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DoD JEDI Awakens to Microsoft Premier Support Alternative, US Cloud
JEDI is the United States military's cloud for its warfighters. The US military cloud will have all the benefits of security, scale, cost effectiveness, failover, AI and the typical cloud pains of migration and hybrid integration. The Microsoft cloud platform will bring a steady flow of new features and updates. Knowing how to use the new features and how they will impact existing environments will grow in importance as JEDI adoption increases.
Microsoft is addressing the DoD's requirement for data sovereignty and making sure that its US data centers are manned only by screened US citizens. However, Microsoft does not guarantee that when a DoD entity picks up the phone for an Office 365, Azure or other Microsoft issue, that the person on the other end of the phone is not a foreign national. And while most issues covered under Microsoft Premier (Unified) Support are fairly routine and not business critical, there can and will be incidents that are mission-critical and their expeditious resolution by screened US citizens will be paramount to our US warfighters and the DoD.
1 What is JEDI?
2 How Could JEDI Suffer Without the Sovereign Support of US Cloud?
3 JEDI Security
4 Imminent Danger – Foreign Nationals Supporting JEDI
5 DoD JEDI Support Costs
6 Keeping Up with the Pace of Cloud
7 Supporting The US Military Cloud
8 Sovereign Support – Homeland to Battlefield
What is JEDI?
The United States military is embarking on an ambitious and expensive cloud transformation project to modernize IT resources across all the Pentagon's departments and branches of the armed services.
The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) initiative is one component of that plan. A Cloud Strategy document presented to Congress makes a distinction between the Department of Defense (DoD)'s need for a "General Purpose" cloud, and ones that will be "Fit For Purpose".
The General Purpose cloud that will go to AWS or Microsoft will be the cloud of first-choice, with a "primary implementation bias" for all defense agencies. "Only when mission needs cannot be supported by General Purpose will Fit For Purpose alternatives be explored," the document reads.
"Mission owners" that want to stray from the cloud provider selected through the JEDI initiative will have to submit an "Exception Brief" to the DoD's CIO explaining why they believe the capability they require cannot be met by the General Purpose cloud.
How Could JEDI Suffer Without the Sovereign Support of US Cloud?
Scenario 1 Minimal Impact: A foreign national working for Microsoft via its 3rd party offshore outsourcers, and supporting JEDI via its Microsoft Premier (Unified) Support contract with DoD, receives a "mission-critical" severity support ticket and purposefully delays the resolution process by hours or days. At a minimum, slowing the operational velocity of DoD, but at most threatening missions of deployed warfighters. The "Microsoft employee" with a v-card then passes along the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to the nation state of their true employ to create a framework for future cyber attacks on JEDI.
Scenario 3 Critical Impact: A foreign national working for Microsoft via its 3rd party offshore outsourcers, has gained remote access to JEDI systems and is slowly and stealthily mapping its failover model. The "Microsoft employee" with a v-card then uses this model and is poised to activate dormant and undetected malware to steal credentials and take down a portion of JEDI or all of JEDI limiting the DoD's ability to detect or respond to a larger coordinated cyber or military attack on the United States.
JEDI Security
With a military cloud, security is the paramount concern.
Pentagon brass view public cloud as an advantage in securing military data and systems, and the DoD cloud strategy was crafted to align with its larger cyber strategy. "DoD must embrace modern security mechanisms built into modern commercial cloud providers' platforms to ensure the security of these large amounts of data and to safeguard the information," the report says.
The Pentagon's current infrastructure poses a security liability. The report discloses that the DoD has found it a challenge to keep up with cyber-related threats. "By owning and operating the physical hardware associated with on-premises data centers, the Department can incur unnecessary security risks and consume resources that could otherwise be realigned to support warfighters and the workforce in other mission areas," the report says.
Overly strict policies and procurement procedures make it difficult for the DoD's IT professionals to ensure hardware and software are updated appropriately. Public cloud vendors looking to win the lucrative contracts will be scrutinized over their security capabilities.
"DoD should independently test and assess cloud network security to verify security compliance and incident response, and review all contractor and third-party testing results to ensure that performance and security monitoring are sufficient."
Military leaders want to shift the cyber-security focus from guarding the perimeters of networks to actively controlling access to data. The modern encryption algorithms and key management systems built into commercial cloud services, and proper tagging of data, will achieve that.
In addition to controlling access to data, military leaders should verify that all technical support personnel supporting their Microsoft systems are screened US citizens. This will assure ITAR/DFARS compliance and mitigate the risk of needlessly exposing foreign nationals to JEDI.
Imminent Danger – Foreign Nationals Supporting JEDI
Microsoft Premier (Unified) support services is increasingly using third party providers (including but not limited to Wipro and Tata) to augment their own team. Federal organizations have found that contractually, Microsoft will not guarantee that a foreign national will not answer the support line or work their tickets. Federal, state and local organizations are switching from Microsoft to US Cloud for sovereignty and fiscal responsibility.
On April 4, 2019, the government of India sold "enemy" shares in Wipro worth approximately $166 million. According to this article in The Business Standard, enemy shares are so called because they were originally held by people who migrated to Pakistan or China and are not Indian citizens any longer.
"A total of 44.4 million shares, which were held by the Custodian of Enemy Property for India, were sold at Rs 259 apiece on the Bombay Stock Exchange," The Business Standard reported. "The buyers were state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), New India Assurance and General Insurance Corporation. LIC"
The recent June of 2019 announcement of Cloud Hopper attacks compromised several prominent providers including Tata, a commonly used 3rd party staffing extension of Microsoft Premier (Unified) support services. Reuters originally reported on the attack. Tata has refused comment. A US indictment is now pending and the Chinese Ministry of State Security is suspected as the source of the attack.
DoD JEDI Support Costs
The military is constrained by budgets. Pentagon leaders see cloud delivering economic benefits, as many private enterprises have come to appreciate.
"The cloud pay-for-use model will provide the flexibility to optimize costs across the IT portfolio and allow DoD to adapt to changing priorities, budgetary conditions, and industry developments," the report says. Existing systems that are not "cloud ready" often use "excessive amounts of cloud infrastructure resources", making them less efficient and therefore more expensive to operate.
The military also recognizes, as many enterprises have come to discover, predicting cloud costs is difficult. To achieve cost transparency, the military will need to implement "strong governance" to monitor how applications are developed and data is transmitted and stored.
"As we develop these standards, implement them, and subsequently learn and better align our services and data to an enterprise solution, we can look to automated tools and techniques to better inform accurate tracking of financial execution of cloud resources."
Just as the cloud delivers economic efficiencies, so to does US Cloud Federal Support Services. Microsoft dependent organizations like the DoD typically cut their cost in half when switching from Microsoft Unified (formerly Premier) support to US Cloud. This significant savings would allow the DoD to stay on budget and reallocate the support savings dollars where our warfighters need it most.
Keeping Up with the Pace of Cloud
As US federal, state and local governments adopt cloud service platforms like Microsoft Azure and Office 365, new features and security updates automatically flow from Microsoft to the user base. This helps keep the environment and users more secure but also introduces changes more often. Do the administrators know what new features are coming and when? Are any features in the pipeline capable of breaking the existing environment as they roll out? Are users aware of new features and how to use them? If not, who will do the training and when?
It's critical that an organization's IT roadmap align with the cloud services roadmap of Microsoft. Third party trusted support providers like US Cloud can not only support mission critical Microsoft technologies but also offer advisory and roadmap services in order to maximize the organization's investment across the entire Microsoft stack.
Supporting The US Military Cloud
One component, the JEDI initiative, has created a firestorm of controversy in Silicon Valley, including criticism from an industry trade group, protests to the GAO, and a lawsuit by Oracle against the federal government.
Even though the DoD's Cloud Strategy is much broader than JEDI, it needs the help of enterprise cloud providers to empower troops in the field and military intelligence professionals.
"The DoD Cloud Strategy reasserts our commitment to cloud and the need to view cloud initiatives from an enterprise perspective for more effective adoption," a foreword to the document, written by Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, reads.
"The Department of Defense (DoD) has entered the modern age of warfighting where the battlefield exists as much in the digital world as it does in the physical," Shanahan says.
"Cloud is a fundamental component of the global infrastructure that will empower the warfighter with data and is critical to maintaining our military' s technological advantage."
US Cloud stands ready with its 100% US citizen team to support the US military cloud and its user base of warfighters. Support sovereignty, ITAR/DFARS compliance, and 30-60% cost savings make US Cloud the responsible choice for the DoD and the taxpayers of the United States.
Sovereign Support – Homeland to Battlefield
The DoD cloud environment needs to support military operations from the battlefield to the home front.
"We must give JEDI and the DoD the US sovereign support staff it deserves to complete missions successfully," says the founder of US Cloud, Robert E. LaMear IV. "Inserting foreign nationals into the country's (USA) technical support supply chain is irresponsible and poses a needless risk to our national security."
A requirement for the DoD cloud is integration and operation of computing solutions that are straightforward and repeatable across classification levels. "This will allow warfighters to make data driven decisions and enhance DoD ability to share data with allies and operate as a coalition force," the report says.
The report notes that the technology industry has made large strides in running disconnected operations. "The Department's General Purpose and Fit For Purpose clouds will capitalize on these efforts to provide the warfighter with the latest technology where they need it and when they need it regardless of the environment."
The "rugged and adaptable" devices used by combatants in the field must be able to automatically synchronize with the cloud when communications are sufficient or reestablished.
"Auto synchronization of information will ensure warfighters are retaining data, feeding it back into models, and fighting with the most recent algorithms. Doing this in a secure environment will be a force multiplier and directly support the primary goal of the cloud environment: information superiority."


