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Saw the neurologist today, or should I say that he saw me. Spitting image of my brother-in-law. 2nd dan Taekwon-do. Turns out the whole shebang may be laid out to migraines. I don't have headaches. I had one about 5 years ago and it felt like somebody had jammed a white hot spear into my head. Nothing since then but what I have which I thought was all unrelated but the Dr. assures me is consistent with multiple parts of my brain throwing a hissy fit. Can't type, sleep, keep eyes open, dizzy, fall down, loss of s/a. and zero pain....unless, God help me, I spin into one of the end tables on the way down. He gave me some pills the size of a super tanker to deal with further outbreaks.
I told him I went a whole week without any symptoms at all when my girl was here and he recommended that I keep her around. If only I could I would.
BEACHING IN DEL MAR
Discovery of the pure fun of boogie boarding in a wet suit.
I see Dallas drivers are among the worst drivers in America. Too bloody True! They tailgate on the interstate at 70mph with about 4 feet of following distance. Bunch of bastards if you ask me.
SCARY BAD NEWS
At some point this week the IRS in Atlanta sent me a letter telling me that their records showed I entered a combat zone back in 2008 and they needed more details. I never claimed any tax exemption for it or mentioned it in my return for that year..... but they caught up with me.
Bastards!
NEENER
Well that was fun and interesting. Sarah Palin's Tea Party nominee just won the GOP nomination in Alaska. 2 and counting. Somebody has coat tails!
THAT'S STRANGE
I am always amazed to see otherwise sane people trip over the moderation line and leap into a frenzy of hatred when others disagree with a particular political viewpoint or approach and then react balefully when they are called on it. You used to see it with Bush Derangement Syndrome or extreme hatred of Karl Rove or Dick Cheney and now one sees it as they attempt to deal with Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Movement. It's really odd. 42% of Americans pay no Income Tax because they are exempt but they get to go out and vote higher and higher taxes on the Americans that do pay taxes in order that LA Unified Schools can build a $578 MILLION dollar school. That would be for 4200 'pupils' probably half of them illegals and half of them with parent that pays no taxes beyond the $8.00/pack on their smokes. That's a nice progressive tax.
Dare to disagree with one wingnut and you are evidently, unpatriotic. Dare to disagree with the opposite wingnut and you are evil, mean spirited, stupid and ugly.
I'm kind of looking forward to November but also looking forward to any pending revelation that 2nd Fleet is on the chopping block. You talk about a useless and pointless staff.... JFCOM did ALL their work and JFCOM is going away which tells you how pointless 2nd Fleet is. I spent 3 years as OPS on a midlevel staff and I would talk to my 3rd Fleet counterparts a couple of times a week but never ever had to show up with a powerpoint briefing about anything. My peer on the east coast had to routinely show up with full powerpoint briefs to brief his counterparts at 2nd Fleet which was pretty pointless on the whole since he also had to walk and talk his brief over to JFCOM for any decisions. Good riddance and take 4th Fleet and 10th Fleet with you into that dark night. Oh, and 6th Fleet too.
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TWEEN BLOGS
Can you imagine the one owning slippers and a cat. Cat shit up there at the toe every day.
TROLLS AND DESPICABLE ME
Hsd way more fun in a week with a 7 year old girl than you could shake a stick at. Also got word from multiple sources, again, that I'm an ass. What can I say? I really truly like to argue and of course could never ever not even once do it in person. The intertubes were perfect for somebody like me. Just as marriage was the death of Random at USENET so is the invite to the world the death of Curtis. We shall not see his like again, I hope. Does anyone else miss the naps of childhood?
Napping turned to nooners turned to can't sleep more then 4 hours. It used to take nothing more than covering her feet on the couch and out she'd be. Less than five minutes to unconscious after toe warming.
I thought about it a bit today and decided, I don't really think I'll miss slanging off. Nobody else will either.
RESULTS IN
Sa place I've not been to since 1988 in Shah Allum or Rostam or even Farsi. Endo results in this morning. Still hanging on the brain scan stuff. Probably take an MRI to resolve the mass hanging on the back of the cerebellum.
MORNING TIDINGS
Picked up the little love of my life on Sunday and brought her home where we've had a great time playing with cousins on the beach and eating and playing with cousins in Del Mar until the wee hours (2045 if that must be defined); she's only 7, as of today. Smart and cute.
In the morning I head off to the doctor who will describe in some detail for me what it means to have: in the left posterior aspect of the posterior fossa a space-occupying extra-axial lesion of CSF density measuring 3.1 x 1.4 cm causing mild mass effect on the left cerebellar hemisphere. Now that's a mouthful. But then, what are CT scans for?
I won't have better days than this one. It was great!
LEST YE DESPAIR
Some things move through a different realm. When one begins to question the networks one moves off them. The media is way more sussed.
and, it sucks to be them anyway.
SECRET ISN'T IT
Once one delves into the code word world one loses touch with reality. SSES would occasionally share some data with us mortals. It was usually pointless but it revealed meaningful capabilities that should have been part of OUR toolkit.
Intel made its own world and then it strained to the max to make it stay in that world. Not much use there. You know, not much value added to the guy fighting the war since all the intel stayed at TS/SCI code word and could not possibly be shared with the guys on the pointy end. Oh, sure the VADM and his intel staff knew it but they didn't/couldn't share it. So how much use was that? It usually boiled down to deploying surveillance units and telling them to be vigilant. Thank you. Vigilant for what? Can't tell you.
I deployed in response to that sort of garbage many times over the last 25 years and it was all garbage. We have signs and warnings they would say. Show me I would say in return and they would toss back that we did not have the need to know what caused the nation to suddenly divert a C5 to the mission of deploying a surveillance unit overnight to the Far East, Middle East. A lot of us held TS/SCI but outside the intel community. We didn't have the need to know.
All the spies and operatives burned to death when the top leadership of the spy sheds at CIA and FBI sold out make me question the value of anything we develop beyond the national technical means. Probably we'll find in a year or two that traitors at NSA canceled out a lot of the technical means capabilities too.
As a very old hand I find it absolutely amazing that some soviet agents convinced EVERYBODY to create the SIPRNET and put all that stuff online where it could be drained off every day, every single day.
When I joined up classified was classified, need to know enabled access and it was all controlled. With SIPR, it all went on line. And we told ourselves that was useful. Perhaps. Can you suss out the underlying madness of making a thing a SECRET for national security purposes and then allowing 2 million people access to that secret?
We have gone way down a path that I don't think is acceptable in a republic. SECRET used to be something that caused major damage to the republic if it became known. We used to do annual page checks of secret material and you don't want to know what we did with the TS. Now we've created some organizations into being that routinely classify the local news in Chicago as TS/SCI/code AND we've created organizations beyond the law to execute people beyond the Pale. (look up Pale/Ireland. It had a dreadful meaning once and it ain't based on color though it was most assuredly race based).
There are several networks that combine all that is known that run at different levels of classification. Ask me if I think that the best government sponsored hackers on earth haven't compromised all of them. Go on. Ask.
Still, I used to work for a guy. He was XO and CO of an OCEANUNIT. He told me one day about how the US Embassy in a certain country once delivered his mail to his ship. It came on a host nation bus, unescorted, including all his new crypto. Red spies didn't, don't have to work very hard.
HOW DID THEY SLEEP?
How did the firebombers, the atomic bombers the first city bombers, the starvers and rapists ever sleep at night?
Me to the bomber crew:
So what was it you set out to do at Dresden and Nagasaki?
Them: Kill everyone in a firestorm that would plunge 20,000 children into a cauldron of fire.
Me: Oh.
there was some kind of war crime for using railroads and gas chambers and not another one for using firestorms.
I'm glad of my service but had they asked me to do this I'd have walked away.
We've had an enormous number of fine outstanding officers who held the keys and the SAPS to get access and launch nukes. I was one once. Now, at 49, I could never do that.
The last century sucked.
ANATHEM
I'll see if this one works. I expected no comments really. I'll try it again on the plane to Bahrain. If I have a hard to read/get into book, I save it for the flight to Amsterdam or Heathrow. The boredom of such flights focuses the intellect on what one has brought.
Ah,
justthisguy, I dreamed of being alone on the internet. This is a kind of free association blog thing and I had thought that only far east cynic found me. Silly me.
Lex and I were both on active duty together here in SOCAL, he at AIRPAC and me at MESG1. As you say, he is the embodiment of, "thank you sir, but no thank you". On the other hand there are bunches of FOGOS that just got there through shear competence and duration. Lex made the point that he turned down the billets that lead to that end for his family. Back when I was unmarried, childless and ruthless I took every challenging overseas assignment. I loved it! When I got married it stopped. That said, I remember VADM Costello asking the room who was representing AIRPAC and TACTRAGROUP saying it was Lex but he was running a little late and Barry saying, 'good'. I agree. A good man.
I have inherited a very nice chest of drawers but it reeks of cigarette smoke. 30 years after it was removed from the total cigarette environment it reeks from 3 rooms away! Any clothes placed within the drawers stink of cigarettes. The whole damned thing reeks.
When I downsize, this thing is the first thing to go.
Listened to some of the music again as my right hand went numb. It's a weird feeling. I'm pretty sure I don't like it.
I really hope that Mattis and Petraeus meet for a sit down dinner at least once a month from now on, one on one. I don't doubt that CENTCOM and JFCOM gave every request from McChrystal their full attention and support. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Worthless in the end since we're talking Muslims and they're as changeable as stone.
Weird, the right hand is visibly shutting down.
SLEEPING INTO THE CAT SCAN
Serious measures used to make it to the CT Scan in the morning. Bludgeoned into sleep. May take 2 of the damned things.
SOME NICE PEOPLE
I was recently honored to be asked to attend an Ordination for a friend. Several others I knew were also invited. I was pleased and honored to attend. Guy saved my life, what else did I have to do that evening..... Yep. Easy.
Here's a couple of shots from the evening. Good man bound on a good voyage. As I told him, he is surrounded by good company so we can all expect the best. There will be dark moments but he has already weathered some of those. I expect he'll clear the horizon and come home every time. Strikes me as a very good man.
My dad took me aside when I was commissioned, by him, and gave me some perfectly good advice. I would recommend it to anybody seeking a commission in our armed forces.
1. Don't ever measure yourself against your peers.
2. Always just do the very best job that you can do.
Worked for me. Making Flag is a personal ambition that I never had. That's a fire that must burn within from the time one is an Ensign. That is all 'contacts', and 'perfect jobs', and schmoozing and there are people to whom this comes naturally. Not me, not grandad.
I was certifiably ruthless until I got married, 22 years into a navy sort of career. The ruthless got a tweak at that point.
2340 and the world flipped
spark.
just before trigannic pu. song on the IPOD. Opened two eyes on the future possibilities of a really nice little girl.
PROGS GETTING POKED
Good grief. New Mac, not used to the operating system but here's another repost from elsewhere.
Carry on out there Skippy. Here in Californiastan the state treasurer, commissar decided last year that it was legal to just go ahead and direct a further 10% on tax withholdings on all Califinistan residents paychecks on account of an urgent need for the revenue and whatnot. Pay tax returns in IOU, etc.
Only tsarists and communists and socialists/NAZIs and democrats and liberals and progressives would see that the government had that kind of unilateral after the fact right to steal money. But you'd see that. Right?
Don't fight man! Just give them YOUR money!!!!!! What are you? Some sort of TEA BAGGER? The STATE of Alabama has a right to all your money!!
I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED! to find tax evading going on in the house of liberalism. You owe Alabama the money. Just pay and shut the fuck up why don't you?
Why don't you Skippy-San? It's their money right?
Am I using a nail gun on this one?
Manifold pressure down to zero after blowing the load on what must be the stupidest side of an argument in all time?
Pay up or shut up.
You sure felt an entitlement to my money.
Feel the pain.
SOMETHING FROM SKIPPY-SAN
Thank you. My fingers are on the blink this week. As I stand up and fall down and hit the furniture really really hard I am thankful again and again that I bought soft stuff, except for the end tables I bought in Pakistan 30 years ago. Those suckers are deadly.
1. How many countries have you traveled to? ( Travel to means at least an overnight stay. Does not have to be exact.)
2. What is the best place you ever visited?
3. What was the worst place you have ever been-and would you go back?
Djibouti and no.
4. If you could change one thing, and only one thing, in the world to make it a better place, what would it be?
The absolute extermination of those that think they're Palestinian.
5. Who would you rather sleep with? Men: Tonya Harding or Nancy Kerrigan? (When they were in their figure skating battle). Women: Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert? Explain.
6. What is the worst thing to happen to the country you hold a passport for in the last 50 years?
7. Do you view someone that you know, or know of as a "hero"? If so, what makes this individual so special?
Dad. Battery commander in the 101st in a forgotten war. And my dad.
8. If you could be born again would choose to be a different sex to what you are?
9. What is your favorite alcoholic drink? If you say, "I don't drink"-STOP NOW. Just hang your head in shame.
Black and Tan but one must leave the house for that.
10. What is your favorite magazine?
4 years ago I went to get my guts opened up at Balboa Medical Center and read the Economist in the waiting room. Most certainly the last time I ever read a magazine. Twas an interesting article on Pashtun.
So, Economist.
I stopped reading philosophy with Kant's "On the Beautiful and Sublime" I read a lot of philosophy. Those giant minds missed out on the simple reductions of those who have and those that have not. The US took care of Europe since WWI. We are so over those nasty drains on the fisc. Screw them.
What war devolves to is that those who view people/countries that are richer than them will see that the rich have let down the defenses and seek to move in and take away some of that wealth for themselves because they think they can get away with it..
They thought that they could get away with it.
Everybody has piled up so much debt, trillions of $; so finding the wealth hidden in the murk is getting harder. Well, it's still there. Would not want to be Russia right now. Driving back to resource sources alone of wealth production. Kind of like Spain when it brought back all the Aztecs and Incas had from the new world. The bankers and international financiers have left nothing but trash so once again the pirates are going to stalk the real wealth.
A nice little friend.
Just now returned. No no no it ain't me babe, I hope she'll dance, Our Town. I'm doing the clouds next. Such a pretty voice.
So like watching the Meg Ryan
Not 3 and it's good night.
New book bought just before I bought new computer and new router. sheesh, give me another day and I'll buy new shoes.
Mohammed the Prophet in Hat
In honor of draw Mohammed day.
NOTHING AT ALL
Funny how little remains in the hands of the ruthless. Sure, they have their stuff and the stuff they took but everything else was thrown in the trash or given to Goodwill. The great Purge.
As I look around it is hard not to see that all that remains here are the presents, beautiful incredibly thoughtful presents and the things we bought together on a lark. No clutter, no knickknacks since these are really difficult to achieve when the only flat surface is the table one eats off and it's usually covered with mail and a really skinny mantle. It's not a home in the way that my daughter has a home, like I had a home. Bachelor space. Just the 2 chairs at the table these days.
Not going to go buy another $5k cabinet to display stuff in. Done with all that.
TRIPPED OVER THE INTERNET
If you tripped over the internet and somehow found yourself here. It's not worth reading.
I really miss my weed wacker. Walking around and killing with a purpose.
A CHALLENGE TO HATERS
I'd offer to go away for another week or two so the shy little wood nymphs and water dryads could come back and shyly express their measureless contempt for everyman who disagrees with them but after mature reflection; fuckem.
Our host is the worst of you.
Skippy, you live in the place (actually an oasis of civilization) as my mom described it. Your hatred knows no bounds and shows no reasons, as you've said before.
I'd ask you to consider yourself as a 6 year old black girl who's mom sent her to school so that for a year she had to be escorted by 4 US Marshals simply because the omnidirectional hatred of whites who hated blacks required some level of protection. Those white? They hated for no reason.
