Your results will read much more cleanly if you avoid overuse of the word siginifcant in any of its forms. A good strategy is to note, on a draft of each table or figure, the one or two key results you want to addess in the text portion of the results. Here you will indicate what types of descriptive statistics were used and which analyses (usually hypothesis tests) were employed to answer each of the questions or hypotheses tested and determine statistical siginifcance.
This is accomplished by discussing the relevant ) and summarizing our current understanding of the problem you are investigating of the work in the form of the hypothesis, question, or problem you investigated and, and approach and, whenever possible, the possible outcomes your study can reveal. To begin composing your abstract, take whole sentences or key phrases from each section and put them in a sequence which summarizes the paper. If you carried out the work well, they are simply your results and need interpretation.
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The Genome Project-write (GP-write) is an open, international research project led by a multi-disciplinary group of scientific leaders who will oversee a reduction in the costs of engineering and testing large genomes in cell lines more than 1,000-fold within ten years.
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DISNEY'S FROZEN BECOMES HIGHEST GROSSING ANIMATED FILM EVER
By Michael SandovalMarch 31, 2014January 23rd, 2020No Comments
This weekend, Disney's Frozen officially became the highest grossing animated film of all time, and with $1,072.4 million worldwide, it has also entered the list of the top 10 biggest films of all time.
The Walt Disney Studios seventh billion-dollar release, Frozen has earned an estimated $398.4 million at the domestic box office and $674 million internationally.
Frozen is the first billion-dollar film for Walt Disney Animation Studios and its first film to receive the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Frozen opened wide domestically on November 27, 2013, posting the #1 all-time Thanksgiving debut ($93.6M five-day, $67.4M three-day) and Walt Disney Animation Studios biggest opening ever. It remained in the top 10 films at the domestic box office for 16 consecutive weeks, the longest run by any film since 2002.
Internationally, Frozen is the biggest Disney or Pixar animated film of all time in 27 territories, including Russia, China, and Brazil. In Korea, where the film has grossed an estimated $77.1 million, "Frozen" was #1 for the first five weeks of release and is the biggest animated film, the second biggest non-local film, and Disney's biggest release of all time. It's also the highest-grossing animated film of all time in Denmark and Venezuela. Since its debut March 14 in Japan, Frozen has claimed the #1 spot in its first three weekends and continues to play strongly with an estimated $50.5 million to date.
Released on digital February 25 and on disc March 18, "Frozen" is the fastest-selling digital release ever and sold over 3.2 million Blu-ray/DVD units in its first day, putting it on track to be one of the biggest home entertainment sellers in a decade.
The Platinum-certified Frozen soundtrack returned to the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart last week for a seventh time with more than 1.6 million copies and over 5 million individual tracks sold. The album has also held the #1 position for five nonconsecutive weeks at Spotify and is approaching 110 million streams worldwide. The Oscar-winning song, "Let It Go" has sold over 2.6 million copies, and the film clip of the song has been viewed over 160 million times on YouTube.
With original songs from Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and an original score by Christophe Beck, Frozen is directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, written by Jennifer Lee, and produced by Peter Del Vecho. It features the voice talents of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, and Josh Gad.
Frozen is available in theaters in 2D, 3D and Sing-A-Long, as well as on Digital HD & 3D, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, and On Demand.
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The Katharina Code
Jørn Lier Horst
Anne Bruce (translator)
THE NUMBER ONE KINDLE BESTSELLER
You loved Wallander, now meet Wisting . . .
Katharina went missing twenty-four years ago.
Each year on the anniversary of her disappearance Chief Inspector William Wisting visits her husband, the man he could never help.
He re-reads her files, searching for the answer he could never find.
The code he could never solve.
This year is going to be different.
Another woman is missing.
And so is Katharina's husband.
Wisting has to find him, but is he rescuing a dear friend, or playing a deadly game?
Set between the icy streets and dark forests of Norway, The Katharina Code is a heart-stopping story of one man's obsession with his coldest case. Atmospheric, gripping and suspenseful; this is Nordic Noir at its very best.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES FROM THE PRODUCERS BEHIND WALLANDER AND THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
'Jørn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today' The Sunday Times
'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' The Times
'A well-crafted, atmospheric, character-driven thriller- I couldn't put it down!' Alex Dahl, author of The Boy At The Door
2018 Nordic Noir Thriller of the Year, Winner of the prestigious Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel & Longlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award
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Having worked as a police officer and head of investigations before becoming a full-time writer, Jørn Lier Horst has established himself as one of the most successful authors to come out of Scandinavia. His books have sold over two million copies in his native Norway alone and he's published in twenty-six languages.
The Wisting series has been adapted for TV by the producers behind Wallander and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Horst's previous William Wisting novel, The Katharina Code, won the prestigious 2019 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel as well as the Nordic Noir Thriller of the Year in 2018 and was longlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award.


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RPV State Central: Primary or Convention in 2012?
Shaun Kenney / November 16, 2010
Well, I guess this settles whether George Allen is running for Senate….
Conservatives within the Republican Party of Virginia have long sought conventions as a method of nomination. Establishment GOP types favor primaries for a number of reasons: they build a statewide presence, conventions can be hijacked, and most importantly is that primaries are cost-prohibitive. Smaller fish simply can't swim with the big ones.
Which is why this evening's e-mail from former 1st District GOP Chairman Russ Moulton is interesting:
Dear State Central Member,
My name is Russ Moulton, a long-time conservative Republican Party activist, and former 1st District GOP Chairman. I was George Allen's Fredericksburg Area Coordinator for his successful 1993 Convention campaign for our Gubernatorial Nomination, and was a delegate for Bob Marshall's unsuccessful US Senate nomination bid at the 2008 Convention. I have not committed to either candidate in the upcoming 2012 Senate nomination contest, and, who knows, we may see additional candidates emerge. It is still quite early.
I am alarmed at what I have learned is happening in advance of the November 20th State Central Committee meeting:
— A few SCC members aligned with one candidate (George Allen) are rushing the SCC to vote Novembers 20th on the method of nomination for 2012 – when most members believed this vote would occur in March or even June 2011, after all nomination method options had been explored, party plan amendments decided, and full information gathered, and deliberated.
— George Allen and Vice Chairman Mike Thomas have been calling State Central Members quietly to lobby them to vote for a Primary at the Nov 20th meeting. While I like and deeply respect Mike, he is a well-known Allen-booster. Word is they have already "lined up their votes" and a Primary is a "fait accompli" – without the direct, open deliberation of Party leaders.
As you are probably aware, it is universally accepted that a Primary works to the great advantage of one candidate (George Allen), and thus why he would ask SCC to give him a Primary.
This sort of Party establishment favoritism, back-room dealing and manipulation is precisely the sort of thing the Tea Party rails against. They are tired of the status quo in our politics.
The Tea Party is already disappointed with our Party for the big domestic spending during the Bush years, and by association, George's time in the Senate during those years. We do not need to hurt George with the Tea Party by furthering his perception as the establishment candidate, with Party insiders handing him the nomination via a Primary.
In fact, I understand that several Tea Party leaders at the recent Tea Party Convention in Richmond let George know in no uncertain terms their desire for a Convention for 2012.
Our State Central Committee is elected by the grass-roots of our Party, which includes the Tea Party. Let's not rush a vote on a 2012 method of nomination at the Nov 20th State Central meeting. Let's get our input from the grass roots that elected us — not react and rush things in response to a request by one candidate. Let's defer this vote until we've properly considered everything, perhaps deciding at the March or June 2011 meeting.
Russ Moulton
Draw your own conclusions, but (1) there's no question George Allen is running for U.S. Senate now, and (2) conservatives are about to see a hard fought win for conventions as a nomination method tossed aside in favor of a 2012 primary during the Advance.
Now perhaps Allen would win either a primary or convention nomination handily given a generic GOP opponent, but there's no question that a primary in 2012 benefits George Allen in a huge, huge way — leaving only a handful of GOP public figures even remotely possible as challengers.
Shaun Kenney is senior editor for The Republican Standard and a former contributor for Bearing Drift.
