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Insulation to Keep Us Warm — Not Warm the Planet
An update on steps to reduce the global warming potential of insulation materials
By Alex Wilson
Today's closed-cell SPF has a global warming potential of 1,430. If producers adopt new HFO blowing agents, it will drop to close to zero.
Image Credit: John Straube
Image Credit: John Straube	Twelve inches of sub-slab XPS was used in this Passive House in New York state. It will take several hundred years of energy savings to pay back the global warming potential of that insulation.
Image Credit: Jordan Dentz, The Levy Partnership, Inc.
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I've been pretty vocal about a big problem with some of our most common insulation materials: that they are made using blowing agents that are highly potent greenhouse gases.
All extruded polystyrene (XPS) and most closed-cell spray polyurethane foams (SPF) are made with HFC (hydrofluorocarbon) blowing agents that have global warming potentials (GWPs) many hundreds of times greater than that of carbon dioxide. (My apologies for contaminating this column with so many acronyms!)
Insulation: good news, bad news
Insulation materials help our homes save energy and, in so doing, they reduce the combustion of fossil fuels and the release of greenhouse gases.
But if the insulation material itself is made with a very-high-GWP blowing agent that may ultimately escape from the insulation, adding a lot of insulation may actually be a bad thing from the standpoint of mitigating climate change. All that was spelled out in my blog post two years ago, "Avoiding the Global Warming Impact of Insulation" and, in greater detail, in the EBN feature article on the same topic.
OK for ozone, bad for climate
With XPS, the blowing agent HFC-134a has a GWP of 1,430, meaning that it's 1,430 times as potent as carbon dioxide (which is defined as having a GWP of 1). Nearly all closed-cell SPF is made with the blowing agent HFC-245fa, which has a GWP of 1,030.
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Are there closed-cell spray foam products that have low global warming aspects on the market now?
Relative to global warming, these blowing agents aren't as bad as the CFCs that were used originally, but they are as bad as the HCFCs (hydrochlorocfluorcarbons) that were adopted as second-generation blowing agents. (Both HFCs and HFOs are considered totally safe for the ozone, which is why CFCs and HCFCs have been phased out.)
Blowing agents: the next generation
Anyway, given all this, I've been closely following the developments by industry in coming up with alternatives that are neither ozone depleters nor significant greenhouse gases.
Two years ago, it appeared that the leading candidates were HFOs (hydrofluoroolefins), and Honeywell announced the development of such a product in 2011. And indeed, it was just announced last week that Whirlpool, the nation's largest appliance manufacturer (with such brands as Maytag, Amana, Jenn-Air, and KitchenAid, along with Whirlpool), was switching to a new HFO blowing agent for the polyurethane insulation in all of its refrigerators.
Whirlpool will be using the new Solstice Liquid Blowing Agent made by Honeywell, one of the nation's three producers of blowing agents (along with DuPont and Arkema). Solstice HFO has zero ozone depletion potential and a GWP of just 4.7 to 7.0—similar to that of the various hydrocarbon blowing agents used in expanded polystyrene and polyisocyanurate — and insignificant relative to global warming.
Efficiency boost an added bonus
Further, Solstice HFO will boost the R-value of the insulation material slightly. Compared with HFC-245fa, this HFO produces insulation with 2% higher R-value, and compared with hydrocarbon blowing agents it offers an 8% to 10% improvement, according to Honeywell.
While the change is exciting, it is not immediate. The HFO has just received its approvals from the government, and it will take a while to ramp up production and convert refrigerator factories to the new foam. Whirlpool expects to begin incorporating the new blowing agents into its refrigerators in late 2013.
Spray-foam manufacturers slower to adopt HFOs
But what about the closed-cell SPF insulation that is commonly used to insulate buildings?
SPF manufacturers will probably be replacing the HFC-245fa with HFO … but it's unclear exactly when that will happen. Rick Duncan, the technical director at the Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance (SPFA), the trade association serving the SPF industry, told me that some SPF manufacturers ("system houses") are conducting field trials with the new HFO blowing agents, but not all of them. (At least one manufacturer, Icynene, also makes a water-blown, medium-density foam, MD-R-200, which insulates to R-5.2 per inch and is referred to as both an open-cell and closed-cell product on the Icynene website; most other water-blown SPF products are believed to have been discontinued.)
Unlike in 2003 when federal regulations mandated a switch from HCFC to HFC blowing agents due to ozone depletion concerns, there are no similar regulations requiring a switch from HFCs to HFOs.
It's up to us
And the conversion takes time and is expensive — about one year and at least $100,000, says Duncan. With the building industry still in an economic slump, producers aren't looking to spend a lot of additional money on product development.
Duncan believes, however, that when a new life-cycle assessment (LCA) report on SPF comes out that SPFA is now finalizing, customers will begin asking for lower-GWP foam and manufacturers will respond by producing it. From an environmental standpoint, open-cell SPF (which doesn't include HFC blowing agents) has just 1/20th the global warming impact of closed-cell SPF.
Less action in the XPS camp
I was not able to get as much information from the extruded polystyrene industry about when the HFC-134a might be replaced with a lower-GWP blowing agent and whether there is a gaseous form of HFO that could work for that industry. (While a liquid blowing agent is used in producing SPF, a gaseous blowing agent is required for XPS.)
Jan McKinnon, the senior communications manager at Dow Building Solutions (manufacturer of Dow Styrofoam XPS), says that the company is looking for ways to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. "Since the launch of our new formulation in 2010 [converting from HCFC-142b to HFC-134a], we continue to look at lowering our blowing agent global warming potential, and we have an active process in place to reduce it by 15%," she told me. She said that they are actively evaluating alternative blowing agents for XPS, "but most of these technologies are still in their infancy."
Not a great time to invest in products
Both the SPF and XPS industries have already gone through two major transitions: from CFC to HCFC blowing agents and then from HCFC to HFC blowing agents.
With a weak building economy and depressed sales of building materials, enthusiasm for a third major conversion has been limited. But I believe that there will be growing demand to produce products with as little impact on global climate change as possible — and if this year's heat and drought continue, that demand may well grow.
Let's hope so.
Alex is founder of BuildingGreen, Inc. and executive editor of Environmental Building News. To keep up with Alex's latest articles and musings, you can sign up for his Twitter feed.
John Semmelhack | Aug 23, 2012 10:51am | #1
Jan McKinnon at Dow must not be familiar with an apparently little-known company called "Dow Building Solutions UK" and the other European Dow companies that use CO2 as the blowing agent for XPS...GWP of 5 according to Dow.
http://building.dow.com/eu/gbr/en/products/styrofoam/about/envirostandards.htm
Alex Wilson | Aug 23, 2012 11:38am | #2
Dow in Europe
Yes, Dow (and everybody else making XPS in Europe) have shifted to non-HFC blowing agents--I thought they were hydrocarbon blowing agents, but they could be CO2. Dow in the U.S. claims that our market wouldn't accept a product that didn't achieve R-5 per inch. (I think the European XPS only achieves R-4 per inch.) I've tried to argue with Dow that maybe--just maybe--American builders could be convinced to use 2-1/2 inches instead of 2 inches to achieve comparable performance.
John Semmelhack | Aug 23, 2012 02:13pm | #3
Yes, R-4.0/inch to R-4.4/inch with the CO2 blowing agent, depending on the exact product and board thickness.
http://building.dow.com/eu/gbr/en/products/styrofoam/floormate.htm
Ken Levenson | Aug 23, 2012 02:58pm | #4
Just say no, or almost so
We can build high performing resilient buildings without foam, or nearly so. At Subslab it is difficult to substitute, but everywhere else, not hard - and one can even get a more resilient and robust building in the process. Win-win-win. We just need to kick the foam habit.
Aj Builder, Upstate NY Zone 6a | Aug 24, 2012 03:16am | #5
Foam is here to stay. No
Foam is here to stay. No matter how one or two feel. I prefer to stay neutral myself. The tech is improving every year.
Ken Levenson | Aug 24, 2012 11:59am | #6
response to AJ builder