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{

    using System;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Collections;
    using NPOI.Util;

    public class RefSubRecord
    {
        public const int ENCODED_SIZE = 6;

        /** index to External Book Block (which starts with a EXTERNALBOOK record) */
        private int _extBookIndex;
        private int _firstSheetIndex; // may be -1 (0xFFFF)
        private int _lastSheetIndex;  // may be -1 (0xFFFF)

        /** a Constructor for making new sub record
         */
        public RefSubRecord(int extBookIndex, int firstSheetIndex, int lastSheetIndex)
        {
            _extBookIndex = extBookIndex;
            _firstSheetIndex = firstSheetIndex;
            _lastSheetIndex = lastSheetIndex;
        }

        /**
         * @param in the RecordInputstream to Read the record from
         */
        public RefSubRecord(RecordInputStream in1)
            : this(in1.ReadShort(), in1.ReadShort(), in1.ReadShort())
        {

        }
        public int ExtBookIndex
        {
            get
            {
                return _extBookIndex;
            }
        }
        public int FirstSheetIndex
        {
            get
            {
                return _firstSheetIndex;
            }
        }
        public int LastSheetIndex
        {
            get { return _lastSheetIndex; }
        }

        public override String ToString()
        {
            StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
            buffer.Append("extBook=").Append(_extBookIndex);
            buffer.Append(" firstSheet=").Append(_firstSheetIndex);
            buffer.Append(" lastSheet=").Append(_lastSheetIndex);
            return buffer.ToString();
        }

        /**
         * called by the class that is responsible for writing this sucker.
         * Subclasses should implement this so that their data is passed back in a
         * byte array.
         *
         * @param offset to begin writing at
         * @param data byte array containing instance data
         * @return number of bytes written
         */
        public void Serialize(ILittleEndianOutput out1)
        {
            out1.WriteShort(_extBookIndex);
            out1.WriteShort(_firstSheetIndex);
            out1.WriteShort(_lastSheetIndex);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Title:        Extern Sheet
     * Description:  A List of Inndexes to SupBook
     * REFERENCE:
     * @author Libin Roman (Vista Portal LDT. Developer)
     * @version 1.0-pre
     */

    public class ExternSheetRecord : StandardRecord
    {
        public const short sid = 0x17;
        private IList _list;

        public ExternSheetRecord()
        {
            _list = new ArrayList();
        }

        /**
         * Constructs a Extern Sheet record and Sets its fields appropriately.
         * @param in the RecordInputstream to Read the record from
         */

        public ExternSheetRecord(RecordInputStream in1)
        {
            _list = new ArrayList();

            int nItems = in1.ReadShort();

            for (int i = 0; i < nItems; ++i)
            {
                RefSubRecord rec = new RefSubRecord(in1);

                _list.Add(rec);
            }
        }
        /**
 * @return index of newly added ref
 */
        public int AddRef(int extBookIndex, int firstSheetIndex, int lastSheetIndex)
        {
            _list.Add(new RefSubRecord(extBookIndex, firstSheetIndex, lastSheetIndex));
            return _list.Count - 1;
        }
        public int GetRefIxForSheet(int externalBookIndex, int sheetIndex)
        {
            int nItems = _list.Count;
            for (int i = 0; i < nItems; i++)
            {
                RefSubRecord ref1 = GetRef(i);
                if (ref1.ExtBookIndex != externalBookIndex)
                {
                    continue;
                }
                if (ref1.FirstSheetIndex == sheetIndex && ref1.LastSheetIndex == sheetIndex)
                {
                    return i;
                }
            }
            return -1;
        }
        /** returns the number of REF Records, which is in model
         * @return number of REF records
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        public int NumOfREFRecords
        {
            get
            {
                return _list.Count;
            }
        }

        /**
 * @return number of REF structures
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        public int NumOfRefs
        {
            get
            {
                return _list.Count;
            }
        }

        /**
         * Adds REF struct (ExternSheetSubRecord)
         * @param rec REF struct
         */
        public void AddREFRecord(RefSubRecord rec)
        {
            _list.Add(rec);
        }
        private RefSubRecord GetRef(int i)
        {
            return (RefSubRecord)_list[i];
        }
        public int GetExtbookIndexFromRefIndex(int refIndex)
        {
            return GetRef(refIndex).ExtBookIndex;
        }
        /**
 * @return -1 if not found
 */
        public int FindRefIndexFromExtBookIndex(int extBookIndex)
        {
            int nItems = _list.Count;
            for (int i = 0; i < nItems; i++)
            {
                if (GetRef(i).ExtBookIndex == extBookIndex)
                {
                    return i;
                }
            }
            return -1;
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        {
            ExternSheetRecord result = new ExternSheetRecord();
            for (int i = 0; i < esrs.Length; i++)
            {
                ExternSheetRecord esr = esrs[i];
                int nRefs = esr.NumOfREFRecords;
                for (int j = 0; j < nRefs; j++)
                {
                    result.AddREFRecord(esr.GetRef(j));
                }
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            return result;
        }
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        {
            return GetRef(extRefIndex).FirstSheetIndex;
        }

