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Lester Arden Johnson, 1913 ~ 2010
Lester Arden Johnson, 97, farmer, rancher and building contractor and resident of Moab until 1971, died Sept. 13, 2010, in Orem, Utah of causes incident to age. He was born Jan. 31, 1913 in Moab, the first son of George Washington and Mabel Wilcox Johnson's nine children. He was reared in La Sal, ranching, farming and graduating from Grand County High School.
Arden married Clara Barton of Monticello on Aug. 21, 1941, in the Salt Lake Temple. They recently celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary with family and friends.
They spent the war years in California, where Arden worked for Douglas Aircraft, building planes for the American and British Air Forces.
After the war, Arden and Clara returned to the family ranch in La Sal. Arden also worked for the Charlie Redd ranches and as a building contractor. They reared a family of six children in Moab. In 1971, the family moved to Orem, where Arden continued as a builder with his son, Jay.
Arden appreciated his many friends and relatives in Moab, including the Loren Johnson and Burdene Gramlich families. Arden and Clara have subscribed to the Moab Times-Independent for over six decades.
Arden was active in the LDS church, serving for years in Moab as a ward clerk and in missionary work as a seventy. In 1975, the Johnsons moved to Nauvoo for a year while Arden worked as a builder in the restoration projects of the old pioneer city. He was instrumental in the reconstruction of the print shop and bakery in Nauvoo.
He is survived by his wife, Clara; children, daughter-in-law Trudy Johnson of Villa Park, Calif., Klyda (Jon) Anderson of Orem, Jay (Brenda) of Ammon, Idaho, Colleen (Ron) Smith of Orem, Carolyn (Jack) Lund of Richfield, and Janice (David) Turner of Orem, 41 grandchildren and 100 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by a brother, Floyd Johnson, of Orem.
He was preceded in death by a son, Larry, and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Sept. 17 at noon in the Sharon Park 2nd Ward chapel, 225 East 200 North, in Orem. Friends and family may call from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. prior to the service. Interment will be in Moab's Old Grand Valley cemetery on Sand Flats Road, Saturday, Sept. 18 at 2 p.m.


Ntombenhle Khathwane, founder of AfroBotanics.
"I have often thought that if I knew what I know now, there's no way I would have gotten into entrepreneurship. It is a very, very difficult road and I picked a difficult sector," says Swaziland-born entrepreneur, Ntombenhle Khathwane.
About five years ago Khathwane decided to start manufacturing hair-care products to specifically treat African hair – using natural botanical extracts from indigenous plants such as aloe vera.
Today her AfroBotanics product range can be found in select stores of two leading South African retailers – hypermarket Game and the country's second-largest grocer, Pick n Pay. While this only includes 40 Game stores and 100 Pick n Pay outlets (three of which are in Zimbabwe), the plan is to expand as her brand gains traction. She is also in talks with a third major retailer about testing her product.
However, she has learnt that introducing a new product into the market is no easy business.
Khathwane left Swaziland when she was 13 to complete schooling in South Africa and fell pregnant at age 16. She managed to complete her university studies in politics and philosophy, but took a job working for government in the town of Nelspruit immediately after graduating to ensure financial security for her daughter. She then spent the next eight years working in various government jobs – until she got bored.
One of the things Khathwane wanted to change was the high unemployment rate in Mpumalanga province, of which Nelspruit is the capital. She dreamt of creating hundreds of jobs by opening factories, and decided to venture into the world of manufacturing.
Her first idea was to manufacture asphalt. But after drawing up a business plan, discovered this would require around R30m ($2.1m) start-up capital.
It wasn't until she visited her grandmother in Swaziland that Khathwane got the idea to manufacture hair-care products. Her grandmother asked her to help apply a homemade lotion to her hair and Khathwane was surprised to find that natural extracts sourced locally could make her hair feel soft.
When Khathwane got home she contacted a professional formulator for help with developing a product she could bottle and sell. In 2010 she entered a business plan competition, Pitch & Polish – which she won, along with a trip to the US to meet with industry experts who could advise on product development.
By end of 2011 Khathwane had developed her formula, tested it and was ready to manufacture. She withdrew her entire retirement savings of R240,000 (around $17,000) to pay a factory to manufacture her first stock, and then quit her job so that she could focus full-time on her business.
However, Khathwane struggled to sell her product.
In 2012, she ran out of money and was left with nothing but a stock of unsold products.
But Khathwane did not give up. She moved to Johannesburg and started contacting key retailers such as Clicks and Dis-Chem – but was told she first had to develop brand awareness before they would stock her products.
Her solution? She launched an online store to both sell her products and publish articles and advice about hair care. She also sent her products to popular beauty bloggers to review.
But the breakthrough happened when she convinced her sister to give her products to Khanyi Dhlomo, a South African TV personality and owner of Destiny Magazine. Two months later Khathwane's products were featured in its pages.
By the end of 2013 her online store had gained some traction. However, large retailers still refused to stock her products.
"But I kept on knocking on their doors. I made a point that every six months I would go back to these big retailers," she recalls.
In 2014 Khathwane was selected to appear on a Standard Bank-sponsored TV show called Think Big to compete for R1m ($70,000) business financing.
While Game agreed to stock the AfroBotanics product range in October 2014, Khathwane only decided to start her three-month trial in November 2015 when she felt fully prepared. Having noticed a number of beauty brands in the US often used celebrity endorsements to gain traction, she approached a South African radio and TV personality, Pearl Thusi, about a similar partnership. Thusi, who is well-known for her natural hair style, liked the idea and together they developed the Black Pearl Collection.
It took off. Game quickly agreed to sell the products in 40 stores while Pick n Pay signed a contract with Khathwane for 100 stores. And her factory currently produces 2,000 bottles a week.
Khathwane hopes to see her products in the stores of every major retailer in South Africa, as well as neighbouring markets. While she still has some way to go, she's also exploring other opportunities – such as manufacturing shampoos and body washes for the hotel industry.
"As a novice it has really been a hard, bumpy ride. Entrepreneurship is not the glamour that many people think it is. Money doesn't come in as fast as you think it does – especially if you don't have enough to start off with," she adds.


