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Argentina – Will This Craziness Ever End?
by Decoding Politics February 13, 2022 February 20, 2022 14920
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One of the most fun, or most exasperating countries, to analyze politically depending on your perspective is the perpetual also-ran known as Argentina. There is always a steady of stream of news, appointments, alliances, bills, elections such that it certainly is never boring. On the other hand, it produces total incomprehension in foreigners after a certain time: "Why is it that this country, which has everything (food, water, land, resources, educated people, safe borders) continues to crash and burn every ten years?"
That is the 1m peso question. Decoding Politics has extensive experience with the country, having been a regular visitor for the past two decades of dysfunction and cheap beef. We once read it described it as a 'seductive, but structurally unstable country' which we think is perfect. It seems like a real country, with well dressed people and nice architecture and functioning infrastructure, yet constantly does things that real countries would find inexplicable.
We are going to, in this piece dive a little bit in to the features as to why Argentina has so many infamous political and economic crises in the past decades. We'll look at where we are now. And we'll see if we can get an answer to the original question- will this craziness ever end?
A Crisis Each Decade
The last few Argentine crises listed in reverse order…….the list of major meltdowns is quite impressive.
2019: Alberto Fernandez + Christina Kirchner elected, stock market crashes and peso collapses. New IMF agreement negotiated in 2021/2 to keep the lights on.
2011/12: Argentina refuses to pay its US law debt and a multi year court battle ensues. It was ultimately settled under President Macri in 2015.
2003: Nestor Kirchner is elected and terrorizes business and the opposition. In 2007, and again in 2011, his wife Christina Fernandez de Kirchner runs and wins. Nestor dies of a heart attack in 2010.
December 2001/ January 2002: The famous crash of the burn of the peso and major default. Argentina has four presidents within a month.
1990/1: Hyperinflation and Afonsin elected President.
1982: Falklands Island war with UK. Argentina loses. The government collapses and the military decides to open up to democracy in time.
Argentina and its cynicism
The institutional failure is so complete, you would excuse Argentines for being a bit cynical about their country, their leaders, and their systems. Many of the most talented have left over the past thirty years, and millions more remain in a state of terminal apathy and disconnection from the government.
A recent Twitter thread perfectly captures how fed up and cynical the Argentines are about their own country and government. The incoming US ambassador (naively) posted a greeting to Twitter:
Such a naïve tweet exposed himself to Argentines and their savage cynicism about their own country. Replies included (in English and Spanish) "Don't take the job, it's a trap!" to "Please invade us, we will offer no resistance, just send our leaders to Guantanamo" and "Take the post of being Ambassador to Ukraine, it will be more quiet" among hundreds of similar comments. Argentines are so used to institutional failure and disaster that they can joke about it in the broadest of terms. Those not used to this Jurassic Park must find it quite surreal.
The System and the Legacy of Peron
On paper, the Argentine system resembles that of the United States. There is a President elected on a four year cycle, with broad powers. There is a Senate and Congress, the latter turning over every four years, the former every six. There are, including the City of Buenos Aires, 24 provinces, and their governors have been delegated a wide array of powers. The Constitution has been around since the 1850's without much moderation.
Yet, behind the scenes, the Argentine system works very differently, having been constructed along the lines of a fascist country in the 1940s and never dismantled. President Juan Domingo Peron, in power from 1946-1955, was the one to bolster a system that borrowed from Mussolini's Italy. Peron's admiration for the fascist governments of Europe is well known. Here is one quote courtesy of Wikipedia:
"Italian Fascism made people's organizations participate more on the country's political stage. Before Mussolini's rise to power, the state was separated from the workers, and the former had no involvement in the latter. […] Exactly the same process happened in Germany, that is the state was organized [to serve] for a perfectly structured community, for a perfectly structured population: a community where the state was the tool of the people, whose representation was, in my opinion, effective.[51]"
The government set up labor boards that controlled the major unions and bossed around the large employers in the country. Labor unions had wide ranging abilities to negotiate contracts and collective bargaining agreements, giving workers little say and corporations little control. The politicians who worked with the unions handed out money to them and got a guaranteed supply of votes.
Peron then threw tons of handouts to workers- he instituted and expanded a national health care system, giving three quarters of Argentine workers 'free health care'. He expanded social security coverage to most workers. And he led two five year plans to industrialize the country and move it away from its dependence on agriculture.
Initially, the plan worked- real wages grew substantially and workers were fully employed. The country's economy expanded into new industries. Yet by the early 1950's, the peso was devaluing, the economy was facing 50%+ inflation, and Peron had to go abroad to get dollars to keep the lights on. He pushed a new Constitution in 1954 allowing for social grants to be enshrined, and to push for multiple terms for the President. This was all too much for the military, which pushed him out in 1955 and into exile.
The Ghost of Peron
If you look at the cycle of Peron's two terms, it is very similar to the one that plays out in ten year increments in Argentina. A burst of growth from a low base, and an expansion of real wages. This rising prosperity is then used by the government to guarantee more spending and benefits to the working/voting classes. The spending gets too far ahead, the government runs out of dollars for some reason, and it all ends up in inflation and or default. Then cue a right wing government or the military to come in and clean it up.
