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The Ranil Wickremasinghe enigma: A Political Case Study
"I have done many political campaigns all my life, but one thing I have still not worked out is, what goes on in the mind of the Sri Lankan voter before he votes" so said Esmond Wickremesinghe, the father of Ranil Wickremesinghe. With 30 successful election failures to his credit and still counting the thought of the son must no doubt be the same. If Ranil Wickremesinghe is described as the epitome of patience and tolerance the same titles must go to virtually half the nation that have stuck with him and voted with the same patience and tolerance. Ranil W continues to hold the title as the only UNP leader vying to lead Sri Lanka. The enigma remains RW's indefinable energy to hold on to power following the perception of the glass and water. Some view it as half empty some as half full and in terms of numbers more than half may not have voted but almost half have and will continue to do so too. There is unlikely to be any leader that has waited for so long to lead a nation or a democratic public that have kept faith in him whatever the odds.
Ranil Shriyan Wickremesinghe – born on March 24, 1949.
Elected to Parliament in 1977
Appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of J. R. Jayawardene, and was later appointed as the Minister of Youth Affairs and Employment. He was later given the portfolio of Minister of Education.
Appointed as the Minister of Industry, by President R.Premadasa and he initiated industrial reforms and established the Biyagama Special Economic Zone.
Appointed the Leader of the House of Parliament in 1989
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka twice – (May 7, 1993 to August 19,1994) and (December 9, 2001 to April 6, 2004) – After the assassination of R Premadasa on 1st May 1993.
Appointed as UNP leader in November 1994
Appointed Leader of the United National Front – In the Parliamentary general election 2001. UNF, led by RW won 109 seats and PA was able to obtain 77 seats. Sworn as the 17th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on 9th December 2001.
In December 2004, RW was nominated by the United National Party as its Presidential candidate for Presidential Elections due in late 2005.
With such an illustrious record and belonging to an elite family having all the correct connections and even foreign backing why has leadership to the highest office in Sri Lanka been a distant dream?
Its unfortunate that RW has been given a hard time. Surely, with such elite upbringing someone would have showed him how to wave, or how to adjust his tone given that now he is summoned for overseas lectures and with his closest pals running image schools the country would have expected an image to match the Southern contender.
The efforts to match the contender in the South have unfortunately reaped unsuccessful results but have provided light entertainment for the entire nation. The appearance of the Opposition Leader with all due respect affords much relaxation to all but his support base who probably are biting nails in anxiety.
The Opposition Leader's main problem has been his inability to reach out to the masses and the masses in population terms equate the Sinhala Buddhist majority. Living in Colombo, where the minorities are the majority the UNP and RanilW believes this status quo exists throughout the island too.
Colombo is not Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka is not Colombo. Similarly, Ranil W's Colombo clans are quintessentially not mouthpieces of the nation or even for the nation, though they may like to think so and give external sources the erroneous impression that they are.
There is nothing he has not tried.
He has promised gold bicycles, bracelets and gold for the youth and free betel too. That didn't get many votes though.
He wanted to show he was very much a villager at heart and shared the spiraling cost of living so a UNP protest was organized to break clay pots and pans. The cartoon published the next day showed villagers hiding their pots and pans when Ranil W was to visit their village next!
The efforts to project the UNP and RW's solace with the villager for the skyrocketing gas prices and cost of living was an expected flop. How many villagers cook with gas stoves? The efforts at playing the rabaana and the breaking of clay pots and pans remain one of the best and hilarious campaign trails of the UNP on the advice of the Johnny-come-latelys!
There are times we wonder whether his guffaws are preconceived for our laughing pleasure.
What we can be sure of is that an affinity that is naturally lacking is difficult to produce at electoral seasons but we have to hand it out to the advisors for trying. The issue is that at every turn the UNP attempts to camaflage itself in election propaganda whereas it has no inkling to change its policies to show sincerity towards the masses.
Thus, his efforts to reach out to the Sinhala Buddhist masses have been many. Yet, simply pulling out a Parakramabahu promised era, giving promises that are unlikely to be honored in the form of building the largest Buddhist dagoba, or teaching Buddhist monks Pali and spread Buddhism side by side with dressing up farmers in jeans or Nike t-shirts is likely to head for repeated failure. Though dubbed an excellent orator across the seas, his platform performances end up the recipe for the victory of the contender. The situation is made worse in getting carried away by the laughter of the audience resulting in campaigns ending up nothing but an exercise of banter. Therefore, the unfortunate thing for him is that he reaches out during elections and ends up saying the most inappropriate.
No matter what his efforts, the inability to grasp the difference in LTTE terrorists and Sri Lanka's Armed Forces and pay correct respect to those that defend the nation will remain Ranil W's Waterloo. Never has there been a word of praise coming from a mouth that is ever ready to say all the wrong things but never a single line to appreciate the men who sacrificed their lives for the nation, the men that now lie injured from battle and the families of both while showering no respect for the living soldiers to whom we remain eternally grateful for giving us peace. The comment on Thoppigala is engraved in the people's mind the manner that the war victories of the soldiers were ridiculed and belittled in public and even inside Parliament remains in our minds.
To the Colombo clan he remains a gentlemen but what type of gentlemen goes to the West suggesting to cut off aid and put pressure on the GOSL to stop the war? This same gentlemen kept Gonawala Sunil as his secretary running the entire education! There are no gentlemen in politics and politics is not for gentlemen. Machiavelli declared the gentlemanly conduct and politics were diametrically opposed to each other.
The Ranil followers are quick to come to the rescue by pulling out his suitability to economically lead the nation to prosperity.
It is prudent that the public of Sri Lanka are reminded devoid of any political leanings that it was the UNP that drew Sri Lanka into the aid trap. In 1977 Sri Lanka's foreign debt was $750million most of which were for productive projects benefiting the nation. After 1977, foreign debt within 3 decades shot upto $10,000million. Successive governments continue to fall prey to the World Bank/IMF Structural Adjustment ploys leaving industries and agriculture in a crippling state and allowing Sri Lankans to turn into virtual slaves of the open economy.
Leadership under RW is unlikely to change any status quo and if at all change does happen it will be the death nail to the middle class and the poor but heaven luck for the elite.
It was the the UNP that built a dual education system in 1977 – one for the rich with private schools preparing students for foreign studies and one for the poor with understaffed, illequipped schools and universities.
Let us also remind readers that privatization of assets began with the UNP. They sold out the Thulhiriya Mills once a showpiece of South Asia with investors running away with money and unpaid loans, unpaid wages and a vandalized mill and selling CWE for a song.
