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Cohesion Theatre's promising new play explores Hatfield-McCoy feud
By Tim Smith
Katharine Vary in the title role and, in the background, Jonas Grey as "Devil Anse" in "Sally McCoy" at Cohesion Theatre Company. (Shealyn Jae Photography)
When it comes to feuding, no one did it better than the Hatfield and McCoy clans in a region between West Virginia and Kentucky during the 1870s and '80s, holding grudges and, at periodic intervals, dispensing their vicious version of eye-for-an-eye justice.
There is more than enough material here for an epic opera. Or an intimate play, like "Sally McCoy," now being given an effective world premiere from Cohesion Theatre Company.
Penned by Cohesion co-founder and Howard County native Alice Stanley, this ambitious, promising work centers on one of the ugliest chapters in the feud.
It started on an election day in 1882. A brawl between members of each family culminated with the stabbing and shooting of a Hatfield. Three McCoy brothers were arrested, but snatched by Hatfields and held by the patriarch — William Anderson Hatfield, vividly nicknamed "Devil Anse" — while the family waited to learn if the kinsman succumbed to his wounds.
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Stanley imagines Sally McCoy, mother of the kidnapped boys, making a daring visit to the home of Devil Anse in an effort to get them released to the authorities, so the courts — not one man — could pass judgment. It's a deft plot-starter, allowing for a mix of history and fiction to unfold.
Above all, the play provides a way to get past the usual patriarchal focus of the feud by putting a woman at the center of the action. She becomes the voice of all the mothers and wives and sisters who were caught up in the dreadful cycle, but, given the times, were probably paid little heed by the men with vengeance on their minds.
In this telling, Sally makes no apologies for intruding on Hatfield territory and refusing to budge until making "Devil Anse" hear her out. "My manners were left," she says, "in one o' the fields I crossed to get to the house where my sons are goin' to die."
The battle of wills certainly has theatrical spark, once it finally arrives. But Stanley takes too much time getting there ("Devil Anse" makes his initial entrance only at the end of a long first act), and then reiterates many points, weakening the tension. Judicious trims would give the text a boost.
Director Brad Norris doesn't help matters by allowing for leisurely pacing for much of the dialogue (country folk may not be fast-talkers, but no harm in pretending otherwise onstage).
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Still, there is a lot of potent material. The confrontation between Sally and Anse, for example, contains many a telling point. When Sally, surprisingly prompted by Anse, breaks into the haunting hymn "Wayfaring Stranger," the play hits an affecting peak.
And scenes between Sally and Johnse, a sensitive Hatfield youth who, a la "Romeo and Juliet," had an assignation with a McCoy, have poetic beauty. This is especially so when Johnse, recalling the object of his affection, describes how "she smiled so easily; it was like, she'd smile, an' that smile barely had time to go off her face before she had another one ready to go."
I'm less sure about the way Stanley puts such words as "indisposed," "vulnerable," "priorities" and "egotistical" in characters' mouths. But most of the time, the tone feels right, the message registers.
The production features a firmly focused performance by Katharine Vary in the title role. Jonas Grey offers impressive nuance and grit as Anse. Thom Sinn does subtle work as Valentine Hatfield. Jane Jongeward makes a persuasive Johnse.
In the end, despite its length and sluggishness, "Sally McCoy" succeeds at evoking an unfortunate time and place where stubbornness and myopia kept lives stuck on a path that was all too "rough and steep" (in the words of that hymn) — and where, had anyone been willing to listen, a woman might have led the way toward "beauteous fields."
"Sally McCoy" runs through Oct. 1 at United Evangelical Church, 923 S. East Ave. Tickets are $15 to $20. Go to cohesiontheatre.org.
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An international team of researchers published an article ("Identification of altered cell signaling pathways using proteomic profiling in stable and progressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia") in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology that reportedly reveals that certain protein markers may indicate which patients have stable forms of CLL and which have more aggressive types.
Identifying these proteins may not only help determine patients' prognoses but also point to potential therapeutic targets for investigators who are searching for new CLL treatments for the most common form of leukemia in the Western world.
"Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is characterized by significant biologic and clinical heterogeneity. This study was designed to explore CLL B-cells' proteomic profile in order to identify biologic processes affected at an early stage and during disease evolution as stable or progressive," write the investigators.
"Purified B cells from 11 untreated CLL patients were tested at two time points by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry. Patients included in the study evolved to either progressive (n = 6) or stable disease (n = 5). First, at an early stage of the disease (Binet stage A), based on the relative abundance levels of 389 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs), samples were separated into stable and progressive clusters with the main differentiating factor being the RNA splicing pathway.
"Next, in order to test how the DEPs affect RNA splicing, a RNA-Seq study was conducted showing 4,217 differentially spliced genes between the two clusters. Distinct longitudinal evolutions were observed with predominantly proteomic modifications in the stable CLL group and spliced genes in the progressive CLL group. Splicing events were shown to be six times more frequent in the progressive CLL group. The main aberrant biologic processes controlled by DEPs and spliced genes in the progressive group were cytoskeletal organization, Wnt/β-catenin signaling, and mitochondrial and inositol phosphate metabolism with a downstream impact on CLL B-cell survival and migration.
"This study suggests that proteomic profiles at the early stage of CLL can discriminate progressive from stable disease and that RNA splicing dysregulation underlies CLL evolution, which opens new perspectives in terms of biomarkers and therapy."
"The results offer a meaningful biological approach into the protein composition of CLL cells at an early stage of the disease, when the clinical characteristics of patients are similar, and the course of the disease is difficult to predict. Our results showed that the protein profile can however predict how the disease will further evolve," said lead author Cristina Bagacean, PhD, of CHU de Brest, in France. "This approach could identify putative therapeutic targets in order to prevent CLL progression."
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This Is What Would Happen To The World If The Yellowstone Supervolcano Erupted Today
It wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would certainly be horrific. Lane V. Erikson/Shutterstock
Yellowstone's supervolcano is essentially a giant, lid-topped cauldron, and it's so vast that it can only truly be seen from low-Earth orbit. Its crater is 72 kilometers (45 miles) across, and its underlying plumbing contains several tens of thousands of cubic kilometers of magmatic material.
By the latest estimate, it would take several centuries for both sides of the Niagara Falls to fill up just its shallow chamber, let alone its far more voluminous deeper reservoir.
What would happen if much of this suddenly re-emerged in a horrific supervolcanic eruption? Who would live, who would die – and would the United States of America survive? We spoke to one of the country's most respected volcanologists to get the most up-to-date low-down on the future of the world's most famous supervolcano.
Right now, the two-step magma chamber is in a state of dormancy. According to Yellowstone Volcano Observatory's Scientist-In-Charge, Dr Michael Poland, it may not have enough energy at present to produce a supereruption. "Right now, much of Yellowstone's magma body is partially solidified, and you need a lot of magma to feed a large eruption."