Agreed.. And glad to see it improving. Yet if we can build robustly, resiliently and more sustainably, largely without foam - seems like a rational direction would be to limit its use to when only absolutely necessary. Oil is here to stay too......until it's not....
Aj Builder, Upstate NY Zone 6a | Aug 24, 2012 04:01pm | #7
Polymers do not have to come
Polymers do not have to come from oil or even fossil fuel. Chemistry today and tomorrow is rapidly advancing.
This is not the industrial century. Today we are in the nano decade and moving into the cyber infinite everywhere icloud end of natural resource over-use time.
Since the first laser diode and microprocessor we have been inventing an unlimited plethora of tech which is rapidly filling and over-filling the works with boundless future resources that we now tap into just in time capitalistically.
And of course part of the drive for all this good happening is the constant whine of all, yaa know, climate change, CO2, and dead bats and bees.
IPAs for all the builders.... bartender...
Bob Rueter | Aug 27, 2012 03:16pm | #8
Water-Blown Closed-Cell
Please note that the Icynene Water-Blown Closed-Cell spray foam is MD-R-210, not MD-R-200. The
"R" refers to 7% recycled content. It is R-5.8/inch.
MD-R-210
Our company sprays open & closed cell foam. With water-based closed cell foam, you have to make sure the substrate is warm enough in winter. In new construction this means heating the envelope up to get the first coat down. If you don't do this, you can get closed cell peeling back or shrinking. This is why some contractors go with a "winter blend" for closed cell. All of the winter blends, however, that I am aware of, use HFC's for blowing agents.
No one product is best for all situations. Closed cell is pretty good in a lot of them.
Aj Builder, Upstate NY Zone 6a | Aug 28, 2012 09:06pm | #10
Robert, is MD-R-210 the best
Robert, is MD-R-210 the best "use in all locations" spray foam? Do you spray?
Thank you Bob
Richard Beyer | Sep 05, 2012 10:57pm | #11
Spray Foam and Health Issues
The largest part of this discussion which is critically missed, "HEALTH."
Do any of you readers understand the health ramnifications of using spray foam insulation?
Do you understand what these products will do to you, your family and others you recommend it to? Well, I do and it's not pretty. Try keywording some of your own health questions. You may be shocked to find there are very, very few answers. That is unless you know where to look. Here's a couple links for you:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2012/03/sprayfoam/ and http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/spf/epa_niosh_osha_spfa_confernce_presentation_february_2011.pdf
All to often builders and industry experts make a claim to fame when something new is introduced to make our lives safer and more economical without doing the research first. I will be the first to admit, I did this to. However, I did do the research on spray foam insulation and came up with nothing but the positives of spray foam (aka SPF). The real issue with these SPF products (open and closed cell) is any keyword you use online dating back to 1997 to current is industry promoted.
HGTV and many other DIY channels are promoting Spray Polyurethane Foam Insulation without publishing any research on the health implications. Holmes on Holmes appears to be in the room as the guys are spraying the foam. Bob Villa and Norm of This Old House promote these products now and in years past. As a matter of fact, my SPF applicator was the same company which recently sprayed a home for This Old House in a Rhode Island home. This company is one of the largest in the northeast and sprayed my home with off-ratio foam. (ie; closed and open cell name brand foams)
What would you say if I told you part A-side of SPF was modified Formaldehyde changed chemically to make (MDI) methylene diphenylene diisocyanate. Well, it is! This is the A-side of all SPF manufacturers foam insulation. Many have Formaldehyde in the B-side as well. In CT Formaldehyde containing spray foam is legal as long as it is Urethane or Styrene foam and not (UFFI).
See: CGS Sec. 29-277. Urea-formaldehyde insulation: Definition; prohibition concerning use; penalty. (a) Urea-formaldehyde (UF) foamed-in-place insulation, also referred to as formaldehyde-based insulation, means any cellular plastic thermal material which contains as a component chemical formaldehyde, formaldehyde polymers, formaldehyde derivatives and any other chemical from which formaldehyde can be released, but does not mean urethane foam insulation or styrene foam insulation.
(b) Urea-formaldehyde foamed-in-place insulation shall not be installed in any building or structure on or after June 1, 1981.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for the first offense and for each subsequent offense shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.
(P.A. 81-250, S. 1-4.)
Are you aware that if you are in a home when these products are installed without respiratory protection the chemicals can cause permanent lung damage and death?
"Persons developing sensitivity to isocyanates may have dangerous systemic reactions to extremely small exposures, including respiratory failure. MDI should not be heated or sprayed except with strict engineering controls and personal protective equipment."
See: http://www.thefullwiki.org/Methylene_diphenyl_diisocyanate
Are you aware that the medical community is studying humans who have these products installed within their homes? Are you aware the medical community is studying the men who apply these products? Dr. Redlich of Yale University is the most known doctor researching the effects of SPF and humans.
Are you aware our own government is just recently taking notice and most recently are studying the health implications of these products.
Do you think the government is studying these products just because they want to help us. No!
People are complaining and are injured. ie; health and property damage. Many believe SPF is the next Chinese Drywall and the next (UFFI) Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Insulation which is banned in many states.
I know first hand because my contractor contaminated my house with 3 different spray foams and they all failed.
My reason for posting is to help you. Every SPF company I have spoken to will not tell the truth and/or are afraid to. Reality is this... you complain, you are ISOLATED.
Ask your State Department of Public Health and or Building Officials for information relating to health and SPF. Do not feel shocked when you learn as I did they do not know how to handle issues relating to spray foam insulation.
Please do your homework first guy's. There is a lot more to building than energy conservation. There is responsible building to.
I'll be the first to tell you, these products do not belong around people or children with Asthma!! If you still want to specify or use these products, call the manufacturer and verify your applicators credentials first. Do not trust the salesman! Call the manufacturers corporate office for credential verification. Make sure you get "EVERYTHING IN WRITING" from the manufacturer and the installer. Do not believe the verbal claim's because when you have a failure (odor, shrinking, cracking, etc.) and you do not take the proper steps, this will easily become the most expensive insulation you ever gambled on. One last piece of mind for you.....your homeowners policy will not cover you for any SPF failures. You better verify your contractor is insured for a minimum $1M policy plus an umbrella policy endorsement for at least $5M. Do not be afraid to ask to be named as an additional insured. The future is only going to bring numerous lawsuits as more and more people have these products installed in their homes and complaints surface. Builders, Architects, Designers and Applicators are not immune from the claims.
I hope my experience helps you all.
Richard Beyer | Dec 02, 2012 08:54am | #12
My home in the news...
http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=91060&sitesection=WTIC_hom_non_fro&VID=23903508
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Gaza's St. Hilarion Monastery: When stones tell stories
The St. Hilarion Monastery, known in Arabic as Tell Umm Amer, was built by the fourth century monk for whom it was named.
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On a hill located a few kilometers from the Gaza seashore lay the stone remains of the 1,700-year-old St. Hilarion Monastery, Palestine's oldest Christian monument.
It's quiet amid the ruins, save for the sound of the wind.
"This is why St. Hilarion chose this remote, hilly area to build his monastery," Hayam al-Bitar, head of research at Gaza's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, told Anadolu Agency during a tour of the ancient complex.
"An atmosphere of serenity and repose was a necessary ingredient of monasticism," she added.
St. Hilarion was born in southern Gaza in 329 AD, during the Byzantine era.
The monastery, thought to be the first Christian edifice built in Palestine, quickly became one of the most important sites in the Holy Land.
"The monastery's entrance featured a square court with a fountain at the center," al-Bitar said, walking through the remains of the 8,000-square-meter rectangular structure.
