Thank you to those of you who will want to support your child's learning, both in and out of school.
Whether your support is with homework and/or additional activities, it will be invaluable so thank you! It is so valuable to work as a team to support your child's learning and development and really does make a difference for all concerned with the education of children at Hague Bar.
However, after a long day at school we know that things can prove challenging at times and it is often difficult to help your child to remain focussed. I hope that the points below will help to further support you and your child or simply to reassure you that you're already doing positive things to allow your child to get the best out of their learning opportunities.
Homework works best if you can work with your child rather than them completing it on their own. It can often serve as an insight into what they have been doing at school, for those who 'can't remember' or 'have done nothing' during their time at school!
Try and pick a good time to do homework when your child is not too tired, is preferably in a good mood and not when their favourite programme is on! It may be the case that homework is best approached at a set time each day, so there is a clear structure similar to the boundaries at school; whatever works best for your child is the 'right' thing to do.
When tackling homework try and allow your child to take the lead and give them the opportunity to see how much they can do independently. You can step in if they need something reading or need help with explaining something.
We try to give homework in manageable amounts but if it proves too much please split homework into practicable chunks. After a long day at school your child is likely to 'switch off' if expected to do too long a stint of homework at a time.
Link the learning to your daily routine/activities. For example, with younger children it may be using real money when helping to count out the correct amount to pay at a shop; helping you to write the shopping list; counting out the right number of plates when laying the dinner table. Older children can still do all of these things, though they would do these things with more independence and, for example, using larger amounts of money or working out change etc.
Counting games and rhymes are all things that you probably already do with your child and because they are so valuable to reinforce learning please keep on playing the games and singing those favourite rhymes. Challenge your children in making up new ones.
Most of all - have fun and be positive. Praise, praise and more praise is the answer, it is so much more effective than criticism and usually puts a smile on both your face and theirs!
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Benefits and risks preferences for new medicines in rare diseases
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases has recently published an article quantifying the benefit-risk preferences for new medicines in rare disease patients and caregivers. Editor-in-Chief for the journal Ségolène Aymé discusses this publication further.
Segolene Ayme 27 May 2016
The promising pipeline of drugs in development for rare diseases does not fully deliver, with only 15% of products with an orphan designation reaching the market. Among the causes is the difficulty to assess the safety of a new product when data is limited.
Regulatory authorities have a mandate to assess the benefit-risk balance in order to make a decision about any new product. They assume that patients share their views on how to weigh the benefits and risks.
However an excessive focus on avoiding risks and uncertainties concerning new medicines might not be what patients favour when they have a life-threatening disease.
Do preferences differ for professionals?
The study published by Morel et al. explores the benefit-risk preferences of patients with rare diseases, to document whether they differ or not from the preferences of professionals.
It considers what patients and caregivers value when choosing between hypothetical therapeutic options and quantifies both their benefit-risk preferences and the influence of a disease's context, for instance the severity of the malady.
The study supports the hypothesis that patients and their caregivers are willing to accept greater risks or side effects associated with a new medicine, for instance, in the hopes of there being an extra chance of drug response or potential health improvement.
The web-based study was conducted in the United Kingdom, in collaboration with patient organizations whose activity is targeted towards patients and families affected by rare diseases.
The study supports the hypothesis that patients and their caregivers are willing to accept greater risks or side effects associated with a new medicine, for instance, in the hopes of there being an extra chance of drug response or potential health improvement. Attitudes about benefit versus risk may change over time with disease progression or context of care.
The study also shows that rare disease patients and their caregivers have a realistic view and attribute the most importance to a potential drug response which could be interpreted as giving them a sense of 'pragmatic hope'.
Two dimensions of highest value were the risk of serious side effects and the ability to conduct usual activities while on treatment
The other two dimensions of highest value were the risk of serious side effects and the ability to conduct usual activities while on treatment, a feature which is usually overlooked by researchers and clinicians who tend to focus on consequences of a disease rather than on how the patient feels and lives on a daily basis.
In contrast, attributes related to treatment modalities (i.e. how long, where, and how to take the medicine) were deemed the least important, although the latter tends to be the focus of many drug development programmes.
Overall, the research findings highlight the need to systematically include patients in the process of identifying meaningful treatment outcomes that resonate with their experiences, preferences, expectations, and values.
This is not trivial, as developing patient-centred outcome measures requires qualitative research which is time-consuming and methodologically complex. In addition, the findings highlight that Health Technology Assessment agencies need to consult patients when assessing the added-value of new medicinal products which present both side effects and potential alleviating effects.
The same principle applies when physicians have to make an individual decision about a prescription. They should communicate about the benefits and risks and let the patient choose. We anticipated these results, but it is better to have a sound study supporting them.
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Q: '$|x|$ to power of $x$' inequality with polynomial exponent I have found this in a old math book and I completly don't know how to deal with it:
$$|x-1|^{x^4-4x^3+3x^2}<1$$
I've looked for similar problems on internet but I couldn't find anything. You can factor the exponent but it isn't any better.
The book says solution is $x\in(0,1)\cup(2,3)$ and WolframAlpha agrees with it.
Do you have any idea?

A: Hint:
$k^n<1$ if $0<k<1,n>0$ or $k>1,n<0$.
What values give $|x-1|<1$ or $|x-1|>1$?
Factorize the exponent. What values give positive/negative exponent?
Which regions satisfy both conditions?

A: Taking logarithms, we find that $$(x^4-4x^3+3x^2)\ln|x-1|<\ln 1 \implies x^2(x-1)(x-3)\ln|x-1|<0$$ We know that the logarithmic term can never equal $0$, so the inequality can be simplified to $$x^2(x-1)(x-3)<0$$ Thus the solution is $$x\in(0,1)\cup(2,3)$$ since when $x \in [1, 2]$, both $\ln|x-1|$ and $x-3$ are less than or equal to $0$ which makes the LHS positive.

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Co-author of two global bestsellers: Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Shift
Renée Mauborgne is a Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, one of the world's top business schools.
Together with her colleague Chan Kim, also a Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, she wrote Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant.
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Renée Mauborgne served on President Barack Obama's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the President's two terms.
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Arina Vadimovna Ushakova (, born 27 June 2002) is a Russian competitive ice dancer. With her skating partner, Maxim Nekrasov, she is the 2018 World Junior bronze medalist and 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist. She has also won six medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, including gold medals in 2017 Italy, 2018 Lithuania and 2018 Armenia.

Personal life
Arina Vadimovna Ushakova was born on 27 June 2002 in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Career

Early career
Ushakova began learning to skate in 2005. She trained as a single skater in Chelyabinsk until 2014; she then moved to Moscow and switched to ice dancing. She competed with her first partner, Anton Spiridonov, during the 2014–2015 season. She then teamed up with Maxim Nekrasov. They are coached by Alexei Gorshkov and Maxim Bolotin.

2016–2017 season
Ushakova/Nekrasov received their first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments in the 2016–2017 season. They won bronze medals at both events, competing in late August in Ostrava, Czech Republic and in October in Dresden, Germany.

In November 2016 they won the silver medal at the 2016 Ice Star. They placed seventh at the 2017 Russian Junior Championships.

2017–2018 season
Competing in the 2017 JGP series, Ushakova/Nekrasov took bronze in August in Minsk, Belarus. They won their first JGP gold medal in October at the event in Egna, Italy, beating the silver medalists, their teammates Polishchuk/Vakhnov, by about two points. With these results they qualified for the 2017–18 JGP Final, where they placed fifth.

In January 2018, Ushakova/Nekrasov took the bronze medal at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships after placing fifth in the short dance and third in the free dance. In March, they won bronze at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having placed third in both segments.

2018–2019 season
Ushakova/Nekrasov started their season by competing in the 2018 JGP series. At their first JGP event of the season they won the gold medal in Kaunas, Lithuania. They were ranked first in both the rhythm dance and the free dance and won the gold medal by a margin of more than 6 points over the silver medalists, Nguyen/Kolesnik. Their rhythm dance, free dance and combined total scores at that competition were the highest scores achieved in an international junior ice dance competition at the time, though since surpassed.

At their second JGP event of the season they won another gold medal, now in Yerevan, Armenia. Again they were ranked first in both the short program and the free skate. Ushakova/Nekrasov also upgraded their earlier short program, free skate and combined total World record scores. With two JGP gold medals they qualified for the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final.  At the Final Ushakova/Nekrasov won the silver medal after placing second in the rhythm dance and first in the free dance. They were part of a Russian sweep of the ice dance's podium. Ushakova/Nekrasov beat the bronze medalists, Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov, by about 6 points but the race for the gold medal were extremely tight. The gold medalists, Shevchenko/Eremenko, beat Ushakova/Nekrasov by a margin of only 0.01 point.

