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Author`s name Dmitry Sudakov
Pleasure Boat Propellers Hack Inattentive Swimmer to Pieces in Moscow Region
Incidents » Crimes
The sailor whose boat propeller killed a woman on Pirogovskoe reservoir in the Moscow region, argues that his maneuver has saved the lives of other swimmers. Sergei Marchenko claims that he had no intentions to flee from the scene. According to the sailor, he would have called emergency services if he had known there was a person under the propeller of his boat "Azimut 50," Life News reports.
57-year-old Marchenko has extensive experience of operating different vessels. At one time he served as a captain in the Primorsk Shipping facility and saved dozens of people from drowning. He presented his own version of the tragedy in the Moscow region reservoir.
"I moved closer to the area where people were swimming. They asked me to make a wave. I turned around, accelerated and was moving along the rope with buoys. Then the boat snapped to the right as something got into a propeller. One propeller stopped spinning. The boat was immediately turned around, "he said.
"Why did I fail to slow down? Because if I braked, I would have skidded and injured a lot of people," said the captain."I knew that even though I'll hit one or two, at least I will save the rest. Everyone saw that the boat was moving away from people, but could not leave."
"Then I stopped and talked to two swimmers. I asked:"Is everything okay? Nothing happened?" They answered:"Not really. Nothing has happened." If I knew that a girl died, I would have cast the anchor, called the transport police, State Inspection of Small Vessels, everyone!" said Marchenko. "And I would have called my captain-coach, a Hero of Russia. All my life I had served in the Navy, I have not killed a single person."
Some details of the victim's life (Olesya Ivanova) were revealed. She was born and raised in Pioneer village in Samara region. She graduated from college in the city of Syzran, majoring in economics. She came to Moscow over three years ago and decided to stay in the capital where she found a good job. Her mother and stepfather tried to persuade her to return home, but she refused. When they found out that Olesya was killed in an accident, they immediately left for Moscow. Once the identification procedure is over they will take her body home.
According to witnesses, Olesya called for help and tried to swim. She was shocked and did not realize that the propeller of the boat almost completely cut off her legs. "The boat drove straight through her, but Olesya continued swimming although her feet were cut off, I guess she was shocked," Lyudmila, a witness of the accident told Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Her legs were cut up to the buttocks, to the bone."
According to Lyudmila, dozens of people rushed to help Olesya: "For some reason they started pouring vodka on her… But she soon lost consciousness, and when the doctors came, she was gone." Police and emergency crew came to the scene 5-10 minutes after the accident. It took ambulance 40 minutes to arrive, witnesses say.
"The beach was deserted immediately. Half an hour later there was no one there, the music was immediately turned off, as if mourning began right away," Lyudmila said. "I left the beach after 11pm; the girl's body was still there. The rescue team was waiting for the car to transport the body, and it seemed like there were searching the water for the girl's legs."
Captain Marchenko was detained shortly after the tragedy. At the present time he is under investigation, Leonid Lipilin, deputy police chief of Moscow region, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.


The Deaf in Cambodia do not have good opportunities for education and other needs. Deaf people have language challenges and many families do not know their child is Deaf until later in life. The families try to cure their Deaf children through medicines and other means when they realize their child is Deaf. Some families do not know about Cambodian Sign Language and education programs in sign language.
Many people live in places a long way from the cities and so there is no proper help for the Deaf in those places. Because of human trafficking, families do not send their children too far away.
It is difficult for teachers as they do not know how to use sign language and to help the Deaf. In addition to the area of education, sign language interpreters are also needed for public organizations such as hospitals, courts of law and financial departments.
* Scripture Prayers for the Deaf in Cambodia.
* Pray that Cambodian Christians who know Sign Language will lead the Deaf to Jesus Christ.
* Pray against human trafficking.
* Pray for the needs of the Cambodian Deaf to be met.


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in: Doty (surname), Born in 1600, Died in 1655,
People honored on National Monument to the Forefathers
Mayflower passengers
Plymouth Colony
Migrants from England to Plymouth Colony
Edward Doty (bef1600-1655)
Edward Doty ‡
23 August 1655 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
9999 Plymouth Burial Hill, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Faith Clarke (c1619-1675)
6 January 1635 Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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Edward Doty was born before 1600 and died 23 August 1655 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. He married Faith Clarke (c1619-1675) 6 January 1635 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
3 Ancestors
5 Notable Descendants
6 Vital Records
6.1 Bradfords Passenger Listings
6.2 Pilgrim Monument
6.3 Burial Hill Gravestone
6.4 Wife's Last Will
Doty was one of two indentured servants under Stephen Hopkins, the other one being Edward Leister (c1598-), and as such accompanied Hopkins and his family aboard the Mayflower. November 11, 1620, while the Mayflower was anchored off Provincetown Harbor, forty-one of the adult males, including servants, signed the Mayflower Compact; Doty was the 40th signer.
Doty was a member of the exploratory party, led by Myles Standish (c1584-1656) and including John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow (1595-1655), John Tilley (1571-1621) and his brother Edward, John Howland, Richard Warren (c1580-1628), Stephen Hopkins, and several crewmen from the Mayflower, that departed on December 6, 1620, in a shallop to search for a suitable site for settlement.
The first duel in Plymouth Colony occurred June 18, 1621, when Doty and Edward Leister fought with swords and daggers until one was wounded in the hand and the other in the thigh. They were to be punished by having their ankles tied to their necks for twenty-four hours without food or drink. Within an hour they were begging to be released, which the Governor allowed upon their promise to behave.
Doty's name appears in the lists of freemen for 1633 and 1636 and in the 1643 list of males that are able to bear arms. His name also appears many times in the records of the Plymouth colony as either plaintiff or defendant in various lawsuits. Doty was on the losing side in the majority of these cases.
Doty was married twice, but the name of his first wife is unknown. NI.green asserts that Doty's first wife was Wymfryd Waryner from England who died before 1620, but no authority for this assertion was cited and none has been found. His second wife was Faith Clarke, daughter of Thurston Clarke, both of whom arrived at Plymouth on the Francis in April 1634. Doty and Faithe Clarke were married on January 6, 1635. They are the progenitors of a large American family. They had nine children, 76 grandchildren, and at least 358 great-grandchildren.
Offspring of Edward Doty and Faith Clarke (c1619-1675)
Edward Doty (bef1638-aft1688) 1638 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States 1688 Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States Sarah Faunce (c1645-1695)
John Doty (c1640-1701) 1640 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 8 May 1701 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Elizabeth Cooke (1648-1692) Elizabeth Cooke (1648-1692) Sarah Jones (1671-)
Thomas Doty (c1641-1678) 1641 Plymouth, Massachusetts December 1678 Plymouth, Massachusetts Mary Churchill (1654-aft1724)
Samuel Doty (c1643-1715) 1643 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 1715 Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey Jane Harmon (c1660-aft1716)
Desire Doty (c1645-1731) 1645 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 22 January 1731 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts William Sherman (c1640-1680) Israel Holmes (c1642-1683) William Sherman (c1640-1680) Israel Holmes (c1642-1683) Alexander Standish (1627-1702)
Elizabeth Doty (c1647-1742) 1647 Plymouth, Massachusetts 7 April 1742 Marshfield, Massachusetts John Rouse (1643-1717) John Rouse (1643-1717) William Carver (1659-1760)
Isaac Doty (c1648-aft1727) 8 February 1648 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 7 January 1728 Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York Elizabeth England (?-aft1693)
Joseph Doty (1651-c1732) 30 April 1651 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Plymouth Colony 1732 Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Deborah Ellis (c1652-1711) Deborah Ellis (c1652-1711) Sarah Woodin (1656/7-aft1733)
Mary Doty (c1653-bef1729) 1653 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States 11 December 1715 Samuel Hatch (1653-1735) Samuel Hatch (1653-1735) Eleazer Churchill (1652-1716)
Doty's ancestry is unknown. Statements that he was born in Shropshire, England, on May 14, 1598, or baptized on the same date in St. Mary le Strand, Thurburton Hills, Suffolk, England, are complete fabrications. While there are no fewer than eight authentic Edward Doty baptisms recorded between 1585 and 1605, it has not been possible to identify any of them with the Edward Doty of the Mayflower.
