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Posted on July 26, 2013	by Pamela Starr Dewey
Series: Oh Say Can You See? V: The American Way
Entry 3:
Plausible Deniability
(This is the third entry in a series on The American Way. Be sure to start with Entry 1
in order to understand the following material in context.)
Perhaps you saw the news stories last year about the event described in this NY Times article:
New York Times, 12/6/2012
…ASHULIA, Bangladesh — The fire alarm shattered the monotony of the Tazreen Fashions factory. Hundreds of seamstresses looked up from their machines, startled. On the third floor, Shima Akhter Pakhi had been stitching hoods onto fleece jackets. Now she ran to a staircase.
But two managers were blocking the way. Ignore the alarm, they ordered. It was just a test. Back to work. A few women laughed nervously. Ms. Pakhi and other workers returned to their sewing tables. She could stitch a hood to a jacket in about 90 seconds. She arranged the fabric under her machine. Ninety seconds. Again. Ninety more seconds. She sewed six pieces, maybe seven.
Then she looked up.
Smoke was filtering up through the three staircases. Screams rose from below. The two managers had vanished. Power suddenly went out throughout the eight-story building. There was nowhere to escape. The staircases led down into the fire. Iron grilles blocked the windows. A man cowering in a fifth-floor bathroom called his mother to tell her he was about to die.
"We all panicked," Ms. Pakhi said. "It spread so quickly. And there was no electricity. It was totally dark."
The fire started about 7 PM, and it took area firefighters until almost noon the next day to finally extinguish it.
By then at least 112 people had been found dead and scores more were in hospitals being treated for burns and smoke inhalation.
Though most workers had left for the day when the fire started, the industry official said, as many as 600 workers were still inside working overtime.
The factory, which opened in May 2010, employed about 1,500 workers and had sales of $35 million a year, according to a document on the company's Web site. It made T-shirts, polo shirts and fleece jackets.
Most of the workers who died were on the first and second floors, fire officials said, and were killed because there were not enough exits.
The fire started on the first floor, probably in cluttered piles of yarn and fabric stored near electrical generators, instead of inside fireproof storage rooms as the (seldom obeyed) law required. Narrow exits on that floor became quickly blocked by panicking workers, and for those on upper floors—all three staircases leading down led through the ground floor. If they tried to descend, they were pushed back by smoke and deadly fumes.
There were no fire escapes—a dozen jumped to their deaths from windows on upper floors.
When the November fire broke out, [survivor Sumi] Abedin was working on the factory's fourth floor. When a co-worker smelled smoke and she and some co-workers first tried to escape, said Abedin, managers "shouted at us, 'There is no fire. This is a lie. Go and work.'" Five minutes later, when the smell had grown stronger, Abedin ran to a door but it was padlocked shut. "I was crying and running around the floors," she said. Abedin took a different stairway down to the second floor, but found fire blocking any exit there. "Meanwhile," she said, "power had gone out, and it was dark." Following co-workers who were lighting the way with a cell phone, she made it back up to the third floor. "I saw many workers fallen in the production area," she said, "and they had suffocated, and I was crying."
A few workers forced open a window, and Abedin jumped out. "I jumped not to save my life," she said. "I jumped to save my body. Because if I would be in the factory, my parents would not be able to get my body. I would be burned to death. So I jumped so at least they could find my body outside."
Abedin said she woke up outside with a broken leg and a broken arm. When she turned to help the co-worker who had jumped just before her, he was dead. [The Nation]
Abedin was correct in her concern. Many bodies from inside the building could not be identified.
As you can guess, this factory was not making sari dresses for Indian shoppers. It was part of the global supply chain that feeds western megastores such as Walmart and Sears.
Yet Tazreen was making clothing destined for some of the world's top retailers. On the third floor, where firefighters later recovered 69 bodies, Ms. Pakhi was stitching sweater jackets for C&A, a European chain. On the fifth floor, workers were making Faded Glory shorts for Walmart. Ten bodies were recovered there. On the sixth floor, a man named Hashinur Rahman put down his work making True Desire lingerie for Sears and eventually helped save scores of others. Inside one factory office, labor activists found order forms and drawings for a licensee of the United States Marine Corps that makes commercial apparel with the Marines' logo.
… Amid the blackened tables and melted sewing machines…an Associated Press reporter discovered clothes and account books Wednesday that indicated the factory was used by a host of U.S. and European retailers.
Among the items discovered: children's shorts with Wal-Mart's Faded Glory label, hooded sweaters marked "Disney Pixar," shorts with hip-hop star Sean Combs' ENYCE tag, and sweaters from the French company Teddy Smith and the Scottish company Edinburgh Woollen Mill. Sears was among the companies listed in the account books.
And American "Dickies."
If you were aware of this story, you may have read some of the editorial commentary that questioned what, if any, legal—or moral—liability these businesses had in regard to this tragedy. For of course, this was not some isolated situation. Bangladesh is notorious for a lack of oversight of the safety and rights of sweat shop workers in the thousands of factories that hire millions of workers in this poverty-stricken nation. Many if not most of them work in rickety fire-traps, under identical conditions to the Tazreen factory. Exit doors are often locked during working hours—supposedly to limit employee "theft." Plain old common sense fire safety precautions, such as keeping stocks of flammable materials away from machinery that might generate sparks, are typically totally ignored.
Nobody worries about the welfare of the workers, as they are merely cogs in a giant machine.
Bangladesh is now a garment manufacturing giant, the world's second-leading apparel exporter, behind China, which is no longer the cheapest place to make many basic goods. Bangladesh has the lowest garment wages in the world, and many of the Tazreen factory's victims were young rural women with little education, who earned as little as $45 a month in an industry that now accounts for $19 billion in exports.
Starvation wages for work in hellish conditions—all in the name of making sure we can buy a Sponge Bob T-shirt at a rock-bottom price at our local Walmart. Because, of course, we have come to expect rock-bottom prices. Even though most Americans will give lip service to wishing there were T-shirts…and every other kind of goods…to buy that were "made in America." Nah. Most of us wouldn't BUY one made in America, because the added cost of paying even American minimum wages to garment workers would boost the price beyond what we've become accustomed to paying.
Yes, Walmart and other retail giants have addicted us to prices that can only be kept "that low" by importing goods manufactured in places like Bangladesh.
"We as consumers like to be able to buy ever-greater quantities of ever-cheaper goods, every year," said Richard M. Locke, deputy dean of the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. "Somebody is bearing the cost of it, and we don't want to know about it. The people bearing the cost were in this fire."
Well, actually there is a way that Walmart and the others could keep their prices low and still sell American made goods produced by workers making at least minimum US wages. They could reduce their corporate profits (and their executive salaries) by some small percent. But see, that wouldn't be The American Way. After all, "the profit motive" has long been recognized as the fuel that was necessary to propel America to its one-time role as the Most Prosperous Country in the World. You don't mess with a proven method.
Of course, buying goods from sweat shops where people are burned alive isn't very good for corporate Public Relations. Which might affect those corporate profits. So the Bangladesh fire was indeed a PR nightmare for Walmart and the others for a while.
After the fire, Walmart, Sears and other retailers made the same startling admission: They say they did not know that Tazreen Fashions was making their clothing.
But who, then, is ultimately responsible when things go so wrong?
The global apparel industry aspires to operate with accountability that extends from distant factories to retail stores. Big brands demand that factories be inspected by accredited auditing firms so that the brands can control quality and understand how, where and by whom their goods are made. If a factory does not pass muster, it is not supposed to get orders from Western customers.
