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BYT Interviews: *Repeat Repeat
Megan Burns June 13, 2018
InterviewsMusic 119 min read
Nashville's *repeat repeat just finished up a great run at Bonnaroo, and now they've hit the road to play a six week stretch of North American gigs. First up comes NYC's show at Highline Ballroom tonight (6.13), and the band will also be in DC this Friday (6.15) to play a set at Union Stage, as well as Chicago's Lincoln Hall on Saturday (6.16). In advance of all the stops, I had a minute to catch up with Jared Corder over the phone yesterday to talk about what it's like being in a band with his wife, Kristyn, as well as what it's like to have eleven (ELEVEN!) rescue animals as pets (one of which is a horse), what's on the horizon for their podcasting project, how many signature striped shirts Jared has packed for tour and MORE, so internet-eavesdrop on our full conversation below to get the complete lowdown. Also obviously grab tickets to the shows, and be sure to pick up a copy of Floral Canyon for your listening pleasure!
Brightest Young Things: How was Bonnaroo?
Jared Corder: It was insane! We played officially on Sunday, but we went off on Wednesday night and played a party for all these mega groups of super fans of Bonnaroo. They throw a huge party before Bonnaroo starts every year, so we went and played that, there were like four hundred people, and it was wild! We played in a grass field, basically. Then we played Bonnaroo all weekend and played Sunday, so we were there for five full days, and it all ended with a packed show. We had the biggest crowd at that stage, because we were on one of the smaller stages, and everybody seemed to really enjoy it. We were stoked.
BYT: Amazing!
JC: Yeah! We also got our first write-up in Rolling Stone yesterday, actually. They listed our show as one of the top thirty-one things that happened at Bonnaroo. We've been on cloud nine. And now we've hit the road for six weeks of touring, so we're stoked. Suffering from mild exhaustion, but really pumped and ready!
BYT: Who's going to watch all of your animals while you're away? You guys have like ten or eleven rescues, right?
JC: Another couple that we're friends with are in a band called Waterfall Wash, and they're based out of Nashville, too. Their touring schedule is kind of opposite to ours, and they're really great pet sitters. Our animals love when they come over; it's like having an aunt and uncle come by, because they bring them treats and toys and stuff like that. We also have a couple of other rotating pet sitters for these long runs. It takes a village, and they're like our children. I think having ten pets in the house (we have eleven total) is still bit easier than having one or two kids, because we can just have somebody come by and play with them, love on 'em, and they just love to sleep and chill. We have a little camera set up to keep eyes on 'em, too. They're very sweet, and it's easier than you'd think.
BYT: You guys have a horse, too, right?
JC: We do have a horse! And we rented a stall at a farm for this off track thoroughbred racehorse that Kristyn rescued. She grew up with horses her whole life, and she had a horse when we first met six or seven years ago, but it was a bit older, and it ended up passing away a couple of years ago. We decided we wanted to get another one, and so we did. Kristyn loves to go out there and take care of him, and he's in a really good farm right now. Eventually we want to move onto a property and have a proper farm with pigs and goats and things like that.
BYT: That's rad! I come from a horse family on my dad's side. He was a horse dentist, actually! And then my aunts all have done different horse-related jobs, like my aunt is still training race horses and things like that.
JC: Yeah, I think our dream is to have land where we can just wake up and our horse out on our property, and we can just pay someone to kind of be a farmhand. Kristyn kind of introduced me to horse life. I'd taken horseback riding as a kid, and I was around them a little bit, but her love of horses is the equivalent of my love of music and why I wanted to go into music in the first place. I felt it was only right to have a horse in our family, you know?
BYT: Totally. Well, between that and touring, it sounds like you stay SUPER busy. When do you find time to actually do songwriting?
JC: Well, one thing about our relationship is that we both love working, and we never stop. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to stop, but we do enjoy each other's company, and we'll get a lot of work done together. I think we both feel really fulfilled when we've accomplished something together, and the same goes for songwriting. We make a lot of time to do it. And I think because we never really stop working, we're always a little bit ahead of the schedule. Sometimes to a fault, which is why I'm glad we brought on the right team in the last couple of years with regards to management and booking. Having people around us to say that we can take things a little slower and let the flavors simmer around the things we're creating has been great. We made Floral Canyon, the record that's out now, about three years ago. We sat on it for about two years while we searched for the right team, the right management, a label…and by the time we got signed, the record was already two years old to us. So I've probably written forty or fifty songs since then, I've worked on songs for side projects that I someday want to do…and it's just a matter of knowing when to put out this record and everything. So we're kind of ahead of the curve in that sense. I think it's just really practically and mentally making time for those things. I wish I had more time these days to just sit in a room and let inspiration come to me, but nowadays I kind of have to be like, "Okay, Thursday is my writing day. I'm going to lock myself in this room, and if I write nothing good, then that's fine. At least I'll be forcing my hand to paper to try to write something down." I think part of creating anything is just creating that muscle memory. That, mixed with a creative mind, is how really awesome things are made I think.
BYT: Absolutely. And speaking of how much time you guys spend together, it seems like you get along super well, but do you have any tips apart from great chemistry that would be useful for avoiding conflict on the road?
JC: Well, I think there are a couple things. The first advice that I try to give anybody with regards to that is that we're not the poster children for being in a band and being married. Kristyn and I haven't spent one accidental night apart since the day we started dating, and that was not planned, but after about a year we were like, "Oh, shit, we haven't spent a night apart! This is kind of fun, let's keep it going!" We really enjoy each other's company. But I think it's more abnormal what we're doing than what a lot of other people are doing, because they need their own space and their own time and whatever. That being said, I think realizing that none of this is really that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things is important. I think that's a big key to why Kristyn and I work really well together, because we don't…like, we're not irreverent, but we don't take anything too seriously, you know? Besides our own marriage, really. But even that! We respect the sanctity of our own marriage, but we're still in a band with a bunch of sweaty boys, and we like to go to music festivals and things like that. So I think it's not taking yourself too seriously, and do what you love, but don't take it so seriously that you crush all your relationships with your friends and your loved ones and your partners and stuff like that. Kristyn found this saying somewhere, where it's like, it's never me vs. her, it's always us vs. the problem. And when I started thinking like that it was really true, because I realized that nine times out of ten if there's ever something we disagree on or are frustrated with something, it's probably about the band, or about our career, or about a cat that threw up in our bed or something like that. We step back and say, "Is this that big of a deal?" And usually it can be cleaned up or fixed or whatever, and in that sense, I think that's why we play so well together on stage and off.
BYT: That's really smart. I think people really do get too caught up in all that sort of thing to the point of it being all-consuming, and I think that's where the resentment can come into play.
JC: Yeah, for sure! A good example is when I called my family yesterday. I came from lower-middle class, and they saved up for the past six years to take the rest of the kids to Europe for the first time. They've never been, so they're on this European trip right now with all my siblings. And so I called them yesterday to tell them the Rolling Stone thing, and they were excited, but they were also in Greece for the first time, right? And so I got off the phone and was like, "Why weren't they as excited as I thought they'd be?" They were still excited and they love me, but I also realized that they love me regardless of write-up. At the end of the day, none of this is worth that much to fret about, you know what I mean? It's all really fun and beautiful, and it's great to watch our dream come to fruition, because we've worked really hard, but if it didn't happen, I also feel like that's okay. It's all about being in the moment.
