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The sacks
Adnan demonstrating the many uses of polypropylene sacks.
Yes, I have railed against concrete. But lest anyone think I'm an environmental purist, let's talk about the not so green aspect of earthbag building. What about those polypropylene bags? You may ask. Aren't they just as bad as using concrete?
Honestly, if I had had eons of time to learn cob, plenty of money and didn't live slap bang on a major earthquake fault which experiences hefty bouts of sudden flooding, I'd love a cob home. They are as natural as it gets, I would never deny it.
But the bottom line is, when it comes to earthquakes and flash flooding, earthbag is king. It's invincible. Even Ianto Evans, whose fantastic cob book I recommend, doesn't advise building a cob home on a flood plain. It can collapse on you.
Take a look at what happened in Nepal, where earthbag has proved itself far more sustainable and durable than local mud brick homes.
Whatever type of home you build, you will have an effect upon your environment. You will have to make decisions and weigh up environmental impact, strength of structure, climatic considerations and personal health issues (for example, I'm allergic to straw and cannot work with it for long periods of time). If you don't have suitable earth to create cob, you're going to have to ship it in. The same goes for strawbale. Where did the bales come from? Did you coat them in chemicals to stop them rotting? And how were they brought to your land. By truck? Using fossil fuels? Yeeees . . .
The more you study it, the less simplistic you become.
Earthbag building usually utilises polypropylene sacks. Not great, you might say. But for me, if you're going to use polypropylene for anything, use it in a house that will stand a lifetime, shelter you in a quake and keep you safe in a severe flood. It's not like drinking from a plastic water bottle and lobbing it in the bin after 5 minutes use.
What is polypropylene exactly?
Polypropylene is a type of thermoplastic polymer resin. It's lightweight, flexible and doesn't contain BPA, the carcinogenic nasty that leaches into food. It also doesn't mold when wet (important if you live in a damp climate). But ultimately it's still plastic. I have as much aversion to plastic as I do concrete. The only difference between the two is this; concrete is completely unnecessary. It brings nothing to your construction other than damp and ugliness. Plastic will be too if the world ever wakes up and alternatives like hemp are more readily available.
Alternatives to polypropylene bags
Burlap bags are a great alternative to PP, though beware, they are also not as natural as they first appear. Most are treated with hydrocarbons. Some people are allergic to hydrocarbons and suffer respiratory ailments, headaches and other physical reactions. Depending on your location, you can, if you search hard enough, find hydrocarbon-free bags, though they are going to be more inclined to mold.
Ultimately, my personal reason for loving earthbag building so much is its capacity to liberate. Anyone can build a safe, strong earthbag house that will last them a lifetime, with or without taking a course. That's empowering, and I'm all for empowering people to live happy, drudge-free lives with nature as their best buddy. Why? Because the more people who do, the less consuming-addicted rats there are to keep the world's forest-crushing hamster wheel turning. I experienced this transformation first hand, as my post on "The Luxury of Being Skint" should illustrate. For me, building a house was far more than just constructing an eco-home. It was about building a life of freedom.
Questions about those sacks.
1. Do they breathe?
Yes. They are woven so they do breathe, and your house will breathe with them. They are not waterproof either, if they were the wet mud you ram inside would never dry.
2. Do the sacks have to be polypropylene?
If you don't live in an earthquake zone or on a flood plain, then burlap is a great alternative. Burlap bags also resist sunlight better than polypropylene. In some places, I heard they burn the sacks off after the structure has dried. But if you need your house to stand a quake, the sacks and the barbed wire combined provide the extra tensile strength for your house.
3. Where can I get sacks cut to size?
In Turkey, I used a company called Jut Cuval in Istanbul. Go online, find a company in your country that manufactures grain sacks, and ask if they can manufacture 1-2000 sacks to order. Because you are ordering in bulk, the company should be a little more helpful.
4. How many sacks do I need?
That depends on the size of your house. My roundhouse is of 6 metre diameter and about 2.5 metres high. We used about 900 sacks.


