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Commerce Resources Corp. Announces PhD Student Wins Competition for Environmental Work on the Ashram Deposit, Quebec
December 5th, 2019 – Commerce Resources Corp. (TSXv: CCE, FSE: D7H0) (the "Company" or "Commerce") is pleased to announce that Sophie Costis, a PhD student with the Université du Québec, has won the "défi de la recherche en géosciences" (Geoscience Research Challenge) for her work related to the characterization of flotation tailings generated using the flowsheet for the Ashram Rare Earth and Fluorspar Deposit in Quebec.
The competition was organized by "l'Association Québécoise des Sciences de la Terre" (AQUEST) and consisted of candidates presenting their research projects in the field of geosciences at the Quebec Mines + Energy conference held in Quebec City last month. Mme. Costis won first prize for her oral presentation on Ashram and received a certificate of excellence as well as a $2,000 scholarship for her efforts.
Company President Chris Grove states, "the Company is thrilled to see Sophie recognized for her hard work on the project over the last few years. We are committed to advancing the Ashram Project in an environmentally responsible manner and Sophie's work will help build this foundation through high-quality data gathering and analysis in a very important field."
The PhD work is being jointly funded through a grant, totaling $300,000, from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologie (FRQNT) and the Ministère de l'Énergie et des Ressources naturelles (MERN) (see news release dated June 16, 2016). This work is being completed in partnership with the Centre Eau Terre Environnement of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), a research-oriented branch of the Université du Québec, which has considerable experience in environmental management and sustainability. The PhD project is expected to conclude in late 2020 and will provide a sound basis for continued work on the tailings management of the flotation process plant.
The work to date has been encouraging, with no "red flags" or serious concerns with the management of the flotation tailings identified, and concluding that there is no acid generating potential as well as strong indications of no metal leaching potential (see news release dated June 5, 2018).
In order to characterize the flotation tailings, a sound understanding of the potential contaminants, their mobility, and their stabilization is required. This is first assessed through a series of permeability and static tests (TCLP, SPLP, and CTEU) under conditions representative of a northern Quebec environment (low temperature control room at laboratory installations). This test work phase has now been completed with encouraging results in line with expectations. Follow-up kinetic test work is now underway. In general, static tests are considered less representative of real onsite conditions as they are more "aggressive" than kinetic tests, and therefore, the encouraging indications of the static tests bodes well for the results of the kinetic tests. Additionally, sequential extraction tests are planned which will further assess the potential mobility, bioavailability, and toxicity of metals and therefore provide information on the metal removal mechanisms.
Commerce Resources Corp. is an exploration and development company with a particular focus on deposits of rare metals and rare earth elements. The Company is focused on the development of its Ashram Rare Earth and Fluorspar Deposit in Quebec and the Upper Fir Tantalum-Niobium Deposit in British Columbia.
This news release contains forward-looking information which is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements in this press release include that the mineralized horizons encountered at depth in each hole have a reasonable potential to continue up-dip and that they could be intersected at a shallower depth by stepping the drill forward; that the 2019 drill program was successful in extending the mineralized strike at Mallard to the southeast; that the intersection in EC19-173 has further advanced the potential in the area; and that this work will provide the foundation for advancements towards an initial mineral resource estimate. These forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. Risks that could change or prevent these statements from coming to fruition include changing costs for mining and processing; increased capital costs; the timing and content of upcoming work programs; geological interpretations based on drilling that may change with more detailed information; potential process methods and mineral recoveries assumption based on limited test work and by comparison to what are considered analogous deposits that with further test work may not be comparable; the availability of labour, equipment and markets for the products produced; and despite the current expected viability of the project, conditions changing such that the minerals on our property cannot be economically mined, or that the required permits to build and operate the envisaged mine can be obtained. The forward-looking information contained herein is given as of the date hereof and the Company assumes no responsibility to update or revise such information to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required by law.


The Ohio House passed the first of two abortion bills Thursday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The General Assembly on Thursday sent to Gov. John Kasich two bills prohibiting abortions in Ohio.
Senate Bill 145, which bans the dilation and evacuation or D&E procedure, passed in the House 62 to 27, largely along party lines Thursday. Hours later in the Senate, lawmakers adopted a change made in the House and passed the bill also on party lines, 23 to 9.
House Bill 258 would prohibit abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected. It passed the House 53 to 32, largely on party lines, after 1:15 a.m. Several lawmakers were missing. Friday. It passed the Senate on Wednesday 18 to 13, largely on party lines as well.
The Thursday session that stretched into early Friday is the last regular voting session for the House. In the Senate, lawmakers will likely return Wednesday for concurrence votes on bills amended in the House. And lawmakers may return to Columbus to vote to override any potential vetoes by Kasich.
The D&E method is typically used from 13 to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Under SB 145, physicians who perform D&Es would be charged with a fourth-degree felony and spend up to 18 months behind bars.
The bill has exceptions, such as allowing the procedure if the life of the mother is at risk or if there could be a substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.
Kasich, a Republican like most in the Ohio General Assembly, vetoed a heartbeat bill in 2016.
But this year, the lawmakers amended the bill to potentially offer women more time to get an abortion by allowing abdominal ultrasounds and other technologies that don't generally detect heartbeats as soon as transvaginal ultrasounds.
However, abortion rights supporters and opponents by Thursday were both saying that the bill wasn't substantially changed, since pregnancies and ultrasounds vary by pregnancy for when a heartbeat is detected. It could be as soon as six weeks for some transvaginal ultrasounds.
The Ohio Senate passed a bill banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detectable, however they amended the bill to give women some more time to legally end pregnancies.
After receiving one or both abortion bans, Kasich would get up to 10 days – except Sundays – to sign, veto or allow the bill to go into law without his signature. Kasich could let the clock run until the very last minute before vetoing, which could be Christmas Day.