The crises were often so extreme that they needed extreme measures to address them. Argentines who saved in dollar bank accounts have several times seen their dollars confiscated to pay debts or forcibly converted, at disadvantageous rates into pesos. Many times the government has banned or limited sending money out of the country. Gold as an investment was banned at one point under Nestor Kirchner. This total disrespect for the rule of law has seeped into all fields of economic legislation, allowing the government to run roughshod over political opponents and thoroughly discouraging investment in the country.
Peron's party, the PJ, continues to have a strong power base in Congress, and it or its allies have held the Presidency for sixteen of the last twenty years. The four year term of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) saw a heroic effort to extirpate the Peronist model, but they did not have the requisite time to clean up the mess, and were handed an electoral defeat after a steep recession.
Argentina under Alberto and Cristina
President Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Kirchner
Image by Nicolás Aboaf
With President Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Kirchner, we are right back into the Peronist model. The government was elected in 2019 and quickly moved to restructure the outstanding debt. The government has been spending money heavily, defaulting on various other debts, seeing the peso devalue heavily, and facing high inflation of 50%.
Argentina Inflation Rate , yoy %
Moreover, the country has had to enforce a two tiered exchange rate system in order to keep inflation from totally blowing out. If you were to arrive in Argentina tomorrow and hit the ATM, you would get the official rate of 110 pesos to the dollar. Your $100 withdrawal would get you 11,000 pesos to spend. Yet if you were to take $100 in cash, and switch it on the street at the so called "Blue Dollar" rate, you would have 22,000 pesos to spend. The gap between the two is producing all sorts of distortions for the layman and arbitrages for the connected. If the unofficial and official were to reach parity though, it would produce another round of high inflation. So the government is caught between a rock and a hard place here and is unlikely to resolve it prior to the 2023 elections.
Source: dollar blue app
The country has been bleeding dollars over the past few years. On a gross basis, it has $35bn in reserves, but it is at its lowest level of dollars ever on a net basis of roughly $500m.
Argentina International Reserves, $mm
With lots of international debt payments coming due in the next year, it seems inevitable that Argentina will hit the wall again in some way. Either a default, a total peso blowout to finance this, or another series of restructurings. The Peronist model is allergic to austerity and lowering inflation, as that would see union support drop away immediately. They have to keep spending, printing money, devaluing the currency and blame the US/IMF for the mess. If the electorate believes it, they can get re-elected in 2023 for yet another four year term. If not, then it will be a right wing government's turn to clean up the mess again.
The Players in 2022
Alberto, Cristina, and Maximo
President Alberto Fernandez is a main line Peronist, and had been Nestor Kirchner's chief of staff. He is viewed as the peacekeeper between the various factions of government. Cristina and her son Maximo, leader of the faction called "El Campora", are viewed as radical Peronists, but can routinely be counted on to deliver 30% of the electorate, mainly due to the number of handouts they had implemented to lower classes.
The government initially adopted a radical economic platform -restructure foreign debt, spend money, and toss out several Macri era reforms. Inflation and currency weakness were irrelevant. Yet as inflation ripped over 50% and dollars ran to nearly zero, the government was forced to change trajectory. They went to the IMF to renegotiate a deal and secure more dollars in exchange for a new government spending plan. After a deal was struck, it would then go to Congress for a final vote.
Yet this initial deal produced division. Alberto thinks it's clearly needed. Cristina believes the terms are not fair. And Maximo thought it was poorly negotiated, and resigned his post in the government in protest, promising his followers would never support it. Now the government will have to renegotiate and hope to have enough of its followers to support it, or it will have to reach out across the aisle and work with the opposition to get a bill passed. Either remedy shows extreme division within the current government. The mounting economic pressures are seeing the coalition fray and its three main leaders work against each other.
The Peronist Party
The core Peronist party still has a substantial showing in Congress, over 25%. Several of its members are ministers in the government, often at odds with the Kirchner family. They have been flummoxed by the recent events. Many of these legislators want lower inflation and a steady economic environment. Not for its own sake, but so they have more money to bestow on labor, workers and political allies. They have no problem with high inflation if it's coupled with high growth and a semi-stable currency- as happened between 2003-2008. But the current stagflationary mess with no end in sight is bad for business. They have been increasingly courting Alberto and trying to distance themselves from Cristina and Maximo Kirchner.
The Opposition – Juntos Por El Cambio (JxC)
Formerly Cambiemos, this is Macri's party under its new name. It has three or four leaders, but the most prominent is former Buenos Aires province governor Maria Eugenia Vidal. She is a Catholic, an economic conservative, and a charismatic speaker. She was elected as a Congresswoman in 2021.
Maria Eugenia Vidal
María Eugenia Vidal, governadora de Buenos Aires, em 2016
The party is conventional center right party, business friendly, focused on law and order. They got Macri elected in 2015, and did very well in the 2021 legislative election [more below]. They are clearly going to take over Congress in 2023, and likely the Presidency, but the only question is by what margin. And, what allies will they have along the way?
JxC had a good run of reform under Macri, cutting all sorts of government programs, reforming the exchange rate system and initiating structural reforms. But they borrowed too much money in dollars, got into a bind, and had to call in the IMF. This decision and the resulting austerity cost them the 2019 election.