You and your ilk who hate Coulter and hate Bush and hate Rove and Hate all conservatives to the point that even massive protection is not enough today to keep them safe from the harm that YOUR HATERS launch against them suck. Does that make you all feel like it's OK because you're just hating and it's OK since the one's you hate are beyond the protection of the law?
Have you ever asked yourself how your undifferentiated and mindless hate distinguishes you from the Klan?
Wasn't that the case when haters like you and yourselves hated that little 6 year old black girl? You know, at the Tea Party 2 days ago.
MY LITTLE PILOT
This weekend I'll figure out how to post pictures of pilots and then you'll be amazed!
YOU'RE HOME
Finished with Gladiator tonight. Ends with a 'good' man dying and envisioning 'home'. I'm not sure home meant all that much to the 99.8% of the time whose home was nothing but a dismal hovel. There must be something better.
Enter the damned Catholic Church. Suffer in this world for Glory in the next. Render unto the Church that you may hope to enter heaven. Oh, and then let us bring 1100 years of total war, heresy, the inquisition, the crusades, the Albigensian heresy, the 100 years war, the 30 years war. I could go on.
FUTURE HATE IS DEMANDED
It's OK to hate now if you're afraid of what might come...........
I'm just waiting for one of those haters to propose that is the reason why they hate either Palin or the Tea Party. It's OK to hate them for what might come but it was not OK back then to hate that 5 year old girl for what may come? Liberal/Progressives have trouble making a convincing argument with a parking meter in Berkeley....which may explain why most of the parking meters have been decapitated. One can see the LIB/PROG argument right there: "Argue with me now Bitch!!"
HATERS OF TODAY
Have you ever noticed how the big insane HATERS of today resemble the big insane HATERS of yesteryear? You look now at the hatred spewed by the left and the vile and baseless accusations they toss out against the Tea Party and Sarah Palin and you just have to compare them to the white racists who were so proud to align themselves at HATING the little girl that integrated William Frantz School and the teenagers that integrated Little Rock High. Their little white faces twisted in rage at a girl that never hurt them.
I was just reading the 27th annual bimonthly Field Artillery Journal. My grandad was mentioned somewhere in there in the 1937 Journal. There was FA everywhere, even Marfa.
back to Ia Drang.
Lex, if you got this twice, my apologies. It failed to show up as 'sent' when I went back tonight.
I'll be honest. My attitude did change over the years.
This is one reason. (first picture)
My heart is another. She's 6, lives with her mom in Texas. (second picture) pilot you'll note.
We were discussing life and death on your place.
There is wrong just as there is right.
My girl is probably like yours. Smart as a whip. I think that other little girl would have turned out smart too. Collateral damage. No different from our own. I think it is wrong to kill innocents and I don't think it is wrong to say so. I bcc'd Chaplain Harvey on this one. I spent a long time in the chapel after my last hospital appointment this week. I think you should put the post back up. Yes, I was the complete asshole and moron who showed his ass. How often though do we as a society delve into life and death?
I remember reading the bio of a girl we killed when we targeted Yugoslavian TV a long time ago. Sounded like a really nice girl. Wrong place, wrong time. Just went to work one night when we were shooting missiles at TV transmitters.
Remember Firefly? "A better world."
Life and death doesn't necessarily bring out the best in people. What bugs me? There are folks we know that think it's OK to kill the little kids and the unarmed innocent types.
I'm gladder than you know that I'm not among them.
PROBABLY NOT GETTING POSTED OVER THERE FOR GOOD REASON.
Is there a special credit gained by joining the League of civilized states? Did that credit include Japan and Germany?
Just asking.
Total genocide and Rape of Nanking notwhistanding. You ever hear tell of the Belgian Congo? France and Haiti? The guys that invented the whole Concentration Camp? My first wardroom had a plaque from Ethiopia with the call to arms of Haile Selassie. I wish that I could recall it enough to quote his call to arms to repel the Italians.
Today we shall light such a fire, by God's grace as I trust shall never be put out.
History has a way of preserving the flaws. League of Civilized Countries? The only ones that spring immediately to mind are Bhutan and Nepal and Monte Carlo and San Marino and Lichtenstein.
So a man wondered why did I ask him and his lovely wife to dinner today. It was months ago that we sat down together. The answer was most profound.
My sister asked me to help her editor track down the shits who steal her books online. 27,000 downloads of her last book. You'd think I alone invented the internet.
My brother wonders why I don't take my sisters advice and see a doctor. I did see one and I'm afraid the answer is most profound.
It was one of those days. It was far and away the shittiest day since I didn't run out of fuel on the way back from San Francisco and yeah to know that feeling you had to be one of the 3 of us.
The ultrasound tech was super cute though so even a shitty day has it's upside.
ETERNAL HOSTILITY
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Copied from Maggie's Farm who copied it from Samiz.
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them. I believe in my neighbours. I know their faults, and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults. "Take Father Michael down our road a piece. I'm not of his creed, but I know that goodness and charity and loving kindness shine in his daily actions. I believe in Father Mike. If I'm in trouble, I'll go to him. My next-door neighbour is a veterinary doctor. Doc will get out of bed after a hard day to help a stray cat. No fee - no prospect of a fee - I believe in Doc. I believe in my townspeople. You can know on any door in our town saying, 'I'm hungry,' and you will be fed. Our town is no exception. I've found the same ready charity everywhere. But for the one who says, 'To heck with you - I got mine,' there are a hundred, a thousand who will say, "Sure, pal, sit down." I know that despite all warnings against hitch-hikers I can step up to the highway, thumb for a ride and in a few minutes a car or a truck will stop and someone will say, 'Climb in Mac - how far you going?'
I believe in my fellow citizens. Our headlines are splashed with crime yet for every criminal there are 10,000 honest, decent, kindly men. If it were not so, no child would live to grow up. Business could not go on from day to day. Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but is a force stronger than crime. I believe in the patient gallantry of nurses and the tedious sacrifices of teachers. I believe in the unseen and unending fight against desperate odds that goes on quietly in almost every home in the land. I believe in the honest craft of workmen. Take a look around you. There never were enough bosses to check up on all that work. From Independence Hall to the Grand Coulee Dam, these things were built level and square by craftsmen who were honest in their bones. I believe that almost all politicians are honest. . .there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work.
If this were not true we would never have gotten past the 13 colonies. I believe in Rodger Young. You and I are free today because of endless unnamed heroes from Valley Forge to the Yalu River. I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States. Despite shortcomings from lynchings to bad faith in high places, our nation has had the most decent and kindly internal practices and foreign policies to be found anywhere in history.
And finally, I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown. In the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability, and goodness of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth. That we always make it just by the skin of our teeth, but that we will always make it. Survive. Endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes will endure. Will endure longer than his home planet - will spread out to the stars and beyond, carrying with him his honesty and his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.
R. A. Heinlein.
YOUR MODERN LIBERAL
Modern liberal progressives unable to argue their way out of a wet paper bag content themselves by spewing vile obscenities and making racist attacks in lieu of well reasoned arguments.
IT'S A DISEASE OF THE MIND
Most amazing thing this afternoon. I'm having a very quiet private chat with a new acquaintance in the library here in Mission Hills and we're talking about politics and war and the decline of civilization and this hideous fat cow behind us is muttering "oh bull shit" louder and louder and saying we're full of shit and getting louder and louder so I called her on it at which point she called us both assholes very loudly and started cursing us. I pointed out to my conversation partner that this was pretty typical liberal behavior and she went nuts and started calling us other names. My partner turned and asked if she could spell any of those words and we then ignored her and went back to our conversation about property in Las Vegas and Texas and she started whistling, loudly, in a library. Liberals....
PEAKING IDIOTS
Do you get the sense that a number of idiocies are peaking at roughly the same time and all of them seem to be founded on tinkering with a working system until the wheels fall off?
Posted by HMS Defiant at 3:52 PM 1 comment:
I' m a practicing believer. I suspect that I need more practice. I never saw the Bucket List and never will I suspect. I once knew a girl.
When I look in a mirror I still see a young lad that vanished decades ago. It's amusing how time and memory let us fool ourselves.
I'm watching a show on USA featuring a nice looking girl reporter who got a huge beating and is then threatened with kidnap of her son and killing. This is a movie about Ireland.
Only the most liberal progressives want no innocent armed. It is fiction of course but how many innocents get slaughtered?
Did you ever hear of a raped murdered girl who had a permit to carry a gun? Yeah, I thought not.
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Walk down the beach with the one you love. I lived on the beach. I did that a million times. We took Josie on walks down the beach before she could talk. Super cute though. Dating services need to honest up.
Full attribution. This is from not me.
March 12, 2010 - by Christopher Monckton
The once-respected science journal Nature recently published a whining editorial to the effect that climate scientists are not criminals, really; that attacks on them by increasingly-skeptical news media are soooo unfair; and that the fundamental science showing that the planet is doomed unless the economies of the West are shut down at once is unchallengeable.
No doubt most climate scientists are not criminals. However, some are. Many of the two dozen Climategate emailers, who have for years driven the IPCC process, tampered with peer review in the learned journals, and fabricated, altered, concealed, or destroyed scientific data are criminals. Whether they or Nature like it or not, they will eventually stand trial, and deservedly so.
After all, the biofuel scam that is one of many disfiguring spin-offs from the "global warming" scare — driven by the poisonous clique of mad scientists whom Nature so uncritically defends — has taken millions of acres of farmland away from growing food for people who need it and towards growing biofuels for clunkers that don't. Result: a doubling of world food prices, mass starvation, and death, leading to food riots in a dozen major regions of the globe.
You won't have seen much about these riots in the Western news media: they are too busy reporting on every putative icicle putatively dribbling in putatively melting Greenland.
Where was Nature when James Hansen — a publicly funded "scientist" and political agitator "working" for NASA — publicly demanded that anyone who disagreed with his climate-extremist views be put on trial for "high crimes against humanity"?
Did Nature write a pompous, pietistic editorial drawing attention to the fact that the penalty for crimes against humanity is death, and asking whether demands that one's scientific opponents should face potential execution constitute an appropriate contribution to scientific discourse? Did it heck! Nature was sullenly, culpably silent.
Hansen wrote a characteristically overblown op-ed in the British Marxist newspaper the Guardian last year, saying that sea level was about to rise by 246 feet.
Should I face trial and execution for pointing out, mildly, that Hansen knows no more about sea-level rise than a hedgehog, and that even the excitable UN climate panel puts 21st-century sea-level rise at a maximum of 2 feet?
Where was Nature when Al Gore's mawkish, sci-fi, comedy-horror movie came out? Did it ever disclose even one of the three dozen serious errors or exaggerations in that dismal piece of pseudo-scientific propaganda? Did it heck! Gore's climate-extremist views chimed with Nature's own, so its editors were sullenly, culpably silent.
Where was Nature when the UN's climate panel published, three times and in full color, a graph in its 2007 report purporting to show that the rate of warming over the past 160 years has itself increased, allegedly because of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, when the graph deployed a statistical technique so bogus that any pimply freshman doing Stats 101 would recognize the graph as tendentious, politicized nonsense?
Nowhere, that's where.
The mindless mantra that moaning ninnies like Nature mumble over and over again is that, notwithstanding one, or several, or hundreds, or thousands of bloopers in the now-discredited climate "assessments" of the UN's climate panel, the science is settled and the debate is over. Yet the debate rages on and — tell it not in Gath or Ashkelon — the skeptics are winning.
Nature's editors, not having reached intellectual puberty, lack the self-critical skill of examining their own consciences. When they grow up, they will realize that there is a reason why the skeptics are winning. It is because the skeptics are right. The science never was settled, nor was the debate over. CO2 is a bit-part player in the climate. Get over it and move along. Get a life.
And how come the skeptics are winning, when billions of state-funded propaganda dollars have been squandered for decades in an ever more futile attempt to buy the acquiescence of John Q. Public? Your average voter does not necessarily understand the growing number of scientific papers establishing, by a variety of measurements, that the UN's XBox 360s have gotten the models wrong, and that the warming effect of CO2 is around one-seventh of the UN's vastly-exaggerated central estimate.
But what the man on the crosstown bus can smell a mile off is propaganda bulls***. Tell him the debate on anything is over and his antennae will start to twitch. Tell him that because the debate is over he will have to lose his job and pay higher taxes and gasoline prices and electricity costs and he will ask what you're on and whether he can have some.
The sheer shrillness of the true-believers, such as Nature's zit-bespattered editors, has woken up the sleeping giant of public opinion, and the giant will not go back to sleep however often Nature maunders on about the fundamental science being agreed among all parties. After 15 years with no statistically significant "global warming" (Nature didn't tell you that), nine years of a rapid global cooling trend (Nature forgot to mention it), sea level growing at just 1 foot per century (Nature didn't get around to reporting that), and sea ice showing no global trend in 30 years (Nature somehow missed that one), no one is believing the true-believers any more.
I know: let's put Nature's editors on trial for high crimes against journalistic integrity and scientific truth. Death is far too good for them: let us condemn them to reading out their own editorials to each other until they realize how silly they are, or for all eternity, whichever be the sooner.
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is a British politician, business consultant, and policy advisor.
When you wonder what an idiot looks or sounds like? Not him. The fools that believed in GLOBAL WARMING caused by men had nothing at the top of their brain stems.
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historic apartment | beach & marina
Asturias, Gijon, calle San Bernardo
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Historic apartment maintaining many original features and the original distribution, with views of the statue above the Sacred Heart Basilica. In the Los Almacenes Simeón building, one of the signature constructions from when the city was reconfigured at the end of the XIX century. It lies in the heart of Gijon, a short walk from the beach, in the centre of the creative district around Calle Merced, with independent bookshops, bars and restaurants, as well as many designer shops. Double aspect apartment on the principal corner under the cupola and facing both east and south for light and sun all day. There are four bedrooms including one with adjoining dressing room, two bathrooms and two living rooms, as well as additional service rooms.
The apartment requires renovation, and has over 200 sqm (2,150 sq ft) usable area and 12 rooms in total, with 3.5m high ceilings and 7 balconies including one double and one triple, some glazed as winter gardens. The seven principal rooms facing out, all connect between each other directly, as well as from the adjoining corridor. The other rooms face an internal lightwell so all rooms have natural light. Because it has had so few owners, many original features, details and materials remain, including solid chestnut floors and doors, and two working fireplaces with the original fires and a third chimney in the kitchen. The building has a lift. Heating is gas with radiators. Separate storage for bicycles, etc.
Gijon is a vibrant historic town with a small port for both fishing and recreation boats, and San Lorenzo beach which is over one kilometre long. Gijon has plenty of culture too, with the Jovellanos cultural centre and theatre, independent galleries and bookshops, and La Laboral, centre of culture, with concerts, theatre and art gallery too.
Fully renovated, this apartment would be a stupendous space and relatively rare as very few apartments have survived substantially in-tact in these historic buildings.