BYT: It definitely can be hard to remember that sometimes, though, when everyone's got an instaneous opinion or hot take on what you're making. Have you had any really interesting interpretations of your music that you never anticipated? Either from journalists or fans?
JC: So there are two kind of instances of that. One, on the lighter side, is when we put out this single called "Plugged In", which is based off the movie Idiocracy. And the lyrics I think are pretty black and white, although they are somewhat poetic. They're not super overt, but it's basically a critique of America and religion and the dumbing down of society. For the music video, though, we did the complete opposite and just bought like, 1500 ball pit balls, and we told the director to make something fun. So the music video has no hidden meaning or anything, it's just conceptually a fun video to watch, which is funny to me, because people that watch it and really like it, it's kind of like this dark critique on society with this really silly, fun concept that has nothing to do with it. I don't know why, but I just really liked that idea. But when the premiers came out for that, people would always try to connect dots on it, and that was an interesting thing, because I was like, "Well, there are really no dots to connect."
The other one is when I was in an older band when I first moved to Nashville. In hindsight, we really weren't that good, and we weren't going anywhere. But there was this one event in Nashville called Road To Bonnaroo that any band that was worth a shit would play, and the whole thing that was known was that the big national magazines would write reviews about the bands that would play it every year, and they'd always write one or two good reviews, and all the other bands would get totally shat on. And so whenever they'd book the bands (this was almost ten years ago), everybody would wonder who was going to get the bad write-ups and the good ones. And I remember my old band played, and we didn't really know what we were doing (I was a kid at the time), and I remember that was the first negative review I'd read of myself in a printed music publication, and it ate my up way more than it needed to. In that same sense, as I've gotten older I've looked back on it as a learning experience. That's kind of what helped me learn not to take things so seriously, because I was naive and was just going into this whole thing of moving to Nasvhille, being in a band and not really thinking anything of it, and the first person that didn't like it I was like, "Why don't they like me?!" Because of that, over the years I've learned how to take constructive criticism in a healthy way, but also realize the whole "haters gonna hate" kind of thing. I've learned how to let things roll off my back in a positive and healthy way, but also be able to take criticism and know when somebody I trust is trying to do what's best for me and give me advice that's good for my career.
I think being married teaches you that, too. If you want a successful marriage, there's that saying that "you can be happy or you can be right", you know? Just because you're happy doesn't mean you're wrong, and just because you're right doesn't mean you're unhappy, but I want to enjoy the ride that is my life, so I just try not to let unsolicited advice or some fucking YouTube comment dictate where I'm going to take my art. Then you have these little pockets in your career that are like stepping stones, where it's like…do you ever watch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
BYT: [Laughs] Yeah!
JC: Do you remember how you could get to like, $500, and then from there you'd never get less than $500? So you'd keep going and you'd get up to like, $200,000, and you'd never get under that. You were locked in. So there are these little pockets in my career and Kristyn's career where I'm like, "Cool, well I can never not say that I didn't play Bonnaroo!" Like if my career ended tomorrow, right? Or, you know, if we put out a record and everybody hates it, and nobody buys it, and we end up crumbling as a band, at least I can say that I got signed to a label and put out a record, you know? So there are these little moments where I've succeeded, and I really try to cherish those rather than dwell on one negative thing that somebody's gonna say or whatever. I think one of the best comments we've ever gotten on YouTube or anything was from this dude who said, "Not really into this band's music, but goddamn do they put on a live show." I was like, "Hell yeah! I'll take it!" Because that's honest, you know? If my mom writes, "I love your record!" then so what? Of course she's going to write that! This guy doesn't like our music but he fucking loved our show. That means we earned something that day, you know?
BYT: Absolutely. What are some more milestones that you haven't achieved yet that would be ultimate dream level status if you one day can get there?
JC: End goal I'd love to play Saturday Night Live someday, but I think if I played any late night show, or a morning show like TODAY or GMA, I think my mom would finally think that I'm famous, even if I'm not. I know a lot of guys who've played both of those and are certainly not famous, but if I did either of those I think my parents would finally be like, "Oh, you've made it!" You know? I told my mom like, "We're playing Bonnaroo!" and she was like, "That's great! Does that mean you're getting paid a lot of money now?" And it's like, "No, not yet!" It's always that question. [Laughs] I think if we do that, though, that'll be the milestone that makes my mom's dreams come true. She's always said since I was a kid, "I could see you on TV someday playing music!"
BYT: I feel you! I studied Political Science in school, and now I write about weird things on the internet, so I have to grasp for similar milestones for my mom to like, semi-"get it". Do your parents listen to your podcast?
JC: You know, they might have once or twice, but they're kind of conservative and pretty religious, so I think they still get thrown off by some curse words here and there. They love me, but I think they have virgin ears. We're about to do a podcast again, but we did one for a while called the Repeat Repeat Podcast Podcast; we had band member changes and also just decided to take a break over the winter, and at the time it was just a thing to do a thing, basically. We just wanted some more content, so we'd just have our friends come on. We had somebody from the band COIN come on, and we had Wells Adams who's been on The Bachelorette, and we had somebody from Band of Horses, and what happened was that all these people started to blow up right as we started to take a break from the podcast. It was really fun, but it was totally free format, and we just talked about whatever the hell we wanted to. And so we've gotten so busy in the last year that we were like, "If we're going to do a podcast again, we want to do something that feels a little more purposeful and feels like we're actually putting something out there that's worth listening to." So we have a new format that we're working on, and the podcast is going to be called Oh Yeah, That Song. We have a couple of episodes in the bag, and it's going to be an exploration of songs everybody knows. So the first episode is the song "Steal My Sunshine" by Len. What we do is we go and spend weeks studying the song, finding all these clips and all this stuff, and we tell the whole story of the song – everything from the inception to where the band is now. It's really fucking interesting, because all of the songs we pick are (and this is why it's called Oh Yeah, That Song) songs that everybody knows but most people know nothing about. So episode two is going to be "Lovefool" by The Cardigans, and we're going to do The Mighty Might Bosstones, just a bunch of songs. There are so many great stories behind a bunch of these songs that we really wanted to go in-depth. Kristyn's a big history buff, and I love editing podcasts, so I think it'll be really fun. A couple of episodes are done, and we're working on rolling some of those out later this year.
BYT: Amazing! Well we'll be on the lookout for those, and what else are you stoked on that you can talk about apart from these upcoming shows?
JC: Yeah, actually! We're working on new music. We've recorded a couple of songs, and we're going in the studio to finish our next record after this tour.
BYT: Rad! And speaking of this tour, I do have to ask what your suitcase looks like. How many striped shirts are we up to at this point?