Tazreen Fashions was one of many clothing factories that exist on the margins of this system. Factory bosses had been faulted for violations during inspections conducted on behalf of Walmart and at the behest of the Business Social Compliance Initiative, a European organization.
Yet Tazreen Fashions received orders anyway, slipping through the gaps in the system by delivering the low costs and quick turnarounds that buyers — and consumers — demand. C&A, the European retailer, has confirmed ordering 220,000 sweaters from the factory. But much of the factory's business came through opaque networks of subcontracts with suppliers or local buying houses. Labor activists, combing the site of the disaster, found labels, order forms, design drawings and articles of clothing from many global brands.
Walmart and Sears have since said they fired the suppliers that subcontracted work to Tazreen Fashions. Yet some critics have questioned how a company like Walmart, one of the two biggest buyers in Bangladesh and renowned for its sophisticated global supply system, could have been unaware of the connection.
But of course, the name of the game is Plausible Deniability. "Tsk, tsk! We didn't know! We would have been aghast if we did!" Yeah. Right.
…David Hasanat, the chairman of the Viyellatex Group, one of the country's most highly regarded garment manufacturers, pointed out that global apparel retailers often depend on hundreds of factories to fill orders. Given the scale of work, retailers frequently place orders through suppliers and other middlemen who, in turn, steer work to factories that deliver low costs — a practice he said is hardly unknown to Western retailers and clothing brands. The order for Walmart's Faded Glory shorts, documents show, was subcontracted from Simco Bangladesh Ltd., a local garment maker. "It is an open secret to allow factories to do that," Mr. Hasanat said. "End of the day, for them it is the price that matters."
But when the New York Times reporter comes calling, the Escape Clause can be pulled out of the hat. "We had no idea!…"
Tazreen Fashions is part of a larger garment conglomerate, the Tuba Group, which owns at least half a dozen apparel factories in Bangladesh. Mr. Hossain [Tazreen owner] said a team from Walmart's local office conducted a compliance audit last year and faulted the factory for excessive overtime, while making no mention of fire safety or other issues. Moreover, he said, the local buying houses had also inspected and approved the factory, tantamount, he assumed, to approval from Walmart and the other global brands these middlemen represented.
Kevin Gardner, a Walmart spokesman, said the company stopped authorizing production at Tazreen "many months before the fire." But he did not say why.
But of course no one was surprised several months later when Walmart and Sears "avoided even the appearance" of having the slightest connection to "the problem."
On 15 May 2013, companies whose clothing was manufactured at the Tazreen Design Ltd. factory met in Geneva to discuss compensation payments for the victims of the fire; Walmart and Sears declined to send representatives to the meeting. [Wiki]
Why do I bring all this up in the context of American History? After all, can't we expect such lack of respect for human life, such carelessness for others, in third world countries like Bangladesh, which don't live by The American Way? For after all, isn't The American Way the "Christian" Way? Hasn't the American Way of Life and doing business always been based on "Biblical Principles"? (Bangladesh is about 90% Islamic, 10% Hindu.)
Maybe in recent decades the modern Walmart corporation and other big American businesses have fallen away from those ideals and become corrupt and greedy. But surely historically The American Way has been greatly superior to the horrid conditions in darkened Bangladesh. Hellish events such as the Tazreen fire and the one described below are tragic, but understandable in uncivilized nations.
The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were … aged sixteen to twenty-three…
Because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits – a common practice … to prevent pilferage and unauthorized breaks – many of the workers who could not escape the burning building jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors to the streets below.
Oh. Wait. That description isn't from far-flung heathen lands. It's from Heathen New York City. Yes, once again we are back in the Good Old Days.
I submit to you a brief overview of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire:
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. It was also one of the deadliest disasters that occurred in New York City – after the burning of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904 [over 1,000 people on their way to a German Lutheran church picnic died when that excursion steamship caught fire and sank in the East River] – until the destruction of the World Trade Center 90 years later.
The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged sixteen to twenty-three; of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was Providenza Panno at 43, and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and "Sara" Rosaria Maltese.
Because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits – a common practice at the time to prevent pilferage and unauthorized breaks – many of the workers who could not escape the burning building jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors to the streets below.
… Under the ownership of Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the factory produced women's blouses, known as "shirtwaists." The factory normally employed about 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays, earning between $7 and $12 a week.
As the workday was ending on the afternoon of Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire flared up at approximately 4:40 PM in a scrap bin under one of the cutter's tables at the northeast corner of the eighth floor. The first fire alarm was sent at 4:45 PM by a passerby on Washington Place who saw smoke coming from the eighth floor. Both owners of the factory were in attendance and had invited their children to the factory on that afternoon.
The Fire Marshal concluded that the likely cause of the fire was the disposal of an unextinguished match or cigarette butt in the scrap bin, which held two months' worth of accumulated cuttings by the time of the fire. Beneath the table in the wooden bin were hundreds of pounds of scraps which were left over from the several thousand shirtwaist that had been cut at that table. …
A bookkeeper on the eighth floor was able to warn employees on the tenth floor via telephone, but there was no audible alarm and no way to contact staff on the ninth floor. According to survivor Yetta Lubitz, the first warning of the fire on the ninth floor arrived at the same time as the fire itself. Although the floor had a number of exits, including two freight elevators, a fire escape, and stairways down to Greene Street and Washington Place, flames prevented workers from descending the Greene Street stairway, and the door to the Washington Place stairway was locked to prevent theft by the workers; the locked doors allowed managers to check the women's purses. The foreman who held the stairway door key had already escaped by another route. Dozens of employees escaped the fire by going up the Greene Street stairway to the roof. Other survivors were able to jam themselves into the elevators while they continued to operate.
Within three minutes, the Greene Street stairway became unusable in both directions. Terrified employees crowded onto the single exterior fire escape, which city officials had allowed Asch to erect instead of the required third staircase. It was a flimsy and poorly anchored iron structure which may have been broken before the fire. It soon twisted and collapsed from the heat and overload, spilling about 20 victims nearly 100 feet (30 m) to their deaths on the concrete pavement below.
Just as in the Twin Towers inferno, there were heroes of the story that day…
Elevator operators Joseph Zito and Gaspar Mortillalo saved many lives by traveling three times up to the ninth floor for passengers, but Mortillalo was eventually forced to give up when the rails of his elevator buckled under the heat. Some victims pried the elevator doors open and jumped into the empty shaft, trying to slide down the cables or to land on top of the car. The weight and impacts of these bodies warped the elevator car and made it impossible for Zito to make another attempt.
A large crowd of bystanders gathered on the street, witnessing sixty-two people jumping or falling to their deaths from the burning building. Louis Waldman, later a New York Socialist state assemblyman, described the scene years later:
"…Word had spread through the East Side, by some magic of terror, that the plant of the Triangle Waist Company was on fire and that several hundred workers were trapped. Horrified and helpless, the crowds — I among them — looked up at the burning building, saw girl after girl appear at the reddened windows, pause for a terrified moment, and then leap to the pavement below, to land as mangled, bloody pulp. This went on for what seemed a ghastly eternity. Occasionally a girl who had hesitated too long was licked by pursuing flames and, screaming with clothing and hair ablaze, plunged like a living torch to the street. Life nets held by the firemen were torn by the impact of the falling bodies."
The remainder waited until smoke and fire overcame them. The fire department arrived quickly but was unable to stop the flames, as there were no ladders available that could reach beyond the sixth floor.
Which also meant there was no way to reach anyone on those floors with a ladder to rescue them.
