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HHS Publishes Guide to Cybersecurity Best Practices
Posted on January 6, 2019 by webadmin
With the aim of helping healthcare entities of all sizes improve their cybersecurity, the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a four-volume publication of voluntary best practices.
The authors of the publication note that the document "does not create new frameworks, rewrite specifications, or 'reinvent the wheel.' We felt that the best approach to 'moving the cybersecurity needle' was to leverage the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, introducing the framework's terms to start educating health sector professionals on an important and generally accepted language of cybersecurity and answering the prevailing question: 'Where do I start, and how do I adopt certain cybersecurity practices?'"
The goal of the guidance is to aid healthcare entities – regardless of their current level of cyber sophistication – in bolstering their preparedness to deal with the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape.
"I spend a lot of time in healthcare providers that run the gamut in size and security maturity and still the top two questions are either: 'Where do I start?' or 'What do I do next, now that this part is done,'" says former healthcare CIO David Finn, an executive vice president at security consulting firm CynergisTek.
"The days of small providers not knowing what to do or large providers thinking they've done all they need to do are over," adds Finn, who was a member of a federal cyber task force that also contributed to the document .
HHS notes in a statement that the "Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients" document is the culmination of a two-year effort involving more than 150 cybersecurity and healthcare experts from industry and the government under the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Public-Private Partnership.
The creation of the publication was in response to a mandate under the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 to develop "practical cybersecurity guidelines to cost-effectively reduce cybersecurity risks for the healthcare industry," HHS notes.
HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan notes in the document that experts contributing to the guidelines determined that it was "not feasible" to address every cybersecurity challenge across the large and complex U.S. healthcare industry.
"Therefore, it focused on the five most prevalent cybersecurity threats and the 10 cybersecurity practices to significantly move the needle for a broad range of organizations within our sector," Hargan says.
Erik Decker, University of Chicago Medicine chief security and privacy officer – who co-led the effort to create the new document as a member of Health Sector Coordinating Council – tells Information Security Media Group that he hopes the new HICP document will help improve cybersecurity across the healthcare industry. "It provides practical, actionable and measurable cybersecurity steps to help mitigate notable cyber threats our industry faces," he says.
The document "was written to be a 'how to' guide on helping mitigate salient cybersecurity threats our industry faces while also leveraging all the existing frameworks, standards and controls already in place," says Decker, who is also advisory board chairman of the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security, a CISO group within the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.
"We purposefully did not want to create a new framework or set of controls, but rather augment what already exists. It maps back to other NIST Special Publications as well as HIPAA and other regulatory guidance from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office for Civil Rights, and the Food and Drug Administration. It's a pretty comprehensive index that will help organizations jump right in without having to first be scholars of all off the great cyber guidance that exists already."
'Best Thinking'
The document's guidelines "reflect the best thinking of more than 150 experts from the healthcare and security industries and government about how hospital systems and other healthcare organization should manage enterprise cyber risk," Greg Garcia, executive director of cybersecurity for the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council, tells ISMG.
"The practices, mapped to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, are scalable and flexible, and we believe that if every healthcare organization adopts these practices over time, we will see uniform improvement in our collective cyber preparedness and resilience," Garcia says.
The practices spelled out in the guidance are tiered for small, midsize and large organizations, he notes. "But it is clear that small community hospitals that have the least expertise and resources to manage cybersecurity even at the most fundamental level can look to [the guidelines] as the place to start, in language that is tailored to the unique needs of healthcare and patient safety."
Four Volumes
The publication's four volumes include a main document that discusses the current cybersecurity threats facing the healthcare industry. The threats highlighted include email phishing attacks; ransomware attack; loss or theft of equipment or data; insider, accidental or intentional data loss; and attacks against connected medical devices that may affect patient safety.
That first volume sets forth a call to action for the healthcare industry, especially executive decision makers, with the goal of raising general awareness of the issue, the document notes.
The publication also includes two technical volumes – the first for smaller healthcare organizations and the second for midsize to large healthcare organizations.
The technical volumes are organized according to the top 10 most effective cybersecurity practices, as identified by the HHS Cyber Task Force, which in June 2017 issued a report with more than a 100 recommendations for how the healthcare sector can improve its cybersecurity posture.
Those 10 top best practices spotlighted in the new HHS document include the use of:
E-mail protection systems, including multifactor authentication for remote email access;
Endpoint protection systems, including micro-segmentation and virtualization strategies;
Access management, such as federated identity management
Data protection and loss prevention, including mapping of data flows;
Asset management, such as integration with network access controls;
Network management, including anomalous network monitoring and analytics;
Vulnerability management, such as penetration testing;
Incident response, such as deploying deception technologies;
Medical device security, including vulnerabilities management;
Cybersecurity policies, such as defining the organization's position on the use of personal devices or bring-your-own-device.
The fourth volume is an appendix that provides resources and templates that organizations can leverage to assess their cybersecurity posture, as well to develop policies and procedures.
So, what are the some of the most helpful tips offered by the publication?
"One area that stands out is its attention to supply chain and vendor management – how to procure equipment and technology from vendors with cybersecurity requirements in mind," Garcia notes.
Finn, a member of the HHS cyber task force, has high hopes for the new publication.
The four-volume document "will absolutely help improve cybersecurity in the health industry," he predicts. "If the HHS Task Force report provided an overview and high-level plan to start the industry moving, this series provides the vehicle, gassed up and ready to roll," he says.
"The game-changer – or game-starter – is this: This document sets forth a common set of voluntary, consensus-based, and industry-led guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures and processes to achieve three core goals," Finn says.
Those goals include cost-effectively reducing cyber risks for a range of healthcare organizations; supporting the adoption and implementation of document's recommendations; and ensuring on an ongoing basis that the document's content is actionable, practical and relevant to healthcare stakeholders of every size and resource level.
Dale Nordenberg, M.D., executive director at the Medical Device Innovation Safety & Security consortium, says he's also hopeful that the document can assist healthcare sector entities.
"Overall it's pretty high level resource," says Nordenberg, who worked on the document as a member of the health sector coordinating council. "The document is unique because its target audience is the front line of healthcare delivery and its emphasis on patient protection. The breadth and depth of the technical content is tuned for optimal effect of healthcare systems at the point of care," he says. "Maybe it will help some front-line people see things in new light and help them advance."
In addition to this publication, Garcia notes that HHS and the health sector coordinating council "will soon be releasing medical technology and health IT product security development guidelines that will cross-reference with the newly released HICP guidelines." (See New Effort to Draft Medical Device Cybersecurity Guidance).
"The HICP and medical tech security guidelines express what hospital systems should expect from their technology providers and what medical technology companies will hold themselves accountable for as a commitment to their customers and patient safety," Garcia notes.
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • January 2, 2019
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NIH's Fauci and Gilead's Martin: junk science and oligarchic capitalism.
Healthy people at risk of HIV are advised to take daily pills that cut the odds of infection by more than 90 percent, U.S. health officials said in the first formal recommendation on using the drugs as a preventative.
The 90 percent claim, though attributed to the CDC, is a number that has taken on a life of its own, and does not square even with the summary of findings in the New England Journal of Medicine report by the investigators on the so-called iPREX study of mostly Third World gay males, in which a 44% greater protection (over placebo) claim was made–itself a gross exaggeration, as I explain in my article. FDA approval of Truvada for PrEP was based on the confirmation-biased iPREX and FEM PrEP studies, fully described (and de-bunked) in my article.