Following the Final, Ushakova/Nekrasov were again defeated by Shevchenko/Eremenko at the 2019 Russian Junior Championships, winning the silver medal after second-place finishes in both segments.  In late February they won the 2019 Open Ice Mall Cup.

Their final event of the season was the 2019 World Junior Championships, where they unexpectedly placed fourth in the rhythm dance after hitting only two of the eight keypoints on the tango pattern dance.  They dropped to fifth place overall after placing fifth in the free dance.

2019–2020 season
Ushakova/Nekrasov missed the first half of the season, including the Junior Grand Prix, due to Nekrasov undergoing and recovering from leg surgery.  They returned to competition with a victory at the Golden Spin of Zagreb, and then competed at the Russian Junior Championships, where they placed second behind Shanaeva/Naryzhnyy.  Their silver medal at junior nationals led to their being assigned to compete at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.  They placed fourth in the rhythm dance there, hitting only three of the eight keypoints on the Teatime Foxtrot pattern dance.  Fourth in the free dance as well, they finished fourth overall.

2020–2021 season
With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in the cancellation of the international junior season, Ushakova/Nekrasov competed exclusively domestically. In their final junior event, they won the gold medal at the 2021 Russian Junior Championships.

2021–2022 season
Ushakova and Nekrasov moved to the senior level. They withdrew from the Russian test skates, citing medical reasons. It was subsequently reported that Ushakova had contracted COVID-19.

Appearing at their first senior Russian championships, Ushakova/Nekrasov placed seventh.

Programs
(with Nekrasov)

Records and achievements
(with Nekrasov)

 Set the junior-level ice dancing record of the new +5 / -5 GOE (Grade of Execution) system for the combined total (168.17 points), rhythm dance (67.63 points) and free dance (100.54 points) at the 2018 JGP Lithuania.

 They became the first junior team to score above 100 points in the free dance at the 2018 JGP Lithuania.

 Upgraded their junior-level ice dancing record for the combined total (172.81 points), rhythm dance (69.18 points) and free dance (103.63 points) at the 2018 JGP Armenia.

 They became the first junior team to score above 170 points at the 2018 JGP Armenia.

Competitive highlights
JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Nekrasov

Detailed results
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

With Nekrasov

References

External links

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2002 births
Russian female ice dancers
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
Living people
Sportspeople from Chelyabinsk

