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AFPE Fellows are always on the move. Talented, intelligent, and dedicated people are constantly on a quest to uncover new things. That is why AFPE likes to periodically check in on our Fellows to see what they have been up to since receiving their AFPE Fellowship in our "Where Are They Now?" segment. Read on to see what some of our favorite Fellows are working on…
Philip Empey, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pharmacy and Therapeutics
AFPE fellow and mentor, Dr. Philip Empey is the Associate Director of the Pitt/UPMC Institute of Precision Medicine and directs the Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh. He leads the PreCISE-Rx and Test2Learn teams to implement pharmacogenomics clinical, research, and educational initiatives. Dr. Empey's current research in precision medicine began with his interest during his residency training in providing care to patients who didn't have the expected responses to medications. In Pittsburgh, Empey and his colleagues implement genetic testing in practice to provide help clinicians to optimize drug therapy. As an example, Dr. Empey explains that after undergoing cardiac catheterization, patients are given medications to keep their stents open and prevent repeat cardiac events. The most commonly used medication, clopidogrel, is understood to be less effective when an enzyme that is necessary to turn the drug on is ineffective in a particular patient. With the genetic testing offered, clinicians can predict which patients are poor metabolizers, and proactively prescribe another drug, rather than relying on trial and error. Dr. Empey explains that it is his hope that as pharmacogenomic testing becomes more commonplace and done pre-emptively before the data are needed at the point of care. The overall goal is that patients will more quickly receive medications that work for them, rather than spending time and money experimenting with drugs that may be ineffective or produce side effects.
As a mentor, Dr. Empey frequently encourages his mentees to apply for AFPE fellowships. He notes that AFPE awards allow students to focus on their research, rather than relying on a teaching assistantship or an external job to fund their studies. Dr. Empey mentors undergraduates, pharmacy students, and graduate students, and works to foster independence and high-level thinking among his mentees. He highlights the importance of fellows training new fellows and giving back and credits AFPE with playing a role in his current success.
Kerry Empey, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Kerry Empey credits her AFPE fellowship with providing her the opportunity to focus on clinical and translational research as a graduate student. Dr. Empey's interest in clinical research was born of her PharmD program at the University of Rhode Island, and her residencies in both Pharmacy Practice and Infectious Disease at the University of Kentucky prior to her PhD work. During her residencies, Dr. Empey worked with bone marrow transplant and oncology patients who were unable to rely on antibiotics and became determined to improve their disease outcomes through immune modulation. At the University of Pittsburgh, her research shifted to a focus on Respiratory Syncytial Virus. This research became personal for Dr. Empey when her infant twins were both diagnosed with RSV, one of which went on to develop chronic wheezing, which is commonly associated with severe RSV disease in infancy. Her research explores novel maternal and infant RSV vaccination strategies and resulting immune responses to subsequent infection as well as age-dependent differences between adults and neonates in vaccine modulation.
Alongside her role as a researcher, Dr. Empey has mentored several AFPE fellows. She explained that AFPE is "near and dear" to her heart, because of the significant role it played in her development as a researcher in graduate school. She now encourages her students to apply for AFPE fellowships. As a mentor, Dr. Empey says she emphasizes student independence, initiative, and ownership of their research. She works with her mentees to effectively communicate their research aims and impact to the wider scientific community and noted that her mentees who receive AFPE awards also go on to receive numerous other fellowships and awards. In closing, Dr. Empey shares that she is most proud to pass along the skills she learned from her mentors, Dr. Beth Garvy and Dr. Robert Rapp, and to give back to the current generation of student researchers.
Nathaniel Rickles, PhD, PharmD, BCPP
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice University of Connecticut
Nathaniel Rickles describes the funding he received as an AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellow as instrumental in forming his career. Rickles trained as a psychiatric pharmacist and then went on to earn a PhD in Social and Administrative Sciences from the University of Wisconsin. As a PhD student and AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Rickles researched the role pharmacists play in monitoring patient medication adherence, focusing specifically on adherence to anti-depressant medication. He describes this research as formative to his career, noting that he has recently returned to the very project he worked on as a Fellow as an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Connecticut.
Rickles' research is grounded in his understanding that community pharmacists have the opportunity to significantly impact patient health by working with patients to improve medication adherence and overall wellness. Rickles describes the relationship between pharmacists and their patients as often mired by what he refers to as a "black box of communication," something he attributes largely to the heavy work- and patient-loads many pharmacists juggle. Nevertheless, Rickles is optimistic that a more collaborative communication strategy between patients and pharmacists—one which emphasizes patient agency—is attainable. He emphasized the importance of patient agency in this collaboration, stressing that pharmacists should prioritize tailoring their methods of communication to each patient's needs (offering consultations in person, or via phone/email.)He lists developing a large scale systemic approach to creating consistent and effective communication between doctors, pharmacists, and patient, which spans from "bench to bedside" as the primary goal of his career.
When asked what advise he would offer current AFPE fellows, Rickles suggested "doing a lot of homework" to discover what one is truly passionate about solving, and understanding the different perspectives from which that problem can be approached. He added that involving as many stakeholders as possible opens up new perspectives, and makes one's research more efficient and one's solutions stronger. He noted that experts will often focus on one paradigm in their efforts, unintentionally closing off possible solutions.
Rickles noted that he prioritizes regularly donating to AFPE to give back for the support he received as a graduate student, and called upon other fellows to donate because advancing the profession is contingent upon financial support. In closing, Rickles added that while he has received funding and grant money from various organizations, his AFPE fellowship had the most significant impact on his career.
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Kristin L. Bigos, PhD
Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Meet Kristin L. Bigos
As an undergraduate, Kristin (Kristi) Bigos was pre-med until she had a summer job in a lab at the University of Pittsburgh. Kristi saw research as more challenging; affording more opportunity ultimately to change outcomes. She chose to pursue a PhD in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, melding the translational aspects of investigating new treatments in the lab with actually working with patients.
Lisa J. Benincosa, PhD
Vice President, Global Head DMPK and Bioanalytical R&D and Deputy Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
Meet Lisa Benincosa
In high school, Lisa Benincosa admired the work of her local pharmacist and thought the field would be challenging and well-respected. While receiving her bachelor of pharmacy degree from West Virginia University, she participated in a six-week summer research project, much like the opportunity offered by AFPE's Gateway to Research Scholarship. This experience inspired her to continue her education and pursue a PhD. in pharmaceutical sciences from SUNY at Buffalo. Her AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship enabled her to complete her degree.
Phil Douglass, PhD
Clinical Genomics Manager
Meet Phil Douglass
Phil Douglass is at the intersection of science and business. As a leader in Agilent's Genomics group, his business appointments take him to points across the U.S. and in Latin America, traveling extensively to partner with thought leaders in genomic research. With more than twelve years at Agilent, Phil is responsible for managing a team of product specialists who sell and support the company's genomic product portfolio in the clinical research marketplace. He possesses the scientific background to guide researchers in the proper use of genomic tools such as microarrays, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), advanced instrumentation, software, and other solutions that are crucial in the understanding of disease and in the development of new cures and treatments.
Marijke Adams, PharmD, PhD
MH Adams & Associates, Inc.
Meet Marijke Adams
Who could have guessed that Marijke Adams' first real job as a teenager working in a drug store would ultimately lead her to a rewarding career as a pharmaceutical scientist? During that first job, the pharmacists trained her as a pharmacy technician, and in 10th grade Marijke decided that she wanted to go to pharmacy school. After working as a hospital pharmacist for a few years and discovering that she loved teaching when she had the opportunity to help a friend teach pharmacology for an allied health professions class, she grew restless and knew it was time to pursue further education in the field.
Michael DeCoske, PharmD
Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer
Duke University Hospital
Meet Michael DeCoske
With a strong aptitude for science and math, Michael became interested in pharmacy as a potential profession during career day in high school. Later, while attending Duquesne University in the PharmD program, Michael received an AFPE – ASHP Gateway to Research Scholarship in 2005. The research he conducted with Aleem Gangjee, PhD, Professor of Medical Chemistry, exposed Michael to research with tyrosine kinase inhibitors, which have in the years since become an important therapy in caring for patients with cancer. From this experience, Michael knew he wanted to pursue a role in oncology.
Alice Clark, PhD
Vice Chancellor for Research and Sponsored Programs
Meet Alice Clark
What do you get when you mix biology and chemistry? For Alice Clark, it's inspiration. Clark's distinctive curiosity led her to attain a PhD in pharmacognosy, made possible by an AFPE fellowship. More than just the funding, AFPE's support was a statement of others' confidence in her abilities that would instill in her a strong dedication to the pursuit of scientific research – and the desire to help others achieve the same feeling of purpose and support.
Laura Bonifacio, PharmD, PhD
Associate Director, Early Drug Development
Furiex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Meet Laura Bonifacio
Driven by a fire inside her to solve healthcare problems and have meaningful impact. That is how Laura Bonifacio describes herself and her progression from being selected for the Fred Eshelman – AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship to actually working with Dr. Eshelman at Furiex Pharmaceuticals. Since first meeting him in pharmacy school, Laura says Dr. Eshelman changed her life. She learns something new from every interaction with her mentor, who told her, "pick a path, build your resources, and you will have choices."
Daniel L. Hertz, PharmD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Research
Meet Daniel Hertz
Dan Hertz learned from his mother that he would be better able to take advantage of tomorrow's opportunities if he made each day count. After she died of breast cancer, he committed himself personally to a career in cancer treatment and care. Inspired by hearing Dr. Judah Folkman speak at a conference, Dan realized the power that one person can have on improving patient care. He chose the pharmaceutical field to follow in the footsteps of his father, who owned and operated an independent pharmacy.
American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education