The slimmed down version in The Washington Post, in both its print and online editions, excised all references to any questions that even mainstream HIV=AIDS believers have about drugging HIV negatives with highly toxic chemotherapy.
As I claim in my article, junk science and oligarchic capitalism triumphed in the Fauci-Gilead collusion, along with Gilead's purchase of PrEP approval by the FDA, and the CDC's consequent imprimatur for Truvada PrEP.
Read the entire analysis HERE.
RTB: Terry Michael is adding the numbers this week in this editorial on how to make money in pharmaceuticals.
Gilead Sciences of Foster City, CA, the politically connected number one dealer of toxic "HIV" anti-retrovirals, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the invention of the AIDS virus a day early, today, April 22, 2014.
Antiviral product sales increased to $4.51 billion for the first quarter of 2014, up from $2.06 billion for the first quarter of 2013 largely due to sales of Sovaldi® (sofosbuvir 400 mg), which launched in December 2013, and increases in sales of Stribild® (elvitegravir 150 mg/cobicistat 150 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg) and Complera/Eviplera® (emtricitabine 200 mg/rilpivirine 25 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg). This increase was partially offset by a decrease in wholesaler and sub-wholesaler inventories in the United States associated primarily with our HIV products, which also impacted antiviral product sales in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the fourth quarter of 2013.
You will recall that our friend Dr. Tony Fauci, NIAID director-for-life, named Gilead CEO John C. Martin to NIAID's advisory council way back in March 2000. Gilead's chairman at the time was Donald Rumsfeld, soon to become George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, whose department stockpiled tens of millions of dollars of Gilead's then big money-maker, TamiFlu, increasingly regarded as worthless, or nearly so. CNN Money.com/Fortune magazine had this revealing story on Rumsfeld, TamiFlu and Gilead's political connections in 2005. Fauci used Gilead's "generously donated" Truvada in the bogus, confirmation-biased clinical trial experiments on Third World subjects, which led to Truvada's fast-tracked (in six months!) FDA approval in 2012 for so-called "pre-exposure prophylaxis"– highly toxic chemotherapy for HIV NEGATIVES.
Gilead's (GILD) stock prices have zoomed from the low 20s to the low 70s in just the past two years.
The champagne corks should be popping in Foster City, CA Wednesday as the company celebrates the April 23, 1984 invention of the AIDS virus, proclaimed as probably a human retrovirus by HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler in a science-by-press-release media event on that date 30 years ago. It started the money ball rolling for Gilead and the other purveyors of toxic ARV's.
Thirty years ago this spring, actor Rock Hudson tested "positive" on the new "HIV test." A year and a half later, he was dead of so-called "AIDS" after sensational media reports set off a sexual panic. We look at the more likely causes of death – and why those causes matter.
It was the world's most famous case of "AIDS." In June 1984, actor Rock Hudson, the good-looking, crew-cut symbol of perfect American manhood, received his diagnosis of the new syndrome, based on a "positive" result on a test that had been on the market for less than two months.
The hype around Hudson's illness and death turned AIDS into a general "epidemic" from an affliction among a subset of gay men. But we find other, more likely, causes for Hudson's death. The idea that AIDS could happen to anyone, accordingly, rests on a lie.
In the official biography he commissioned while wasting away, this famous yet very private man wrote, "I want the truth to be told, because it sure as hell hasn't been told before." The media indeed didn't tell the truth, in the rush to enroll us all in a sexual hysteria.
In 2004, I broke open the NIH Clinical Trial Scandal, the internationally-covered story of hundreds of New York City orphans used by government agencies and pharmaceutical companies in deadly AIDS drug trials.
In reporting this issue, I entered the orphanage where children were being used as guinea pigs, and over a period of several years, took interviews with mothers, children and childcare workers at the Incarnation Children's Center. I also interviewed the medical director, and investigated the FDA documentation and published medical literature on the tests and drugs used, drugs which were often force-fed through nasal and gastric tubes to the children.
I reported several deaths in children, and although the mainstream denied that any deaths were due to drug toxicity, they admit that over 200 children died.
In 2005, the city of New York hired the VERA Institute to form a final report on the drug trials. VERA was given no access to medical records for any of the children used in trials. Their report was published in 2008.
The WIKIPEDIA writers cover up all details, as is expected.
No payment or compensation has been paid to any of the children used in the trials, or to their families.
Later in the article, Scott admits that the "permissions" for many of these children are "missing," (or were never there).
"No, we did not review patients' medical files. I would be surprised if that would not have been a breach of patient confidentiality if someone had shown them to us.
An unexpected side effect would have been a side effect not previously seen in response to those drugs, presumably.
Advanced testing methods were the methods available at the time for diagnosing HIV infection.
I do not recall interviewing Dr. Painter [the doctor in charge of the orphanage and orphans] but I may simply not remember. As you know, the Times moved to a new office a year ago. It was not possible to move all of our files. In my case, I threw away files that were more than 12 months old. As you know, the story you are asking about was done in 2005.
I do not recall which studies we looked at. There were a lot of them — some more easily accessible than others, as you know.
As for mentioning side-effects and FDA warnings, there are side-effects and FDA warnings on many if not most drugs. The side-effects of early AIDS drugs have been written about extensively. And, as I have said before, we were not presuming to judge whether or not experimental AIDS drugs should have been tried on children — a question that I suspect few journalists would be qualified to answer; we were attempting to put a public controversy in context.
If you have further objections to the way the story was handled, I suggest you contact Joe Sexton, the editor of the metropolitan news section of the paper and the editor on that story.
In 2009, the Times was forced, in a follow-up story, to admit that many children had died, following the VERA report – but the VERA Institute, hired to "investigate" the trials, was also forbidden from looking at medical records. [LINK] Their "investigator" also refused to take data from me on the trials – lists of the trials themselves, the drugs used, and their recorded 'black box' warnings. In a follow-up interview with Vera Myles of WBAI, the head of the VERA Institute admitted that many more children had died than they had listed in their report.
Neither the Times nor the Wikipedia are able to talk about AIDS drugs, which kill people. But, of course, take them if you really want to.
On Tuesday's Robert Scott Bell Show (10-10-11) April Boden, vaccine activist, blogger and mother of a vaccine-damaged six-year-old in California, revealed her deeply insightful take on the politics of the two – count them, two – vaccine bills, that were just passed by Governor Jerry "Drug-Fever" Brown.


This photo was taken by me on May 19, 2011 at Wat Srisupan (buddhist temple) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I spent 3 months living, working and exploring what is known as the land of smiles. As I was writing this article today I remembered how potent this quote was and I dug through my pics to find it. More dots connecting.
My international career as an IT professional included the positions of network administrator, database programmer, Microsoft certified programmer and trainer in North America; IT Manager in both Canada and Scotland; Technical Consultant and Specialist for Norwich Union (now Aviva) in England, one of the largest employers in the United Kingdom. I was told it was impossible but I did it anyway.
During my 13 years of living with chronic pain, I continued searching for and found a solution in energy medicine. I applied it regularly and in 90 days the headaches were gone. Within another 90 days, the eyeglasses were no longer required. Sitting beside an eye surgeon on an airplane, after hearing my story his response was, "I don't understand how that is possible." My reply was, "Well, seeing is believing." A reality beyond your current life experience doesn't make it impossible.
How did I do it? I stayed with my inner belief that there was a way and I would find it.
I also remember a time when I was told that it was impossible to make a living in the field of energy medicine, let alone travel around the world while I do it.