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Identification of Medical Personnel, Vehicles and Installations
View of an Aid Station run by medical personnel belonging to the 10th Mountain Division, Italy, April 1945
It was important to clearly identify Medical personnel in the field. One of the early documents, such as the "Amelioration of the Conditions of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed August 22, 1864, by a number of Governments, already instructed that Flag and Arm Badges worn by Medical personnel would bear a Red Cross on a White Field. Both symbols when used on Hospitals, Ambulances, Evacuation and Aid Centers, were to be proof of their neutral status! These signs provided for neutrality of military and civilian protected personnel (it gave them non-belligerent status) exclusively engaged in removal, transportation, and treatment of wounded and sick, or the administration of sanitary formations and establishments, and entitled them to respect and protection from their enemies. The "1929 Geneva Convention" which superseded the former agreement, was signed on July 27, 1929 by forty-seven countries (including the Axis countries, Germany, Italy, and Japan) and comprised numerous articles, among which Articles 9 and 21, recognizing that bearers of special identification cards and civilian protected personnel identified by armbands, and vehicles, and installations wearing Geneva Convention markings and markers, were all exclusively engaged in medical care activities, and consequently protected and respected by the Geneva Convention.
Jeep Ambulance pertaining to the Medical Detachment of the 32d Armored Regiment (3d Armored Division), note extra Geneva Convention markings
The term Geneva Convention, derived from the Convention itself, applied to a number of documents and items of identification and/or recognition, used by Medical personnel while active in the field. We will discuss a number of 'official' items, as well as non-official means initiated to enhance identification and recognition of medical personnel, medical vehicles, and medical installations.
Medical Department Geneva Convention Identification Card:
The Geneva Convention I.D. Card, first pattern, introduced in 1942, was distributed to medical personnel in accordance with instructions of the "1929 Geneva Convention" (requiring that medical and civilian protected personnel should wear the necessary ID in order to be recognized as non-belligerents). The document looks very similar to the existing War Department I.D. Document in use during WW2; this was however a threefold document, whereas the Geneva Convention document was only a twofold document!
First pattern Geneva Convention ID Document, bearer Edgar L. DOUTY, ASN 33164775, Tec 5, Medical Department, US Army
The front cover is medium brown with black markings, stating UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Coat of Arms, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, RED CROSS, Identification Card, except for the No.+ sequence of digits, which are red. The back cover, bears a special text, i.e. Loss of this card will be reported through channels to the Force Commander without delay., followed by a printed Red Cross and another short text, Issued in accordance with Article 21, Geneva Treaty, July 27, 1929., with signature, and indication, Major General, The Adjutant General of the Army., and, W.D., A.G.O. Form No. 65-10, May 20, 1942, GPO 16-25005-1. The double page inside folds in the middle, and contains headings to be filled out, such as; THIS IS TO IDENTIFY– Agency, First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Race, Birth Date, Color Eyes, Height, Signature of Bearer, Military Authorization-Signature, Date, Place – the rest of the page is reserved for Fingerprints (Right Hand, Thumb, Index and Middle Finger), a B/W picture of the card bearer and reference 16-28605-1.
Second pattern Geneva Convention ID Card (laminated), bearer Jennings D. BANNER, ASN 17000575, Sgt, Medical Department, US Army
A new and improved Geneva Convention I.D. Card followed, this is the second pattern version (laminated). It was introduced later in the war and was not only easier to carry and handle, moreover it was coated with transparent plastic for enhanced protection. The document obverse side is an ivory-white rectangular card with a red frame, red headings and indications e.g. the frame itself bears following statement, NOT A PASS – FOR IDENTIFICATION ONLY, PROPERTY OF U.S. GOV'T., LOSS OF THIS CARD MUST BE REPORTED AT ONCE and further WAR DEPARTMENT, THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.C., followed by the US War Office Coat of Arms and CERTIFICATE OF IDENTITY TO BE ISSUED TO MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PROTECTED PERSONNEL, with indication of Name, Designation, Signature, Date Issued, Countersignee, and reference W.D. A.G.O. 65-10. It also holds sufficient space for a black and white picture of the card holder. The reverse side has following indications in black; Height, Weight, Hair, Eyes, Date of Birth, Fingerprints, Left Index, Right Index, Identification No., with sufficient space, while the larger part (right) is covered by a red cross over which a black text is superimposed defining the duties of the card bearer, as well as a note related to possible loss of the card and a public warning. The number of digits preceded by a block letter, is supposedly the same one as stamped on the inside of the medical brassard, authorized by the Geneva Convention.
It is estimated that approximately 830,000 cards were distributed to medical personnel in the course of WW2. After the war, a new (smaller) Geneva Convention Identification Card was issued by the US Government bearing reference to the following Geneva Convention, which took place August 12, 1949.
Geneva Convention Brassard (item #9913500):
Obverse and reverse views of the M-1924 Geneva Convention Brassard, note the extra texts on the reverse side
In order to comply with the Geneva Convention and Army Regulations a Medical Brassard was introduced November 25, 1924 for general wear by all medical personnel active in the field. As was the case with other armbands, this one was also to be worn on the left sleeve, above the elbow. It represented a red percale cross (3 inches x 3 inches) stitched on a white rectangular cotton (4 inches x 18 inches) armband, which was fixed to the clothing by a large safety pin. Every official brassard had a black ink stamped text on the inside stating "issued by Medical Department, U.S. Army, in conformity with Article 21, International Red Cross Convention, Geneva, 1929" – furthermore there was another stamped text showing the Identity Card number (of the holder) i.e. a black block letter, followed by a number of digits. This number was also reflected on the Medic's Geneva Convention Identification Card, which he had to carry with him at all times, in order to remain protected as a non-combatant or neutral member of the Armed Forces by the terms of the Geneva Convention applicable in time of war. A similar means of identification (item #9913700) was introduced for the Veterinary Corps December 13, 1939; it carried a green cross on a white rectangular field, but its members were however not protected by the Geneva Convention.
On 16 June 1944, it was confirmed by the Chaplain Section, Headquarters, Communications Zone, ETOUSA, that Chaplains and Chaplains' Assistants, Enlisted Men and Warrant Officers, who were concerned exclusively with the removal, transportation, and treatment of the sick and wounded, were permitted to wear the Medical Department GC Red Cross brassard.
Detailed view of ID Card Number with prefix Letter, stamped onto the reverse side of the Geneva Convention Brassard
Detailed view of the official text stamped by the Medical Department on the reverse side of the Geneva Convention Brassard
Another detailed view of the official text (different style) stamped by the Medical Department on the reverse side of the Geneva Convention Brassard
Geneva Convention Helmet:
Geneva Convention Brassard being tucked behind camouflage net of Steel Helmet, field improvisation
Although widely spread throughout World War 2, the use of Geneva Convention helmet markings was never official – indeed there were no Army Regulations governing their use!
Variations in Geneva Convention Symbols Helmet Markings (reproductions)
Apparently, the first use of medical markings on steel helmets took place in N. Africa (NATOUSA Theater) around mid-1943. During "Operation Torch" (Invasion of North Africa, 8 Nov 42) and subsequent field activities, it had been noted that quite a lot of medical aid men suffered regular casualties. Interrogation of German PWs revealed that the single Red Cross brassard (worn on the left arm) was not always visible, during combat, and as such it was often difficult for the enemy to correctly identify medics in the field! An investigation was launched and upon instructions from The Surgeon General's Office, reports from the N. African & Mediterranean Campaigns were intensively studied. It took a while to remedy the situation, and meanwhile medical personnel (1943-44) just placed a second brassard under the helmet's camouflage net in order to show their trade more distinctively. Some men began to wear a brassard on both arms for increased identification (left and right). Finally, in the end, medics just started painting red cross symbols directly onto the helmet itself. This use was gradually introduced in the Italian Theater, and later expanded to the ETOUSA, after the Normandy landings. It seemed that the Medical Department was afraid of the enemy's reaction, for the coming D-Day Operation (6 Jun 1944), whereby medics refrained from painting any Red Cross markings on their helmets – this can be clearly seen in period illustrations (though, with minor exceptions)! When the Allies moved further inland, they seemed appeased. After 2 months of combat and careful analysis of shooting accidents, involving medical personnel, in Normandy, most unit commanders concluded that, except for isolated cases, the Germans abided by the Geneva Convention. According to statements made by German prisoners, sniper incidents often resulted from difficulty in seeing and identifying Geneva Convention brassards on men moving in the field, furthermore American medics in some Divisions noted that a high proportion of their small-arms casualties were often shot from the unbrassarded right side! Some aidmen and litter bearers accordingly began to wear brassards on both arms, and even started painting non-regulation red crosses on their steel helmets (just as happened in the Mediterranean Theater). The XIX Corps Surgeon late in July 1944 officially authorized these painted markings and other measures to make Geneva Convention symbols on men and vehicles more conspicuous.
Medic helping an injured man, Geneva Convention Red Cross painted on Whitewashed Steel Helmet, winter improvisation
In certain units, the Chief Surgeon defined the kind of marking that was supposed to adorn the medic's helmet, while in other units, there was no specific standard to adhere to – this explains the widespread variety in helmet markings (sofar we discovered over 20 different markings, in period-photographs), whereby colors, dimensions, combinations and even the red cross symbol differ a lot … sometimes stencils were used, but the majority were merely handpainted markings… the most widely used symbol was a red cross on a white circular field (identical to the Geneva Convention brassard). Change N°5 to AR 850-5 dated 15 February 1945 was only introduced on January 23, 1948 to regulate official use of a red Geneva Cross on a white circular background for medical personnel helmets – it was however shortlived, since already cancelled on 18 January 1949 by Change N°6 (due to the introduction of helmet covers, which made any markings redundant).
Variations in Geneva Convention Symbols painted on Steel Helmets
Medical Tabards:
Medics from the 94th Infantry Division trying on Geneva Convention Tabards, all Aid Men are wearing Brassards on both arms, also note the different sizes of Helmet Markings
White Tabards or Aprons with Red Crosses (worn over breast and back) were apparently first introduced in February 1945. This kind of garment was based on German models, and was supposed to enhance visibility and identification of Medical personnel in combat and field conditions. Third United States Army (Lt. General George S. Patton's outfit) claims to have introduced this additional means of identification.
Geneva Convention Flags and Markers:
In accordance with Geneva Convention recommendations and instructions, the War Department introduced a number of Flags and Markers for identification of medical installations and vehicles.
Flag, Ambulance and Marker, Stock No. 5-F-2150:
Primarily used to distinguish Ambulances and Aid Stations protected by the Geneva Convention. The flag or marker consisted of 12-inch Red Cross centered on a White rectangular Field 18 by 27 inches. The flag (when not in use) could be covered by a Case, Flag, Duck, Automobile, Stock No. 5-C-50, the staff was officially designated Flagstaff, Wood, Marker and Marker Pennant, Stock No. 5-F-6590.
Ambulance Flag and Marker, traditional Red Cross centered on a White rectangular Field (flagstaff missing)
Flag, Field Hospital, Stock No. 5-F-2160:
Used for identification of mobile Hospitals, primarily Field Hospitals. The flag had following characteristics; a 36-inch Red Cross on a White rectangular Field, 48 inches by 72 inches.
Flag, General Hospital, Stock No. 5-F-2170:
Used for identification of fixed and semi-mobile Hospitals (i.e. General Hospitals). Description; a 54-inch Red Cross on a White rectangular Field, 72 inches by 108 inches.
Needless to add, that improvised field solutions were also used, such as locally-made Flags.
Aerial view of a Field Hospital, note the Red Cross Canvas Marker in the foreground left, and the circular Red Cross Markers displayed over the different Hospital Wards
