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The Minority Steadfast: Pelosi Throws a Hissy Fit
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Here's a quick update that I felt was simply too interesting (it would be funny if so many lives weren't at stake) to pass up.
Coming in after the debacle that was yesterday's AP-Ipsos poll demonstrating America's disapproval of President Bush is only exceeded by their displeasure in the obviously impotent job performance of the newly elected Democratic congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, frustrated with the Republican minority, is now going back to the drawing board. Way back in fact–all the way back to 1822.
Is this the progress Democrats and liberals have been promising? Do you think? Progress? Ahem.
PELOSI LOWERS THE BOOM
Wed May 16 2007 14:43:59 ET
After losing a string of embarrassing votes on the House floor because of procedural maneuvering, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to change the current House Rules to completely shut down the floor to the minority.
The Democratic Leadership is threatening to change the current House Rules regarding the Republican right to the Motion to Recommit or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit. This would be the first change to the germaneness rule since 1822.
In protest, the House Republicans are going to call procedural motions every half hour.
Iraq Withdrawal Move Thwarted in Senate
May 16, 11:34 AM (ET)
By ANNE FLAHERTY
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation that would cut off money for combat operations in Iraq after March 31, 2008.
The vote was a loss for Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., and other Democrats who want to end the war. But the effort picked up support from members, including presidential hopefuls previously reluctant to limit war funding – an indication of the conflict's unpopularity among voters.
The proposal lost 29-67 on a procedural vote, falling 31 votes short of the necessary votes to advance. Of the 67 senators who opposed Feingold's proposal, there were 19 Democrats, 47 Republicans and Connecticut Independent Joseph Lieberman. Of the 29 supporting, 28 were Democrats and Vermont Independent Bernard Sanders.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democratic presidential front-runner, previously opposed setting a deadline on the war. But she said she agreed to back the measure "because we, as a united party, must work together with clarity of purpose and mission to begin bringing our troops home and end this war."
Sen. Barack Obama, another leading 2008 prospect, said he would prefer a plan that offers more flexibility but wanted "to send a strong statement to the Iraqi government, the president and my Republican colleagues that it's long past time to change course."
The proposal had been expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to advance under Senate rules, but was intended to gauge the tolerance of members on anti-war legislation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid staged a series of war votes Wednesday to inform negotiations with the House on a war spending bill.
"We stand united…. in our belief that troops are enmeshed in an intractable civil war," said Reid, D-Nev.
Feingold's measure, co-sponsored by Reid and Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., proved divisive for Democrats.
Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said he opposes any measure that cuts off money for the war.
"We don't want to send the message to the troops" that Congress does not support them, said Levin, D-Mich. "We're going to support those troops."
But other Democrats said the move was necessary.
"I'm not crazy about the language in the Feingold amendment, but I am crazy about the idea that we have to keep the pressure on," said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who also wants the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Senate vote on Feingold's legislation was one of several expected Wednesday, as the Democratic-controlled Congress struggles to clear legislation for Bush's signature by the end of next week to continue U.S. military operations through Sept. 30.
The House last week passed legislation funding the war on two separate, 60-day installments.
The Senate must take the next step by passing its own measure. Given the political forces at work, that legislation will be a placeholder, its only purpose to trigger three-way negotiations involving the House, Senate and Bush administration on a final compromise.
As a result, officials said Tuesday that Reid and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell had discussed jointly advancing a bill so barebones that it would contain no funds and do little more than express congressional support for the troops.
Negotiations on the final compromise are expected to take days.
Wednesday's votes on Feingold and other proposals "will provide strong guidance to our conferees and help shape the conference negotiations we have ahead of us," said Reid.
In addition to Feingold's measure, members were expected to vote on legislation by Sen. John Warner, R-Va., that would threaten billions of dollars in U.S. aid for Iraq if Baghdad does not make progress on certain military and political reforms.
Reid said he would oppose Warner's measure because it doesn't go far enough; the proposal would allow the president to waive the restriction on foreign aid.
"It is nothing," said Reid.
Levin pulled from the floor his proposal to set an Oct. 1 date to begin troop withdrawals, but allow the president to waive that requirement. He had pitched the idea with the expectation that the president would accept it because of the waiver; but, Levin said Wednesday he had been advised by the White House that the president would veto the measure regardless.
Poll: Congress, Bush share low approval
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer Fri May 11, 3:49 PM ET
WASHINGTON – People think the Democratic-led Congress is doing just as dreary a job as
, following four months of bitter political standoffs and little progress on
and a host of domestic issues.
An AP-Ipsos poll also found that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) is a more popular figure than the president and her colleagues on Capitol Hill, though she faces a gender gap in which significantly more women than men support her.
The survey found only 35 percent approve of how Congress is handling its job, down 5 percentage points in a month. That gives lawmakers the same bleak approval rating as Bush, who has been mired at about that level since last fall, including his dip to a record low for the AP-Ipsos poll of 32 percent last January.
"It's mostly Iraq" plus a lack of progress in other areas, said Rep. Tom Cole (news, bio, voting record), R-Okla., who heads the House GOP's campaign committee. "These are not good numbers for an incumbent, and it doesn't matter if you have an 'R' or a 'D' next to your name."
Democrats agree that the problem is largely Iraq, which has dominated this year's session of Congress while producing little more than this month's Bush veto of a bill requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops. It has also overshadowed House-passed bills on stem cell research, student loans and other subjects that the White House opposes, they say.
"People are unhappy, there hasn't been a lot of change in direction, for example in Iraq," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (news, bio, voting record), D-Md., chairman of House Democrats' campaign effort.
Rising gasoline prices could also be a factor, lawmakers said.
In another measure of popular discontent, the survey found that 71 percent say the country is on the wrong track — about even with the 73 percent who said so last May, the worst level since the AP-Ipsos poll began in December 2003.
The survey was taken Monday through Wednesday, before Bush offered to seek compromise with congressional Democrats over a war spending bill setting benchmarks for progress in Iraq.
Bush told reporters Thursday that if pollsters had asked his opinion about Iraq last fall, "I'd have said I disapprove of what was going on in Iraq. They could have put me down as part of the disapproval process."
That was before his decision to send nearly 30,000 additional troops to Iraq, which "would more likely cause me to approve of what's going on in Iraq," he added.
Overall approval of Bush was steady from last month, but fell to 69 percent among Republicans, about 7 percentage points below where it had been in April. Earlier this week, a group of GOP moderate House members warned Bush that the status quo in Iraq could mean Republican election losses next year.
"If the war doesn't begin to turn around, Republicans will have problems," said Rep. Peter King (news, bio, voting record), R-N.Y., who said he supports Bush's Iraq policy.
White House spokesman Tony Snow declined to comment on the poll.
Congress' approval rating this week was 10 points higher than a year ago, when Republicans were in control.
But after bumping up in April, this month's drop left lawmakers' job approval where it was when the year began. April saw Congress defy Bush and send him a bill financing the war and requiring a troop withdrawal, which he vetoed May 1.
"People wanted change in Washington" on many issues, not just Iraq, said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (news, bio, voting record), D-Ill., a member of the House Democratic leadership. "I'm not surprised about where people are. They're hearing only about Iraq."
Congress' reduced appeal was evident in several categories of people. Only 48 percent of Democrats said they approved of Congress, down from 55 percent last month. That included a 12 percentage point drop among Democratic women, though support from Democratic men remained steady.