JC: Right now I'm at seven. I have two that have white trim around the neck, two that have black trim around the neck, and then one that has thick stripes, like really big six-inch long stripes to round it out. I have three pairs of black pants, three pairs of the same white Vans with black stripes. Kristyn has lots of different clothes that she rotates. I feel like if I wear the same thing it lets her pop even more with color and stuff like that. And then besides that, we share a suitcase, because it's really easy since I wear the same thing all the time on the road, and Kristyn just keeps all of her outfits for stage bundled together on a couple of hangers. Those things are already ready to go, so we share a suitcase for shorts and tees, flannel shirts for me and then maybe one pair of jeans for when I'm not wearing black pants. We've gotten better and better at it the more we tour.
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Justia Regulation Tracker Department Of Veterans Affairs Proposed Information Collection (Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals) Activity Comment Request, 60135-60136 [2011-24830]
Proposed Information Collection (Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals) Activity Comment Request, 60135-60136 [2011-24830]
Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 188 / Wednesday, September 28, 2011 / Notices ACTION: Notice. In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–21), this notice announces that the Office of Human Resources and Administration (OHR&A), Department of Veterans Affairs, will submit the collection of information abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The PRA submission describes the nature of the information collection and its expected cost and burden; it includes the actual data collection instrument. DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 28, 2011. ADDRESSES: Submit written comments on the collection of information through http://www.Regulations.gov; or to VA's OMB Desk Officer, OMB Human Resources and Housing Branch, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503 (202) 395–7316. Please refer to ''OMB Control No. 2900– 0717'' in any correspondence. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denise McLamb, Enterprise Records Service (005R1B), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461– 7485, fax (202) 461–0966 or e-mail denise.mclamb@va.gov. Please refer to ''OMB Control No. 2900–0717.'' SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Titles a. Child Care Subsidy Application Form, VA Form 0730a. b. Child Care Provider Information (For the Child Care Subsidy Program), VA Form 0730b. OMB Control Number: 2900–0717. Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Abstracts a. VA employees complete VA Form 0730a to request participation in VA's child care subsidy program. VA will use the data collected to determine the percentage of monthly cost to be subsidized for child care. b. VA Form 0730b is completed by the child care provider. The data will be used to determine whether the child care provider is licensed and/or regulated by the state to perform child care. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on July 22, 2011, at page 44091. VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:20 Sep 27, 2011 Jkt 223001 Affected Public: Individuals or households. Estimated Annual Burden a. VA Form 0730a—667 hours. b. VA Form 0730b—333 hours. Estimated Average Burden per Respondent a. VA Form 0730a—20 minutes. b. VA Form 0730B—10 minutes. Frequency of Response: On occasion. Estimated Number of Respondents a. VA Form 0730a—2,000. b. VA Form 0730b—2,000. By direction of the Secretary. Denise McLamb, Enterprise Records Service. [FR Doc. 2011–24829 Filed 9–27–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8320–01–P DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS [OMB Control No. 2900–0085] Proposed Information Collection (Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals) Activity Comment Request Board of Veterans' Appeals, Department of Veterans Affairs. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of a currently approved collection, and allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the information needed to process appeals for denial of VA benefits. DATES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed collection of information should be received on or before November 28, 2011. SUMMARY: Submit written comments on the collection of information through the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at http://www.Regulations.gov or to Sue Hamlin, Board of Veterans' Appeals (01C), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420 or e-mail sue.hamlin@va.gov. Please refer to ''OMB Control No. 2900–0085'' in any correspondence. During the comment ADDRESSES: PO 00000 Frm 00139 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 60135 period, comments may be viewed online through FDMS. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue Hamlin at (202) 461–8194. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13; 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521), Federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. This request for comment is being made pursuant to Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA. With respect to the following collection of information, BVA invites comments on: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of BVA's functions, including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of BVA's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or the use of other forms of information technology. Titles: a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9. b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative. c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date. d. Motions for Reconsideration. OMB Control Number: 2900–0085. Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Abstract: a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9, may be used by appellants to complete their appeal to the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA) from a denial of VA benefits. The information is used by BVA to identify the issues in dispute and prepare a decision responsive to the appellant's contentions and the legal and factual issues raised. b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative: When the appellant's representative withdraws from a case, both the appellant and the BVA must be informed so that the appellant's rights may be adequately protected and so that the BVA may meet its statutory obligations to provide notice to the current representative. c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date: VA provides hearings to appellants and their representatives, as required by basic Constitutional dueprocess and by Title 38 U.S.C. 7107(b). From time to time, hearing dates and/or E:\FR\FM\28SEN1.SGM 28SEN1 60136 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 188 / Wednesday, September 28, 2011 / Notices times are changed, hearing requests withdrawn and new hearings requested after failure to appear at a scheduled hearing. The information is used to comply with the appellants' or their representatives' requests. d. Motions for Reconsideration: Decisions by BVA are final unless the Chairman orders reconsideration of the decision either on the Chairman's initiative, or upon motion of a claimant. The Board Chairman, or his designee, uses the information provided in deciding whether reconsideration of a Board decision should be granted. Affected Public: Individuals or households, Business or other for profit, and Not for profit institutions. Estimated Total Annual Burden: a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9—45,850 hours. b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative—183 hours. c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date—1,212 hours. d. Motions for Reconsideration—846 hours. Estimated Average Burden per Respondent: a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9—1 hour. b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative—20 minutes. c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date—15 minutes (hearing date change), 15 minutes (request to withdraw a hearing),—1 hour (requests change a motion). d. Motions for Reconsideration—1 hour. Frequency of Response: On occasion. Estimated Total Number of Respondents: a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9—45,850. b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative—550. c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date—2,733. d. Motions for Reconsideration—846. Dated: September 22, 2011. By direction of the Secretary. Denise McLamb, Program Analyst, Enterprise Records Service. [FR Doc. 2011–24830 Filed 9–27–11; 8:45 am] October 17–18, 2011, at the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office, 245 West Houston Street, Manhattan, New York, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the public. The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on the maintenance and periodic readjustment of the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities. The Committee is to assemble and review relevant information relating to the nature and character of disabilities arising from service in the Armed Forces, provide an ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of the rating schedule, and give advice on the most appropriate means of responding to the needs of Veterans relating to disability compensation. The Committee will receive briefings on issues related to compensation for Veterans with service-connected disabilities and other VA benefits programs. Time will be allocated for receiving public comments in the afternoon. Public comments will be limited to three minutes each. Individuals wishing to make oral statements before the Committee will be accommodated on a first-come, firstserved basis. Individuals who speak are invited to submit 1–2 page summaries of their comments at the time of the meeting for inclusion in the official meeting record. The public may submit written statements for the Committee's review to Robert Watkins, Designated Federal Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits Administration, Compensation and Pension Service, Regulation Staff (211D), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, or e-mail at Robert.Watkins2@va.gov. Any member of the