Markers were more generally used to enhance aerial recognition and identification by either friend or foe.
Marker, Red Cross, Canvas, Stock No. 5-M-300:
Introduced to distinguish individual tentage used for medical purposes. The Markers were placed over the ridge of the tent with one half of its length displayed on either side. This method allowed for a clear and distinguishable Geneva Red Cross on both sides of the tent's roof. Primarily used on Hospital Wards and Surgical Tents.
Marker, Red Cross, Canvas, Stock No. 5-M-3050:
Introduced to facilitate aerial identification from altitudes up to and including 20,000 feet on clear days. These Markers were used on the ground to designate Hospital areas and were designed for easy, quick assembly, anchoring and dismantling. The individual sections were provided with covers for protection against soiling.
Miscellaneous Geneva Convention Symbols:
Extra Geneva Convention Cover draped over a 1/4-Ton Vehicle's hood
(re-enactment)
Although never official, miscellaneous or add-on medical symbols were used to underline the medical nature of the vehicle and organization, and they did help. Vehicle drivers often replaced the white star on the hood by a painted Red Cross on a White Field. The windshield cover was also sometimes adorned with Geneva Convention markings (instead of a star). In other instances, a Red Cross on a White Field, was sometimes draped as a cover over the vehicle's bonnet, or attached to the canvas of trucks used by the Medical Department.
A 3/4-Ton Weapons Carrier serving as makeshift Ambulance, crossing 'Siegfried Line' (Westwall) Dragon Teeth antitank defense elements
Add-on and painted Geneva Convention Symbols on Truck canvas tarpaulin and Blood Refrigeration Unit
Medical Dog Tags:
Brass Identification Tag, holder Flora A. PERCIVAL, N 743921, 2d Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps, US Army
A few Identification Tags displayed special prefixes related to medical specialties. Following Dog Tags were introduced in the course of WW2 :
Army Nurse Corps (ANC-established 1901) – prefix N, followed by a series of digits designating the individual Army Serial Number.
Hospital Dietitian (HD-established 1942) – prefix R, followed by a series of digits designating the individual Army Serial Number.
Physical Therapist (PT-established 1942) – prefix M, followed by a series of digits designating the individual Army Serial Number.
Contract Surgeon (CS-established 1941) – prefix CS, followed by a series of digits designating the individual Army Serial Number.
For general information, American Red Cross (ARC) volunteers (not Army personnel), were issued special Dog Tags, with following embossed data; prefix ARC, followed by a series of digits designating the bearer's individual Serial Number.
A 'special' Tag was made by the Graves Registration Service (GRS), when it proved impossible to determine the identification of an unknown soldier and personal Dog Tags were missing. The bodies were marked – unknown – and a substitute Identification Tag was then embossed with following indication; UNKNOWN SOLDIER, X-5102, GRS. (X was the designation for 'unknown', while the series of digits, was just the next numeral, assigned to the remains of an unknown soldier being buried in a temporary cemetery).
Stainless Steel Substitute Dog Tag for an Unknown Soldier (Known but to God), with 'special' Serial Number provided by the Graves Registration Service (QMC)
Medical Guidon:
Illustration of a Medical Guidon, this one belongs to "Dog" Company, 26th Medical Training Battalion, Medical Replacement Training Center, Cp. Grant, Illinois, June 1943 (note the Guidon does not have the M, it only displays RTC)
Official unit identification flag or marker approved by the War Department. General dimensions were as follows; 20 inches hoist by 2 feet ¾-inch fly, swallow tail end forked-10 inches. The swallow-tailed Guidon used the colors of the branch it represented, in this particular case, Maroon and White, and the service insignia as well, i.e. the Caduceus, it had no fringe. Guidons were made of wool bunting cloth. They were usually carried by units participating in parades, reviews, and special ceremonies, or displayed as directed by the organization's Commanding Officer. Streamers could be awarded and thereby became intrinsic components parts of the Guidon, they were attached below the spearhead of the flagstaff. Every Guidon was provided with a canvas cover, i.e. Case, Guidon, Stock No. 5-C-65.
Left: Guidon, Medical Detachment, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division (Campaign credits; Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe).
Right: Guidon, Medical Detachment, 395th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division (Campaign credits: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe).
Medical Badge:
The Medical Badge was only introduced on March 3, 1945 for medical personnel who served with the Medical Detachments of Infantry units during WW2. Introduction of both E.I.B. (Expert Infantryman Badge) and C.I.B. (Combat Infantryman Badge) in November 1943 created an administrative problem and caused wide concern about medical personnel and infantrymen. Although medical personnel, regularly attached to Army Infantry Regiments and/or Battalions were running considerable hazards when carrying out their duty, they were NOT entitled to the C.I.B.! (though some Commanders did obtain CIBs for the combat medics). Army Regulations strictly forbade granting combat awards, since this was against the Geneva Convention and the non-combatant (i.e. neutral) status of medical personnel! In fall of 1944, the War Department once more stressed that it was forbidden to grant EIBs and CIBs to medical personnel and Chaplains! This was because a lot of Infantrymen (acknowledging the risk and courage of attached medical personnel) complained that it was unfair to treat aidmen this way, and also some people were thoroughly frustrated they could not earn the extra $10.00/month of combat pay (which came with the CIB award). Hence the introduction by the Surgeon General's Office of a special badge to honor medical personnel! The design was only adopted 3 March 1945, and the official uniform regulations appeared on April 18, 1945 (C-3 of AR 600-35).
Medical Badge, created and authorized by the War Department on March 1, 1945 for personnel serving with Medical Detachments of Infantry Regiments (or smaller units), in fact a 'companion' Badge to the CIB (Combat Infantryman Badge) specifically intended for medical personnel
(AG 421/3 Mar 45) "A STRETCHER PLACED HORIZONTALLY BEHIND A CADUCEUS WITH THE CROSS OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION AT THE JUNCTION OF THE WINGS, ALL ENCLOSED BY AN ELLIPTICAL OAK WREATH 1-IN IN HEIGHT AND 1 ½ -IN IN WIDTH, OF OXIDIZED SILVER". Official statement: The War Department has authorized wear of a Medic's Badge for personnel who served with the Medical Detachments of Infantry Regiments or smaller units, since the beginning of the War. The subsequent Bill of Congress will give those people an extra $10.00-a-month pay as provided for combat infantrymen. Medics up to and including rank of Captain are eligible, as well as Regimental Surgeons. The Medical Badge shall be worn above decorations and/or ribbons, over the left breast pocket of the uniform coat or jacket.
Insignia:
Army Regulations 600-40 prescribed a number of Insignia for wear on uniform clothing. These Insignia destined for wear on collars and lapels were made of gold-colored metal. Attachments consisted of screw backs, safety pins, or clutches. Insignia for Officers were different from those worn by Enlisted Men.
Uniform Insignia:
Figure illustrating location of U.S. and Branch of Service Insignia on Service Coat + D.I. and Rank Insignia on Shoulder Loops
Figure illustrating location of Rank and Branch Insignia on Shirt Collar
U.S. – Officers will wear block letters U.S. 7/16 inch in height, each letter to be followed by a period symbol. Insignia will be worn on both upper lapels of the Officers' Coat.
Insignia of Arm or Service – Officers pertaining to the Medical Department will wear the appropriate Caduceus device, 1 inch in height, and if letters are used, they will be 3/8 inch in height. Service Insignia will be worn on both Coat lapels (under both U.S. letters), or on the left Shirt collar (when no Service Coat is worn). Elements superimposed on Officers' Insignia will be of bronze finish or brown enamel (for illustrations of the different medical branch insignia, kindly revert to our article "Brief Overview of the Medical Department").
Figure illustrating location of Collar Disks on Field (IKE) Jacket
Enlisted Men:
U.S. – Enlisted Men will wear the letters U.S. on a plain solid circular background or disk, 1 inch in diameter, on the right collar lapel of the Service Coat. Material used is thin brass stamping, but it is to be noted, that due to temporary metal shortages, plastic disks were also manufactured and used.
Insignia of Arm or Service – Enlisted personnel of the Medical Department will wear the appropriate Caduceus symbol on a similar plain circular background or disk, on the left Coat collar lapel.
Headgear Ornamentation:
Officers will wear a cord edge braid of gold bullion (or metallized cellophane) and black silk intermixed. (for Warrant Officers, color will be silver & black, for General Officers, color will be overall gold, for Chaplains, color will be identical to Officers, although some Chaplains continued to use the black braid worn during WW1).
Illustration of Medical Piping (Maroon/White) and DI (61st Medical Battalion / 5th Engineer Special Brigade, campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, DI: approved 13 Jan 43) on Garrison Cap
Enlisted personnel will wear a cord edge braid (or piping) corresponding to the Arm or Service , for the Medical Department it is Maroon piped with White. As there were periods of war shortages, and difficulties in overseas transportation and supply, Garrison or Overseas Caps worn in the E.T.O. were not always adorned with the appropriate piping.
Service Coat & Headdress Distinctive Insignia:
Illustration of Collar Disks, as worn on Class A Uniforms
Each Regiment and independent Battalion of the United States Army was authorized a Coat of Arms (for display on its organizational flag) and a Distinctive Insignia (D.I.) for wear on the uniform. The Coat of Arms is a heraldic representation embroidered in the branch colors, representing the unit's history, tradition, ideals, and accomplishments, and serves as an inspiration and an incentive for unity of purpose. The Distinctive Insignia is based on all, or some elements of the Coat of Arms, and is usually made in the Arm or Service basic colors. It is worn on the uniform to promote 'esprit de corps'. The practice was temporarily dropped, when the WD announced in January 1943 that no further D.I.s would be approved or manufactured for the duration of the war. If adopted, D.I.s must be worn by the entire personnel of the organization. It should be noted that Distinctive Insignia had to be duly approved and authorized, before the unit was allowed to wear them!
Figure illustrating location of Piping and Distinctive insignia on Garrison (Overseas) Cap
Officers will wear the unit's specific (approved) Distinctive Insignia centered on both Shoulder Loops of the Service Coat (or centered on the Green Leader loops). Since Officers were wearing their Insignia of Grade on the left side of the Garrison Cap, there was no room left for D.I.s.
Figure illustrating location of Collar Disks and D.I.s on Service Coat
Enlisted personnel will wear the D.I.s on both sides of the Lapels of the Service Coat, ¾ inch below the lapel notch . They will also wear it on the left side of the Garrison Cap, 1 ½ inches to the left of the front center part.
Samples of Distinctive Insignia – from L to R:56th General Hospital (campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, DI: approved 15 Jan 42)
24th Medical Battalion / 24th Infantry Division (campaigns: Central Pacific, New Guinea, Leyte, Luzon, Southern Philippines, DI: approved 29 Sep 23)
12th Field Hospital (campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe, DI: approved 19 Jan 43)
9th Medical Battalion / 9th Infantry Division (campaigns: Algeria, French-Morocco, Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe, DI: approved 12 Mar 41)
21st Evacuation Hospital (campaigns: Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe, DI: approved 8 Dec 42)
Service Hats (or Campaign Hats) have not been included, for obvious reasons. The above Regulations only reflect wear of insignia and trimmings in the E.T.O., i.e. after 1942.
Technicians:
Chevrons for Noncommissionned Officers and Privates First Class, including the new Technicians introduced in 1942
The system of Army Specialist Ratings (6 Classes) was discontinued and a new system was to be put into effect, granting NCO rank to 'Specialists' (Enlisted Men doing work that required 'specialized' training). Following grades were added by War Department Circular No. 5, dated January 8, 1942: they were respectively Technician Third grade, Technician Fourth Grade,and Technician Fifth Grade – the corresponding Chevrons were to receive an additional symbol, the letter "T" for Technician, introduced by War Department Change C-1, Army Regulations 600-35, dated September 4, 1942.
Tec 3, Tec 4, and Tec 5 were to rank immediately below Staff Sergeant, Sergeant, and Corporal. Technicians thus became 'Noncommissioned Officers', and received pay, allowance, and privileges of the pay grade specified by their title. Although the new Technicians achieved NCO status, they were forbidden to exercise any tactical control in the field!
Among the wide range of medical 'Specialists' were: Veterinary Technicians, X-Ray Technicians, Medical Technicians, Dental Technicians, Medical Laboratory Technicians, Pharmacy Technicians, Surgical Technicians, Sanitary Technicians, and Equipment Maintenance Technicians.
Read more: https://www.med-dept.com/articles/identification-of-medical-personnel-vehicles-and-installations/