It is crucial that if they are re-elected, they enter power and enact structural reforms and belt tightening at the beginning. They should not borrow heavily and risk another exchange rate crisis. They should try to continually generate excess foreign reserves, and use that to gradually merge the exchange rates and to lower inflation. Finally, they will need to open up the labor market. Ending the unions' hold on Argentina is crucial to ending Peronism's political hold. If they can end collective bargaining, allow limited independent contracting and freelance work, and remove government labor boards from decision making, it will spell lower inflation all around and the end to Peronism's control mechanisms.
The Farmers
The great silent player in all this, and has been for one hundred years, is the farming community. Argentina is an incredibly potent player in agriculture, and the industry earns almost 60% of all foreign currency in Argentina. The farmers are so profitable that they can endure 30-40% excise taxes without losing money. Argentina produces one quarter of global soy production- an incredible number for a country of less than 50m people. Argentina has huge production globally of lemons, sunflower seeds, beef and other categories. Indeed, the only reason Peronism exists in the first place is that Argentine farmers make so much money that the Peronists can distribute the excess to the 80% of the population not working in agriculture. Other countries without such an oil or agricultural surplus would be unable to generate the requisite revenue in the first place.
The Nestor and Cristina Kirchner administrations waged war on farmers, taxing them heavily, restricting their access to foreign exchange and imported goods, and often silenced them politically. But they still need them to generate dollars for the country and to keep people employed. It's a difficult balance- you need the piggy bank intact, but you are constantly taking money out of it. This current domestic environment is very hard on farmers, and we think that if they lower the crops planted and amounts sold abroad, it will harm the government finances. The opposition has always been very friendly to farmers and so they are patiently waiting for a JxC government.
The Last Election
Argentina had a legislative election in October 2021. Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) had their best performance ever, taking 42% of votes for Congress and 47% for the Senate. The Peronists lost control of the Senate for the first time in 40 years. Libertarian and other opposition parties performed well, a first in Argentine political history.
This was Peronism's worst election in decades, and the defeat means Congress can effectively block most legislation from the government. It augurs well for a large election victory in 2023.
The Outlook from Here
Argentina's Presidential and Legislative Elections will be held October 2023. It will be yet another historic confrontation between Peronism, represented by Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner, and the opposition of JxC. Peronism will be entering at a serious disadvantage. The coalition is full of internal dissent and conflicts. It's coming off of a bad election loss. And the economic fundamentals are pure stagflation, with downside risks from a currency that continues to crash, and a government with no dollars to defend it.
It is likely that JxC wins, with Vidal as its public face. From there, they will have the usual clean up to perform. Cut government spending to below the rate of inflation. Merge the exchange rates over time, and take the initial pain but hope inflation comes down over time. Do structural reforms to open up the economy to foreign investment and competition. Finally, they will have to enact a broad labor reform. Ending union power and government handouts to unions is the only way for Peronism's political power to fully wither away. Otherwise, each economic boom that Argentina stumbles into will just see the money distributed to voters and political allies rather than saved, wisely invested, or remain in the hands of entrepreneurs and farmers. The jury is still out if the next election will finally end the 70 year Peronist cycle of crash and burn. The ruling coalition of half Peronists half radical Peronists is weak and rife with infighting. Popular discontent at a decade of almost 50% annual inflation, slow growth and government corruption is building. The opposition's political gains have been strong and should extend into 2023, giving them a broad mandate to enact major reforms. The jury is still out if they will be able to kill the Peronist cycle and end the craziness, but the opportunity is better than it has been for three decades.
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Virginia Beach business' cakes consist of raw ingredients, are 100% vegan, contain no preservatives
By Lee Belote
Virginian-Pilot Correspondent
Paige Welch was inside Leaping Lizard Cafe Dec. 28 tending to her business, Empowered Plant Cakes. She is photographed holding her raspberry coconut cake. Welch specializes in making organic, raw and gluten free cakes. Her confections use raw ingredients and are 100% vegan and contain no preservatives or processed ingredients. Customers can visit the Leaping Lizard Bakery on the weekends to see her full selection or they can go to empoweredplantcakes.com to order a cake for pick up at the Leaping Lizard Cafe or Green Cat. (Lee Belote/Freelance / The Virginian-Pilot)
January is my birthday month. If you ask me, it's a lousy time to celebrate a birthday. I'm not just talking about the cold weather and the hum-drum month following the excitement of the holiday season.
As I've said in earlier columns, January is when we start our New Year's resolutions such as eating healthier. This poses a big dilemma when it comes to the most important part of the birthday celebration — cake. It's not a party without a beautiful birthday cake marking the occasion. The old adage says, "You can't have your cake and eat it, too." Does this apply to birthday cakes?
Just for the record, I always indulge in cake on my birthday even if I feel a tad guilty. However, I may have discovered a tasty solution to this yearly birthday cake predicament. It's called Empowered Plant Cakes.
Owned by Paige Welch, the business specializes in making tasty whole-food cakes that make you feel good. They're nutrient-dense, organic and gluten- and refined sugar-free.
The chocolate peanut butter cake is one of the best sellers for Empowered Plant Cakes. It's a grain free cake made from roasted peanuts, coconut cream, raw cacao powder and agave. (Lee Belote/Freelance / The Virginian-Pilot)
The plant-based confections use raw ingredients like dates, cashews, rolled oats, lemons, coconut cream and raw blue agave. These sweet treats are 100% vegan and contain no preservatives or processed ingredients.