Throughout most of its life, the region has featured extensive lava flows or (far more frequently) hydrothermal blasts, which suggests that any future eruption is far more likely to replicate this. Although these will cause a problem, they certainly won't be anything apocalyptic – and even these eruption types are exceedingly rare.
The chances of a supervolcanic paroxysm are currently around one-in-730,000, which makes it less likely than a catastrophic asteroid impact.
The lava flows of Yellowstone. Christiansen et al., 2007/USGS
However, a sudden injection of new magma from beneath, or a sudden weakening of the geological layers encasing it, as unlikely as this is, may be enough to trigger a sudden depressurization event, and the entire system would violently expunge onto the surface and up into the atmosphere.
What happens next is somewhat speculative, but Yellowstone's frightening history gives us a clue. We're thinking about the worst-case scenario here, so let's assume its entire magmatic belly is emptied in a colossal supervolcanic explosion.
This has happened at Yellowstone three times on a cycle of 660,000-800,000 years: 2.1 million years ago, 1.3 million years ago, and 640,000 years ago.
The most explosive eruption was its first, which produced about 2,500 times the amount of volcanic material as the 1980 destruction of Mount St Helens. Even the most recent blast created an eruptive column so colossal that it coated about 60 percent of the contiguous United States in thick layers of ash.
So let's say that the original record-holding blast was to happen again: What would happen to the United States and the wider world?
It's unclear how much warning organizations like the United States Geological Survey (USGS) would get, but shortly before the eruption happened, the ground around Yellowstone National Park would rise upwards somewhat. Hydrothermal system, including the geysers and geothermal pools, would rapidly heat to temperatures above boiling, and they'd likely become extremely acidic – more so than usual.
A swarm of earthquakes would be detected making their way towards a central point, indicating magma rising rapidly through the crust. Then, the roof rock would fail and the eruption would begin.
A vast column of ash and lava would shoot upward to heights of around 25 kilometers (16 miles). Sustained by both raw explosive energy and the release of heat through cooling lava blebs and bombs, it would sustain itself for days, pumping ash into jet streams that would transport it around the stratosphere.
When the eruptive column or parts of the column fail, enormous pyroclastic flows would blast their way across the park.
These mixtures of ash, lava blebs, and superheated gas exceed temperatures of 1,000°C (1,832°F) and can move at speeds of up to 482 kilometers per hour (about 300 miles per hour). If they hit anyone, they'd die within seconds; those nearby would be burned as the air heats up to around about 300°C (570°F).
Generally speaking, pyroclastic flows travel up to 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) out from their source, but they can theoretically reach up to 100 kilometers (62 miles).
This is basically the length of Yellowstone National Park, so if the vent emerged directly in the center, and the pyroclastic flows were particularly energetic, many in the park would die, either from the pyroclastic flows or the collapsing caldera roof itself.
On average, there's about 11,000 visitors there at any one time, based on a yearly visitor count of 3.8 million. There are far more visitors in the summer months, so a summer eruption would be far more deadly.
When the pyroclastic flows and ash deposits settle and cool, they may seem harmless, but they're not. If it rains heavily after the eruption, especially on any slopes, then these could mix with mud and turn into rapidly-moving, cement-like slurries called lahars. If you get stuck in one, there's a good chance you'll die.
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The most dangerous aspect of the eruption, however, is the ash fallout, both locally and globally.
Breathe this in and it'll lacerate your lungs and form a glassy cement. It's also about six times denser than water, which means plenty of architecture would collapse under its weight as it accumulates on rooftops. Poland points out that "even a few tens of centimeters of wet ash could cause weak buildings to buckle."
Roads and sewer systems would clog and break down, water supplies would be contaminated, and electrical grids would short out. Millions of homes could become uninhabitable.
In this sense, those taking shelter in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming would be at the highest risk of harm. They would be so for up to a month, which is a fairly solid bet as to how long the eruption would ultimately be.
An area about 80 kilometers (50 miles) around the vent would be covered in 3 meters (about 10 feet) of ash in just a few days. Simulations have also shown that a supereruption could bury Salt Lake City and its surroundings beneath a meter (3.3 feet) of ash.
The approximate ash coverage after one month of a supereruption. Mastin et al. 2014/USGS
Assuming there's no strongly prevailing winds, Denver would get about 30 centimeters (about a foot), whereas Calgary would get about 10 centimeters (3.9 inches). The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would help with the cleanup/relocation for many months or even years.
Elsewhere – say San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Chicago – would receive about 3 centimeters (1.2 inches). A fine layer would make it as far as Miami, New York, and Toronto within a few days, still enough to cause vehicles to break down and water to become unpotable.
Flights would be grounded or diverted away from the United States – at least for a few weeks – and it's almost certain that the National Guard and perhaps the military would be drafted in to help evacuate many tens of millions of people from the affected region.
The death toll is extremely difficult to predict, but Poland suggest that "if people were present in the vicinity of the eruption – say, within a few tens to perhaps a few hundred kilometers – they would be in peril."
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This is bad enough as it is, but worse is yet to come.
The ash's injection into the stratosphere would cause it to darken the sky and cool regional, if not planetwide temperatures. If the eruption is particularly sulfur-rich – an efficient blocker of sunlight – then temperatures would plummet several degrees, to the point where the next few years will lack a summer.
"It's likely there would be significant cooling for many years," Poland explains. "But how long it would last, and how much cooling would occur, I can't say. I'm not sure anyone can."
If the far smaller but highly sulfur-rich eruption of Tambora back in 1815 is any example, a caldera-forming blast at Yellowstone would "alter global weather patterns and have enormous effects on human activity" for many years, according to the USGS.
The paths and timings of monsoons would change. Tropical cycle formation would become far more unpredictable for a while and the spread of waterborne-diseases could take highly erratic paths.
Agriculture would also suffer, which could severely disrupt food supplies. This would add to the overall economic damage, which would be severe: A recent estimate by FEMA of a Yellowstone supereruption put the total US damage at $3 trillion, about 16 percent of the nation's total GDP. To put that in perspective, that's $400 million more than was lost during the recent global recession.
A winter eruption would be preferable. Cathy/Flickr; CC BY-NC 2.0
The USGS is keen to point out that "scientists at this time do not have the predictive ability to determine specific consequences or durations of possible global impacts from such large eruptions." Whatever happens, though, it won't cause civilization to come crashing down.
"It would not mean the end of life on Earth," Poland tells us. "In fact, this experiment has already been run, yet few people realize it."
He points to the Toba eruption, one that occurred 74,000 years ago, and one that "was larger than anything that Yellowstone has ever produced." Evidently, humanity survived that, and "they didn't have the benefit of technology back then!"
Make no mistake though: Another full-on Yellowstone supereruption would be a devastating natural disaster, the type that would cost both livelihoods and lives. However, it cannot be emphasized enough that it's extremely unlikely to happen in the near-future, if ever.
If it did, it wouldn't be a civilization-ending event either. It would, however, be one that changes the world for the worse.
