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GOP health plan takes away bacon, leaves pork juice | Ben Carter
Because the Republicans' plan gives a flat (and reduced) subsidy to every person regardless of where they live, this amounts to a tax cut for city dwellers and a tax hike for many Kentuckians.
Ben Carter
Contributing Columnist
If Sen. Mitch McConnell can pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Kentucky's Republicans will have scored twin victories of erasing one of President Obama's signature achievements – the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – while cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That scoring these twin victories would mean that their constituents will lose money, lose health insurance, and avoid financial ruin appears to be no detriment to the Kentucky Republicans' plans.
Under the GOP's health care/tax cut plan, people making $200,000 would get to keep $5,500 while those making above a $1 million would keep an average of $51,400. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Republicans' proposed Medicaid cuts of $880 billion would result in 14 million fewer people having coverage by 2026. In Kentucky, Medicaid expansion has contributed to our uninsured rate falling to 6 percent this year from 14 percent in 2013.
Perhaps the grossest irony of the Republicans' health care bill is that it in at least two tangible ways the bill will hurt most the people most likely to vote for Republicans: baby boomers and people living in rural areas.
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First, Obamacare limits the maximum price an insurer can charge to three times the insurer's least expensive plan. This has the effect of dramatically lowering premiums for older people, who naturally need and use more health care. The GOP's AHCA would raise that ratio to 5-to-1. The CBO estimates that this would raise the cost of insurance for a 64-year-old person making $24,500 a year to $14,600 from $1,700.
Second, Obamacare provides place-based subsidies to people to bring down the cost of health insurance. Because it is more expensive to provide health care in wide open spaces than cities, rural people enjoy an outsized share of those subsidies, bringing down the price of health insurance across vast swaths of Kentucky that voted for Trump and a GOP‑controlled Congress.
Kentucky's Republicans do not promote their plan as a huge tax cut for the top 2 percent. This is smart politics because, for most of their districts, losing Medicaid coverage, increasing the cost of insurance for seniors, and removing place-based subsidies will result in tens of millions of dollars flowing out of their districts and into the pockets of wealthy people somewhere else.
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Under the Republicans' plan, people in U.S. Rep Hal Rogers' district will lose a jaw-dropping $121,000,000. And, while the numbers are less in other districts – $76 million in James Comer's, $55 million in Brett Guthrie's, and $21 million in Andy Barr's – these four Republicans all voted to take tens of millions of dollars out of their constituents' pockets and give it instead to wealthy people.
If we elect representatives in part to "bring home the bacon" for their districts, AHCA takes the Obamacare bacon we are currently holding, puts it in rich people's ovens, and leaves most Kentuckians with an empty package of raw pork juice and the need to wash our hands.
Sadly, Barr and Comer are doing something worse than lying about the effects AHCA will have on their constituent's ability to find and afford health insurance: they're telling half‑truths and hoping that you and I are too dim or too busy to catch them.
Comer recently tweeted that AHCA "protects EVERYONE w/ preexisting conditions" while Barr claimed that "Under the American Health Care Act, insurance companies cannot deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions."
While it is technically true that people with pre-existing conditions could still shop for insurance under AHCA, it removes a key Obamacare protection that currently makes insurance affordable for people with preexisting conditions.
The Affordable Care Act prohibited insurance companies from selling policies to people with pre-existing conditions that cost more than the plans that were available to everyone.
Republicans removed this prohibition in their bill.
In other words, people all across Kentucky with pre-existing conditions will pay much higher prices and, once again, thousands will be unable to find affordable health insurance.
Kentuckians deserve the full truth from their representatives, not the half‑truths they're getting now. But, telling constituents that returning $50,000 to a millionaire is more important than ensuring everyone has access to affordable health care is a hard truth to tell.
Almost as hard as it is to swallow.
Ben Carter is a consumer rights attorney in Louisville, Kentucky. Follow him on Twitter at @notbencarter.

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Washington Square News • May 5, 2021 • https://nyunews.com/opinion/2021/05/05/recenter-sustainability/
The sustainability movement needs to take strides to become more intersectional and community oriented.
Alexandra Chan
Protestors march in Manhattan as part of a climate strike. Sustainability movements must recognize the need for intersectionality. (Staff Photo by Alexandra Chan)
By Batoul Saleh, Staff Writer
For the most part, Earth Day inspires people to post on social media with calls to action about the climate, the environment and how we, as individuals, can combat these changes. Unfortunately, the face of this green movement is largely led by the white upper-middle class, which focuses on individual action and behavior when it comes to climate justice.
In fact, a report by Green 2.0, an independent advocacy campaign that tracks racial and gender diversity within the environmental movement, found that the largest nonprofit environmental organizations lack the important perspectives of marginalized communities. The report found on average that these organizations hired eight women and six people of color to their staff in the last three years.
When the demographics of environmentalism are disproportionately white, climate justice is often conveyed as an individual problem solved by metal straws and veganism. Since white people do not face the brunt of the consequences, they do not experience the same environmental challenges that communities of color face. Environmentalism must focus on the systemic issues rooted in community neglect and environmental racism.
Furthermore, the discussion of sustainability is now catered toward what citizens can do at an individual level. Articles around Earth Day advocating for sustainable living will urge the construction of rooftop solar and battery storage, changing light bulbs to LEDs, purchasing a programmable thermostat or composting. However, these common suggestions tend to be tone-deaf to inaccessible to simply elitist. Telling people to focus on conservation on an individual level is not feasible in the long term. According to a 2017 report from the Climate Accountability Institute, 100 companies create 70% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Richard Heede, the co-founder and co-director of the Climate Accountability Institute and producer of the Carbon Majors report, spoke to Vox about what the common person's impact on the environment looks like.
"You can measure a person's impact, but there would be a lot of digits behind the zero in terms of percent of global emissions attributable to or savable by an individual," he said. "We're talking about 7 billion people on the planet."
This is not to say that everyone should throw out their metal straws and reusable grocery bags. However, it does shed light on how the sustainability movement should recenter its focus from improving the environment on a personal level to what individuals can do for their communities.
While we see posts urging about how we must leave the Earth better off for our children and grandchildren, those in low-income areas and housing face the effects of environmental injustice right now. We must value the perspectives of people of color in order to rebuild and restructure local systems that harm the Earth.
One prime example of this is when U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hosted an Earth Day event in Astoria Park. She spoke about her Green New Deal climate change resolution, but also brought a more local issue to the attention of New Yorkers. Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called to block an Astoria power plant from using natural gas from fracking as it would "allow our water to be compromised … our air to be compromised." After rallies calling on Congress members and New York state leaders to reject the power plant's proposed plans for the site, Ocasio-Cortez and eight members of New York's congressional delegation wrote to Gov. Andrew Cuomo about this issue. This event demonstrates how local activism is a productive and meaningful way to improve the environmental safety and health of an entire borough.
Brooklyn is also a center of many climate crises. If the energy and focus is put toward Brooklyn, this can improve the lives of people through measurable, productive and systemic change. National Grid plans to start construction of a pipeline in Brooklyn, but groups like North Brooklyn Extinction Rebellion fighting the plan want "to end all construction of fossil fuel infrastructure to reduce carbon and other emissions that lead to climate change and pollute the local air."
It may seem as though the only choices in the sustainability movement are either to take an individual approach to promote climate justice or to leave it to the hands of elected officials to enact national change. There is a middle ground in the movement. The discourse occurring in Queens and Brooklyn may take place in corners of the city, but if the decisions of big businesses and fossil fuel companies are not held accountable by those who live in low-income communities, millions of people in these boroughs will be worse off as a result.
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School Council "Grill" Sarah Newton MP
Report by Zak Minett - year 7
The School Council were delighted when they came face to face with local MP, Sarah Newton, who attended Falmouth school as a girl and now debates in the House of Commons and regularly visits different schools in Cornwall.
Ms Newton explained how a School Council has similarities with parliament and the School Council then proceeded to interview her with hard hitting questions such as "Is the government going to keep on funding loans for students?" and "Why do politicians keep on changing the curriculum?" to which Sarah Newton replied, "The government has decided to change it because the world is not standing still, people are setting up businesses all over the world. We have to compete in this world based on knowledge. The standards are getting higher and higher each year."
The School Council also asked Sarah Newton more personal questions. When asked how she felt on her first House of Commons debate she replied with, "Terrified, I had been in the School Council, College Union and a member of the Council but going into the House of Commons means you have to make life or death decisions."
Two members of the School Council who enjoyed attending the meeting were Amy Lawley-Bell, who commented,
"Sarah Newton was interesting"
and Alice Scott, who said,
"It was very exciting."
After the questions there was a small break for some tea and cake kindly prepared by the canteen staff, followed by a less formal chat to the MP, who when asked how she felt on the whole experience, replied, ''I am delighted to be here with the school council. I've been asked excellent thought provoking questions. I've been thoroughly grilled."
Special thanks to Sarah Newton for giving up her time to pay a visit to the School Council members and to the canteen staff for providing the lovely cakes. And finally, to all who attended and supervisors Miss Downing and Mr Beech.


