Imagine being seriously wounded while serving in the military. The Veterans Administration (VA) covers all of your medical treatment. But, if your injuries have impaired your reproductive system so that when you want to start a family, the doctors say you need IVF — then you are out of luck. IVF is banned for the VA.
That's what motivated RESOLVE and veterans groups to fight to change the VA policy. In late 2016, we won a significant victory: we got Congress to pass a bill allowing the VA to cover IVF for wounded veterans. And we did it again in 2018. BUT — the benefits are good only through September 2019.
We're continuing the fight for justice in reproduction for veterans, to extend the benefit past 2019. And let's be clear: we're beginning with coverage for wounded veterans, but our vision is coverage for every veteran. Share your support for this legislation with your Members of Congress.
Make #IVF4Vets a permanent program. Our advocates were successful in securing funding so that the Veterans Administration can offer IVF for wounded Vets in FY 2017 and FY 2018, but it did not lift the ban permanently. We will ask Congress to make #IVF4Vets permanent through passage of the Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act of 2019.
The U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives passed the MilCon-VA Appropriations bill for FY 2017 which included an amendment to allocate funds to the Veterans Administration to offer IVF to wounded Veterans and provides for adoption assistance to wounded Veterans. The appropriation will allow the VA to offer IVF to wounded Veterans for the first time ever, for FY 2017 and FY 2018. The passage of this bill signifies a tremendous victory for RESOLVE and its partners, and especially for its advocates, who have advocated for this change at every Advocacy Day for the past four years.
Though DoD can provide IVF treatment, too many service members are excluded from eligibility for this and other treatments. The VA is completely barred from providing IVF services because of an outdated regulation. Introduced on February 4, 2019, HR 955 would improve the reproductive assistance provided by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to severely wounded, ill, or injured members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their spouses or partners, and for other purposes.
Through the Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act of 2019, veterans have a chance at the family they always dreamed of. For many wounded veterans, assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF may be their only hope of ever having a biological child with their spouse/partner.


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What chapter of SPY X FAMILY manga does anime Season 1 end on? What volume is that?
SPY x FAMILY was one of the most popular anime series of 2022.
So much so, since Season 1 ended on Christmas Eve with Episode 25, it probably isn't surprising that so many fans are still in withdrawal. Desperate to find out what happens with the Forger family, and wondering if they should begin reading the manga series to catch up.
Especially as there are so many volumes of the SPY x FAMILY manga already out, the series does carry on from the events of Season 1 of the anime.
That is why, if you want to know what chapter of the SPY x FAMILY manga the anime Season 1 ends on — whether you want to continue on with the story, or only read up to where the anime itself left off — here is what you need to know.
What volume of the SPY X FAMILY manga does anime Season 1 end on? And which chapter?
The events of Episode 25 of the anime series take place in Chapter 38.
That means, if you want to continue on with the story, you can do that with Chapter 39.
If you want to be sure you don't read any of the manga past where the anime has already reached though, then you should stop reading at the end of Chapter 38.
The only problem with that, however, is that Chapter 38 is the first chapter in Volume 7 of the manga,
With six other chapters included in the same volume, that means you will have to show amazing willpower not to read them.
And, if you don't manage to exercise that willpower, Volume 8 is also already out in English, with Volume 9 heading our way in March too.
Whatever you decide, you can buy all the currently available volumes of the SPY x FAMILY manga via Viz Media.
You can also watch the 25-episode Season 1 of the SPY x FAMILY anime series on Crunchyroll.
Happy viewing (and reading).
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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Columbus Nursing Home
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Published February 26, 2019 at 1:33 PM EST
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The family of a man who died as the result of alleged neglect at a Columbus nursing home has filed a civil lawsuit.
The family of 56-year old James Chandler is suing Whetstone Gardens and Care Center on Olentangy River Road, along with several nurses and doctors. Chandler died on March 5, 2017 from septic shock.
Attorney David Shroyer says health care workers were negligent.
"Failure to observe and monitor the bedsore, failure to properly treat it, and failure to properly get him to the hospital early enough to prevent the death from the overwhelming infection that he had," Shroyer says.
A second patient at Whetstone also died under similar circumstances.
Ohio Attorney General David Yost recently announced the indictment of seven nurses on 34 charges related to the facility's neglect. Three nurses—Sandra Blazer, Jessica Caldwell and Kimberly Potter—were indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, gross patient neglect and patient neglect as a result of failing to provide timely medical treatment to the patient.
"We're seeking wrongful death damages, which is the damages to the next of kin—in other words, the mental anguish they went through from losing their son and their brother," Shroyer says.
Shroyer says the lawsuit comes after family members discovered more information about the nursing home's questionable practices.
"They didn't realize the significance of the lack of care that had been given until the attorney general had concluded their investigation," Shroyer says
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DEAD MAN'S SWITCH a crypto mystery
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Beyond the headlines and behind the shadows, Candice (original working title While You Were Gone: The Untold Story of Candida Royalle) is an intimate portrait of the woman behind the porn star and pioneering feminist pornographer, Candida Royalle.
This film has been a labor of love and a test of dedication.
Candice and I started to work together on this film after we met in 2013 while making Inside Her Sex. Candice asked if I would be willing to help make a biography film where she could tell her own story, in her own words.
When Candice passed away in 2015, I was left with the task of finishing the film. For a number of reasons, it has taken longer than I hoped, but the end is in sight and I am excited to, finally, take Candice out into the world.
She was a fascinating woman and I'm looking forward to sharing her story.
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Huddersfield Giants swoop for young Castleford Tigers star Ben Blackmore
HUDDERSFIELD Giants have swooped to sign one of Castleford Tigers' rising stars.
New Giants signing Ben Blackmore
Nineteen-year-old winger Ben Blackmore has moved to the John Smith's Stadium on a one-year contract, with the initial aim of putting selection pressure on the club's experienced outside backs.