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Colton Herta is PointsBet favorite at Barber Motorsports Park
By Dan BeaverApr 27, 2022, 6:48 PM EDT
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Colton Herta continues to be the PointsBet Sportsbook favorite for the Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET on NBC and streaming on Peacock, the NBC Sports App and NBCSports.com).
Herta's line this week is +550, a slight increase from the +475 he showed prior to the Long Beach Grand Prix. Herta was the favorite that race also, but crashed on Lap 23 after leading the field to green. In two starts at Barber, Herta has yet to crack the top 20.
One way to view American Odds is to move the decimal point two positions to the left. That will let a bettor know what they will make on a $1 bet, so the return on investment this week for Herta is $5.50. For bettors more comfortable with fractional odds, a bet of +300 is the same as 3/1.
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Last week's winner Josef Newgarden is ranked second for the Grand Prix of Alabama with a line of +600. His win in Long Beach was his second consecutive after also winning on the Texas Motor Speedway oval. Newgarden won at Barber in 2017 and 2018. He finished fourth the following year, but was involved in a crash at the start of last year's race.
Ranked third this week is last year's Barber winner, Alex Palou. His line for this year's edition is +800. Palou led 56 of the 90 laps last year to beat Will Power by less than half a second.
Scott Dixon is ranked fourth with a line of +900. Dixon has not won an IndyCar race since last year at Texas, but has 11 top-10s in his last 15 starts, including a sweep of those positions in 2022. He was sixth last week in Long Beach. Dixon has top-three finishes in his last two starts at Barber.
Rounding out the top five this week in PointsBet's ranking is Patricio O'Ward at +1000. He is coming off his first top-10 of the season after finishing fifth last week in Long Beach. O'Ward was fourth in the 2021 Grand Prix of Alabama.
One noteworthy PointsBet longshot is Takuma Sato, who won this race in 2019. If he can repeat, that would be worth 40/1.
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Round 1: St Petersburg: Colton Herta favored
Round 2: Texas: Scott Dixon favored
Round 3: Long Beach: Herta favored for second street race
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TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. military bases in Japan buzzed with activity on Monday as forces here prepared to play their part in any retaliation against last week's attacks on New York and Washington.
Bush approved the activation of up to 50,000 reserve troops last week, some 35,000 of whom were called up on Saturday to provide fighter protection and perform other duties at domestic military bases.
And there were signs that preparations in Japan, home to about 48,000 U.S. military personnel -- nearly half the U.S. presence in Asia -- were intensifying.
U.S. fighter planes conducted night time take-off and landing drills at an air base in Atsugi southwest of Tokyo on Sunday evening, and on Monday, a warship equipped with an Aegis missile defense system, the Curtis Wilbur, left a U.S. naval base in Yokosuka south of Tokyo.
Japanese media also said that an unidentified U.S. submarine docked at Yokosuka and later departed.
``I really can't comment on operational movements of vessels or people. We are not commenting on the movements,'' said an official at the U.S. Forces public affairs office in Japan.
A U.S.-guided missile cruiser, the Cowpens, another Aegis-type warship, is also said to have departed Yokosuka on Saturday.
Analysts say the United States could also dispatch the aircraft carrier Kittyhawk to somewhere in the Indian Ocean together with several F-16 fighter jets.
Kittyhawk -- one of 12 aircraft carriers the United States has around the world -- belongs to the U.S. 7th Fleet which covers the western Pacific and whose home port is Yokosuka.
But analysts here say U.S. military forces in Japan are unlikely to play a major role in any U.S. retaliation against last week's terror attacks.
``The U.S. military stationed in Japan did not play a significant role in the Gulf War,'' defense analyst Haruo Fujii told Reuters.
Fujii said U.S. troops and military hardware were deployed across Japan mainly to deal with possible conflicts in Northeast Asia or East Asia.
``They are not deployed here to be dispatched to areas far away from the region,'' he said.
Fighter jets from South Carolina are headed out to sea.
Three squadrons of F/A-18 Hornets are going to join the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
The carrier was scheduled to head to the Mediterranean Sea before last week's terrorist attacks.
The F/A-18s are being dispatched from the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort.
Charleston Air Force Base has also received an order to deploy aircraft as part of Operation Infinite Justice.
Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S.C., has not received any such orders.
Marines and sailors based at North Carolina's Camp Lejune were also deployed Thursday.
The 2,200 troops who left will be gone for at least six months.
Officials said that it is a routine deployment, but the timing makes it much more important.
The troops will be based along the Mediterranean Sea.
As Washington tries to build an international coalition against terrorism, the Bush administration is preparing the nation for a long campaign rather than a single retaliatory strike. With Afghanistan the primary initial target, Washington must deal with a problem it has rarely encountered since World War II: attacking a landlocked country.
The Bush administration is searching the globe for coalition support for its war on terrorism. At the same time, it is preparing Americans for a long campaign that may not include a rapid, high-profile, retaliatory strike.
Washington's initial military response to the Sept. 11 attacks will shape U.S. relations not only with Middle Eastern nations but also with the rest of the world.
For this reason the administration must carefully consider its reprisal so as not to undermine the confidence of allies or fuel wider enmity among Arab and Islamic nations. Although strikes are inevitable, they will likely take much more time and preparation than the cruise missile strikes that followed the 1998 bombings of the embassies in Africa.
By labeling Osama bin Laden the key suspect, Washington has also marked Afghanistan, where the Saudi exile has been living, as the likely first target. This presents a problem the U.S. military has rarely encountered since World War II: attacking a landlocked nation. The effectiveness of U.S. carrier battle groups will be severely reduced in any operation against Afghanistan.
The United States has experienced much success so far in forming a broad international coalition to fight terrorism following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But frictions with vital countries such as Germany, France and Egypt could hamper America's ability to wage covert war.
In some ways Sept. 17 was a bad day for American strategists. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and others have made it clear the United States intends to prosecute the coming campaign against terrorism as it did in the Kosovo and Iraqi wars: with a broad, international coalition's backing.
In terms of logistics, Washington must find either land bases for a sustained coalition air strike against Afghanistan or provide in-air refueling for carrier-based planes.
Afghanistan's neighbors, with whom the United States has tenuous relations, limit both choices. Afghanistan is bounded by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to the north, Iran to the west, China to the east and Pakistan to the south. Any partnership with the northern neighbors will require substantial negotiations with Russia, which retains a strong influence and military presence in Central Asia. Even with permission to fly out of Central Asia, the supply chain into these nations would be long and difficult to maintain.
Iran, which has no love for the Taliban, is even more unlikely to offer basing for U.S. aircraft. China, too, is unlikely to offer basing, and even if it does, significant supply line problems would remain.
Washington's best hope for regional assistance, then, is Pakistan. Pakistan was once a close ally, and its port access is useful for logistical purposes. Pakistan's long border along the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan also offers the closest access to the cities of Kandahar, the Taliban headquarters, and Kabul, the frontline in the battle between the Taliban and the opposition Northern Alliance.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has offered substantial cooperation to the United States in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. But pro-Taliban forces inside Pakistan threaten his hold on power.
These threats come from those who feel he is too secular as well as from ethnic rivalries within Pakistan. Musharraf is a Muhajir, an Urdu-speaking member of an immigrant family from India. Although Urdu-speakers have dominated Pakistan's political and economic elite, the many of the country's indigenous groups -- including the native Pushtun population, which geographically straddles the border with Afghanistan -- view them as usurpers.
Even with Musharraf's promises of cooperation, military planners in Washington must be absolutely sure that he has control of his entire military. The main questions in Washington now are whether Pakistan's offer of assistance is firm and whether the government is stable enough to allow the United States to strike Afghanistan from Pakistan.
Whether the U.S. military is based in Pakistan or not, simply flying over Pakistan on the way to Afghanistan poses a serious security challenge. First, bringing significant firepower to bear on Afghanistan requires Washington to bring in more carriers or -- for a sustained and more effective operation -- to establish land bases. The nearest places for such land bases are in India, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
If the aircraft are launched from carriers, they will require in-air refueling somewhere over Pakistan. This presents a significant security risk: Tanker aircraft would provide a ready target for potential rogue elements inside Pakistan's army or air force. With the situation in Pakistan still uncertain, it would be hard for a U.S. military commander to confidently fly tankers over Pakistan. The loss of a single tanker to surface-to-air missiles or fighter aircraft would also lead to the loss of mission-bound aircraft that depended on the tanker for fuel.
