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Roe v. Wade (1973)
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court ruled that laws banning abortion violated the US Constitution. The Texas abortion laws, articles 1191–1194, and 1196 of the Texas penal code, made abortion illegal and criminalized those who performed or facilitated the procedure. Prior to Roe v. Wade, most states heavily regulated or banned abortions. The US Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade secured women's rights to terminate pregnancies for any reasons within the first trimester of pregnancy.
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
Alfred Henry Sturtevant (1891–1970)
Alfred Henry Sturtevant studied heredity in fruit flies in the US throughout the twentieth century. From 1910 to 1928, Sturtevant worked in Thomas Hunt Morgan's research lab in New York City, New York. Sturtevant, Morgan, and other researchers established that chromosomes play a role in the inheritance of traits. In 1913, as an undergraduate, Sturtevant created one of the earliest genetic maps of a fruit fly chromosome, which showed the relative positions of genes along the chromosome.
Subject: People
Katharina Dorothea Dalton (1916–2004)
Katharina Dorothea Dalton was a physician in England in the twentieth century who defined premenstrual syndrome (PMS) as a cluster of symptoms suspected to begin one to two weeks before menstruation and disappear upon the onset of a new menstrual cycle. Prior to Dalton, there was little research on pre-menstrual issues and those that existed linked the problem to excessive water retention or estrogen. Dalton hypothesized that PMS resulted from a deficiency in the hormone progesterone and advocated for hormone replacement therapy to lessen the symptoms of the syndrome.
"Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated with a Trial of Labor after Prior Cesarean Delivery" (2004), Mark B. Landon et al.
In 2004 Mark Landon and his colleagues in the United States published "Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated with a Trial of Labor after Prior Cesarean Delivery," which compared the risks of vaginal delivery and cesarean section for delivery of a fetus after a previous cesarean delivery. During a cesarean section, a physician surgically removes a fetus from a pregnant woman through an incision in her abdomen. By the late 1900s, most clinical guidelines viewed attempting a vaginal birth after a previous cesarean delivery as a reasonable option for most women.
Subject: Publications
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
In 1942, the United States Supreme Court Case of Skinner v. Oklahoma ruled that states could not legally sterilize those inmates of prisons deemed habitual criminals. Skinner v. Oklahoma was about the case of Jack Skinner, an inmate of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, who was subject to sterilization under the Oklahoma Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935. The case, decided on 1 June 1942, determined that state laws were unconstitutional if those laws enabled states to forcibly sterilize inmates deemed to be habitual criminals.
Subject: Ethics, Legal
Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967)
Hermann Joseph Muller studied the effects of x-ray radiation on genetic material in the US during the twentieth century. At that time, scientists had yet to determine the dangers that x-rays presented. In 1927, Muller demonstrated that x-rays, a form of high-energy radiation, can mutate the structure of genetic material. Muller warned others of the dangers of radiation, advising radiologists to protect themselves and their patients from radiation. He also opposed the indiscriminate use of radiation in medical and industrial fields.
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1752-1764), by William Smellie
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery is a three volume collection of patient accounts that William Smellie published from 1752 to 1764. Smellie, a physician and instructor in obstetrics in Great Britain, published these compilations to share his expertise in reproductive medicine, while also providing his students and colleagues with a source of reference in their own medical practices. Smellie wrote these books to shift obstetrics from a discipline practiced by midwives with limited medical training to one practiced in a medical context by physicians.
Physician researchers Edgar Rey Sanabria and Héctor Martínez-Gómez developed the Kangaroo Mother Program in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1979, as an alternative to conventional incubator treatment for low birth weight infants. As of 2018, low birth weight and its associated complications are the leading causes of infant death, especially in developing and underdeveloped countries where access to technology and skilled healthcare providers is limited. Kangaroo Mother Care is a simple and low cost method for treating low birth weight infants.
Subject: Technologies
All cells that have a nucleus, including plant, animal, fungal cells, and most single-celled protists, also have mitochondria. Mitochondria are particles called organelles found outside the nucleus in a cell's cytoplasm. The main function of mitochondria is to supply energy to the cell, and therefore to the organism. The theory for how mitochondria evolved, proposed by Lynn Margulis in the twentieth century, is that they were once free-living organisms.
Subject: Organisms, Theories
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
Barbara McClintock worked on genetics in corn (maize) plants and spent most of her life conducting research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel Hollow, New York. McClintock's research focused on reproduction and mutations in maize, and described the phenomenon of genetic crossover in chromosomes. Through her maize mutation experiments, McClintock observed transposons, or mobile elements of genes within the chromosome, which jump around the genome. McClintock received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her research on chromosome transposition.
Life's Greatest Miracle (2001), by Julia Cort and NOVA
The Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) documentary Life's Greatest Miracle (abbreviated Miracle, available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/program.html), is arguably one of the most vivid illustrations of the making of new human life. Presented as part of the PBS television series NOVA, Miracle is a little less than an hour long and was first aired 20 November 2001. The program was written and produced by Julia Cort and features images by renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson.
Subject: Outreach, Reproduction
Paul Kammerer (1880-1926)
Paul Kammerer conducted experiments on amphibians and marine animals at the Vivarium, a research institute in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth century. Kammerer bred organisms in captivity, and he induced them to develop particular adaptations, which Kammerer claimed the organismss offspring would inherit. Kammerer argued that his results demonstrated the inheritance of acquired characteristics, or Lamarckian inheritance. The Lamarckian theory of inheritance posits that individuals transmit acquired traits to their offspring.
Subject: Experiments, People
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, (1752-1764) by William Smellie
David Michael Rorvik (1944–)
David Michael Rorvik is a science journalist who publicized advancements in the field of reproductive medicine during the late twentieth century. Rorvik wrote magazine articles and books in which he discussed emerging methods and technologies that contributed to the progression of reproductive health, including sex determination, in vitro fertilization, and human cloning. During that time, those topics were controversial and researchers often questioned Rorvik's work for accuracy.
Alfred Day Hershey (1908–1997)
During the twentieth century in the United States, Alfred Day Hershey studied phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, and experimentally verified that genes were made of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Genes are molecular, heritable instructions for how an organism develops. When Hershey started to study phages, scientists did not know if phages contained genes, or whether genes were made of DNA or protein. In 1952, Hershey and his research assistant, Martha Chase, conducted phage experiments that convinced scientists that genes were made of DNA.
Pfeffer Cell Apparatus
The Pfeffer Zelle (Pfeffer Cell Apparatus), invented by Wilhelm Pfeffer in 1877, measured the minimum pressure needed to prevent a pure solvent from passing into a solution across a semi-permeable membrane, called osmotic pressure. The apparatus provided Pfeffer with a way to quantitatively measure osmotic pressure. Pfeffer devised the apparatus in the 1870s at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, and he described the Pfeffer Cell Apparatus in his 1877 book Osmotische Untersuchungen: Studien Zur Zellmechanik (Osmotic Investigations: Studies on Cell Mechanics).
The Hershey-Chase Experiments (1952), by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
In 1951 and 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, that verified genes were made of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Hershey and Chase performed their experiments, later named the Hershey-Chase experiments, on viruses that infect bacteria, also called bacteriophages. The experiments followed decades of scientists' skepticism about whether genetic material was composed of protein or DNA.