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Are Your Facebook Friends Referring You?
Have you invited your Facebook Friends to Like your Facebook Business Page?
Have you thought about how to generate referral traffic from your Facebook Friends?
In this article, you'll discover how to invite your Facebook friends to Like your business Page and how to target them later through a Facebook Ad that can help grow your service-based business.
You're probably wondering why we should invite our Facebook Friends to like our business Page when Organic reach is so low, right? And, if organic reach is low, then how can I generate business from the people who like my Page when I'm on a budget?
According to Facebook, organic reach is "the number of people you can reach for free on Facebook by posting to your Page". And yes, it is declining. Truth be told, it has been declining since 2014. With the number of people utilizing Facebook for personal and business reasons, the competition for space on a user's News Feed is fierce.
Regardless of the size of your marketing budget, there are certain things that you can be doing to get in front of prospective clients. One of them is inviting your friends to Like your Facebook business Page.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting that you invite ALL of your friends. I'm suggesting that you invite the friends who are most likely to be in need of the services you provide, or who are most likely to refer you to other people who may be in need of your services.
Sorry Andriod friends, I don't have a video for how to invite your Friends via an Android device because I don't have an Android at this time.
Now that you've invited your Facebook friends to like your business Facebook Page, you can target them with an ad. The type of ad is up to you. One ad that I like using is my Why video, this way they get to learn a little bit more about me. Or, I'll invite them to join our community of entrepreneurial service professionals looking to ditch the nine-to-five who are passionate about succeeding in their businesses.
NOTE: For this Ad Campaign, we are going to select a video that has already been posted on your Facebook Business Page.
Step 2: Choose your marketing objective.
– Tip: Selecting the Video View objective tells Facebook that want people to watch your video. Facebook will then place your video in front of the people most like to watch at least 3-seconds of your video.
– Tip: Make your Campaign Name descriptive.
An Ad Set is made up of your target audience, budget, schedule, and placement.
Select where your ad should be displayed.
Tip: The minimum Daily Budget allowed by Facebook is $1.00 USD per day.
You should receive a notification from Facebook once your Ad has been approved.
Congratulations! You're running an Ad campaign to those people who support your passions as an entrepreneur!
Despite Facebook's decline in organic reach, Facebook Business Pages have a tremendously powerful place in Marketing. The use of Facebook's Advertising features, only available to Facebook Pages, enables you to create a strong visual presence while remaining top-of-mind to the people that support your entrepreneurial efforts.
What do you think? Can you see how marketing to the people who already Like and support you can increase visibility and generate referrals? What other tips can you offer? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.