Approval by minorities also fell a dozen points to 39 percent, with a similar reduction among people whose family incomes exceed $75,000.
By region, the steepest drop was in the Midwest, where approval fell by 10 percentage points to 28 percent. Congress' highest approval was in the Northeast, where four in ten gave it a positive rating.
As for Pelosi, D-Calif., her overall approval of 45 percent stood 10 points higher than Bush's and Congress'.
She was seen favorably by 52 percent of women, but only 39 percent of men. While whites are closely split about her, minorities approve of her job by a 15-point margin.
Pelosi's numbers are about where she was last month but slightly lower than in January. In the last month, she has lost significant support from younger voters, college-educated women and Westerners.
"Voters are frustrated by the fact that the president refuses to change direction on Iraq," said Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly.
Bush's approval ratings are lowest for his handling of Iraq and domestic issues including health care, with about one-third seeing him favorably. About four in 10 like the job he is doing on the economy and foreign policy.
Men give the president higher grades than women do, whites higher than minorities, and married people higher than singles.
The AP-Ipsos survey involved telephone interviews with 1,000 adults. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.


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Take a tortuous taxi ride through Sao Paulo's traffic-clogged streets and you realise why helicopters are such a popular method of travel for the city's time-poor, ultra-rich business leaders. Every rush hour, as the roads slow to gridlock, the only way is up, as a procession of corporate shuttles carry Brazil's masters of the universe between villas and the downtown towers of the country's financial hub.
The helicopter market in Brazil has been growing 12% a year, thanks to demand for VIP transport in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as a booming offshore oil sector. But the fixed-wing fleet has also been expanding by a consistent 6-8%, says business aviation association ABAG. "The drivers are a strong economy with companies having increased purchasing power, and the need to move rapidly in a country of continental dimensions," says executive vice-president Ricardo Nogueira. Figures from Flightglobal Ascend show the Brazilian fleet grew from 577 to 680 business jets between 2010 and 2011, and after four months of this year were nudging 700.
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By Stephen Grootes• 1 April 2017
PG-Exit Day One had been busy. Too busy to even really understand all that had transpired. There was still a lot to digest but the time for it is not yet upon us. There is still too much happening. Such is the urge by so many to eat right now, and the urge of others to stop them, that Day Two was going to be busy, even though it was a Saturday. By STEPHEN GROOTES.
Saturday. A lie-in. Well, the kind of lie-in you have with young children around. At 6:30am, they're up, shouting, chasing the kitten, and me looking blearily at my iPad, trying to see what had happened overnight. My final glance at a screen the night before had been the statement of the SACP's politburo, and the announcement that the leadership of the SACP was now calling for President Jacob Zuma to resign. In ordinary times, that are far away now, this would have been the kind of news that we would literally spend weeks digesting. Not any more. Minutes it is.
By 9am I'd been able to get hold of a response to the reshuffle from the ANC Treasurer, Zweli Mkhize. It was clear someone had spent hours getting it right. As predicted, he is not happy, and he had joined Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe in making this public. The key part of his response was this:
"Unlike previous consultations which take place with senior officials of the ANC during such appointments and changes to the composition of the national executive, the briefing by the President left a distinct impression that the ANC is no longer the centre and thus depriving the leadership collective of its responsibility to advise politically on executive matters."
There it was – "the ANC is no longer the centre …"
He doesn't have to spell it out, we know where he thinks the centre is. Saxonwold, Joburg. There was also a nice juicy bit about how "we need to admit that there are also several serving ministers whose performance is rather unsatisfactory, hence they have attracted severe criticism as public representatives against whom appropriate action would be expected."
Bathabile dear, he's talking to you.
It is comments like this one that really lay bear the brutally factional nature of this latest reshuffle. It is now obvious that Zuma was acting only for himself, that he didn't even feel the need to cloak it even just a bit by removing such notoriously incompetent ministers like Bathabile Dlamini, Mosebenzi Zwane or Faith Muthambi.
Mkhize, of course, wouldn't be Mkhize at this stage in the game, without making sure his neck didn't get stuck out that far. He also doesn't want to "undermine the prerogative" of the President in picking his cabinet, and wants to wish those appointed well and all of those things. But still, he's with Ramaphosa and Mantashe in pointing a finger at that famous compound.
In a sentence that may have been missed by many, Mkhize makes the point that as a result of all of this, "(a)need arises for the leadership of the ANC as the ruling party that contested, won the elections and deployed its members to government to seriously apply its mind and express a collective view to these developments."
How is that not a suggestion that the ANC's National Executive Committee must to meet to discuss the whole sordid affair? And is it an indication that the NEC meeting, currently only due in about two months time, could happen sooner than that? When you consider that to have this all play out on the floor of the National Assembly would kill the ANC stone dead, right there, would it not make more sense to have this faithful battle in the NEC first?
But, this being the week that we're in, with few minutes to think, it will all have to be digested later. Because it was time to jump into a car and head to Tshwane/Pretoria/Our Administrative Capital to see Malusi Gigaba's first press conference as Finance Minister. I don't do that route nearly as often as I used to. Am I getting old or are our highways faster and more dangerous than they used to be? And the car kept pinging. I'm told it was an e-tag. I didn't know anyone actually had one of those things.
Anyway, a wasted hour of our lives later, we were at 1035 Francis Baard Street, Tshedimosetso House, the headquarters of GCIS. There was a lively discussion on the way about why it wasn't at the National Treasury, but from a facilities point of view, this was perfect. It's a facility set up for the likes of me, who need space, electricity and a desk. And usually demanding it with more than a dash of attitude.
At around 11:04am the first conversation started about whether the press conference would start on time, and wry remarks were thoughts about "would this happen if Pravin was still here". But, considering the situation, the stress levels of those involved, and the sheer amount of work that is to be done, things didn't start too late.
My first thought was to look at how Gigaba was dressed. Finance Ministers tend to dress a certain way, it's very smart, very conservative. Reserve Bank Governors are the same. I'm always interested in the sexism shown to women in politics and those who go to court, in that journalists always described how they're dressed. I sort of get it, and I sort of think it's unfair at the same time. Gigaba has a reputation for dressiness. He is an Instagram kind of guy. Today it was a charcoal grey suit. Exactly the right colour I thought. The tie could have been darker, but that's just me being fussy.
Gigaba is a good communicator, and his spokesperson Mayihlome Tshwete takes communication, and effective communication, very seriously. Unlike some people in government, they're both professionals at this. It showed.
Gigaba's statement was a masterclass in setting out a stall of what he wants to do, and acknowledging the environment in which he is operating. He has many layers of problems. There is the demand for "radical economic change" and yet Reuters is in the room, and trust me, bankers with billions of dollars to play with, are watching. And of course, the background to his appointment could not really have been worse. And who would want to take over from Gordhan anyway – you're being set up to fail.
In literally his first paragraph Gigaba quoted the person who appointed him. For some, that would be a bad sign. But by his forth sentence he was saying, unbidden, that "I am fully aware that we are in a highly politicised, polarised and contentious moment in the history of our young democracy". Couldn't have put it better myself, frankly.