Subject: Experiments
"Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate" (1953), by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling
In April 1953, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling, published "Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate," in the scientific journal Nature. The article contained Franklin and Gosling's analysis of their X-ray diffraction pattern of thymonucleate or deoxyribonucleic acid, known as DNA. In the early 1950s, scientists confirmed that genes, the heritable factors that control how organisms develop, contained DNA. However, at the time scientists had not determined how DNA functioned or its three-dimensional structure.
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984), by Mary Warnock and the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry
into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, commonly called the Warnock
Report after the chair of the committee Mary Warnock, is the 1984
publication of a UK governmental inquiry into the social impacts of
infertility treatment and embryological research. The birth of Louise
Brown in 1978 in Oldham, UK, sparked debate about reproductive and
embryological technologies. Brown was conceived through in vitro
fertilization (IVF), a process of fertilization that occurs outside of
Subject: Publications, Legal, Ethics
Matthew Stanley Meselson (1930– )
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)
In the 2016 case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the US Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the Texas requirements that abortion providers have admitting privileges at local hospitals and that abortion facilities meet ambulatory surgical center standards. Whole Woman's Health represented abortion care providers in Texas and brought the case against the commissioner for the Texas Department of State Health Services, John Hellerstedt.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1890- )
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a non-profit research institution that specializes in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, quantitative biology, and genomics. The organization is located on the shores of Cold Spring Harbor in Laurel Hollow, New York. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences established the CSHL in 1890, to provide scientists with facilities to research Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory. The first mission of CSHL was biological science education.
Subject: Organizations
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) is a human disorder in which an individual's genetic sex (genotype) differs from that individual's observable secondary sex characteristics (phenotypes). A fetus with AIS is genetically male with a 46,XY genotype. The term 46,XY refers to the chromosomes found in most cells of the fetus. Most cells have a total of 46 autosomes, or non-sex chromosomes, and a pair sex chromosomes, XX for genetic females, or XY for genetic males.
Subject: Disorders


At First Unitarian, we celebrate the uniqueness and importance of childhood and adolescence. We strive to support our young people while instilling them with a sense of purpose and value. Children and youth in our program will learn about Unitarian Universalist (UU) history and ideals; information about our Judeo-Christian heritage as well as other world religions; and why we as UUs value social justice so highly. Here's our programming plan for 2015-16!
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Freakangels – Free to Air
Lee Mandelo
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Everyone likes free stuff. High quality free stuff is even better. Over at Freakangels.com, that's exactly what Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield are providing to the internet every Friday. Freakangels has been going strong for two years now with six pages of comic available each Friday around 12 noon Warren's time. Even when one of the dynamic duo is ill or out of town or experiencing technical difficulties, there's a thoroughly amusing placeholder note that deals with the situation delaying the comic or new merchandise that's become available. It's regular as clockwork, and in the land of webcomics, regularity can be pretty important to readership.
The Freakangels storyline revolves around a post-cataclysm London that is mostly flooded. It has steampunk tendencies in artwork and design but mostly reads like an apocalyptic tale: survival after the Great Big Bad. The titular characters, the Freakangels, are a group of people born at the same time twenty-three years before the cataclysm—and they have some serious capabilities with what they call the "Freakangel package." It's something like telepathy, something like telekinesis, and something else entirely that has begun developing in the newest chapters.
Eleven of the twelve have stabilized the Whitechapel sector for people to live in with power, water, food and shelter. It has developed into a nice community. Unfortunately, everyone who's surviving out on the desolate waters wants a piece of the nice community that appears to be living in what might approximate luxury by comparison. The later story pulls in the missing twelfth Freakangel, the man who pushed the first volume into motion by assaulting a girl named Alice.
The best part of Freakangels is obviously that it's free, but there's so much more to appreciate. Warren Ellis's writing is great. Each character feels deep and well-rounded. They possess noticeably different personalities, problems and abilities. A large cast is often hard to manage but Ellis does a fine job at keeping the various stories straight and intriguing, as well as building a larger narrative about the Freakangel package and past betrayals. There's a big story lurking close to the surface right now that I can't wait to find out about. Duffield's art is also worth taking some time to look at. He has a talent for action scenes, capturing in each panel the perfect ranges of motion to feel at once whip-crack sharp and a bit languid, like a slow-motion martial arts fight. It flows. The art starts out pleasant but most definitely improves as the story goes on: in many of the current chapters I spend inordinate amounts of time studying the way character's hair looks, or the coloring of their stained clothing, or a shotgun wound. The coloring is light, often nearly pastel, but it works to bring Whitechapel and the Freakangels to vibrant life.
So far, there are three trade volumes released for purchase in a few formats, including signed special editions. While you can read the comic free every week and certainly should, it's also nice to have the glossy bigger prints of all Duffield's gorgeous pages to carry around and show off. The fact that the previous issues which have been collected are still available to read for free is a thumbs-up move on the part of the creators. It makes sure that readers can easily jump in to try Freakangels out at any time and still be able to start at the beginning.
For the collector-geek in you, there's merch outside the trade volumes, too. It is unbelievably cool and also cheap enough that it won't break the bank. Avatar Press, the company that publishes Freakangels, offers a wide variety of related goodies from t-shirts to throw blankets to the occasional messenger bag (but watch out for those; they sell out almost immediately whenever they're available). Paul Duffield's art is on the shirts, most of which are available in men's and women's sizes. I personally own the KK silhouette shirt and a plain grey Freakangels model and can attest that the images don't peel after washing. Great conversation starter when someone else who reads the comic runs into you.
And, if that wasn't enough, the Whitechapel message board that runs through the Freakangels site is a small but active community of comic and writer nerds who are always eager to share news about music, books, comics and movies. "Weird science" is a qualifying thread starter. It's eclectic but fun. Members can also talk about the new chapters of Freakangels each week.
So, really, Freakangels is more than just a top-notch free comic. It's a community and a sharing experience that'll let you geek out to your heart's content.
Brit Mandelo is a multi-fandom geek with a special love for comics and queer literature. She can be found on Twitter and Livejournal.
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Meharry Medical College President Elected To Society Of Medical Administrators
(Nashville, Tenn.) – Wayne J. Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, MACP, President & Chief Executive Officer of Meharry Medical College has been elected to the prestigious Society of Medical Administrators (SOMA).
SOMA started in 1909 as the Medical Superintendents Club, a small group who met annually in New York City to discuss hospital administration. Originally, membership was limited to 25 people, all of whom had to be physician CEOs of hospitals. Charter members included the directors of Massachusetts General Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, Bellevue Hospital, Cincinnati General Hospital, Brigham Hospital, Barnes Hospital and New Haven Hospital. Membership was by election and had to be unanimous. These criteria remain in place today.
By 1949 the organization expanded to 50 active members — where it stands today — and was composed of physicians with major leadership responsibilities in healthcare organizations and health facilities not limited to acute care hospitals. Notable members include Harry R. Jacobson, M.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs, emeritus at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Jacobson and Riley are the only two Nashvillians of three Tennesseans in the group. Prominent current members include: Dr. Darrell Kirch, President & CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Dr. Marc Chasin, President of The Joint Commission, Dr. Peter Slavin, President, Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Christine Cassell, President of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Riley is the third Meharrian, and the first Meharry Medical College leader to be elected to SOMA. Meharry Trustee Dr. Neal Vanselow, Chancellor Emeritus of the Tulane University Medical Center, is also a member of the group as well as distinguished Meharry alumnus Retired Major General Dr. Leonard Randolph, Senior Vice President & CMO, Mercy Health Partners.