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Saudi women set to make their mark
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Saudi women hold their voter registration forms at a voting center in Jeddah at the end of August. (Photo AFP)
This column was printed in the Nov. 01, 2015 issue of Arab News:
By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh
I was extremely pleased to read that 1,039 Saudi women have registered to stand as candidates in the upcoming municipal elections to be held on Dec. 12. This is an achievement that all Saudis should be proud of, both men and women.
After all of the doom and gloom stories that I had read over the last few months, telling of the difficulty of women finding voter registration centers and the apparent lack of interest of some women in the elections, I expected fewer women to register as candidates.
As Jadee Al-Qahtani, head of the Municipal Elections Executive Committee, pointed out, the participation of women in these elections are very important since the municipal councils deal with local issues that affect the daily lives of all citizens. He also noted that the female candidates would be competing for seats on 212 councils or 75 percent of the total 284 councils. Not bad since it is the first time ever for Saudi women to be involved in elections.
Of course, when you compare the number of female candidates to the 6,400 male candidates, it seems like just a drop in the ocean. But women participating in civic life have to start somewhere, and I'm sure that the number of female candidates and voters will grow greatly in future elections. This is just the beginning.
For sure registering to be a candidate is the easiest and cheapest aspect of participating in an election, be you male or female. It's the advertising, campaigning, printing of campaign materials, rental of billboards and tents in which to meet potential voters that cost the big bucks. Already 31 female candidates have withdrawn from the polls, either because they felt they were not prepared enough to participate, or to yield their places to other women candidates. It will be very interesting to see how female candidates campaign and reach out to women voters. Will they use some of the same tactics that male candidates do? For sure yes, but they will also be able to use other means, and for sure their women-only campaign tents will be big draws for Saudi women and young girls curious to see what various female candidates have to say, offer and promise to improve the quality of their lives.
Saudi women certainly have many issues of concern to them, from the safety of their local streets and the lack of public playgrounds for their children to play in; to the high price of marriage dowries to inadequate garbage collection in their streets. These are all issues that Saudi women face collectively on a national level and on a local level in all of their neighborhoods.
Saudi women should remember that the suffrage of women around the world has been a long and hard battle, starting with New Zealand granting women the right to vote as far back as 1893, to the United States doing so in 1920; Brazil in 1932; Switzerland only in 1971; Jordan in 1974; Kuwait in 2005 and finally Saudi Arabia in 2011.
What is very interesting looking at the history of women gaining the right to vote around the globe is that land-owning, and therefore tax-paying, women were often the first allowed to vote. That was the case of Swedish taxpaying female members of guilds, who were allowed to vote in 1718. Property-owning women in the Australian state of South Australia were allowed to vote in local elections in 1861. In the United Kingdom, female ratepayers were allowed to vote in local elections in 1869, with universal franchise coming only in 1928. Individual US territories and states started allowing women to vote from as early as 1869 in the Wyoming Territory.
That the voting age in the Kingdom has been reduced from 21 to 18 years of age is a great development, as this will allow more young Saudis to participate in the elections. And the fact that two-thirds of the municipal council seats will be elected and only one-third appointed by the government is a great achievement for the Saudi people.
Hopefully Saudi women will grasp this historic opportunity to participate in our country's civic life and make their mark on our society by heartily taking part in the elections. I am sure they will impress us with their dedication and hard work, and I look forward to seeing more and more Saudi women voting and running as candidates.
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DPA confirms full support to the container company during this project, which initially starts with deepening and reinforcing of berths (3-4) totaling about 378 m in length, while container handling is proceeding steadily on the 700 m long berths 1-2 .
The Port Authority also allowed access to berths 6-5 as an alternative solution to ensure container handling operations are not affected by the dredging process . From the date of project startup in 10/10/2018 and till now container handling is already functioning at normal rates.
DCHC's work coincides with DPA's plan to dredge the Access Channel and Turning Basin to reach a draft compatible with DCHC's targeted figure of 17 m .By this, DPA seeks to buttress future projects in the port through enhancing terminal competitive edge to receive giant containerships ; a strategic step to keep the contracts with the shipping lines already working with the terminal and to attract further shipping lines.


Congratulations to the Wednesday team who defeated the Tuesday team in the Competitive All Star finals. The game MVPs were Megan McNally (Tues) and Geoff Simonett (Wed), while Spirit MVPs were Akos Nsiah-Yeboah (Tues) and Donna Moritsugu (Wed).
Congratulations to the Monday team who defeated the Thursday team in the Intermediate All Star game.The Game MVPs were Greg Kramer (Mon) and Rachael Robson (Thurs) and the Spirit MVPs were Sarah Floyd (Mon) and Leon Cox (Thurs).
Some photos of the event are available on the TUC Facebook page, courtesy of Andrew Gater.
Wed Comp (21) defeated Tuesday Comp (13) on Rogers TV!
Big Hammers (16) defeated Monster (11) on Rogers TV!
The Scally's Cup is an All-Star Challenge (sponsored by Scallywags, of course) that showcases the top players from TUC summer leagues. The 2010 event took place on Sunday, September 12th at Sunnybrook Park, and also included two feature games as part of the TUC 30th Anniversary Outdoor event. Throughout the summer, captains nominate players of the opposing teams that they play. From this, we create a divisional All-Star team from each League Night for two divisions – competitive and intermediate (recreational team players are eligible for intermediate division). We'll have athletic therapy on site, and for the competitors there will be lots of great prizing courtesy of Scallywag's and our other sponsors and the division winners will get to hoist the Scally's Cup!


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Review: Next War: Poland
On March 2, 2018 March 2, 2018 By Corporal FriskIn Review7 Comments
Chances are that if you are a reader of the blog, you have spent some amount of time thinking about NATO's northeastern flank. The defence of the Baltics has become an issue of considerable debate, with the Suwałki gap doing its best to become the Fulda gap of the 21st century. At some point one start to wonder how a confrontation would play out? What difference would it e.g. make if NATO sent reinforcements into northern Poland?
Enter Next War: Poland, an old-school hex-and-counter wargame with all the bells and whistles to warrant an interest also from the professionals. It arrives in a nicely sized box, which is packed full with two maps, plenty of countersheets, and all the rule and scenario books you need. For a full review of what's in the box, check out this video on GMT Games' YouTube channel.
…and, yes, the box isn't one of their better-looking ones. I have a hard time figuring out why GMT chose the mix of pictures of completely different styles. It is especially puzzling as they have some quite spectacular boxarts amongst their offerings, such as Labyrinth or Pendragon.