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I read with interest the study report in the June 2005 issue of Anesthesiology by Dixon et al. 1 regarding the benefits of head-up preoxygenation in obese patients. Although I do not dispute the basic findings of the study or the benefit of head-up position in obese patients, I question the conclusions drawn in the abstract and discussion.
Although there was a strong correlation between oxygen tension and time to desaturation, it cannot be concluded that the higher arterial oxygen tension (Pao2) itself was protective. The oxygen content of blood in the form of dissolved oxygen under nonhyperbaric pressure conditions is minimal. At the preinduction Pao2achieved after 3 min of preoxygenation in both supine and head-up subjects, hemoglobin would be expected to be 100% saturated, providing maximal blood oxygen content in both study groups. The additional time to desaturation afforded by the small increase in dissolved oxygen reserve in the head-up group is unlikely to have been significant. More likely, the benefit of head-up positioning in delaying desaturation (as well as increasing Pao2) is a result of factors of pulmonary mechanics mentioned in the study background as they relate to oxygen reserve.
Also for this reason, changing the patient's position from head-up to supine at induction as suggested possible to ease intubation may partially or completely negate the benefits of the head-up preoxygenation despite the increased preinduction Pao2. This repositioning maneuver might be useful in a follow-up study to test this hypothesis.
David B. Wax; Mechanism of Benefit of Head-up Preoxygenation in Obese Patients. Anesthesiology 2006;104(2):381.


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Red-headed Raider's near-miss with AFL
Corey Horsburgh's near miss with AFL.
by David Riccio
3rd Oct 2019 7:30 AM
Corey Horsburgh is the flame-haired forward that even most the ardent Raiders fan knew little of at the start of this year.
But to AFL club the Brisbane Lions, the six-foot-two talent from Caboolture is a name they have known since he was a teenager.
Selected as a 13-year-old in the Lions Academy Squad in 2012, Horsburgh played league for the Redcliffe Dolphins on Saturdays and Aussie rules with the Caboolture Lions on Sundays.
In an indication of his natural football talent, Horsburgh won two grand finals as a 15-year-old - for Aussie rules and league - in the same day.
In the morning, Horsburgh and the Caboolture Lions won AFL Brisbane Juniors Under-16 Division 2 title.
Horsburgh won grand finals in AFL and rugby league within three hours when he was 16. Photo: Brad Cooper
"He didn't get to celebrate with the team though because I got him off the field with five minutes to go so he could run on for his league grand final," Horsburgh's father, Rick, told The Daily Telegraph.
"He was cramping up in the second half of his grand final win with Redcliffe and the coach was wondering why.
"I said, 'Mate, this is his second grand final in a matter of hours'.''
Corey gave an indication of his future path when he was interviewed about his dual feat in 2014.
"League is my favourite. My family is all into league and I've played it since I was six," he said at the time.
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Naturally skilful at any sport he took up, including rugby union (where he played as an open-side flanker) and cricket (where he was a Sunshine Coast representative), Horsburgh was well aware of the Brisbane Lions interest.
Horsburgh was selected in the same academy squad that has since produced AFL graduates Jacob Allison, Eric Hipwood, Jack Payne, Tom Fullarton, Connor McFadyen and Corey Wagner.
"We've got five kids all up and we've always supported them. But with the boy, we had to do a bit more running around because he was good at every sport he took up," Rick, a prison guard, said.
Horsburgh, with dad Rick and mum Sandra.
"The Brisbane Lions wanted him when he was turning 14.
"They wanted us to get him there three or four times a week for training and camps, but we couldn't because of work.
"I could only take him once a month, but still, they would send him all the gear and they'd be always texting and emailing us to be part of their camps.
"It didn't matter what he played, he was always wanting to be an athlete.
"He could've done something with them (Lions) and he could've made it in rugby union too, but he always said; "Dad, I want to play rugby league."
There was only ever one path for this league lover. Photo: AAP Image/Joel Carrett
The decision has paid dividends in a way that the Horsburgh family could never have predicted.
His rise from park football to ANZ Stadium on Sunday includes a brief stint at the North Queensland Cowboys in their under-20 squad before he signed with Canberra last year.
"I was into everything as a kid including AFL, which I didn't mind, but when I turned 16 I started playing rugby league only and that's when it all kicked off in the right direction," Horsburgh, 21, said.
"My goal was to play eight games this year, so to be here in a grand final is crazy."
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Pence Is the Man for 2020: "You Can't Break Up a Team Like That"
News > Local News > Pence Is the Man for 2020: "You Can't Break Up a Team Like That"
Pres. Trump says he is not picking Nikki Haley and dropping Indiana's former governor.
Chris Davis
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Mike Pence is Pres. Trump's running mate in 2020, said the president in an interview on Fox Business, Wednesday. He told host Maria Bartiromo, that ideas about his dropping Pence for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, are unfounded.
"I love Nikki. She's endorsed me. She's my friend. She's part of my campaign, but Mike has been a great vice president," said Trump in response to a question about an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting Haley would be a better pick for 2020.
The piece said Haley might help Trump win more women voters. Trump said at the Faith and Freedom Conference Wednesday morning, that he was confident plenty of women support his presidency.
"Mike Pence is the person, 100 percent," he said. "We won together. We have tremendous evangelical support. You can't break up a team like that," said Trump.
Trump also said he will watch the Democrat debates Wednesday and Thursday nights, but he believes the debates will be boring, calling the candidates boring people. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg will be in the debate Thursday night.
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The Albert Memorial, directly north of the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington Gardens, London, was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband Prince Albert, who died in 1861. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic Revival style, it takes the form of an ornate canopy or pavilion  tall, in the style of a Gothic ciborium over the high altar of a church, sheltering a statue of the prince facing south. It took over ten years to complete, the  £120,000 cost (the equivalent of about £10,000,000 in 2010) met by public subscription.