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Jack Cabot
Hair Style Dapper (hair)
Commonwealthy (beard) Hair Color Graying
Affiliation Cabot family
Role Scientist
Location Cabot House
Family Lorenzo Cabot (father)
Wilhelmina Cabot (mother)
Emogene Cabot (sister)
Dialogue File Jack Cabot's dialogue
Quests Special Delivery
Emogene Takes a Lover
The Secret of Cabot House
confidence Foolhardy
Tag Skills Citizen
Editor ID JackCabot
Base ID 00047eb7 Ref ID 00047ec2
Editor Factions CabotHouseJackCabotBedroomFaction
CabotHouseLabFaction
CrimeCabotHouse
Actor Jonathan Roumie
Special Head Gear BigBeard02
BigBeard02_Hairline
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Let me see... Lucifer's balls.
"— Jack Cabot, Fallout 4
Jack Cabot is a scientist and member of the Cabot family in 2287.
The current head of the Cabot family, Jack is a world-famous physician and scientist. Or would be, if any kind of global news service existed. Born to incredible wealth and privilege, Jack spent his formative years studying the sciences and rising to prominence in scientific circles. Laboring in the shadow of his father, Lorenzo Cabot, and his obsession with lost civilization, Jack was one of many who dismissed him as a quack and pseudo-scientist.[1] He admitted his mistakes when his father returned from the Empty Quarter, bringing strange objects and proof of an ancient city beneath the sands. However, the newly found respect for his father was marred by the man's lack of foresight.[2] Lorenzo irresponsibly experimented with a seemingly dormant ancient artifact - an apparent crown - after returning. Placing it on his head, he inadvertently caused it to fuse with his nervous system. He gained various seemingly paranormal powers... as well as becoming increasingly irrational and violent, culminating in paranoia and homicidal rage. After a crime streak that surely would have put him on death row, he was finally apprehended.[3]
To protect themselves and the public from him and him from himself, the Cabot clan elected to confine him at Parsons State Insane Asylum indefinitely, using their influence to shield him from a death sentence.[4] In the course of Jack's attempts to cure him, he discovered that the artifact had introduced anomalies into his blood. The source of his insanity became the basis of a longevity serum that have prolonged all our lives.[5] The same substance was also responsible for making Lorenzo such a threat. Anyone could handle an elderly man in an asylum, but an elderly man with enhanced strength, resistance to most kinds of physical damage, and local telekinesis projected by the artifact itself? That was too much. Kept under a dampening field, Lorenzo was in isolation for centuries as his son tried to find a cure for his father's madness in vain.[6][7]
Convinced that his psychosis could be treated by removing the artifact Jack attempted countless treatments to remove it - only to discover that it fused too tightly with his nervous system.[8] Nevertheless he keeps trying, enjoying the long life afforded him at the patriarch's expense.[9]
This character is essential. Essential characters cannot be killed.
This character is a temporary party member.
Special Delivery: .
Emogene Takes a Lover: .
The Secret of Cabot House: Jack leads the way into the lower levels of Parsons State Insane Asylum to confront and if need be, kill his father, Lorenzo Cabot, to spare the wasteland from his rampage.
Cabot's lab coat
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Jack Cabot appears only in Fallout 4.
↑ Jack Cabot: "Yes. He spent years looking, and was widely ridiculed by the so-called experts. I'm ashamed to say even I doubted him. But in the end he found it: a lost city, buried in the sands of the Rub'al Khali, the Empty Quarter of Arabia."
↑ Jack Cabot: "You wouldn't have. My father only made one expedition to the lost city, and his findings were never published. The clues were all there, scattered amongst the earliest civilizations... but he was the only one to understand what they meant. He followed them into the Empty Quarter of Arabia, to the nameless city buried in the sand like the mythical Atlantis beneath the waves..."
↑ Jack Cabot: ""His crimes, back when he was free... It was only because of my family's influence that he ended up here rather than on Death Row. The world now... it's a world made for monsters. Nothing could have stopped him."
↑ Jack Cabot: "My father, Lorenzo Cabot, is... confined in Parsons. He became dangerously unstable after handling an artifact he found on an archaeological dig in Arabia. He gained various seemingly paranormal powers... as well as becoming increasingly irrational and violent. In the end, I had no choice but to confine him - for his own safety as well as ours."
↑ Jack Cabot: "In the course of my attempts to cure him, I discovered that the artifact had introduced... anomalies into his blood. So, the source of his insanity is also the basis of the treatments that have prolonged all our lives. The irony isn't lost on me. But if he were to escape from Parsons, I would lose my father forever. I will not allow that to happen. Not to mention that the artifact has made him paranoid, homicidally violent, and endowed with extraordinary abilities."
↑ Jack Cabot: "The main benefit of the serum is to halt aging. My family and I are all over 400 years old. But it also confers other... side effects, especially in the undiluted form that the raiders stole"
↑ Jack Cabot: "Enhanced strength. Unusual resistance to most kinds of physical damage. Oh, and a kind of local telekinesis, which appears to be projected by the artifact itself. That's why I've built a dampening field into his cell. Which is why we really need to stop these intruders before they turn it off."
↑ Jack Cabot: "It's the artifact that's made Lorenzo so dangerous. I'm sure his psychosis would be cured if it could be removed. But so far, all my attempts have failed. It's fused too tightly with his nervous system."
↑ Jack Cabot: "I'm well aware of the apparent conflict of interest in my father being the source of the treatment that is prolonging my own life. But I assure you that if I had the chance, I would gladly give it all up to have my father back, even for a short time."
Cabot family
Locations Cabot House · Parsons State Insane Asylum
Characters Cabots Emogene Cabot · Jack Cabot · Lorenzo Cabot · Wilhelmina Cabot
Associates Edward Deegan
Quests Side Emogene Takes a Lover · Special Delivery · The Secret of Cabot House
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Alan King holds strong hand in Greatwood Hurdle
14/11/2020 /0 Comments/in Horse Racing News /by Geegeez News
Alan King saddles last year's winner Harambe and the ante-post favourite Edwardstone in Sunday's Unibet Greatwood Hurdle at Cheltenham.
King enjoyed a fruitful summer on the Flat with three Royal Ascot winners, a success on Champions Day with Trueshan and the November Handicap through On To Victory.
One the same day as the latter he also won the Elite Hurdle at Wincanton with Sceau Royal, so there is no doubting his horses remain in excellent form.
"You need the right ammunition for this race, bur Harambe won it last year and, together with Edwardstone, we go back with two solid chances," said King.
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"Harambe had a run before he went there last year and though that has not been possible this time around, he has been moving very well and pleasing me at home."
Harambe has not been seen since the Betfair Hurdle in February when he was brought down at the final flight when still in contention.
King told his website: "Harambe was brought down at the last at Newbury and was on the floor for a while. It has taken him a long time to recover, but he did his pre-training at AP's (McCoy) and it is good to have him back in action here."
Edwardstone was beaten a neck in a Grade Two on heavy ground at Haydock before a respectable sixth in the Supreme in March last season and looks the right type for the race, although ground conditions could become a concern.
Edwardstone was a smart novice last season (David Davies/PA)
"He is an exciting prospect with untapped potential and though he can be a bit free in his races, he is beautifully relaxed at the moment, which is very encouraging," said King.
"He was a high-class novice last season and ran well in the Supreme at the Festival when our horses were not really firing. I hope the forecast rain does not materialise as he is more effective on better ground.
"Both horses schooled on Monday and we've done as much as we can with them at home but while both would make lovely chasers, this is a great race in which to start back and I am very happy with them."
In contrast, top-weight Ballyandy would benefit from the forecast rain, according to his trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies.
Ballyandy won the Champion Bumper in 2016 (Mike Egerton/PA)
"I thought he ran a cracker under top-weight at Ffos Las to split Sceau Royal and Buzz last time out and I'd love to run him in this, but he does want it a bit softer," Twiston-Davies told William Hill.
Jamie Snowden registered one of the biggest winners of his career last weekend with Ga Law and chases another with Pisagh Pike.
"He's a highly-progressive sort since we gave him a wind op in the summer and he's won his two novice hurdles well," said Snowden.
"He just got touched off in a Listed race at Market Rasen which arguably he perhaps should have gone on and won.
"He's got a nice handicap mark so hopefully we can try to exploit in a big race like this."
Thinking is massively unexposed for David Pipe, having his first run since being bought from France over 800 days ago.
"We've had him since he was a three-year-old," said Pipe.
"His owner (Nick Shutts) has been very patient. He picked up a tendon injury. He was actually due to run last year when the lockdown happened.
"He's got an engine. He's rated 132 so he's at the right end of the handicap but he wants soft ground.
"We like him and hopefully he can repay the owner's patience."
Dan Skelton's Proschema is another lightly-raced type and jockey Harry Skelton is another who will be watching the skies.
"I'm looking forward to him and the drier the ground the better. It's a bit of a wet forecast which could be a bit of a problem, but I'm sure we'll take our chance," he said on Racing TV.
"The better the ground the stronger his chance. He ran a nice race the last day at Wetherby and he's come forward from that."
Paul Nicholls' Thyme White, who was impressive at Chepstow, and Tom Lacey's Sebastopol are other fancied runners.
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Greatwood Hurdle Trends
10/11/2020 /0 Comments/in Trends /by Andy Newton
The Greatwood Hurdle, this year, will at the Cheltenham November Meeting and continues to be sponsored by leading bookmaker Unibet.
Run over 2m ½ f on the Old Course the contest gives National Hunt racing fans some early season pointers ahead of the Champion Hurdle, run at Cheltenham at the Festival in March – Rooster Booster (2002) was the last horse to win this race and go onto land that same season's Champion Hurdle.
Since 1988 the race has been won four times by the Pipe stable, three times by Philip Hobbs and three times, including in 2015, by ex-champion trainer Paul Nicholls.
Here at GeeGeez we take a look back at recent winners and gives you the key trends to look out for ahead of the 2020 renewal.....this year run on Sunday 15th November.