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namespace asio {
namespace detail {

class win_iocp_handle_service
{
public:
  // The native type of a stream handle.
  typedef HANDLE native_handle_type;

  // The implementation type of the stream handle.
  class implementation_type
  {
  public:
    // Default constructor.
    implementation_type()
      : handle_(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE),
        safe_cancellation_thread_id_(0),
        next_(0),
        prev_(0)
    {
    }

  private:
    // Only this service will have access to the internal values.
    friend class win_iocp_handle_service;

    // The native stream handle representation.
    native_handle_type handle_;

    // The ID of the thread from which it is safe to cancel asynchronous
    // operations. 0 means no asynchronous operations have been started yet.
    // ~0 means asynchronous operations have been started from more than one
    // thread, and cancellation is not supported for the handle.
    DWORD safe_cancellation_thread_id_;

    // Pointers to adjacent handle implementations in linked list.
    implementation_type* next_;
    implementation_type* prev_;
  };

  ASIO_DECL win_iocp_handle_service(asio::io_service& io_service);

  // Destroy all user-defined handler objects owned by the service.
  ASIO_DECL void shutdown_service();

  // Construct a new handle implementation.
  ASIO_DECL void construct(implementation_type& impl);

  // Move-construct a new handle implementation.
  ASIO_DECL void move_construct(implementation_type& impl,
      implementation_type& other_impl);

  // Move-assign from another handle implementation.
  ASIO_DECL void move_assign(implementation_type& impl,
      win_iocp_handle_service& other_service,
      implementation_type& other_impl);

  // Destroy a handle implementation.
  ASIO_DECL void destroy(implementation_type& impl);

  // Assign a native handle to a handle implementation.
  ASIO_DECL asio::error_code assign(implementation_type& impl,
      const native_handle_type& handle, asio::error_code& ec);

  // Determine whether the handle is open.
  bool is_open(const implementation_type& impl) const
  {
    return impl.handle_ != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
  }

  // Destroy a handle implementation.
  ASIO_DECL asio::error_code close(implementation_type& impl,
      asio::error_code& ec);

  // Get the native handle representation.
  native_handle_type native_handle(const implementation_type& impl) const
  {
    return impl.handle_;
  }

  // Cancel all operations associated with the handle.
  ASIO_DECL asio::error_code cancel(implementation_type& impl,
      asio::error_code& ec);

  // Write the given data. Returns the number of bytes written.
  template <typename ConstBufferSequence>
  size_t write_some(implementation_type& impl,
      const ConstBufferSequence& buffers, asio::error_code& ec)
  {
    return write_some_at(impl, 0, buffers, ec);
  }

  // Write the given data at the specified offset. Returns the number of bytes
  // written.
  template <typename ConstBufferSequence>
  size_t write_some_at(implementation_type& impl, boost::uint64_t offset,
      const ConstBufferSequence& buffers, asio::error_code& ec)
  {
    asio::const_buffer buffer =
      buffer_sequence_adapter<asio::const_buffer,
        ConstBufferSequence>::first(buffers);

    return do_write(impl, offset, buffer, ec);
  }

  // Start an asynchronous write. The data being written must be valid for the
  // lifetime of the asynchronous operation.
  template <typename ConstBufferSequence, typename Handler>
  void async_write_some(implementation_type& impl,
      const ConstBufferSequence& buffers, Handler& handler)
  {
    // Allocate and construct an operation to wrap the handler.
    typedef win_iocp_handle_write_op<ConstBufferSequence, Handler> op;
    typename op::ptr p = { boost::addressof(handler),
      asio_handler_alloc_helpers::allocate(
        sizeof(op), handler), 0 };
    p.p = new (p.v) op(buffers, handler);

    ASIO_HANDLER_CREATION((p.p, "handle", &impl, "async_write_some"));

    start_write_op(impl, 0,
        buffer_sequence_adapter<asio::const_buffer,
          ConstBufferSequence>::first(buffers), p.p);
    p.v = p.p = 0;
  }

  // Start an asynchronous write at a specified offset. The data being written
  // must be valid for the lifetime of the asynchronous operation.
  template <typename ConstBufferSequence, typename Handler>
  void async_write_some_at(implementation_type& impl, boost::uint64_t offset,
      const ConstBufferSequence& buffers, Handler& handler)
  {
    // Allocate and construct an operation to wrap the handler.
    typedef win_iocp_handle_write_op<ConstBufferSequence, Handler> op;
    typename op::ptr p = { boost::addressof(handler),
      asio_handler_alloc_helpers::allocate(
        sizeof(op), handler), 0 };
    p.p = new (p.v) op(buffers, handler);

    ASIO_HANDLER_CREATION((p.p, "handle", &impl, "async_write_some_at"));

    start_write_op(impl, offset,
        buffer_sequence_adapter<asio::const_buffer,
          ConstBufferSequence>::first(buffers), p.p);
    p.v = p.p = 0;
  }

  // Read some data. Returns the number of bytes received.
  template <typename MutableBufferSequence>
  size_t read_some(implementation_type& impl,
      const MutableBufferSequence& buffers, asio::error_code& ec)
  {
    return read_some_at(impl, 0, buffers, ec);
  }

  // Read some data at a specified offset. Returns the number of bytes received.
  template <typename MutableBufferSequence>
  size_t read_some_at(implementation_type& impl, boost::uint64_t offset,
      const MutableBufferSequence& buffers, asio::error_code& ec)
  {
    asio::mutable_buffer buffer =
      buffer_sequence_adapter<asio::mutable_buffer,
        MutableBufferSequence>::first(buffers);

    return do_read(impl, offset, buffer, ec);
  }

  // Start an asynchronous read. The buffer for the data being received must be
  // valid for the lifetime of the asynchronous operation.
  template <typename MutableBufferSequence, typename Handler>
  void async_read_some(implementation_type& impl,
      const MutableBufferSequence& buffers, Handler& handler)
  {
    // Allocate and construct an operation to wrap the handler.
    typedef win_iocp_handle_read_op<MutableBufferSequence, Handler> op;
    typename op::ptr p = { boost::addressof(handler),
      asio_handler_alloc_helpers::allocate(
        sizeof(op), handler), 0 };
    p.p = new (p.v) op(buffers, handler);

    ASIO_HANDLER_CREATION((p.p, "handle", &impl, "async_read_some"));

    start_read_op(impl, 0,
        buffer_sequence_adapter<asio::mutable_buffer,
          MutableBufferSequence>::first(buffers), p.p);
    p.v = p.p = 0;
  }

  // Start an asynchronous read at a specified offset. The buffer for the data
  // being received must be valid for the lifetime of the asynchronous
  // operation.
  template <typename MutableBufferSequence, typename Handler>
  void async_read_some_at(implementation_type& impl, boost::uint64_t offset,
      const MutableBufferSequence& buffers, Handler& handler)
  {
    // Allocate and construct an operation to wrap the handler.
    typedef win_iocp_handle_read_op<MutableBufferSequence, Handler> op;
    typename op::ptr p = { boost::addressof(handler),
      asio_handler_alloc_helpers::allocate(
        sizeof(op), handler), 0 };
    p.p = new (p.v) op(buffers, handler);

    ASIO_HANDLER_CREATION((p.p, "handle", &impl, "async_read_some_at"));

    start_read_op(impl, offset,
        buffer_sequence_adapter<asio::mutable_buffer,
          MutableBufferSequence>::first(buffers), p.p);
    p.v = p.p = 0;
  }

private:
  // Prevent the use of the null_buffers type with this service.
  size_t write_some(implementation_type& impl,
      const null_buffers& buffers, asio::error_code& ec);
  size_t write_some_at(implementation_type& impl, boost::uint64_t offset,
      const null_buffers& buffers, asio::error_code& ec);
  template <typename Handler>
  void async_write_some(implementation_type& impl,
      const null_buffers& buffers, Handler handler);
  template <typename Handler>
  void async_write_some_at(implementation_type& impl, boost::uint64_t offset,
      const null_buffers& buffers, Handler handler);
  size_t read_some(implementation_type& impl,
      const null_buffers& buffers, asio::error_code& ec);
  size_t read_some_at(implementation_type& impl, boost::uint64_t offset,
      const null_buffers& buffers, asio::error_code& ec);
  template <typename Handler>
  void async_read_some(implementation_type& impl,
      const null_buffers& buffers, Handler handler);
  template <typename Handler>
  void async_read_some_at(implementation_type& impl, boost::uint64_t offset,
      const null_buffers& buffers, Handler handler);

