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Iowa Cop Killer Accused Black Teens of Being "Cop Haters"
Iowa Cop Killer Accused Black Teens of Being "Cop Haters" for not Standing for National Anthem.
It was only last month that Scott Michael Greene accused a group of black teenagers of being "cop haters" because they did not stand for the National Anthem during a high school football game.
But Iowa police say it was only this morning that he shot and killed two cops in cold blood as they sat in their patrol cars.
Greene, 46, was arrested a few hours later after an intense manhunt, according to the New York Post.
Greene was apparently angry at police after they had kicked him out of the football game for waving a Confederate flag in front of a group of black students in Urbandale on October 14, 2016.
Two days later, he posted a video to YouTube from the encounter titled, "Police Abuse, Civil Rights Violation at Urbandale High School 10/14/16."
In the video, he tries to explain to the cops kicking him out that he was doing nothing more than expressing his First Amendment rights to wave the Confederate flag.
He also said he was assaulted and had his flag stolen from him.
But police said he was causing a disturbance and that he would be arrested for trespassing on school property if he did not leave. They also returned his flag to him.
While they agreed he had a Constitutional right to wave the flag, they informed him that on school grounds, he was subject to school policies that did not allow the waving of the Confederate flag.
Less than a week ago, he stated in the comments section of his video that he was "offended by the blacks sitting through our anthem" and referred to them as being "cop haters."
But now he is a suspected cop killer.
The first cop he is accused of killing was sitting in a car just outside Urbandale High School, according to the Washington Post. The second cop was found dead two miles away.
Greene has a history of arrests, including one incident where he threatened to kill a black man after calling him a racial slur. He also went though mental evaluation and was placed on medication.
According to the Des Moines Register:
He was charged with a simple misdemeanor count of interference with official acts on April 10, 2014, when he resisted an attempt by officers to pat him down for weapons at an Urbandale residence on Colby Parkway, according to a criminal complaint. The officers wanted to search Greene after noticing that he had a pouch on his belt that resembled a holster.
Greene was "noncompliant, hostile, combative and made furtive movements toward his pockets" before the arrest, Officer Chris Greenfield wrote in the complaint. Greene pleaded guilty to the charge about two weeks later.
The complaint does not indicate why officers initially came into contact with Greene. But two days later he reportedly threatened to kill a man in the parking lot of the same apartment complex and he was charged with first-degree harassment, according to another complaint.
In that incident, Greene was accused of approaching a man in the parking lot and shined a flashlight in his eyes. Greene, who lived in the apartments, called the man the N-word and told the man "I will kill you, (expletive) kill you," according to the complaint. Greene pleaded guilty to a lesser harassment charge on June 30, 2014, and was sentenced to one year of probation.
In a discharge report filed in June 2015 a probation officer wrote that Greene had received a mental health evaluation and "reports to have complied with the medication recommendations."
Below is the video he posted on YouTube along with a screenshot of his comment referring to the black teens as cop haters.
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Khurram Husain
A SLEW of numbers in the past few days got a few people excited that the economy has turned the corner and now lay on the path of growth. Among these people was the prime minister himself, who told his audience in Gilgit-Baltistan that the economy is now "on the right track" and he will redouble his energy towards ensuring "accountability".
More current data on the state of industrial output in the month of October is still awaited, but in the meantime a leading cement magnate appeared on air and listed a number of data points that show an uptick in the pace of industrial activity. Cement despatches were rising, he said, both for domestic consumption as well as for exports. In addition, allied industries like paints, steel, household fixtures, tiles and so on were also seeing a large uptick he said. The numbers are supported by other data releases that show factory activity picking up, such as cars and motorbikes.
The data on industrial output was supported by a string of corporate results announcements in the month of October that showed profitability returning to listed companies. By one estimate put out by a leading brokerage firm, companies in the KSE 100 Index reported profits surged by 51.6 per cent in the period July to September 2020, compared to the preceding three months that were spent largely in the doldrums because of the lockdowns.
So in September, they crowed about the current account surplus to argue that the economy has been stabilised. In October, they are getting ready to celebrate an uptick in the pace of industrial activity to argue that the "economy is on the right track" and good times are returning. And for a brief moment, they can even make it seem like all this is true.
Usually when all is well the Fund is not the place where governments go.
But let's ask a simple question. If the economy is "on the right track", the external deficit has been eliminated and reserves are relatively stable, why is the government actively engaged in talks with the IMF? Usually when all is well the Fund is not the place where governments go.
Fact of the matter is that all the improvements in corporate profitability and pace of industrial output are fleeting phenomena that come and go in our economy, usually as the result of active inducements from the government. Flip through the headlines of the past decade, and you will find numerous months in 2012, for example, where the government touted a current account surplus as one of its big achievements.
"[W]e have succeeded in achieving economic stabilisation and are now confident that growth will soon resume to its potential," finance adviser Hafeez Shaikh declared during his budget speech in June 2012. "At the outset, let me state that Pakistan has a stable macroeconomic framework. We have maintained a stable external position which we have managed in the absence of IMF disbursement during the last two years. We have returned $1.2 billion in loans from the IMF. Yet we have adequate reserves, our exchange rate is relatively stable, our exports have again performed remarkably well and our remittances are increasing."
Notice how closely the language resembles the way they tout their achievements today. Even the person doing the touting is the same. But sadly, the year after these words were spoken, in the very year when the current account had been stabilised and the country had run one of the biggest monthly current account surpluses (larger in fact than the one they have just registered), the country was once again preparing for its 12th approach to the IMF for emergency support.
It's the same with indicators that show an uptick in the pace of factory output. Given state-led inducement — subsidised interest rates, power and fuel coupled with tax and duty exemptions — factory output can pick up quickly. If you think the profits and output being touted these days are impressive, take a look at the data from the period of Ishaq Dar for comparison. Those manufacturing outputs were larger and purchased at a smaller cost to the exchequer, but they were fleeting and disappeared as soon as the deficits they gave birth to — fiscal and external — became unmanageable.