There was a little bit of interest in the room when he also mentioned his predecessors, and the "sterling leadership of this portfolio, by all of the previous ANC Ministers of Finance, Comrades Trevor Manuel, Nhlanhla Nene and Pravin Gordhan". Yes, that's right. There is a weekend ANC Minister of Finance missing from that list. It was a good move.
Gigaba stuck to the line that he had to weave between promising change, and yet not frighting investors. It can't have been easy, and he did as well as any human being could.
There was some interesting lines though. Yours truly, being a kind and forgiving soul asked him a question that he must have been expecting, and maybe was hoping for. It went along these lines
"Minister, in a strange way, the entire story over the last few days around this reshuffle is about the integrity of the person who has been appointed to the position of Finance Minister to replace Pravin Gordhan. You may feel that is unfair, but I think this is really about trust. I have to ask you, apart from the income you receive from your roles in government and in parliament, do you have any other sources of income, if anyone gives you money or cash or anything in kind?"
Yes I know. I've spent way too much time with lawyers in my life. Gigaba was happy to answer, and suggested it was the easiest question. Because, "I have no business interests, I am not involved in any business. I do not earn an income from anybody, the only income you will find in my bank account is the income I earn out of working in government". He went on to explain that he does receive an income from a house he rents out in the Centurion/Midrand area.
It was a strong response to a question he must have expected. But. And this is a but with no evidence and no proof. Gigaba does appear to live quite a lifestyle. And he appears to sometimes flaunt it. Fairly or unfairly, his response is probably not going to be enough to stop his critics. This is one of those situations where if everyone in Cabinet just underwent some kind of generally accepted lifestyle audit, and he passed it, this issue would just go away. But when we have all seen his current wife and a woman described as his "ex-mistress" warring it up on Instagram then you have to wonder. And who can afford a mistress in New York anyway?
Gigaba was waiting for some of the questions that would reveal any possible agenda, and quickly confirmed that the Finance Ministry's court cases against the Gupta-owned companies would still go ahead.
And then there was a strange moment when he suggested that he was shocked to be appointed on Thursday night. This is interesting. Because you would have thought he might have had an indication that it would be him. And when you consider that he appeared to display a very strong grasp of of the issues in the portfolio, and could answer every question thrown at him in a very difficult environment, then either he did know, or he worked bloody hard in the 24 hours he had to prepare. Of course, with the Ministerial experience he has he may well have started off very informed, but still. If he was genuinely shocked, then it was impressive. And if he wasn't…then, well…
There was a long and interesting aside in all of this by Gigaba's director-general. Lungisa Fuzile is in a difficult position. Everyone know that what he does next will be crucial. If he goes, spitting fire at Gigaba, we'll know this is all about state capture (although, we kind of know that already, or at the very least it's "factional capture"). If he stays, and displays, in public, all the signs of being happy and content with his work and his relationship with his new boss, then maybe we can calm down a bit (I'm not putting any money on that though).
Fuzile was asked if he would stay on. He gave a long explanation before finally coming to his main point. All of his predecessors in the position have lasted only seven years. He says that's because it's pretty much an impossible job, with incredible pressure. And he has been there six years. Fuzile is surely preparing the ground to leave at some time in the next twelve months. But he doesn't want people to think it's just because of what's happening now. This is important; he's creating a context, ensuring that people know that if he does go in say six months time, and he says it's not because of Gigaba, that he really means it. In other words, if he does go then, we shouldn't panic unnecessarily.
Gigaba has been in politics for a very long time. I first met him when he was leader of the ANC Youth League, and criticising the Springboks. He has done much better than they have in the intervening decade and a half. So it wasn't surprising that he had a good answer to another difficult political question: "If three of the ANC's top six are unhappy with the reshuffle, do you believe you have a mandate from the ANC to be the Finance Minister?" Ah, he said, the three were criticising the processes, but he hadn't heard them criticising the appointment of himself. An interesting point, and possibly correct. Although, it's hard to really separate the removal of Gordhan and his appointment. They are, intrinsically politically connected. And to the furtherance of the same agenda.
Gigaba spoke for ages. This was one of those press conferences where it was important for him to answer every single question, and full credit to him for doing so. Finally it ended, and there was a brief chance to run up and shake his hand and say hello. Always cheerful, always happy to chat, he stopped for a brief moment, before finally rushing off. After that, it was time to file, stop for a "howzit" with Tshwete and jump into the car for the trip to the office.
After a stop for a garage pie and full-fat coke, it was back into the newsroom to try to process two and a half hours of sound. Which takes long to do when Barbara Hogan and Gordhan himself are speaking at the now un-cancelled Ahmed Kathrada memorial service. It was another reminder, not that anyone could have forgotten in 24 hours, of how strong and impressive, and simply heroic, Hogan is. And of course Gordhan was always going to get the reception he got.
While this was happening there was a ping from some device near me and one of those statements from the Presidency that you have to read immediately nowadays. It said simply this:
The Presidency wishes to correct a wrong impression that has been created in the public domain that President Jacob Zuma cancelled the memorial service that he had declared for stalwart Mr Ahmed Kathrada. This is not true.
Of all the things that have been said in this country this week, this is the biggest load of bullshit so far. Of course it's bloody true.
If the President orders an official funeral for someone, then who on earth would have the power to un-order it? Brian Kholoane? Really? Does he think we are stupid?
But what is so strange about this is that even if this has some semblance of truth, it is the Presidency's fault this perception was created in the first place. Because when the statement was sent out announcing that the service was cancelled, no reason was given. And it is this that led to this perception in the first place. Just as no proper reason has been given for the sacking of Gordhan.
And really, credit us with some intelligence, Mr President. Tell us now, if it was not you, then who cancelled it. And also, explain why you, as the head of government, the head of state, the person ultimately in charge, should not take responsibility for it.
But is anyone surprised?
And on that slightly angry note, it was time to wearily go home, see and hug and bath the children, and try to digest, and to wonder, what do the Sunday newspapers hold … and where will we be twenty-four hours from now. DM
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The Glorious Fourth And Its Memories.
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But what became of Willie's teeth has always been a puzzle.
Went off in our pockets!
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It was a great week in first grade! Students learned about adjectives, rewrote Sheila Rae, The Brave with adjectives reflecting themselves, and used adjectives to describe pumpkins. In science, first graders continued to learn about earth's place in the universe by studying stars and the moon. Thursday, students participated in the Great Washington Shake out, a statewide earthquake drill. The drill was followed up with a disaster drill to assess our emergency preparedness. Everything went smoothly and the students were fantastic! For more information about the Great Washington Shake Out, please visit www.shakeout.org/washington.
This weekend your son or daughter will bring home a book bag. Each book bag should contain one or two books to read over the weekend. (Some book bags will contain a green folder with additional work from Mrs. McCarthy.) Please return book bags Monday with the books enclosed. Students who have practice pages in green folders should keep the printouts at home and return the empty green folders with the book bags on Monday.
Mrs. Dahlgren is in need of parent volunteers during lunch recess from 11:00 – 12:15, particularly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Your help is needed especially on rainy day recess days to supervise individual classrooms. If you are interested, please click here to sign up.
These are parent, student, teacher conferences. Your child needs to attend. Each conference is 15 minutes with a 5 minutes passing period between. Parents and child will meet with Mrs. Todd to discuss the Thinking About Me form and an SLE (Schoolwide Learning Expectation) assessment teachers completed. Students will set a goal for the year and then listen to a story on the iPad while parents continue the conference. I look forward to meeting with each of you!