  // Helper class for waiting for synchronous operations to complete.
  class overlapped_wrapper;

  // Helper function to perform a synchronous write operation.
  ASIO_DECL size_t do_write(implementation_type& impl,
      boost::uint64_t offset, const asio::const_buffer& buffer,
      asio::error_code& ec);

  // Helper function to start a write operation.
  ASIO_DECL void start_write_op(implementation_type& impl,
      boost::uint64_t offset, const asio::const_buffer& buffer,
      operation* op);

  // Helper function to perform a synchronous write operation.
  ASIO_DECL size_t do_read(implementation_type& impl,
      boost::uint64_t offset, const asio::mutable_buffer& buffer,
      asio::error_code& ec);

  // Helper function to start a read operation.
  ASIO_DECL void start_read_op(implementation_type& impl,
      boost::uint64_t offset, const asio::mutable_buffer& buffer,
      operation* op);

  // Update the ID of the thread from which cancellation is safe.
  ASIO_DECL void update_cancellation_thread_id(implementation_type& impl);

  // Helper function to close a handle when the associated object is being
  // destroyed.
  ASIO_DECL void close_for_destruction(implementation_type& impl);

  // The IOCP service used for running asynchronous operations and dispatching
  // handlers.
  win_iocp_io_service& iocp_service_;

  // Mutex to protect access to the linked list of implementations.
  mutex mutex_;

  // The head of a linked list of all implementations.
  implementation_type* impl_list_;
};

} // namespace detail
} // namespace asio

#include "asio/detail/pop_options.hpp"

#if defined(ASIO_HEADER_ONLY)
# include "asio/detail/impl/win_iocp_handle_service.ipp"
#endif // defined(ASIO_HEADER_ONLY)

#endif // defined(ASIO_HAS_IOCP)

#endif // ASIO_DETAIL_WIN_IOCP_HANDLE_SERVICE_HPP

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The port trade, and the Institute of Masters of Wine, lost one of its stalwarts on Monday when Bill Warre MW died at his home in Wimbledon at the age of 91.
A member of one of the oldest port families, he saw his surname on countless bottles of his favourite wine, of which he was an acknowledged expert taster. With him goes a matchless repository of knowledge and experience. Round any table at the end of a meal where a port was served blind, Bill's thoughts were given respectful attention.
He was one of the first Masters of Wine, passing the exam in 1960. Until that year his family owned part of the port house that bears his name. Today it is owned and run by the Symington family, for whom Bill worked in an amiable fashion in the UK. With the recent loss of both Bill and Tim Stanley-Clarke, the Symingtons will presumably be more dependent than ever on the tasting memory of their retired winemaker Peter Symington, 74, father of current winemaker Charles.
By the time I met Bill in the late 1970s, I found him one of the most welcoming members of the UK wine trade, always with a twinkle in his eye and a wry comment or two.
He not only knew a great deal about port, he was also an expert on the Peninsula War and published the diaries of his famous forebear, Oporto-born Lt General Sir William Warre, who, despite his youth, was so useful to the British army for his knowledge of Portugal and Portuguese.
For students of British history, William and Mary is an era in the early eighteenth century. For the port trade, William and Mary were the couple who made an annual trip to the Douro to visit their friends Elizabeth and the late Michael Symington, parents of current managing director Paul, at their house high above the vineyards.
Bill and Mary's daughter Philippa is married to Jim Eustace of Haynes Hanson & Clark.
Paul Symington adds Perhaps the best recent memories of Bill were the trips that he and my father would do after their retirement up to the remote areas on the Spanish frontier were they would explore all the little mountain villages near Almeida and Guarda where the Anglo-Portuguese army faced Napoleon's invasion. Dad and Bill knew the little villages, streams and bridges intimately and loved to visit the scene of the smaller, almost forgotten skirmishes, even more than the big battles. Port played a big role in these historical visits and I would be rung up at work and asked to send up more port as campaigning was tough..


Arnold, Archbishop of Mentz was. chosen prince elector of the empire in 1153. According to certain, historians, he assisted greatly in the deposition of the emperor Henry I by the pope. During a revolt of the inhabitants of Mentz, he was massacred by the people in the cloister of St. James, in 1200, and his body interred without honor. Three years after, the :emperor Frederick I destroyed the convent and the ramparts of the city. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.


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Death Notices for Dec. 5
PUBLISHED: December 5, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
BECK — Donald Beck, 78, of Paradise, died Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in Paradise. Arrangements are under the direction of Newton-Bracewell Cremation and Funeral Service of Paradise, 873-7602.
BYRNE — Ruth Byrne, 104, of Paradise, died Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, in Paradise. Arrangements are under the direction of Newton-Bracewell Cremation and Funeral Service of Paradise, 873-7602.
GOFORTH —Lawrence Goforth, 67, of Magalia, died Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, in Chico. Arrangements are under the direction of Newton-Bracewell Cremation and Funeral Services of Paradise, 873-7602.
McGEE — Lloyd McGee, Sr., 82, of Oroville, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in Oroville. Arrangements are under the direction of Ramsey Funeral Home, 534-3877.
McKENZIE — Mary McKenzie, 87, of Paradise, died Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, in Paradise. Arrangements are under the direction of Newton-Bracewell Cremation and Funeral Service of Paradise, 873-7602.
MOORE — Stephen Moore, 64, of Forest Ranch, died Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, in Forest Ranch. Arrangements are under the direction of Bidwell Chapel, 342-4291.
NELSON — Colleen Nelson, 41, of Chico, died Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, in Chico. Arrangements are under the direction of Brusie Funeral Home, 342-5642.
RAMSEY — Richard Ted Ramsey, 68, of Willows, died Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, in Chico. Arrangements are under the direction of F.D. Sweet & Son Mortuary, 934-5524.

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Garrett has significant experience in public private partnerships, infrastructure and project finance. He joined Taft's Chicago office after working both at a large firm and as a general counsel. As a GC, Garrett had responsibility for several operating companies that worked with some of the most prominent infrastructure investors and/or operators. Over the past 10 years, he has worked with global entities such as Macquarie, Cintra, Ferrovial and IFM Investors.
Significant experience interpreting leases for the maximum benefit of the concessionaire. Drove process to expand Indiana Toll Road lease, with seven amendments and an ultimately amended and restated lease.
Responsible for ensuring contract compliance for operating standards, financial and technical reporting, and regulatory requirements.
Experienced with testifying in front of the Illinois and Indiana Congressional Transportation Committees.
Provided assistance with disclosure statements and in annual audits.
Understanding of project modeling, having proactively worked with various traffic analysts to understand the inputs and variables that are part of a model.
Extensive experience as member of bid and finance teams for parent companies, including bond issuances, note purchases, PABs, and TIFIA financing.
Successfully led company through Chapter 11 restructuring process involving a sale of ITRCC ($5.7B). During process, directly managed and was responsible for a team of over 100 legal, technical, and financial advisors.
Drafted and negotiated numerous complex contracts (e.g., a $250 million design build contract, a $180 million cross-border IT contract, and a wide variety of other material contracts).
Represented various companies in legal disputes and selected & supervised outside counsel.
Significant general construction experience as both contractor and owner, drafting, negotiating, and resolving disputes of material construction contracts.
Risk and compliance experience, including active maintenance of risk register and monthly compliance self-certification.
Significant experience with commercial and legal issues related to property and real estate matters, including being responsible for Right of Way acquisition and a variety of property issues.


I think I like blogspot better since you don't have to be a member of their network to post a comment, but the squirrel-monster comment line on the other one is more amusing.
Joyce Anthony has today and two more days left at her blog to explore Trockle, and on Sept 21 the last stop is Karen Syed.
How many ways are there to look at a picture book? Seems like there are as many as people to start looking at it. I find it easier to write for children a little older so far, or for adults. The more I'm looking at picture books by my publisher, the more I want to write one on my own. It's a challenge in my head to put the right pictures with the words; an illustrator makes the pictures, but there needs to be enough information for her to manage that. Maybe one day, but probably not today.
I like Blogger because it does everything for me and I'm lazy like that.
If you ever do write a picture book, I'd buy it!
Hi! I think the trick to writing a picture book is to think visually – really see the scene in your mind. Never think that writing for children is easy, just because children's books use simple, straightforward language. The worst thing you can do is to talk down to kids or underestimate them. The second worst thing is to assume they could or would read "War and Peace." (Although I did find it interesting to watch my son, when he was ten, struggle to read Toqueville's "Democracy in America," he only slogged through 35 pages before giving up in favor of Harry Potter.) Kids are smart, savvy, and have the attention span of a New York acquisitions editor. If you lose them in the first paragraph, they probably won't come back.
Hopefully that hasn't scared you off trying, though. If you have or know any kids, you have your test market right at hand – and they're usually fairly kind but bluntly honest, at that age.