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Q: Was Cypher's character inspired by Ronald Reagan? In the Matrix, Cypher's real name (as revealed by the Agent he is dealing with) is Mr. Reagan. Is this intended as an intentional reference to former actor and former President Ronald Reagan?
For one thing, Cypher claims he wants to be someone important, "like an actor". Reagan, obviously, was not only an actor, but President of the United States. Even more interesting, Cypher is a traitor to his companions from Zion, giving the Agents information in return for being plugged back in. During the Cold War, Ronald Reagan provided information to the FBI on fellow actors he believed to be communists.
How much, if any, of Cypher's character was intended as a reference to Ronald Reagan? Have the Wachowskis ever addressed these similarities?

A: The actor who portrayed Cypher, Joey Pantoliano spoke about the reference to his being made "an actor" after being returned to the Matrix. He explictly states in the interview below that the Wachowskis wrote that line to reflect his own life and that the actor they're referring to is, in fact, himself.

But the truth is that he's got such a seductive choice. He says that
he doesn't want to remember anything. "I don't want to remember
anything," he says. "I want to come back as somebody famous…like an
actor." An actor is the most benign thing — it is the biggest joke in
the world. When the Wachowski's were writing that line, they were
talking about Joey Pantoliano because they knew me so well and they
knew that I've led a blissful existence. I've been so fuckin' lucky.
An interview with Joe Pantoliano


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Q: Connecting to SQL Server with PDO on WHM/Cpanel I am trying to connect to my SQL Server database using PHP PDO. My website is hosted on a WHM/cPanel server with Centos OS. We are using PHP version7.0. The database is hosted on a Windows VPS in the same environment. We installed the ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server and we are now getting the following error.

SQLSTATE[HYT00] SQLDriverConnect: 0 [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server]Login timeout expired

The code I am using to test this out is
$hostname=111.111.111:1433';
$dbname='dbName';
$username='user';
$password='Secret';
$driver='{ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server}';;
try {
$dbDB = new PDO("odbc:Driver=$driver;Server=$hostname;Database=$dbname", $username, $password);

echo ' Connection successful';
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage() . '
 ';
}

I tried a couple of known credentials for the database, and I confirmed the credentials are correct, so that is not the cause.
We also tried the following commands to resolve it:
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db=1

but this did not work either.
Is there a way to troubleshoot whether the issue is on the database side or on the WHM, and what the issue may be?


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The Sexiest Thai Ghost Story of Them All
by Jim Algie | Aug 2, 2016 | Features | 0 comments
Without a grounding in the supernatural one is unable to understand the daily effects of Thailand's ancient animistic culture. In this retelling of the infamous Thai ghost story Jim Algie untangles the historical truths from the fantastical legends.
The Thai ghost of a woman who dies in childbirth—a phi tai hong thong klom—is regarded as the most fearsome of all phantoms in Thailand. In a scene from Nang Nak—the famous Thai horror movie based on the country's most enduring ghost story—a terrified widower and a group of Buddhist monks are sitting on the floor of a temple chanting mantras to protect themselves when drops of water begin falling on them. They all look up to see the man's dead wife standing upside down on the ceiling of the temple, glowering at them while dripping sweat.
The main image of Nak at Wat Mahabut.
At Wat Mahabut (also known as the "Temple of Mother Nak") on Sukhumvit Soi 77 in Bangkok, where many believe her spirit still resides, a Thai man pointed out to me a strange indentation on the ceiling of the main shrine, declaring that this was the place where Nak once stood.
Long before the Siamese even had surnames, the real Nak was supposedly born around here in the middle of the 19th century. The village of Phra Khanong, once a patchwork of rice paddies crisscrossed with canals—some of which have still not been paved over—later became a district of the capital.
As the legend and the 1999 film tell, her husband Mak went off to fight the Burmese, leaving his pregnant wife behind. When they were reunited, Nak showed him their newly born son. But Mak could not understand why she was so aloof and kept rejecting his overtures to make love.
SEX, DEATH AND REBIRTH
A few scenes later, when the couple are making love on the floor, the scene is edited together with a flashback of Nak dying while giving birth in the old Siamese way—sitting on the floor, her arms tied above her head, as beads of blood drip through the floorboards onto the head of a water buffalo tethered below the house.
Never mind the supernatural sex that left audiences around the world gasping and murmuring—"He's sleeping with a ghost and doesn't even know it!"—the scene was remarkable for the way it contained an entire revolution on the Buddhist Wheel of the Law: birth, death and rebirth.
Such deaths were common in Nak's day. In the film and the rural legend, Nak went on a killing spree to keep the other villagers from exposing her secret to her husband.
MEETING THE PHANTOM
After watching her frightful and tender performance on-screen it was a shock to see that, in real life, the cinematic reincarnation of the country's most famous phantasm was a teenaged college girl with spiky tendrils of frosted blonde hair.
Only 19 at the time, Inthira 'Sai' Chareonepura radiated none of the menace she showed on-screen. Sitting in her school uniform of a black skirt and white blouse, beaming with smiles and politely answering questions, she could have been one of a million university students in the country.
Sai noted that Nak's story has been made into more than 20 different films, but the 1999 Thai ghost story was different because it focused more on the couple's relationship.
"The previous versions of Nang Nak are more about scary things and horror—not the love story. But the director [Nonzee Nimibutr] wanted to make this a love story about Nak's faithfulness to her husband as she waits for him [to return from the war]. Even after she dies, she's still worried about him and comes back to take care of him."
That's true. What made this version a cut above the usual slasher-and-horror fare is the full-bodied romance. The climax is especially heartrending when the couple is caught in the middle of a rainstorm while the Buddhist monk who moonlights as a ghost-hunter attempts to trap Nak's spirit forever.
Even the most oblique and subtle questions about the infamous sex scene turned Sai into a giggling and blushing schoolgirl. "Yes, giving birth in the old way… that wasn't me. They had a body double," she said, before erupting in a gale of giggles.
Since this was the most controversial part of this distinctly Thai ghost story, it required an explanation. But my further questions were answered by more giggles and denials. Tiring of this typically Thai coquettish routine, I asked her point-blank, "So was that really you rolling around on the floor of the house?"
The infamous childbirth scene as Mae Nak gives up the Thai ghost
You would've thought that this was the funniest joke she had ever heard. Composing herself after another fit of hysterics, Sai managed to say, "Yes, that was me," before explaining that many previous productions of the film were plagued with problems thought to have occult causes. That's why cinemas once set up shrines to appease her spirit. One old movie house that did not follow this ritual was razed to the ground by a freak fire.
As was, and still is the tradition, the whole cast and crew paid homage to her restless spirit before they shot the film, at the shrine behind the temple where hundreds of devotees still go every day to seek blessings, winning lottery ticket numbers and especially luck in love.
That kind of reverence has paid off big time at the box office. Mae Nak loves filmmakers who keep her legend alive. In 2013, a blackly comedic and frequently slapstick version of the tall tale, this time told from her husband's point of view. With more than a billion baht in box office sales, Phi Mak is the highest grossing domestic blockbuster of all time in Thailand.
Read more about this uniquely Thai ghost in the book Bizarre Thailand, or other takes on the Thai occult, in The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand. and legend are here.
A 1959 version of the most infamous Thai ghost story.