I know what you're thinking. How can a dessert be tasty without all the decadent ingredients? To my surprise, these sweets taste as good as they look. My favorite flavor is the chocolate peanut butter cake that has a creamy consistency similar to a cheesecake.
Welch said her customers are always shocked by how rich and flavorful the desserts are.
"Many expect the desserts to be lacking in some flavor because of the ingredients," she said. "They are surprised upon the first bite on how rich and creamy the desserts are."
None of the cakes are baked. Instead, all the ingredients are blended until they're silky smooth and set in a freezer overnight until decorated. They can be stored frozen for three months or chilled in the fridge for one week.
Welch first started making these sweet concoctions for her family's business, Green Cat, at 3801 Pacific Ave., and it eventually led to opening her own business.
Empowered Plant Cakes also makes brownies. Pictured is the espresso brownie made from almond flour, maple syrup, raw cacao powder, espresso beans, freeze dried raspberries, almonds and pistachios. (Lee Belote/Freelance / The Virginian-Pilot)
In January 2019, she moved her business into the Leaping Lizard Bakery. She makes her cakes in the kitchen and sells them wholesale to local restaurants and in the Leaping Lizard Cafe.
Customers can also order them online for pickup at Green Cat or Leaping Lizard. On the weekends, her full selection is available to purchase at the Leaping Lizard Bakery.
Welch's art background is apparent in the artistic design of her cakes. She said she's happy to use her talents daily in the kitchen.
"I love making the cakes because it allows me to be creative while providing nourishing food," she said.
So, if anyone else has a birthday coming up, these cakes would make a great option. They come in fun flavors such as lavender lemon, red velvet, key lime, carrot and many more. The best part of these cakes is "you can have your cake and eat it, too."
For more information or to place an order, go to empoweredplantcakes.com. Visit the Leaping Lizard Bakery at 4408 Shore Drive on the weekends to see the full selection.
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Decree No. 4016 of December 2004, "through which the National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO is reformed." This Decree updates the list of its members, establishes that the headquarters of the Commission shall be at the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and that the Executive Secretariat shall be held by the official appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Relations; likewise, it stipulates the duties to be carried out by the Commission and the periods when meetings are to be held.
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A Letter to Rachael Blackmore from her Mother
Liz GoldsmithSteeplechasingRachael Blackmore5 Comments
Rachael Blackmore is an Irish jockey who, in 2021, became the first female rider to win the Grand National (in the 182-year history of the race) on Minella Times. In 2022, she followed that up by becoming the first woman to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
As we approach the 2022 Grand National, Rachael's mother, Eimir has written "A letter to my daughter" and recorded it as a voice over for a video put together by The Jockey Club, which owns Aintree Racecourse and stages the Randox Grand National. In it she pays tribute to Blackmore's resilience, determination and humility and reveals her own phone "nearly melted" after her daughter's groundbreaking success at the Cheltenham Festival in 2021.
Rachael and Minella Times hope to reprise their victory this weekend in the Grand National. Fingers crossed that they get around safe and even better, win a second time.
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I'd like to be 1000th the rider she is !
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So sad she fell off this year – not her fault – her horse got tangled up with another at the jump! She fell well, rolled in a ball and did not seem to be injured! I could have cried… just sent waves of sympathy and empathy to her telepathically while watching on TV. Hope she is doing well!!!!
So sad to watch her fall this year, she rolled into a ball away from the horses still jumping. Her horse tangled up with another over the jump. Grand National is scarey. 40 started and only about 10 made it home. Set her waves of empathy and good wishes telepathically as I watched her on TV. She is brave and a brilliant rider!
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The Showdown (band)
The Showdown
The Showdown at Ozzfest 2007
Elizabethton, Tennessee
Metalcore,[1] southern metal, Christian metal,[2] thrash metal, melodic death metal[3]
Solid State (2008–Present)
Mono Vs Stereo (2004–2008)
Still Remains
David Bunton
Josh Childers
Jeremiah Scott
Patrick Judge
Travis Bailey
AJ Barrette
Eric Koruschak
Timothy "Yogi" Watts
Jeremy Swain
Daniel Swain
Andrew Hall
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The Showdown is a southern metal/metalcore band based in Elizabethton, Tennessee. While the members of the band are Christian and the band is signed to a Christian record label, the band does not consider itself a Christian act, according to guitarist Josh Childers.[4] Lyrically, their writing tells of heroism, sojourns and battles of life, most of which draws influence from Biblical aspects. As of 2008, they are signed to Solid State Records.
1.1 A Chorus of Obliteration
1.2 Temptation Come My Way
1.3 Back Breaker
1.4 Blood in the Gears
4 References and footnotes
A Chorus of Obliteration
Over time longtime metalhead Josh's metal influences saw 2540 morph from punk to metal. This change in style prompted a change of the band's name to "The Showdown". In 2003, Daniel left the band to get married at which time Andrew Hall took the drumming position. With Andrew on board the fivesome headed to the studio and recorded their first Full length album A Chorus of Obliteration. This album, produced by Bruce Fitzhugh, lead singer of Living Sacrifice, was mainly a mix of Hardcore and Metal.