(Picture from the NY Times of that date in 1911 shows x's on the windows above where the ladder reaches, indicating where victims jumped.)
The fallen bodies and falling victims also made it difficult for the fire department to approach the building.
(Picture from the NY Times shows forty bodies scattered on the sidewalk next to the building.)
Although early references of the death toll ranged from 141 to 148, almost all modern references agree that 146 people died as a result of the fire: 129 women and 17 men. Most victims died of burns, asphyxiation, blunt impact injuries, or a combination of the three.
The first person to jump was a man, and another man was seen kissing a young woman at the window before they both jumped to their deaths.
So there you have it. Almost a "script" for the Bangladesh fire. Young women doing exhausting labor at pitifully low wages, in a garment factory sweat shop, a fire started and fed by totally unsafe working conditions, a building ill-equipped for such an emergency, locked exits…a recipe for disaster.
So did anyone end up shouldering responsibility for THIS fire?
The company's owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, who survived the fire by fleeing to the building's roof when the fire began, were indicted on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in mid-April; the pair's trial began on December 4, 1911.
And quickly ended with an acquittal for both. The defense lawyer convinced the jury that the prosecution needed to prove that the owners specifically KNEW that the exit doors were locked at the time of the fire. In spite of the fact that almost everyone knew that this was "standard procedure" for this sweat shop.
There was a subsequent civil trial, and the owners lost that one. The plaintiffs won $75 compensation to the survivors of each victim. Which ended up being no sweat for Blanck and Harris—their insurance company ended up paying them about $60,000 over their reported losses. About $400 per casualty. They came out ahead.
But surely they at least "learned their lesson" and dedicated the rest of their lives to factory safety…
Harris and Blanck were to continue their defiant attitude toward the authorities. Just a few days after the fire, the new premises of their factory had been found not to be fireproof, without fire escapes, and without adequate exits.
In August of 1913, Max Blanck was charged with locking one of the doors of his factory during working hours. Brought to court, he was fined twenty dollars, and the judge apologized to him for the imposition.
In December of 1913, the interior of his factory was found to be littered with rubbish piled six feet high, with scraps kept in non-regulation, flammable wicker baskets. This time, instead of a court appearance and a fine, he was served a stern warning.
The Triangle Waist Company was to cease operations in 1918, but the owners maintained throughout that their factory was a "model of cleanliness and sanitary conditions," and that it was "second to none in the country." [Source]
There was indeed some public uproar over the horrific event, and it did eventually lead to some changes in New York law regarding wages, hours, safety, and working conditions. But of course that involved … shudder … government intervention into business. Which from what I understand is frowned upon greatly by many in our society today.
Some actually seem to consider the improvement in industrial conditions brought about by some of the muckrakers and reformers of the late 19th and early 20th century to be an infringement on The American Way. Because their primary definition of The American Way seems to be … "I'm free to do ANYTHING I want to get rich, with no lousy government intervention. Because after all, Businessmen are gentlemen, and can be counted on to Do The Right Thing without any external interference by do-gooders. Yessiree, what's good for Big Business is Good for America!"
Which puts me in mind of General Bashington T. Bullmoose!
GENERAL BULLMOOSE was created by Al Capp in June 1953 as the epitome of a ruthless capitalist. Bullmoose's motto "What's good for General Bullmoose is good for everybody!" was adapted by Capp from a statement made by Charles E. Wilson, the former head of General Motors, when it was America's largest corporation. He later served as Secretary of Defense under President Dwight Eisenhower. In 1952 Wilson told a Senate subcommittee, "What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country." Li'l Abner became embroiled in many implausible but hilarious adventures with the cold-hearted Bullmoose over the years. [Source]
Bullmoose had a simple boyhood dream: to possess all the money in the world. He very nearly did. Bullmoose Industries seemed to own or control everything. [Wiki: L'il Abner]
So if Big Business is Good for the Country, any government regulations putting a crimp in the style of any such businesses … are Bad for America. And are thus un-American. And ungodly. And not part of The American Way.
Oh. Yes. I remember that Eternal Law undergirding The American Way. It's somewhere in the Bible, I think. At least in principle. It must be. Lots of people who call themselves Christian have been saying so for a long time.
What any of this has to do with "Love your neighbor as yourself" and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and "Don't forget the poor" and "The laborer is worthy of his hire" is beyond me.
I guess I just don't understand Theonomic economics and business.
But there are more things I've recently come to understand about history that I never knew before. We'll look at some more of them in the next entry in this series:
The Wizard of AdZ
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Alaska Anchorage will return from the holiday break with a pair of games at Nebraska Omaha. The two team will play a Friday and Sunday series to accommodate facility availability.
Alaska Anchorage and Nebraska Omaha will square off for the first time since 2016 when the Mavericks defeated the Seawolves 3-1 in the Brice Hockey Classic. UNO leads the all-time series 6-2-1 and has won both meetings in Omaha. The Mavericks have won the last five meetings between the schools.
Sophomore Drake Glover scored his first career goal at Bemidji State on Dec. 14th. The Anchorage, native has three points (one goal, two assists) in 23 games.He is the 12th player to score a goal for the Seawolves this season.
Junior David Trinkberger scored his first goal of the season in the team's 2-1 win at Bemidji State Dec. 15th. The Landshut, German, native has nine points (two goals, seven assists) in 69 career games.
UAA has scored first in both of its wins this season.
Sophomore Trey deGraaf recorded an assist in both games at Bemidji State. The Red Deer, Alberta, native has nine points (three goals, six assists) in 39 career games.
Freshman Drayson Pears recorded his fourth assist of the season, tied for most on the team, at BSU. Pears has tallied four of the nine assists recorded by freshman this season.
Senior Jeremiah Luedtke scored the game-winning goal at Bemidji State for his 11 career goal, second most on the team. The Lynnwood, Wash., native leads the team in career assists (24), points (35) and games played (96).
Alaska Anchorage earned a split at Bemidji State its last time out on Dec. 14-15. The Beavers won the first game 5-1 but the Seawolves scored in overtime to win 2-1 in game two.
Alaska Anchorage will play its first home games since Nov. 10 when it hosts Lake Superior State Jan. 4-5.


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10. Hyper Demon
Devil Daggers was a fun little score-attack FPS that came out in 2016 and set the world ablaze. Hyper Demon is this year's follow-up but it's less about surviving than continuous destruction in a trippy, evocative world. It's very hard to put down.
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This vampire survival RPG took the PC world by storm in 2022, and it's still in early access. Players choose what type of vampire they want to be then head out into the dangerous fantasy world with the goal of becoming the next Dracula.
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Two words: chainsaw legs. Turbo Overkill may be a retro-looking boomer shooter but it's a fast-paced challenge for Doom Eternal's throne. Imaginative levels, cyberpunk visuals, and a range of abilities from slow motion to grappling. This is an FPS that rewards the player for not staying still.
7. Total War: Warhammer III
The long-awaited final part of the Total War: Warhammer trilogy mostly lived up to the hype, although it took a few patches to get there. Epic fantasy battles and some cool new features add up to make one of the best real-time strategy games on PC.
6. Return to Monkey Island
It's been 13 years since the last Monkey Island game. Return brings back the series' original creators for possibly Guybrush Threepwood's last adventure game. The puzzles are clever but not brain-melting, the distinct art style works, and it's one of the funniest games of the year too.
5. Overwatch 2
The anticipated sequel to one of the most beloved multiplayer games around, Overwatch 2 doesn't reinvent Overwatch but reinvigorates it. The sequel is faster, more chaotic, and yet more compelling, too. Plus, it's free and includes everything from the original game, too.