The memorial was opened in July 1872 by Queen Victoria, with the statue of Albert ceremonially "seated" in 1876.
It has been Grade I listed since 1970.

Commission and design

When Prince Albert died on 14 December 1861, at the age of 42, the thoughts of those in government and public life turned to the form and shape of a suitable memorial, with several possibilities, such as establishing a university or international scholarships, being mentioned. Queen Victoria, however, soon made it clear that she desired a memorial "in the common sense of the word". The initiative was taken by the Lord Mayor of London, William Cubitt, who, at a meeting on 14 January 1862, appointed a committee to raise funds for a design to be approved by the Queen. The control and future course of the project, though, moved away from Mansion House, and ended up being controlled by people close to the Queen, rather than the Mayor. Those who determined the overall direction from that point on were the Queen's secretary, General Charles Grey, and the keeper of the privy purse, Sir Charles Phipps. Later, following the deaths of Grey and Phipps, their roles were taken on by Sir Henry Ponsonby and Sir Thomas Biddulph. Eventually, a four-man steering committee was established, led by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake. Eastlake had overall control for the project until his death in 1865. An initial proposal for an obelisk memorial failed, and this was followed in May 1862 by the appointment of a seven-strong committee of architects. A range of designs were submitted and examined. Two of the designs (those by Philip Charles Hardwick and George Gilbert Scott) were passed to the Queen in February 1863 for a final decision to be made. Two months later, after lengthy deliberations and negotiations with the government over the costs of the memorial, Scott's design was formally approved in April 1863.

Architectural influences

The popularity of the Prince Consort led to the creation of several "Albert Memorials" around the United Kingdom. The Kensington memorial was not the earliest; the first memorial depicting the Prince to be erected was Thomas Worthington's Albert Memorial in Albert Square, Manchester, unveiled in 1865.  Both memorials present the figure of Prince Albert enclosed within a Gothic ciborium, and the similarities of design have been remarked on. (The earliest memorial to be erected was the Prince Albert Memorial in Swanage, in 1862, in the form of an obelisk.)

There is some controversy as to whether the memorial in Manchester was influenced by the publication of Scott's design, or whether Scott was himself inspired by Worthington's design, or whether both architects decided on their canopy designs independently.

Worthington's design was published in The Builder on 27 September 1862, before Scott's final design was unveiled. However, writing in his Recollections, Gilbert Scott suggested his own design was original: My idea in designing the Memorial was to erect a kind of ciborium to protect a statue of the Prince; and its special characteristic was that the ciborium was designed in some degree on the principles of the ancient shrines. These shrines were models of imaginary buildings, such as had never in reality been erected; and my idea was to realise one of these imaginary structures with its precious materials, its inlaying, its enamels, etc. etc. ... this was an idea so new as to provoke much opposition.

The Albert Memorial was not the first revivalist design for a canopied statue in a Gothic style – the Scott Monument in Edinburgh had been designed by George Meikle Kemp over twenty years earlier, and may itself have influenced Worthington's designs for Manchester.

Statue of Albert
The commission to make the seated figure of Prince Albert for the memorial was initially given to Baron Carlo Marochetti, a favourite sculptor of Queen Victoria. However, his first version was rejected by the architect of the monument, Sir George Gilbert Scott, and Marochetti died in late 1867, before a satisfactory second version could be completed. In May 1868, John Henry Foley, sculptor of the monument's Asia group, was commissioned to make the portrait, and his sketch model approved in December of that year. A full-sized model was placed on the monument in 1870, and the design approved by the Queen. The final statue was cast in bronze by Henry Prince and Company, of Southwark; Foley died in August 1874 before casting was complete.

The gilt bronze statue  was ceremonially "seated" in 1875, three years after the memorial opened. Albert is shown looking south, towards the Royal Albert Hall. He is robed as a Knight of the Garter, and holds a catalogue of the Great Exhibition, which was located nearby in Hyde Park.

Frieze of Parnassus

The central part of the memorial is surrounded by the elaborate sculptural Frieze of Parnassus (named after Mount Parnassus, the favorite resting place for the Greek muses), which depicts 169 individual composers, architects, poets, painters, and sculptors. Musicians and poets were placed on the south side, with painters on the east side, sculptors on the west side, and architects on the north side. Henry Hugh Armstead carved the figures on the south and east side, the painters, musicians and poets (80 in total), and grouped them by national schools. John Birnie Philip carved the figures on the west and north side, the sculptors and architects, and arranged them in chronological order.

Allegorical sculptures
At the corners of the central area, and at the corners of the outer area, there are two programmes of allegorical sculpture, or at least sculptures of personifications:  four groups depicting Victorian industrial arts and sciences (agriculture, commerce, engineering and manufacturing), and four more groups representing the traditional four continents: Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe at the four corners, each continent-group including several ethnographic figures and a large animal: A camel for Africa, a bison for the Americas, an elephant for Asia and a bull for Europe.
These groups represent something of a blend of traditional iconography for the continents personified, and an attempt to update them.