The question today is not how much factory output has increased by. The question is what has changed in the underlying economy to make this uptick sustainable. Have we seen any improvements in competitiveness, or reforms in the power sector, or broadening of the tax base, to take just three examples that come readily to mind? If the answer is no, than raw output increases driven by large government-subsidised inducements are little more than a transfer of public resources into the pockets of the rich. Massive schemes for such transfers are frequently seen under military governments in the past, mainly to buy the support of the rentier elite that rules our economy, but in these years we have seen democratic governments also begin resorting to the same tactics.
The problem is, there is an impending IMF programme, which is likely to put an end to much of the largesse that underlies the nascent dynamism underway in the economy. After that, the political difficulties settling upon the government threaten to absorb its energies and focus, which could raise the transaction costs of continuing down the present course.
But above all, the newfound uptick in industrial activity is matched by an equal, if not larger, slump in agriculture. First we saw the massive disruption of food supplies, leading to inflation which drove imports which in turn weighed on the reserves. Now we're seeing a looming cotton crop failure, necessitating further resort to imports to keep the textile exports going. The opposing fortunes of industry and agriculture point most directly to the fact that this uptick owes itself to targeted inducements rather than some sort of an organic revival of the economy. And as such, it cannot last without throwing the macroeconomic stability off balance once again.
The writer is a member of staff.
khurram.husain@gmail.com
Twitter: @khurramhusain
Published in Dawn, November 5th, 2020
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November 5, 2018 by singapore
SINGAPORE – Razer is involved in the development of e-sport in the region, said co-founder and Chief Executive of Tan Min-Liang on Facebook on Saturday (3 November).
Tan defended his commitment to invest 10 million RM ($ 3.3 million) in Malaysian eSports, which sparked criticism from Singapore Internet users for not contributing to the local e-sport scene.
Razer CEO's investment commitment came after the Malaysian finance minister Lim Guan Enga on budget 2019, where he announced that the Malaysian government has allocated RM 10 million to the Malaysian digital economy for e-sport.
Mr. Tan said on Friday that it is "an incredibly progressive budget for Malaysia" and expressed his commitment to "bringing e-sport to the next level".
In his post on Facebook, he said that Razer is "probably one of the biggest e-sport supporters in Singapore", noting that the game company sponsored the e-sports Hyperplay, SEA Majors and PVP eSports Championships this year.
Mr. Tan also said that Razer actively supports local e-sport athletes such as Ho Kun Xian, a professional Street Fighter player.
Razer has hundreds of employees in Singapore, some of whom have been hired specifically for e-sports, he said, adding that Razer will continue to invest in e-sport in Singapore and the rest of the world.
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Pressure Cooker Cincinnati Chili - Easy Skyline Chili!
Pressure Cooker Cincinnati Chili is unique in several ways, not least because of the unusual combination of chili spices that at first glance might seem more at home in apple pie than a pressure cooker ground beef chili!
Most recipes contain allspice and cinnamon and many also contain chocolate or cocoa powder, though I've omitted the latter in my version.
But it's not only the the interesting array of spices and flavors that set Cincinnati Chili apart from others, what really makes it different from other chili recipes I've come across is that the ground beef is boiled and not browned, and more often than not the kidney beans are not cooked with the beef but served as one of many optional toppings.
Cincinnati Chili as the name suggests is a dish that's much beloved and hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, but it's origins come all the way from Macedonia and date back to 1922.
Tom and John Kiradjieff originally created the chili to serve over the top of hot dogs from their hot dog stand, but eventually, they created the famous Cincinnati Chili sauce in their Empress restaurant and served it over the top of a plate of spaghetti.
Years later in 1949, a former employee of theirs and Greek immigrant, Nicholas Lambrinides, started Skyline Chili which has now become almost synonymous with Cincinnati chili, though there are many other chili chain restaurants with similar offerings.
I don't like pouring off the fat after browning ground beef as you are also throwing away a lot of the flavor that's included in the meat juices. As this recipe does not brown the beef first I recommend that you use a 90% lean ground beef which has enough fat to lend plenty flavor, but you won't see it floating on the top of the meat sauce.
Another tip if you prefer to cook with ground beef with a higher fat content is to make this a day ahead and let it sit overnight in the fridge then it will be much simpler to remove as much fat as you prefer.
Do not put the tomato sauce into the pressure cooker first as it has a tendency to burn on the bottom of the pot and this may prevent it from coming to pressure, so it's best to add it after it's come to pressure and while you are simmering it.
Many of the authentic recipes for Cincinnati Chili add chocolate in some form, so if you'd like to add it to your version I'd suggest the addition of 2-3 tablespoons of cocoa powder along with the other spices.
Another tip if you want to make a Paleo version, simply omit the Worcestershire Sauce, replace the brown sugar with coconut sugar, and serve over the top of zoodles instead of spaghetti. The image above shows it served over zoodles in the top right bowl.
What is Five Way Cincinnati Chili?
If you visit a restaurant serving Cincinnati Chili they will usually have several options for ordering your chili and they include various toppings in a set order.
Sometimes they are also topped off with oyster crackers, but as we are making a gluten free version that's not an option here. I also went with a white Monterey Jack cheese as my kids prefer that, but the traditionally it's just topped with regular cheddar cheese.
A quick and easy Pressure Cooker Cincinnati Chili recipe that's been adapted for your Instant Pot or Electric Pressure Cooker.
Turn on the saute function in your Instant Pot or pressure cooker and add the oil and then cook the onions until soft, about 5 minutes.
Add garlic, chili powder, oregano, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
Next, add chicken broth, cider vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper then stir in the ground beef - make sure you add it in broken up into pieces, not in one big slab. Then add the tomato paste on the top.
When the cook time time is up allow the pressure to drop on its own (NPR - natural pressure release) for about 10 minutes, then release the rest of the pressure before opening.
After you open the lid add the tomato sauce and stir well to combine.
The chili will still be fairly liquid at this point, I find it's much more flavorful if you let it simmer on a low heat (I chose the lowest saute setting on the Instant pot) until the liquid reduces and it thickens up, It only took about 5-10 minutes for mine to thicken up.
Serve over gluten free spaghetti with your toppings of choice.
Servings - It assumes 8 servings and is does not include the spaghetti, or any of the other toppings including beans.
Beans - In a Cincinnati Chili the beans are usually served on top of the meat, but if like me you don't mind either way you can simply add them with the meat when it cooks, or warm them through at the end when you add the tomato sauce.
This was SO good, I can't wait to make it again!!! I have no idea if it's a legit Cincinnati Chili (never been there) but it tasted fantastic so this is going on our regular dinner rotation.