The maps consist of two completely different ones, one of which is the hex ('operational') map which cover the northern part of Poland and into the southern corner of Lithuania. Here the main battle is fought, where brigade and division level units (and the occasional battalions) run around and collide into each other. However, as we all know a major part of the fight would be to get units into theatre. This takes place on the second map, the strategic display. In essence, this cover the Baltic Sea and surrounding land areas, and consists of land and sea regions, as well as holding boxes representing out of area assets (naval units in the North Sea and long-range air units). Here it is possible to fight the battle for sea superiority in the Baltic Sea, to conquer the Baltic states, and to drop a bunch of airborne units on Gotland to exercise control of the shipping lanes and air space if you are so inclined.
Nice A2/AD bubble you've got there, would be a shame if something happened to it…
There are a basic and advanced rules, as well as basic and advanced air rules. The basic rules are rather straightforward for a wargame, while the advanced ones are close to a full-on simulation. Under the advanced rules, the strategic display, a detailed logistics system, and a host of support weapons ranging from short-range ballistics missiles to artillery makes it possible to simulate the Russian A2/AD-bubble and NATO attempts to breach it in all its glory.
The game is complex, there's no denying it. Multiple factors are at play throughout the turns, and keeping track of everything does feel slightly overwhelming at times. Part of this is due to the modularity of the system. The Next War-system, Poland is the fourth volume, is based on a set of common rules, some of which are shared between basic and standard games, some of which are differing. Then comes the game specific rules, which as the name implies cover things specific for the Polish theatre, as well as the scenario rules. This leads to quite some browsing between the different booklets at times. On the other hand, the modularity is without doubt one of the strengths of the game. In essence, it is one great sandbox, and while it does feature a number of different scenarios with varying levels of NATO reinforcements forward-deployed to the area, there's nothing stopping you from gaming out different scenarios according to your own liking. The same can be said about the rules, where it is rather easy to pick and choose, e.g. to combine a full set of logistics rules with the basic air war.
The sheer number of rules can make the game feel a bit overwhelming at times. Still, the gaming aids are top-notch, and help considerably once the game starts going!
The fighting follows a rather standard pattern, with units from one side attacking a neighbouring hex, possible support being allocated, and a number of modifiers come into play depending on everything from how well units cooperate to the type of terrain. A single die roll then resolves each battle, with the result being cross-referenced with the final combat ratio on a combat results table, which sports both die-roll modifiers and column shifts. The advanced air rules are a blast to play, and lets you pit individual squadrons against each other, while the naval rules are by far the most abstracted, and in my opinion, weakest ones. It very much feels like the navy is only included because NATO need to be able to leverage the carrier strength of the US Navy and to have a means of transport for the US Marine expeditionary force headed for the beaches of Kaliningrad or a nice Polish harbour.
An interesting concept is the initiative mechanics, whereby one of the players might have the initiative for the whole turn. This provides additional movement and combat phases, representing an attacker having the momentum, but can also easily lead to overstretching as the game also simulates the downsides of pushing the units hard to try and keep up the momentum. If the initiative player isn't able to keep up the steam, judged by the amount of victory points during the last turn, the turns becomes contested until either player manages to secure the initiative again. This is a prime example of how complex real-world effects are taken into account and integrated into the game by relatively straightforward means.
There are some weaknesses with the game. The maps are nice, but they are printed on thick paper and not mounted. This is the usual way when it comes to wargames, and it is a nice paper quality. Still, it is something worth noting for any non-wargamers stumbling upon this. The player aids are also printed on the same thicker paper, and are in full colour. The main issue for me personally is however the scope of the hex map. As it sits now, it covers the majority of the Kaliningrad exclave, but not quite up to its northern border. In the same way, the southern part of the Suwałki gap is covered, but the battle for its northern end will take place solely on the strategic display. And if the player wants to do a Bagration 2.0 and head for Warszawa from the south, that would be outside the scope of both maps. I understand the reasoning though, because it ties in with another issue.
The game is huge.
The maps are 56 x 61 cm and 56 x 86 cm respectively. In addition you will have a number of cups with all counters that doesn't happen to be on the board at any given moment, and it is usually a good idea to have the rule books and player aids nearby. All in all, this might not be the game for you if live in a small flat. Effectively doubling the size of the operational map by extending it towards Vilnius to the north and Krakow to the south would mean that any game would require quite a bit of property to be properly set up (with that said, if a double size map covering Vilnius to Krakow would be offered as an add-on, I would certainly buy it!).
A Russian armoured unit have broken through a gap in the lines and is heading west, but risks a potential supply shortage as Polish infantry dug in in the main cities still control the road network.
The observant reader will notice that a pattern emerges. The scope and complexity of the game is intense, but at the same time its greatest strength. Already with the relatively limited playing time I've had with it I've learnt new things with regards to the real world situation. It should be stressed that the complexity is based on the fact that modern conflicts are complex and multifaceted, and it never feels like the rules are complex just for the sake of it. Instead, while I am a novice when it comes to hex-and-counter games (my sole earlier experience is described here) I felt that my understanding of real-world conflicts helped me get going with the game. The rules felt logical, and it was easy to grasp what the designer was going after with any single point (though as noted memorising the whole lot was quite something else!). I also never felt like I encountered any significant case of a real-world factor missing (there's even rules for refugees clogging the roads during the early stages of the conflict), which is high praise for a wargame in my books.
The game isn't for anyone, but neither is this blog, so I have no qualms about highly recommending it to any of my blog readers with an interest in conflict simulation!
There's no lack of counters, and I highly recommend some kind of storage solution if you invest in this game, as sorting through the whole bunch is *not* and ideal way to start your gaming session…
…and before anyone asks: Finland isn't included, Sweden joins NATO with their Air Force and SOF units if Russia invades Gotland (P 18 is missing), Norway is missing, while Denmark is a fully featured though minor NATO-country.
Oh, and we certainly need a volume in the series situated in northern Finland/Sweden/Norway. Please, GMT?


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Wolanski, lady who obstructed UCL final match in Madrid confesses
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MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 01: A pitch invader runs onto the field during the UEFA Champions League Final between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at Estadio Wanda Metropolitano on June 01, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Gonzalo Arroyo - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)
The Russian lady who ran onto the field almost naked during Saturday's UEFA Champions League final in Madrid between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur has confessed that she caused the commotion to promote her boyfriend's adult website.
It would be recalled that all eyes were briefly turned away from the Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur players and on to a scantily-clad Russian swimsuit model Kinsey Wolanski, before security guards caught up with and removed her halfway across the pitch.
Her tiny black swimsuit bore the phrase "Vitaly Uncensored," the name of her boyfriend Vital Zdorovetskiy's adult website, which has 32 million registered users, according to published reports.
The stunt grew Wolanski's Instagram following from about 250,000 users to more than 1 million, according to The Sun.
She said: "You guys I can't even fathom what is going on right now, I feel amazing and so thankful, I really could cry.
"I really did this just because I really want to push myself out my comfort zone; I love that feeling – that adrenaline feeling and doing crazy things.
"I love to do crazy things all the time, but I never thought it would get to this scale and all of your support and messages and everything is so amazing," Wolanski posted in a thank-you message on her account.