public wishing to attend the meeting or seeking additional information should contact Mr. Watkins at (202) 461–9214 Dated: September 22, 2011. By Direction of the Secretary. Vivian Drake, Acting Committee Management Officer. [FR Doc. 2011–24872 Filed 9–27–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8320–01–P BILLING CODE 8320–01–P DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Reasonable Charges for Inpatient MS– DRGs and SNF Medical Services; V3.8, 2012 Fiscal Year Update Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation, Notice of Meeting The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public Law 92– 463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation will meet on VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:20 Sep 27, 2011 Jkt 223001 Department of Veterans Affairs. Notice. AGENCY: ACTION: Section 17.101 of Title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations sets forth the Department of Veterans Affairs SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00140 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 (VA) medical regulations concerning ''Reasonable Charges'' for medical care or services provided or furnished by VA to a veteran: —For a nonservice-connected disability for which the veteran is entitled to care (or the payment of expenses of care) under a health plan contract; —For a nonservice-connected disability incurred incident to the veteran's employment and covered under a worker's compensation law or plan that provides reimbursement or indemnification for such care and services; or —For a nonservice-connected disability incurred as a result of a motor vehicle accident in a State that requires automobile accident reparations insurance. The regulations include methodologies for establishing billed amounts for the following types of charges: acute inpatient facility charges; skilled nursing facility/sub-acute inpatient facility charges; partial hospitalization facility charges; outpatient facility charges; physician and other professional charges, including professional charges for anesthesia services and dental services; pathology and laboratory charges; observation care facility charges; ambulance and other emergency transportation charges; and charges for durable medical equipment, drugs, injectables, and other medical services, items, and supplies identified by Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Level II codes. The regulations also provide that data for calculating actual charge amounts at individual VA facilities based on these methodologies will either be published in a notice in the Federal Register or will be posted on the Internet site of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Chief Business Office, currently at http://www1.va.gov/CBO/apps/rates/ index.asp, under ''Reasonable Charges Data Sources.'' Certain charges are hereby updated as described in the Supplementary Information section of this notice. These changes are effective October 1, 2011. When charges for medical care or services provided or furnished at VA expense by either VA or non-VA providers have not been established under other provisions of the regulations, the method for determining VA's charges is set forth at 38 CFR 17.101(a)(8). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Romona Greene, Chief Business Office (10NB1A), Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., E:\FR\FM\28SEN1.SGM 28SEN1
Proposed Information Collection (Appeal to Board of Veterans'
Appeals) Activity Comment Request
AGENCY: Board of Veterans' Appeals, Department of Veterans Affairs.
SUMMARY: The Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA), Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the
proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed
collection of information, including each proposed extension of a
currently approved collection, and allow 60 days for public comment in
response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the
information needed to process appeals for denial of VA benefits.
through the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at http://www.Regulations.gov or to Sue Hamlin, Board of Veterans' Appeals (01C),
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20420 or e-mail sue.hamlin@va.gov. Please refer to ``OMB Control No.
2900-0085'' in any correspondence. During the comment period, comments
may be viewed online through FDMS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue Hamlin at (202) 461-8194.
With respect to the following collection of information, BVA
is necessary for the proper performance of BVA's functions, including
of BVA's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9.
b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative.
c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date.
d. Motions for Reconsideration.
a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9, may be used by
appellants to complete their appeal to the Board of Veterans' Appeals
(BVA) from a denial of VA benefits. The information is used by BVA to
identify the issues in dispute and prepare a decision responsive to the
appellant's contentions and the legal and factual issues raised.
b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative: When the appellant's
representative withdraws from a case, both the appellant and the BVA
must be informed so that the appellant's rights may be adequately
protected and so that the BVA may meet its statutory obligations to
provide notice to the current representative.
c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date: VA provides hearings to
appellants and their representatives, as required by basic
Constitutional due-process and by Title 38 U.S.C. 7107(b). From time to
time, hearing dates and/or
times are changed, hearing requests withdrawn and new hearings
requested after failure to appear at a scheduled hearing. The
information is used to comply with the appellants' or their
representatives' requests.
d. Motions for Reconsideration: Decisions by BVA are final unless
the Chairman orders reconsideration of the decision either on the
Chairman's initiative, or upon motion of a claimant. The Board
Chairman, or his designee, uses the information provided in deciding
whether reconsideration of a Board decision should be granted.
Affected Public: Individuals or households, Business or other for
profit, and Not for profit institutions.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9--45,850 hours.
b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative--183 hours.
c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date--1,212 hours.
d. Motions for Reconsideration--846 hours.
Estimated Average Burden per Respondent:
a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9--1 hour.
b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative--20 minutes.
c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date--15 minutes (hearing date
change), 15 minutes (request to withdraw a hearing),--1 hour (requests
change a motion).
d. Motions for Reconsideration--1 hour.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Number of Respondents:
a. Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, VA Form 9--45,850.
b. Withdrawal of Services by a Representative--550.
c. Request for Changes in Hearing Date--2,733.
d. Motions for Reconsideration--846.
Dated: September 22, 2011.


Harsh environmental conditions along with aggressive chemical agents are known as one of the main reasons behind damages observed in reinforced concrete members. Corrosion of reinforcement worldwide is one of the leading causes of damages occurred in reinforced concrete over the lifespan. There are many critical energy and transportation infrastructures located on coastal regions exposed to high humidity and chloride content where they are highly prone to reinforcement corrosion. This calls for retrofit methods, which safeguard not only the strength but also the durability of corrosion deteriorated reinforced concrete structures. Carbon fiber polymers considering their mechanical and chemical properties are recognized as one of the main retrofit techniques. In this study, the influence of different levels of corrosion on the structural behavior of reinforced concrete beams is studied. ABAQUS software package is employed to simulate the nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete beams with tensile reinforcements and stir-ups corrosion degrees of 20% and 40%. The structural behavior of original damaged specimen as well as the same specimen strengthen with carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) is studied. The purpose of the retrofit is compensate for the loss of shear and flexural capacity of the member due to corrosion. Different variants for the arrangement of CFRP strips are studied and compared. The result of the current research further uncaps the efficiency of fiber polymers to secure strength and durability of corrosion damaged reinforced concrete members.
Retrofit; Reinforcement Corrosion; Reinforced Concrete Beam; Carbon Fiber Reinforced; Polymer (CFRP).
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Ph.D. Student, 123, South Palmetto Boulevard, Glenn Department of Civil Engineering| Lowry Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA.
Graduate Student, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.


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SPRING LOADED Modern-art treasures reside at 101 Spring Street (left), where Donald Judd (above) lived and worked on and off from 1968 until his death in 1994. Photographs by Rainer Judd
The House That Judd Built
Time Out New York
These days you won't see many signs of life at 101 Spring Street. But the contents of the late Donald Judd's home changed the course of modern art.
The faded relic on the northeast corner of Spring and Mercer Streets is about as anonymous as a building positioned at one of the most well traveled corners of Soho could be. The mysterious gray edifice, among the last of the fine examples of cast-iron "skyscrapers" left in New York, glows like a jewel when its five floors are lit up at night But the only exterior signs at 101 Spring Street are two discreet symbols with the letters ADC on the doors and two words, JUDD FOUNDATION, in small type on a window. Untold hordes-from the Prada-clad Soho elite to guidebook-clutching tourists-pass by the address daily without giving it a second thought.