Recent Greatwood Hurdle Winners
2019 – HARAMBE (16/1)
2018 - NIETZSCHE (20/1)
2017 - ELGIN (10/1)
2016 – NORTH HILL HARVEY (6/1)
2015 – OLD GUARD (12/1)
2014 – GARDE LA VICTOIRE (10/1)
2013 – DELL 'ARCA (12/1)
2012 – OLOFI (8/1)
2011 – BRAMPOUR (12/1)
2010 – MENORAH (6/1)
2009 – KHYBER KIM (9/1)
2008 – NUMIDE (5/1)
2007 – SIZING EUROPE (5/1)
2006 – DETROIT CITY (6/5 fav)
2005 – LINGO (5/1)
2004 – ACCORDION ETOILE (100/30 fav)
2003 – RIGMAROLE (33/1)
2002 – ROOSTER BOOSTER (7/1)
Greatwood Hurdle Betting Trends and Stats
16/18 – Had won a 2m1f (or further) hurdles race before
16/18 – Had won no more than 4 times before over hurdles
14/18 – Aged 4 or 5 years-old
13/18 – Had a recent run (within the last 6 weeks)
12/18 – Officially rated 140 or higher
12/18 – Finished in the top two last time out
12/18 – Had run at Cheltenham before
11/18 – Returned 10/1 or shorter in the betting
10/18 – Had run 6 or less times over hurdles
10/18 – Winning distance – 2 lengths or further
8/18 – Carried 11-4 or more
8/18 – Placed favourites
7/18 – Came from the first three in the betting
7/18 – Won their previous race
6/18 – Won by an Irish-bred horse
4/18 – Winners that carried 11-12
4/18 – Trained by Philip Hobbs
3/18 – Ridden by Richard Johnson
3/18 – Trained by Paul Nicholls
2/18 – Winning favourites
2/18 – Trained by Alan King (2 of the last 3)
1/18 – Won by an Irish-trained horse
The average winning SP in the last 18 years is 10/1
6 of the last 11 winners contested the previous season's Supreme Novices' or Triumph Hurdle
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Behind the scenes with a real iron chef - Part 1
Thursday & Friday: Going Butt to Butt
It is late Wednesday morning and Candy Sue Weaver is on the road again, barreling through Arkansas. Her iPod is pumping Henry Gross, Eagles Live, and Delbert McClinton through her radio. She's pumped too, and she can taste victory up the road. Literally. Weaver is a sportswoman, and she is on a 700 mile drive in her pickup, trailer in tow, towards a baseball diamond wedged between a cornfield and a soybean field in northwest Illinois. But Weaver is not a baseball player. She is a competition barbecue cook.
Competitive barbecue may be the fastest growing sport in the nation with more than 500 cookoffs across the country. Many of the cooks at each event are locals, but a growing number are, like Weaver, part of a band of roving gypsies who drive for days and get fired up to go for gold and glory. Some hit the highway every weekend from May through October.
In July that baseball field in tiny Shannon, IL, population 900, becomes the "Barbecue Field of Dreams" because Shannon is the home of the Illinois State BBQ Championship (ISBC) and the destination for a fleet of RVs and trailers loaded with meat and steel and some of the best barbecue cooks in the world. These are the real Iron Chefs towing torpedo shaped smokers the size of sportscars on their way to a throwdown Bobby Flay wants no part of.
The event, founded in 1990, is sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS), supervisor of more than 200 events from Canada to Mexico. This year the ISBC drew 55 teams to compete in the standard four KCBS categories: Barbecue chicken, ribs, pork butt, and beef brisket. In addition Shannon has an invitation-only pork shootout called Butt to Butt that is held a day before the main event.
Competitors pay the $200 entry fee and drive in from Texas, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, and all over Illinois. Some are caterers or restaurateurs looking for publicity and trophies that will give their businesses a boost, and more than a few are hobbyists and barbecue addicts seeking bragging rights. A handful travel the circuit practically full time, staying in campgrounds and motels and occasionally vending their award winning wares at state fairs and corporate picnics.
Prize money can be significant. The biggest check goes to the Grand Champion, the team with the highest score in all four standard categories. It is $2,000 at the ISBC and it can swell to $10,000 at some other events depending on the number of teams and sponsors. ISBC pays $1,500 to the second place finisher, the Reserve Grand Champion, $500 to each category winner, with smaller checks to second through fifth place finishers.
It can add up. In 2006, a Marietta, OK, trucking company maintenance manager and his wife, Mike and Debbie Davis, known as the Lotta Bull BBQ team, set a record for winnings when they took an unprecedented 11 Grand Championships, including the biggest of them all, the The American Royal Open in Kansas City, MO, topping more than 200 teams. They probably grossed about $200,000 that year. Then there are the profits from their barbecue sauces, spice blends, DVDs, cooking seminars, and endorsements. Even after deducting about $50,000 expenses, that's more than a lot of restaurant owners make in a year.
But money is not all that brings them to this baseball field near the Wisconsin border. Among the draws is the fact that the winner qualifies to compete in The Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue, in Lynchburg, TN. The Jack is considered to be the Superbowl of barbecue because it is open only to teams that win state championships and other selected tough competitions, because it is held at the end of the barbecue season in late October, and because the distillery throws one heckuva party for the teams. But Weaver especially likes the fact that Shannon is "all about cooking." Unlike other events that have become big festivals, there are no rock bands, rides, vendors, arts and crafts shows, or any distractions. "The management is wonderful, and it is so well organized. It's beautiful here, peaceful and quiet."
Click here for more about barbecue competitions, who runs them, the colorful people involved, and links to some of the best.
Candy Sue Weaver, a BBQr's Delight
I went to Shannon to bird-dog Weaver, head of the BBQr's Delight team, and to work as a gofer. I met her several years ago at a competition and she has been surprisingly open with me when I asked her for tips. I have judged several competitions including the Jack, but I have never gotten this close to the fire and the knives.
A wrinkle-free 56 years old, Weaver has pale blue eyes that glow when she smiles, a gentle Southern drawl, and the ability to make everyone her friend. She has been on the circuit since 2004 and enters about 15 events per year. Based out of Pine Bluff, AR, about an hour south of Little Rock, she has had some success, winning Butt to Butt a few years ago and her first Grand Championship in a major event in 2009 in Lula, MS, at the Isle of Capri Casino, beating 43 other teams. It was an especially poignant moment since her 82 year old father, who rarely comes to competitions, was there to see her victory. She dreams of being selected to compete in The Jack now that she has qualified but space is limited, and not all qualifiers make the random selection in a drawing of names of the top winners.
"I love competing and I especially love the people I've gotten to know on the circuit. Many have become best friends." Many of the men on the circuit are former high school jocks channeling their testosterone into something better suited to their age. Weaver is a rare female team captain. "I don't know where I got the gumption," says Weaver. "I played piccolo in the band in high school."
A barbecue tasteoff is slightly more rigorous than piccolo. Weaver usually hits the road on Thursday and doesn't get to shower or sleep in her own bed again until Sunday or Monday. Because this event has the extra Butt to Butt cookoff, and, as a former winner, she was among the few invited to compete, this roadtrip is a day longer than usual. She had to knock off work on Tuesday and hit the Interstates on Wednesday. During the competition, even the cooks with automated thermostat-controlled auger-fed cooking systems rarely sleep more than an hour or two uninterrupted as they check their meat, adjust the temps of their smokers, and pace from nerves. It is also dangerous work. There are hot coals, sharp knives, and lightning. Weaver has just finished the fourth surgery on a hand smashed between her truck's trailer ball and her trailer's hitch. She will never play piccolo again.
BBQr's Delight is really not much of a team. It is pretty much Weaver and, if she is lucky, a friend will ride with her or meet her at the site and work as gofer. This is pretty standard. Most "teams" are just the cook and his wife or a friend. Weaver's team is named after her business, a division of Fiber Resources, a good sized wood products company in Pine Bluff started by her father and brother. She joined them after a career in information technology and a divorce, when her mother died in 1999. Their main product is wood pellets that fuel home heating systems. There are tens of thousands of rural homes that are heated by burning wood pellets made by compressing sawdust into tubes about the thickness of a pencil and about two erasers long. They look like rabbit food. Because they are pure wood, with no additives or binders, they burn hot and clean, and because they are made from sawdust from lumber mills, they are cheap and, unlike logs, they are critter and mold free.
Since 1998 Weaver's division, BBQr's Delight, has made food grade pellets for barbecue from a wide range of woods, each with a different flavor including hickory, oak, maple, alder, apple, cherry, hazelnut, peach, and mesquite. A lot of home barbecuers use them on charcoal and gas grills instead of wood chips because they are guaranteed to be from the tree on the label and because you can measure how many you use and get precisely the amount of smoke flavor you want.
There are even a number of grills and smokers that use pellets for fuel instead of charcoal and gas. Pellets are an excellent source of energy and smoke, and because you can precisely control the amount of fuel you can easily control the temp. No hot coals, no flareups. Weaver sells more than $1 million BBQr's Delight pellets a year, and brings huge bags with her to competitions to deliver to her many customers who hate paying the shipping fee.
For this event she also brought two smokers, Fast Eddy's by Cookshack, called FEC 100s, state of the art pellet burners. During the cookoff these $3,600 machines sit outside her trailer under a canopy. If not for the fact that they are belching smoke you might think they were stainless steel refrigerators. The rest of the teams use charcoal. Only a few still burns logs because the flavor can be too strong and the heat is hard to control. Gas or electric cookers are not allowed in KCBS events because they are too easy and too far from traditional barbecue methods but nothing could be easier than pellet burners. In the past few years, more and more teams are pelletheads because they are pretty close to set-it-and-forget-it and they are winning.
Thursday: Preparing to go Butt to Butt
Judging of the ISBC is on Saturday, so most teams arrive on Friday and start preparation that evening. But in Shannon things start a day early with Butt to Butt. Teams arrive Thursday and start prep that night for judging on Friday. They go head to head by cooking Boston butts, a 5 to 8 pound clod of pork from the shoulder. It is made of several intersecting muscles, large hunks of fat, sinew, and a part of the shoulder blade. If roasted at normal oven temps, butts shrink and come out chewy, tough, and dry. But when slowly smoke roasted at low temperatures, usually 225 to 250°F for up to 12 hours, the classic Southern barbecue method, the result is tender, juicy, flavorful, sweet, and unctuous.