Let us also remind the public that the 2005 pledge to accept the $4.5billion aid package was on Ranil's agreement that further privatization of assets would take place including the 2 State banks!
Therefore worshippers of Ranil's vision for Sri Lanka may like to show how far Ranil proposes to carry out his vision minus the influence and dictates of the Western financiers who have been financing him all these years.
An economy that Wickremasinghe would herald would end up worshipping and following or even been dictated by the IMF. If his plan is to get farmers into jeans it is obviously in keeping with an IMF plan to totally eliminate farming from Sri Lanka whereby farmers have no other choice but to give up a trade/industry that had been passed down to them over centuries!
Apart from signing lock stock and barrel every resource, every inch and breadth of Sri Lanka so long as he and UNP can remain in power, RW and his coterie of advisors do not care too hoots of what happens to the rest of Sri Lanka. It is this fear that grapples even the die hard UNP base most of whom do not belong to the elite gang to which RW is saddled.
If Sri Lanka's economy is dependent on foreign aid, RW and his UNP must admit that it was they who began siphoning off resources that should have been turned round as profitable ventures instead of becoming slaves of the IMF and the World Bank. Sadly, all successive Governments have followed the pied piper.
The problem has been not in what he has said but in how he has said it, not in what was not said but what his opponent has said leaving Ranil W not knowing whether he is coming or going. With the ceasefire agreement standing against him like an iron barge pole, any opponent can get away by saying Ranil W is synonymous with dividing the country and all they need to do is hand a copy of the CFA as evidence.
They will be the same Colombo clan praying for the return of neo-colonial rule who would jump to say CFA is better than bombs going off or suicide missions but these simpletons are too caught up in their own world to warrant time to take stock of the violations by the LTTE throughout the CFA, the elimination of the intelligence units or the stockpiles of weapons and ammunition brought in through the Colombo Port with the approval of RW's own choices.
Therefore, when Ranil says he is following in the footsteps of the former UNP leaders of post-independence – we have to object.
Under D S Senanayake the country was not indebted. His tenure as leader saw that the country had sufficient money to meet the full cost of the Gal Oya Project.
Dudley Senanayake did not follow the free economy. The foreign exchange use was strictly regulated. No foreign exchange was allowed for foreign education for any courses available in Sri Lanka. Imports were restricted and inessential imports were taxed. Senanayake's helped build infrastructure for local production. It was JRJ taking IMF's advice in 1977 that dismantled the national development.
Before 1977 Sri Lanka was self-sufficient in paddy. Dismantling of infrastructure for production meant that after 1977 Sri Lanka ended up importing virtually everything that was grown in Sri Lanka – vegetables, fruits, paddy even consumer goods.
Pre-1977 leaders did not have to go with begging bowls to any nation or leader because they showed leadership.
Pre-1977 leaders did not believe in foreign investors who come on tax holidays, use our assets and do not pay tax to Sri Lanka but pay taxes in their country and rich dividends to their shareholders.
Pre-1977 leaders believed in the local farmer and tried to build them up.
Post-1977 in came the investors, the bled our assets and took away the profits.
1977 the future with begging-bowls was ushered by the UNP Government.
Thereafter, virtually all Governments have ended up having to continue with the begging bowl policy.
What ails the UNP and even the UPFA is that there is no stand out leader within their rank and file. The jumping Joes have no credibility, most of the rest are one foot from the grave yet clinging on and while their rhetoric says 'more youth' 'more qualified' the door opens up only for rapists, goons, thugs and all types of nefarious characters. This has resulted in the newest phenomena of a common candidate and that idea brings to mind the example of how a trishaw driver became the common candidate promising to hand over power once elected to the highest office of the Colombo municipality and that promise was never fulfilled and we can give other examples too. The lesson learnt should be never trust a common candidate in desperation to come into power that desperation may lead to exasperation eventually!
If a tv channel were to compile all of the amusing statements made from the mouth of RanilW over the years combined with some of the ridiculous actions he has been asked to do that compilation would be an enviable effort. Though we must say that some of these actions are purely on the advice of advisors, the coterie of people that are not rooted anywhere except for the love of power and money and who end up making jokers out of essentially good hearts.
Whatever said and done the Opposition Leader is a noble person taking advice from the wrong people, hanging out with the wrong people and brought up not desiring to actually lead the masses but quite content to ever look forward to be thought of as the leader in that role.
UNP and Ranil have become synonymous and unlikely to change.
– by Shenali D Waduge
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New Release: The Found Wonder, "Calling"
A few weeks ago we wrote about Johannesburg-based songwriter Ruby Gill. This week we've got another South African artist for you: Timothy Kohler of The Found Wonder.
After spending several years recording with a band, the Cape Town–based artist is embarking on a solo indie-pop career. And judging by his debut single, Timothy's future is bright indeed.
"Calling" is a whimsical tune, reminiscent of Owl City's early work. Calm and hopeful, Timothy's soft voice floats on waves of backing vocals pulsed by a steady but not overpowering drum beat. This isn't the type of song that will jump in front of you as you're walking down the sidewalk and yell "LOOK AT ME!" but it is oddly addicting and rather catchy.
Give "Calling" a whirl, read our short interview with Timothy, and then scroll to the bottom of the interview for a free download of the song!
Ethan Weitz: What's the story behind "Calling"?
Timothy Kohler: The focal point of "Calling" is primarily concerned with the desire to externalise one's opinions whilst simultaneously adhering to a society's harsh labeling behaviour. Essentially, the song addresses the yearning to belong whilst remaining true to oneself, and sometimes that may entail unpleasant assumptions one may have to bear.
Unintentionally, I wrote the song from a subconscious perspective. The lyrics were fabricated from a stream of consciousness, as opposed to writing around a particular subject. Lately, the South African tertiary education system has been experiencing quite an uproar with regards to student inclusion, and one externality of this has naturally been some segregation based on what people believe the solution or problem really is.
Ethan: You recently left a band to start your solo career. Why did you decide to make that change and what are your goals/hopes as far as songwriting goes?
Timothy: I didn't necessarily leave the band, but because of different interests and geographic issues, people tend to put more energy into certain parts of their lives and prioritise when they begin tertiary education, and by doing so they really begin to "find themselves." I know it's a bit of a cliché, and sometimes can be disheartening, but it's a natural part of life, and that's okay. There aren't any harsh feelings.