Then it would be a scramble to get lawmakers back to Columbus in the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve to override the veto. Many people travel outside Ohio for the holidays, and three-fifths of each chamber is necessary for an override.
In the Senate, that's 20 votes. The fetal heartbeat bill passed with 18 votes Wednesday, but two Republicans did not vote.
In the House, 60 votes are needed. With the D&E ban, House Republicans cleared the threshold Thursday with 62 votes and several lawmakers were not present to vote.
Some lawmakers who support legislation will vote against a veto override, believing on principle it should be used sparingly.
The 132nd Ohio General Assembly, which spanned two years, officially adjourns ends Dec. 31.


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Edward Teller and the Hydrogen Bomb
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"What we should have learned is that the world is small, that peace is important and that cooperation in science... could contribute to peace. Nuclear weapons, in a peaceful world, will have a limited importance."
(Edward Teller in CNN interview)
Theoretical physicist Edward Teller is often referred to as the "Father of the H-Bomb." He was part of a group of scientists who invented the atomic bomb as part of the U.S. government-led Manhattan Project. He was also the co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where together with Ernest Lawrence, Luis Alvarez, and others, he invented the hydrogen bomb in 1951. Teller spent most of the 1960s working to keep the United States ahead of the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race.
Teller's Education and Contributions
Teller was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908. He earned a degree in chemical engineering at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Leipzig. His doctoral thesis was on the hydrogen molecular ion, the foundation for the theory of molecular orbitals that remains accepted to this day. Although his early training was in chemical physics and spectroscopy, Teller also made substantial contributions to diverse fields such as nuclear physics, plasma physics, astrophysics, and statistical mechanics.
It was Edward Teller who drove Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner to meet with Albert Einstein, who together would write a letter to President Roosevelt urging him to pursue atomic weapons research before the Nazis did. Teller worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and later became the lab's assistant director. This led to the invention of the atomic bomb in 1945.
The Hydrogen Bomb
In 1951, while still at Los Alamos, Teller came up with the idea for a thermonuclear weapon. Teller was more determined than ever to push for its development after the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb in 1949. This was a major reason why he was determined to lead the successful development and testing of the first hydrogen bomb.
In 1952, Ernest Lawrence and Teller opened the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was the associate director from 1954 to 1958 and 1960 to 1965. He was its director from 1958 to 1960. For the next 50 years, Teller did his research at the Livermore National Laboratory, and between 1956 and 1960 he proposed and developed thermonuclear warheads small and light enough to be carried on submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
Teller published more than a dozen books on subjects ranging from energy policy to defense issues and was awarded 23 honorary degrees. He received numerous awards for his contributions to physics and public life. Two months before his death in 2003, Edward Teller was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a special ceremony conducted by President George W. Bush at the White House.
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Megan and Matt are from (and live) out of town but came to fall in love with those Carolina mountains. Who could blame them?!? So they planned their wedding for Pretty Place Chapel(!!!) and had their reception in downtown Greenville. From the navy to the classic pearls, it was all oh so lovely! Just being around them, you can tell Megan & Matt are best friends and I was so honored to witness them start their married lives together. Congratulations, you two!


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Manu Ginobili Remains Humble as He Faces Fans During Jersey Retirement Ceremony
Posted By M. Solis on Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 12:12 PM
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The Spurs' big three share a laugh before Manu Ginobili's jersey retirement ceremony.
Heading into Thursday night's showdown against the Cleveland Cavaliers, and subsequent Manu Ginobili jersey retirement ceremony, the current longest-tenured player on the Spurs roster anticipated plenty of emotion.
"It's obviously a special day, a heartfelt day for a lot of people in the San Antonio community and far, far beyond," Patty Mills said at shootaround. "And tonight we get to acknowledge and say thank you to all the sacrifice and years of hard work and sweat and tears that he's not only put into the San Antonio Spurs, but obviously far beyond. He's left a legacy that goes beyond what happens on the court. But it's been his passion, his energy, his competitiveness for the game that has really affected teammates, coaches, and fans across the world. I'm very honored to be in a situation of being his teammate and being a close friend of his for so many years, so tonight will be very special and heartfelt, and I'm sure a lot of emotion and probably not a dry eye in the building."
Prior to the festivities, the team had earned its hard-fought 116-110 victory over the Cavs, with DeMar DeRozan leading all scorers with 25 points and 8 assists. As San Antonio's iconic Big Three of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Ginobili watched from the stands, it was Mills who fittingly hit a corner three to essentially close out the game. Mills, along with Marco Belinelli, are the only players that remain from the team's title-winning foreign legion.
"That was the best thing about our team, and he was the head honcho of that," Mills said. "We had so many people from all around the world, and he was the one that really focused on getting to know everyone so that we could get along as a team and grow as a team in the locker room, so that we could trust each other on the court. He figured out that we can't go anywhere on the court unless we know about each other off-court, so for him to really hone in on that was huge, and that's something that we obviously still do today."
After the game, Spurs luminaries took turns honoring the most beloved player in franchise history to the delight of a captivated AT&T Center crowd. Parker joked about drawing Argentina's ire for not passing Ginobili the ball. Duncan playfully recalled Ginobili's selflessness and the joy he brought to the game.
Modest to the end, Ginobili reflected on his unlikely journey from Argentina to the NBA.
"This is not supposed to happen to me," he said, beaming. "I had no expectations whatsoever growing up to be even close to being here."
The highlight of the evening came when Gibobili eloquently thanked his family and friends in his native tongue. As Ginobili's iconic number 20 was unveiled in the rafters it was the words of Coach Gregg Popovich that perhaps rang truest.
