The heat is on, and hopefully your lawn is thriving. What worked in Spring doesn't always work in Summer, so lawn equipment experts at Husqvarna shared some tips and best practices for peak summer season lawn maintenance. Keep it green my friends.
1. Read up: Every mower is different, so it's important to check the owner's manual for a list of regular maintenance tasks and keep on tip of them throughout the season.
2. Tune up: Handy homeowners may decide to tune up their mowers themselves, but many people choose to visit an authorized dealer for a tune-up. If you go the DIY route, remember to follow all safety messages and instructions in the owner's manual. In addition, use factory-recommended parts and oil, and always inspect filters and spark plugs. The star of the season is a great time to sharpen the blade, and for peak performance again mid to late season.
3. Gas up: Keep only enough to last 30 days in an airtight container, stored properly. Make sure to use 89-octane gas with an ethanol content no higher than 10 (E10). Gas with a higher level of ethanol can damage power-tool engines.
4. Get a grip: Advances in lawn mower technology have made it easier than ever to efficiently cut and maintain your lawn, even if you have a challenging yard. All-Wheel Drive (AWD) mowers are gaining popularity, and Husqvarna now offers three new AWD mowers. For example, the HU675AWD is powered by a 675 Kohler engine, features a heavy-duty steel 2-in-1 cutting deck, a straight over-mold bail system, a full auto-choke and a mulch and rear bagging system. We've also reviewed the Craftsman Quiet All-Wheel Drive Mower.
5. Cut one third: It's important to cut no more than one third of the grass blade. This keeps the root system strong and will help minimize weed growth.
6. Water works: High heat is tough on grass and its root system. Refresh and replenish it by making sure your lawn is well watered regularly. Lawns need 1 to 1.5 inches of water weekly to look their lush best. If Mother Nature isn't cooperating, set your sprinkler system for an early morning water, the best time for maximum benefits and lawn health.
7. Safety first: Lawn mower safety is all important and should be emphasized to every member of the home. For riding lawn mowers, never give children rides or allow them to play on the mower, even when it is not running. Children must be at least 16 years of age to operating a riding mower, always monitor your speed and use extreme caution when going in reverse. Look behind and around the mower before proceeding. For walk-behinds, always push the mower away from your body, never mow wet grass and do not mow in the dark.
8. Use interactive controls: Many riding lawn mowers will stop the engine and cutting deck when the driver leaves the seat or put the transmission in reverse giving owners' peace of mind. Additionally, Husqvarna's SmartSwitch ignition – a new operator interface – lets users enter a keyless code for safe and simple engine activation. Furthermore, lighted icons indicate the status of the parking brake, battery, headlights and ROS (Reverse Operating System).


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Watch Sherie Rene Scott & Norbert Leo Butz As They Dive Into Their Sexual Tension, Their New Concert TwoHander, & The Last Five Years
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Without hyperbole: Tony nominee Sherie Rene Scott and Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz are musical theatre icons, having been a part of the most beloved contemporary works of the last 25 years—just try and act like you've never sung along with either or both of them on a cast recording. Now the dynamic duo—forever known to fans for Jason Robert Brown's legendary two-hander The Last Five Years and their time together in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels— prepare to take the stage together again at Feinstein's/54 Below with their original musical collaboration TwoHander. The show runs July 9 through July 28, and as Sherie & Norbert prepare for the highly-anticipated engagement, they created a distinctly hilarious five-part video series offering viewers an intimate glimpse into their process and their 23-year on-stage/off-stage relationship. Check out the first episode above (also featuring music director Todd Almond) in which SRS & NLB tackle their sexual tension and perfect hand placement.
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Richard McBride – Men's Assistant Coach
McBride joins Moberly from NCAA Division II Minot State where he helped their program achieve their best 3 year record and set a school record for wins in 2017-18. Before that, McBride was an assistant coach at NCAA Division II University of Illinois-Springfield. He had an accomplished playing career starting with his high school days at Lanpheir High School(Springfield, Illinois) where he was named as a High School All American while finishing State Runner Up. He then enjoyed a very successful 4 year playing career at the University of Illinois and was a member of their team which finished as National Runner-Up to North Carolina. He was named as the Team's Most Valuable player his senior season and was also named to the 2019 Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
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The Life and Death of Howard Zinn — A Person Speaks
The Boston Globe had a glowing article on last week's death of radical Marxist academic Howard Zinn, starting with the very title:
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
Yes, in 1964, 1967, 1970, et al. Zinn challenged the status quo. Then what happened? The challengers became the status quo—in Washington, in the media, in academia, and in Hollywood. God help you now if you challenge the status quo. Suddenly it wasn't so praiseworthy, was it, Boston Globe? Rush Limbaugh challenges the status quo, but lib media slanders him. Sarah Palin challenges the status quo, but the lib media lambastes her. The Tea Parties challenge the status quo, but the lib media ridicules them.
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as "A People's History of the United States," inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.
Why does the Globe simply call Zinn a "historian and political activist"? He was as left-wing as they come, and extremely controversial. The lib media can't write about Limbaugh or Beck or Palin without labelling them "conservative" and/or "controversial."
Eventually, the Globe brings in the Hollywood useful idiots:
In 1997, Dr. Zinn slipped into popular culture when his writing made a cameo appearance in the film "Good Will Hunting." The title character, played by Matt Damon, lauds "A People's History" and urges Robin Williams's character to read it. Damon, who co-wrote the script, was a neighbor of the Zinns growing up. "Howard had a great mind and was one of the great voices in the American political life," Ben Affleck [Coming from a Hollywood dimwit, Affleck, that is no complement.], also a family friend growing up and Damon's co-star in "Good Will Hunting," said in a statement. "He taught me how valuable—how necessary—dissent was to democracy and to America itself [Unless the dissenters are Republicans and the target of the dissent is a president you support] He taught that history was made by the everyman, not the elites [Except when the elites are you and your elitist Hollywood buddies telling us everymen that we should change our lifestyles to combat man-made global warming climate change or that we should worship the president like some sort of cult figure.] I was lucky enough to know him personally and I will carry with me what I learned from him—and try to impart it to my own children—in his memory."
Enough with the whitewashing. Howard Zinn was an America-hating radical, all right? His fancy Columbia degrees notwithstanding, he was an intellectually dishonest activist posing as an academic. His personal and professional goal was not to teach history, but to historic revisionism in the style of the Stalinist Soviet brainwashers. The man lived in an ultra-leftist fantasy world, protected and encouraged by the circles he associated with.
You think I'm being hyperbolic? Let's talk about that "history" book for which Zinn was most famous. The Globe itself writes:
"A People's History of the United States" (1980), his best-known book, had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers—many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out—but rather the farmers of Shays' Rebellion and union organizers of the 1930s.
You got that? Screw Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Madison, etc. Just a bunch of rich white slave-owners. Didn't do or write anything important. The real Amerian heroes are union organizers.
Need a more complete description of A People's History? Here's a description by Benjamin Kerstein at the New Ledger:
Thus far, the major obituary making the rounds is the generic wire-service report from the AP; itself a model of dissembling and misdirection. It pronounces that Zinn's A People's History of the United States "was, fittingly, a people's best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1 million sales in 2003." In fact, as the article goes on to state, "his book was taught in high schools and colleges throughout the country" meaning, for those who can put two and two together, that the book became a bestseller largely because a generation of professors forced their students to buy it — a fitting metaphor for Zinn's view of "the people."
Exactly right. How in the world could Zinn's book be considered a "people's bestseller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth" if elitist professors and lefty history teachers pushed on impressionable students? And it took 23 years to reach one million sales? That's nothing. You want a real people's bestseller that attracted a wide audience through word of mouth and reached 1 million sales in one year? Try Mark Levin's Libery and Tyranny. Curiously, the lib media devoted virtually no coverage of Levin's status-quo-challenging book, and what little coverage they did provide was negative.