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        {
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            int nItems = _list.Count;
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                sb.Append("refrec         #").Append(i).Append(": ");
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        public override void Serialize(ILittleEndianOutput out1)
        {
            int nItems = _list.Count;

            out1.WriteShort(nItems);

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            {
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        {
            get {
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            }
        }

        /**
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         */
        public override short Sid
        {
            get { return sid; }
        }
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When adults don't act like it
Nov 26, 2007 at 12:01 AM Nov 26, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Bad parenting and Internet harassment leads to death of Missouri teen.
Let's be painfully honest. Many Americans tend to define God-awful parenting as an urban phenomenon, something that doesn't much happen in more affluent, educated, homogeneous communities. If only thosekids came from better homes ...
So meet Lori and Curt Drew of Dardenne Prairie, Mo., a small bedroom community about 35 miles northwest of St. Louis. Last year at this time mom Lori reportedly created an Internet MySpace account, pretending to be a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans and to develop a cyber-friendship with 13-year-old neighbor Megan Meier. For six weeks, she piqued Megan's interest and won her confidence. Megan developed something of a crush on this fictional Josh.
But then Drew reportedly turned on Megan, allegedly in retaliation for Megan's ended friendship with her daughter. According to Megan's father, the last communication from the Drew household said this: The world would be a better place without you.
And then Megan — who had struggled with depression and weight gain and bullying — walked into her bedroom closet and hanged herself. The Meiers later discovered that Josh Evans did not exist, outside the minds of the Drews.
Perhaps they didn't know how vulnerable Megan was, though they seemed to target some of her insecurities. It may be true that they did not expect her to commit suicide. Out of 1,000 teens, 999 of them probably would have shrugged this off and walked away without causing harm to themselves. Certainly we've heard of those cheerleader moms who'd do anything to secure their precious a coveted spot on the team. Many a dad has gone overboard in supporting a child at a sporting event. No one ever thinks it will get this out of hand.
Regardless, the adult behavior described above ranks among the most despicable and cruel we've read about in some time, so much so that we'd like to believe it has been exaggerated. The Drews repeatedly have declined comment. Officials of the St. Charles County (Mo.) Sheriff's Department insist it's an accurate representation of what the Drews told them, according to published reports.
And now the Drews are paying for it, though they have not been charged with any crime because no one so far has found any law that has been broken. Instead neighbors have shunned the family, which has come under the harshest criticism nationwide. They have received a number of threats.
We can take several lessons from this. First, the law has a ways to go to catch up with technology. Expect that to change. It already has in Dardenne Prairie, where elected officials last week unanimously passed an ordinance making Internet harassment a crime.
Second, this is one more example of how dangerous the Internet can be, especially for the young and impressionable. Not every predator is a creepy, middle-aged man. It's a good idea to monitor what your children are doing online.
Third, we live in a vicious era. You see the mean-spiritedness played out on the blogs. You see it in the responses to stories on the Journal Star's Web site. Some of the most vile comments are directed at children in this community. We'd wager that most come from adults — people old enough to know better. Perhaps, before rushing to condemn the Drews, some folks should think about them before they hit their own "send" button.
Finally, if what is alleged of the Drews is true, what an awful example they have set for their own daughter. No, they don't live in the inner city. If only those kids came from better homes ...

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At 8 o'clock on the morning of December 12, 2016, having traversed the whole of Beijing City, Feng Xuesong, a TV producer and documentary director, finally arrived at the Liangxiang Campus of Beijing Technology and Business University. It was the 14th leg of the campaign "Fang Dazeng on Campus," and also the final leg of 2016.
Initiated by Feng Xuesong, "Fang Dazeng on Campus" is a charity event, which aims to visit 20 Chinese universities to display Fang Dazeng's life and China's history in his times. The tour began in September 2015 and will run until July 2017, the end date marking both the 80th anniversary of the Lugou Bridge Incident (also known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident), launched by Japan in July 1937, and also the 105th anniversary of the birth of Fang Dazeng.
On July 7, 1937, Japan began its full-scale invasion of China by launching the Lugou Bridge Incident, on the outskirts of Beijing. Three days later, Fang, then 25 years old, rushed to the battlefield with his camera. On August 1, as fighting against the Japanese aggressors continued on Lugou Bridge, a 7,000-word article under his pen name "Xiao Fang" was published in World Affairs, a magazine founded by the Communist Party of China in 1934. This was the first article to cover the battle with both text and pictures, making Fang the first correspondent ever to report on the Lugou Bridge Incident.


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Julie Golob places second in the women's category at the Smith & Wesson IDPA Back Up Gun National Championships.
Champion shooter Julie Golob closes out the 2014 competition season with another podium finish. Competing in the Smith & Wesson IDPA Back Up Gun National Championships in Springfield, MA, Golob placed second in the women's category.
The International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) Back Up Gun Nationals challenges shooters with dynamic courses of fire featuring small, easy to conceal handguns. Scoring is based on the time it takes a shooter to complete a course of fire. Additional time is added to a competitor's score for each hit outside of the down zero portion of the target. Scenarios are defensive based and attendees are challenged with shooting from behind cover, varying lighting conditions from full brightness to low and no light, and moving targets.
Golob chose to shoot the Smith & Wesson M&P Shield in 9mm which she outfitted with an Apex Tactical Specialties Drop In Trigger Kit and Warren Tactical 2-dot Night Sights. She used RAND Innovation's CLP and soft shooting, accurate Federal Premium American Eagle 147 grain ammunition.
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When asked about shooting with Rogers, Golob praised the reigning champion.
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Golob will kick off her 2015 competition season in February with another national championship hosted by Smith & Wesson, the IDPA Indoor National Championships.
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The Green Mantle was a title shared between three characters in Back to the Sewer.
The original Green Mantle, Al Gordon, fought crime in the 1960's. He was bestowed a superpowered cape from an alien tailor; this cape allowed its wearer to fly, have super strength, use the cape as a transforming weapon, and many granted many other powers. During a battle with his arch-nemesis,Mechazoid, Green Mantle's cape was knocked off from him, and found by a young comic book fan. Though he has lost his cape and powers, Gordon decided to continue helping others and joined the police force. After 25 years, he retired from the force and became a security guard. While working at a comic book convention, he attempted to stop a thief from stealing a cape from a collector (unknown to him at the time, it was his Green Mantle), but was knocked out by the thief, supervillain Dr. Malignus. Gordon was picked up by Stainless Steel Steve, where he explained his origins. Steve brought him back to the Justice Force's headquarters just as the previous Mantles decided to give it up. Gordon decided to take up the Mantle once again and return to being a superhero.
The cape was behind glass as the prized possession of the boy who found it until present day, when it was stolen by Dr. Malignus at a Comic Book Convention. A security guard working at the convention chased down Malignus in an attempt to retrieve the cape, but was soundly defeated by the wicked doctor. Before he could use the cape, however, Raphael intervened.Michelangelo forced Raphael to wear it in attempt to make him the Turtle Titan's sidekick, "Tortoise Boy". Raph gained the powers of the cape and the costume it also bestowed. Michelangelo was jealous that his brother had superpowers, and he didn't. Michelangelo made several attempts to steal the cape from Raphael, succeeding at one point, becoming the third Green Mantle very briefly. Eventually, Raph and Mike ripped the cape in half, and were able to use each half of the cape, with only half of the cape's powers each. Dr. Malignus attacked, and the two brothers were forced to work together. Malignus weakened them with a yellow thimble from the planet in which the cape was made, and they threw the cape at him, weakening him. Following this event, the original Green Mantle mended and retrieved his cape.
The Green Mantle is either an homage or a parody of the super hero Green Lantern, down to the costumes, mask, chin, and the names even sound similar, Hal Jordan, Al Gordon.
Green Mantle's suit, name, and power have a strong similarity to the Green Lantern.