Similar problems pertain to operations not based on carriers. Because land-based aircraft generally have a longer combat radius, it is possible that flights from Oman, the UAE or Qatar could refuel over the Pakistani coast and still have the range to strike at Kandahar or other targets in Afghanistan. Operating from land bases in the Gulf or from India, however, would require a long buildup.
It is for this kind of protracted operation rather than a quick retaliation that Washington is preparing. During a briefing Sept. 18, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reiterated the dominant theme in Washington now -- that this will be a new style of war, one that will be fought for a long time. Rumsfeld emphasized that this is "not a matter of a single event" nor a campaign against one or two terrorist leaders.
Washington needed six months to gear up for Operation Desert Storm, and preparations for strikes on Afghanistan or other targets may take as long. Although pressure from within the United States for a retaliatory strike will grow, President George W. Bush currently enjoys high popularity ratings. His administration is much more likely to take the heat now rather than risk a disastrous attack that accomplishes little.
If Washington could fully trust Pakistan's stability, it would likely have begun operations already. But the administration is making every effort to prepare a long-term strategy -- to avoid the appearance abroad and at home of a Clinton-esque strategy of launching an ineffective cruise-missile strike against some tents in Afghanistan as well as to avoid undermining tenuous relations with the Arab and Muslim world.
This strategy may involve more carrier-based aircraft, land-based assets or even long-range strategic bombers from the United States and the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Such strikes will ultimately take place but only after the administration can overcome the logistical concerns posed by Pakistan's delicate political balance.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With President Bush warning the hour for military action was near, U.S. heavy bombers and elite troops prepared on Friday to move within striking distance of Afghanistan.
Defense officials said KC-135 tanker aircraft had set up an ''air bridge'' to refuel B-1 and B-52 bombers ordered to fly from the United States to the Gulf and Indian Ocean and confirmed that a senior Air Force general was now in the region to oversee any strikes.
Washington has accused Afghanistan's ruling Taliban of harboring fugitive guerrilla leader Osama bin Laden, key suspect in the devastating Sept. 11 terror attack on America. Bush again warned the Taliban on Thursday night they faced attack if they continued to refuse to turn bin Laden over to the United States.
He left open the possibility the military not only could hit Afghanistan, but bases used by anti-American guerrillas elsewhere in the Middle East.
Officials at U.S. bomber bases in Louisiana, Georgia, Idaho and South Dakota refused to say whether their big planes, capable of dropping precision-guided bombs and firing long-range cruise missiles, had departed.
The bombers were expected to fly to the Gulf and the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. A total of more than 100 U.S. warplanes, ranging from bombers to fighters and other support planes, were on alert to move to the region.
The elite Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which could conduct attacks on guerrilla bases in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East, said its troops had been ordered to deploy. No details were given.
U.S. officials, meanwhile, confirmed a report in The New York Times that Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Wald, the head of American air forces assigned to the Middle East and southwest Asia, had been dispatched to the Gulf early in the week.
They refused to say exactly where he was based, but the Times said he had been sent to run the air war from a sophisticated air operations center at Prince Sultan Air Base, near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that opened this summer.
With two U.S. aircraft carriers already in the Gulf region and another on the way from the United States, the Navy will have more than 225 warplanes ready to take part in any attack or to support bomber aircraft.
The U.S. Air Force already has nearly 200 warplanes based in the region and involved in patrolling a ``no fly'' zone in southern Iraq.
Such massed air power could be used not only to attack Afghanistan, but guerrilla bases in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East, as well as countries such as Iraq, which the United States has accused of supporting terrorism.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday that Bush's declared ``war on terrorism'' would be a long-term fight.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Thursday that 5,131 Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard troops had been ordered to active duty as part of a ``homeland defense'' mobilization authorized by President Bush.
The activation was the first made under an order signed by Bush last week authorizing the call-up of up to 50,000 part-time armed forces troops in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon and New York City's World Trade Center.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a brief announcement on Thursday the Air Force troops were from 29 units in 24 states and the District of Columbia.
The mobilization was ordered by Bush to increase military protection of U.S. skies and seaports and to help civil authorities restore order after hijacked airliners were slammed into U.S. defense headquarters and both towers of the trade center.
All of the units involved in Thursday's announcement were from fighter jet wings and air traffic control units to support high-alert status at 26 domestic military air bases to help protect the country from further air attacks.
``Operation Infinite Justice'' for the promised war on terrorism.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is gearing up simultaneously to bolster the defense of U.S. territory and to expand the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf region.
Both are in response to last week's terror attacks, and both require a call-up of the National Guard and Reserve.
The Air Force said Thursday that more than 5,000 reservists had been called to active duty. They include a B-52 bomber unit at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and a B-1 bomber unit at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., both of which are expected to fly to forward bases in the Gulf area.
Some of the reserves are from fighter units to be used as extra defenders of U.S. airspace.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that although the Gulf is the focus of U.S. deployments right now, the coming fight will look nothing like the knockout punch U.S.-led forces delivered in the 1991 Gulf War.
``What we're engaged in is something that is very, very different from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Kosovo, Bosnia, the kinds of things people think of when they use the word `war,' or `campaign,' or `conflict,''' Rumsfeld said.
Rumsfeld said the American campaign will not mean the end of terrorism.
``I think what you can try to do is to go after this worldwide problem in a way that we can continue our way of life,'' Rumsfeld said. ``It strikes at our way of life, and while we may not eliminate it completely from the face of the Earth, which we surely will not,'' it can be better controlled, he said.
The Air Force announced that 5,131 members of the Air Force National Guard and Air Force Reserve have been ordered to active duty. They are from 29 units in 24 states and the District of Columbia.
``No other single action more clearly demonstrates the national resolve than to mobilize the National Guard and Reserve forces of America,'' said Craig Duehring, the Pentagon's chief of reserve affairs.
Rumsfeld has said he expects 35,500 members of the Reserve and National Guard to be called up.
The Pentagon is repositioning military forces to prepare for action, Rumsfeld said, but would not provide details. Other officials said both active and reserve forces are beginning to move.
The Air Force is sending 100 to 130 aircraft to the Gulf region, a senior defense official said, including fighters and B-1 and B-52 bombers. Also, tanker aircraft began deploying from U.S. bases Thursday to establish an ``air bridge'' for refueling fighters and bombers as they cross the Atlantic.
The Air Force has fighter aircraft in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and the Army keeps a virtually permanent presence in Kuwait with soldiers and war materiel sufficient to equip an additional 5,000 troops.
The Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters is on the Gulf island emirate Bahrain, and it normally keeps one aircraft carrier on patrol in the Gulf year-round. It now has one in the Gulf and one nearby in the Arabian Sea; a third - the USS Theodore Roosevelt - left port at Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday en route to the Mediterranean. Each carrier has 75 aircraft aboard and is accompanied by a dozen warships.
Early Friday in Japan, the USS Kitty Hawk, the only U.S. aircraft carrier stationed in the western Pacific, left its port in Yokosuka for an undisclosed location. The carrier has a crew of 5,500 sailors, naval aviators and Marines and typically carries 70 aircraft.
A contingent of about 2,100 Marines also is in the Gulf, and a similar-size unit is headed in that direction.
White said a deployment order Rumsfeld signed Wednesday is only the first step in a bigger plan.
``A lot more will come,'' he said.
Air Force refueling aircraft began deploying Thursday, including KC-135s from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., officials said. Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., with KC-135 refueling planes, also received deployment orders. Officials at neither base would offer additional details.
OTIS AIR FORCE BASE - Ten days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon called the first Massachusetts military reservists into active duty yesterday from Otis Air Force Base in Falmouth.
The 161 reservists belong to the 102d Fighter Wing and are trained to operate F-15s. But the contingent is expected to remain under command of NORAD on homeland defense, not deployed overseas, according to US Senator John F. Kerry's office.
