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IPL 2019- Week 01- Top Ten talking points
31 Mar 2019 110 Views Yash Mittal
Mankad. Twin tons. No ball controversy. A 7-ball over [by Ravi Ashwin vs MI], batsman being called back on account of field placement error [Andre Russell vs KXIP], and a Super-Over. The 12th edition of the Indian Premier League has got off to a roller-coaster start and we are just in the first ten days of the competition.
Today, in this article, we will have a look at the ten talking points of the 2019 IPL this far-
#10 An anti-climatic start but CSK roll on
It was billed as the battle of two stalwarts of Indian cricket; a South Indian derby; a contest between two sides' who over the years have given us plenty of exhilarating moments that are forever etched in the folklore of the IPL.
So, when the defending champions- Chennai Super Kings and Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore went head-to-head in the IPL opener, it was expected to tear the house down at the Chepauk; except the pitch had very different ideas.
On a track which resembled more like a fifth day Test match pitch where the ball turned and gripped like a cobra, CSK's troika of spinners- led by Harbhajan Singh, applied a stranglehold on the RCB batsmen to skittle them for 70. Harbhajan, in particular, turned the clock back and claimed the prized wickets of Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers to land a body blow to RCB, from which they could never recover.
That the track wasn't ideal for a T20 match was echoed by MS Dhoni at the press conference, but that was certainly no excuse to the appalling batting effort by the RCB. On a track where the ball was doing all sort of things, the batsmen- even the likes of AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli, did not apply themselves and holed out in the deep in trying, and mayhem ensued. That CSK took 17 overs to overhaul the target vindicated how difficult the track was to bat on.
But, as they say, a win is a win, and with it under their belt, the defending champions moved to the Capital to face DC. DJ Bravo made his presence felt after the spinners had hogged all the limelight at the Chepauk. After being clobbered in his first over, Bravo came back to knock over Pant, Dhawan, and Ingram to decisively sway the momentum in CSK's favor. What seemed like a 170-plus target ended up being 148, which the Men in Yellow, courtesy Watson's charge [44] at the top and steady knocks by Dhoni [32], Jadhav [27] and Raina [30] achieved with ease in the last over.
After a dreadful pitch in the opening game, all eyes were on the Chepauk, as to what it dishes out for the CSK vs RR match, and when the home side had slipped to 3-27, it looked like another low-scoring game will ensue. But, Thala MS Dhoni, once again displayed what a champion he is in crisis situations, and in his calculated innings, backed up by last-over assault [28 runs] of the last over of the innings once again set the template not only for his teammates but for the other sides' on how one should approach a situation od crisis.
Post Dhoni's heroics, DJ Bravo came to the party yet again as he successfully defended 12 runs in the last over beside taking the crucial wicket of Ben Stokes' to give CSK their third successive win of the tournament.
#9 A young Kashmiri graces the IPL stage amidst Pant's blitz
Kashmir is always in the news for indifferent reasons, but in the second game of the IPL, it saw a young boy realize his dream when a 17-year-old Rasikh Salam made his debut against the Delhi Capitals at the Wankhede Stadium. First spotted by Irfan Pathan, Salam's run-up and his action impressed everyone that saw him bowl against the Capitals but the youngster had a tough outing, conceding 42 runs in his quota.
But, it was not only Salam, who had a difficult outing, his more experienced compatriots in Mitchell McClenaghan and Jasprit Bumrah, too feel the brunt off Rishabh Pant's bat, who flicked, reverse-hit and maraud his way to a 27-ball 78 to help his side post an eventual match-winning target of 6-213.
#8 Yuvraj Singh turns the clock back but Mumbai's middle-order woes continue
Yuvraj Singh didn't really have any expectations to cater to coming into this edition of the IPL, considering he was racked up for a poultry sum of Rs 2 Crores [by his standards] by the Mumbai Indians'. So, with no pressure on his back, Yuvi showed a glimpse of the good old days, stroking- first Axar Patel and then Yuzvendra Chahal [for 3 consecutive sixes].
But, despite Yuvraj's blitz, the middle-order woes continue to trouble the Mumbai Indians with Kieron Pollard's dwindling returns at the heart of it. Pollard returns of 21, 5 & 7 have meant the MI haven't been able to make use of the start given by their top-order in Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock.
They might have won against the RCB thanks to Bumrah and the late blitz from Hardik Pandya [32 off 14 balls], it cost them dearly against the Kings XI Punjab, as the total of 7-176; which could have been a lot more considering they were 3-120 after 13 overs, proved to be under par as KL Rahul's [71 off 57 balls] calculated assault helped his side notch up an eight-wicket win
#7 An eventful week for Rajasthan Royals but a win allude them
Chris Gayle's swashbuckling assault; Buttler's encore of the last season; Mankad; the spirit of cricket debate; Samson's sumptuous ton and David Warner's shenanigans, it's fair to say that Rajasthan Royals have had quite a first week at the Vivo IPL.
We will come back to the Mankad incident later. Let us first talk about how the Royals have fared thus far. Back-to-back defeats might suggest that the team have been outplayed, but if you look at both matches, the Jaipur based franchise was in command for a significant portion of the game both against KXIP and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Against KXIP, the Royals were 2-108 after 12.5 overs [Target: 171] when Jos Buttler was run out in controversial fashion by Ravi Ashwin. With 63 runs required in 7.1 overs and the likes of Steve Smith and Ben Stokes to follow, you would expect the batting side to win nine out of the occasions. But, an extraordinary collapse that saw them get reduced from 3-148 to 9-164, meant they eventually fell short by 14 runs.
"David, you destroyed my day, my hundred was not enough" admitted Sanju Samson in an interview to David Warner after he has his ton go on in vain following a ruthless assault from the Australian opener. We'll talk about it later. But, let's focus here on Samson. Every year Samson gives us an annual reminder of his precocious talent; his 54-ball 100 against Bhuvneshwar and co was another addition to the list.
Samson's ton helped Rajasthan what looked like a match-winning total of 2-198, but the fact that SRH got it with an over to spare underlines two things. First, SRH probably has the best opening pair in this tournament [3 consecutive 100-run partnerships at the time of writing] and secondly- more significant, if you are a Royals' fan is the perennial weakness in RR's bowling. Barring, Jofra Archer, they do not have anything to boast off in the pace department which has put the pressure on Archer itself.
The likes of Dhawal Kulkarni and Jaydev Unadkat are both similar bowlers in terms of speed and variations, and on flat decks have proved to be costly. Rajasthan's punt of opening with Krishnappa Gowtham hasn't worked either which has allowed sides' to settle into their innings as Gayle and Warner did in the first two games.
Their inability to win crucial moments plus their death bowling cost them a victory against the Chennai Super Kings, first by allowing CSK to get to 17 after having them get reduced to 3-27 and then by succumbing under pressure when they required just 12 runs off the last over with the well-set Ben Stokes still at the crease.
#6 Welcome to the 5,000 run club, Mr. Raina and Mr. Kohli; the Universe Boss stormes in the 300 Sixes club
Prior to the IPL, one of the big talking points was who will become the first player to breach the 5,000-run mark. The contenders were Mr. IPL, as he endearingly referred to Suresh Raina [4985 runs] and Mr. Consistent- Virat Kohli [4948 runs].
In fact, one of the subplots leading up to the tournament opener between CSK and RCB was centered around the race between the two batsmen. With RCB batting first, it looked like Virat Kohli will etch his name into the record books ahead of Raina, but Kohli, like his teammates, struggled on a sluggish Chennai track and holed out at deep midwicket off Harbhajan Singh.
But, Suresh Raina did not let the opportunity slip and deservedly so, became the first batsmen in the history of the Indian Premier League to cross 5,000 runs during his innings of 19. Kohli, too reached the 5000-run mark during his innings against the Mumbai Indians; becoming the first batsman to score 5,000 runs for a single franchise.
If there was any competition in case of reaching 5,000 IPL runs when it came to hitting the most number of sixes', there is Chris Gayle and then daylights. In a tournament where no other batsman has racked up 200 sixes, the 'Universe Boss' came into the tournament with 292 maximums next to his name, and the Big Man did not take it long to reach the magic number of 300.
Gayle smoked four sixes in the first game during his scintillating innings of 47-ball 79 against RR before bludgeoning four more against the Mumbai Indians to etch his name in the annals of the IPL.
#5 The Warner-Bairstow union; SRH's death-bowling issues
Different individuals react to adversity in a different manner. The Weak becomes a pale shadow of himself/herself, while a strong-minded individual just rises like a phoenix. This IPL is increasingly becoming the launchpad for David Warner's redemption story.
The swashbuckling left-hander has looked like a man possessed every time he has stepped onto the field. Warner looks hungry. He looks pumped and motivated. He has waited for this moment every single minute of the past year and the way he has gone thus far vindicate it. 85, 69 and an unbeaten 100 in the first three games will only tell you one thing, which is true- he absolutely crunched the ball to all corners of the ground, but his hundred against RCB displayed yet another facet of Warner's commitment and mindset.
On a hot day where temperatures soared well in excess of 40 degrees, Warner ran as his life depended on it, and he got an able ally in Jonny Bairstow to complement him. SRH's punt of buying Bairstow can now be termed as a masterstroke. The English batsman, who scored a whirlwind inning off 114 [56] against RCB has formed a fearsome opening partnership- probably, the best in this IPL.