For the hand of God in all my life I see.
That the Comforter abides with me.
Hallelujah, He abides with me!
For the Comforter abides with me.
Till I heard how Jesus died upon the tree.
And there came a peace so sweet.
Now the Comforter abides with me.
I�m as happy as a bird and just as free.
Since the Comforter abides with me.
Of the world�they�ve taken wings.
All my burdens rolled away.


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We have been digging every week like usuall but the finds have included Milk bottles and machine made crown top beers. Not much to write about until today. Well it started out like most digging days except it was just Me and Doug today I guess the lack of recent finds caused everyone else to wimp out for the day. So we met at the usuall place downtown around 10:00 and loaded everything in Doug's truck and decided to drive around and look for something to get into. We started out with a quick tour of Fells Point and Butchers Hill then it was off to Jones Town we found a brick liner on the edge of Jones Town but after digging a test hole we realized its going to be a big deep one we decided to save it until we have a 3rd person to help dig it. So after striking out on the east side of town we. Shot over to the Poppleton area of west Baltimore and ended up behind a row of 1850s houses that we have never been able to find privies behind. W pin cushioned one back yard on this row with no luck by now it was about 1:00 so I said to Doug lets try South Baltimore We rarely dig on that side of town because its pretty well kept over there and there's not much abandonment. Well we took a look at an empty lot were about 8 houses are missing they were torn down years ago but now its just an open area were people walk there dogs. The houses on either end of this open area date to the mid to late 1850s. With nothing else to dig we decided to poke around on this lot a bit well I quickly probed out a privy. So not wanting to make a big mess we put down a tarp and cut up the sod and did a "proper dig". We figured we would get run off rater quickly but that never ended up being the case a few neighbors showed up and asked us what were doing and they didn't seem to have much of a problem with us being there. So we kept digging. The hole turned out to be Barrel lined The Barrel was ash and then some clay mixed it and finally a hard rusty and ash layer. Under that a few 1910 era crown top beers and unembossed medicines and hock wines. Nothing really worth having. but we got to the bottom of this barrel and discovered the top rim of a second barrel. This hole was going to go at least two barrels deep and since we were already hitting trash we should get a whole barrel of trash. Usually when this happens you get something good. Well about a foot into the second barrel we hit another rust layer and water. Doug started digging a sump hole to bail out the water when he felt a bottle he reached into the black muck and pulled out a nice R.A. Shinn squat soda from Georgetown Dc. This alone what have made the dig but we had no idea what was in store for us. Before I knew it Doug said I feel another soda. He pulls out a D. Roche steamer type soda from Baltimore. After baling the sump hole down he starts taking the rest of the trash layer down. While doing this he uncovered about 6 or 7 more Baltimore steamers. As we got deeper into the layer the steamers gave way to smooth base squats. They were from all over the place we got sodas from New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington Dc., Chicago, and Richmond Va. Quite a few in Green and Blue but most were aqua. In total we got 47 sodas out of this one privy. That has to be a record for most sodas in a Baltimore privy. After we finished the hole we filled it in nicely and put the sod back it looked great.
All the pics below are of my share of the sodas we found.