In all other categories prize money is divided between the top five winners, but in Butt to Butt it's winner take all, $1,000. After the officials inspect her meat to make sure it has not been seasoned or doctored in advance, after dark Thursday night, Weaver begins preparing her butts in the kitchen she has built in her trailer. She will cook four butts, each about eight pounds, and select the best meat from each to submit to the judges. She begins by injecting each butt with a cup of her secret marinade, massaging it in, and allowing it to rest in a cooler for at least one hour so the salty solution can migrate through the different muscles.
About 10 p.m. she takes her butts out of the chill chest, strips off their cryovac bags, and prepares them for the smoker. She trims off excess fat and butterflies the hunk of pig in an unusual fashion that leaves one muscle, the one she calls the "money muscle", standing upright. Click here to see how she butchers her butts and for more tips on preparing pulled pork at home from Boston butts.
Weaver then adds her rub, a variety of spices traditional to Southern barbecue, creating a coating on all sides. There's salt, garlic powder, black pepper, and an unlabeled bottle with a blend of other spices. I ask what's in it and she just smiles. Click here for a good spice rub recipe. Not hers, but it will do.
She is meticulous about sanitation, wearing gloves, using a disposable cutting board, wiping counters with Chlorox wipes, and keeping everything that is perishable well chilled. Click here for more on barbecue food, fire, and knife safety.
The meat goes into her smoker at 240°F about midnight, right in the middle of a bodacious thunderstorm complete with horizontal rain driven by 30 mile an hour winds. Two years ago lightning hit the chain link fence just a few feet from her trailer showering sparks in a spectacular and frightening fireworks display. During the storm several cooks run from site to site helping each other take down their canopies and tents and tie down anything loose. Then they get back to their meat.
Friday: Judgment Day
She sleeps in spurts in the trailer, awakened frequently by thunder and an annoyingly chirpy alarm clock that reminds her to check her cooker temp, check the meat temp, and spritz the meat with apple juice to cool the surface and add moisture and flavor. She also groggily checks her Blackberry regularly to see the progress of the storms. "Meat cooks faster in high humidity," she says.
When the pork gets to be the color she likes, a deep ruddy brown, Weaver wraps it in aluminum foil, tosses in a few ounces of flavorful liquid whose ingredients are also secret, and puts it back in the cooker. The technique is called the Texas Crutch. This creates a small amount of steam and helps tenderize the meat. But she walks a tightrope. Too much steam and the meat gets mushy, and that's a ticket to the bottom of the rankings.
By dawn the last of the storm waves has passed and the cooks inspect their rigs, repair damage, up their tents, and whup up the hearty breakfasts necessary to fuel these perpetually hungry and often oversized omnivores.
Clear skies can be seen over Iowa moving our way. One minute we are looking for the storm shelter, and the next minute we are looking for the SPF 40. Weaver checks her meat temps and she is pleased with their progress. With her iPod blaring Motown hits, Weaver and her friend Tana Shupe break into a nervous dance.
Shupe is the recently retired director of The Jack and a member of the KCBS Board of Directors. She drove 6 hours from Tullahoma, TN, with two of the judges, David Roper and Linda Gould, to meet Weaver in Memphis, and they all rode together the rest of the way to Shannon. Shupe is there to help Weaver if asked, but Weaver is on autopilot and needs little help. She has her routine down, responding to the alarm clock all day long.
With several hours to go before the judging, Weaver has time to catch up with her friends. On the competition circuit, many of the cooks see each other every week or two and deep bonds are formed. Among her chums is Scott Johnson of the CancerSucksChicago.com team and one of his two daughters, Zoe, age 11.
Johnson's wife, Corliss, died of cancer in 2003 and in 2005 Scott, Zoe, his younger daughter Lexi, and his sister Liz, hit the BBQ road raising awareness and money for cancer research. They have not just acquitted themselves well, they have moved into the upper echelon of the teams, culminating with the Grand Championship at The Jack in 2006. Zoe helps by preparing the final boxes for turn-in. Appearance is 1/3 of the score, so this is not a trivial matter. You can follow CancerSucksChicago.com on their blog.
Mid-morning, after cooking her butts about eight hours, Weaver removes them from the 240°F cooker and puts them in another cooker at about 140°F to hold. Turn-in time is 5 p.m. At 3:15 Weaver is ready to sauce them. She opens the foil packages and drains the whiskey colored liquid. She sets a bit aside to mix back into the sauce for touching up the final presentation meat. One could build a small aircraft with all the aluminum foil used at one of these events.
The mahogany colored meat has undergone profound changes. Now about 25% lighter than when it went into the cooker, the spices in the rub have roasted and fused with the surface, forming a crisp crust affectionately called bark. Just beneath the surface, smoke and combustion gases have penetrated and turned a 1/8" layer bright pink, the telltale smoke ring that the uninitiated often mistake for undercooked meat when it is really a badge of expertise.
Much of the fat has melted and rendered off, but much of it has circulated around the muscle fibers wetting and lubricating them. The sheath of collagen that surrounds each fiber and connects it to bones and other fibers also melts adding richness and moist tenderness.
Weaver offers me a taste. It is perfect. It is mellow, slippery between tongue and roof, almost buttery, and slightly salty and tangy from the rub and injections, with a hint of heat in the finish. But Weaver is not done.
About an hour before turn-in, she invites Shupe and me to taste three sauce blends she has made by doctoring her favorite commercial product, Smoky Mountain Smokers Barbecue Sauce. She dips shards of pork into each, and we close our eyes and taste. The sauce is tomato based, thick rich, complex, sweet with molasses, with a slight hot pepper bite in the end. But I cannot concentrate on the sauce, the meat is so entrancing. It is impossible for me to say one blend is better than another. Shupe voices a well-educated preference and Weaver agrees. She paints the meat liberally and thoroughly with their choice. The sauce-coated meat then goes back into the cooker for a short while to bake on the glaze. One coat is all it needs. Click here for more about classic American barbecue sauce types.
About 45 minutes before turn-in, Weaver removes the sauced meat. She then prepares her presentation. With a twist of her fingers, the bone slides out like it is coated in oil. The money muscle is sliced and the others are pulled into shreds about 3" long. They get a splash of sauce mixed with the juices that the meat gave up so graciously.
Each team must deliver their meat in a 9" x 9" styrofoam box. Weaver has a particularly artful presentation, among the best I have seen, but she will not let me show it here lest her competitors imitate it. Her box shows the glowing dark bark of the money muscle glazed with sauce, but the meat underneath is relatively unadorned. A bite brings crunch from the crust of spices, sweetness of the sauce, but in the end, the flavor is pork. On the other hand, the pulled pork is saucy, literally and figuratively. Many cooks turn in a box piled with pulled pork drenched in sauce. Weaver's box is like a Bento box.
In a normal competition there must be at least 6 samples, one for each judge, but there are 10 judges for Butt to Butt, so she must really pack it in the box. The rules allow lettuce, parsley, and a few other garnishes. Parsley is the rage nowadays, so ever the contrarian, Weaver opts for romaine today. The lid is closed and Weaver hands her baby to a competition official who will deliver it to the judging tent where it will be assigned a new number so nobody can know which sample is from which team.
The hot samples are whisked through the check-in and the boxes are opened and lined up on a table for the judges, many of whom are also competitive cooks. The 10 Butt to Butt judges are more experienced than the 60 ISBC judges due in on Saturday. They troop the line and ogle the entries.
Then they sit, pass the boxes around, take out samples, and set them on a placemat divided by grid lines. They taste in silence and rate the meat for appearance, taste, and tenderness, up to 9 points for each. A perfect score is 27. Three judges give Weaver's their highest scores, but two complain that there are pockets of seasoning in their large chunks and they give it low scores. Apparently Weaver's injection was not properly dispersed through the money muscle.
By 8 p.m. all the other teams have rolled in for the Saturday's scrum and set up camp. RVs, colorfully painted trailers, catering trucks, canopies, pup tents, LaFuma lounge chairs, card tables, kids, dogs, boom boxes, and Frisbees make the outfield of the baseball diamond come alive. The teams gather in the big tent to hear Mike Lake explain the rules for ISBC and to announce the results of Butt to Butt.
Weaver professes fatalism and says "If it can't be me, I want it to be one of my customers" but her demeanor all day has said clearly that she's in it to win it. I have not told her what I heard in the judging tent.
The competitors line up for the announcement. Lake announces fifth, fourth, third, and second, leaving first and sixth standing. Weaver is fourth.
The winner is Todd Johns of Pork Pullin Plowboys, an IT project manager from Blue Springs, MO. And he is indeed one of Weaver's customers.
An exhausted Weaver is philosophical. "I did the best I could with what I had." Blaming the pig? "Absolutely not." I ask if she ever thinks about quitting. "Yeah, but every time I get close to burning out I win something."
She professes to be happy for Johns and plans to buy an ad in the KCBS newspaper, the Bull Sheet, with Johns' photo, congratulating him and bragging that he uses BBQr's Delight. Competition is not just an avocation for Weaver, it is good for business. "You can't put a dollar value on his win" she says.
Weaver looks whipped after Friday's award ceremony, but she has no time to waste. She has to prepare for Saturday when she must cook pork butt again as well as chicken, ribs, and brisket. The new pork butts will go into the smoker around midnight as will the brisket.
If tradition holds, Johns will not do well in Saturday's judgings. The Butt to Butt winner rarely does. He fingers the check, calls his wife with the news, and muses "I'm thinking of going home now." Good thing he doesn't.
After dark old friends visit into the wee hours as they tend their fires and generators. Beer, whiskey, dinner, cigars, and lies are shared.
This article continues on the next page with Part 2 - Saturday: The Illinois State Barbecue Championship