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On the 17th December 2021, the Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Claire Gilmore published a press release following her decision in the case of SAMUEL HUNTER T/A HUNTER TRANSPORT. The licence was revoked, and the operator was disqualified from holding an operator's licence for a minimum of five years.
Mr Hunter was caught operating too many vehicles for his licence and there were more than two hundred drivers' hours offences within a three-month period. The operator sought to blame all of the problems on his drivers, but it was found that the company had a transport manager 'in name only' for at least a decade. The operator was also found to have pressured his drivers into the offences and falsified records.
The traffic commissioner said "I did not believe the operator's claim to believe that all the journeys he allocated to his drivers could all be completed lawfully and within time. Two of the drivers who gave evidence spoke of a culture of pressure which led to them offending to try and complete their journeys on time. The operator did not ask his drivers to break the law, but the culture of pressure he created, coupled with his deliberate failure to monitor driving activity, actively encouraged it.
I considered that the operator's willingness to deceive, coupled with his wilful neglect and repeated failings, demonstrated a flagrant disregard for the operator licensing regime on his part. Such behaviour led me to conclude that I was unable to trust this operator in the future."
This decision reminded me of the importance of taking professional advice before a hearing. Given the scale of the offending it is inconceivable that the operator was not have at least neglectful in fulfilling his duty to ensure rules on driver's hours are observed for at least a period of time. The judgement reports 245 offences over a period of around three months, including numerous and serious instances of driving off card and falsification of records by drivers who were found to be using other driver cards.
It would appear that in choosing to blame his drivers for failing to comply with the rules, instead of taking responsibility for it, Mr Hunter has not only lost his licence but now cannot re-enter the industry for a period of time. A better approach may have been to accept the shortcomings in the business and seek to demonstrate that this could and would improve with proper training and assistance.
Although the judgement reports that Mr Hunter accepted that he had done wrong and apologised for his behaviour, this simply does not go far enough. Although there is certainly a separate responsibility upon a professional driver to comply with the law, proper oversight rests with his employer.
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A vector derivative is a derivative taken with respect to a vector field. Vector derivatives are extremely important in physics, where they arise throughout fluid mechanics, electricity and magnetism, elasticity, and many other areas of theoretical and applied physics.
Derivatives with respect to time
Velocity is the derivative of position with respect to time: v(t)=ddt(x(t)).
Acceleration is the derivative of velocity with respect to time: a(t)=ddt(v(t))=d2dt2(x(t)).
A time derivative is a derivative of a function with respect to time, usually interpreted as the rate of change of the value of the function. The variable denoting time is usually written as .
A vector-valued function, also referred to as a vector function, is a mathematical function of one or more variables whose range is a set of multidimensional vectors or infinite-dimensional vectors. The input of a vector-valued function could be a scalar or a vector.
You can integrate vector-valued functions using the same techniques that you use to integrate scalar functions and parametric functions. When you integrate a vector-valued function, you integrate the horizontal and vertical components separately.
A derivative helps us to know the changing relationship between two variables. Mathematically, the derivative formula is helpful to find the slope of a line, to find the slope of a curve, and to find the change in one measurement with respect to another measurement. The derivative formula is ddx. xn=n. xn−1 d d x .
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A derivative is a rate of change, which, geometrically, is the slope of a graph. In physics, velocity is the rate of change of position, so mathematically velocity is the derivative of position. Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity, so acceleration is the derivative of velocity.
The set of real-valued even functions defined defined for all real numbers with the standard operations of addition and scalar multiplication of functions is a vector space.
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Zero Vector.
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Position Vector.
Co-initial Vector.
Like and Unlike Vectors.
Co-planar Vector.
Collinear Vector.
Equal Vector.
If the time derivatives of the local unit vectors, d i /dt, d j /dt and d k /dt, are replaced by their values as Ω x i, Ω x j and Ω x k , and the rotation vector Ω factored from the cross products the result is: which is none other than
Derivative is a velocity vector tangent to the curve. In particular, this means the direction of the vector is tangent to the curve, and its magnitude indicates the speed at which one travels along this curve as increases at a constant rate (as time tends to do). What is ? What is the speed of the particle at time ?
Derivative gives a velocity vector. If s(t) represents the position of a traveling particle as a function of time, dtds(t0) is the velocity vector of that particle at time t0. In particular, this means the direction of the vector is tangent to the curve, and its magnitude indicates the speed at which one travels along this curve as t...
This form shows the motion described by r ( t) is in a circle of radius r because the magnitude of r ( t) is given by {\displaystyle \cdot } is the usual euclidean dot product. With this form for the displacement, the velocity now is found. The time derivative of the displacement vector is the velocity vector.
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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Horse Transportation Safety Act and Farm Bill to Boost Equine Welfare; Senate Approval Required Next
Pat Raia
The Horse Transportation Safety Act and the Farm Bill now awaits passage by the Senate after passage by the U.S. House of Representatives. Photo by Kamira/Shutterstock
Equine welfare advocates are applauding members of the United States House of Representatives for passing legislation — the Horse Transportation Safety Act and the Farm Bill — that will maintain the prohibition on horse processing plant development in the U.S. and promote the safety of horses that are transported across state lines.
The Horse Transportation Safety Act
On July 1, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2, also known as the Moving Forward Act, which uses federal revenue to improve infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and transport. Contained in that legislation is H.R. 1400, or The Horse Transportation Safety Act.
Sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN, 9th District), H.R. 1400 makes it unlawful to transport horses across state lines in double-decker trucks or trailers containing two or more levels stacked on top of one another. Double-decker transport and multi-level trailers have often been used to transport horses across state lines to slaughter meat processing plants in Canada and Mexico.
House passage of the legislation is significant because some horse welfare advocates have long sought a ban on multi-level horse transport on grounds that the trucks and trailers prohibit horses from standing upright during transport and increases the possibility of rollover accidents.
The measure is the latest incarnation of similar legislation prompted by a 2007 rollover accident involving 59 draft horses traveling from Indiana to Minnesota in a double-deck trailer. In all, 17 horses were killed in the incident and several more were injured.
HR. 2 containing H.R. 1400 now moves to the U.S. Senate for consideration.
According to Marty Irby, executive director of the animal welfare advocacy group Animal Wellness Action, whether or not the measure survives Senate "Green New Deal changes to H.R. 2 is uncertain.
"H.R. 2 could be amended by the Senate and sent back to the House, or the Senate could pass its own bill and send to the House," said Irby. "I feel less confident about the Horse Transportation Safety Act being included in a Senate bill, but I believe that if they amend the House bill they will likely maintain the provision."
The Farm Bill, aka the FY2021 Agriculture Appropriations Bill
Known also as the Farm Bill, the FY2021 Agriculture Appropriations Bill establishes funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for fiscal year 2021.
Under the measure, the USDA would receive an additional $2 million to enforce the Horse Protection Act (HPA), which prohibits the soring of Tennessee Walking Horses (TWH) and other breeds. Soring is the deliberate injury to a horse's feet and legs to achieve an exaggerated, high-stepping gait. Violators could face both civil and criminal penalties, including fines and jail time. The amount represents a two-fold increase in funding for enforcement of the federal law.
The Farm Bill also maintains the current ban on horse processing in the U.S. by prohibiting the USDA from using any of its funds to pay for Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspections at horse processing plants in the U.S.
Prior to 2007, USDA FSIS personnel carried out horsemeat inspections at horse processing plants in the U.S. That same year, Congress voted to strip the USDA of the funds required to pay personnel conducting federal horsemeat inspections at the last two domestic horse slaughter plants operating in Illinois and Texas. The combination of legislation and local court rulings later closed both of those plants.
Since then, federal funding bills continued to include language denying the USDA of funding for horsemeat inspections until 2011 when Congress passed a 2012 appropriations bill that failed to contain language specifically forbidding the USDA from using federal dollars to fund horse slaughter plant inspections. Shortly after that bill became law, horse processing plants were proposed in several states but were never established.
"We are grateful to the House Committee for including these lifesaving measures in the bill, and we urge Congress to pass these critical provisions as part of the final appropriations package," said Nancy Perry, senior vice president of ASPCA Government Relations.
However, the Senate will offer its own Agriculture Appropriations bill. Perry hopes the House provisions will remain intact.
The FY2021 Agriculture Appropriations Bill will go to conference committee in both the U.S. House and Senate to work out the differences before the final legislation is sent to the White House for the president's signature.
"The final (Agriculture Appropriations) bill will likely come in December at the last minute as always," Irby said. "But it should also maintain both provisions."
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In today's society where millions of people are active in sports, it should be no surprise that there are over seven million injuries related to sports and recreation every year in the age group of 5 to 24 alone. One way to cut down on injuries to the mouth and face is for participants to wear mouth guards. The group Moms for Mouth Guards is getting involved to promote safety.
The American Associate of Orthodontists (AAO) advises that team or recreational sports participants wear a mouth guard to protect their mouths and faces. AAO research shows that more than 67 percent of parents do not make their children wear mouth guards. Moms for Mouth Guards is on a mission to educate parents, players, and coaches about the effects of facial and jaw injuries. Wearing a mouth guard is a proven way to decrease the seriousness of injuries and impacts that they have on players.
Moms for Mouth Guards has joined the AAO in its efforts to encourage other mothers in supporting athlete safety by wearing mouth guards. The group's website provides details about sports injuries, tips on selecting an orthodontist, and the Moms for Mouth Guards pledge. This pledge asks individuals to commit to ensuring their children wear appropriate athletic equipment, including mouth guards. For every signature on the pledge, Moms for Mouth Guards donates mouth guards to the National Alliance for Youth Sports. This non-profit group promotes safe, fun, and healthy sports for all children.
The AAO suggests choosing for a custom mouth guard over store-bought options for the best protection. A custom mouth guard is personalized to your child's teeth after a mold is taken by an orthodontist. The models are sent to a dental lab so that a personalized mouth guard can be created. The orthodontist will then ensure that the appliance fits your child perfectly, and provide directions for proper usage and cleaning.
Most of the time when dental implants are used to replace missing teeth, they are successful in restoring your mouth's appearance and function. However, there are some instances when implants fail. It's important to know what to watch out for so that you don't fall into that category.
Dental implants are surgically implanted into your jawbone. They normally join with your jaw and eventually become an indistinguishable part of your jaw. They function and feel like your real teeth. Sometimes the process of joining with your jaw doesn't occur properly, or the tooth may not be set securely in your jaw. In these cases, problems will result.
No matter what causes your implants to fail, there are signs that often occur to indicate something is wrong. You may experience pain in your mouth, and your implants may be loose. They might also give the sensation of being hotter than the rest of your jaw. Issues like these warrant an immediate visit to your dentist for an examination.
If you don't see your dentist for treatment, failed implants can cause severe infections that may result in damage to your jawbone. Portions of your bone can break if the implants aren't placed correctly or repaired when a problem arises.
If your implants are completely loose in your jaw, the entire unit may require replacement. Another option is to add additional screws to support the bone, and bone grafts may also be needed to strengthen the bone. One main reason for failed implants is that the jaw wasn't healthy enough to begin with, so make sure you ask your dentist if you are a good candidate for this type of restoration.
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It's sometimes difficult to understand why your child is nervous about going to the dentist, and can be frustrating to deal with the tears and arguments when it's time for an appointment. Taking your child to a pediatric dentist may help. These specialists are trained in handling kids and their dental needs, and can help you through the process as well.
Pediatric dentistry is a specialty area in which dentists go through extra training related to the oral health needs of children. This not only includes medical procedures and treatments unique to kids, it also involves learning to relate to children and ways to ease their fears. Pediatric dentists treat children of all ages, and they work in offices that are equipped for children's dentistry.
Simply by choosing a reputable pediatric dentist, chances are you are already taking a step in the right direction for your child. This type of dentist realizes the anxieties that children may have about checkups, and therefore works to address those fears and make your child more relaxed and comfortable in the dental office. This may involve an appealing environment targeted to kids, distraction techniques like televisions and video games, or simply explaining what's happening every step of the way so that your child feels involved in the process. A pediatric dentist will not ignore your child's feelings, but will strive to bring comfort at the same time as providing good dental care.
One of the goals of a pediatric dentist is to pique your child's interest in taking care of their teeth, and develop a feeling of responsibility for practicing good dental hygiene. The dentist will spend time with your child, making sure skills are learned. This increases the chances that your child will have fewer dental problems in the future, and hopefully will also be more willing to have their teeth checked next time.