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Q: Doctrine 2 Relations Mistake I have a problem with inserting record into my DB.
I have 3 tables named
notifications:
id, id_event, event_id, is_readed
comments:
id, comment, receiver, sender, created_at
messages
id, subject, message, receiver, sender, created_at
I want to relate comments and messages id for notifications.id_event with many-to-many relation, which looks like
oneToOne:
    comment:
        targetEntity: Comments
        joinColumn:
            name: id_event
            referencedColumnName: id

    message:
        targetEntity: Messages
        joinColumn:
            name: id_event
            referencedColumnName: id

When I'm trying to insert a record I have the following exception:

Found entity of type Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection on
  association Privatmarket\BusinessBundle\Entity\Notifications#message,
  but expecting Privatmarket\BusinessBundle\Entity\Messages

And realy don't understand what to do. Maybe I make the mistake in relation choosing ?
The insert code is:
        $comment = new Comments();
        $comment->setSender(rand(1, 10));
        $comment->setReceiver(rand(11, 20));
        $comment->setComment("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet {$i}, olor sit amet {$i}, psum dolor sit amet {$i}, olor sit amet {$i}, ");
        $em->persist($comment);
        $em->flush();

        $notification = new Notifications();
        $id = $comment->getId();
        $notification->setComment($em->getRepository("PrivatmarketBusinessBundle:Comments")->find($id));
        $notification->setEventId(2);
        $em->persist($notification);
        $em->flush();

        $message = new Messages();
        $message->setSender(rand(1, 10));
        $message->setReceiver(rand(11, 20));
        $message->setSubject("Lorem ipsu{$i}.");
        $message->setMessage("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet {$i}, olor sit amet {$i}, psum dolor sit amet {$i}, olor sit amet {$i}, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet {$i}, olor sit amet {$i}, psum dolor sit amet {$i}, olor sit amet {$i}, ");
        $em->persist($message);
        $em->flush();

        $notification = new Notifications();
        $id = $message->getId();
        $notification->setComment($em->getRepository("PrivatmarketBusinessBundle:Messages")->find($id));
        $notification->setEventId(1);
        $em->persist($notification);
        $em->flush();

A: well the error you get reads like change
message:
    targetEntity: Messages
    joinColumn:
        name: id_event
        referencedColumnName: id

to
message:
    targetEntity: Message
    joinColumn:
        name: id_event
        referencedColumnName: id

mind that an doctrine expects an entityName as singular so if its a collection it auto-pluralizes getter and setters, maybe this is a bit mixed up

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Finland receives final proposals for $12 billion deal for new fighters
Saab, Lockheed, Eurofighter, Dassault and Boeing bid to replace 62 F / A-18C / D fighters that have been in service since the early 1990s
Finland said it had received final bids from competitors for the HX programa to purchase new fighters that will replace the F-18s in service for about 30 years.
The deal is estimated at $12 billion, but the total number of aircraft will depend on each offer. The Saab Gripen, Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon, Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and Lockheed Martin F-35A jets are competing for the order.
Finland, although a member of the European Union, is not part of NATO, like neighboring Sweden. The Air Force has been analyzing options to renew its fighter fleet since 2014 and had placed April 30 as a deadline for submitting final proposals.
Saab and Lockheed Martin made public that they had submitted their proposals. The U.S. aerospace giant said its proposal goes beyond the acquisition and "will also build partnerships with Finnish companies and academic institutions that offer opportunities focused on developing and advancing security collaborations."
The F-35A is the only aircraft with stealth technology in the competition and considered 5th gen fighter, however, its constant problems of reliability and availability can weigh against it.
Saab in turn revealed that its proposal includes 64 Gripen E/F fighters in addition to two GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft. The Swedish company also offers the final assembly of several components in Finland in addition to an advanced technical package that includes Meteor missiles.
Boeing, which confirmed the submission of the proposal via Twitter, reportedly offered the Finns an optional package that includes 50 F/A-18E/F fighters and 18 EA-18G Growler electronic warfare variant, currently used by the US Navy and Australia. The company reinforced the Super Hornet's commonality with the first generation F-18 as a cost advantage.
Eurofighter Typhoon has focused on the industrial participation of Finnish companies in the production and maintenance of the fighter used by air forces in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The consortium, however, did not reveal how many planes are in the package.
Boeing EA-18G Growler
Dassault has not released information about its package, but it is taken for granted that it involves the Rafale C and the possibility of assembly in Finland.
According to the government of Finland, the winner of the HX program will be announced by December.
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Raisin raises $114 million from PayPal, Index, others to grow European savings marketplace
Paul Sawers@psawers	 February 5, 2019 10:00 PM
Above: Raisin founders: Frank Freund, Tamaz Georgadze, and Michael Stephan
Image Credit: Raisin
Raisin, the European fintech marketplace for savings and investment products, has raised €100 million ($114 million) in a series D round of funding from existing investors including PayPal, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and Thrive Capital.
This takes the company's total amount raised to €170 million ($195 million), and follows its €30 million ($34 million) series C round back in early 2017 and an undisclosed strategic investment from PayPal that December. Using these latest numbers, however, we can estimate that PayPal likely invested around €13 million ($15 million) in Raisin prior to this series D, though the startup would not confirm that figure.
Raisin d'être
Founded out of Berlin in 2012, Raisin leverages Europe's banking regulations to allow anyone in the European Union to invest their money with any other bank in the bloc. Indeed, interest rates not only vary from bank to bank and product to product, but country to country — and that is Raisin's raison d'être.
Initially, Raisin was only available to customers in its native Germany, but back in 2016 it expanded to create a Europe-wide savings marketplace that now spans 31 countries, allowing anyone to compare and contrast rates from different banks across the continent.
Since its inception, Raisin said that it has brokered more than $11 billion in deposits across 62 partner banks, with around $90 million in interest doled out in the process.
"We want to break through unnecessary barriers to profitable saving and share the benefits of open markets — with both consumers and banks," noted Raisin CEO and cofounder Tamaz Georgadze. "Our central aim is to give savers and financial institutions the 'Schengen experience' for banking."
Raisin's raise comes hot on the heels of fellow German fintech startup N26, which raised $300 million last month to spearheads its push into the U.S. later this quarter. Indeed, Raisin and N26 are actually partners, with N26 offering its mobile banking customers access to Raisin's savings directly through the N26 app.
With another $114 million in the bank, Raisin said that it plans to add more markets to its platform in 2019, while it will look to make more hires internationally and add more investment products to its arsenal.
So does this mean that Raisin will be following in N26's footsteps and pursuing the U.S. market? If it does, it won't be anytime soon. "Raisin is growing fast and is screening the market for growth options," a spokesperson told VentureBeat. "So for this year we plan to grow within our core market: Europe."