The 6ft 2in youngster has made one Super League appearance for Castleford, and head coach Paul Anderson believes he has the making of a top-class three-quarter.
"Ben is physically very promising and has good speed," said the Giants chief.
"He is tall and has a good frame that with full-time training will fill out nicely to be able to play comfortably just below the 100kg mark.
"He's very hungry to grab the opportunity we are giving him and, alongside Matty Dawson, will really challenge the more established outside backs here at the club next year.
"It was self-evident to anyone who saw him in the Under 20s against us that he is a raw, naturally-talented player who frankly excites me as to what we may be able to make of him."
Blackmore will link up with the Giants for pre-season training at the end of October and can't wait to get started.
"This is a great opportunity for me at a big Super League club," said Blackmore (right), who joins fellow new signings Brett Ferres, Anthony Mullally and Ukuma Ta'ai.
"It's a club that gives youth players a chance to progress and I also know a few of the lads here
"There's a great squad at the Giants and I'm looking forward to working hard and learning from the players and coaching staff."
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Majorca has two wild clematis in its flora. One is Clematis cirrhosa and the other is Clematis flammula. Last year I made the acquaintance of Clematis flammula in the late spring. This year I was just able to catch Clematis cirrhosa before all the flowers had gone. As my first hunting ground I took the old road from Pollenca to Campanet, which takes one through a gorgeous valley in the foothills of the mountains. At first I saw none. Then after a mile, suddenly, on the left side of the road, facing north, there was a plant of Clematis cirrhosa in full bloom. The shrub went up to no more than 5ft (1.5m). It was in flower, I realised, because it was in a very shaded part of the road against a tall hedge.
On a previous visit I had explored the hamlet of Biribona, and I knew that running out of the village was a lane that led up into the mountains. It seemed just the sort of place to find more Clematis cirrhosa. So I journeyed there today. Just as I walked out of the village I saw some cirrhosa up on a wall and I took this as a good omen. However, casting an eye to the right and left of me, I journeyed up towards the mountains for at least two miles and saw nothing in the way of Clematis cirrhosa. Mark you, there was a great deal else to see. Just as I left the village there was a splendid olive grove. The trees looked as if they had been there for infinite time, all gnarled and twisted. I noticed, too, that they had been pruned. Very heavily pruned. It seemed drastic treatment for trees so old but I am sure the owners knew what they were doing. Further up there was a stream, now dry, with trees on both sides. I made a note that although the lane would be difficult for cars nevertheless it would be a lovely place for a picnic some day. But as for Clematis cirrhosa there was none.
Today I returned to Biribona because I had seen Clematis cirrhosa high up on one of the walls and therefore thought that surely somewhere there must be some Clematis cirrhosa. So this time I took the road to Caimari. Sure enough within a few feet of leaving the village I came upon an abundance of it. All the way to Caimari, a distance of about five miles, there was Clematis cirrhosa on both sides of the road. One could almost call this the road of Clematis cirrhosa.
Today I returned to the old road between Pollenca and Campanet on our way to the caves of Campanet. But there was a purpose in my visit. Botanists describing the flora of Majorca make the point that the flowers of cirrhosa and its foliage can be very diverse. So my plan was to check on this supposition. They are clearly right. Having found a clematis with diverse blooms and diverse foliage I then checked to see how closely they grew together. Within a distance of ten yards (9m) I found one clematis heavily freckled inside, so freckled, that on the outside the bloom looked red. Within the ten yards there was another plant with the flower only lightly freckled. Again within the ten yards there was a plant with a flower with no freckles at all. It was a clear white bloom. The foliage again was equally diverse. In some plants a leaf can be single and large, in another it could be finely cut, and in yet another it could be very finely cut.
Collecting a plant in the wild reminds one of the thrill that the great plant hunters must have experienced. Or did they always know at the time what an impression the new plant was going to cause? Who was the greatest plant hunter of all time? Siebold from Germany, PËre Armand David from France and EH Wilson from the UK must compete for this title.
And who was the most significant plant hunter for clematis? There there can be little doubt. Robert Fortune's finding of Clematis lanuginosa created the interest in clematis. He must have been bewitched by this large clematis growing wild on the hills of central China.
The finding of Clematis patens was also significant for the development of clematis. But much less so than the finding of Clematis lanuginosa. One of the Jackman's, probably George Jackman, published a list of the genetic background of 100 clematis grown in the 19th century. Eighty five per cent of these had Clematis lanuginosa in their background, pointing to the immense impact that this clematis made. Clematis patens on the other hand had something more like 8% in the background of the clematis. Clematis patens however is a much tougher clematis than the Clematis lanuginosa and comes from Northern China and Korea.
When there are not many clematis about in flower to admire, then naturally, one's eye picks up colour elsewhere. Walking in the countryside this morning my eye caught a land band of yellow in the distance. This proved to be acres and acres of yellow gorse. They were a telling sight in the sun. This reminded me that when Linnaeus came to Great Britain he was loud in his praise of our gorse. We natives tend to regard it as a weed which inhabits waste ground. He saw the intrinsic beauty of it.
Before going away I had put my Clematis fasciculiflora in a shed in the dark. My purpose was to retard the flowering of the plant. People showing clematis sometimes have to do this in order to get the plant flowering at the right moment. So I was interested to see how effective was this mechanism. It was very effective. On my return I could see that the plant had hardly matured at all.
Today I have been looking at all the clematis that have been given protection against frost this winter. The time has come to remove the protection. I have been using two types of material, one 'garden fleece' and the other 'bubble wrap'. It would seem to me that the garden fleece is the superior material. It breathes. Bubble wrap makes an impenetrable protection which, unfortunately, allows no air to get in. Thus mould and rotting can take place in the leaves and stems.