For a list of Edward Doty's descendants that appear in Familypedia click on the Descendants tab at the top of this page. To see a list which includes descendants which do not yet appear in Familypedia click here.
Notable Descendants
Generations in this list begin with Edward Doty as the first generation.
James Warren (1726-1808) - 4th generation, politician
James Otis (1725-1783) - 5th generation, lawyer, revolutionary
Samuel Allyn Otis (1740-1814) - 5th generation, politician
Mercy Otis (1728-1814) - 5th generation, writer
Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) - 6th generation, lawyer
James Duane Doty (1799-1865) - 7th generation, territorial governor
Silas Doty (1801-1876) - 7th generation, outlaw
(John) Calvin Coolidge, Jr. - 10th generation, 30th U.S. President
1623 Plymouth Land Census
Bradfords Passenger Listings
Recorded circa 1651 by Gov Wm Bradford:
"Mr. Steven Hopkins, and Elizabeth, his wife, and 2 children, caled Giles and Constanta, a doughter, both by a former wife; and 2 more by his wife, caled Damarius and Oceanus; the last was borne at sea; and two servants, called Edward Doty and Edward Lister."
"Edward Doty and Edward Lister, the servants of Mr. Hopkins...But Edward Doty by a second wife hath 7 children, and both he and they are living."
Pilgrim Monument
National Monument to the Forefathers, commemorates the Mayflower Pilgrims, (including this person) who came to Plymouth Colony in 1620 on the Mayflower. Dedicated on August 1, 1889, it is thought to be the world's largest solid granite monument. Located on an 11 acre hilltop site on Allerton Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Burial Hill Gravestone
Gravesite Memorial for Edward Doty at Burial Hill in Plymouth MA.
Gravesite Location: Plymouth Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts
Edward Doty made out his will on May 20, 1655, calling himself "sicke and yet by the mercye of God in perfect memory." His will was witnessed by John Howland (1592-1672), John Cooke, James Hurst, and William Hoskins. Doty signed his will with a mark. This was how he signed all his property deeds as he never learned to write. Doty died on August 23, 1655 in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony and was buried at Burial Hill Cemetery where there is an existent memorial stone for him.
His estate inventory was dated November 21, 1655 mentioning his wife, his son Edward and other unnamed sons. His will was presented to the court on March 5, 1655/6.
Wife's Last Will
Calling herself the wife of John Philips of Marshfield, Faith dated her will December 12, 1675 and died on December 21, 1675. The will was sworn June 6 – probably 1676, and named her daughters Mary, Elizabeth, and Desire, and her son John. On November 4, 1676, letters of administration were granted to her son-in-law John Rouse, Jr. of Marshfield, husband of her daughter Elizabeth. She was buried in Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Mass. where there is an existent memorial stone for her.
Doty-Doten family in America : descendants of Edward Doty, an emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620 by Ethan Allen Doty (Author) / Hardcover and Kindle editions available. 1,052 Pages.
Edward Doty - disambiguation
Doty in Plymouth County, Massachusetts - first families genealogy
Edward Doty (bef1600-1655)/List of Famous Descendants
Edward Doty at Find A Grave #7463099
Doty, Ethan Allen. The Doty-Doten Family in America. Brooklyn, NY: Published by the author, 1897.
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol 11 Plymouth MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996.
Immigrant Ships To America/First Families/Mayflower
See also: The Pilgrim Edward Doty Society: http://www.edward-doty.org/
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Fibre: a secret weapon for diabetes?
Fibre's had a pretty bad rap. Most of us think of it as that boring stuff Grandma eats to help her go to the toilet. But could fibre also be a secret weapon against blood sugar spikes? Find out.
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Fibre's had a pretty bad rap. Most of us think of it as that boring stuff Grandma eats to help her go to the toilet. But the science shows that fibre is so much more than just keeping us "regular".
One of fibre's most underrated benefits is that it can stabilise blood sugar spikes and restore insulin sensitivity. For this reason, fibre is a powerful and accessible dietary tool that we can use to reduce our risk of developing, or even reversing, Type 2 Diabetes (diabetes).
Today, November 14, is World Diabetes Day. To raise awareness, we delve into the science behind fibre and why doctors and dietitians are urging their patients with diabetes to consume more of the stuff.
What happens to our blood sugar when we eat?
When we eat a high sugar or carbohydrate-containing meal, it's broken down into its simplest form: glucose.
The rate at which glucose is released into the bloodstream is called its glycaemic index. Foods that cause a rapid spike in blood glucose levels are said to have a high glycaemic index (GI). An example is the refined carbohydrates found in white bread, cakes, cookies, rice, and pastries.
The rise and fall of blood glucose is normal when we eat. But repeated or prolonged blood glucose spikes (hyperglycaemia) can be dangerous for people with diabetes, and may cause permanent damage to the nerves in your hands and feet, eyes, and life-threatening conditions such as diabetic ketoacidosis.
What's the role of fibre for diabetes?
Firstly, fibre slows the digestion and absorption process, leading to a more gradual release of glucose into the bloodstream and a lower GI. This prevents blood sugar spikes and allows insulin (the glucose storage hormone) to do its job more efficiently.
Secondly, when we consume fibre, it's not actually food for us. It's food for the trillions of gut microbes that reside in our large intestine. These beneficial bugs break down fibre (calling fermenting) and produce anti-inflammatory substances called short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs). The research tells us that SCFAs can reverse insulin resistance, a hallmark symptom of diabetes.
Where do I get fibre from?
To reap the benefits of fibre to help prevent, or reverse diabetes, you need to get enough of the right types of fibre.
Aim for 30-35g fibre daily from a diversity of sources, including:
Wholegrains such as rye bread, oats, quinoa, and barley
Colourful fruits and vegetables
Mixed nuts and seeds such as pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, linseed
Prebiotic vegetables found in chicory root, asparagus, onion, garlic, leek, and artichokes
Cooked and cool starches, such as cold potato salad, leftover pasta, or microwave ready-made rice sachets.
Looking to stabilise your blood sugars?
Research is an essential part of what we do here at myota. We've spent a great deal of time and research to study combinations of fibres that produce the greatest benefits to glucose responses. As a product of this research, we've formulated the Metabolic Regulator mix. This mix is part of two on-going clinical trials in Type 2 Diabetes in collaboration with the NHS.
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Why wait 30 years to put out your first solo record? Because it's good enough to put your name on it.
Scheepers, the debut, self-titled release of legendary Primal Fear front man Ralf Scheepers, should shoot to the top of your must-have list for 2011.
Ralf has been around for three decades in the music business and his influences are all the 80's metal gods, including Judas Priest, which he covers on the new album, the Scorpions and maybe even some Queensryche mixed in there for good measure. From this interview Ralf did for Morow.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1cnHPiuOKM&feature=related he talks about how the music was recorded over a three-year period. All over the globe they would lay down tracks in each of their respective home studios. As the guys got the riffs down and honed them to razor sharpness, they sent the files to Ralf for the final mix. This method made for an album that is super tight and sure to please any metal fan. Every note is in place: the vocals are clear and precise, and the project was not rushed.


Business groups have reacted to the government's draft Brexit deal with the EU.
Following a five-hour debate on the matter, Prime Minister Theresa May secured her Cabinet's backing for the deal. However, a handful of MPs have resigned following the agreement, with some stating that they cannot support the draft deal, including Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office, Shailesh Vara, and Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said that the deal is a 'welcome step back' from the 'no deal cliff edge'. Mike Cherry, National Chairman of the FSB, commented: 'Many small businesses will be relieved to finally see some progress being made.
Providing nothing 'extraordinary' happens, the EU will hold an 'emergency' summit on 25 November, in order to 'finalise and formalise' the deal.


