square meters, of which 30,000 are for the flag and the rest for parking, the building was thought to have good audio performance and versatility to accommodate a range of social, sporting and economic.
On the outskirts of the city, the flag is presented as a multi-set of austere brick volumes which shows the fragmentation of its various units.
The curve of concrete slab that covers the access to the building's southern precinct, opposes profile air masses quiet brick.
The building has seven entrances, bars and a restaurant.
Basically consists of three bodies that are articulated by defining the southeast entrance of a public space covered by a sculptural curved slab of concrete.
These bodies are:
1. The Eliptical Room
The enclosure of the central hall, which has a dimension of 54×32 meters, to develop various sports at a level of international competition.
The space has three tiers below the lateral part is practicable and is part of the area available for events to events. A fourth tier, the tier west, closed space. The latter is removable, allowing the removal of a scene and the other shows.
The maximum capacity of spectators sitting in the pavilion is for sporting events of 4200 and 6400 for festivals, fairs and concerts.
2.Support services body
Includes six groups of ground floor bathrooms, massage rooms, changing rooms and toilets, fitness, nursing, laboratory and storage facilities.
On the first floor are VIP rooms, press rooms and journalists, meeting rooms, a cafeteria and offices for administration and management of the school.
3.Warehouse and technical areas
To the northwest lies the area of loading and unloading, and access technical staff.
The space savings resulting adaptability to various uses of the building is reflected in its image abroad through the simplicity of its volumes and the austerity of their facades.
• Elliptical Room
The volume elliptical, with axes 104.4 and 84 meters and a height ranging from 15.5 meters on the front to 21.4 in the highest part, consists mainly of a double reinforced concrete wall covered by the spatial structure of a mesh of steel bars.
On three sides of this central area bordering three tiers are erected and fixed sixteen straight lines, three of them shrink on concrete slab.
• Board of support services
The body of support services adjacent to the main body develops from the axis of the ellipse and has a length of 33.6 meters. It is a building in two levels with a total height of 9.5 meters, octagonal organized from two longitudinal and four transverse galleries. Two interior courtyards with walls of brick, located on the long axis, allowing the illumination of the different areas of the program.
This piece is made of concrete and steel.
The external facades are covered with bricks, a material that proclaims its austerity with the public nature of the complex and contributes to control of its vast energy expenditure.
The building has air conditioning.


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Switzerland and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Living in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Swiss Cooperation Office in Democratic People's Republic of Korea
All consular services and visa issues are provided by the Embassy of Switzerland in China.
Travel advice for Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Switzerland and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Topic Selection Agriculture & food security Climate change and environment Health Humanitarian Assistance & DRR Human rights Migration Vocational training Water
Subtopic Selection Agricultural development Agricultural land resources Disaster risk reduction DRR Drinking water and basic sanitation (WASH) (til 2016) Emergency food assistance Environmental policy Environment protection Forced displacement (refugees, IDP, human trafficking) Housing (till 2016) Human rights (incl. Women's rights) Material relief assistance Primary health care Reconstruction and rehabilitation (till 2016) Vocational training Water diplomacy and security Water resources conservation Water sanitation Water sector policy Water supply
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Emergency Food and Nutrition Assistance DPRK 2019
The Emergency Food and Nutrition Assistance DPRK 2019 Project responds to an urgent request of the DPR Korea to extend food assistance to its citizens in 2019, following a poor harvest after a nation-wide heat wave and regional floods in 2018. The assistance will be provided through the World Food Programme (WFP) and targets 50,000 children in the three highly affected provinces of the country, South Hwanghae, Ryanggang and Jaggang for a period of 12 months.
Improved Resilience of Children with Disabilities through DRR
Sustainable Livelihood and Disaster Mitigation (SLDM)
The intervention works on the nexus of DRR, food security and agroforestry and successor programme of the Sloping Land Management programme (SLM). Building on SLM, food security remains central, but DRR is the principle concern of the domain of intervention. Combining food security and DRR increases the scope to work holistically towards sustaining the resources on which livelihoods depend. The emphasis on sustainable food production addresses the humanitarian needs of communities. Coupling this with a focus on community action serves to enlarge the scope for groups and individuals to act more autonomously.
WASH Programme
The intervention focuses on the basic humanitarian need of access to WASH services through raising hygiene awareness, construction of WASH facilities and capacity building in rural areas. Providing sustainable access to WASH services shall improve the health of 40'000 beneficiairies through access to robust infrastructure, safe sanitation and protection of water sources that will also reduce exposure of rural communities to natural hazards.
Allocation of SDC Funding to WFP Operations in 2017
In line with the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) principles, Switzerland recognizes the necessity of predictable and flexible funding to respond to changing needs in humanitarian crises. SDC funding to WFP operations allows the World Food Programme (WFP) to respond proactively and to provide immediate food assistance in life-threatening situations.
The project seeks to improve the resilience of Children with Disabilities living in the Pongsan School for the Deaf through the development of their DRR capacities and the improvement of their living environment. The activities are considered as an inception of a further project focused on six schools for children with sensory impairments and lays an emphasis on the introduction of a School-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (SBDRR) Plan, which aims to strengthening the capacities of the children, their teachers and caretakers, the surrounding community and the relevant provincial and national authorities while also improving their infrastructure.
WFP - Food Aid Swiss Dairy Products (DPRK)
Through the usage of food aid in the form of Swiss dairy products, Swiss Humanitarian Aid contributes to the prevention and treatment of malnutrition, undernourishment, and disease. The SDC's Humanitarian Aid administers the credit granted by parliament for a yearly amount of some CHF 20 million destined for the purchase of Swiss dairy products and their use for the benefit of the needy. Its task is to ensure a sustainable, targeted, and closely monitored food aid.
Food aid is a means of tackling undernutrition and malnutrition. With food aid, SDC – through Swiss Humanitarian Aid – puts the humanitarian mission to "save lives and alleviate suffering" into practice.


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Symbols ion a game are stunning, and they can maximize the appeal all gamblers are going to get. First of all, there are Santa, elf, different foods and beverages. This is just an example of what to expect. After all the gamer features unique graphics. Also, all the symbols are presen6t in high definition and come with amazing graphics.
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Keys is a symbol that is used as a scatter. If you get 3 or more, you will get free spins. A player can choose between expanding wild, stacked wilds or trailing wilds. The free spins round can be retriggered and used again. All the winnings that occur during the free spin mode are doubled. The last, you can get free bonuses if you land gift symbol on the reels 2 and 4. You pick the desired bonus. All of the bonuses are available in the free Santa's Wild Ride slot game we mentioned at the beginning.
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Tiger Versus Dragon: Will the Indian Casino Industry Overtake Macau?
Are you wondering whether the dragon can really breathe fire when it opens its mouth? You would believe it if you read about Macau's economic growth rate. What so fantastic about the growth? Any economy can surge for a couple of quarters, or maybe even a couple of years. Asia's tiniest state is not satisfied with that. Macau has recorded the highest average GDP growth rate in the world for the past decade! What more, it dislodged Japan as the richest in Asia, recording a higher GDP per capita in 2010.
Macau's key to success has been its casino industry. While it is the world's largest gambling hub, the casino industry is so much more than that. It's about tourism and entertainment at their best. It's about having the finest restaurants, exotic resorts and grand shows to give the visitor much more than he could ever have asked for.