"The southern wing had a number of rooms in which the monks resided," she noted, pointing to a hallway that led to Saint Hilarion's mosaic-floored chamber and chapel at the heart of the monastery.
The chapel, replete with corridors and marble columns, was built according to the Corinthian style of architecture, known for its elaborate entablature.
These features of the monastery, however, are barely discernable to the modern visitor.
All that is left of the ancient complex are its stone walls, marble floors and a handful of Corinthian columns.
In one of the rooms, a brown mosaic floor has survived, bearing the words "With the blessing of our father, Hilarion."
"The monastery was abandoned after being severely damaged by an earthquake in the seventh century," al-Bitar said.
"Some of the stones from the ruined monastery were later used in the Islamic era to build fortifications around the complex during the rule of Caliph Omar Abdel-Aziz," she added.
Before it was damaged by the earthquake, she noted, the monastery had boasted as many as 220 rooms.
The monastery's ruins were unearthed in 1993.
Al-Bitar said the most remarkable part of the monastery was the crossed-shaped sanctum in the eastern side of the complex, which had been reserved for Hilarion and other senior monks.
Gaza's Tourism Ministry has said that much of the ruins were stolen during Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip from 1967 to 2005.
The Gaza authorities, for their part, have tried to preserve the ruins, which the Global Heritage Network has put in the "Rescue needed" category.
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The danger with reading poems in relation to their authors' biographies is not so much that seeking an 'original' version of a poem goes against its very nature as a language construct, often built deliberately to resist such speculative manhandling, but because it implies rather lazily that the 'poetry of life' translates inherently into the 'poetry of poems'. If poems were just poetic life experiences written down nicely, you'd find a lot more about Center Parcs, paintballing and roller coasters.
I have nothing against life, as the great Anne Sexton wrote; indeed, I recognize that poetry mainly relies on life's troughs and wobbles, but writing a poem is an interrogatory act, rather than merely an expressive or anecdotal one, or in other words: your life might need to take place in order for you to write your poems, but your poems should never be merely a record of your life taking place. At some point poetry should seek to connect with the lives of others, and it's the manner with which you seek those connections, and the depth of them, that is where you should be putting your hours in.
My wariness of poignant experiences probably also arises out of my own failure to recapture 'a moment' in poem form – those life-affirming coincidences never came out as significantly on the page; or worse, I realized I'd part-way contrived them – but my favourite cautionary folk tale on the subject of poems is the one told to me by the poet Peter Scupham when I was just starting to write.
It's a muggy July evening, Old Hall, Burlingham, Norfolk. For two weeks the hot weather has been slowly bringing a storm to the boil. The world is in one of its moods and the wind fusses with the lawn furniture. Any moment now and everything will fall. Peter is reading in the kitchen, and Margaret, who's been watching things develop outside with concern and excitement, comes in.
Checking the sky before he goes, Peter treads quickly across the lawn to where the barn door is lurching and swinging like the end of a drunk argument. He catches and stops it with his wellington boot and slowly, against the resistance of the gale, brings the door back into place. He quickly pulls the catch across and winds the string around the metal housing for the missing bolt, until the door is fastened. There. Good. That should do it.
As he turns back towards the house, Peter's eyes are drawn, almost of their own accord, up to its roof: darkly silhouetted against the broody sky, Oberon, their pet peacock, has climbed to the very top of Old Hall, and is perched there like a church weathervane. The bird calls out. It sounds like the word 'pew', but stretched into a high-pitched, mewling cry: thin, pained and elemental.
As it calls, a bolt of lightning cracks down in the distance behind him. It is both a trickle and a flash, halving the sky above the house, bisecting Oberon's silhouette perfectly. There is a one-elephant-two-elephant pause and then the noise of thunder comes rushing across the miles of bald cornfield, reaching Peter, and at that moment the storm breaks. The rain arrives all at once.
So why did Peter make that promise? Because sometimes the experience itself is a poem, and the fact that experiences elapse then elude us, slide into memory, is part of what makes them poetic. If that sounds overly romantic then consider whether trying to recapture a lived experience might actually amount to a kind of writerly arrogance. The weather, the bird, the house, the whole complex and wonderful collaboration of elements, can only be mocked up using 'terminology', can only be condescended to, described. Letting an experience be bigger than your ability to comprehend it is part of recognizing what the sublime is.
If a poem should not seek to recount a poetic event, but be a poetic event of its own, then we have to do more than just describe. Description, I hereby declare a little too grandly, is the opposite of poetry. Description is when we try to indicate in language the material existence of something, so that a fish, say, is 'scaly', 'oily', 'smelly', 'wet', 'shiny', etc. All these descriptive words refer to the material reality of the fish: it has scales that secrete oil, an oil which reflects light, making the fish shiny, but also the oil makes the fish smell fishy, because it is a fish. All this adds up logically. Poetry, on the other hand, begins when you describe the fish in terms of things that do not refer to its material reality: the fish can also be 'mechanized', 'unpopular', 'deeply religious', etc. When you assign qualities further away from the fish's material reality the reader has work to do; they must participate in overcoming the problem of that distance between the reality and the leap away. This is the logic of metaphor. This is not description.
To return to Peter's peacock on the roof, to merely relay the details in a poem would be to reduce them to a decorative anecdote. A poem needs to pose questions as much as it describes dramatic elements, then it creates a distance for the reader to travel across: the story becomes just the symbolic starting point for a wider engagement with what the symbols might mean. That's the hard part – working out what to do with the story, what it is 'about' (and I mean 'about' in the sense that it also means 'around', because the meaning of a poem isn't a fixed point, it oscillates). No matter how powerful or moving the experience, it might not mean anything beyond that. You have to load it with the potential to be meaningful to somebody else who isn't you.
No lightning bolt, no storm, no peacock calling out, no swinging gate.
Sometime over the last decade I've made all these things up. There's not even any mention of a promise not to write a poem (though it's possible there was one) and I've rather cruelly written Margaret out of most of my version. In retrospect I think I borrowed the swinging barn door in the storm from another time at Old Hall a couple of years later. I've made up the story of Peter's experience out of an assemblage of my own memories and experiences. But what does this mean for my argument against the anecdote? Especially now we've found out it wasn't an anecdote to begin with!
I love this idea: in order to understand their life at Old Hall they have to imagine they don't live there! They have to make a leap away – it's just like with the fish. The moral is the same as before, but inverted: you have to imagine yourself apart from your reality in order to not lose sense of your reality's strangeness.
Perhaps this is all self-evident and there's no essay to be had, but the foggy nature of memory, the weird mediation we enact when we apprehend reality, and the fact that that reality changes even as we apprehend it, all points to the idea that you should not trust the seeming proximity between the nature of a poetic experience and the supposed 'rendering' of one in a poem. Experiences and poems written about them are as different as a thunderstorm in July and a clear, starlit, frosty night. We are free to draw on anything we like to make our poems, but we should not be too reliant on our material. Often when we think we are being faithful to the poetry of reality, we are usually being unfaithful to the reality of poetry: with its strangeness, its unlikeliness and its offer of new logic.
Jack Underwood was born in Norwich in 1984. He teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007. He also teaches at the Poetry School, co-edits the anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives, and reviews for Poetry London and Poetry Review. Happiness (2015) is his debut collection of poetry.