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Eating Your Own Dogfood
I'm not sure when I'll be blogging next as I have a family member in the hospital (immediate danger appears past, home by the weekend if all continues to go well), so I am simply going to point you at the Incomparable Bob Somerby's latest post, Who Sent the Dogs Out!
First, he calls out Harold Meyerson's deeply mendacious words about the Michigan ballot and why Obama's name wasn't on it:
Can Meyerson possibly be this dumb? Trashing Clinton's vile ways up in Michigan, he misstates elementary fact not once, but twice, in this groaning passage:
MEYERSON (5/28/08): Had Florida and Michigan conducted their primaries the way the other 48 states conducted their own primaries and caucuses that is, in accord with the very clear calendar laid down by the DNC well before the primaries began—then Clinton's marchers would be utterly justified in their claims. But when the two states flouted those rules by moving their primaries outside the prescribed time frame, the DNC, which gave neither state a waiver to do so, decreed that their primaries would not count and enjoined all presidential candidates from campaigning in those states. Obama and John Edwards complied with the DNC's dictates by removing their names from the Michigan ballot. Clinton did not.
Seating Michigan in full would mean the party validates the kind of one-candidate election (well, 1.03, to give Dennis Kucinich, Chris Dodd and Mike Gravel, who also remained on the ballot, their due) that is more common in autocracies than democracies. It would mean rewarding the one serious candidate who didn't remove her name from the ballot when all her rivals, in deference to the national party rules, did just that.
You live in a deeply disordered society, as Meyerson has shown in the past.
Sorry, but even Meyerson surely knows that there was no "DNC dictate"—no "national party rule"—requiring Obama, Edwards, Biden andRichardson to remove their names from the Michigan ballot. Duh! They did so voluntarily, at the last minute (as was their right); that's why Clinton, Dodd, Kucinich and Gravel were free to leave their names there. The candidates' decisions were voluntary; indeed, all the requests were made on October 9, the day of the ballot deadline, to considerable uproar in Michigan. (The DNC had condemned the state's primary at least four weeks earlier.) Indeed, in the October 10 Detroit News, party honcho Debbie Dingell said that Obama's campaign "had assured her last week that he would remain on the ballot." We have no idea if that's accurate, but no challenge to her statement was ever published—and it only made sense because there was no requirement that names be removed from the ballot. All the uproar, surprise and confusion occurred because there were no "rules" or "dictates" requiring names to be removed.
Request to Meyerson: What was the "dictate" to which you refer? Any chance you could quote it for us?
How should candidates have handled Michigan? That is a matter of judgment. But Meyerson seems to be working double-hard to convince Post readers of something that's baldly untrue. Clinton, Dodd, Kucinich and Gravel all stayed on the ballot. And they broke no "dictates" or "party rules" when they decided to do so.
Meyerson is the person who falsely accused Clinton of making racist phone calls in Los Angeles dutring the California primaries, if you will recall. He appears to be getting his talking points directly from Obama headquarters, first promoting the bullshit claim that Hillary is stirring up racial tensions (no, only Obama is doing that) and now spewing sheer lies about the conditions for the Michigan primary.
Then, Somerby does something I didn't think I'd see - he goes after Obama. In the earlier months, Somerby has been scrupulously careful to keep his criticisms of the campaign focused on the behavior of the press and bloggers (we owe him for the coinage of the Guy Who Kidnapped Josh Marshall) and to not so much as hint at bad behavior by either campaign. As recently as Friday, he was exonerating Obama from involvement in the biased bahavior of the press corps: "Members of the media recoiled and threw their support to Obama? Again, this wasn't Obama's doing. But let's ask ourselves how "reporting" looks when journalists engage in such recoil."
With today's post, Somerby has stopped protecting Obama. The RFK assassination smear was simply too much, going too far. It was the Bradley trashing of Gore cubed. His eloquent fury deserves to be quoted in full.
PART 2—WHO SENT THE DOGS OUT: The screaming mimis keened and wailed when it was deemed that Clinton had vilely offended. Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert, and Dowd (sounds like a firm of ambulance chasers!) realized how vile the vile woman had been—and they began to tear their hair wildly. And it wasn't just these hounds of hell—hounds who howl for the mainstream press corps. Many hacks on the "liberal web" have taken to reciting this latest grim nonsense. Once Drudge had said that Clinton was vile, these pseudo-libs rushed to affirm it.
Can our society function this way? More on that question this Friday.
At any rate, Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert and Dowd took turns barking and howling their outrage. Which takes us back to the early days of March—to the hounds which failed to bark.
By last Friday night, everyone knew it: Clinton's statement to the editorial board in Sioux Falls was one of the vilest things ever said. But uh-oh! As it turned out, Clinton had said the exact same thing to Time's Rick Stengel in March! When Joe Klein played the fool (again) this weekend, he cited her earlier statement:
STENGEL (3/6/08): Can you envision a point at which—if the race stays this close—Democratic Party elders would step in and say, "This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall?"
CLINTON: No, I really can't. I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.
Yep! Last Friday, all the mimis screamed and yelled at Clinton's deeply vile statement. But Clinton had said the same thing in March! And to show you how fake this week's outrage was: Not one damn thing happened back then!
There was no madness back in March. Before considering Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert and Dowd, let's make sure we understand the chronology of Clinton's March statement:
Clinton's interview with Stengel was held on March 5. The full transcript was posted on-line, on March 6.
As you can clearly see from the transcript, Stengel said nothing—nothing at all—when Clinton made her statement about Robert Kennedy. This was no sign—no sign at all—that he was troubled, in any way, by what the vile person had said.
On March 10 or thereabouts, Time's hard-copy edition hit the street (dated March 17). The cover stories—about Obama and Clinton—included two Q-and-A's from the Stengel interview. And yes: This did include the Q-and-A in which Clinton cited Kennedy's death. But even then, after several days had passed, there was no reference to Clinton's statement in Time's cover-story reporting. There was still no sign that anyone at Time was troubled by what Clinton had said.
*In its next edition (dated March 24), Time published several letters about the Obama/Clinton cover stories. None of the letters mentioned Clinton's reference to Kennedy's assassination—and no such letters appeared in subsequent editions. In short, there was still no sign that anyone had found a problem with Clinton's remark.
That brings us around to our hounds from hell—to Olbermann, Robinson, Herbert and Dowd. Olbermann, Robinson, Herbert and Dowd wrote many columns—appeared on many cable programs—during the first few weeks in March. And guess what? Not one of them said the first f*cking thing about the outrage Clinton committed. Olbermann and Robinson kept their traps shut. Joe Klein didn't say one word either.
In fact, no mainstream pundit (no one; nobody) said a word about Clinton's statement in March—a statement which was published in Time, and on-line at the magazine's web site. No one at Time said a word; no one in the wider press corps. And yet, this past weekend, everyone keened and wailed and tore their hair when Clinton so vilely said the same thing! Olbermann, "The Worst Con Man in the World," offered a heartsick restrospective in which he blamed himself:
OLBERMANN (5/23/08): She said, in an off-camera interview with Time on March 6, "Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn`t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual. We will see how it unfolds as we go forward over the next three to four months."
In retrospect, we failed her when we did not call her out, for that remark, dry and only disturbing, inside the pages of a magazine.
Readers, if you're dumb enough to buy that sh*t, you're as dumb as this big fraud thinks you are. For the record, that was in Olbermann's "Special Comment." In it, the man who suggested, just last month, that someone should "take [Clinton] in a room and only he comes out"—that delicate poodle barked deep outrage about what Vile Clinton had said.
Except, she had said the same thing back in March—and this hound from hell hadn't barked at all! In fact, nobody barked back in March. And everyone barked this past weekend.
But readers, you may understand why this happened—because we've all seen this movie before. Let's explain what happened this weekend. Let's explain why Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert/Dowd/Matthews all sat up and started to bark.
How did the chronology go down this time? As usual, it all came down to a famous old question: At present, who is scripting your "press corps?"
In fact, a familiar old pattern reappeared in the wake of Clinton's remark in Sioux Falls. As John Harris explained at Politico, the Associated Press filed an initial report about Clinton's session with the editorial board—and the AP didn't mention her remark about Robert Kennedy's death! At the AP, it was March in May; no one seemed to be troubled by Clinton's outrageous comment (link to story below). But then, the people who script your "press corps" got busy! As Katherine Seelye reported on Monday, the brilliant minds at the New York Post got the nasty episode started. Then, your press corps' current masters told the dogs to bark:
SEELYE (5/26/08): Shortly after Mrs. Clinton spoke on Friday, the Obama campaign jumped on the story, sending an e-mail message to reporters saying her comment had no place in a presidential campaign. It linked to a online report in The New York Post that said Mrs. Clinton was ''making an odd comparison between the dead candidate and Robert Kennedy—a phrase the newspaper later dropped.
So there you see the sad chronology of Friday's nasty, vile nonsense. The AP treated Clinton's remark as inconsequential—just as Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert and Dowd had done back in March. But off in the dumbest regions of Gotham, the creepy crawlers of Rupert Murdoch's dumbest newspaper made a claim so stupid that they later retracted—and just like that, the Obama campaign threw the Post's dog food to all the dogs! And presto! Just like that! Every shill in America's "press corps" knew what their current trick had to be. They repeated the New York Post's stupid and ugly claim—a claim so stupid that the Post even dropped it!—and soon, they were trying to top one another. They competed to see who could bark loudest about the vile thing Clinton said.