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What Causes Cataracts?
By Dr. Ananya Mandal, MDReviewed by Sally Robertson, B.Sc.
Cataracts are whitish or cloudy patches in the lens of the eye that cause it to become opaque and less able to focus light onto the retina. The lens is the clear, crystalline part of the eye through which light passes to reach the retina behind it. Some of the causes of cataracts include:
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Age – Age-related cataracts are the most common type of cataract. As people grow older, the proteins within the lens begin to change, which can cause cloudy patches to develop. Researchers believe this may be due to the protein changes altering how fluids and nutrients reach the eye.
Family history of cataracts – People with family members who have had cataracts are at an increased risk of developing them.
Exposure to radiation also raises the risk of cataracts. For example, glassblowers who are exposed to infrared radiation are at a greater risk. Long-term exposure to bright sunlight and ultraviolet radiation has been linked to the development of cataracts in people who work outdoors without wearing eye protective gear.
Certain medications taken over a long period of time can cause cataracts, the most common of which is corticosteroids. The long-term intake of the cholesterol-lowering drug ezetimibe also raises the risk of cataracts.
People with diabetes are nearly twice as likely to develop cataracts as those without the condition.
Some congenital conditions may lead to cataracts in newborns. Some examples include Alport's syndrome, Cri-du-chat syndrome, Patau's syndrome, Trisomy 18 (Edward's syndrome) and Turner's syndrome.
Previous eye inflammation or injury and lifestyle factors such as poor diet and smoking are also some of the causes of cataracts.
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"Marijuana is less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco."
By Dana Tims June 4, 2014
Is marijuana less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco?
Marijuana use, both recreationally and medicinally, is a glowing dot on the nation's political radar screen. Two states, Washington and Colorado, voted to legalize recreational use of the drug last year, and other states are contemplating following.
The same is true in Oregon, where as many as three marijuana-related initiatives may be heading toward the November ballot.
The claim:
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, on his official website, makes clear where he stands. The Oregon Democrat supports legislation that would allow states to enact marijuana laws without federal interference, remove the ban on industrial hemp and "allow the marijuana industry to operate in a normal business environment."
Among the claims tucked under the heading "The Facts about Marijuana" is this: "Marijuana is less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco."
Plenty has been written about all three substances, but with Oregon possibly facing one or more pot measures on the ballot this November, we decided to see if Blumenauer is right about marijuana's addictive qualities.
The analysis:
We emailed Blumenauer's office to ask about its sources for the claim. Spokesman Patrick Malone responded with a statement saying in part, "We certainly always need more research on marijuana and its medicinal properties," but he offered no sourcing.
Next we dug into PolitiFact's database and found several claims that, while not precisely on point, added to our understanding.
In one, John Morgan, the high-profile Florida attorney leading an effort to legalize medical marijuana in the Sunshine State, said "nobody's addicted" to marijuana. When contacted by PolitiFact, Morgan corrected himself, saying, "It was a huge mistake. I'm sorry and I messed up."
Experts contacted for that story agreed that marijuana can be addictive. Morgan's claim was rated False.
In another, a pro-pot group, also in Florida, claimed marijuana is "less toxic" than alcohol. The claim was rated Mostly True.
Finally, there was a claim in Massachusetts that "today's marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear." It was rated True.
So, yes, marijuana can be addictive; yes, it's less toxic than alcohol; and, yes, it's far stronger than previous strains of the drug.
We called Dr. J. Wesley Boyd, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a recognized expert on addiction issues. Narrowly construed, he said, what Blumenauer posted on his website is correct -- marijuana is less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco.
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"But like a lot of things," Boyd added, "the question is much more complicated than that. There are a lot of gray areas to all of this."
First, there's the definition of "addictive," since that's the key to Blumenauer's claim.
"For me," Boyd said, "when someone is addicted to something, they feel a strong compulsion to use that substance even in the face of known harms that the substance causes them."
And marijuana is addictive, he said. Boyd cited research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse showing that about 9 percent of those who use marijuana become addicted. (Estimates from research suggest that 32 percent of tobacco users and 15 percent of alcohol users become addicted, according to the NIDA.)
However, when it comes to withdrawal, alcohol is by far the worst of the three, he said.
If someone is truly addicted to alcohol and tries to stop, Boyd said, the symptoms can be profound: heart and pulse rates through the roof, overwhelming anxiety, seizures and, in rare instances, "a slim but possible chance of dying."
What about tobacco?
"It's far closer to marijuana in terms of physical effects," he said. "In both instances, regular users can feel, from a psychological standpoint, remarkably uncomfortable. Cravings, sleep disturbances and depression are common."
Other research confirmed what most people already know about the toll tobacco exacts on health. Smoking costs society at least $289 billion annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the lead federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control.
There are no comparable figures for marijuana.
We consulted three other sources, all of which agreed that marijuana is the lesser of addictive evils when compared with tobacco. In addition to a 2008 report issued by a British research foundation, both Dr. Neal L. Benowitz of the University of California at San Francisco and Dr. Jack E. Henningfield of the National Institute on Drug Abuse ranked marijuana below nicotine when it comes to withdrawal, dependence, tolerance and intoxication.
Both Benowitz and Henningfield, in their rankings, determined that users get hooked on alcohol and tobacco faster than marijuana, and that, when it comes to quitting, marijuana is far easier to put down than either a cigarette or a bottle.
The ruling:
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., posts a "drug fact" on his official website asserting that "marijuana is less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco."
Though Blumenauer's office provided no sourcing for the claim, the congressman's website provides links to a number of studies.
A Harvard Medical School psychiatrist agreed that of the three, alcohol is the most addictive in terms of withdrawal. He and other experts we contacted also agreed that alcohol and tobacco are more difficult to give up than marijuana, and said it's easier to become dependent on alcohol and tobacco in the first place.
We rate the claim True.
Return to OregonLive.com/politics to comment on this article.
Email from Patrick Malone, Blumenauer spokesman, June 4, 2014.
Telephone interview with Dr. J. Wesley Boyd, Harvard Medical School, June 2, 2014.
Official website, U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon.
Henningfield-Benowitz substance comparison charts, Dr. Neal L. Benowitz, University of California, San Francisco, and Jack E. Henningfield, National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Email from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, June 4, 2014.
Website, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
PolitiFact, "Marijuana is 'less toxic' than alcohol," Aug. 15, 2013.
PolitiFact, "Nobody's addicted to marijuana," Sept. 22, 2013.
PolitiFact, "Today's marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear," March 30, 2014.
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"Social Security has never contributed one cent to the deficit. Not one cent."
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"We've seen highway fatalities actually decrease in Colorado" since marijuana use was legalized.
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Sen. Jeff Merkley "voted six times for more debt."
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Oregon's "three largest employers, and 13 of the top 25, are health care providers."
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76 percent of doctors support the use of medical marijuana
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The 2011 Rebuild America Jobs Act "would have cost the average American family $1,000 a year while making no significant impact to fix our infrastructure and roads."
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President Donald Trump "can't say anything (about the U.S. Capitol riot) because the platforms have removed him."
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A video shows Joe Biden lost and confused on stage.
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"Inauguration Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office."
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Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong going to Rehab
Green Day's frontman is headed to treatment for substance abuse.
The band's rep announced the news to The Associated Press today and comes after the 40-year-old had a meltdown onstage at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Friday. As Green Day was wrapping up its performance during the all-star, two-day concert, Armstrong profanely complained that the band's time was being cut short.
"One minute left, one minute (expletive) left. You're gonna give me (expletive) one minute? … I'm not (expletive) Justin Bieber, you (expletives)!" he yelled (although Bieber was not part of the night's festivities).
Armstrong smashed his guitar before leaving the stage.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Green Day apologised "to those they offended at the iHeartRadio Festival" and said its set was not cut short by Clear Channel, the host of the two-day festival.
The Grammy winning band also is canceling some of its promotional appearances. It is due to release the album "Uno" on Tuesday, the follow-up to "21st Century Breakdown," released three years ago.
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Horizons International reopens Tripoli Center
By Katey HearthAugust 13, 2018
Lebanon (MNN) — Pressure from Muslim extremists had forced Horizons International to close down its Tripoli Center for several months. However, as Horizons' Pierre Houssney reports, believers are now rejoicing.