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Join artist Nicci Wonnacott for a five week course considering the role of the sketchbook and its importance in your creative journey. Using drawn, mixed media and artist research, we will explore a different element of art practice. Expect a day packed full of new ideas to take forward for your own personal development or to present at interview for further education.
Bring your own sketchbook or one can be provided for you for £3.50. Sketchbooks provided will be A4 landscape hardback sketchbooks.


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A nine-year veteran of the Legislature, Jon Cooper is widely recognized as one of the most prolific lawmakers in Suffolk County's history. His landmark ban on the use of hand-held cell phones while driving was copied nationwide. The domestic partner registry he established in the county secured privileges, such as hospital visitation rights, to gay and lesbian couples. Cooper also authored the nation's first ban on the sale of the dietary supplement ephedra. These groundbreaking laws landed him a spot on the Power List five times already, but it's his collective achievements that wins one of Long Island's most progressive politicians a spot in this year's Hall of Fame. His historic environmental protection initiative has protected our open spaces, reduced the use of chemical pesticides and promoted the use of clean, renewable energy. The first openly gay politician on the Island, Cooper has made his personal life public and advocated tirelessly for gay rights. He was not only the first elected official in New York State to endorse Barack Obama back in 2007, but he also became his LI campaign chairman, and he raised nearly $1 million for Obama's presidential campaign. Cooper also serves as president of Spectronics Corporation, a company with nearly 200 employees and one of the few remaining manufacturing firms on LI. And now that he will soon be term-limited out of office, his eye is on the U.S. Senate, which would have him challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010. Cooper has his work cut out for him, but don't count him out just yet. He's an underdog who champions underdog issues. And the best part is that he always seems to win.
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Depth and length as dramatic as colors in southwest Wyoming gorges. Photo by Christine Tibbetts, Blended Family Traveling Mom.
Glorious as they are, national parks fill up fast. Need a so consider southwest Wyoming for up close family experiences in stunning gorges, nose-to-nose with ancient petroglyphs and way off-road with wild horses and towering buttes. Then mosey on to Yellowstone and Canyonlands, already satisfied and thrilled with the west.
Sweetwater County is the southwest corner of Wyoming, touching Utah, and a retired Swiss Army truck is the preferred vehicle to forge deep into the wild western wilderness.
Rock Springs and Green River are the towns but I recommend exploring beyond them.
Here's a two-day immersion schedule. Longer works too unless the national parks beckon too strongly.
Book the all-day adventure with Rick Nobles and his Green River Wild Horse Tours. Leave your car behind because the gravel roads are isolated; your tires might be vulnerable and his open-air vehicle takes the bumps.
Best way to to experience Wild Horse Scenic Loop is a tour in this Swiss Army truck. Photo by Christine Tibbetts, Blended Family TravelingMom.
Seat belts strap everybody securely on bench seats but babies and toddlers are not likely to appreciate the bouncing, the dust or the fabulous stories of Wyoming that Nobles shares easily.
Spending the day with a rancher and oilman who knows every wild horse personally—or so it seems as he spots them around a bend, on the horizon or near a volcanic outcropping—is a privilege way beyond the $75 fee for the experience.
Anticipate reverence in his enthusiasm for the west, and his deep desire to protect the lands as well as use and enjoy them.
He's a bit of a trickster too, so listen closely in case he's pulling your leg with a tall tale mixed in with solid history.
The main road that you can follow with a brochure is called Pilot Butte Wild Horse Scenic Loop. Notice the paragraph with High Desert Survival Tip: "reliable transportation is a must" and book the tour instead of driving.
Wild horses can be elusive, yet well worth the wait for the flood of emotion spotting one on a high bluff, a sentinel to the old wild west, and also to the future it seemed to me.
Ancient art appears in abundance on the White Mountains in southwest Wyoming, deeply etched lines from the Plains and Great Basin Native Americans.
The White Mountains in Sweetwater County are the place to find detailed petroglyphs. Photo by Christine Tibbetts, Blended Family TravelingMom.
You can get there two ways: drive yourself or ride with Rick Nobles. His deep reverence for the people who shared these stone writings and his knowledge of their meanings accumulated over years of gazing and studying adds value to the experience beyond your own sense of wonder.
Either way the walk from the parking lot is a quarter mile at high elevation so take water. If you drive know the petroglyphs are 10 miles north of Rock Springs in Sweetwater County and then 14 more miles on a dirt road with two more miles on a rougher dirt road.
Don't touch, even though you can tell others have. Take advantage of encounters with carved lines depicting buffalo, birds, homes of perhaps 1,000 years ago to teach the children why the oils in our fingers will damage ancient art.
Clambering up and down the sand dunes along the Wild Horse Scenic Loop is vastly different from avoiding the protected dunes at beaches in my native Jersey shore or now where I live near Georgia barrier islands.
Killpecker Sand Dunes stretch 100 miles east to west and are considered the second largest active sand dune field in the world. That means lots of soft, deep sand triggered a million years ago by volcanic ash.
Apparently the largest sand dunes in the western hemisphere are in Nebraska's Sand Hills. Delicate yellow flowers are able to bloom in both, no soil evident.
One section of Killpecker is carefully protected where the elk and deer favor birthing their young; a different 11,000 acres are designated for dune buggies and dirt bikes, ATVs with skilled riders and novices too.
Geological eons of time can be readily seen on southwest Wyoming holiday. Photo by Christine Tibbetts, Blended Family TravelingMom.
Facing west is Pilot Butte and at 7,949 feet tall it seems to be visible every which way I turned. That's your compass, Rick Nobles tells visitors.
Landscape memories filled the brains of ancient people, fur traders and pioneers walking these vast lands, guiding their comings and goings via sandstone and shale geologic forms.
Feel confident driving yourself along the Flaming Gorge-Uintas National Scenic Byway and if you're lucky, find a reservation at Red Canyon Lodge which fills fast. 2015 rates ranged from $119 to $159.
Staying there in family-friendly cabins gives ample time to hike into gorge with its flaming colored rocks and deep blue waters, to canoe, kayak and standup paddleboard in the lake, ride horses along gorge trails and partake of chef-designed meals in the main lodge.
Deep-water colors engage visitors in some spots, flaming walls in other canyons. Photo by Christine Tibbetts, Blended Family TravelingMom.
The nearest traffic light is 40 miles away.
The driving map for this Byway shows pullouts and other stopping points so you can get out with the kids and explore fossils and evidence of ancient life, ecosystems, gigantic views, wildlife and layers of time in the geology.
Hang out a while in Ashley National Forest because the visitor center exhibits are nice and the bathrooms are too. Options on the off-road tour in wild horse country were just the sagebrush that takes 100 years to grow to any height so privacy is slim and squatting is vital.
Ashely National Forest on the Flaming Gorge byway also provides safe, fenced overviews to see the splendor of the deep gorge.
Wild horses are as real as they are colorful. Photo by Christine Tibbetts, Blended Family TravelingMom.