"I became a better coach because I learned to zip it now and then, because you'd watch him play and all of a sudden he would make a steal to win a game," Popovich said. "Or get an offensive rebound or shoot a three that was totally contested — the worst shot in the world — and it would go in because he's a winner."
"The way the team was set up we all needed each other and without Manu there were no championships," he added.
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Report Recommends Electronic Cooling Tower Registry to Help Improve Health Outcomes, Efficiency & Sustainability
eNews, HVAC · July 6, 2020
Tags: cooling towers, Legionairres', Legionella, NSF Health Sciences LLC, NSF International, Sustainability, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, water conservation
A new policy report, Electronic Registration Systems for Cooling Towers – Improving Public Health and Sustainability Outcomes, published by the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, proposes a standardized yet flexible template for cooling tower registries. The template is designed to improve health outcomes, address disparity in affected populations and increase water and energy efficiency.
NSF Health Sciences LLC, an NSF International company, and GroveWare Technologies, developed the report for USDN with workshop input from more than 20 federal, state, provincial, city health, environmental, sustainability, water and/or building agencies.
Cooling towers are the point where heat extracted from a building is dissipated to the atmosphere through an evaporative process. As such, they are a critical component of many cooling systems in commercial, industrial, healthcare, hospitality and residential facilities. There are more than 2 million cooling towers in the United States, making them more common than elevators, yet much less regulated, according to the report.
Poorly maintained cooling towers can disperse legionella and other diseases through contaminated water droplets created as part of the cooling process. Additionally, since poor energy-conservation practices increase water demand on buildings, registries are an important sustainability tool that can help evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance plans and identify areas for improved efficiency, the report highlights.
Most North American cities do not track the location of cooling towers and are "forced to rely on imprecise methodologies during public health emergencies," the report says, adding that there is a "continued tolerance of widely divergent maintenance practices by building owners."
According to the report, registries provide municipalities with a management tool for maintenance record keeping and support to building owners to meet regulations.
New York City was the first U.S. city to create an electronic cooling tower registry system after a large Legionnaires' disease outbreak in 2015 that sickened 138 people and led to 16 deaths. A handful of other cities and states, including Austin, Texas; Hamilton, Canada; Vancouver, Canada; the State of New York; Quebec, Canada and Victoria, Australia, now require cooling towers to be registered. National registries also exist in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Singapore.
The report details IT specifications to create and rapidly implement an electronic cooling tower registration system.
"Technology plays a key role in nurturing a healthy urban living environment. The USDN workshop provided us the opportunity to share our experience deploying the New York City Registration Portal with participating governments and provided attendees with a roadmap for a successful program implementation," said Hrair Achkarian, president and CEO of GroveWare Technologies Inc., the software firm that developed New York City's cooling tower registration system.
Registries can also be a crucial tool to measure key sustainability performance indicators, aiding jurisdictions in evaluating the effectiveness of a building's water conservation plans and identifying areas for improved energy efficiency.
Cooling towers can be a significant source of water demand for a building, representing 20-50% of total water usage, according to the report, which added that poor management practices result in millions of wasted gallons of water per year in a single cooling tower. In Los Angeles, California alone, for example, it is estimated that more than 2 billion gallons of water per year are wasted.
The report reflects information collected from participants in webinars on April 15, May 17 and July 16, 2019; as well as a two-day workshop conducted Sept. 9-10, 2019, at the annual Legionella Conference in Los Angeles, co-hosted by NSF Health Sciences and the National Environmental Health Association. NSF and GroveWare also conducted interviews with several agencies participating in the USDN project to gain insight into what criteria and factors were critical to their public health and sustainability missions.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Sojern, the world's leading data-driven traveler engagement platform, announced today the appointment of Jeremy Daw as its new chief technology officer. Daw is an online advertising technology veteran with more than 25 years of experience in the industry. He was one of the original leaders of the first sponsored search platform, Overture, which was purchased by Yahoo for $1.6B.
As one of the first companies to have successfully cracked big data, Sojern has been helping the world's most prominent travel brands more effectively reach, convert and retain travelers since 2007. Today, travel-related transactions account for over 1/3rd of all ecommerce revenue (ComScore 2012), and Sojern's focus on the fast-growing travel sector has enabled the company to grow rapidly, roughly doubling year-over-year revenue.
Daw will join Chief Architect Lee Bierman to further direct the aggressive growth of Sojern's engineering, operations, and data science teams to ensure that Sojern's data-driven platform delivers best-in-class performance as it significantly expands data processing on a global scale. In particular, the team will focus on leveraging Sojern's vast database of traveler profiles to develop even more granular and optimized targeting solutions for the travel vertical.
During his 25 years in ad tech, Daw has built complex technology infrastructure and implemented revenue-producing platforms from small beginnings to large scale at Yahoo, Overture, Adconion, and most recently, Demand Media.


What I'm contemplating today: How different things would be if we were all in pursuit of sanity, health and wellbeing, rather than seeking distractions, financial gain and fame. What might shift if we focused more directly on being well rather that earning the right to it. The confusion of thinking we can buy everything we need. Discovering what I like to eat, trying new things and cooking more, with the intention of nourishing my body but also eating with delight. How I might continue the process of healing. Connecting with divinity, God, the Universe, the Self — the one whose name I do not know. Being in relationship, the wonder and the difficulty. What it means to love myself, to love another. How to start. How to stop.
This entry was posted in Day of Rest and tagged Day of Rest on October 26, 2014 by jillsalahub.
All these resonate for me, especially the question of relationship.
I watched a talk Susan Piver gave about the Four Noble Truths of relationships that was so good, really has me thinking a lot about it, in terms of my marriage and my relationship with my dogs.
I can relate to your contemplation..
Oh, Susan, that's something else to add: all the various ways I nourish (and starve) myself.