I am now in my 10th year in practice. I have studied with the founders of groundbreaking techniques in four countries, launched a private practice, created a collection of self-healing guided imagery meditations, trained 20 professionals in the field of energy healing, been featured in a documentary on health and wellness, and evolved the practice into an elite program of self-healing that is accessible to people worldwide. The results are as remarkable as the clients I work with every day. These folks are really quite impressive! I do all this over the telephone and Internet, having lived and worked from 5 different countries so far, with my blog, program and services currently reaching 18 countries…..and counting.
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November 26, 2019 Aviation100-206, Bristol Aerospace Centre, Bristol Filton Airport, British Aerospace Concorde, British Aerospace Corporation, British Airways, Captain Les Brodie, Captain Mike Bannister, Captain Paul Douglas, Concorde, Concorde 216, Final Flight, FZO, G-BFKX, G-BOAF, LHR, London Heathrow Airport, Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 Mk.610, Sud-AviationBryan Swopes
Concorde G-BOAF, the last Concorde to be built, makes its final landing, 26 November 2003. (Concorde SST)
26 November 2003: Concorde 216, G-BOAF, made the final flight of the Concorde fleet when it flew from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Bristol Filton Airport (FZO) with 100 British Airways employees on board. The aircraft was under the command of Captain Les Brodie, with Chief Pilot Captain Mike Bannister and Captain Paul Douglas, with Senior Flight Engineers Warren Hazleby and Trevor Norcott. The duration of the flight was just over 1 hour, 30 minutes, and included both supersonic and low-altitude segments.
(Left to right) British Airways' Chief Concorde Pilot, Captain Michael Bannister, and Captain Les Brodie. (Concorde SST)
Concorde 216 was the last of twenty Concordes to be built. It was originally registered G-BFKX and made its first flight at Bristol Filton Airport, 20 April 1979. The new airliner was delivered to British Airways 9 June 1980 and was re-registered G-BOAF. "Alpha-Foxtrot" had flown a total of 18,257 hours by the time it completed its final flight. It had made 6,045 takeoffs and landings, and had gone supersonic 5,639 times.
G-BOAF was placed in storage at Filton. It is intended as the centerpiece of Bristol Aerospace Centre, scheduled to open in 2017.
The Concorde supersonic transport, known as an "SST," was built by the British Aerospace Corporation and Sud-Aviation. There were six pre-production aircraft and fourteen production airliners. British Airways and Air France each operated seven Concordes. It was a Mach 2+ delta-winged intercontinental passenger transport, operated by a flight crew of three and capable of carrying 128 passengers.
The production airliners were 202 feet, 4 inches long (61.671 meters) when at rest. During supersonic flight the length would increase due to metal expansion from frictional heating. The wingspan was 83 feet, 10 inches (25.552 meters) and overall height was 40 feet (12.192 meters). The fuselage was very narrow, just 9 feet, 5 inches at the widest point. The Concorde has an empty weight of 173,500 pounds (78,698 kilograms) and a maximum takeoff weight of 408,000 pounds (185,066 kilograms).
The Concorde is powered by four Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 Mk.610 afterburning turbojet engines. The Olympus 593 is a two-shaft, axial-flow engine with a 14-stage compressor section (7 low- and 7 high-pressure stages), single combustion chamber and a two-stage turbine (1 low- and 1 high-pressure stage). The Mk.610 was rated at 139.4 kilonewtons (31,338 pounds of thrust), and 169.2 kilonewtons (38,038 pounds) with afterburner. During supersonic cruise, the engines produced 10,000 pounds of thrust ( kilonewtons, each. The Olympus 593 Mk.610 is 7,112 meters (23 feet, 4.0 inches) long, 1.212 meters (3 feet, 11.72 inches) in diameter, and weighs 3,175 kilograms (7,000 pounds).
The maximum cruise speed is Mach 2.05. Concorde's operating altitude is 60,000 feet (18,288 meters). Maximum range is 4,500 miles (7,242 kilometers).
Concorde G-BOAF makes a low pass over the Clifton Suspension Bridge on its way to Filton, 26 November 2003. (Concorde SST)

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April 19, 2019 •	Short Stories
Writer's Club Topic
Surprising Back Story
Surprising Back Story is the topic for this months writer;s club. I chose to write a true story rather than a fictional character although I took a lot of shall we say creative liberties. This even did happen over 30 years ago. While the gist and some of the details are still fresh in my mind, I did fluff it out a bit.
Her name was Grandma. Not that that was her actual name. The introduction went Grandma this is Teresa, Teresa Grandma. I was young and it never occurred to me to ask her what her name was. At 14, I took things as they were. Grandma was her name.
Grandma turning 98 was the occasion of the potluck birthday party. All was there, the cousins, the aunts the uncles, the kids, my boyfriend, myself. The tables were loaded with food of all kinds and bright happy packages and bags. Happy birthday balloons had been fastened to chairs and picnic tables. Streamers with a foil Happy birthday sign was strategically hung on the entryway between the kitchen and the living room. Someone had removed the cows from the lower meadow so the scenery was superb. Everyone was having a grand time, there were children running about, grownups talking about the beef market, making trades, discussing politics, latest fashions. It was a party for everyone except the birthday girl.
Grandma was sat down in a comfortable, floral, easy chair in the living room. She had a wonderful view of the lower meadow ringed with pines, cedars, the occasional oak and crowned with a pond that sparkled with diamonds in the afternoon sun. After all had come in and greeted Grandma with kisses hugs,happy birthdays and awkward "how are you feelings" they quickly wandered off to join the others. She was alone. I could not just let her be alone so I went over to her to sit and talk. I did not expect much of a conversation as I pulled an ottoman close and sat down. She was frail, almost 100 years old, what could this old lady have to say that would make sense. Since she had been guided to the chair, she had sat with her hands in her lap looking, with dull eyes, at the wall. She might not even be all with there, but I went to sit with her anyway. I could not tolerate someone being alone in a festive occasion.
To my surprise the first thing she said, this old frail lady with the wispy white hair, the thin legs ending in diabetic socks and black orthopedic shoes, the skin so pale one could almost see the blood pumping through the blue veins, the first things she said was.
"Can you get me some steak and a bottle of whiskey. Don't forget a shot glass"
I brought back a paper plate laden with steak, chicken , birthday cake that I am sure I was not supposed to cut yet and, under strict orders, no vegetables or anything "mushy". I sat back down on the ottoman and Grandma poured shots for the both of us. She told me that since she was turning 98 she deserved a shot and to hell with the doctors. She devoured her food, rolled her eyes with pleasure when she chewed the first bite of steak. Grandma let the paper plate fall to the floor on the side of the chair and she started to talk.
"I was five years old when I came to this meadow." She said " It was 1883 and my father had received some property in California. So we started out my family and me from New York in two wagons. Both stuffed to the top with our things and supplies. Mother said we were going to live in California where they had nothing so we had to bring everything. She was convinced California was a land of heathens and abject misery. She really didn't want to go and leave her fine house and friends, but in those days a woman went wherever her husband went. The train wasn't truly an option although it would get us closer faster, the lines didn't quite go all the way to California and were not reliable. It was also expensive to bring all our stuff with us on a train, so wagons it was."
Grandma took another shot and continued.
"I think mother cried all the way here. I was disappointed that the only heathens I saw look liked normal people who wore pants and shirts. None of them had human scalps or war paint. Some did have weapons but they were just regular rifles. We were not attacked as my mother feared as I had hoped, kinda, not really I had heard the stories of girls being slaves. I was five, what did I know?"