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Ice hockey standouts from 14 area high schools, including Tower Hill, Salesianum, Charter School of Wilmington, Delaware Military Academy, and Newark, suited up for a face-off on October 20th to raise funds for teen mental health. The match-up on the ice took place at the Fred Rust Arena at the University of Delaware and followed an exciting competition between UD Men's Hockey vs. Navy, with Navy winning 4-3.
Players at the dual Face Off for Teen Mental Health say they wanted to have some competitive fun but do their part to address the disease.
More than 700 people attended the annual fundraiser to raise awareness and financial support for positive mental health in teens. Collectively, the college and high school players raised $10,000 for National Alliance on Mental Illness in Delaware (NAMI).
The students' goal was more than putting the puck into the net. They hope their fundraising efforts inspire dialogue and improved education around the stigma of mental illness. They also skated in memory of Christopher Lavelle, who skated for DMA and passed away in October, 2017.
Newark High School's Dante Albertson was the top fundraiser, who thought the event was a great way to bring attention to an important issue. "I'm really glad I could help out with this cause," he said.
Ice hockey players from 14 high schools helped raise $10,000 for NAMI.
The event was coordinated by Open Net Foundation, which leads events that support child-related nonprofits. Info Solutions LLC was the lead sponsor. Info Solutions Managing Partner Rich Roux is a lifelong supporter of all things ice hockey and was captain of his ice hockey team his senior year at the University of Delaware ('82).