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Cheryl Cole felt 'betrayed' by husband's sex addiction
It seemed like a match made in heaven: He was one of the most talented soccer players in the country, and she was one its most beautiful and talented singers. After the wedding, they soon became England's darlings; a power couple of glamour and fame.
The perfect image of the pair was shattered as British media broke the story that would see them separate and divorce: Ashley Cole cheated on his wife. Although the couple survived the first allegations of infidelity 18 months after their 2006 wedding, the newest allegations, which hit early this year, left Cheryl fed up and feeling "betrayed".
Desperate to save their marriage, Ashley reportedly admitted to having a problem; he was addicted to sex. Shortly after Cheryl decided to separate from him in February this year, Ashley reportedly bombarded her with phone calls, begging her to take him back, even suggesting he get professional help to treat his sex addiction, allvoices.com reports.
Now, Cheryl, who has kept a dignified silence about the matter, has spoken out in an interview to British Vogue about the break up of her marriage.
When she was asked whether she felt betrayed, Cheryl, 27, said: "Yes, definitely I do, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it," monstersandcritics.com reports.
"I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished.
"And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on, I have and there's no children, you know?
"Some people's lives fall apart – of course, it's heartbreaking, but it's not anything remotely like it could have been and I'm very, very thankful for that."
Cheryl is now officially divorced from Ashley, 29.
Cheryl was recently in hospital battling malaria.
Celebrities who have battled sex addiction include Tiger Woods and Jesse James.
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Tags: addiction


Temple Fire & Rescue responded to the 7200 Block of Airport Road shortly after midnight Tuesday and discovered the burning vehicle, which had already received extensive damage from the flames. Temple Fire Department Information Officer Thomas Pechal said Tuesday that the vehicle was a total loss.
Another vehicle parked nearby was also damaged by flames and radiant heat, but did not catch fire.
The fire was extinguished and the scene cleared shortly after 3 AM. Fire marshals are working to discover the origin and cause of the fire.


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Haley signs texting ban, SC becomes 49th state to outlaw texting while driving
Gov. Nikki Haley signed a statewide ban on texting while driving Monday. Under the ban, drivers who violate the law would not receive penalty points, but would face fines starting at $25. The use of GPS navigators and texting to summon emergency...
6:52 am on Thursday June 5, 2014
Texting while driving ban heads to Haley to become law
South Carolina's General Assembly has passed a ban on texting while driving, now it only needs Gov. Nikki Haley's signature.
8:02 am on Wednesday May 14, 2014
Texting While Driving Bill Strengthened, May Apply to All Drivers
A stronger texting while driving ban is now going to full House floor. A committee made some changes to the senate proposed bill that would not only ban texting and driving for beginner's or restricted licenses, but also for all drivers. The bill,...
8:26 am on Thursday April 10, 2014
South Carolina moves forward with statewide texting while driving ban
via WBTW The Senate voted 38-2 Wednesday in favor of a bill that would levy fines starting at $75 on drivers who text while driving and would also penalize them with points on their licenses. It also would ban drivers with a beginner's permit or...
4:25 am on Monday April 7, 2014
Texting and driving bans yield mostly warnings
Laws have been passed throughout Beaufort County to ban texting-while-driving, but so far only the Beaufort Police Department has issued tickets.
11:00 pm on Friday March 7, 2014
Texting while driving almost illegal for some in SC
Texting while driving is one step closer to becoming illegal in the state of South Carolina for novice drivers. Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee nearly unanimously passed the measure. A novice driver would be someone with a beginner's permit...
7:51 am on Friday February 21, 2014
Lawmakers still studying statewide texting-while-driving ban
It's already been proposed and shot down in the State House numerous times, but some lawmakers say this is the year for a texting and driving ban to get on the books. One bill under discussion aims to ban texting while driving in South Carolina with...
8:03 pm on Wednesday October 9, 2013
Charleston also bans texting while driving
Charleston City Council has joined the Town of Mount Pleasant and a number of other municipalities around S.C. to ban texting and any use of handheld communication devices while driving.
5:43 am on Wednesday September 11, 2013
Beaufort County passes texting while driving ban
While texting and driving has been banned in the City of Beaufort, it has also been banned in unincorporated areas of Beaufort County as of Monday night.
Mt. Pleasant approves ban on texting while driving
It's no to touching your phone for calls, maps, music, or whatever else while driving in Mount Pleasant after a 6-3 vote on Tuesday.


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Irina CERNIȘENCU and her colleagues from Danube Delta National Institute for Research (Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Delta Dunarii , INCDDD), CERES Project partner have presented projection of changes in productivity of pike-perch (Sander lucioperca) from Razim Lake under climate changes at Delta and Wetlands, the 26th Scientific Symposium, which was held from 16-20 May 2018 in Tulcea.
With a surface area of 54,000 ha, the Razim Lake is a great part of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (DDBR). Pike-perch (Sander lucioperca) is one of the main top predators of the fish community and supports important commercial fisheries. INCDDD's research predicts how climatic change will affect the productivity of pike-perch productivity in this important system by creating temperature-dependent growth curves (von Bertalanffy growth parameters influenced by water temperature) linked to estimates of stock abundance, biomass and Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY).
Based on growth parameters estimated in 2016, the mortality of pike-perch within the lake was estimates using two different IPCC scenarios of warming (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). These data were used as inputs to fish population and biomass modelling (Virtual Population Analysis – VPA). Although complex feedbacks exist within this lake ecosystem which are not taken into account here, the present, relatively simple model suggests that increases in water temperature will increase the natural mortality and decrease the stock biomass of this important fishery resource.


This time of year, around St. Patrick's Day, there are always sneaky little leprechauns looking for gold.
So we made these Green Footprint Clue Cards to help lead them on a hunt!
1. Pour the paint onto the paper plate and spread it around with the paint brush.
2. Get your paper ready. We practiced on big sheets of paper first, then we stamped our hands onto cards for the clues.
3. Put your hand into a fist and dip the bottom of it in the paint. Then stamp the paper with your fist. You can just do one hand or two hands for a right and left footprint.
4. Now put one of your finger tips into the paint. Stamp your finger onto the paper, just above the fist print. Stamp your finger 5 times for 5 toes.
After we made the footprints onto cards, we also made little fingerpaint stamped clovers. My son suggested that we number our clue cards by the number of leaves on the clover. So we have 4 cards each with a number of leaves on it's clover!
We also made these fun Leprechaun Ears again to wear as we wait to see if those sneaky Leprechauns come to find our gold!!
You're such a cute mom, I love this idea!
great, fun idea. the kids love to "hunt", so this is a must do:) thank you.
Great idea! My 5 year old suggested making them microscopic to "fool" the Leprechaun.
What an adorable craft!! I am going to have to remember this or next year!! I love it!


The recording process behind 2014's The Satanist was not an easy one for Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. Despite the obstacles the group faced, bassist Tomasz "Orion" Wróblewski had no hesitation in calling their acclaimed tenth studio LP the "best album of our lives" in the latest episode of Exclaim! TV's Aggressive Tendencies.
Speaking with us before a recent performance in Toronto, Wróblewski remembered the band's difficult recording experience well despite it having been over a year since the record's release. A lengthy break after 2009's Evangelion included frontman Nergal's leukemia diagnosis, in addition to issues writing and recording their full-length follow-up. As a result of what the bassist called "caring too much," the band and engineer Colin Richardson could not reach an agreement on the perfect mix, leading Richardson to drop out from producing the record.
Wróblewski also spoke about the group's rejection of subgenre labels, saying that the prominent shift from death metal to black metal was never intended while heading into the recording of The Satanist, further likening it to completing a cycle started by their black metal beginnings. He also shed light on the many projects outside of music that the band are currently working on, including plans for more music videos and the release of both a band biography and a book penned by Nergal.
Watch the interview now in the player below.


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Being vegetarian at Christmas is great – there are so many delicious winter vegetables that will liven up even the most tired of palettes! How about a delicious seasonal salad of honey roasted parsnip, orange segments and rocket salad for starters?