"We've been able to reopen," Houssney shares. "Our staff members have really felt a burden to keep moving forward with the Gospel…but it has not been without fear, trepidation.
"We've been on our knees praying about, 'What's the line between wisdom and foolishness? Between being bold and being stupid?'"
From the beginning, Horizons International knew they might face trouble in Tripoli. Located in Northern Lebanon, the city is home to many Muslim extremists.
"We established a ministry center right next to the government building in order to benefit from its security, but still we have had persecution," says Houssney.
"We've had Muslim sheikhs, leaders, come in with video cameras trying to intimidate people. We've had exposés on national TV by these Muslims leaders. We've even had rogue forces of the military secret police that have come in on their own personal impetus and shut down the center, about a year and a half ago."
More recently, rising pressure from Muslim extremists led Horizons staff to prayer, and eventually a decision to temporarily close down the Tripoli Center. Circumstances were troubling, but God was at work behind the scenes.
(Header and story photos courtesy Horizons International)
While the center was closed, believers met individually with people who had been coming to their services. As described here, a more intimate setting led to more openness.
They shared all their problems and prayer requests and were much more comfortable doing so than when they were in the center. When the center was reopened, they came back more open and trusting.
"We have seen people come to Christ; a few dozen people have come to Christ from Muslim backgrounds in that Tripoli Center," says Houssney.
"We continue to press forward in faith that that number will continue to grow."
Will you partner with them in prayer?
"Pray for Sheikh Bilal," Houssney requests. "He's the main Muslim leader who's been persecuting our center and the cause of the Gospel. Pray that the Lord would convict him…that he would stop stirring up persecution from the Muslim community."
Pray also for nonbelievers in Tripoli, and for the protection of Horizons staff.
"Pray that the Lord would open the hearts of individuals that they might see the light of salvation in Christ."
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Praise the Lord that Horizons could reopen its ministry center in Tripoli.
Pray for Sheikh Bilow. Pray the Lord will move upon his heart and open his eyes to the truth of Scripture.
Pray that the Lord would open the hearts of nonbelievers to see the light of salvation in Christ.
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Chelsea owner Todd Boehly calls for Premier League all-star game | Jurgen Klopp stunned by suggestion – Sky Sports
Todd Boehly calls for All-Star game: "Ultimately I hope the Premier League takes a little bit of a lesson from American sports, and really starts to figure out, why don't we do a tournament with the bottom four sports teams, why isn't there an All-Star game?"
Wednesday 14 September 2022 19:01, UK
Todd Boehly wants to launch a Premier League North versus South All-Star match, but Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was less than impressed with the suggestion, questioning whether anyone wants to see it.
The new Chelsea chairman has revealed plans to revolutionise elements of English football, to try to boost broadcasting revenue, including a play-off to determine who goes down and who plays in the Premier League, and an all-star game like the NBA and MLB have.
The Blues' new co-controlling owner, who also owns shares of Los Angeles teams the Dodgers in Major League Baseball and the Lakers in the NBA, told a New York conference he has already floated the idea with Premier League counterparts.
"Ultimately I hope the Premier League takes a little bit of a lesson from American sports," said Boehly. "And really starts to figure out, why don't we do a tournament with the bottom four sports teams, why isn't there an All-Star game?
"People are talking about more money for the pyramid, in the MLB All-Star game this year we made 200m dollars from a Monday and a Tuesday.
"So we're thinking we could do a North versus South All-Star game for the Premier League, for whatever the pyramid needed quite easily."
North: Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, Wolves, Everton, Aston Villa, Forest, Leicester.
South: Arsenal, Tottenham, Brighton, Chelsea, Brentford, Fulham, Saints, Bmouth, Palace, West Ham
Chelsea were due to face Liverpool on Sunday but the game has been postponed with police resources stretched in the wake of the Queen's death.
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Sunday's postponement, coming on the back of the wholesale postponement of the football calendar last weekend, means Liverpool have two matches to fit into an already-crowded schedule with a World Cup in the middle.
So Klopp was less-than-impressed with Boehly's suggestion earlier in the day that the Premier League should introduce a US-style All-Star game between teams in the north and south of England.
"He doesn't wait long. When he finds a date for that he can call me," he added. "He forgets in American sports these players have four-month breaks so they are quite happy they can do a little bit of sport in these breaks. It's completely different in football.
"Does he want to bring the Harlem Globetrotters as well?
"I'm surprised by the question so please don't judge my answers too much, but maybe he can explain it to me at one point and find a proper date. I'm not sure people want to see that. Imagine that, (Manchester) United, Liverpool, Everton, Newcastle players all on one team that's not the national team, just a north team. Interesting game.
"All the London guys together. Arsenal, Tottenham. Great. Did he really say it? Interesting."
Boehly was talking at the SALT thought leaders conference in New York, lifting the lid on Chelsea's sacking of Thomas Tuchel as well as revealing bold plans for the Blues' future.
When asked for his views on relegation given US sports do not engage with the idea – often leading to claims of teams 'tanking' for an improved draft pick – Boehly replied: "The economics of going into the Championship are materially different.
"When you go into the Championship those numbers fall off a cliff. So there's no one thinking about tanking, and those relegation games are some of the highest broadcast games."
When asked what his fellow football club owners think about the All-Star game idea, Boehly added: "Everyone likes the idea of more revenue for the league.
"I think there's a real cultural aspect, I think evolution will come."
Chelsea sacked Tuchel last week, after new owners Boehly and Behdad Eghbali conducted a 100-day review of their embryonic Blues tenure.
Graham Potter has been installed as the new head coach on a five-year contract, with Chelsea's new chiefs determined to see a new manager at the helm for the long term.
Boehly admitted for the first time on record that Tuchel's departure centred around differences of opinion and vision.
Tuchel steered Chelsea to the 2021 Champions League crown and the 2022 Club World Cup title, but the taskmaster German coach was unable to win over the Blues' new owners.
"When you take over any business, you have to make sure you're aligned with the people who are operating the business," said Boehly.
"Tuchel is obviously extremely talented and someone who had great success at Chelsea. Our vision for the club was finding a manager who really wanted to collaborate with us, a coach who really wanted to collaborate.
"There are a lot of walls to break down at Chelsea. Before, the first team and academy didn't really share data, didn't share information about where the top players were coming from.
"Our goal is to bring a team together, all of that needs to be a well-oiled machine. The reality of our decision was that we weren't sure that Thomas saw it the same way we saw it. No one is right or wrong, we just didn't have a shared vision for the future.
"It wasn't about [defeat to Dinamo] Zagreb, it was about the shared vision for what we wanted Chelsea to look like. It wasn't a decision that was made because of a single win or loss. It was a decision that we thought was the right vision for the club."
Chelsea will continue their search for a new sporting director, with an appointment likely before the World Cup starts.
Boehly also confirmed Chelsea's plans to run a multi-club model, similar to Manchester City.
Boehly added: "We're going to be continuously adding resources; we've talked about having a multi-club model. I would love to continue to build out the footprint."
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Feeling a little under the weather and I did not get a post in on Saturday. So, if you are following the blog during the month of April, you are getting--for better or worse--a two-for this Sunday as we take on two wonder-inspired pieces.
Friday's Wonder, #1665, had us wondering "What is a Sun Dog?" You may be familiar with the term, "anticipatory set." This is an approach wherein you might give young readers and writers a group of words that will be encountered within a piece of text and asking the students to predict what they think the text might be about. This is a good time to introduce you to the Wonder Words which appear with each wonder.
Have you considered collecting the words from each day's wonders as your potential vocabulary list? As a secondary educator facilitating the hashtag, #WonderopolisHS, I have remarked now and then that I can actually glean from the daily wonders a list of at least ten appropriate for secondary content and curriculum. This is the same number of words I often see in the leveled vocabulary lists I see in classrooms. And, here at Wonderopolis, the words are offered each day--for free and in context within the non-fiction text we want our young readers and writers to be reading.
as the dog days of summer lag.
to we, the CURIOUS ONLOOKERs, all.
Now, Wonder #128 took us back to the heavens again to consider how much we might weigh upon the moon. This is an interesting Wonder for me as I have successfully dropped almost 65 pounds since the beginning of the year. This wonder has me realizing that all of this would be for naught should I move to the moon.
Again, thinking about anticipatory sets and text sets, I'll go back to the Wonder Words, this time starting with the second word and moving through the list (and I note that I once again looking at "celestial" to work within a piece of verse--a good note for teachers here is that the word has come up twice in as many days with as many wonders. I wonder if "celestial" would be a take-away word just that much more quickly for the two-time exposure in context).
As you do this with your young readers and writers, think about allowing them to choose their own words from the list, experimenting as they go and not thinking too much about whether or not they use three words or five words or all of the words that they choose from the list.
or could I just be growing more round?
My WEIGHT could be on downward slope.
But could my number be lower? I mean, can it?
If I were to take a rocket ship to another PLANET?
to find he had no MEASUREMENT.