My first thought: That doesn't sound very restful! 🙂 But then I realized, it is only when we rest that we have room for such thoughts to come in. Wishing you a beautiful day.


New video takes an in-depth look at the making of Nolan's WWII epic.
One of the cinematic highlights of 2017 and an awards hopeful in 2018, Dunkirk is arguably the finest achievement of director Christopher Nolan's career.
With the film competing at the upcoming BAFTAs and Oscars, Warner Bros. Pictures have released an official 28 minute long video that takes a look at the craft that went into the WWII epic.


Earlier this year, I was approached to illustrate the EP cover "In The Beginning" for Bristol-based heavy grunge/stoner band Glü.
Glü's music immediately impressed and hit home for me. Mixing genres and daubing in experimentation, channeled and sustained suspense without overdoing it, and statically-charged subconscious timing; i.e. you're 'there' or rather 'gone' before you've realised it.
I feel happy to be a part of their journey, and look forward to following where they go from here.
Available both digitally and in the flesh.
You can enjoy the tracks here.
Glü's EP "In The Beginning" arrives: I did squeal a bit when I saw a photo of the card-boxed treasure on their Twitter feed. Thrilled to bits when the package Chris sent me came through!
I've taken a photo of the "In The Beginning" CD and slipcase against the backdrop of some of my personal inspiration behind the art: "La Ronde" a play by German author/physician Arthur Schnitzler, and memories of Yayoi Kusama's exhibition at the Tate Modern last year.
The line art for the cover was drawn using a waterproof eyeliner..
Which, for the record.. Was not waterproof.
Signing off this entry with Glü's "Off The Scale".
The cover does deserved justice to the magnificent album that reached my mailbox yesterday.


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Just another Looking for Whitman weblog
Lingering Last Drops
Song of Allison
Allison for Nov. 17
Posted by Allison Crerie in Uncategorized on November 15, 2009
Aside from their alliterative "W" names, Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams have a lot in common. I'm surprised and slightly disappointed in myself for not seeing the heavy Whitmanic influence over Williams' work before. Both WWs have held consistent spots in my "top 5" since high school, and now I feel an entirely new level of intimacy with these two poets as we enter into some kind of weird poetic-connection-triangle. After reading Higgins article, I read through some of Williams' poems that I had read before and saw them differently than I did years ago (way back when Whitman was just a poet I liked and not a sea of multitudes in which I am completely and constantly submerged). It's official, I am now equipped with Whitman-Tinted Glasses.
Poetically, both (1855-1860) Whitman and (1940s-1950s) Williams' focus on the elemental self, the particulars, the details, the Romantic, and the beautiful. The reader looks through the poem as a microscope, narrowing in on individual blades of grass rather than an entire field or lawn:
"And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Whitman 31).
"The file sharp grass… and a grasshopper of red basalt, boot-long" (Williams 277).
These lines, like many others, could be inserted interchangeably into Whitman's or Williams' poems without any break in poetic style, form, or content. Williams even riffs on Whitman's parenthetical asides, inserting his own voice and creating the same intimacy that Whitman achieves in his poetry. Take for instance this side comment in Williams' "The Delineaments of the Giants":
"The river comes pouring in above the city
And crashes from the edge of the gorge
In a recoil of spray and rainbow mists—
(What common language to unravel?
. . combed into straight lines
from that rafter of a rock's lip.)
A man like a city and a woman like a flower…" (262).
This follows typical Whitmanic formula. First, the depiction of beautiful and powerful nature—I don't think I need to remind you of all the instances of the sea, ocean, and rivers in Whitman's poetry. The parenthetical aside that follows questions the metaphysical underpinning and muses on the deeper meaning of the previous image (not to mention the classic 1855 Whitmanic ellipsis thrown in there as well). Lastly, Williams' makes the move from natural world to humanity, equalizing the beauty of Man to that of the previous "rainbow mists." If I didn't already know this passage was from a Williams' poem, I would have confidently identified Whitman as the author. If the similar structure and subject matter isn't enough to confuse you, Whitman and Williams even make similar word choices in their poetry. Each combines fluid, aesthetic, and relatively simple words with a more sophisticated, Latinate vocabulary. Despite all these similarities in Williams' work to Whitman's, Williams' is far from a copy cat.
The most significant parallelism between Whitman and Williams is how their rare and innovative existence within their own times. Both poets seem to come from nowhere, creating poetry the likes of which their contemporaries had never seen before. The 1855 Leaves of Grass was a non sequitur amongst mid-19th century poetry and planted the seed for poetic trends to follow, most importantly the use of free verse as the official "American" poetic style. Like Whitman, William Carlos Williams served as a poetic catalyst for the imagist movement in the early 20th century (see: "The Red Wheelbarrow"). He even invented what became known as the variable foot, which is based off the condensed and simplified linguistic trends Williams' observed in American society, i.e. newspaper headlines and radio announcements. Like Whitman's innovations, Williams' stylistic influence can be seen decades later (See: Jane Hirshfield's "Red Scarf"). Even though Whitman preceded Williams, both poets contribute their own unique layer to the ancient and ever-changing poetic palimpsest (shout out to Dr. Scanlon!).
With all that in mind, what I find more impressive about Whitman's legacy as opposed to Williams' is the sheer number of writers who mimicked Whitman in one way or another. In Higgins article, it's almost like Whitman is more than one man. Whitman's work contains such multitudes that he has produced several legacies. William Carlos Williams may mirror the individualistic Whitman, but Pablo Neruda channels Whitman's idea of "en-masse," and T.S. Eliot evokes Whitman by being the Anti-Whitman. This is perhaps the most impressive aspect of Whitman, that even post-mortem he contains multitudes.