But by Sunday, Instagram had suspended Wolanski's account.
Zdorovetsky himself stole the show at the 2014 World Cup final between German and Argentina when he ran onto the field, exposing his bare chest, which had the scrawled message "Natural born prankster."
Zdorovetsky, who is 27 and also of Russian descent, expressed approval of his girlfriend's stunt at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium, saying on his Instagram "I can't wait to marry you."
Wolanski, who is 22, has appeared in Sports Illustrated and Maxim, among other publications.
Zdorovetsky's social media accounts have attracted millions of followers.
The match which attracted Wolanski's action saw Liverpool defeating Tottenham 2-0, to win their sixth Champions League title, third-most of any European club team and trailing only Real Madrid and AC Milan.
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Resetting the Theory of Time
Published May 17, 2013 at 10:00 AM MST
IRA FLATOW, HOST:
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. To most of us, time is real: you've run out of time; you don't have time, what time is it. But not to most physicists. Albert Einstein once wrote: People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion.
Many physicists since have shared this view, that true reality is timeless. But my next guest is not one of them. He says he thinks time is real and that the laws of physics may not be as permanent as we think they are. In fact he says the laws of nature could actually evolve and change over time, and the real existence of time might give us a better understanding of the universe.
Can we be certain that this thing called time exists? Is there any way to test that? And if time is real, what does that say about our past and future? It's all talked about by Lee Smolin in his new book "Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe." He's also a founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY, Dr. Smolin.
LEE SMOLIN: Thank you, Ira. It's a pleasure to be here.
FLATOW: You know, I think it is probably surprising to most people who talk about time in concrete elements like I said, what time is it, have we got time for that, that most people believe that time is not an illusion.
SMOLIN: I think so, though many people believe something also paradoxical. Many - it's certainly true that everything we experience and think and feel is experienced in a moment of time, which we experience as a flow of moments, but many of us, when we think about what we really value or really aspire to, it's to be outside of time.
We think about time of truth in different domains, in mathematics, in ethics, in religion, in philosophy. And it's often this perception that human life, which is full of change and death and so forth, can be transcended to a timeless realm. These ideas are very deep in our culture, and the physicists have just a particularly sophisticated form of it.
FLATOW: So they think that - they take these ideas in our culture, and they now build their physical structure around it?
SMOLIN: Well not consciously, certainly. But the - in my view the over-reading of the use of mathematics in physics, which is of course highly useful, but the idea is prevalent among my colleagues that there's a real world behind the world of perception and change, and that real world is mathematical, somehow lives in some domain of pure mathematical truth outside of change and outside of time.
FLATOW: So you're saying that they're living a mathematical dream, basically, that their idea of, let's say, the multiverse and string theory and that time is an illusion is all wrong?
SMOLIN: Well, yes and no - no just because you don't have to be talking about speculative ideas like string theory and the multiverse. The idea that that - as you quoted Einstein, the distinction between the past, present and the future is an illusion, this comes from very well-understood physics, in Einstein's case general theory of relativity.
But these ideas have been prevalent since Newton's physics in the late 1600s. So it's much deeper. I mean, if it were just speculative ideas, there are always speculative ideas on the edge of knowledge which are under contest at any time, but I'm criticizing something deeper and more prevalent and older in the culture of science.
FLATOW: And restate that for us. What are you exactly criticizing?
SMOLIN: The idea that laws of nature are - and you mentioned this in your opening, that laws of nature are timeless. See, I should explain a little bit how I came to change my mind about this because I came into physics to find these timeless, eternal truths, these timeless laws of nature, and then at some point I began to wonder, in the late '80s, as did others of my colleagues then, not what are the laws of nature but why are these the laws - why weren't the laws different?
Why weren't - why do we have four forces and not seven fundamental forces? Why do they have the particular strengths that they do? Why is the electron the lightest particle? Why is there a particle like an electron at all? There are many, many of these questions. And when you ask these why questions, you hit a conundrum.
I mean, one possible reason is that they're embodied in a beautiful mathematical equation, but there are many beautiful mathematical equations, and there turn out to be many similar equations that would be equally beautiful and equally compelling mathematically that don't describe the laws of our universe. So why these laws and not others?
And the conclusion I came to after some years of painful reasoning was that to explain them inside of science rather than metaphysics would require that they change and evolve in time because to explain anything within science, there has to be some causal process that makes something the way it is, and that's something that carries out in time.
FLATOW: And to do that you have to make time as a real thing.
SMOLIN: Well sure because if laws can change in time, then there's nothing beyond time. And this is...
FLATOW: Yeah, I understand. How would then - how would the laws of nature then change over time? What is the mechanism that they would be changing or change them?
SMOLIN: Well, since I'm a scientist, my job once coming to the philosophical idea that they have to change, is to invent hypotheses as to how they might change. And the whole point is that these hypotheses, since they're about the past, should be testable by observations we can make. So in the book "Time Reborn" I consider several of these hypotheses.
The oldest one, the one I've been studying the longest, is called cosmological natural selection and was in fact the subject of my first book in 1997, "Life of the Cosmos." And in that hypothesis, under that hypothesis, universes reproduce by giving birth to new universes inside of black holes, which is an old idea in the field.
And each time that happens, I presume that the laws of nature or the numbers that characterize them change slightly. And then one has a scenario very akin, very analogous to natural selection. One can derive consequences from it.
FLATOW: So every time there is a black hole, and there are many, many of them in our universe, correct?
SMOLIN: An impressively large number of them, at least a million times a million.
FLATOW: And so inside each one of those black holes, the laws of physics are being modified ever so slightly?
SMOLIN: That's the hypothesis.
FLATOW: Is there any way to test that?
SMOLIN: It makes several predictions and predictions that are genuinely testable.
FLATOW: Such as?
SMOLIN: Such as - I knew you were going to ask that.
FLATOW: Well...
SMOLIN: So I came equipped.
SMOLIN: I came equipped.
FLATOW: Are they understandable to us, is the question.
SMOLIN: Let me tell you one of them, which is easy to explain. Do you know what a neutron star is?
FLATOW: Yeah, it's a - explain it to us, what a neutron star is.
SMOLIN: A neutron star, a very massive star at the end of its life explodes in a supernova, and what's leftover, the so-called remnant, settles down and becomes quite dense. And one possibility is that it ends up as a neutron star, which is a star, something - this massive star, roughly, but with a density of an atomic nucleus. So if it has the mass of the sun, it's just a few kilometers across.
And if it's too heavy to become a neutron star so that even the nuclear forces can't hold it up from collapsing, it becomes a black hole. Now, there's a line between those, when it's too heavy to be a neutron and when it's going to be a black hole, and if our universe has been tuned by natural selection to make as many black holes as possible, which is an implication of the idea, then that line should be as low as possible.
And there's now an intricate argument I'm not going to give to our listeners which tells me that how low it could be is twice the mass of the sun. And so that's a prediction. If somebody discovers a neutron star which is, say, three time or even two and a half times the mass of the sun, I would have to say this idea is contradicted because the universe is not making as many black holes as it could.