Next, Kerstein describes Zinn's completely un-academic un-intellectual approach to his field:
... Unfortunately, as we all know, rewriting history does not necessarily make for good history, or even history at all. Indeed, even in regard to his own work, Zinn was quite incapable of accuracy.
In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, Professor Zinn acknowledged that he was not trying to write an objective history, or a complete one. He called his book a response to traditional works, the first chapter, not the last, of a new kind of history.
"There's no such thing as a whole story; every story is incomplete," Professor Zinn said. "My idea was the orthodox viewpoint has already been done a thousand times."
One can go on endless arguments about the right of the historian to express his opinions, to pick and choose, to emphasize or minimize as he sees fit; and there is no doubt that revisionism – the right to rewrite – is essential to the historian's profession. What is striking about Zinn, however, is the utter banality of his ostensible insights. That all histories are incomplete is, in fact, not even an insight, but a statement of the obvious; and his "orthodox viewpoint" is at best a straw man of dubious provenance. Nonetheless, these two statements – empty, pathetic, and juvenile as they may be – essentially formed the basis of Zinn's entire life's work. There is perhaps no greater insight into the poverty of the American academy today, no greater testimony to its utter lack of depth or imagination, than the fact that it made this empty charlatan whose watchword was no better than the wisdom of an arrested adolescent one of its heroes.
Indeed, Zinn's entire outlook on history, the totality of his grasp of the historian's profession and his art, and the sole justification for his tendentious and consciously biased revisionism, was nothing more than the rusty cliche which holds that history is always written by the powerful, the wealthy, and the victorious. As an ostensibly revolutionary historian, writing a "new kind of history," it was therefore the duty of the glorious Zinn to write for the powerless, the poor, and the defeated.
This is, put generously, a self-serving fantasy; but this is somewhat beside the point, since what is most striking about it is the extraordinary ignorance it displays of Zinn's own chosen profession. It is true that the powerful, wealthy and victorious sometimes write history—and that they sometimes write it very well, witness Caesar's histories of the Gallic war and Churchill's numerous historical writings—but it is equally true that, from its very origins, history has also been written by the weak, the poor, and the defeated, who somehow managed this feat without the help of Howard Zinn. …
Needless to say, this is not really a thesis. It is not even really an idea. It is a sentiment, an unfalsifiable article of faith that bears out Karl Popper's merciless but valuable observation that vast explanatory power is not a virtue but a vice; since any theory that explains everything by definition explains nothing at all. …
Author Daniel Flynn wrote the following sobering critique in 2003, when Zinn released an updated edition to the 1980 original:
The recently released updated edition continues to be plagued with inaccuracies and poor judgment. The added sections on the Clinton years, the 2000 election, and 9/11 bear little resemblance to the reality his current readers have lived through.
In an effort to bolster his arguments against putting criminals in jail, aggressive law enforcement tactics, and President Clinton's crime bill, Zinn contends that in spite of all this "violent crime continues to increase." It doesn't. Like much of Zinn's rhetoric, if you believe the opposite of what he says in this instance you would be correct. According to a Department of Justice report released in September of 2002, the violent crime rate has been cut in half since 1993.
According to Zinn, it was Mumia Abu-Jamal's "race and radicalism," as well as his "persistent criticism of the Philadelphia police" that landed him on death row in the early 1980s. Nothing about Abu-Jamal's gun being found at the scene; nothing about the testimony of numerous witnesses pointing to him as the triggerman; nothing about additional witnesses reporting a confession by Abu-Jamal—it was Abu-Jamal's dissenting voice that caused a jury of twelve to unanimously sentence him to death. [What the hell Mumia story is doing in a textbook that has only x number of pages to retell American history from 1492 to the present is beyond me—unless the auther has an agenda.]
Predictably, Zinn draws a moral equivalence between America and the 9/11 terrorists. He writes, "It seemed that the United States was reacting to the horrors perpetrated by the terrorists against innocent people in New York by killing other innocent people in Afghanistan." Scare quotes adorn Bush's "war on terrorism," post-9/11 "patriotism," and other words and phrases Zinn dislikes.
Left-wing editorializing posing as scholarly prose in a history textbook. Disgusting.
Next, Flynn discusses that in Zinn's book, both the original and updated edition, omits of whole major events that make America look good, and includes of completely minor events making America look bad. In Dennis Prager's words, Zinn has a "proctologist's view of America." Facts and truth are ignored, unsubstantiated, and unannotated—yes, the book has no footnotes!
When fact and theory clash, the ideologue chooses theory. Time and again, A People's History of the United States distorts or simply ignores the truth to make the facts, or the alleged facts, or the invented facts, fit the theory that justifies his "social aims."
Zinn claims that "George Washington was the richest man in America." He wasn't, but it makes for a good Marxist tale. George Washington certainly rose to accumulate great wealth in his lifetime—even if he was chronically cash-poor. (For example, he had to borrow money to travel to New York upon his election to the presidency.) It is generally conceded that Robert Morris was the Founding era's wealthiest merchant, while Moses Brown, whose family's name graces an Ivy League university, was another Washington contemporary whose wealth exceeded his.
"When the Scottsboro case unfolded in the 1930s in Alabama," Zinn writes in an even more egregious fit of historical amnesia, "it was the Communist party that had become associated with the defense of these young black men imprisoned, in the early years of the Depression, by southern injustice." Perhaps the Party had become "associated" with the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, but in reality the Communists merely used the embattled youngsters. Richard Gid Powers points out in Not Without Honor that the Communists had raised $250,000 for the Scottsboro Boys' defense, but had put-up a scant $12,000 for two appeals. At the time, a black columnist quoted a candid Party official who stated, "we don't give a damn about the Scottsboro boys. If they burn it doesn't make any difference. We are only interested in one thing, how we can use the Scottsboro case to bring the Communist movement to the people and win them over to Communism." As a fellow-traveler, Zinn has the identical view. He is only interested in history so long as it serves as a weapon of socialist ideology.
"Unemployment grew in the Reagan years," Zinn claims. Statistics show otherwise. Reagan inherited an unemployment rate of 7.5 percent in his first month in office. By January of 1989, the rate had declined to 5.4 percent. Had the Reagan presidency ended in 1982 when unemployment rates exceeded 10 percent, Zinn would have a point. But for the remainder of Reagan's presidency, unemployment declined precipitously.
Not surprisingly, Zinn's book contains not a single source citation (perhaps footnotes would discourage his Pearl Jam fans).
More striking than Zinn's inaccuracies—intentional and otherwise—is what he leaves out. Washington's Farewell Address, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Reagan's speech at the Brandenburg Gate all fail to merit a mention. Nowhere do we learn that Americans were first in flight, first to fly across the Atlantic, and first to walk on the moon. Alexander Graham Bell, Jonas Salk, and the Wright Brothers are entirely absent. Instead, the reader is treated to the exploits of Speckled Snake, Joan Baez, and the Berrigan brothers. While Zinn sees fit to mention that immigrants often went into professions like ditch-digging and prostitution, American success stories like those of Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, and Louis B. Mayer—to name but a few—are off the Zinn radar screen. Valley Forge rates a single fleeting reference, while D-Day's Normandy invasion, Gettysburg, and other important military battles are skipped over. In their place, we get several pages on the My Lai massacre and colorful descriptions of U.S. bombs falling on hotels, air-raid shelters, and markets during the Gulf War of the early 1990s.