The activation is part of a national call-up of the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve announced yesterday by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.
As soon as the activation papers arrive, the reservists are required to report to Otis for work instead of their civilian jobs.
All together, 5,131 members of the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve from 24 states and the District of Columbia have been ordered to report to active duty as part of the partial mobilization authorized by President Bush.
Right now, most still don't know who has been called.
The activation is the first for the 102d in more than half a century, Quenneville said. While 360 members of the air wing went to help patrol the no-fly zone over Iraq last fall, none of the group was called into active duty during the Gulf War.
The last time the wing was activated was in 1948, when it helped fly food into Germany during the Berlin crisis, Quenneville said.
The 102d now specializes in air-to-air combat.
''No other single action more clearly demonstrates the national resolve than to mobilize the National Guard and Reserve forces in America,'' said Craig Duehring, a spokesman for the reserves.
Globe correspondent Brian Tarcy contributed to this report.
This story ran on page A30 of the Boston Globe on 9/21/2001.
WASHINGTON - The United States yesterday escalated its military buildup in the Middle East, ordering Army units to prepare for commando strikes and ''sustained land combat'' while scrambling Air Force B-52s and refueling tankers that will eventually create an ''air bridge'' for troops, weapons, and materiel.
The intensifying air, naval, and troop movements are aimed at allowing the Pentagon to pursue anything from a pinpoint assault on terrorist encampments to a late-winter ground invasion of Afghanistan to simultaneous air and ground attacks in multiple Mideast nations, officials and analysts said yesterday.
Military maneuvers came as the Bush administration continued diplomatic efforts to sign up governments around the world to support a massive retaliation against terrorist groups.
But President Bush found himself in a standoff with the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan, whose senior clerics said they had voted to ask suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to leave the country, but set no deadline. ''We want action, not just statements,'' Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
The Air Force is deploying a reported 100 to 130 warplanes to the region over the next week, including B-52s and KC-135 tankers from bases in Louisiana, North Dakota, and Washington state. Officers with B-1 bomber units in Idaho and South Dakota also said they were being called up for unspecified deployment. The Pentagon on Wednesday had said it will deploy up to 100 aircraft to the region.
Warplanes being sent to the Gulf region will be preceded by ''airlift control'' specialists mobilized from Air Force bases in California and New Jersey. Their job is assembling operations, including midflight refueling, to create an ''air bridge'' from the United States to bases 8,000 or more miles away.
India has offered three of its air bases in Gujarat, Kashmir, and Punjab - northern states that border Pakistan - for US use, according to a Times of India report.
The Air Force deployments, along with the dispatch Wednesday of the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier battle group from Virginia, would bring the number of US warplanes in the region to 500 or more, including fighter jets and bombers.
The Roosevelt fleet includes 2,100 Marines aboard a battle-ready unit known as an Amphibious Ready Group, led by the assault ship USS Bataan, and two attack submarines packing Tomahawk cruise missiles, the USS Hartford and the USS Springfield. Already, the Navy has the USS Carl Vinson carrier battle group in the Persian Gulf and the USS Enterprise in the Arabian Sea, which, like the Roosevelt, both have about 70 warplanes.
About 2,200 Marines and sailors with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Lejeune, N.C., were bused to the port in Morehead City for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. The ''flexible unit,'' which carries tanks and humvees, is trained for urban and mountain warfare.
At Fort Bragg in North Carolina, officials confirmed that an unspecified number of the 9,000 Army special operations troops there are being deployed. Units there include a ''psychological operations'' unit that would use broadcasts and dropped leaflets to communicate with civilians in a country being invaded. The Army's 82d Airborne unit, which parachutes into combat situations, resumed jump training Monday and is awaiting orders to deploy on as little as 18 hours' notice.
More than 5,100 Air Force reservists and Air National Guard fighter-jet and air traffic control troops from 24 states were reported to be called up for ''homeland defense'' duty in the first mobilization of reservists since the Sept. 11 terror strikes.
Among them are 160 airmen with the 102d Fighter Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, whose unit has six F-15s, and the 139-member 158th Fighter Wing in Burlington, Vt.
Goure, who was a Pentagon aide under President George H.W. Bush, said that if a mass invasion of Afghanistan comparable to the 1991 invasion of Iraq is in the works, it would take at least 90 days to prepare. Goure noted that in the Gulf War, US and allied forces needed 90 days to assemble an Iraq-bound force in Saudi Arabia.
That was a friendly nation with considerably better military infrastructure and political support than Pakistan. Goure said that although Pakistan is the most geographically optimal base for US ground-force operations, its leaders and people have deep reservations about hosting US-led military forces.
Rumsfeld and other defense officials refused to confirm or deny a report in yesterday's Washington Post that aircraft would not only go to the Gulf region and the Indian Ocean but - in an unprecedented move - to the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan near Afghanistan.
Globe Correspondent Patrik Jonsson in North Carolina, and Douglas Belkin and Beth Daley of the Globe Staff contributed to this report. Material from wire services was also used. Peter Howe can be reached at howe@globe.com; Robert Schlesinger at schlesinger@globe.com.
This story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 9/21/2001.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Whether it would begin with cruise missiles from Navy ships, bombs from Air Force jets or quick strikes by Army special forces, an American attack on Afghanistan's Taliban probably would aim to knock out airfields, communications links and other targets that sustain the religious militia.
War on the Taliban would be like little the U.S. military has undertaken before. But at least it would offer more of what Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld calls ``high-value'' targets than would the shadowy terrorist network of Osama bin Laden that President Bush (news - web sites) has promised to root out.
Bush told the nation the Taliban are ``committing murder'' by aiding the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon . Bush demanded they turn over bin Laden and other leaders of his al-Qaida organization or face swift punishment.
Taliban leaders, who have given refuge to bin Laden since 1996, say there is no proof he was behind the terror attacks, and on Friday they rejected Bush's demand that they hand him over.
In addition to U.S. forces, Rumsfeld spoke Friday of the potential for enlisting the help of the Northern Alliance, the main Afghan resistance group opposing the Taliban.
``These folks, they know the lay of the land, they know, in some cases, some targets that are useful, they have ideas about how to deal with the Taliban,'' he said in an interview on Fox News.
Bush made clear that his first priority is smashing the al-Qaida network, but he is assembling forces in the Persian Gulf region that would provide plenty of air power to strike at the Taliban, too.
Much of that firepower - including two aircraft carriers (and a third on the way), B-52 bombers, warships capable of launching ground-attack Tomahawk cruise missiles, and fighters - would appear to have little relevance in the hunt for bin Laden. The Clinton administration fired dozens of cruise missiles at bin Laden's training camps in 1998 but accomplished little more than smashing empty tents.
It is widely expected that a U.S. campaign against the terrorists would be led by special operations forces such as helicopter-borne Army Rangers. Important, too, would be nonmilitary means such as financial steps to dry up bin Laden's resources, and law enforcement moves against his accomplices.
If Bush decides to attack the Taliban, one of the most attractive targets would be the civilian-military airport in Kabul, the capital, and a Taliban garrison in the north of the city. The regime flies MiG fighters and helicopter gunships from this airport.
- The airport in Kandahar, the city in southeastern Afghanistan where the Taliban leaders are based.
- The airport and Taliban military bases located in and around Jalalabad, a city in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. There are similar bases north of Jalalabad in Kunar province.
- Communications towers on the outskirts of Kabul.
- A military academy near Kabul.
- A large dam near Sarobie that provides electricity for the Kabul area.
It is possible the administration would opt, at least initially, for equipping and assisting the Northern Alliance rather than intervening directly with U.S. ground forces against the Taliban. Rumsfeld seemed to suggest this possibility in the interview Friday with Fox News.
He noted the historic examples of the Soviet Union and the former East European communist regimes.
``It was a surprise that at a certain moment the people there who did not agree with those regimes felt it was the right moment and they stepped forward and they acted on their own. It was not some country going in and rooting it out,'' he said.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - NATO (news - web sites) member Turkey said on Saturday it had granted a U.S. request to use Turkish airspace and airbases for U.S. transport aircraft in any response to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Turkey also said it was increasing its support to anti-Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan.