Is India up for that challenge? Well, given a chance, the Indian casino industry will definitely boom. Look at India's gambling history. It dates all the way back to mythology. Would the great Mahabharata have been fought if the Pandavas did not lose a game of gambling? Jokes apart, India seems to be developing quite an appetite for entertainment. India has a large population of people with high disposable incomes. In fact, disposable income in India has surged by around 10% annually over the past decade and a significant portion of this is being spent on domestic travel.
Remember the Tourism Ministry's "incredible India" campaign? India welcomes more than four million foreign tourists every year. What is more incredible than this number is that their spending is estimated at around $9 billion! With such a large number of tourists visiting India, the casino industry could well take off at a phenomenal pace. The Indian casino industry has the potential to overtake Macau. The tiger seems to be crouching right now. I guess, all it needs is for the government to wave a green flag.


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Why did it take 5 weeks for the New York Times to correct its "100% accurate" Alzheimer's test assertion?
Health care journalism
I have a lot of catching up to do after being in Europe for just 4 days.
But I can't let this one go by without comment. In fact, this issue was one of the first ones raised by German journalists I met with in Dortmund this week. Don't think people around the world don't notice the good and the bad in American health/medical/science journalism – especially by the New York Times.
The Times took a long time (5 weeks) to comment on what critics – including me, Paul Raeburn, Charlie Petit and many other journalists (including Times' ombudsman Arthur Brisbane) wrote about Gina Kolata's August 10 piece on a "100% accurate" Alzheimer's test.
But yesterday the paper published a correction, that read, in full:
"An article on Aug. 10 about spinal fluid tests in Alzheimer's research left the incorrect impression that the test can predict the disease with 100 percent accuracy in all patients. (That impression was reinforced by the headline.) In fact, the test was found to be as much as 100 percent accurate in identifying a signature level of abnormal proteins in patients with memory loss who went on to develop Alzheimer's — not in identifying patients who "are on their way" to developing the disease.
The article also misinterpreted an element of the researchers' findings. Among a group of patients who had memory loss and developed Alzheimer's within five years, every one had protein levels associated with the disease five years before; it was not the case that "every one of those patients with the proteins developed Alzheimer's within five years."
And the article misstated the source from which the finding of 100 percent accuracy was drawn. It came from a separate set of patients that the researchers examined to validate the protein signature they had identified in an initial group. (In the initial group, as the article noted, nearly every person with Alzheimer's had the signature protein levels.)"
Raeburn writes that this isn't good enough:
"The reporting was in error, the story was in error, and the Times should say so. Enough of this talk of "narrower claims" and "incorrect impressions." The headline on Brisbane's post was "The Trouble With Absolutes." It should have been, "Times Errs on Alzheimer's Story."
The Times is the best paper in the country, maybe the world, although I don't read enough languages to know. Why, then, does this correction read as if it were written by a student hiding under his desk, afraid of a rap on the knuckles?"
The Alliance for Human Research Protection broadened its criticism beyond this single story to an entire series by the Times:
"…a series of articles by Gina Kolata (many on the front page) of The New York Times, under the heading The Vanishing Mind, purport to examine worldwide struggle to find answers about Alzheimer's disease. However, the articles were written as if the Times was in the business of promoting dubious commercial screens and tests and hype about unproven therapies.
The series has been a disservice to the public–and particularly to families struggling with the care of a loved one suffering from this devastating disease–or cluster of diseases–no one knows for sure, as there is no fail-safe test to confirm the presence of Alzheimer's."
For the record, we are not playing Monday-morning quarterback 5 weeks after the fact. Shortly after the story was first published, we published our review of the story on HealthNewsReview.org. Excerpt:
"The story's suggestion that the spinal fluid analysis used in the study is 100 percent accurate is, in fact, inaccurate. (The "can be 100% accurate" phrase is misleading and unhelpful.) The specificity of the test – about 1/3 of those who tested positive had no evidence of Alzheimer's – is a big issue."
Why did it take 5 weeks for the Times' correction?
What will the Times do to improve its editing and approval process?
We will continue to watch and report.
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Food enthusiasts have the opportunity to review London's best vegan dishes - and be paid £500 for it.
Because of the recent explosion in vegan food offerings across the capital, catering platform Feast It is looking for keen foodies to add their opinion to a guide on London's vegan food scene.
In order to apply, you have to sign up to online marketplace Airtasker and make an offer on the task. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to indulge in 10 vegan dishes from London's best street food vendors. Feast It is also offering to cover the cost of your friends food too, so you don't have to dine alone.
Digby Vollrath is the Co-founder of Feast It, which makes event planning and catering easier, by offering a one-stop shop where you can discover, compare, and book the country's best catering without any hassle.
He said: "Nothing has blown up in quite the same way as vegan food has over the last 12 months. From smashed avocado to Southern Fried Seitan Burgers dripping in sauce, our clients can't get enough of all things vegan.
"We're looking for a passionate foodie to traipse across London gorging on the best vegan dishes money can buy, to once and for all compile London's ultimate top 10.
"All you need is a bottomless pit of a stomach and a real passion for food."


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Development of the G-288 M50 Ontos
Rejected by the U.S. Army, the US Marine Corps embraced the diminutive gun motor carriage mounting six powerful 106mm recoilless rifles. In Vietnam, it proved deadly.
One of the most bizarre-looking vehicles ever fielded by the U.S. military was the M50 Ontos. Ontos – the Greek word for "thing" — was developed by the U.S. Army as an airmobile antitank vehicle. Panned by the Army, the vehicle was eventually adopted by the Marine Corps.
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The M50 Ontos was conceived as a potent, airborne tank destroyer. In November 1950, the farm machinery division of American industrial giant began work designing this beast.
The requirements laid down by the Ordnance office were basic: The engine would be the inline six-cylinder GMC 302 used in the then-new G-749 family of 2-1/2 ton M135/M211 trucks, it was to be coupled to an Allison cross drive transmission, and its weight and dimension were to permit it to be carried inside the cargo aircraft of the day.
Ontos chassis move along the Allis-Chalmers LaPorte, Indiana assembly line. Early in the program, warping of the armor plates during welding caused alignment problems with the suspension units, which were unique to the Ontos.
Photo courtesy Patton Museum, Ft. Knox, KY.
Within two weeks a design team, at times involving 50 engineers, had completed the design of the M50. Due to the "confidential" classification of this project by the military, a portion of Allis-Chalmers' LaPorte, Indiana, agricultural assembly plant was walled off, and assembly of the prototypes began. The 50-hour test runs required of these vehicles were conducted on the weekends, while the rest of the plant was idle.
An assembly line worker tightens the bolts securing the transmission cover. On the re-powered M50A1 this cover was replaced with a louver.
Photo courtesy of the LaPorte County Historical Society and Museum.
Of the 1,000 units in the original procurement plan, only 297 were produced. Beginning in 1955, production ceased in November 1957. The entire series was rejected by the Army.
Even though the Ontos carried only a three-man crew, space was at a premium, and oftentimes the vehicles were operated with the rear door open. Because so little space was available for stowage only a minimal amount of ammunition was carried. The Ontos was to enter combat with a round in each of its six rifles, eight more in a storage rack beneath the floor, accessible through a door beneath the vehicles rear hatches, and four more rounds stowed in a rack inside the vehicle.