I began writing and performing music under my own moniker because I still had a yearning to do so, but the particular music I wanted to create was something that I felt needed to be segregated from the band. As far as songwriting goes, the only hope/goal I have is to remain authentic and true to myself and hopefully have a positive impact on others, be it in forms of comfort, solace, or merely just help with breaking down a feeling of isolation. I believe music is a way of creating an extension of ourselves, and the only way we can truly fulfill ourselves and even others is by being completely earnest.
Ethan: What's it like making music in Cape Town?
Timothy: The Cape Town music scene is incredibly diverse. There's music coming from all directions. I think the immense amount of diversity in culture, language, and town structures have a significant influence on musicians here. There are a lot of concerning issues around the low supply of quality live music venues and platforms, resulting in most musicians not having sufficient time to allocate to writing, performing, and marketing their music. Regardless of this, the country, and specifically Cape Town, yield some incredible acts I'm immensely proud to call friends. Sometimes, we compare our music to an international standard which often isn't necessary and may result in less authenticity, but people are aware of this and change is happening. I'm so excited and proud to call Cape Town my home and I wouldn't want to be based anywhere else.
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Maybe you have found yourself thinking about how your lifestyle could be better if you could spend a bit more time on your own? This is hard for many people, especially for the caregivers. Majority of the people particularly adults and parents who do not have kids will need to feel that they are required. Wanting to feel useful is a part of life and it is important to other people more than you. One of the most important things that people treasure is the ability to help and being compassionate to the people who come in our lives. That makes it hard for an individual to find time for herself or himself. After a person has taken care of the family, children, friends, and work, usually there is very little time left in the day. This time is not enough for a person to remember that they are important too.
The idea that a person puts herself first is hard to consider. This is a man or woman that has not gotten accustomed to finding time to think about their needs. But if a person is not able to take care of herself, how will they be in a position to take care of others? Folks have to be encouraged by people that are powerful and happy. People who do not take time to look after their needs often suffer from depression, stress and at times addiction.
It is time to begin placing their selves first if someone finds themselves trapped in this cycle, in which they believe that they don't have control over their own lives. A person can suffer from physical indications of illness because of stress and depression. It's necessary for an individual to take the time to categorize this. Compass recovery is among those areas that an individual could check. This is if the person has been addicted due to having stress this is. Putting yourself first or looking once at yourself you aren't being greedy. This is mostly in the case where a person has been spending more time looking for other people and forgetting about themselves.
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Students continue protests in Egypt, Anti-Coup Alliance calls for escalation
April 12, 2014 at 12:43 pm | Published in: Africa, Egypt, News
Egyptian university and school students continued their anti-coup protests yesterday, while the Anti-Coup Alliance called for the continuation of "revolutionary escalation" in protest against the ongoing repression of pro-democracy activists, particularly women and students. It also called for a "revolutionary day" on Wednesday when protests are scheduled to march towards major squares, including Tahrir, Rabia Al-Adaweya, and al-Nahda.
In Cairo, the "Students against the Coup" movement held a demonstration at Ain Shams University condemning the military coup and calling for the release of detained students.
In Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, citizens formed a seven-kilometre-long "human chain" along the coastal road calling for the release of their town's detainees while carrying their pictures.
In Damietta, anti-coup protesters organised a human chain at 7am Monday, chanting against the military coup, arbitrary arrests, and massacres committed by security forces against opponents.
In Beni Suef, Nahda University students organised a partial strike starting from 9am, in protest against the expulsion of seven students due to their participation in anti-coup activities.
In Minya governorate, School of Engineering students organised a march that denounced the 529 death sentences handed down by the Minya court on Monday against anti-coup protesters.
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Environmental Challenge Calls on K-12 Students To Develop Green Solutions
By David Nagel
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), Discovery Education, and the Siemens Foundation have announced the opening of the 2009 "Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge." The challenge calls on K-8 students to develop green solutions for their schools, homes, and communities.
This year's challenge has been expanded to allow students in grades K through 5 enter, in addition to middle school students. (Next year's program is expected to be expanded further to include high school students.)
The competition challenges middle school students to identify, explore, and research an environmental issue in their community and come up with recommendations for addressing the issue. For the challenge, the students work in teams and compete with other students across the United States. More than 2,000 students participated in the inaugural challenge last year.
This year, in addition to a middle school category (grades 6 through 8), there are also categories for K-2 and 3-5 students to enter.
Prizes for the challenge include savings bonds, school grants, trips, and TV appearances for students and mentors. Prizes for this year's competition will total more than $100,000, according to information posted on the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge Web site.
The deadline for entries for K-5 students in Jan. 31. The deadline for middle school entries is March 15. Elementary school winners will be announced in April, and middle school winners will be announced in May. Further information about the challenge can be found here.
David Nagel is editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Technology Group and editor-in-chief of THE Journal and STEAM Universe. A 25-year publishing veteran, Nagel has led or contributed to dozens of technology, art and business publications.
He can be reached at dnagel@1105media.com. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn at or follow him on Twitter at @THEJournalDave (K-12) or @CampusTechDave (higher education).
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Home » Seahawks 8-point picks, but can they score 8?
Seahawks 8-point picks, but can they score 8?
By Steve Rudman December 20, 2014 18 Comments7 Mins Read
Jordan Hill recorded two sacks in Seattle's 17-7 win over San Francisco last Sunday. / Drew McKenzie, Sportspress Northwest
After the Seahawks opened as seven-point road favorites over Arizona, the spread increased to eight as soon as Cardinals Coach Bruce (Almighty) Arians named maligned Ryan Lindley as his starting quarterback for Sunday night's game at University of Phoenix Stadium. Lindley swabbed in relief of the injured Drew Stanton last week in St. Louis. He has quarterbacked only one NFL win on his own, a 38-10 victory over Detroit Dec. 16, 2012.
One handicapper this week called Lindley, who will face the top-rated Seattle defense, "the worst quarterback I've ever rated," and at least one stat bears that out. The San Diego State product owns the worst Total QBR in the NFL over the past three seasons among players with at least 200 plays, and has never thrown a touchdown pass in his career. His backup, Logan Thomas, has never started an NFL game.
So it's easy to see why oddsmakers are taking such a dim view of the 11-3 Cardinals, who can secure the NFC West title and the NFC's No. 1 seed with a victory. Question is, how are the Seahawks going to cover the eight points?
They tallied 19 against the Cardinals in the first meeting Nov. 23, but 12 came on four Steve Hauschka field goals after multiple failures by the Seahawks in the red zone, and one unlikely touchdown by Cooper Helfet.
Without busted Arizona coverage that allowed WR Ricardo Lockette to catch a 48-yard pass from QB Russell Wilson, Hauschka would not have been in range to kick his second field goal. And without an out-of-nowhere 40-yard read-option run by Wilson, Hauschka wouldn't have had a chance at this third.