I have been looking at the Type 1 pruning group. This type embraces the Evergreen Group, the Alpinas, the Macropetalas, the Rockery Group, and the Montana Group. The first four groups are not going to need pruning this year. I'll reserve judgement over the fifth group. I can that one or two may need pruning after flowering.
Today I went round all my Early Large Flowering clematis, Group VI, in my classification. They make up Type 2 in the pruning code. I have simply taken out all the dead stems and left it at that. After this group has flowered it may be worthwhile doing some further pruning.
(0.5 -1m) of the ground. The stems were brought together in a tie and they were left. The stems gave some protection to the crowns of those plants. Now they have all been cut right to the ground. In most instances young shoots are already coming from the ground. I am somewhat happier to see some good strong shoots coming from the soil rather than weaker shoots coming from short stems that have been left in the ground.
Today I have been checking on my watering system. Most of the garden is watered by a leaky pipe system 4-6ins (10-15cms) under the ground. I have six watering points. This means that I go to each point in turn giving the area watered by that point about an hour's watering. Some day I might put these points on a clock so that the watering occurs automatically. This is by far the best system for watering clematis. The water is released underground, thus none is lost. Furthermore the ground around the crown of the plant is not made moist; this reduces the incidence of stem rot (clematis wilt). Each year I have a few breaks in the pipes. This is usually caused by frost. However one has to continually remind oneself when one is working in a bed that the pipes are beneath. To repair a cut is simplicity itself. The pipe is cut right across with scissors or pliers. Then a plastic connector brings the two ends of pipe together.
'W E Gladstone' has truly surprised me this year. Normally my plant dies to the ground each winter although it comes up strongly again. It has not died down this year. It has thrown up strong shoots and some of these have large buds on. Later I should have some 'dinner plate' sized blooms from this plant.
Today I saw two excellent examples of C. armandii 'Snowdrift' in bloom. Both produced a wall of white blossom, a sight to behold. My C. armandii 'Apple Blossom' will not be in bloom for some while yet. This is for two reasons. Firstly, we are elevated beyond the village in my garden here. Elevation makes a considerable difference in flowering time. Secondly, to avoid the strong cold winds I have had to put it in a sheltered corner; the semi-shade tends also to retard the time of flowering. But when it comes it will be a glorious sight, probably blooming at the same time as 'Cydonia Japonica'.
Sometimes, buying clematis late in the autumn, you feel they need a spell in a pot before you can plant them out in the ground. One has two options. Firstly, one can put all the pots together in a trench and bring the soil up to the lip of the pot. They will be quite happy there until the spring when one can deal with them in the normal way. Secondly, one can put the pot where you are intending to put the clematis and leave it there over winter. I did this with six clematis last autumn and will have to deal with them tomorrow.
Today I set about dealing with the six pots with clematis that I had planted in their planting positions in the autumn. I find that the best technique is to dig down on one side of the pot, exposing that side of the pot from top to bottom. One then takes the secateurs or strong scissors and cuts down from the top edge to the bottom. One then gently pulls the two halves of the pot apart. Then one pulls upwards and the pot will slip out of the ground. However, this will only happen if one has taken the bottom of the pot away before planting. This is best done with a sharp knife, cutting just above the lower limits of the side of the pot. Cutting it all the way around will find yourself with the flat bottom of the pot in your hand.
Today I was asked to recommend a friend a suitable clematis for strong scent. My thoughts of course immediately turned to Clematis triternata 'Rubromarginata'. What a mouthful! My friend asked me to repeat it, then to repeat it again. Then he asked me to kindly write it down for him. It is a trial that some of our clematis flowers are difficult to pronounce. This particular plant is a great joy and a plant for every garden. I am tempted to call the plant 'Scented Gem'. People would surely understand that. However, I am advised that I would probably only add confusion to the situation by producing yet another name.
Today my eye caught C. viticella 'Mrs Tag Lundell'. Earlier in the year cut to the ground she is already displaying twelve strong shoots from the ground, all of which are now up to 3ft (1m). She is a Swedish clematis named after the wife of the distinguished hybridist Tag Lundell. She has the distinction, to my mind, of improving her colouring as the flower gets more mature. This is unusual. Certainly a fine addition to the ranks of the viticellas.
While it is unusual for blooms to become more interesting with age there are exceptions. Both C. montana 'Freda' and C. viticella 'Ville de Lyon' open as young blooms with a strong red colour. Within a short period of time in both blooms the centre fades so that now one has a two-tone bloom instead of a one-tone bloom. This tends to add to the attraction of the flower.
While some blooms do get more interesting with age, in general, blooms lose colour with time. This particularly happens to the light pinks such as 'Hagley Hybrid', 'Comtesse de Bouchaud'. In fact it tends to happen to all blooms of slight intensity. It can also happen to the bi-coloured blooms. A good example of course is our old friend 'Nelly Moser'. Of a really delightful delicate pink when she first opens, unfortunately, given more light, then she tends to fade badly. Some people arrest this development by growing her in semi-shade.
The time has come to hoe the bed. People have preferences in hoes. I use a Dutch hoe. There is a special problem in my bed. Just below the surface are the leaky pipes which is the mainstay of my watering system. I find, however, that if I am careful I can usually hoe the top inch of the surface without doing any damage. When I get within a foot of the bottom of a clematis plant then I discard the hoe and weed by hand.
Some of the viticellas are making such growth that some of the stems are loose in the breeze. Thus they are calling for support or some of them will snap off. Th support that I give them are canes of varying lengths. Some need the support of a cane just to go 3ft (1m) into a shrub, some 4ft (1.2m) and some 6ft (1.8m), I choose the cane of the length that will do the required job. To the cane I attach ties of plastic coated wire. The ends of the tie are left open and in to this I gently insert the stem or stems. The ends of the tie are gently brought together thus capturing the stems. The ends are then twisted once or twice. If one twists too many times, then when one comes to undo the tie later in the year, one will find oneself with rather a lengthy job.