– What can you tell me about the sun? The moon?
– What is an adjective?
– No First Mate next week.
– Conferences October 26th – 28th.
– Seattle Art Museum (11/18) field trip permission slips will come home after conferences.
Congratulations! We exceeded our jog-a-thon goal. Thank you for all of your hard work and support for St. John School. This week students attended class mass with their eighth grade buddies. They harvested potatoes, learned about earth's place in the universe, observed the position of the sun, made characters think, move and feel, and continued to learn addition strategies.
A special thank you to Mrs. Aguila for helping with the garden and making our potatoes for our potato party so students could taste their harvest. Thank your Mrs. Glassburn, Mrs. Masterson, and Mrs. Beck for creating a fun art lesson!
These are parent, student, teacher conferences. Your child needs to attend. Each conference is 15 minutes with a 5 minutes passing period between. Parents and child will meet with Mrs. Todd to discuss the Thinking About Me form and an SLE (Schoolwide Learning Expectation) assessment teachers completed. Students will set a goal for the year and then listen to a story on the iPad while parents continue the conference. Thank you to everyone who has scheduled conferences already!
– How was class mass?
– What were your favorite potatoes?
– What does the earth move around? What moves around the earth?
– First Mate next week is Myla.
The first graders were amazing at mass Wednesday. They sang, responded, rang bells, and greeted the school with an outstanding first all school liturgy. This week students continued to learn and practice addition strategies but pushed sums to twenty. In social studies students discussed and sorted the differences between needs and wants. First graders continued to study nouns and verbs and wrote their own class version of Memoirs of a Goldfish.
Conferences are coming up at the end of October. Each conference is 15 minutes with a 5 minutes passing period in between. Please remember that students are to attend conferences. Families are to schedule conferences during conference week. Send in your pre-conference forms no later than Friday, October 14th. I look forward to meeting with each of you! Please click here to sign up. Be sure to scroll across the top and click on the "Todd" tab to sign up for our class conferences.
St. John is celebrating October as the month of the rosary with a special rosary making evening. Families are invited to come to Egan Hall Sunday, October 9th at 6:00pm to make their own rosaries. All materials and instructions will be provided.
A huge thank you to all the parents who sent extra snacks to the classroom. We all appreciate it! Also, thank you to all the volunteers who filled up the Sign Up Genius. The first week has been a huge success. Finally, thank you for all the warm wishes and congratulations for Baby Girl Todd. You all are amazing!
– What is a verb? A noun?
– What is a need vs. a want?
– First Mate next week is Zoe V.


Tonight, at 8:30PM, we turned off all the lights in the house as participation to Earth Hour 2010. For 1 full hour, the house was dark save for a couple of candles, we had our dinner by candle light.
I have heard and read a lot of dissenting opinions about Earth Hour, how it doesn't really do anything and all that. I noted, as we turned off our own lights, some of our neighbors did not, the street lamps we not turned off, and most of the other appliances in our own house was still running as well - refrigerators, air conditions, laptops and whatever else. So why the heck did we still do it?
Earth Hour allows us to realize that even if it was just us on our street, our town or city who participated in this event, even if our contribution is so little it seems insignificant, the collective result still becomes staggering - if enough people all over the world are doing the same thing. It provides us an affirmation of our power, in the grander scheme of things, to affect the world.
Thanks to Dominic for the photos!
i turned off my pc, my electric stove, my aircon and my lights. some neighbors did observe earth hour too. i took a nap while waiting for the 60 minutes to pass.
We participated in Earth Hour last year. We turn off the lights, but the TV and PC is on. We joined the celebration and cue from TV.
Yesterday, we participated at SM Marilao, they invited bloggers in the event.
I felt good knowing that there were many people who love the Earth.
I think it's a meditative exercise to make people more aware - I didn't participate, but I did spend last weekend at camp with the Boy Scouts, and we told tales by firelight, used flashlights, and slept in tents outdoors. Even out in the country, we weren't really far enough from the city lights to see ALL the stars, and that frightens me a little. I miss the stars. I kind of wish ALL lights had to be turned out from midnight to four AM, at least.
We lost power twice the week before - all power. No hum from the fridge, the a/c, the other appliances. You forget what SILENCE is, until the whole neighborhood loses power. As your ears grow accustomed to the lack of an electrical buzz, the softer sounds of nature emerge. And just as with the stars, there's a noticeable lack of something that used to be, whether it's crickets or frogs or fireflies, all these things have become rarer. They're still there, but in smaller numbers, threatening to be forgotten.
Broken wire between our neighbor's house, and the transformer - I guess they had a bit of trouble finding and fixing it.


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Episode 131: The AFC Least
This Week: Sam and Chris take some time to size up the rest of the AFC East in this episode of Perfectville. For some, the Bills and Jets have surpassed the Dolphins. Others say that New England is still the team to beat. Perfectville takes a look at each team's strengths and weaknesses and where […]
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This Week: Sam goes HAM on the national media, as his rage for their inability to know anything about the Miami Dolphins boils over. From bad power rankings on Yahoo, ESPN and Bleacher Report, to awful analysis from irrelevant former players like Tedy Bruschi and Michael Irvin, there is plenty for Sam to spew […]
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Episode 73: The Over/Under Game
The boys return home to Perfectville and are bringing a slice of VEGAS with them this week. That is because the sports books have The Miami Dolphins as an Over/Under of 7.5 wins in 2017, which Sam and Chris feel is way too low. So, in an effort to help Las Vegas out, Chris and […]
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The Dolphins Time is Now, Right?
As the Patriots prepare the streets of Boston for a fifth Super Bowl parade, the three step-children of the AFC East continue to wonder – when will it end? Two decades of chasing a divisional silver medal should be nearing its triumphed conclusion. Instead, the 39 year old quarterback and curmudgeon coach that consistently turns […]
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In a game that ultimately meant nothing for the Dolphins, Miami hosted the New England Patriots on New Year's Day and played, at least on defense, like their resolution was to mimic teams of yesteryear. Losing 35-14 to their divisional rival, The 'Phins remain in the sixth seed for the playoffs and will be facing […]
Episode 52: Home For The Holidays, Away For The Playoffs (Week 17 vs. New England Preview)
The Miami Dolphins are going to the playoffs! And not just in video game form this year, but for realsies! In a surprising, and scary game against Buffalo, Miami rallied behind a last second, 55 yard, game tying field goal from the unreliable Andrew Franks to force the contest into overtime, and then leaned on […]
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The Curious Case of Cameron Wake
The Dolphins trailed the Patriots by two touchdowns late in the third quarter in a late October Thursday night affair in Foxboro. The Miami defense forced an incomplete pass on third down and got off the field. Cameron Wake, did not. As he lie there on his stomach at mid-field, you wouldn't know he […]
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Episode 29: Week Two Game Review @ New England
Sam and Chris to review what went wrong up in Foxboro. An overwhelmed defense, a slow starting offense and the legend of Jimmy Garoppolo combined to drop 31 point quickly on our beloved fins. If not for the Herculean effort of Ryan Tannehill, the talent of Jarvis Landry and DeVante Parker, and most importantly, Kiko […]
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The boys are back and licking their wounds after a painful week one loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Find out what Sam and Chris thought about the last minute collapse by the defense, what specific plays changed the outcome of the game and of course, who the worst players ever are. We also say […]
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The Last QB Ranking You'll Ever Need – Where Does Ryan Tannehill Stand?