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Trump Will Campaign for Georgia GOP Senate Candidates, Urges Supporters Not to Boycott Runoff Elections
By Hannah Miao, CNBC	• Published November 27, 2020 • Updated on November 27, 2020 at 4:37 pm
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President Donald Trump urged his supporters not to boycott two Georgia runoff elections that will determine which party controls the Senate.
Newsmax reported that Georgia Trump supporters are considering boycotting the runoff elections over voter fraud claims.
In response, the president wrote on Twitter: "We must get out and help David and Kelly, two GREAT people."
Trump will travel to Georgia on Dec. 5 to campaign for Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, according to White House spokesperson Judd Deere.
President Donald Trump, who has blamed his loss to President-elect Joe Biden on false claims that the U.S. voting system was "rigged," urged his supporters on Friday not to boycott two all-important Georgia runoff elections that will determine which party controls the Senate.
With Democrats poised to take the White House and hold on to their House majority, the Senate has become the last bastion for Republicans to keep a check on the power of the lower chamber and the executive branch.
But the GOP's hold on the Senate depends on winning at least one of Georgia's two runoffs. Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler face competitive challenges from Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively. Georgia election rules called for runoff races when no candidate exceeded 50% of voter share in either race during the Nov. 3 general election.
In response to Newsmax reporting that Georgia Trump supporters are considering boycotting the runoff elections over voter fraud claims, the president wrote on Twitter: "We must get out and help David and Kelly, two GREAT people," even as he again asserted, without evidence, that the election was a "total scam."
No, the 2020 Election was a total scam, we won by a lot (and will hopefully turn over the fraudulent result), but we must get out and help David and Kelly, two GREAT people. Otherwise we are playing right into the hands of some very sick people. I will be in Georgia on Saturday! https://t.co/1ziqFq9S6O
Trump will travel to Georgia on Dec. 5 to campaign for Perdue and Loeffler, according to White House spokesman Judd Deere.
The president's persistent attacks on election integrity could impact the outcome of the January runoffs, GOP strategist and pollster Frank Luntz told CNBC.
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff (R) and Raphael Warnock (L) of Georgia wave to supporters during a rally on November 15, 2020 in Marietta, Georgia.
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(R to L) U.S. Sen. David Purdue (R-GA) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) wave to the crowd of supporters at a "Defend the Majority" rally with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agriculture Center on November 19, 2020 in Perry, Georgia.
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Svjetska natjecanja
 25. lipnja  6. srpnja: XIX. Mediteranske igre u Oranu
 7.  17. srpnja: Svjetske igre u Birminghamu, u Alabami.
 15.  24. srpnja: XVIII. Svjetsko atletsko prvenstvo u Eugeneu.
 21. studenoga  18. prosinca: XXII. Svjetsko nogometno prvenstvo u Kataru
 19. rujna  12. listopada: Svjetsko prvenstvo u gađanju glinenih golubova u Osijeku.