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2010, held in Málaga, Spain, in June 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented were specially reviewed and revised for inclusion in this proceedings volume. The book is divided in five main chapters which reflect the present challenges within the field of computer music modeling and retrieval. The chapters range from music interaction, composition tools and sound source separation to data mining and music libraries. One chapter is also dedicated to perceptual and cognitive aspects that are currently subject to increased interest in the MIR community.


Following a week of intense weather, the team faced a new set of challenges in week two on Great Abaco Island. Late in the afternoon on Monday, April 30th, Titan was lifted off the transport flat rack and placed on the platform. The team promptly began internal systems checks and unfortunately, it did not go as expected. We encountered sporadic behavior from the internal electrical systems and after several tests and a thorough evaluation, it was determined that, while Titan was not directly struck by lightning, the electronics experienced significant damage from the electrical currents generated by the onslaught of lightning storms. We quickly made the call to fly several members from the OceanGate engineering team into Marsh Harbour from Everett.
Mark Walsh, our lead electrical engineer arrived in Marsh Harbour Tuesday afternoon and jumped right in. After determining that the anomalies were in fact due to lightning damage, he quickly began replacing all the electronics and wiring. After a long day of hard work by the operations team and Mark, the thrusters were installed and working by 8 PM. For Mark this is familiar territory, having previously been on Maintenance Recovery Teams (MRTs) in the Air Force where he would deploy to remote locations to diagnose and repair aircraft that suffered damage from lightning. Tony Nissen, the OceanGate Director of Engineering, arrived in Marsh Harbour Wednesday afternoon to help Mark finish the rewiring and ensure that all electronics were in proper working order. The team replaced several other damaged electrical systems and by the end of Thursday, the engineering team was pleased to share that most systems were back online. With two additional electrical technicians arriving on Saturday, Titan was expected to dive by the end of the day on Sunday. The continuation of stormy weather ultimately delayed the first Bahamas dive until Tuesday. Our post transport inspection process combined with a modular submersible design and a great deal of preparation took what could have been a catastrophic event and made it into a minor setback. Despite the challenges, the team is moving forward with the dive plan to reach 4,000 meters next week after a series of incremental depth dives.
The entire team was in awe of the spectacular show produced by the lightning storms as they rolled over the Abaco Islands. However, as lightning struck down all around the Marsh Harbour Boat Yard for hours on end over the course of several days an increasingly large magnetic field was generated by the current. While none of our equipment, or the sub, was plugged into local power lines this current was powerful enough to damage the electrical boards and cause extensive damage to the electronics used to operate Titan. Our engineering team rewired the entire electrical system, replaced hard drives, software, and hardware inside of Titan. Fortunately, iXblue PHINS and Posidonia units were not damaged. The 2G Robotics Laser scanner, SubC Imaging 4K camera, and Lights from Deep Sea Power and Light were also unharmed.
Going forward our team will take reasonable action to prevent this from happening again, but also understand that this was a very rare occurrence, with an unfortunate combination of conditions which led to the perfect storm. Titan is constructed out of conductive materials including titanium and carbon fiber, not to mention, Titan was sitting on the steel transport flat rack in the middle of an open boat yard surrounded by tall masts from nearby sailboats. All of these factors played a role in what is likely a fluke incident and we believe that our talented and very well-prepared team, along with Titan's modular design is what saw us through this setback.
While the engineering team worked through the electrical challenges, the Operations team took every measure to ensure Titan would be ready to dive as soon as it was back online. They completed several test dives with the Titan Platform in the Marsh Harbour Boat Yard. After the initial dunk, the internal ballast was adjusted, and the team towed the platform to a remote dive site for additional testing. After a series of successful dives, the team went on to conduct dive recon on several sites in the Sea of Abaco in preparation for the series of Titan test dives to come.
Week two was not without its challenges. Despite the various delays, our team rallied together and faced the setbacks with determination and focus. Proper tools, spares, and preplanning took what could have been a mission ending disaster and turned it into a bump in the road. After two days of systems checks, the engineering team signed off that Titan would be ready to dive on Monday. The team spent Sunday morning preparing Titan for its first Bahamian shallow dive which was completed today. As the week progresses we hope to dive deeper and deeper each day this week as we work toward our goal of 4,000 meters.
While we are confident that the damaged electronics have all been replaced, lightning damage is notorious for causing weaknesses in circuits that can manifest themselves in anomalous behavior for months in the future. We will be on the watch for such activity and expect to be able to recover if systems are compromised.
Another storm rolling in over Titan.
The team installs the fiberglass fairing for the portside vertical thruster.
Our new friends from Friends of the Environment take a tour of Titan.
Connecting with the supporters in Marsh Harbour at our Open House.
Titan and platform on a calm day in the Sea of Abaco.


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Resolving to Simplicity, Less is More.
Oh it is indeed that time again, the new year with its glittering hopes, perhaps like many others, you are assessing some goals, or maybe just noticing in quiet desperation that there are some things which you feel hopeless and exhausting from last year. According to statistics over half of those who have stated a resolution have already had one or more slip ups in achieving their goals. We understand, no need to wait until next year to start again, perhaps your resolution itself could use some polishing to make it more achievable. We know the common categorical types of resolutions, generally those things which move us toward the best version of self, or to be a better spouse, perhaps your goals are professional in nature, there are indeed many ways to evolve. As a helpful tip it is known that we do best with goals which are tangible and concrete therefor more attainable. For example, instead of I want to be healthier we would do best to spend some time listing and contemplating what our ideal version of health looks like so that we can better achieve that. We also do best with goals that are focused on adding a behavior or if we are taking something out of our repertoire we should be sure to replace it with something else, for instance if we resolve to drink less soda, what are we going to drink instead? So many worthwhile goals I have heard uttered by those around town, "take the stairs more often, spend more time with loved ones, take more time for relaxation." Kudos to us in the north east for even while plummeted with heaps of snow, we still embrace our efforts toward growth or change. It is never an easy task to do a self-assessment and then endeavor to make internal and external maneuvers which are in line with our goals. Yet any effort large or small becomes a reward in and of itself, for this we should be proud, always remembering that change is not an event but a process. Maybe you are still coming up with your resolution, and that is ok too, there are lots of people still calling out 'happy new year!' For 2016 maybe like us, you want something a bit different, an intangible, an inarticulate, for us, our resolution may be the anti-resolution, for 2016 what we resolve to make as our own is this one simple, elegant thing, 'we want less' let us explore what we mean by this.
For 2016 let us clear out the clutter, the tattered and torn blouses shoved deep into the recesses of our closet, bring the dust bunnies to the light. Not just less clutter but less time acquiring more stuff, in 2016 let us aim to take up less space, find a smaller house and fill it with only the most important and essential of items which mean something vital to us. Let us embrace less fad dieting and nutritional trends which most of all whittle away at our self-esteem when in fact there is much to be loved about the curvature of our waist line. In this new year perhaps we can best serve our selves and goals by speaking less, saying fewer things and embracing those pauses which sustain the power of our chosen words and when we say less of them we instill our speech with meaningful gravity. It may be best to devote less attention to pursuing goals and progress, even this goal and instead we can sit in quiet contemplation while staring out at the endless lessons of the sun or the river, the sun and the river have so much to teach us. In this shiny new and novel year perhaps we can do less, and need less and maybe we will notice the widening cracks of the facade of all of that artificial striving when the unnecessary, the unimportant, the artificial all fade away, we suddenly create space for peace, for stillness, we find that stillness has its own fullness, we create space for our minds to speak of their own accord instead of the ceaseless serving of our family, our friends, our bosses and coworkers needs and wants.