Since the beginning of time, man has pondered the great questions of the universe. Why are we here? What is our purpose? And what is the best way to evaluate quarterback play? Passer rating is usually a pretty good measurement but it falls short in some efficiency areas. ESPN's ill-contrived total quarterback rating is just […]
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Training Camp Preview Part 6: Defensive Backs
The biggest area of change from last year is the defensive backfield. The top two corners will be new starters, as will the free safety, and a lot of the depth has been replaced. It's a bit ironic that, arguably, the team's worst unit features its best player. Reshad Jones is the one sure fire […]
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Episode 19: The Hateful 28 Part One
Sam and Chris return to discuss the recent signing of Arian Foster, the retiring of Greg Jennings and Chris ranks all the NFL teams outside of the AFC East in order from least to most hated. Plus, we spend a second discussing the AFC East. Contact Perfectville via e-mail at @perfectvillepodcast@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter: @PerfectvillePod. […]
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Training Camp Preview Part 4: The Defensive Line
When the Dolphins signed video game legend, Donkey Kong Suh, I made the impulsive claim that Miami sported one of the best defensive lines in the history of the game. Suh will go down as a top five interior lineman when it's all over, Cam Wake had been a top five pass rusher for a […]
The Ryan Tannehill Apologist Narrative
The unfortunate circumstance of Ryan Tannehill's imminent rise to league-wide respectability is that all the credit will go directly to Adam Gase. That's one of the prevailing premises of the National Football League though – these professionals can't allow ego to interrupt their overcoming of obstacles. I'm a frequent listener of various football podcasts and […]
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Rebuilt Secondary is a Microcosm of Dolphins New Direction
Football is the ultimate team game. Stats only tell a partial truth that must be backed up with what the eye in the sky says because different assignments and play responsibilities can have a "trickle-down effect" on a player's teammates. Sure, losing Cam Wake mid-season hamstrung (Achilles-strung?) the pass rush. But the primary culprit in […]


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Advocates Worry Loss Of Retirement Benefit Will Affect NC Teacher Recruitment
North Carolina Public Radio | By Liz Schlemmer
Maverick Whitley is a junior at Brevard College majoring in music education. He's been playing instruments since he was three years old and dreams of being a high school music teacher.
"Music has always been part of my life, and it makes a steady career out of what you love," Whitley said.
Over his winter break, Whitley works part-time at a music store in his hometown of Albemarle. One of the perks of the job is that he can play the instruments when business is slow, but he's looking for more substantial benefits from his future career.
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Maverick Whitley is a junior at Brevard College majoring in music education, specializing in voice and organ. He's debating where to teach in the future based on pay and benefits.
As a North Carolina native, he always figured he'd stay in state to teach. But when he learned the General Assembly is ending retirement health benefits for new state employees, he started to recalculate.
"At that point, if I retired at 30 years at [age] 52, I'm going to have to start over and try and find a new insurance plan," Whitley said.
After 30 years of employment, current state employees—including teachers—are eligible to retire with full benefits, including continued health coverage. But the state ended the retiree health insurance benefit for new state employees hired this year and beyond. Advocates for state employees say that change could make it harder to recruit future teachers.
Whitley is a self-described planner who tries to look ahead. After doing his research, he changed his mind about teaching in North Carolina. He's looking into Florida, Virginia and Texas as options when he's ready to hit the job market.
Virginia and Florida don't offer full health coverage to retired teachers either, but they have other things to entice him — like a better starting salary.
The loss of this retiree health benefit is what tipped the scales for Whitley.
Health Care Costs Drove Up The Price of Retiree Benefits
"Common sense will tell you this will have a negative effect on the ability to recruit," said Ardis Watkins, the executive director of the State Employees Association of North Carolina.
Watkins says the state government has historically offered good benefits to attract employees since public-sector pay doesn't compete with the private sector, but health benefits are becoming more expensive each year.
Even those who pushed for the end of the retiree health benefit agree it could hurt teacher recruitment. Former State Senator Andy Wells supported the change because he thinks North Carolina's budget simply can't afford it — even for current employees who are still promised the benefit.
"This amounts to around a $30 billion liability. An 'I owe you' with nothing behind it," said Wells, a former chair of the North Carolina Senate's pension and retirement committee.
What he means by a "liability" is that it's money the state is obligated to pay in the future, but doesn't already have set aside.
It will cost North Carolina an estimated $93,000 for each current state employees' retirement health plan — but new employees won't get it at all.
North Carolina has one of the better-funded, and therefore more secure, state pensions in the country. But the state health plan is a different story — some states as well as local governments in North Carolina did away with retiree health benefits years ago because they were amounting to a large debt.
"All this does is keep the hole from getting any deeper," Wells said.
State health plans for retirees are pay-as-you-go, meaning tax revenue in this year's state budget pays for this year's retirees. The problem is, health care costs in the U.S. are skyrocketing and eventually, Wells says, "the money's not there to do it."
"The only way to find it is in the state budget, and that's either a pretty drastic tax increase, or it's a pretty drastic cut in the budget — and over half the budget is education," Wells said.
Other Solutions: Control Health Care Costs, Raise Teacher Pay
Watkins says there are other solutions besides cutting retiree benefits — including controlling health care costs.
Three state auditors have told the General Assembly that the state health plan overpays providers. The state health plan reported to its own board of trustees in 2018 that the amount the plan pays for medical treatments was sometimes up to 10 times the cost of Medicare reimbursement rates.
"That's sort of a no-brainer that overpaying to that amount is going to put your plan in financial jeopardy," Watkins said.
State Auditor Beth Wood and State Treasurer Dale Folwell have argued the state health plan needs cost transparency. Not even their offices can oversee what the state pays for government employees' medical procedures.
Watkins says she hopes the state will get a handle on the costs and bring the retiree health plan back. Wells doesn't foresee the plan's return, but says the state could try to sweeten the pot for teachers with a pay raise.
"We're going to have to hire good teachers, to teach our children," Wells said. "If this benefit reduction leads them to think that our salaries are too low, we're going to have to raise our salaries to get them hired."
Whitley, the budding music teacher, says he hopes the General Assembly either raises teacher pay or brings back the health benefit, but he's not waiting around to see.
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SLAC's Electron Hub Gets New 'Metro Map' for World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser
A makeover of the historic Beam Switch Yard prepares the lab for the installation of the LCLS X-ray laser upgrade.
By Manuel Gnida
The central hub for powerful electron beams at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a makeover to prepare for the installation of LCLS-II – a major upgrade to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser. LCLS-II will deliver the most powerful X-rays ever made in a lab, with beams that are 10,000 times brighter than before, opening up unprecedented research opportunities in chemistry, materials science, biology and energy research.
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A reconfiguration of SLAC's historic Beam Switch Yard will include electron transport lines needed for LCLS-II, a major upgrade to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser. (Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
The hub, called the Beam Switch Yard (BSY), is a 600-foot-long section located at the east end of the lab's historic 2-mile-long linear accelerator (linac), where high-energy electrons from the accelerator are redirected to experimental stations. These "electron trains" are reminiscent of the different lines of a metro system that connects various locations in a city.