Nut Loaf or Nut Roast may sound old-fashioned but it's a winner and everyone loves it.
Most nut roast dishes involve a little bit of preparation but again it can be done ahead with the Bread Crumb or the brown and wild Rice being prepared in advance on Christmas eve allowing you to assemble ingredient in your loaf tin ready for baking in the morning. I am making one this Christmas and will let you know how it goes down I am using an old recipe with a few additions of my own.
Use a selection of nuts for nutritional value, variety and taste.
Delicious and moist this dish allows you to really explore this season's fabulous winter ingredients with lots of earthy flavours – swiss chard and mushrooms.
Other seasonal vegetarian Christmas ingredients to include on the menu are sorrel (great for soup), walnuts (can be added to salads and pastas), fennel (perfect for roasting and souping) and of course lots of mushrooms for a lovely earthy flavour.
You will actually find a good selection of vegetarian recipes in my cookbooks and on the cookery classes at Ballyknocken House & Cookery School as I love my vegetables and enjoy at least 2 to 3 or more meat-free days each week.
AND for your Bambini bakes – get them to make chocolate swirl biscuits to keep for when unexpected guests arrive.
Pomegranate Sparklers – this is my favourite and will definitely be on offer in our house for the Christmas drinks night with friends and family.
You can use any roasted vegetables in this one.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C/gas 4. Generously brush the sides of a 20cm, lined with parchment, spring form tin with a loose base or even a flan tin with a loose base with melted butter.
Place the tin carefully onto the pastry and cut a circle, leaving an extra 2cm edge all the way around. Set aside.
Heat the butter in a medium saucepan over a medium heat and add the onions, sauté for 4 minutes until softened but not brown. Add the garlic slices and cook for a further 1 minute. Pour the sugar, red wine vinegar and thyme into a small bowl and stir well.
To assemble, arrange the cherry tomatoes and butternut squash slices onto the base of the tin with a few sprigs of thyme. Using tongs lift the onions and garlic onto the tomatoes. Spoon the sugar and red wine mixture over the tomatoes and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Place the pastry on top of the vegetables and carefully tuck in the edges of the pastry. Brush the top with egg wash. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes until the pastry is golden and cooked.
To serve loosen the tin, slide a plate over the top and turnover. Allow to cool slightly, sprinkle with thyme sprigs over the top and serve immediately.
Tip: Slice a few layers of Brussels sprouts and place them in between for a delicious tart.
To prepare the sauce, melt the butter in a pan, add the pistachio and toast.
Whisk in the orange juice and zest. Cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
Arrange the cooked vegetables on a large platter and spoon over the sauce. Serve immediately.
Christmas is fast approaching so please read on below for some great ideas for creating your own foodie themed Christmas presents at home. Also I have included recipes for Hot Chocolate Stirrers and Tea and Cookies Gift Box.
Hamper Ideas – DIY popcorn kit? We all watch movies during the Christmas season so it is a great gift. Pour corn into a cellophane bag or even a homemade fabric bag and seal, add a jar of homemade salt caramel. A small jar of chilli and lime powder (which is just chilli powder and lime zest) and add a little wooden scoop with some cardboard boxes and there you have it.
Recipes in jars – These are very popular – use recipes like apricot and white chocolate muffins or flapjack or even hot chocolate mixes. It is important to choose recipes that have a lot of dried ingredients in them like dried fruits, different flour. A good examples is a DIY – rocky road jar. You will need a large kilner jar -white chocolate, mini marshmallows, grated coconut, dried cranberries and some dried chopped apricots and pistachio nuts as well as biscuits like ginger or rich teas.
Foodie Present – an oven glove with equipment like meat thermometer, tongs, homemade jar of spicy meat seasoning and a salt and pepper grinder.
Children's Hamper – Children just love baking. Brownies are a great bake for them. Ensure that there is a recipe, pretty cupcake cases, a whisk, a chef's hat, baking tray, wooden spoon and a jar with the ingredients layered, as well as sprinkles.
Packaging – choose only 2 colours – like cream and gold and a few sparkly bits. Ensure that everything is labeled and that the ingredients are shown, eg nuts etc. If you are including a recipe – make sure that it will work out for your friends.
Consider the amount of packaging that you are using because there is an enormous pile left on the 26th. Recycle it and use eco friendly items: eg transform old Christmas cards into gift tags.
Relax by the fire and enjoy a warm comforting drink, the concept of these is to warm a small mug of milk, add a little sugar, if necessary, and add the chocolate stirrer creating a delicious Christmas yummy drink.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Add the liqueur and the ground cinnamon and mix well.
Carefully spoon into an ice cube tray and leave the chocolate to cool slightly.
Arrange the marshmallows on top of the chocolate and carefully insert the lolly sticks into the chocolate. Do not move until completely set. Check that they are standing straight from time to time. The setting time is at least 6 hours or overnight.
When complete gently twist the tray and the stirrers will "pop" out.
Tie a ribbon onto each chocolate stirrer and pack into the bags, seal and add a label.
When purchasing the box just keep in mind the size and that the tea bags and cookies have to fit comfortably into it.
To make the biscuits, cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, add the vanilla bean paste. Stir in the egg yolk.
Fold in the flour, chocolate, orange juice and zest.
Shape the dough into a thin cylinder shape and wrap in cling film.
Line 2 baking trays with baking parchment. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/Gas 4.
Slice the cookie dough into 1/2cm slices and place on the lined baking trays.
Bake in a preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden and baked.
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News & Politics » Feature
The Dangers of Faith
Dogmatic religious beliefs make no sense. Why are they still so common?
by Harold Henderson
Imagine there's a heaven. Imagine there's a hell. Imagine that after you die, an infinitely powerful God will send you to one or the other forever, according to what you believed or what you did during this life. If you don't need to imagine these things--if you believe them and take them seriously--Sam Harris thinks you're a menace to humanity. He thinks absolute beliefs of this kind, held without regard for factual evidence, can justify anything, even flying an airplane into a skyscraper. After all, what could be more important than eternal salvation?
In The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Harris argues that the men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were neither cowards nor lunatics in the ordinary sense. "They were men of faith--perfect faith, as it turns out--and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be."
Harris, who holds a philosophy degree from Stanford and is completing a doctorate in neuroscience, divides religion into three parts: faith, ethics, and mystical experiences. In his view only the faith part is dangerous; he thinks ethics and mysticism can get along fine without it. "There is clearly a sacred dimension to our experience," writes this unconventional unbeliever, "and coming to terms with it could well be the highest purpose of human life. But we will find that it requires no faith in untestable propositions--Jesus was born of a virgin; the Koran is the word of God--for us to do this."
Of course "faith" is ambiguous. It can refer to one's way of believing or to the beliefs one holds. Harris happily debunks specific tenets of faith, but it's how they're held that makes his neck hairs stand up: "To presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of evil." His arguments have been around for centuries--something he doesn't mention, for reasons not apparent at first.
In 1799 the French astronomer-mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace published his work showing how the planets in our solar system remain in their orbits without falling into chaos. (Even Isaac Newton thought the factors determining planets' paths were so complicated they required divine supervision.) Napoleon is said to have asked Laplace why his book contained many mathematical equations but didn't mention God; Laplace is said to have replied, "I have no need of that hypothesis."
Two centuries later we have even less need. We understand how wonderfully complex living things developed through natural selection and other evolutionary processes, not by supernatural intervention. That people have imperfections--our bodies have appendixes and occasionally grow more teeth than the human jaw can accommodate--looks more like the work of a rough-and-ready process such as natural selection than of an omniscient designing mind. We're close to understanding why some people get cancer while others don't, without having to invoke God's will. Half a millennium of scientific advances have shredded one tenet of faith after another--and confirmed none.