In Pittsburgh's own Andy Warhol Museum there hangs a sign that says, "Less is more? No! More is More!'- a quote by Andy himself. This we do contest, less really is more because when all that is not essential is whittled away, it is peace, simplicity and serenity which unfolds upon us, cheers to the new year and best of luck with your resolutions and beyond.
Creating a life with intention.
The infamous ball is approaching its apex, soon the confetti shall spill to the ground, the party music will envelops the night air, albeit briefly as the quiet is coming. Soon, our little nor'easter earth will become silent and still as the snow falls steadfastly ensuring the depths of our winter's hibernation. Beneath all of this obligatory stillness our mind churns even if just dimly, yes, the mind does indeed churn, the powerhouse creating the thoughts convections which form and sustain our deliberate and unconscious motions in life. One of the greatest quests upon which we can embark is to live more deliberately, with greater awareness, to make conscious all of our human and unacknowledged motivations. How then can we honor our assumed attempts towards personal growth, these questions which are beckoned by the transition into yet another year? In exaltation of the grand pillar of knowingness which indicates another hallmark, we welcome you mindfully 2015.
Opportunity for change and growth, setting goals and self improving.
Living mindfully and with intention leads to self improvement.
fervor will thrust one far yet it is also easy to be burst into a perilous direction when making rapid and frenetic motions with ones paint brush. Yet this is the way you have always created your life's work, still change can come when we concentrate our efforts and maybe this year something different is in order. When recalling the masterpieces and artistic disasters which your brush has bequeathed, on some days a dribble here and imperfection there, in which frame do you store your most treasured accolades. Perhaps it is the era of sketching out a design and landscape before putting brush to canvas, or perhaps for you it is moving beyond the sketch and working through the fears of actually committing to wielding motion to propel the brush. Some small motion towards growth, always it is intention and mindfulness that hold the key to most every great work, these are the skills which compel talent and desire. Happy New Year! Cheers to creating in the dazzling array of hues, in natural and free flowing form while still making space for artistic imperfections.


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Venditti, Nord, and Hairsine Launch X-O MANOWAR Into PLANET DEATH
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Valiant is proud to announce Planet Death — a six-part blockbuster that will see X-O Manowar attempt to save Earth from an alien onslaught by mounting a one-man invasion of The Vine homeworld!
Valiant's first star-studded storyline of the new year begins with the two-part Prelude to Planet Death in X-O Manowar #9 and #10 by New York Times best-selling author Robert Venditti (The Surrogates) and comics superstar Trevor Hairsine (X-Men: Deadly Genesis)! Then, the invasion begins in full force with Planet Death — Part 1 (of 4) in X-O Manowar #11, featuring the triumphant return of Eisner Award-winning artist Cary Nord (Conan). The cosmos-quaking culmination of X-O Manowar's first year in the Valiant Universe starts here!
The Vine armada has arrived on Earth and they've brought with them something far more terrible than any war machine. Forced into battle against the most horrifying opponent he's ever faced, Aric of Dacia will unleash the ultimate sanction against a foe torn from his own past — and, soon, he will commence one, final act of revenge. Using their own perfect weapon, X-O Manowar will invade The Vine's homeworld and, just as
his Visigoth forefathers sacked Rome before him, he will not stop until the capital of their interstellar empire has become a planet of death.
"Planet Death is a story that we've been building toward over the course of the entire series, and the threads of it go all the way back to X-O Manowar #1," said series author Robert Venditti. "At his core, Aric of Dacia is a warrior, and, as his conquest of Planet Death begins, we will see him leverage the skills that he knows best — leadership, open warfare, and the all-out brutalism of the battlefield."
"Aric was content to let sleeping dogs lie, but when everything he knew about his past is shattered in a moment, he's driven to one conclusion – he must take the fight to the Vine and wipe them out at the source," added Valiant Executive Editor Warren Simons.
Aric's galaxy-spanning quest for vengeance takes root this January with Prelude to Planet Death — Part 1 (of 2) in X-O Manowar #9 — featuring covers by superstar artists Trevor Hairsine, Cary Nord and Clayton Crain! And to get more exclusive info on Planet Death and where the Valiant Universe is headed in 2013, check out "The Future of Valiant" Panel this Friday at New York Comic-Con at 2:45 pm for an exclusive look at what happens next!
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Roma chief slams Spalletti as Juve rumours swirl
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Speculation linking Roma coach Luciano Spalletti with a shock move to Serie A giants Juventus intensified Saturday after the Italian was slammed by club president James Pallotta.
Roma's hopes of ending their 16-year wait for the Italian league title appear slim after champions Juventus opened up an 11-point lead at the top of the table thanks to a controversial 2-1 win over AC Milan on Friday.
Although Roma can reduce arrears to eight points with a win at struggling Palermo on Sunday, it appears Spalletti's second spell with Roma could be about to end.
With Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri reportedly edging closer to replacing Arsene Wenger at Arsenal, Corriere della Sera said Spalletti has given a "commitment" to the Turin giants to take over from next season.
If confirmed, it could help explain Pallotta's surprising outburst at Spalletti for "making mistakes" regarding summer recruitment, youth players and his decision to keep Egypt winger Mohamed Salah on the bench for 52 minutes of a damaging 2-1 league defeat at home to Napoli last week.
"We have players who are playing a lot because of injuries, and because of the mistakes that were made last summer concerning who should come to the club and who should leave," Pallotta told Sirius XM.
"We could have and should have changed strategy concerning youth players. Other teams use their younger players to give the regulars a rest.
"Before our game against Napoli, I didn't feel comfortable seeing the line-up. We only introduced Salah 35 minutes (sic) from the end of the game, but when he came on we created a lot of chances and hit the woodwork twice.
"Maybe he (Salah) should have been on from the start. I think even Luciano admitted as much after the game."
Roma's defeat last week was, for many fans, the final nail in the coffin in terms of challenging for a title they last won in 2001. Since then, Roma have finished runners-up no less than eight times.
But Pallotta's public criticism of Spalletti could spell the end, especially as reports elsewhere suggested the former Zenith Saint Petersburg coach could secure the most prestigious job in Italian league football.
In a report entitled 'Sleeping with the enemy', Corriere della Sera claimed Saturday Juventus have "sounded out" Spalletti and obtained a "kind of commitment" that he will succeed Allegri should the current Bianconeri handler quit the club in June, a year before his contract expires.


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Did Boeing Promise Southwest Millions Of Dollars If 737 MAX Pilots Needed A Simulator?
The dual crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX airplanes operated by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines were shocking, tragic and sad. Throughout the investigation afterwards, much has been said about what Boeing did right and wrong in getting the MAX launched.
Specifically, a system referred to as MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) seems to be implicated in both crashes. Pilots may not have had enough knowledge of the system to properly deal with issues when it appeared to misfire on both flights.
As the investigation has progressed, plenty of rumors have come to light. These sorts of investigations take years to complete and early information is generally more wrong than right.