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Wizards will be improved this season, but enough to sell Beal on staying?
By Kurt HelinOct 9, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT
The Washington Wizards were clear winners in the NBA offseason.
Maybe not dramatically so, but they got better. Trading Russell Westbrook for a wealth of quality role players — Kyle Kuzma, Montrezl Harrell, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Aaron Holiday (acquired for the Lakers' No. 22 pick) — plus signing Spencer Dinwiddie gives the Wizards depth, versatility, and defensive options they lacked a season ago. The team also has financial flexibility going forward, which seemed impossible a couple of seasons ago when John Wall's contract anchored the books.
All the offseason moves still leave two questions for Washington heading into the season:
How much better will the Wizards be?
Is it enough to keep Bradley Beal happy and have him re-sign with the team?
That second question is the big cloud hanging over the season — Beal is the franchise, the man who has been second in the NBA in scoring the past two seasons. If he leaves, it's a retooling/rebuild. The Wizards put a max $181 million contract extension in front of Beal, but even if he wants to stay in Washington he likely will wait, become a free agent next summer, and re-sign for five years, $235 million. Beal will take his time and consider his options, but if he is leaning toward leaving the Wizards will want to know before the trade deadline in hopes of getting something back rather than letting him walk for nothing.
Beal has no reason to rush his decision and give these new Wizards a chance.
Washington GM Tommy Sheppard's offseason moves not only added much-needed depth to the roster, but they give first-time head coach Wes Unseld Jr. lineup flexibility his predecessor lacked. Depending on the matchup, Unseld can lean on the attacking Rui Hachimura at the four or the floor spacing Davis Bertans. He can play Caldwell-Pope behind Beal or next to him on occasions for defense. When Tomas Bryant returns from injury (around Christmas), the team will have three quality bigs with the offense-first Bryant, the energy of Harrell, and the impressive rim protection and rim-running game of Daniel Gafford, who came on strong for Washington at the end of last season.
The biggest unknown is how good Dinwiddie will be coming off ACL surgery. The last time he played an entire season for the Nets, Dinwiddie averaged 20.6 points and 6.8 assists a game, leading a feisty Brooklyn team into the playoffs. Dinwiddie provides secondary playmaking next to Beal, but defenses may help off him when Beal is working with the ball and Dinwiddie is standing at the arc (career 31.8% from 3). That said, Dinwiddie will make things easier for Beal.
Two areas where the Wizards need to take a step forward this season is 3-point shooting and defense.
The Wizards attempted the second-fewest 3s in the league last season (Spurs) and hit just 35.1% of them, a bottom 10 in the league percentage. That starts with Beal, one of the better pure shooters in the league, but he took just 27% of his shots from beyond the arc last season, well below the 36.9% the season before. Plus, Beal only hit 34.9% from 3, a career low. Washington needs more threes from Beal, Bertans, Caldwell-Pope, Kuzma, and more.
The other area is defense. The Wizards were 19th in the league in defense last season, better than the 30th the season before, but still below average. Having Gafford protecting the rim all season will help, as will having Caldwell-Pope on the wing. However, the Wizards will need their bench to step up on this end because a Harrell/Bertans second unit could be a defensive disaster.
The Wizards are going to be solid this season, competitive night in and night out, but in a deep and improved East they still will likely finish a few games below .500 and be fighting for a play-in spot. Which is not a huge step foward, but it should feel better than a year ago.
Is all that enough to sell Beal on staying in the nation's capital? The Magic 8 Ball says, "Ask again later (like maybe February)."
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Ohio State men's basketball spotlight: Keyshawn Woods
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Ohio State will open its 2018-19 men's basketball season by playing its first game at Cincinnati in 98 years. The Buckeyes and Bearcats will meet at the newly renovated Fifth Third Arena on Nov. 7, marking only the 11th time the in-state programs have met and the first time they've played each other within state lines since 1921. In preparation for the game, The Dispatch is counting down the final 14 days with power rankings for each of the members of the Ohio State roster. The series continues with the 12th player in our rankings.
No. 3: Keyshawn Woods
Position: Guard
Class: Graduate transfer
Height/weight: 6 feet 3 / 205 pounds
Jersey number: 32
Background: A North Carolina native, Woods was the state's player of the year while playing for Charlotte Northside Christian in 2014 and averaging 17.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.6 steals per game and leading it to a second consecutive state title. He played one season at the University of Charlotte, where he played for former Ohio State assistant Alan Major, and led Conference USA in three-point shooting percentage (46.6 percent) before transferring to Wake Forest three months after the 49ers replaced Major with former Cleveland Cavaliers star Mark Price. He sat out a season, then played two years for the Demon Deacons, where he averaged 12.2 points and made 61 appearances including 28 starts. Woods then signed with Ohio State as a graduate transfer during the spring, giving him one final season of college basketball. You can read Sunday's story from the Dispatch on Woods' path to the Buckeyes by clicking here.
2017-18 stats: Woods dealt with a knee injury that limited his effectiveness for Wake Forest but finished with averages of 11.9 points and 1.9 assists while shooting 43.9 percent from the field and 37.4 percent from three. He played in 28 games and made five starts, averaging 25.7 minutes per game.
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Need to know: Woods will turn 23 on January 28. He is the second graduate transfer guard to join the Buckeyes in as many seasons, following the footsteps of Andrew Dakich from Michigan. "Dakich has pretty much told me to be myself," Woods said. "He's like, 'Don't try to be an outcast, don't try to be on your own. Make sure you be a part of the team. Go be part of the team. Hang out with the guys and everything will fall into place.' He's been helping me a lot through this process." Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann unsuccessfully tried to recruit Woods on two separate occasions: out of high school when Holtmann was the coach at Gardner-Webb, and then when Woods transferred from Charlotte and Holtmann was coaching at Butler. Woods joined Ohio State already acquainted with senior point guard C.J. Jackson, a fellow Charlotte native. The two played against each other on multiple occasions during high school. Ohio State's coaches and players have nicknamed him "Key."
Career stats: In stops at two schools, Woods has averaged 10.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 93 games including 30 starts. He averages 27.3 minutes per game and is a career 47.4 percent shooter from the field and 42.5 percent three-point shooter.
2017-18 recap: Woods had 15 double-digit scoring games off the bench, the second-most in program history. He scored in double figures in all five starts and put up a career-high 25 in the season opener against Georgia Southern on Nov. 10. He was hampered by an MCL sprain suffered during the second game of ACC play. "It affected me playing a lot last year, but now I'm pretty much back to myself," Woods said during the summer of the knee injury. "I spent the whole summer getting healthy and doing everything I had to do in order to be me." In a Feb. 24 game against Notre Dame, Woods scored 12 points to move him past 1,000 for his career, and he added a season-high six assists. In his final two games of the season, though, Woods went 1 for 13 from the field and scored five points in a loss at Georgia Tech and then a conference tournament loss to Syracuse.
2018-19 outlook: Brought in to give the Buckeyes a second experienced ball handler, Woods will play significant minutes both on and off the ball. He's been through high-level battles, playing two seasons in the ACC, and will be expected to shoulder significant roles on and off the court on an Ohio State team filled with question marks. Fully healthy, teammates have credited Woods for being unselfish with the ball almost to a point. That much was on display in Thursday's exhibition game against UNC Pembroke, where he was 0 for 3 from the floor and passed up several shots to get the ball to others. Holtmann brought him off the bench against the Braves in order to avoid having two true freshman thrown into the mix together in Luther Muhammad and Duane Washington Jr., and it seems likely that he will play starters' minutes while technically serving as a reserve. Woods and Jackson will spend significant time together this season and should allow the Buckeyes to play three-guard lineups for important minutes. Woods has proven himself adept at both scoring and finding teammates during his career, so a question about his fit remains: would Ohio State be better this season if he averages 10 points a game, or five assists per game? "He's our kind of guy," assistant coach Ryan Pedon said during the preseason. "He'll bring a maturity he's got an old-man's game to him as well. He reminds me of John Bagley, who moved like he was about 53. Keyshawn, he's an old man around here but he's a great kid. I think he's going to bring a lot of things for our team this year on and off the court."
Previous power rankings
No. 4: Andre Wesson
No. 5: Luther Muhammad
No. 6: Kyle Young
No. 7: Duane Washington Jr.
No. 8: Musa Jallow
No. 9: Micah Potter
No. 10: Jaedon LeDee
No. 11: Justin Ahrens
No. 12: Joey Lane
No. 13: Danny Hummer
No. 14: CJ Walker
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February 24th, 2017 Margaret Jetelina Featured, News comments
Nominations are now closed.
This is the ninth annual awards program presented by Canadian Immigrant magazine and supported by founding and title sponsor RBC Royal Bank.
Since the inception of the awards, the goal has been to highlight the contributions of immigrants to this country, and share their stories of struggle and triumph — something that is needed now more than ever in the global environment of anti-immigrant sentiment.
"Canada as a country has been steadfast in its position that we are a nation of immigrants — stronger, kinder and more innovative because of immigration, not in spite of it," says Margaret Jetelina, editor of Canadian Immigrant magazine. "Our magazine and RBC Top 25 Awards have played an important role in sharing the stories of immigrants and refugees who have come to Canada to fulfill their dreams and give back to their adopted land."
The 2017 awards will be historic as well, because this year's winners will be announced in time to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, a momentous occasion in the history of a nation built by immigrants.