Finding Whitman Project
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Posted by Allison Crerie in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009
There has been a shift in the way I read and relate to Whitman. In the 1855 edition, Whitman felt like my pal; his messiness, his unbridled passion, his desire to explore everything and know everything, his embrace of his own egotism—all these things I relate to as a twenty-something. While reading the deathbed edition of Leaves, however, I couldn't help the feeling that I had become Walt's daughter / granddaughter, or student. Instead of focusing on mere aspects of life, Whitman reflects on life as whole. He bestows his "words of wisdom" to his readers in succinct, almost adage-like poems. With the 1891-1892 Leaves of Grass, I have found my Papa Walt.
I am beside myself with excitement to finally be able to discuss my favorite Walt Whitman poem of all time. O Me! O Life! is the perfect example of Papa Walt's wisdom. Many of you might remember this scene from the movie Dead Poets Society, in which Robin Williams' character uses this poem (abbreviated in the movie) to inspire teenage boys to study poetry. Papa Walt would have approved of this, because within the poem he presents a student/teacher dialogue.
The poem is divided into two parts with two different speakers: the first is spoken by the student/ the son / the youth, followed by a response by the answerer / the teacher / the father figure. The youth questions what is the "good" of life when it's often filled with foolish and faithless people, and daily routines and struggles forever renewed; to which the older and wiser speaker responds calmly:
"That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse" (410).
The first speaker speaks from the thick of life, whereas the second speaker comes from a more objective point of view—as one "beyond" life. Not that the second speaker is a ghost, but rather someone who has experienced and come out the other side of what the first speaker recounts. Even though the answerer is older and wiser, they give value to the questioner. By responding with the direct address "you," the second speaker emphasizes the first speaker's importance in the large, consuming world.
This poem could also be read as Papa Walt's address to his former, younger self. The first section mirrors his 1855 writing style with its many "O"s, exclamation and question marks, repeated line beginnings, and verbose detail; whereas the answer portion is short, "seriously" punctuated," and makes a broader statement, all of which are tell-tale signs of the more mature Walt Whitman. While the younger Walt zeros in on specificities and uses many words to do so, Papa Walt squeezes more profundity into fewer words (notice how Walt's shorter poems do not emerge until after 1855). Within this one poem, Whitman reflects on his current and former self, and many "verses" he has contributed.
Though there is a greater focus on death in the 1891-1892 edition of Leaves, which is, of course, sad, there is still a sense of optimism in Whitman's writing. There is never death without the reflection on life. Even his most morbid poems like The Last Invocation, Life and Death, and Good-Bye my Fancy! include reflections on love, the soul, and life. Papa Walt inspires us in his old age to live a life as full and passionate as his own. And Papa Walt knows what's best.
"O I see life is not short, but immeasurably long,
I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower,
Every hour the semen of centuries, and still of centuries.
I must follow up these continual lessons of the air, water, earth,
I perceive I have no time to lose" (380).
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'Why Is This So Damn Hard?!': Jon Stewart Shames Congress Over 9/11 Victims Funding
Filed Under:9/11 terror attacks, 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, Jon Stewart, Local TV, Lou Alvarez, New York, Sept. 11 Attacks
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — Comedian Jon Stewart scolded Congress Tuesday for failing to ensure that a victims' compensation fund set up after the 9/11 attacks never runs out of money.
Stewart, a longtime advocate for 9/11 responders, also called out lawmakers for failing to attend a hearing on a bill to ensure the fund can pay benefits for the next 70 years. Pointing to rows of empty seats at a House Judiciary Committee hearing room, an angry Stewart said "sick and dying" first responders and their families came to Washington for the hearing, only to face a nearly deserted dais.
The sparse attendance by lawmakers was "an embarrassment to the country and a stain on the institution" of Congress, Stewart said, adding that the "disrespect" shown to first responders now suffering from respiratory ailments and other illnesses "is utterly unacceptable."
WEB EXTRA – CBS2's Dick Brennan has more on Stewart's fiery condemnation of Congress:
Lawmakers from both parties said they support the bill and were monitoring the hearing amid other congressional business. On Sunday, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle announced that they're working to ensure the Victim Compensation Fund will be extended indefinitely.
Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., predicted the bill will pass with overwhelming support and said lawmakers meant no disrespect as they moved in and out of the subcommittee hearing, a common occurrence on Capitol Hill.
Stewart was unconvinced.
Pointing to rows of uniformed firefighters and police officers behind him, he said the hearing "should be flipped," so that first responders were on the dais, with members of Congress "down here" in witness chairs answering their questions.
First and foremost, Stewart said, families want to know: "Why is this so damn hard and takes so damn long?"
The collapse of the World Trade Center in September 2001 sent a cloud of thick dust billowing over Lower Manhattan. Fires burned for weeks. Thousands of construction workers, police officers, firefighters and others spent time working in the soot, often without proper respiratory protection.
In the years since, many have seen their health decline, some with respiratory or digestive-system ailments that appeared almost immediately, others with illnesses that developed as they aged, including cancer.
More than 40,000 people have applied to the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which covers illnesses potentially related to being at the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon or Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the attacks. More than $5 billion in benefits have been awarded out of the $7.4 billion fund, with about 21,000 claims pending.
Stewart and other speakers lamented the fact that nearly 18 years after the attacks, first responders and their families still have no assurance the fund will not run out of money. The Justice Department said in February that the fund is being depleted and that benefit payments are being cut by up to 70 percent.
"The plain fact is that we are expending the available funds more quickly than assumed, and there are many more claims than anticipated," said Rupa Bhattacharyya, the fund's special master. A total of 835 awards have been reduced as of May 31, she said.
MORE: NYPD Commissioner Renews Call For 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund To Be Financed For As Long As Necessary
House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat whose district includes the World Trade Center site, said a 70% cut — or any cut — in compensation to victims of 9/11 "is simply intolerable, and Congress must not allow it."