Kontinentska natjecanja
 veljača – Senegal prvi put u povijesti osvojio Afrički kup nacija

Europska natjecanja
 13.  30. siječnja: XV. Europsko prvenstvo u rukometu (prvak Švedska)
 24.  30. srpnja: XVI. Europski olimpijski festival mladih u Banskoj Bystrici
 kolovoz: Europsko ateltsko prvenstvo u Münchenu.
 27. kolovoza  10. rujna: XXXV. Europsko prvenstvo u vaterpolu u Splitu (prvak Hrvatska)

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 David Popovici i Ariarne Titmus proglašeni najboljim plivačima u 2022. prema izboru lista Swimming World Magazine.

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Hrvatski športaši u 2022., prema podatcima HOO-a, osvojili su na međunarodnim natjecanjima, u svim dobnim uzrastima, 267 odličja, od čega 91 zlatno, 73 srebrna i 103 brončana.

Natjecanja

 25. lipnja  6. srpnja: Na Mediteranskim igrama u Oranu hrvatski predstavnici osvojili 23 odličja: šest zlatnih, sedam srebrnih i deset brončanih.
 7.  17. srpnja: Na Svjetskim igrama u američkom Birminghamu hrvatski predstavnici osvojili sedam odličja: dva zlatna i pet srebrnih.
 15.  24. srpnja: Na Svjetskome atletskomu prvenstvu u Eugeneu hrvatski atletičari osvojili dva zlatna i srebrno odličje.
 24.  30. srpnja: Na Europskom olimpijskom festivalu mladih u Banskoj Bystrici hrvatski športaši osvojili pet zlatnih i četiri srebrna odličja.

Ekipni športovi
 28. siječnja – Ivan Dodig osvojio Australian Open u mješovitim parovima.
 26. lipnja – Hrvatska reprezentacija u rukometu na pijesku osvojila Svjetsko prvenstvo u Grčkoj. Lucian Bura proglašen je najboljim strijelcem i uvršten u najbolji sastav prvenstva.
 3. srpnja – Hrvatska vaterpolska reprezentacija osvojila četvrto mjesto na Svjetskom prvenstvu u Budimpešti. Konstantin Harkov uvršten je u izabranu sedmorku natjecanja.
 16. srpnja – Hrvatska reprezentacija u rukometu na pijesku osvojila zlatno odličje na Svjetskim igrama u američkome Birminghamu. Prva je to hrvatska nacionalna izabrana vrsta u nekom ekipnom športu kojoj je to uspjelo na Svjetskim igrama.
 14. kolovoza – Hrvatska kadetska rukometna reprezentacija osvojila peto mjesto na Europskom prvenstvu u Podgorici.
 27. kolovoza – Hrvatska ženska kadetska košarkaška reprezentacija osvojila brončano odličje na Europskom košarkaškom prvenstvu do 16 godina u Portu. Lena Bilić i Petra Božan uvrštene su u najbolju petorku prvenstva.
 29. kolovoza – Hrvatski streljaši Anton i Josip Glasnović te Francesco Ravalico osvojili ekipno srebro u trapu na Europskom prvenstvu u Larnaci.
 6. rujna  – Braća Šime i Mihovil Fantela osvojili brončano odličje na Svjetskomu prvenstvu u kanadskomu Halifaxu, u disciplini 49er.
 10. rujna – Hrvatska vaterpolska reprezentacija osvojila drugi naslov europskih prvaka u Splitu. Marko Bijač proglašen je najboljim vratarom natjecanja.
 11. rujna – Hrvatska košarkaška reprezentacija zauzela 11. mjesto na Europskomu prvenstvu.
 18. rujna – Tonči Stipanović i Tudor Bilić osvojili srebrno odličje na Svjetskomu prvenstvu u Marbleheadu, blizu Bostona.
 22. rujna – Hrvatska teniska reprezentacija zauzela prvo mjesto na ljestvici reprezentacija Međunarodne teniske federacije.
 25. rujna – Braća Martin i Valent Sinković zauzeli 4. mjesto u dvojcu na pariće na Svjetskomu prvenstvu u Češkoj.
 1. do 5. studenoga – Hrvatski boćari osvojili četiri odličja na Svjetskomu prvesntvu u Mersinu: Pero Čubela zlato u bližanju i izbijanju u krug, Marin Ćubela i Karlo Šaban zlato u paru, Marin Ćubela broncu u pojedinačnom klasičnom te Marino Milićević broncu u brzinskomu izbijanju.
 23. studenoga – Nastupom u dvoboju s Marokom (0:0) na Svjetskom prvenstvu u Kataru, Luka Modrić postao prvim nogometašem koji je igrao utakmice svjetskoga i europskoga nogometnoga prvenstva u tri različita desetljeća.