The basic tools of science--see for yourself when possible, be open to new evidence, and when necessary rely on authorities who do the same--apply in all spheres of life, whether you need to know how to dig a hole or how to cope with the death of the person going into it. It may be true, for instance, that hospital patients get better after praying, or meditating under a Zen master, or viewing old episodes of Baywatch. Such possibilities can and should be investigated just as conventional medicines are. If confirmed, they should be incorporated into good medical practice and daily living; if not, there's no particular respect due to those who cling to them anyway, no more than to those who consult their horoscopes daily.
Unless you make a habit of attending fundamentalist services or reading history, it's easy to forget the atrocities perpetrated under the authority of scriptures and church fathers. Harris offers a few reminders. Saint Augustine, for example, viewed the Jews' suffering and dispersal as God's way of showing the truth of Christianity, and he endorsed the torture of suspected heretics. Eight hundred years later, in 1215, the Catholic church proclaimed the doctrine of transubstantiation, according to which the communion wafer is not merely symbolic of Jesus's flesh, but actually becomes it when consecrated. This became a pretext for pogroms, writes Harris: "Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers? Historical accounts suggest that as many as three thousand Jews were murdered in response to a single allegation of this imaginary crime." He would add both 9/11 and conservative zealots' opposition to condoms, sex education, and stem-cell research to this dishonor roll.
Faith can harm the faithful as well as their victims. One example Harris doesn't cite is King Philip's War. In 1675 the ardently Bible-believing New England Puritans found themselves in a war for survival against an Indian confederation, and the Massachusetts colonial legislature proclaimed, "The Righteous God hath heightned our Calamity and given Commission to the Barbarous Heathen to rise up against us, and to become a smart Rod, and severe Scourge to us." Their faith made it hard for the Puritans to prosecute the war intelligently. They couldn't see the Indians as human adversaries with interests and strategies of their own; God had simply chosen them to chastise the Puritans for the Puritans' sins. This was also how they understood the weather, economic cycles, and outbreaks of disease.
No reasonable religious person today thinks this way, and for that we can give thanks--but not to their faith. "The doors leading out of scriptural literalism do not open from the inside," writes Harris. "The moderation we see among nonfundamentalists is not some sign that faith itself has evolved; it is, rather, the product of the many hammer blows of modernity"--meaning evidence-based knowledge from fields ranging from anthropology to astronomy. Moderate Christians have accommodated themselves to secular knowledge, diluting the Bible's claim to authority without discarding it. Fundamentalists assert the Bible's complete authority, but they cherry-pick it too. Jesus condemned divorce and said nothing about abortion or gay sex, but we know all too well which subjects obsess them.
The Bible is a book of absolutes, leavened by few if any doses of moderation. (Don't even get Harris started on the Koran.) It has little to say about recent innovations such as political freedom, democracy, the middle class, scientific knowledge of anything, or the value of allowing people to hold mistaken opinions. The famous King James Bible phrase "Come now, and let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18) has nothing to do with sitting around a table and striking a compromise. God speaks these words only as a prelude to commanding total obedience. In Revelation 3:16-17, an angel admonishes the church in Laodicea for its complacency and moderation: "Because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth." If this cocksure, bullying, black-and-white worldview reminds you of George W. Bush, you can see why Harris is so worried.
Harris's arguments against faith strike me personally as compelling. But most folks apparently don't agree. Harris quotes philosopher-polemicist Bertrand Russell, who made the same points more eloquently 80 years ago, yet he never faces the fact that their position has lost ground over the last century. He fails to ask, let alone answer, the question that every unsuccessful reformer must: if I'm so right, why isn't everybody following me?
Many decades ago it looked like secularism might catch on. Brilliant secularists such as Robert Ingersoll and H.L. Mencken were players on the public stage, not marginal figures of fun. Church leaders often spoke reasonably: Herbert Willett, a leader of the Disciples of Christ denomination at the University of Chicago, said around 1905, "We believe in Jesus today rather in spite of the miracles than because of them."
Similar ideas were stirring at the grass roots too. My great-grandfather-in-law Addison Boren--son of a construction worker, ardent athlete, and self-taught CPA--regularly attended Pittsburgh's Park Avenue Presbyterian Church with his wife Bertha and their three children. Sometime around 1900 he read a book or two about the work of Darwin and other scientists and left them in plain sight on the living-room table. Their minister spotted them during a home visit and was horrified. His objections and prayers reduced Bertha to tears. During church the following Sunday, he prayed publicly that the Borens would avoid such reading matter.
Afterward, Boren told the minister it was unfair to criticize a person in public when he couldn't answer back, and asked him not to do so again. Perhaps believing that unfairness was a small price to pay for salvation, the minister repeated his prayer the next Sunday. In midprayer the family stood up and walked down the aisle and out of the sanctuary, never to return. They eventually became Unitarians.
This is how things were supposed to happen: as people became more prosperous and better educated, they would shed blind faith for open-minded inquiry, while retaining a bedrock morality. It hasn't happened. Seemingly forward-looking people like Willett and Boren weren't stepping into a new mainstream. For just this reason, religious historian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago titled the first volume of his series on modern American religion The Irony of It All, 1893-1919. Similar dispiriting conclusions can be drawn from the fact that the 9/11 terrorists were neither ill educated nor poverty-stricken. (Believers who see God at work in the 20th-century resurgence of religion are obligated to explain the moral character of a deity who saw fit to discourage secularism and not Hitler.)
Harris is strangely oblivious to this history. He frequently refers to Islamic terrorists as 14th-century bigots with 21st-century weapons--betraying his blinkered belief that people (or cultures) naturally grow over time from faith-based ignorance and fanaticism to evidence-based reasonableness. If that perception were correct, the chronology of the last century would be reversed: on September 11, 1901, religious fanatics would have dramatized their grievances by hijacking trains and running them head-on into one another in crowded railway stations, and in 2001 Boren's great-great-grandchildren would be walking out of the handful of remaining fundamentalist churches and swelling the crowds attending Unitarian churches, Ethical Culture Society meetings, and Great Books discussion groups.
If secularism is critical to our survival, we need to understand why it has lost so much ground. Harris's eloquence on its behalf only deepens the mystery.
Harris's obliviousness to recent history isn't his only problem. His notion that all faith is lethal won't make a lot of sense to readers either. Fundamentalists may be gaining ground, but most people who attend church, synagogue, temple, or mosque are still moderates. Many of them give to the needy and comfort the afflicted. A few even afflict the comfortable. They don't countenance torturing those who think God and Jesus are different entities, stigmatizing children born out of wedlock, or flying airplanes into office towers.
Some churchgoers may think that Noah's flood created the Grand Canyon, but they have the good taste not to bring it up in polite conversation. By any reasonable standard, they're not bad people, and many are among the best. Harris cuts them no slack at all. He says, in effect, that moderates don't understand their own religion. They struggle to make sacred scriptures seem more civilized than they are, a struggle he thinks is doomed on the merits.
Meanwhile their struggle does more harm than good, because it gives fundamentalists a credibility they don't deserve. "Moderates do not want to kill anyone in the name of God, but they want us to keep using the word 'God' as though we knew what we were talking about. And they do not want anything too critical said about people who really believe in the God of their fathers, because tolerance, perhaps above all else, is sacred. To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world--to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish--is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it."
It's fun to pick on moderates, for pretty much the same reason that Naderites picked on moderate John Kerry rather than his opponent. But is it good strategy?
Turning fundamentalists into reasonable people isn't the work of a day. Moderates probably do lend them some credibility, but moderates also offer refugees from fundamentalism a face-saving halfway house where they can recover. Which role is more significant? Harris offers no evidence--perhaps because, like progressives of a century ago, he finds it painful to think that false beliefs might sometimes do more good than true ones.
Because the tenets of faith make so little intellectual sense, Harris assumes that their fruits over the course of history have been more bad than good. This too is by no means obvious. Just how would you weigh every victim of inquisitions, crusades, and jihads against every widow and orphan fed and comforted, every work of art, music, and literature created? For starters, there are no good control cases; the two large compulsorily secular societies in history were based on a murderous faith in Marxism.