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Sherwood willing to stay as technical director at Spurs
Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood is willing to stay with the club should chairman Daniel Levy decide to remove him as manager.
Sherwood has made it clear he has no desire to work as assistant to a new manager but hinted for the first time that he may be interested in a technical director's role, a more powerful version of his previous position as technical coordinator with added responsibility for strategy through the club.
"I feel I can do the No.1 job but I'd be no good as a No.2, I'm too opinionated. I wouldn't want to do the job," said Sherwood.
"There is a place for a technical director, someone who sees the club from bottom to top of the training field. There's a definite place for that, otherwise you get no continuity and end up buying seven or 10 players every window and your turnover of players is too great."
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Luke: You're standing on some of my papers.
This website is purely a fan blog and has absolutely NO connection with actors Van Hansis or Eric Sheffer Stevens, or their agents and representatives, or with CBS, the creative team behind As the World Turns, Procter & Gamble, or Telenext. Fan mail sent to this site will unfortunately wallow in a virtual terra nullius.
The information below was gleaned from publicly available sources unless otherwise noted.
Historically, there have been several ways to get in touch with Van Hansis. You can PM him or send a Friend request to him via his fan Facebook account. I know he has responded to PMs (not mine, though :() though not all of them (can't imagine how many he must get!). I also know it can take multiple tries for a fan request to be accepted (it took me three tries – I was going to give up after two, but some friends encouraged me to try again after meeting him in Boston last summer).
Yes, it's really his account, and yes, that's the real Van Hansis who posts under his name. However, Van posted in the September/October timeframe that he is taking a bit of a break from his fan page, and others have reported that he has been less active replying to PMs as of late. His page is unfortunately Ground Zero for a lot of Nuke vs. LuRe debate and a hotbed of picture tagging, so I don't blame the poor guy for needing a break!
He also has a snail mail PO Box address through the official ATWT Fan Club, and I believe letters/items sent there are somehow forwarded to him, though I do not know for certain if this is true.
Last, he has an email through the official ATWT Fan Club as well. I'm told that he does check it, and I believe someone is paying attention to his account.
Please note – this address accepts mail on Eric's behalf. There is no guarantee that Eric will read any/all of it, or whether he will respond. I don't think he's rude or uninterested in his fans (the fact that he ran into a parking lot to chase down some of the fans who went to the effort of attending the I Hate My Teenage Daughter pilot filming attests to that), but I just don't think he wants to encourage that aspect of celebrity-dom. Caveat sendor.
I think the fan appreciation has been duly noted and appreciated by Eric. The question has been put to him more than once and his preference, at least at this, point, is not to do it.
Part of the inspiration for the Doctors Without Borders campaign was to give fans who were compelled to do something more than "wish" and provided a means for fans to send an (albeit short) message that Eric would receive. The page remains active until August 19, 2011, and if Eric is no longer actively checking the page, I'm sure the organizers will give him a poke periodically to remind him if there continues to be activity there.
He has two young children and is trying to move on post-ATWT, so I would suggest that we respect his wishes and keep contacts to donations and comments via DWB.
I really liked your performance in ATWT. I hope you and jake are still close friends. I heard a rumor that you smoke cigarette in your real life. I am asking this because you are a role model to many people. I hope you will give me a reply. May you prosper with a bright future and may your friendship with jake silbermann always blossom.
wish you many happy returns of the day. may this birthday bring lots of happiness and prosparity in your life.
dear lovelure pg, i just read your page about how to get in contact with eric and van both bigtime i tried to contact them both on that address and site altogether myself , but no response from either of them both at those addresses, also i did try to send them alot of messages to that fan club and that fan address that they had for eric and van nothing from them since they went off the air in sept 2010. so i hope they got my notes hopefully to say thanks for everything and the memories too. sincerely, long-time fans of eric s.s.and van hansis too,anne-marie m. gething.
Thanks for answering lovelure, i'll continue to write him once in awhile.I know he's busy and i hope he finds some good parts.He deserves it, such a nice guy and a wonderful actor!
Any time. FYI, I've heard on the fanboards that Van has responded to PMs on FB, and when he's been asked about gifts at fan events (and there's an interview asking him about favorite fan gifts) he does seem to take them seriously. Given the activity on his FB page, I wouldn't be surprised if he got hundreds of PMs/emails a day (via his ATWT account). I've tried to limit my PMs for that reason. I've never heard back personally, but I do know that when I PMed about the Netherlands event, I mentioned I was thinking of buying a plane ticket to go specifically to see him, and he posted his "not sure" message a few hours later. Not sure if I was one of a chorus of people asking, but he did respond to that question, so I think he does pay attention, at least sometimes. In the meantime, I'm still sitting on pins and needles wondering if the security guard I entrusted with his gift was ever able to deliver it!
I hope that Po box is still Vans address.I've written several times with no response yet but I'm still hopeful.i just hope we'll be able to keep up with how he is and what he's doing.I still miss ATWT and Van…..i have read many times that Eric is really a private person….as hard as that is on his fans i commend him for keeping his family out of the limelight.Van and Eric are such great actors and Luke and Reids story was like none other and their chemistry was off the charts.i watch a lot of ATWT clips on You Tube, mostly Luke and Reids story.It will live on in my mind forever!
To the best of my knowledge that PO Box still works. I think all the ATWT actors were offered PO Boxes and the mail that goes there goes to the official ATWT fan club and they then forward it direct to him.