Seattle's only touchdown came when Helfet caught a ball at the line of scrimmage and four Cardinals defenders oddly failed to tackle him along the sideline. So 13 of the Seahawks' 19 points were the result of Arizona's defensive miscues.
Meanwhile, Arizona missed a field goal, allowed a blocked punt, threw an interception and dropped a touchdown pass (Jaron Brown) in the end zone. Even with all that, the Cardinals played the Seahawks about as well as they can be played at CenturyLink Field.
Now the Cardinals draw the Seahawks in Phoenix, where Arizona is 7-0 and looking for the first perfect home record in franchise history. The Cardinals are not only the only NFL team to allow 20 or fewer points in every home game this season, they lead the league with 12 such games overall (11-1 in those contests) as the following shows:
Ranks / Scoring Differential
Arizona NFC West 12 Off. Rank: 22; Def. Rank: 3rd; Point Diff.: +43
Detroit NFC North 10 Off. Rank: 23rd; Def. Rank: 1st; Point Diff.: +43
Kansas City AFC West 9 Off. Rank: 14th; Def. Rank: 4th; Point Diff.: +68
Seattle NFC West 9 Off. Rank: 11th; Def. Rank: 2nd; Point Diff.: +97
Buffalo AFC East 8 Off. Rank: 18th; Def. Rank: 4th; Point Diff.: +48
Denver AFC West 8 Off. Rank: 5th; Def. Rank: 16th; Point Diff.:+104
Houston AFC South 8 Off. Rank: 13th; Def. Rank: 7th; Point Diff.: +47
Miami AFC East 8 Off. Rank: 12th; Def. Rank: 15th; Point Diff.: +26
Baltimore AFC North 8 Off. Rank: 8th; Def. Rank: 6th; Point Diff.: +109
San Francisco NFC West 8 Off. Rank: 28th; Def. Rank: 9th; Point Diff.: -34
Lindley might not be much, but the 12s should take scant comfort in the eight-point spread. The Cardinals have won 11 games in a variety of ways and last Sunday became the first team to win this season without scoring a touchdown (defeated St. Louis 12-6). They have won a league-high six times against teams that currently hold a winning record, and will have WR Larry Fitzgerald, who missed the first meeting with an injury.
Arians is probably a lock to win the NFL Coach of the Year award in no small part because of the defense he's built. Arizona ranks second in the turnover margin at +12 and has held opponents scoreless in the fourth quarter a league-high eight times (Arizona's fourth-quarter scoring margin is +59). The Cardinals also lead in come-from-behind wins with nine and rank No. 1 in the NFC in opponent red-zone efficiency (40.5).
The Cardinals don't have a great offense (No. 22), but are first in the NFL with nine defensive touchdowns, and can be occasionally sneaky good. Since the start of 2013, Arizona has scored six offensive TDs covering 75 or more yards, most in the NFL.
Above all, the Cardinals have solved Wilson and Marshawn Lynch. Arizona sacked Wilson 11 times (seven in the last game) in the last two meetings between the teams while holding Lynch to a total of 110 yards (3.3 yards per carry) and no touchdowns.
To Arians' credit, the Cardinals have ascended to the top of the NFC West despite sustaining more injuries than any team in the league. A total of 18 players have missed at least one game and, through 15 weeks, Arizona players have lost a combined 90 games to injury. But the Cardinals have been resourceful.
One example: When Lindley steps on the field Sunday, the Cardinals will become only the third team in the past decade to use three starting quarterbacks and win 11 or more games (also the 2005 and 2010 Pittsburgh Steelers).
Wilson has been sacked multiple times in 11 of Seattle's 14 games, and is currently working on a streak of six consecutive games suffering at least two sacks that dates to Nov. 9 against the New York Giants. No quarterback in franchise history has ever been taken down two or more times in six consecutive games (over the same six-game span, 12 different Cardinals have recorded at least one sack).
Wilson was also sacked multiple times in five consecutive contests from Sept. 14 through Oct. 19 this year, the second-longest streak in franchise history. But let's focus strictly on the last six. This is how many times Wilson has been sacked since Week 10 vs. other quarterbacks whose teams have qualified for the playoffs or are in position to do so:
Russell Wilson Seahawks 22 18 of the 22 sacks in the last 4 games
Matthew Stafford Lions 15 Sacked 4 times by Arizona, 4 by Bucs
Andrew Luck Colts 12 Sacked 5 times by Jax in Week 12
Tony Romo Cowboys 11 Sacked 4 times by Eagles in Week 13
Drew Brees Saints 11 Ravens sacked him 4 times Week 12
Andy Dalton Bengals 9 Sacked multiple times last 3 weeks
B. Roethlisberger Steelers 9 Went down 5 times (Tenn) Week 11
Aaron Rodgers Packers 7 Sacked 3 times by Patriots Week 11
Drew Stanton Cardinals 6 3 sacks vs. Seahawks Week 12
Peyton Manning Broncos 5 Sacked only once last 2 games
Joe Flacco Ravens 3 Taken down only 16 times all season
Tom Brady Patriots 2 1 sack at Green Bay, 1 at San Diego
"We've been practicing to improve things we need to improve," offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell said this week, addressing Wilson's pocket woes. "We just have to block better. We have to be able to get the ball out quicker. We got to get open on time.
"I mean, we have the conversation all the time on how they all work together and we have to be on point all the time, particularly against this opponent. They bring tons of pressure. They can bring it on every single down if they so choose, so we have to be prepared for it."
It's not likely to come together fast enough for Wilson avoid another major beating Sunday night, but oddsmakers are so down on Lindley they apparently aren't worried about it.
Kupp, NFL's offensive player of the year, has a home-state tale to tell
Raymond Meyers on December 20, 2014 10:03 am
Your analysis of the last game puzzles me. If it wasn't for this or that or the other thing, Arizona would have won. That's how sporting competitions work. The victor is the one who makes the second to the last mistake. Seattle made the second to the last mistake against Arizona when the Cardinals had more – and Seattle had fewer – of their first team on the field than they will this week. I expect the Seahawks to slay Arizona's men and sell their women and children into slavery this Sunday. (figuratively).
1coolguy on December 20, 2014 10:36 am
Raymond Meyers on December 21, 2014 9:05 pm
Matt on December 20, 2014 10:03 am
Seahawks 5, Cardinals 3.