"The new BSY design clears the path for LCLS-II and allows the widest suite of options for the future X-ray laser," says SLAC's Scott DeBarger, manager of the BSY Reconfiguration Project.
Today's LCLS, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, uses a single electron line that starts at an electron injector at the beginning of the last third of the linac's original copper accelerator and ends just beyond the LCLS undulator – a series of magnets that converts the electrons' energy into ultrabright X-rays.
But the future facility will need more connections. In addition to the copper linac, LCLS-II will have a superconducting accelerator that will boost the X-ray laser's firing rate to up to a million pulses per second. The current undulator will also be replaced with two state-of-the-art undulators for the generation of low- (soft) and high-energy (hard) X-rays. The BSY reconfiguration makes sure that both electron beams will be able to feed into either undulator, which requires four main lines.
To give researchers at LCLS-II control over the rate of X-ray pulses in their experiments, another line can steer electron trains coming from the superconducting linac into a beam dump before they reach the undulators.
A sixth line will lead to End Station A for experiments that use the extremely powerful electron beams directly.
SLAC mechanical engineer and system manager Jose Chan and his team designed the LCLS-II beamline that runs through the BSY reconfiguration area, including a vacuum chamber that ties the LCLS-II superconducting linac to the beamline from the copper linac currently used for the hard X-ray undulators.
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Central portion of the BSY before (left) and after the Reconfiguration Project. (Scott DeBarger/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
A Monumental Clean-up Operation
To clear the path for LCLS-II, crews first had to remove all unnecessary materials from the BSY – a monumental task considering SLAC's rich history in accelerator science and the legacy material it created.
"When experiments end, most of the old equipment is typically left in place," says SLAC's Mark Woodley, an optics designer involved in the BSY Reconfiguration Project. "Only the things that are in the way of new experiments are taken out."
In its early days in the 1960s, the linac delivered electron beams to three experimental stations. There was one line going straight into the lab's research yard. Today this line continues to the LCLS undulator. Pulsed magnets in the BSY could divert the beam into End Stations A and B via two beamlines that branched off the central line.
In 1980, two more branches were added to feed electrons and positrons, the antiparticle siblings of electrons, into the two storage rings of the PEP accelerator (PEP-II from 1999). In 1987, another two branches were needed to deliver beams to the two arms of the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC).
Most of the old materials left behind in the BSY by these experiments have now been cleared – a job that took 300 employees and subcontractors almost 24,000 hours of work in the period from December 2016 to May 2017. They removed 325 cubic yards, or about 24 tons, of material – enough to fill eight sea-land shipping containers – and more than 300,000 feet of cables.
"Considering the monumental task we had ahead of us, it's truly impressive how well this project went," DeBarger says. "It involved many people from inside and outside the lab, and every single one of them was absolutely needed."
Building the Future of X-ray Science
After clearing out the BSY, members of the Reconfiguration Project installed a new beamline that runs from the copper linac to the current LCLS undulator. In parallel, the system to extract electrons for the End Station A line was put in place by another project team.
"We also installed the very first LCLS-II beam pipe at the end of a 'muon shield' that is constructed of 5- and 10-ton steel blocks and shields the beam transport hall downstream of the BSY, allowing access while beams are tuned in the BSY," says Dean Hanquist, control account manager on Chan's team.
"In the end, we had to make sure that everything works properly again for LCLS, which has now resumed its experimental program," says BSY Area Physicist Tonee Smith. "For example, all of the magnets used in the beamline to focus the electron beam and make small corrections to it were refurbished, and we had to remeasure and test them."
The remaining beamlines and junctions will be installed during a yearlong LCLS downtime, which will start in the summer of 2018. Once completed, the new BSY "metro system" will be ready to transport electron trains to the new X-ray laser facility, where they will power groundbreaking X-ray science for years to come.
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Crew members gather at the conclusion of the BSY Reconfiguration Project. (Dawn Harmer/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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1.) An informal gathering of people, and ideas, to form a group of like-minded individuals.
2.) When a person engages and interacts with an informal or formal group.
In this instance, 'Social' refers to a series of ideas and concepts that might loosely be equated with 'Milonguero Style' of dancing or more importantly Dancing In A Small Space or the DIASS concept. However, this isn't about a style like: Tango Orillero (pron: oh-RE-zSh-ero), Tango Nuevo, Tango Milonguero (which is more a marketing term than a style), Tango Fantasia or Show Tango also sometimes referred to as Tango Escenario, Villa Urquiza (pron: Vee-zSha Er-Kee-Za), Fluid or Liquid Tango, Tango de la Pista, and/or Tango de Salon. No. Those are 'styles'. To be fair, as a side note, there are some that would classify Tango de Salon as an all-encompassing umbrella idea of Tango under which all of these styles are present and live a comfortable life next to each other. That definition depends on a number of factors too numerous to go into here.
Moving on, the definition of 'Social' Tango is about a series of ideas, concepts, dancing constructs, and floorcraft principles that are small, they fit within the line, line, and progression of dance (the ronda). These ideas also coalesce around certain aspects of Codigos (mostly the Mirada/Cabeceo principles and activities), as well respecting the Ronda (there's a lot of room for interpretation on this aspect but generally it means not changing lanes, not rushing the line of dance, keeping good distance from the couples around you, being aware of the couples around you, etc … think > good driving habits!), and respecting the entrance, and exit of La Pista (the floor), which when you combine with Dancing In A Small Space (DIASS) and it's chosen vocabulary ideas and constructs, they co-create and combine to create the idea of 'Social' Tango and really 'Social' Dancing for Argentine Tango.
An example of Social Tango in the minimal are two pieces of vocabulary that Tango Topics actively promotes and teaches: Milonguero Ochos, and Milonguero Turns as the basis for these ideas the comprise the bulk of Social Tango. However, even Social Colgadas, and Social Volcadas can be added to the construct of social vocabulary. Most of the vocabulary within the Tango Topics library is based on this idea with the exception of Ganchos. Even Social Boleos are components of what Tango Topics refers to as Social Vocabulary. Meaning that the chosen step/pattern/figure must fit within the line, lane, and ronda of dance at the very minimum, but overall must be modified to be small and furthermore contained to within the couples distance around themselves to extend no further than a smaller than normal walking step. There's a lot of vagueness in that last statement because everyone's idea of what a 'normal' walking step, and 'smaller than normal' is going to be different. So whatever your idea is…make it even small than that. Think very compact, very tight, tiny. No…SMALLER! Got it ?
It's important to recognize something that has occurred in the Tango world that has created the need for this phrase to exist. Those ideas above as noted as styles of Tango, as well as Tango de Salon, the umbrella idea. They've become muddy, or unclear as to what they actually mean. The reason for this is because so many people misuse one for the other, not to mention there is a very clear misunderstanding as to what one is or is not. So there is a need for a phrase like this to re-clarify this concept in slightly more modern terms. As Tango has grown over the last 4 decades, it has changed, and become something different. Even within the last 10 to 20 years.
It's also important to recognize that the need for clarity of this idea is also an outgrowth of the Encuentro scene as a way to classify and clarify the style of dancing that happens at those types of events. That being the case, why not call it "Encuentro Style". That's a possibility but rather limiting, as there are many styles that are accepted at those events but the end result still adheres to the basic premise: small, fits within the lane and line of dance, and respects the ronda.