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María Eugenia Cerutti is an Argentinean photographer. She has worked at the Clarín newspaper since 1998. She was a finalist for the New Iberoamerican Journalism Award in 2006 for her work entitled "U 31 - Cárcel de mujeres." She co-authored the book, 132.000 volts, el caso Ezpeleta.
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Elizabeth Jelin is a Ph.D. in Sociology, Senior Researcher at CONICET and Director of the Ph.D Program on Social Sciences at the National University of General Sarmiento and the Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES), Argentina.
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Where does South Africa 2010 rank compared to other World Cups?
This has probably been the best World Cup since France 98 but it still falls a long way short of others in the pantheon
Sean Ingle
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Sun 11 Jul 2010 10.14 EDT First published on Sun 11 Jul 2010 10.14 EDT
South Africa 2010 ... a long way behind Mexico 86? Photograph: Staff/AFP
So where does this World Cup rank in the pantheon? It's probably a question best asked in a few months' time, when the tournament – like a Christmas Day Shiraz – has had time to breathe, and the essential accomplices, such as Cris Freddi's Complete Book of the World Cup and Fifa's official tournament DVDs, have been called to duty again. My instinct, however, is that this has been a middling-to-decent World Cup, but no more.
As I've argued before in a piece that this article regurgitates heavily, what makes a classic tournament is fiercely subjective. But the following are surely necessities: humdingers that scramble your equilibrium like a check hook to the temple, did-you-see-that individual performances, superb goals, a balance between epic matches and jaw-slumping shocks, a nod to the thrill of the new, and, perhaps most importantly of all, great matches between great teams when it really matters.
South Africa 2010 has had its moments - Germany's shock pummellings of England then Argentina; Ghana's free-running football; Spain, after a stodgy start, showing why they lost just once in 45 matches before the tournament; Brazil's second-half implosion against Holland; Diego Maradona's virtuoso press conferences, the unity of support for the Bafana Bafana – but also its frustrations. The Jabulani beach-ball soaring repeatedly into the stands. The lack of great goals. The vuvuzelas' unilateral sound – a belching didgeridoo – forcefully imposed on every match. Too many teams, particularly in the early stages, regressively stuffing players into their own half, afraid of going forward for fear of allowing too much light in. The average goals per game for the entire tournamenet ended up at 2.27, the lowest ever except for Italia 90 (2.21). And then there was the horrible final.
But what this tournament has had, which was painfully lacking in Korea/Japan and Germany, has been goals in the knockout stages. Excluding the largely irrelevant third-place play-off, there have been 37 of them in 15 matches (an average of 2.46 a game). That's still a decent way behind Mexico 70 (4.71 goals per game) and more recent vintages, such as USA 1994 (2.93 goals a game) and France 98 (2.80 goals per game), but it's a lot better than we've gotten used to.
As I wrote four years ago, in the group stages of Japan/Korea 2002, there were shocks, goals, exciting games – and a scattering shake-up of the world order. France and Argentina, the pre-tournament favourites, humbled, humiliated; South Korea, Senegal and the US holding ambitions that were fantasies two weeks previously. Everyone agrees: this World Cup could go down as a classic. Then, a few hours later, Germany v Paraguay kicks off and cold caution kicks in. The dingy 1-0 sets a precedent; thereafter results read like binary code – 0s and 1s and 1s and 0s – and not much else. In the end there are just 25 goals in 15 knockout games (excluding the irrelevant third-place play-off) and just one classic – Italy v South Korea. And soon another consensus is reached: this World Cup has been dire.
Ditto Germany 2006, where group games were followed by knockout stages characterised by timidity and turgidity. Again there were only 25 goals in 15 games, and only one absolute belter – Italy v Germany. As I wrote at the time, I lived and loved every minute in Germany: the random chats with strangers; the frenetic four-hour blur of match-watching, writing and interviewing; the midnight stagger out of the stadium and into a hotel bed. Even the 7am starts to catch the Deutsche Bahn to a new match in a new city. But while the atmosphere in the country was utterly memorable, the football wasn't. It didn't help that the top five Fifa World Players of the Year for 2005 – Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Frank Lampard, Adriano and Andriy Shevchenko – all disappointed.
This time round, the football from the last 16 has been more expansive and attacking-minded, and for this reason South Africa 2010 probably sneaks slightly ahead of Japan/Korea 2002 and Germany 2006 in my internal rankings. As I've mentioned previously, others romanticise Italia 90, but for me it was overly cynical and cautious – West Germany were brilliant, especially in their 4-1 demolition of a Yugoslavia side containing Robert Prosinecki, Dejan Savicevic and Dragan Stojkovic, but no one else really was. And, the Germans' spit-soaked 2-1 win over Holland, England's 3-2 win over Cameroon and their epic semi-final with West Germany apart, blockbusters were scarce. However the underrated USA 94 (Romania 3-2 Argentina, Italy 2-1 Nigeria, Italy 2-1 Spain and Bulgaria 2-1 Germany) and France 98 (Nigeria 3-2 Spain, Argentina 2-2 England, Holland 2-1 Argentina and Brazil 1-1 Holland) were a good deal better than this year's vintage.
But of the eight World Cups I've watched, Mexico 86 and España 82 glow warmest of all. Mexico had its plunging lows, as anyone that stayed awake through the twin tediums of West Germany v Morocco and West Germany v Mexico will remember. But they were spectacularly trumped by the magic moments – France 1-1 USSR and Denmark 6-1 Uruguay in the group stages, followed by Belgium 4-3 USSR, Spain 5-1 Denmark, Argentina 2-1 England and, of course, France 1-1 Brazil, a game Pele described as the greatest he'd ever seen.
España 82 wasn't far behind. Even now iconic images linger in the memory: David Narey's wonder-strike against Brazil, and the seleção's sizzling riposte, including Eder's featherduster chip over a statuesque Alan Rough; the creative genius of Zico, Falcao and Socrates; Marco Tardelli's tears in the final. There were great games too, especially in the ultimate group of death, which saw Brazil, Argentina and Italy play winner takes all, as well as a wildly exciting semi-final between West Germany and France. There was dross too, including Italy's grinding group draws and the shabby West Germany v Austria stitch-up, but for me, as a seven-year-old boy, there seemed to be a million moments of awed wonder.
Perhaps that's the key. And World Cups, like Christmases, are always better when you're a kid. But, in 20 years' time, if some young buck hails South Africa as the best they've ever seen, I doubt I'll be joining them.
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Ptychoglossus danieli est une espèce de sauriens de la famille des Gymnophthalmidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce est endémique du département d'Antioquia en Colombie. Elle se rencontre entre  et  d'altitude dans le Nord de la cordillère Centrale.