While this vehicle looks like a M50 Ontos, this vehicle is actually a T165, a development model. The suspension and rear doors were different, but the general layout remained the same in the production model.
Despite its small size, the Ontos carried an array of On Vehicle Material, including two large tripods for dismounted use of two of the recoilless rifles. Between the tripods in this display is the M191A4 Browning .30 caliber machine gun. Though normally mounted on the turret at the commander's hatch, a tripod was also provided for its dismounted use as seen here. Between the Browning and the tripod to the left of this photo is another of the crew's weapons, the M3A1 .45 caliber submachine gun.
Photo courtesy of the LaPorte County Historical Society and Museum
The Marine Corps was interested, however, and took delivery of the vehicles. One hundred seventy-six of the vehicles were re-powered with a Chrysler 361 cubic-inch V-8 (some sources say 294) beginning in 1963. This required redesigning armored engine covers. The new cover extended forward of the rifle's travel lock, and engine access door gained louvers. With the new powerplant the vehicle was re-designated M50A1.
Probably the biggest drawback to the Ontos was the requirement that a crewman exit the vehicle to reload the main guns. The 38-lb. 106mm round had a maximum effective range of 3,000 yards. With few Vietnamese armored vehicles to engage, in Southeast Asia the Ontos saw extensive use as an antipersonnel weapon. With Beehive rounds in each of the six tubes, the Ontos could release a hail of flechettes that would penetrate even the densest jungles up to a quarter mile, obliterating both foliage and man.
As designed, the Ontos was to roll into combat with a round in each of its six rifles, eight more in a storage rack beneath the floor, accessible through a door beneath the vehicles rear hatches, and four more rounds stowed in a rack inside the vehicle. While the six M40A1C 106mm recoilless rifles gave the Ontos tremendous firepower, its shortcoming was the requirement that the vehicle be opened up and a crewman expose himself in order to reload.
A USMC Ontos in the field.
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The language of suffering
December 15, 2012 in First Word archive (2012) | Tags: artists and suffering, correct grammar, Foal's Bread, Gillian Mears, here's a completely and utterly ridiculous tag...just because I can, incorrect grammar, language, Leo Tolstoy, Marlon Brando, Osteoarthritis, pet ownership, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, writers and suffering | 18 comments
At the vet's recently, because Cat the Ripper has had a stroke, his back-end's gone skew-whiff, he's old so apparently these things can be expected, I saw on the counter a brochure from an animal-health company. 'Is your dog missing out on playtime?' it asked. Of course there was an accompanying picture: a white pooch, its head softly resting on the carpet and eyes looking glumly into the distance (impersonating a writer perhaps), an abandoned chew-toy on the other side. 'They could be suffering from osteoarthritis,' was the answer provided.
Being a writer, and a pedant, which is a dangerous combination, I noticed that clunky they. In my old-fashioned opinion, a singular dog cannot be a they. So as I waited with Cat the Ripper in his carry-box for us to be called into the consultation room, I silently rearranged the sentence: 'He or she could be suffering from osteoarthritis.' Still clunky, plus the sentence should be more precise. 'Osteoarthritis could be the cause.' But we need that suffering word; at least the animal-health company does. It forces us to relate to and empathise with the four-legged members of the family. We need to know they might be in pain, or uncomfortable, or just plain unhappy. Then we can act.
Artists, writers especially, are besotted with the idea of suffering. They (and I'm using that they to hypocritically distance myself from the others of my ilk, or ink) explore it, try to resolve it; some even wallow in it, creatively, or personally, or both. Thankfully we (ah now I'm back amongst the fold!) have the ability to analyse and order and communicate. We use words to make sense of it all; sometimes we can make it all go way. Think of a novel and its heart will be suffering. Gillian Mears' extraordinary but distressing Foal's Bread (2011) is an example. So is Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886). Even amongst the articles of this newspaper, every story, the sports ones too, and the latest weather report, there is that thing: suffering, or the potential for it.
Needless to say, dogs aren't that interested in this philosophical stuff – they just be – and Cat the Ripper has other things on his mind. So we have vets to act as our intermediaries, and we have animal-health companies with their questionable grammar. In the end, everything hinges on language, doesn't it.
(First published in Panorama, The Canberra Times, 15 December 2012.)
The little book of suspicion
August 20, 2011 in Writing is the best thing too | Tags: A Love Letter from a Stray Moon, Animal Farm, Death in Venice, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Her Father's Daughter, Jay Griffiths, John Clanchy, Kylie Minogue, Leo Tolstoy, loving novellas like best friends, Mandy Brett, novellas, Richard Ford, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Granta Book of the American Long Story, The Old Man and the Sea, Thomas Mann | 10 comments
A certain Ernest Hemingway
There's this problem child I know. We all have someone in our lives who could fit this definition – a rebel, a wild one, a lost soul, or all three at once, which would be quite something – but mine is less conventional, in every possible way. The problem child I know isn't made of flesh and blood and bone, it doesn't have a heart (at least not in the usual sense), and for some – for many, it seems – it doesn't actually exist, or they know it does but wish it wouldn't.
What on earth am I talking about? The novella, of course. That little book of power and pummel, the miniature of in-between.
A quick survey of literary history reveals that the novella has well and truly punched above its weight. Stories like Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Thomas Mann's Death In Venice (1912), George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (1952) have had an immeasurable impact on Western writing and reading – mini revolutionaries, the bunch of them – and each has firmly found its place in the canon.
But the crunch is this: what is their true identity and purpose?
Jonathan Cape's hard-cover edition (1972) of The Old Man and the Sea describes it as "shorter than the conventional novel, longer than the longest short story, Hemingway's new work of fiction eludes classification." My 1993 Arrow Classic edition of the same tale contains references to it being a short story, a long short story, and a novel. In other words, we haven't a clue what we've just published.
The fact is there is a great suspicion about the novella, because it's next to impossible to categorise. Down through the ages there have been times when no one wants to even talk about the thing, as if worried that it is going to lead to incarceration, or a long, slow death from The Plague.
But let's be brave.
The word itself, novella, comes from the Latin, novus, which means new and was originally applied to plants and animals. In the sixth century, novella meant a newly planted tree, which is rather delightful; I'll be using it the next time I'm at the nursery. Yet this doesn't really get us anywhere. And definitions that rely solely on word-count – somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 words seems to be the rule of thumb – completely under-estimate the devious ways of the novella.
In his introduction to The Granta Book of the American Long Story (1998), Richard Ford tries to capture a definition of our little friend (or perhaps that should be foe) but even he can't get one to stick, despite interviewing his comrades in academia, who appear knowledgeable about the subject but ultimately brush him off. Interesting that for this story I approached two respected academics in the creative-writing field and neither returned my emails – as if I was enquiring about a missing person they might just know something about.
The history of the novella goes back further than the efforts of Tolstoy and co. Five hundred years earlier one Giovanni Boccaccio authored (or may have simply collected) the first cycle of novellas that comprise The Decameron. A hop and a skip from there, the Germans, who have never shied away from a bit of cheeky experimentation, took a particular shine to the form, primarily in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to the point that the critic Theodore Mundt, in 1823, called the novella 'the German house pet'. (I shudder to think what Australia might nominate as a 'house pet'. Kylie Minogue? Actually, could she be described as a pop-music novella?)