I've followed along with rapt attention, especially as a long-time Boeing supporter and a shareholder. I've wanted to believe that Boeing acted in good faith in building the MAX. As we close in on the 1-year anniversary of the Lion Air crash, there seems to be enough information to indicate that MCAS almost certainly seems to have played a role in both crashes, and likely a significant one.
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Reports That Boeing Promised Cash If Simulators Were Needed
A recent Wall Street Journal article sheds new light on a potential financial incentive for Boeing to work hard to avoid requiring simulator time for pilots flying the 737 MAX. The goal with the 737 MAX was to make it fly as closely as possible to earlier versions of the 737, such that pilots would need minimal training.
The focus of the Wall Street Journal is on the myriad steps required for a pilot to perform correctly in the span of seconds to avoid such crashes. However, they mention a detail, unconfirmed, that's fairly compelling:
The company had promised its biggest customer for the MAX, Southwest Airlines Co. , that it would pay it $1 million per plane ordered if pilots needed to do additional simulator training, according to Rick Ludtke, a Boeing engineer who worked on the jet's cockpit systems, and another person who had been involved in the airplane's development.
For perspective, Southwest ordered approximately 280 737 MAX aircraft. At $1 million per aircraft, that's a significant amount of money for both Boeing and Southwest. I'm not sure that the training cost per airplane if it involved simulator time would amount to $1 million each. However, there are definitely a lot of ways to run that math over the life of an airliner.
I've flown the MAX right as it launched. I was able to hitch a ride on a delivery flight with Norwegian Air. And, I've flown it a handful of times on commercial service. From the inside, it's like every other 737 I've flown on. When it returns to the air, I won't hesitate to fly on it. I'm not sure that will be the case for all travelers.
It's important to note that this report hasn't been confirmed by Boeing. If true, it paints a striking picture of a strong financial incentive for Boeing to avoid simulator time. These aren't make or break numbers. Boeing forecast over $100 billion in revenue for the current fiscal year. However, it's possible there were similar promises to other airlines. And, the report could be false.
If true, a quarter billion dollars is enough to convince some people that Boeing prioritized profit over safety. As a business owner, I always prefer when financial interests are aligned. Here, neither Boeing or Southwest wanted to pay for simulators if they weren't needed. We still don't know if they are needed. If that's ultimately where the investigation leads, financial incentives like this will be damaging to Boeing's case that it prioritized safety above all else.
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OR97 says:
Am I reading this wrong, or does it sound like Boeing was offering training support to Southwest, by offering $1MM per plane if training was desired. It's not like Boeing offered money to encourage SW to forego training
OR97, I don't read it that way. I read it as a payment of training was required, not desired. That's a big difference, IMO.
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Slogging Our Way through the Democratic Debates
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From left: Sen. Michael Bennet, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Washington governor Jay Inslee, and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio pose before the start of the second night of the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Mich., July 31, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Making the click-through worthwhile: America's debate watchers learn that Kamala Harris can't really defend her record; most candidates' debate playbooks are predictable; and Kirsten Gillibrand manages to pick the single least-effective and least-plausible line of attack against Joe Biden.
Kamala Harris, a Bit More Brittle Than Most Democrats Thought
On paper, Kamala Harris is a really strong contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination. But last night, on the debate stage in Detroit, she demonstrated that as good as she is when she's on the attack, she looks brittle, flustered, and flailing when other candidates attack her.
Harris's first move when attacked is to simply deny the accusation. Five times last night, Harris began a sentence with "the reality is. . . ," and what follows from Harris rarely directly refutes the accusation; she usually emphasizes a slightly different point.
Dana Bash asked Harris about the Biden campaign's claim that her health care plan was "a have-it-every-which-way approach." Harris's responded, "the reality is that I have been spending time in this campaign listening to American families, listening to experts, listening to health care providers." Listening to lots of people is nice, but that doesn't really address whether the plan is an attempt to have it every which way.
Biden then said that her plan would cost $3 trillion. She responded, "the reality is that our plan will bring health care to all Americans under a Medicare for All system." That doesn't address the cost issue. Biden went after her on the cost again, and Harris's best defense was "the cost of doing nothing is far too expensive. Second, we are now paying $3 trillion a year for health care in America. Over the next 10 years, it's probably going to be $6 trillion." Harris was left arguing that we need to spend more in order to ensure that we don't spend more.
I don't know if marijuana prosecutions and death row evidentiary decisions will be enough to derail Harris's presidential campaign. But I do know that these sorts of examples are real complications to the image Harris wants to project, which is that of tough prosecutor who's on the side of the typical Democratic presidential primary voter.
Tulsi Gabbard — who seems to have a genuine animosity towards Harris — ate her Wheaties before this debate and just ripped Harris's record as a prosecutor: "There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana." That generated applause from the crowd in the Fox Theater in Detroit.
Gabbard continued: "She blocked evidence — she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep a bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way."
The Harris response was to ignore all of the specific accusations: "I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people, which became a national model for the work that needs to be done. And I am proud of that work. And I am proud of making a decision to not just give fancy speeches or be in a legislative body and give speeches on the floor, but actually doing the work of being in the position to use the power that I had to reform a system that is badly in need of reform."
Except Gabbard wasn't giving a "fancy speech," she was making specific accusations, and Gabbard had the facts on her side: on the marijuana prosecutions, on the laughing, on the blocking of the evidence, on the prison labor, and on the bail system. Rather than defend any of the specific decisions, Harris preferred to simply assert she had reformed the criminal justice system. Maybe she had, but not on the policies Gabbard listed.
Gabbard smelled blood and repeated the accusation: "In the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so. (APPLAUSE) There is no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor owe — you owe them an apology."
Harris responded, "My entire career I have been opposed — personally opposed to the death penalty and that has never changed." Again, notice how Harris answers a question that wasn't asked. Gabbard didn't say she supported the death penalty, she said she blocked evidence that ultimately exonerated an innocent man.
But Harris then responded in the worst possible way: "I think you can judge people by when they are under fire and it's not about some fancy opinion on a stage but when they're in the position to actually make a decision, what do they do."
Yes, Harris dismissed the only Iraq War veteran on the stage as not knowing what it's like "under fire."
Look, a lot of folks in the media world and high-level Democratic circles really like Kamala Harris. She presses a lot of their buttons: black, Indian, woman, daughter of immigrants, Howard University, powerful lawyer. She's got the profile of the "good" politician that sinister powerful forces want to derail in an uncreative Hollywood thriller. And if Harris didn't have a media protective bubble around her, she would be getting crucified for that you don't know what it's like under fire, you're just making some fancy opinion on a stage counterattack.
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Beto O'Rourke was always a privileged lightweight weirdo, but most of the media refused to see it in 2018. Harris has been willing to cut corners in her ambitions to climb the greasy pole of California politics; time will tell if anyone in the media is willing to see that.
A Three-Hour Slog
You can find my assessment of last night here. There's no good format for handling ten candidates, and most of the lesser-known candidates don't grasp the degree of difficulty in this setup. The threshold is not merely, "be good in the debate." The threshold for the asterisk candidates is, "be one or two of the most memorable candidates in the debate, when everyone else is trying to be the most memorable, too." In any debate, the discussion afterwards is going to focus upon no more than a half-dozen exchanges or lines. Everything else that is said is likely to be forgotten pretty quickly, particularly the more it resembles the rest of the political blather from everyone else. The first debate is just, "the one where Kamala Harris went after Joe Biden on busing."