Canopy
The form of the monument "is clearly derived" from the Gothic Scaliger Tombs outside a church in Verona.  The mosaics for each side and beneath the canopy of the Memorial were designed by Clayton and Bell and manufactured by the firm of Salviati of Murano, Venice.

The memorial's canopy features several mosaics as external and internal decorative artworks. Each of the four external mosaics shows a central allegorical figure of the four arts (poetry, painting, architecture and sculpture), supported by two historical figures either side. The historical figures are: King David and Homer (POESIS – poetry), Apelles and Raphael (painting), Solomon and Ictinus (architecture), and Phidias and Michelangelo (sculpture). Materials used in the mosaics include enamel, polished stone, agate, onyx, jasper, cornelian, crystal, marble, and granite.

Around the canopy, below its cornice, is a dedicatory legend split into four parts, one for each side. The legend reads: Queen Victoria And Her People • To The Memory Of Albert Prince Consort • As A Tribute Of Their Gratitude • For A Life Devoted to the Public Good.

The pillars and niches of the canopy feature eight statues representing the practical arts and sciences: Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, Geometry (on the four pillars) and Rhetoric, Medicine, Philosophy and Physiology (in the four niches).

Near the top of the canopy's tower are eight statues of the moral and Christian virtues, including the four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues. The virtues are: Faith, Hope, Charity and Humility, and Fortitude, Prudence, Justice and Temperance. Humility is considered to be annexed to the virtue of temperance. Above these, towards the top of the tower, are gilded angels raising their arms heavenwards. At the very top of the tower is a gold cross.

Foundations
Below the Memorial is a large undercroft, consisting of numerous brick arches, which serves as the foundation that supports the large weight of the stone and metal used to build the monument.

Architects
The memorial was planned by a committee of architects led by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The other architects, some of whom died during the course of the project, or were replaced, included Carlo Marochetti, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Tite, Sydney Smirke, James Pennethorne, Matthew Digby Wyatt, Philip C. Hardwick, William Burn and Edward Middleton Barry.

Sculptors

The sculptor Henry Hugh Armstead coordinated this massive effort among many artists of the Royal Academy, including Thomas Thornycroft (carved the "Commerce" group), Patrick MacDowell (carved the "Europe" group, his last major work), John Bell (carved the "America" group), John Henry Foley (carved the "Asia" group and started the statue of Albert), William Theed (carved the "Africa" group), William Calder Marshall, James Redfern (carved the four Christian and four moral virtues including Fortitude), John Lawlor (carved the "Engineering" group) and Henry Weekes (carved the "Manufactures" group).  The Scottish sculptor William Calder Marshall carved the "Agriculture" group. The figure of Albert himself, although begun by Foley, was completed by Thomas Brock, in what was Brock's first major work.

Armstead created some 80 of the figure sculptures on the southern and eastern sides of the  memorial's podium. The north and west sides were carved by the sculptor John Birnie Philip. Armstead also sculpted the bronze statues representing Astronomy, Chemistry, Rhetoric, and Medicine.

Henry Weekes carved the allegorical work Manufactures (1864–70). Although Weekes was not on Queen Victoria's original list of sculptors, being selected to work on the project only after John Gibson declined to participate, his group occupies the preferable south side of the finished monument. A central female figure holds an hourglass, symbolising the critical nature of time to industry, while an ironworker stands at his anvil and a potter and weaver offer their wares.

Later history
On 23rd of March, 1958, Spike Milligan included the Albert Memorial as part of his Goon Show episode 'The First Albert Memorial to the Moon'!   However, the statue of Prince Albert was removed to a place of safety before the rest of the memorial was transformed into a spaceship.

By the late 1990s the Memorial had fallen into a state of some decay. A thorough restoration was led by Peter Inskip + Peter Jenkins Architects and the works were carried were out by Mowlem. These included cleaning, repainting, and re-gilding the entire monument as well as carrying out structural repairs. In the process the cross on top of the monument, which had been put on sideways during an earlier restoration attempt, was returned to its correct position. Some of the restoration, including repairs to damaged friezes, were of limited success.

The centrepiece of the Memorial is a seated figure of Prince Albert.   Following restoration, this is now covered in gold leaf.  For eighty years the statue had been covered in black paint.  Various theories had existed that it was deliberately blackened during World War I to prevent it becoming a target for Zeppelin bombing raids or domestic anti-German sentiment.  However, English Heritage's research prior to the restoration suggests that the black coating pre-dates 1914 and may have been a response to atmospheric pollution that had destroyed the original gold leaf surface. Further restoration work, including re-pointing the steps surrounding the memorial, commenced in the summer of 2006.

Public afternoon tours are held on the first Sunday each month allowing visitors a closer look at the Frieze of Parnassus.

See also
 List of public art in Kensington Gardens § Albert Memorial

References

External links

 The Albert Memorial at the Survey of London online:
 Design and commissioning
 Description
 Albertopolis: Albert Memorial—Architecture of the memorial (RIBA)
 BBC News News story about the restoration, dated 11 May 1998
 V&A Collections Images and details of Scott's original model for the memorial