Another shot and the story continued.
"We arrived in California without incident. Going over Kit Carson's trail was so beautiful that even my mother fell in love. we never made it all the way to Sacramento. Our property was here, where the foothills kissed the Sierra's. There was a small cabin and we stayed in that. I was wildly afraid of the bears and the cats that screamed once in a while. I was sure the cabin walls would not keep out either one, nor would the cold be kept at bay. My father had quite a bit of money. He made the trip to sacrament to buy a stove and hire men to help build a proper house and fencing. I was firghtened the whole time he was gone. Father had also picked up cattle a and he needed men to help keep them safe from the very cats I was worried about."
She took another shot. I was worried she was getting maybe a little tipsy ( I was as I matched her shot for shot). She laughed and took another
"Our ranch thrived and soon my father had bought the properties close to us. The little town down the hill had a school and I was sent almost everyday by horseback. I had my own pony named Jack and he would come when I called. When I got to school I would just let him loose to graze instead of tying him up like I was supposed to. I always got in trouble for that. I got in trouble for a lot of things and the teacher was more likely to hit my hands than any others. But I still liked school. I just had trouble listening.
" Once a month the tinker man would come by the ranch . He would have wonderful things. Glass bottles from France, ribbons from back east, silk fabric from the orient, and so many wonderious things. I loved to see all the things and tried to talk my mother into buying me unnecessary items. My mother always bought sensible things like jars, needles for sewing and the seeds for such things as pears apples. The ones down by Pats house are the off springs of those seeds.. The first pear we got was the most delicious thing I had ever eaten.
"My father always got my mom the best of everything and people would come from miles to attend parties at the house. You know the house? It still stands in the upper meadow."
I wasn't going to tell her, but that place was half fallen down and there was talk of taking it all down as transients, hobos had used the place more than once. The hands were busy with the cattle and everything a large cattle ranch requires so they could not be up there as often as they should for security sake.
"You know inspiration point? "I nodded my head. "I named that. I loved to sit up there and paint. " Inspiration point was a large flat boulder that hung out from the mountain side. The views were spectacular and the sunsets from there were even more. It was a difficult path to get to it and the idea that grandma lugged up paints, canvas and easel was impressive.
Grandma went on to tell me how they had the first automobile in the area, which was fun until it broke. They had the first television as well, but rarely used it until they got electricity to the house which, by that time, the TV was obsolete and they had to get another one. Electricity to the house had changed everything and her father got mother a modern kitchen with a refrigerator and stove. It was nice but she missed the stew that used to sit on the wood stove. When Grandma was much older they got propane to the area and replaced most of the electric stuff.
She told me how her sister died of the measles and her brother of polio. How she loved to go on cattle roundups, chop wood, and was quite the tomboy even after she got married. Her husband was initially abusive. He stopped when she finally knocked the hell out of him with the lid from a cast iron pot. She laughed as she told how she spent the night in the Jackson jail. She was a volunteer fire fighter and did a stint as a school teacher.
She would have told me much more but we were interrupted by a crowd of smiling faces holding the cake and singing happy birthday. I don't remember who had the cake, but they apologized, seems someone had taken a piece of cake already. Grandma looked at me, winked and transformed back into a feeble, almost 100 years old woman as the family fussed over her. That was the last I ever saw of her, but I have never forgotten her and her story.
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Gangway to submarine at Intrepid damaged by wave from cruise ship
By Doug Auer
July 8, 2012 | 5:47pm
The submarine at the Intrepid today. G.N.Miller/New York Post
The Norwegian Star cruise ship near the Intrepid's submarine today. (G.N.Miller/New York Post)
The gangway to a submarine displayed at the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan was damaged today after a strong wave caused by a nearby cruise ship rocked it loose, authorities said.
The incident occurred around 8 a.m. as a Norwegian Star cruiseliner was attempting to turn into its berth just north of the Air, Sea and Space Museum on 12th Avenue at West 46th Street, according to Coast Guard officials and the museum's official Facebook page.
The thrust of the cruise ship's engine created a wave that moved the retired Growler submarine, causing its gangway to fall into the water, officials added.
No one was injured, and the USS Intrepid battleship — a national landmark — was not affected. The museum was closed at the time.
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The Sri Lanka thrush or Sri Lanka scaly thrush (Zoothera imbricata) is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. This bird is a non-migratory resident breeder found in south western rainforests of the island of Sri Lanka.

Zoothera imbricata was formerly treated as a race of the scaly thrush. It belongs in a group, possibly a superspecies, formed by that species and Z. lunulata, Z. heinei, Z. machiki, Z. talaseae, Z. margaretae etc., Z. imbricata being smaller, longer billed and rufous below.

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Morrell, Z. N.
Morrell, Z. N. (1803–1883)
By: Steve Sadler
Z. N. (Wildcat) Morrell, traveling Baptist preacher and missionary, church founder, journalist, and historian, was born on January 17, 1803, in South Carolina. His given names are a matter of controversy; most sources refer to him as Zachariah (Zacharius) Nehemiah Morrell, though some call him Zenos N. Morrell. The name Nehemiah is evidently not attested in early sources. His family moved to Tennessee when he was thirteen. Although never formally educated, he became a Baptist minister before reaching the age of twenty and preached in Tennessee for nearly fourteen years. Because of his continuing problem with lung hemorrhages, his doctors advised him to move south. In 1835 he left Tennessee. He spent nearly a year in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, where he formed three churches. After making an exploratory trip to Texas in December 1835, he moved his family there in April 1836 and settled near the Falls of the Brazos. Indian raids and unsettled political conditions subsequently forced the family to move to Washington-on-the-Brazos, where Morrell helped to form one of the first Baptist churches in Texas in 1837. In the early years of the new Republic of Texas, Morrell fought Indians and devoted himself to land speculation, a merchandising business, schoolteaching, and politics. In 1842 he fought with Col. Mathew Caldwell in the battle of the Salado. In this battle his son, Allen H. Morrell, was captured by the Mexicans and imprisoned, an incarceration that lasted for two years. Unsuccessful and never financially secure, Morrell came to rely on the generosity of those who believed in his ministry and ultimately pursued his interest in seeing the "spiritual wilderness" of Texas "rejoice and blossom as the rose."
Under an 1846 appointment by the Domestic Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Morrell made routine journeys from Cameron to Corsicana, a monthly round-trip of 300 miles on horseback that strained his health and his marriage. Undaunted, he persisted in leading Texas Baptists to the faith prescribed by the New Hampshire Conference of Faith and protecting them from disapproved teaching. As a member of the Texas Baptist Education Society, formed in 1841, Morrell voluntarily helped solicit funds for Baylor University in 1847.
In late 1867 he left for Honduras to continue his missionary work. He returned to Texas in March 1869 because of continuing health problems. Restricted by failing health and old age, Morrell turned to journalism. From 1867 to 1883 he kept up a constant stream of correspondence with the editors of the Texas Baptist Herald (see TEXAS BAPTIST AND HERALD), dealing with issues ranging from infant baptism to church money management. The most notable contribution of his "written ministry" was Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness, or Forty-Six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras (1872), perhaps the first extended effort to record Baptist history in Texas. Morrell's influence can be measured in the number of churches that he founded, including the church at Washington-on-the-Brazos and others at Little River in Milam County (1849) and Marlin (1852). Morrell was among the founding fathers of the Union Baptist Association (1840), the Colorado Association (1847), the Trinity River Association (1848), the Leon River Association (1858), and the Waco Association (1860) and was involved in the establishment of other churches and associations as well.