Its onlySports(DavidWakefield) on December 20, 2014 11:17 am
That would be fitting , wouldnt it? Man, I would take a 2~0 game as long as its the Hawks who are the victor. A win is a win at this stage of the season…well really at any stage.With this nasty brutal schedule they have played any check in the win column is good.
PokeyPuffy on December 20, 2014 10:28 am
I agree with the game summary here, especially after watching it again. We were dominant in recent matchups with 49ers and eagles but not so much against the cards.
This was true with cards on offense as well. They moved the ball and were just a few miscues away from scoring tds on a number of occasions. 204 total yards to 293 hawks yards and alot of our rushing yards came with the game out of reach. Toss in the penalties and we were almost even in total yards.
The blocked punt was huge, as the Cards were winning the field position game at that time, and had some momentum after stuffing the Hawks on the previous drive.
Offseason we heard analysts lament over and over again what a brutal defensive battle if would be Against all NFC West opponents and certainly when we played each other… their crystal ball was right on.
AZ has literally led the division wire to wire…their D is up to task. They are irked to have only scored 3 against us up here. Its going to be a bruisefest and why wouldnt it be?They are close to achieving all of their goals too. What a game it will be sunday night.
3brettb3 on December 21, 2014 1:27 am
I would hardly call 204 yards of total offense "moving the ball." No, they were not as dominant as they were against the Eagles, but the Hawks were in control of that game the whole way.
Long-Time Mariners Fan on December 20, 2014 10:33 am
Steve, I am confused. Is this a column about football or a column about gambling? Winning or losing the game is football; covering the spread is gambling. If the Seahawks win 14-13, they still win the game. All of the gamblers who bet on the Seahawks lose their bets, but the Seahawks still win the game.
Yes, I know a case can be made that the NFL would never be so popular if nobody bet on the games. But "The Spread" is just an artificial yardstick that oddsmakers manipulate to get both sides of their ledgers roughly equal. Lots of people betting on the Seahawks at seven points? Raise the spread to eight and get more people to bet on the Cardinals. When both sides of a bookie's ledger is roughly equal, they don't take a bath, no matter what the outcome.
In short, "The Spread" is just a (rough) measure of how the gambling public PERCEIVES the relative strengths of the two teams. The game still has to be played between the white lines, and that's the outcome that gets tallied at the end of the week. I know you know this, so my question still stands: Is this a column about football or a column about gambling?
I would like to see the Hawks go to a 2 TE set with 2 backs in order to max protect RW and Lynch, given how weak the O line is.
The Patriots recently went with using a third tackle as a tight end for their max set.
The Hawks need this added blocking against the AZ and rams defenses, who are 2 of the best.
the 2 TE set would be advantageous I would think. Of course Carroll factors in how well said Tight end blocks etc etc etc,,,,, offensively it might give them short yardage opps to keep rolling out the 1st downs out and extend the clock . It would be nice to have a wicked scale tipping in time of possession for our offense to keep the Az defense tired. This will be a tough road win if destiny deems it.
John M on December 20, 2014 11:36 am
I've been saying this for over a month. When they have used a tight end and extra lineman to block things have worked much better. I don't understand the reluctance to modify the plays to accommodate this. If they would do it right away and use play-action, soon AZ would have to move some people off the line to protect against the pass. With the injuries up front now I don't see how they can expect the patchwork basic line to protect against those guys. We're lucky to have Russ still vertical.
Big on December 20, 2014 11:24 am
A defensive score could change the outcome for either team.
Against AZup here the Hawks settled for field goals when a pass or a run here or there could have resulted in 7…and we ran out the clock in the red zone I believe to end the game(and ignore a scoring chance) so the argument could be turned around in the woulda shoulda coulda dept on Seattles side too.
Each game is different. Look at last year. We whipped their derrieres at home last year….just dominated them. Then AZ comes up here an ecks out a close win to ruin the Hawks undefeated at home hopes. Nobody saw that coming.
Sunday nights game could be a tale of turnovers. Maybe Wright and Avril are so amped up about their new contracts that each have a fumble recovery to put Seattle in scoring position in the red zone. Perhaps we get TDs this time instead of field goals because their 3rd string QB could only keep 'em on the field about as often as the Eagles offense did a couple of weeks ago.
It will be fun but my gut feeling says the breaks are due and we will have a couple more scores than a paltry 8 would give us.What do you think we are , Steve?Denver?
Go Hawks.
tomscuba on December 21, 2014 1:21 am
Good teams take the best another team has to give, and still squeak out a win. I think we're playing at the elite level we've all hoped for. A bumpy 5 weeks gave us serious reason to gut check. Gotta feel for Arizona fans—best team they've had in years and years, and they can't put a healthy quarterback on the field. Go hawks!!!
whoKarez on December 21, 2014 4:04 am
I suppose it could be said that all scores come from defensive miscues.
Its onlySports(DavidWakefield) on December 21, 2014 8:43 pm
We scored almost as many on them as we did on Denver in the SuperBowl….while dealing out a similar defensive effort. Amazing that Haush missed 3 field goals… could have been 44~6 no matter… the NFC West title is in sight…….Awesome effort to score a lil more than 8. Congrats Seattle.
Mike Barnes on December 22, 2014 2:02 pm
Both Wilson and Lynch seem to have figured out the Cardinal defense from the look of things, rather than the the way around. As for the NFL Coach of the Year, Capt. Smith had a stellar record over 25 years as a skipper for the Whitestar line–until he helmed the Titanic. Coach Arians, meet the Beast Mode iceberg.


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Accidentally pumping regular 87 octane gas into a car that requires 93 octane may cause the 'Check Engine' light to come on. Vehicle computers can compensate for less than optimal octane by reducing ignition timing. But if your owner's manual recommends 93 octane and you fill it with 87, you can easily exceed the computer's ability to compensate. So use the correct octane gas the next time you fill up.
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Matthew D. Struble
Associate — Restructuring & Reorganization
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Matt's primary area of practice includes all aspects of restructuring and reorganization work, including the representation of debtors, lenders, creditors, and other stakeholders in chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings. His experience includes chapter 11 reorganization proceedings, bankruptcy litigation, distressed asset acquisitions and divestitures, and corporate workout and restructuring transactions.