What they don't realize is that hidden inside are several floors filled with treasures that changed the course of modern art. Peer through the ground-floor windows and you'll get a hint: There's a row of fluorescent-light structures, five stainless-steel-and-Plexiglas boxes affixed to a wall and eight bricks carefully stacked atop one another. The boxes? Creations of the late Donald Judd, the irascible, influential artist who bought the building in 1968 and lived and worked there on and off until his death from lymphoma in 1994. The T-shaped lights are an installation by the late Dan Flavin titled To Don Judd, the Colorist. The bricks: a 1986 sculpture by Carl Andre called Manifest Destiny. Upstairs, works by Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg and, of course, Judd himself hang among the Alvar Aalto chairs and African masks that the resident artist surrounded himself with. Judd's concept was to integrate the art with the space around it, so that he was in effect living in art. As such, the building provides an indelible connection from the origins of Minimal and Conceptual art in the early 1960s-a rational, tactile response to Abstract Expressionism, the dominant form of the '50s-all the way to the recently opened Dia: Beacon in Putnam County, New York [see "Remains of his day," below].
But until last year, the fate of the art and of the building itself was uncertain, as the various threads of Judd's life became entangled while his complicated legacy was sorted out. The main players were two organizations: the Judd Foundation (headed up by Judd's daughter, Rainer), which handled the settling of the estate; and the Chinati Foundation, created by Judd in 1985 to oversee the art mecca he'd established at Fort Russell, an abandoned army base in Marfa, Texas. (Chinati is run by Marianne Stockebrand, the German curator who was Judd's lover at the time of his death.)
INTERIOR MOTIFS Carl Andre's Manifest Destiny can be seen through ground-floor windows. Photograph by Rainer Judd
One participant even suggested selling 101 Spring in order to payoff debts–Judd owed several million dollars as a result of 20 years of buying property, mostly in Marfa–but, according to Rainer Judd, the idea was swiftly cast aside. (The structure alone was valued at $940,000 soon after the artist's death.) Now the estate is in the final stages of closing, and the Judd Foundation has turned its attentions to restoring the building, which within the next few years could be kept open on a regular basis like a museum, provided the funding materializes.
"If there's anything to be preserved of the spaces that Judd created, you have to preserve Spring Street, because it gets you to everywhere else," says Rainer Judd, who has the title "executrix-trustee" on her business card. "It's really the beginning." The Judd Foundation has secured a grant from the National Historic Trust to do a feasibility study of restoring the structure. The first stage, the scaffolding needed as part of facade reconstruction, has been erected, and a major fund-raising effort is in the planning stages. If all goes well, a rehabilitated 101 Spring Street will tell the saga of an immeasurably influential person, place and time in art.
That saga begins with the idea of permanent installation, which ushered in a new way of thinking about art and its environment that transcended galleries and museums. As much a theorist in his early years as an artist (and later a collector as well as a creator), Judd was an established critic recognized for his caustic and perceptive commentary for Arts Magazine, Art News and Art International. At the same time, he was gaining acclaim as a founding father of Minimalism.
When he was searching for the home that he eventually found on Spring Street, Judd wrote that his requirements "were that the building be useful for living and working and more importantly, more definitely, be a space in which to install work of mine and of others." After he bought the former factory, which was erected in 1870 and was in total disrepair, Judd said, "I spent a great deal of time placing the art and a great deal designing the renovation in accordance. Everything from the first was intended to be thoroughly considered and to be permanent."
Judd was also a Soho pioneer, one of a handful of artists in the former no-man's-land who lived where he worked, surrounded by enough space to put his concepts to the test. Frustrated by how his art had been shown and handled by museums and galleries, and driven by the desire to demonstrate how it could be done properly, he worked with friends such as Flavin, Andre, Oldenburg, Stella, Larry Bell and John Chamberlain to install pieces inside his loft building.
By 1977, however, Judd was running out of space and, more significantly, running out of patience with what he described as "the harsh and glib situation within art in New York." In the midst of separating from his wife, the dancer Julie Finch, he split for far west Texas with his two children, Rainer, born in 1970, and son Flavin, born in 1968. The big art he subsequently created in the small town of Marfa is, of course, another milestone. The New Yorker described the Chinati Foundation and Judd Foundation properties the artist acquired in the isolated ranching community (where the film Giant was made) as the "Xanadu of Minimalism."
"101 Spring is the father of Maria," says Peter Ballantine, Judd Foundation art supervisor, as he unlocks the door to the building, in order to give a private tour of the space he has looked after since Judd's death. Facts fly as he makes his way through each floor. That ADC on the door stands for Ayala de Chinati, the name of Judd's ranch south of Maria. In the '50s, Ballantine says, Judd studied philosophy, including the works of Hume and Berkeley, at Columbia.
BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE On the fourth floor of the building, a chair by Gerrit Rietveld stands before a Frank Stella painting. Photograph by Rainer Judd
Ballantine goes on to elucidate Judd's desire, alongside other Minimalists of the early '60s, to counteract the emotionally fervent Abstract Expressionist movement, which had a dominant hold on the art world. "Judd thought you needed to verify things and know what you're looking at first," Ballantine says. "Otherwise, everything afterwards is built on sand. It was a reaction to '50s Abstract Expressionism."
In 1962, after years of painting, Judd made his first object. ("He never liked the term sculpture," Ballantine says.) His show at New York's Green Gallery the next year was a sensation. In 1968, at age 39, he was honored with a retrospective at the Whitney. "In those days, you either had to be dead or close to it to have a one-man retrospective at one of the big New York museums," Ballantine points out, "and he'd only been doing sculpture per se for six years." As the value of his work skyrocketed, Judd was able to buy his first vehicle, a Land Rover, and his first home, 101 Spring Street, which he snapped up for $68,000.
The structure's tall wood-frame windows let in a surprising amount of light for that part of the city. From early to mid-afternoon, it takes on a dazzling quality not unlike the brilliant light of Maria. The building, Julie Finch says, was always in transition. Judd abandoned the first floor and moved his studio to the third floor in 1973; the street-level windows made it too easy for friends and strangers to interrupt the artist's work. About a year later, the then-empty first floor was reinvented as his first permanent installation space. Part of the second floor became Finch's studio for dancing after Judd squeezed her out of the third floor. The rest of the second floor was dominated by a huge table, built by two workers from Maria, and by the kitchen, whose centerpiece was a commercial stove, a now-fashionable accessory that was rare in a private residence back then. "Don loved plain-looking, functional things," Finch says. He commissioned a David Novros fresco in 1970 and later installed an Ad Reinhart painting from 1952. Most of these furnishings and finery are as Judd left them, as if caught in amber.
The third floor, which contains a stand-up desk, a reading table, two large Judd pieces from the '60s, a Larry Bell glass sculpture and some Aalto chairs, was Judd's sanctuary. The fourth floor is decked out with an Oldenburg from 1961, a Flavin from 1962 and a Stella from 1967, alongside Rietveldt chairs and Etruscan candlesticks.