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A highly-addictive roguelike monster-hunting game, Vampire Survivors is impossible to put down. Essentially a bullet-hell shooter with no shoot button, the goal is to level up weapons and abilities to kill as many monsters as possible. It's also crazy. One of the playable characters is a non-moving tree.
3. Signalis
Resident Evil meets Ghost in the Shell in this stylish cyberpunk survival horror. The retro-style graphics invite comparisons to PC classics like the original Alone in the Dark, but the haunted spaceship evokes System Shock or Dead Space. A deeply unsettling game.
2. Metal: Hellsinger
Doom is already a heavy-metal rock concert in Hell, but Metal: Hellsinger pushes it one step further by adding a rhythm game to the shooting. If the player times their shots to the music, they do extra damage. Keep the rhythm going and the game'll go full metal. A truly unique FPS.
1. Elden Ring
What is there left to be said about Elden Ring? From Software's open-world RPG is an absolute masterpiece. Every step is a new adventure and a simple horse ride across a lake can lead to a ridiculous dragon boss encounter. The game looks stunning on PC and mods add such essentials as enemy randomizers and full co-op multiplayer. The definitive platform for the best game of 2022.
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21 Bible Verses About Losing a Parent
Published: October 6, 2022 Updated: January 4, 2023
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Matthew 5:41.
Psalm 34:182.
Isaiah 41:103.
Revelation 21:44.
Jeremiah 29:115.
John 14:37.
2 Corinthians 1:3-58.
Deuteronomy 31:89.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-210.
John 16:3311.
Romans 5:1-2112.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-1713.
1 Corinthians 15:52-5714.
Isaiah 40:3115.
Matthew 11:28-3017.
Lamentations 3:21-2318.
Psalm 119:5019.
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A loving parent guides, shapes, and forms you from the moment you draw your first breath. Losing that parent can be the worst grief of your life, but you are not alone. Even Christ Himself wept at the gravesite of His friend Lazarus (John 11:35). With the loss of a parent, the greatest comfort a believer has is the hope and confidence that our relationship with our parents does not end at death. The Bible provides many verses for comfort and guidance on the loss of a parent.
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Take heart; find strength and comfort from these 21 Bible verses during times of mourning:
1. Matthew 5:4
2. Psalm 34:18
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
3. Isaiah 41:10
4. Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
5. Jeremiah 29:11
Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
7. John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
8. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
9. Deuteronomy 31:8
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
10. Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.
11. John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
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12. Romans 5:1-21
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
13. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
14. 1 Corinthians 15:52-57
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
15. Isaiah 40:31
16. Psalm 18:2
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
17. Matthew 11:28-30
18. Lamentations 3:21-23
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
19. Psalm 119:50
My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.
20. Isaiah 43:2
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
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Pac-ing up — Namco Museum Archives Vol 1 & 2 Review
By David Flynn
Namco Museum Vol 1 on the original PlayStation was an endless source of fun and information as a kid. I could explore a 3D museum about old arcade games as well as experience said games for myself. The Namco Museum series continues today with two new releases: Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 and Namco Museum Archives Vol. 2. While each volume includes a brand new game alongside 10 other games each, the packages as a whole don't do the legacy of these classics justice.
While Namco is known for their legacy of arcade games, many of those games were remade for the NES as well as some original games made for the console. I'm all for preserving these titles, and the games themselves are emulated well. Each volume contains 11 games, 10 classic games and 1 original game exclusive to these collections. Many of the expected options such as scan lines and screen sizing are here, and there's even an option to add anti-aliasing and replicate the bleeding pixels of old tube TVs. As far as the games included go, there's the expected Pac-man and Dig-Dug as well as rarer titles like Pac-Land and Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti which was only released in Japan. I haven't played the original versions of these titles, but they all play perfectly fine here, complete with typical NES slowdown and sprite flickering.
Unfortunately that's all this collection is: fine. There are no manuals to peruse nor cover art to gawk at. The games do include a rewind feature that has been a wonderful addition to many recent compilation games, but even that is lackluster at best, bringing you a few seconds backwards like a savestate instead of actually rewinding or letting you choose where to pick back up. While the two brand new games are a nice touch, Volume 1 has a demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition and Volume 2 contains a pseudo-sequel to Galaga called Gaplus, they're not enough to make these collections stand out amongst the Sega Ages re-releases or even Nintendo's own much maligned NES Online service. Everything Namco Museum Archives does here has been done better elsewhere. There are great games included in these packages, personal favorites being Legacy of the Wizard and Galaga, but they aren't given the respectful treatment they deserve.
NAMCO MUSEUM ARCHIVES Vol 1
Namco Museum Archives is a collection of the company's NES classics, no more, no less. While the emulation is great and the original games are a good touch, the "Museum" part of the title rings hollow.
Great emulation
Good screen options
All new NES-like games
Absolutely no bells and whistles
Rewind is lackluster
Collection UI can block the game screen
David is the kind of person to wear his heart on his sleeve. He can find positives in anything, like this is a person who loved Star Fox Zero to death. You'll see him playing all kinds of games: AAAs, Indies, game jam games, games of all genres, and writing about them! Here. On this website. When not writing or playing games, you can find David making music, games, or enjoying a good book. David's favorite games include NieR: Automata, Mother 3, and Gravity Rush.
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A memorial service is scheduled for Wednesday, February 16 at 11 a.m. at Foundry United Methodist Church (1500 16th St., NW) All are welcome.
As many of you are likely aware, my long-time friend and Committee Clerk, Jeff Coudriet, lost his fight with cancer on January 5th. Ward 2 and the entire city has experienced a great loss.
Jeff served as my Clerk for the Committee on Finance and Revenue and knew the District's budget and financial workings like no other. It was exemplary of his character that he always took the time to share this knowledge with others –- new Council staff, members of the media, and anyone else who might be interested in the workings of the District.
Over a decade of public service to the District also took Jeff to the Alcoholic Beverage Regulatory Administration and the office of Ward 6 Councilmember Sharon Ambrose. He served as President of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, and as a board member of the Logan Circle Community Association. Jeff stayed just as busy outside of the Wilson Building as he did while at work, and we are all better off for it.
Jeff was a part of a special group of dedicated Ward 2 residents who worked so hard to make our neighborhoods and city great. He was one of the most positive, uplifting, and inspiring people I have ever known or worked with. I valued his loyalty, his support, and above all his friendship.
As we go through our daily lives, drone on through deadlines, and move from function to function, I know that when my spirit begins to sag, I can recall those things that made Jeff so special — intelligence, charm, enthusiasm, love of life — and feel rejuvenated. Anyone who knew Jeff at all knew that he was one who strived to leave the world better than he found it.
It is impossible to put into words the contributions Jeff made to our city and its residents and the loss we are all feeling now that he is gone. My staff and I extend our condolences to Jeff's family and friends, and deeply mourn his passing.


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Between Worlds: The Story of Florence Cook – the Woman Who Talked to Ghosts
The numerous stories about mediums and psychics are often dubious, but the story of Florence Cook led people to believe that ghosts live among us. Who the famous London clairvoyant really was, and how she managed to achieve such success?
The name Florence Cook is firmly embedded in the history of spiritualism – all the inhabitants of the United Kingdom of the 19th century knew about her experiments, and not only prominent scientists of that time were interested in her activities, but also writers, psychologists and even members of royal families. We tell the story of a legendary medium who was able to prove to people that death is just an intermediate stage between the past and the present.