Warner and Bairstow have racked up three consecutive century stands thus far, and have been central to RCB's success. But, it should not overshadow an interesting trend that is emerging with their death bowling. While you can argue that the bowler has very little chance when the like of Dre Russ or Samson are on song, but the fact of the matter is SRH's death bowling can prove to be their nemesis in the crunch games.
While in the last IPL, the SRH bowlers conceded around seven rpo in the death overs, the first two games have seen them go at the rate of 15 with the likes of Russell and Samson laying into Bhuvneshwar and co.
#4 Mankad and the spirit of cricket variance
The month of March seems to have a penchant with controversies. Last year, it was the ball-tampering scandal and this year- 'Mankad'. The event took place during the game between Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab. Tempers were flayed. Social media went up and down. Opinions were shut down, and the term 'spirit of cricket' was again in the spotlight.
So, the question holds does the spirit of cricket holds variance to the laws of the game. Because, as per the laws of the game, Ashwin was justified in running Buttler out without giving a prior warning.
It begged another question as to why should only bowlers be the custodians of upholding the spirit of the game? Is it not the duty of the batsman to not leave the crease before the ball has been released when he/she has been at the receiving end of it [This was the second time when Buttler was Mankaded in his career] or is gaining a yard in a game where an inch can make a huge difference within the 'spirit of the game'?
#3 A match for the ages [RCB vs MI]; a dreadful miss
The IPL has had its fair share of controversies but what it really needed leading into the RCB vs MI game was a nail-biting encounter. It got its wish fulfilled albeit with controversies as a cashback.
First the fun part. Imagine a packed Chinnaswamy. Flat Pitch. Rohit doing Rohit things; Yuvraj winding the clock back with three successive sixes; Chahal tossing the ball up and reaping the reward; Hardik Pandya's cameo to revive Mumbai at the death; Kohli cover-driving his way to 20 [9] including three boundaries off Jasprit Bumrah; Bumrah getting one back over Kohli before tying up AB to concede 8 off the last three overs; a youngster clobbering Lasith Malinga over long-on in the last over before nailing five yorkers to win the game for his side.
This was peak IPL until the replay of the last ball aired on the big screen to act as the perfect anticlimactic moment. Malinga had clearly over-stepped the line and the umpire had missed it, which again brought into the spotlight, the sheer amount of no-balls that the umpires' are missing these days, and whether the time has come for cricket to use line-ball technology to eliminate the howlers.
#2 Dre Russ- The MVP; Delhi's flair and the epic Super-Over
49 [19], 48 [17] and 62 off 28 balls; not to forget the five wickets that he took. It is fair to say that Andre Russell is playing at a different level compared to others in the T20 format.
The sheer brutality and the authoritativeness that Russell has displayed in his strokeplay, it has left everyone barring the bowlers in a sense of awe, but it is the consistency and the temperament which has stood out. All of his innings, particularly the one against SRH where KKR required 49 off 17 balls and against Delhi where he came in to bat at 5-60, stand out.
Russell has emerged to be the backbone of the KKR team but different individuals have contributed at different occasions. Nitish Rana [67] and Robin Uthappa [63] chipped-in against KXIP while DK played a captain's knock against DC alongside Russell and the side- barring the indifferent form of Narine and Lynn, would be buoyed with the fact that how they managed to come back from the dead against DC despite playing the swashbuckling innings of Prithwi Shaw [99] and the absence of Sunil Narine.
At the same time, the Capitals' would be gutted as to how they bottled their chance of claiming an outright win. Twice in the game, they had KKR on the ropes. First, when their bowlers had reduced the Knight Riders' to 5-60, and secondly when Shaw was going great guns with the bat/. But, Shaw's dismissal changed the course of the game as Kuldeep Yadav bowled a spectacular last over to take the match to the Super-Over.
Prasidh Krishna was thrust with the responsibility of bowling the Super Over against the likes of Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer and vindicated DK's call by conceding just 10 runs beside claiming a wicket of Iyer. But, if Krishna was good, Rabada was godly. Bowling against probably the best T20 all-rounder in the world, Andre Russell, the South African fast bowler missed the yorker off the first ball but nailed the next five to defend 11 and pull a much-needed win for his side.
#1 No light at the end of the tunnel for RCB
Kohliii!!! ABD!!!! But, who else? Unfortunately, this question always rares its head every time RCB lose an IPL game. This year was supposed to be different. But, as the points table will tell you it has been the same story this year as well.
Like every year, lack of credible support to Kohli and AB, lack of a quality death bowler and off-course the team selections, as well as the reading of the conditions, has formed a similar narrative around the sides' campaign. The likes of Shimron Hetmyer, Shivam Dube and Moeen Ali have not been able to provide ideal support to Kohli and de Villiers, as we saw in the game against the Mumbai Indians, where despite AB remaining unbeaten, he could not get his team past the finishing line; vindicating the age-old fact that one or two players cannot win you games consistently.
Yash Mittal
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» We go to shake hands with an otter, it's like that scene in E.T. but way cuter!
After paying the 500 yen (US$5) admission, I bee-lined it to the otter section, where…. Yaaaaahaha! Four little otters were scooting around their enclosure. It was the first time I even saw otters in real life and soon I'd be able to touch them!
Here and there on the glass wall were some protrusions with signs hanging that read "Do not touch." Those must be where the little hands come out for my impending meet-and-greet.
With the signs gone we could now see the holes in all their glory. Surprisingly, the otters too were getting excited and started gathering near the glass. "Wow, those otters really want to touch us too!" I couldn't help thinking.
Then, the same member of staff came out again carry some bowls filled with chopped up fish. Then it occurred to me that the otters were really after!
The lady explained that all we had to do was pinch a piece of fish and put it to the hole. That would bring the otter out for some hands-on time.
When I came to, the staff showed me how to fake-out the otter by swapping the piece of fish with my finger for a moment. As we touched fingers it felt really squishy. I never would have imagined that. I kind of felt like I was in that scene from E.T., only this was a close encounter of the kawaii kind.
I saw otters on TV before but never had the chance to appreciate all their squishy-fingered details. They had an adorability that soaks right into you.
Believe it or not, there is a down-side to the whole experience. To entice the otters you need to hold raw fish bits with your fingers. As you might guess, the smell gets into your hands and sticks with you for a while no matter how much you wash them. Still, it's a small price to pay for such a rare treat.
This handshake experience that puts an AKB48 event to shame is being held until 13 September. Sessions are divided between morning and afternoon. With summer vacation now in full swing in Japan you may have trouble getting a spot, so if you want to get in on the otter action contact Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park as soon as possible!
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Apr 6, 2010 | ARDS, Diagnostics, Influenza, Training |
On April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma and again on September 11, 2001, in New York City, America experienced mass casualty events firsthand. The questions of what if the number of wounded casualties outnumbered the fatalities and how prepared were the federal, state, and community medical response systems to deal with a potential surge of patients in the emergency departments went unanswered.
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005 and provided the answers. Clearly, at all levels of governments and regional authorities, we were unable to respond to and effectively manage community mass casualty events. Have we taken these pages of history and put them to good use for the next massive catastrophic challenge? It is not a question of if one will occur but of when and how bad.
Biochemical terrorism, natural disasters, and pandemic influenzas are all on the immediate global radar screen. All will challenge our ability to deal with large numbers of patients converging on local hospitals' emergency departments and rapidly impacting and depleting the resources within a very short period of time.
Ambulances idling for hours, a declining number of overcrowded emergency departments, and long waits up to 2 days to be admitted are catastrophic indicators of a US emergency system under siege, in crisis, and getting worse. This is a system that lacks stability and the capacity to effectively respond to mass casualties from large disasters or epidemics, according to studies conducted by 25 experts from the National Academies of Science.1,2
A pandemic3,4 such as the H5N1 avian influenza is considered to be the mother of all mass casualty events and is one of the most likely and lethal of all threats facing the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The State of New York prepared a draft in 20075 for public comment to address the readiness of the state to combat an H5N1 pandemic event. This includes the following conclusions based on agency research:
The population of New York is approximately 19 million;
There are approximately 3,981 adult and pediatric ICU beds staffed;
15% of admitted patients with avian flu will require intensive care;
7.5% of admitted patients will require ventilators;
There are currently approximately 6,100 ventilators in acute care settings in New York State;
85% of the ventilators are in use at a given time and pandemic patients will require three times that of New York's ventilator capacity; and