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Buildings and structures completed in 1875
Grade I listed buildings in the City of Westminster
Grade I listed monuments and memorials
George Gilbert Scott buildings and structures
Gothic Revival architecture in London
Monuments and memorials in London
Monuments and memorials to Albert, Prince Consort
Royal monuments in the United Kingdom
Victorian era
Tourist attractions in the City of Westminster
Kensington Gardens
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Erosion Threatens Barrier Islands
Natural and man-made climate change stole 60 percent of Jekyll Island's beaches.
By DARCY BONFILS and JOSH GAYNORvia
May 25, 2009 — -- Off the east coast of southern Georgia lies Jekyll Island, whose natural beauty has lured people to its shores for decades. But the sands of this barrier island have been shifting.
On the south side the beach is actually accumulating sand, brought in by the tide. But the shore on the north side of the island is being washed away.
"It was a very beautiful beach," David Egan of the Initiative to Protect Jekyll Island Park said of the dissolving land.
Egan has lived on Jekyll Island for four decades, during which time he's seen its north shore shrink before his very eyes. He's seen picnic sights from the '60s and '70s drowned in tidal waters.
Part of the massive change is natural and caused by storms and tides, said professor Anthony Martin of Emory University, but much of it also has to do with melting ice caps.
"Sea ice melting, and that's contributing to the amount of water in the oceans," he said. "But also the water's expanding as it's gotten warmer and that expansion has also caused it [sea levels] to go up."
More than 60 percent of Jekyll Island's beach has been lost since the 1800s, according to a study by the Geological Society of America.
Then, Jekyll Island was the winter playground for some of America's richest families. It was a private island getaway for families like the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts and the Pulitzers.
But with such a colorful past, many fear its bright future may be at risk along with many mid-Atlantic coastal communities.
The Environmental Protection Agency warned in a recent report that rising sea levels are submerging low-lying land and eroding beaches.
Fire Island, N.Y., has lost one and a half feet of beach every year for the past five decades, according to one report.
The intergovernmental panel on climate change said the sea level could rise over two feet more each century. With over half of the U.S. population, 153 million people, living in coastal communities, the rising water is cause for concern for many.
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Q: can p-value be so much small like 9E-10 I'm new in statistics , and right now I'm trying to do an hypothesis testing , so to know which hypothesis is accepted (H0 or H1) , I used to see or study p-value between (0.01-0.99) , but when I tried to do the test right now I got p-value = 5.84e-10 (by using shapiro.test() in R), while the significant level is just 0.05 , is this p-value right ? or there is something wrong ?
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A: I imagine you are trying to test for normality, so as the p-value is less than 0.05 the null hypothesis is rejected and there is evidence that the data tested are not normally distributed, so you can do a qq-plot to confirm your result, dont try to interpret p-values they are just used as rejection points.
Heres some info on qq-plot
https://data.library.virginia.edu/understanding-q-q-plots/#:~:text=In%20R%2C%20there%20are%20two,set%20that%20comes%20with%20R.

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Айра́т Нази́пович Хайру́ллин (тат. Айрат Нәҗип улы Хәйруллин; 1 августа 1970, Казань — 7 февраля 2020, Лаишевский район) — российский экономист, мультимиллионер, предприниматель, государственный и политический деятель. Депутат Государственной Думы ФС РФ IV, V, VI и VII созывов. Член фракции «Единая Россия», член комитета Госдумы по аграрной политике.

Биография
Отец работал заведующим кафедрой Казанского государственного аграрного университета, мать работала в республиканском Министерстве сельского хозяйства. В 1991 году получил высшее образование по специальности «экономист-организатор сельскохозяйственного производства», окончив Казанский сельскохозяйственный институт имени М. Горького. В 2006 году защитил кандидатскую диссертацию в Марийском государственном техническом университете, получив степень кандидата экономических наук, там же в 2009 году защитил учёную степень доктора экономических наук. В студенческие годы вместе со своим братом Илшатом Хайруллиным начал заниматься предпринимательством. С 1992 по 1994 год был директором частного предприятия «Эдельвейс». С 1994 по 1996 год работал генеральным директором в ТОО «Эдельвейс», преобразованном из ЧП «Эдельвейс». В 1994 году организовал работу завода, производящего газированные напитки и минеральную воду, в 1995 году основал кондитерскую фабрику «Регина», возглавил молочный завод «Эдельвейс-М», а также ряд других предприятий (всего 16).

В марте 1995 года, в возрасте 24 лет, был избран депутатом Казанского городского Совета народных депутатов Республики Татарстан, став самым молодым депутатом Совета. Работал депутатом на непостоянной основе в течение 4 лет. С 1999 по 2003 год — депутат Госсовета Республики Татарстан.

В 1996 по 2003 год являлся совладельцем и руководителем ОАО «Пивоваренная компания "Красный Восток"» (Казань): с апреля по октябрь 1996 г. возглавлял компанию в должности генерального директора, а после, вплоть до декабря 2003 г., возглавлял совет директоров.

В декабре 2003 года баллотировался в Госдуму по одномандатному избирательному округу № 27, по итогам выборов был избран депутатом Государственной Думы.

В декабре 2007 года выдвигался в Госдуму по спискам «Единой России», по итогам распределения мандатов вновь стал депутатом Госдумы V созыва.

С августа 2008 года являлся Президентом Национального союза производителей молока.

В декабре 2011 года баллотировался в госдуму от политической партии «Единая Россия», по результатам распределения мандатов стал депутатом Государственной Думы VI созыва.

В сентябре 2016 года выдвигался от партии «Единая Россия» по одномандатному избирательному округу № 28, по итогам подсчёта голосов был избран депутатом Государственной думы РФ VII созыва.

По версии журнала «Forbes», в 2017 году занял 43-е место в рейтинге «Власть и деньги. Рейтинг доходов госслужащих 2017» с доходом 280 миллионов рублей.

7 февраля 2020 Хайруллин совершал полёт на вертолёте Bell 407, бортовой номер RA-01893. В вертолёте находились три человека: сам Хайруллин, его помощник и пилот. В 6 км от Лаишева вертолёт упал. Хайруллин погиб сразу, пилот и помощник выжили и были доставлены в больницу. Следствием рассматриваются три основные версии причин катастрофы: ошибка пилотирования, техническая неисправность и погодные условия.