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A Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña's "The Sad Passions"
By Lisa Locascio
ARTISTIC PREOCCUPATION with the consequences of teenage maternity is among the most vibrant geists of our current zeit, from 17 Girls, 2011's somnolent French reimagining of the 2008 Massachusetts "pregnancy pact," to MTV's inescapable Teen Mom franchise. And although American teenage pregnancy rates fell 40 percent between 1990 and 2008, Helen Lovejoy–style hysteria rules the day in discussions of the sex lives of young people. Every commercial break on Teen Mom is bookended by dire statistics about the fate of children of young mothers, each behind-the-scenes special sternly presided over by the faux concern of television's worst liar, Dr. Drew. Won't somebody please think of the children? Well, no. Our obsession is with shaming and regulating the young bodies that produce them.
This fetish — for the swelling pubescent tummy, the stark anguish of a sophomore in labor, her exhausted machinations between intransigent baby daddy and bawling infant — is easy to understand. It's schadenfreude on a massive scale, the delight of watching the guilty be punished. But literary fiction has shied away from this morbid fascination, choosing instead to treat teenage pregnancy as a long-ago horror (the Southern Ontario Gothics do this best: think Munro, Atwood) or vehicle for postmodern angst. In Ramona Ausubel's tone-deaf story "Atria," from the April 4, 2011, issue of The New Yorker, a teenage girl becomes pregnant after meekly submitting to unpleasant sex with two strangers. Attended by nameless, faceless sisters and mother, she gives birth to a creepy little baby and douses it in dirty mop water, an act that somehow kick-starts instant maternal instinct. Ausubel might have intended "Atria" to be surreal or comic, but it succeeds only as a harsh reminder of contemporary authors' distaste for motherhood — a subject, we are told, for mommybloggers, The Huffington Post, and smug marrieds, not artists.
The Sad Passions, Veronica Gonzalez Peña's extraordinary novel of desire, loss, and matrilineal history, explodes the teenage pregnancy script through its unflinching plumbing of the bond between mother and daughter. The Sad Passions begins with a story we think we know, and then shows us how little any of us understand: about our ancestors, our parents, ourselves. Six women from one family attempt to reconcile conflicting accounts of their unhappy childhoods, seeking release from the burden of memory through a canon of confession. In the universe of this book, every consummated desire contains the seed of its dissolution. A novel of this kind could easily become sentimental or melodramatic, but Gonzalez Peña is a fearless and tough writer, capable of skillfully interpolating moments of tender intimacy with scenes of shocking violence. What matters more, her book asks: a family's worst memories, or its happiest? A mother's love for her children, or her recognition of the destructive force of that love? The novel propels the reader to a space few willingly visit: the moment of disjuncture between mother and child that produces the first painful gasps of the self.
Its cyclical and obsessive plot makes it difficult to say where The Sad Passions starts or ends; each chapter spans decades of minutely recounted personal history, and each tale is told with an eye to the long afterlife of childhood memory. The family it chronicles begins in 1960, when 16-year-old Claudia leaves her comfortable Mexico City home with the irresistible M. (Gonzalez Peña's reliance on this character's initial is somewhat baffling; his name is revealed to be Miguel in several chapters.) Claudia's decision, which soon culminates in a pregnancy, is rooted not in masculine coercion or soft-minded dreams of family but in her own blunt desire: "He turned his gaze on me for just one weighty second — his liquid blue eyes pulling at my center — before quickly turning away in feigned indifference, and I didn't know how I would ever stop thinking of him again." The Sad Passions is an echo chamber of indelible memories retold in crystalline prose, each recitation deviating further from the original.
The novel grants the reader entry to a Mexican milieu with which few Americans are acquainted: the lively and cultured world of midcentury Mexico City, with its Rivera and Orozco murals, its "happy little cafes where you can stop languorous and sit at bright formica counters," its women "so beautiful you could not have imagined their existence." The Distrito Federal is not merely the novel's setting, but another of its characters, a "city prophesied by an eagle and a snake warring it out in the middle of that lake, there underneath those sleeping volcanoes, those mountains of slumbering lava life." But The Sad Passions is also a global novel with a roving eye that takes the reader to provincial Mexico in the earliest years of the 20th century, 1960 Kansas, and contemporary Los Angeles, Long Island, and Spain.
Each character is stuck in the trauma of childhood and the unanswerable questions of the self; no matter how far they travel from their broken home, they find they have carried the brokenness inside them. Theirs is a true matriarchy, presided over by Claudia's mother, Cecilia, a divorcée from an era when women did not divorce: "You must understand," Claudia tells us, "nobody ever threw them out for cheating with the maid. Every man cheated with the maid; this was Mexico, 1950, so it was a pre-ordained fact." When Claudia's banker father fails to return from Oaxaca, where he has journeyed to help establish a German logging company, Cecilia begins the cycle of self-reliance that will protect and unite her granddaughters, taking a job that ensures the family's survival. In Cecilia's house, elaborate dinners are prepared by a cook, cards are played nightly, and all are welcome, especially Claudia and her brood of daughters, alone after M tires of the latest round of playing family.
Claudia's daughters are raised in this mostly happy cacophony. Their mother is the primary problem, hated by her siblings and a torture to Cecilia, for Claudia suffers from bouts of paranoia, violent agitation, and catatonic depression likely aggravated by the electroconvulsive shock therapy she receives at M's behest. Sanity washes in and out of Claudia. For long stretches she is charming, inarguably sexy, stylish, funny; then she begins to make overtures to her daughters' boyfriends, attacks her children without cause, and finally takes to her bed, paralyzed by inexplicable fear. In the wake of her instability, Claudia's daughters choose imperfect escapes: surrogate mothers, early marriage, affected ambivalence. The novel is the record of each woman's search for identity, agency, and release. Most of The Sad Passions's chapters are told by Claudia or one of her daughters, with one chapter from the point of view of Sofia, Claudia's sister. The overlapping narratives create a kaleidoscopic vision of family life. Claudia's daughters grow up powerless in the hands of the family romance: "Little tiny girls, and in the war that was our family already our sins were being written out for us."
Rocio, Claudia's eldest, is beautiful and demure, an unwilling little mother to both her sisters and mother. Rocio suffers the firstborn's curse, automatic witness: "helpful," "innocent," "gullible." "A green-eyed coward," she calls herself. Julia is the preferred target of Claudia's rages and violence, which eventually lead to her being sent to live with an uncle in the United States. Marta, third-born, enjoys the questionable benefits of being Claudia's favorite. As a child, her loyalty to her neglectful mother renders her half-feral, a neighborhood grifter adept at charming dinner off other mothers, always ready with a hissed threat; as an adult, she is distrustful and harsh in her judgment of others. While Rocio and Julia shy away from Claudia's rages, Marta rages right back, demanding her mother's attention with attacks, taunts, and, in one memorable scene, angry urination.
Sandra, the youngest, is something else entirely: a kind of changeling, a magic child endowed with powers of extrasensory perception and tasked with divining the meaning of Julia's absence. Trapped in Julia's shadow, she performs tiny rituals that read like both the behavior of a traumatized person and a kind of beautifully individual performance art, as Rocio recalls:
Sandra pulled eight big leaves from the juniper tree — she picked them carefully, examining each before pulling it off the branch — and then she picked up eight rocks one of which she stacked atop each one of those leaves. She then lit a match […] She lit the corners of the leafs [sic], carefully each one, and then she watched them burn and when they were just ash she took the stones up and angrily shouted out to whatever force was there with her, "Ouch, they're hot! I told you they would be hot!" before walking over and piling the warm little stones next to the sink where the maid, Maria, kept our wash.
Sandra's recollection of these performances is just as mysterious: she describes them as choreographed by an invisible friend who understands her uniquely stressful family situation:
As a child I'd had someone who helped me sift through all these things, to filter and soothe […] I could not say who he was. […] [H]e would ask me to do things, to put things in a certain order, to arrange and burn corners […] In exchange he would protect me. He would calm me. He would give me an order and clarity I could feel.
Are Sandra's rituals simple childhood fantasy, a type of trauma performance, or a very sly sort of magical realism? Gonzalez Peña does not direct the reader's reading of these scenes, only presents them, clearly and indelibly as memory itself. The novel's subject matter — the search for truth in a family history riddled with omissions and mystical interconnections — could easily lend itself to softheaded magic, the kind of transnarrative mesh relied on by writers like Isabel Allende, strange happenings that reveal themselves at book's end to be considerably less than the sum of their parts. But Gonzalez Peña wisely avoids this trap by positioning the wound at this family's center — Claudia's unnamed mental illness — as a constant presence. Claudia's unpredictable behavior is puzzled out piecemeal, turned over and over with the tired intimacy well known to the families of the mad. The ineffable and the supernatural are reserved for moments of beauty and self-knowledge, and in these scenes we perceive the depth of each woman's self-knowledge and the miracle of her survival.
At first, it can be difficult to keep the wealth of narrators straight, particularly because it is immediately evident that Julia, Claudia's second-eldest daughter, and Sandra, her youngest, are linked by a mystical twinship, as Sandra explains on the novel's first page:
Of all my sisters I was the only one who looked like Julia […] so alike that it is as if my sister herself had magically passed these things down to me before she left, or was forced to leave, as if through me she intended to be felt there, to be continually thought of, even in her absence.
Julia is first sent away at age six, and although she returns for intermittent visits throughout her childhood, the breach is permanent. The reason for her separation from her family is both simple and complicated: the family consensus holds that Julia is singled out for especially harsh treatment because she alone of her sisters is not M's child but the product of an affair with M's best friend, but the issue of Julia's paternity is strangely the most confusing element in a plot thick with secrets and lies. If Sandra is M's child, why does she bear such a strong resemblance to Julia and not her other sisters? If, as Julia imagines, Claudia's relationship with M's best friend constituted an act of erotic agency and revenge against M's constant infidelity and absence, why does Claudia single Julia out for special mistreatment?
The Sad Passions's jacket copy clumsily suggests that "Julia's disappearance […] could symbolize the destabilizing impact of manic depression" (surely the first time I've seen an awkward close reading make its way into a fine novel's promotional materials), but the intimacy with which Gonzalez Peña treats Julia's sections suggests that the mystery of Julia's mistreatment may be still unresolved by the author herself, or perhaps that it is an enigma to be accepted rather than a mystery to be solved. Julia's chapters are distinguished from the others by her Sebaldian habit of interpolating photographs with text. They often begin as essays on contemporary art, musings on Robert Barry, Hans Bellmer, and Francesca Woodman that transform into deeply personal reflections on a mostly solitary life. At first, I disliked this abrupt departure from the intricately plotted narrative Gonzalez Peña had so carefully constructed; but then I realized that these asides on art function as a most elegant form of transference, Julia's way of warding off pain by ruminating on the seemingly neutral topic of art. The artists she chooses all seem to be preoccupied with a quite narrow topic — the vulnerability and malleability of the female form, the impossibility of isolating memory from reality, the symbiosis between sex and death — and this habit of looking away from the self becomes not only intriguing but refreshing, a necessary break for both narrator and reader.
The Sad Passions is told in a series of revolving narratives, like interlocking rings. Many of the women's revelations are almost unbearably intimate, as when Rocio, playing with her little daughter on the beach, realizes that her child "did not have the sad dark brilliance of Sandra, and then I thought that I was glad for that." There are long, lyrical passages of description, bitingly funny stories of sex and romance (Marta: "He absolutely believed that at sixteen I was still a virgin. Sweet, the schmuck."), and moments upon moments of the prismatic pain Claudia leaves in her wake.
Although each sister's voice stands in stark contrast to the others — a representative Marta chapter begins "A month or two after Julia left that last visit, I decided to get the fuck out of there myself" — the cumulative effect of their telling and retelling is hypnotically engaging, a kind of literary version of the ladymass, a medieval English polyphony for female voices. The spell breaks when the narrative is in Claudia's hands; in her chapters, the book becomes less trance-inducing and more gripping. In prose Claudia is equal parts entertaining —"My mother's young life had been incredibly cloistered. She'd still get excited by candles and balloons at fifteen. 1931 and a balloon was all it took" — and tragic: "I had been afraid that I was that mother who could set fire to her own daughters" is the closest the reader gets from Claudia for an explanation of why she sends Julia away.
By the book's end, Gonzalez Peña's narrative strategy comes to seem both kind and bracing. Gonzalez Peña succeeds where many others have failed in creating a novel that truly privileges female interiority. The men of The Sad Passions are quagmires and footnotes, uninteresting or impossible. Here, woman is subject, man object; here, men are prized for their beauty but hated for their fickleness, their failures of loyalty. Women are the actors, the owners, the ones who go to work, raise the children, and sort the detritus of emotional life.
The reader hears the same stories several times, but each time the tale is changed, bent. The book shows how words can be both a prison and its key. Sandra and Julia are united by their much-remarked-upon resemblance but divided by their fear: of their sameness, of understanding it, of love itself. And yet the imperfect bond that threatens to sink both women is also a life raft, the key that can release them from the past. "Imagine there is a door and you can walk through it and you can get outside. Imagine you are not trapped; imagine there is a door, and it leads outside," Sandra's friend tells her, in what sounds to me like a description of The Sad Passions itself.
Comparisons to Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives are probably inevitable, a juxtaposition flattering to both books, and apt; where Bolaño's cosmopolitan Mexico City teenage detectives run wild in service to the god of literature, Gonzalez Peña's flee the wrath and inconsistent kindness of Claudia. The two sets of sleuths are united by their youth, their infectious interest in the world around them, and their touching hope. Like Bolaño, Gonzalez Peña has a seemingly inexhaustible store of anecdotal knowledge, a great gift for black humor, and the ability to construct a captivating world both thrillingly familiar and engagingly strange. But the writer I thought of most when reading The Sad Passions was a different disaffected South American: Clarice Lispector, who burst into the literary firmament at age 23 in 1943 with the novel Near To The Wild Heart. Joana, the wonderfully wicked protagonist of that novel, muses: "Pity is my way of loving. Of hating and communicating. It is what sustains me against the world, just as one person lives through desire, another through fear. Pity for things that happen without my knowledge." This assured, simultaneous lust for and exhaustion with the business of living is what sets The Sad Passions alight. Like Lispector's work, Gonzalez Peña's novel is a welcome reminder of the happy passions as well as the sad, and the inextricable link between the two.
The Sad Passions explodes the tired assumption that women's interiority is intrinsically domestic, fanning out women's inner lives like the vibrant sections of a peacock's tail. It upends our expectations of a novel about women's family life. The cumulative effect of Gonzalez Peña's novel is that of a hall of mirrors: an intimate, personal hall of mirrors, a psychic hall of mirrors. This, she tells us, is where women live, how women live, in the company of past selves, future selves, in the anguished haunting of possible selves. This is where women's lives happen, in the space in between memory and present, in the split-second recognition of one's reflection, before turning from the glass and going out into the world.
Lisa Locascio is a graduate of the University of Southern California's Department of Creative Writing and Literature, and the winner of the 2011 John Steinbeck Award for Fiction.
The Sad Passions
By Veronica Gonzalez Peña
Published 2013-05-17 00:00:00
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The beauty of God's love is indescribable. Even in the attempt to describe such massive, exploding and delicious truth, where does one begin?
Today, I am made aware of the beauty of forgiveness.
A simple truth that God revealed to me was truly experienced in an unforgettable way. Proper forgiveness does not validate the wrongful hurt and betrayal; it validates the person who has committed the act of hurt and betrayal.
I think I will join you and stand still and know that God is God...how amazing how incredible IS HE!