Just as Americans "stood together as a nation in the days following September 11, 2001, and just as we stood together in 2010 and 2015 to authorize and fund these vital programs, we must now join forces one more time to ensure that the heroes of 9/11 are not abandoned when they need us most," Nadler said.
(© Copyright 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)


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[Review] Legends of Tomorrow Episode 6×07: "Back to the Finale: Part II"
Posted on June 28, 2021 by Kate Danvers
written by Kate Danvers
If I were to put the following review in audio format, the last few minutes would be beyond the range of human hearing.
SPOILER WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT
Picking up from last episode, Bishop explains that there's no antidote for Zaguron venom, and what Sara drank before collapsing was actually a solution of nanobots that did a full-body scan, allowing her to be cloned. After Ava troopers arrive to secure the room he…um…resets himself into the waiting clone with one of their weapons. He finally reveals his full plan: Sara has the mental fortitude to handle the alien upgrades, so the new human race will be all Sara clones, cloud-printed to planets all over the galaxy.
I'd say this is the dumbest villain plan I've ever heard, but I've watched entire seasons of Arrow and The Flash, so this doesn't even crack the top ten.
The Legends are taking news of Sara's death hard. Ava is taking it the hardest, laying in her room and watching David Bowie's video of Sara on a loop. Nate has appointed himself acting leader and attempts to bring Ava food and check up on her. The other Legends are drinking, except for Zari and Behrad, the latter of whom is reportedly taking Sara's death very hard.
Mick and Kayla finally leave the pod (that's going to need to be cleaned with napalm) and find that the barrier has been restored. Kayla starts to hook the fuel cell up to the ship with the intention of leaving as soon as she's done. After Mick tells her she owes him for saving her life, she reluctantly gives him until the third moon sets to find Sara and get back to the ship.
Nate and Zari go to the lab to find Behrad, but he's not there. However, his "thinking music" is playing and a sniff of the air tells Nate that B has been smoking his "thinking weed." Well, that can't be good.
Oh. That's really not good.
Yeah, Behrad has gone back to 1977 London and the events of last season's finale to try to save Sara from being abducted in the first place. Nate, Zari, Spooner, Astra, and Constantine soon follow, wearing what they wore the last time they were there.
SPOONER: "Where the hell are we?"
ASTRA: "Last year's finale."
SPOONER: "What's a finale?"
NATE: "You'll see. They're pretty fun. I mean, except for the one where I died."
Not content to step on my jokes, the writers just outright steal goofs I would use as a stinger image. I guess there is a precedent for that.
They find their Behrad and pull him aside. They're not there to stop him, though – they're there to help him do it right. They make plans in the restaurant across from the Hole (the venue the Smell were playing at). They need to not interact with their past selves, get Sara to the Waverider before the aliens arrive, and not involve past or present Ava because she'll be against altering the timeline. They also realize this means they'll never meet Spooner.
Behrad realizes it's Smoke O'Clock, so his past self will be on the roof. He tries unsuccessfully to get Sara to return to the Waverider with him. She's intent on proposing tonight and she will not be deterred.
In the present on the alien planet, the Avas take Sara away to be incinerated so Bishop can start over with a fresh clone. She breaks free just as Gary, his rebel Avas, and Mick (who they found on the way) arrive to get her. Sara doesn't want to leave without stopping Bishop, so Nurse Ava suggests blowing up all of the generators at once so the whole facility shuts down. Sara thanks Mick for rescuing her, but he dismisses it as "The ship sucked without you."
Say whatever you want, Mick – I can tell you're hugging her back.
The Legends don't know why Sara never proposed to Ava that night if she was so set on it. Since Constantine and Zari were having a quickie at that point during the finale night and therefore they won't need to worry about running into themselves, the two of them go into the club to convince Sara to propose. After briefly bumping into Past Ava, they find Sara throwing up. She's nervous about the proposal. Constantine tries to convince her to just get it over with, but she wants to do it on her own time. From Constantine's willingness to go along with the stupid plan to his desperate bid to convince Sara, Zari figures out he doesn't have his magic anymore. He says that fixing the timeline is the best way to get his magic back.
Past Ava spots Constantine and Zari leaving at the same time that Past Constantine and Zari get back from their quickie, so she follows the two who are acting weird, finds the present Legends, and lectures them about trying to alter the timeline. She then goes off to get blackout drunk so she doesn't remember any of that. So that's why she was so hungover in the premiere!
Sara cuts her hand trying to set a bomb on one of the generators. The cut heals in seconds, meaning Bishop did something to alter this clone. She radios the others to delay blowing up the generators while she has a chat with Bishop. She begins this chat by punching him. Good start! He tells her he combined her with an alien and says she should be grateful. She punches him again. Then she injects him with something that numbs and paralyzes him so she can make a clean clone of herself.
The Legends decide they need to get creative: a surgical strike on the timeline, one that will ensure they save Sara without changing anything about their personal timeline. I see. Well, in that case, the best way to do that is to abduct Sara themselves mid-alien abduction and return her to the present so their past selves still think she's abducted but she's–
BEHRAD: "No! With an exploding mannequin!"
Someone gave this man access to a time machine and I am forever grateful to them.
Okay, so the plan isn't entirely stupid. The mannequin is filled with fireworks, and it will explode at the same moment the aliens were scattered into the timeline, ensuring that all of that still happens. Still…a lot of stuff happened on that ship prior to the pods being jettisoned. Spartacus was eaten, Kayla fought Sara and got shot into the timestream with the pods, and Gary opened the wormhole into the Temporal Zone. There are a lot of variables.
