So, here is Number Two. Not sure what to call it, but here goes.
SLEEPLESS (accompanied by a picture of a woman lying on her side on a bed in the dark with her eyes wide open).
One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep, five sheep, six sheep, seven sheep, eight sheep, nine sheep, ten sheep . . .
Nope. Still wide awake. Oh, now my feet itch, but I can't reach them. I'll have to sit up and bring my knees to my chest. This is not fun since my knees don't like to bend that far. But the itch is one of those sharp, SCRATCH ME NOW types of itch. So, I toss the cover off, raise my upper body up while pulling my knees up, and my hand curls into a claw as it zips to the spot. Oh! deep itch, deep scratching, hurts so good.
Okay. I'm now going to try sleeping again. I turn to my right side because that's where my best sleep is. My left arm is down my side so that my left shoulder is supported. Ah. I am finally comfortable, just warm enough, and my eyes think about closing.
Suddenly, my right shoulder feels like a rusty nail has been pounded directly through the joint. The pain is unbearable and I have to turn to my other side. I push the covers off my arms, rotate my hips and shoulders, and lay back down. I pull the covers back up to my ear when I realize my pillow has shifted. Now I have to grab it and reposition it to support my head and neck so my left shoulder is not smashed as much as my right shoulder was, and the shell of my left ear is in the low part of the pillow. It tends to ache in the middle of the night if I don't.
Now I'm feeling slightly drowsy when heat nearly explodes out of my chest, down my arms to the tips of my fingers. Sweat breaks out on my upper lip, under my arms, and my legs down to my toes. I throw the covers off and flip over to my back. The air around me in the room is icy, but feels like heaven while I ride the heat wave out.
After a few minutes I feel the flame inside me start to wind down. The coldness of the room seeps into my skin and I reach for the cover. Now I must go through the routine of finding the comfort spot on my left side again.
My eyes close and I wait for the bliss of unconsciousness. One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep, five sheep, six sheep, seven sheep, eight sheep, nine sheep, ten sheep . . .
The literary terms this week are dystopian and utopian. They are mirror opposites and refer to a future that is either bleak and imperfect, or ideal and beautiful, respectively.
In a dystopian society, government may be either oppressive or completely absent. Citizens are often severely divided among economic lines. There is typically an individual or small group that rises up against the powers that be. Examples include: 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Utopian societies usually include an overall happiness in the populace. This is a future that is perfect or close to it. The point is to express to the reader the faults in our current society. Although I haven't read these, examples include: New Jerusalem by Samuel Gott and News from Nowhere by William Morris.
A co-worker of mine returned from her vacation to find her beloved cat is distress. I was sorry to hear that he did not survive. As she was telling me about her pet, I realized that I had never really bonded with an animal. When you're in the military pets are not always convenient. Some military housing did not provide fenced and gated yards. And as housing was almost white-glove inspected before transfer, we could not risk a pet that would damage or destroy the property. It wasn't until I married that I felt a bond with an animal. My husband's German shepherd would lay his head in my lap and beg me to stop the brothers' wrestling match. I remember how devastated we were when we lost Barron.
I also realized I've seldom featured animals in my novels. Ginger is the exception. Ginger, the Irish setter in my current work, recognized Creed immediately, but her master is suffering from amnesia and doesn't know the dog. Yet when he's sitting on the floor watching over Ginger's mistress who fainted when she saw her long lost son, he absently scratches the dog's ears and talks to her like they're old pals.
Ginger is collects people, especially people who are hurting. When ten-year old Sara learns the man she's called uncle is really her father, she is hurt and angry because he lied to her. Creed's dog becomes her confidant. She provides whines of understanding and licks of sympathy.
Ginger also plays a role in Creed's recovery. She is the calm, the constant in the trials and pain of reclaiming his life. While others are stressing and venting, she remains a steadying influence for everyone she considers family.
I don't have a pet. Mostly because I'm not home enough to devote the time and energy an animal deserves. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate the companionship and love a furry friend provides. Animal friends are as multi-faceted as humans. They are not color in a story, often they are the story. Old Yeller comes to mind.
Pinocchio had Jiminy Cricket. Cinderella befriended her mice. Beauty had her Beast. Nana cared for the Darling children. What about White Fang, Fury, and Flicka? And there's Lassie, Spot, and Rin Tin Tin. As you can see, sometimes an animal…dog, cat, wolf, horse, or a cricket just might be the missing or the lead character in a story.
Every day is the same routine. Get up in the early morning, go to bed late at night. Work at my desk job during the daylight hours, work at my home job during the nighttime hours. Gather documents from eight to twelve, eat lunch hour from twelve to one, write letters from one to five. Go home, eat dinner, surf the net, bed, start over.
But then something completely unexpected happened. When I got to my desk I noticed one of my shelf decorations had an altered look. When I saw this, I knew my life would never be the same.
I work in a small cubicle, a U-shaped desk, two filing cabinets, two shelves. One of the shelves, the one closest to my arm length, is covered with books and information I use to research my letters. The other shelf is covered with my personal decorations. I love skulls, sugar skulls, skeletons, all manner of Halloween type stuff. I have several pieces arranged in a tableau to looks like a dark corpse wedding. The centerpiece of my tableau is a bronze skull on a platform looking at a black bronze rose, as if in contemplation. I call him Horatio.
I greet Horatio every morning and he stares back at me with his hollow bronze eyes as if to say, "Good morning, Nandy. Today we will be writing a story about a bullfight." "Good morning, Nandy. Today we are researching tarot cards." "Good morning, Nancy. Today we are going to read a book to get ideas about how to handle your main character's current situation." But one morning when I came in, Horatio didn't say a word. He didn't need to.
Up until around four months ago a woman sat in the cubicle behind me. She had always been a woman woman who was know for being harsh. She had a strong personality, and usually came off as a hard nose. Her speech could be abrupt, and she used that to her advantage. It was a while before I felt comfortable with her, and she did not like my skulls and skeletons. So when I saw Horatio on this particular morning, my co-worker suddenly gained a huge amount of respect and love for her.