Lastly, you may want to confuse the idea of embraces in this definition, and that would be a mistake. This is not about embraces like close, open, vee, open vee, pseudo, milonguero, or even marathon. Yes, there is a Marathon embrace idea, and there's even a Marathon style of dance! However, this isn't about embrace styles. It's about the structures (vocabulary) in time to the music, while respecting the line, the lane, and that fits within those things.


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Pastor Rick Warren's Son Commits Suicide, Demonic Liberals Rejoice
Pastor Rick Warren, the best-known name in American evangelism after Rev. Billy Graham, lost his 27-year-old son, Matthew, to suicide this week.
Uncounted strangers have joined the 20,000 congregants who worship at the megachurch network "Pastor Rick" built in Southern California, Warren's nearly 1 million Twitter followers and hundreds of thousands of Facebook followers in flooding social media with consolation and prayer.
But a shocking number are taking this moment of media attention to lash out at Warren on the digital tom-toms. The attacks are aimed at him personally and at his Christian message.
Some unbelievers want to assure Rick and Kay Warren, his wife and Matthew's bereaved mother, that there's no heaven where they'll meet their son again.
You can find, among hundreds of comments on USA TODAY's news story on Matthew's death, comments such as the Cincinnati poster who says, "Either there is no God, or God doesn't listen to Rick Warren, despite all the money Rick has made off of selling false hope to desperate people." In another comment, the same poster counsels Warren to "abandon primitive superstitions and accept the universe for what it is — a place that is utterly indifferent to us."
Some rush to add pain to the Warrens' world because, in their view, he did not show sufficient compassion for the unremitting pain suffered by gay youths rejected by parents and peers. They were outraged when Warren took a political stand for Prop 8, which overturned legal same-sex marriage in California in 2008 and is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Others have appointed themselves 140-character theologians in a debate over whether someone once saved can lose his or her salvation if suicide is against God's law. These posters, rather than waiting for Judgment Day, have ruled for hell.
But Bruce Kwiatkowski of the University of Toledo posted on Facebook: "I appreciate what Pastor Ronald Cole said about the subject of Christian suicide. He said the Lord will say, 'We weren't expecting you yet…' "
John Schuurman observed on Facebook that celebrity culture makes everyone "fair game" and the anonymity afforded by social media that allows people to "send out hate flames without any consequence."
Read more: USAtoday.com


This guide aims to provide tips and strategies for defeating Phantom Train in Sigmascape V1.0 (Savage). Phantom Train is the first fight in the Sigmascape Raid, available January 30th in Patch 4.2. Players must have completed the Main Scenario Quest "Stormblood" and the sidequest "Test World of Ruin". Players must be item level 340 or above to challenge this fight in a non-premade group.
Four Datalogs can be traded for an Accessory of your choice. Six Datalogs can be traded for a Waist equip of your choice.
Phantom Train is omni-directional. Falling off the arena will instantly kill the player.
Periodically, Diabolic Whistle will spawn Ghost adds. Coming in contact with an untethered Ghost add or the Ghost add you are tethered to will take you inside the Phantom Train, where you must kill an add to escape.
AoE rectangles in the middle will spawn Ghosts inside blocks. These blocks act as a wall, and can be destroyed by Saintly Beam.
Saintly Beam Marks random players. Drops a large AoE circles when the marks resolve. Kills any ghosts within the AoE when it explodes.
Two players are targeted for a ghost to tether onto them. The ghosts must be killed by Saintly Beam.
Diabolic Headlamp Marks a random player with a stack marker. When the cast bar resolves, Phantom Train shoots a beam at the targeted player that must be shared between the party. The beam knockbacks, and skills that prevent knockback work. Anyone in the line AoE will be part of the stack.
Doom Strike A heavy magical tank buster.
Connectivity Tethers the current #1 on aggro if they move away from melee range, inflicting damage over time. Increases stacks based on distance. The higher the stack, the more damage taken, and the higher the damage over time ticks for.
Diabolic Wind AoE circles appear on random party members. Either two random players or four DPS, then tanks and healers. Deals AoE damage when the circles resolve.
Diabolic Light Prey markers that spawn proximity markers on two random players. Usually on the MT and a random Healer, but can also the on both Healers. If the MT wants to drop their marker back, it forces a tank swap due to Connectivity.
Acid Rain Raid wide moderate AoE magic damage.
Putrid Passenger Phantom Train will ride alongside the track and spawn eight Putrid Passenger adds. These adds cast Wallop, a small line AoE.
Doom Chimney An add that must be killed to return to the main platform.
Head On Proximity based knockback from front. Deals heavy physical damage the closer you are to the front. Often accompanied with Diabolic Wind.
"Doomgate" Inflicts all party members with Throttle, lasting for 20 seconds. Three types of Ghosts spawn at the sides of the arena and move horizontally across. Moving into a ghost will make a player enter a portal depending on the type of ghost.
Tanks must enter the large, yellow add. Mitigate the tank buster and kill the add.
Healers must enter the small, white add. Esuna the debuff inflicted and wait for the add to kill itself. Heal and DPS as necessary.
DPS must enter the red add and kill the add before it enrages.
Killing an add and exiting the Doomgate will immediately push the phase. After killing the add, interact with the Aetherial Interference to leave the room and return to Phantom Train.
Enrage is a hard casted Saintly Beam over 10 seconds.
Saintly Beam should be stacked at a predeterminate location to help with killing Ghosts from Diabolic Whistle: Tether. Stack them directly in front of Phantom Train, or the side at the edge and front is fine too if you want to keep the front block alive.
To avoid Diabolic Whistle: All in the Mind, stand on the same side as the Remorse ghost so that you are between it and a Ghost block. Alternatively, use knockback preventing skills such as Arms Length, Surecast, and Tempered Will. Move to the middle or back of the arena for Head On. Diabolic Wind targets should be careful not to stack on top of each other. The MT will be taking extra damage from Connectivity, so use mitigation and provide shielding as necessary. Be careful not to get knocked off.
To dodge Diabolic Whistle: March, stand directly opposite of the closest ghost. Once the first ghost spawning on the opposite side has passed, move into its path and back into the front once the front most ghost has passed. Ghosts can spawn multiple rows in a row. Some rows will not have ghosts - there are ten rows and eight ghosts.
The ideal method to deal with Diabolic Whistle: Tether is to kite the ghosts, stand in Saintly Beam with the marked targets, and then move out with them. The ghosts will follow your path, and be in the beam when they resolve, killing them. + Ghosts that spawn closer may need to be kited for longer. These Ghosts will only affect tethered players, so anyone else can stand in their hitbox. However, if the tethered player dies, the tether goes onto a random player.
Since Diabolic Light is on the MT and is followed up with Doom Strike, Connectivity normally forces a tank swap. However, with mitigation, the MT can stand on the Northeast edge, the healer can be South, and the party can stack on the Northwest edge for maximum uptime and no tank swap needed. Be sure to heal up for Acid Rain afterwards.
Phantom Train now becomes untargetable and rides to the track west of the platform. Eight Putrid Passenger adds spawn. Be careful not to overlap Diabolic Wind positions. The move will fail to resolve once all adds are killed.
Get onto the train via the portal and move south, via the portal as well. Kill Doom Chimney, which will bring you back onto the main platform.
Throttle is cast, and Doomgate portal ghosts will spawn. Enter Doomgates.