Tuesday night, Tim Ryan had a perfectly fine debate. But a perfectly fine debate probably doesn't get him past one percent. Last night, Michael Bennet had a good night. You'll probably forget who is again by the weekend.
Debate organizers face a catch-22: Three hours is way too long, but if you limit it to two hours, then most candidates only get a few minutes each.
If you're reading this newsletter, you're probably pretty interested and knowledgeable about politics. (And you're smarter than average, and have great taste, and are more attractive. . . .) If you follow politics long enough, you start to recognize what maneuver a politician is making as they're making it — it's like watching sports when you've read the team's playbook. As seen above, Harris' go-to move when attacked is to vehemently deny a slightly different accusation than the one actually made against her.
Last night when candidates got asked about health care, they often pivoted to a personal story about a time when they or someone they loved was sick. The maneuver was meant to say to everyone in the audience, "I've been through this sort of bad experience, too." But your experience with a health emergency does not automatically mean your health care policy proposal will be a good one.
When you really get nailed, as Biden did with the issue with Newark policing when Cory Booker was mayor, sometimes the only countermove is to suggest your critic doesn't know what he's talking about in a folksy way: "Mr. Vice President, there's a saying in my community, you're dipping into the Kool-Aid and you don't even know the flavor." (I guess that's Newarkian for "that dog won't hunt.") Notice the opening, "there's a saying in my community," where Booker is not-so-subtly reminding everyone that he's black and Biden is not. It's a cheap shot, but apparently it worked, because everyone loves feisty colloquialisms so much that they forget what was being discussed in the first place.
And sometimes you can see the desperation. . .
Kirsten Gillibrand Is Something of an Idiot, Isn't She?
After writing an ode to the importance of math yesterday, let's sing the praises of judgment. On paper, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is not an idiot. She graduated from Dartmouth and UCLA Law School, and was hired by one of the top law firms in Manhattan.
But last night, she seemed to think a 1981 op-ed by Biden would convince everyone watching that Biden was some sort of anti-feminist who opposed women working outside of the home. "Am I serving in Congress resulting in the deterioration of the family, because I had access to quality affordable day care? I just want to know what he meant when he said that."
In her judgment on using that particular attack, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is indeed an idiot.
The first piece of evidence that Biden has no problem with women working outside of the home is his first late wife Neilia; the second piece of evidence that Biden has no problem with women working outside of the home is Jill Biden, who worked as a teacher throughout their marriage, although she took two years off when their daughter Ashley was born.
Of all the potential attacks on Biden, Gillibrand went with this?
(Biden's op-ed was pretty clear: he didn't want a day care tax credit being used by families with incomes of $100,000 or more. This was in 1981; the equivalent income would be roughly $282,000 today. We all know the op-ed was probably ghostwritten anyway.)
The other great irony is that in that op-ed, there's a fairer hit in there that Gillibrand ignored.
Biden laments "the day care centers and nursing homes blossoming across the American landscape are monuments to our growing unwillingness to accept personal responsibility for those whom we owe the most — our children, our parents and our grandparents." Anyone who's ever had to put their grandparent or parent in a nursing home would probably be furious at the accusation that the decision was driven by an unwillingness to accept responsibility for their loved ones. For many people, it's one of the hardest things they'll ever do. People who go into nursing homes rarely come out and live unassisted lives. Those decisions are usually made with the recognition that Grandma or Grandpa or Mom or Dad can't safely live on their own any longer. Their memory is going, they keep falling and breaking their hip, they get confused — the whole process is heartbreaking, and putting someone in home usually means they've stopped being that strong, clear-headed, independent person the family loves.
Biden wouldn't write the same words today. [Insert the predictable joke about the 74-year-old Biden being worried about being sent to a nursing home himself here.] Gillibrand could have gone with a more accurate slam, "Thirty-eight years ago, Biden contended it was irresponsible to put elderly parents into nursing homes, and I just can't believe he wrote something so callous." But Gillibrand's brand is that she's a working mom, and so she went with the other attack.
And for once, Biden was completely prepared to nuke her: "You came to Syracuse University with me and said it was wonderful. I'm passionate about the concern making sure women are treated equally. I don't know what's happened, except that you're now running for president."
That's a fair counterattack on just about everybody in the field: You loved this guy being a heartbeat away from the presidency for eight years. Now you're telling us he's some sort of racially insensitive, sexist fool who can't be trusted with the presidency?
ADDENDA: Last night, Harris declared, "There are 10 clear incidents of obstruction of justice by this president and he needs to be held accountable. I've seen people go to prison for far less."
Seen? Heck, Harris has sent people to prison for far less.
Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review. @jimgeraghty
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Recently I attended an Initial Planning Meeting for the Central United States Earthquake Consortium 2019 exercise ominously entitled "Shaken Fury". The discussion as it related to the acknowledgment of challenges that proposed scenario poses for recovery officials caused me to ponder why recovery exercises have rarely succeeded over the years. I think I know.
Most exercises are response-centric, and response personnel are often the principal planners. Said planners, be they military, or police and fire, focus on what they know. They don't "know" recovery.
2003's TOPOFF 2 exercise, which was to be a response to a "dirty bomb" event in Seattle. Seattle OEM, led by me, and King County OEM, led by Eric Holdeman collaboratively lobbied/insisted that recovery issues (economic, social, physical and psychologial) be addressed. Unfortunately, in the limited time ultimately set aside for a recovery discussion at the end of that exercise leaders studiously avoided serious consideration of those issues.
Most large disaster exercises, then and now, suffer from serious, avoidable planning flaws.
"Recovery" requires the participation of personnel with expertise that is different from that of responders, yet they are seldom included in planning sessions or asked to vet planning assumptions.
For example, representatives from building trades, banking, investment corporations, as well as social services and the appropriate political leadership will need to weigh in. State legislative staff and executive budget analysts also should be engaged in the discussion. Government personnel directors also are among those who must be available to assess emerging long – term workload resource requirements. And the list goes on.
In addition, federal agencies besides FEMA (HUD, Commerce) need to be engaged in any major recovery exercise planning.
A nocturnal Presidential tweet attacking a Governor who has criticized federal policies that threatens to undercut a frightened public's confidence in government's ability to ensure a prompt recovery.
Both injects, which are credible, sadly, would require a prompt and comprehensive response within government and hopefully, in concert with business interests to offset the consequences of delayed assistance and public restiveness over the needed relief. Expecting traditional first responders even to know where to begin in such circumstances is both futile, and unfair to them.
Recovery exercises do not require the trappings of the typical response exercises. Government meeting rooms, even corporate boardrooms, are where the "action" should take place. While not the stuff of movies, the restoration of the social and economic equilibrium of the afflicted communities should be the subject matter. It's not the way we've done it so far.
Under-practicing recovery's unique challenges guarantees under performance. We've seen enough of that.


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According to inside rumors which have been surfacing over the past few days, BMW intends to set it's Mini Rocketman concept into full production mode, with models set to hit showroom floors in the Phoenix Valley area and all of North America as early as 2014. This year at the Geneva Motor Show, BMW premiered the Mini Rocketman concept car, which is built specifically for the dense urban spaces of the future.