Horatio staid in his spot on the shelf. He didn't say a single word, but he didn't need to. a giant rainbow colored Afro wig was perched on his head, I laughed at him, and he laughed back. And i hear the voice of my co-worker behind me break out in a giant giggle. I looked over the cubicle wall and watched as my co-worker wiped the tears off her face.
"Is that your wig?" I asked her.
She didn't answer, but together she and I took some awesome pictures. And Horatio has been more than just a pretty skull.
What I said on that day is, "So, we're having some dark humor today?" Horatio just looked at his rose while grinning his bronze grin. Kay became a very good friend of mine and when she retired a few months later, I could almost swear the skull named Horotio blow me kisses when no one else is working.
It's a question asked to authors of all shapes and sizes, levels of fame, and years of experience. The answers are as varied as the individuals being queried. If I may take a moment to surmise, I believe that most of the answers amount to the same thing: observation of the world around us.
Several of my story ideas, from themes to opening lines, originated from something my kids or wife said. I take those little quips and extrapolate them into something bigger and better. For example, one of the many stories that are in development (a particularly nasty from of writer's purgatory), concerns an android whose battery is dying. The inspiration arose when my young daughter was reminded that daddy's phone battery was low. I took the simple statement and ran with it.
The same offspring recently began explaining to me that a tiny door resided under her bed. Said door opened to a magical world. Suffice it to say, I jumped on the opportunity to encourage her to write down everything she saw, smelled, heard, tasted, or felt. The way I see it, the earlier I can instill a sense of wonder and love of literature in a child, the better that baby's life could be.
So, if you are a writer, I repeat my question.
The weekend weather was really something. We had rain, freezing drizzle, and snow. I don't mind the rain as the Texas Panhandle is experiencing a drought. Again. We desperately needed the moisture to reduce the fire hazards. However, I'm not fond of freezing rain and ice. But the snow was magnificent.
I woke up about one in the morning and looked out the window. Over an inch of pristine white was on the ground, coating trees, and cars. I watched the falling snow for a while knowing that by early afternoon it would be gone. I returned to bed and slept peacefully for the rest of the night.
On Monday I woke refreshed and ready to write. I had an idea that it was time for Tyler to tell Sara he was her father. The story took another twist, and I really like it. I wrote ten pages in three hours. Now it's time to edit draft.
Sometime writing is frustrating. The words don't come or the story seems stale. But then there are those wonderful days when it all goes right. It's those days that thrill me and make me glad I'm a writer.


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Virtual Synthetic Data Firm OneView Secures $3.5 Mn in Seed Funding led by TPY Capital
The round was led by TPY Capital. The company will use funds to accelerate product roadmap and further build partnerships.
OneView, the virtual synthetic data company enabling fast and scalable image analysis, announced it had raised $3.5 million in Seed round fundraising. TPY Capital led the round, with investors including RDC (Elron and Rafael's joint venture) and MediaTek Ltd. With the funds raised, OneView will be able to accelerate its product development and grow partnerships with leading earth observation imagery providers as well as image analytics firms.
"With the proliferation of satellite and aerial imagery, OneView can help better understand the world we live in," said Dor Herman, Co-founder & CEO of OneView. "Our virtual synthetic datasets enable to fast-track the algorithm training phase, and scale intelligence gathering from earth observation imagery."
OneView's proprietary technology generates real-like earth observation imagery for fast and scalable intelligence gathering by the accurate deciphering of images. The virtual synthetic datasets produced by the platform accelerate and simplify machine learning algorithm training.
Earth observation imagery analysis operations have historically relied on prolonged, error-prone human processes as well as on expensive and scarce-at-times satellite and airborne imagery. OneView's groundbreaking platform uses 3-dimensional virtual worlds to produce life-like scenes tailored to its clients' needs. This imagery is optimized to train machine learning algorithms and receive reliable insights at a fraction of the time.
OneView has already begun forging partnerships with market leaders in various relevant industries. Earth observation imagery providers choose OneView to improve their products through synthetic training datasets, and design partners are now establishing collaborations to enhance their real-time algorithmic capabilities.
"OneView's offering is aligned with the rapidly increasing demand for insightful geospatial data, and this data has real potential to drive and improve business results," said Guy Yamen, Managing Partner at TPY Capital. "What we've identified in OneView is a founding team of the highest technological caliber, with a deep understanding of how to interpret earth observation images in ways others can't".
Looking forward, OneView aims to provide a comprehensive solution for gathering of accurate intelligence robustly and efficiently. With earth observation system usage expanding across the board, the company strives to provide state-of-the-art tools to analyze and produce valuable insights from the vast amounts of available data.
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The first ever pickup truck from Mercedes is due to be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in October this year. It's expected to be called either the X-Class or GLT. Advanced testing of the new vehicle is underway, with spy shots of it already on the Internet.
Based on the new Nissan NP300 Navara, following Daimler's partnership with Renault-Nissan, the X-Class or GLT will have seating for five, plus a huge 3,500kg towing capacity. It's yet to be confirmed if the Mercedes pickup will provide different body styles and match the Navara with King-Cab and Double-Cab models.
The Navara uses a single 2.3-litre diesel engine and the Mercedes pickup will come with four and six-cylinder petrol and diesel engines, paired with manual and automatic transmissions. There's even a petrol-hybrid variant being considered as Mercedes attempts to secure top billing in the pickup truck sector.
Mercedes will offer two completely different versions of the pickup for separate markets. There will be high-spec option suitable for drivers seeking car-like capabilities. In terms of comfort, the interior design will share key similarities with Mercedes' range of SUVs like the GLE and GLE Coupe, with leather and wood trim.
The second version will be more traditional and cover those with commercial needs. This pickup truck will sit alongside the existing Mercedes-Benz light commercial vehicle range of the Sprinter, Vito and Citan vans.
The new pickup will not only widen Mercedes' passenger car and commercial model ranges, but it will also allow the German manufacturer to take a share of the lucrative pickup market which currently accounts for 2.3 million global sales.