``The prime minister said the Turkish government had responded positively to an American request to use Turkish airspace and Turkish airbases for U.S. transport aircraft whenever necessary,'' a statement issued by Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit's offices said.
It was the first pledge of specific support from Turkey, though it had already vowed full cooperation with the United States as it builds up its forces.
The statement did not say what kind of transport planes would be involved, but Ecevit said late on Friday it was ''natural'' for the United States to want to use Turkey for flyovers and refueling.
Turkey already allows U.S. and British warplanes to use a base at Incirlik in southeast Turkey for patrols of a no-fly zone over neighboring northern Iraq under ``Operation Northern Watch.'' There are also large military airbases in eastern Turkey near the cities of Diyarbakir and Malatya.
Overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey is NATO's most easterly member and borders Iraq, Syria and Iran. It is also a candidate for EU membership.
Ecevit said on Friday that any ground action in Afghanistan would be unwise and Turkey was not prepared to offer troops for it. But he stressed the importance of the anti-Taliban forces of the Northern Alliance in the north of Afghanistan, as did Saturday's statement.
The statement, outlining the contents of a letter Ecevit sent on Friday to President Bush, said that Turkey favored sharing intelligence with the United States on the state of play among a diverse group of anti-Taliban forces mainly in the north of Afghanistan.
``The prime minister pointed out that it would be helpful for Turkey and the United States to exchange and cooperate in information about developments in northern Afghanistan,'' it said.
``Turkey will increase the equipment, training and other assistance that it has been giving to the Northern Alliance,'' the statement said.
Turkey maintains links with a number of military leaders in the loose-knit Northern Alliance, most prominently with General Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek leader.
Afghan opposition forces said on Friday that troops under Dostum had joined attacks on Taliban forces in the north of the country.
WASHINGTON (Sept. 29, 2001) - The disclosure that U.S. special operations forces have conducted missions inside Afghanistan in recent days suggests the Pentagon's attack plan is still evolving.
''It is very hard to fight a ... guerrilla war with conventional forces,'' he told reporters at the White House. He refused to discuss details but said, ''Make no mistake about it - we're in hot pursuit'' of terrorists.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, announced that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had authorized the Air Force to activate as many as 20,000 reservists - 7,000 more than the Air Force had said it expected to need when Bush approved a partial mobilization of reserves on Sept. 14.
The Pentagon also said the Marine Corps called to active duty 191 reservists - as individual extras, rather than as whole units - and the Navy called up 250 for law enforcement, security and other duties. In all, more than 16,600 military reservists have been called to active duty since Sept. 14.
Also on Friday, the president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Duane Woerth, said he has seen indications that the Pentagon is considering activating the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, an arrangement with commercial air carriers which allows the Pentagon to use their planes in times of emergency.
''I think that they've started circulating notices'' to airlines ''so they can start making some plans,'' Woerth said.
A Pentagon spokesman, Air Force Lt. Col. Mike Milord, said he was not aware of any plan to activate the Civil Reserve Air Fleet.
One of the U.S. military's likely first steps in pursuing the elusive bin Laden and elements of his al-Qaida network in Afghanistan is establishing what military officials call ''ground truth'' - getting the lay of the land and listening and watching for information on al-Qaida's leaders and supplies.
One way to do that is by using the Army's Special Forces, commonly called the Green Berets. One of their core missions is ''special reconnaissance.'' That frequently means infiltrating enemy territory by land or air and hunkering down to keep watch on a particular place or area, with the capability of remaining there undetected and without the need to be resupplied for days, weeks or even months.
It's a mission they performed in the run-up to the 1991 Gulf War.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - The president of the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan agreed Monday to open his country's airspace to U.S. military operations against possible targets in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
State television showed Islam Karimov chairing a meeting of Uzbekistan's top security officials at which he voiced support for Washington in its self-declared war on terrorism following the September 11 hijacked airliner attacks in the United States which killed thousands.
``Uzbekistan supports the decisiveness of the United States and all peace-loving nations to finish this evil and plague of the 21st century,'' the television quoted Karimov as saying.
Officials in Tashkent had earlier declined comment on the reported arrival of U.S. aircraft and diplomats in Uzbekistan.
Lying directly north of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan was the launch pad for the Soviet Union's ill-fated 1979 intervention.
With Washington saying it intends to drive Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), prime suspect for the attacks, out of Afghanistan, Karimov's announcement indicated that Uzbekistan was readying itself to play a key role again in Big Power intervention in the region.
His country could offer huge benefits to the United States as a base for operations against Afghanistan. Tashkent airport is Central Asia's largest and most sophisticated. Airbases at Tuzel, Kakaidi and Khanabad, can handle heavy aircraft.
And the border town of Termez, site of the bridge over which Soviet troops entered Afghanistan in 1979 and left in 1989, is just 60 km (under 40 miles) from Mazar-i-Sharif, the scene of heavy fighting between Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia and the opposition Northern Alliance.
The authoritarian Karimov, who has ruled Uzbekistan since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, stands to gain.
He blames Islamic rebels which he says are funded by Afghanistan for entering Uzbekistan from neighboring Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in recent years, in an attempt to set up an Islamic state in the region.
He has staged crackdowns on the country's Islamist opposition after surviving a 1999 attempt on his life.
Karimov, whose country is a member of the Russian-led Commonwealth of Independent States, may possibly have informed Russian President Vladimir Putin in advance of the offer he was about to make to the United States.
The Kremlin said Sunday that he and Putin discussed by telephone ``practical issues of mutual action'' by their two countries in the fight against international terrorism.
Rumors have swept Uzbekistan for days about U.S. aircraft flying in and out, without confirmation forthcoming either from Uzbek officials or U.S. diplomats in Tashkent.
Sunday evening, for example, Russian television reported that a U.S. C-130 Hercules military transport plane had landed at Khanabad, an airbase some 250 miles southwest of Tashkent. A defense ministry spokesman refused to comment.
Friday, an aviation official in neighboring Kazakhstan told Reuters a U.S. C-37 military plane carrying a government delegation had overflown Russia and Kazakhstan on its way to Uzbekistan. The Uzbek Foreign Ministry would not comment, and the U.S. embassy denied a delegation was in Tashkent at all.
The previous Friday, airport sources in Tashkent told Reuters, two U.S. military aircraft had landed there and taken off two and a half hours later. Even now, more than a week later, Uzbek and U.S. officials will not confirm or deny this.
Dorthy England cracks a bottle of champagne against the hull of the New York in christening ceremonies at Northrop Grumman shipyard in Avondale, La., Saturday, March 1, 2008. Approximately 7.5 tons of steel recovered from the World Trade Center are cast in the bow stem of the ship. The bow stem is the foremost section of the ship's hull on the water line. The New York will be officially commissioned in New York City in the fall of 2009.


What really happened at Yalta.
After World War I, the political right in Germany developed a myth called the "stab in the back" theory to explain its people's defeat. Though military leaders had helped negotiate the war's end, they fixed blame on civilian leaders—especially Jews, socialists, and liberals—for "betraying" the brave German fighting men. This nasty piece of propaganda was later picked up by Hitler and the Nazis to stoke the populist resentment that fueled their rise to power.
America has had its own "stab in the back" myths. Last year, George W. Bush endorsed a revanchist view of the Vietnam War: that our political leaders undermined our military and denied us victory. Now, on his Baltic tour, he has endorsed a similar view of the Yalta accords, that great bugaboo of the old right.
Bush's cavalier invocations of history for political purposes are not surprising. But for an American president to dredge up ugly old canards about Yalta stretches the boundaries of decency and should draw reprimands (and not only from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.).
As every schoolchild should know, Roosevelt and Churchill had formed an alliance of necessity with Josef Stalin during World War II. Hardly blind to Stalin's evil, they nonetheless knew that Soviet forces were indispensable in defeating the Axis powers. "It is permitted in time of grave danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge," FDR said, quoting an old Bulgarian proverb. He and Churchill understood that Stalin would be helping to set war aims and to plan for its aftermath. Victory, after all, carried a price.