Spooner goes in the club to keep an eye on the past Legends, but ends up having a conversation with Sara. She tells her about her abduction and fear of being close to people because she might hurt them. Sara suggests they might help her instead. Sara worries she's going to screw things up with Ava, but Spooner gives Sara her own advice. Sara notices that Ava's totally wasted, so she delays proposing until Ava sobers up.
When Nate runs to the bathroom, an alternate timeline version of him walks in to warn the Legends against using the exploding mannequin, saying it causes the aliens to land on Wall Street during the gilded age. Constantine dies, Nate joins a magic cult to stop the aliens, and the plan doesn't even work because Kayla abducts Sara anyway. Spooner calls to warn them that Sara is leaving the club, so Behrad runs outside to stop her from being abducted. To his dismay, he just distracts Sara long enough for the abduction to happen in the first place. This does cause AlterNate to be erased, though.
Get it? He's from an alterNATE timeline! Look, I'm just phoning it in here because the end of the episode broke me.
Sara asks Nurse Ava to make a clone of her without the alien DNA. The bombs on the generators are primed and they're running out of time to escape. She also newly remembers Behrad trying to warn her, so she's in more of a hurry to get back before her friends rip the timeline a new one. The cloning process will take about ten minutes. Easy-Bake Assassin! Sara intends to send the human clone back home with Mick and Gary while she stays on this planet.
Mick comes to find Sara but runs into Bishop, who he roasts to death. That activates a digital copy of Bishop that starts uploading to a cloud server, meaning he can be cloned anywhere in the galaxy. The upload is going to take three minutes, so Sara has a choice between making the clean clone of herself or stopping Bishop permanently.
When Mick enters the cloning lab, Sara tells him everything: that she's a clone, her current body is "wrong," and he needs to take the new clone with him.
SARA: "I don't even know what I am anymore, all right? You cannot see it, but I'm damaged."
MICK: "Damaged? No. I see someone who's been through hell but never stopped being herself. I see Captain Lance. I see Sara, my oldest friend. We need you. Please."
Remember when this guy betrayed the team both in Seasons One and Two? Mick Rory, the criminal and arsonist who won't talk about his feelings? The guy who barely trusted one person in the world, and that was Leonard? The past two episodes have shown how much he's grown. Maybe it's being a dad or the other Legends rubbing off on him, but he's changed.
For crying out loud, he said the word "please." If that's not character growth, I don't know what is.
That convinces Sara to leave, and she tells Gary to blow the generators. The new clone of Sara dissolves before it completes, and Bishop's consciousness stops uploading at 94% before the base loses power entirely.
The Ava clones decide to stay on the planet because it's their "home." Sara, Mick, and Gary run for the ship with Zagurons chasing them. Kayla does a bombing run with the ship to take out some of the Zagurons, then tells everyone to get aboard. Before they can, the aliens attack again. Kayla attacks with her tentacles, but she's outnumbered and dragged away. The others make it to the ship and wait for Kayla as long as they can, but they're forced to leave before they get overrun.
Ava is still in her room watching the video again and again. The file gets corrupted, and stops playing just as the real Sara walks in behind her. Just when I think I'm about to cry, Ava makes it worse by saying she's afraid to turn around because if she does, Sara might disappear. Sara hugs her to show that she's real, and the two embrace.
Sara realizes where the Legends are and goes to London, where the big reunion takes place. On the way back to the ship, Sara stops waiting. She gets down on one knee to propose. Ava is so excited that she says yes before Sara can even ask. It's really heckin' cute. Sara eventually gets the proposal out and Ava says yes and I don't even watch this show for the shipping but I'm crying. The mannequin bomb that was left in a dumpster explodes, sending fireworks into the sky to celebrate the moment.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Y'ALL DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW HAPPY THIS MADE MY LITTLE GAY HEART. THAT IS ME EXPLODING IN THE BACKGROUND.
Okay, I'm going to talk about the rest of the episode before I talk about the thing I want to talk about. I feel like it didn't completely live up to its premise. I was expecting time travel shenanigans on the level of "Legends of To-Meow-Meow" or Groundhog Day-style zaniness like "Here I Go Again." But I think that would have robbed us of the stuff that was happening in the present with Sara, so maybe that's for the best.
I know there's still half a season left to explore the half-alien clone thing. I honestly expected the clone part to hit Sara more than the half-alien part, but her fiancée is a clone, so I guess it makes sense. From the preview, it looks like she gets around to telling Ava and the other Legends about the new version of herself next episode. Maybe I was just expecting more of an existential crisis.
However, I'm really glad that didn't get in the way of the proposal. I was really expecting Sara to put it off because of what happened to her. Nope; Legends knew what we wanted and it delivered. The relationship that started in Season Three has progressed to the next stage. It's one of the best-developed relationships I've seen in the DC television shows – maybe the best developed. There was chemistry and sexual tension from the start and it blossomed into sappy romance.
I bang the "representation matters" drum a lot, I know, but moments like that mean a lot to me and so many other people. I was born in the '80s, and I've lived long enough to have seen an era of TV where a same-sex relationship between two main characters on a show would be unthinkable. And now I'm living in a time where it's not common enough to be a big deal, but it's not something that is going to cause massive protests and write-in campaigns to get the show taken off the air.
I get the absolute pleasure of watching two shows on the same network with LGBTQIA+ representation, and I get to talk about it online. How cool is that? So, I hope you all don't mind me skipping the usual joke in the stinger image for some fluff.
Next time: Sara and Ava are engaged and the next episode is Old West-themed? Legends, you're spoiling me.
Legends of Tomorrow airs Sundays on the CW at 8 ET/7 CT. Kate normally writes something witty here, but her brain turned into mush by the end of this review. For more mush, find her on Twitter @WearyKatie.