The future legend of spiritualism was born on June 3, 1856 in one of the north-east boroughs of London. Her family belonged to the middle class – her father was engaged in construction, and her mother was a housewife. From childhood, Florence showed her psychic abilities – according to her mother, the girl from an early age had the ability to feel spirits, which often frightened others.
However, the first time that Florence was able to demonstrate her talents in full force, was an incident that occurred in 1870 – then a group of Florence's classmates gathered in the Cook house, who decided to hold a session of spiritualism called table turning. At the beginning, the girl did not want to take part in the process, fearing the possible consequences, but her mother, who supported her daughter, allowed her to prove herself. Sitting at the table, young Florence was able to establish contact with the ghost in a matter of minutes, as a result of which the table, which was a conductor for their communication, began to spin at an unimaginable speed, and then rose into the air with Cook herself.
Florence Cook (c.1856-1904) was an English medium who claimed to materialise a spirit named Katie King. Seen here in later life, sitting in a garden with a dog on her lap. Date: circa late 19th century
Florence Cook
This incident marked the beginning of Florence's career – since then, residents of London, who knew about her extraordinary abilities, began to regularly contact her. However, the more often Cook conducted spiritualistic seances, the more her strength grew, and the process itself often began to go beyond security – for example, once during a seance, Florence soared in the air, and the ghosts completely undressed her in the presence of participants in the process.
After this incident, the girl's mother insisted on establishing certain safety rules – from that moment on, Florence began to receive visitors exclusively in the dining room of their house. During the sessions, the medium herself was inside a huge wardrobe – the girl tied herself to a chair in order to remain motionless in a trance state, while clients were outside and communicated with the spirits through a small hole made in the closet door.
Very soon Florence had influential admirers – members of wealthy families who turned to Cook for help, tried in every possible way to thank her for the work done. Some simply paid generously for the sessions, others did advertisements for her, but the most grateful was the lawyer Charles Blackburn – after contacting Florence, he provided her with an annual allowance, which allowed the medium to fully focus on his own activities and conduct sessions for free, without thinking about the monetary side of the issue.
In 1872, a spirit appeared in Cook's practice, which glorified her not only throughout London, but throughout the United Kingdom. During one of the sessions, a ghost appeared in front of Florence, calling himself Cathy King. According to her, she was the daughter of the famous pirate Henry Morgan and returned to the earthly world to pay for the sins she committed during her lifetime.
Since then, Katie has become a regular guest at Cook's sessions, and a few months later, more than half of Londoners already knew her. They described the ghost as a small white spot that, with each new appearance, took on more and more human form, filling with ectoplasm. Already at the end of April 1872, clients of the medium could see Cathy in the guise of a woman in white robes, whose image did not in any way give out a ghost in her.
This phenomenon became a whole event for the residents of London – Florence Cook was recognized as a genius of materialization, and the number of her clients grew every day. At the same time, the power of the medium also grew – a year after the first appearance of the famous spirit King, Cook was able to achieve her full presence in the world of the living – now visitors could not only touch Cathy, but even photograph her with a flash, which was previously considered impossible by representatives of spiritualism.
However, there were also those who did not believe in Florence's ability and passionately dreamed of her exposure. One of such people was the lawyer William Folkman, who decided at all costs to expose the medium. During his session, he abruptly jumped up and grabbed the hand of the ghost of Katie King, wanting to prove that she was Florence in disguise. However, Folkman's plans were not destined to come true – instead of the long-awaited exposure, he saw an angry spirit literally dissolve in front of his eyes, and when he opened the cabinet door, he found Cook unconscious, tied to a chair.
Florence Cook, Katie King and William Crookes
As the assistants of the medium present in the house later reported, William Folkman provoked the so-called ectoplasmic stroke, a phenomenon in which the sudden interference of an outsider in a spiritualistic session provokes too rapid "absorption" of the energy released by the ghost into the medium's body, which is fraught with serious mental and physical disorders. and sometimes death.
Fortunately, Florence managed to avoid serious consequences – after this incident, it took her only a few weeks to recover, and rumors about the reality of Katie King's ghost only attracted new clients to Cook's house, and also drew attention to her activities of one of the prominent scientists of that time.
Upon learning of the incident at Florence's home, renowned scientist William Crookes decided to collaborate with Cook. He bought an apartment for her in London and began to regularly participate in her seances. When he first saw Katie King's spirit, he immediately checked where the medium was at the moment the ghost appeared, and found that she was sitting motionless in her place while Katie wandered around the room.
To prove the reality of what is happening, Crookes began to attract outside observers to his work and tighten the conditions for the sessions. So, Florence began to be tied more tightly to her chair, in the room where she was, it was decided to leave the "onlookers", and once one of the participants in the process even tied Cook's hair around a nail nailed to the floor, but all these measures did not prevent the medium from establishing contact with Katy – the spirit continued to regularly appear at meetings with representatives of the earthly world.
The famous writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also mentioned this phenomenon in his works – in the book "History of Spiritualism" the author explains that in the beginning Cathy's face strongly resembled the appearance of Florence herself, which often became the subject of controversy and all kinds of manipulations:
"This phenomenon is one of the mysteries of materialization, requiring study, not ridicule. The faces of ghosts that have only recently appeared in our world often resemble the faces of mediums. This is explained by the fact that the spiritual shell of the medium becomes the basis for the embodiment of the essence of the spirit, however, when they gain their own strength, their true faces are also manifested "
In addition, some researchers even managed to study the physical characteristics of the ghost of Katie King. One of the observers measured the pulse of the spirit, which was 75 beats per minute (while Florence's pulse at the same moment was 90 beats per minute), and the other allegedly was able to cut off a strand of Katy's hair – they were golden, and Cook was a bright brown-haired woman …
Florence Cook during a seance
However, the main evidence of the existence of the ghost was the photographs that Crookes regularly took during the sessions. The scientist managed to take about 60 pictures, some of which were attended by Florence and Katie at the same time. Unfortunately, only a few of them have survived to this day, and skeptics argued that the footage was indistinct and could not serve as real proof of the existence of the spirit.
One way or another, everything ended in May 1874. During one of the sessions, Katie approached Florence and addressed her with parting words, saying that it was "time for her to leave." When Cook regained consciousness, she suffered a terrible tantrum, and when Crooks was able to calm the woman, King's ghost was no longer in the room. This was the last time they saw the famous spirit.
After that, Florence's life changed a lot. She left her career, married and moved to Wales, where she was engaged in housekeeping. However, six years later, Cook again returned to her former hobby, presenting the residents to the ghost of a certain Mary.
In 1880, during another spiritualistic seance, one of the participants decided to test the reality of the presented spirit and grabbed Mary's hand, at the same time opening the curtain behind which Florence was. To the surprise of those present, the room of the medium was empty, and the "ghost" was Mrs. Cook herself. This scandal took on a very large-scale character, and Florence's reputation was hopelessly damaged. True, most of her supporters believed that the deception on the part of the medium was not intentional – according to them, this phenomenon may be due to the state of trance, in which the summoned ghosts have power over the body of the medium.