In February 1945, the "Big Three" met at a czarist resort near Yalta, in the Soviet Crimea, to continue the work begun at other summits, notably in Tehran in 1943. (Many of the alleged "betrayals" of Yalta, at least in rough form, were actually first sketched out in Tehran.) By this time, Soviet troops had conquered much of Eastern Europe from the Germans, including Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, East Prussia, and Eastern Germany. The Western allies, meanwhile, remained on the far side of the Rhine River. Having made terrible military sacrifices to gain these positions, Stalin resolved to convert them into political payoffs.
By far the knottiest problem—and the source of lingering rage among the far right afterwards—was the fate of Poland and other liberated Eastern European countries. Over several months, the Allies had been divvying up Europe according to on-the-ground military realities and their own individual national interests. The United States and Britain had denied Stalin any role in postwar Italy. Churchill and Stalin had agreed (without Roosevelt's participation) that Britain would essentially control Greece, and Russia would essentially control Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
Poland was another matter. In Lublin, Poland, the Soviets had set up a government of pro-Communist Poles. Back in London, however, a pro-Western group claimed to be the true government-in-exile. Throughout the war, Stalin had acted with customary barbarity in seeking an advantage. In 1940 he ordered the slaughter of thousands of Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest, fearing their potential allegiance to the London Poles. In 1944, he stalled his own army's march into Poland to let the Germans put down the Warsaw Uprising, again to strengthen the Communists' hand.
At Yalta, Stalin wanted FDR and Churchill to recognize the Lublin government. They refused. Instead, all agreed to accept a provisional government, with a pledge to hold "free and unfettered elections" soon. For other liberated European countries, the Big Three also pledged to establish "interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population" and committed to free elections.
Stalin, of course, never allowed elections in Poland or anywhere else. "Our hopeful assumptions were soon to be falsified," Churchill wrote. "Still, they were the only ones possible at the time." Short of starting a hot war, the West was powerless to intervene, just as it was in Hungary in 1956 or Prague in 1968.
Because FDR kept many details of the Yalta agreements under wraps, people in Washington began whispering conspiratorially about "secret agreements." Soon, critics, especially on the far right, were charging that FDR and Churchill had sold out the people of Eastern Europe—charges that Bush's recent comments echo. They asserted that the ailing Roosevelt—he would die only weeks later—had come under the malign influence of pro-Communist advisers who gave Stalin the store.
But Yalta did not give Stalin control of the Eastern European countries. He was already there. Moreover, as Lloyd C. Gardner has argued, it's possible that postwar Europe could have turned out worse than it did. For all its evident failings, Yalta did lead to a revived Western Europe, a lessening of open warfare on the continent, and, notwithstanding Bush's remarks, relative stability. Without Yalta, Gardner notes, "the uneasy equilibrium of the Cold War might have deteriorated into something much worse—a series of civil wars or possibly an even darker Orwellian condition of localized wars along an uncertain border." Such "what if" games are generally pointless, but they can remind us that the harmonious Europe that Yalta's critics tout as a counter-scenario wasn't the only alternative to the superpower standoff.
Along with the myth of FDR's treachery in leading America into war, the "stab in the back" interpretation of Yalta became a cudgel with which the old right and their McCarthyite heirs tried to discredit a president they had long despised. Renouncing Yalta even became a plank in the 1952 Republican platform, although Eisenhower did not support it. In time, however, these hoary myths receded into the shadows, dimly remembered except as a historical curiosity, where, alas, they should have remained undisturbed.


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After its resounding success in Lagos, 'Wakaa! The Musical' went ahead to make history as the first Nigerian musical to run in London at the Shaw Theatre.
Earlier in 2016, the musical which satirizes the political situation of Nigeria sold out with over 10,000 viewers in 12 shows in Lagos.
Riding on the wave of its Lagos success, Bolanle Austen-Peters, who put together the show set her sights on London- a feat which also recorded resounding success after selling out 7 shows at the Shaw Theatre in 5 days.
Speaking ahead of Wakaa!'s closing night at the Shaw Theater in London, Austen-Peters implied that Wakaa! might be going to Broadway in America.
She said, "If we're here in London, who says we can't go to America."
Austen-Peters further recounted how she was told by a London-based PR firm that she was overestimating interest among the diaspora and British citizens by booking the 446-capacity Shaw Theater.
According to Austen-Peters the firm had said, "Please can you go and get a refund, because you'll be lucky if you get 50 people."
Despite the discouragement, Wakaa! sold out all of its seven shows for the 5 days it ran in London—on the closing night of the musical, people were reportedly outside the theater hoping to purchase any spare ticket for up to £200.
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There's an old saying that goes: "it's better to be lucky than good," but whoever coined the phrase clearly wasn't much of a sports fan. In sports, 'luck' tends to balance out—and when it runs out, a losing streak generally follows.
Just ask the New York Rangers, they of the 16-3-2 start, followed by three duds in a row.
The Blueshirts, through 24 games, lead the league in PDO. What's PDO, you ask? PDO measures a team's shooting percentage and save percentage—you take the two numbers and add them together to calculate PDO. Generally, the number comes to about 100—much higher, and you're probably playing unsustainably well, much lower, and you've probably been the victim of some wonky bounces. In short, it's not a stat you want to be near the top of the league in.
So what's the Rangers' PDO? An unsustainably high 105.6 during 5-on-5 play—next closest is Ottawa, over two percentage points behind. Before this latest three game slide, it was even higher—hovering around an astronomical 107.
Now, advanced stats do tend to be a bit of crapshoot, for lack of a better term, but the value of PDO holds some water. For one, it validates the eye test—the Rangers have continued to win despite playing far from their best hockey the past few weeks, and have frequently been bailed out by heroic goaltending.
But PDO has also predicted the downfall of a few 'lucky' teams the past several years. Past PDO darlings include the 2012-13 Maple Leafs, and 2013-14 Avalanche—two teams that made the playoffs, but featured extraordinarily high PDO's. Picked by many to regress both in the playoffs and the following season, they did just that, and in the years since, with their shooting percentage and save percentage reverting to the norm, both teams have not only fallen out of playoff contention, but plummeted all the way to the league's cellar.
No one is saying a trip to the bottom of the standings is what's in store for the Rangers—they're still a very good hockey team—but this is a team that, by their own admittance, has not been at their best for several weeks. In the words of Alain Vigneault, following Saturdays dud vs. Philadelphia: "We all need to man up here, I need to get this group to play better."
And he's right. Through 24 contests, Vigneault's squad is getting outshot by an average of nearly four per game—numbers you don't see from wild card teams, let alone one that expects to be one of the last four standing.
The good news? We're sounding the alarm about a first place team at the quarter pole of the season—the Blueshirts aren't exactly in dire straights. But make no mistake, the Rangers need to be much better, or loses like Saturdays could become a trend instead of an anomaly.
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Live in one of the finest adult 55+ resident-owned communities in town and enjoy the finest of what Santa Cruz has to offer. A few of the many perks are world class beaches for long walks, a beautiful public library with ocean views close by, a nearby Farmers Market, shops, restaurants, and grocery stores. Or enjoy the peaceful Villa Santa Cruz Community with a swimming pool, patio, clubhouse and lots of extra parking for guests to visit. A perfect environment to relax and enjoy the Good Life! The home has been lovingly maintained and updated through the years with paint, newer vinyl windows, carpet. The home has spacious living and dining areas plus three bedrooms and two baths. There's lots of room to garden on this extra spacious lot. The park is pet-friendly (see rules) and has low resident dues. Dont miss this opportunity to live and play in town.
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The "Big E" chart – or Snellen eye chart – is the most familiar type of visual acuity test.
Hopefully by now, we've all seen one. The projected or wall-mounted Snellen eye chart, usually topped by the big letter "E", is a common visual acuity test used to measure your sharpness of vision at multiple distances.
By viewing or reading each line from top to bottom (with one eye covered at a time), your eye doctor can gain a general approximation of the quality of your visual acuity, or sharpness. Where a line of characters begins to become difficult to see is the approximate measurement of your vision.