Volkswagen's decision to enter the pickup sector with the Amarok in 2010 forced Mercedes to take action. The Amarok set new standards in terms of class and cleverly taps into a growing trend of buyers wanting pickups with more car-like features.
Volker Mornhinweg, Mercedes Vans CEO, confirmed Mercedes will launch a pickup by the end of 2017 to rival the Amarok. Official sketches were released earlier this year, showing the pickup with familiar styling such as the three-bar grille, swept-back headlights and curved wings.
The new pickup is expected to focus on comfort and luxury, yet still offer strong off-road capabilities and ruggedness which is essential for any pickup.
The debut of this vehicle is set to cause plenty of interest and it will be a year until after the launch in Paris before you can get behind the wheel of it. It'll surely be worth the wait.


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2015 Grammy Winners: The Complete List
by CoS Staff
Beck, Sam Smith, St. Vincent, and Kendrick Lamar were the big winners at the 2015 Grammy Awards.
The night's big winner was Beck, whose album Morning Phase won Album of the Year in addition to Best Rock Album. The Best Album winner was announced by Prince, and Kanye West jokingly came onstage to interrupt Beck.
Meanwhile, Sam Smith beat out HAIM to win Best New Artist, and "Stay With Me" was awarded both Song of the Year and Record of the Year. He also won Best Pop Vocal Album for In the Lonely Hour. During his acceptance speech for Record of the Year, Smith said, "I want to thank the man this record is about … for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys."
St. Vincent's self-titled fourth album beat out Jack White, Arcade Fire, and Alt-J to win Best Alternative Album.
Jack White earned the Best Rock Performance Grammy for his song "Lazaretto".
Perhaps the most surprising winner of the evening, Aphex Twin's Syro was awarded Best Dance/Electronica Album.
Kendrick Lamar's "i" won both Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, topping nominees including Kanye West, Drake, and Childish Gambino. Meanwhile, Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was awarded Best Rap Album.
Tenacious D — yes, Tenacious D — took home the Grammy for Best Metal Performance, beating out Mastodon, Motörhead, Slipknot, and Anthrax.
"Weird Al" Yankovic's Mandatory Fun won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album.
Glen Campbell won the Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for I'll Be Me.
Pearl Jam earned only their second Grammy ever after Lightning Bolt picked up the award for Best Recording Package.
In one of the night's big upsets, Pharrell Williams' "Happy" beat Sam Smith and Taylor Swift to win Best Pop Vocal Performance. Pharrell also picked up Best Urban Contemporary Album for G I R L, and his innovative 24-hour music video for "Happy" earned the award for Best Music Video
You can find a list of the notable winners below (winners' name are bolded) and see the complete list at Grammys' website.
This post will continually be updated as more winners are announced.
Beck – Morning Phase
Beyoncé – Beyoncé
Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour
Pharrell Williams – G I R L
Ed Sheeran – X
Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX – "Fancy"
Sia – "Chandelier"
Sam Smith – "Stay With Me"
Taylor Swift – "Shake It Off"
Meghan Trainor – "All About That Bass"
Song of the Year:
Hozier – "Take Me to Church"
Best Rock Song:
Paramore – "Ain't It Fun"
Beck – "Blue Moon"
The Black Keys – "Fever"
Ryan Adams – "Gimme Something Good"
Jack White – "Lazaretto"
Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams
The Black Keys – Turn Blue
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Hypnotic Eye
U2 – Songs of Innocence
Best Rock Performance:
Arctic Monkeys – "Do I Wanna Know?"
Best Alternative Album:
Alt J – This is All Yours
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Cage the Elephant – Melophobia
St. Vincent – St. Vincent
Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP 2
Iggy Azalea – The New Classic
Childish Gambino – Because the Internet
Common – Nobody's Smiling
ScHoolboy Q – Oxymoron
Wiz Khalifa – Blacc Hollywood
Best Rap Song:
Nicki Minaj – "Anaconda"
Kanye West – "Bound 2″
Kendrick Lamar – "i"
Wiz Khalifa – "We Dem Boyz"
Drake – "0 to 100 / The Catch Up"
Best Rap Performance:
Donald Glover – "3005"
Eminem – "Rap God"
Kendrick Lamar -"i"
Lecrae – "All I Need Is You"
Iggy Azalea feat. Charli – "Fancy"
Coldplay – "A Sky Full of Stars"
A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera – "Say Something"
Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj – "Bang Bang"
Katy Perry feat. Juicy J – "Darkhorse"
Coldplay – Ghost Stories
Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
Ariana Grande – My Everything
Katy Perry – Prism
Best Pop Vocal Performance:
John Legend – "All of Me"
Pharrell Williams – "Happy"
Best Dance/Electronica Album:
deadmau5 – While (1<2)
Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband
Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
Mat Zo – Damage Control
Best Dance Recording:
Basement Jaxx – "Never Say Never"
Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne – "Rather Be"
Disclosure feat. Mary J. Blige – "F For You"
Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones – "I Got You"
Zhu – "Faded"
Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Jhené Aiko – Sail Out
Chris Brown – X
Mali Music – Malis Is…
Best Comedy Album:
"Weird Al" Yankovic – Mandatory Fun
Jim Gaffigan – Obsessed
Louis C.K. – Oh My God
Patton Oswalt – Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time
Sarah Silverman – We Are Miracles
Get On Up: The James Brown Story
Christophe Beck – Frozen
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Gone Girl
Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Steven Price – Gravity
Thomas Newman – Saving Mr. Banks
Best Song Written For Visual Media:
Tegan and Sara feat. The Lonely Island – "Everything Is Awesome!!!"
Ed Sheeran – "I See Fire"
Glen Campbell – "I'm Not Gonna Miss You"
Idina Menzel – "Let It Go"
Karen O – "The Moon Song"
Arcade Fire – "We Exist"
DJ Snake and Lil Jon – "Turn Down For What"
Woodkid feat. Max Richter – "The Golden Age"
Beyoncé and Jay Z – On the Run Tour
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill – 20 Feet From Stardom
Metallica – Through the Never
Pink – The Truth About Love Tour: Live From Melbourne
Pharrell performs "Happy" with Hans Zimmer at the Grammys — watch
Beck and Coldplay's Chris Martin team for special performance at the Grammys — watch


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Pioneering radio astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell contributed substantially to the discovery of pulsars but was not included in the Nobel prize award for the work; instead, it was given to her male supervisor. However, she has not lacked for recognition: among many other accolades, she was just this week awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her work. The entire proceeds have been donated to establish scholarships for women and minority physics students.