Florence herself was extremely upset by the failure and henceforth conducted sessions only in the presence of an outside observer who was next to her at the time of immersion in a state of trance. But this did not help restore her reputation – people no longer believed that Cook could speak to the spirits of the dead. Florence spent the last years of her life in solitude, communicating only with her husband. She died in 1904 as a result of developing pneumonia. After her death, William Crookes sent a telegram to her husband, in which he expressed his sincere condolences, and also noted her incredible contribution to the development of spiritualism:
"I express my deepest condolences for the irreparable loss, and I also want to say that thanks to the mediumship of Mrs. Cook, the confidence that those we love continue to live and look at us from heaven has grown in my heart. And I am sincerely grateful to her for that "
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Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands reveals Thames Barrier bridge plans
3 June, 2019 By Richard Waite
Concept plans by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands for a cycling and pedestrian bridge next to the Thames Barrier have been revealed today (3 June)
Designed with marine engineer Beckett Rankine, the self-funded proposal was submitted to Transport for London (TfL) in late 2017 and both practices are currently engaged in 'exploratory conversations' with a number of relevant stakeholders.
The 530m-long scheme in east London was officially made public this morning at the press opening of the Royal Academy's summer exhibition.
Thames barrier bridge
The proposed 'low-cost, low-impact' link would run parallel to the Thames Barrier, connecting new developments in Charlton on the south bank with Patel Taylor's Thames Barrier Park. It would feature four lifting sections with each 61m span capable of being individually opened or closed to allow river traffic to pass.
According to the firms, the multiple double-leaf bascule bridge would sit either 'immediately upstream or downstream of the Thames Barrier, so impact on the flow of the river would be minimised'.
The structure would feature yellow steel box girders supporting aluminium mesh decks with a clearance of 15m above high water spring tides – a sufficient height for 'most boats to be able to pass underneath'. However it is expected the spans will lift about 10 times a day for larger vessels.
Alex Lifschutz, founding director of Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, said: 'There is really only one location in east London for a relatively low bridge suitable for cycles and pedestrians.
'Construction would take about 18 months and phasing would mean that at least two of the barrier openings are always open for navigation, so no river traffic would be stopped. And because the majority of the construction can be done from the river, it will minimise disturbance to residents.'
It is understood the bridge has been designed as a potential replacement to the Woolwich Ferry, which is expected to close once planned road bridges across the River Thames at Gallions Reach and Rotherhithe are approved.
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is already working on another high-profile Thames project, having won the Illuminated River design competition in 2016 for a £20 million light installation covering up to 15 central London bridges.
Installation of the scheme, a collaboration with US light artist Leo Villareal, began on the first four bridges; London, Cannon Street, Southwark and Millennium Bridges, earlier this year. The first will be illuminated in summer 2019 with the team working their way upstream – the next group of bridges will be completed in 2020 and the project is due to complete in 2022.
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Sadie Morgan, dRMM architects, National Infrastructure Commissioner
It's hard to comment on the scheme from [the information that was available to me, but in principle I'm all for architects taking a more proactive role in coming up with solutions to how to better improve our built environment.
We need creative thinkers to join the debate, lead by example and help tackle some of the big issues we face, climate change being an obvious example. Architects and designers are well placed to contribute at the outset and shape how our national infrastructure projects are conceived as well as delivered.
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Simon Carne3 June, 2019 8:22 am
Sadie should be welcoming with open arms. What's not to like why didn't I think of it?
Paul Finch3 June, 2019 8:47 am
How long will it be before procurement zealots demand that someone else's idea is put out to public competition? When are we going to stop punishing people with ideas and vision?
Adam Furman3 June, 2019 12:13 pm
This is an idea that was developed by a different office before this. The similarities, and lack of mention of where the notion originally came from, is concerning
Chris Rogers3 June, 2019 4:49 pm
Given the barrier's life is limited it seems odd to commit to a bridge who piers match the fomer's so exactly.
Robert Wakeham4 June, 2019 11:46 am
A bridge at this location should surely be developed in co-ordination with whatever needs to be done to extend the life of the Thames Barrier, as pointed out by Chris Rodgers.
And why the need for (and expense of) no less than four lifting sections, when surely a good deal of the river traffic could pass beneath the bridge?
MacKenzie Architects4 June, 2019 1:08 pm
I flew into Southend Airport yesterday for the first time.
Very nice experience too, and a seat on a mostly-empty train in and out of London. Much more civilised way of travelling than any of the 4 main airports around the capital who are desperate for more runways and more passengers.
Anyway, the point is-
If the Thames Barrier is going to be swamped with rising sea levels (which won't happen) the entire Essex coast from Harwich southwards is going to be inundated and no matter what monstrous barrier plan is created, central London around the Thames will be lost.
Maybe they should have a two-way tilt on this design, and bend it downwards when there is a flood warning .......
Nick Gibbs11 June, 2019 3:25 pm
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Beckett Rankine originally came up with a design for the Thames Barrier Bridge as a response to Transport for London's Transport Design framework in 2017. Prior to unveiling the Thames Barrier Bridge concept earlier this month (3 June), our team had been in touch with many of the relevant stakeholders including TfL, PLA and the Royal Borough of Greenwich and Newham. We are unaware of any other published design concepts for a bridge at the Thames Barrier and none of these stakeholders has mentioned knowledge of any similar proposals. We are now looking for investors to take the project forward to the next stage and would be interested to hear from colleagues or agencies who have any other insights or studies on the feasibility of a bridge at this location.
The Thames Barrier Bridge is located next to the Thames Barrier, which is expected to remain operational until 2060-2070 or beyond, depending on the rate of sea level rise and life extension works. Eventually, the barrier is likely to be decommissioned once a second barrier is constructed downstream, at which point the machinery may be removed. But the structure is likely to remain as have other redundant elements in the river, such as the London Chatham and Dover Railway piers next to Blackfriars Bridge.
The Thames Barrier has four navigable spans, two for inbound traffic and two for outbound. The need for two navigable spans in each direction is to enable one of the spans to be closed to navigation when its gate is undergoing maintenance. As there are four navigable spans on the barrier the Thames Barrier Bridge is shown with four opening spans to match. In practice it is likely that only one would open at a time, or possibly two if an inbound and outbound ship were transiting together. It is possible that the number of opening bridge spans might be able to be reduced to three but that would reduce the redundancy in the system.
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Oxford is a city full of music and the Oxford Proms (brainchild of violinist Edmund Jones) are a welcome addition to the summer scene. A series of chamber music is framed by orchestral concerts in Christopher Wren's spectacular university venue. Jones' purpose is to provide work for local professional musicians – not just freelancers from London – and this band is very impressive with tight ensemble, impeccable intonation, great string tone and fine wind solos.
Mozart's opera seria "La Clemenza di Tito" has for its overture something of a trifle. This was despatched in crisp style by conductor John Traill. The consensus among scholars and players is that the concerto Mozart wrote for the clarinet was intended for the longer and lower Basset clarinet, and this certainly makes sense of the arpeggio figuration. Soloist Michael Collins was revelatory – effervescent as champagne and compelling in the beauty of tone. In the Adagio, Traill supported well, with the softest of string accompaniment, seeming to silence even the occasional evening reveller in Broad Street. If the tempo sometimes relaxed in the finale, Collins always recovered it brilliantly with exciting, physical playing.
In Britten's centenary year, we didn't get BB but Arvo Part's "Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten" for strings and a solitary bell. Despite a rather indistinct start, this grew in strength, the players sustaining strongly their final fortissisimo. Traill is the most meticulous of conductors, and his control of the slow crescendo and hypnotic pulse was first rate.
In Haydn's "London" Symphony Number 104, he coaxed some finely shaped lines from his wind players in an unfashionably slow Andante and maintained the architecture by retaining all of the composer's repeats. The players were at their best when Traill's enjoyment was evident, and the finale was sparkling.