The English climate is capricious. Having had some lovely warm days the weather forecast has warned of frost last night. They were right. This morning everything was covered with a layer of white frost. I was out early to see what damage had been done to the clematis. It is the montanas that are the most vulnerable this time of the year because they are forming buds. Thankfully the buds are not sufficiently well developed to have been damaged. Some years it has been known for all the clematis on plants in all the gardens in the United Kingdom to have been destroyed by frost. Other plants that are very vulnerable are the magnolias and later on the blooms of wisteria. I carefully examined the magnolias and, fortunately again, the buds are not open enough to have been damaged.
The hoeing is going well. It is as well to start early in the year when there are not too many weeds. One must remember the adage "if you hoe when there aren't any weeds, there never will be any weeds". That is very true.
Hoeing in a rather distant, sheltered, shady corner, I checked on the growth of two of my montanas, the original montana, sometimes called 'Montana alba' and C. montana 'Pink Perfection'. Despite the shade both are growing well. However, I saw a development that must be nipped in the bud. Ivy is growing out from under the trees and have already found their way into the area inhabited by the montanas. They will soon be putting roots down and taking moisture away from the montanas. Fortunately ivy is very easy to work with. You get hold of the end of a branch and tug. This takes you several feet back towards the main plant. Having loosened all the branches it is quite easy to cut them away with a sharp spade. The montanas will be alright this year but I suspect I may find myself having to do the same next year.
The peacocks are in the garden again! There are three of them. Two males and a female. Peacocks are incompatible with successfully growing clematis. They nip all the young shoots as they come through the ground. Young clematis is as tasty to peacocks as asparagus is to me. When the stems of clematis get tough of course the peacocks will avoid them because these stems are poisonous and acrid. I wish they didn't avoid them! Peacocks are dirty, noisy, vicious, and destructive. For a short time of the year, during the mating season, the males put on an astonishing, but somewhat ridiculous, 'display'. I have found that a hiss that I have developed sets them off in flight. But, of course, in the early morning when I am not about they are back in the garden.
Of course a bird well worth having in the garden is the thrush. Two or three years ago I never had a snail in the garden. I put that down to the fact that I had a very light soil and there was insufficient calcium for their shells. But I was wrong. The reason was that I had thrushes at that time in the garden. But now south-east England is barren of thrushes. The snails have become a monumental pest. Perhaps the blackbirds will learn to eat snails.
A remarkable bird in the garden, of course, is the swift. They come every year to nest in the eaves of the house. They feed and mate in the sky. Their feet are rudimentary. The only time they are on anything solid is when they nest. When they coast into the nest you can hear the impact as they hit the nest. Their feet are no use at all as landing gear. As the young move about we have to be careful to keep an eye on the nest. If the youngsters drop out and reach the ground they can never rise again because the feet can't give them a send off. So we must get there before the cat. All one needs to do is simply to pick up the young swift and throw it into the air when, immediately, it soars away.
The bird miracle of the year, however, are the swallows. We have a number that nest in the house every year and have done so as long as we have lived here. They come thousands of miles every spring to find precisely the nest that they left last year. Then, of course, in the autumn they leave us again, only to return next year. I had a pair that nested in a shed. They had nested there as long as I can remember. However we had converted it into a table-tennis room for the grandchildren. So I decided I would block the entry. The swallows came and they were very excited at not being able to get in. However I went out to talk to them. I suggested there were many other places nearby where they could nest and this year I was not letting them in. The male bird was very assertive and he came within a few yards of me. His missus stayed a few yards beyond that. A debate went on but he threw a final argument at me that was irresistible. He said "I have been here longer than you and I have as much right as you to be here". I had to let them in. I developed a close relationship with those swallows. They used to like to come down and have a chat. Birds, like all animals, love you to talk to them. They could be high up in the air and see you in the yard and down they would come for a talk. Miracle birds!


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Lori Loughlin's When Calls the Heart Character Had to 'Travel Back East'
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Last night, Hallmark's hit series When Calls the Heart returned for the first time without star Lori Loughlin, who played Abigail Stanton, mayor of the terrifyingly wholesome Canadian frontier town Hope Valley. How did they write her off? Friends, she "traveled back east," just like your dog went to live on a farm upstate and politicians resign to spend more time with their families.
Loughlin was specifically ushered offstage in a voiceover, the coldest manner of being removed from an ongoing narrative. Via Entertainment Weekly:
Her departure was addressed in the opening scene of the episode, and, well, it was short and sweet. Elizabeth (Erin Krakow) delivered the news, as the audience heard her narrating a letter that she was writing. "We never know how life will turn," she began. "It's been a week since Abigail got word that her mother had taken ill back East. True to her nature, Abigail wasted no time in rushing off to care for her."
"Abigail is much more than a friend. She's family, and I will miss her and Cody deeply. We all will. But we must get by as best we can," added Elizabeth, which is apparently When Calls the Heart speak for "bye, bitch."
Congratulations to Hallmark for this latest innovation in the fine art of euphemism. Could somebody explain how to apply for COBRA? I'm traveling back east.
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Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; Research Fellow, CEPR
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan is Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, College Park. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). A native of Turkey, Professor Kalemli-Ozcan received her BS in Economics from Middle East Technical University in 1995 and her PhD in Economics from Brown University in 2000.
She was the Duisenberg Fellow at the European Central Bank in 2008 and held a position as Lead Economist/Adviser for the Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank during 2010-2011. She was selected as one of the three Senior Research Fellows of the International Monetary Fund in 2013. She has held positions as a Visiting Professor at Bilkent University, Koc University and at Harvard University. She is the Houblon-Norman Fellow of Bank of England and Council of Foreign Relations International Fellow for 2017-2018.