The Curiosity rover has just completed a beautiful panorama, taken under a dusty red sky, and it's also been in the news this week for finding rocks that are too hard for it to drill. Unfortunately, there has still been no word from MER-B Opportunity.
This week in space history, something really amazing happened: on September 5th, 1977, Voyager 1 took to the sky. It's not easy to express just how impressive the Voyager program has been. The two probes are old enough that their children could have graduated from High School, and they might even have a grand-probe on the way…and they're still doing science. They're even a lesson to computer folks about how to write software that won't crash, ever!
NASA's amazing Dawn spacecraft, the first deep-space probe to orbit more than one world, will probably run out of fuel this month and fall silent. It's been an amazing mission!
If you've been hearing news about the hole in the Soyuz capsule docked to the ISS, an reassuring yourself that quality control in U.S. spacecraft is better, don't get too cocky. On this day in 2004, the sample return capsule of NASA's Genesis spacecraft smacked straight into the desert without opening its parachutes, because good ole' Americans with good old American know-how installed its gravity sensor upside-down.
In other space history, this week marks the birthdays of Soviet rocket engine designer Valentin Petrovich Glushko, Apollo Spacecraft Office head Joseph Francis Shea, cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev—father of the first child born to two astronauts—physicist James A Van Allen, and the first head of NASA, T. Keith Glennan.
Perhaps the saddest news item from space history this week happened in the Apollo program: on September 2nd, 1970, NASA cancelled Apollo missions 15 and 19, and announced that the remaining missions would be designated Apollo 14 through 17. Because the boosters and vehicles had already been completed and flight-qualified, the total savings were only $42 million.


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CTBTO. The photo may be staged but Reagan and Gorbachev's friendship was real, says Jack Matlock.
Octavian Report: To what extent were Reagan and Gorbachev as people essential to ending the Cold War?
Ambassador Jack Matlock: I think only Reagan and Gorbachev would have been able to do what they did. You had to have the two of them in office at the same time. Now, the first George Bush finished it off. But essentially, the Cold War was over ideologically when Reagan left office. It was just up to Bush to continue the policies Reagan had set with Gorbachev in order to finish it peacefully. It was finished by negotiation so that both sides came out as winners.
That's why today, when we talk about winning the Cold War as if Russia was the loser, we're not only distorting history, we're making it much more difficult to build a peaceful world.
OR: In what way do you think Russia won?
Matlock: First of all, Russia was part of the Soviet Union. We ended the Cold War with the Soviet Union, not with Russia. We've got to stop talking about Russia as if it was the same entity, whether a Communist empire or whether the current Russian Federation. There are a few characteristics that they share, but these are entirely different political entities.
That's one thing you have to understand. The Soviet Union won the Cold War — as did everybody else. Ending it saved them from the collapse that was going on internally. The arms race was killing them. Their ideology was killing them. Their foreign policy was not in their interest. Gorbachev saw that and Reagan saw that. We set terms to end the Cold War which were in the interest of the Soviet Union if they wanted to follow a peaceful policy towards the West, which they did.
Losing the Cold War would have been if it went hot. Everybody would have lost. We ended it without anyone losing anything. The Soviet Union lost nothing in ending the Cold War other than its control of Eastern Europe, which was not an advantage for it but a disadvantage. The idea that somehow controlling other countries that don't want you to control them is an asset is absolutely wrong. Look at the problems we have in the Middle East today. It is a liability. It is not an asset. In giving up those liabilities, Gorbachev made it possible to try to reform the system.
He was unable to do so but the system broke up from the inside after the Cold War was over. Ending the Cold War, ending the arms race which literally was killing their economy, ending their attempt to project their power abroad which was creating liabilities, ending all of that was to the advantage of the Soviet Union. It gave the country the possibility of reforming and coming into the late 20th century. They couldn't do so under the conditions of the Cold War.
OR: How do you view Reagan as a political thinker?
Matlock: He was not an intellectual but he was very firm in his basic beliefs. He also understood something very few American presidents understand. That being: he didn't know everything. Therefore, he was quite willing to listen to those who knew more than he did about a given situation.
He was never a warmonger. The reason he was in favor of increasing our defense budget when he came into office was simple: he thought we were too weak to negotiate. He said and he wrote before he met Gorbachev the first time, "I've got to convince him that we don't want an arms race but if he insists on one, he's going to lose it." The point was to be strong enough to negotiate from strength, not to use those weapons. He never intended to use them. He didn't increase our deployments abroad. In a few cases he authorized action abroad, but he would bring the troops back if they got into trouble. For example, the Marines in Lebanon. Basically he was anything but a warmonger. He was a man of peace but he understood that when you were dealing with a Soviet Union still guided by the policies that Gorbachev's predecessors had followed, you had to be strong. If you wanted to bring down arms, you had to prove to them that if they didn't, they were going to lose the arms race. That is precisely what he was able to do.
As far as nuclear weapons were concerned, he hated them. He thought they were an abomination. His great dream was to set the world on a course of abolishing them. That's what allowed him eventually to team up with Gorbachev: when Gorbachev began to talk also about eliminating nuclear weapons, that caught his fancy. He overruled his staff who kept saying, "Well, this is just propaganda." He would say, "No, you may knock it but that's precisely where we should be going." He kept a basic understanding of these big issues.
He had another characteristic that people don't give him credit for. They used to say, "Oh, he's only an actor." He had never been only an actor. After all, he was head of the Screen Actors Guild. He had negotiated and was a very good negotiator with the studios. He had been governor of California, of course. The point is that as an actor, he did know how to put himself in another person's shoes. What interested him before he began dealing with Gorbachev is: where's this fellow coming from? How can we explain to him that many of the policies of his country are not in his country's interest? How can we convince him of that? How do you deal with him personally? I think he had empathy for other politicians. Empathy is not sympathy but it is an understanding of where they're coming from. That's what he concentrated on. That's why he, in a relatively few years, was able to bond with Gorbachev.