Temptation Come My Way
After a great deal of touring in both the US and Europe, The Showdown went back to the studio to record their second full length album. This album took a different direction trading in the screaming double-bassing death metal for a more southern approach mixed with elements of their older style such as heavy guitar riffs, some screams (although not as dominated by them), and distinct bass and drum lines, drawing also from 1980s to early 1990s-era metal like Pantera, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and Metallica. In the fall of 2006, The Showdown joined the Christian rock/alternative band Pillar on The Days of the Reckoning tour. The tour lasted from mid-October through November 2006 and also featured Christian rock bands Day of Fire and Decyfer Down. In late 2006, after completing the album, Andrew announced he was leaving the band to get married (and possibly to pursue a career in professional wrestling). Andrew was soon replaced by another Andrew - A.J. Barrette of Still Remains. Although the album was already completed, The Showdown along with A.J. hit the studio once more to record the track "Head Down" which would be added to the album before its release. The completed album, Temptation Come My Way was released on February 20, 2007. Unknown to the public until release, two different versions were released, one with the song "Fanatics and Whores", and one without, probably to avoid controversy in the Christian market. This upset many fans who had pre-ordered the CD and received the incomplete album, even though most distributors listed the song in their track listing. Temptation Come My Way received high popularity in the underground culture, and The Showdown was soon signed on March 21 of 2007 to play at Ozzfest 07.
Back Breaker
After extensive touring and popular reception, the band announced on their MySpace page that they had begun recording their next album on January 2008. On April 19, 2008, the Showdown completed their new album entitled Back Breaker. Back Breaker was released on August 19, 2008, with a style that is sort of a mix of their first two albums, along with the addition of a heavy groove style. Following the release they joined Shadows Fall on tour to promote Back Breaker. The Showdown released Back Breaker through Solid State Records. The Showdown toured with Norma Jean on The Anti-Mother Tour, which lasted throughout October and November 2008 and also featured Haste The Day, Mychildren Mybride, Children 18:3, and Oh, Sleeper. Children 18:3 was only on half of the tour dates (October 3 to October 26), while Oh, Sleeper filled in for the rest of the tour (October 28 to November 15). On April 13, 2009, the band announced that AJ drums and Eric bass would be leaving the band in order to spend more time with their families and other responsibilities. They were replaced by Timothy "Yogi" Watts of Demon Hunter on drums, and Jeremiah Scott of "Destroy Destroy Destroy" on bass. However, it was stated that AJ and Eric will rejoin the band for a show at the Ichthus Music Festival on June 13; however it did not happen. During the Ichthus Music Festival, Patrick Judge, new guitarist of acclaimed band Demon Hunter, took on the second guitar as a "fill in", according to Josh. His position in The Showdown is unknown, but he has toured with them extensively since then. Jeremiah Scott unofficially stated he will be on both The Showdown's next record, along with Demon Hunter's as well, also revealing Patrick's new endorsement with Dean Guitars, after being endorsed by Washburn Guitars.
Blood in the Gears
The Showdown's latest album is titled Blood in the Gears. On March 17, 2010, David posted on his Facebook page that The Showdown had finished recording Blood in the Gears and that they were hoping for a summer release. Blood in the Gears was released August 24, 2010.
Teaming up with Timothy "Yogi" Watts of Demon Hunter, The Showdown began recording their next album, Blood in the Gears. Lyrically, the album is closest to Temptation Come My Way, as the majority of the songs return to issues of life such as consumption ("The Crooked Path") and honoring God ("Bring it Down"). Musically, the band again changed its sound from that of its previous album. A heavy tone is kept for most of the album, led by the screamed vocals of David Bunton. However, the band takes a much more melodic approach on "Take Me Home" and "Diggin' My Own Grave", using a slow tempo and singing.
David Bunton - vocals
Josh Childers - guitar, vocals
Jeremiah Scott - bass (Destroy Destroy Destroy)
Patrick Judge - guitar (Demon Hunter)
Isaac Harris - drums
Travis Bailey - guitar, vocals
Andrew Hall - drums
Daniel Swain - drums, vocals
AJ Barrette - drums (ex-Still Remains)
Eric Koruschak - bass
Timothy "Yogi" Watts- drums (Demon Hunter)
Title Release Date Label Billboard 200 US Sales
A Chorus of Obliteration November 16, 2004
November 14, 2006 (Re-release) Mono Vs Stereo - 40,000+
Temptation Come My Way February 20, 2007 Mono Vs Stereo #191 60,000+
Feel Like Hell EP September 18, 2007 Mono Vs Stereo - -
Back Breaker August 19, 2008[5] Solid State Records 25,000+
Blood In The Gears August 24, 2010 Solid State Records
The Showdown has also recorded a cover of "So Help Me God," by Christian rock/pop group dc Talk, which appears on the compilation album Freaked! A Gotee Tribute to dc Talk's "Jesus Freak."
In the 2006, European version of A Chorus of Obliteration, "Give Us This Day" was included as a bonus track and is also featured in the 2008 American release of Back Breaker.
In 2010, David Bunton contributed to the latest Living Sacrifice album "The Infinite Order" with adding in vocals for "They Were One" and "Rules of Engagement."