However, despite the novella having a long and illustrious history of contribution, it really does seem to be the literary problem child. But why? Why is it so hard for people to get their heads around what is essentially a short work of fiction? Then again, a short story is also 'a short work of fiction'. And therein lies the apparently insurmountable difficulty: the novella is the slipperiest of beasts, refusing to fit neatly into boxes that appeal to writers, readers, and publishers. And if history has shown us anything, we are sceptical about what doesn't fit neatly into boxes. Ask your nearest bisexual.
But still novellas are written, and sometimes they're even published.
John Clanchy, the Canberra-based award-winning writer of short stories, novellas and novels, says that despite being a fan of the shorter story the novella really is cause for heart palpitations. "The concept," he says, "is suss for many in the Anglo word, which has tended to see the novella as just one more European conspiracy: first they foist the novella on us, and when that doesn't work they go and invest post-modernism."
How would Clanchy define the novella?
"Whatever we call it," he says, "the novella isn't a novel that's run out of puff; it isn't a short story that's meandered beyond its natural length and lost its way. I like working with the novella because it shares some of the most attractive features of the novel – its expansiveness, its multiple layers of theme and plot – at the same time constraining them with features normally associated with the short story: intensity of focus, singularity of narrative voice and architecture, discipline of length. But all the while remaining a distinct species, not a hybrid."
Despite his own success with shorter works – His Father's Daughter (UQP, 2008) contains five stories ranging from 9,000 to 30,000 words – Clanchy agrees that one of the biggest challenges with novellas is getting the bloody things into print. "Editors and publishers don't seem to know what to do with this 'intermediate' form," he says. "Show a novella to an editor – the adventurous Madonna Duffy at UQP excepted – and she's just as likely to pull a mouth and say, 'A novella? It's kind of…um…long, isn't it?' To which the only sensible reply is, 'Yes, but so is a goanna.'"
Mandy Brett, Senior Editor at one of Australia's most respected mid-sized presses, Text Publishing in Melbourne, believes that it goes without saying that novellas are difficult to publish. "There are a couple of reasons for this and the first is brutally economic. On the bookshelf, a novella is just a very skinny book. We can't expect people to pay nearly as much for it as for a novel. But in fact it doesn't cost all that much less to produce. This makes the small book a highly dodgy proposition in terms of turning a dollar."
The second difficulty is cultural, says Brett, but ends up being economic. "There is not a broad readership for the novella. It is not widely appreciated as a form, being perceived as a stingy novel or a bloated short story."
Brett certainly has a point. Inspired by Richard Ford undertaking an 'informal poll' of his academic mates, I posted on my humble home in the blogosphere a request for thoughts on the novella. Comments came back along the lines of "most writers like writing them and reading them, but readers don't, because they generally want more of a meal when they sit down to eat" and "I prefer the traditional novel format – it's not so much a more-bang-for-your-buck kinda thing (though I have found myself standing in a bookshop thinking, there's no way I'm paying $32 for 120 pages) it's that I find short stories just too damn short!"
However, according to Mandy Brett it's not as grim as all this might suggest.
"There's a small subset of literary readers who will buy an outstanding novella because they appreciate wonderful writing, or hear enough good things about it to give it a go." Brett cites A Love Letter from a Stray Moon by Jay Griffiths, which was published by Text earlier this year, as an example of a contemporary novella. It is 20,000 words in length and she describes it as "exquisite".
John Clanchy, too, is optimistic about the future of the novella. "As a committed reader in the Age of Obesity," he says, "I've cut the contemporary fat novel right out of my diet – too many carbs and too little nutrition at too large a price."
What about this brave new world of digital publishing and e-readers?
Mandy Brett sees fertile ground. "As the ebook starts to take over and book pricing comes adrift from the traditional restrictions imposed by print technology and the physical distribution of books, it will become much easier to play around with format and form. I expect to see more poetry, more novellas, more short stories, and more experimental literary forms accessible in mainstream outlets in the future." And that's a ray of sunshine for those writers who want to muck up and those readers who hunger for more than the bulging literary block-buster.
So, it seems, the novella, despite its inherently shifty business, is here to stay. It may well be lurking behind that wall over there, ready to frighten the living daylights out of an unsuspecting public. Perhaps the revolution will – again – come in the form of a little book, one that might pop up on a computer screen and say this: There's something that you really should know about.
First published in Panorama, The Canberra Times, 20 August 2011. With thanks to John Clanchy and Mandy Brett. Thanks also to Alec and Agnes, who commented on an earlier Under the Counter post about the novella and are quoted above.
Shakespeare (bloody well not) in love
May 23, 2010 in Writing is the best thing too | Tags: ageing, Johnny Cash, Orwell, Shakespeare, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy | 18 comments
One of the best things about hitting the Roaring Forties is becoming more and more comfortable about the things that I don't like, or don't understand, and being completely and utterly open about it. Whilst I'll defend to the hilt for these things to exist, I'm no fan of opera, I don't like traditional country music (Johnny Cash is as far as I can get in that direction, and even then it's only when he's covering contemporary songs), and, well, uncooked celery is just plain wrong. However, one part of the arts that I've never liked or understood is dear old William Shakespeare, which is a little problematic for someone who loves putting words together to make sentences and paragraphs, to tell stories in the written form.
Every year or so I take myself to see some Shakespeare production or other, thinking it will be this time that I'll get it, a light will come on, and, as if I was blind but could now see, I'd get what all the fuss is about. And there is a heck of a lot of fuss about this bloke – can anyone think of a more revered writer in the English language? Except, for me, no lights come on; I don't discover any kind of insight. Five minutes into the production I'm lost: I can't follow which character is trying to screw over which other character, and quite frankly I don't care who's about to kick the bucket. And all the supposedly brilliant words rush from the stage as if trying to escape from the actors' mouths. I can do nothing but hurriedly retreat to my happy place, which is either sitting on the couch with He Who Also Can't Stand The Bard and knocking off a bottle of Verdelho, or recalling sepia-toned images of a village in the Blue Mountains that's so special to me I won't even share its name.
Not long ago, after yet another disastrous Shakespeare sojourn, a friend emailed me an article titled 'Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool' written by George Orwell in 1947. Orwell tries to develop an argument against a 'pamphlet' (which I'm assuming is some kind of prehistoric blog post) written by Leo Tolstoy in 1903 in which the Russian literary giant quite summarily heaps so much scorn on Shakespeare that it makes for hilarious reading.
Here are some of the tastiest bits.
Tolstoy begins by saying that throughout life Shakespeare has aroused in him 'an irresistible repulsion and tedium'. Conscious that the opinion of the civilised world is against him, he has made one attempt after another on Shakespeare's works, reading and re-reading them in Russian, English and German, but 'I invariably underwent the same feelings: repulsion, weariness and bewilderment'. Now at the age of seventy-five, he has once again re-read the entire works of Shakespeare, including the historical plays and 'I have felt with an even greater force, the same feelings – this time, however, not of bewilderment, but of firm, indubitable conviction that the unquestionable glory of a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our time to imitate him and readers and spectators to discover in him non-existent merits – thereby distorting their aesthetic and ethical understanding – is a great evil, as is every untruth.