Похоронен 8 февраля 2020 года на мусульманском кладбище в посёлке Мирный в Казани.

Личная жизнь
Был женат, воспитывал двух сыновей и дочь.

Законотворческая деятельность
С 2003 по 2019 год, будучи депутатом Государственной Думы IV, V, VI и VII созывов, выступил соавтором 288 законодательных инициатив и поправок к проектам федеральных законов.

Награды
 Орден Почёта (8 ноября 2007 года) — за заслуги в законотворческой деятельности, укреплении и развитии российской государственности
 Заслуженный работник сельского хозяйства Республики Татарстан
 Почётная грамота президента Республики Татарстан
 Благодарственное письмо президента Республики Татарстан

Память
 Улица в Казани.

Обвинения в незаконной предпринимательской деятельности
10 сентября 2012 года депутаты Дмитрий Гудков и Илья Пономарёв опубликовали в Живом Журнале пост под названием «Золотые крендели "Единой России"-4. Кубанский бекон», в котором, в частности, упоминается Айрат Хайруллин как участник «нелёгких долей» в 99 аграрных предприятиях (при том, что в декларации указано 43), из которых 24 учреждены в период исполнения депутатских полномочий, а ООО «Солнцево Нива» создано 13 августа 2012 года — во время работы Госдумы 6 Созыва. Также Айрат Хайруллин указан в списке лидера партии «Яблоко» Сергея Митрохина как депутат, получивший бизнес во время своих полномочий.

Известные адреса

 Казань, Ипподромная улица, дом 13/99.

Примечания

Ссылки

Депутаты Государственной думы Российской Федерации от одномандатных округов
Депутаты Государственной думы Российской Федерации IV созыва
Депутаты Государственной думы Российской Федерации V созыва
Депутаты Государственной думы Российской Федерации VI созыва
Персоналии:Молочная промышленность
Предприниматели России
Миллиардеры России
Члены «Единой России»
Депутаты Государственной думы Российской Федерации VII созыва
Погибшие в авиакатастрофах в России
Похороненные в Казани