Morrell married Clearacy Hayes on August 23, 1821, and they had four children. Clearacy died in 1843. Morrell's second marriage, to a widow, Delia Harlan, on October 27, 1845, ended in divorce fifteen years later, owing to his wife's distress over his incessant absence from home. Morrell spent his last years in the home of R. J. Sledge in Kyle and died there on December 19, 1883. Venerated by his peers, eulogized by the Baptist State Convention in 1884, and remembered for the achievements of his fifty-year ministry, Morrell was buried in the yard of the First Baptist Church of Kyle. In 1946 his body was moved to the State Cemetery in Austin.
Zenos N. Morrell, Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1872; rpt. of 3d ed., Irving, Texas: Griffin Graphic Arts, 1966). James Milton Carroll, A History of Texas Baptists (Dallas: Baptist Standard, 1923). D. D. Tidwell, "Z. N. Morrell, Early Baptist Historian," Southern Baptist Quarterly Review 28 (January 1968). Samuel Hesler, "Zachariah Morrell," Southern Baptist Quarterly Review 31 (October 1971). Steve Sadler, The Life and Ministry of Zachariah N. Morrell (M.A. thesis, Baylor University, 1980).
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Steve Sadler, "Morrell, Z. N.," Handbook of Texas Online, accessed January 18, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/morrell-z-n.


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STFU about World War Three Already!
If one is to believe the hysterical US and British press we are only days or weeks away from all-out war with Russia. Encouraged by many of the same media who helped get us into the current conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and many other places in the world, we the media consumers are supposed to believe that this latest war they are trumpeting is not only worthwhile, but is necessary to preserve civilization. Of course, this latter idiocy is utter nonsense and absolutely untrue. Put plainly and simply, any war between those aligned with Washington and those aligned with Moscow would be unnecessary and contrived.
If we replace the terms "German" and "Austrian" with the terms "American," "British," and "Russian," the remainder of Liebknecht's statement hold true for the current situation. In other words, any war between Washington and Moscow and their associated allies will not be started for the benefit of any people. Indeed, the only beneficiaries of such a conflict would be industrial and financial capitalism. This truth is an essential one that cannot be repeated enough. Any and all rhetoric calling for war needs to be opposed on every front.
So, how did we get to this point? This point where the propaganda mills in the West and (from what I can see on my internet feed) in the East are anticipating a battle royal between the two most heavily armed militaries in the world? Why is it that politicians in the United States and Great Britain are whipping portions of their respective populations against Russia and its people? Why would these politicians (and some generals) risk the lives of millions in the escalating battle of words?
There is no single answer to the questions above. However, certain facts are fairly obvious. Let me list what seems most apparent. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Washington and its associated investors took advantage of the moment to steal as much of Russia and its associated nation-states' financial wealth as it could. This was done via what has become known as the Shock Doctrine. After a number of corrupt officials in the Kremlin, who were more than happy to oblige outside investors while stuffing their bank accounts, Putin was elected into power (first as Prime Minister, then as President, then Prime Minister and again as President) to clean up the mess in his own way. Meanwhile, Washington was consolidating and expanding its military strength and presence around the globe, especially in those European nations formerly in the Soviet sphere. This was done by expanding the NATO alliance, installing missiles in countries neighboring Russia, and waging war in the Middle East and South Asia; first against Iran via Saddam Hussein's Iraq, then against Iraq in the ongoing war that began in 1991.
Putin's Russia refrained from overt involvement in the US wars, while simultaneously strengthening ties with Iran and Syria. After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 failed in its goal of replacing the Hussein regime with a pliant yet popular regime in Baghdad—and the political situation in Iraq devolved into a multi-sided bloody civil war manipulated by outside forces (esp. Washington and Tehran)—Putin's government stepped up its involvement in the region. At the same time, Moscow became more forceful in its opposition to the increasing encroachment of the West on its borders. Rebellions in the Caucasus were brutally crushed and the Crimea was assimilated back into Russian hands after a series of protests in Ukraine manipulated by Washington and Moscow on opposing sides. In addition, the Russian arms industry stepped up its production in response to the growing presence of US/NATO forces and weaponry aimed at its heart.
Most importantly, however, in terms of the growing talk in the press of a US-Russia war is the ongoing conflict in Syria. What began as a popular protest as part of what has come to be called the Arab Spring has devolved into a complex multi-sided war between the Syrian military and its allies, jihadists, tribal forces, mercenaries, secular forces of varying political hues, and the intelligence and special forces of several outside governments. Among those outside forces are Hezbollah, Iranian military, Russian forces allied with the Syrian military under the command of President Assad. Among those providing and supporting outside forces opposed to the Syrian regime and its allies are US military and intelligence agencies, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel. In addition, various Kurdish forces aligned with Kurdish radicals in Turkey have been quite successful in their battle for autonomy in northern Syria. In addition to all of these (and more) forces fighting in Syria, there is the phenomenon of the Islamic State (IS). Most of those involved directly and indirectly in the Syrian conflict claim to oppose IS. However, they remain a well-funded and powerful player in the region, so they must be getting support from somewhere in addition to the funds they receive via black market oil sales and so on.
Despite an apparent majority of proxy and jihadist fighters in the ranks battling the Syrian forces, it seems from reports I have read and received from people in country and elsewhere that there are groups remaining among those fighting the Syrian army who are democratic and even somewhere on the Left. These folks need our support. However, most accounts report that most of the rest are religious extremists and/ or in the employ of outside sponsors desiring a share of the spoils if the war ever ends. The presence of progressive elements in a civil war is not a logical reason to support the entrance of imperialist forces into that battle. More importantly, it is not any kind of reason to end up in a world war.
At the same time, history tells us that sometimes events get out of hand. In those moments, terrible things can happen. One such moment occurred slightly more than a hundred years ago. When the young assassin killed Archduke Ferdinand and his wife on June 28, 1914 few people could have predicted this act would be used to start a war that would end barely four years later, taking the lives of more than 35 million people and creating a world order that remains a tinderbox almost a hundred years after its end. The assassination itself was the match that provided imperial powers with a reason to attack their rivals. Once the process was initiated, the downspin towards war became impossible to halt. Treaties and alliances were invoked, arms makers and financiers drooled over potential profits and politicians and generals drank to the possibility of victory. Rulers appealed to their population's prejudices and patriotic passions, enabling a rapid conscription and mobilization that would take humanity into an unnecessary, violent, bloody and murderous hell worthy of the artist Hieronymus Bosch's most gruesome dreams.


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THE DENVER BRONCOS GOT SEOUL
I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything. – John Elway
MILE HIGH ADVANTAGE
I'm telling you—it's not a myth. It really isn't. Speaking of when I first got here and was running around, it was very difficult the first two weeks to catch my breath. For now, us as Broncos players, we love the altitude because it's an advantage for us. – Montee Ball (NFL Player)
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Let the record show once and for all -- the altitude is a factor in Denver.
"I'm telling you -- it's not a myth. It really isn't," rookie running back Montee Ball said. "Speaking of when I first got here and was running around, it was very difficult the first two weeks to catch my breath. For now, us as Broncos players, we love the altitude because it's an advantage for us."
Linebacker Shaun Phillips played in Denver as an opponent in nine consecutive seasons as a San Diego Charger, and he acknowledged that it's something opposing teams have to account for.