The family initially lived on the fifth floor. Judd designed dressing rooms and installed stainless-steel sinks. There's a loft for Flavin Judd and underneath it, a small room that was occupied by baby Rainer. The fifth floor also contains the largest Dan Flavin piece in the building, Dedicated to Flavin Starbuck Judd '68, a series of bulbs in interlocking metal frames that extend along the entire length of the floor. The Flavin complements Judd's first sculpture, the untitled work from 1962. The low-lying Judd-designed bed in the middle of the space arrived in 1970.
Soho, as it soon came to be called, was transforming as rapidly as 101 Spring itself was changing. A cooperative children's play group formed on Prince Street. Giorgio DeLuca ran a cheese shop on Prince before joining forces with Joel Dean. A restaurant called Food opened at the corner of Wooster and Prince. According to Finch, by the time she left the building on the way to divorcing Judd, ten years after they moved into 101 Spring Street, neighborhood artists were fighting discos.
Judd found that his money went further in Texas, at least in terms of wide-open spaces. But he never abandoned 101. In 1983, his children returned to live there and attend high school. And all along, the kids took their father's creative process in stride. "Art just came with the territory," Rainer Judd says. "101 Spring Street is the expression of how one person lived."
In Judd's last will and testament, the artist stated: "It is my hope that such of my works which I own at the time of my death as are installed at 101 Spring Street in New York City, or in Marfa, Texas, will be preserved where they are installed." Almost ten years later, it appears his hope will finally be fulfilled.
REMAINS OF HIS DAY
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Judd as seen in his 101 Spring ground-floor workspace in 1970. Photograph by Rainer Judd
Donald Judd's ideas about installing art continue to fuel a movement 40 years later.
The idea of permanent art installation, which formed in Donald Judd's brain in the early '60s, sparked a transformation in how contemporary art is viewed and presented in the country's galleries and museums. Here, a time line of the sometimes contentious journey from Judd's early days in Soho to the newly opened Dia: Beacon.
>> In the early '60s, Judd complains about the way his art is exhibited and writes extensively about new ways of installing it. He philosophizes about the subject with Heiner Friedrich, a Soho gallery owner; the pair especially likes the concept of a single-artist museum. Some of their ideas are worked out at 101 Spring Street.
>> Friedrich is sufficiently inspired to cofound (with his wife, Philippa de Menil) the Dia Foundation in 1974. Dia is intended to give unlimited freedom to a small group of chosen artists, including Judd, Dan Flavin, Walter De Maria and composer LaMonte Young.
>> Soon after, Dia fulfills Judd's quest for space, light, privacy and permanency by purchasing Fort Russell, a former army post on 340 acres in Marfa, Texas. Judd converts the abandoned barracks and artillery sheds into exhibition spaces. Meanwhile, Dia funds other single-artist, site-specific installations, like De Maria's Lightning Field near Quemado, New Mexico.
>> Dia, in a financial crisis, auctions off some of its holdings and has to renege on some promised stipends to artists–including Judd. Judd, threatening a lawsuit, wins custody of his art (and another $2 million) in an out-of-court settlement. In 1986, Judd creates the Chinati Foundation to steward his installation works and the work of other artists at the Marfa fort.
>> The concept of a museum dedicated to a single artist becomes reality at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, New York, dedicated in 1992.
>> Mass MOCA, a contemporary-art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts, opens in 1999 and carries on Dia's founding ideas. Its stated mission is to give artists "the tools and time to create works of scale and duration impossible to realize in the time and space-cramped conditions of most museums. We endeavor to expose our audiences to all stages of art production; rehearsals, sculptural fabrication, and developmental workshops are frequently on view to the public, as are finished works of art."
>> The Judd estate is settled in 2002, freeing up the Judd Foundation to preserve 101 Spring Street, as well as Judd's residences and smaller properties in Marfa, while the Chinati Foundation continues to oversee the big art at the Marfa fort.
>> Dia opens Dia: Beacon in May 2003 in an old factory building, the former Nabisco plant in Beacon, New York. The theories worked out at 101 Spring Street are manifested in Dia: Beacon's exhibition of such artists as Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra and, naturally, Judd.
For information on tours of 101 Spring Street, visit juddfoundation.org or call 212-219-2747. [Time Out New York]
What Would Donald Judd Do? Seven years after Donald Judd's death, the residents of a cow town in far west Texas are caught in the middle of an estate war between the renowned artist's former lover and his children. [Texas Feature, July 2001]
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Giving back to your community can be easy, and even fun, when you get creative with how you can help. You don't need a lot of money, people or time to make a difference. Simply by using the skills you already have, and sharing them with others, you can come up with all sorts of clever ways to make an impact in your community.
Animal shelters can always use a set of extra hands, and volunteering has never been so cute and rewarding! While there might be some "dirty" tasks, on occasion, you'll also get to spend some quality time with adorable animals who want nothing more than a little love. What is better than that?
There are lots of places looking for volunteers to help with activities for kids. Try looking at schools, day care centers, camps, church groups, the YMCA and various mentorship programs. Even if you don't think you're particularly gifted, you may be able to help a child learn a simple skill such as painting or drawing, riding a bike, playing sports, arts and crafts, physical fitness activities, gardening, hair and makeup, and more. All it takes is a phone call and your willingness to lend a helping hand.
Ask people within the community to donate their clothing, shoes and accessories, then re-label them with yard sale prices. Donate all the proceeds from the sale to a local charity—like a soup kitchen or animal shelter/rescue—then donate any of the remaining clothing to a local shelter.
Your pet makes you happy, so maybe he or she can make someone else happy too! Consider bringing your pet to a local senior center or hospital to bring some joy to the residents. However, be sure to consider your pet's disposition, the needs of the patients, and the policy of the facility before you try giving back in this way.
Next time you're baking for a family gathering or work event, consider baking extra treats and bringing them to a local police station, veteran club, senior home or soup kitchen. This is a great way to give back and show your appreciation!
We've all got something we're good at, and if you're lucky enough to be good in the academic realm, consider sharing your smarts with students in your area. Many schools and after school programs would be happy to take on a volunteer to help students improve.
Looking for a different way to give back in your community? Check online to find opportunities closest to you. You might be surprised how many ways there are to give back right in your own area!


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Ennahdha-Qatar-United States: Dangerous Liaisons
By Sarah Ben Hamadi (Posted Nov 12, 2011)
DemocracyAsia, United StatesNews
For his first post-election trip, Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahdha party, visited the Emir of Qatar. No surprise — he has to thank his sponsors and reassure them on their investments.
This visit is worrisome, since Ennahdha is now the leading political force in Tunisia. It is clear that the party is financed by a foreign country, whose interests are suspicious (in my personal opinion), and which has, as is its right, harbored Sakher El Materi since he fled the country on 14 January 2011. . . . By the way, I hope that the sheikh found time to visit his dear friend and to reassure him on his Zitouna Radio (whose launching he had felicitated in 2007 via a public communiqué).