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur du frère Daniel Gonzalez Patiño (1909–1988).

Publication originale
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Saurien (nom scientifique)
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NewsFlash - India Retail MarketView - H1, 2014
Delhi's Connaught Place slips to 8th position in the Costliest Global Office Markets Ranking
NewsFlash - India Office Market View Q2, 2014
The quarter saw an approximately 26% increase in quarter-on-quarter total office space absorption across these prime locations
New Delhi, July 2, 2014: CBRE's India Office Market View for Q2 2014 reports on the status of investment-grade office spaces in the country's leading cities. The quarter saw an approximately 26% increase in quarter-on-quarter total office space absorption across these prime locations, from a little more than 6 million sq. ft. in Q1 2014 to nearly 8 million sq. ft. in Q2 2014—signaling the generation of reasonable employment opportunities. New Grade A office space addition, meanwhile, grew by 3% q-o-q across the seven leading cities, to stand at nearly 7 million sq. ft. in Q2 2014.
The following are the key points from the report:
Transaction activity improved on the back of increased occupier activity. Most investment-grade office markets saw an increase in absorption levels, with Bangalore, the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) and Pune attracting more than 70% of the total office space requirements of corporate occupiers during the second quarter.
The IT/ITeS, banking/financial services, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals sectors continued to drive demand for Grade A office space in Q2 2014 across the leading cities. These sectors are likely to remain the prime demand drivers in the forthcoming quarters too.
Bangalore led new office space supply in the second quarter. The IT City, together with Mumbai and Hyderabad, contributed to more than 80% of the total corporate office supply completed across the top seven cities during the quarter under review. Going forward, significant office space is expected to reach completion in the decentralized locations of leading cities.
Rental values exhibited mixed trends. Rental values in the CBDs of most leading cities remained stable during Q2 2014, while appreciating by around 5–6% in the core areas of MG Road/Residency Road in Bangalore owing to sustained occupier interest. Meanwhile, rentals dipped by 2–4% in Mumbai's Nariman Point, Bandra–Kundra Complex BKC, Worli and Prabhadevi, mainly due to weak occupier demand and existing vacancy pressures. Going forward, supply backlogs are likely to pressurize rental values across most micro-markets in the short to medium term.
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pytest 5.3.1 has just been released to PyPI.

This is a bug-fix release, being a drop-in replacement. To upgrade::

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The full changelog is available at https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release, among them:

* Anthony Sottile
* Bruno Oliveira
* Daniel Hahler
* Felix Yan
* Florian Bruhin
* Mark Dickinson
* Nikolay Kondratyev
* Steffen Schroeder
* Zac Hatfield-Dodds