70% of deaths related to an avian flu will occur in a hospital.
As well, 60% of all individuals who have contracted this Asian strain, H5N1, have died from multisystem failure, ARDS, and acute renal failure within a very short time of disease onset. The turnover time for ventilator use will be extremely intensive considering the acute illness of the patients.
SNS—Enough?
Based on these results, availability of state and federal stockpiles of supplies and ventilators is mandatory. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)6 is a public health emergency system designed to respond to state requests for medical support in the event of a mass casualty situation.The SNS recognizes that state and local medical supplies will be depleted quickly and has prepared 12-hour quick packages of pharmaceuticals, antidotes, and medical supplies for immediate dispersion and utilization. This is to provide basic medical essentials to buy some time until more full-service efforts are mounted—hopefully within a 10- to 12-day period.
Disasters with mass casualties resulting in respiratory failure will immediately impact local, regional, and national hospital critical care effectiveness and severely compromise patient emergency care. Unnecessary patient mortality will be the result if the necessary quality and quantity of mechanical ventilation required for acutely ill respiratory patients are not available.
Today, hospitals in the United States maintain enough respiratory resources to meet the daily patient demands of their communities, but they have no additional ventilators in reserve to address a pandemic or other disaster. Subsequently, the availability of outside sources, including the federal and state governments, is essential to maintaining a low patient mortality rate.
In July 2007, I attended the AARC Journal Conference in Reno, Nev, titled "Mechanical Ventilation in Mass Casualty Scenarios."
The CDC was a presenter to the conference and claimed that approximately 4,000 ventilators were maintained in the Strategic National Stockpile.
In 2008, I once again had the opportunity to ask the CDC, "How many ventilators are stockpiled in the Strategic National Storage facilities?"
Once again the CDC claimed that approximately 4,000 ventilators were in storage.
In 2009, the CDC placed an order with CareFusion17 for approximately 4,500 LVT 1200 ventilators, receiving approximately 2,300 to date. What influence could have provided such an accelerated change of heart and action from the CDC? Perhaps we should look to our neighbors.
In Alberta, Canada, the impact of the H1N1 virus was great enough that some of the provinces tapped their government's stockpile of reserve ventilators.18 In November 2009, Alberta received 45 ventilators from the Public Health Agency of Canada ( PHAC).
Planning Ahead Using Guidelines and Algorithms
Given a 35% attack rate, surge capacity planning will go into effect within the first 72 hours. Within the first week, approximately 37% of the ICU beds and 16% of acute care beds will be occupied. At this point, resources will become rapidly exhausted and mass casualty care will be declared, implementing aggressive, equitable, and ethical triage algorithms and guidelines. Such guidelines and actions are well documented, available, and accessible and should be incorporated in the hospital Incident Command System protocols for mass casualty events for all hospitals.7
In 2008, I was deployed with the Disaster Medical Assistance Team CA-6 to the Democratic National Convention in Denver as a precautionary measure in the event of a chemical-related terrorist attack upon the convention. While in the central command center, a mass casualty event scenario was conducted electronically with the national command center.8 The focus was on caring for chemical burn victims within the Denver metropolitan area. At that time, there were only eight burn beds available in the entire metro area. A multiple casualty event would have required air transportation and medical evacuation to other burn centers in the country. Such a contingency was anticipated, planned for, and coordinated through civilian and military units.
There is a trend in the United States, say the experts, of closing burn centers because they are expensive to maintain and are profit-losing investments due to their specialized requirements of staff, surgeons, and equipment.9 According to the American Burn Association, US hospitals eliminated 132 burn units in 2004, bringing the total to 127, and have reduced burn beds from 1,897 to 1,820. Alan R. Dimick, MD, past president of the American Burn Association, feels that this is a real catastrophe in this country.
There is a critical shortage of registered nurses in the United States that could reach as many as 500,000 by 2025, and this demand will increase by a rate of 2% to 3% a year, according to a 2009 report.10
As both physician and nurse shortages continue this trend, the Council on Physician and Nurse Supply,11 a national organization based in the University of Pennsylvania's Consortium for Health Workforce Research and Policy, predicts the following adverse conditions: inadequate access to care, particularly in rural and inner city locations; lack of emergency preparedness; and decreased ability to accomplish planned expansions of health care services, resulting in negative effects on local and national economies.12
Respiratory therapists also will play a critical role in ventilator management, staff coordination, efficient equipment utilization, and team triage during mass casualties.13 In the event of mass-casualty respiratory failures (MCRF),14 however, augmenting respiratory staff due to shortages will necessitate cross-training efforts of respiratory extenders, such as provided by Project Xtreme,15 an interactive cross-training program specifically designed for a public health disaster whereby nonrespiratory health care professionals are trained in basic respiratory care and ventilator management. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has endorsed and is cooperating in this training approach in an attempt to address our nation's current economic and health care crises.
Government's Concern (or Not)
As of February 2009, the United States Senate passed the $830 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,16 which includes tens of billions of dollars earmarked for health care and other programs. The House version had originally allocated $900 million for flu preparedness, but the Senate's version cut $870 million from the bill.
This $30 million dedicated to such a globally destructive event seems like pocket change, and the Senate and House exhibition of partisanship is alarming. Things have changed with the emergence of the H1N1 flu and the WHO's elevated threat level raised to 6, however. In a recently passed $106 billion emergency appropriations bill, most of which is earmarked for the military, nearly $2 billion has been appropriated to H1N1 vaccine development, antivirals, diagnostics, and surveillance.
Man-made and Other Disasters
Public transportation systems are excellent targets, and attacks upon them can result in multiple or mass casualties. London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, and dozens of other cities have seen how vulnerable their buses and trains are to terrorist attacks. Airports, railway stations, and ferry terminals where crowds of people gather have proven to be very vulnerable and target-rich environments for dozens of casualties.
Critical elements in these scenarios are on-site patient stabilization and transport. Triage, treat, and transport require a coordinated and expeditious model and effort. Three examples provide a glimpse at the level of preparedness for transport emergency capabilities: hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, and Ike.
Hurricane Katrina brought an entirely new meaning to the word chaos, and is on record as an example of utter, complete system-wide failure and breakdown. In the aftermath of hurricanes Ike and Gustav to which I was deployed as part of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team CA-6, along with most of the other DMAT teams in the United States, teams and service equipment and personnel were acutely underutilized, coordination of command centers was poor, and dozens of specialized ambulances and teams idled away days at rallying points, only to be sent home, while many who were deployed were running out of gas on the way to Houston and Galveston.
"Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended"—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Global threats and mother nature are all capable of creating high-impact assaults on communities, resulting in large numbers of casualties. That being officially recognized, what logical reason can there be for our nation, states, and community emergency services not to have the capabilities to deal with a mass casualty event? Perhaps other issues, such as the potential collapse of our banking system, two wars, and a health care system under its own siege, take priority.
Because our readiness and level of preparedness appear high on paper only, the tactical plan will focus not on how many patients can be saved but on what it will take to contain the situation as quickly as possible to prevent mass contamination—or cutting our losses. This is a far more radical and realistic approach that will eventually become the core mission on all levels of response.
The H1N1 virus resulted in a global wake-up call to such a degree that the World Health Organization ( WHO) declared an international pandemic alert. Our level and ability to respond poorly represented our inability to produce and distribute enough vaccine in a timely manner.
Considering that the H1N1 swine flu and the H5N1 bird flu can inhabit the same host and have the ability to mutate warrants a much faster response to future more devastating viral mass casualty events. (Editor's note: This article first ran in the July 2009 issue of RT. It appears here with updates by Mr Donnellan.)
Michael E. Donnellan, RRT, NPS, MBA, is a respiratory therapist at Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Oakland, Calif; and first responder, Disaster Medical Assistance Team CA-6, National Disaster Medical System, US Department of Health and Human Services. For further information, contact [email protected]
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Q: Difference between set and set all in c# When I use setall in program :
BitArray bb = new BitArray(8) ;
bb.SetAll( true);