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This landscape was taken to help encourage students to learn about science and astronomy using Stellarium. The panorama was taken at the playground area of Chesterton Elementary School on October 23, 2011. The image was constructed using the Multiple Image Method using 8 overlapping images to provide a high level of detail. The original composite panorama image was 22442 (width) x 2418 (height) pixels . Composite photo reduced to 5 equally sized photos of 2048 by 1024 pixels. Many trees created complex horizon background but left details, such as tether-ball poles, in place during transparency development to keep landscape realistic. The lines of the playground provide an interesting perspective with Stellarium.
Pyramid Island dark sky observation site in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada - world's largest Dark Sky Preserve. This site is only 15 min from the town of Jasper, yet nearly perfectly dark. The panorama was taken just before sunset in October 2011.
A view of Heritage Park Museum, Terrace, British Columbia, Canada. It was photographed in August, 2011.
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This collection of early 20th Century log buildings shows the diverse construction styles used by immigrant settlers of the Skeena Valley. The two story Kalum Lake Hotel is the centrepiece of the park. To the right of the hotel a summer student talks with two of the fifteen or so young visitors attending a children's day.
Grand-Barachois (Facing the south of Prince-Edward-Island, near Cap-Pelé), New-Brunswick, Canada. This landscape was taken with a Fuji FinePix S2000-HD camera on 2011-07-16 at 21:02.
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VG's Food & Pharmacy in Flint, Mich., will buy two Farmer Jack stores in Fenton, Mich., and one in Shelby, Mich., from A&P, a VG's official said yesterday.
FLINT, Mich. — VG's Food & Pharmacy here will buy two Farmer Jack stores in Fenton, Mich., and one in Shelby, Mich., from A&P, a VG's official said yesterday. VG's intends to reopen one of the Fenton locations and the Shelby store under the VG's name next month but has acquired the other Fenton site as a real-estate investment. Also, Kroger this week began its takeover of the 20 Farmer Jack stores it agreed to buy from A&P. Kroger said six stores would be closed this week to be converted to the Kroger banner. The company intends to convert the remainder next month.