During a 35-year career as a diplomat, Jack Matlock served, among many other appointments, as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council Staff.


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Asia LNG Price Surge Spurs Interest in Vitol Trades
Stephen Stapczynski
One of the world's top energy merchants is the talk of the Asian LNG trader community after a series of above-market deals that may have contributed to a price surge.
(Bloomberg) -- One of the world's top energy merchants is the talk of the Asian liquefied natural gas trader community after a series of above-market deals that may have contributed to a price surge.
Three trades inked by Vitol Group on Friday and Tuesday were done at prices well above recent assessments via a process overseen by S&P Global Platts, which sets the influential Japan-Korea Marker, the benchmark for the fuel in Asia. JKM has rallied about 20% in the three sessions through Tuesday to $6.761 per million British thermal units, the highest level in a year.
While winter demand optimism across North Asia and supply disruptions have boosted sentiment, 10 traders at other firms said they were surprised by the prices paid by Vitol, which were higher than other recent physical deals. The traders asked not to be identified because they aren't authorized to speak with the press.
A Vitol spokesperson declined to comment.
Deals in the spotlight:
Vitol purchased an LNG cargo from PetroChina Co. for Dec. 5-9 delivery to China at $6.62 per million Btu on Friday. The same day the intraday JKM value for the first half of December was assessed at $6.025.
Vitol bought a cargo from Gunvor Group for Dec. 13-17 delivery to China at a premium to a European benchmark, equivalent to roughly $6.63 per million Btu, on Friday.
Vitol purchased an LNG cargo from Trafigura Group for Dec. 1-5 delivery to China, at $6.87 per million Btu on Tuesday. The same day the intraday value for the first half of December was assessed at $6.625.
The commodity house's three trades were the only physical transactions executed over the three-session period via Platts' Market on Close. Traders often participate in the MOC process to represent their current view of the market, and where they see bids and offers.
"If we observe activity or receive anomalous data that could potentially distort the price assessment process, we review the matter and take appropriate steps, including excluding such data," Dave Ernsberger, global head of pricing and market insight at Platts, said without commenting specifically on the Vitol deals.
To be sure, JKM's spot price assessment changed from November to December delivery shipments on Friday, which helped lift the price as it locked in the higher rate for the winter month, according to Chris Durman, global head of LNG Analytics at Platts. Still, December prices jumped by an average of 75 cents per million Btu on Friday after the two Vitol trades, according to Platts data.
--With assistance from Andy Hoffman.
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It's peculiar, of late, the degree to which the idea of tribalism has been surfacing in the world. With every act of brutality on the part of ISIS, every act of monstrousness from Boko Haram, every dark and unpleasant bit of nastiness out there, it seems tribalism is to blame.
"It's these backwards monsters and their tribal God," or so goes the refrain.
"Tribal" becomes shorthand for insular, stunted, and ignorant, snarling clans of highlanders ever butchering one another, the Hatfields and the McCoys firing potshots. It is juxtaposed with the deep virtues of modern and "postmodern" thinking. We are, after all, the ones who make decisions based on reason and enlightened self-interest.
Perhaps that's true. But as much as the concept of the tribe has been getting bad press lately, I think it's not entirely deserved. I think that, mostly, because of my recent doctoral research into the dynamics of small faith communities. Sure, little gatherings can be bitter, unpleasant, and toxic. Tribal relations can be messy. But not every church-tribe is Westboro Baptist.
Small communities can also be healthy and warm and gracious. They can be places of learning and mutual support. They are places of belonging, of the interrelationship of persons on a profound level.
Tribes are the intimate communities--by affinity or by kin--that constitute one of the most elemental forms of human relationship. They're missing, to large degree, in our broader society, where we are fragmented off into demographic silos, or regimented into systems and structures that are resemble industrial production.
These are certainly effective and efficient and convenient. But they are not organically human.
As Carol Howard Merritt pointed out in her book (can I call it her "classic book" yet? hmmm) those alternate systems of organization tend to leave us hungry for ways of being together that resonate more with our essential humanity. In this shattered, diffuse, scattered age, that's a major problem.
So when I hear "tribal" described as functionally synonymous with "ignorant" or "violent," I rankle a wee bit.
Sure, a "tribal god" is a problem. But only if the tribe is the god.
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On weekly Chart Eurgbp has taken resistance 3 times from 0.91000.and Price has formed bearish engulfing candle too with long wick which suggest sellers are in control now. I will enter only if price breaks the Important level of 0.89200.
Looking to Buy EURGBP as its in a uptrend. We have seen price break previous resistance and now testing the new support. We can see price bounce up from Buy range or the 200MA. Target is 0.90500 (60-70pips).
The Euro vs. the British Pound. This pair represent a cross between the two largest economies in Europe, the Euro Zone and the Unites Kingdom. The pair is greatly less volatile than other Euro or Pound based crosses because of the economic closeness and interdependence between the two. Changes in monetary policy between the Bank of England and the European Central Bank can make this pair extremely sensitive.


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Continuing its momentum of unity and togetherness for Black History Month, the University of North Texas Dallas student body made its way to the box office recently to see the thrilling and much anticipated film, "Black Panther".
Directed by Ryan Coogler, who else directed the movie "Creed", "Black Panther" casts heavy hitters such as Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.
The storyline is about a young prince (Boseman) returning home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. He gets tested when he's drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people.
In just its second week, the film recently surpassed $100 million in U.S. theaters, becoming only the fourth movie in history to do so.


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Per mano mia. Il Natale del commissario Ricciardi è un romanzo giallo del 2011, quinto volume della serie Le indagini del commissario Ricciardi dello scrittore Maurizio de Giovanni.

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L'atmosfera del Natale napoletano è affascinante e struggente, alle artistiche botteghe di presepi a via San Gregorio Armeno si contrappone la miseria dei borghi di pescatori, le rutilanti vetrine del centro contrastano con l'accattonaggio che è l'ultima delle risorse di troppe persone.