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Underhanded maneuvers to repeal the Clean Power Pl...
Underhanded maneuvers to repeal the Clean Power Plan put Americans' lives and health at risk
« Five takeaways from Scott Pruitt's reported proposal to revoke the Clean Power Plan
The Clean Power Plan's enormous climate benefits – in one graphic »
By Rama Zakaria / Bio / Published: October 9, 2017
(EDF's Ben Levitan co-authored this post)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt says he will sign a proposal tomorrow to repeal the Clean Power Plan – America's only nationwide limits on carbon pollution from fossil fuel power plants.
If the proposal matches what we've already seen in a leaked draft, it would be one of the most deeply harmful and reckless actions an EPA Administrator has ever taken. It would cost thousands of American lives, harm public health in myriad other ways, and lead to years of costly delays in combating the urgent threat of climate change.
Administrator Pruitt would have to go to great lengths to obscure and ignore these harmful consequences. When EPA issued the Clean Power Plan in 2015, it estimated that the plan would create up to $54 billion in annual benefits, including:
The prevention of up to 3,600 premature deaths every year
The prevention of 90,000 childhood asthma attacks every year
The prevention of 300,000 missed school and work days every year.
By comparison, EPA concluded that the annual costs would be much lower. And in the two years since the Clean Power Plan was issued, new analyses – including this one from New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity – have concluded that compliance with the Clean Power Plan has become dramatically cheaper as a result of the plummeting costs of clean energy.
Yet the draft proposal for repealing the Clean Power Plan seems to rely on a significantly higher costs estimate, and much lower benefits. How is that possible?
A careful look at the numbers shows that the Administrator Pruitt's EPA cooked the books for this proposal. They used discredited methodologies to artificially inflate costs, and to mask the consequences for our climate and obscure the thousands of lives that could be lost as a result of their repeal of the Clean Power Plan.
Here are four tactics that Administrator Pruitt has employed in the leaked proposal to inflate the costs and hide the benefits of the Clean Power Plan:
1. Disregarding lives saved by the Clean Power Plan
EPA's original analysis of the Clean Power Plan found that it would avoid thousands of premature deaths each year by reducing particulate matter pollution – yielding up to $34 billion in annual health benefits in 2030.
According to the American Lung Association, particulate matter pollution causes permanent damage to lung development in children, aggravates asthma and other respiratory problems, increases hospitalizations, and increases deaths from heart and lung diseases including lung cancer.
The Clean Power Plan would reduce exposure to this pollution across the country – avoiding these health harms and premature deaths.
Administrator Pruitt's draft proposal assumes away those benefits by asserting – contrary to established medical research – that there is zero health impact from reducing particulate matter pollution below certain "threshold" levels. The proposal also suggests that EPA can count only the climate benefits associated with carbon pollution, with no consideration to any health benefits at all.
This claim that there is a "threshold" level of particulate pollution below which it does not harm human health is directly contradicted by the American Heart Association and was completely discredited many years ago by an expert panel convened by EPA under the George W. Bush Administration. It also runs contrary to EPA's long-standing practice.
As EPA itself recently explained in a court brief:
The best scientific evidence, confirmed by independent, Congressionally-mandated expert panels, is that there is no threshold level of fine particulate pollution below which health reductions are not achieved by reducing exposure.
Ignoring the deaths and harm to Americans' health that would result from repealing the Clean Power Plan is unconscionable. The plain truth is that undoing the Clean Power Plan would deprive Americans of billions of dollars in health benefits and put then at increased risk for premature death.
2. Artificially inflating the costs of the Clean Power Plan
EPA originally anticipated that parties would comply with the Clean Power Plan in part through investments in demand-side energy efficiency, "a highly cost-effective means" for reducing carbon pollution from the power sector.
Demand-side energy efficiency measures help consumers save electricity, resulting in lower electric bills for hard-working Americans, less pollution, and a more reliable electric grid. Investments in energy efficiency are largely offset by the electricity savings that result.
Yet the upside-down accounting in the draft proposal adds those energy efficiency investments to the costs of the Clean Power Plan without deducting the electricity savings those investments yield. This makes it look like the power sector is paying for both energy efficiency and the electricity that it no longer needs to produce. Therefore, this upside-down accounting includes billions of dollars of imaginary electricity costs – for electricity that will never be generated or purchased.
The draft proposal adds the cost of this imaginary electricity to its estimate of Clean Power Plan benefits — to represent the "benefit" of not having to purchase electricity that was never produced in the first place. When comparing costs and benefits, this imaginary electricity is a net wash – but it enables EPA to inflate its estimate of the plan's costs by up to $19.3 billion in 2030.
The draft proposal also uses a higher discount rate of 7 percent for energy efficiency investments – providing no meaningful justification for a choice that further inflates costs by $6.2 billion.
The cumulative effects of adding the cost of imaginary electricity and using a higher discount rate increases costs by up to $25.5 billion in 2030.
3. Shortchanging the benefits of reducing carbon pollution
Administrator Pruitt's proposal aggressively undercuts the social cost of carbon. That's the estimate of damages that climate pollution causes for our families and communities – from more intense hurricanes and heat waves, more wildfires, and the many other threats of climate change.
By using an unrealistically low figure, the proposal severely undervalues the benefits of the Clean Power Plan's carbon reductions.
The original Clean Power Plan utilized an estimate of the social cost of carbon developed over many years by experts from a dozen federal agencies who used the best available science and repeatedly considered public input.
The draft proposal for repealing the Clean Power Plan has new, misleading values that use unsound methods rejected by independent experts to yield a lower estimate of the Plan's benefits.
The draft proposal simply ignores important categories of carbon reduction benefits
The new proposal claims to count only the domestic U.S. impacts of carbon pollution, even though this pollution causes worldwide harm. A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences affirmed the importance of counting global benefits, explaining that the benefits of reducing carbon pollution would be dangerously undervalued if every country used a domestic-only social cost of carbon.
The draft proposal's "domestic-only" cost estimate also ignores significant harms to the U.S. that arise from climate change impacts in other countries – including "global migration, economic destabilization, and political destabilization," and "[l]ower economic growth in other regions [that] could reduce demand for U.S. exports, and lower productivity [that] could increase the prices of U.S. imports."