Professor Kalemli-Ozcan has published extensively in the areas of international finance, international development and applied growth theory in journals such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. Her work has also appeared in many invited book volumes, policy outlets, and featured in World Bank Reports and International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlooks.
She is the first Turkish social scientist who has received the Marie Curie IRG prize in 2008 for her research on European financial integration. Her current research focuses on linkages between real and financial sectors and uses big data from banks, firms, and households from several different countries to understand these linkages and their effects on macroeconomics fluctuations and growth.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are both pushing for an Israeli strike on Iran this fall, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday.
Fearing that time is running out before the Iranian nuclear program reaches a point of no return in its drive to weaponize, the two may be looking to hit Iran before the US presidential elections in November, a move which could anger the Obama administration, the newspaper's senior commentators Shimon Shiffer and Nahum Barnea wrote.
Among both the Israeli and the American leaderships, they added, there is an awareness of the possibility that an Israeli strike just ahead of the US presidential elections might embarrass Barack Obama's administration and boost his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
According to the report in Yedioth, Barak brought up the issue of a strike on Iran during a recent meeting of military chiefs, but faced stiff opposition to a unilateral strike. Israel's senior security chiefs, and President Shimon Peres, all oppose the idea, the paper said.
The report added that the two are unwilling to rely on Washington protecting Israel from a nuclear Iran, believing that the US will not act in time. In a recent speech, Netanyahu said only Israel could defend itself.
Barak reportedly anticipates that Iran would hit back at an Israeli attack by using Hezbollah in south Lebanon, but the defense minister is confident that Israel will survive any Iranian response.
At the same time, an unnamed Israeli official told Haaretz that the Iranian threat was sharper than that which faced Israel on the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967.
The official, whom Haaretz identified as somebody in a senior position, said Jerusalem would not look to push the US into the war by launching a unilateral strike.
In a meeting with senior military figures last week, Netanyahu reportedly ran up against opposition to a strike, but was unfazed. "I'm responsible, and if there's a commission of inquiry later, it's on me," he reportedly said, according to a number of the prime minister's aides.
While Netanyahu and Barak reportedly prefer the United States lead a potential strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, a complex sortie that would require over 100 fighter jets, refueling planes and possible international coordination, they have been increasingly hinting that Israel may have to go it alone.
The US has reportedly been trying to prevent a unilateral strike, which analysts say would prove mostly ineffectual. On Thursday, US National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told reporters that there was still time for diplomacy to work.
That statement came on the heels of a Haaretz report that a recent National Security Estimate showed Iran making marked progress toward a nuclear weapon, which put the report mostly in line with Israeli thinking.
A previous NIE, in 2007, reported that iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Iran claims its enrichment drive is for peaceful purposes only. Israel and much of the west challenge that claim.
On Thursday, Barak told Israel Radio that the US was moving closer to Israel's thinking, but gaps remained between the two on how to move forward.
Nonetheless, he said, Israel would decide for itself on matters, such as thwarting Iran, that affected the security and future of the country.
Earlier in the week, during a tour of the Kerem Shalom crossing, where the IDF thwarted a terror attack, Netanyahu told reporters that it was up to Israel to take care of itself.
"It becomes clear time after time that when it comes to the safety of Israeli citizens, Israel must and can rely only on itself. No one can fulfill this role except the IDF and different Israel security forces of Israel and we will continue to conduct ourselves like that," Netanyahu said.
Some analysts have predicted that an attack on Iran in the run-up to US elections would push Obama into a corner, as he may be forced to act to avoid looking weak.


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Finding aid for the Santa Barbara earthquake photograph album 7059
Sue Luftschein
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections
Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Santa Barbara earthquake photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: 7059
Physical Description: 1 album.
Abstract: Photograph album of earthquake damage in Santa Barbara after earthquake of June 29, 1925. The album opens with photographs of steel frame buildings in Tokyo after a 1923 earthquake and ends with photographs of the collapse of the Hotel Vincent in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The sequence of photographs illustrates "A Warning" given in the first photograph, a poem that extols the virtues of steel frame buildings in preventing earthquake damage.
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The Santa Barbara earthquake photograh album consists of 47 photographs, 46 of them depicting earthquake damage in Tokyo, Santa Barbara, and Benton Harbor, Michigan. The album opens with a poem entitled "A Warning" that extols the importance of steel frames in structures to prevent earthquake damage. The first photographs are of a steel frame building in Tokyo, the Yusen Building, that survived a 1923 earthquake. They are followed by a few photographs of other buildings in Tokyo that suffered extensive damage during that quake. The bulk of the album is photographs of earthquake damage in Santa Barbara after the earthquake of June 29, 1925. The album concludes with a few photographs of the Hotel Vincent in Benton Harbor, Michigan, "A building that crumbled" between January 28 and 29, 1924, presumably after an earthquake.
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[Box/folder no. or item name], Santa Barbara earthquake photograph album, Collection no. 7059, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Gift of Marla Woodward, November 29, 2017.
Buildings -- California -- Santa Barbara -- Photographs
Buildings -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Photographs
Buildings -- Michigan -- Benton Harbor -- Photographs
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Benton Harbor (Mich.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs
Santa Barbara (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Archival resources
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Ten Things Congress Could Demand from Bush on Iraq
The Washington Post notes that the Democratic Party is deeply divided between those who want US troops out now and those who fear the consequences and think it best to stay the course. The article might as well have noted that the Republicans are also divided on Iraq policy.
So the issue isn't a partisan one. It is an American one.