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« Part 2: Interview with Steven Brown, author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating"
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Interview with Steven Kerry Brown, author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating"
Saddened to learn today that Steven Kerry Brown passed away on Christmas day. I knew his name and reputation before I met him, first over the phone when he called to hire us for a case in Colorado. Later, we met in person at a writers conference. Over the years we'd occasionally chat about fiction writing as both of us were crafting private eye novels.
Below is a piece I wrote about Steven around 2013 when he was battling cancer, followed by a two-part interview I did with him in 2009.
Steven Kerry Brown
Steven Kerry Brown is a former FBI special agent and supervisory special agent, founder and president of Millennial Investigative Agency in Florida, novelist, author of magazine articles and nonfiction books, blogger, and has spent two years as captain of a sixty-foot ketch running sailing charters in the Bahamas.
He's appeared on such television programs as Hard Copy and 60 Minutes, and is the author of one of the best books on private investigations around (The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating — its third edition was released March 2013). He is also the author of 5 Things Women Need to Know About the Men They Date, released in April 2013.
The Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating
The first time I met Steven was back in 2004 when he called our agency and retained our services for an investigative task in Colorado. The prior year I had attended an intensive, 16-week on-site investigative course that used the The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating in its course material. I had read that book front to back, then back to front, scribbled notes in the margins, re-read — and then re-read again — numerous sections to ensure my grasp of a topic. Steven writes in a clear, straightforward manner, and sprinkles factual material with his own personal experiences.
That same year, I took another course on process service. One day, the instructor played a Q&A game with the class — the prize for the most correct answers was a copy of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating.
So a year later, when the author called out of the blue and requested our P.I. services, I was honored.
Writing the Private Eye Novel
Years later, Steven's and my paths crossed again, but this time as novelists. We both have written private-eye genre novels, and have chatted off and on about agents, publishers, even WordPress. He co-authors the blog Handcuffed to the Ocean with several other writers, one being James N. Frey, a novelist and author of one of the better books on fiction writing, How to Write a Damn Good Novel.
Undergoing a Bone Marrow Transplant
Over the past few years, I've grown to admire Steven even more for his gutsy perseverance as he's undergone a bone marrow transplant. Below is the beginning of a post he wrote last June:
I'm sitting here at 11 pm eating out of a carton of Edy's Double Fudge Brownie ice cream. Got to love life. On Saturday June 15 I passed the one year mark since some nice guy over in Germany donated his bone marrow stem cells to me. I haven't checked the statistics this year but when I agreed to enter the BMT Clinic at Shands Cancer Institute in Gainesville, Florida the mortality rate for bone marrow transplant patients was fairly high.
Many of Steven's friends and colleagues in the P.I. industry have contributed to his Bone Marrow Transplant Fund to help with the $500,000 in expenses for this procedure. Recently, there have been complications, which Steven wrote about in September 2013 — below is the beginning of that post:
I really thought I would have my immune system back by now. Most of the BMT transplant patients I've met received their shots by the end of the first year. But, now I'm convinced that I may never get it back. I've had a few set backs these last few weeks. I encountered a big flare up of GVHD that took over my entire torso. The doctors put me back on prednisone and other immune suppressant medication. I told the doctors I'd rather have the GVHD than the prednisone. But they said this flare up was life threatening, so I really didn't have a choice.
Despite what he's going through, his humor shines through—check out this poem to his doctors (posted on his September 2013 blog):
I wrote a little poem for the doctors about GVHD.
Itch, itch, Itch,
Like a son of a
Bitch, bitch, bitch.
By the way, this post includes photos of his symptoms (he does this to help others who might be contemplating a bone marrow transplant). Be forewarned—these photos are graphic.
At the end of this post, Steven writes:
Thanks for the well wishes and the donations. I promise as soon as I can I'll get back to investigating the Haleigh Cummings case. I do have more posts on that coming up soon.
Amazes me that while dealing with his health challenges over the last year+ he has also self-published one nonfiction book and revised another. Puts the notion of "writer's block" to shame.
Now to the 2009 interview with P.I.-author Steven Kerry Brown…
Guns, Gams, and Gumshoes: Good morning, Steven, and welcome to Guns, Gams, and Gumshoes. First, we have to say that The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating is one of our favorite resource books. As we haven't seen this second edition, we imagine you've updated it with more technology and tools–saying that, what is one of the more useful technological techniques you've recently started using in your investigative work?
Steven: There are three really useful techniques that are relatively new that I use a lot. Two of them I describe in detail in my book. The first is the GPS tracking device. Below is a photo with the unit in a waterproof Pelican case and a 50 pound pull magnet and a long life lithium-ion battery pack. (Not much larger than a man's hand.)
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I set this unit (I have two of them) to report in every 10 minutes. I change the batteries out once a week. I also have the capability of clicking on "tracking now" on the unit's website and receive a real-time location of where the unit is. So you or your client can sit in front of their computer and see where the unit is at any given time. Of course, the primary use of this is in family law cases. Even though Florida is a "no fault" divorce state (meaning that proof of adultery doesn't have a real impact on property settlement), still the client needs to know the facts of their situation before they can make an informed decision. Hence, using the GPS to track the spouse.
We follow-up the use of the GPS with a little judicious surveillance. Even though the GPS will tell us where the spouse is, it won't tell us who he/she is with, so a few photos of the spouse and the other party will usually do the trick. And don't be fooled by clichés. There are not more men than women committing adultery. We find it splits about 50-50.
The second technique I like a lot is Spoofing Caller ID. Now you have to be careful with this as it is now illegal in some states, like Florida, if you spoof a caller ID with the intent to deceive. How does it work and how do I use it? You can do a web search on Spoofing Caller ID and find lots of folks who will sell you spoofing time. I use Spoofcard.com For $5.00 you get 25 minutes of spoofing time. Basically spoofing caller ID means that you can use this service to call a target number and the incoming caller ID will display any number you want it to show. The technology behind it is the spoofing company uses Voice Over IP (VOIP) to make the call and in doing so can send whatever Caller ID data you want sent. (You can find full details in the CIG to PI pages 184-188)
How do you use caller ID spoofing? Well, you might for instance, want to see if a certain person is at a particular residence. Before the law changed in Florida, I called a witness to a case that I needed to talk to. He wouldn't answer my calls so I spoofed my number to look like his mother's phone was calling him. He answered the call.
The third technique I like only works on cell phone numbers. You can use this service and it will bypass the phone and go directly to the cell phone's voice mail. That way you can hear the message on the voice mail and sometimes figure out who the phone belongs to without them ever knowing you called the phone. It's not perfect and your number might show up as a missed call on their phone. The service is called Slydial and their number is 267-759-3425. It's free, give it a try. A database only available to PIs called Skip Smasher, has a much improved version of this service which will not leave your number on the target's phone as a missed call and it will record the voice mail message for you. I love it and use it often. Kudos to SkipSmasher.com.
(Note from WritingPIs: Because of Steven's recommendation, we began using Skip Smasher, too. Still use it to this day. It's owned and operated by Robert Scott, a licensed private investigator.)
End of interview, Part 1. In Part 2, Steven discusses the recession and private eyes, crafting non-fiction vs. fiction, and how much real-world PI dirt he puts into a fictional-world PI story.
Link to his book:
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition
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Egypt is now having her fight against brutality, corruption, and dictatorship. For sure, it is not a walk in the park, but your love, devotion, and compassion will make it a little easier, a little brighter.
I might say that Egyptians have crossed, once again as they did in 1919, a gloomy door in between fear and courage, darkness and light. They made their big debut step with tears and blood, and the marathon isn't finished yet: there's a long run we have to go, and we are so keen to do it, and we will not let anybody turn us again to point zero. In 1919 there was a great revolution against colonialism; in 2011 it's a revolution against a regime which you can describe just as ugly as colonialism itself.
As our grandfathers fought in 1919 for our independence, we too are fighting for this for the generations to come. We are fighting for a place where humans and their rights are respected, a place under the sun where our daughters and sons will be proud to be a part of, proud to live in, and proud to build up.
What I wish to say is that you, being Americans, should know that the main ally for Mubarak, and for the SCAF, is your administration. I call you to do whatever you see as valuable to make people around you acknowledge this truth: SCAF is even worse than Mubarak, and the US is backing it.
The SCAF doesn't hesitate to kill innocent Muslims and Copts, has court marshaled more than 13,000 Egyptians, sexually harasses and assaults activists, and in the protests which are taking place now in Tahrir there have been 42 people killed and more than 3,000 people injured until this very moment. The SCAF does all of this to keep itself, by any means, above the law, above the state, above any elected parliament or president.
The US has a responsibility, a direct responsibility, for what SCAF is doing, being the donor of 1.2 BILLION dollars every 12 months, which makes a fifth of the whole SCAF budget (Yes! Their budget can reach something like 6 BILLION dollars every year), and if the US is genuine in saying they support the Egyptian people, and they are eager to help them reach democracy, they must show real action, not just offer pretty, sweet words.
I am not trying to incite the American administration to fight our war because we are already fighting it -in Tahrir, in Alexandria, in Suez, in Upper Egypt, and even on streets as small as Muhammad Mahmoud, for nearly over a year now. And as a matter of fact, I never count on administrations or governments; I always count on you, the people.
We just need you, all of you, to spread awareness of what's happening in Egypt now.
I, personally, thank you so much for being here for us. That will always remind me that we are all humans, and we all share the same yearning for justice and love.
This statement is to be read today, 28th of November 2011 in a demonestration for supporting the Egyptian people in front of the Egyptian embassy, Washington DC. Organized by Occupy Wall Street.
- My thanks goes to my dear freid Meaghan Conner who edited this.