The Snellen chart serves as a beginning – not an end – to a comprehensive eye examination.
What does "20/20" vision mean?
Snellen charts help to determine a baseline for your vision in each eye – a baseline typically measured against "20/20" vision. This means when you are 20 feet away from an object, you can comfortably see details that most people with normal vision can also see at 20 feet distance.
If you have 20/30 vision, that means what you see comfortably at 20 feet, can be seen by a person with "normal" vision at 30 feet. Your vision is weaker, in other words.
In fact, if you look closely at a Snellen eye chart, you'll see the vision values associated with measuring your vision on the right or left side of each line of characters.


There are two homeless shelters within walking distance of campus. Many Bowdoin students, maybe even most, don't know they exist. Tedford Housing operates both shelters, one on Federal Street and the other on Cumberland Street, which together provide safe and temporary housing for six families and 16 individuals. There are rarely any vacant beds. With the capacity to serve 165 individuals and families each year, Tedford Housing must turn away almost 600 more individuals who call asking for emergency housing.
Since my first year at Bowdoin, I've been involved with the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good. To deepen my connection to the Common Good and the community, I started working there as a McKeen Fellow. I worked at Tedford over the summer and learned firsthand how Tedford, as the primary agency helping this area's homeless and people at risk of becoming homeless, comprehensively address the growing problem of homelessness and limited affordable housing in the southern midcoast region. Last week's column by Lowell Ruck '21 on the Bowdoin–Maine divide inspired me to voice what I've learned and to add to his perspective with my own—not as a Mainer but as someone grateful for the opportunity to engage with Maine.
As Bowdoin students living in Maine for four years, it's our privilege and responsibility to understand what's happening in our local community. Had I not directly engaged with Tedford, I would have never fully understood the true extent of homelessness in the midcoast region. To truly gain familiarity with the realities and lived experiences faced by our neighbors right here in Brunswick, I believe that all Bowdoin students should find and commit to their own path out of the Bowdoin Bubble through consistent engagement with the community.
Bowdoin is known for its commitment to the Common Good, and we pride ourselves on our ability to communicate across difference and are provided with plenty of opportunities to grow our understanding of social inequality in the world beyond Bowdoin. This may happen through conversation in the classroom or with our friends in the dining hall. But usually they're just that, conversations. Perhaps we've gotten too good, too skilled at intellectualizing rather than actively engaging with the people actually experiencing and addressing these issues.
For many of us, we keep community issues at arm's length, distant from our daily lives. However, many Brunswick residents, mere steps from campus, face the very issues—hunger, homelessness, access to healthcare, just to name a few—that we so comfortably conceptualize at the intellectual level. Only until we directly involve ourselves and recognize the expertise housed in our very community can we call ourselves knowledgeable and consider our contributions helpful or effective.
I challenge everyone to do their part: meet Brunswick. Really meet Brunswick. Yes, we are all busy. But as students living in Brunswick for four years, claiming a connection to place and a commitment to the Common Good, we should prioritize experiences in the community that accurately educate and connect us to this place.
The first step is educating yourself on challenges facing Brunswick and how the community has chosen to address them. When you head to Hannaford, be aware of what surrounds you. Behind it you'll find Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program, a food pantry and kitchen and the Gathering Place, a drop-in day shelter—two vital community resources. Read the Times Record's "Giving Voice" column—featuring stories from the "Core Four" organizations of Brunswick: Tedford Housing, The Gathering Place, Midcoast Hunger Prevention and Oasis Free Clinics—to stay informed on the issues faced by the local community attend the Town Hall meetings (with me!) on establishing a combined shelter and comprehensive resource center in town.
The next step is direct engagement and service, through which you will learn even more from people on the ground. Beyond participating in a Community Orientation Trip, Common Good Day, an Alternative Break Trip or enrolling in a community-engaged course on a temporary basis, seek out long-term relationships with a cause meaningful to you right here in Brunswick. Tutor in a local school, volunteer at MCHPP or Oasis Free Clinic, collaborate with a community partner for an independent study or honors project or intern at a nonprofit. These are just a few ways of going about it.
I want to offer myself, Annie (acrose@bowdoin.edu), and the McKeen Center as a resource for you to help explore opportunities outside of the Bowdoin Bubble.
Annie Rose is a member of the Class of 2020.
Excellent column. True to the Common Good philosophy. Thanks!


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Dilip Buildcon declared L-1 bidder for Dodaballapur bypass to Hoskote section
Friday, 07 Aug 2020
Dilip Buildcon has been declared the lowest (L-1) bidder for four-laning of Dodaballapur bypass to Hoskote section.
The scope of work involves four-laning from 42.000 km to 80.00 km of Dodaballapur bypass to Hoskote section of NH-648 (Old NH-207) on hybrid annuity mode (HAM) under Bharatmala Pariyojna in the state of Karnataka (Package-II).
The tender for the project was floated by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
The bid project cost is Rs 1,278 crore. The operation and maintenance (O&M) for the first year is Rs three crore. The completion period is 24 months and operation period 15 years from COD.
Office Building (Dwarka) Project
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Thanks once again to Donal McKernan in Australia, whose 'Smoky wind' appeared on the BIB last September as an example of the 'browngrass' music being made by his family. Donal now sends us this link to another article by his father Joe, posted two days ago on the Bruderhof community blog. The article describes the life of Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) and includes two audio recordings, 'Lord Inchiquin' and 'Loftus Jones', played beautifully by members of the McKernan family. Mr McKernan also offers to send recordings of two more Carolan compositions and the 'Tarbolton' set of reels, played by the same musicians.
Moving to another part of the world, here from among the many examples on YouTube are three versions of 'Paddy on the turnpike': by Bill Monroe and Doc Watson, by Trevor and Travis Stuart, and the non-modal 'Sarah Armstrong's "Paddy on the turnpike"', by Adam Hurt, Emily Schaad, and friends. And as a bonus, here's Charlie Poole's 'Leaving dear old Ireland'.


Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling for an emergency committee meeting over allegations that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office interfered in the justice system.
On Thursday, Trudeau denied a report that the Prime Minister's Office pressured former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to help SNC-Lavalin avoid going to trial on fraud and corruption allegations and instead cut a deal known as a "remediation agreement."
Speaking in front of reporters Friday, Scheer said the Conservatives and NDP will try and force the emergency meeting of the House of Commons justice committee with the goal of passing a motion calling on nine high-ranking officials to testify about the alleged interference in the SNC-Lavalin case.
"It's quite clear there is a cover-up going on," Scheer said. He added that he wants the meeting to be called as early as Monday, and said if the Liberals block it, "then Canadians can conclude that the reports of political interference are true."
The Liberals hold a majority of seats on the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and can vote Scheer's request down.
Some of the high-ranking officials Scheer wants to testify include Wilson-Raybould, Justice Minister David Lametti and Trudeau's two closest advisors: his chief of staff, Katie Telford, and principal secretary, Gerald Butts.
"The prime minister must immediately come clean to Canadians about what he knew about this case and when he knew it. Nothing short of full disclosure is acceptable," Scheer said.
When asked whether these allegations (based on two unnamed sources in a Globe and Mail article) are equal to obstruction of justice, Scheer said these type of questions can be posed during the committee process.
The Conservative leader was also asked if his party would consider asking the RCMP to investigate.
"Everything is on the table," Scheer replied.
The Globe and Mail report alleges that Wilson-Raybould refused to succumb to pressure from prime ministerial aides to intervene in the case of SNC-Lavalin, a Quebec engineering and construction giant that has been charged with bribery and corruption in a bid to secure government business in Libya.
The report suggested her refusal may have been the reason for her surprise demotion in a cabinet shuffle last month.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has also called for an ethics investigation into the case, saying if the allegations are not true then the prime minister should have nothing to fear from an independent investigation by the federal ethics commissioner.
Scheer said he stands behind Singh's ethics investigation request, as "all avenues need to be explored."


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Over the next 11 weeks he was able to close that gap, expanding his support in the Northland, where he lost by better than 2-to-1 to Justus in April. On Tuesday, he trailed Justus in Clay and Platte counties by about three points.