In case you're wondering when Tolstoy will actually form an opinion on the matter, Orwell goes on to report, Tolstoy then makes a sort of exposition of the plot of King Lear, finding it at every step to be stupid, verbose, unnatural, unintelligible, bombastic, vulgar, tedious and full of incredible events, 'wild ravings', 'mirthless jokes', anachronisms, irrelevancies, obscenities, worn-out stage conventions and other faults both moral and aesthetic.
Leo Tolstoy: possibly not the most easy-going chap that's ever existed.
Although Orwell tries his hardest to pick a fight with Tolstoy, he does find points of agreement. For example, Orwell states that Shakespeare was not a systematic thinker, his most serious thoughts are uttered irrelevantly or indirectly, and we do not know to what extent he wrote with 'a purpose'…It is perfectly possible that he looked on at least half of his plays as mere pot-boilers and hardly bothered about purpose or probability so as he could patch up something, usually from stolen material, which would more or less hang together on stage. Furthermore – and I really like this bit – [Shakespeare] was noticeably cautious, not to say cowardly, in his manner of uttering unpopular opinions. Almost never does he put a subversive or sceptical remark into the mouth of a character likely to be identified with himself. Throughout his plays the acute social critics, the people who are not taken in by accepted fallacies, are buffoons, villains, lunatics or persons who are shamming insanity or in a state of violent hysteria.
Orwell, however, still concludes, [The] most striking thing is how little difference it all [meaning Tolstoy's bloody brilliant tirade] makes. One cannot answer Tolstoy's pamphlet, at least on its main counts. There is no argument by which one can defend a poem. It defends itself by surviving, or it is indefensible. And if this test is valid, I think the verdict in Shakespeare's case must by 'not guilty'. Like every other writer, Shakespeare will be forgotten sooner or later, but it is unlikely that a heavier indictment will ever be brought against him. Tolstoy was perhaps the most admired literary man of his age, and he was certainly not its least pamphleteer. He turned all his powers of denunciation against Shakespeare, like all the guns of a battleship roaring simultaneously. And with what result? Forty years later Shakespeare is still there completely unaffected, and of the attempt to demolish him nothing remains except the yellowing pages of a pamphlet which hardly any has read.
Except, thanks to the internet and a learned friend, Tolstoy's pamphlet has informed at least this humble little blogger and made him very, very happy indeed. All I can say is, thank God for Leo Tolstoy, for being the great big literary punk that he is, and for making me feel so damn good about not getting the Old Bard, for not liking what the man wrote, for wanting to run a mile whenever a Shakespeare play starts.
Of course, I say again that I'll fervently defend the right for anyone to put on a Shakespeare play, but, for me, in terms of actually sitting in the audience, I'd rather spend the evening hacking out my eyeballs with a rusty nail.
Or read The Death of Ivan Ilyich over and over.
Chasing perfect endings
October 31, 2009 in First Word archive (2008) | Tags: Bill Forsyth, endings, Leo Tolstoy, Local Hero, movie endings, The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leave a comment
In art as in life there's something about beginnings and middles, but endings are what get this humble scribe really going. Not long ago I came home from an extended time away, and after giving Cat the Ripper a quick cuddle I wandered through the house as if expecting to find it turned inside out. Realising that nothing at all had changed, I unzipped my backpack and put on three loads of washing. With the machine sloshing away nicely, I found the twenty Polaroid photos I'd taken of my travels and Blue-tacked them up in the loungeroom and the kitchen, stuck one to the bedside table, and then scattered the rest around my study. I wanted reminders of where I'd been and what I'd done. But I also wanted to reclaim my home, to let it know that I was back, that we were together again.
It got me thinking about one of my desert-island films, Bill Forsyth's completely wonderful Local Hero. The story follows a Porsche-driving North American oil executive whose boss instructs him to go to Scotland to purchase a seaside village and replace it with a refinery. As he negotiates with the suitably eclectic – and eccentric – characters of Furness, Mac finds himself falling for the village, and a certain happily married woman. Needless to say he returns to Houston a changed man.
The film's final moments are spellbinding. Mac opens the door of his high-rise apartment, turns on the lights, walks past his hi-fi equipment, his fine paintings on the walls, his slim-line timber furniture (the film was made and set in the early 1980s), and pins to a noticeboard photographs of the place and people he'd gotten to know so well back in Scotland. Then, as if he doesn't really want to but feels compelled, he steps onto his balcony and watches the blue light of dusk spread insidiously across the skyline, the wail of sirens in his ears. The sense of anonymity is overwhelming, and it collides with the deep knowingness Mac had experienced abroad. For the penultimate shot the filmmaker takes us back to Ferness with a still of the little village, our eyes coming to rest on a bright red phone booth. And then the phone booth begins ringing out across the sea…
Literature too, of course, has provided us with endings that pack a punch. One of the best occurs in Tolstoy's short work The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The story, which we are told is 'of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible', concerns a bright and likeable member of the Supreme Court in St Petersburg who endures a painful illness which ultimately consumes him. After navigating his memories, and achieving a level of understanding about how he'd lived, as well as enduring days of screaming agony, Ilyich arrives at a critical moment: 'And all at once it became clear to him that what had been oppressing him and would not go away was suddenly dropping away on one side, on two sides, on ten sides, on all sides.'
As the final sentence, Tolstoy so precisely, so devastatingly, but so beautifully, gives us this: 'He drew in a breath, stopped in the midst of a sigh, stretched out and died.'
Endings – and homecomings – don't get much better than this.
(First published in Panorama, Canberra Times, July 26 2008)


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JOURNAL EDITORIAL REPORT
'The Journal Editorial Report,' February 21, 2009
This is a rush transcript from "The Journal Editorial Report," February 21, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
PAUL GIGOT, FOX HOST: Up next on "The Journal Editorial Report," a closer look at the administration's $275 billion home foreclosure plan. Will it stem mortgage defaults or is it just buying time?
And if you're worried about the ballooning federal debt, wait until you get a load of the states', where multi-billion dollar deficits could spell big trouble for taxpayers.
Obama's Afghan surge. Is 17,000 more troops enough?
"The Journal Editorial Report" begins right now.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I want to be very clear about what this plan will not do. It will not rescue the unscrupulous or irresponsible by throwing good taxpayer money after bad loans. And it will not reward folks who bought homes they knew from the beginning they would not be able to afford.
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GIGOT: Welcome to "The Journal Editorial Report." I'm Paul Gigot.
That was President Barack Obama unveiling a plan that he says will help between seven and nine million struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure. The president promised the $275 billion program would help families of that "played by the rules and acted irresponsibly." But will it?
Joining the panel this week, Wall Street Journal columnist and deputy editor Dan Henninger; columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady; editorial board member, Jason Riley; and senior economics writer, Steve Moore.
Mary, there's no question, you're one of the struggling homeowners on the receiving end of this mortgage relief, it will help you. But is it going to help the larger economy?
MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY, COLUMNIST: Well, it helps you for a while anyway. What Obama's trying to do here is stop the downward spiral in home prices. He thinks that the home prices are the problem with the financial system and until you fix that problem, you cannot see the economy recovering.
GIGOT: So fewer boarded up homes in neighborhoods.
O'GRADY: Fewer foreclosures will mean stability, fewer failures in banks. The banks' assets will not be declining. Therefore, you'll stabilize the banks. They'll start lending again.