Finally, Harris would like to break the long-standing ties that ethics and mysticism have to faith. Since many people believe that morals come from God and that mysticism consists of experiencing God, he has his hands full.
It should be clear that adding "God said so" to moral maxims adds nothing to our understanding of how ethical positions grow and develop, any more than positing a gigantic turtle holding up the earth helps us understand cosmology. But that doesn't mean the issues are as simple as Harris sometimes seems to think. "Questions of right and wrong are really questions about the happiness and suffering of sentient creatures," he says, concluding that advances in neurological science will show us the best ways to bring about happiness.
This crude approximation of utilitarianism can't make sense of our ideas of right and wrong. But we don't need to go into philosophy here, because Harris contradicts himself. When he makes the case that American actions in the Iraqi and Afghan wars were justified, even though they did sometimes kill and injure civilians, he uses an ethical theory that has nothing to do with happiness and suffering. Unlike the terrorists or Saddamites we oppose, he says, we don't intend to kill innocent people--and "where ethics are concerned, intentions are everything." Obviously he can't have it both ways. Serious thought about ethics might well start by admitting that both intentions and happiness play some part.
Harris has a little more success with mystical experiences, wisely distancing himself from the dogmatic "skeptics" who shy away from anything they can't touch. These experiences are real, he writes, and converge on the experience of no longer being aware of oneself or of any barrier between oneself and the rest of the world. He quotes and praises Buddhist texts that avoid theology and describe these altered states of consciousness and how to achieve them.
But if these experiences are evidence, how does Harris know what they're evidence of? Human beings don't have pure experiences--they interpret their experiences based on the traditions they know. Lifelong Buddhists don't have visions of the Virgin Mary. Lifelong Christians may well have the same experience as the Buddhists, but they think they're seeing Jesus or long-dead relatives. Perhaps Harris's chosen discipline of neuroscience will make it easier to sort out the experience from the interpretation.
So how will billions of people be disabused of their faith in time to avoid a plague of dirty bombs? Harris's answer, when it comes, is embarrassingly weak: the members of the chattering classes should stop respecting beliefs just because they're religious. "The appropriate response to the bin Ladens of the world is to correct everyone's reading of these texts by making the same evidentiary demands in religious matters that we make in all others," he writes. "It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. . . . This spirit of mutual inquiry is the very antithesis of religious faith."
It's pleasant to imagine a Sunday-morning TV pundit pointing out, say, that any real estate broker who deeded the same property to three different buyers, as God appears to have done in the Middle East, would be drummed out of the profession and jailed. But would it help matters any? Fundamentalists enjoy being persecuted; ignoring them might be better, if it were possible. The European experience suggests that one might well create religious indifference by establishing a state church, but that doesn't always work either.
Harris has rung the right alarm bell even if he doesn't know how to put out the fire. It's not atheists but faith-based fanatics who are flying airplanes into buildings and blowing themselves up. Beliefs about Armageddon seem to have influenced the Reagan and Bush II administrations' Middle East policies; beliefs about the afterlife and God as the source of government appear to affect the thinking of at least one current Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia. Nazism and communism, the plagues of the 20th century, have with much pain and trouble been undone, but faith-based terrorism is stronger than ever. It's a mystery.
Or perhaps not. Consider the spectacle of Bush and bin Laden wallowing in the rhetoric of absolute faith, cynically using the fear of the other to maintain a following, blinded by faith from understanding themselves or each other--at a time when compassion and openness to factual evidence offer us a better future than ever before. Harris is too earnest to say so, but it must have occurred to him that this spectacle might be a sign that some malign deity has decided to erase this planet-size painting and start another.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Tomasz Walenta.


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²H nuclear magnetic resonance studies of motions in tetramethylammonium salts: the question of methyl reorientation
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National Research Council of Canada. Security and Disruptive Technologies
Canadian Journal of Chemistry
The ²H nmr lineshapes of a number of tetramethylammonium salts have been studied as a function of temperature. It is shown from this and previous evidence that in certain cases the lowest temperature motions should be assigned to whole ion C'₃ or pseudo-isotropic motion, rather than to methyl group motions as has been assumed in previous ¹H nmr studies. Steric potential calculations have been used to investigate a previously suggested model of concerted partial reorientations of methyl groups.
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TSMC: The U.S. hasn't 'given up on semiconductors,' analyst says
Bernstein Research's Stacy Rasgon joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the capacity of the two new plants Taiwan Semiconductor is building in Arizona, what it means for the chip industry, and U.S.-China competition over high-tech chips.
- We are starting today, though, by taking a look at the chip space after the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, also known as TSMC, raises its Arizona chip investment to $40 billion, that coming amid plans to build a second semiconductor factory. All of this comes ahead of President Biden's visit to TSMC'S current plant under construction in Arizona.
And we should point out, Rochelle, this isn't just any visit by the president. You're going to have Tim Cook from Apple, Jensen Huang from NVIDIA, executives from AMD, all the major chip makers who reportedly really pushed TSMC to consider the second option here.
There's already one plant that's underway. It went from $12-billion investment to $40 billion. And the president's really here to kind of tout what his administration has been pushing all along, which is to onshore production manufacturing of chips in the US.
And you see the results so far. No question, the president's going to be touting all of this in terms of the investments he's been able to line up under his administration as a counter to China, Rochelle.
- And it's interesting because we saw commentary from Ronnie Chatterjee, the National Economic Council member who's actually overseeing the CHIPS Act. And he actually said that, "At scale, these two factories could meet the entire US demand for US chips when they're completed. That's the definition of supply chain resilience. We won't have to rely on anyone else to make the chips we need."
But keep in mind that, the raw materials that actually go into the chips, predominantly, are mined in Russia, China, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Obviously, there's a competitive relationship with China, current sanctions on Russia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo experiences some active conflict there at the moment.
So in terms of supply chain resilience, I think that does come with a caveat, for sure. But we'll be keeping an eye on that. In fact, joining us now for more on-the-chip conversation is Stacy Rasgon, Bernstein Research US Semiconductors and Semi-cap Equipment Senior Analyst and Managing Director. Thank you for joining us.
So I want to first get your takeaway. How much of a victory lap should Biden be taking at this point?
STACY RASGON: Hey, look, it's-- it's important. The whole point of the CHIPS Act is to try to get some of these advanced projects-- and frankly, even some of the non-advanced projects-- started here in the US versus started elsewhere.
I-- I do think it's important to put this in context. So these numbers sound really big. They're actually not that big. Like, even if TSMC is making, whatever it is, 600,000 wafers a year and 26 out of this facility, that's about 50,000 wafers a month. That's like-- it'd be like 3% of their total installed manufacturing capacity, at that point.
The numbers in semiconductors, in general, get mind-bogglingly big. These numbers, in the grand scheme of things, are not incredibly big. But-- but they are a start, right. It is-- it is important. I think it's-- it's interesting and very important that they don't just have Biden.
But as you mentioned, they do have Tim Cook, and Jensen, and-- and the CEOs of-- of the customers that are going to use these facilities, right. These things are very expensive. You don't want to build them unless you're sure that you can fill them. Looks like TSMC'S probably not going to have that much problem filling it once it gets built.
- Stacy, good to talk to you this morning. It's kind of worth, sort of, backing-- back-tracking here and looking at how the events have all lined up. Obviously, there was a CHIPS Act that passed over this summer.
And then, in October, some of the most stringent export controls that were placed on Chinese manufacturing actually disabled American companies, largely, from providing advanced chips. I wonder if you can speak to what we're hearing out of TSMC.
It's not just 5 nanometer chips. We're talking about more advanced chips, 4 to 3 nanometer. How significant is it that they're expanding in that direction now?
STACY RASGON: It is. But by the time that stuff comes online, it's not going to be, like, bleeding edge anymore. So-- so the-- remember, there's two facilities that they're talking about building now. The site, by the way, is sized for like six fabs.
So they're starting with two. The first fab looks like it's been upgraded from what was called 5 nanometers to 4. They're roughly the same. They use the same kind of equipment, set 4 nanometer is kind of an upgraded 5, but fine.