For these reasons, the National Academy of Sciences concluded earlier this year that:
Climate damages to the United States cannot be accurately characterized without accounting for consequences outside U.S. borders.
Administrator Pruitt's approach flies in the face of that expert advice.
The draft proposal short-changes our children by discounting pollution reduction benefits for future generations
The new proposal also uses a sharply lower value for the benefits that today's carbon reductions provide to future generations.
The original Clean Power Plan "discounted" the future benefits of carbon reductions at a rate of three percent per year, based upon the findings of the inter-agency working group.
But the new proposal uses discount rates as high as seven percent, without any justification – a value that is much higher than recommended by the National Academy of Sciences or the economics literature.
The cumulative effects of ignoring global impacts and increasing the discount rate are dramatic. In the original Clean Power Plan, EPA estimated climate benefits of $20 billion in 2030 (using a three percent discount rate). The draft proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan estimates climate benefits of just $0.5 billion in 2030.
4. Ignoring how low-cost clean energy means the Clean Power Plan will be even more affordable
In the two years since EPA finalized the Clean Power Plan, the plan's goals have become even more achievable and low-cost than originally projected – thanks to electricity sector developments including the sharply declining costs of renewable energy.
But the new draft proposal has made no attempt to update its economic analysis, and does not appear to acknowledge that recent studies of the Clean Power Plan have found compliance costs are now much lower than EPA originally estimated.
Instead, Administrator Pruitt is proposing to repeal this life-saving, economically beneficial public health protection before even bothering to properly consider the latest data.
The recent report from the Institute for Policy Integrity highlights the falling costs of complying with the Clean Power Plan and points to several power sector developments that explain this trend.
The report presents several recent economic analyses conducted by independent, non-governmental entities that estimate substantially lower compliance costs than EPA projected in 2015. For instance, a June 2016 analysis by M.J. Bradley & Associates, using the same electric sector model as EPA but updating several inputs, finds that compliance would cost up to 84 percent less than EPA originally estimated.
EPA recognized and evaluated many of these precise studies as part of its Clean Power Plan deliberations. Yet for the sake of repealing the Clean Power Plan, Administrator Pruitt has decided to ignore these studies.
America deserves better
The Clean Power Plan is the most significant step the U.S. has ever taken to address the crisis of climate change. Once fully implemented, it will provide enormous public health benefits – making Americans safer, healthier, and more productive.
If Administrator Pruitt is intent on rolling back a life-saving protection for human health and the environment, the American people at least deserve an honest evaluation based on the best available data.
Unfortunately, it looks like he's using underhanded maneuvers and deceptive accounting gimmicks to justify rescinding the Clean Power Plan instead – and the consequences for the health and safety of Americans will be all too real for decades to come.
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The play opens with the burial, in the middle of the junkyard, of Head of the Family, Jed, leaving his three children – Maniac Slick, Dense Dwight and Ballsy Maddie who has to take charge of the future of the trio and find a way of clearing the debts incurred by Jed and the money owed by Dwight after a drug deal goes very wrong. Her desire to win the big stock car rally, the Boneshaker, in the broken-down old Cadillac, her Father gifted to her, is just the start of her plans.
Along the way we meet a number of eccentric characters as the odds of salvaging something for the family stack up against them. As the play hurtles towards its conclusion further revelations about Jed and a number of other mysterious people provide an appropriate and fitting climax to the strains of Ennio Morricone's 'Ecstasy of Gold'.
This play and its production is truly the product of people who know and understand the most important tenet of theatre – to entertain. Where others trade in pretention, this is full of invention. Where others dictate, this sets out the create and elate. Every single individual involved in it should receive warm applause. As a reviewer one has to sit through some incredible dross. Not so here. After 90 minutes I was sorry we reached the end.
Carl Grose has created his other Cornwall with wit and warmth and with wonderfully funny local references. His writing is straight from the heart and from the hip; he doesn't mince his words. And his words are so often laugh out loud funny – which I did with abandon. A better script I doubt I will come across for a while to come.
Simon Stokes directs with a wonderfully light hand on the tiller. The production moves freely and easily along with variants in pace and tone just right to engage the audience and not let them go – often quite a feat when you are not having an interval. This is a craftsman at work with a real love for his job.
As set designs go, this one blasts so many out of the park. The Drum's stage is very high floor to ceiling with the audience raked steeply and looking down on the action Bob Bailey has created huge, extraordinarily crafted, vertical frames displaying pieces of cars, old bedsteads, a fan and other bits and pieces and on the stage we have a number of shells of vehicles – including the said Cadillac. As backdrops go – they don't get better. An absolute masterpiece.
Sound and lighting are intricately designed by Andy Purvis and Dom Coyote respectively. These are essential parts of any production, but here too the work is of the highest order.
Keeping control of the Kneebones, Hannah Traylen gives the audience a wonderfully gutsy and likeable Maddy. Often narrating the tale to us, she is the glue which holds story together. It is a lovely, confident performance. Callum McIntyre as Slick does a very good line of being on the edge – he is a really strong actor with excellent timing and stage presence. Nice but dim Dwight is also in the right hands. A bang-on performance by Joe Wiltshire Smith who has some of the funniest lines – not least with his sidekick Ennis – a very promising professional debut from Shaun Jenkinson. Portraying Jed. amongst others, Glyn Pritchard, displays great versatility as does Emily Raymond as the mad Kneebone aunt and the former champion stock car racer Phylis Vanloo – a splendidly eccentric and hilarious creation. Top notch cast.
This is a Theatre Royal Plymouth production and one which they should be enormously proud of. In the last few months I have witnessed productions by the youth arm of the theatre and the creation of productions like this. It is a very important training and development theatre which is providing the people of the South West (and elsewhere) with a very high standard of entertainment.
You will be able to tell that I very much enjoyed The Kneebone Cadillac – no, I absolutely loved it!
Just go and see it – you will not be disappointed.
A wonderfully written and performed crock of comedy gold.