My God. This is the garbage that is the most used history book in the country? The fact that even turns up in a classroom is ample evidence that American history classes don't educate; they indoctrinate. If you use an avowed socialist's book that incessantly bashes America's founders, values, traditions, and economic system, what do you get? A generation of students who come to hate America's founders, values, traditions, and economic system, that's what! Anybody who tells you that this was not the goal of Zinn himself or the teachers in hundreds of schools who use his book are bullsh*tting you.
When Zinn died last week, so many Facebook friends were posting their remorse over his death! It was as if we lost Martin Luther King, Jr. or the like. Even some of their parents were distraught! In other words, two generations of Americans were simultaneously mourning the loss of this supposed American hero.
So when I was compelled to reply with objections to their beatification, I was confronted with ridicule and criticism. These people actually had no idea why I would think those things about their hero. I would ask any of those people, if they have the wherewithall to read this blog, to address any of these facts and actually tell me with a straight face that Zinn was nothing other than a dangerous America-hating radical. Several friends challenged me on that charge.
If the above information is not enough for such people, here's more from David Horowitz's indispensable Discover the Networks site:
Zinn describes the founding of the American Republic as an exercise in tyrannical control of the many by the few for greed and profit: "The American Revolution … was a work of genius, and the Founding Fathers ... created the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command." In Zinn's reckoning, the Declaration of Independence was not so much a revolutionary statement of rights as a cynical means of manipulating popular groups into overthrowing the King to benefit the rich. The rights which the Declaration appeared to guarantee were "limited to life, liberty and happiness for white males"—and actually for wealthy white males—because they excluded black slaves and "ignored the existing inequalities in property" (in other words, they were not socialist rights). …
In A People's History, greed is the explanation for virtually every major historical event:
Regarding America's separation from Great Britain, Zinn writes: "Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies … found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from the favorites of the British Empire."
Zinn describes antebellum America as a uniquely cruel slaveholding society whose goal was subjugating man for profit. On the other hand, the war of the Union against the slaveholding system is portrayed in exactly the same terms: "It is money and profit, not the movement against slavery that was uppermost in the priorities of the men who ran the country."
The same explanation is given for America's entry into World War I: "American capitalism needed international rivalry—and periodic war—to create an artificial community of interest between rich and poor."
According to Zinn, it was America and not Japan that was to blame for Pearl Harbor. The fight against fascism, he says, was a manipulated illusion to conceal America's real goals, which were empire and money: "Quietly, behind the headlines in battles and bombings, American diplomats and businessmen worked hard to make sure that when the war ended, American economic power would be second to none in the world. United States business would penetrate areas that up to this time had been dominated by England. The Open Door Policy of equal access would be extended from Asia to Europe, meaning that the United States intended to push England aside and move in."
Now, anti-Americanism is almost always accompanied by two other positions: pro-communism/socialism and anti-Israel. Predictably, Howard Zinn fit the fill on both (again from Discover the Network):
(1) Pro-communism/socialism:
In Professor Zinn's view, Maoist China was "the closest thing, in the long history of that ancient country, to a people's government, independent of outside control"; Castro's Cuba "had no bloody record of suppression"; and the Marxist dictators of Nicaragua were "welcomed" by the people, while the opposition Contras, whose candidate triumphed when free elections were held as a result of U.S. pressure, were a "terrorist group" that "seemed to have no popular support inside Nicaragua." …
In a March 2009 speech, Zinn spoke positively about President Barack Obama, and said the following about capitalism:
"Obama has become president at a very special time, when the American capitalist system is falling apart. And good! I'm glad it's falling apart, because unless the system falls apart, we're not going to do anything about it. We're not going to fix it.... The market system—be wary when you hear about the glories of the market system. The market system is what we've had. Let the market decide, they say. The government mustn't give people free health care; let the market decide.
"Which is what the market has been doing—and that's why we have 45 million people without health care. The market has decided that. Leave things to the market, and there are 2 million people homeless. Leave things to the market, and there are millions and millions of people who can't pay their rent. You can't leave it to the market. If you're facing an economic crisis like we're facing now, you can't do what was done in the past...." …
Dan Flynn, in his above-cited article, also points out the overt anti-capitalist prism through which Zinn wrote A People's History:
If you've read Marx, there's really no reason to read Howard Zinn. The first line of The Communist Manifesto provides the single-bullet theory of history that provides Zinn with his narrative thread— "The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle." It is the all-purpose explanation of every subject that Zinn covers. On other hand, why study history when theory has all the answers?
Thumb through A People's History of the United States and you will find greed as the motivating factor behind every act of those who don't qualify as "the people" in Zinn's book. According to Zinn, the separation from Great Britain, the Civil War, and both World Wars all were the result of base motives of the "ruling class"—rich men to get richer at the expense of others.
Zinn's Marxist explanation of the New World begins with Columbus who like every other settler in the New World was driven by the (evil) profit motive. "Behind the English invasion of North America, behind their massacre of Indians, their deception, their brutality, was that special powerful drive born in civilizations based on private profit." This malicious view of people who often came to the New World to escape persecution in the old, who sometimes championed the rights of indigenous peoples and who mostly attempted to live peacefully alongside them is characteristic of the extreme anti-European, anti-white, any American prejudice of this book. The idea that the Indians who themselves were "invaders" by Zinn's standards (they came on a land bridge from Asia and exterminated the then native peoples) somehow owned the continent is a much a fantasy as the idea that they were simply passive victims of the settlers. Zinn's account omits the unprovoked aggressions of the Indians on each other and on the settlers. But then doing so, would spoil his leftist melodrama.
(2) Anti-Israel
Just as Zinn held the United States in contempt, so did he despise America's closest ally in the Middle East, Israel. According to the professor, Israel's creation in 1948 "meant the dispossession of the Arab majority that lived on that land," and led not only to "the occupation and subjugation of several million Palestinians," but also to "what we would today call 'ethnic cleansing.'"
Zinn recalled that "after the Six-Day War of 1967 and Israel's occupation of territories seized in that war (the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the Sinai peninsula)," he personally "began to see Israel not simply as a beleaguered little nation surrounded by hostile Arab states, but as an expansionist power."
With regard to the ongoing Mideast conflict today, Zinn placed most of the blame for "the cycle of violence" on Israel's allegedly provocative use of disproportionate force: "a rock-throwing [Palestinian] intifada met by [Israeli] over-reaction in the form of broken bones and destroyed homes, [Palestinian] suicide bombers killing innocent Jews followed by [Israeli] bombings which killed ten times as many innocent Arabs."
Zinn lamented that "in the occupied territories ... a million and more Palestinians live under a cruel military occupation, while our [U.S.] government supplies Israel with high-tech weapons."
According to Zinn, Israeli society was replete with deep-seated "xenophobia, militarism, [and] expansionism." Added the professor:
"Some of the wisest Jews of our time—Einstein, Martin Buber—warned of the consequences of a Jewish state. Einstein wrote, at the very inception of Israel: 'My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain....'"
Lovely. I wonder if my liberal Jewish friends who were among those mourning Zinn's loss last week know—or even care—about the man's adversity towards Israel.
Now, lest I be accused of defaming the deceased or spitting on their grave, note you will not find me popping open a celebratory bottle of champagne or hoping Zinn is burning in hell (unlike the oh-so-tolerant left when Ronald Reagan or Bush press secretary Tony Snow died). Benjamin Kerstein, in his above-cited article notes that "kicking a man when he's dead" was Zinn's forte:
One of the unwritten laws of opinion journalism is to never kick a man when he's dead, at least, not until an appreciable amount of time has passed. The question is whether this can or should hold true for those who make their living by doing precisely that. The death at the age of 87 of pseudo-historian Howard Zinn raises this issue all over again, since very few academics have made a better living defaming the dead, with everyone from Columbus to Ronald Reagan, and thousands in between, being accused by the jocular old harpy of any number of hideous crimes, not one of whom, needless to say, being alive to answer the charges. It is, of course, the job of the historian to examine the acts of the deceased; and some consider it an equal part of their profession to pass judgement upon them. In the case of Zinn, however, he passed judgment with such slothful ease, and such obvious sadistic pleasure in issuing his condemnations, that one cannot muster up much sympathy at the prospect of the man's memory dying by his own sword.