In questa città di contrasti e di aspettative per le vicine festività, Ricciardi e il fidato brigadiere Raffaele Maione devono accorrere sul luogo di un duplice omicidio; il centurione fascista Emanuele Garofalo e sua moglie Costanza sono stati uccisi nella loro bella casa.

Al momento del massacro la figlia di 9 anni era fortunatamente a scuola, affidata alle amorevoli cure di una suora sorella di Costanza. In casa oltre ai due corpi massacrati l'unica anomalia sembra essere una statuina del presepio rotta e malamente nascosta; si tratta di San Giuseppe che nella simbologia presepiale potrebbe portare a interpretazioni utili alle indagini. Le ultime frasi delle vittime che il commissario Ricciardi percepisce con la sua misteriosa caratteristica non sono di nessun aiuto, ma le indagini si concentrano subito sull'ambigua figura di Garofalo, apparentemente fascista irreprensibile, ma in realtà sfruttatore di poveracci e arrampicatore sociale senza scrupoli.

Nel contrastato rapporto tra milizie fasciste e regie forze dell'ordine ci sono fortunatamente più persone oneste che carogne ed è così che Ricciardi e Maione possono trovare alibi a derelitti che alibi non avrebbero ma che motivi di vendetta contro Garofalo avrebbero avuto.

In questo romanzo il brigadiere Maione sale a figura di comprimario; le sue insospettabili doti di passare inosservato nonostante la corpulenta figura, ma anche le conoscenze un po' ambigue che negli anni ha saputo coltivare, risultano fondamentali nell'indagine. La vera sorpresa è la reazione sua e della moglie di fronte al riaffacciarsi dell'immenso dolore che tre anni prima ha devastato la loro vita familiare quando il figlio maggiore è stato ucciso da un criminale.

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In the Shadow of the Pyramids is Laura El-Tantawy's current project documenting Egypt's popular uprising. Her Artist Talk yesterday evening at the Green Cardamom Light Gallery was informative and totally engrossing and drew a small crowd of interested audience. Egypt is experiencing a change that is unprecedented in the modern historical context. As an Egyptian and living in the UK, she is determined that her work be seen by Egyptians in Egypt. That is her 'end game' to this current project. And a book.
Ultimately, though, she would love to be able to display her powerful and moving photographs in Tahrir Square one day, and invite the people of the revolution to see them at "Ground Zero' as it were. Liberation Square as it is also known, was the hallowed ground on where the Cairenes gathered in their thousands to over several weeks prior to the ousting of the president. It was also the place where they celebrated with street parties after Mubarak's resignation.
For me, Egypt has also carved a significant moment in my life.
At 8:45am on 17, November 1997, 58 foreign tourists and 4 Egyptians were brutally massacred by terrorists at the entrance to the Temple of Queen Hapshetsut, Valley of the Queens in Luxor. This was a dark day for Egypt. My parents, aunt and I were with a group, about to enter the Valleys at about 8:30 am led by our tour guide. Usually, the guide would lead the bus driver pass the ticket office and straight to the Valley of the Queens first, being the closer of the two Valleys. That fateful morning, our guide decided to head for the Valley of the Kings instead. Had he stuck to his routine, our bus would have arrived right at the moment when the attack took place. The two Valleys are separated by a hillock. We were fortunate. Not so, for a South American couple who shared our dining table on the Nile boat. They joined another tour group and left earlier that morning.
My discovery tour to Egypt ended abruptly the next day as I was 'forced' to fly home via Cairo, ordered by my better half, who read the headline news on the Evening Standard in the London underground. My discovery of Egypt is thus incomplete, and what better way than to make a return to the Land of the Pharoahs, a historical Biblical land to so many, and a nation that is in transition.
Thank you to Laura who's work peeked my curiosity once again to visit Egypt, and thank you to all those that attended explorenation's inaugural Artist Talk.


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Bharti, GSMA Plan Green Telecom Towers in India
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The GSMA and Bharti Infratel Limited have announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and promote green technologies for telecom tower infrastructure in India.
The collaboration will entail working together to convert 1,000 Infratel towers into green sites, which will reduce greenhouse gas carbon emissions by almost 11,000 tonnes as a result of the reduced usage of diesel. GSMA made this announcement today, March 28.
Bharti Infratel is one of the world's leading telecom tower infrastructure providers, owning over 33,000 of India's estimated 400,000 towers. Having predominantly a rural footprint, they have nearly 9,000 off-grid towers, which accounts for 18 per cent of total off-grid towers in India.
Infratel has already converted over 10,500 sites to alternative back-up power, out of which almost 1,350 sites are now on solar hybrid; converting an additional 1,000 is the first step of engagement with the GSMA.
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Infratel's GreenTowers initiative is scoped to cover 70 per cent of its tower network. It includes seven high-impact initiatives that are focused on reducing CO2 emission by 154,000 tonnes per year by reducing diesel consumption by 58.17 million litres per year.
"This vital partnership is a step further in our endeavour of fore-fronting green within the telecom tower infrastructure industry and will enhance the capacity of Infratel's GreenTowers P7 initiative," said Sairam Prasad, chief technical officer, Bharti Infratel.
Infratel has a vast footprint of over 33,000+ towers and holds a 42 per cent stake in Indus Towers Limited – a joint venture of Bharti Infratel, Vodafone & Idea Cellular.
"This partnership will have significant impact in reducing operating expenditure by 10-20 per cent at each individual site, as well as a significant reduction in carbon emissions," said Chris Locke, managing director, GSMA Development Fund.
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A New Concept gets an outboard redesign but keeps its performance chops and weekend cruising ability.
The steady roar of twin Yamaha F200 outboards. The whipping wind caused by our 44 mph top speed. The thrill of a sporty lean during hard turns. I was enjoying the ride in the cockpit of a Jeanneau NC 895, and I knew it was going to be fun to drive once I had my chance. I was right.