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Jose Garcia-Taborda
"One of the most renowned professionals of his generation in Colombia." – El Colombiano 2012
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In Medellin with my students 2015: EAFIT (Bachelor and CEC), Fundación Universitaria Bellas Artes, Medellin Philharmonic Academy (now Iberacademy) and with my dear colleague Javier Asdrúbal Vinasco Guzmán
"I met Jose during his tour in Malaysia, and I was lucky enough to be chosen to demonstrate on stage in one of his masterclasses. Later on, I also went to one of his performances, and Jose was very generous to provide me with a private lesson during his stay in Malaysia. It was an eye-opening session with Jose, he explained about air support, voicing, embouchure and tonal projection. It never occurred to me that there is so much to think about in tone production and every little detail could have a tremendous effect on the sound. I particularly enjoyed his explanation of the concept of imagining sound production from the top of your head, where this process allows me to relax and frees up the sound I am producing at the time. I have kept this concept as guidance to be sure that I am producing a good and focused clarinet tone and projecting them. Jose also provided me some insightful ideas on playing the Mozart clarinet concerto, which I believe benefited me greatly during my audition for a Master's degree course which I am undertaking now in the Royal Welsh College of Music. In my experience with Jose, he shows a deep passion for music. He holds great knowledge of the instrument and passionately shares his knowledge with others."
Kenny Lim
Royal Welsh College of Music – London (UK)
"I had the privilege to study with professor Jose Garcia-Taborda for more than eight years. I can tell without any doubt he provided me with all the resources to have a successful musical life. His deep knowledge of music and clarinet technique besides his unique motivational skills makes him a great teacher. I had the most wonderful time under his advice."
Former Assistant Principal Clarinet, Medellin Philharmonic
Principal Clarinet IberAcademy Orchestra European tour 2018
Played in side by side with The Vienna State Opera,
Lucerne Festival Switzerland 2018
"Mr. García-Taborda has been the most important teacher in my musical and clarinet education during the time I studied in South America. He has given me the best learning bases, and it was thanks to him that I continue with music here in Europe. Personally, I have a great appreciation for him, and for always motivating me to grow and have taken the trouble to care at every moment of my training, he has also taught me patience and discipline. Mr. Garcia-Taborda is for me a great musician, has a unique ability, excellent ear, and is a great teacher. He taught me both technical and musical aspects of acting, and he accompanied me in large part of my learning process. He is a person with high empathy that is always working towards the development of each student."
Natacha Correa
Graduate student at The Queen Sofía College of Music
Madrid-Spain
"I'm so grateful I got to attend to Prof. García's masterclasses and take lessons with him when I was a teenager. It was an eye-opening experience. His teaching is flexible and adapts to each student's ways of learning. Anything he says, regardless of its musical, technical, or structural nature, has an argument based on research from several sources that he shares with his students. I loved how he gave me solutions to technical problems and helped me understand the acoustical and technical parts of the issue. When we worked on phrasing, he explained me the theory behind it and gave a broad historical context to have an informed interpretation. Prof. García-Taborda was widely knowledgeable in many different areas and was always looking to learn even more. He was and has been truly an inspiration as a student and has helped me become the musician I am today. Any student would be lucky to have him as a mentor."
Sofía Potdevin
M.M Indiana University
Guest Eb Clarinet
Mississippi Symphony Orchestra – USA
"Professor Jose Garcia Taborda has been an extraordinary person in my musical career thanks to his excellent teaching methods which contributed to excellent results for me. He has encouraged me to learn the importance of discipline in my career as a musician and has given me the resources to strengthen my musical abilities."
Sasha Sanchez
Former Bass Clarinet Medellin Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia) Second Clarinet IberAcademy Orchestra
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Turkish bus driver slams into stop, stabs people; 13 injured
A police car parked in a street in Istanbul on May 1, 2018. (File photo: AFP)
The Associated Press, Istanbul Sunday 03 November 2019
Police in Istanbul say they have detained a driver who rammed his bus into a crowded stop and attacked people who tried to prevent him from escaping with a knife. At least 13 people have been injured.
A police statement said the 33-year-old bus driver was detained on Sunday after he jumped into the sea to try and get away from the scene.
The 13 injured included a man who was stabbed as he tried to prevent him from running away after he drove the city bus into the stop.
Police said three Iranian nationals and two children were also among those injured.
It was not immediately clear whether the man drove the bus into the stop by accident.
Police said an investigation has been launched.
Bus fire in northwestern Turkey kills 5, injures 15
10 migrants dead, 30 hurt in Turkey bus crash