Paul Farhi, Robert Costa, Keli Goff and Howard Kurtz examine media coverage of the gun control debate.
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Sorry, Scott. Alex Jones is not outside the mainstream for a huge amount of gun owners. Go take a small sniff around the stories dominating conservative media and you'll see tons of Alex Jones-types talking about how Sandy Hook was a govt job or the death of a gun enthusiast in Georgia was a government hit. The Natl Review might not like his style, but that is a significant part of their base.
You're wrong. Jones is a 9/11 truther. That is almost exclusively left-wing territory. He also has done kissy-face interviews with Alan Grayson and Cindy Sheehan, amongst other lefties. Jones is simply all over the map and – more than anything else – just likes the sound of his voice.
I check out a lot of conservative media , and none of them have been pulling this conspiracy crapola with Sandy Hook.
Robet Costa nailed it. CNN's attempts to link the NRA and other gun-rights groups to that crackpot Alex Jones is thoroughly dishonest and shameful.
So pick out the poorest thinker? My choice: Washington Post guy.


Here are some catch up pictures before the next one hits!
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He says this almost anytime he eats something yummy ... like oreos.
He also is starting to "go potty".
and finally....Jackson had his 2nd birthday party. I can't believe how grown up he is getting! To celebrate, we had a fun time bowling with our family, which is one of Jackson's favorite things to do.
Happy 4th birthday to my sweet little Addison! I cannot believe how grown up she is getting. She is such a good girl (most of the time) and a pleasure to be around. She is so smart, cuddly, and loving. She loves to dance, sing, play barbies, dress up, and watch her favorite Mickey Mouse episodes. She loves to count and is learning how to write and recognize letters and sounds of the alphabet. I am so proud to be her Mom!
Here I am again catching up from all our activities I haven't posted over the summer. We have been so busy it seems!
We started off by going to a mini Taylor family reunion at Grandma's ranch in Mackay. We fished, 4-wheeled, played in the dirt, and the kids had lots of fun with their cousins. We also drove through the mine tour on our way home, which was really neat.
This picture is of Matt standing at the entrance of an old mining tunnel. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen! The air coming out of it was so cold that there was still snow in the tunnel!
On the weekend of the 24th, we stuck to the tradition of going up to the Pioneer Day festivities where the kids had their faces painted.
Then on Sunday, we went up to Idaho Falls and met up with Matt's sister Ashlee and her family to watch the Blue Angels perform.
Our next adventure was to hit Salt Lake for our last free weekend before Matt started teaching again. We took our time and took some pictures in temple square, went to Hogle Zoo, and to a new awesome waterpark called Cowabunga Bay.
Wow. That only took me 3 hours. I hope you made it through all those. Oh, and one more bit of news ... WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!!! We're still waiting on the home inspection, but we plan to close on September 30th. It's kind of bittersweet. We love this home and have so many memories here but are excited to have our new one!
Well, that's it for now (I think). I'll try my best to keep up on blogging!! Really!
Matt and I(Emily) have been married for 6 years now and we have 2 beautiful children. Addison is 2 and we can't believe it. She is full of energy and is a great big sister to her new baby brother, Jackson. Jackson was born on March 10 and it has been so fun to have him join our family. We love living in our home in Chubbuck with our Old English Sheepdog, Ben and our crazy cat, Nala. Matt is now teaching high school biology and physical science at Pocatello High and I am a registered nurse in the nursery at the local hospital. We have wonderful family and friends and are so blessed!
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Take her, Mr. Wesley
John W. Drakeford
by John W. Drakeford
Published 1973 by Word Books in Waco, Tex .
Wesley, John, 1703-1791 -- Fiction.,
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Genre Fiction.
LC Classifications PZ4.D7637 Tak, PS3554.R238 Tak
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Sophia Wilansky was airlifted after being critically injured by a concussion grenade at Standing Rock, ND
Marla Marcum 781-475-0996, [email protected];
Tim DeChristopher 801-362-6941, [email protected]
Boston, MA — Among the Spectra pipeline resisters scheduled to appear in West Roxbury District Court today is 22 year old Sophia Wilansky. Sophia is one of the Mass Grave 6 defendants, along with Karenna Gore, daughter of former vice-president Al Gore, climate activist Tim DeChristopher, Norah Collins, Dave Publow, and Callista Womick. Instead of appearing in the West Roxbury District Court, Sophia is in Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she was airlifted after being critically injured by a concussion grenade at Standing Rock, ND. She faces a second surgery today as doctors attempt to save her left arm.
A press conference is scheduled for noon local time today at Hennepin County Medical Center with a prayer vigil to follow at 4pm.
Sophia is among the thousands of supporters who have been standing with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protect their water from the Dakota Access pipeline. On Sunday night, police and national guard attacked the peaceful water protectors with rubber bullets, pepper spray, water cannons and concussion grenades. Sofia was hit with a concussion grenade fired by the Morton County Sheriff's Department.
This was the latest assault in an escalated campaign of violence and intimidation by the police against those who have been asserting indigenous and human rights. Approximately 300 injuries were identified, triaged, assessed and treated by tribal physicians, nurses, paramedics and integrative healers working in collaboration with local emergency response. These 300 injuries were the direct result of excessive force by police over the course of 10 hours. In addition to Sophia's injury, at least 26 seriously injured people had to be evacuated by ambulance to 3 area hospitals.
Today West Roxbury pipeline resisters, including Sophia's co-defendants – Karenna Gore, Tim DeChristopher and others – clergy, and other supporters will gather in prayer, song, and solidarity on the courthouse steps at 8:45am before Sophia's scheduled healing and again after the hearing (end time dependent on proceedings).
Additional Context from the Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council.
Photos of Sophia: headshot, with West Roxbury pipeline co-defendants on June 29, 2016 (photo credit, Marla Marcum). Sophia appears third from left in this photo.
In a historic moment of nonviolent resistance, thousands of people calling themselves protectors, not protestors, have gathered in North Dakota, to demand President Obama reject this dirty and dangerous proposal. If constructed, the Dakota Access pipeline would carry fracked oil from North Dakota to Illinois, cutting under the Missouri River less than a mile upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux's drinking water supply as well as through the Tribe's sacred and historical land. This pipeline is a threat to Native heritage, their homes, and will be a climate disaster.
WHAT: Gathering for Prayer, Song and Solidarity for Sophia Wilansky and 300 other water protectors injured Sunday by police at Standing Rock while peacefully opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline
WHO: Sophia's co-defendants, clergy, and other Boston-area pipeline resisters.
WHEN: 8:45am and again after Sophia's scheduled hearing (timing uncertain), Tuesday, November 22
WHERE: West Roxbury District Court, 445 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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Jeffrey Person was driving and arguing with his 24-year-old passenger when he pulled into the parking lot of Carraba's, 3194 Atlanta Highway, got out and punched the woman in the face and banged her head against the pavement several times, police said.
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Q: Cannot understand the parameters of the dot (`.`) special form While testing the java interoperability, I executed - (macroexpand-1 '(.toUpperCase "deepak")) and the output was (. "deepak" toUpperCase)
Now, I came to know that . performs some sort of operation.
When I printed the doc for . using (clojure.repl/doc .), I got the output as
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.
  (.instanceMember instance args*)
  (.instanceMember Classname args*)
  (Classname/staticMethod args*)
  Classname/staticField
Special Form
  The instance member form works for both fields and methods.
  They all expand into calls to the dot operator at macroexpansion time.

I could not understand the pattern of parameters the . expects. For example - .instanceMember
How does the parameters "deepak" and toUpperCase map to the above pattern when we execute (. "deepak" toUpperCase)?
What is instance name, class name, and instance for the expression - (. "deepak" toUpperCase)?

A: You are delving into internal details of Clojure here. This is normally not required (& usually not useful).
An expression like (.toUpperCase "deepak") calls the method "toUpperCase" on the java.lang.String object "deepak", eg
(.toUpperCase "deepak") => "DEEPAK"

The compiler translates the above internally into
(. "deepak" toUpperCase) => "DEEPAK"

which of course has the same result.
You can find more information in the docs for The Dot Special Form
The docs are sometimes hard to read, but you can decipher it with a little pattern matching. In the above example, .toUpperCase is ".instanceMember" and "deepak" is the "instance" that is of type java.lang.String.
For (.getName String), the symbol String (shorthand for java.lang.String) is the "Classname".  In the docs args* is a regex-like shorthand for saying zero-or-more arguments may be needed (the previous examples have zero args required).
Was there something else you wanted to accomplish?