Who can be nominated for RBC Top 25?
A nominee can be anyone who has immigrated to Canada and has since contributed to the success and uplifting of this country and/or its people. Achievements can be either professional or personal. Nominees must hold landed immigrant (Permanent Resident) or citizen status in Canada, and must reside in Canada.
Some of the past winners include two former Governor Generals of Canada Adrienne Clarkson and Michaëlle Jean, national broadcaster Ian Hanomansing, celebrity entrepreneur Robert Herjavec and star chef Vikram Vij, and the late architect Bing Thom, to name a few.
Special honours for entrepreneurs and youth
This will also be the third year that sponsor RBC selects one of the winners for its special RBC Entrepreneur Award. This year, we are also introducing the new Youth Award, which will recognize the achievements of young immigrants (between 15 and 30) who are making a difference in their adopted country through achievement and/or service, and show great potential as long-term nation builders.
Similar to our RBC Entrepreneur Award, the Youth Award will be an additional honour given to one of the RBC Top 25 winners. No additional application process required for either recognition.
Find out more at www.canadianimmigrant.ca/rbctop25.
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Senators Deeply Divided On Retrans Reform
At a hearing Tuesday on Sen. Jim DeMint's proposal to jettison retransmission consent and compulsory licenses, broadcasters and cable representatives offer the party lines; former Fox exec Preston Padden supported DeMint's idea, but warned against repealing retrans but not the compulsory license; while the Consumer Federation of America suggested moving broadcasters off the airwaves to "provide the maximum opportunity for all the people to use the public airways for their public purposes."
By Jack Messmer | July 24, 2012 | 6:50 p.m. ET.
From Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) pressing for the repeal of both retransmission consent and the compulsory license for programming carried by cable and satellite systems to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) suggesting that the 20-year-old Cable Act has worked pretty much as intended, it was clear at a Tuesday hearing that lawmakers are split on whether to change the relationship between broadcasters and multichannel distributors. But broadcasters may be surprised to learn of one voice in favor of Demint's approach.
Veteran broadcaster Preston Padden, who noted that he was an executive at Fox Television when the Cable Act passed in 1992, gave a "full-throated embrace" of S. 2008, which Demint titled the Next Generation Television Marketplace Act. Padden, now an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, compared the regulatory regime for U.S. television to an "old closet" in need of cleaning.
But while Padden embraced the DeMint bill as "principled deregulation," he warned that the worst outcome would be to repeal retransmission consent but leave in place the compulsory license, which he declared was a "huge impediment" to new online video distributors who seek to compete with the established players, cable and satellite.
According to DeMint, retransmission consent was created to combat the cable monopoly, which no longer exists. He insisted that there is great interest in local programming, so broadcasters don't need government intervention to be able to deal with the distributors.
Kerry, however, warned that repealing retrans, must carry, ownership limits and the compulsory license, as S. 2008 would do, would have a profound impact on distribution in the marketplace. He suggested that cable operators would then buy broadcast network rights directly, rather than from TV stations. "It would do nothing to resolve this question of negotiating stalemates," said the senator, who has been a vocal critic of TV channel blackouts in retrans disputes, "and it would result, probably, in very few broadcasters being around, I would suspect."
NAB President-CEO Gordon Smith picked up on that theme, suggesting that passage of the DeMint bill could lead to people in Pierre, S.D., having to buy their cars in Minneapolis or Denver because local TV stations would disappear in South Dakota and their local car dealers would also shut down because they couldn't afford to advertise on Minneapolis or Denver television stations.
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Smith emphasized the often heard NAB refrain that less than 1% of retrans negotiations result in any blackout and the more recent charge that most of those blackouts are to be blamed on three operators — Time Warner Cable, Dish Network and DirecTV.
Sitting right next to Smith, Melinda Witmer, EVP-chief video and content officer, Time Warner Cable, insisted that retrans is a "subsidy" for broadcasters. She charged that broadcaster demands are increasing disputes over carriage, leading to a record 69 blackouts thus far this year. According to Witmer, TV stations are demanding more money from cable operators, even as they are cutting back on news.
Colleen Abdoulah, CEO of the small cable company WOW! and a member of the American Cable Association (ACA), charged that the big broadcast and cable networks are paying "crazy, astronomical fees for sports programming because they know with the current business model they can force that cost onto consumers."
Under questioning by Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Abdoulah lamented that she can't offer a sports-only tier to customers who want it because her contracts with program providers don't allow for it. And when lawmakers asked about pricing for various channels, Abdoulah said the contracts didn't allow her to disclose that information, even to a United States Senator. "I'm a very confidential source," suggested Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who chaired the hearing by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation.
Although the topic is not addressed in either the 1992 Cable Act or the proposed Demint bill, Abdoulah called for the outlawing of shared services agreements, where one broadcaster is able to negotiate for cable carriage of another station along with its own. She branded that "collusion" and claimed that small cable operators lack leverage to negotiate with the broadcasters.
Abdoulah also claimed that her company, which has systems in four Midwestern states, has to pay higher rates for retrans than large cable operators because of a lack of leverage.
"She does just fine when she's at the table with CBS," said Martin Franks, EVP-planning, policy and government affairs, CBS Corp., who noted that his company had been unable to persuade WOW! to carry CBS Sports Network in the last round of negotiations. "We didn't have the leverage and the clout. The big, bad media company in New York couldn't persuade the struggling ACA member to carry one of our channels," said Franks, who scoffed at the notion that there are weak players who need protection. "They're not in the negotiating rooms that I'm in," he said.
Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) noted concerns he'd heard from a small religious broadcaster that they would disappear from cable and satellite if the DeMint bill is passed, since it would, among other things, eliminate must carry.
NAB's Smith, who happens to be Udall's cousin, noted that most NAB members don't need must carry, but that many religious, rural, foreign language and minority stations do. "You wouldn't have Univision today, you wouldn't have Fox today — you might like that Mr. Chairman," he said, drawing a chuckle from the audience. "These great networks developed with must carry because of the wisdom and foresight of this committee to foster this diversity, this niche, this service of all of America," said Smith, a former senator from Oregon and one-time member of the committee.
Once a strong backer of the FCC's newspaper-broadcast crossownership ban, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) declared that she has done a complete turn-around and declared the rule "obsolete." That prompted Dr. Mark Cooper, director of research, Consumer Federation of America, to note that while his organization had supported the relaxation that has already taken place for the largest markets, there have been no mergers of newspaper and TV operations since the change in 2007.
Cooper had earlier blasted the current retransmission consent system, saying the one certainty is that "the consumer always loses." Going way back to the birth of broadcasting, Cooper maintained that all of today's video distribution fights really stem from what he termed "the original problem" of granting exclusive spectrum licenses to broadcasters, and hailed the success of non-exclusive licenses, such as the shared spectrum used for Wi-Fi.
"We can return the public airways to the public for more direct use than at any time in exactly 100 years," Cooper declared. "If Congress intends to bring spectrum and video policy into the 21st century, it must avoid making another 100-year mistake. It must move the broadcasters out of the way and provide the maximum opportunity for all the people to use the public airways for their public purposes," he said.
No senator spoke in support of that idea, or even asked Cooper about it, but that's a proposition that would undermine the entire structure of American broadcasting, moving far beyond any spectrum reclamation yet proposed by anyone at the FCC.
Tags: Jim DeMint, Next Generation Television Marketplace Act
mary lawrence says:
Poor little cable company….collusion….really… Ms. Abdoulah
Gregg Palermo says:
An old closet that needs cleaning out. What a perfect metaphor for a system designed decades ago when over half of viewers received broadcast signals on antennae! Sen. Kerry's concern that broadcasters would vanish begs the question, so what? Technology has rendered a lot of industries nearly obsolete: travel agents, Kodak film, newspapers. Local news can be distributed without Klystrons. Broadcasting is a wonderful idea when the spectrum is being used by its (alleged) public owners. Not so much nowadays.
Janet Frankston Lorin says:
Hey Rustbelt, I'm pretty sure your brain has runsted too. Not sure how broadcasting, which still reaches more people every day than all other media combined, is "obsolete." You're starting to believe your own press!
mike tomasino says:
Cable and satellite are obsolete. Stop supporting the buggy whip manufactures' guild Rustbelt!!! And this "Consumer Federation of America" needs to change it's name to the "Anti-Consumer Federation of America." That is what they are. Who exactly is paying their bills? Certainly isn't any consumers!!!
Angie McClimon says:
I don't buy into cable or satellite, so my entertainment comes only from broadcast and, for shows unavailable in my market, Netflix or Hulu. Broadcasting as we know it will never vanish. Cable and Satellite can't do direct agreements with the like of NBC, ABC, and CBS because those networks do not broadcast all day. Those nets would have to become something like The CW Plus and that is unlikely.