Personally, I think "US out now" as a simple mantra neglects to consider the full range of possible disasters that could ensue. For one thing, there would be an Iraq civil war. Iraq wasn't having a civil war in 2002. And although you could argue that what is going on now is a subterranean, unconventional civil war, it is not characterized by set piece battles and hundreds of people killed in a single battle, as was true in Lebanon in 1975-76, e.g. People often allege that the US military isn't doing any good in Iraq and there is already a civil war. These people have never actually seen a civil war and do not appreciate the lid the US military is keeping on what could be a volcano.
All it would take would be for Sunni Arab guerrillas to assassinate Grand Ayatollah Sistani. And, boom. If there is a civil war now that kills a million people, with ethnic cleansing and millions of displaced persons, it will be our fault, or at least the fault of the 75% of Americans who supported the war. (Such a scenario is entirely plausible. Look at Afghanistan. It was a similar-sized country with similar ethnic and ideological divisions. One million died 1979-1992, and five million were displaced. Moreover, all this helped get New York and the Pentagon blown up.)
I mean, we are always complaining, and rightly so, about the genocide in Darfur and the inattention to genocides in Rwanda and the Congo earlier. Can we really live with ourselves if we cast Iraqis into such a maelstrom deliberately?
And as I have argued before, an Iraq civil war will likely become a regional war, drawing in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. If a regional guerrilla war breaks out among Kurds, Turks, Shiites and Sunni Arabs, the guerrillas could well apply the technique of oil pipeline sabotage to Iran and Saudi Arabia, just as they do now to the Kirkuk pipeline in Iraq. If 20% of the world's petroleum production were taken off-line by such sabotage, the poor of the world would be badly hurt, and the whole world would risk another Great Depression.
People on the left often don't like it when I bring this scenario up, because they dislike oil; they read it as a variant of the "war for oil" thesis and reject it. But working people, whom we on the left are supposed to be supporting, get to work on buses, and buses burn gasoline. If the bus ticket doubles or triples, people who make $10,000 a year feel it. Moreover, if there is a depression, the janitors and other workers will be the first to be fired. As for the poor of the global South, this scenario would mean they are stuck in dire poverty for an extra generation. Do you know how expensive everything would be for Jamaicans, who import much of what they use and therefore are sensitive to the price of shipping fuel? It would be highly irresponsible to walk away from Iraq and let it fall into a genocidal civil war that left the Oil Gulf in flames.
On the other hand, the gradual radicalization of the entire Sunni Arab heartland of Iraq stands as testimony to the miserable failure of US military counter-insurgency tactics. It seems to me indisputable that US tactics have progressively made things worse in that part of Iraq, contributing to the destabilization of the country.
So those who want the troops out also do have a point.
So here is what I would suggest as a responsible stance toward Iraq. Others, including Iraqi politicians, have already suggested most of these things, but I think the below hang together and could avert a tragedy while allowing us to get out.
1) US ground troops should be withdrawn ASAP from urban areas as a first step. Iraqi police will just have to do the policing. We are no good at it. If local militias take over, that is the Iraqi government's problem. The prime minister will have to either compromise with the militia leaders or send in other Iraqi militias to take them on. Who runs Iraqi cities can no longer be a primary concern of the US military. Our troops are warriors, not traffic cops.
2) In the second phase of withdrawal, most US ground troops would steadily be brought out of Iraq.
3) For as long as the elected Iraqi government wanted it, the US would offer the new Iraqi military and security forces close air support in any firefight they have with guerrilla or other rebellious forces. (I.e. we would replicate our tactics in Afghanistan of providing the air force for the Northern Alliance infantry and cavalry.) I concede that this tactic will get some US Blackhawks shot down from time to time, and won't be painless. But it could prevent the outbreak of fullscale war. This way of proceeding, which was opened up by the Afghanistan War of 2001-2002, and which depends on smart weapons and having allies on the ground, is the major difference between today and the Vietnam era, when dumb bombs (and even carpet bombing) couldn't have been deployed effectively to ensure the enemy did not take or hold substantial territory. [I am not advocating bombing civilian neighborhoods of cities; I am talking about intervening in set-piece battles of the sort that will become possible in the absence of US ground troops.]
4) With the agreement of the elected Iraqi government, the US would prevent any guerrilla force from fielding any large number of fighters for set piece battles. Such large units of militiamen attempting to march from Anbar on Baghdad, e.g., would be destroyed by AC-130s and other US air weaponry suitable to this purpose. This tactic cannot prevent the current campaign of car bombings, but it can stop a full-scale Lebanon or Afghanistan-style civil war from erupting.
5) In addition to the service of its air forces, the US would offer targeted military aid to ensure the stability of the Iraqi government. It would help protect key political figures from assassination, and it would give the Iraqi government help in preventing pipeline sabotage so as to increase Iraqi petroleum revenues and strengthen the new government.
6) The US would help rapidly build an Iraqi armor corps. The new Iraqi military's lack of tanks is almost certainly because the US is afraid they might be turned on US troops in a crisis. Once US ground troops are out, there is no reason not to let the Iraqi military just import a lot of tanks and train the new Iraqi army in using them.
7) The US should demand as a quid pro quo for further help that elections in Iraq henceforward be held on a district basis so as to ensure proper representation in parliament for the Sunni Arab provinces. This step is necessary if there is to be any hope of drawing the Sunni Arab political elites into the new government.
8) The US should demand as a quid pro quo for further help that the Iraqi government announce an amnesty for all former Baath Party members who cannot be proven to have committed serious crimes, including crimes against humanity. Former Baathists who have been fired from the schools and civil bureaucracy must be reinstated, and no further firings are to take place. (This step is key in convincing the old Sunni Arab elites that they won't be screwed over in the new Iraq.)
9) Congress must rewrite the laws governing US reconstruction aid to Iraq so as to take out provisions that Iraqis must where possible use US companies or materiel. All of the reconstruction money should go directly to Iraqi firms, so as to help jump-start the economy.