int[] dd = new int[1];

bb.CopyTo(dd, 0);

for (int i = 0; i < dd.Length; i++)
    Console.WriteLine(dd[i]);

// result is  -1

but if i use set for every element of bitarray
BitArray bb = new BitArray(8) ;
bb.Set( 0,true);
bb.Set(1, true);
bb.Set(2, true);
bb.Set(3, true);
bb.Set(4, true);
bb.Set(5, true);
bb.Set(6, true);
bb.Set(7, true);

int[] dd = new int[1];

bb.CopyTo(dd, 0);

for ( int i = 0; i < dd.Length; i++)
    Console.WriteLine(dd[i]);

// result is 255

Why different result in two program when use set result is -1 and when use setall in second program result is 255 ?

A: That's because SetAll() method looks like that:
public void SetAll(bool value)
{
    int num = value ? -1 : 0;
    int arrayLength = BitArray.GetArrayLength(this.m_length, 32);
    for (int i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++)
    {
        this.m_array[i] = num;
    }
    this._version++;
}

BitArray uses int[] internally to store your bits. To get new BitArray(8) it uses just one int, because that's enough to store 8 bits. But the entire allocated memory is used when you use CopyTo method to get int[], so you get all 32 bits from underlying int.  and because when you use for loop you only set 8 least meaningful bits you get 255 when cast to int[] after using the loop and -1 when you do that using SetAll() method.
You can prove that.
for (int i = 1; i <= 32; i++)
{
    BitArray bb = new BitArray(i);
    bb.SetAll(true);

    BitArray bb2 = new BitArray(i);
    for (int j = 0; j < i; j++)
        bb2.Set(j, true);

    int[] dd = new int[1];
    int[] dd2 = new int[1];

    bb.CopyTo(dd, 0);
    bb2.CopyTo(dd2, 0);
    Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1}", dd[0], dd2[0]);
}

Code above prints:
-1 - 1
-1 - 3
-1 - 7
-1 - 15
-1 - 31
-1 - 63
-1 - 127
-1 - 255
-1 - 511
-1 - 1023
-1 - 2047
-1 - 4095
-1 - 8191
-1 - 16383
-1 - 32767
-1 - 65535
-1 - 131071
-1 - 262143
-1 - 524287
-1 - 1048575
-1 - 2097151
-1 - 4194303
-1 - 8388607
-1 - 16777215
-1 - 33554431
-1 - 67108863
-1 - 134217727
-1 - 268435455
-1 - 536870911
-1 - 1073741823
-1 - 2147483647
-1 - -1