Speaking of Sakher El Materi, it's worth remembering that not a word has been said on Qatar's news network Al Jazeera about Ben Ali's kind who have found a bed of roses in Qatar. Objective and professional journalism, would you say? Again, no surprise — especially when you consider that, during the electoral campaign, we hardly saw anything other than Ennahdha on Al Jazeera. (The information control unit under the ISIE, Tunisia's election commission, moreover confirmed it in its report.)
But it's not just Qatar's support. Paradoxical as it may seem, Ennahdha also enjoys US support. The Americans must have thought about, for several years, how to play the "democracy and Isalm" card in the region. The Wikileaks cables published this week by Takriz prove that. The Ennahdha leaders' dodging of questions concerning the role of the United States also confirms it.
I ask myself three burning questions: What is the new strategy of the United States in the region? What role will it lead Qatar to play (let's not forget that Qatar hosts a US military base and it has played its role in Libya hand in hand with NATO)? And what will be the future of Tunisia?
Update: According to diplomatic sources, the Emir of Qatar will be the guest at the inauguration of the Constituent Assembly.
Sarah Ben Hamadi is a writer in La Marsa, Tunisia. The original article "Ennahdha-Qatar-Etats-Unis : les liaisons dangereuses" was published in Un Oeil sur la Planète on 2 November 2011. Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi | yoshie.furuhashi [at] gmail.com). Cf. Today, Ennahdha Secretary General Hammadi Jbali publicly announced that the Emir of Qatar has indeed been invited to attend the Constituent Assembly inauguration. Tellingly, he made that announcement at a meeting hosted by the Center of Young Business Leaders and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The Communist Workers Party's Hamma Hammami strongly opposes that invitation and has called upon others to oppose it too.
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This year's Royal Rumble was unusual in several ways. From Women entering the men's rumble, to someone who wasn't originally in the women's Rumble winning it.
Another thing some may have missed is that there were very few nostalgia entries, in fact, Jeff Jarrett was the only one.
Next to Jarrett, the only person you could try and call a nostalgia act is Kurt Angle, who entered at number four, but this was very nearly not the case.
Until very close to the start of the match, that position had been reserved by Zack Ryder (or Zach Ryder according to Raw), and it was decided at the last minute to put Kurt into the match instead.
Wrestling Observer Radio is reporting that the decision was made as it was generally felt that Kurt would receive a bigger pop than Ryder.
Having said this, it doesn't look like they made any changes regarding the match itself, as Kurt was the second person to be unceremoniously thrown out after Jeff Jarrett.
Poor Zack Ryder. Even when he's been booked in a match he doesn't even get to be in them. But hey, at least he's now in a team with Curt Hawkins so he's guaranteed a win at some point, right?


The Sri Lankan rubber industry realized the need for more trained personnel operating at higher technological and managerial levels as competition has increased due to innovations and challenges from emerging rubber industries in countries such as China and Vietnam.
"As a small producer that accounts for around 1.5% of the world's natural rubber production, Sri Lanka must aim at marketing niche products of high value to improve profits," USAID Mission Director Rebecca Cohn told the incoming students and the PRISL management. "New technology has the potential to be used in the rubber industry to develop innovative products and processes.
PRISL President Ananda Kaldera acknowledged during the launch that, "this course of study will be the vehicle with which we make a lasting, meaningful contribution to the rubber industry." USAID assistance to PRISL dates back to 1991 when they participated in USAID's Technology Initiatives for the Private Sector, or TIPS, project.


The Democratic candidate for Texas' 21st Congressional District, Joseph Kopser, said Friday that he admired Donald Trump until the billionaire said former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
"For a very long time I thought that he was who he said he was, until the whole birther movement," Kopser said.
Kopser, who faces Republican Chip Roy in the race for the San Antonio-based district, was speaking with The Texas Tribune's Evan Smith during an hourlong event. You can watch the replay above.
Kopser said he didn't like that President Trump in 2015 called late U.S. Sen. John McCain a "loser." Like McCain, Kopser is a veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star.
Kopser said that Trump should "knock off" his attacks against political opponents in the context of the recent pipe bombs sent to Trump critics like Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"That's not the role and position of the commander-in-chief," Kopser said.
Kopser said he would support a Trump impeachment depending on the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 elections. The congressional hopeful also said he doesn't believe Democrats should adopt Trump's political tactics.
Kopser said he was a "Ronald Reagan Republican" as a kid, but that he is running as a Democrat because the Democratic Party is doing a much better job at looking out for one another, an attribute that Kopser said he learned in the military.
"We leave no one behind, whether it's because they have pre-existing conditions, whether it's because they don't have the education they need, or because their ZIP code happens to be the wrong one," Kopser said.
Kopser said that Texas Republicans censured outgoing Texas House Speaker Joe Straus for not being conservative enough.
"I thought Joe Straus did a pretty damn good job in his years as speaker, especially with issues like pushing back on the extreme parts of his party," Kopser said.
Kopser wants to improve the Affordable Care Act so that everyone has health insurance, particularly people with pre-existing conditions.
In the district, there are more than 300,000 people that fall into that category, according to Kopser. He said that private companies will not voluntarily protect these patients because the cost is too high.
"There is no incentive for a private company to pick up a person with pre-existing conditions," Kopser said.


Pale yellow dandelion-like flowers in clusters with bracts spreading outwards a little.
Small, pale brown and with slender parachute-like tufts of soft white hair coming out from its end.
Alternate leaves, in a rosette. The leaves are bristly and covered in many small raised bumps, almost looking as if it has some kind of disease. Each bump has a hooked hair emerging from it.
The young leaves are edible raw or cooked. Not great tasting and they don't look too appealing with all those spiny bumps, or blisters over them.
Cliffs, farmland, hedgerows, meadows, roadsides, seaside, walls, wasteland.


Two teams hoping to win this week were Rock Center and CCU Ambassadors! Which team will be able to come away with a victory and which will end the day disappointed?
The CCU Ambassadors and Rock Center started the game with 5 players. CCU caught fire in the second quarter! They were hitting shots from all over the court. CCU connected on 22-39 (56.4%) fgs in the first half! Their captain Jeremy Lee was hot! He scored 19 of his game high 36pts on 16-32 (50%) shooting! Chris Lee had his back as he scored 18pts (12pts in the first half). For the game CCU shot 37-69 (53.6%)! They were up at the half, 49-36!
Rock Center came out ready to play. They went up one by the end first quarter. But, turnovers were plaguing them in the second quarter. Rock Center shot the ball well (8-12 fgs) in the second but turnovers were their Achilles heel! Aaron B. led his team in scoring with 26pts on 9-13 (69.2%) fgs and Tommy came thru with 19pts! As a team, Rock Center shot 33-61 (54.1%) fgs. In the second half, they received a shot of adrenaline when Daniel showed up to give them new life! He along with Aaron B. played hard in the second half. CCU ran out of gas and Rock Center was able to win the game, 87-84!