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Funny Cable/Satellite companies seldom complain about the "collusion" they endure with Viacom, NBC/Universal/Comcast, Rainbow, ABC/ESPN or others. Those groups and others have used "leverage" to increase per sub revenue and launch new services for years. It seems that they want only broadcasters to negotiate one station at a time. About Preston Padden, a little history lesson: 20 years ago he convinced all of the Fox affiliates to give the Fox Network their "proxy" so that the stations could negotiate with MSO's as a group. Fox was successful in negotiating for Retransmission Comsent for Fox local stations with Time-Warner, Cox and others. They (Fox Network) received a little cash and a slot for a new cable network they were launching – the stations got nothing in return (except our must-carry rights & a basic cable tier position). It took another13 years (2005) before anyone have the grit to stand up to cable and for broadcasters to get paid. It is not a surprise that Padden would like to get his name in the papers again, but he was not a friend to broadcasting 20 years ago and certainly not a friend today. My advice: stick to you knitting, Preston — no one asked your opinion, anyway…
kendra campbell says:
While Networks, local, cable content providers, and cable signal providers all continuously demand $MORE – subscribers are saying NO $MORE.
Mary Collin says:
Something I've always found it hard to believe, that the cable systems complain about the broadcasters holding them up in retrans..In all of our markets the cable company and Dish charge (an example Dish charges $1.25 to each subscriber for each local station carried but they only pay each station $.25 per subscriber) why doesn't any gutlessbroadcaster ( except Perry Sook) get Congress to pay attention to the facts..Cable only knows one cry "WOLF" they will never make enough money and they sure as hell don't want to share it with anyone.
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I was so pleased to see that The Journey, by Francesca Sanna, made the Publisher's Weekly list of Best Children's Books of 2016. It's a gorgeous, deeply moving book. I found myself wishing that it could be mandatory reading for everyone since it presents the plight of war refugees with such clarity and insight.
In this past year, we've been subjected to so much political simplification about this matter, it's brilliant to see a picture book restore the humanity and complexity to the story. It looks at the situation through the eyes of a child.
Published by Flying Eye Books, The Journey is beautifully bound and presented.
I appreciate Flying Eye for taking a risk on this book, since it's not a happy children's story. And it doesn't offer solid closure. In fact, it reads like a poem to what is lost when war tears a country apart. The illustrations are both simple and complex, and very moving.
I've shared this book with more adults than children. The children I do share it with are over 10, watching the news, and listening to what is being said about refugees, immigrants, and the disenfranchised.
It's been hard for me to see so much hatred and distrust rise up in the upcoming presidential elections. It's particularly hard to see the children I work with exposed to this kind of fearmongering for the first time.
The discussions The Journey has inspired haven't been easy. What causes a war? What is a border? Why don't people help each other more?
The children I work with haven't had sheltered lives. Since most of them have been in the foster care system, they know exactly what it means to lose everything. Their journey has been harrowing but none of us has seen actual war in our country in our life time.
One of my 11 year old friends said, when he gets big, he's going to try to make it easier for people to find a place where they will be safe.
I hope one day he gets that big. I hope we all do.
Sanna's use of migratory birds as a metaphor for refugees brings hope into the story.
I know for now that The Journey is book that will make our hearts bigger, even if that growth feels painful.
P.S and hooray for librarians too, of course!
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Rick Perry on Gun Control
Republican Governor (TX)
Laws are in place; it's enforcement that's lacking
Q: I know you oppose greater restrictions on gun control. But what more can the government be doing to make sure that guns are not falling into the hands of people with obvious mental and emotional problems?
A: I think we have the laws in place; enforcement of those laws is what seems to be lacking. We see individuals who were obviously mentally impacted. These were individuals who I think that somewhere, somebody didn't do their job in the standpoint of enforcing the laws that are only on the book. I will suggest to you that these concepts of gun free zones are a bad idea. I think that you allow the citizens of this country, who have been appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms to carry them. Source: CNN SOTU 2015 interview series: 2016 presidential hopefuls , Jul 26, 2015
Taking away guns is knee-jerk reaction to gun tragedies
At the Faith & Freedom Coalition's conference, Perry told the crowd that the Charleston shooting was "an absolute heinous hate crime": "We all come here today with heavy hearts for those Charleston Christians who were gunned down inside of their place of worship. That deranged individual didn't just take lives of black Americans--he gunned down nine children of God."
After his speech, though, he sent mixed signals about the wisdom of debating gun laws in the wake of the tragedy: "It is healthy for us as a nation to have conversations, but I do have an issue that the knee-jerk from the left is always, 'We're going to take people's guns away from them,' when in fact there may be a host of contributing factors here."
When asked if Obama was exploiting the tragedy by raising the issue of better background checks, Perry said yes; "that's the knee-jerk reaction--that if we can just take the guns out of the hands of everyone in this country, these types of things won't happen again." Source: Bloomberg News 2015 coverage:Faith & Freedom D.C. conference , Jun 22, 2015
Tried to lure gun manufacturers to Texas
Perry is an NRA supporter and Second Amendment advocate who, as governor of Texas, tried to lure gun manufacturers to the state. [Other Republicans assert similar sentiments]: Rick Santorum has said, "The Second Amendment is there to protect the First Amendment!" Rand Paul is an ardent defender of the Second Amendment. Ted Cruz says, "the Second Amendment serves as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny." Source: Rolling Stone magazine on 2016 presidential hopefuls , Jun 18, 2015
Welcomes NRA with a video of him using semi-automatic rifle
The Texas House approved a batch of bills to further soften gun laws that were already among the country's most firearms-friendly, allowing college students to carry handguns in class, and exempting the state from any future federal bans on assault rifles, high-capacity magazines or universal background checks.
Dubbed "gun day" by supporters and opponents alike, the parade of votes came as thousands of members of the National Rifle Association attended the group's annual convention in Houston. Gov. Rick Perry welcomed convention attendees with a video of him taking target practice using a semi-automatic rifle.
The 12 approved gun bills must all clear final, procedural votes before heading to the state Senate. A Democratic parliamentary point of order managed to shoot down just one, a bill that would have allowed the use of a concealed handgun license as valid proof of identity--even though obtaining such licenses requires a background check that's not necessary to get driver licenses. Source: USA Today on Texas "Gun Day" voting record , May 4, 2013
Don't use school shootings to push gun control agenda
"Gov. Rick Perry: Quit Using Massacre of Little Children to Push Gun Control"
According to Perry, Vice President Biden's recommendations on gun control in the wake of the Connecticut school shootings "have nothing to do with what happened" at Sandy Hook Elementary. Moreover, Obama's "executive actions" betray "a pre-existing political agenda" that is markedly anti-gun.
Wrote Perry: "The piling on the by the political left and their cohorts in the media, to use the massacre of little children to advance a pre-existing political agenda that would not have saved those children, disgusts me, personally. The Second Amendment to the Constitution is a basic right and cannot nor will not be abridged by the executive power of this or any other president." Source: Breitbart.com 2013 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls , Jan 17, 2013
Individual right to keep and bear arms
Look at state involvement in our individual right to keep and bear arms. At least 40 states have laws on the books allowing their citizens to carry a weapon in some form or another, and many of those have reciprocity agreements with other states. Recently a number of states have also begun pushing back against what they perceive as the overreach of federal law against their citizens through the Commerce Clause. For example, Montana and Tennessee are getting tired of federal gun laws that reach down into areas traditionally left to the states, so they passed laws to protect from federal reach firearms that are manufactured and sold entirely within the state.
The natural question arises, How, then, do the laws get enforced? The Supreme Court made crystal clear in the US v. Printz case, involving the enforcement of temporary provisions of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, that the federal government cannot commandeer state authorities to carry out federal law. Source: Fed Up!, by Gov. Rick Perry, p.163-165 , Nov 15, 2010
Opposes restrictions on the right to bear arms.
Perry opposes the CC survey question on right to bear arms
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The CC survey summarizes candidate stances on the following topic: "Further restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms" Source: Christian Coalition Survey 10-CC-q10 on Aug 11, 2010
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Chupordia, V. A.; Kurdachenko, L. A.; Semko, N. N.
On the structure of Leibniz algebras whose subalgebras are ideals or core-free. (English) Zbl 07268085
Algebra Discrete Math. 29, No. 2, 180-194 (2020).
Summary: An algebra \(L\) over a field \(F\) is said to be a Leibniz algebra (more precisely, a left Leibniz algebra) if it satisfies the Leibniz identity: \([[a, b], c] = [a, [b, c]] - [b, [a, c]]\) for all \(a, b, c \in L\). Leibniz algebras are generalizations of Lie algebras. A subalgebra \(S\) of a Leibniz algebra \(L\) is called a core-free, if \(S\) does not include a non-zero ideal. We study the Leibniz algebras, whose subalgebras are either ideals or core-free.
17A32 Leibniz algebras
17A60 Structure theory for nonassociative algebras
17A99 General nonassociative rings
Leibniz algebra; Lie algebra; ideal; core-free subalgebras; monolithic algebra; extraspecial algebra
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Helloween är ett tyskt band som i början av sin karriär spelade speed metal, men sedan övergick till power metal. Bandet bildades 1984 i Hamburg, Tyskland, av gitarristerna Kai Hansen och Michael Weikath, basisten Markus Grosskopf och trummisen Ingo Schwichtenberg. I slutet av 1980-talet var det ett av Europas mest framgångsrika metal-band.