Pojedinačni športovi
 9. siječnja – Četvorica hrvatskih skijaša osvojili bodove i plasman među trideset najboljih u utrci Svjetskoga kupa u Adelbodenu.
 29. siječnja – Petra Marčinko osvojila juniorski Australian Open.
 21. srpnja – Sandra Perković osvojila srebro na Svjetskom atletskom prvenstvu u Eugeneu.
 6. kolovoza – Anamaria Govorčinović osvojila srebrno odličje u kajaku jednosjedu na Svjetskom prvenstvu u Halifaxu.
 15. kolovoza – Filip Mihaljević postao europskim prvakom u bacanju kugle u Münchenu. Matea Parlov Koštro osvojila je srebro u maratonu, prvo hrvatsko odličje u toj disciplini na velikim natjecanjima.
 16. kolovoza – Sandra Perković osvojila šesto uzastopno zlatno odličje na Europskim atletskim prvenstvima, upisavši se u svjetsku ateltsku povijest.
 19. i 21. kolovoza – Vanesa Tot osvojila dva brončana odličja na Europskom prvenstvu u kajaku i kanuu na mirnim vodama u Münchenu, u kanuu jednokleku na 200 i 500 m.
 21. kolovoza – Pobjedom na ATP–ovom turniru iz serije Masters 1000 u Cincinnatiju Borna Ćorić postao najniže plasirani osvajač teniskoga Mastersa u povijesti, kao 152. na ATP–ovoj ljestvici.
 3. rujna – Jana Pavalić osvojila zlatno odličje na Svjetskomu juniorskomu prvenstvu u Limi, na 50 m leptir, isplivavši novi hrvatski državni rekord.
 7. rujna – Sandra Perković osvojila drugo mjesto u završnici Dijamantne lige u Zürichu.
 8. rujna – Ronilac Petar Klovar postavio svjetski rekord u zaronu bez peraja (93 m), na međunarodnome natjecanju u dubinskomu ronjenju "Adriatic Depth Trophy".
 21. do 24. rujna – Na Svjetskome prvenstvu u savateu u Milanu srebrna odličja i naslov svjetskih doprvaka osvojili Tajana Koščak i Luka Sakač.
 25. rujna – Tin Srbić osvojio broncu na preči na Svjetskome kupu u Parizu.
 5. listopada – Ronilac Petar Klovar postavio je svjetski rekord u ronjenju na dah (132 m), na Svjetskome prvenstvu u Kasu. Vitomir Maričić osvojio je u istoj disciplini srebro (110 m), a Sanda Delija osvojila je broncu među djevojkama (81 m).
 10. listopada – Barbara Matić i Lara Cvjetko osvojile zlatno i srebrno odličje u završnoj borbi Svjetskoga judaškoga prvenstva u Taškentu, u kategoriji do 70 kg.
 21. listopada – Sara Beram osvojila brončano odličje u kategoriji do 63 kg na Europskomu boksačkomu prvenstvu u Budvi.
 29. listopada – Petrunjela Pavić postala europskom mlađeseniorskom prvakinjom do 78 kg u Sarajevu.
 30. listopada – Hrvatski tenisači istoga dana osvojili tri naslova: Borna Gojo pobijedio na ATP–ovu turniru u Ortiseiu, Petra Marčinko na ITF–ovu u Poiteresu, a Ivan Dodig u paru s Austinom Krajicekom na ATP–ovu turniru u Baselu.
 16. studenoga – Alen Kontrec postao svjetskim prvakom u jiu-jitsuu na Svjetskom prvenstvu u Abu Dhabiu, u kategoriji do 85 kg.
 18. studenoga – Nives Radić postala je europskom prvakinjom u kickboksu u Antalyji, u kategoriji "low kick".
 20. studenoga – Hrvatska reprezentacija rukometa u kolicima zauzela šesto mjesto na Svjetskomu prvenstvu u Leirii u Portugalu.
 21. studenoga – Lena Stojković osvojila je naslov svjetske prvakinje na Svjetskome prvenstvu u taekwondou u meksičkoj Guadalajari, u kategoriji do 46 kg. Ivana Dumančić osvojila je broncu u kategoriji do 53 kg.
 22. studenoga – Tonči Stipanović zauzeo 9., a Filip Juričić 18. mjesto na Europskom prvenstvu klase ILCA7 u Hyeresu.