Recently I was working on some SQL scripts using TSQL in SQL Server Management Studio and from force of habit I was using the "GO" statement between each of my SQL statements to seperate them.
I then started re-factoring the SQL, creating variables where I had hardcoded values etc. and placed those variable declarations at the top of the script.
After re-factoring, I executed the scipt and got an error message saying that the variable @varName was not defined?
I checked for any typos...none. I then started breaking down the script to see if I could isolate the issue. When I removed the "GO" statements, the script executed without error.
It turns out that "GO" is not a TSQL statement, but rather a command that is recognised by the sqlcmd and osql utilities and SQL Server Management Studio. These utilities interpret the "GO" statement as a signal that it should send the current batch of TSQL statements to an instance of SQL Server. Therefore any variables declared before the last "GO" and the next will NOT be available in the current batch of statements.
Just for fun I then copied my TSQL into a <cfquery> and when I executed this, found that the same error was thrown.
One to watch out for if you're not familiar with the true definition of the "GO" statement.


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St George's pupil on the Harpenden War Memorial
By Rosemary Ross
Wilfred Thomas
The War Dead of St George's School 1914-18
In 2012, Sian van der Welle submitted a query about Wilfred Thomas, an Old Georgian who was killed during WW1 and lived in Longcroft Avenue in 1911 when he was a pupil at the school. Records show he had lived at The Chilterns in Longcroft. Sian had lived in Longcroft for 12 years and has a small picture of Wilfred at his front door, though she could not recognise the house and doesn't know which one might be Chilterns. In fact by the time Wilfred joined up the family had moved to The Longmynd, Douglas Road and later to Byeways on Ayres End Lane.
According to Paddy Storrie's book "Here I am; Send me" about the 18 Old Georgians who died in the Great War, Wilfred is the only one to be commemorated on the Harpenden War Memorial on Church Green.
Wilfred Thomas outside Chilterns, Longcroft Avenue
Wilfred was born in 1896. His father was the successful manager of a magazine publisher in London, and moved his family to Harpenden in 1909, when he became a Governor of St George's School. Wilfred and his younger siblings were enrolled at the school and Wilfred apparently cut a 'dashing and distinctive figure' in the school magazine The Georgian, being awarded the prize for 'Neatness' in 1912, and being a good shot on the 25m school rifle range. However, he failed his university entrance exam in the summer of 1914, and this may have led to decision to enlist on 18 September 1914.
He found his fellow Royal Fusiliers "a rather tough lot" when he arrived at their barracks in Hounslow. But, as young public school gentleman, he was keen to earn his stripes as quickly as possible and by October was recommended for Sergeant - something which normally took 8 years in peacetime. And while the ranks were still in civvies, he described himself as "the best equipped man in the company", with all the trappings of his social rank, and he sent home for a swagger stick.
With the help of family networks and connections - his father approached Lords Reading and Northcliffe to lobby on Wilfred's behalf - Wilfred was a commissioned officer by Christmas. He was attached to the 9th Battalion, the Yorks and Lancaster Regiment - largely made up of South Yorkshire miners, who proved to be very unfit. However, though at 18 he was very inexperienced, and his commanding officer was only 22, they did work hard through training during the early months of 1915. By this stage Wilfred was keen to get to the front, despite the news of the disasters of Gallipoli, Verdun and Ypres.
At last - deployment to France
In December 1915 Wilfred joined his unit - 8 platoon of B company on the front line - experiencing shell-fire and preparing for the summer offensive with acute awareness of danger. Writing on 21 June 1916 to those who were due to attend a school reunion 1 July he seemed to be foreseeing his death: "Maybe by the time the actual day arrives you will realise why I had to be so early with my good wishes to ensure them reaching you".
On 1 July 1916 four battalions of 70th brigade gathered in the assembly trenches in Authuille Wood, preparing an attack on the German 'Leipzig Salient'. Wilfred's 9th Yorks and Lancs, along with the 11th Sherwood Foresters, were to be the second wave. Already in the assembly trenches they came under unexpectedly heavy German bombardment. But despite the first wave taking very heavy casualties, the attack continued and Wilfred's unit faced withering machine gun fire as soon as they left their forward trenches. From Paddy Storrie's account it appears that Wilfred "at the last moment volunteered to take over a first lot of men, whose officers had been killed in the trench. As none of the enemies guns had been silenced, casualties were very great and he was wounded in the leg; but after bandaging himself in a shell-hole he took over his own men when they came up." At this point he was struck full in the face by a shell fragment and killed instantly.
The attack ground the halt, with the loss of half of those who had taken part that day - the 70th Brigade lost 2307 men - 581 of them in the 9th Yorks and Lancs.
Wilfred's body was not recovered and buried until 11 weeks later - to the distress of his family. His father had mooted visiting the site - an indication of how little those in Harpenden knew of conditions on the front.
Wilfred's family commissioned a stained glass window in the North wall of the school chapel in his memory, and endowed the Wilfred Thomas Prize for Endurance, which is awarded each year.
Memorial window dedicated to Wilfred Thomas in St George's School chapel
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Memorial plaque to Wilfred Thomas in St George's School chapel
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Beg Buttons – It's Not About Pushing the Button
Posted September 1, 2021 in ARLnow Walking Street Operations
This article was originally published at ARLnow
Arlington recently announced the end of one of the only good things to come out of the pandemic: the widespread implementation of automatic pedestrian phases on many of our traffic signals.
In many areas, pedestrians will have to go back to pushing a button in order to trigger an opportunity to safely cross the street. The response from many has been "pushing a button is not a big deal," and indeed, pushing a button is not hard or onerous; what is a big deal is the guaranteed additional pedestrian delay that comes along with it, the negative effect on accessibility and the message that it sends.
Unnecessary Pedestrian Delay. How much? It's complicated.
When the signal is set to go to walk automatically (called "pedestrian recall"), a pedestrian has a decent chance of arriving at the intersection and encountering a fortuitous set of circumstances: the walk signal has already come on and that there is enough time left in the countdown for them to safely cross the street. In this instance, the pedestrian encounters zero delays, they can immediately cross the street.
A pedestrian approaching this same intersection in "actuated mode" where a button press is required, at the exact same point in the signal timing will encounter one of a couple of different circumstances. If a car going the same direction has been sitting there waiting and has tripped the light then they might have a walk signal and still encounter zero delay — or the car may have a green but the signal may not present a walk signal so that it can provide a shorter green for this cross street than the amount of time it takes a person to safely cross, in which case they will encounter a "don't walk." Pressing the button now will require waiting the full length of the remaining signal plus the entirety of the green for the crossing direction. If there isn't a car going the same direction as them to trip the light, then they definitely don't have a walk signal. Pressing the button will require an unknown wait time that depends on whether that signal is "coordinated" with other nearby signals as well as what the "minimum green time" is for the crossing traffic direction.
With all of the various ways that a traffic signal can be programmed it's impossible to say at a high level how much these changes are going to slow down pedestrians, but Arlington's DOT absolutely could. Average pedestrian delay given a set of signal timings is an easy calculation. At a minimum, Arlington should do this calculation for all signals that are proposed to be put back on actuation so Arlingtonians can fully understand what is being proposed.
Safety & Accessibility
While delaying people walking is obnoxious, especially given that it affects us all — we all, at some point in time have to try and cross the street. There is also a safety impact — both studies and a basic understanding of human nature tell us that the longer people have to wait to safely cross the street, the more likely they are to unsafely cross the street. This decision is in clear opposition to our Vision Zero goals.