Also, to Zinn's credit, he did agree to interviews with right-leaning opponents, among them Dennis Prager. Here is Part 1 and Part 2 of Prager's 2006 radio interview with him. I will conclude with this part of the interview:
Prager: What would you say … we [The U.S.] have done more bad than good, we're in the middle, or what?
Zinn: Probably more bad than good. We've done some good, of course; there's no doubt about that. But we have done too many bad things in the world.
Now there's a man who really loved his country and whose farcical fantasy of a history book was brought within even a 10-mile radius of thousands of American schoolchildren!
But, dead or not, don't you dare question his patriotism.
Other bloggers on the death of Howard Zinn: Jammie Wearing Fool, The Other McCain
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2010: The Year We Make Comeback - Obama's Old Senate Seat (D-IL)
The votes are in, and it will be Alexi Giannoulias (D) vs. Mark Kirk (R) in November for Illinois Senate.
I envision a dirty, ugly campaign. Giannoulis and Obama are old basketball buddies and President Hope&Change is expected to make many trips to his old stamping grounds to stump for him. Let's hope Obama does for Giannoulis what he's done for most of the other candidates he's campaigned for.
Lib Media Amazed a Black Won Miss America Pageant with Limbaugh As Judge [UPDATED]
There is some interesting coverage of the recent Miss America pageant in the lib media.The winner was a black woman, you see. And since one of the judges was Rush Limbaugh, some "journalists" were so amazed that a black contestant overcame the odds of having to win with a racist judge on the panel.
Rusty Weiss at NewsBusters has the blood-boiling account:
Once again some members of the media have taken to branding Rush Limbaugh a racist, offering backhanded compliments and genuine surprise that a black woman could have won the Miss America contest whilst he served as judge.
As Boyce Watkins lamented in his Black Voices article, (emphasis mine throughout):
"This week, Rush Limbaugh was standing in front of a talented black woman who was trying to become Miss America. I am not sure if Rush voted for her or not, but the black woman was able to win. Caressa Cameron, a 22-year old from Virginia Commonwealth University, was crowned Saturday night as the winner of the 2010 Miss America pageant."
Watkins, himself a fervent anti-conservative from the Al Sharpton School of race baiting, was merely voicing what many in the media are thinking—a black woman won despite the presence of Limbaugh.
Take NBC Washington for example, who explains that Rush was indeed charmed by Ms. Cameron, saying that she won simply because she:
"...has it all. Extraordinarily good conversationalist, amazing presence, unique and classic beauty, glamour... and the girl can sing!"
NBC couldn't contain their amazement however, as the full paragraph actually read:
The 22-year-old was even able to wow pageant judge Rush Limbaugh. The controversial [only to liberals - ETR] conservative radio host told the Washington Post that Cameron won simply because she "has it all. Extraordinarily good conversationalist, amazing presence, unique and classic beauty, glamour... and the girl can sing!"
Was there no surprise that she was able to wow the likes of Vivica Fox, or Shawn Johnson? Nay. Therefore, it is safe to assume that Limbaugh was singled out specifically.
Another Web site, HipHopWired.com, pulls no punches in their assessment that the odds were stacked against her because of Limbaugh's presence:
"Her win came as a surprise to some considering that Rush Limbaugh was judging the competition."
To no one's surprise, this thorough piece of journalism failed to provide sources for the aforementioned 'some' people. Perhaps they interviewed citizens from the land of lollipops and unicorns, but it's difficult to tell. …
Perhaps there's a little projection going on here. I wonder would these media outlets have to say about Carrie Prejean, who was deliberately scored unfairly by uber-liberal nutjob Perez Hilton because she gave the politically incorrect answer to his/her questions regarding same-sex marriage.
Keep it classy, lib media.
UPDATE 8:00 PM: Caressa Cameron, black Miss America was interviewed on Rush's show today. The two couldn't have been more amicable. If there is actually a list of people who are shocked that Rush Limbaugh "allowed" a black woman to win a pageant he judged, Caressa Cameron is not one of them.
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Well, kids, it's primary day in the Land of Lincoln. For the rest of us, eyes are mainly on the Senate seat formerly held by President Hope&Change and currently kept warm by Ronald Burris. And guess what? Dems in Illinois are worried that something might happen in November similar to last month's upset in Massachusetts:
Analysts: May be hard for Democrats to keep Obama's former Senate seat
By Kevin Bohn, CNN
Chicago, Illinois (CNN)—Political analysts say it might be an uphill climb for the Democrats to hold onto Barack Obama's former Senate seat in Illinois.
"Democrats right now are in disarray in Illinois," said Russ Stewart, a long-time Illinois political analyst and columnist. …
A lot of attention is also focused on the senatorial election. Incumbent Sen. Roland Burris, who was touched by the Blagojevich scandal, is not running, and the leading Democratic hopeful decided against getting into the race, so Republicans are hopeful moderate five-term Republican Rep. Mark Kirk may be able to capture the seat previously held by Obama.
"Kirk is a moderate. He certainly would appeal to independent and suburban voters," Stewart said. "The people who were energized for Obama, are disillusioned and disgusted right now. The Democrats are disillusioned with the Democratic hierarchy that runs Illinois so a lot of people say, 'I'm going to vote Republican just as a protest as they did for Scott Brown,' " referring to the Republican who was elected last month in heavily Democratic Massachusetts to fill the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
The leading Democratic contenders are state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and former Chicago inspector general David Hoffman. Giannoulias, the front-runner with more name recognition and considered close to Obama, has been attacked by Hoffman because of controversies relating to the bank owned by Giannoulias' family. …
"I think people are very worried about out of control spending in Washington. Trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see," Kirk told CNN.
Asked about the symbolism of a Republican potentially capturing the seat formerly held by Obama, Kirk said, "I think it would recover our tradition as an independent state. Illinois used to be seen as a swing state, and we used to be very proud of some of the people we elected to office. But right now, especially at the statewide level in Illinois with Roland Burris and Rod Blagojevich, there is a strong wish by independent voters to represent a different choice—someone who comes from a more suburban tradition than what we have seen."
Kirk so far has not won the support of the more conservative elements of his party, including some Tea Party activists in the state.
Previewing his general election message if he wins the GOP nomination, Kirk says more checks and balances are needed in the state.
"I think no one political party is the source of all wisdom, and no one political party should have all of the power," Kirk said.
Of course, I'd be pleased if Illinois Dems faced the same type of defeat as they did in Massachusetts last month. Analysts at CNN seem to think he's a formidable challenge to any of the Democrat contenders. But is Mark Kirk, assuming he wins the GOP primary today, the best candidate? He does not have strong support from the GOP's conservative base. CQ Politics also notes this:
The biggest threat to Kirk's nomination is that conservative activists, who have engaged party moderates in a series of primary "battles for the soul of the GOP Party," might train their sights on him and rally behind one of his opponents. Forces on the right have never loved Kirk because he is to the left of party orthodoxy on social issues, and he enraged them in June when he voted for a climate change bill that includes a controversial "cap and trade" provision. Kirk then endured some criticism when he tried to back off that vote at a GOP rally, saying that he voted for the climate bill because it was in the "narrow interest" of his congressional district and that he would oppose it as a U. S. senator representing all of Illinois.