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What is a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe?
The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe are an invitation to travel and to discover the rich and diverse heritage of Europe by bringing people together in networks of shared history and heritage. The certified Cultural Routes cover a range of different themes, from architecture and landscape to religious influences, from gastronomy and intangible heritage to the major figures of European art, music and literature.
A European Cultural Route is a route through one or more countries and/or regions that deals with topics that are European because of their historical, artistic and social interest, not only because of the geographical route or the content and importance.
What is the Cultural Routes Program?
The Cultural Routes Program was launched in 1987 by the Council of Europe. It recognizes European networks that develop routes to make our shared cultural heritage a tourist experience. The networks work together interdisciplinary in the fields of culture, tourism, education, heritage, economics, research and the arts. The Council of Europe's Cultural Routes program is of great importance to the process of unifying Europe, with the aim of making the value of experience of the common "European cultural area" more visible, more valuable and more alive in daily life.
They put into practice the values of the Council of Europe: human rights, cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and mutual exchanges across borders. The European Institute on Cultural Routes in Luxembourg supervises the program and the networks. Founded in 1949, the Council of Europe is the oldest international organization in Europe. It is the intention of the members to establish and safeguard the ideals and principles that are their common heritage, in accordance with the Statute of the Council of Europe. Today the Council of Europe is one of the most important human rights organizations in Europe.
How to become a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe?
The certification "Cultural Route of the Council of Europe" is a guarantee of excellence. Once a year, the certification is awarded to legally constituted networks focussing on an European theme and implementing activities in at least three Council of Europe member States.
The certification gives visibility to European initiatives which bring to life Council of Europe values, such as cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and mutual exchanges across borders. Through the Cultural Routes programme, the Council of Europe offers a model for transnational networks working on the promotion of European heritage. The Cultural Routes bring together, to name only a few, heritage sites, universities, national, regional and local authorities and socio-economic actors such as SMEs and tour operators.
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Teamwork between multiple agencies rescue person in the sea
Rhyl RNLI volunteers in the inshore lifeboat were instrumental in rescuing a man who had entered the water off Pensarn, and was about 150 metres out, fully clothed.
RNLI/Paul Frost
casualty rescued by Rhyl ILB
The initial report at 4.50pm on Wednesday 11 July, to the lifeboat crew from UK coastguard at Holyhead, reported the man had disappeared from the view of police officers on the shore, and local volunteer coastguard officers were also paged to attend. The coastguard rescue helicopter from Caernarvon was also tasked.
Directions from police on shore directed the lifeboat crew, who located the man struggling to swim in the cold water. He was taken on board the lifeboat and the volunteers took him back to shore as the helicopter landed nearby.
The partner of the man had come to the boat, and was informed the tide was coming in around her, so she also was taken on board the lifeboat to another safe landing place.
The helicopter and ambulance paramedics, together with coastguards assured the man was given the best care, and together the agencies agreed the best way to get the man to hospital was by helicopter. He was winched up from the lifeboat, and the lady was taken to hospital by road ambulance.
Once both casualties were on their way to hospital, the lifeboat returned to station, to be ready for service at 6.50pm.
Paul Frost, duty Coxswain at Rhyl RNLI lifeboat station says ' The many hours of training by the charity's volunteer crew really paid off tonight. Their casualty care and quick return of the man to shore probably ensured he received the best attention, enabling a swift transfer to hospital'.
He continued ' all the agencies today worked well together to ensure a good outcome'
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Tragedy strikes as young musical talent succumbs to heart condition
Good-bye Marlee: We will miss your sweet smile, music and precocious wit.
SATURDAY MEMORIAL CELEBRATES BRIEF, LOVING LIFE OF MARLEE CLUFF
Marlee Rebecca Cluff loved singing and dancing and pushing the envelope. In top photo, near the end of her life,
she tried a new hair color. "It wasn't quite what I thought it would be," she confided. "I wanted more purple."
Marlee loved to sing and dance, here with her mom's
good friend and landlord, James Hayes, on bass.
TRAGEDY STRUCK in the wee hours of April 7, when Marlee Rebecca Cluff passed away in the Fort Bragg hospital.
Hours of CPR and emergency medical attention failed to revive her after she collapsed at home in the wee hours. Her death ended a life of medical challenge resulting from a congenital birth defect which compromised her cardiovascular and pulmonary systems and eventually took her life.
Marlee, nine years old, was a brave, bright light , sharing her talents for singing, drawing and dancing with her community and extended family. Everyone who spent time with this charming child admired her talent, wit and courage.
RAISED MOST of her life by Lauren Chalece Cluff, a single mom, Marlee weighed less than five pounds when she was born Aug.31, 2006. She endured her first of many surgeries when only eight days old. Another operation was planned this summer, to replace both her damaged pulmonary artery and an overtaxed aortic valve.
Home for Marlee was Purple Martin Farm near Point Arena.
Marlee's musical mother sang to her all her short life. Patsy Cline tunes, Billy Holiday ballads and Beatles songs were Marlee's favorites. She knew many lyrics and 1940s "big band" tunes not familiar to many older musicians.
HER VOCAL talents, intelligence and winning personality charmed friends and family at weddings, reunions and many other functions. Marlee's drawings and jewelry pieces were impromptu gifts cherished by visitors to her home on Purple Martin Farm near Point Arena. She was a second grader at Pacific Community Charter School.
Marlee was a thoughtful, bright child who will be missed.
AN ENERGETIC tree climber and rain dancer, Marlee loved riding her bike through the forest and farmland. She had a precocious nature and broad interests, embracing astronomy and the constellations. On the last night of her brief life, she described once seeing a rare "moonbow" and proudly showed off the blossoms of a fruit tree blooming on the farm.
Survivors besides her mother include her mother's partner, Kieran Roy Martin, whom Marlee called "my super hero," her step-sister Aya Martin, aunts and uncles and a grieving extended family on the farm run by Kelle Martin and James Hayes. Marlee is also survived by loving grandparents Richard and Shelly Jones, two sets of great grandparents and hundreds of friends and admirers spanning the generations.
Marlee's home in rural Point Arena offered her plenty of flowers to draw.
MARLEE'S MOTHER extends "heartfelt thanks to all the first responders for their extreme efforts to keep Marlee alive. After more than an hour of CPR, these wonderful people still didn't want to give up on Marlee. I will be forever grateful for their loving care, and that her last moments on Earth were spent with such caring people."
Marlee Rebecca's Celebration of life will be held at the Odd Fellow's Hall in Point Arena, Calif., this Saturday April 16, at 3 p.m., appropriate because Marlee loved the rugged Mendocino coast, and the flowers blooming this time of year. Guests are asked to bring a potluck dish and an anecdote of Marlee's life to share. A live band of locals who loved Marlee will provide dancing music. More details may be found on Aimee Taylor's Point Arena Update page on Facebook. (Plug in Marlee Cluff.)
A FUND to defray medical and burial expenses has been arranged, in lieu of floral remembrances. The Marlee Cluff Memorial Fund, arranged at Redwood Credit Union, is account number: @2647cluf. Donations may also be sent to Marlee Cluff Memorial, c/o Redwood Credit Union, PO Box 485, Point Arena, CA 95468. Call 707 545-4000; 1 800 479-7928
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Bay Area Travelers April 17, 2016 at 1:32 PM
I saw the lovely photo and was compelled to read the story, which made me weep.
How brave she was -- and talented. A comet in our midst. How lucky were the family and friends to know and make music with her! Thank you. Thank you. RIP, little Marlee.
We are north in Oregon, at the Shakespeare Festival. This young, gifted girl's life would make a play. In time, a consideration for this writer?
Great article Cookie and Keller. Thank you for all you have done. Love Lauren
Victorian vagabonds April 22, 2016 at 11:25 AM
We drove from the Bay Area to the Point Arena Lighthouse the day of the memorial, but did not know Marlee or her family. Such a loss. Such a poignant portrait of her life! Our condolences to her loved ones.
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Donors need to stop pressuring nonprofits to pinch pennies
The end of the year is a popular time to give to charity.
Historically, Americans have made 30% of their annual donations in December. Many of them get a head start on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving during the global online fundraising campaign known as Giving Tuesday.
But no matter what time of year it is, donors want help deciding which charity to support.
Because I conduct research about nonprofit evaluation methods, I've been studying the approach of ranking charities depending on how much of their budgets they spend on everything from paperclips to insurance.
A dangerous obsession
Known as the overhead ratio, this metric encompasses expenditures that might appear to be unrelated to work that advances a charity's mission. Such money, the argument for low overhead ratios goes, might be wasted.