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Q: select sub item in a tuple list in python Here I have one list like this:
a = [[13245,0.123],[12435,0.435],[12345,0.799],[98775,0.573]...]
I want to use the first item in every tuple as x axis, and the second item in every tuple as y axis to plot a figure.
like x = [13245,12435,12345,68775] y = [0.123,0.435,0.799,0.573]
How can I select them out?

A: Simplest is probably to use zip:
x, y = zip(*a)

A: Try this:
x = [tmplist[0] for tmplist in a]
y = [tmplist[1] for tmplist in a]

Also, [] doesn't define tuples, but lists. But in your case the handling is equal.

A: use:
x = []
y = []
for e in a:
    x.append(e[0])
    y.append(e[1])

edit: I didn't even remeber zip(), but it is certainly the best way of doing it:
x, y = zip(*a)

A: python have a realy powerfull function for this :)
zip
try it
x,y = zip(*a)

the * is the key. see the doc for more details

A: I'm not sure why your converting to a x list and a y list to plot coordinates.  Would something as simple as this work?
for x,y in a:
  plot(x,y)

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School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy
Air-Power History, Military History, The wars in Indochina, US History (20 & 21C), US Politics (20 & 21C), Media & History
Dr Ian Horwood is Senior Lecturer in History, American Studies and War Studies in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy at York St John University. His research interests include inter-service rivalry, airmobility, the dynamics of insurgency, concentration and asymmetry in air combat, and inter-war gaming, especially of naval aviation. He is a member of the York Historical War Analysis Group (YHWAG), a collaboration of mathematicians and historians from the Universities of York and York St John, with interests spanning 20th century international and military history, operations research, and warfare analysis.
PhD history,University of Leeds, 2001; MA history, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, 1993; BA (Hons) politics and modern history, University of Manchester, 1985.
Horwood, Ian and Price, Chris (2019) 'A Fundamental Weapon': The Transatlantic Air Power Controversy of the Early 1920s and the US Navy as a Learning Organisation. Journal of Transatlantic Studies. (In Press)
Horwood, Ian (2019) 'The fourth dimension of warfare: Early techno-thriller fiction and the manned bomber vs. missile controversy of the early 1960s'. In: Faria, Dominique, Dobson, Alan, Monteiro, Antonio and Rodrigues, Luis Nuno, (eds.) L'aviation et son impact sur le temps et espace. First ed. Exotopies . Paris, Le Manuscrit, pp. 305-330
Fagan, Brennen, Horwood, Ian, MacKay, Niall, Price, Chris, Richards, Ed and Wood, A. Jamie (2020) Bootstrapping the Battle of Britain. Journal of Military History, 84 (1). pp. 151-186.
Horwood, Ian (2018) As a Conservative, John McCain was in a Class of His Own | Opinion. Newsweek.
Horwood, Ian (2017) 'The development of airpower roles and missions in the First World War "Biggles" stories of Captain W.E. Johns'. In: de Almeida, Jose Domingues, Faria, Dominique, Outeirinho, Maria de Fatima and Monteiro, Antonio, (eds.) Aviateurs-écrivains: Témoins de l'histoire. First ed. Exotopies . Paris, Le Manuscrit, pp. 147-165
Horwood, Ian, MacKay, Niall and Price, Christopher (2014) Concentration and Asymmetry in Air Combat: Lessons for the Defensive employment of Air Power. Air Power Review, 17 (2). pp. 68-91.
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2 'The development of airpower roles and missions in the First World War "Biggles" stories of Captain W.E. Johns' 57 4
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April 2015. Poor Sustained Virological Response in a Multicenter Real-Life Cohort of Chronic Hepatitis C Patients Treated with Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin plus Telaprevir or Boceprevir. Vo KP, Vutien P, Akiyama MJ, Vu VD, Ha NB, Piotrowski JI, Wantuck J, Roytman MM, Tsai N, Cheung R, Li J, Nguyen MH. Dig Dis Sci. 2015 Apr;60(4):1045-51. doi: 10.1007/s10620-015-3621-0. Epub 2015 Mar 28.
January 2015. Meta-analysis: superior treatment response in Asian patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 6 versus genotype 1 with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. Nguyen NH, McCormack SA, Vutien P, Yee BE, Devaki P, Jencks D, Nguyen MH. Intervirology. 2015;58(1):27-34. doi: 10.1159/000369097. Epub 2015 Jan 10.
August 2014. Mutations in HBV DNA polymerase associated with nucleos(t)ide resistance are rare in treatment-naive patients. Vutien P, Trinh HN, Garcia RT, Nguyen HA, Levitt BS, Nguyen K, da Silveira E, Daugherty T, Ahmed A, Garcia G, Lutchman GA, Nguyen MH. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014 Aug;12(8):1363-70. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.11.036. Epub 2013 Dec 14.
February 2013. Precore and basal core promoter mutations in Asian American patients with hepatitis B e antigen-positive chronic hepatitis B. Vutien P, Trinh HN, Nguyen K, Garcia RT, Nguyen HA, Levitt BS, Nguyen L, Ha NB, Ahmed A, Daugherty T, Garcia G, Nguyen MH. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2013 Feb;37(4):464-72. doi: 10.1111/apt.12193. Epub 2012 Dec 22.
May 2010. Similar treatment response to peginterferon and ribavirin in Asian and Caucasian patients with chronic hepatitis C. Vutien P, Nguyen NH, Trinh HN, Li J, Garcia RT, Garcia G, Nguyen KK, Nguyen HA, Levitt BS, Keeffe EB, Nguyen MH. Am J Gastroenterol. 2010 May;105(5):1110-5. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2009.635. Epub 2009 Nov 10.