"It's definitely an advantage (for the Broncos), but I just always felt that if somebody else is doing it, then I can deal with it. That's always been my attitude here," he said. "But to this day, I still suck air a little bit. It's pretty tough."
Now that he's a member of the Broncos, practicing at high altitude on a daily basis, Phillips said he notices a difference. But "even when you get a day off," it's obvious again during the next day of practice.
The main issue, Colorado native Mitch Unrein explained, is that less oxygen reaches the body at higher elevations. So not only is it harder to breathe, muscles get fatigued faster and players tire out quicker.
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"I've lived here my whole life and I don't think you ever really get used to trying to play in this altitude," the defensive tackle said. "Obviously, we're more accustomed to it just because we practice in it every day. But for teams that come up here, I know it's a struggle for them just to try to catch their breath after a long drive and just trying to keep fresh after every play."
"That stuff burns," linebacker Danny Trevathan agreed. "If you're not used to it, it sneaks up on you. You think you're fine, but then once you get to running around, you feel that extra clap in your lungs."
The topic was addressed in the Philadelphia Eagles locker room this week, particularly because the Eagles offense -- not to mention the Broncos offense -- likes to move at such a quick tempo.
Former Cal linebacker Mychal Kendricks, who made a trip to Boulder, Colo., in college to take on the Buffs, said he developed "cotton mouth pretty fast," according to CSNPhilly.
"It takes about 15 to 30 minutes to get used to it. That's what I remember most," he said. "I definitely felt it."
Eagles cornerback Cary Williams, who played in Denver in the playoffs last season as a member of the Ravens, said "it was tough" to get acclimated to the altitude.
Head Coach John Fox recalled coming to Denver as an opposing coach, and noted that "early, you feel it."
"It's probably the best home-field advantage in the NFL," he said. "That's why I think our home record is so good."
To that point, the Broncos have lost just once in their past 10 regular-season games at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
As for just how much of a factor it will be for the Eagles on Sunday, Phillips took a wait-and-see approach.
"We'll find out," he said.
(*source: DenverBroncos.com by Gray Caldwell Posted Sep 25, 2013)
9 BASIC NFL FORMATIONS
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. – Vince Lombardi
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Friday, January 22, 2016 (DAYS 1,417 & 1,418)
As the AFC and NFC Championships for the NFL are quickly approaching, I've recently gained a new client that I was expecting to do more business consulting work with, but as life always surprises you, this particular CEO is more interested in learning and understanding American Football! Yes, for sports fanatics–this is one of the ultimate paid jobs in a sense, talking my all-time favorite sport! I already knew my friends used to despise me when I was being paid to watch television for years as the Quality Control Specialist for HDNet. Yes, that's also a real PAID job, to watch television! However, it's not nearly as exciting, fun, or interesting as you may imagine all of the time. You aren't watching television leisurely, but in an extremely technical format. I will share a secret though. From 2001-2004, with the inaugural inception of HDNet, the first all-high-definition #HDTV television network in the United States, I had watched more HD programming than any other person in America! I had QC'd every one of HDNet's programs before they went to broadcast or hit air, such classics as; Get Out!, Art Mann Presents, HDNet World Report, Dan Rather Reports, Inside MMA (before we began broadcasting this weekly sports show live from our LA studio), and some of our older and more obscure shows such as Square Pegs, Eye for an Eye with host Kato Kaelin, whom I randomly met at the high-limit blackjack table at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas where he was with his producer and as soon as I mentioned I worked for HDNet they began chatting my ear off about the show and couldn't believe I was the person that not only watched every one of their, hmmm hmmm, incredible shows, but I also had the responsibility upon approving the QC of their show and by doing thus, I held in my hands the ability of approving or rejecting their show for technical or content issues and therefore this went through our in-house legal department and accounting that would release payment for their final product or program production costs. At times I was often paid–less just say an amount per hour for overtime that was probably anger most individuals–for QC'ing or watching every single episode of Prison Break, Star Trek Enterprise, Arrested Development (even the episodes that never aired on FOX and before Netflix chose to produce a fourth season), Smallville, and many, MANY, MANY other series!
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But once again I have digressed, as I was mentioning how to explain some of the most common American Football formations. Growing up in one of the–if not THE greatest football city in America, Denver, you KNOW I had to throw that in there–I used to spend countless hours talking #DenverBroncos football with my friends and especially my brothers, Mike and Dave. We would analyze every detail of the game, trades, and of course how frustrated this team we often shared a love/hate relationship with. However, I feel that this is true of any eccentric sports fan of a specific team. I found this great article by Howard Cosmell, however, when I went to try and print this the format was not so friendly, plus I will be recreating my own graphics below of the various formations, but I wanted to of course, as usual, to give full credit to others when using their material by reformatting it for easier print, so with that said please check out his website. *All writing below is the FULL credit of Howard Cosmell AND I will be updating the below with better graphics soon.
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You're probably a macho guy (or a really cool chick) who knows football inside and out. But just to make sure we're on the same page here, let's run through some of the basic rules of football formations before we have a look at the formations themselves.
Offensive Positioning
There must be 11 total players. Of these, 6 positions are always the same. They are the five players make up the offensive line (OL)—1 center (C), 2 guards (G), 2 tackles (T)—plus 1 quarterback (QB).
The other 5 positions can be any combination of the remaining positions: 0-3 tight ends (TE), 0-5 wide receivers (WR), and 0-3 backs (FB/HB).
For any given play, there must be at least 7 players on the line of scrimmage—the 5 on the OL, plus at least 2 more. These two can be either TEs or WRs. A team can place more players on the line of scrimmage, but the rule is that only the two players on the ends are eligible receivers. So, most often, to maximize the number of eligible receivers, teams place the minimum 7 players up front, leaving 4 in the backfield.
These are the possibilities a coach has to work with when choosing how his team lines up on
offense.
Defensive Positioning
Obviously, there are also 11 total players on the defensive side of the ball. However, unlike offensive formations, in the NFL there are no rules regulating where defensive players must be positioned (as long as they are on their side of the line of scrimmage). They can be in "the box," which is just an area within 5 yards of the ball and the line of scrimmage, or in the "secondary," which is anywhere else. And after the snap, any player can go anywhere and do anything. Thus, coaches have a lot of leeway in drawing up defensive formations.
Still, there are 3 basic types of defensive positions: defensive linemen (DL), who line up right across from the OL in the box; linebackers (LB), who are positioned behind the DL, but still in the box; and defensive backs (DB), who are positioned in the secondary.
Players on the DL are called defensive ends (DE) if they are on the ends of the line and defensive tackles (DT) if they are in the middle. Often, if there is an odd number of tackles (i.e., 1 or 3), the middle/only tackle lined up over the ball is called a nose tackle (NT).
LBs are either strong (SLB), middle (MLB), or weak (WLB), depending on where they are relative to the offensive formation—if a linebacker is lined up opposite the offensive team's TE, he is the SLB.
Players in the secondary are either cornerbacks (CB), who cover WRs, or safeties, who defend against the run and pass. A player is a strong safety (SS) if lined up on the same side as a TE or a free safety (FS) if free to roam wherever he is needed.
Now, let's look at 9 football formations every man should know.