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I woke up two hours before my alarm. It happens sometimes, usually when I've had too much caffeine the day before, and my body can't fully relax. Lately though, I've been waking up earlier due to a sinking feeling in my chest. An emotional anchor, a grieving.
I put the feelings to one side and began my morning routine of social media hopping. Logging on to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook – in that order – to catch up on the world's events while I've been asleep. I only ever spend the briefest amount of time on Facebook where possible, as it has become overrun by memes and clickbait videos I'm not interested in. But that morning, I came across a video that compelled me to stay.


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UK Anime Network - Manga - Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Vol. 1: Dawn
Author: Robert Frazer
Robert's life is one regularly on the move, but be it up hill or down dale giant robots and cute girls are a constant comfort - limited only by how many manga you can stuff into a bursting rucksack.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Vol. 1: Dawn
Haikasoru
Yoshiki Tanaka
The continuing search for coveted Mainstream Acceptance for anime is a long and hard uphill struggle, but still like Sisyphus we roll that boulder on. Another title that often comes up when looking for titles to justify "Anime As Art" is Legend of the Galactic Heroes, originally a novel series but with a memorable anime adaptation. Legend of the Galactic Heroes would seem at first glance to do everything right - it's an elaborate and detailed discourse on weighty matters of society and politics with a radical tint, and the original author Yoshiki Tanaka is a bona-fide scholar, a Doctor of Language and Literature who graduated from the prestigious Gakushuin University.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes is intimidating to approach. The very title is redolent of an assured grandeur, and it has the scale to match such loftiness. Building on the foundation of a fourteen-volume novel series published in the 1980s the anime version confirmed the maturation of the OVA format, successfully sustaining audiences who paid subscriptions for a full decade to follow its 110-episode space odyssey between 1988 and 1997 with more than fifty volumes of laserdiscs, VHS tapes, and Video CDs, with a sense of lineage as well as scale from being directed by Noboru Ishiguro who also helmed the original Macross. Along with multiple theatrical movies, spin-off OVAs that ran for a further 52 episodes, video games, manga and astonishingly even a stage musical the Legend of the Galactic Heroes has continued to be told right up to the present day with a new TV anime series in production which will be released next year. Truly Legend of the Galactic Heroes goes beyond a description as clinical as 'multimedia franchise' and has become... well... epic.
Getting such a huge and unwieldy series officially released in the West would be a years-long undertaking and an unlikely prospect even when the anime boom was at its height - other earlier attempts to release long series like Gintama and Monster have foundered and in the shrunken modern market it has been long written off as an impossibility. As enormous a phenomenon as it is in its homeland then, Legend of the Galactic Heroes for many years was paradoxically attended by a certain exotic mystery as a minor cult anime, a sensuous figure veiled enticingly by the Internet as one of the best anime you've never watched. The coverings were suddenly snatched away last July though by the shock announcement from Viz Media and Sentai Filmworks that they had licensed both the original novel series and the anime too. This genuinely surprised and blindsided the anime community and left it reeling with giddy glee, but a significant amount of time to settle down has now passed; a year later and Sentai have yet to release any substantive details about their own part in the project, but Viz through its Haikasoru imprint (through which it's released a number of anime-related prose SF from Battle Royale to All You Need is Kill) has started to bring out the books themselves, with Volume 1 "Dawn" out now and Volume 2 "Ambition" following on in July. Viz have announced that they are testing the waters with a release of the first three volumes of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes and whether they continue to bring over the rest of the series will depend on the performance of the initial trio. The weight of expectation thus lies heavy on this short volume - does Legend of the Galactic Heroes deserve its grand title?
Legend of the Galactic Heroes takes place over a thousand years in the future. Mankind has sailed out into the sea of stars and set its stamp on thousands of new worlds, but the progress in space was not matched by a progress in society, and the new utopias have come to be defiled by old evils. The Galactic Federation slumped into insularity and corruption, to be overwhelmed by the ruthless Adolf Hit-- er, Rudolph von Goldenbaum who concealed his savage plans for domination and dictatorship in the guise of galactic renewal. Suffering under the repressive hierarchy of the new Galactic Empire, refugees squirmed out from under the Fuh-- er, Emperor's boot-heel and fled across the nebulae to found the United-- er, Free Planets Alliance. However this new nation proved to be no safe haven - the Empire may be ruled by rapacious nobility enriching themselves through the subjection of their serfs, but the Free Planets Alliance is little better, and maybe even worse for its hypocrisy; outwardly a democratic republic but rotted from within by impotent mediocrities whose vision extends no further than the next opinion poll and cynical exploiters who manipulate them for their own self-aggrandisement. These two corrupt states are perhaps not so ideologically distant as they claim, but just as likes repel they harbour an existential hatred for each other and have warred for centuries - For Order! For Freedom! For Taxation!
Cometh the hour and cometh the man; so into the midst of this interminable generations-long space-war which has claimed billions of lives and destroyed millions of ships have stepped two young navy commanders. In the Imperial Navy is Reinhard von Lohengramm - he has recently been elevated to the nobility but far from the rarefied atmosphere going to his head it has only exposed him to and filled him with disgust for the immorality of the Empire. In the Alliance Navy is Yang Wen-li - a quiet and unassuming academic and reluctant soldier who really only joined the military to pay off his student loans, but who thus has a self-awareness and insight that many of his glory-hound comrades lack. The two men are far apart in temperament - Reinhard burns with desire to overturn the Empire and Yang just wants to extricate himself from his commission for a quiet life with his books - but to achieve their respective goals each of them needs the same thing... victory. As circumstances conspire to abruptly thrust each man into the limelight, it becomes clear that they need victory over one another. The stage is thus set for a dramatic duel between these two brilliant young officers and their clashes may yet be the first cracks that break apart the ossified stalemate of this long and futile war, but amidst the courtly intrigues of the Empire and the inconstant coalitions of the Alliance, will either live long enough to see it?
This synopsis seems to match the title for high passion and wide scope... but the only grandeur here is the immense surge of pity I feel when seeing how Legend of the Galactic Heroes seems determined to bleach out any shade of emotion the story might have. There's no two ways about it... however splendid its vision, in terms of technical composition Legend of the Galactic Heroes is an awfully-written book. I can't say how much responsibility for this comes from dull writing from Yoshiki Tanaka or a flat translation from Daniel Huddleston, but however you apportion the blame it still comes down to a singularly uninspiring volume in my hand.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes stalls right on the start line by beginning with a protracted prologue of Future History detailing the back-story of the long war between the Empire and the Alliance. After a good seventeen pages of dates, percentages and population counts (even the book gets bored with it, finishing off a recounting of the Empire's first failed campaign against the Alliance with an "Et cetera. Et cetera") I'm less impressed by the detailed and dedicated world-building because a lot of it is sounding rather familiar. Legend of the Galactic Heroes is praised in other quarters for its allegorical reflection of our own trials and tribulations. Such an attitude is undeserved flattery. Legend of the Galactic Heroes is not allegory, because allegory requires metaphor. This is taking a school modern history textbook, Tipp-Exing out "Hitler" and writing "Rudolph" on top. There's even an incident called the Long March of 10,000 (Light Years), and in the story proper Yang is harassed by the Patriotic Knight Corps who wear "white hoods over their heads, with only their eyes exposed".
Entirely apart from the lack of imagination this shows, it just fits poorly with the far-future setting. The Germanic aesthetic of the Galactic Empire is plain as day, but would a concept of Germany even exist a thousand years and a thousand worlds into the future, and if it did, would time not have metamorphosed it into something quite different from the Fourth Reich it's depicted as? Yang reflects on the strategic brilliance of Hannibal, of Sun Tzu, of Napoleon - then strategy didn't advance one dot until Yang thought to weigh in on matters. That human culture freezes solid in the Twentieth Century isn't a problem unique to Legend of the Galactic Heroes, it's a common debilitation of sci-fi like when we have Klingons quoting Shakespeare as if the Federation didn't produce a single playwright of note in the 400 years between now and The Next Generation, but it's disappointing that a story that's supposedly as revolutionary as Legend of the Galactic Heroes is billed to be can't solve it. You'd have thought that with Tanaka's obsession with Future History he could at least invent a few Great Philosophers of the 28th century and just name-drop them to fill out the setting.