Nonprofits typically have overhead ratios of around 20%, meaning that they spend about 1 out of every 5 dollars on fundraising expenses, accounting, publicity and everything else needed to operate. Some salary and benefits expenditures count as well, depending on what the employee does.
Pressure from donors, charity watchdogs, the media and even lawmakers to keep overhead costs low can conspire to deprive nonprofits of the money they need to run smoothly. In some cases, pressure to keep overhead low can depress pay and bring about skimpy staffing and benefits, making it harder for charities to hire strong job candidates and keep their best employees on board.
Scholars and other experts call the unintended damage caused by donors who want to see their money support the groups with the lowest relative overhead the "nonprofit starvation cycle."
To be sure, watchdogs and regulators may find monitoring overhead ratios worthwhile because it may help them flag charities that are perhaps being wasteful – or even worse, carrying out scams.
But when donors use their influence to insist on restricting overhead costs, it can be counterproductive.
Fortunately, five large foundations have realized this. The Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Open Society and the Packard Foundation said that they found that the charities they support, even well-known organizations, weren't getting enough money to cover the cost of their operations. They are taking corrective action to increase the amount of their funding that nonprofits may spend on overhead.
A widespread problem
Those foundations give away millions of dollars every year. But I have seen how much smaller-scale donors use overhead ratios to guide their decisions about which charities to support.
In a study I conducted with economist Javier Portillo we told participants to choose between two similar charities. The charity they chose would receive a donation of $100. Their choices varied according to how much their donation went to overhead.
The share who chose the first charity fell from 66% to less than 30% when the study's participants heard that some of the donations they directed would be covering overhead expenses. This pattern held regardless of whether 20% or 50% of the donation went to overhead costs, and whether that overhead cost went to fundraising, salaries or both.
In a follow-up study, I found that this feeling is quite strong. Participants donated their own money, and around 40% of them were willing to give up money so as to withhold donations from a charity with a higher overhead ratio.
And I'm finding that lower overhead ratios lead to fewer donations and assets, providing further evidence of how the nonprofit starvation cycle harms charities.
Better alternatives
Despite years of research pointing out the drawbacks of relying on overhead ratios as a way to see which charities are the best ones to support, the temptation to keep using them remains strong.
Many charity evaluation firms, such as Charity Navigator, Charity Watch and Give.org, still use them as metrics for evaluation.
Yet, mounting evidence suggests that organizations with higher overhead ratios can actually be more effective at accomplishing their mission.
Some scholars are working on better ways to evaluate nonprofits, but so far they are more helpful for foundations and other big donors than for average givers.
In the meantime, I believe it would be wise for donors to stop using overhead ratios as a way to choose which charities they'll support.
If you are in the giving spirit this holiday season, by all mean support causes you are passionate about. To reduce the risk of your money being squandered, check with the charity evaluators to see if they've had problems with fraud.
Many evaluators also provide accountability and transparency ratings, which measure whether nonprofits are open about their finances. It's a more meaningful signal than overhead ratios.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. It's written by Joseph Stinn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Miami University
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People in poorer nations might not get a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021
Deniz Gulsoken
People's Vaccine Alliance, a coalition between Amnesty International, Oxfam and Global Justice now, warned the world on Wednesday, saying if no action is taken 90 percent of people in poorer nations will not get access to a vaccine against COVID-19.
The world's richest nations have currently bought 54 percent of the potential vaccine supplies, despite housing only 14 percent of the world's population. Canada, for example, has ordered almost 5 complete doses of vaccines per person.
"No one should be blocked from getting a life-saving vaccine because of the country they live in or the amount of money in their pocket," Anna Marriott, Oxfam Health Policy Manager.
While affluent countries like the UK who has already administered the first dose of the vaccine to nearly 1.5 million people, 67 low-income countries have made no vaccine purchase yet.
According to the People's Vaccine Alliance, it's likely that these countries, along with 221 others who signed up for the programme, rely on COVAX, a global fund to provide equal access to the vaccine across the world.
High-income countries, along with the EU have pledged to provide funds for COVA, however, there is no clear timeline for the programme's rollout.
According to Duke Global Health Innovation Center, "Current models predict that there will not be enough vaccines to cover the world's population until 2023 or 2024". If there aren't dramatic changes to the vaccine rollout strategies billions of people across the world won't get access to safe and effective vaccination against COVID-19 for years. Which essentially means the pandemic also won't end for the rest of the world.
This upcoming crisis with vaccine distribution is a clear sign of the lack of equitable access to healthcare around the world. Health systems are facing major challenges due to the pricing of pharmaceuticals, research and testing of new drugs and treatments. Public health services do not always provide the care that people require. Accessible healthcare is a luxury the majority of the world's population doesn't have.
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Ana Sofia Mergulhão
This question was posed in 2016 by the Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, at Voices, a gathering of fashion-industry innovators organized by The Business of Fashion.
The fast fashion industry has long been following a business model that is rooted in unfairness. Providing us with the latest fashion trends at unsustainably cheap prices at the expense of people who make the clothes. We've known for a long time now that fast-fashion workers receive very low wages and work in inhumane conditions.
"This is a system where the workers at the bottom are taking all the risk and paying the price when things go wrong." Professor Genevieve LeBaron
The coronavirus pandemic created an economic pressure, plunging the fashion industry into a crisis that exposed, once again, the inequality pervading many corners of the globalized world.
The world faced factory closures, layoffs and the refusal of foreign buyers to continue to pay worker's wages while business was suspended, threatening the livelihoods of millions of worldwide garment workers that were already on a battle against a deadly disease.
Almost 80% of garment workers, many making clothes for some of the world's biggest fashion brands, are going hungry due to cancelled orders and while some retailers have agreed to pay for them in full, others are still refusing.
The solution shouldn't be cancelling contracts, moving manufacturing to local factories, or replacing humans with robots, but to dedicate meaningful resources to the improvement of working conditions for the sector's most essential workers: people who make our clothes.
Garment workers who work for fast-fashion brands already live in poverty, with the COVID-19 crisis many have lost the little income they had with no protection to fall back on. If you'd like to support garment workers and other people across the world pushed into poverty you can donate our Fighting Poverty appeal below. Your donation will be divided amongst 7 top organisations fighting to eradicate poverty across the world.
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Veterans get VIP treatment at Northern Trust golf tournament
Aug 08, 2019, 6:02pm EDT
Updated on:Aug 08, 2019, 6:02pm EDT
United States veterans who attended the Northern Trust golf tournament in Jersey City received VIP treatment.
In a partnership with United Rentals, the "Birdies for the Brave Military Outpost" gave active military members, veterans and their families a front row seat for the tournament, free of charge.
"We basically host all of our military members both past and present…It's a nice way to interact with them as well as some of the veterans to come out and spend a nice day here at the course enjoying themselves," says Chris Cox, the sports and entertainment director for United Rentals.
The servicemen also got to interact with NHL All-Star Devils forward Kyle Palmieri. Fifteen veterans from Palmieri's Squad21 military program caddied for the tour on Wednesday.
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"It's a really special opportunity to spend some time at this military outpost and get to know some really special people who have sacrificed so much for our country and for our freedom," Palmieri said. "The opportunity to be here and be and be around such incredible people is pretty special to me."
Pro golfers playing in the Northern Trust also showed their gratitude to the military.
Golfer Ryan Palmer is using a different golf bag every day of the tournament to honor the military. The bags are all customized to represent each military branch.
"At the conclusion of each day we're leaving those in the locker room. All the players are signing those and then we will be auctioning them off through the Birdies for the Brave website," Cox says.
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Army veteran Carlos Vazquez says that the experience has been a dream come true. He says that he has lived in Jersey City his entire life and has always wanted to see the Liberty National Golf Course.
What they are doing for us is unbelievable. The support that organizations like this give us at this time is very badly needed and at the same time welcome by all of us," Vazquez says.
United Rentals also gifted the Jersey City VFW a new handicap-accessible van for veterans.