never offered a second opinion on the NHS, so was forced to go private and has to pay another 27,000 for a second operation on her left lung to enable her to walk around the house without being attached to an oxygen mask.
"I want Andy to have a look at this case and add it to the list of things (in the NHS) and to make sure he is aware of the type of issue where she wasn't given a second opinion.
diagnosis left her with just 27 per cent capacity in her right lung and barely any in her left.
He has also written to BRI and the Royal Brompton Nike Air Max 2015 Womens Pink to establish exactly what happened and why Miss Brown felt she had no option but to pay for her treatment.
Kaye Mitchell, a friend of Miss Brown, said: "It could be a really long process, but Mr Sutcliffe is confident he could get some money back if not everything.
"I have to exhaust the process, but I am determined. This has been bad advice and she has not got what she was entitled to.
"I will go through the process and in the end if I have to see Mr Hunt, I will do. Miss Brown is obviously a lovely lady and I met her last Saturday. If she hadn't found this bit of information out herself it could have ended in tragedy and she might not be here."
"She should be reimbursed for both operations either from BRI or from within the NHS.
"I am asking the Health Service to find the money to refund it," Mr Sutcliffe said.
A Bradford MP was meeting the Shadow Health Secretary today in his fight to get the 27,000 life savings spent by a mother of four on a life saving lung operation refunded by the NHS.
Now Bradford South Labour MP Gerry Sutcliffe was meeting Andy Burnham to discuss the case in London today and, if he still is not satisfied, said he will raise the matter with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.


Structure-based drug discovery (SBDD) is becoming an essential tool in assisting fast and cost-efficient lead discovery and optimization. The application of rational, structure-based drug design is proven to be more efficient than the traditional way of drug discovery since it aims to understand the molecular basis of a disease and utilizes the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the biological target in the process. In this review, we focus on the principles and applications of Virtual Screening (VS) within the context of SBDD and examine different procedures ranging from the initial stages of the process that include receptor and library pre-processing, to docking, scoring and post-processing of topscoring hits. Recent improvements in structure-based virtual screening (SBVS) efficiency through ensemble docking, induced fit and consensus docking are also discussed. The review highlights advances in the field within the framework of several success studies that have led to nM inhibition directly from VS and provides recent trends in library design as well as discusses limitations of the method. Applications of SBVS in the design of substrates for engineered proteins that enable the discovery of new metabolic and signal transduction pathways and the design of inhibitors of multifunctional proteins are also reviewed. Finally, we contribute two promising VS protocols recently developed by us that aim to increase inhibitor selectivity. In the first protocol, we describe the discovery of micromolar inhibitors through SBVS designed to inhibit the mutant H1047R PI3Kα kinase. Second, we discuss a strategy for the identification of selective binders for the RXRα nuclear receptor. In this protocol, a set of target structures is constructed for ensemble docking based on binding site shape characterization and clustering, aiming to enhance the hit rate of selective inhibitors for the desired protein target through the SBVS process.
Computer-aided drug design, docking and scoring, ensemble docking, lead optimization, library design, PI3Kα, RXRα, virtual screening.
Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephessiou, 11527 Athens, Greece.


We're pleased to announce, along with NATS, that the Jane's Award-winning Heathrow XMAN cross border arrivals management system (SWIM-WS) has now been migrated into full operational service under a three year contract.
Originally a prototype developed for the 2013 EUROCONTROL SWIM Master Class and subsequently run within an operational trial by NATS since April 2014, the trial system has saved an estimated 8000 tonnes of CO2 and £1.65 million in airline and ground costs.
The team here at Snowflake packaged our GO Publisher data exchange technology into NATS' operational environment to enable arrival information relating to aircraft landing at Heathrow airport to be shared with air traffic controllers in different European countries. As a result, operational decisions can be made to slow aircraft en-route to Heathrow, reducing the time aircraft spend circling in 'holding stacks' around London. The effect is a saving in fuel and carbon emissions as aircraft are more efficient when flying at high level yielding a significant benefit to airlines and the environment. Read the full case study.


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Man who died in stabbing outside Lynnwood Fred Meyer identified
Posted: January 29, 2021 1204
The Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the 62-year-old man who was stabbed outside the Lynnwood Fred Meyer Sunday morning as Greg J. McKnight of Lynnwood.
McKnight died Sunday, Jan. 24, after being transported to Harborview Medical Center. He had been stabbed multiple times with a knife near the Fred Meyer entrance in the 4600 block of 196th Street Southwest.
The medical examiner ruled McKnight's death as a homicide caused by a stab wound.
Around 11:45 a.m. Sunday, witnesses reported that McKnight was having a verbal argument with a group of at least three people when one of them stabbed him. Lynnwood detectives have asked for the public's help locating the suspect or suspects.
The suspect vehicle was last scene driving northbound on 48th Avenue West from 196th Southwest in a "white or silver-colored four-door vehicle with black rims and body damage. (Image courtesy of the Lynnwood Police Department)
Witnesses described the suspect responsible for the stabbing as a Black woman in her late teens to early 20s, approximately 5 feet, 3 inches to 5 feet, 4 inches, skinny and with short to mid-length curly black hair. She was last seen fleeing the scene, driving northbound on 48th Avenue West from 196th Southwest in a "white or silver-colored four-door vehicle with black rims and body damage, possibly a late-model Nissan Sentra," police said. The vehicle has a rear Arizona license plate and no front plate. Two other individuals — a man and a woman — also left in the vehicle with the suspect.
Anyone with information on this incident can contact Detective Sattarov at 425-670-5633 or Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Photos or video of the incident should be forwarded to the detectives working the case by clicking here.


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Erb's Palsy Settlement of Almost €1M
Recently, the High Court of London approved a settlement for almost €1M in an medical malpractice action filed by the parents of a nine-year-old boy who suffered shoulder and hand injuries at the time of his birth.
The boy's 45-year-old mother has filed a separate suit concerning the trauma. She claims she underwent a 'horrific childbirth' which tragically left her son John physically disabled.
A reporter found that the court was told the case brought on behalf of the boy had been settled for €900,000. Senior counsel for the child said, "Liability had been admitted by the obstetrician and the Southern Health Board." They also supplied a substantial apology.
"No doubt the parents were advised on what to do about accepting the settlement or appealing for a higher ruling," said a doctor. He said the parents had to give a lot of thought to the matter, but that they had, in the end, decided to accept it rather than gamble with their son's money.
In court, senior counsel for the defendants, the doctor and hospital, told the court that his clients were very sorry for what had occurred.
The Justice presiding over the case said it was a very good settlement. She was also quoted as saying she was "very impressed by [the boy]" who suffers from Erb's palsy, a condition which involves paralysis and loss of function to his right hand. Fortunately, the boy is not intellectually disabled; he is a "clever, handsome, articulate little man who deserved the settlement."
According to records, this is the highest award ever handed out in the case of an Erb's palsy medical negligence damages claim.
The mother's case claims the obstetrician failed in his duties because he did not initiate a caesarean section, which would have been much quicker and safer for her son. He also failed to appropriately use a forceps mechanical extraction device in the delivery of her son.
The doctor and hospital have admitted liability in this case which is suing for damages only. Hospitals in Nassau and Suffolk try to avoid these accidents.
When doctors misstep and cause serious harm, you are entitle to compensation. Find a New York Birth Injury Attorney who will help you seek the appropriate compensation for your injuries and damages.
Posted in: Erbs Palsy, Nassau and Suffolk County
Updated: January 17, 2012 6:13 pm


Korean shipyard Daehan Shipbuilding has exited rehabilitation after just over one year. A court in Seoul yesterday decided the yard was back in decent financial health having repaid its debts owed from last year.
The medium-sized builder filed for court receivership in July last year, which was due to a failed shipowning sister firm of Daehan's not shipyard difficulties.
Daehan had been managed by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and is controlled by the Korea Development bank. Daehan focuses on product carriers and bulkers.
Seoul is pushing for far greater integration of its shipbuilders, with many mid-sized yards likely to be taken on by their larger peers. Whether Daehan will go to DSME, itself going through immense financial difficulties, remains to be seen.