Company/Debtor Representations
CARBO Ceramics Inc. and certain of its affiliates, who were engaged in the manufacturing of ceramic proppant and other industrial ceramic materials and oilfield products, in their chapter 11 bankruptcy cases filed in Houston, Texas; pre-negotiated chapter 11 plan confirmed within 80 days of case filing
California Resources Corporation and certain of its affiliates, as company co-counsel, in their pre-negotiated chapter 11 cases filed in Houston, Texas
Cloud Peak Energy, the only pure-play Powder River Basin coal company and the third largest coal company in the United States, in the sale of substantially all its operating assets to Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Navajo Nation, as part of its chapter 11 bankruptcy involving approximately $350 million in funded debt and over $750 million in total liabilities
Taco Bueno Restaurants in connection with its prepetition debt sale transaction and subsequent prepackaged chapter 11 cases, which involved equitizing $140 million in senior secured debt, transitioning ownership to an affiliate of Sun Holdings, Inc., renegotiating a substantial portion of the company's lease portfolio, and reaching a global settlement with unsecured creditors in fewer than 45 days
Samuel Wyly in the largest chapter 11 personal bankruptcy case for an individual in 20 years; secured a settlement with the SEC; conducted multiple asset sales for the benefit of creditors
Agent/Lender Representations
A special situations investor in its role as lender under $129 million of revolver and multi-draw term loan prepetition and DIP financing provided to a private cinema chain
Wells Fargo Bank as Administrative Agent in Oasis Petroleum's restructuring and prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, including a $450 million DIP financing and $575 million exit financing
JPMorgan Chase Bank as Administrative agent and lead lender to Tuesday Morning Corporation in a $100 million debtor-in-possession revolving credit facility in connection with its chapter 11 bankruptcy
JPMorgan Chase, N.A. in a $1.6 billion secured reserve-based revolving credit facility to Denbury Resources Inc.
Represent client as secured lender in $80,000,000 secured facility to upstream producer in restructuring and chapter 11 matters
Bank of America as secured lender of $100 million asset-based credit facility in the prenegotiated chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Parker Drilling, and as the post-petition $50 million DIP lender and $100 million Exit facility lender
Angelo, Gordon Energy Servicer LLC, as agent to the senior secured lenders in the chapter 11 cases of Rooster Energy Ltd. and it subsidiaries filed in Lafayette, Louisiana
Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. as a senior secured lender to Trinity River Resources L.P. in its chapter 11 case filed in Austin, Texas
National lender in the negotiation and preparation of restructuring support agreement, plan of reorganization, and related bankruptcy pleading and documentation related to financing provided to a wholesale power company; resulted in a settlement and out of court resolution
Southwest Airlines as a party in interest in the chapter 11 bankruptcy of Global Eagle Entertainment, a licensor of media and entertainment content
Law School: University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2016 (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Business Law)
Undergraduate: Texas A&M University, B.S. Economics & Political Science summa cum laude, 2013
Member: State Bar of Texas; Dallas Bar Association; DFW Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas and the District of Colorado
U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas and the District of Colorado
Jonah Energy Announces Closing of Comprehensive Balance Sheet Recapitalization and Equity Raise of $85M
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Court Confirms Chaparral Energy's Plan of Reorganization
Deals & CasesOctober 1, 2020
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Deals & CasesSeptember 30, 2020
Denbury Resources Pre-Packaged Plan Confirmed By Court
Deals & CasesSeptember 8, 2020
Martin Midstream Partners Announces Successful Completion of Exchange Offer and Cash Tender Offer
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Vinson & Elkins Advising Royal Bank of Canada in Connection with Chaparral Energy's Restructuring and Prepackaged Voluntary Chapter 11 Filing
Vinson & Elkins Advising JPMorgan Chase Bank in Connection with Denbury Resources' Restructuring and Prepackaged Voluntary Chapter 11 Cases
Deals & CasesJuly 31, 2020
California Resources Corporation Files for Chapter 11 in Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
CARBO Ceramics Announces Agreement with Wilks Brothers to Acquire Business and Strengthen Financial Position
Deals & CasesMarch 30, 2020
Taco Bueno Successfully Emerges from Chapter 11
Deals & CasesJanuary 28, 2019
Complex Loan Workouts & Lender Representation
Debtor & Court-Appointed Trustee Representation
Distressed Asset Acquisitions & Investments
Restructuring Litigation


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Deep Pressure-take winter blankets to be aired out outside… but before you do roll your kids in a big blanket (the hot dog roll) for deep pressure input.
Heavy Work- have your kids carry a bucket of soapy water or a spray bottle (make sure they can carry it and that it's just the right challenge and not too heavy). Have them dip the cleaning rag into the bucket, squeeze the water and clean a surface…Try singing a favorite song and have them clean until the song is done. Your cupboards, tables and door will be shining in no time!


You have a big project and need help. But hiring employees is nothing short of a time- and cost-intensive pain. And vetting freelancers and temps isn't much easier, especially when you're crunched for time and money. Chris Barbin, CEO of cloud consultancy Appirio, suggests something different: Crowdsourcing. Here's what he says you need to know about it.
Cloud computing and crowdsourcing are intersecting to disrupt IT services.
It's a $350 billion industry, Barbin says. As evidence, Appirio has 1,200 employees and more than 800,000 developers, designers and data scientists competing for work on its crowdsourced platform. The company also has been growing at more than 30 percent year over year and has raised more than $111 million in funding from VC firms including Sequoia Capital and Fidelity Management and Research.
Crowdsourcing work is different from hiring freelancers.
Appirio takes a company's big project and decomposes it into units of work and either assigns employees to tackle them, or puts a challenge out on its crowdsourced platform. If the latter, within a few days dozens or hundreds of people submit their solution to the problem, with the hopes of winning first, second or third place, all of which are rewarded with a cash prize. And if a client likes all three designs it could choose them all to merge into a final product. "It's not just finding the lowest hourly rate resource like in a freelance model," he says. "In our case the cream rises to the top in this competitive-based platform."
The days of the year-long project are over.
Nobody wants to invest that kind of capital. Instead, start small and iterate fast. Developing an app prototype, for example, runs $499 on Appirio's AppXpress platform. It involves inputting data such as the use case, types of devices and other apps similar to what you want to create. Within about a week the crowd takes over. "They'll build your app or your prototype and you pay for the results," he says.
Hybrid labor models are now the ideal way to solve business problems.
Back in the 90s companies began investing heavily in offshore IT providers, which is now a $100 billion industry involving 10 million workers in India. "We like to draw the analogy that crowdsourcing is a very similar new labor model that's going to take over in the next twenty years," he says. "Weaving together crowdsourcing plus offshore plus traditional in-your-building IT services is the future work model."


Singapore chef Hawker Chan is the only chef in the world to get a Michelin star for street food. We tried the chef's char siew pork, which is sticky pork served with rice, during a three-day event in King's Cross, in Central London. Th meal cost £6 ($7.95).