Mini Cooper's latest production model is the Mini Countryman, which actually adds size and space to a brand whose basic idea of size is built into the name. Mini enthusiasts may enjoy the Countryman, and it is still very small, compared to say, a Suburban, but it plays against the strengths of the brand. BMW has decided to head the brand back to it's core and roots with it's latest concept model, the Rocketman.
The main focus of the design process of the Rocketman, aside from being able to operate efficiently in dense urban spaces, was to keep the body as light and petite as possible. This is done by using a light carbon space frame, ultra lightweight wheels, and a glass top. The glass top not only serves to decrease weight, but also works to open up the small interior, and provides an enriched passenger experience when navigating inner city high rise canyons, or actual rural scenic routes.
Under the hood of the Rocketman we find a drive system which combines further enhanced sprinting ability with average fuel consumption of an astonishing 78 mpg. BMW has yet to release all of the specs and details of the engine and power designs, but with numbers as high as 78 mpg, we have to be curious as to what combination of high tech battery power and hybrid electric-fuel process BMW is working with. Either way, 78 mpg is about as high as it gets, and that is BMW's projected average, which means that, when taking highway driving and hyper milling into account, a skilled driver could easily get over 100 mpg out of this vehicle. This could amount to hundreds, or possibly thousands of dollars of savings per year for Phoenix Valley drivers.
The doors are another notable aspect of this soon to be production Mini. They open up at an angle, sort of like a Lamborghini or traditional gullwing. Only this isn't for show or distinction, rather it is for space. No more having to worry about leaving space for doors to swing outward upon parking in a cramped Phoenix Valley lot, or having to pull out in order to let a passenger in. The doors are designed for dense, space limited urban centers.
Phoenix Valley auto enthusiasts can keep an eye out for the coming Mini Rocketman production model, or any current production Mini, at Mini North Scottsdale, near Scottsdale Rd and the 101 freeway.


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Answers to the Disintegration of Marriage – II
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Fifty years ago President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, proclaiming, "For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty."
As a TIME correspondent it was exhilarating to cover the launching of Medicare, Head Start, food stamps and the first federal aid to education to help poor children. Looking back, what has been accomplished?
Percentages of those in poverty don't appear to have changed much. In 1982 15% were below the poverty line, and in 2010 it was still 15%. Robert Samuelson, a Washington Post columnist, notes that official figures do not count non-cash payments, such as food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit. If included the poverty rate is only 5%.
However, the number of families headed by a single parent has tripled since LBJ. Unwed births have soared 8-fold to 41%. That's 20 times Japan's 2%. (No wonder Asian kids score far better academically than Americans.)
Almost none of the stories on the War on Poverty note the connection between poverty and the disintegration of marriage. However, the Heritage Foundation has reported, "Marriage drops the probability of poverty by 82%."
Churches can do much to increase the odds that marriages will endure. Last week I urged pastors to preach that cohabitation fails in 9 out of 10 cases, either before or after the wedding.
I outlined a healthier way to prepare couples for marriage, by requiring a premarital inventory and discussing it with trained Mentor Couples. Although it is self-serving, I'd like to outline four more answers that my wife and I offer as part of our "Marriage Savers" ministry to churches:
Enrichment: All marriages run down over time and need a booster shot. Churches can use many DVD packages to help couples rekindle their love. "10 Great Dates" are sparked by a brief DVD on such topics as "Resolving Honest Conflict" or "Becoming an Encourager" that can be scheduled for 10 Friday nights. Couples watch the clip and then enjoy a date to discuss that theme. It's fun and easy. "Love and Respect" are longer DVDs ideal for a weekend event.
Restoration of troubled marriages is best achieved by training couples whose own marriages once nearly failed, to mentor those in current crisis. Every church has couples who have survived adultery who can be trained to tell their story of recovery to a couple in current crisis over infidelity. They can share how they rebuilt trust. This is far more effective than sending couples to counselors who, according to one major study, actually increase their odds of divorce.
Reconciliation of separated couples, when one spouse wants a divorce, is best achieved with a 12-week "Marriage 911" workbook course designed to help a committed spouse grow so much, he/she attracts back an errant mate. It is taken with a friend of the same gender who is given a handbook to know what questions to ask.
Stepfamilies usually divorce at a 70% rate. However, we help churches create a Stepfamily Support Group that saves 80% of these daunting marriages.
Marriage Savers has helped more than 10,000 churches jump-start these reforms in "Community Marriage Policies," the 230th of which was signed recently in Livonia, Michigan. Catholic and Protestant clergy gathered on the steps of the local courthouse to pledge implementing marriage initiatives outlined above to revive marriages in their churches.
Equally important, they sent couples in healthy marriages to be trained to serve as Mentor Couples to help other couples prepare for, enrich and restore marriages.
An independent study of our work by the Institute for Research and Evaluation reported that on average, divorce rates fell 17.5% in seven years for a city or county. Nearly a tenth of cities – such as Austin, Kansas City, KS, Salem, OR and Modesto, CA cut their divorce rates in half. Based on Institute estimates, more than 100,000 marriages have been saved from divorce.
In addition, the Institute estimated that cohabitation rates fell in cities with Community Marriage Covenants by one-third compared to very similar cities in each state.
Marriage rates in some cities have increased, such as Evansville, IN where Catholic Bishop Gerald Gettelfinger wrote "We are particularly proud to report that the number of marriages has risen. From 1997-2003, there were an average of only 1,143 marriages per year. But there were an average of 1,324 marriages in 2004-2005. That is a 16% increase in the marriage rate," while the U.S. marriage rate was plunging.
Churches can reverse the disintegration of marriage – if they implement proven strategies to do so.
Sadly, few are doing so.
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@unchartedatlas has created a brilliant tool for creating fantasy maps on the fly.
Although this article gets a bit technical it explains how he generated his fantasy maps which can be used for all kinds of on the fly scenarios.
I wanted to make maps that look like something you'd find at the back of one of the cheap paperback fantasy novels of my youth. I always had a fascination with these imagined worlds, which were often much more interesting than whatever luke-warm sub-Tolkien tale they were attached to.
My only beef with @unchartedatlas is that the city/town names are pretty much unpronounceable 100% of the time. The maps are great, though.


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AMD Updates Catalyst Graphics Driver
The company will release monthly upgrades to improve the game-running performance of its Radeon graphics processor.
Advanced Micro Devices has introduced updates to the ATI Catalyst graphics driver meant to improve the game-running performance of the ATI Radeon GPU.
The first update, version 10.2, is available now, and the second, 10.3, is scheduled for release in March. The short time between releases reflects AMD's strategy of providing regular driver updates to provide incremental performance boosts to Radeon graphics processors.
Version 10.2 changes how Catalyst handles game profiles, making it possible for AMD to offer on its Web site a separate executable file to provide optimal performance for a new game. In addition, the update makes it possible to apply AMD's CrossFireX multi-GPU technology when Radeon customers are running multiple displays, a feature AMD calls Eyefinity.
Version 10.3 represents the first of monthly Catalyst updates AMD plans to release for Windows Vista and Windows 7 laptops that feature ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000, and HD 5000 series graphics processors.
The driver upgrade will offer a wizard for adjusting display layout when using multiple monitors to compensate for the viewing area sometimes hidden at the edge of a screen. In addition, version 10.3 provides support for 3-D stereoscopic gaming options by allowing for independent left and right images at 120 Hz.