The press release announcing these changes indicates that they are doing so to "improve walkway safety;" Arlington County spokesperson Jessica Baxter explained to Greater Great Washington that "the theory amongst professionals is when there is manual input by a pedestrian at a walkway, pedestrians are more likely to pay attention to their surroundings." In all of my time looking at transportation research and learning about transportation safety, I have never before heard this theory.
It is, however, a theory — not peer-reviewed research. It is also predicated on a notion that "distracted walking" is a significant contributor to crashes. This is a trope that has been debunked by actual research — distracted walking has a minimal effect on pedestrian behavior. A meta-analysis of all studies on distracted walking does not show any increased risk for pedestrians. What does increase risk of pedestrian crashes? Speeding, intoxication and driver inattention.
Pedestrian recall is also much more accessible for wheelchair users who may have difficulty accessing the push button and those with low or limited vision who have difficulty locating the push button.
"Corridors where pedestrian activities are less frequent"
Arlington's press release says that these changes are occurring in "corridors where pedestrian activities are less frequent." This would make some sense — in areas where traffic is heavy but pedestrians are rarely found, like along Arlington Boulevard, this might make some sense.
The map of intersections to be returned to actuation doesn't highlight corridors like Arlington Boulevard, however. Why? Because those signals were never fully put onto pedestrian recall in the first place. The corridors where pedestrians are being punished are instead corridors that feature both high traffic volumes and fairly consistent pedestrian traffic like Columbia Pike, Langston Blvd, Shirlington and along Glebe Road in Ballston.
If these areas truly featured extremely low pedestrian activity, then pedestrian actuation would make sense, but so would putting these signals on what is called "hot response" where when a pedestrian pushes the button, the signal changes very quickly — as soon as the walk signal the other direction can be safely counted down to zero. If pedestrian activity is really that low, then the occasional pedestrian "disrupting traffic" by quickly forcing an uncoordinated red light wouldn't be that disruptive. I've only encountered one traffic signal in the region that was clearly set to respond that quickly and it wasn't in Arlington.
This is an especially bad time to make a change that punishes walking. With school going back, but many parents concerned about crowding on buses, parents are making new decisions about how best to get their kids to school. With some adults returning to the office, but on a new or less regular schedule, many people are also rethinking their commutes.
These times of change, when people are actively rethinking their travel patterns, are critical opportunities to get people to try more safe and sustainable ways to get around. We are creatures of habit and we generally get around the way we've gotten around before, barring some jarring event causing us to rethink.
A family that decides now that they don't need that 2nd car is likely to remain car-light for many years. A family that decides that they now do need a second car that they didn't before, is likely to use that fixed asset and sunk costs to make many more trips by car than they did before.
How should this work?
There isn't a one-size-fits-all solution here. It's not as simple as recall = good, actuation = bad, but it's pretty clear that actuation in many of the areas highlighted is not the right choice given their walkable nature. Unfortunately, these decisions are getting made without community input. Not only is this particular change being made without any sort of public process and without any data to justify it, this is how all signal operation decisions are made.
Arlington's Master Transportation Plan, which guides our street layout and design, mentions traffic signals only once — and that is to recommend that all county signals be converted to use LEDs rather than traditional bulbs. There is no community-developed, board-adopted guidance on how we operate and time our traffic signals, let alone other operational decisions about our streets. As a result, these decisions are made with no visibility, often by traffic signal engineers who live in car-dependent suburbs relying on their personal judgment, values and experiences which don't always align with the experience in Arlington's Urban villages.
Arlington County's Transportation Commission highlighted these problems back in 2015. A letter to the County Board recommended that the County instigate a public process to develop a signals policy and, acknowledging that this was likely to take several years to get off the ground, recommended several interim, commonsense policies, including "Signals should be adjusted so that pedestrians never have to push a button in order to cross safely and legally throughout the Metro Corridors and in other areas of high pedestrian activity, such as Shirlington and the Columbia Pike corridor."
I have heard rumors that Arlington may have crafted "administrative guidance" on signal timing and operations, but the Transportation Commission's request in 2019 to review any such guidance or policy went unanswered, and no other public distribution or review of this guidance has been seen.
What might such a policy look like? Cambridge, MA is a city similar in many ways to Arlington and their Traffic Control Signal Policy sets sensible policies around the average delay experienced by pedestrians waiting for any walk signal (less than 40 seconds), phasing out pedestrian buttons "wherever possible", implementing "Leading Pedestrian Intervals" (at least three seconds at all crosswalks, with some intersections having an LPI of up to five seconds).
DC's Design and Engineering manual sets a clear policy on actuation "Pedestrian actuation (requiring pedestrians to push a button) should be used only at actuated signals, and only when pedestrians are present at less than half of the signal cycles at the peak hour."
Let's review – this change:
Slows down pedestrians
Decreases safety
Is being applied to high-pedestrian areas
Is being applied arbitrarily and without a public process
So what can you do? Speak up – write to the County Manager or the County Board, tag Arlington on social media, or sign on to the Sustainable Mobility for Arlington County petition.
Traffic signal timing & operation is weird, wonky, opaque and largely taken for granted, but it has a real effect on our streets and it sends a message about our priorities. Slowing down walkers, making them beg to cross the street & privileging traffic flow over their safety sends a clear message of Arlington's priority: that walkers are NOT the priority. We need to send a better message.
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Ron DeSantis Announces New Monoclonal Antibody Centers Across Florida
On Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that Florida is increasing the availability of monoclonal antibody therapies by opening a rapid response unit to administer this lifesaving treatment in Jacksonville.
In the coming days, the state will be exploring an additional long-term location at the Jacksonville Public Library, as well as other locations throughout the state.
"I am proud to announce the opening of this rapid response unit to offer lifesaving monoclonal antibody therapies for Floridians," said DeSantis. "We also look forward to setting up a long-term site at the Jacksonville Public Library and additional long-term sites across the state. These treatments have been proven successful, with clinical trials resulting in a 70 percent reduction in hospitalization and death for COVID patients."
Additionally, monoclonal antibody strike teams are being developed to bring treatment directly to Florida's vulnerable populations in long-term care facilities. Rather than having nursing home residents leave the facility to receive monoclonal antibody therapy, these teams will deploy to them to provide treatment.
"The Division of Emergency Management is proud to join Governor DeSantis and the Florida Department of Health to secure access to the monoclonal antibody treatment throughout the state for Floridians," said Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) Director Kevin Guthrie. "Under Governor DeSantis' leadership, we are committed to working alongside DOH as we continue to identify and deploy all available resources for the treatment of COVID-19 to local governments and hospitals."
"These monoclonal antibody therapy sites will expand access to proven effective COVID-19 treatment," said FDEM Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kenneth Scheppke. "The treatment reduces severe illness, hospitalization and death risk by 70 percent, and reduces the odds of household contacts developing COVID-19 by 82 percent. Monoclonal antibody therapy helps prevent the COVID-19 virus from attaching to human cells, and is effective against variants of concern, including the Delta variant. Thank you to Governor DeSantis for his continued dedication to innovative and multi-faceted solutions as we have responded to COVID-19."
Monoclonal antibody treatments can be prescribed by health care providers to individuals 12 years of age and older who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or who have been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and are at high risk for severe illness and hospitalization. The antibodies help the immune system recognize and respond effectively to the virus.
According to the treatment guidelines, they should be administered as soon as possible after diagnosis, and within 10 days of symptom onset. By providing access to these treatments at these new sites, DeSantis is alleviating demand on hospital resources and further making sure that Floridians have access to all potential treatments that can help them recover from COVID-19.
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