This lecturing tone carries on to the story proper, too. The writing style is very... dry. Clinical even. Space battles, such a centrepiece of this grand space opera, are recited more as after-action reports than gripping collisions of powers and personalities. One example that jumps out at me is a rare anecdote that's slipped into a paragraph, evidently an attempt to make the battle a bit more than just tit-for-tat torpedo barrages, saying that a ship has its waste treatment plant damaged so sewage is dumped onto the decks. This could have been a compellingly atrocious situation, as in zero gravity wallops of congealed sludge career through zero gravity to slam hapless crew to ignoble ends, the crew slip through hails of ordure spun into hurricanes by the ship's 3D-manoeuvres in a grim parody of the storm-slick decks of the days of sail, and they struggle to seal up systems to avoid the double ignominy of drowning in waste and being electrocuted by it. Instead though the book just remarks "this would surely make for a delightful war story if they ever returned home safely", but doesn't imagine what such a story might be.
The writing is so passionless that the book even forgets to have a climax. One of the reasons Reinhard despises the Empire, this smouldering cauldron of bitterness and resentment brewing up a poisonous concoction of wrath and rancour, is his utter disgust that his sister Annerose was adopted as a courtesan by the Emperor. By the end of the book he has extricated Annerose from the pawing shrivelled fingers of that dirty old man - this moment of liberation, of exhilaration, of rapture, of achievement, of fulfilment... has Annerose boxed away in a country house in one paragraph, while Reinhard's yearned-for reunion consists of a single line that she "will never have hard times again". Annerose herself doesn't even speak. Not only that she doesn't even appear, she's only ever referred to in the third person. We are not meeting Annerose and Reinhard at their heartfelt and desperate re-pledging of their ardent sibling union, some reporter is noting it in the margin of a textbook from a distant remove.
Like more plain reportage, Legend of the Galactic Heroes is also one of the most interminably bureaucratic novels that I've read. There are multiple pauses for actual bullet-pointed lists of commanders and ministers like I'm reading the minutes of a board meeting. When the Alliance assembles a massive armada to invade the Empire list of ships, vehicles, aeroplanes, battalions and manpower becomes so exhaustive, and exhausting, that it needs to define the force as exactingly as "0.23% of the Alliance's full population". Nought-point-two-three. Tanaka's certainly good with a calculator, I'll give him that. His talents are wasted in Language & Literature and I fear he missed his true calling as an accountant.
This numbers game is another serious failing of Legend of the Galactic Heroes - battles in this setting are truly massive with tens of thousands of ships and millions of men getting snuffed out in an artless adjectiveless sentence, and yet ironically the bigger they are the more hollow they seem. Tanaka seems to have gotten it into his head that if he just tabs a few more zeroes onto the end of a number he can make it even more epicererering than it was the last time, but as you zoom out an image it becomes fuzzy and unfocused and so it is the case here when there's a wide gap between the battles and their effects. One and half million Alliance soldiers are killed in the first battle - that's more than the number of deaths suffered by Britain and the entire Empire in ten years of the First and Second World Wars combined, annihilated in a single day. How many gravestones? How many memorials? How many bereavements? Yet this global calamity merits little more recognition than a single rally with a rabble-rousing politician and a single voice of dissent from a woman with a dead fiancé. And this is one of the smaller engagements! Tanaka and his thin prose just cannot grapple with the implications of such scale and it just seems like the puffed-up inflation of a balloon from a limp wrinkle of rubber.
When reading this book what came to mind was another sci-fi classic, Ender's Game. While it's a very different book to Legend of Galactic Heroes one element that I found resonant was author Orson Scott Card writing a foreword to Ender's Game where he remarked about receiving copious fan-mail from readers who saw the beleaguered Ender as a role-model. For social outcasts at high school Ender was their Mary Sue, a reassurance that they were misunderstood geniuses who were nobly weathering the jealous resentment of the inarticulate jocks, and not friendless dweebs who were the butt of every joke. I'm getting a similar vibe from Legend of the Galactic Heroes. There's an outright ageist streak running through this book - young are all fresh and vibrant with quick wits, piercing intelligence, and the clarity and insight to see through the thick musty suffocating hangings of corruption and decadence; the old are universally hidebound and staid with senile vacuity, stultifying thickness and the towering snobbery and teetering arrogance that blinds them to the threats around them. Reinhard acquires an admiralty office and turns it into a students' union of young officers who all share his vision. Yoshiki Tanaka had just turned thirty when the first volume of Legend of the Galactic Heroes was originally published back in 1982... maybe he was feeling self-conscious of no longer being a youthful twentysomething, or nursing a grievance over not getting tenure over the senior professors. Also, I can't help but notice that Yang Wen-li is 29 years old too. Funny, that.
Tanaka seems to become aware of his absurdly didactic imbalances towards the end of the book - as it builds up towards the final battle we are belatedly introduced to a young idiot called Rear-Admiral Fork who incompetently leads the Alliance military, but even then a deliberate point is made that Fork 'thinks old' and is specifically described as looking prematurely aged. Similarly from the other direction more sympathetically-drawn older figures like Marshal Stiolet are only indulged because they are willing to discount their own hard-won experience and stand aside in deference to Yang's fresh youthful genius.
Those who Tanaka has designated are going to be wrong in each scenario are almost comically inept, and this mutates beyond the most grotesque caricature and into outright self-parody when an antagonist embodies so much of the Spoiled Aristocratic Brat character trope who's so used to getting his own way that he literally has a fit and passes out if someone objects to his plans. This is incredible, truly incredible - I almost admire Tanaka for the sheer bare-faced brazen cheek of it. Even in actual communist screeds I haven't seen an elite so molly-coddled and cosseted - it's quite an achievement!
Characters are no more than strawmen who are propped up to be knocked down by a point. A rabble-rousing war-mongering politician Chairman Trunicht is interrupted during a speech by a widow who calls him out as a hypocrite sending others out to die while he stays safe. Fair point, all well and good, but a moment's question reduces Trunicht to an incoherent spluttering ruin - a man who as head of the Defence Committee has probably been asked this same question many times before and a man who the text tells us is tipped to be the next president and so should have a bit more nous. He could have rejoindered with a democratic principle of civilian government, and it's strange that didn't occur to the man who will soon be leading it. One quote that is often posted by fans of Legend of the Galactic Heroes to demonstrate this story's even-handed moral sophistication and contemplative depth is Yang opining in a later volume that "there are few wars between good and evil; most are between one good and another good". Fine words, but I see precious little evidence of them being demonstrated here.
No-one in this book holds an actual conversation. People do not speak to each other, they essay at each other. Take this dialogue, quoted below:
"Commodore Yang, you showed contempt for a sacred memorial service. When everyone in attendance answered the defence committee chairman's passionate speech by vowing to bring down the empire did not you, and you alone, by remaining seated assume an attitude of ridicule toward the determination of the entire nation? We condemn your arrogance! If you have anything to say for yourself, come out here and say it to us. I should mention that calling for security is useless."
Bear in mind that this is being yelled through a megaphone while an angry mob is bunging rocks through Yang's windows. "I should mention", good grief. Would that all of our ranting demagogues so eloquently deploy preterite modal verbs.
I originally approached The Legend of the Galactic Heroes with not a little trepidation. I haven't watched the anime which made this story famous amongst Western fans, but I was consciously in the shadow of its towering reputation and not sure where to turn in the darkness around me. After feeling around for a while though, I am singularly underwhelmed. Perhaps the anime is better - perhaps the visualisation of action and expression breathes flesh onto the bleached bones of this dry skeleton of Tanaka's plain, unimaginative manuscript. I can see why Legend of the Galactic Heroes has its appeal – for all its faults, it does reach higher and further than the typical anime harem romance - and I will probably then stick around for the eventual western release of the anime version to see if it can add some vitality and colour, but this unimpressive book is a dull chore to read; I could forgive not being entertained if I felt that I was learning from the experience, but what social messages it tries to convey are undermined by the sub-propagandist depiction of the venial imbecility of the Bad Examples. After decades of waiting and wonder Legend of the Galactic Heroes is finally upon us... and I'm struggling to see what all the fuss is about.
The heroes lose much of their galactic stature when you realise that they're not blowing away titans, merely puffing down strawmen.
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