AMD added Windows 7 support to ATI Catalyst in March 2009 with the release of version 9.3. The update enabled developers to fully utilize the DirectX 10.1 application programming interface in Microsoft's latest operating system.
AMD competes with Nvidia in the market for graphics processors to run computer games and professional graphic design, video editing, and computer-aided design applications.
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Transfer Window Winners And Losers
by David on October 6, 2020
In a transfer window where COVID-19 really impacted player sales, who won the window in the Premier League. And what teams did not buy well?
Transfer Window Winners
Aston Villa only secured their Premier League status on the final day of last season – now the club's owners have backed manager Dean Smith in ambitious fashion to make the most of that escape.
The biggest signing was record buy Ollie Watkins, brought in from Brentford for £28m potentially rising to £33m, the 24-year-old well known to Smith from his time in charge at Griffin Park.
Watkins scored 25 goals for Brentford last season and has already made his mark with a brilliant hat-trick in Sunday's remarkable 7-2 win over champions Liverpool that continued Villa's perfect start to the season.
Emiliano Martinez brings stability to the goalkeeping position after his arrival from Arsenal while the final flourish was a surprise loan deal for Chelsea's Ross Barkley, offering real threat and creation in midfield alongside Grealish. He was on target, along with Grealish, in that astonishing demolition of Liverpool.
Matty Cash has made a fine start at right-back following his £16m move from Nottingham Forest while Lyon's Bertrand Traore is another attacking option.
The arrival of Carlo Ancelotti has not only brought a focused transfer policy strategy to Everton but an A-list manager whose presence alone attracts players who would not, in other circumstances, entertain a move to Everton.
This means that despite finishing 12th last season, Ancelotti has been able to sign Colombian superstar James Rodriguez from Real Madrid, the outstanding Brazil midfield man Allan from former club Napoli and Watford's Abdoulaye Doucoure.
Ancelotti has rebuilt Everton's midfield, which was a matter of urgency, while also adding two highly promising young talents in left-back Niels Nkounkou from Marseille and Norwich City's England under-21 central defender Ben Godfrey in a £25m deal.
He has also brought in Sweden goalkeeper Robin Olsen from Roma on loan to put pressure on error-prone England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.
It has resulted in a magnificent start to the season, topping the Premier League table and winning all seven games this season, reaching the Carabao Cup quarter-final.
Tottenham Hospur have been a bit of a slow burner but an opening weekend defeat at home by Everton focused minds and kicked Spurs into gear. They now look in impressive shape.
Matt Doherty and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg from Wolves and Southampton respectively represented solid additions but the business hit a higher gear with the spectacular loan deal to bring back Gareth Bale from Real Madrid, also joined by Bernabeu team-mate Sergio Reguilon, the Spain left-back who helped Sevilla win the Europa League.
Manager Jose Mourinho also got the cover for Harry Kane he so desired via a loan deal for Benfica's talented Brazilian striker Carlos Vinicius, who scored 24 times for the Lisbon giants last season.
Arsenal left it late but the closing moments made this a significant and successful window.
The £45m signing of Atletico Madrid's Thomas Partey right on deadline will have increased the levels of optimism around Emirates Stadium. The powerful midfielder was one of manager Mikel Arteta's top targets for the whole window.
This comes on top of the addition of Willian on a free transfer from Chelsea and Lille central defender Gabriel Maghaeles, who was one of the most coveted young players in Europe before signing for Arsenal in a £23m deal.
Transfer Window Losers
While rivals such as champions Liverpool, who signed Bayern Munich's Champions League winner Thiago Alcantara and Diogo Jota from Wolves, Chelsea, Manchester City and Spurs all seemed to have structured transfer policies, Manchester United were once again a shambles.
The seemingly endless pursuit of top target Jadon Sancho seemed to hinge entirely on a belief Borussia Dortmund were bluffing about a deadline to get the deal done then dropping their £100m-plus asking price.
Given United and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward's less than assured touch in the market, it was a surprise to no-one that neither happened, leaving them scrambling around before homing in on veteran Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani. The 33-year-old left Paris St-Germain in June and has been available for months, so the deadline day signing looks suspiciously like an expensive vanity purchase.
United clearly need another central defender but none was forthcoming, while midfield man Donny van de Beek, a £40m signing from Ajax, has not been able to get into the team.
Porto left-back Alex Telles arrived along with teenager Facundo Pellistri from Uruguayan side Penarol in Uruguay, while Amad Diallo from Atalanta, will join in the future,
United had months to line up their deals this summer, to answer the suggestions they are way behind their rivals when it comes to working the markets – only to end up with business that does not make them look any closer to a title challenge than they were last season.
West Ham United's fans have every right to vent their frustration at co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan at the end of another largely fruitless transfer window.
There was the furore, including public criticism from captain Mark Noble, surrounding the decision to sell exciting 22-year-old forward Grady Diangana to West Bromwich Albion for £18m followed by a succession of missed targets.
Burnley resisted their attempts to sign defender James Tarkowski, while moves for Chelsea defenders Antonio Rudiger and Fikayo Tomori floundered, leaving Moyes with scant reinforcements – painful given that the Scot's signings so far have all looked excellent purchases and real value for money.
The deal for midfield man Tomas Soucek was made permanent at £20m but he was there last season while the other arrival was his fellow Czech Vladimir Coufal from Slavia Prague for £6m.
Moyes' early work, including the purchase of Jarrod Bowen from Hull City last season, shows he can be trusted in the transfer market but how far can he take West Ham when the club struggles to get deals over the line?
He could still delve into the Championship but make no mistake this has been a window lacking ambition and support for the manager.
It's been a tough old window for Burnley, a club working on a very tight budget who, understandably, have never been able to fight it out financially alongside so many of their Premier League rivals.
Manager Sean Dyche has cut a frustrated figure in recent times and his mood will not have been helped by three successive defeats.
Burnley is a club that has to live within its means but you can understand why Dyche might have liked more ambitious backing after miraculous work guiding The Clarets to 10th last season, especially after the loss of the solid and experienced Jeff Hendrick to Newcastle United on a free transfer.


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The Greek heavy/power metal band Diviner just released a music video for 'Heaven Falls' the first single from their new album "Realms of Time".
"Realms of Time" on June 7th via Ulterium Records. The album will be available on CD, LP and digital.
The Greek heavy/power metal band Diviner will release their new album "Realms of Time" on June 7th via Ulterium Records. The album will be available on CD, LP and digital.
The line-up of the Brainstorm Festival 2018 is complete. Earlier this week, Tourniquet (USA) had already been presented as headliner, today Eric Clayton And The Nine (USA/NL) is added as second headliner. In addition, Diviner (GR), Federico Truzzi (ITA), 2Strings (ITA) en J'Accuse (NL) join the party.
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As previously reported: Greek Heavy Metal Band Diviner are currently in the studio recording the follow-up to their debut album "Fallen Empires"!
Check out another short video from the recordings below, Herc is laying down the bottom end for the 2nd album!
Diviner's debut album "Fallen Empires" has been released in November 2015 through Ulterium Records.
Greek Heavy Metal Band Diviner are currently in the studio recording the follow-up to their debut album "Fallen Empires"!
Drum recordings for our upcoming album have already finished! Here's a small taste. Now working on the guitars and the songs are shaping up really cool, heavy and groovy! More teasers from the recordings will follow in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
Check out some footage from the drum recordings below.


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