That "c(r)ap and trade" vote is a problem. In my own district Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) voted yes on that bill. As a registered Republican, I keep getting mailings and phone calls from him. I've emailed his office, telling him that even if the bill is killed in the Senate, he's lost my vote next time around.
Which of the several Democrats are predicted to win in their primary? Politico has the key quote:
"I have no freaking idea what's going to happen Tuesday," said Kitty Kurth, a Chicago-based Democratic consultant. "It's going to be an election that's going to have people scratching their heads for a week."
Don'tcha mean "scratching their freaking heads for a freaking week," Ms. Kurth?
We're sure to know by the end of tonight who will be facing off.
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Liberal Hypocrisy: Pelosi's Plane; Menendez's Meeting
Rhetoric:
Everybody has to make a sacrifice. If you're asking everybody else in the country who has an interaction with the federal government — and that means our states and cities and all the rest, too — to cut back, then I think we have to subject every federal dollar to the very harshest scrutiny.
—Nancy Pelosi, January 28, 2010
Reality:
From IBD Editorials:
By everybody, [Nancy Pelosi] evidently was excluding herself; the speaker's interest in Air Force jets does not extend beyond the ones that fly her and her family around.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch show that Pelosi has incurred expenses of $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets the past two years. Then there's the matter of the $101,000 tab taxpayers picked up over that period for "in-flight services," including a selection of top-shelf booze.
One receipt for "in-flight services," World Net Daily reports, showed a liquor purchase for one flight that included Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey's Irish Creme, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewar's scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniel's whiskey and Corona beer
According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, Pelosi has used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. In 2007, Pelosi was criticized, justifiably, for using a 42-seat Air Force jet to taxi her and her staff from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., and back.
Of 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations, 31 trips included members of the speaker's family. Pelosi has reportedly requested on one occasion the dedicated use of an Air Force C-32, the military version of the Boeing 757-200 commercial jet that costs $22,000 an hour to operate.
The stunning decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission will allow special interests—including the nation's largest corporations—to spend an unlimited amount of money to influence political campaigns, drowning out the voice of the American people and rolling back decades of progress to ensure elections are fair.
—Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), January 26, 2010
In the upcoming elections, voters will face a choice between Republicans who are standing with Wall Street fat cats, bankers and insurance companies—or Democrats who are working hard to clean up the mess we inherited by putting the people's interests ahead of the special interests.
From Politico [h/t Hot Air]:
Dem. senators spent weekend with bank, energy, tobacco lobbyists
Twelve Democratic Senators spent last weekend in Miami Beach raising money from top lobbyists for oil, drug, and other corporate interests that they often decry, according to a guest list for the event obtained by POLITICO.
The guest list for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's "winter retreat" at the Ritz Carlton South Beach Resort doesn't include the price tag for attendance, but the maximum contribution to the committee, typical for such events, is $30,000. There, to participate in "informal conversations" and other meetings Saturday, were senators including DSCC Chairman Robert Menendez; Michigan's Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow; Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Claire McCaskill of Missouri; freshmen Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Begich of Alaska; and even left-leaning Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Across the table was a who's who of 108 senior Washington lobbyists, including the top lobbying officials for many of the industries Democrats regularly attack: Represented were the American Bankers Association, the tobaco company Altria, the oil company Marathon, several drug manufacturers, the defense contractor Lockheed, and most of the large independent lobbying firms: Ogilvy, BGR, Quinn Gillespie, Heather Podesta, and Tony Podesta.
It's so easy being a Washington liberal/Democrat, isn't it? One set of rules for you, another set of rules for eeeeeveryone else.
Related reading: Flopping Aces
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IPCC Caught in Two Cover-Ups of Erroneous Data
This is infuriating. Back in early December—just days before the Copenhagen "climate" conference—BBC News (Doing the job American journalists won't do) reported:
The UN panel on climate change warning that Himalayan glaciers could melt to a fifth of current levels by 2035 is wildly inaccurate, an academic says.
J Graham Cogley, a professor at Ontario Trent University, says he believes the UN authors got the date from an earlier report wrong by more than 300 years.
He is astonished they "misread 2350 as 2035". The authors deny the claims.
Leading glaciologists say the report has caused confusion and "a catalogue of errors in Himalayan glaciology".
Fast forward to two weeks ago, when The U.K. Times (Also doing the job that American journalists won't do) wrote:
Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.
In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.
It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research.
Now the plot thickens yet again: The U.K. Times (Still doing the job American journalists won't do) reported yesterday that the IPCC knew about the error, but ignored it:
Panel ignored warnings on glacier error
Jonathan Leake
THE United Nations climate panel ignored warnings by leading scientists not to publish false claims that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.
One warning, in 2006, a year before the report was published, came from Georg Kaser, an Austrian glaciologist who was a lead author on another section of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
He said: "I sent warnings to the IPCC telling them the claim about Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035 was false."
2006? That was four years ago. The IPCC has been covering up scientific errors about rapid glacier melt for four years. So what does the IPCC say now that they've been found out?
Another warning came from Gwyn Rees, a British hydrologist who oversaw a £300,000 study funded by the UK government in 2001 to assess the claims about rapid melt.
His findings were published in 2004 — three years before the IPCC report — and also showed there was no risk of rapid melt. …
An IPCC spokesman said it regretted the error but pointed out that glaciers were still melting — albeit far more slowly than its report had suggested.
"Regrets the error?" That's supposed to make it all OK? What if a spokesman for George W. Bush had said he "regretted the error" about no WMD being found in Iraq? Just saying. Besides, of course the glaciers are melting. We've been coming out of an ice age for centuries. Melting glaciers are natural!
These people are dangerous. The prosperity and security of our entire country rests on the actions of these scam artists. And our clueless ideologue of a president, who promised he'd restore the integrity of science that had allegedly been violated under Bush.
But wait! There's more! Yesterday The U.K. Times (Still doing the job American journalists won't do) also reported this other cover-up. Yes, two cover-ups exposed in one day:
UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim
A STARTLING report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rainforest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland.
The source for its claim was a report from WWF, an environmental pressure group, which was authored by two green activists. They had based their "research" on a study published in Nature, the science journal, which did not assess rainfall but in fact looked at the impact on the forest of human activity such as logging and burning. This weekend WWF said it was launching an internal inquiry into the study.
This is the third time in as many weeks that serious doubts have been raised over the IPCC's conclusions on climate change. Two weeks ago, after reports in The Sunday Times, it was forced to retract a warning that climate change was likely to melt the Himalayan glaciers by 2035. That warning was also based on claims in a WWF report.
The IPCC has been put on the defensive as well over its claims that climate change may be increasing the severity and frequency of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.
This weekend Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, was fighting to keep his job after a barrage of criticism.
This chair of the IPCC is fighting to keep his job? If the IPCC really gave a crap about science—and they have demonstrated over and over and over again that they do not—they would kick this guy out on his ear. He's a disgrace to the entire field of science, and if he has any degrees, they should all be retracted. And the IPCC should be required to return its Nobel "Peace" Prize.
Here's my favorite part:
Scientists fear the controversies will be used by climate change sceptics to sway public opinion to ignore global warming — even though the fundamental science, that greenhouse gases can heat the world, remains strong.
You gotta love this politically-charged language: "Controversies"? You mean lies. Cover-ups. Scandals. "Used by climate change sceptics (sic) to sway public opinion to ignore global warming?" Of course skeptics will "use" them! The "scientists"—yes, I'm putting that in quotes. They're not scientists; they're agenda-driven political hacks—are wrong. There is no global warming. The "scientists" are worried about public opinion being swayed? The public should be informed of the truth—shouldn't they?
Besides, even before all this garbage came out, the public is already ignoring global warming. A Pew poll came out last week listing the American public top priorities for 2010 [h/t Watts Up With That]. Of 21 topics, global warming came in dead last.