Standing at the helm proved to be problematic for my six-and-a-half-foot-tall self, because my line of sight was above the top of the windshield, but the bolstered captain's chair was a comfortable perch on which to sit, drive and see, so operating the boat was easy. The sport wheel and the engine controls are side by side on the lower angled portion of the dash, with trim tab and bow thruster (yes, a bow thruster) controls in the same neighborhood. On the flat middle section of the dash are a cupholder and the Fusion stereo head unit. On the angled upper section, a Lowrance HDS9 display and a Yamaha engine display keep the captain apprised of what's going on in and around the boat.
Comfy Confines
A door to the sidedeck from the helm, twin overhead sunroofs, the bulkhead door and opening side windows ensure the cabin is well ventilated, and window glass all around ensures the NC 895 (the NC stands for New Concept) is well lit. The cabin house is offset to port slightly, making the starboard sidedeck slightly wider than the one to port.
The layout is about what one would expect from a 30-footer. A small galley unit — a two-burner stove and a sink — is built into a console to starboard and under a lid that serves as a countertop when lowered. A refrigerator is housed in the base of the captain's chair. A dinette sits to port and the helm is forward of the galley.
The dinette is versatile, a trait that owners will appreciate. It consists of two doublewide bench seats facing each other on either side of a high-low table. With the table lowered and filler cushions in place, it can be a chaise lounge or a berth. The backrest on the forward bench swings fore and aft, so the bench can become a forward-facing companion seat.
Heads to Rest
Down a set of centerline steps and in the bow is the stateroom. An island berth — close to queen size but tapered a bit at the foot to provide room for people to move along its sides — dominates the space and has storage in the base. Long hull windows and an overhead hatch keep the space well lit, and six cabinets built in along the hull sides at eye level provide ample storage. Direct and indirect LED lighting provides nighttime illumination.
A surprise can be found aft of the landing at the bottom of the steps. A second sleeping space is tucked beneath the helm and dinette area. Headroom over the berth is limited to sitting up, but it's large enough for three adults or four or five children to sleep, making the NC 895 a definite weekender.
The head is to starboard of the landing and includes a Jabsco toilet and a sink. It's a wet head with a seat that drops down over the toilet, for seating and shower supply placement.
Tester's Opinion
Given the current popularity of smaller pocket cruisers and the demand from consumers for outboard power, the French builder is probably on to something with the NC 895, which is the largest in the outboard line.
The sunpad on the bow doesn't come as a huge surprise, but it does further the theme of versatility. It's made up of three sections. All three can lie flat. The head of the first (aft) section can lift to create an angled cushion for a sunbather's head and back. The middle section can angle up, too, to create a backrest that turns the lower (forward) section into a bench seat. That's a versatile bow on a 30-footer.
In the cockpit, the sides of the C-shaped settee hug the transom, the port gunwale and the cabin's bulkhead, creating a lounging and conversation space around a table in the great outdoors, which can be covered by a Bimini or left open to the sun and sky. Lower the table and add filler cushions, and the settee becomes a sun lounge, in case the bow is occupied. In a clever nod to the fact the boat is outboard powered, the aft section of the settee moves forward on tracks to make room for the engines when they are trimmed up and tilted forward to get the lower unit clear of the water. The settee remains intact, just slightly smaller, and the engines get a respite from the water.
The outboards don't eliminate the swim step entirely. Smaller swim steps — call them platformettes — are to either side of the engines, and the starboard one includes an integrated swim ladder. A side boarding door is fashioned into the starboard gunwale a few feet forward of the transom, for boarding from higher docks.
While the NC 895 isn't a fresh-off-the-design-table boat for Jeanneau — it started under the Merry Fisher name — the outboard version is new for the North American market and takes advantage of Yamaha power in the form of twin F200s, which is the maximum power available for the boat.
A hard chine at the waterline and a couple of more below it help with lift and knock the water down, for a nice and dry ride. Those chines helped get the NC 895 out of the hole and to 20 mph in a fraction less than eight seconds (though Yamaha tests with fewer people on board recorded a time of 7.18 seconds). Turns were tight and stable, so trying to shake loose some tube riders or picking up a downed skier or boarder won't be a problem.
I recorded some performance numbers, but we had five or six people aboard, so the numbers were adversely affected. Yamaha tests yielded results that were similar but better (with only two people aboard), so what you read here are those numbers. Top speed was 44 mph at about 5950 rpm. Even at that speed fuel efficiency was better than 1 mpg, with a fuel burn of 39.5 gph. A solid and efficient cruise speed was right around 26.8 mph, at which point the Yamahas were turning at 4000 rpm and burning 14.8 gph.
Given the current popularity of smaller pocket cruisers and the demand from consumers for outboard power, the French builder is probably on to something with the NC 895, which is the largest in the outboard line (the four inboard models are all larger). Its beam is less than 10 feet, so towing is definitely doable, its ride smooth and soft and its 106-gallon fuel capacity gives it good range for weekend excursions. Families and close friends who don't mind sharing a smaller space will find the accommodations adequate and the comfort level more than sufficient, whether the wind is whipping by at speed or the anchor is attached firmly to the bottom of a picturesque cove.
LOA 29 ft., 9 in.
Beam 9 ft., 9 in.
Displacement 6,746 lbs.
Fuel 106 gal.
Water 42 gal.
Holding 185 gal.
Power Twin Yamaha F200 outboards
Standard and Optional Equipment
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Artist of the decade?
So just as I'm getting my fancy new Joe Henry blog rolling, the boys over at Arts & Faith have erupted into a spirited back and forth about Blood From Stars. There are a few phrases like "album of the decade" being tossed about pretty casually (courtesy of some of JH's biggest boosters – Jeffrey Overstreet, Andy Whitman and Josh Hurst).