Back in March, she had said the same thing—and Olbermann didn't say one word about it. Neither did Robinson; neither did Herbert; neither did Klein, or Matthews, or Dowd. Neither did anyone at Time—and oh yes, neither did anyone in the "liberal" web! Go ahead! Ask the screaming mimis of the liberal web, the children who are so outraged today. Ask them to show you a single word anyone wrote back in March!
In fact, we've all seen this stupid story before, back when the RNC was still scripting the "press corps" (details tomorrow). But is it really so different today? Last Friday, it was Rupert Murdoch's New York Post which first put out this rancid dog food—offering an interpretation so deeply stupid that even they later retracted it! But so what? If you want to know how your "press corps" works, you have to know who they take their scripts from. And last Friday, they took their script from Obama's campaign—from the campaign John Judis tells us is "history." But then, that campaign recently pimped out bullsh*t from "Mister Drudge" too! Should we really be surprised when it feeds on the New York Post!
Last Friday, Obama's campaign told the "press corps" to jump. The "press corps" barked and then wondered: How high? But then, we've written this story for more than ten years: When the dogs were told to bark, Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert and Dowd all commenced barking and howling.
TOMORROW—PART 3: Same pattern, from back when the RNC ruled. And: Back in March, Olbermann mused about "assassinating Hillary Clinton"—on two separate programs! And:
What happened in June—of 1992—in the words of the Washington Post.
THE AP DIDN'T BARK: Here's Friday's original AP story, as it appeared on-line at the Boston Herald. The story didn't mention Clinton's comment about Kennedy—just as no one in the press corps had mentioned her comment in March. The AP didn't file a report about Clinton's vile remark until more than another hour had passed. By then, of course, current masters of the hounds of hell were scripting the bullsh*t you're handed.
Your press corps' current master - the Obama campaign. There was nothing in the statement, nothing that was wrong or objectionable in the slightest. It had nothing to do with assassination and there is not a single thought in there that a rational human being can interpret that way. Only the irrational and increasingly panicked Obama campaign. They pushed this story to the MSM and the Blogger Boyz and continued to do so through the weekend, as George Stephanopolous exposed when interviewing Axelrod.
All Obama has now is a tenuous hold on a portion of the delegates, and a growing, furious opposition within the party itself. He has nothing of himself to offer - no substance, no honesty, no vision, no voters, and I'm beginning to think he's not got much money left, either. It's coming in, but he is spending like a drunken sailor. All he can do is scream for the MSM to come save The Precious from the evil Hillary Mommy Monster who wants to destroy him. That Olbermann himself was advocating Hillary's murder last month in straightforward language doesn't seem to register with the Obamacans. They are projecting onto her the murderous impulses they harbor towards her.
Help yourself to your own rancid dogfood, Obamacans. The rest of us aren't biting.
Posted by Anglachel at 9:51 PM
Most Hillary sympathizing blogs refer to the comments by the Obama mob on the RFK incidence as "insanity," "misogamy" and dumb. I want to strongly object to this terminology.
In reality Kos, Josh and Meyerson are sane and decently smart individuals. None of them will be referred by a therapist for further and urgent treatment.
The German intellectuals who hated the Jews and supported Hitler weren't insane, they were racists. The Europeans, to this day, hate the Gypsies. (Interestingly enough hate of Gypsies reminds me of Obama's attitude towards blue collar workers.) You don't want to be gay in every country in the Middle East except one.
Hate and racism is the correct diagnosis for what afflicts Hillary detractors. (Detractor is an understatement.) The Hillary racists hate Bill as well. They also hate blue collar workers and women as apolitical group.
Insanity is an illness and today we don't ridicule the mentally sick. Racism isn't an illness; it's a choice and racists should be prevented from participation in a county's political dialog!
gendergappers said...
Anyone who has ever had to clean up "a dog's dinner" has long associated the BO campaign with stench and disgusting crap.
Gawd amighty, how they hate a woman who is both courageous and smart.
All best for you and family.
TLE said...
My thoughts are with you and yours. I will miss your regular commentary, as your site is an oasis of sanity in the raging sh*tstorm.
speck said...
Best of luck with the hospital - we just brought my father out safely. Don't forget to question everything they do!
I'm starting to ask myself what I should be putting my energies into as a consequence of living through this orgy of hate. Maybe joining the fight for single-payer health insurance. This is something I would do if Hillary won, in the spirit of Roosevelt's famous remark about "now, make me do it." Either way, it seems like a good fight. I've sure had it with Presidential electoral politics and the *!&# Democratic party.
I'll be looking for your return; again, best of luck.
BEst of luck with the hospital!
And FYI everybody - it is double-contribution day at HRC's site.
https://contribute.hillaryclinton.com/match1.html?sc=1883&utm_source=1883&utm_medium=e&ta=0
Shainzona said...
Hank: (shaking head). I just don't even know how to respond to your continued use of the Hate Hillary line..."nodding acquaintance with the truth".
The strange part is that often, when she has addressed a question about what she has said, you (Obamaphiles)look even closer to find a "lie" in her explanation.
Don't you have better things to do with your life?
I know what truth is. And I know what lies are. And if the words you label lies are the worst you can get from Hillary, I'm just fine with her, still.
What I don't understand is how every word - out of millions - that HRC has used is reviewed to find the "lie" while Obama gets a pass on everything - AND HE'S THE ONE WHO HAS SAID "WORDS MATTER".
I guess you Kool-aide drinkers mean words matter...as long as they aren't Obama words.
Sigh. Very pathetic.
Chinaberry Turtle said...
Anglachel, I hope your family issues work out OK. Good luck.
CognitiveDissonance said...
I agree, Shainzona. I hear more lies coming out of Obama's mouth than Hillary could tell in a month of campaigning. Even recently, he has been out there lying about his family and liberating concentration camps, and all anyone talks about is something very innocuous that Hillary said.
What is even sadder is that Obama doesn't even seem to try to cover his lies these days, knowing that the press won't report them anyway. While those of us on the internet can find out that his great uncle (not uncle) was in the Navy, not the infantry, and was definitely not liberating camps from a ship. And could not have liberated Auschwitz unless he was in the Red Army. But the press has basically told Obama he can say any idiotic thing he wants, including huge gaffes in geography about our own country, and they won't say anything.
Quite frankly, I'm just about at the conclusion that our leaders and their politics will never change as long as this press is in power and is not held to the fire. The press has never been perfect, but I do seem to remember them exposing the crimes of Richard Nixon non-stop until he was out of office. The press of today would have simply looked the other way. Or tried to convince us that the democrats were so unpatriotic that he was forced to break into their offices and he was simply doing his duty.
Make no mistake. If Obama is elected, it's because we have a propaganda machine, not a press. They have completely accepted Obama's frame of who is ahead, how SD's should vote, and that Clinton doesn't have a chance. Anyone familiar with how the party has worked over the past 50 years is not convinced at all. If we don't get a real press one of these days, we are well and truly lost. I'm really afraid that this is where we already are.
Ivory Bill Woodpecker said...
I suspect if Obama is elected, it will be because he's Wall Street's mole to raid Social Security [no GOP prez could get away with it], and so the crooked voting machines will be set to favor the [nominal] Democrat this time.
I hope Anglachel's relative recovers fully.
Hank: I have a wonderful perspective. Hillary Clinton is, IMHO, the most qualified person who has ever run for POTUS in my (long) lifetime. Plain and simple.
Wiht regard to the game of "gotcha" that you want to play...I don't want/need to play it. If you think telling me you consider Hillary Clinton a liar is going to make me decide to vote for an ego driven empty suit, you're mistaken.
If you want to talk qualifications, then please, be my guest. But your Hate Hillary message is so out of place on this blog that it's jarring.
Why not go talk to people who "think" like you do? You must have your gut in such a twist that we aren't all falling over in a dead faint for BO's line of - well - crap. Take your Tums!!
Anglachel said...
Thanks for the good wishes.
Hank Gillette's posts in this thread have been deleted permanently and all subsequent posts by him will be deleted. If you see him posting, please ignore.
CMike said...
UPDATE: [Jake Tapper, ABC News, blog post with 700+ comments - takes forever to load] Pfleger appears to have been scrubbed from the Obama campaign's page that features the testimony of faith leaders, but you can see the cached version HERE."
Pat Johnson said...
I have never been more demoralized about a presidential primary as I have with this one.
To see the Clinton's portrayed as racist; to have Hillary persecuted by the MSM; to watch a viable candidate with years of experience being replaced by an empty suit is remarkable.
The Democratic Party will surely be broken come November if they insist on backing this unqualified man. My vote will go to McCain, something for which I never in a million years would have imagined. But Obama needs to be stopped as his campaign and his backers are becoming almost sinister.
The Democratic Party does not deserve Hillary Clinton. They must live with their disastrous choice who will more than likely go down in flames come November.
In case Hank still lurks here:
NA-NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA-NA, HEY-EY-EY. GOOD-BYE! :)
Anglachel has too much dignity to say such things. Fortunately, I don't. :D
While Anglachel supports her family in recovery (it takes a village as you know), we will keep the place neat, clean and with some appearance of thoughtful comments. I'll do may part.
First, I will not vote McCain, although they say you start in the left and end in the right, I am as left as I have ever been and I almost a senior citizen. I never voted for the right and never will; I'll stay at home at the first time since 18.
Ms. Pelosi has said that she will "step in" if there is no nominee by June. The Democrats have abandoned the poor but gained arrogance. Where did Ms. Pelosi find the right to intervene and shorten the democratic process? What power does she have? Is the despicable constent to everything Bush wants an hindrance to her chutzpa?