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Can the city government win back public trust?
Each new year offers an opportunity to fix our failures and shortcomings of the past — begin anew with healthy living, diets and exercise; being a better spouse, parent or friend; setting budgets and ridding frivolous habits.
Resolutions should be noble and ambitious endeavors toward self-improvement, while some are borne of necessity. Such is the case for Louisville Metro Government, which should focus on two main resolutions: rebuild trust and restore confidence within the community.
Every decision made by Mayor Greg Fischer, the Metro Council and Louisville Metro Police Department needs to support these two goals. They might not be able to fully repair the damage done in 2020 — and before — but by focusing on transparency and accountability, they can begin restoring public trust and confidence in our city.
The tragedy of Breonna Taylor alone would have been enough to shatter public trust and confidence: From the beginning, the underlying case argued to obtain the "no-knock" search warrant of Taylor's residence was questionable. The ambiguous, sometimes conflicting accounts from officers the night of the raid only added to public skepticism. Then, a dubious internal investigation brought the entire department's integrity into question. Finally, Attorney General Dan Cameron's sham-Grand Jury presentation guaranteed there would be no transparency for the community — or justice for Breonna.
It's even possible that Kenneth Walker — who was originally charged with attempted murder of a police officer — would be in jail, today, were it not for family members, attorneys and activists fighting to raise public awareness of his unjust arrest. Yet, the mistakes and failures kept piling on.
This was most evidenced in 2020 by the city's insistence on aggressive policing of peaceful protests — even after it had become clear that aggressive policing was largely responsible for escalating violence and disorder among otherwise peaceful demonstrations.
Police brought the violence when the LMPD — alongside the National Guard — cleared a parking lot in The West End, more than 20 blocks from the protests, which led to the killing of David McAtee.
Police brought the violence to peaceful marchers, barricading and bullying them on Main Street hours before a city curfew.
Police brought the violence when they corralled protesters on Bardstown Road — while protestors, before that, self-governed anyone who became remotely destructive.
Police brought the violence to a local news cameraperson, shooting them on live TV with a rubber or pepper bullet.
Each instance — among many others — showed a failure of accountability and an inability to learn from mistakes, undermining public trust and confidence. So, who will be accountable in 2021 for these and years of other failures?
Just in recent weeks, we learned that LMPD continues to lie and illegally conceal information from the public. "Louisville Metro Police concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers — then lied to keep the files from the public, records show," The Courier Journal reported in mid November.
It's not just the LMPD. Recently, The CJ reported that Fischer, council members and other public officials held over two dozen private calls, potentially violating Kentucky's open meeting laws. The calls began as Fischer attempted to communicate quick-moving developments related to the pandemic to other city officials, which The CJ confirmed from city records they later obtained. However, the calls eventually expanded to include discussions of broader issues and the city's response — business that is expected to be announced and held before the public.
Several elected officials involved in the calls (some through a spokesperson) pushed back against accusations that these calls violated the open meetings law. Jean Porter, Fischer's spokeswoman, told The CJ, "We viewed the calls as a way to be responsive to the council and keep them as up to date as possible."
To be fair, 2020 was disorienting. The rapid, escalating demands to respond to a global health crisis, the social- and racial-justice movement and the logistical disruptions to everyday life — having to modify every operation to function virtually — it's understandable that even the most responsible public officials would cut corners to do their jobs and be responsive to the public.
The city settled a lawsuit brought by The CJ to stop the secret calls, in which they agreed to turn over records related to the calls and pay The CJ $10,000 in attorneys fees… but did not admit wrongdoing. But the law was violated — even if with good intentions.
This is why it's important that our elected leaders start from a foundation of trust: When an honest mistake is made, we can trust it was at least with good intentions — and not to protect what's behind the curtain.
The city needs our leaders to restore integrity to our institutions. The only way to do it is a steady diet of transparency and accountability. •


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Canadian Horseshoe Pitchers Yearbook
The Dominion of Canada Horseshoe Pitchers Association first published a Yearbook in June-July 1931, covering the 1930 horseshoe season. It also contained the official rules and some general information (player and volunteer profiles). A reproduction of that rare and informative publication is available on this website.
A few newsletters were published after that but the next Yearbook was to be an initiative of Edward H. Murray. Covering the 1976 season, the book was printed in the winter/spring of 1977. Ed Murray was to be the Editor of the Yearbook until 1986 when he transfered the copyright to Horseshoe Canada. Sharon Ellison was then Editor from 1986-87 to 1990-91, followed by Andre Leclerc who is still the current Editor (Bob Davidson was Editor for 1998-99).
The work initiated by Ed Murray was to become a huge factor in the development of Horseshoe Canada. The Yearbook being one of best way to communicate the information and re-unite the provinces. The Yearbooks are great collector's items, containing many pictures (lots of action shots), tournament results, profiles, etc…
Here are the cover pages of some of the last editions published:
The last editions contain 92 or 96 pages and more than 100 pictures, with reports on the Canadian, World and Provincial championships, and many more. It can be ordered by contacting the Editor Andre LECLERC or through your provincial representative. The price, which used to be $10, is now $12 per copy payable to Horseshoe Canada.
Previous editions can be obtained through the public relations officer.


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Health sector takes actions to bring happy Tết to all residents
Đỗ Xuân Tuyên, deputy minister of health talks to the press about measures taken to maintain Việt Nam's success in the fight against COVID-19, and ensuring a happy Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday to all residents
MSD pioneers in addressing Antimicrobial Resistance in VN, SEA
MSD (tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey) has announced it has sponsored the Business Council for International Understanding to hold a high-level forum with the topic "Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance in Việt Nam and Southeast Asia" with attendees from the Ministry of Health, Việt Nam Social Insurance, international experts and leading healthcare professionals across the country.
Việt Nam strengthens movement against antimicrobial resistance
Experts have called for further action today to preserve the effectiveness of antimicrobials at a meeting held on the occasion of the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week in Việt Nam.
Digital transformation offers better access to health services
Minister and Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng talks to the press about the role of digital transformation in the health sector
Health ministry launches Medical Public Portal
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with Military Telecommunication Group Viettel launched its Medical Public Portal at the address in Hà Nội on Friday.
Ministry of Health tightens the management of medical waste during floods
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has told health facilities in flood-hit areas to prioritise clean water and ensure the areas are thoroughly disinfected to stop the spread of diseases.
Digital technology in the health service
Professor Trần Quý Tường, director general of the Agency of Information Technology at the Ministry of Health, talks to VietTimes about the use of electronic health records.
MSIG RM20k Donation To MoH For PPE For Sabah Front Liners MSIG RM20k Donation To MoH For PPE For Sabah Front Liners
Health ministry launches action month on excess cholesterol prevention The Ministry of Health has launched an action month on prevention of excess cholesterol in the body as part of the national strategy for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) for the period 2015-2025.
COVID-19: Deputy PM orders strict management of people coming from abroad Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam demanded serious compliance to the rules laid down of the management of people entering Việt Nam so as to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.