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Adhesions are bands of scar-like tissue. Normally, internal tissues and organs have slippery surfaces so they can shift easily as the body moves. Adhesions cause tissues and organs to stick together. They might connect the loops of the intestines to each other, to nearby organs, or to the wall of the abdomen. They can pull sections of the intestines out of place. This may block food from passing through the intestine.
No tests are available to detect adhesions. Doctors usually find them during surgery to diagnose other problems.
Some adhesions go away by themselves. If they partly block your intestines, a diet low in fiber can allow food to move easily through the affected area. If you have a complete intestinal obstruction, it is life-threatening. You should get immediate medical attention and may need surgery.


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A blonde goes into a coffee shop and notices there's a "peel and win" sticker on her coffee cup. So she peels it off and starts screaming, "I've won a motorhome! I've won a motorhome!" The waitress says, "That's impossible, The biggest prize is a free lunch." But the blonde keeps on screaming, "I've won a motorhome! I've won a motorhome!" Finally, the manager comes over and says, "Ma'am, I'm sorry, but you're mistaken. You couldn't have possibly won a motorhome because we didn't have that as a prize." The blonde says, "No, it's not a mistake. I've won a motorhome!" And she hands the ticket to the manager and HE reads…
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Frank Wolff (actor)
Frank Wolff
Wolff in God Forgives... I Don't!
Walter Frank Hermann Wolff
San Francisco, California, U.S.
December 12, 1971(1971-12-12) (aged 43)
Walter Frank Hermann Wolff (May 11, 1928 – December 12, 1971) was an American actor whose film career began with roles in five 1958–61 Roger Corman productions and ended a decade later in Rome, after many appearances in European-made films, most of which were lensed in Italy.[1]
2 Career with Roger Corman
3 Moving to Europe
5 Selected filmography
A native of San Francisco, Frank Wolff was the son of a Bay Area physician. Both parents were of German descent. The elder Wolff, a political and social maverick, encouraged young Frank to follow an unconventional path. Frank attended University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied acting and stagecraft, wrote and directed plays and befriended another actor/director, Monte Hellman. Between 1957 and 1961, he appeared in nearly twenty episodes of TV series and feature films, a few of which fit into the horror/science fiction genre.
Career with Roger Corman[edit]
Frank Wolff had bit roles in his first two films, Roger Corman's I Mobster and The Wasp Woman. The former, a 1958 black-and-white gangster melodrama in which Wolff does not even receive a billing, was presented as a first-person narrative by the title character, Murder, Inc. (fictional) boss Joe Sante (Steve Cochran). The latter, Wolff's first genre film, was a typically campy horror, filmed in 1959, in which the owner of a cosmetics business (Susan Cabot) becomes the titular monster after using one of her own experimental rejuvenating formulas. Wolff has a single, memorable scene.
Later in the year, however, Wolff's billing dramatically increased to co-lead status in his next two Corman productions, scripted by Charles B. Griffith, Beast from Haunted Cave and Ski Troop Attack. Shot back-to-back in the snowy wilderness outside Deadwood, South Dakota, the films used the same crew and cast, which, in addition to Wolff, included Michael Forest, Wally Campo, Richard Sinatra (Frank's nephew) and Sheila Carol. The first of the two, Beast, directed for Corman by Wolff's UCLA friend, Monte Hellman, remains a well-remembered low-budget horror title, with a spider-like creature menacing a trio of robbers, led by Wolff, trapped in a ski lodge. In contrast, the equally poverty-budgeted Attack, on which Corman himself took over the directorial reins, turned out to be a little-noticed World War II quickie in which a quartet of GIs on skis slog through a snowbound landscape. The group's leader, a tall, stalwart lieutenant (Michael Forest), who played a similarly characterized forest ranger in Beast, is continually challenged by the disdainful sergeant (Wolff). Beast was first shown in October 1959, but eventually paired on a double bill with The Wasp Woman which, in line with the other films' Dakota link, premiered in Bismarck, North Dakota on February 12, 1960. The previous month, Wolff was seen in three TV appearances, The Untouchables (January 7), The Lawless Years (January 19) and Rawhide (January 29). He also had the third-billed role of Baron, a nightclub owner who refuses to give another chance to alcoholic trumpet player Jack Klugman in The Twilight Zone episode "A Passage for Trumpet", broadcast on May 20.
In 1958, he appeared with another guest star, Strother Martin, in the episode "Pete Henke" of the NBC western series, Jefferson Drum, starring Jeff Richards as a crusading newspaper editor.[2]
Moving to Europe[edit]
In autumn 1960, Frank Wolff traveled to Greece to co-star in another Roger Corman-directed, Charles B. Griffith-scripted low-budgeter, Atlas (released in May 1961). The title role was again assigned to the brawny Corman regular, Michael Forest, while the female lead went to Barboura Morris who, between 1957 and 1967, worked exclusively for Corman, appearing in thirteen of his films, including The Wasp Woman. In Atlas, Wolff was cast as the treacherous King Praximedes, a scene-stealing lead villain who was singled out by the few critics who reviewed the film. Sporting a short beard, Praximedes was alternately charming, witty, overbearing and menacing.
On Corman's advice, Frank Wolff remained in Europe and became a well-known character actor in over fifty, mostly Italian-made, films of the 1960s, including crime/suspense "gialli" and spaghetti westerns. Early in his European career, he returned to Greece to essay a major, second-billed role in his most prestigious movie, the 1963 "Best Picture" Oscar nominee America, America, which producer-director-writer Elia Kazan filmed on location. As Vartan Damadian, the Armenian friend of the central character, played by Stathis Giallelis, a heavily-mustached Wolff assayed a complex, multi-layered personality.
Wolff's numerous Italian films of the 1960s included The Four Days of Naples, Salvatore Giuliano, La morte risale a ieri sera, The Great Silence, God Forgives... I Don't!, One Dollar Too Many, and Once Upon a Time in the West. He was also seen a few episodes of British-produced TV series, such as The Saint and The Baron.
Death[edit]
Frank Wolff committed suicide in his Rome hotel room at the age of 43.[3] His body was found by a chambermaid on 12 December 1971 and the police said he had slashed his throat.[4]
His final two Italian-made films, Milan Caliber 9 and When Women Lost Their Tails were released posthumously in 1972. His voice in Milan Caliber 9 was dubbed in by his frequent co-star and roommate at the time of his death Michael Forest.
Selected filmography[edit]
Kathy O' (1958) - Man (uncredited)
I Mobster (1959) - Man (uncredited)
The Wild and the Innocent (1959) - Henchman
The Wasp Woman (1959) - First Delivery Man
Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) - Alexander Ward
Ski Troop Attack (1960) - Sgt. Potter
The Subterraneans (1960) - Bearded Man (uncredited)
The Runaway (1961) - Wetback Vagrant (uncredited)
Atlas (1961) - Proximates the Tyrant
Salvatore Giuliano (1962) - Gaspare Pisciotta
The Four Days of Naples (1962) - Salvatore (uncredited)
The Verona Trial (1963) - Count Galeazzo Ciano
Il demonio (1963) - Antonio
America America (1963) - Vartan Damadian
Un commerce tranquille (1964) - Ginger
Via Veneto (1964)
Amori pericolosi (1964) - Il marito (segments "Il passo" and "La ronda")
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965) - Quartermaster Master Sergeant
Judith (1966) - Eli
Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun (1966) - Ivan Mikhailovic
Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance (1966) - Trikie Ferguson
A Few Dollars for Django (1966) - Jim / Trevor Norton
Treasure of San Gennaro (1966) - Joe
Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore (1966) - Charlie Morgan
A Stranger in Town (1967) - Aguilar
The Million Dollar Countdown (1967) - Paul Lefèvre
Il tempo degli avvoltoi (1967) - Joshua Tracy
The Stranger Returns (1967) - El Plein (English version, voice, uncredited)
God Forgives... I Don't! (1967) - Bill San Antonio
Anyone Can Play (1968) - Cesare, Paola's husband
Sardinia Kidnapped (1968) - Osilo
Villa Rides (1968) - Ramirez
One Dollar Too Many (1968) - Edwin Kean
The Great Silence (1968) - Sheriff Gideon Burnett
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Brett McBain
The Libertine (1968) - Dr. Giulio, the dentist
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968) - Captain Lynch
Ecce Homo (1968) - Quentin
Eat It (1968) - Commendatore / Mister Eat it
I dannati della Terra (1969) - Fausto
La battaglia del deserto (1969) - Red Wiley
Carnal Circuit (1969) - Frank Donovan
Barbagia (1969) - Spina
Sartana the Gravedigger (1969) - Buddy Ben
L'amica (1969) - Guido Nervi
Lo stato d'assedio (1969) - Vallauri
Metello (1970) - Betto
La morte risale a ieri sera (1970) - Duca Lamberti
Corbari (1970) - Ulianov
The Lickerish Quartet (1970) - Castle owner
When Women Had Tails (1970) - Grr
Trasplante de un cerebro (1970) - Dr. Chambers
The Beloved (1971) - Hector
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971) - Arthur Welt
Death Walks on High Heels (1971) - Dr. Robert Matthews
Milan Caliber 9 (1972) - Commissioner
When Women Lost Their Tails (1972) - Grr (final film role)
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^ "Jefferson Drum". ctva.biz. Retrieved December 22, 2012.
^ "Movie OK!!!". Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2009.
^ Associated Press (December 13, 1971). "Frank Wolff Dies; Screen Actor, 43". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. p. 42.
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Writing 501: Too Many Epiphanies
Talking About Hope Mirrlees
The Last of What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?
My Annotated Office Wall
The Annotated Stone of Loneliness
Seeing (and Hearing) Stars
The Alien Worms of Truth
My Boskone Schedule
A Memoir in the Form of Four Denim Jackets (Part 4...
Lost Tales from Pegana
Thane of Ursus Major
Frankenstein Reborn
The other day, I was chatting with a young writer who has her first novel coming out soon, and she said, "I was hoping you could tell me how to be a better writer."
"Yeah," I said, "I'm looking for that too."
Thinking back on this exchange, it occurred to me that almost all writing advice is written for as-yet-unpublished writers -- Writing 101, as it were. But the rest of us could use a little help now and then too. So I'm starting an occasional series, nothing elaborate, of Writing 501 advice.
Today's nugget comes from Charles Baxter, via an article by Alison Lurie in the New York Review of Books. Here's Lurie's take on Baxter's take on the proliferation of epiphanies:
In a chapter called "Against Epiphanies," for instance, Baxter discusses what a student I used to know called "stupid little realization stories." Once upon a time, he says, as in Joyce's "Araby," the sudden rush of knowledge and/or self-knowledge was new, surprising, and effective. Now, however, "Everyone is having insights…. Everywhere there is a glut of epiphanies…. But…there is a smell about them of recently molded plastic." One problem is that these insights tend to "depend on an assumption that the surface is false." There is also often an implication that characters in a story who do not have these insights are morally or intellectually inferior. "Now that the production of epiphanies has become a business, the unenlightened are treated with sad pity, and with the little grace notes of contempt."
As I read this, an authentic story climaxing with an epiphany is still possible. But the epiphany must be real, hard-won. Too often, the epiphany is employed as a device, slapped onto the end of the story as a way of getting the writer out of it, or of giving a sugar-surge of energy to a plot that simply hasn't earned it.
In any case, it's well worth thinking about. Correctly applied, Baxter's observation will have the salubrious result of making your fiction significantly more difficult to write. Which is to be desired, yes?
The NYRB article is behind a paywall. But you can read the Boston Globe review of Baxter's new collection of short fiction here.
Above: Charles Baxter himself, from the Boston Globe review. Joyce's "Araby," incidentally, is a terrific story. Any writer who hasn't read Dubliners yet really should.
The good folks at Flash Forward have uploaded to YouTube an interview that Mike Zipser did with me some years ago, back when I'd just finished Hope-in-the-Mist, my account of the life and career of the very interesting Hope Mirrlees.
Hope-in-the-Mist is (and will be until Sandeep Parmar finished her biography of Mirrlees) the only book-length study of one of the most important fantasists of the last century. It was published by Material Culture in an edition of two hundred, and, as planned, sold out almost immediately. An e-book version will be e-published sometime this e-year, if all goes as planned. All questions as to exactly when should be directed to the proprietor of Material Culture, Henry Wessells.
Over the course of several years, I read (or reread) every book James Branch Cabell ever wrote. Then I penned a slim-book-length monograph, sorting and ordering the entire oeuvre. I may be the only person ever to have done so.
What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage? was published by Temporary Culture in 2007.
Now there are only five copies remaining. If you need one -- and those who do know who they are -- this is pretty much your last chance at an affordable price.
You can order it here.
For no particular reason, here's a photo of one wall of my office. A little murky, perhaps, but still crammed with wonder.
Top of wall. left to right: a photo of me listening to a blood rabbit, a black&white original SF illo by Robert Walters; a West African sword (originally in the Chicago Exposition, then the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum, then the African American Museum, then Material Culture), a poster made by Ray Ridenauer for the Back Page Boyz ("the Original Boy Band from the 20th Century") based on a photo by Joanne Burke; a photo by Joanne from the same session, featuring me, Gardner Dozois, Tim Sullivan and Greg Frost; a plaque of (my thanks to Lars, below, for identifying it for me) an Ornithocheirus skull.
Lower wall, left to right: plastic moon lamp on which is written a love story addressed to Marianne; a Dilophosaurus poster by Robert Walters, the framed cover of Asimov's for "The City of God."
Atop bookcase: Globe of Mars, autographed by Kim Stanley Robinson, with a coyote face resting atop it; flash fiction in small frames; bust of Surplus; stone fu dog; guardian turtle with two masks resting atop its shell; a lantern filled with keys; a book press holding several cigar boxes filled with interesting stuff, atop which are several plastic figures, including a Dimetrodon; a Rolodex containing the names of partially-written stories. Among much else.
One day Marianne suddenly looked about her and said, "How did I wind up living in a wizard's den?"
"The skulls are all yours," I reminded her.
Above: The rest of my office is too cluttered to show you. Maybe someday after I get it tidied up.
So Janis Ian is up for an Audio for the audiobook of Stars, the anthology edited by her and Mike Resnick. You could search forever in the paper book for my story and never find it. But they included "For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again," which was inspired by Janis' song "Mary's Eyes," as an extra, a special treat for those who buy the audiobook.