10) The US should join the regular meetings of the foreign ministers of Iraq's neighbors, with Condi Rice in attendance, along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, employing a 6 + 2 diplomatic track to help put Iraq back on its feet through diplomacy and multilateral aid. This step will require that the Bush administration cease threatening regularly to bomb Tehran or to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran. For the sake of getting out of Iraq without a world-class economic disaster, the US will just have to deal with the real world, which contains Iran and Syria. The US is now a Middle Eastern Power, not just a New World one, and as such it needs to use Iraq's neighbors to calm their clients within Iraq. This goal cannot be achieved through simple intimidation, more especially since, with half of all fighting units bogged down in Iraq, the US is in no position to follow through on its threats and everyone knows it.
I can't guarantee that these steps will resolve the crisis in the short or even medium term. But I do think that, if taken together, they would allow us to get the ground troops out without risking a big civil war or a destabilization of the Middle East. Once Iraq can stand on its own feet, I am quite sure that the Grand Ayatollah in Najaf will just give a fatwa for complete US withdrawal, and the US will have to acquiesce, as it did in similar circumstances in the Philippines.


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Millennium has already been seen being tested recently, and the majority of rides should be ready for the Easter weekend at least. Reportedly, there hasn't been any work carried out within the pyramid, that had been predicted before the end of the 2007 season. It's also speculated that Conduit Leisure take control of the park completely during this season. So, it'll be interesting to see what, if anything, happens to the park over the coming months.
The Market has already been open on weekends since the beginning of the month. From March 22nd, it will open on a daily basis right through to the end of the season. After which, the market will only open at weekends until Christmas.
happening. East Lindsay District Council paid the park an unexpected visit in February and didn't like what they saw. It became apparent that the park hadn't sought planning permission for the work.
Don't raise your hopes for anything too exciting to be appearing along the park skyline though. The plans reveal that the park are merely submitting their plans for alterations to the current car park. Basically, resurfacing, improving surface water drainage and reinstating vehicular access. Currently, the submission is at the consultation stage, and left unchallenged should be set to go ahead long after Fantasy Island's own scheduling plans.
Five hundred and ninety two members of the roller coaster community posted their ballots this year in Mitch Hawker's Steel Roller Coaster Poll. The results are in, and unfortunately both Millennium Roller Coaster and Jubilee Odyssey ranked lower this year than last. Jubilee Odyssey down seventy nine places, ranking at a still respectable #209; still higher than Pepsi Max Big One. Millennium also fell down the chart, ranking at #230; down from #192 last year.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, for the seventh year in a row Superman Ride of Steel and Expedition GeForce both retain their high ranking positions at the very top of the chart respectively. Nemesis still scored highly in the vote, ranking at #6, down three places from last years vote.
View the full list of results here.
Casino for Lincolnshire - D�j� Vu?
A little over a year ago we brought you news that Lincolnshire won a bid for a casino in one of three areas within the region. Only months later, these plans were shelved, amidst fears of national gambling problems that might arise from the proposed super casinos. Now though, it looks like a casino project could be back on the cards as East Lindsey District Council have been given permission for a small casino license by the governments casino advisory panel.
Now there are four developers keen to take advantage of the license; Southview Leisure, Butlins, Fantasy Island and Coastal Land. The latter are those with the big idea to develop a pier complex on Ingoldmells sea front. Still if these plans go ahead it could be a big pay off for the area; a boost for both local employment and tourism.
The Ingoldmells sea front could be about to change since plans have been submitted, by Coastal Land Ltd, for a new pier. Don't expect just any old pier to be appearing anytime soon though, as the plans incorporate a number of modern features; including marina and IMAX 3D cinema. The triangular shape has been designed to shield the pier from wind, as well as including a wind turbine, solar panels, a cooling system that utilises sea water and wave power.
Intentions for the pier range from its use as a concert venue to bidding for it to be used as a casino as well as incorporating life guard facilities. Temporary themed attractions, amusements, cafes, bars and retail outlets are also planned to be included in the three tiered design of the complex. Find out more via the Skegness Standard.


More than 60,000 cancer survivors and supporters gathered together this past Sunday for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at Jones Beach.
Both my daughters have friends who are breast cancer survivors. Every year at this time they do this 5 mile walk at Jones Beach to acknowledge breast cancer and hopefully through donations, help raise money for research.
On this beautiful fall day, both my daughters along with 2 of my dear grandchildren walked the walk for this most worthwhile cause. Miles (on the left) made bracelets of pink and white and gave them away along with the tee shirts, like the ones they are wearing.
This year the Jones Beach walk raised an amazing $3.15 million in donations for the American Cancer Society. Aside from research and awareness, these funds will go to provide free resources and support to newly diagnosed women and ensure access to mammograms.
More than 2,475 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer here on Long Island this year and nearly 417 will result in death, according to the cancer society. This explains why everywhere I turn, my heart is warmed by people are doing their part for the cause.
I was in the beauty parlor and there was a young woman who was cutting her hair (she had very beautiful long locks) and donating it.
Another friend was collecting scarfs to donate as cover up head pieces.
Racine's, a beauty salon, in my daughters town of Islip, donates their expertise and time one Monday each month to help make women feel better by doing their make up or fixing their hair or wigs.
People make the difference. Awareness makes the difference. It is so inspiring.
Grohen Technologies and Inner Intimates congratulate all these wonderful people who care and help in raising awareness across the country and has also made our donation to cause.
When I was a child the word breast cancer meant a death sentence; no more. While cancer hasn't changed, the way doctors and survivors deal with it has. Through research there is hope, all these remarkable survivors are living proof.
We are not only WOMEN HELPING WOMEN, but PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE, in their own way to help with a cure for breast cancer.
Visit the American Cancer Society to learn more about events and volunteer opportunities in your area.