References and footnotes
^ THE SHOWDOWN | MusicMight,
^ Jesusfreakhideout.com: The Showdown Discography, The Showdown Artist Database
^ Cummings, Tony. "The Showdown - A Chorus of Obliteration". Cross Rhythms. http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/The_Showdown/A_Chorus_Of_Obliteration/12419/. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
^ ultimate-guitar.com: Showdown Axeman: 'I Don't Care If My Mailman Believes In God Or Not'
^ Christian Music Central: Christian Forum, Christian Music News, Christian Rock, Worship Music, Christian Artists, Christian Community
Schwab, Andrew (January/February 2007). "Wide-Eyed Southern Boys". HM Magazine (123): 44–47. ISSN 1066-6923.
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 Moroccan Throne Cup: 2018
 CAF Confederation Cup: 2020

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There are two burning questions, ladies and gentlemen, before the House this fine day — 1.) What pixel density will the iPad mini 2 Retina display have and 2.) Does the world need yet another Apple rumor source in China? Apparently, answer to the latter query is a resounding, YES. But the dish doesn't end there.
My Drivers is a mainland Chinese website (i.e. simplified characters) and the world is beating a path to that digital doorstep because it has iPad mini Retina juice, a brimming glassful.
Indeed there will be a Retina iPad mini, which Apple will almost certainly call "iPad mini with Retina display." Resolution is said to be pegged at 2048 x 1536 pixels with an eye-pleasing 324ppi pixel density. Further, it's believed that long-time Apple supplier AU Optronics will supply the panels.
Folks playing along at home who burst out — A5X and quad-core graphics? iPad 3 components! — are indeed correct and, given that the current iPad mini has iPad 2 guts inside, it all just makes sense. Apple is very much a creature habit and re-using already tested and true components fattens Cupertino's habitually bubble-like bottom line.


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Program Title Tomorrow Today
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Sundays 10:30AM - 11:00AM
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Home Editor's Pick Get to Know Your Unicameral: Sen. Carol Blood
Get to Know Your Unicameral: Sen. Carol Blood
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Carol Blood decided to run for the Bellevue City Council in 2008 because—as she put it—"why notme?"
She was watching the city council meetings and was frustrated that no strategic plan was in place.
"I was very surprised that the third largest city in Nebraska had no strategic plan," Blood said. "If you don't have a strategic plan when you're a municipality, you're basically just writing checks. You really can't budget effectively without a strategic plan.
Blood ran and won the election and won again in 2012. Then, she looked ahead.
"I realized that a lot of the issues that we had at the municipal level was because of how state statute is written," Blood said.
After a narrow defeat in the 2014 election, Blood took another shot at the Legislature in 2016 and defeated the incumbent.
"I feel really proud of my first two years," Blood said. "Everything I promised I would accomplish, I've already accomplished. And I'm pushing forward and working quite hard for my community—especially for our veterans and our military families that play a very important role in my district."
Blood represents District 3, located in Sarpy County and covering parts of Bellevue and Papillion. Because of the close proximity of Offutt Air Force Base, her constituency includes many active and retired service members and their families.
"No matter where you're located in Nebraska, you have to understand the fact that we need Offutt Air Force Base," Blood said. "I make that a priority, because for myself and Senator Crawford, who's in District 45, Offutt Air Force Base is literally our backyard."
Right from the start, Blood knew that more must be done to support, in particular, military families. Among the measures she has supported are those that would help people in military families find work, education, and affordable, reliable health care.
"Keeping these people here in Nebraska, we're keeping a highly educated workforce, we are keeping tax dollars, and we are keeping jobs," Blood said.
Blood has her eye on other policy areas this session as well, including women's health. A measure she introduced in January would exempt the sales tax for supplies related to breastfeeding and would also exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws.
"We really need to embrace our moms here in Nebraska," Blood said. "When we push initiatives like breastfeeding, we should be doing everything in our power to make women feel safe and wanted in our communities if they choose to breastfeed in public."
Now halfway through her first term, Blood thinks the two most important things she's learned in this role are to stay above politics and focus on policy, and to listen to every voice–not just the ones that are loudest.
Bottom line, Blood says her bills revolve around solving problems.
"I don't have a lot of sexy legislation, because it's not really important to me to get the headlines all the time," Blood said. "It's important for me that my constituents come up to me and say, 'Hey, I really appreciate this bill; this made a difference in my life.' That's why I'm a public servant."
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(Phys.org)—Gravity: It's the law in these parts. But to reach the stars, humans may have to learn to live outside the law.
Surprises are not welcome in space, especially surprises that interrupt the supply of vital oxygen, water and food.
For travel beyond a narrow envelope around the Earth, the connection to those supplies is—for all intents and purposes—severed. It just takes too many resources to deliver supplementary meals and air as astronauts stray farther and farther from home.
In March, Gilroy hopes to contribute a small piece of the knowledge that may support such a life-sustaining system by sending a canister full of plants to the International Space Station. Both engineered mutant and unadulterated versions of Arabidopsis—known commonly as mouse-eared cress, and to researchers as «the lab rat of plant biology,» says Gilroy—will make the trip to study the effect of low-oxygen conditions on the plants' genes.
Without the pull of gravity, plant roots are going to have the same problem that makes a lava lamp a lot less fun in space.
Buoyancy depends on relative differences in volume and weight, and is driven by gravity. Without buoyancy, there's no convection, and on Earth convection helps mix gases in the atmosphere.