GIGOT: Dan, is that logic sounding?
DAN HENNINGER, COLUMNIST & DEPUTY EDITOR: Partly. I mean, some of these, like these — not these conforming loans that Freddie Mac held are going to be — principal will be paid down on some. That's a good thing. It will begin to stabilize the market.
The problem, however, is that there is simply too much housing. There is a glut of housing. The easiest way is to think about ethanol or corn. If you had another commodity like that you would take the glut off the market and let prices drop. They're not going to do that in this instance. They're not going to reduce the housing stock.
GIGOT: Jason?
JASON RILEY, EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: Exactly. Nationwide, last year, foreclosures were up 81 percent from '07. That's what this plan is meant to address, that issue. That political issue, too, frankly. But as Dan said, you have a housing glut out there. You have too many people in homes they can't afford. And the market can't clear. And if we're going to subsidize them, continue to subsidize housing in this way, the market will not clear. That's the fundamental problem.
O'GRADY: The problem with modification of loans is that, so far, we haven't experienced where when loans are modified like this, people don't get a healthier balance sheet. The office of the comptroller of currency in December released a report that shows...
GIGOT: This is an office of the Treasury Department.
O'GRADY: Right. They showed that 55 percent of mortgages that were modified in the first quarter were 30 days delinquent after just a number of months. And the number of loans that were delinquent after six months was 37 percent.
GIGOT: But, Steve, let me get you into this and ask you about it. Would Americans rather have a foreclosed home next to them or maybe pay a little more on their tax bill through this subsidy to avoid that happening? Most Americans I know don't want their neighborhood blighted by a bunch of foreclosed homes.
STEVE MOORE, SENIOR ECONOMIC WRITER: Well, you're all going soft on me or something. I certainly agree nobody wants a boarded up home or foreclosed next to them. But the real issue here that I think has a lot of Americans angry is you got 55 million mortgages out there. About 48 million Americans are paying their mortgages on time.
GIGOT: About 92 percent of all mortgages payments are on time right now.
MOORE: That's right. And here's the real issue. Barack Obama, in the sound bite you just played, said this isn't going to bail out people that made that decision. That's precisely what it's going to do. People, who overinvested, made risky decision in terms of buying houses they couldn't necessarily afford, are now basically asking for a bailout. A lot of Americans are asking the question...
GIGOT: Steve, one minute.
MOORE: One point. A lot of Americans are asking the question, why should I pay my mortgage if the guy next-door to me isn't paying his mortgage and he gets a federal bailout.
GIGOT: Steve, you haven't answered the question about what you do with the boarded up homes potentially next-door. Do you want that next- door or is that just the risk you have to take?
MOORE: It's a terrible problem. Those losses, there's no way getting around them. The question is, who is going to absorb the losses, is it the people who made the bad decisions, the banks and the borrowers, or should it be all American taxpayers? I think most people don't want to pay for people's bad mortgages.
RILEY: Let me say something though in the sense of these homeowners. For years, we had a subsidy for credit in this country, easy-money policies from the Fed. And it created incentives. And rational people took advantage of those incentives. I think Obama also wants to address that issue. Were people wrong to take advantage of the incentive put out there by the Fed?
O'GRADY: But the thing is this is not free. Somebody's paying for this. In fact...
GIGOT: Jason and me.
O'GRADY: Not only that, future homeowners are paying for it. Because if you let markets clear, as Jason says, new buyers would come into the market and also this idea of a cram-down which is the government forcing banks to basically cut the principal....
GIGOT: This is through a change in bankruptcy law, which is part of this package, which would allow judges to basically change contracts, mortgage contracts which has never been allowed before.
O'GRADY: Right. That's what they're doing. They're forcing people who lent the money to take a loss on their balance sheet.
GIGOT: What about this point Jason makes? You have this generalized subsidy for credit, which we talked about for lot, and you've had it for homeownership. And a lot of people made the rational choice, I'll buy more home than I can afford because the government's making it easy and helping me do it.
HENNNINGER: Well, the politicians and Federal Reserve are never going to take the hit for this. They never do, right?
GIGOT: Right.
HENNINGER: It's a tough world. So I think what Barack Obama is trying to do here, he inherited a financial panic in the housing market and the credit market. He's trying to restore some level of confidence so that the markets can begin to turn around. Theoretically, does it look like it will work? As an economic? Probably not. But the psychology is very important.
O'GRADY: I have another...
GIGOT: Sorry, Mary.
O'GRADY: OK.
GIGOT: We've got to go.
When we come back, states of pain. After decades of runaway spending, states across the country are facing huge budget deficits. That could mean a world of hurt for you, the taxpayer.
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GIGOT: The Golden State lost a little more of its luster this week confronting a $42 billion deficit. California lawmakers voted to pass the largest tax increase in the state's history. They may not be alone after decades of chronic overspending, states across the country are facing huge budget gaps which could spell big trouble for taxpayers.
Steve, let me ask you, what states are in the worst trouble and how did they get there?
MOORE: Well, California is just an order of magnitude worse than just about any other state — $42 billion in deficit. With this wonderful package, Paul, you just mentioned that's going to raise their taxes out of this crisis, California will now have the highest income tax, sales tax and gas tax in the country. It's starting to make New York look like a free market Mecca by comparison! You've got — one last point — the three states with the biggest budget problem, New York, California and New Jersey, guess what, those are the states with the highest taxes and highest spending. They brought this on themselves.
GIGOT: That's one of the ironies here is the states with some of the deficits are those with the highest tax rates. Could there be a paradoxical connection here?
Mary, would the tax rates allow the legislature to spend a lot and, therefore when the bust hits, they don't have the cash because the revenues collapse?
O'GRADY: Yeah, I think the politicians who came up with this idea forgot about the fact that people can actually leave their state.
In fact, California has a big problem with outward migration. And this is measuring just non-immigrant population. But it's lost a huge amount of people in the last decade. Generally, they're people who are actually among the productive members of the state.
GIGOT: Let's put a chart up. I want us to take a look at some of the states with the highest tax rates. California's at the top of the income taxes with the rate of higher than 10 percent and sales tax. But income tax in particular.
Very progressive tax code, which means in the boom time the revenues soar, Dan, but in the bust, they really collapse because the high revenue or high earners don't earn as much. and the state is very dependent on a very few taxpayers.
HENNINGER: That's right, Paul. And what do they have to pay for? What is in those budgets, those big states? Largely, those are public spending in the sense though that it's on pension costs for the unions, it's for the union contracts they sign, which tend to be above the rate of inflation. Finally, it's for debt servicing. Most of these states bonded out a lot of their infrastructure spending. The money spent to pay for that debt has grown exponentially over the last ten years.
GIGOT: We have new jersey Governor Jon Corzine come in to see us last year, lamenting what his predecessors had done. Their debt burden has become unbelievably large.
HENNINGER: Yeah, they become very huge, and it's going to get bigger. So when the times go bad, they simply have no money for the public commitments they've made.
RILEY: The stimulus package includes a $54 billion stabilization fund for the states. Some governors are threatening not to take it, but I think, in the end, most will. There's also a little bit of political theater going on here because the state legislatures can override governors that say they won't take the money in the end. So a governor can go out there, particularly a Republican governor, a conservative governor, who has higher political ambitions, can say I won't take this money knowing full well his state's going to get it anyway through the legislature.