Now new neutron stars are discovered from time to time, and their masses are measured by a variety of means, and just a few weeks ago there was a new paper in Science measuring a new neutron star mass as just at twice the mass of the sun. A few years ago there was another one also just below twice the mass of the sun.
So the prediction is holding up, but it could be falsified at any moment, which is good because that means it's real science.
FLATOW: What do your mainstream colleagues think about all of this? Do they think it's kind of nutty?
SMOLIN: No, there's a variety of responses and a variety of points of view. I think that some people - the general idea that time is real and laws evolve is embraced by many colleagues and opposed by many colleagues. It's a genuine disagreement, as there should be with any idea which is so far unproven.
FLATOW: Do you have a simple definition of time, then?
SMOLIN: Well, what I mean when I say that time is real is that everything which is real and everything which is true is real or true in a moment, which is one of a succession of moments. That's what we experience, Ira. And the question is: Is that the structure of nature? Does nature exist in a series of moments, one after the other? Is that what's really real about the world? Or is that, as Einstein said, an illusion, and there is some timeless picture which is the truer picture?
FLATOW: And your definition is that it's real, and we are existing in a series of moments.
SMOLIN: That is my hypothesis. It has consequences to be developed and tested.
FLATOW: Is it like - I'm trying to find a thought picture of it. Is it like driving on a highway, and you look out a window in passing, and every one of those is a little moment in time, but we can't see - if it's really happening, now then we can't predict the future, right?
SMOLIN: Well, we have limited ability to predict the future. Certainly the laws of nature, even if they're changing, change only occasionally or change very slowly. So within limited regions of space and time, which are quite enough for everything we'd want to do on Earth, as well as a lot of astronomy and astrophysics, we can use the laws of nature to predict the future.
But I don't believe we could use the laws of nature to predict the future arbitrarily or infinitely far in the future. And I also am playing with ideas, these are also unproven ideas, that may be in quantum mechanical systems where the future is uncertain anyway. We could set up a system in the laboratory to develop new rules, new laws.
FLATOW: All right, we're going to talk more with Lee Smolin, author of "Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe," founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Stay with us. We'll be right back with these new ideas about time after this break.
FLATOW: I'm Ira Flatow. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR.
FLATOW: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. A little science and philosophy this hour. We're talking about time, whether it's real or just an illusion, with my guest Lee Smolin, author of "Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe."
You say some very interesting ideas in here, and I want to go back to something I mentioned in passing before, and that is that you do - you don't believe in the existence of the multiverse, the ideas about - that put forth by physicists, some of them with string theory, others with other theories, that say that we are one of just a countless number of universes, and that's the reason why we're here. We happen to be the right one.
SMOLIN: Well, there's some aspects of the idea that the universe may be one of a population of universes that I am willing to endorse, because in the scenario I was just describing, our universe would have daughter, child universes, and many of those - and our universe may have a parent, and so forth.
FLATOW: Coming from the black holes.
SMOLIN: Coming from the black holes. But in these cases, the population of the universe is organized according to progeny, according to inheritance. There's a lot of structure. And we can use that structure to make predictions, as I was describing. What I'm against, and what I argue - and what I think nobody's really answered these arguments. What I argue is that to postulate that our universe is simply one of a population of simultaneously existing universes that have no relation to each other, and that just have randomly chosen laws, that idea takes us outside of science, because it's not verifiable or falsifiable.
No postulate - no hypothesis about those other universes can be checked experimentally, because they don't - they have no influence on our own. And I think it's very important to draw a distinction between making up stories that might be true and science.
You know, the rock-and-roll band They Might Be Giants has a song about what's science and what's not that I think nails the matter. So if a rock-and-roll band can understand it, I think anybody can understand it.
FLATOW: In other words, you're saying what - science requires that you are able to make predictions about your theory and test them. And you're saying this multiverse can't really be tested. So it's more a theoretical belief in something than being a scientifically valid theory.
SMOLIN: That's what I think. And this is a lively debate that goes on within the community of theoretical physicists and cosmologists, and it has been going on for about 20 years.
FLATOW: What about time as a fourth dimension? You know, we always talk about that. Is that true?
SMOLIN: Well, time is nothing like a dimension. If there's - what's characteristic about a dimension of space is that you can choose to go to the left, to go to the right. Where you are in space just represents your perspective, and you can choose, to some extent, your perspective.
We have no choice about going forward in time. We have no choice about where we are in time. We have no choice about the fact that almost everything that goes on in our lives is irreversible and can't be restored or reversed. So there is - it is true that within the mathematics that we use to discuss space and time, there is a certain mixing of space and time in relativity theory, and this is very useful.
But this doesn't imply that space is - that time is just like another dimension of space. The mathematics is very useful, especially for relativity theory, but in my view, it's been over-interpreted.
FLATOW: Is there a way to prove that time exists?
SMOLIN: You know, there's no way in science to demonstrate a philosophical hypothesis, a broad philosophical hypothesis like that. I see philosophy and philosophical statements like that as inspirations, as motivations for a scientist like myself to invent ideas, to invent hypotheses which can be tested.
So if we can make a hypothesis about how the laws of nature have evolved in the past, and if that has predictions which are verified and which are not falsified, it makes it more plausible that time is real and laws of nature are temporary.
FLATOW: So you're saying that the laws of nature, as they do in biology, as Darwin would talk about in nature and biology, the laws of physics also have natural selection to them?
SMOLIN: Yes. There's a historical story about how the laws of nature came to be. And, by the way, I'm not the only one who's been thinking these thoughts. Richard Feynman speculated in an interview with Hermann Bondi that perhaps there's a historical dimension to physics which we're missing. Perhaps laws of nature change.
A number of other eminent physicists through the 20th century have speculated about this. The philosopher Charles Peirce, the inventor of American pragmatism in the 1890s, came to the same conclusion I came to very painfully much, much later, and it would have saved me a lot of time to know about this philosophical background here.
Charles Sanders Pierce wrote in 1893 that the only way within science - I'm paraphrasing - to have an explanation for what the laws of nature are is if they're the result of evolution in time.
FLATOW: And did anybody listen to them?
SMOLIN: I'm listening.
SMOLIN: I think the difference - as I said, the difference between making a speculation on a broad scale and doing science is when you make a particular hypothesis that's testable. And that's - I discuss several of those in the book, and they recount papers that I've been publishing over since 1992 in this area.
FLATOW: What would your idea about time solve? What problems would it solve that are still bugging us with our current view about the universe?
SMOLIN: In fundamental physics, I'll mention three. One of them is what chooses the laws of nature. The second one is the question of the unification of gravity with quantum theory, the so-called problem of quantum gravity, which is my main work that I've contributed to in physics. And there the disappearance of time is a crucial feature of some approaches and a crucial stumbling point that we've been unable to proceed beyond for several decades.