But back in early 2006, I posted this item to the original Ramblings site and thought it was worth a revisit. I never really stuck with the "Artist Of The Year" title after that, but it just felt like 2005 needed one:
In 2005, producer Joe Henry created a body of work that not only included notable contributions to albums by Ani Difranco, Aimee Mann and Susan Tedeschi, but revitalized the careers of some of America's finest soul singers, including Ann Peebles, Mavis Staples, Irma Thomas, as well as the lesser-known Allen Toussaint and Bettye Lavette. It is one thing when a producer helps a recording artist raise their game and deliver great work (as was particularly the case with Mann's The Forgotten Arm); it is quite another when a producer seeks out great artists for the particular purpose of delivering fresh and inspiring work that stands along their own substantial legacies (and perhaps raises their profiles in the process).
The latter has certainly been the case with I Believe To My Soul, Vol. 1, a compilation of beautiful performances by Peebles, Staples, Thomas, Toussaint and Billy Preston that – though recorded prior to Hurricane Katrina – ended up being marketed by Rhino Records and Starbucks' Hear Music imprint as a Hurricane Katrina benefit record (Toussaint and Thomas were among thousands of New Orleans musicians immeasurably affected by the hurricane and its aftermath). The project was the brainchild of Henry, who was actively seeking to revive Peebles' career in particular, but the album soon evolved into a series of recording sessions with a revolving cast of soul greats (anchored by Henry's own close-knit group of session players). The result is a brilliant reminder of how much talent still exists in the oft-ignored world of soul music (though all of these artists retain active careers touring to enraptured audiences all over the world). The project is reportedly the first in a series, and Henry is slated record a full record with Peebles. Furthermore, Henry's friendship with Elvis Costello has apparently led to a full album project between Costello and Toussaint. For my part, Allen Toussaint has been a revelation, an artist who I'd really never heard of yet consistently delivers gorgeous performances (Henry and Toussaint also collaborated for two tracks on Nonesuch's Our New Orleans benefit record).
I Believe To My Soul by itself would be enough to justify heaps of praise for Henry, but you can't ignore his substantial contribution to Bettye Lavette's I've Got My Own Hell To Raise, a project that more or less follows the same formula as Solomon Burke's Don't Give Up On Me, an album that won both Burke and Henry a Grammy. Lavette and Henry hand-picked contemporary songs from the catalogs of better-known female songwriters (Lucinda Williams, Fiona Apple) and have given them a bluesy, gritty workover. Who'd have thought, for instance, that so much additional juice could be squeezed out of Lucinda Williams' "Joy" (also given a lyrical makeover, courtesy of Lavette). Though the record is solidly great throughout, Henry and Lavette should be credited with delivering two of 2005's most transcendant performances with Joan Armatrading's "Down To Zero" and Sharon Robinson's "The High Road" (probably the two least-known songs on the record). If you want to measure the full potential of this pairing of artists, look no further.
A similarly inspired pairing is evident on Aimee Mann's The Forgotten Arm, her first fully realized and uniformly consistent record. Mann's previous work has always relied somewhat on studio enhancements, but for whatever reason, she decided to lean heavily on a more classic sound for this, her best record to-date. As such, Henry's greatest contribution to the record seems to have been to simply flip on the tape and get out of the way (though here again, Henry draws heavily from his stable of studio regulars). The result is lean, yet muscular, anchored primarily by drums, bass and piano (though guitar and horns accent the proceedings throughout). Meanwhile, Mann is at her best vocally, imbuing this tale of doomed romance (the record is somewhat of a concept album) with a lovely and bittersweet melancholy. Mann deserves plenty of credit for the continued maturation of her songwriting and sound, but Joe Henry clearly brought something to the table as well.
Whatever that something might be, Henry clearly has become a much in-demand (if still under-the-radar) producer of choice for many artists. However, his role as "career revivalist" for some of the greatest soul artists of the sixties and seventies is where his impact is most accutely felt. My own fear is that his terrific solo work will take a backseat to his production work, but hopefully he'll continue to strike a fine balance of the two, to everyone's great benefit. Because what Joe Henry is doing – much of it outside the mainstream of the record industry – is building a legacy of work that generously and rightfully shines a spotlight on some of our greatest musicians, too often ignored or forgotten. Joe Henry has dared to remind us that some of America's greatest voices still have something to say.
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Phil Valentine, Radio Host, Passes Away Due to Covid-19
Phil Valentine dies due to Covid-19.
Phil Valentine, the show host of the Nashville radio show lost in the battle with Covid-19. He was 61. The radio station confirmed the news soon after he was his death through a tweet.
The host was popular for been in the highlight for skepticism of coronavirus vaccines. But then, the veteran was affirmed positive for Covid-19. Right before he went to the hospital, he wanted his listeners to pay attention and consider while he said.
"If I get this COVID thing, do I have a chance of dying from it?" If so, he advised them to get vaccinated. He said he chose not to get vaccinated because he thought he probably wouldn't die.
Rest In Peace Phil Valentine
SuperTalk 99.7 WTN station, confirmed the news and passing away of Phil on Twitter.
"We are saddened to report that our host and friend Phil Valentine has passed away,", the post read.
"Please keep the Valentine family in your thoughts and prayers.", added the spokesperson.
Valentine soon after was termed positive for Covid. He posted, "Yes, the rumors are true. I have COVID. Unfortunately for the haters out there, it looks like I'm going to make it,"
He added, ""Interesting experience. I'll have to fill you in when I come back on the air. I'm hoping that will be tomorrow, but I may take a day off just as a precaution. It'll be a game time decision."
Little did we know, he isn't coming back.
Soon after Valentine was transferred into ICU, Mark Valentine, Phil's brother said, "he wasn't a more vocal advocate of the vaccination." "I know if he were able to tell you this, he would tell you, 'Go get vaccinated. Quit worrying about the politics. Quit worrying about all the conspiracy theories,"
"He regrets not being more adamant about getting the vaccine. Look at the dadgum data,", added Mark.
Since Phil was 20, he has been on the radio, and soon, he became a popular host as well. The program aired for more than 12 years and covered more than 100 stations. Valentine also was a part of a three-year deal with 99.7 WTN.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn said in her tweet, "Phil Valentine was a visionary for the conservative movement, and he made an enormous impact on the lives of many Tennesseans,"
"My deepest condolences and prayers are with Phil's wife, Susan, and his family. May they be comforted and surrounded by love during this difficult time."
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