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Je Vous Dis, Merde! 8: The Second "Peculiar Institution," Gun Abolitionism, and Trump
Framed in Biblical terms, the birth of the USA in 1776 was attended by two original sins:
The first original sin was what John C. Calhoun later infamously called the "peculiar institution" of slavery in the USA.
Here are some things that Calhoun said about slavery:
I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good — a positive good … I may say with truth, that in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer, and so little exacted from him, or where there is more kind attention paid to him in sickness or infirmities of age. Compare his condition with the tenants of the poor houses in the more civilized portions of Europe — look at the sick, and the old and infirm slave, on one hand, in the midst of his family and friends, under the kind superintending care of his master and mistress, and compare it with the forlorn and wretched condition of the pauper in the poorhouse … I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.[105]
The "peculiar institution" of slavery was the primary cause of the US Civil War; and although it was abolished by Lincoln in 1865, its evil consequences have been experienced throughout US history right up to today — as the Black Lives Matter movement vividly demonstrates.
Slavery is morally abhorrent because it treats human persons as mere instruments and mere things, and directly violates their human dignity.
And the second original sin was what I call the second "peculiar institution," that is, the right to own and use guns in the USA, entrenched in the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1788, which says this:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Now here is a simple but decisive argument against guns and the 2nd Amendment, and for gun abolitionism.
1. Coercion is forcing people to do things, by using violence or the threat of violence.
2. Coercion is always rationally unjustified and immoral, because it treats people as mere instruments and mere things, and directly violates their human dignity.
3. The primary functions of guns is coercion.
4. Therefore, owning and using guns is rationally unjustified and immoral.
5. But the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution entrenches the right to own and use guns.
6. Therefore, the 2nd Amendment is rationally justified and immoral, and should be repealed.
7. Therefore, gun abolitionism is rationally justified, morally right, and what we ought to do.
And here is another argument.
Have you ever wondered how many people have been killed by guns within the borders of the USA since 1776?
Since 1968, more than 1.5 million people have been killed by guns.
Since the American Revolution, 1.4 million people have died in wars on US soil, most of them by means of guns.
OK. That's close to 2.9 million people killed by guns over a period spanning roughly one-quarter of US political history, i.e., roughly 60 years.
Now, how many people were killed by guns in the USA during the 192 years between 1776 and 1968, but not in wars?
Let's say, conservatively, 3 million people.
That would mean that the total number of people killed by guns in the history of the USA is roughly the same as the number of people murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, i.e., somewhere between 5 and 6 million.
If gun violence is not a fundamental source of human oppression in the USA, then nothing is.
So I am saying that slavery is morally abhorrent, and, for logically independent but also highly analogous reasons, that gun violence is morally abhorrent too.
Moreover, the morally half-hearted and politically expedient 21st century so-called "liberal" doctrine of gun-control is strictly analogous to the morally half-hearted and politically expedient pre-Civil War so-called "progressive" doctrine of abolishing slavery in all states except where it already existed.
If slavery is wrong, then it's wrong everywhere, and should be abolished everywhere; if gun violence is wrong, then owning and using guns is wrong everywhere, and should be abolished everywhere.
The fact that some gun-owners don't actually kill other people or themselves with their guns no more morally counts against the abolition of guns than the fact that some slave-owners treated their slaves well morally counted against the abolition of slavery.
Therefore, gun abolitionism is rationally justified, morally right, and what we ought to do.
Now here are some of the things the current President of the USA, Donald Trump, has said about guns:
No limits on guns; they save lives
Q: Are there any circumstances that you think we should be limiting gun sales of any kind in America?
TRUMP: No. I am a 2nd amendment person. If we had guns in California on the other side where the bullets went in the different direction, you wouldn't have 14 or 15 people dead right now. If even in Paris, if they had guns on the other side, going in the opposite direction, you wouldn't have 130 people plus dead. So the answer is no….
Source: Fox Business 2016 Republican 2-tier debate , Jan 14, 2016
Make concealed-carry permits valid across all states
I have a concealed-carry permit that allows me to carry a concealed weapon. I took the time and the effort to get that permit because the constitutional right to defend yourself doesn't stop at the end of your driveway. That doesn't apply just to me either. It applies to all our driveways or front doors.
That's why I'm very much in favor of making all concealed-carry permits valid in every state. Every state has its own driving test that residents have to pass before becoming licensed to drive. Those tests are different in many states, but once a state licenses you to drive, every other state recognizes that license as valid.
If we can do that for driving — which is a privilege, not a right — then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege. That seems logical to me.
Source: Crippled America, by Donald Trump, p.110 , Nov 3, 2015
Now doesn't that vividly remind you of John C. Calhoun defending slavery?
Therefore I say to gun-toting President Trump —
Je vous dis, merde!
"Je vous dis, merde!" (literally, "I say to you: shit!" or more loosely, "You're so full of shit!") is a morally and politically defiant slogan invented and first published by an early 20th-century Catalan anarchist who used the nom de guerre "Miguel Almereyda." Almereyda, who was murdered in a French prison in 1917, was also the father of the famous French film director Jean Vigo, who immortalized the same slogan in his breakthrough 1933 film, Zéro de conduite, aka Zero for Conduct.
Here is the seven-part platform of The Wake The Fuck Up! Party , aka The WTFU Party —
1. Universal Respect for Human Dignity (URHD):
· Human dignity is the absolute non-denumerable moral value of every member of humanity, and everyone ought to try wholeheartedly to treat everyone else in a way that is sufficient to meet the demands of respect for human dignity, especially including (i) alleviating or ending human oppression, and (ii) actively engaging in mutual aid and mutual kindness.
2. Universal Basic Income (UBI):
· Anyone 21 years of age or over and living permanently in the USA, who has a personal yearly income of $50,000.00 USD or less, and who is capable of requesting their UBI, would receive $25,000.00 USD per year, with no strings attached.
3. A 15-Hour Workweek for Understaffed Non-Bullshit Jobs (FHW-for-UNBJs):
· Anyone 18 years of age or older who is living permanently in the USA, who has completed a high school education, and is mentally and physically capable of doing a job, would be offered an eco-job, paying a yearly wage of $25,000.00 USD, for fifteen hours of work (three 5-hour days) per week.
Thus anyone 21 years of age or older with a high-school degree and who is also mentally and physically capable of working, would have a guaranteed yearly income of at least $50,000.00 USD if they chose to do an eco-job.
The rationale behind the three-year gap between (i) being offered an eco-job at 18 and (ii) beginning to receive their UBI at 21, is that every young adult who has finished high school will have the option of pursuing three years of part-time or full-time free higher education without credentialing, i.e., for its own sake, after high school, before making longer-term decisions about what I call job-work and life-work.
Here are a few more details about UBI and eco-jobs.
(i) The UBI is to be paid by a monthly stipend check.
(ii) Eco-job income is not taxed.
(iii) For all individual yearly incomes of $50,000.00 USD or under, no tax will be levied; hence for someone receiving their UBI and also doing an eco-job, no income tax will be levied.
(iv) For all individual non-eco-job incomes, for every $1.00 USD earned above the standard UBI of $25,000.00 USD, the monthly UBI stipend is reduced by 50 cents, until the recipient's UBI is reduced to zero; hence for those individuals with yearly non-eco-job incomes equal to or under $50,000.00 USD, the maximum UBI + non-eco-job income sum is always $50,000.00 USD.
(v) For all individual yearly incomes over $50,000.00 USD, for every $10,000.00 USD earned, that surplus income is taxed at the rate of 1%, with the highest surplus income tax rate being 50%; hence the maximum surplus 50% tax rate starts at individual yearly incomes of $550,000.00 USD, and applies to all higher surplus incomes.
4. Universal Free Higher Education Without Credentialing (HEWC):
· Everyone would be offered, beyond their high-school education, a free, three-year minimum, optional (but also open-ended beyond those three years, as a further option), part-time or full-time universal public education program in the so-called "liberal arts," and also in some of the so-called "STEM" fields, including the humanities, the fine arts, the social sciences, mathematics, and the natural sciences.
· For many or even most people, their HEWC would fall between (i) the end of their high school education at age 18 and the corresponding availability of eco-jobs, and (ii) the beginning of their UBI at age 21.
· But HEWC would be open to anyone with a high school degree, no matter how old they are, provided they are mentally and physically capable of doing the program.
5. Universal Free Healthcare (UFH):
· Every human person living permanently in the USA will receive free lifelong healthcare.
6. 2-Phase Universal Open Borders (2P-UOB):
· Phase 1: Starting in 2021, there will be universal open borders with Canada and Mexico, and everyone who moves across those borders and then claims residence in the USA, will receive temporary or permanent residence in the USA and also full membership in the system of UBI, FHW-for-UNBJs/eco-jobs, and UFH in the USA, with the precise number of new temporary or permanent residents to depend on the current availability of (i) adequate funding for UBI, eco-jobs, and UFH , and (ii) adequate living accommodation, in the USA, provided that all new residents also fully respect the human dignity of everyone else in the USA and elsewhere in the world.
· Phase 2: Also starting in 2021, the USA, Canada, and Mexico will collectively form a Global Refugee Consortium (GRC), with three-way open borders to any political refugee, economic refugee, or asylum seeker from anywhere in the world (aka "global refugees"), who will receive temporary or permanent residence in the USA, Canada, or Mexico, and also full membership in the system of UBI, FHW-for-UNBJs/eco-jobs, and UFH in the three GRC countries, with the precise number of new temporary or permanent residents, and the precise distribution of new residents among the three members of the GRC, to depend on the current availability of (i) funding for UBI, eco-jobs, and UFH , and (ii) adequate living accommodation, in the three GRC countries, provided that all new residents also fully respect the human dignity of everyone else in the GRC and elsewhere in the world.
7. Universal No-Guns (UNG):
· No one in the USA, including police, internal security forces of all kinds, armies, and intelligence forces of all kinds, has the moral right to possess or use guns of any kind, for any purpose whatsoever, because the primary function of guns is coercion, and coercion is immoral.
· UNG would be implemented by repealing the Second Amendment to the US Constitution in 2021 and then universally banning the possession or use of guns thereafter.
I'm also assuming that Universal Public Education (UPE) — universal free access for all human persons of any age to good public education up to the end of high school — already exists in most countries, and needs no further justification.
Where UPE does not already exist, it would automatically become a necessary part of the seven-part WTFU Party package, thereby making it a eight-part package.
Mr Nemo, Nowhere, NA, 26 January 2017
The WTFU Party is a sub-project of the online mega-project Philosophy Without Borders, which is home-based on Patreon here.
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The Bitterroot National Forest has closed a few campgrounds and turned off water services in advance of freezing temperatures, but don't let that stop you from getting out into the nearby forests for a day hike or some overnight camping. Fire danger has lessened and campfires are allowed, but PUT THEM OUT when you leave your campsite. We'll list the camping opportunities in the three Ranger Districts of the Bitterroot National Forest.
Charles Water Campground - Services and $10 nightly fees are in effect until October 1, when it closes.
Larry Creek Group Site - Reservations until October 1, when it is "first come - first serve" until November 30.
Blodgett Campground - 7 Campsites open until December 1, depending on weather. No water service. Garbage - Pack it in, pack it out.
Gold Creek Campground - 5 campsites open until closed by snow. Pack it in, pack it out.
Lower Como Campground for RVs - Closed for season.
Three Frogs Campground - Open until closing October 1. No fees, no water. Pack it in, pack it out.
Lake Como Day Use sites (picnic, trail, beach boat launch) are open through the winter. No fees.
Rock Creek Horse Camp - No fees, no services, but open until snow closure.
Wood's Cabin - Available for fall and winter rental. $60 per night at recreation.gov.
Black Bear Campground - 6 campsites. No services. Open until closed by snow.
Lost Horse Road and Shumaker Campground - Open until closed by snow. No services.
Spring Gulch Campground - $12 nightly fees until October 1, when it will close.
Indian Trees Campground - $10 nightly fees until Closure October 1.
Martin Creek Campground - $8 fees until Oct. 1, then no fees until snow closure.
Warm Springs Campgrounds - $8 nightly fees until Oct. 1, then no fees until closure October 31.
Crazy Creek Campground - $8 nightly fees until October 1, then no fees until closed by snow.
Crazy Creek Horse Camp - Open with no fees until closed by snow.
Jennings Camp - Open with no fees until closed by snow.
McCart Lookout - closed for the season.
East Fork Guard Station - Open for rentals year-round at recreation.gov.
Two Good Cabin - Reservations until October 15 and then only during December at recreation.gov.
Rombo Campground - Open with no services until closed by snow.
Alta Campground - Open with no services until closed by snow.
Sam Billings Campground - 12 campsites with no services until closed by snow.
Slate Creek Campground - Front loop open with no services until closed by snow. Back loop closes September 30.
Fales Flat Campgrounds - Open with no services until closed by snow.
Beaver Point, Raven Creek, Indian Creek, Paradise Campgrounds are open until closed by snow.
Magruder Ranger's House - Reservations through October 20 at recreation.gov.
For more information call the ranger stations. Darby/Sula at 406 821-3913, Stevensville at 406 777-5461, West Fork at 821-3269.