In this photo from fall 2013, visitors Ketty Citterio of Italy, left, and Sharon Osborn of California, enjoy the Colorado River view from the short dead-end section of the LoVa trail in West Glenwood.
Momentum is building for a stretch of the long-envisioned Lower Valley Trail between Glenwood Springs and New Castle, where town officials see the connection to existing upper-valley trails as a crucial economic development project.
"It's viewed as public health, recreation, but in large part the [Town Council's] attention is on economic development," Tom Baker, New Castle town administrator, said of the trail, called LoVa.
Although it will likely be some time before construction on new segments of LoVa begin, New Castle is engineering and designing one section of trail to Canyon Creek and pursuing money to design the other stretch leading to South Canyon.
On the opposite end, a segment from West Glenwood to South Canyon remains a priority among city leaders, although a recent federal funding request was rejected.
"There's been some downs, but things seem to be progressing now (at a rate) unmatched during the 12 years I've been involved," said Larry Dragon, executive director of the LoVa Trails group.
The downs, referenced by Dragon, followed peaks of optimism since the LoVa Trail — a 47-mile nonmotorized trail running from Glenwood to the Garfield County line west of Parachute, effectively connecting municipalities along the Colorado River — became a topic of discussion in the late '90s.
While the general idea has support from some community leaders and residents, roadblocks, mostly related to money, have prevented the trail from extending west of Glenwood Springs.
Despite the lack of large-scale progress to date, the LoVa Trail received statewide recognition in January when Gov. John Hickenlooper named it one of the highest priority trail projects in the entire state through his "16 in 2016" initiative.
That effort aims to build coordination on trail projects that would improve outdoor recreation, spur economic development and provide safe routes for alternative transportation.
Although the governor's initiative does not include money, it does offer LoVa and other identified projects a prominent standing when applying for grants.
Years before the governor ever announced "16 in 2016," New Castle identified the connection to Glenwood Springs as a project with large economic development opportunities.
New Castle recently submitted an application for a $175,100 Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant from the Colorado Department of Transportation to begin designing a 2.4-mile stretch of trail between Canyon Creek and South Canyon. The town expects to learn if its application is successful in early October, according to Russi.
If the TAP grant application is approved, it would build on engineering already underway for a roughly 4.1-mile stretch of trail between New Castle and Canyon Creek. That work was made possible by a $65,000 grant awarded by Colorado Parks and Wildlife earlier this year, which New Castle matched with approximately $20,000.
Russi said the design and engineering work should be completed this winter, making the stretch of trail "shovel ready" in 2017.
Although momentum from the New Castle end is trending positively, Glenwood Springs received disappointing news recently when it learned that a funding request through the Federal Lands Access Program was rejected.
The request included planning and construction money for the LoVa Trail between West Glenwood and South Canyon, a project with a total cost north of $10 million, according to Terri Partch, Glenwood Springs city engineer. The portion of trail to South Canyon remains a priority for the city.
"We think it's a very important part of our infrastructure," she said.
Partch intends to budget some design money in the 2017 budget, and City Council has identified the trail as a priority for its Federal Mineral Lease District grant applications.
"We see it as a big benefit for future biking and access into South Canyon and to New Castle as well," Partch said.
Most of the current efforts focus on design and engineering.
There is still the matter of construction. Planning will need to be completed before approximate construction cost estimates are known.
For example, the cost of the trail between New Castle and Canyon Creek could vary depending on its alignment, which could be north or south of the Colorado River.
Russi and Jeff Simonson, town engineer, have noted that the segment through Canyon Creek and South Canyon is among the most daunting stretches of the entire LoVa trail.
However, New Castle's successful effort in obtaining matching money for its TAP grant could signal the start of a coalition consisting of local governments and other stakeholders — all of which could prove crucial when the time comes to seek construction dollars.
The town received a letter of support and $5,000 match from the city of Glenwood Springs, Roaring Fork Transportation Authority and Garfield County. Additionally, LiveWell contributed $10,000 and the town kicked in another $10,000.
Those partnerships will be increasingly vital once the planning is completed and attention turns toward construction, Russi said. More stakeholders mean more resources and a potentially louder voice in the noisy and crowded process of applying for grants.
Garfield County Commissioner Mike Samson, who also sits on the Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District board of directors, noted in July that the collaboration would make the project a prime candidate for a future FMLD grant.
There is uniform agreement, though, that the bulk of construction money is going to have to come from outside of Garfield County — likely from state and federal agencies.
In repeating a long-standing position, County Commissioner Tom Jankovsky reminded officials from New Castle that Garfield County is not in the trails business and will not maintain the trail.
But stakeholders pushing the recent efforts are hopeful they can find a partner that already has experience in operating a large multiuse trail: RFTA.
RFTA manages the majority of the Rio Grande Trail, a 42-mile trail running from Glenwood Springs to Aspen.
"RFTA has a great track record with operating and maintaining the Rio Grande Trail, and the question before the board is will they expand that non-transit transportation service, in other words the trails service, to the Colorado River Corridor trail network," Russi said.
Along with maintenance, RFTA also has experience in construction management, and it has access to some funding sources that local governments do not have, said Dan Blankenship, RFTA CEO.
From Blankenship's view, the LoVa Trail is a crucial component of the local and state trail network, both in terms of recreation and transportation.
The decision will be made by the board, which consists of representatives from RFTA member governments, but Blankenship said he intends to offer strong support for greater involvement on the part of RFTA.


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Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim: In Mosul, the flag of Daesh flocked and in Mosul it will fall, the victory is the victory all Iraqis
Mashhad - political editor
Head of the National Iraqi Alliance, Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, stated In Mosul, the flag of Daesh flocked and in Mosul it will fall in Iraq and in the world as well, and pointed that the victory of Mosul is a victory for all Iraqis considering the demographic diversity in Mosul that makes a miniature Iraq, pointed to the need to focus on the security and intelligence side as Daesh may appear ended, yet it still needs a long time of confrontation, stressed the importance of the political project that reassures everyone in terms of law and Constitution and not out of weakness. That is the document of national settlement espoused by the National Iraqi Alliance based on its three pillars concessions, reassurances and mutual guarantees.
This was in the general assembly of the Union of Islamic Radio and Television in the holy city of Mashhad on Sunday 2/7/2017.
His eminence stressed the fight against corruption as a priority in the post-liberation phase, adding the reconstruction of liberated cities and the cities of the liberators as well, stressed on the national sovereignty of Iraq no soldier or military base of any foreign side are to be located on Iraq, reiterated emphasis on unity of Iraq and convince partners, who some of them imagine that they can have better chances by dividing Iraq,
His eminence called for generalizing the popular mobilization forces experience from being a military mobilization to a humanitarian mobilization who provide care for the families of martyrs, the vulnerable and needy families, and health mobilization of doctors who provide health services to the needy and an economic mobilization through involving people in reviving the wheel of economy and a media and culture mobilization as well, his eminence indicated that Iraq will regain its regional roles bridging relationship between the rivals, and from that stemmed the invitation to the dialogue table to define areas of disagreement, engagement, agreement and interests.
Regarding missionary media, his eminence that the missionary media should be characterized by principality in terms of the message and a media of culture to build an Islamic society that is enlightened promoting unity and does not create divisions, and develop areas of convergence and neutralize areas of intersection, plus credibility and conveying facts without lies or exaggerations taking into account priorities to avoid luring, the first issue Is the Palestinian Issue and rejection of extremism.
His eminence stressed on professionalism, objectivity, information industry, inclusiveness, stability, resistance, lenience, fairness, confidence in self, openness, Intrepidity, clarity, mobilization of the nation and giving the popular momentum to the project, and stressed the importance of reconciling and intellectual confrontation, facing atheism even in its smallest circles.