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On January 11, 1861, the Secession Convention passed a resolution designating a flag designed by a group of Montgomery women as the official flag of the convention. This flag has often been referred to as the Republic of Alabama Flag. One side of the flag displayed "Independent Now and Forever" and the Goddess of Liberty holding in her right hand an unsheathed sword while a small flag with one star in her left hand. On the reverse side of the flag was a cotton plant with a coiled rattlesnake. Below the cotton plant, there are the Latin words: "Noli Me Tangere," which means "Touch Me Not".
The Cross of St. Andrew referred to in the law is a diagonal cross, known in vexillology as a saltire. For the reason that the bars must be at least six inches wide.
Flag Size: The size of Alabama's state flag is 4 inches by 6 inches to 12 feet by 18 feet.
Design: "Crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white". The bars forming the cross shall be not less than six inches broad, and must extend diagonally across the flag from side to side.
Fabric: It may be in nylon, polyester; heavy-duty polyester or super knit polyester. Each flag is Acid Dyed on 100% DuPont nylon fabric, specially treated to resist ultraviolet and chemical fading and deterioration.
Shape: The bars shaped the cross, which shall not to be less than six inches broad and that to extend diagonally across the flag from side to side. It is not to be cleared in the said act whether it is square or rectangular.
Salute: Flag of Alabama I salute thee. To thee I pledge my allegiance, my service, and my life.


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Camp John Hay investors being bullied | Inquirer Opinion
Camp John Hay investors being bullied
By: Neal H. Cruz - @inquirerdotnet
The Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) under its president Arnel Casanova is bullying investors, locators, lessees, tenants, unit owners, lot owners, and golf club members in Camp John Hay and has threatened them with eviction if they do not sign an onerous deed of assignment.
The document contains these provisions:
An admission that the residents, etc. have no right to stay there.
An admission that they have no right to sue the BCDA for its part in what happened.
An agreement to unspecified future terms.
An agreement that the interpretation of the assignment agreement or any dispute should be heard only by a court in Taguig City, not Baguio City.
An agreement to sign in advance any affidavit against Camp John Hay Development Corp. (CJHDevCo) and testify against it in any court or before any agency, even if the contents of the affidavit are yet unknown.
Now, who would be stupid to sign such a deed of assignment? But the BCDA is threatening the residents, etc. with eviction if they do not sign it.
The BCDA is like a crocodile caught in a trap and trying desperately to free itself. Yet the situation that it finds itself in now is of its own making.
It lost a case against CJHDevCo arising from the lease and development of Camp John Hay. The Philippine Dispute Resolution Center Inc. (PDRCI) has ruled that both parties violated their contract.
The BCDA did not set up, as agreed upon, a one-stop center to prevent red tape and speed up the issuance of permits. As a result, permits were delayed or not issued at all, thus preventing CJHDevCo from developing the camp. With no development, CJHDevCo could not raise enough funds to pay its rentals to the BCDA. The BCDA sued CJHDevCo for not paying P3.3 billion in rentals—an accusation that the arbitrators dismissed as without basis. In addition, the BCDA was ordered to return to CJHDevCo P1.4 billion in rentals that had been paid to it.
In exchange, CJHDevCo was ordered to return Camp John Hay to the BCDA. The developer said it would comply as soon as the BCDA refunds the P1.4 billion.
It appears that the BCDA under Casanova has no intention of making the refund, but it insists on the return of Camp John Hay to it. Recently, it sent armed guards to seize the two 5-star hotels, The Manor and Forest Lodge, that CJHDevCo had built at enormous expense. The hotel security guards resisted and the Baguio regional trial court issued an injunction against the BCDA.
CJHDevCo said: Pay us the back rentals ordered by the arbitrators and we will return the whole camp to you.
Last March 27, the Baguio court confirmed the final award by the PDRCI of P1.4 billion to CJHDevCo by the BCDA. The court also affirmed that CJHDevCo does not owe the BCDA P3.3 billion in back rentals that it had been trying to collect from the developer.
Significant in the decision of the court is that the vested right holders—the existing investors and locators, sublessees, unit owners, etc. who acquired their interests in good faith—will be governed by the law on obligations and contracts.
"This makes it clear that the rights of locators, sublessees, unit owners, lot owners and golf club members are to be protected by law, and cannot be evicted," explained CJHDevCo CEO Alfredo Yñiguez. "This is because Article 1385 of the Civil Code, which is the law relied upon by the vested rights holders, provides that an order for mutual restitution, as in this case, cannot include properties currently in the possession of third parties who acted in good faith, including and especially our locators and lessees who have fully paid in good faith."
Yñiguez added: "We hope that by virtue of this very clear order, Mr. Casanova and/or representatives of BCDA will stop threatening locators and lessees with eviction. If they continue threatening our locators and lessees, we assure them that we are ready to provide them with lawyers against such harassment."
Camp John Hay is an economic zone that is a project of the government's Public-Private Partnership Program where private investors are urged to invest in government infrastructure projects. Thus, the BCDA's job is to encourage investors, not harass them. Its gestapo tactics are driving investors away.
Under Casanova, the BCDA has lost P5 billion for the military's modernization program: P3.3 billion in what could have been receivables had it accepted the last revised restructured agreement of CJHDevCo, P1.4 billion in paid lease rental that it will now have to return to CJHDevCo, and P500 million that was offered to it as initial payment for a proposed restructured agreement late in 2011.
This does not include the annual lease rentals, amounting to P450 million for three years since 2012, that the BCDA would have received had Casanova not refused every proposal from CJHDevCo, 25 percent of which would have gone to Baguio City as its share of the annual rent for Camp John Hay. Had the BCDA gone into negotiations with CJHDevCo instead of opening the door to a rescission of the contract, the BCDA would have P5.1 billion in rentals for the remaining term of the lease (2012 until 2046) from the P150-million annual rental fees alone.
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