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I-FORMATION (Offense)
The I formation is a "traditional" modern offensive formation that gets its name from the I-shaped alignment of the QB, FB and HB. Using 2 backs and, typically, 2 WRs and 1 TE, this formation is conducive to both running and passing plays. When the latter is chosen, the back without the ball—usually the FB—will block for the back with the ball. The I Formation isn't all that common in the NFL today, as the pro set formation (#7 below) can accomplish pretty much the same thing. However, the I formation is still sometimes used for play-action passes or short yardage running situations. (Source)
PRO SET FORMATION (Offense)
The pro set formation is another "traditional" modern offensive formation. Like the I formation, the pro set is a balanced formation that usually features 2 backs, 2 WRs, and a TE. The main difference between the pro set and the I is simply that the two backs are on either side of the quarterback. Thus there is a bit of a tradeoff when using the pro set: you lose the blocking of the FB in the I formation, but you gain some uncertainty, as the defense doesn't know which side of center the ball will go to. (Source)
SHOTGUN FORMATION (Offense)
You have a shotgun formation any time the QB lines up about 5 yards behind the center and receives a snap rather than a handoff from the C. Typically, this formation uses only 1 back with 3 WRs and 1 TE, although any variation of players in the backfield is possible. The advantage of the QB's position on this formation is that he can see the defensive alignment more clearly and has more time to throw the ball. Teams with excellent QBs and an aggressive passing game—like Indianapolis and New England—have used the shotgun as their standard offensive formation in recent years. (Source)
SPREAD FORMATION (Offense)
The spread formation is a particularly aggressive variant of the single set back formation (which is just like the standard shotgun formation, only the QB lines up immediately behind the C). Where the spread formation differs from the standard single set back is in its use of 4 WRs and 0 TEs. The idea is that this formation spreads out the defense, creating more space. Though typically used for passing plays, the spread formation can also occasionally creates big holes in the DL for effective runs. Also, it's more common in college than the NFL. (Source)
4-3 DEFENSE (Basic)
4-3 DEFENSE (Strong Side Shift)
The 4-3 defense is the most common base defensive formation in the NFL. With 4 defensive linemen, 3 LBs, and 4 players in the secondary, it is just about as balanced a defensive alignment as there can be. It is also versatile in that LBs can shift to the strong or weak sides, depending on the type of play they anticipate from the offensive team. (Source)
The 3-4 defense is the other basic defensive formation, along with the 4-3. The 3-4 basically takes one of the DLs away from the 4-3 and adds a fourth LB, still leaving 4 in the secondary. While the 4-3 is more common in the NFL today because it is often stronger against the run, teams with exceptionally quick LBs might choose the 3-4 because it can offer a bit more versatility. (Source)
NICKEL DEFENSE
The nickel formation is any formation that has 5 players in the secondary instead of 4. (Get it? 5 cents in a nickel, 5 players in the secondary?) Basically, to better defend against a passing formation put in place by the offensive team, the defensive team sacrifices either a DL or a LB in favor of either an additional CB or safety. The additional defender is called a "nickelback." The 4-2-5 nickel formation is like a 4-3 defense, only 1 LB becomes a third CB. On the other hand, the 3-5-3 nickel is like a 3-4 defense, only 1 LB becomes a third safety. (Source)
DIME DEFENSE
The dime defense is typically used against the most aggressive offensive passing formations. Whereas the nickel defense adds 1 more defender to the secondary (called a nickelback), the dime defense adds 2, bringing the grand total to 6. Just as two nickels equals one dime, two nickelbacks make a dime formation. Most often, what this all adds up to is 4 DLs, 1 LB, 4 CBs, and 2 safeties. But theoretically you there could be 3 DLs, 2 LBs, 3 CBs and 3 safeties. All that matters is that there are 6 in the secondary to defend against desperation passing plays. (Source)
GOAL LINE DEFENSE
The offensive and defensive versions of the goal line formation are basically the same: when the ball is within a few yards of the end zone, both teams will forget about the secondary and cram the box with as many bodies as possible. Offensively, this means 0 WRs with 3 TEs and 2 backs (plus the 5-man OL and the QB, making 11). Defensively, this means 0 safeties with a 5-man DL, 4 LBs and 2 CBs. (Source)
MY ADOPTION STORY AND REUNION IN KOREA
What you can become depends upon what you can overcome. – Anthony Douglas Williams
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 (DAY 603)
Today, I have chosen not to include a general topic related to travel information or budget backpacking, but today, I have chosen to share an intimate part of my life. This is the story of my adoption and being reunited with my birth mother, where it has been close to 31 years, 9 months, and roughly 8 days since the last time my birth mother has seen me. And, for as much of my life through my backpacking and travel experiences has become public on the Internet, for those that know me best I still tend to remain a relatively private person. While I have not shared this story with many, it has been a long time coming, so please enjoy my adoption story.
It all began around the Summer of 2011, when I started the process and search for my birthparents with Jan Dunn from Dillon International. Prior to doing this, I spoke extensively with both my adoptive parents and with both of my sisters, whom are also Korean adoptees, however none of us are blood related, and as I had hoped everyone was very supportive in my desire to locate and hopefully be reunited with my birthparents.
Arriving at Stapleton Int'l Airport on May 21, 1982
Like most adoptees, I have two birthdays and two names. I was born at home in the southern city of Yeosu, South Korea and later given the name Seung Chul Lee. I was born around 7:30am on what I can only expect was a cold morning in January. My mother was only 19 years-old at the time, while my birth father was 27 years-old. However at the time of my birth, my father had already been absent from my life because while my mother was six-months pregnant with me, he abandoned her–us. I lived at home for about 5-days as my mother contemplated painfully what would be the best future for me, since I was her first born child. She finally made the decision to place me for adoption with Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS) with a set of specific instructions–she wanted me to be adopted by an American family.
The celebration of my second birthday ocurred four months later on May 21, 1982 at Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado as I was born to Karen and Dale Hendershott and given the name Troy. I had your typical childhood growing up in the Colorado suburbs; riding bikes with neighborhood friends, participating in all of the various pee-wee sports programs, arguing and teasing my sisters, and of course being taught that there is no other team than the Denver Broncos. I did, unfortunately, experience many negatives situations that I often kept hidden from my parents, because I felt as though they could not possibility relate. It was everything that you could imagine–being made fun of as people brought their fingers to their eyes sloping them at you, the verbal racial slurs, bowing or making stereotypical gestures or comments as a form of mocking you, plus a variety of other things just because of how I looked physically. That's why I continue to say that it's very difficult, if not nearly impossible, to explain to others how it feels to be a Korean adoptee specifically.
Outside of Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS)
However today I have awoken in a place unlike any I have experienced in all of my travels–a house filled with other Korean adoptees where we share more similar than different stories. Even though I arrived here the day before and many were arriving late in to the evening, we did have brief chances to get introduced and share a little about where each of us were from–California, Pennsylvania, New York, and a lone Australian. We all agreed that it was such an interesting and surreal environment to be in, knowing that we are all connected through such a significant part of our past and sharing much of the same identity.