Wednesday, I talked a little about the story and told where you can find the song that Janis wrote for it. Today it occurred to me that it might be helpful is I provided a light annotation of it.
In general, everything I say about Ireland is true, unless it's something that has yet to happen, in which case it's fiction. There can't be many readers who will have trouble telling one from the other. But a few entries are personal and there's no way you could possible know that. So, presented below are those elements that make this as close to an autobiographical story as I've ever written.
... my great-great-grandfather saw Gerry Adams strolling down O'Connell Street on Easter morning of '96, the eightieth anniversary of that event, returning from a political rally with a single bodyguard to one side of him and a local politico to the other.
All true. That is exactly where and when and what happened to me. Making me the protagonist's ancestor. The bodyguard, incidentally, was huge. His shoulders were so wide they made his head look small.
...I can see his face, liquid and wavy as if glimpsed through candle flames, as he lay dying under a great feather comforter in his New York City railroad flat, his smile weak and his hair forming a halo around him as white as a dandelion waiting for the wind to purse its lips and blow.
That was my grandfather, Michael O'Brien. He died when I was -- what? -- three years old, I think. I can see him clearly even now, smiling lovingly at me as I played on my little plastic guitar for him.
The holy well is one such antiquity, though it is only a round hole, perhaps a foot across, filled with water and bright green algae. The altar over it is of recent construction, built by unknown hands from the long slender stones formed by the natural weathering of the limestone between the grykes, which makes the local stone walls so distinctive and the walking so treacherous.
It wasn't easy to find, but Marianne and I had a geodetic survey map, and we tromped over the rocks until we all but stumbled across it it. Later that day, we struck up a conversation with a friendly waiter. The man was a talker. But when we mentioned the holy well, he clammed right up.
We met in the Fiddler's Elbow, a pub in that part of the West which the Bord Failte calls Yeats Country.
A lovely place. We shared a pint with a dairy farmer there. When I said that Ireland was a very beautiful country, he said, "But it can be a very dirrty country, too." With a trill in the r. The peat fire, however, comes from a pub in Dublin, as does the back room where the concert was held.
"This one's for the American," she'd said.
But how had she known?
This happened to a friend of mine. She was in the audience and the singer said, "This one's for the American in the front row." So she stayed after to ask how he knew. "You have American teeth," he said.
"Looking for your roots, then, are ye?"
This is a question all visitors to Ireland must endure. Apparently the Irish can't imagine any other reason for coming to see their country.
...and the ladies of Noraid goose-stepping down the street on Saint Patrick's Day in short black skirts
True. Terrifying.
"It's not the wee folk you have to worry about. It's the boys."
In Ireland, "the boys" is or was a euphemism for the IRA. Which is why a friend who was putting up the members of an Irish folk group in her house for a few weeks was always careful to refer to them as "the lads."
The Stone of Loneliness was a fallen menhir or standing stone, something not at all uncommon throughout the British Isles. They'd been reared by unknown people for reasons still not understood in Megalithic times, sometimes arranged in circles, and other times as solitary monuments. There were faded cup-and-ring lines carved into what had been the stone's upper end. And it was broad enough that a grown man could lie down on it.
On a beautiful, bright day on our first visit to Ireland in 1982, Marianne and I found the Stone of Loneliness, so called because it was supposed to be a cure for heartbreak. People about the leave Ireland forever would sleep on it the night before departure. I lay down on it and I felt all the loneliness in the world flood into my body.
a nondescript cinder-block building
I swiped this bar from my mother. She took a tour of Ireland, before which she asked if there was anything I wanted her to bring back. "If you run across a bottle of Knappogue Castle," (at that time a rare whiskey) I said, "I'd like that."
Well, my mother asked the tour but driver and he hadn't heard of it either. But "I think I know what he meant," he said, and drove to a very seedy bar and after warning his charges not to leave the bus, went in. He came back with a Fresca bottle filled with illegal poteen.
When she got home, my mother told me this story, showed me the Fresca bottle, and put it back in her own liquor cabinet.
...only Ireland and my family could make me cry.
It's God's own truth.
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Yoga Sutra (1.15) – drista anushravika vishaya vitrishnasya vashikara sanjna vairagyam. Drista means seen or perceived. Anushravika means revealed, heard (from others). Vishaya is objects, subjects or entities. Vitrishnasya is of one who is free from desire or craving. Vashikara means supreme, mastery or total control. Sanjna means awareness, consciousness or knowing. Vairagyam is non-attachment, indifference, dispassion or neutrality.
Translated this means…When the mind loses desire even for objects seen or described in a tradition or in scriptures, it acquires a state of utter (vashikara) desirelessness that is called non-attachment (vairagya). Or in other words: dispassion (or non-attachment) results from a balance in (or mastery of) the consciousness, and when the desire for all things that we see or have heard of is extinguished.
This non-attachment is not suppression nor detachment as these are both pretentious and a case of "doing" something. This non-attachment is instead a "non-doing" sort of thing. It means that your attention does not hold (or grab onto) any impression that appears in the mind in the first place. Non-attachment is cessation! If attachment does occur (whether appealing or aversion), and attention fixes itself on a deep mental impression, the subsequent non-attachment comes from the cessation of mental clinging, not from an act of forcefully prying attention away.
Patanjali further explains that non-attachment (vairagya) applies to progressively deepening levels of our being. While we might begin with our more shallow level attachments, such as the objects and people encountered in daily life, this practice is intended to deepen to include all of the objects or experiences even those we might have only heard about, including the many powers (siddhis) or experiences of the psychic or subtle realm. We gradually come to witness that even these are nothing more than distractions on our journey to Self-realization, and we learn to let them pass by as clouds in the sky.
This sutra can be translated to mean…Indifference to the subtlest elements, constituent principles, or qualities themselves (gunas), achieved through a knowledge of the nature of pure consciousness (purusha), is called supreme non-attachment (paravairagya). Or put another way: The highest state of desirelessness (unsurpassed non-attachment – paravairagya) arises from the experience of the true Self and in this state even the most basic elements of nature lose their power over us.
Supreme non-attachment (paravairagya) to the gunas (the three primal elements that the yogis refer to as the prime constituents of both manifest and unmanifest matter (prakriti) includes non-attachment in relation to not only the gross physical world, but also to the entire subtle, psychic and astral planes, as well as the causal realm out of which they arise.
Paravairagya comes after Self-realization and is described in these sutras as where non-attachment ultimately leads, that is, once you have the tool of samadhi and direct experience of the Self.