Biografi
1985 släppte de sitt första riktiga album, Walls Of Jericho, med Kai Hansen som både sångare och gitarrist. Både kritiker och folk i allmänhet gillade det nya soundet som bandet hade, vilket var snabbare och hårdare än exempelvis Iron Maiden. Bandet vann snabbt popularitet och fans och idag anses albumet vara ett av de mest betydelsefulla inom speed metal. Kai Hansen kände ändå att bandet behövde en ny sångare för att nå ut till sin fulla potential.

Man värvade den då 19-årige Michael Kiske, som med sin förmåga att sjunga riktigt högt passade bandets sound mycket bra. Man släppte nu Keeper Of The Seven Keys, Part 1 1987 och Keeper Of The Seven Keys, Part 2 1988. Kritikerna drog paralleller till både Bruce Dickinson och Rob Halford och fansen blev fler och fler. Många anser idag att genren power metal föddes i och med de två skivorna.

Efter de båda Keeper...-skivorna lämnade Kai Hansen och kom senare att bilda Gamma Ray. Roland Grapow blev ny gitarrist. Helloween släppte därefter Pink Bubbles Go Ape (1991) och Chameleon (1993), två album som av både Helloween och deras fans ses som en parentes i deras karriär. Efter de två albumen lämnade Michael Kiske gruppen och den tidigare trummisen Ingo Schwichtenberg begick självmord 8 april 1995, skivan "The time of the oath" skrevs för att hedra Ingo. Nya i bandet blev sångaren Andi Deris och trummisen Uli Kusch och Master Of The Rings släpptes. En ny era i Helloweens historia kan sägas ha inletts då bandet återigen fick goda recensioner och nya framgångar utomlands, bland annat i Japan. Med skivan Better Than Raw gav man sig in på nya musikaliska marker då denna hade ett betydligt progressivare sound än tidigare skivsläpp.