And the third is the foundations of quantum mechanics. The foundations of quantum mechanics is a highly successful theory of small parts of the universe, but it makes no sense when applied to or extended to a theory of the whole universe. And it turns out that the issue of time is paramount here, and if we're - you see, we're not allowed, in the standard mathematical formulation of physics, to use the word now. We're not allowed to treat as real or objective a distinction between the past, present and the future, because we have to imagine that there's a picture which is outside time in which the - what moment it is now plays no role.
And I've been able to make hypotheses about the foundations of quantum mechanics, which give a different account of the meaning and implications of quantum physics in which the distinctions between the past, present and future play a central role.
FLATOW: All we need to do is find the evidence for that, then, to prove you're right.
SMOLIN: Again, that formulation seems to imply predictions. We're working on it in some discussions with experimentalists right now.
FLATOW: All right, Dr. Smolin, I wish you good luck. It's a fascinating book. Lee Smolin is author of "Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe," and also founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Thank you, Lee, for taking time to be with us today.
SMOLIN: Thank you, Ira. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Coup de Genie (USA)
May 7, 1991 – 2010?
Mr. Prospector (USA) x Coup de Folie (USA), by Halo (USA)
Family 2-d
A full sister to 1989 French champion juvenile male Machiavellian, Coup de Genie emulated his success on the race course by being rated the best French juvenile filly of her crop. She likewise emulated her brother's success in the paddocks, producing four stakes winners and becoming the first and second dam of champions.
9 starts, 4 wins, 1 second, 1 third, US$410,843 (includes converted English and French earnings)
Won Prix Morny (FR-G1, 1200mT, Deauville)
Won Prix de la Salamandre (FR-G1, 1400mT, Longchamp)
Won Prix de Cabourg (FR-G3, 1200mT, Deauville)
Won Prix Imprudence (FR-L, 1400mT, Maisons-Laffitte)
3rd Madagans One Thousand Guineas (ENG-G1, 8FT, Newmarket)
French champion 2-year-old filly (1993)
Earned a Timeform rating of 112 pounds.
An angular, rather lightly made bay mare, Coup de Genie had a history of respiratory bleeding.
Coup de Genie produced 10 named foals, of which five started and four were winners. Her important foals are as follow:
Moonlight's Box (1996, by Nureyev) never raced but produced 2004 European champion 3-year-old male Bago (by Nashwan), who was also rated the top French juvenile male of 2003. Moonlight's Box is also the dam of multiple Group 1 winner Maxios (by Monsun) and Group 3-placed French stakes winner Beta (by Selkirk).
Snake Mountain (1998, by A.P. Indy; a gelding) was a multiple Grade 3 winner at 4 and 5.
Glia (1999, by A.P. Indy) was a listed stakes winner in both France and the United Stakes and was Grade 2-placed. She is the second dam of multiple Grade 1 winner Emollient.
Loving Kindness (2000, by Seattle Slew) won the 2002 Prix de Cabourg (FR-G3) and was Group 1-placed. She is the dam of French listed stakes winner Peace Camp (by Storm Cat).
Denebola (2001, by Storm Cat) was the French champion 2-year-old filly of 2003. She is the second dam of 2017 Prix de Diane Longines (French Oaks, FR-G1) winner Senga.
Foaled in Kentucky, Coup de Genie was bred by Flaxman Holdings Ltd., the American breeding operation of her owner Stavros Niarchos and his family. She was trained by François Boutin. Her last foal, the Galileo filly Rajaratna, was produced in 2010.
Coup de Genie is inbred 3x4 to two-time American Horse of the Year Native Dancer. She is a full sister to 1989 French champion juvenile male Machiavellian, an important sire. She is also a full sister to French Group 3 winner Ocean of Wisdom; to Houdini's Honey, dam of 2010 Gotham Stakes (USA-G3) winner Awesome Act (by Awesome Again) and stakes winner Fastest Magician (by Johannesburg); and to Rafina, dam of 2006 Royal Lodge Stakes (ENG-G2) winner Admiralofthefleet (by Danehill). In addition, Coup de Genie is a half sister to 1992 Prix du Haras de Fresnay Jacques Le Marois (FR-I) winner Exit to Nowhere (by Irish River); to French Group 2 winner Hydro Calido (by Nureyev), dam of French stakes winner Esperero (by Forty Niner) and Japanese stakes winner Shinko Calido (by Silver Hawk); and to Salchow (by Nijinsky II), dam of 1998 French champion 2-year-old male Way of Light (by Woodman), second dam of Grade 2 winner Waltzing Matilda and third dam of 2014 Canadian champion male sprinter Calgary Cat.
Coup de Genie and her siblings are out of 1984 Prix d'Aumale (FR-G3) winner Coup de Folie, whose full sister Madam North is the second dam of South African Group 3 winner River Crossing. Coup de Folie is also a half sister to Bonita Francita (by Halo's champion son Devil's Bag), dam of 1998 Prix Morny (FR-G1) winner Orpen (by Lure), Grade 3 winner Jules (by Forty Niner) and stakes winner Etterby Park (by Silver Hawk); second dam of 2000 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (French One Thousand Guineas, FR-G1) winner Bluemamba; and third dam of French Group 3 winner Beautiful Heroine. In addition, Coup de Folie is a half sister to Nutcase (by Forest Wildcat), dam of Grade and Group 1-placed listed stakes winner Nutello (by Lemon Drop Kid).
Coup de Folie is out of Raise the Standard (Hoist the Flag--Natalma, by Native Dancer), a half sister to the racetrack champion and epochal sire Northern Dancer (by Nearctic) and to stakes winners Native Victor (by Victoria Park), Regal Dancer (by Grey Monarch) and Born a Lady (by Tentam). The last-named mare is the dam of Grade 2-placed multiple stakes winner Arrowtown (by Mr. Prospector), the second dam of Japanese Group 3 winner Antonio Barows and the third dam of Japanese Group 3 winner Tagano Azaghal. Raise the Standard is also a half sister to Spring Adieu (by Buckpasser), second dam of nine stakes winners including 1989 Ladbroke Sprint Cup (ENG-G1) winner Danehill, who won a total of 14 general sire championships in Australia (9), England/Ireland (3) and France (2); Grade 2 winner Eagle Eyed; and Grade/Group 3 winners Harpia and Shibboleth. Spring Adieu is also the third dam of multiple Australian Group 1 winner Diatribe, multiple South African Group 3 winner Queen's Bay and Group 3 winners Al Samer and Dundonnell.
Coup de Genie's name means "stroke of genius" in French.


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On May 12, 2018 the Iraqi people went to cast their votes inside and outside the country. Although the election in terms of security was a success, much has happened that put the credibility of its results in question.
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About a year ago I could barely move. Doing everyday activities such as walking, dressing myself, and even using a toilet was extremely difficult and painful. I was suffering from a severe autoimmune disease known as rheumatoid arthritis. Like most diseases, it was progressively getting worse. I kept seeking a natural solution while simultaneously taking prescription drugs just to survive.