The public is wising up. More and more people are realizing that man-made global warming climate change always was and still is a hoax.
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When people with addiction are stigmatized and discarded, it only promotes the vicious cycle that is embedded in their disease. This summit will focus on the impact of stigma on those with a substance use disorder, MAT stigma, strategies for reducing stigma, communication, and much more.
Funding for the stigma summits was made possible by the Alabama Department of Mental Health (ADMH), in partnership with the VitAL initiative in the School of Social Work at The University of Alabama. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of ADMH nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
The Harrison College of Pharmacy is partnering with VitAL to offer this in-person program. To obtain the access code to enroll through the HCOP system, participants must first register with VitAL by clicking HERE. There is a $35 cost through VitAL registration, but there is no additional HCOP fee.
To receive all 5.75 hours of credit, pharmacists must attend the two out of the three applicable breakout sessions: Addiction as a Neurobiological Disease, Stigma Kills – Addressing Substance Use Disorder, and Ushering Out Stigma in Healthcare
This knowledge-based course is intended for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.
1) Define stigma in substance use and describe the evidence base for its impact on outcomes for the person with substance use disorder (SUD).
2) Identify the need for person-centered communication in persons with or at risk for opioid misuse or SUD.
3) Develop strategies to be a champion in ending stigma.
4) Explain why higher stigma levels in rural communities may further increase resistance to treatment and recovery access.
5) Identify examples of trauma leading to addictive behavior.
6) Describe the concept of hedonic tone and how this relates to addiction and survival.
7) Discuss the basic neuropathology of addiction.
8) Discuss opportunities to educate others on best practices around meditating bias and resources available regarding SUD.
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Stop Judging; Start Healing- Huntsville Program Packet.pdf
8:15-8:45 am Breakfast
8:45-9:00 am Welcome
9:00-10:30 am Opening General Session
10:45 am-noon Panel Discussion
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-2:30 pm Breakout Sessions
Breakout Sessions Applicable to Pharmacists:
Addiction as a Neurobiological Disease
Stigma Kills – Addressing Substance Use Disorder
Ushering Out Stigma in Healthcare
A copy of the presentation slides are located within the course content. Once you have registered for the course, please navigate to the 'Take Course' tab and click the navy blue 'Take Course' button. Navigate to the 'Course Materials' section of the course using the left-hand menu and download a PDF version of the program presentation. Course Materials will be added to the course the week of the live event.
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Dr. Brent Boyett received his doctorate in dental medicine from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and his osteopathic medical degree from the University of Health Sciences in Kansas City Missouri. He completed his residency in Family Medicine through the University of Mississippi and currently holds a board certification in Family Medicine and two board certifications in Addiction Medicine. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Boyett has served as the President of The Alabama Osteopathic Medical Association and the Alabama Society of Addiction Medicine and he currently sits on the national board for The American Society of Addiction Medicine. He has served as the principal investigator for numerous clinical trials, working to develop of variety of pharmaceuticals and medical devices with a particular focus in the research of buprenorphine and buprenorphine delivery systems. Dr. Boyett is the founder and former chief medical officer of Pathway Healthcare which focuses on the outpatient treatment of substance use disorders in 13 locations throughout 4 states. Dr. Brent Boyett is now working with North Mississippi Medical Center Neuroscience Department, practicing Addiction Medicine, and He is dedicated to continued growth in the rapidly evolving medical environment of addiction medicine. Today, his primary focus is on addiction treatment and research, he remains on the cutting edge of technology and training. Giving back to his profession, he is a proctor to medical students, an international speaker and educator in the field of addiction medicine and serves on the board of trustees for the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Wendi Hogue is the FREEDOM Project Director with the VitAL Initiative in the School of Social Work at The University of Alabama. VitAL is committed to improving the wellness of Alabama's communities through training and education, service and implementation, research and evaluation, and community engagement. FREEDOM is a grant-funded program to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in Alabama. Wendi holds her M.Ed. from The University of Montevallo in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Counselor. She came to The University of Alabama after working in Community Mental Health for four years. She began at Brewer Porch Children's Center as a Therapist moving to The Office of Disability Services as an Accommodation Specialist prior to coming on board with FREEDOM in 2019. She works part-time in her private practice, treating clients struggling with substance use disorder, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and trauma.
Judge Hundley was appointed to the District Court bench by Governor Robert Bentley on October 5, 2011 and then appointed by Governor Kay Ivey to the Circuit Bench on December 5, 2018. Judge Hundley has presided over the Adult Drug Court since being originally appointed to the bench in 2011. He received his undergraduate degree and Master's Degree from the University of Alabama. His Juris Doctorate degree came from the University of Alabama School of Law. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was engaged in a litigation practice for 26 years, handling case throughout Alabama with a concentration on civil defense in the North Alabama region. He also served as a Bar Commissioner with the Alabama State Bar previously serving as a substitute city judge for the City of Huntsville, City Prosecutor for the City of Madison and the City of Guntersville, Alabama, as well as a Special Circuit Judge between 2001 and 2004 in Madison County. He was President of the University of Alabama Law Alumni Association from 1998 to 1999. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Alabama Law School Foundation and presently serves on the University of Alabama President's Cabinet as Vice President, as well as its Executive Committee.
Ryan Leaf is a former American football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for four seasons. He played for the San Diego Chargers and the Dallas Cowboys between 1998 and 2001, and also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Seattle Seahawks.
Leaf spent his college career with the Washington State Cougars, where he was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy after his junior year. He was selected as the second overall pick by the San Diego Chargers in the 1998 NFL Draft after Peyton Manning, but his career was shortened due to poor play, bad behavior, injuries, and struggles with his work ethic and ability to stay focused. An episode of NFL Top 10 ranked him as the No. 1 "draft bust" in NFL history.
After his NFL career ended, Leaf completed his degree at Washington State. He had legal troubles involving drugs beginning in 2010 after a Texas judge sentenced him to 10 years probation. Two years later, Leaf pleaded guilty to felony burglary and drug possession in Montana. After a suspended sentence with a stint in drug rehabilitation, Leaf began serving a seven-year sentence in state prison in December 2012. On September 9, 2014, Leaf was sentenced to five years in prison for violating his Texas probation by breaking into a home in Montana to steal prescription drugs, but he was released from prison on December 3, 2014.
Leaf currently works as a Program Ambassador for Transcend Recovery Community, a group of sober living houses in Los Angeles, Houston, and New York. He also hosts a radio show and works as a college football analyst on television.
Jessica Northcott, MSW, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Program Manager at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy, Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU). Jessica provides technical assistance and implementation support to expand access and capacity of medications for opioid use disorders in healthcare and SBIRT implementation in pharmacy settings. Previous to PERU, Jessica worked in substance use treatment focusing on pregnant and postpartum persons and the incarcerated population. Jessica earned a Master of Social Work from University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.
Auburn University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education; credits are recognized nationwide. The Universal Activity Number for this knowledge-based program is 0001-9999-22-079-L99-P/T and is intended for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
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The Bitcoin price (BTC/USD) has enjoyed some positive price action after dropping below the $6,400 mark in yesterday's late trading.
The original cryptocurrency had a largely disappointing session on Tuesday, amid a strong corrective trend affecting the broader digital currency market. The digital coin dropped below the $6,500 level in the early hours of the session, as part of a steep decline that started developing in late Monday session. The coin continued to struggle in subsequent trading and dropped to a six-day low of $6,381.86 in the final hours of the session. The coin eventually finished the day at $6,446.47, well below its opening price of $6,603.64.
Bitcoin experienced another drop below $6,400 in today's early trading, with its price dropping to an intraday low of $6,397.89. However, the coin has been able to bounce back in more recent trading and is currently hovering around the $6,470 level, according to data from digital currency tracker Coinmarketcap.