I always thought that the leverage real leaders have is either moral or the LBJ type of hinting at twisting arms. What can Pelosi do to Hillary? It's like a second grader trying to pressure a high school student. What power does she have over Obama? He is way more arrogant then she is.
This is another sign that at a time when the Republican Party is falling apart, the Democrats succeed in doing the same.
Who put Pelosi in charge of the world?
Methinks they are using her as front so all the majority of boyz in the DNC seats of power will be protected from charges of "beating up on a girl."
And wasn't the latest Reverend erruption typical for illuminating BO's past?
orionATL said...
anglachel -
best wishes for a strong recovery to your family member.
IBW & everyone else, please, no troll baiting and no childish shit. I will shut down comments otherwise.
Horselover Fat said...
Pelosi has power over SD who are members of congress. She can take retribution on those who do not favor her preferred candidate
Apologies, Anglachel; I'll save it for other blogs in the future.
In my case, 45 years old is an average: I'm 80 half the time and 10 the other half.
Catching up during my weekly internet check-up on the craziness going down in this election. Obama has lost and I am so glad he and his supporters are arrogant and ignorant enough not to consider Clinton for the VP slot. She's too good for VP and she's too good for Obama and the Democratic Party.
As I've said before, I've contemplated voting for McCain just as a protest vote against Obama. I will probably write in Clinton along with Anglachel but the mere fact that a progressive Democrat like myself is even thinking about voting for McCain has signaled that the unity jig is up for Obama and the creeps in the MSM and blogosphere. This is really tearing me up because if MI does become a battleground state in the general which it must certainly will be for Obama, I might decide to send in my absentee ballot for McCain because at this point I will do anything to see Obama and the leaders of the Democratic Party go down in flames in November.
Obama will most definitely lose and their false attacks calling the Clintons racists and monsters along with Wright and Pfleger have already lost Obama the crucial women, Reagan Democrats, and Independents Obama needed to win the general election. Add the disenfranchisement of MI and FL to this already growing disaster for Obama & Co. and you're looking at something as bad as McGovern '72.
At this point I hope Obama, Olbermann, Dowd, Herbert and the rest of the Obamabots continue their gaffes and attacks on Clinton because it is just more ammunition for McCain to take the Clinton supporters Obama didn't earn or will deserve to win in November.
Hope your relative recovers, Anglachel.
I also wanted to add another thing. Since I do not have regular internet access, I've had to count mainly on television to get election news (it sucks). I heard a "journalist" report that the Democratic Party expects Clinton to campaign as enthusiastically for Obama as she has done for herself.
Just hearing that made me angry as hell. What gives the Democratic Party the right to screw her over then basically threaten her that she has to work her ass off for Obama because he and his supporters have already ruined his chances of winning the general election. Yes, Clinton is expected to support whoever the Democratic candidate is but the way the journalist said it sounded like the Democratic Party was threatening Clinton to keep her supporters in line.
Um...FUCK NO. Sorry, Hillary. I know she'll have to take the brunt of the attacks when Obama loses the general because of us Clinton supporters who will vote for McCain/stay home/write in Hillary but I will not support Obama no matter what Hillary says or does in the coming months. The damage is done. And now that we know the Democratic Party will force her to work 24/7 for Obama even though she deserved to win the nomination or at least be asked to fill the VP slot with Obama, Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama.
Clinton deserves a long vacation after this election. She doesn't deserve to be bullied into working for Obama without any appreciation from Obama and his supporters.
right there w/ ya cutepeach. I want Hillary to take a nice long vacation, maybe wear an Obama t-shirt, and say "yeah, vote for Obama, he's better than McCain." But other than that, she should be sitting on her ass drinking Mai-Thais all day long. Lord knows she's earned it. Let the precious little Mr. Unity do his own damn work.
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Hewlett-Packard may be looking to double down in the tablet space as rumors are emerging that the company, already having re-entered the space, is now looking to head to the low end by offering an affordable $99 tablet.
According to DigiTimes, HP will team with Walmart to sell the 7-inch tablet that HP will have built in China. It will be targeted at the back to school market and will be the second offering in the 7-inch space from the company.
NASCAR on the move-to NBC
NASCAR and broadcaster NBC have signed a multiyear, multi-billion dollar deal that will see the racing league move from its longtime homes of ESPN and Turner Sports, while Fox Sports will maintain its portion of the coverage.
The details of the deal have not been released but Sports Business Daily has said that it is estimated that the deal is 50% greater than the existing deal that was valued at $2.74 billion for 8 years. The new deal will start with the 2015 season.
Will 2022 World Cup move to November?
If you wondered why FIFA awarded the 2020 World Cup to Qatar, a nation that being in the desert tends to be very hot during the summer when the tournament is played you were not alone. Now FIFA appears to be rethinking its clever plan.
Increasingly reports are emerging that the governing body is looking to move the tournament to the fall or winter so that it does not have dozens of players falling from heat stroke. However this will have a huge impact on most of the major European leagues' seasons so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Nate Silver to ESPN
Stats guru Nate Silver has just moved to ESPN, leaving the New York Times. Silver cut his teeth in sports prior to moving to the Times and developed PECOTA, something that most baseball fantasy players will be aware of.
Hopefully in his new role he can help bring realistic use of statistics to the World Wide Leader. Does anybody really follow its quarterback rating system and does anybody remember its ill-fated productive out stat? Here is an interesting look at some areas he has impacted in the past and could in the future.
Madison Square Garden to close in 10 years?
Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks' home, is slated to close in 10 years as New York is looking to renovate Penn Station, the mass transit terminal upon which sits the sports arena. Currently Penn Station is the busiest transportation hub in the United States.
The news cannot come as good news to the team which has been in the midst of a 3-year renovation that, according to Yahoo, will cost an estimated $968 million. The team had been applying for a permanent permit for the arena.
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Senora Rabbit and I went to see Slumdog Millionaire last week. The trailer I'd seen for the film made it seem a combination of really good music and a fairly cheesy and curious plot. As Caireen and I were going over the various offerings on the Edinburgh Cinema listings this was our third choice, after Far North and Defiance.
It having been "one of those days", however, we decided that these other films were too "dark" and that Slumdog Millionaire would be the more upbeat choice.
It's a good film - directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) which follows the unexpected success of a Bombay slum boy in the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
I thought it was really two films mixed into one. The first story places its question in the mouth of a Mumbai policeman questioning a young man accused of cheating at a televised game show: Given that doctors and lawyers get only half of these questions how has a street orphan with little formal education managed to arrive at the very last question without answering anything incorrectly?
We're then shown the reason - via a series of flashbacks - bits and pieces of a life lived on the edge and at tremendous personal cost which have given him all the incidental nuggets of information necessary to answer a series of twenty questions. It was his destiny.
The second story is the old boy-loses-girl-boy-gets-girl story. It's what seemed a little cheesy in the trailer but it wasn't woven badly into the story.
All in all a much better movie than I thought it would be and, as it turned out, a come from behind winner at the Golden Globes.
Highland Cattle at Nine-Mile Burn
I pass them several times a week on my way back and forth from West Linton. Today, on my way back from the midweek Mass at St Mungo's Church I decided that I'd take a picture.
They stand out there in the rain, in the snow and frost, day in and day out. They don't even seem overjoyed when the weather finally breaks and the sun comes out.
Aye, right! This is Scotland. It won't last. It never does.
As long as they get their breakfast they just keep plodding along.
The Marrying Season
We've had a great year for marriages at St James!
We're not one of those churches where people travel far and wide to be married here. We don't advertise. We don't appear in catalogues! We don't compete with the Elvis Chapel.
The couples we've married here this last 12 or 13 months have all had some connection to the congregation - they were either children in our Sunday School who had grown up and moved elsewhere in the UK and then returned to be married or they were local people who set a date many months ahead and then started attending quite regularly in the months leading up to the wedding service. A few of these local couples have moved on but a number have stuck around. In either case, by the time they arrived at the Chancel steps to make their vows they were people we had come to know quite well.
Weddings in Montreal were sometimes a headache. I remember a lot of demanding strangers. There were even a couple of horror stories where people ended up not being exactly who they presented themselves to be (either to the priest or once - an interesting story I may not relate - to each other).
I once had a fancy Montreal 'wedding coordinator' to deal with. Her existence had never come up in my conversations with the bride and groom. We were introduced on the evening of the rehearsal at the Church. She flounced over to me and told me (quite politely, actually) to sit down and she'd get around to me in a moment.
I remember wanting to murder her.
Needless to say, she ended up sitting down and I got around to her in a moment.
This last weekend we married a couple here at St James' where the groom was the fourth generation of men in his family to be married in our church.
I rather like doing marriages here. They're a lot of fun and a very rewarding form of ministry. We've had nine or ten in a little over a year which, for us, is a lot. I've only got two scheduled (so far) for the remainder of the year - one on the Saturday before Pentecost (with the children being baptised the next day) and another on Hallowe'en.
Knowing the bride at the Hallowe'en wedding quite well, I have no doubt the occasion will be milked for its particular cachet.
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