Osnivanja
 25. srpnja – NK Inker Zaprešić, hrvatski nogometni klub

Rekordi

Nagrade
 Nagrade HOO-a
 Najuspješnija hrvatska športašica: Barbara Matić, Lena Stojković, Sandra Perković
 Najuspješniji hrvatski šprortaš: Filip Jurišić, Filip Mihaljević
 Najuspješnija hrvatska ženska športska ekipa: nije izabrana
 Najuspjšenija hrvatska ženska športska ekipa: Hrvatska nogometna reprezentacija, Hrvatska vaterpolska reprezentacija
 Najuspješniji športski par, štafeta ili posada: Valent i Martin Sinković, Šime i Mihovil Fantela
 Najuspješniji hrvatski trener: Zlatko Dalić, Vladimir Preradović, Veljko Laura
 Posebna nagrada HOO-a za promicanje Hrvatske u svijetu: Hrvatska nogometna reprezentacija
 Priznanje za športski pothvat: Werner Ilić i Martin Cruickshank (za pothvat "Veslom preko Atlantika")
 Nagrada za izuzetan rezultat u neolimpijskim športovima i disciplinama:
 športašica: Mirela Kardašević
 športaš: Petar Klovar
 ženska ekipa: Hrvatska karate reprezentacija
 muška ekipa: Hrvatska reprezentacija u rukometu na pijesku
 Nagrada HOO-a Matija Ljubek: Branko Peašinović, Miran Martinac, Zoran Roje, Mihovil Nakić-Vojnović, Nikola Plećaš
 Posebna nagrada HOO-a za promicanje športa u medijima: GP1 (Jastrebarsko)

Ostali događaji
 4. siječnja – Petra Vlhová treću godinu zaredom osvojila sljemensku Snježnu kraljicu.
 13. lipnja – Hrvatski nogometni savez obilježio je 110. godišnjicu djelatnosti.
 21. rujna – Hrvatski teniski savez obilježio je 110. godišnjicu djelatnosti.

Rođenja

Smrti
 2. siječnja – Vinko Bajrović i Ante Pavlović
 siječanj – Stjepan Lamza
 12. siječnja – Zlatko Novaković
 10. veljače – Vinko Dobrić
 20. travnja – Nikola Stipaničev
 5. svibnja – Ronald Lopatny
 22. lipnja – Tihomir Sertić
 29. lipnja – Ivan Mecanović
 5. srpnja – Duško Krstulović
 21. srpnja – Zvonko Bezjak
 24. kolovoza – Tomislav Šepec
 23. kolovoza – Mladen Klasić
 2. rujna – Mišo Cebalo
 28. rujna – Stjepan Jukić-Peladić

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice

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DERANGED MARXIST and NY AG Letitia James Vows to Press Charges Against President Trump After He Leaves Office… She'll Make Up Charges Later
In November 2018 Letitia James became the first African-American elected the Attorney General of New York state.
It didn't take long for Letitia to show her true colors.
In a video after her election James was seen cursing and threatening President Trump.
Reporter: What would you say to people who say, 'Oh, I'm not going to bother to register to vote because my voice doesn't make a difference." Or, "I'm just one person."
Letitia James: "I say one name. Donald Trump. That should motivate you. Get off your ass and vote.
Reporter: Will you sue him for us?
Letitia James: Oh, we're definitely going to sue him. We're going to be a real pain in the ass. He's going to know my name personally.
First listen to this profanity language
Now imagine a conservative would've said this and Obama is President
She is the newly elected Attorney General of New York pic.twitter.com/Gmk7JwEiyk
— Joel Fischer (@JFNYC1) November 10, 2018
Joseph Stalin's henchman Lavrently once famously said, "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."
This is today's Democrat party.
On Tuesday Letitia James went on with "The View" and promised the unhinged mob she would go after President Trump and his family even if he pardoned himself(?)
This is a popular line on the American left today. Democrats are sure that President Trump, the most popular president in the last 50 years, should be tried for crimes.
They're just not sure WHAT CRIMES to charge him with.
The Democrat Party is more and more like the Stalinists every single day.
Letitia James Predicts: Trump Will Resign So Pence Can Pardon Him https://t.co/T71372CBn9
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) December 9, 2020
The post DERANGED MARXIST and NY AG Letitia James Vows to Press Charges Against President Trump After He Leaves Office… She'll Make Up Charges Later appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.


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#GeenDorHout is een Nederlandse actiegroep die op 8 augustus 2020 is begonnen door Jacquie Davis als hashtag op sociale media in het begin van de coronacrisis in Nederland. De hashtag was een reactie op een column van Marianne Zwagerman op de website van BNR Nieuwsradio (31 maart 2020), waarin Zwagerman de groep mensen in risicogroepen aanduidde als 'dor hout' en op een opinie-artikel door epidemioloog Sander Borgsteede in Trouw (8 augustus 2020). De leden hebben met name contact via sociale media en op Discord. De actiegroep wordt voornamelijk gevormd door mensen die thuiszitten ('slaapkameractivisme'), soms in een zelfverkozen quarantaine, in afwachting van de ontwikkeling van de pandemie.

De groep laat van zich horen door ludieke acties, zoals het en masse versturen van een 'kaartje uit isolatie' aan premier Rutte, en door het huren van een auto met videoscherm in Den Haag op Prinsjesdag in september 2020.

In januari 2021 startte de groep samen met politieke partij BIJ1 een actie voor toegankelijkheid van de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen in maart. Vanwege de coronapandemie werden 70-plussers bij uitzondering toegestaan per post te stemmen, maar deze uitzondering gold niet voor mensen die binnen de risicogroepen vallen en jonger zijn dan 70.

De actiegroep zet zich ook in 2022 actief in voor veiligheid voor mensen met extra risico wat betreft COVID-19.

Externe link
 Officiële website

Hashtag
Coronacrisis in Nederland
Actiegroep


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Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly in functionally non-critical areas. Clinical remarks on 22 patients
M. Salvati, M. Piccirilli, E. Caroli, C. Brogna, S. Artizzu, A. Frati
www.neuromed.it
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of multimodality treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly. Although several studies report a poor outcome in elderly patients with glioblastoma, in the light of our experience, treatment of elderly patients with glioblastoma in non-critical areas and Kamofsky Performance Status > 60 should be just as aggressive as in younger patients.
Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research
Elderly Cancer Patients
Glioblastoma Multiforme
Multimodality treatment
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Salvati, M., Piccirilli, M., Caroli, E., Brogna, C., Artizzu, S., & Frati, A. (2003). Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly in functionally non-critical areas. Clinical remarks on 22 patients. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, 22(3), 395-398.
Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly in functionally non-critical areas. Clinical remarks on 22 patients. / Salvati, M.; Piccirilli, M.; Caroli, E.; Brogna, C.; Artizzu, S.; Frati, A.
In: Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, Vol. 22, No. 3, 09.2003, p. 395-398.
Salvati, M, Piccirilli, M, Caroli, E, Brogna, C, Artizzu, S & Frati, A 2003, 'Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly in functionally non-critical areas. Clinical remarks on 22 patients', Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 395-398.
Salvati M, Piccirilli M, Caroli E, Brogna C, Artizzu S, Frati A. Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly in functionally non-critical areas. Clinical remarks on 22 patients. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research. 2003 Sep;22(3):395-398.
Salvati, M. ; Piccirilli, M. ; Caroli, E. ; Brogna, C. ; Artizzu, S. ; Frati, A. / Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly in functionally non-critical areas. Clinical remarks on 22 patients. In: Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research. 2003 ; Vol. 22, No. 3. pp. 395-398.
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