GIGOT: Steve, let me ask you about California. I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected several years ago to stop this. What's happened?
MOORE: Well, you have probably the most liberal legislature in North America in Sacramento. They've raised taxes every crisis they've had. I just mentioned, now they have the highest sales tax, gas tax and so on. They're all now depending — all these states, Paul, are depending on the federal government to bail them out.
The problem is what happens when this money runs out in two years. A lot of the governors I talked to this week say this is going to make our budget problem even worse two years from now when the federal money runs out.
GIGOT: So this does reward governors legislate, the stimulus bill, who spent irresponsibly. You are a sap if you sat back and balanced your budget — you don't get any of this money.
O'GRADY: That's right. Even Governor Paterson, who is not exactly...
GIGOT: Of New York.
O'GRADY: Of New York — has said this is, as Steve says, a temporary funding for a couple of years. And the federal government is also telling the states that there's strings attached to these things. And some of them — some of the strings will cost states to expand some of their entitlement programs. At the end of two years, they're going to have another plan.
GIGOT: Because the stimulus creates an incentive to put more Medicaid people on the rolls because the more you put on the rolls the more federal money you get.
HENNINGER: We have a perfect historical example. In 1975, New York City was on the brink of bankruptcy. The solution was to create a financial control board. That board had the power to refute contracts, lay people off, cancel capital projects. It solved New York City's financial problem. What we're doing is precisely the opposite of that. We need a financial control board for the United States government.
GIGOT: Jason, Is there any governors who look particularly good here in the sense that they're resisting this?
RILEY: So far, I think Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has made noises about resisting it. The ones that stand out, the ones that look particularly bad, like Governor Crist of Florida, a Republican, I mean, it's one thing to take the money. It's another thing to invite Barack Obama to your state, embrace him, and let him use you to show bipartisanship.
GIGOT: That's because Barack Obama stole the whole in his budget.
All right, Jason.
Still ahead, Obama's Afghan surge. The president says he'll send 17,000 more troops to the troubled region, but will it help?
GIGOT: President Obama quietly announced a surge of his own this week promising to send 17,000 additional troops to stabilize what he called the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. More than 30,000 troops are already in the region, but the top commander there says the increase may not be enough.
We're back with Dan Henninger and Jason Riley and also joining the panel, foreign affairs columnist, Bret Stephens.
So, Bret, President Obama is doubling down on the surge. Is he wise to do so? And are more American troops the answer here?
BRET STEPHENS, FOREIGN AFFAIRS COLUMNIST: The question is whether Obama understands what the Iraq surge was all about, which wasn't simply about more troops, although that was an essential component. It was about a new strategy, a new way of approaching...
GIGOT: A counterinsurgency strategy.
STEPHENS: A counterinsurgency strategy that, as Dave Petraeus, the commander, says, it focuses on the people. The people are the terrain. He has to win hearts and minds in the areas like Helmand Province, Kandahar, the areas that border Pakistan to make sure they don't become nesting grounds for the Taliban and al Qaeda.
GIGOT: And winning over the people means protecting them. That means if you come in there and they sign with you and your forces while you're there, and then you leave, they're going to be punished by the Taliban that come back. So they have to have confidence that you can keep them safe.
STEPHENS: That's right. It means security first and services second.
GIGOT: All right. The Obama administration is portraying this as even harder than Iraq. Richard Holbrooke said that explicitly to the new envoy, President Obama's envoy. Is that right?
STEPHENS: That's absurd. Iraq was a very tricky situation. It's a way of Holbrooke making himself look good. But it is true in one respect, because this is simply not a problem about Afghan. It's a problem we have with Pakistan where the Taliban enjoys an increasingly large sanctuary, where the government is increasingly on a weak footing. And we don't have major forces in Pakistan. We can't really police what goes on in that country.
HENNINGER: Paul, I think the most interesting aspect is really going to be political. Everyone involved...
GIGOT: Political in the U.S.?
HENNINGER: In the U.S., domestically. Everyone involved is preparing the American people for a long commitment. The commander there, General David McKiernan, is talking about 60,000 troops being in Afghanistan for up to four years. General Petraeus, Defense Secretary Gates, even Joe Lieberman gave a speech all saying in the past week there has to be a larger civilian presence, meaning diplomats going into the countryside, as Bret was describing, and doing institution building, creating the rule of law.
GIGOT: That's a big American national commitment of people and money. Politically, that may not be sustainable here in the United States?
HENNINGER: Absolutely. I'm saying it's easy for the critics to say that sounds a lot like Iraq. That sounds a lot like Vietnam. You explain, Mr. President, why it isn't.
GIGOT: And "Newsweek" magazine, which loves Barack Obama, said this week, put on the cover, "Obama's Vietnam" about Afghanistan. Thanks a lot, fellows.
RILEY: The left's got a problem here. Iraq was Bush's war, but Afghanistan was the good war and Democrats want to show they were tough on terrorism embracing Afghanistan. Now it's Obama's war.
GIGOT: Are they going to sustain it, Bret? Are we looking down the road here politically where Obama's biggest supporters for Afghanistan might be Bush Republicans or neo-cons, like you?
STEPHENS: Yeah, the irony is astonishing. But already you look at places like the "Huffington Post, reading Senator Fred Collins saying, what are we doing in Afghanistan? And it's a remarkable turn-about from just a few years ago.
GIGOT: What is the U.S. national interests, Jason, in Afghanistan? Is it to build a democracy like we were trying to do in Iraq or is it just to deny Afghanistan as a safe haven for al-Qaeda and the Taliban?
RILEY: I would say it's the latter. If we leave prematurely, the Taliban can come back in full force and the elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan can move over to Afghanistan, if we leave a vacuum. I make another point which is a little disturbing in that the Obama administration is publicly trashing Karzai and I don't know...
GIGOT: The president of Afghanistan.
RILEY: The president of Afghanistan. And to dump on a local leader, our local ally like that when, before we have a successful counterinsurgency strategy of protecting the people so these last local allies can be more effective in their leadership, I think is disturbing.
GIGOT: Bret, on Pakistan. We've been making progress with drones against al-Qaeda and Taliban. So have we made progress in recent years or is it deteriorating a little bit?
STEPHENS: It's one step forward and two steps back. What's happened is we've been successful about going after top al-Qaeda leaders in the frontier regions hard on the Afghan border. But the Taliban is retreating into the heartland of Pakistan. They effectively have control of this area called Swat, the Switzerland of Pakistan, and are imposing Sharia law, beheadings, going after girls' schools.
GIGOT: So they ended up making it more difficult for the Pakistan government in Islamabad, which ultimately could hurt our larger — this is going to be a very difficult situation for Barack Obama. We'll see how he handles it.
We have to take one more break. When we come back, our "Hits and Misses" of the week.
GIGOT: Winners and losers, picks and pans, "Hits and Misses," it's our way of calling attention to the best and the worst of the week.
Bret, first to you.