"Char siew rice is a barbecue pork rice, which actually is a very simple dish because you can use a basic recipe to make it," chef Hawker Chan tol INSIDER.
"Since I got this Michelin star, I hope all the small shops in the hawker centers will all work hard. There will be a day where they can achieve this too. My own wish is every day to be a good chef. I'd be very happy," said chef Chan.


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The Truth Behind Biden's Superpowers
Exclusive: Secret campaign tapes reveal the "Science Is Real."
By Thaddeus G. McCotter
Dateline—The State of Columbia (née, The District of Columbia, a.k.a. "The Swamp")
By all accounts, Joe Biden wasn't expected to be the 21st century's reincarnation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Senator Biden wasn't cerebral; stolidly toed his party's line; smeared Republican Supreme Court nominees; ended up on the wrong side of nearly every major foreign policy decision; and had a penchant for off-color and highly offensive remarks as well as an affinity for plagiarism, which sank his 1988 presidential bid.
Even when he was selected to be vice president (an early indication of then-Senator Barack Obama's decision-making prowess), Biden's singular achievement was milking his contacts with our nation's friends and foes to enrich his ne'er-do-well son, Hunter, and other family members (and likely the "Big Guy," too).
What changed in 2020 for "Racial Jungle" Joe? What transformed a Delawarean septuagenarian into a Proglogdyte superstar?
Hitting Rock Bottom in the Granite State
As readers of Jules Verne (or perhaps people who saw movies based on his books) can attest, what was once considered science fiction often becomes science fact—like when teachers' unions help draft CDC guidelines. Consequently, the question arises for all real journalists: Is the "Six-Trillion-Dollar Man," Joe Biden, our first bionic president?
B.S. News will not divulge the names of our alleged sources or admit any illegality in obtaining these startling revelations. But you can be sure we would never publish fake news just for clicks or kicks. (Money is another matter.)
The first transcript is from the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. The voices on the initial secret campaign tape are candidate Biden; a New Hampshire campaign staffer; and an unknown voice that sounds a lot like Barack Obama. (What are the odds?)
Cue the secret campaign tapes' transcripts!
"I've got a blow-out! Precinct three!"
[Unknown]: One minute . . . Someone's keying the microphone . . .
New Hampshire Campaign Staffer: It looks . . . good?
Biden: Lying, dog-faced [unintelligible].
[Unknown]: Here comes the throttle.
Biden: We have separation from the primary pack.
New Hampshire Campaign Staffer: Looks . . . good?
Biden: I've got a blow-out! Precinct three!
[Unknown]: Get your campaign pitch to zero.
Biden: Pitch is out! I can't hold altitude!
New Hampshire Campaign Staffer: Correction . . . ?
[Unknown]: Emergency!
Biden: I can't hold it! She's breaking up, she's break . . . [static]
After the crash landing, Politico was left to tally the campaign carnage: "Joe Biden limped away from New Hampshire with a devastating fifth-place finish, zero delegates and the viability of his campaign in question."
The Six-Trillion-Dollar Man: "Better, Stronger, Faster"
No, MAGA paranoiacs. The election wasn't rigged and Joe Biden isn't moronic.
Joe Biden is bionic!
Following Joe's disastrous New Hampshire crash, the Biden campaign (and genocidal Communist China) knew what it had to do to recoup their investment: take this shell of a candidate and build him back better.
On the second secret campaign tape, believed to have been furtively recorded in Biden's basement, one can hear [unless you're reading this article, of course] Biden; the same unknown voice that sure sounds a lot like Barack Obama (I know, crazy, right?); and a shadowy figure known only as "Dr. Tony." This "Dr. Tony" must have seen a Proglodyte lawn sign, because he clearly believes "science is real." Listen as he lays out the scheme to build Biden back better:
Dr. Tony: Joe Biden. A candidate barely alive. Comrades, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic president. Joe Biden will be that man. Or whatever gender he chooses. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.
[Unknown]: Smarter?
Dr. Tony: I'm not a miracle worker.
[Unknown]: How much is this going to cost Zuckerberg?
Dr. Tony: Six-trillion-dollars. But it all goes on the taxpayers' tab.
[Unknown]: Considering Joe's over 75-years-old, he's lucky you're not Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. Imagine the "comparative effectiveness" score on old Joe! [chuckling]
Dr. Tony: Well, if the taxpayers weren't footing the bill . . .
Biden: C'mon, man!
Yes, "c'mon man," indeed. After some major reconstruction by the shadowy Dr. Tony, the Biden campaign team, and the scrupulously fair corporate media, Slo-Joe was no mo'. They bid adieu to the divisive smear merchant. Adios to the non-descript grifter. Now, instead of this straight, white, old man stood a dynamic and empathetic avatar of a reunited America! A "champion of the poor" and a woke warrior for people of color!
But just like their climate denial, the MAGA cult denies the science is real. They blame left-wing media, Big Tech and its billions, the unauthorized partisan revisions of election procedures, etc., for Biden's political resurrection. Who else but those MAGA loons would believe that fantasy?
But you don't have to take the word of B.S. News as gospel—not yet, anyway. According to a highly placed source at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "The science is real. The science is settled. Joe Biden is our first bionic president. That's it. That's all. That's the story. Full stop!"
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The Hon. Thaddeus McCotter is the former chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee, current itinerant guitarist, American Greatness contributor, and Monday co-host of the "John Batchelor Show."
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{
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Out of Bread - A Business Idea
Out of bread?
It's Monday and we are out of bread. The bakeries in our town are closed on Monday. Not only that, on other days of the week, they are frequently out of bread!
Bread is the number one food eaten by humans on earth, just above rice, and it can be both nutritious and feel like a splurge, especially when it's fresh. It can be made from wheat, corn, and a wide variety of grains.
Bread isn't seasonal, for the most part. People need bread for sandwiches, toast, tacos, hummus, curry or just butter and jam. But in our town, you can only buy fresh western-style bread some days of the week, and only when they haven't run out. The market is ripe for more competition!
Here is an opportunity for a baker who wants to start a new business near the end of a pandemic: a bakery in a town that doesn't have enough fresh bread, nor enough diverse types of fresh bread. Maybe this is true in your town. Or a town you've always wanted to live in!
You don't even need a retail store. You can make and bake the bread in commercial kitchens that rent space by the hour or day. You can sell at farmers markets and online, take orders and deliver within a certain radius. You can specialize at first and then branch out.
Bread's ingredients are, in general, inexpensive. The work to make bread delicious is difficult. But the price for fresh bread is higher, making it a profitable opportunity for an intrepid entrepreneur. Bakers don't generally make millions, but they do make a living wage doing what they love to do.