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Q: Visual Studio Crash on Startup while loading MEF I've recently installed Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise. After the first start I connected my microsoft-account to the studio. Now I'm not able to start the visual studio again. During the splash-screen a small loading-window appears which says:

Scanning new and updated MEF components

And while this window appears the application crashes.
What can I do to fix this?

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Q: How do it make a .air, I have tried the adl and adt but it doesn't work for me I downloaded the last AIR SKD, I'm using Windows Vista.
I have trying to make a helloworld in Adobe air and it's not working//
what should I do?

A: Just a tip, use Aptana for AIR development, it has debugging, packaging, badge creation etc. etc. and best of all , it's free.

A: Here is the relevant documentation.
Use the adt.


Art classes have just completed their first project (a colored pencil drawing utilizing adaptations of basic forms) and the works are nearly done being uploaded to Artsonia! Artsonia is an online gallery that allows you to view the student art works, comment, and purchase keepsakes. Artsonia is a wonderful organization that offers opportunity for young artists to earn money from published art and any keepsake purchase includes a 20% donation back to the school's Art program. If your son/daughter is in Art and their work is not visible, you just need to grant permission for their work to be public, this also makes them eligible for contests and prizes.
Click the link below to grant permission.
HAVPA has finished our study of Medieval Art and we'll now be learning about non-Western cultures of Asia and the Middle East. We are also in the process of completing a stained glass activity with paper that ties in with Medieval stained glass.
Students in Art classes are beginning their sketches for their first composition. Students will be using colored pencils as a medium to complete the composition of basic drawing forms that we have been learning since the beginning of school. For upper level students, they are being challenged to adapt the basic forms from their geometric origins to reflect real or fantasy world objects.
HAVPA class has completed our introductory Unit of the elements and purposes of each branch of Humanities and will be beginning our study of art history this week with Ancient & Lineage-based artworks.


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Ohio contains 27	schools that offer clinical research programs. Ohio State University-Main Campus, the highest-ranking clinical research school in OH,	has a total student population of 55,014 and is the 33rd	highest ranked school in America.
Of the 27 clinical research schools in Ohio, only 11	have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Xavier University comes out as the most expensive ($25,507/yr), with Jefferson Community College as the lowest recorded at only $2,111/yr.
Clinical Research students from Ohio schools who go on to become clinical researchers, clinical laboratory researchers, institutional research directors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 152,420 people working as medical and clinical laboratory technicians alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $37,860. Also, Medical records and health information technicians make on average $33,880	per year and there are about 170,580	of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Ohio alone, there are 6,340 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $31,840. Medical and clinical laboratory technicians in this state earn $38,420/yr and there are 4,480 employed.
Also, within the clinical research schools in Ohio, the average student population is 1,976	and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from clinical research, there are 8695 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,681	people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,978, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.