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Thomas Everett Rayfield, Jr.
April 2, 1946 ~ January 8, 2021 (age 74)
Thomas Everett Rayfield, Jr., passed away January 8, 2021 at Catawba Valley Medical Center. Thomas was born on April 2, 1946 in Gaston County to the late Thomas Everett and Lona Bell Rayfield, Sr. He was retired from the textile industry and was a proud veteran who served his country in the U.S. Army.
Thomas is survived by one sister, Gloria Dean Seagle, two nephews; Ivey Dale Pressley and Michael Allen Pressley, two grand nephews; Christopher Pressley and Nathaniel Pressley, one grand niece, Kendall Pressley, one great-grand nephew, Theo Butch, and many other cherished relatives and friends.
The Rayfield family will have a graveside service at 1:00 pm on January 13, 2021 at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Lincolnton. E.F. Drum Funeral Home is serving the Rayfield family.
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Let's consider how the president's words have encouraged violence.
The counterprotesters in Charlottesville — one of whom was killed — are implicitly among the "they" in this speech.
Fear and anger defined Trump's candidacy and continue to define his presidency, as in other recent speeches condemning the media, the president's political opponents, immigrants and the left.
The language Trump uses resembles the language Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is currently using to galvanize anti-protest violence, declaring his willingness to take up arms in patriotic terms: "If Venezuela was plunged into chaos and violence and the Bolivarian Revolution destroyed, we would go to combat… We would never give up, and what couldn't be done with votes, we would do with weapons." Trump's language also echoes language right-wing extremist and white supremacist groups use to define the conditions under which violence — toward the government or toward other citizens they see as enemies — becomes legitimate in their worldview.
Trump's rhetoric doesn't come out of nowhere. Going back at least to the "southern strategy" in the 1960s, the GOP has spent decades mobilizing fear and anger. As candidates, Republican presidents like George H.W. Bush leveraged fear to secure votes from the white, Christian, male and ideologically extreme demographic to offset the party's growing distance from an increasingly diverse and progressive American society. Trump's use of the same tropes is not an aberration, but the culmination of this tactic.
By mirroring extremists' language, Trump encourages groups already primed for violence by suggesting that the enemy and the situation they have prepared for are present here and now. By refusing to clearly denounce the extremists — and suggesting a moral equivalency between right-wing violence and counterprotesters — he further excuses and reinforces the idea that the right's violence is defensible, honorable and legitimate.
We've heard this language from within the "patriot movement" for a long time.
Consider the following words, spoken by Timothy McVeigh in an interview explaining why he bombed the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and wounding nearly 700 more.
Every extremist group in history describes its own violence as the legitimate response to a threat that was forced on them. In a South African white supremacist paramilitary training camp, recruits are told "South Africa is bleeding… And this is why we have to train our people to be prepared. There's millions and millions of blacks around you, smothering you… and killing you… So you have to implement certain systems to survive…" This is the same sentiment reflected in the Rhodesian flag worn by the white supremacist Dylann Roof, convicted of killing nine worshippers at an African-American church in South Carolina.
When right-wing extremists and white supremacists view Trump critics, "liberals" and progressive protesters as enemies of the state — and therefore legitimate targets — they feel emboldened to demonstrate more overtly. Indeed, Trump's anti-elite accusations and claims that the "lying media" is the enemy of the American people hold significantly the same meaning as McVeigh's words.
American extremist websites exhort the belief that they are defending the Constitution, stopping the theft of the political process from the people and resisting takeover by hostile powers. They draw on the narrative that true Americans are not only able but expected to throw off such oppression.
Even before 20-year-old James Alex Fields drove his car into the crowd on August 12, individual acts of violence linked to racism and extremist American politics were on the increase. In Trump's presidency, a pattern of increasing hate crimes has continued to grow.
In Charlottesville, white supremacists shouted "Jews will not replace us." Meanwhile, Eric Trump denounces his father's critics as "not even people." They're the same dehumanizing echoes used to justify levels of violence from cruelty to genocide.
As criticism for Trump's Charlottesville stance grows, his popularity wanes. The president is becoming increasingly reliant on campaign-style speeches to connect with those who still support him. We must be on guard for the rhetoric of theft and threat, and the implicit call to violence, to intensify.
Many years of experience in dealing with extremism has taught me the threat can be reduced — first and foremost through consistent political involvement by the greatest possible number of people; a strong, united stand against fear and anger; and communication between communities and security providers.
The Department of Homeland Security's focus on analyzing and countering domestic terrorism, dismantled under Trump, should be rebuilt. The October 2016 strategy for countering violent extremism, which stresses community policing and inclusive governance, should be expanded and improved as a model for cities and states as well as the nation.
Political radicalism isn't inherently bad. Indeed, the American Revolution wouldn't have happened without it. The violence perpetrated by domestic radicals, however, cannot be condoned. A former IRA soldier in Northern Ireland once told me of the peace process there, "just because a wave breaks on the beach doesn't mean the tide isn't going out." For Americans horrified at this violence, it's important to remember that there is no endpoint in politics — only process. What's wrong now can be changed.
This is an updated version of an article originally published on May 31, 2016.
David Alpher is adjunct professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.