Um, by the time it comes online in 24, that's not going to be leading edge. The new fab, it looks like it's going to be doing 3 nanometer and 26. And again, by the time that comes online, that will not be the most advanced stuff.
TSMC is doing a 2-nanometer fab in-- in Taiwan. They're already talking about doing a 1-nanometer fab. So they will not be the bleeding edge of what TSMC is doing. They're going to keep that, it sounds like, in Taiwan.
But it doesn't mean that it's not important, right. Even-- even the-- the stuff that's not on-- on the true bleeding edge of process technology is still needed.
- And so what's next, in terms of where the industry goes from here? Obviously, we're starting to see some of the benefits of the CHIPS Act starting to pour in. But it's still very early days at the moment.
STACY RASGON: That's right. And-- and again, so remember, the CHIPS Act is going to take a while. There's a-- there's a couple of different pieces of it. You have the direct manufacturing subsidies. I think it was $52 billion in total, which included $39 billion for-- directly for manufacturing.
The-- the proposals for that stuff are not even really going to start coming in until, you know, the first half of next year. And the funds will be dispersed over, like, the next 5 to 10 years. So it's going to take a while.
And I think, if you look at the-- the CBO or the Congressional Budget Office, they were estimating 2026 as probably the peak year for fund disbursement. And it was something like $10 billion in that year.
And just for some context, the industry spends anywhere between, you know, $70 and $100 billion a year on-- on equipment right now. So it's-- they're-- they're-- they're relatively small, as a percentage of the total.
Um, there's also tax credits that happen. Though the tax credits can happen quicker, it's a 25% tax credit on qualified US manufacturing investments in semiconductors. I think the CBO had-- had estimated that at about $24 billion over the lifetime of the program-- of that program, which is 5 years.
So these are the kind of numbers that we're talking about. But just for some context, TSMC spends close to $40 billion a year just for themselves.
The industry as a whole-- the global industry, I mean, we did-- in 20-- this year, in 2022, we'll probably do $95 billion in equipment spending and probably $140, $150 billion in total CapEx, for semiconductors. So that just gives you some idea of the kind of numbers we're talking about here.
- Uh, Stacy, really quickly, you said, in terms of volume, this isn't significant. But this is really a critical piece of, at least, this administration's push back against China.
And I want to point to comments that we got from Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo last week-- who has really been leading this push-- who says, "Semiconductors are ground zero in this technological competition and central to our new investment strategy.
Obviously, she goes on to talk about how the US has lost the lead in terms of global production. What does this do? The announcement today, TSMC being a Taiwanese company, announcing this in Arizona. What does that mean for the larger US-CHINA competition?
STACY RASGON: Well, uh-- so I still don't believe that the US has given up on semiconductors, although I think that the Secretary is right. In terms of manufacturing, we've let manufacturing go offshore.
There are many other critical pieces of the semiconductor issue that-- that the US controls. And by the way, the sanctions on China are-- are clear evidence of that. We-- we've chopped their knees out from under them, in terms of their own ability, probably, to develop an advanced semiconductor industry on their.
We own the-- the most important design companies. We own the most important-- some of the most important equipment companies. We own the most important-- what's called EDA, the software design companies that make the software to do this stuff.
There are many, many, many pieces of the-- of the supply chain. It's a very global and very interconnected supply chain. And the US controls big pieces of that. So I don't think it's true that we've given up on-- on semiconductors or that we've left the lead, quote, unquote, "go." Manufacturing, yes.
And-- and-- and I think it is important to bring that back on short-term-- try to bring some of it on shorter derisk. But you'll never be able, for example, to fully reshore what's in Taiwan. It'll take trillions of dollars and 20 years, if-- if that-- if-- if it's possible at all. And there's always going to be pieces of the supply chain that are critical that we can't control.
But all that being said, I-- I think the more diversification you have is important. It is very true that-- that the US-- and frankly, the world-- is very dependent on Taiwan. And it's 100 miles offshore from China. And that's becoming an increasingly untenable geopolitical situation.
And so any kind of, like, strategic diversification we can do for that supply chain, I think, is important. And this is a start. That's all it is. It's only a start. But you have to start somewhere. And this is a good start, I think, along those lines.
- Fair point, a strong start indeed. A big thank you to Bernstein's Stacy Rasgon. And thank you so much for joining us this morning.
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I first travelled to Newfoundland in the spring of 2000 to make some sketches to illustrate a couple of Al Purdy poems for my hand printed book 'Home Country". We flew into Gander and drove to Twillingate and up the northern peninsula to L'anse au Meadows, along the coast to Gros Morne and flew home from Deer Lake. I hoped to see icebergs, and we saw hundreds, like a parade passing by Cape Onion day after day. I sketched in watercolour, buying mittens, and wearing several layers of clothes and coats. We drove 100s of kilometers, taking photographs, watching whales frolic and feed, and fell in love with the amazing landscape, the emptiness of the coast line, and the people we met. We vowed to come back, but somehow didn't until 13 years later.
That experience of Newfoundland stayed with me. And when Michael Crummey came to read in Parry Sound as part of Parry Sound Books reading series, he read from his novel 'Galore' which I had loved reading. He also read a few new poems. As he read his new work images started to come into my mind, as I listened to the poems I thought right away that I could do something with them.
The following spring I approached Michael at the book launch for his new book of poems 'Under the Keel'. By then I had read through his previous books of poetry and asked Michael if I could illustrate a series of his poems and print them in a limited edition book. Michael had seen my earlier work and visited my press on his trip to Parry Sound, and he agreed.
In the fall of 2013 we finally returned to Newfoundland. This time to St. John's and the Avalon Peninsula, to sketch and discuss the book with Michael and to meet his friends and family. We drove together up to Michael's place in Western Bay, and our collaboration on the book 'Viewfinder' began. As Michael wrote this project, is about '…our transient place in the natural world with the ephemeral traces we leave as we pass".
When creating a hand-printed book I let the slow process of setting the type and hand printing the poems lead to a very deep reading of the work and to the creation of a number of quick sketches that become the basis for the final drawings for the wood engravings in the book. As part of this process I also made 6 large charcoal drawings, further interpretations of the sketches.
When the book was complete, I started a series of pastels based on the sketches I made on the Avalon.
Another trip to Newfoundland, this past spring, took me up the Bonavista Peninsula stopping in every little cove, looking for the remains of fishing harbours and stages, old churches and graveyards. I made on-site sketches and took photographs, always looking for a way to tell a story about the place through my work.
A year ago I travelled to Calgary in the spring for a family wedding. It had been many years since we'd driven across the country and we decided to take the small rural roads through southern Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. It was this landscape of abandoned towns, villages and grain elevators and family farms that caught my imagination, sadly beautiful, along with the spectacular vistas of grain fields, endless horizons and big skies.
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NOMINATIONS CLOSED FOR LOUISIANA CUP DAY AT HARRAH'S LOUISIANA DOWNS ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 3
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Bossier City, LA – Nominations for the annual Louisiana Cup Day at Harrah's Louisiana Downs on Saturday, August 3 have closed with considerable interest from local and nationally prominent horsemen. The Louisiana Cup Day program will feature six divisional stakes for accredited Louisiana-breds and the $60,000 Super Derby Prelude for 3-year-olds going a mile and one-sixteenth on the main track. The winner will earn a berth to the Grade 3, $300,000 Super Derby on Saturday, September 7, which is the richest race of the 2019 Louisiana Downs Thoroughbred racing season.
The Super Derby Prelude closed with 24 nominations with Hall of Fame conditioner Steve Asmussenconsidering options for three runners. They include Comedian, a colt by Into Mischief who broke his maiden earlier this year at Oaklawn Park and ran in the $300,000 Oaklawn Invitational Stakes on May 4. He is owned by Bloom Racing Stable, the connections behind distaff superstar Midnight Bisou. The two other nominees are owned by Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC. Rotation, a son of Tapit, ran fourth in the Riley Allision Derby at Sunland Park and recently competed at the allowance level at Churchill Downs. Wicked Indeed, also sired by Tapit, has tested the wagers in two Grade 3 stakes, running fourth in both the LeComte at Fair Grounds and the Sunland Derby at Sunland Park.