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In the past 13 years, the rotation of the planet's solid inner core may have temporarily stopped and then started to reverse direction.
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Acting Mayor Calvin Johnson, pictured left. Photo courtesy of campaign website. | Bob Donovan, pictured right, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. Corri Hess/WPR
Johnson, Donovan face off in Milwaukee mayoral debate
Candidates discuss city budget, pandemic performance, schools
By Christine Hatfield
Monday, March 14, 2022, 5:15pm
Milwaukee's relationship with state government was one of the numerous topics up for discussion at a mayoral debate on Monday as the city's April 5 election to select a new mayor approaches.
The nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum hosted the debate, which featured the two candidates who advanced out of the Feb. 15 primary.
Both Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson and former Alder Bob Donovan said the city needs to rebuild its connections with Madison. Milwaukee has faced years of declining shared revenue, a form of state funding for local governments.
Johnson said federal stimulus money would help cover budget shortfalls, but he said in the long term, the city needs more ways to sustainably raise money for its budget.
"I'm going to continue working with folks in Madison because I'm a political realist and understand that Republicans are in charge of the Legislature," Johnson said. "We have to work with them to move things forward."
Johnson said he also wanted to work with the state to transfer new city and county employees to the Wisconsin Retirement System and slowly phase out the city's pension system.
"I think that puts us in a position where we have greater ability to control our financial future," he said. "Everything, I think, has to be on the table to make sure that the city is able to survive, and that we're able to provide services to the people who both expect them and quite frankly, deserve them."
A 2016 Wisconsin Policy Forum report noted the city's increasing contribution toward pensions.
Donovan agreed that "everything needs to be on the table to explore the best way to move forward." Donovan, a self-proclaimed conservative in the nonpartisan election, said if he became mayor, he would support an audit of city departments to ensure they're operating effectively and efficiently.
"I look at this challenge as an opportunity for us to re-imagine how we deliver our services to our citizens, how we do local government and how we pay for it," Donovan said. "This opportunity, we need to capitalize on and move the city forward in that direction so that we are not limping every year from one budget to the next."
Police funding
Donovan and Johnson also discussed funding for the city's police department.
"I don't want to see cuts to the police department," Johnson said. "The reality is that we have to be able to pay for it and we have to level with the people in this community in order for them to know that. And we've got to encourage not just our citizens, but also folks in the business community to be our partners as well."
Donovan called public safety "job No. 1 for local government."
"The city of Milwaukee is faced with a public safety crisis," he said. "We cannot expect our police department to adequately address those problems without the appropriate level of manpower."
Donovan echoed his rhetoric on crime from a February debate, saying criminals need to be held accountable.
"I believe the policies that have been enacted in many of the last years are soft on crime and have created an atmosphere in this community where the criminal element feels they will not be held accountable," Donovan said.
Johnson showed his support for the city's Office of Violence Prevention.
"We have issues in this community, right, where we need to rebuild relationships with the police in the neighborhoods, that certainly is true," Johnson said. "The Office of Violence Prevention is a partner to help to do that."
Reflecting on COVID-19
The candidates differed on their assessments of local government's performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Johnson noted the pandemic's disproportionate impacts on the city's Black and Latino communities.
"These are areas where we have to be more nimble and we have to have new approaches to make sure that we're getting information and also vaccinations out to those communities that need them," Johnson said. "Overall, I think the health department has done work that they never probably would have thought that they would have done reaching out to community and being on the ground being essentially sort of like a COVID first-responder."
Johnson said that approach needs to continue beyond the pandemic.
"There are certainly other diseases and other health issues that we have in the city, and we could really use our health department to be at the forefront to help us to mitigate those effects in our community as well," Johnson said.
Donovan mentioned his support for mobile health clinics that would work in underserved neighborhoods. He also said he wants to create a medical advisory board to work with the health department and advise the mayor on the various health concerns facing the community.
Donovan said "mixed signals from the so-called experts" during the pandemic diminished people's trust in public health.
"Over the last two years, people's trust in government has been challenged," Donovan said.
Johnson took issue with Donovan's characterization.
"I wouldn't call the experts on COVID-19, the professionals who day in and day out over the course of the pandemic have been busting their butts to make sure that all of us are safe, 'so-called professionals,'" Johnson said. "This has been a challenging time for our city and for our county and for our country."
The future of K-12 education
The candidates also focused on the role the mayor plays in the city's schools, along with what lies ahead for Milwaukee Public Schools.
"(Education) is absolutely critical to the well-being of this city," Donovan said. "We cannot have a great city without great schools."
Donovan voiced his support for school choice, saying "it's critical that we empower our parents to make the best possible choices for their kids." He expressed skepticism over a plan in the Legislature that would break up MPS into multiple smaller districts.
"I am however, encouraged that there are members, powerful members of the state legislature that are willing to work with us to explore every way possible that we can improve our schools," Donovan said. "It is the only ticket out of poverty, and we need to provide the absolute best education for our kids in a variety of ways and opportunities."
Johnson mentioned he hadn't been contacted regarding the breakup proposal.
"I would think that if legislators in Madison are really concerned about education in Milwaukee, then they should be working to fix those root cause problems that we've talked about."
Johnson said while the mayor's role is limited with the existence of a democratically elected school board, there are still ways for the mayor to make a difference.
"If a kid is going to school and they're hungry, well, that's something that a mayor can do something about," Johnson said. "That's where my time and my energy will be focused as mayor, is on those things on the outside so that kids are prepared to go in to learn in the classrooms."
As the debate continued, the candidates also discussed issues such as Milwaukee's streetcar system, which remains free to ride.
Donovan said he would want referendums on potential expansions to the system.
"The citizens are the ones who have been left holding the bag paying for this huge public works project that, in my opinion, never enjoyed the support of the majority of our residents," Donovan said.
Johnson said he saw the system as an economic development tool.
"When you look at the propensity and the opportunity to expand it, there's a number of opportunities for us to have greater growth and greater development and greater opportunities for people who live in depressed neighborhoods in the city to get jobs," Johnson said.
The candidates were also asked about the city's lead pipes, which both candidates said they support removing, and the city's approach to affordable housing.
Donovan said he wanted to help people get to a point where they no longer need to rely on low-income housing.
"That's what our city needs, to move forward toward helping our people succeed in life, and not keep them down," Donovan said.
Johnson noted the city's efforts toward rehabilitating properties and stabilizing neighborhoods.
"But Bob's right, we got to work to make sure that people have higher wages here so that they can support themselves and support their family and have some financial breathing room in this city," said Johnson.
Donovan and Johnson will debate again at a forum held by the Milwaukee Press Club on Wednesday night. That event is set to be livestreamed.
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In 1919, Käthe Kollwitz began work on Krieg (War), her response to the tragedies endured during what she called those "unspeakably difficult years" of World War I and its aftermath. The portfolio's seven woodcuts focus on the sorrows of those left behind—mothers, widows, and children. Kollwitz had struggled to find the appropriate means of expression until she saw an exhibition of Ernst Barlach's woodcuts in 1920. Revising each print through as many as nine preparatory drawings and states, Kollwitz radically simplified the compositions. The large-format, stark black-and-white woodcuts feature women left to face their grief and fears alone, with their partners, or with each other.
Only one print, Die Freiwilligen (The Volunteers), shows the combatants. In it, Kollwitz's younger son, Peter, takes his place next to Death, who leads the troops in an ecstatic procession to war. Peter was killed in action just two months later. Kollwitz wanted these works to be widely viewed. By eliminating references to a specific time or place, she created universally legible indictments of the real sacrifices demanded in exchange for abstract concepts of honor and glory. The prints were exhibited in 1924 at the newly founded International Anti-War Museum in Berlin.
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(click through for more a couple more images) It has been HOT and HUMID this week! 90s with 80+% humidity on the coast in Southern California isn't something I've had to grow accustomed to! However, it makes for warm waters and beautiful skies!


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Q: Facebook: ckeckin photos? I'm doing:
     $checkins = $facebook->api('/me/checkins', 'get');
      for( $i = 0; $i < count ($checkins['data']); $i ++)
      { //printing the info here
}

And I'm obtaining an array with the checkin id, my id, my name,  the id, name and location of the place where I have done the checkin, the application used to do the cheking and the date and time when the checkin was done .. everything but the photos I attached to each checkin ..
Here's an example of the array I'm getting:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [id] => 1922426782905
            [from] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Myname
                    [id] => 14111407
                )

            [place] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 167250246640777
                    [name] => Francap
                    [location] => Array
                        (
                            [street] => 39 Main Street
                            [city] => NY
                            [country] => US
                            [zip] => 11036
                            [latitude] => 40.47725
                            [longitude] => -3.67557
                        )

                )

            [application] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Facebook for Android
                    [id] => 350682231728
                )

            [created_time] => 2011-05-16T08:16:57+0000
        )

...}

As you can see there are no photos.
Is there a way to get these photos?
Thanks a ton!

A: you have to take the extended permission of user_photos. Then you will get the src attribute of those photos also.


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