In more positive news for the crypto industry, internet giant Google will partly lift its ban on crypto-related adverts, as part of a policy update kicking off in October.
"The Google Ads policy on Financial products and services will be updated in October 2018 to allow regulated cryptocurrency exchanges to advertise in the United States and Japan," the US company said in a brief update. "Advertisers will need to be certified with Google for the specific country in which their ads will serve," the company explained, adding that the new policy "will apply globally to all accounts that advertise these financial products".
In today's trading, the Bitcoin price stood at $6,470.77, as of 09:39 BST. The digital coin has gained 0.6% in the past 24 hours. Its total market cap currently stands at $111.8 billion, which represents 52.6% of the combined value of all digital currencies.


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Mayo Clinic's Press Release Finding Contaminants in 5-HTP Products
(and reply by Nutritional Foods Association)
original url: May Clinic
Mayo Clinic Press Release
Mayo Clinic researchers report finding low levels of a potentially harmful contaminant in off-the-shelf samples of a popular dietary supplement, 5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan (5-OH-Trp or 5-HTP).
The contaminant, called "peak x," was linked to symptoms suffered by a family exposed to 5-HTP in 1991. It also has a similar chemical structure to contaminants found in batches of a related supplement, L-Tryptophan, which were linked to a 1989 outbreak of eosinophilia myalgia syndrome (EMS) that affected thousands of people.
The researchers say the finding is a "red flag" about the possibility of health risks from taking this supplement in large doses. Their report will be published in the September 1 issue of Nature Medicine.
Using sophisticated chemical analysis techniques, Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed pills from six samples of 5-HTP produced by six different manufacturers. Samples were purchased at health and nutrition stores in New York City and Rochester, Minn.
They found peak x in all six samples, both synthetic and natural extract preparations. The levels of peak x were only a fraction (between 3 and 15 percent) of the level that caused the illness in the earlier incident. The researchers warn, however, that, "as the intake of supplements is not medically supervised, the probability of increased doses of 5-OH-Trp and hence, peak x, being consumed is very real."
They point out that a current book (5-HTP: The Natural Way to Overcome Depression, Obesity and Insomnia) recommends consumption of 300 to 900 milligrams per day of the supplement. They say that if followed, this recommendation could bring the consumption level of peak x to levels associated with problems in the past.
The authors say that the potential health risks of dietary supplements were clearly demonstrated in the 1989 outbreak of EMS which killed at least 30 people and sickened more than 1,500. That outbreak was linked to consumption of a contaminated batch of the supplement L-tryptophan. Six different contaminants were linked to illnesses.
Mayo Clinic physicians and researchers diagnosed and treated many victims of that outbreak and played a key role in identifying the contaminants that were likely responsible for the illness.
Mayo Clinic researchers have characterized the chemical structure of peak x for the first time. They have discovered that peak x is, in fact, a family of nearly identical compounds. Their chemical structure is similar to two contaminants found in the L-tryptophan linked to EMS symptoms in 1989.
The Mayo researchers have previously raised similar questions about the purity of another popular dietary supplement, melatonin. In several recent publications, they report identification of contaminants in commercial preparations of melatonin whose chemical structure is very similar to some of the contaminants implicated in the L-tryptophan outbreak, as well as to peak x from 5-HTP.
The Mayo research team, led by Stephen Naylor, Ph.D. and Gerald Gleich, M.D., say that their study "emphasizes the need for tighter quality control for the production of both synthetic and 'naturally' produced nutritional supplements" to prevent the possibility of another epidemic in the future.
Mayo researchers have informed the Food and Drug Administration of their findings. They also have provided a description of testing methods used to the six manufacturers of 5-HTP included in the study so that they could confirm the study's findings.
Formal Reply by the National Nutritional Foods Association
In a letter to the editor to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature Medicine, Mayo Clinic researchers claim to have discovered a potentially harmful contaminant in several products containing the amino acid 5-hyroxy-L-tryptophan (5-HTP), a widely used dietary supplement.
According to the National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA), a trade association for the natural products industry, the letter contains more speculation than fact.
"My concerns about this article are far greater than any concerns I have about the safety of 5-HTP," said Michael Q. Ford, NNFA's executive director. "Even a cursory review of this letter raises serious questions about the conclusions reached by the researchers and their impartiality. It's more politics than science."
The numerous concerns raised by Ford include the following:
-- The article begins with an aggressive attack on the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, showing the authors clear bias against the industry.
--The sensational nature of the article is revealed when the writers state that the deadly outbreak in the late 1980s of eosinophilia myalgia syndrome (EMS), due to contaminated L-tryptophan, typifies the dangers of dietary supplement usage. In fact, the safety record of dietary supplements is enviable when compared with that of heavily regulated prescription and over-the-counter medications.
--The authors state the purity of 5-HTP products is unknown. There are relatively few manufacturers of 5-HTP, which is extracted from the seed of the Griffonia tree. NNFA member suppliers would not accept any raw material, including 5-HTP, without first receiving a certificate of analysis from the supplier attesting to the products' purity.
--The authors cite two cases of EMS "associated" with 5-HTP use, "most recently" in 1991 (reported in 1994) and the other "as far back as 1980." They use data from the former as the benchmark against which to measure potential EMS risk in the current samples of 5-HTP. In fact, these two cases represent the only connections reported in the literature of a link between EMS and 5-HTP, and both are inconclusive. In the words of the authors of the 1994 article, "The role of 5-HTP in the eosinophilia of this patient is (thus) uncertain."
--The authors allege that they have discovered a chemical structure called "peak x," which represents contamination in 5-HTP and can cause EMS. To verify this, NNFA supplier members had various batches of 5-HTP tested by independent laboratories using the same methodology as the Mayo Clinic researchers. While these laboratories were able to identify a distinct peak, none has been able to replicate the Mayo Clinic's findings that this peak is the same or similar to the contaminant found in L-tryptophan.
--The authors concede that "one possible reason" no new cases of EMS-like symptoms have been reported in connection with 5-HTP is due to the low dosage recommendations on the label. Yet they state, "since the intake of supplements is not medically supervised," higher dosages are bound to be consumed. Unless one is a patient in a hospital under close supervision, it is highly unlikely that ingestion of any substance --food, medication or supplements -- would ever be supervised by a medical professional.
--The authors quote, but do not identify, Richard Wurtman as saying 5-HTP is "another accident (epidemic) waiting to happen." Wurtman is a physician whose company, Interneuron Inc. holds the patent on Redux, a product banned by the FDA last year for causing heart defects. Redux is a serotonin generator, an effect 5-HTP has been reported to induce, raising serious questions about Wurtman's vested interests and bias.
--At the end of their letter, the authors thank several people and institutions, among them Dateline NBC "for supplying commercial preparations" of 5-HTP. It is incredible that an institution with the reputation of the Mayo Clinic would allow such a questionable procedure as obtaining samples from a television newsmagazine for use in testing. Ford said his own association employs the rigorous chain-of-custody procedure sanctioned by the Drug Enforcement Agency in testing commercial samples of member products. That a scientific institute would not use a similar protocol raises serious questions of ethics and bias.
"Clearly, all involved -- the researchers, FDA, Dateline NBC and Wurtman -- had a vested interest in a negative outcome in testing 5-HTP," Ford said. "But in the end, any link between alleged contamination of 5-HTP and L-tryptophan remains unproven. This isn't good science and it certainly shouldn't be news." September 6, 1998
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Q: What are the "ordinary" (e.g. arithmetic) consequences of the universe axiom? Consider the first-order theory obtained by adjoining to ZFC (or, better, Mac Lane set theory) the Grothendieck–Verdier (or Bourbaki?) universe axiom:

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*For each set $x$ there exists a Grothendieck universe $\mathbf{U}$ with $x \in \mathbf{U}$.