Plant roots use oxygen, too. They burn it along with glucose to make energy to drive a growing plant. But the little bit of convection-driven gas mixing plants count on in Earth's soil doesn't happen in space, and the available oxygen gets used up.
For a plant, this low oxygen level is akin to what happens when a neighboring river spills its banks. Corn in a flooded field can survive a few days, but eventually the water will replace air pockets in the soil.
Gilroy's lab studies the way plants deal with stress, including the signals plant cells pass to one another in times of trouble—like during a flood.
«If I flood a plant, within seconds, cells in that plant will be sending signals to other cells all over, saying, 'We need to get our act together to deal with this,'» Gilroy says.
Gilroy's lab will send Arabidopsis seeds to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule scheduled to launch in March. The seeds will germinate in space in a small container called Biological Research in a Canister (BRIC). After eight days of growth in a gravity-free environment, astronauts will stop the plants' development with a dose of a chemical fixative and tuck the whole BRIC in a deep freeze.
The entire frozen BRIC will return on the same Dragon craft it rode up, and be turned over whole to Gilroy—who will then treat it like his firstborn child.
Arabidopsis grown in a NASA lab that simulates space station conditions (aside from lack of gravity) will be compared to the space plants for physical and genetic differences.
That will contribute to the understanding of long-term plant growth in space, and put future space travelers a hair closer to the company of plant life.
«This is that bit of the science where we're beginning to tease apart the system, beginning to understand the components that we can put together to great use,» Gilroy says.


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Description: The movie has just started. A ship is sinking off the coast of Florida. The ship's Captain is calling out over the radio – Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! The Coast Guard arrives in time, the crew is saved and the movie has a happy ending. Did you know that this international distress signal comes from the French word meaning "come help me?" Aides often find themselves afloat on the high seas of home care and need to call for help. This teleconference will assist the aides in sorting through how to respond and when - as they deal with various patient scenarios.


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Ep 281- Pandemic: The Standoff
Raheem Kassam, Jack Maxey, and Greg Manz are joined by Steve Bannon to discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic as the Trump administration announces a bevy of sanctions on Hong Kong and Chinese tech companies.
1. President Trump speaks at the White House Rose Garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDaEM46_twk
2. Morning Joe Panel Discusses President Trump's July 14, 2020 Rose Garden Speech:
Pompeo imposes visa restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech companies, citing human rights abuses: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/pompeo-imposes-visa-restrictions-on-huawei-other-chinese-tech-companies.html
3. The President's Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidents-executive-order-hong-kong-normalization/
4. Steve Bannon says President Trump should sanction Xi Jinping for coronavirus pandemic, treatment of Hong Kong: https://news.yahoo.com/steve-bannon-says-president-trump-003323378.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE5n_kB-Xpw2_x8lo4HVv2Rz9bNJuaVUucJqu1r47YQgZTemECWOCq3DdD2DmV_k_NWz2rNfsnRQAl-j6VhiW0lC5gyNv8g2ogVVIC8sJzuHZ5E3gCQtsNjfYl2cH_XedPJvokqDe20kK3V2gr6uG85_8VaMj940zuTSw45Ay-HW
5. Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on: Peter Navarro: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/07/14/anthony-fauci-wrong-with-me-peter-navarro-editorials-debates/5439374002/
6. Navarro Nukes Fauci: He's 'Wrong About Everything': https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/navarro-nukes-fauci/
7. FLASHBACK MARCH 2020: Fauci Says "There's No Reason To Be Walking Around With A Mask": https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/12/flashback_march_2020_fauci_says_theres_no_reason_to_be_walking_around_with_a_mask.html
8. Jake Tapper calls out Gov. Cuomo's Covid-19 victory lap: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/14/jake-tapper-gov-andrew-cuomo-covid-19-poster-gupta-lead-sot-vpx.cnn
9. Biden – Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendation: https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf
10. Expert Fauci Wrong on Ebola: https://www.theledger.com/article/LK/20141102/Opinion/608097555/LL
11. Bari Weiss' Resignation Letter: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
12. Hair weaves from Chinese prison camps seized by U.S. Customs: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hair-weaves-chinese-prison-camps-uighur-muslims-seized-u-s-customs/
13. First data for Moderna Covid-19 vaccine show it spurs an immune response: https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/14/moderna-covid19-vaccine-first-data-show-spurs-immune-response/
14. Coronavirus: Former MI6 boss says theory COVID-19 came from Wuhan lab must not be dismissed as conspiracy: https://news.sky.com/story/former-head-of-mi6-says-theory-coronavirus-was-made-in-wuhan-lab-must-not-be-dismissed-as-conspiracy-12021693
15. China floods: 'wartime' measures brought in to tackle worst deluge in decades: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/13/china-floods-wartime-measures-brought-in-to-tackle-worst-deluge-in-decades
16. New York Times' 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
17. EXCLUSIVE: Trump Halts Fulbright Program, Which Saw Academics Use U.S. Resources To Undermine America And Boost China: https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/trump-halts-fulbright-program/


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Working for RDI is always an adventure. Working with amazing people in rural communities around the Pacific Northwest, a privilege. One of the fantastic things about our work in Rural Economic Vitality is that it takes so many forms. Every community is a unique and special place to live. I like to think of it as a tapestry that a community continues to weave together to honor its heritage and history, and support the institutions, businesses, and people of today, always with an eye on designing the colorful patterns for tomorrow.