2001 hoppade Grapow och Kusch av då dessa ville fortsätta den mörkare, musikaliska inriktning som påbörjats med The Dark Ride, vilket var i motsättning med vad gitarristen Michael Weikath ville. Sascha Gerstner (gitarrist) och Stefan Schwarzmann (trummis) blev deras ersättare. I februari 2005 lämnade Stefan Schwarzmann bandet på grund skilda musikaliska åsikter. Hans ersättare blev Dani Löble, tidigare trummis i Rawhead Rexx.

Under 2007 har en live-DVD och ett livealbum släppts, inspelade under Keeper of the Seven Keys World Tour. Låtarna är hämtade från konserter i Sofia, Tokyo och São Paulo.

Nästa studioalbum som släpptes hösten 2007 fick namnet "Gambling With The Devil". med sin nya line-up startade Helloween världsturnén "Hellish Rock". "Hellish rock" inkluderade dock inte bara Helloween utan också originalmedlemmen Kai Hansens band Gamma Ray. Helloween och Gamma Ray har fram tills "Hellish Rock" bara upprätt tillsammans under festivaler och större evenemang.

Under 2016 återanslöt sig Kai Hansen och Michael Kiske till Helloween, för en längre turné, kallad Pumpkins United. Bandet sålde under turnén ut de största arenorna i länder som Tjeckien, Bulgarien, Brasilien, Mexiko, Rumänien och Japan. Ett singelsläpp lanserades i samband med turnén, även denna kallad Pumpkins United. På denna låt så delar Andi Deris, Michael Kiske och Kai Hansen på sånginsatserna.

Medlemmar
Nuvarande medlemmar
Markus Grosskopf – basgitarr (1983–)
Michael Weikath – gitarr (1983–)
Andi Deris – sång (1994–)
Sascha Gerstner – gitarr (2002–)
Dani Löble – trummor (2005–)
Kai Hansen – gitarr (1983–1988), sång (1983–1986) 2016-)
Michael Kiske – sång (1986–1993) (2016-)
Tidigare medlemmar
Ingo Schwichtenberg – trummor (1983–1993; död 1995)
Kai Hansen – gitarr (1983–1988), sång (1983–1986)
Michael Kiske – sång (1986–1993)
Roland Grapow – gitarr (1989–2001)
Uli Kusch – trummor (1994–2001)
Mark Cross – trummor (2002)
Stefan Schwarzmann – trummor (2003–2004)

 Turnerande medlemmar
Jörn Ellerbrock – keyboard (1988–2003)
Ritchie Abdel-Nabi – trummor (1993)
Eddy Wrapiprou – keyboard (2010–)

Diskografi

Studioalbum
1985 – Walls of Jericho
1987 – Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 1
1988 – Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 2
1991 – Pink Bubbles Go Ape
1993 – Chameleon
1994 – Master of the Rings
1996 – The Time of the Oath
1998 – Better Than Raw
1999 – Metal Jukebox
2000 – The Dark Ride
2003 – Rabbit Don't Come Easy
2005 – Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 3 - The Legacy
2007 – Gambling with the Devil
2009 – Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary
2010 – 7 Sinners
2013 – Straight Out Of Hell
2015 – My God-Given Right
2021 - Helloween

Livealbum
1989 – I Want Out Live
1989 – Live in the UK
1989 – Keepers Live
1996 – High Live
2007 – Live in Sao Paulo
2019 - United Alive

EP
1985 – Helloween

Singlar
1986 – "Judas"
1987 – "Halloween"
1987 – "Future World"
1988 – "Dr. Stein"
1988 – "I Want Out"
1989 – "I Want Out Live"
1991 – "Kids of the Century"
1992 – "Number One"
1993 – "Windmill"
1993 – "When the Sinner"
1993 – "Step Out of Hell"
1993 – "I Don't Wanna Cry No More"
1994 – Where the Rain Grows"
1994 – "Mr. Ego (Take Me Down)"
1994 – "Perfect Gentleman"
1995 – "Sole Survivor"
1996 – "Power"
1996 – "The Time of the Oath"
1998 – "I Can"
1998 – "Hey Lord!"
1999 – "Lay All Your Love on Me"
2000 – "If I Could Fly"
2000 – "Mr. Torture"
2003 – "Just a Little Sign"
2005 – "Mrs. God"
2006 – "Light the Universe"
2007 – "As Long as I Fall"
2010 – "Dr. Stein"
2010 – "Are You Metal?"
2012 – "Burning Sun"
2012 – "Nabataea"
2015 – "Battle's Won"
2016 - "Pumpkins United"

Samlingsalbum
1989 – Pumpkin Tracks
1991 – The Best, The Rest, The Rare
1993 – Keeper of the Seven Keys Parts 1 & 2
1994 – Mr. Ego Collectors Box (CD box)
1998 – Karaoke Remix, Vol. 1
1998 – Karaoke Remix, Vol. 2
1998 – Pumpkin Box (4CD box)
2002 – Treasure Chest (2CD)
2006 – The Singles Box (1985-1992)
2016 – Ride the Sky - The Very Best of the Noise Years 1985-1998 (2CD)

Externa länkar

Officiell webbplats

Tyska power metal-grupper
Musikgrupper bildade 1984
Speed metal


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The music video reflects the chaotic energy flowing throughout the comeback. The girls sing of chasing after someone in a push-pull dynamic, and the quirky electronic sounds contribute to that chaos. It's packed with different beats, cadences, and breakdowns; at first listen, it can be a bit overwhelming, but the group manages to keep it all tied together. The growth from debut also makes for an attractive comeback. Line distribution is more equally divided, the highlight being rapper Miya and Anne's fun verse. The choreography also manages to marry complexity with cuteness—something we hoped would carry over from "Puzzle Moon," which is arguably one of the best choreographies of any K-Pop debut. For "Pinky Star (Run)," we get a fun dance breakdown that is nothing short of impressive. The music video's quality is also top tier; from playing with aspect ratios to CGI to the camerawork, it's clear that Kiwi Media Group isn't playing around with production budget.
The Park in the Night part two is also packed with colorful tracks that can compete with the big groups. "TOKTOK (수천 개의 별, 수천 개의 꿈)" is a strong follow-up to the title. It passes the body rolling test, with a subtle drop in the chorus reminiscent of LOONA's strong B-sides. "Bloom (True Light)" boasts a slight Latin dance influence the way MAMAMOO has experimented with the sound. This could have also easily served as the title track off the EP. "Miss Ping Pong" is a fun throwback to what K-Pop sounded like circa 2013-2014. If you miss f(x), Girl's Day, or any other girl group's sound from that era, this track is definitely up your alley. "One & Only" brings us back to a more current sound. With a slightly slower tempo than the previous B-sides, this song provides the much needed chill to balance out the EP's bubbly first half. But that dance, chill house element is still apparent, tying in with the album's overall sound. The album doesn't slow down with concluding track "Growing ~ for Groo." Rather than a ballad, GWSN rounds out the album with a more classic electronic melody that mirrors SEVENTEEN's pure electronic tracks.
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