Tanks will exit first. Healers will exit second, and DPS exits around the same time as healers or after depending on their DPS.
Aggro resets, and Phantom Train will auto the MT, so make sure to establish aggro and use cooldowns/healing as necessary until the healers are out.
It is possible to completely skip Doomgate. The fight will phase as soon as one add is killed and that player exits the instance. Therefore, have a WAR save Inner Release, and have them instantly go in and Inner Release, Fell Cleave, Upheaval, and Onslaught their add, adding a second Fell Cleave if necessary. Immediately exit the room to push the phase. NIN and RDM can do it as well, but WAR is the most consistent and safest.
You have seen all of the mechanics already. Phase 3 will combine mechanics to create awareness checks based on the arena layout.
For Diabolic Headlamp + Diabolic Light on healers, healers should move to the right side or left side to avoid the beam, and place the Prey marker to the back. Everyone else should stack to share the damage. If you choose to use Arms Length here, it will not be up for the next All in the Mind. If there is a block in front, it is a good idea to save it.
For Diabolic Whistle: All in the Mind + Diabolic Headlamp, perform All in the Mind normally, but move immediately to the centre afterwards to prevent the second knockback from knocking off the platform. Ideally, prevent knockback on the first mechanic.
For Diabolic Whistle: March + Diabolic Headlamp, stack in the middle to get knocked back, and immediately dodge to one direction to dodge the Ghosts. Immediately after, spread out for Diabolic Wind on DPS.
Diabolic Light into Doom Strike into Acid Rain is the same as Phase 1.
The next Diabolic Whistle: Tether is the same as normal except there are two Diabolic Winds, so be careful not to stack them.
The next Diabolic Light will have Acid Rain first, so heal through that, then mitigate the tank buster as necessary afterwards.
The next Diabolic Whistle: All in the Mind + Diabolic Headlamp is the same as the beginning of the phase.
Head On is the same as Phase 1.
All damage from the Phantom Train itself is magical. The only physical damage comes from the adds.
WAR's Onslaught and DRK's Plunge can be used to prevent knockbacks. Using this for Diabolic March: All in the Mind is NOT recommended as the timing is very difficult, but it can be used for Head On and Diabolic Headlamp. Tempered Will works for all three but has a long cooldown. PLD can additionally Cover one other person when using Tempered Will to prevent their knockback as well.
It may be a good idea to use invulns if you are placing Diabolic Light up close for the Doom Strike and Acid Rain afterwards.
Use heavy cooldowns such as invulns and Vengeance/Sentinel/Shadow Wall for Doom Strike and normal cooldowns like Rampart, Bulwark, Thrill of Battle, Dark Mind, etc. for periods of heavy damage.
Reprisal should be used for the limited AoE damage and tank busters.
The tank shields, Shake It Off and Divine Veil should be used for periods of high AoE damage to lessen the burden on healers.
WAR is one of the few jobs currently that allows the party to reliably skip Doomgate. Simply go into the add ASAP, Inner Release, Fell Cleave, Onslaught + Upheaval, and a second Fell Cleave if necessary. This is not recommended if the player has long load times.
If you are skipping Doomgate, you do not need Esuna.
There is very little AoE damage that comes in the fight until the final phase. The little damage in the first phase, such as Diabolic Headlamp, and Diabolic Light into Acid Rain can be healed through with simple oGCDs such as Indomitability, Asylum, or Earthly Star.
Surecast allows you to ignore all knockbacks, such as Diabolic Headlamp, Diabolic March: All in the Mind, and Head On.
Provide protection for the MT if they have to leave melee range at any point, for mechanics such as Head On and Diabolic Headlamp. The Connectivity debuff will make them take more damage.
The last phase has low healing requirements as well, but spot healing is required for some mechanics that involve Diabolic Wind.
True North is not necessary as there are no positionals.
Surecast and Arms Length allow you to ignore all knockbacks, such as Diabolic Headlamp, Diabolic March: All in the Mind, and Head On.
There is very little uptime loss if Saintly Beam is stacked and placed within melee range. Melee can stand inside the beam and move out when the beam is about to resolve.
This helps for Diabolic March: Tether as well. The only uptime loss if is the Ghost spawns near the front of the boss.
Right outside of max casting range is the safe spot for Head On. Ranged can move out as the cast bar resolves, and melee can use Arms Length and a movement skill to resume uptime after.
Have preassigned spots for Diabolic Wind - they cannot be stacked, but you can place up to three melee in the front and be fine. For the adds phase, simply spread out and be careful not to overlap or be damaged by Wallop.
RDM is also one of the few jobs currently that allows the party to reliably skip Doomgate. This requires going into the ghost with a Dualcast proc via Vercure, and Swiftcast, Contre Sixte, and Fleche all being up. NIN can also do it with Bhavacakra, Duality, and Raiton.


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Tara Air Twin Otter missing in Nepal
A turboprop aircraft carrying 23 people and operated by Nepalese carrier Tara Air has failed to arrive in the town of Jomsom after departing Pokhara.
A company spokesperson confirms that the aircraft is missing, with 20 passengers and three crew aboard for the 20-minute flight.
She was unable to specify the aircraft registration, but said the aircraft was a Twin Otter.
Flightglobal's Fleets Analyzer shows that Tara Air operates seven turboprops. Of these, three are Bombardier (de Havilland) DHC-6-300s, and two are Viking Air DHC-6-400s. The other two aircraft in its fleet are two Dornier 228s.
Jomsom is a popular starting point for treks in the mountainous country.
In May 2013 a Twin Otter operated by Nepal Airlines crashed into a river while operating the same route, resulting in several injuries.
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China Southern celebrates A380 pilot who spent 189 days quarantined in 2021
China Southern Airlines has described one of its Airbus A380 pilots as the "King of Quarantine" after he spent 189 days in isolation during 2021.


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Get the Halloween party started with the Straight's spooktacular playlist
by Staff on October 28th, 2016 at 10:57 AM
Ah, Halloween—that brown-leafed vertigo where skeletal life is known. The ghosts will spook, the spooks will scare. Why, even Dracula will be there! And you feel like dancing. And you feel like shining. And you feel like letting loose. The carefree days are distant now. I wear my memories like a shroud... uh, sorry. Got a little carried away there. Halloween songs are the best, even the depressing ones. (We're looking at you, Siouxsie Sioux.)
That's why our All Hallow's playlist isn't just filled with party tunes. Oh, you can definitely dance to some of the 60 tracks below, but others are more suitable for scaring the living crap out of any little trick-or-treaters who happen to show up at your door.
Actually, don't do that. Terrifying kids is just mean. Grownups, on the other hand, are fair game. And there's something here to spook just about anyone, including fans of hip-hop (Kanye West and Tyler, the Creator), heavy metal (Ghost), industrial (Einstürzende Neubauten, Ministry), dark folk (King Dude, Chelsea Wolfe), classic goth (the Cure, Joy Division), creepy film scores (Halloween, The Omen), and however the hell you classify Tiny Tim. We even managed to sneak in a few treats by Vancouver artists, including Mu, Mode Moderne, Skinny Puppy, and Nim Vind.
Stream the Straight's four-hour Halloween 2016 playlist below, or click here. Enjoy.
The Georgia Straight's 2016 guide to Halloween in Vancouver
John Fogerty plays his iconic CCR hits in Vancouver this fall