A big part of the work in supporting community vitality is fostering opportunities to share their stories with the world. One of the interesting projects I spent a little bit of time on over the summer as part of my efforts in supporting rural tourism development and marketing, is working with the producers of a new PBS show called Samantha Brown's Places to Love. In July, I spent most of a day wandering around with Kevin O'Leary, Samantha's husband and production location scout, talking about the places and people that are special features in the tapestry of Wheeler County, Oregon.
The production team will shoot its Oregon adventure in early fall. Starting in Portland, Samantha and her husband and four-year-old twins, will visit with a heritage apple grower in the shadow of Mt. Hood, and travel east to spend a couple nights in the John Day River Territory. They will dig for fossils in Fossil, and spend the night at the Wilson Ranches Retreat B&B, a working ranch that hosts guests from all over the world to sleep in their Sears Roebuck farmhouse and ride with the ranch cowboys to help work the cattle.
Knowing they are looking for great little treasures, I connected them with local author/educator Mary Fitzgerald, whose family history includes four generations of schoolteachers in the tiny community of Twickenham on the John Day River. Mary has written four books about her family history and adventures in Twickenham and as pioneers on the Oregon Trail. She and her family have lovingly restored the one-room Twickenham Schoolhouse and invite travelers to come in and see how life was for school kids during earlier days. A visit to the colorful Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Bed National Monument will cap the day of shooting in Wheeler County, and they finish their Oregon journey in the Bend area.
We will keep you posted on when the show will air in 2018. It will be interesting to see how being featured on the show effects tourism visitation in these rural Oregon communities in the coming years!


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Some years ago I bought a 37 that came with two non-rib barrels, one 28" Mod. and one 30" Full.
I have no need for both and thought about chopping the 30" back to 25" and having a cylinder bore quail gun with maybe a 30 yard pheasant thrown in. No one wants to buy a non-rib barrel and I wouldn't give a dime for a vent rib on a hunting gun, but to each his own.
I would appreciate your thoughts on the 25" cylinder bore hunting gun.
good to see some activity here finally. However, there hasn't been any in over 3 years here. So may not get an answer.
Thank you Rip. I haven't been here for a while, what happened?
someone even went thru the effort of putting a simmons rib and mid bead on it.
it works really well on my ultra featherlite.
it is a close in gun ,I tend to use it for quail and early grouse when the cover is thick.
but in normal conditions a Cyl will work on preserve pheasants.
i'd have no hesitation cutting down any removable plain barrel to suite a purpose.
my insides get squishy when it comes to matched barrels on older guns esp ribbed ones.
As for what happened there was a rather grumpy moderator for a while that kinda drove folks off. Most of the regulars migrated to another site. I would like to see this site take off again as it comes up well when a new person googles an Ithaca forum. I still check in here regularly to see if I can answer someones questions but have not posted any new material simply because there is not enough traffic to really have a conversation about much.
Also glad to see a little traffic on the site, the tumbleweed seems to drift across sometimes!


Who knew the desert was so colorful. This barren wasteland, sprinkled with bursts of color and nothing else around to distract from it. Between the red rocks, pink canyons, painted car art, Vegas Strip, Christmas lights, rainbow sliders, rainbow lattes and good ol' painted sunrise skies… it looks like Lisa Frank threw up on my Facebook wall. I couldn't be more pleased.


Obviously our very own MIMO hasn't packed his bags and headed to Cupertino to take on a new role at Apple HQ. MIMO is also a new feature on the iPad Air and iPad Mini, in an effort to improve wireless connections.
MIMO actually stands for Multiple Input, Multiple Output, or as Apple put it: More In, More Out.
MIMO allows for multiple antennas in a device's Wi-Fi architecture, to create multiple data streams, which ends up increasing throughput.
MIMO streams are represented in Wi-Fi routers and wireless adapters as: 2×2 (2 streams for transmit of signal and 2 for receive), 3×2 or 3×3.
These figures all represent different antenna configurations.


The agency's new internal production studio will give it greater control of the creative process.
Pictured, left to right: Anne Saint-Laurent, Lisanne Auger-Bellemare and Justine Tremblay, production managers at the new BBR Studio.
Bleublancrouge has announced the launch of a new, in-house production studio dubbed BBR Studio, as well as the leadership team that will guide its work.
BBR Studio is being led by Ève Mathieu, VP of production at Bleublancrouge, who has been overseeing the production staff since joining the agency in 2007. Having in-house production that can create online and offline content across disciplines and platforms is meant to help Bleublancrouge exert greater control over the execution of its client projects.
BBR Studio has brought three producers from Bleublancrouge on to the new studio's leadership team as production managers: multi-platform producers Anne Saint-Laurent and Justine Tremblay, as well as print producer Lisanne Auger-Bellemare. Saint-Laurent joined the agency in 2009, while Auger-Bellemare joined in 2013 followed by Tremblay in 2014.
In October, Bleublancrouge and holding company Groupe Police announced a number of changes, including a new office in Toronto and new president in its home base of Montreal.