Of course, this is strictly stronger than ordinary ZFC because it proves $\textrm{Con}(\mathsf{ZFC})$. In fact, it proves $\textrm{Con}(\mathsf{ZFC} + \mathsf{Con}(\mathsf{ZFC}))$, $\textrm{Con}(\mathsf{ZFC} + \mathsf{Con}(\mathsf{ZFC} + \mathsf{Con}(\mathsf{ZFC})))$, and so on, as well as variants where $\mathsf{Con}$ is replaced by stronger notions of consistency.  On the other hand, this can be rephrased in terms of Gödel numbers as a number-theoretic proposition (and if I understand correctly, even as the existence of solutions for a Diophantine equation), and so these are examples of arithmetic consequences of the universe axiom.
However, this feels somewhat contrived. What I want to know is this:
Question. Is there a down-to-earth statement in ordinary mathematics (algebra, number theory, finite combinatorics, real analysis, etc.) that is decided by the universe axiom?

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Haberkip	Micah Laplante is a Youtubeur specialist product testing of new technologies. And in his latest video, he launched an absurd challenge. After a joke of his wife
Micah Laplante is a Youtubeur specialist product testing of new technologies. And in his latest video, he launched an absurd challenge. After a joke of his wife
Micah Laplante is a Youtubeur specialist product testing of new technologies. And in his latest video, he launched an absurd challenge. After a joke of his wife, he decided to set up a computer ... with pasta.
The "Pasta PC" ("pc pasta") is a computer dedicated to streaming multimedia (streaming videos or music over the Internet) and a few games. For the build, Micah Laplante has used an old damaged tablet. It has removed the essential components: motherboard (main element of a computer, which allows you to bind all of its components, such as a hard disk or a memory), battery, start button and connection ports. He then built the computer case with the lasagna and rigatonis (precision: the pasta were not cooked) that it was assembled with hot glue, electrical tape (which allows for locking the electrical wires) and the painting, in order to give the illusion of the tomato sauce.
once finished, the "Pasta" PC worked. Micah Laplante was connected to his tv and was able to install the platform of video games to Steam, the Chrome browser, but also streaming video services Netflix and Hulu. He was able to play the video game Rocket League , and has watched videos on Hulu and YouTube. However, this was short-lived. The computer required about three years of updates to Windows 10, the operating system of Microsoft. If the installation of updates enabled Micah Laplante to connect its Xbox, it has also caused some problems. For example, Hulu does not work anymore: when the Youtubeur watching a video, the service would no longer work.
Micah Laplante is not the only fun to build computers to look absurd. His video is a derivative (rather extreme) of a practice known as "case modding". It is to change the housing of a computer or the chassis (frame serving to enclose or support something) of a video game console. This practice is often the work of amateurs, but also some specialized companies, with results ranging from the rather cute to the downright absurd. The Computex, the largest exhibition devoted to new technologies, which is held every year in Taipei, for example, is the opportunity to expose this kind of computers the original. The edition 2018 has been the opportunity to observe machines in the form of aquarium, convertible car or even a robot.
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Calculating the cost of thefts of intellectual property poses particular challenges for companies.
By Susan Kelly | July 15, 2013 at 04:19 PM
As cyber attacks become increasingly common, regulators and legislators have criticized the limited information companies make public about cybercrimes they experience. Experts note, though, that it's often a challenge for companies to put a dollar value on the damage they've suffered.
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If there is any lasting benefit from the Trump era — which is by no means a sure thing, since democracy may not survive the experience — it will lie in the Great Unmasking: the revelation of just how much bad faith pervades modern conservatism.
Some of us, of course, knew this all along, and are not surprised. Conversely, many centrists and much of the news media simply refuse to face up to the asymmetry of our politics and will persist with bothsidesism even as one side drives us into the abyss. But one can at least hope that the constant revelations of past hypocrisy will have some impact.
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But almost everyone else on the right is revealing his true face. And now comes energy and environmental policy.
But none of it was sincere. Climate skeptics have repeatedly given the game away, for example by touting new studies that they insisted would refute global warming, then rejecting those studies when they confirmed it. Economists who tout the limitless ability of markets to cope with change suddenly proclaim them utterly incapable of adapting to a carbon tax.
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CFP: Crafting, Hacking, and Making: DIY Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Edited by Melanie Swalwell, David Murphy, and Maria B. Garda
A burgeoning interest in do-it-yourself production is evident around the world, especially in regions that manufacturing industries have abandoned. But while the contemporary Maker Movement would like us to accept its revolutionary-inspired rhetoric of rupture and discontinuity (Hatch 2014), we believe that the current enthusiasm for do-it-yourself production is not without precedent. Existing on the peripheries of industrial production, crafting, hacking, and making movements have emerged in different historical moments and localities in various political and cultural contexts. But instead of inciting comparative analysis, movements have often been defined in opposition to 'passive' forms of consumption that a do-it-yourself ethos resists. By contrast, we would like to encourage analyses attending to the diversity of crafting, hacking, and making practices, and intersections and variations that entangle and distinguish communities, networks, and scenes, so an appreciation of similarities and differences can add new perspectives to the discourses surrounding the DIY phenomena.
Furthermore, it is clear that important practices have been excluded from a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics discourse that is often blind to cultural difference on the one hand, and a Cultural and Media Studies discourse that is often unwilling or unprepared to deal with engineering on the other. Existing within this gap is an opportunity to bring forgotten histories into conversation with present-day practices—and an opportunity to examine contemporary and historic intersections where the analogue and the digital overlap—as hacking-inspired methods are no longer specific to digital culture (Cramer, 2014), while digital culture is reigniting an interest in craft (Luckman, 2015). These shifts invite criticism and optimism and a chance to reflect on the significance (or insignificance) of DIY acts, while also remembering (or forgetting) crafting, hacking, and making presents, futures, and pasts.
This anthology aims to bring together constellations of do-it-yourself production and culture. Proposals for papers that explore any aspect of crafting, hacking, and making, or parallel practices on the peripheries of current discourse will be considered. Both contemporary and historical case studies are welcome, and dialogue between the past, present, and future is encouraged.
If you are interested in contributing, please submit an abstract (no longer than 300 words minus citations, a title, and a short biography) to craftinghackingmaking@gmail.com by August 1st, 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 1, 2018, January 31, 2019 is the deadline for full chapter submissions, and if you have any questions they can be emailed to david.murphy@ryerson.ca.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
19th and 20th Century Arts and Crafts Movements
20th and 21st Century Home Improvement Movements
20th and 21st Century Phreaking, Cracking, and Hacking Movements
State-Sponsored Crafting, Hacking, and Making Initiatives
Crafting, Hacking, and Making Industries and Brands
Tape Trading and Bootlegging
DIY Sound Studies, DIY Cinema Studies, DIY Comic Studies
Pirate and Citizen Band Radio
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Independent/Alternative Digital Game Production
Independent/Alternative Analogue Game Production
Modding and Meta-Game Activities
Life-hacking and Bio-hacking
Open Source Software, Hardware, and Science
Crafting, Hacking, and Making the Internet of Things
Crafting, Hacking, and Making Economies
Tractor Hacking
Hacklabs, Fablabs, and Feminist Hackerspaces
Makerspaces, Festivals, and Fairs
Micro Manufacturing and 3D Printing
Crafting, Hacking, and Making the Local


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Genesis 29:15-30 Often life doesn't turn out as we would expect or like. But we can take heart from the experience of Jacob – the master who ended up serving, the deceiver who ended up being deceived, and the loser who was blessed.