After a while, I considered getting a medical marijuana card so that I could smoke cannabis in hopes of alleviating some of my pain and, in turn, cut down on the number of pharmaceuticals I was taking. That's when a friend told me about juicing cannabis. She told me that if you juice the leaf and/or bud of the raw, unheated plant, it can eliminate chronic pain and even put many diseases into long-term remission.
I did some research and learned that there is a doctor in Northern California who started the burgeoning juicing movement in 2007. Dr. William Courtney, M.D., and his wife Kristen Courtney have founded Cannabis International (see the video at the bottom of the home page of www.cannabisinternational.org). After seeing Dr. Courtney myself, it took a while for me to actually obtain a large enough bag of leaf to give the juicing experiment a try. Once I finally did, I had enough to juice for about a month.
After just a few days of drinking the juice mixed in a smoothie, I was able to eliminate all of my pharmaceuticals. Today, ten months later, I'm still pharmaceutical-free and almost in complete remission from RA. I drink cannabis juice smoothies daily and because the plant hasn't been heated up or dried out, it does not get me high. I have written a book called Juicing Cannabis for Healing: How I Achieved Almost Complete Remission of Chronic Pain by Juicing Fresh, Raw Marijuana Leaf (www.juicingpot.com).
2) how to do it without getting into legal trouble.
In my book, I talk about how to obtain the leaf, which is not very easy to do at the moment. But ultimately I encourage patients to learn how to grow their own medicine. And the reason for this is that is it best to juice high CBD strains and also you need to know if your leaf has touched a grow light or if it has been sprayed with pesticides. People with compromised immune systems do not need to be ingesting carcinogenic chemicals with their medicine. When you grow it yourself, you control these factors. Plus, other people, as well meaning as they may be, can let you down. Maybe they will give or sell their leaf to someone else when you are counting on it. Or maybe their crop will get spider mites. If you learn how to become a master grower, you'll have a much better chance of always having the medicine when you need it.
In my opinion, there is not a more medicinally healing plant on our earth. Marijuana is being called a panacea by some top people in the industry. It has evolved with us for about 34 million years. Before the prohibition, cannabis was prescribed regularly by doctors. Terpenes and cannabinoids are the main constituents of cannabis which are responsible for its unparalleled healing abilities. Cannabinoids are also found in breast milk but other than cannabis they are only found in limited quantities in a few places in the plant kingdom such as in Echinacea and flax.
2) allow for a generous number of plants per patient in order to make juicing possible.
If our voices and votes count, the power is in our hands. Spread the word and educate your friends and politicians. One day there will be no need to fear disease because there is a plant that has been put here on this earth for our healing, our enlightenment, and our pleasure.
Katie Marsh is an indie author, medical marijuana activist, wife, and mother of two. After a five-year bout with severe rheumatoid arthritis, she discovered that cannabis juice smoothies are the only medicine she needs.
She penned the book Juicing Cannabis for Healing: How I Achieved Almost Complete Remission of Chronic Pain by Juicing Fresh, Raw Marijuana Leaf (http://www.juicingpot.com) in order to share what she's learned through research and experimentation with others. In 2015 she and her husband started an MMJ care giving business, offering high CBD cannabis juice and concentrates to patients.
Today, she lives with her family on a 25-acre burgeoning sustainable farm in Northern Maine.


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Watching TV with both ears
Published: Sun, June 30, 1985 12:00 AM
Now listen here, Pilgrim, as the Duke would say. And listen with both ears.
If you've somehow missed all the hoopla, stereo televison came to town recently.
KTVY, Channel 4, led the way with a quiet debut of a true stereo signal on June 6, the 36th anniversary of the debut of the state's first television station WKY (now KTVY).
The station actually began transmitting a full-time stereo signal Monday, June 17.
KWTV, Channel 9, was hot on its heels, bringing its stereo signal up Thursday, June 20.
KWTV chief engineer John McNally said it could've been even closer.
"I didn't know we were in a contest.... We've been working on this for about a year. We could start up right now except I'm waiting for a part coming by air freight," he explained the morning after KTVY debuted.
Channel 9 is broadcasting full-time, too, electronically processing all its sound for stereo delivery.
McNally said delivery of network programing via satellite facilitates the switch to stereo. The old cable delivery was not as amenable to carrying all the information needed for stereo sound.
Satellite-delivered programs actually have three audio tracks, McNally went on. So it's no problem to use two of them for stereo sound.
Spec Hart at KOKH, Channel 25, went a bit more deeply into the subject.
"Most syndicated (that translate roughly to non-network) programing is delivered on 1-inch magnetic tape and has three audio tracks available. Most stations have the capability to read any or all of those tracks."
"However," Hart added, "You have to have the equipment to encode, amplify and transmit those two channels. ... It costs about $100,000 to do it right."
John Bushnell at KTVY says stereo television sound is much more dramatic. "It puts you in the action. Stereo really gives you the feeling of being there."
Mike Palmer, program director at KOCO, Channel 5, the ABC affiliate, said his station has no immediate plans for stereo conversion.
"You know," he explained, "we are a Gannet station and I suspect when we convert it will involve a lot of stations in the chain."
He noted the station has been on full satellite delivery from ABC for about a year, so when the network begins providing programing there will be no problem in taking the signal.
Paul Krimsier at KGMC, Channel 34, echoed the feelings voiced by all the independent channels.
"We just don't know if there's any demand for it yet," he said.
Independent stations because they use primarily syndicated material face an ambiguous situation. Some of their material, especially musical specials, Krimsier noted, can now be delivered in stereo on 1-inch tape. But for stations using movies and old programs, delivery of product in stereo could be a good way down the road.
Dwaine Maggert, chief engineer at KAUT, Channel 43, added, "We expect stereo will be the standard in a few years. We will convert eventually, I suppose, but we don't have any plans to do so in the near future."
NBC will debut its network stereo programing with the July 16 broadcast of the All-Star baseball game. Following in stereo will be "The Tonight Show," "Late Night With David Letterman," "Friday Night Videos" and "Miami Vice." Some selected NBC sports programing also will get the stereo treatment.
Several sources agreed NBC was leading the pack in stereo TV. Some pointed out the relationship NBC has with its TV hardware-producing sister firm, RCA. RCA could benefit from demand for stereo sets, which it undoubtedly will produce.
CBS is lagging in the stereo push at network level. However, it is behind, too, in satellite delivery to all its affiliates. McNally estimated it could be as long as a year before all stations are on dish and he didn't expect significant programing until after that.
Those three audio channels need not carry only stereo sound. They can be used for multilingual broadcasts with separate languages laid down in differennt tracks or data may transmitted there to provide services similar to the closed captioning now used by the hearing-impaired.
One source indicated ABC was focused more on the alternative uses for these tracks rather than stereo.
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