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Gender Stereotypes in Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Subject: Sociology, Literature
Category: Sociology of Gender, Plays
Essay Topic: Gender Stereotypes, Macbeth
Majority of people have experienced gender stereotypes that are entrenched in today's society throughout time. The conformed idea of gender norms is expressed by women being portrayed as sensitive and fragile, and men as tough and powerful. Stereotypes similar to these are contradicted throughout William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, written in 1606. Specifically surrounding the continuous view that many of the characters defy stereotypes of masculine and feminine behaviours, and direct societies modern views on these stereotypes. Shakespeare contradicts traditional mascualine stereotypes through the main characters Macbeth, a treacherous yet brave man, and Lady Macbeth, an ambitious and powerful woman.
One of the earliest examples of masculine stereotypes seen in the play, is in Act 1, Scene 7, as Lady Macbeth expresses her outlook "When you durst do it then you were a man," emasculating Macbeth which eventually leads to his and Lady Macbeth's hamartia. This provokes a feeling of guilt within Macbeth suggesting that he has had his masculinity stripped from him. According to Lady Macbeth, his initial impression made him a man as she states "you were a man." However the inclusion of past tense used to describe Macbeth, expresses his loss of manhood as he is hesitant to kill King Duncan which contradicts his appearance. Lady Macbeth persists to mock Macbeth which increases as he is uncertain about committing regicide, peer pressuring him to feel pure guilt. By doing so, the characters contradict both male and female characteristics and presume the gender equivalents of each other. Macbeth is not as tough as a man should be based on stereotypes aforementioned, and is controlled by a woman who has authority over his actions.
Shakespeare interferes with gender stereotypes in the play Macbeth by attributing masculine qualities to female characters by giving them authoritative roles which would not have been expected in the male-dominated culture of Shakespeare's time. This is evident in Lady Macbeth's renowned "unsex me here" soliloquy. In this passage, Shakespeare has used elaborate metaphors which refer to Lady Macbeth's plea to rid her of her feminine façade and obtain a more ruthless nature. Shakespeare has also incorporated dramatic irony as he allows the audience to know how ambitious and greedy Lady Macbeth is feeling; something that the other characters do not know. This can often stimulate strong tension amongst the reader, and can be used to explore the relationships and interactions between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. This speech contains many images and implications that refer not only to Lady Macbeth, but to the whole play, as a prominent theme in Macbeth is the reversal of what is natural.
In Macbeth, Shakspeare has made it clear to his audience that female characters demonstrate more rationality and clear mindedness than their male counterparts. Stereotypes have unfortunately become a huge part of our daily lives, whether it's how we judge people based on their looks and appearance or personality. However this isn't something new that we recently started doing, and has been around since Shakespeare's time and most likely even before. Lady Macbeth tends to internalize society's stereotypes to a point where she believes that generating sufficient strength and ruthlessness depends on getting rid of her softer and more nurturing qualities and characteristics, if she wants to have any influence on Macbeth's crime. However, to the majority of people living in the 21st century, this appears to be quite idiotic as most people now appreciate and consider that whether you are tough or nurturing, has nothing to do with your gender. An evident example of this includes the progressive rise of women enlisting in the war, whereas back in Shakespeare's time, this would not have been the case.
Stereotypes will always be a part of our society and although Shakespeare's stereotypes may vary from ours, they will always be comparable to those in today's society. Gender stereotypes have been encountered by a number of people and are established in today's culture. Throughout Macbeth, Shakespeare has portrayed stereotypes of masculine and feminine characteristics in a variety of different ways, as well as shaping stereotypes of the modern world.
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Rightfully hailed as "the greatest band on Earth," the super-sized acoustic metal/comedy duo Tenacious D was an unlikely success story. Actually, Tenacious D was probably so successful precisely because they were so unlikely: few people would imagine that two chunky guys bashing on acoustic guitars, singing songs like a tribute to the greatest song in the world (because they forgot how the greatest song in the world went after conquering the Devil with it), became one of the biggest cult bands of the late '90s and 2000s. But the sheer charisma, humor, and energy -- not to mention inspired songwriting -- of singers/guitarists/actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass (aka JB, Jables, KG, and Kage, among other aliases) took them from L.A.'s underground comedy scene to their own series on HBO and a major-label album deal.
The crazed, wide-ranging sense of humor and intensity that Black brought to Tenacious D also made him a sought-after character actor, appearing in films like Bob Roberts, The Cable Guy, and Saving Silverman; Gass' film career includes supporting roles in Jacob's Ladder, Idle Hands, and Evolution. Similarly, the D's act showcased Black's theatrical, versatile vocals and Gass' deft support on the guitar in seemingly stream-of-consciousness songs about smoking pot, the duo's musical and sexual prowess, and subjects straight out of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as in equally absurd and inventive sketches.
The duo met at an acting class and began playing together in 1994, making their live debut later that year at Al's Bar, playing just one number, the aforementioned homage to the world's greatest song, "Tribute." In the audience that night was comedian/actor David Cross, who invited Black and Gass to appear with him and other like-minded performers such as Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo in a series of alternative comedy shows. The D soon headlined shows at venues like Pedro's and Largo, planting the seeds of a die-hard cult following; not even their inauspicious film debut in 1996's Bio-Dome slowed their momentum.
The following year, their appearances on Bob Odenkirk and Cross' brilliant HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show with Bob and David and a 1998 performance of "Sex Supreme" -- which sang the praises of a ménage à trois with KG and JB -- on Saturday Night Live hinted at the duo's just-beneath-the surface popularity, which began to rise into the mainstream with the group's 1999 HBO series. Though it lasted just three episodes, Tenacious D included, among other adventures, the group's search for "Inspirato," the cosmic creative force; the love triangle between Black, Gass, and a heavily pierced, Satanic clog dancer who threatened to destroy the group; and the discovery of Lee, Tenacious D's biggest fan. More of the D's brilliantly dumb songs debuted on the show, and fans began trading and auctioning video and audiotapes of Tenacious D.
The duo also played opening gigs for friends like Beck, Pearl Jam, and the Foo Fighters and embarked on their first full-fledged tour; Epic won a bidding war to sign the group. In 2000, Black's popularity and prominence as an actor grew with roles in films like Jesus' Son and, especially, High Fidelity, where his turn as the larger-than-life record store clerk Barry made him a bona-fide star. Meanwhile, the group worked on a self-titled debut album with the Dust Brothers, Dave Grohl, Phish's Page McConnell, Redd Kross' Steve McDonald, and other friends.
In 2001, the D's momentum hit critical mass: the group set out on their second nationwide tour, playing significantly larger venues than before and selling out many of their dates. And, despite an attempt to recall Tenacious D at the last moment because of its back cover, which depicted two babies chained to an altar, their debut entered the charts at a surprisingly strong number 33. Meanwhile, Spumco, the production company of Ren & Stimpy mastermind John K., crafted an appropriately witty and raunchy video for the single "Fuck Her Gently," and, last but not least, the duo continued work on a Tenacious D movie, The Pick of Destiny, which was released in 2006 along with a soundtrack of new material from the dynamic duo. The band kept a fairly low profile after the release of the film, making appearances at festivals and benefits until finally making a return to music in 2012 with the release of their third album, Rize of the Fenix.
Tenacious D spent the next five years working on new material, which slowly morphed from a fourth album to an online animated series. Entitled Post-Apocalypto, the series debuted in October of 2018, with its accompanying soundtrack appearing the following month. ~ Heather Phares
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Hazel (Strode) Pitcock, 88, of Tompkinsville, KY passed away Tuesday, April 2nd, at her home.
Hazel was born in Illinois on October 26, 1930, a daughter of the late Vera (Dubree) and Bro. Emit Strode.
She was a faithful member of Beautiful Home Missionary Baptist Church.
On January 15, 1948, in Tompkinsville, KY, she was united in marriage to Sam Pitcock by Bro. Garnett Martin. Sam preceded Hazel in death on March 9, 2006.
Hazel is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Janice and John Harlan, Vickie and Terry Bryant; and a son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Helena Pitcock, all of Tompkinsville, KY; eight grandchildren, Nathan Harlan, Joy Turner, Sarah Alexander, Brad Pitcock, Jill Miller, John Pitcock, Angela Garmon, and Amy Allen; and 14 great grandchildren.
Hazel is also survived by two sisters, Helen Eaton, of Tompkinsville, KY; Eva Jane Spear, of Etoile, KY; five brothers, Wayne Strode, Randall Strode, Jackie Strode, Wendell Strode, and John E. Strode, all of Bowling Green, KY.
Other than her husband and parents, she is preceded in death by four brothers, Ralph, Frank, Joe, and William Strode; and a infant sister, Anna May Strode.
Funeral Services will be held at Beautiful Home Missionary Baptist Church at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, April 7th, 2019.
Visitation is Saturday 11:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. at Yokley Trible Funeral Home and Sunday 6:00- 9:00 A.M. at Yokley Trible Funeral Home and 10:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M at Beautiful Home Missionary Baptist Church.
Burial is in Beautiful Home Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers donations are suggested to Molly Harlin Scholorship Fund, Strode Graveyard, or Beautiful Home Church.
Hazel was a very dear friend to us, like family. Paul and I would visit her when we were in Ky. We would have dinners together. Her son Larry and Helena would go with us also Aunt Mildred Parish. We enjoyed our visits so much.
Sorry for the loss of Hazel. We Love Her So Much!