P.S.
"When in doubt, ask the compiler."
I struggled with similar questions when I was learning Clojure, getting confused by docs & books that were incomplete or ambiguous. I later learned it was MUCH faster & much more educational to try simple experiments to fill in the blanks.
I think simple code snippets are easier/faster than the REPL:
(ns tst.demo.core
  (:use tupelo.core tupelo.test))

(dotest
  (spyx (.toUpperCase "deepak"))
  (spyx (. "deepak" toUpperCase))
  (spyx (type "deepak"))
  )

using my favorite template project, with result
-----------------------------------
   Clojure 1.10.3    Java 17.0.1
-----------------------------------

Testing tst.demo.core
(.toUpperCase "deepak")    => "DEEPAK"
(. "deepak" toUpperCase).  => "DEEPAK"
(type "deepak")            => java.lang.String

Also,
(.getName String)             => "java.lang.String"
(.getName java.lang.String).  => "java.lang.String"

Note carefully the presence/absence of double-quotes.

A: The docstring is potentially misleading - which may be the cause of your confusion.
There are two different ways to access Java interop with the "dot" form.  There is Member access (.toUpperCase "deepak"), and there is the dot special form (. "deepak" toUpperCase).  The docstring you showed is for Member access (.toUpperCase "deepak"), whereas the form you were looking at is the dot special form (. "deepak" toUpperCase).  It is preferable that you use the Member access style of interop in most cases.  Internally, the Member access style of interop is translated into the dot special form (as you found by doing the macroexpand-1).
So, in the case of (.toUpperCase "deepak"), using the docstring for Member access (.instanceMember instance), the correspondences are:

*

*instanceMember maps to toUpperCase

*instance maps to "deepak"

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William Henry "Chick" Webb (February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer and band leader.

Early life
Webb was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to William H. and Marie Webb.  The year of his birth is disputed. The Encyclopædia Britannica and Allmusic indicate 1905, and this seems to be supported by census information. Other publications claim other years. During Webb's lifetime, a December 1937 DownBeat magazine article, "The Rise of a Crippled Genius", stated he was born in 1909, which is the year that appears on his grave marker.  In 1939, The New York Times stated that Webb was born in 1907, the year also suggested in Rhythm on Record by Hilton Schleman.

Webb was one of four children; the other three were sisters (Bessie, Mabel, and Ethel). His sister Mabel married Wilbur Porter around 1928. When an infant, Webb fell down some stairsteps in his family's home, crushing several vertebrae and requiring surgery, from which he never regained full mobility. The injury progressed to tuberculosis of the spine, leaving him with short stature and a badly deformed spine which caused him to appear hunchbacked. The idea of playing an instrument was suggested by his doctor to "loosen up" his bones. He supported himself as a newspaper boy to save enough money to buy drums, and first played professionally at age 11.

Career
At the age of 17, he moved to New York City and by 1926 was leading his own band in Harlem. Jazz drummer Tommy Benford said he gave Webb drum lessons when he first reached New York.

He alternated between band tours and residencies at New York City clubs through the late 1920s. In 1931, his band became the house band at the Savoy Ballroom. He became one of the best-regarded bandleaders and drummers of the new "swing" style. Drummer Buddy Rich cited Webb's powerful technique and virtuoso performances as heavily influential on his own drumming, and even referred to Webb as "the daddy of them all". Webb was unable to read music, and instead memorized the arrangements played by the band and conducted from a platform in the center. He used custom-made pedals, goose-neck cymbal holders, a 28-inch bass drum and other percussion instruments.

At the Savoy, Webb competed in battle of the bands contests with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and the Count Basie Orchestra. Webb lost to Duke Ellington in 1937. Although a judge declared Webb's band the winner in 1938 over Count Basie's, and Basie himself said he was relieved to come away from the contest without embarrassing himself, musicians debated the result for decades.

Webb married Martha Loretta Ferguson (also known as "Sally"), and in 1935 he began featuring a teenaged Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist. Webb and Fitzgerald performed hits such as "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", which was composed by Van Alexander at Fitzgerald's request. Despite rumors to the contrary, "Ella was not adopted by Webb, nor did she live with him and his wife, Sally," according to Stuart Nicholson in his Fitzgerald biography.

Declining health and death
In November 1938, Webb's health began to decline; for a time, however, he continued to play, refusing to give up touring so that his band could remain employed during the Great Depression. He disregarded his own discomfort and fatigue, which often found him passing out from physical exhaustion after finishing sets. Finally, he had a major operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1939. Webb died from Pott disease on June 16, 1939, in Baltimore. Reportedly his last words were, "I'm sorry, I've got to go." Webb was buried in Baltimore County, in Arbutus Memorial Park, in Arbutus, Maryland.

Webb's death hit the jazz/swing community very hard. After his death, Ella Fitzgerald led the Chick Webb band until she left to focus on her solo career in 1942, causing the band to break up. Art Blakey and Duke Ellington both credited Webb with influencing their music. Gene Krupa credited Webb with raising drummer awareness and paving the way for drummer-led bands like his own. Webb's thundering solos created a complexity and an energy that paved the way for Buddy Rich (who studied him intensely) and Louie Bellson.

On February 12, 1940, a crowd of about 7,500 people attended a Chick Webb Benefit in Baltimore, Maryland. In attendance were Sally Webb, Chick's widow, his mother Marie Webb, his sister Mabel Porter, Governor Herbert R. O'Conor, Fitzgerald and boxing champion Joe Louis.

Discography
 Ella Sings, Chick Swings (Olympic, 1974)
 Stomping at the Savoy (Proper, 2006)
 The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (Mosaic, 2013)

References

Bibliography
Spinnin' the Webb, Chick Webb, The Little Giant.  Centerstream Publications, 2014,

External links
 Chick Webb at ArtsEdge

 Chick Webb at Discography of American Historical Recordings
 Chick Webb: Baltimore's Jazz Giant at ChickenBones: A Journal (archived)

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