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NTEU addressed a concern with managers denying FMLA requests unless employees are willing to sign a waiver to disclose their medical records, which violates Article 33 and their privacy. The agency has acknowledged that this has been an issue in the past and that managers should not be putting pressure on employees to sign any medical waiver. The agency has agreed to look into this matter and ensure that managers are following guidelines that do not require execution of such waiver.


George Wright, the most famous theatre organist of the modern era, died of heart failure May 10 at Glendale Memorial Hospital near his home in the Hollywood hills. He was 77.
Best known for his virtuoso performances on the huge Wurlitzer theater pipe organs at the famed San Francisco Fox Theater and the ornate Paramount Theaters in both New York and Oakland, Wright was in constant demand playing at concerts around the world. He recorded more than 60 albums, some of which sold over a million copies during the 1950s and 1960s.
Born in Orland in the Sacramento Valley in 1920, Wright learned to play the piano as a child from his mother, who was a private music teacher. He grew up in Stockton and Sacramento, where he graduated from Grant Union High School.
His first professional engagement was at the Shanghai Terrace Bowl, a Chinese nightclub in Oakland that boasted a two-manual, six-rank Wurlitzer. The show was broadcast nightly by an Oakland radio station.
In 1941, he joined San Francisco radio station KFRC and performed at the Fox Theater on Saturday nights. In 1944, he relocated to New York City, where he played on Jack Berch's NBC show and later guested with Paul Whiteman and Percy Faith and on the network shows of Bing Crosby and Perry Como.
He also conducted his own orchestra on the Robert Q. Lewis show and began a seven-year stint playing in a trio with Charles Magnante, accordionist, and Tony Mottola, guitarist, for an NBC show sponsored by the Prudential Insurance Company.
In 1949, he signed on as house organist for the Paramount Theater in New York. In 1951 he returned to California as ABC's musical director for the West Coast and live studio organist for the long-running TV program, General Hospital.
In 1995, he won the first lifetime achievement award from the American Theatre Organ Society.
Wright owned a Mighty Wurlitzer theater pipe organ which was installed in his home in the Hollywood hills and played until just a few days before he died. He finished his last album, Salon, just 60 days before his death.
Simon Gledhill, a writer for a British music magazine and an organist himself, said on learning of Wright's death: "With the passing of The Living Legend of the Theater Organ, a significant — perhaps the significant — chapter in the history of the theater pipe organ and its music has drawn to a close. Imitated by many, equaled by none, he was indeed a legendary figure, whose profound and far-reaching influence on current perceptions of what constitutes good theater organ cannot be overstated. He redefined the standards by which performances in this genre are judged, creating a new quality scale on which he immediately assumed and (in the minds of most) retained the top position."


Beaufort County Drug Court Judge Manning Smith has been stripped of his seat on the bench, just more than a week after his wife was indicted on charges of embezzlement and misconduct in office and resigned as clerk of court.
S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal signed an order Monday rescinding Smith's powers to preside over the Drug Court for the 14th Judicial Circuit, a post he had held since June 15, 2001.
"I have no idea what the underlying cause of the chief justice's decision was," said 14th Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone.
Toal's order says a new judge may be appointed to Drug Court upon a joint request from Chief Administrative Judge Howard King of the 14th Circuit, the resident judges of the 14th Judicial Circuit and Stone.
"I beg pardon of everyone scandalized by the circumstances, especially as presented by the media."
Toal appointed 6th Circuit Court Judge Brooks Goldsmith of Lancaster to hear Elizabeth Smith's case and preside over her arraignment hearing, which will mean that proceeding could take place in Lancaster County Circuit Court. A date for the hearing has not been set.
The hearing is expected to serve as Smith's bond hearing and when she will enter her plea regarding the charges, Stone said. She will not be arrested or booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center in the interim, he added.


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Fisherman drowns on Lay Lake
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, June 3, 2003
A man fishing on Lay Lake drowned Friday night after falling off a boat near the E.C. Gaston steam plant outside Wilsonville, according to officials from the Alabama Marine Police.
Forty-year-old Tracy Lynn Stagner of Shannon fell from a pontoon boat just after 8 p.m. Friday night while fishing with two other individuals, officials said.
His body was not recovered until Saturday evening, when he was pronounced dead by Shelby County coroner Doug Ballard.
Stagner had apparently tried to tie the boat to a wall near a discharge point outside the steam plant when he fell into the water.
He was not wearing a life jacket and had trouble holding on to the wall because he had a cast on his right hand, said Raymond Webster, Alabama Marine Police officer for Lay Lake.
Stagner's companions reportedly tried to throw him a flotation device, but he was unable to secure it before being pulled beneath the surface.
The discharge point where the incident occurred is a popular fishing location and is not a restricted area.
However, Webster said the discharge produces a strong current, one that Stagner was unable to escape.
Even rescue divers at the scene had trouble maneuvering in the in the swift waters.
&uot;It was a very strong current,&uot; Webster said. &uot;The divers could not even get to the bottom because it was pretty swift.&uot;
Stagner was not in an area where state law requires that a personal flotation device be worn.
Alabama law requires a U.S. Coast Guard-approved PFD be worn by any person onboard a boat within 800 feet below a hydro-electric dam or navigational lock and dam; children under 8 years old onboard any boat, except in an enclosed cabin; any person onboard a personal watercraft; and any person being towed by a boat or personal watercraft.
The accident was the first boating-related fatality to occur in the Alabama Marine Police's Birmingham district this year, officials said.
The Alabama Marine Police reported 14 boating-related fatalities on Alabama waterways last year, a record low attributed to recent efforts in boating-safety education.
Information on boating safety can be obtained by contacting the Alabama Marine Police at 1-800-272-7930 or through the internet at www.dcnr.state.al.us/MP.html
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