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How Ben & Jerry's social mission survived being gobbled up
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield founded their gourmet ice creamery in 1978 and were pushing the boundaries of conventional business from the beginning.David Gelles | New York Times | August 24, 2015, 11:00 IST
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield founded their gourmet ice creamery in 1978 and were pushing the boundaries of conventional business from the beginning.
Big food companies have an endless appetite for smaller brands that make local, organic and socially responsible products.
Over the years, Danone acquired Stonyfield Farm yogurt; General Mills bought Annie's Homegrown; and Campbell Soup swallowed up Plum Organics. Each time such a deal is announced, fans of the target company ask whether its cherished products will be safe under the new owner, or if the integrity will disappear in the belly of the beast.
There is reason for concern. Starbucks acquired La Boulange, a San Francisco bakery chain that made healthful organic breads, in 2012. This year Starbucks announced it was shutting down the bakeries but keeping the brand name alive. And before it became a case study on how such marriages can succeed, Unilever's takeover of Ben & Jerry's got off to a rocky start.
Shortly after setting up shop in Burlington, they offered stock to Vermont residents only, hoping "to spread the wealth" in their community. After a national stock offering in 1985, the company set up a foundation and committed to funding it with 7.5% of the company's annual pre-tax profits. Cohen and Greenfield then devised a three-part mission statement: to make the world's best ice cream, to run a financially successful company and to "make the world a better place."
Ben & Jerry's went to great lengths to fulfill its mission, according to Antony Page and Robert Katz, Indiana University law professors who wrote a paper on the Unilever acquisition.
The company sourced from regional organic dairy farms. It used only milk that did not contain artificial growth hormones. It went to court for the right to label its ice cream hormone-free. It developed chemical-free containers. It made fair-trade and organic ingredients priorities. And it reduced its garbage output.
When Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods conglomerate, offered to buy the company in 2000 for a rich 25% premium, neither Cohen nor Greenfield wanted to sell. They worried that Unilever would abandon the progressive aspects of the business and run it as a soulless subsidiary.
But as a public corporation, Ben & Jerry's had a fiduciary duty to its shareholders. After much handwringing, it agreed to a deal with Unilever for $326 million. And despite handsome paydays — Cohen's stake was reportedly worth about $40 million while Greenfield's was worth about $10 million — the founders said in a statement that they would have preferred to remain independent. Very quickly, some of their worst fears were realised.
Ben & Jerry's had almost never fired an employee, but Unilever, the world's largest ice cream maker, had manufacturing and supply chain acumen and wanted synergies. A production plant and a distribution centre were shuttered; workers at the two sites were laid off; and sales representatives at headquarters were fired.
"There were redundancies and consolidation," said Rob Michalak, who has worked for Ben & Jerry's on and off for 26 years and is now director of social mission. (He met Greenfield while hitchhiking in 1978.) "That created unease and suspicion."
Then, shortly after the deal, in an affront to the company's political sensibilities, Unilever reportedly prevented employees from emblazoning the Ben & Jerry's logo on a bus driving them to a protest.
Kevin Havelock, president of refreshments at Unilever, likened the takeover to a new marriage. "There was a lot of learning that had to take place," he said. "Where there have been challenges, we've talked them through."
But today, 15 years after the deal, Michalak said Ben & Jerry's remained as mission-driven as ever, and was having a bigger impact than before because of its increased size. (Since the acquisition, Unilever has nearly tripled Ben & Jerry's revenue and added hundreds of jobs.) And instead of watching Ben & Jerry's simply disappear into Unilever, Michalak and his colleagues have pushed their new parent company to become a more progressive multinational.
The recipe for this amicable partnership was written into the acquisition agreement. Unilever, not wanting to squander its purchase, chose to operate Ben & Jerry's with more autonomy than any of its other subsidiaries. To ensure middle managers did not contaminate the unique culture, Unilever established an "external board" charged with overseeing Ben & Jerry's culture and social mission.
That board, initially comprising five longtime Ben & Jerry's supporters, including Cohen and Greenfield, has the authority to set aggressive new social impact targets and to push back against Unilever. When Michalak took over the social mission in 2006, he worked with the external board to redouble commitments to local farmers, press for national labeling of genetically modified organisms and set even more ambitious goals for reducing energy consumption and waste.
The company now offers its lowestpaid workers more than twice the national minimum wage. According to its website, it uses only cage-free eggs. And recently, Ben & Jerry's became a B Corporation, a voluntary certification by a non-profit group called B Lab designating companies that uphold high social and environmental standards.
Havelock said Unilever had been inspired by Ben & Jerry's ambitious social and environmental goals. Unilever has even thought about what it would take to become a B Corporation — a radical consideration for one of the biggest companies in the world — but believes that it's unfeasible right now.
"Even before Unilever, the company was always going to the uncomfortable edges of advocacy and activism," Michalak said. "We are doing more now on the social mission than we ever have in the company's history."
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Imagine we're sitting in a cozy, sunlight living room. Comfortably tucked into oversized hug-your-body chairs. Snuggled up to fashionably fuzzy pillows. A stylish coffee table between us. Two jumbo mugs of steaming coffee within arm's reach.
If we were sipping coffee together I'd tell you . . .
How incredibly long and surreal this week has felt . After another uncomplicated (and otherwise medically unremarkable) pregnancy thus far, my husband and I found out that I'm showing early signs of delivering prematurely again. Oh, the mixed emotions! . . . On one hand, I wasn't a bit surprised when the NP told us. Being that our first little guy spontaneously arrive 6 weeks early, the possibility of having a second early arrival feels absurdly normal. At the same time, my body's ability to make such a drastic change, seemingly overnight, caught me off guard. There have been zero red flags up until now. Add to that, the weekly injections I take with the specific purpose of preventing preterm labor . . . My mind has gone through a kaleidoscope-like shift over the past six days, moving from unfazed acceptance to nervous anticipation, finally settling into an unshakable peace.
I'd let you in on my word of the week. Grateful.
Grateful for modern medicine and fetal monitoring.
Grateful for the steroid shots that will help develop my little man's lungs and prepare him for life outside my body, in the event he does arrive sooner than 37 weeks.
Grateful to have made it to 34 weeks and 6 days. Three days further along that I was when Little J was born. Three days more pregnant than I've ever been!
Grateful even for bedrest . . . Because while bedrest is an absolute punishment for someone like me—Read: someone always in motion, who rarely sits, and who thrives on movement and fitness to keep the blues at bay—the alternative is most certainly brining another NICU baby into this world. And while he still may arrive early, despite all precautions, warning is my golden ticket of a difference with baby Luke. If there is anything I can possibly do that boosts his chances of staying put, you better believe I will do it to a big, fat capital T. Every second he bakes allows him the opportunity to grow stronger. And for that I am grateful.
If we were sipping coffee together right now, you'd see the unwavering smile on my face. I am at peace. At peace with waiting. At peace with not knowing. And at peace with simply sitting (literally).
What have you been up to since our last coffee chat?
When I was pregnant with my first, I remember wondering what meeting him for the first time would be like. The anticipation. A mix of nervous excitement.
Would I feel like I already knew him? Would he know me? Would we feel like strangers?
The reality is what I imagine meeting someone you met online for the first time in person is like. Someone who speaks a different language. Someone you've communicated with for months using only chat, and relying heavily on Google translate to craft your responses. Meeting sans translator. Neither of you even remotely fluent in the other's native tongue.
This is closer to what it really felt like after bringing him home.
Ours isn't the typical story because he spent nearly his first month in the NICU. Read my birth story and Surviving the NICU posts for the full story. Like other mommas to be, my body was my translator during pregnancy. I didn't have to think about what my baby needed. My body just knew what to do. After birth, his NICU doctors and nurses became my translators. Relying on them to relay his every need became my norm. As excited as I was when his NICU graduation day came, the idea of being home without my translating team felt so incredibly intimidating.
How would I know what to do?
His nurses were all so sweet, reassuring all would be well and I'd just know what to do. I'd know a hunger cry from a tired cry from a soiled diaper cry . . . Again, the reality being far from this.
Yes, I did learn to differentiate his array of cries. And the bond we've created is like no other . . . The key, however, being I learned.
We knew each other, but only to an extent. He knew my voice. The way he kicked just one leg reminded me of the little tap, tap, taps I felt against my ribcage during pregnancy. But we still had to get to know each other. And that took a mutual patience and trust. Patience in trusting my instincts and not second guessing my every thought and action. His patience in learning to trust that I would always be there for him.
Now pregnant with baby number two, I find myself wondering about baby's personality. Will baby be patient? Insatiable? Quiet? Vocal? How will this first meeting compare to when I met my first? Will I just know more so this time time around, or will it be like meeting a familiar stranger once more? My expectation is that our meeting will be a lot like with my first . . . But I'm not putting too much on expectations this time.
I will just wait and see.
What was your first meeting like? Or are you currently pregnant and anticipating your first meet?