STEPHENS: This is a hit to the Women's Tennis Association to players like the Williams sisters, to the American tennis channel, to everyone that did not allow the Arab Emirate of Dubai from getting away of barring women from playing in the Israeli tennis player, Shahar Peer, from playing in the Barclays Dubai tennis championship. Instead of shrugging it off, the tennis world insisted that Dubai reverse its decision or be kicked off the tennis calendar. Dubai folded. And while it's too late for Shahar Peer to play, Israeli tennis great, Andy Ram is on his way to Dubai. It's a victory for sports and it's a defeat for bigotry.
GIGOT: All right.
Mary?
O'GRADY: This is a hit for the Canadian government. Like a lot of governments around the world, their facing the possibility that its economy is slowing down and tax revenues may not be enough to close its fiscal deficit. So it is thinking — and I stress thinking — about selling assets in the Crown's corporations. This, even a decade ago, would have been considered blasphemy, but now it's looking at assets in the rail company called Via Rail, in the Royal Canadian Mint and also in Canada Post. I think it shows how open and competitive and global Canada has become.
RILEY: Another hit for a Rochester mother, Yolanda Hill, who was arrested last week for sending her kids to a school in a district where they allegedly do not live. So she was seeking a better education for her children and her crime was to put down her mother's address on the enrollment form. She was actually put in jail for doing this. And I think that while what she allegedly did is clearly wrong, I think the real crime here is that people like Yolanda Hill don't have school choice.
Boy, you're all in a gracious generous mood. Thank you all.
If you have your own "Hit or Miss, please send it to us here at jer@FOXnews.com.
That's it for this week edition of "The Journal Editorial Report." Thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. I'm Paul Gigot. We hope to see you right here next week.
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Celebrating unsung black Catholic women in U.S. history
Shannen Dee Williams
On the evening of Sunday, May 10, 1891, Father Augustus Tolton, the nation's first self-identified black priest, traveled to a home in Chicago's "Negro district" to administer death rites to a pious, but once-lapsed laywoman.
Writing about the incident two days later, Father Tolton noted that the "colored woman had been nine years away from her duties because she was hurled out of a white church and even cursed at by the Irish members."
Inspired by this woman's enduring faith in the face of such unholy discrimination, Father Tolton, the son of devout Catholic slaves, documented her faith testimony and in the process gave a voice to the legions of anonymous and unheralded black women upon whose shoulders the African American Catholic community has historically rested.
"She sent for me," Father Tolton wrote, "and thanked God that she had me to send for."
To date, black women remain among the most invisible and elusive figures in U.S. Catholic history. Like the woman who sent for Father Tolton on her deathbed in 1891, many of these women remain nameless, captured only in brief references and in the shadows of more well-known members of the church.
Since the earliest importation of African slaves into the Americas, black women have played prominent roles in the propagation of Catholic faith, education, and charity. In the 18th century, for example, black women constituted the majority of the church's membership in New Orleans, Louisiana, and free black women served as godparents to more than 80 percent of the city's enslaved population.
Beginning in the 19th century, women became the first representatives of the African American community to enter religious life. Barred from joining white sisterhoods due to exclusionary admissions policies that lasted until well into the 20th century, black women first succeeded in becoming sisters by either passing for white in white congregations or establishing their own orders.
Between 1824 and 1922, African American women organized at least eight historically black and Afro-Creole orders, of which three are still in existence. The surviving congregations are the Oblate Sisters of Providence (1828) in Baltimore, Maryland; the Sisters of the Holy Family (1842) in New Orleans, Louisiana; and the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary (1916) in Savannah, Georgia and later Harlem, New York.
However, the first known African American woman to enter religious life was Nellie Morgan, who was the sixth member of the Kentucky-based Sisters of Loretto, the first Catholic sisterhood with an American foundation. The daughter of a white man and an ex-slave mother, Morgan passed for white in her order.
Black women also co-founded the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Monroe, Michigan in 1845 and the Benedictines of Mary, Queen Apostles in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1995. Both communities are predominantly white.
In addition to educating 10 of the nation's first 23 black priests, black sisters desegregated several Catholic colleges and universities, including Saint Louis University, Villanova University, and the Catholic University of America, in the era before the Brown v. Board of Education decision. In 1933, for example, Oblate Sisters of Providence Mary of Good Counsel Baptiste and Mary Consolata Gibson re-integrated the Catholic University of America. In 1934, these sisters became the institution's first black women graduates.
Like their religious counterparts, black laywomen were prominent propagators of Catholic faith and formed the backbone their parishes and communities. Women, like Anna (aka Madre) Bates of Detroit, founded Catholic missions in their neighborhoods when white ecclesiastical authorities refused to do so. Many of these missions, like Detroit's Our Lady of Victory, became thriving black Catholic parishes.
Black laywomen also encouraged and nurtured the vocations of black girls and boys in their families and parishes, reminding them constantly that a racially segregated church was a profoundly un-Catholic church.
Angela White's journey to religious life, for instance, is replete with examples of this kind of support from black Catholic women. A cradle Catholic and native of Washington, D.C., White felt the call to religious life while in elementary school. Soon thereafter, members of her family, the Sisters of the Holy Family who staffed her parish, and a black female public schoolteacher all actively nurtured her vocation, taking her to Mass daily and keeping her on the path of spiritual perfection.
Having grown up listening to the stories of her maternal great-grandmother, Mary Mattie Wood, who cooked and cleaned for the white priests at St. Mary Church in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, but was forced to sit in segregated pews and receive communion after the white parishioners, White also wanted "to change the world" by desegregating a white congregation. Although rejected admission into three white congregations solely on the basis of race, Angela White became one of the first two African American Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati in 1956.
Such examples of black Catholic women's sufferings and triumphs stand as a searing testament to the enduring faith of the African American Catholic community in the face of bigotry and exclusion. Their stories should inspire all Catholics and be celebrated as Catholic history. Indeed, the lives and labors of this small sampling of women prove that black history is not simply American history, but also Catholic history.
As Franciscan Handmaid of Mary Loretta Theresa Richards aptly put it, "The Catholic Church wouldn't be Catholic if it wasn't for us." And that's a fact.
Image: Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans, 1899, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Shannen Dee Williams is the 2013-2014 postdoctoral fellow in African American studies and history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.


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LONDON: British Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BACCI) has partnered up with World Humanitarian Forum, London 2019 to 'Shape the Future for a Better Tomorrow'.
The forum, which will be held over two days on 17th and 18th April 2019 in Excel, London, will bring together prominent leaders from the public and private sectors, as well as international thought-leaders and pioneers.
BACCI is joining the London event to host leading philanthropists, NGOs and private sector experts to discuss bridging the funding gap in the humanitarian sector.
The world is at a critical juncture; with more people displaced from their homes than ever before, as a result of climate change, natural disasters and conflicts. In the last two decades 218 million people have fled their homes, at an annual cost to the global economy that now exceeds $300 billion, according to the UN.
It's a unique and essential opportunity to engage in inspirational, thought-provoking, and future-focused dialogues that aim to shape the future of humanitarian aid and international development, and ultimately help to improve the lives of millions in need.
The Forum is being launched alongside Aid&Trade London, International Disaster Management Exhibition and Emergency Show.
World Humanitarian Forum visitors have VIP access to these additional events, expected to attract more than 4.000 global public and private sector officials and leaders from 50+ countries.
BACCI leadership will chair and speak on important panels along with other world leaders such as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and activists from across the globe.
For more information on the agenda, speakers and how to attend, please visit the event site here.


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