Lucas also grew his support south of the river, where he ran up a near 2-to-1 margin over Justus.
Just as in the primary, Northland results came in quickly, showing a lead for Justus until after 8 p.m., when Jackson County results flipped the script and gave Lucas a sizable advantage that he never relinquished.
Lucas' supporters gathered Tuesday night to watch results at the Wonder Shops and Flats, an example of the economic development he said he wanted to bring to some of the more distressed areas of the city.
The apartment complex, in a refurbished Wonder Bread factory at 30th Street and Troost Avenue, features amenities rare in that neighborhood, like building-wide Wi-Fi, a coffee shop and a fitness center.
Lucas first addressed the crowd just before 8:30, when the only results in hand were from Clay or Platte counties.
He said he was excited to be running nearly even with Justus, after getting just 9% of the Northland vote in the primary.
"People asked us awhile back, 'You know, you're an East Side guy, does your message translate to every part of the city?'' Lucas said. "What we're seeing is, yes it does. What we're seeing is that people liked our message about affordable housing, about public safety, about making sure that everyone in Kansas City has a voice in city hall."
About an hour later Lucas strode to the podium for a victory speech to the 1960s Four Tops anthem "Reach Out I'll Be There."
He thanked Justus for running a good campaign and for being a mentor to him. He urged his supporters to "make sure that we reach out to everyone who might not have been with us before because we have a lot of work ahead."
Lucas said the margin of victory was a mandate not for him personally, but for the issues he ran on. He promised to fight for "working men and women" and safer streets.
"Our final mandate is this: no matter who we are, no matter where you are, no matter what circumstance you find yourself in, in our Kansas City we always believe that you have an opportunity, we always believe that you can persevere," Lucas said. "In our Kansas City we believe that whatever has happened in your past does not dictate your future. In our Kansas City we believe in fairness for everyone."
As he left the stage the crowd broke out in emphatic chants of "Q! Q! Q! Q!"
Justus supporters, gathered at a watch party in the Historic West Bottoms, clapped when early results from Clay and Platte counties showed a lead, but things turned somber quickly after the first results from south of the river showed a Lucas advantage.
She conceded the race in an, at times, tearful speech to supporters whom she called the Justus League.
"These tears, they're happy tears," Justus said. "So just know that."
Unofficial results showed Lucas, a 3rd District at-large councilman, with a commanding lead over his opponent, Councilwoman Jolie Justus, 4th District, capturing more than 58% of the vote with 90% of precincts reporting.
She recounted the themes of her campaign — walking the span of a 319-square-mile city, seeing its warts and triumphs — before thanking her supporters, Mayor Sly James, her family and her wife, Lucy Bardwell.
"So what is next?" Justus said. "I'm not going to disengage just because I didn't get the outcome I wanted."
She continued: "So Kansas City, I really mean it when I say this, we are on a roll right now and we're just getting started. Now let's keep walking, Kansas City."
She did not take questions from reporters afterward.
James, who endorsed Justus, a key ally on the council, said he was surprised by Lucas' victory.
"I'm disappointed Jolie didn't win, but the voters have spoken, and it's time to move on," James said. "So it's time to make sure that we're putting Quinton Lucas in the best position possible to lead the city."
Asked if he had any advice for Lucas, James said he should keep in mind that everything he does has to "be for the best of the city."
"Sometimes you have to say no, sometimes you have to take a hard position in order to get things done," James said. "Not everybody is pleaseable, and you shouldn't try to please everybody."
He added: "Do the right thing and we're all good."
The contest marked the first time in 20 years Kansas City voters sent two sitting members of the City Council into the general election for mayor. While the race is non-partisan, both are Democrats with largely the same voting records on key issues.
As candidates, they labored to distinguish themselves from one another, although their central promises — to focus all of Kansas City's neighborhoods — were also similar.
Despite their similarities, Lucas ran as an outsider, drawing heavily on his personal story. He was raised by a single mother along with his two sisters. They were homeless at times, staying in motels or with relatives.
That experience fueled some of his council work and election priorities, including the push for more affordable housing, more effective policing and better delivery of basic city services: street resurfacing, trash collection and code and illegal dumping enforcement.
His personal story resonated with some voters.
To Gary Weaver, 62, a retired delivery driver, Lucas was the better choice for the city's East Side.
"It seems like he is going to do something for us in bringing tax dollars back to the east side of Troost and the others haven't been doing that," Weaver said. "He is a resident of the east of Troost."
As a member of the council, Lucas often challenged long-standing city practices. He authored and shepherded to passage a cap on the city's generous tax incentives for developers. He's been critical of the way Kansas City approves economic development projects, though he has voted for some.
Justus, a pro bono attorney, has been an elected official for more than a decade. She had the backing of James and former Mayor Kay Barnes, both major advocates of revitalizing downtown Kansas City.
Her principal message was that while Kansas City is seeing economic success, it needed to be shared with residential neighborhoods in the form of better transportation, housing and anti-crime efforts.
On the council, her signature success was approval of a new single terminal at Kansas City International Airport — first by Kansas City voters and then by the council.
In the final weeks of the campaign, Justus and Lucas' efforts to distinguish themselves created friction and frustrated some voters.
Justus and her supporters spent heavily on TV ads and mailers that depicted Lucas as untrustworthy and unreliable, which Lucas called a distortion.
The Carpenters Help in the Political Process, a political action committee associated with the St. Louis Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council, spent heavily to attack Lucas. It also helped fund the City of Fountains Committee, another outside group that called Lucas' trustworthiness into question.
Justus stood behind the charges made by her campaign and others, arguing she had a record of following through where Lucas did not.
But that may have hurt her.
Lucas vowed not to "go negative" and criticized her campaign for doing so. His comments about Justus' campaigning drew large applause lines in several debates toward the end of the election cycle.
Eric Lyons, 58, who attended Lucas' election night party, said he's lived in Kansas City for about 30 years but only recently got interested in local politics.
Lyons said the Justus campaign's decision to go negative turned him off.
"The tipping point for me personally was the ads," Lyons said. "Once the other candidate came out with the negative ads I didn't care for that. So that's what tipped me to Quinton."
Lucas took some heat online over the final weekend of the campaign after numerous Kansas City voters got texts from various 816 numbers attacking Justus. Calling those numbers yielded an automatic message that instructed recipients to press 1 to unsubscribe from future Remington Research campaigns.
Both Remington Research and Axiom Strategies are owned by Jeff Roe, a national GOP operative with deep ties to Missouri who managed Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign. Roe did not respond to an email requesting comment over the weekend.
Lucas denied any connection to Remington or Axiom.
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Kansas City mayoral candidate Quinton Lucas greets supporters at his watch party at the Wonder Shops and Flats at 30th and Troost Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Jill Toyoshiba jtoyoshiba@kcstar.com
Quinton Lucas thanks supporters after defeating fellow city council member Jolie Justus to be Kansas City's next mayor. Lucas celebrates with his mom, Quincy Bennett as he gives his speech at his watch party at the Wonder Shops and Flats at 30th and Troost Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Jill Toyoshiba jtoyoshiba@kcstar.com
Quinton Lucas thanks supporters after defeating fellow city council member Jolie Justus to be Kansas City's next mayor. Lucas celebrates with his mom, Quincy Bennett (right) as he gives his speech at his watch party at the Wonder Shops and Flats at 30th and Troost Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Jill Toyoshiba jtoyoshiba@kcstar.com
Kansas City mayoral candidate Quinton Lucas greets supporters at his watch party at the Wonder Shops and Flats at 30th and Troost Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Lucas speaks with Shawn Delgado of the painters union, shortly before Delgado introduced Lucas. Jill Toyoshiba jtoyoshiba@kcstar.com
Jolie Justus conceded the mayoral race to her rival Quinton Lucas Tuesday night, June 18, 2019. Shelly Yang syang@kcstar.com
Supporters for mayoral candidate Jolie Justus watched results come in Tuesday night at the Mulberry Room in the West Bottoms. Shelly Yang syang@kcstar.com
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