Asmussen won the 2018 Super Derby with Limation for owner Michael Lankford.
As reported last week, trainer Scott Gelner who won stakes last year on both Louisiana Cup Day and the Super Derby undercard, has nominated Taylor's Spirit for the Prelude. The Kentucky-bred daughter of Algorithms, owned by Norman Stables, LLC, won the $60,000 Happy Ticket last September at Louisiana Downs and added three more stakes wins since that victory. She has competed in graded stakes company, running last year at Churchill Downs in the Grade 2, $200,000 Pocahontas. Taylor's Spirit exits a third-place finish in the Grade 3, $200,000 Iowa Oaks at Prairie Meadows on July 5. She's won six of her 12 starts and $250,730 since making her debut in Iowa last July. Also, Mr Money Bags has been nominated by his conditioner, Mike Neatherlin. Bred by his owner, Roy W. Cobb, Mr Money Bags established himself as a serious runner earlier this year at Sam Houston Race Park, winning two consecutive stakes by a combined margin of 12 lengths. Sired by Silver City, Mr Money Bags was Triple Crown nominated by his connections, and following his win in the Groovy Stakes in Houston, shipped to Churchill Downs to compete in the Grade 3, $400,000 Pat Day Mile. He garnered another stakes win at Lone Star Park on June 1 and made his most recent start in the $250,000 Iowa Derby at Prairie Meadows.
The draw for the following Louisiana Cup Day stakes will take place on July 27.
$50,000 Louisiana Cup Juvenile 2 YO LA-Bred Six furlongs
$50,000 Louisiana Cup Juvenile Fillies 2 YO Fillies LA-Bred Six furlongs
$50,000 Louisiana Cup Filly & Mare Sprint 3 YO & Up F&M, LA-Bred Six furlongs
$50,000 Louisiana Cup Sprint 3 YO & Up LA-Bred Six furlongs
$50,000 Louisiana Cup Turf Classic 3 YO & Up LA-Bred 1 1/16 miles (T)
$50,000 Louisiana Distaff 3 YO & Up F & M LA-Bred 1 1/16 miles (T)
$60,000 Super Derby Prelude 3 Y0 1 1/16 miles
"We are pleased with the interest from horsemen for the Louisiana Cup Day stakes," said David Heitzmann, Harrah's Louisiana Downs Director of Racing. "It will be an excellent showcase for Louisiana-breds and once again, the top four runners in the Prelude will earn a berth to the Grade 3 Super Derby on September 7 with all fees waived."
Shantel Lanerie Breast Cancer Fundraiser To Take Place on Louisiana Cup Day
Harrah's Louisiana Downs will conduct a fundraiser on Saturday, August in support of the Shantel Lanerie Cancer Breast Foundation. The beloved Louisiana native and wife of jockey Corey Laneriewas diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in January, 2018 and passed away just six months later. She is survived by her parents, husband and daughter, Brittlyn.
Rick Mocklin, who was Lanerie's agent for ten years and his wife, Jeanette, were close friends of Shantel. Mocklin serves as founder and president of the Shantel Lanerie Breast Cancer Foundation. It was founded with a mission of educating, empowering and encouraging women to become pro-active in early detection, and if diagnosed, surviving breast cancer. Acknowledging that breast cancer impacts the entire family, the Foundation designates funds raised through donations and fundraisers to assist with basic needs of breast cancer patients through every stage of diagnosis and treatment.
Mocklin is grateful to Louisiana Downs for their interest in assisting with fundraising efforts on Louisiana Cup Day. A table will be set up in the grandstand with monogrammed apparel from the foundation, including t-shirts, caps, bumper stickers and pink handkerchiefs. Jockeys will be on hand to autograph the items, with all proceeds to benefit the foundation.
"Breast cancer can be devastating for so many people," explained Mocklin. "To lose Shantel when she was just 42 years-old was heartbreaking for her family and many friends. The foundation has already helped 30 women diagnosed with breast cancer and we want to keep raising funds to support those in need."
Handicapping Preview Show Set for Saturday, August 3
Louisiana Downs track announcer John McGary and regional racing publicist Martha Claussen will team up for a pre-race handicapping preview at 2:00 pm in the Inside Rail, located on the first floor of the grandstand. They will offer analysis and their selections for each of the races on the Louisiana Cup Day card. The seminar is free and open to all racing fans.
LTBA Scholarship Drawings Set for Louisiana Cup Day
The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association will award two (2) scholarships, each valued at $1,000, on Saturday, August 3.
The drawings will be between the fifth and sixth races. The races begin at 3:15 p.m. and the student must be there to register between 2:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m.at the designated registration booth.
The requirements for the scholarship are as follows:
Must be a college student enrolled full-time for Fall 2018.
Must be in good standing with the college or university.
Must be present at the drawing location to win.
Must have university ID number or Social Security number.
The scholarship will be deposited directly into the student's account at the college or university. The student is asked to know the name and address of the college that they are attending.
"The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association continues to make an investment in the future of our state by investing in our students and the education process," said Roger Heitzmann, secretary/treasurer for the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association. "This type of investment is for our future, the state, as well as the organization. Our hope is that these scholarships get the younger generations invested in LTBA so that our organization stays the top breeding incentive program in the United States."
For more information, visit louisianabred.com or call (504) 947-4676.
Super Derby Festival 40 Charity Golf Tournament Set for August 29
The Super Derby Festival 40 will be held on Thursday, August 29, at Northwood Hills Golf Club in Shreveport, Louisiana.
The event will benefit Chaplain Jimmy Sistrunk and The Backside Benevolence Fund, which provides assistance to the Louisiana racing community and backstretch workers. It serves as one of the special events saluting the annual Grade 3, $300,000 Super Derby, the marquee race of the Louisiana Downs Thoroughbred season, which takes place on Saturday, September 7.
Sign in for the event's Four Person Scramble kicks off at 10:00 a.m. with tee off at 10:30 a.m. The fee is $80 per person or $320 for a four-person team. The fee includes green fees, golf cart, lunch, and Super Derby t-shirt/cap.
Attendees can register in person in the Louisiana Downs Racing office, or by mail. Checks should be payable to The Backside Benevolence Fund and mailed to: Jennifer Sokol, Harrah's Louisiana Downs, 8000 East Texas Street, Bossier City, Louisiana, 71111.
The deadline for registration is August 22. Hole sponsorships for $100, including a sign, are available, but must be purchased by August 16.
For further information, please contact Sokol at (318) 741-2512.
Post Times and Stakes Schedule
Live racing will be conducted Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Saturday with a 3:15 p.m. (Central) post time through September 25. The 84-day meet features 14 stakes highlighted by two major events, Louisiana Cup Day on Saturday, August 3 and Super Derby Day on Saturday, September 7.
About Harrah's Louisiana Downs
Located near Shreveport in Bossier City, Louisiana, Louisiana Downs opened in 1974 and was purchased by Caesars Entertainment in December, 2002. With annual Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing seasons, the track is committed to presenting the highest quality racing programs paired with its 150,000 square foot entertainment complex offering casino gambling, dining and plasma screen televisions for sports and simulcast racing.
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Ghana's women U-17 team are confident of beating South Africa on Friday to pick their spot at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
Both teams will play their second leg of the final round of qualifying at the Accra Sports Stadium with kick off at 3:00pm [15:00 GMT].
Despite the Black Maidens playing out a goalless draw against South Africa in the first leg, coach Mas-Ud Didi Dramani still believes that they will avoid conceding a goal and win against the Bantwana at home.
"We played well against South Africa but they were very good tactically and came at us strongly," the Ghana coach said after the first leg.
"I believe we have an advantage going into the second leg at home. We know what we must do to win and ensure we book ourselves a ticket to Azerbaijan."
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