Finding it difficult to sleep–as most of us did, I climb out of bed around 7:40am and after a hot shower I begin to organize my things together for a day that I already know I will never forget. Checking to make sure my camera and iPhone are fully charged, I head downstairs and find Mikey from California, but originally from Fort Collins, Colorado, as well as the twins from New York, Danielle and Kaitlynn, all sitting around the kitchen table. Yawns abound as feelings of mixed emotions and excitement are coupled with strong cups of coffee. Just before 9am the four of us are lead out by Crystal and we take the 15-minute walk to the ESWS headquaters. Since there is an organized itinerary for all of us that are participating in the Home to Home Program, we are sectioned into four groups. I believe that this is due to the limited number of volunteers that are acting as translators. Fortunately, I suppose for the sake of nerves, I am in group #1 along with my brekkie mates. As we walk along the bustling city street, Kaitlynn says that this part of the city reminds her of Queens in New York. I tell her that I agree as I spent time a few weeks staying in Rego Park back in 2010 when my friend Kevin's brother and his wife lived there and we went to visit over the Summer. We begin discussing who we are expecting to meet, and I am surprised when the twins from New York are meeting both their mom and their sister which is their triplet. Mike has an older brother that has been to Korea before and has already met their biological family, so he was taken around the city last night with one of his brothers and today was meeting both his mother and father plus a few other family members. I tell everyone that I am unsure if my half brother and half sister will be joining my mother today or not. Before we know it, we are standing outside of Eastern and for the rest of the group this is their first time seeing the large banner that hangs on the outside of the building.
The email I received while in Nicaragua notifying me of locating my birth family
My social worker at #ESWS, Ms. Kang, that assisted me with my birth family reunion
We are greeted by a few volunteers before being lead to one of the counseling or post-adoption family meeting rooms. Upon entering you notice that there are two couches facing one another with plenty of tissue boxes on the table. There is also a small table with four chairs against the open window along the wall. Sitting nervously, Ms. Kang comes in and we are told that in a few short minutes a volunteer that is designated for each of us will be showing us to separate rooms, and that they are briefing the family members now and then she leaves. This only makes us more anxious. Thinking the minutes may tick away like passing hours, suddenly Ms. Kang bursts through the door with the volunteers and begins directing us with whom to follow. With little time to think, I am walking down the hallway as Ms. Kang tells me that she will be my translator for today. Thinking we are walking through a door to a small room like the one we were just in, it is actually the room where they are briefing the parents. Almost unable to breath, four faces turn and stare in our direction as we come through the door and I know my mother is one of these faces looking back at me.
One of the first hugs I shared with my mom
As the group of parents gets up and begins walking back, I notice one woman looking directly at me smiling and I can already sense that this is my mother. Ms. Kang introduces us right there–not waiting to get us to the more intimate counseling room–we share in a long hug that is followed by some tears. As we walk through a set of doors and past some other desks to the corner of the building, my mother cannot let go of my hand. I keep smiling as we enter the small room that has two chairs set up on each side of a white table. I let my mom take her seat and sit next to her as Ms. Kang sits across from us. The entire time my mother cannot let go of me and tells us that she feels as though she is dreaming. The conversation moves slowly as expected with all of the translating. Unsure of what to expect from our first meeting, my mother asks if I would like to come down to stay with her for a night in Iksan, a city in the Southwest part of the country that is situated on the Okgu and Keumman Plains and leads to the West Sea (Yellow Sea). Excited by this unexpected invitation, I tell her that I would love to visit. Discussing this with Ms. Kang we've decided that the weekend would be the best time, since it is 3-hours by bus or 90-minutes by the Korean Train Express (KTX) from Seoul. The plan is formulated and agreed upon is that on Friday, my mother will return to the capitol and stay overnight and on Saturday morning we will return to where she lives and I will return to Seoul on Sunday. Ms. Kang informs us that Eastern will be able to provide us a volunteer translator for most of the day Saturday, but not Saturday night or Sunday. She also tells me that I should probably book my return ticket for Sunday in advance since that will most likely be a busy commuting day for others that are returning to Seoul. After this is finalized a series of back and forth questions are exchanged and before we all realize it a person is knocking on the door to let us know that the van downstairs is waiting to take us to the restaurant for lunch.
Another long embrace
Sharing the van with the girls from New York, there are two conversations going as we begin the short drive through the narrow neighborhood streets–one in Korean and one in English. I tell the twins that their sister does look like them and when they are all together it's obvious they are triplets. As we arrived at the traditional Korean restaurant, I wish I could tell you the name but I had a little much going through my head at the time, my mother still is clasping my hands and I cannot help but feel like a proud son to her. The restaurant is similar to others I have already visited in Seoul, since I have been in the city for almost two-weeks, but this time we are lead into a private room where we are required to take off our shoes, and it has the low sitting tables with cushions on the floor. Our meal is Bulgogi (불고기), which is thinly sliced or shredded beef marinated in soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, sugar, green onions and black pepper, cooked on a grill at our the table. Bulgogi literally means "fire meat". Variations may include pork (Dweji bulgogi), chicken (Dak bulgogi), or squid (Ojingeo bulgogi), I believe we have the entire mixture. As we sit down to eat, I have failed to mention that we also have a new translator volunteer, Hanah, who had previous worked for ESWS for the past 15-years before moving to New York with her husband for a year and has recently returned to Seoul, but is not returning to work with ESWS full time as she is a full time mommy of two.
Lunch at a nearby restaurant with my mom and our volunteer translator
The meal is tasty, but we are more concerned with the conversation that we have been waiting years for. We talk about how and where I grew up, I asked about her children, we discussed my travels, and I learned that my mother is quite the cook and would one day like to open her own restaurant. At one point my mother asks if we can order a beer because she's still a bit nervous, laughing I say that has to be my mom. As the dishes begin to be cleared from the table and since we have our volunteer translator until 3pm (almost another few hours), we decide to find a nearby coffee shop and continue the conversation. During our conversation at the Coffee Bene, my mother told me that for several years she tried to search for me. This was also when I learned that my Korean name, Seung Chul Lee, was not given to me by her, but by Eastern Social Welfare Services, and this was the primary reason she was unsuccessful in locating and contacting me.
Eastern Social Welfare Society, Inc. (ESWS) is a non-profit organization, licensed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Korean Government. Chairman of the Board: Kim, Dojong, Ph.D. Editor: Na, Hyemin President: Kim, Jinsook, Ph.D. Special thanks to: Christina Saia Chief Editor: Kim, Tae-Kyoung Printed: Namkang ESWS Founded: March 18, 1972 Website: www.eastern.or.kr/english Email: postadoption@eastern.or.kr
Enjoying getting to know one another with our translator
Over the years of attempting to search for which family and where I had been adopted to in the States, she eventually had given up hope. I asked her how she felt when ESWS contacted her to let her know that I was searching for her? She said that she was overcome with joy and thanked God that I was alive and healthy and wanted to meet her. When it was time to depart, we slowly strolled to the subway station, once again her hands clasped around mine and there was a long embrace. Not wanting to let one another go, I told her that I am excited for Friday and the weekend, and as I had to be the first to walk away, once I reached about the middle of that block I turned back and she was still standing there watching me as if I were a child walking off to school. She waved at me and I couldn't help but be overcome with emotion.
I have just recently written a blog for KADs that are interested in moving to Korea either short-term or indefinitely, if you are interest please read:
ADVICE FOR KADS MOVING TO KOREA: BLOG
The video below is is Melissa 'Mila' Konomos' Birth Family Reunion, which took more than 7-years various non-profit organizations (#DillonInternational) in the United States and Eastern Social Welfare Society (#ESWS) in Seoul. This was also the video that inspired and encouraged me to begin my birth family search, which took me close to 2-years.
The video below is by Pierre a French-Korean adoptee, and does a great job of the importance to many of us that are adopted and why we have come back, please watch.
우리가 돌아왔다 (We Came Back) from Pierre OGERON on Vimeo.
To learn more about ESWS here is a short promotional video that talks about the history and if you can this is an excellent organization to support financially and I encourage family and friends to please do so HERE.