Not into bread? How about pies? There's a new pie shop in our town, our first one, and it keeps running out of $30 pies! There's the sign that it's time for a competitor to show up….
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Day 276: Survival Preparation. Task 16. APPs You Need To Download Now
by Bob | Dec 11, 2020 | Survival | 0 comments
A WORD ON USING APPS! Don't just download an App and ignore. Open it. Most require some form of sign in which could be awkward during an emergency. Explore it. How does it work? What does it do and what doesn't it do? Some apps are battery intensive, especially locator apps. You can never rely 100% on any app because they are dependent on your phone which is dependent on: -You having your phone -The phone working -the battery -often apps require getting a signal to work properly
Task Sixteen
Mild: Download Emergency Apps
FREE (Mostly) First Aid, COVID-19 Emergency, Communication, Location/Mapping and Survival Apps You Need To Download Right Now.
Apps After downloading any App, check and, if required, make sure you register and add contacts as required. It's a pain to stop and do it when you need it. Speaking from experience. All Apps listed are FREE, unless otherwise noted. My listing of these apps doesn't indicate endorsement, but I'm doing this, along with product descriptions, to give you access and information. Be careful downloading anything. There have been ransomware and scammers putting up fake COVID- 19 contact-tracing apps. Occasionally Apps are changed, updated or deleted.
COVID-19 Screening Tool Web Page: SCREENING TOOL Apple
https://covid19.apple.com/screening
COVID-19 App: APPLE 1-Check
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1504132184
COVID (Android) (Apple)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.unmc.covid19screener
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1-check-covid/id1504328584
Designed by leading health experts at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the 1- Check COVID app features an easy to use interface that asks you to complete a series of questions about your symptoms, travel, medical conditions, and exposure. Your assessment responses and results remain securely stored on your iOS device. Upon completion of the screening survey, you will be given an option to share your results with your healthcare provider, clinic, employer, public health service or others.
CDC App Center For Disease Control (Apple) (Android) Of limited use, but better to have than not have.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cdc/id487847188
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.cdc.general&feature=search_result#?t=W10
Medical Apps Red Cross First Aid (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/first-aid-by-american-red/id529160691
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cube.arc.fa&hl=en
Accidents happen. The official American Red Cross First Aid app puts expert advice for everyday emergencies in your hand. With videos, interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step advice it's never been easier to know first aid. Features: • Simple step-by-step instructions guide you through everyday first aid scenarios. • Fully integrated with 9-1-1 so you can call EMS from the app at any time. • Videos and animations make learning first aid fun and easy. • Safety tips for everything, from severe winter weather to hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes help you prepare for emergencies. • Easy to use Spanish language toggle.
Medical Apps CPR and Choking (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resuscitate-cpr-aed-choking/id363393502
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.learncpr.videoapp
The CPR & Choking application provides instant information on how to perform CPR and how to aid a choking victim. These are short video demonstrations and are compatible with the latest recommendations from the major international resuscitation organizations including the American Heart Association and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).
Location Apps Family Locator-GPS Tracker for Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.life360.android.safetymapd
GPS Tracker for Android. Family Locator simplifies life in the digital world by making it easy to stay connected to the people who matter most. With Life360 you can: • Create your own groups, called "Circles," of loved ones, friends, teammates — whoever matters most and chat with them in Family Locator for FREE. • View the real-time location of Circle Members on a private family map that's only visible on Family Locator • Receive real-time alerts when Circle Members arrive at or leave destinations (Eliminate disruptive "Where are you?" texts) • Track stolen phones or lost phones
Location Apps Emergency Alert System for Apple.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/silent-beacon-emergency-alert/id933730960
Alert, track and notify loved ones as well as 911 in an emergency situation. Silent Beacon provides you with the peace of mind that comes from knowing that you and your loved ones are able to instantly connect. The emergency alert system for the digital age.
Location Apps Road ID eCrumbs App for Apple and Android.
https://ecrumbs.roadid.com
This is one I use when off by myself running, biking or hiking. It's a way of alerting people by email and text if something happens to me and I stop moving for a certain period of time (mine is set for 5 minutes), or past a set overall time limit. The all new Road ID App is a great tool for runners, cyclists, hikers, and walkers. With features like eCrumb Tracking, a Stationary Alert, and a custom Lock Screen, the Road ID App is your perfect training partner. As a side note, the five minute alert sounds and the phone vibrates when stationery— useful to find your phone when you wipe out mountain biking and your phone flies into the woods. Speaking from experience.
Location Apps Google Earth (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-earth/id293622097
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.earth
Disaster Apps Red Cross Hurricane App (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hurricane-by-american-red/id545689128
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cube.arc.hfa&hl=en
Be ready for severe weather with Hurricane by American Red Cross. Monitor conditions in your area or throughout the storm track, prepare your family and home, find help and let others know you are safe – a must have for anyone who lives in an area where a hurricane may strike or has loved ones who do.
The Wildfire APP: Apple Android
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wildfire-nearby-alerts/id1046411483
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.wildfireapp.wildfire&hl=en_US
Disaster Apps Earthquake Alert for Android. Quake feed for Apple.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joshclemm.android.quake&hl=en
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quakefeed-earthquake-map-alerts/id403037266
Disaster Apps Weatherbug (Apple) (Android) Get real-time weather conditions, forecasts, and accurate & animated weather maps for all the locations you care about. Plus, get the fastest alerts to severe weather including all NWS and NOAA watches and warnings.
https://apps.apple.com/app/weatherbug-forecasts-radar/id281940292
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aws.android
Disaster Apps Disaster Alert (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/disaster-alert-pacific-disaster/id381289235
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=disasterAlert.PDC
A free download providing mobile access to multi-hazard monitoring of and early warning for "Active Hazards" around the globe. Additional information and reports about hazards can be viewed and shared.
Disaster Apps FEMA (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fema/id474807486
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.fema.mobile.android
The FEMA app is your one-stop-shop with tools and tips to keep you safe before, during, and after disasters. Stay updated with weather-related alerts from the U.S. National Weather Service. Save a custom list of the items in your family's emergency kit, as well as the places you will meet in case of an emergency. Get tips on what to do before, during, and after over 20 types of disasters. And locate open shelters and where to talk to FEMA in person at Disaster Recovery Centers.
Miscellaneous Apps Flashlight (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flashlight-o/id381471023
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ihandysoft.ledflashlight.mini
Location Apps There are several topo map Apps you can buy. I've used a number over the years but the best one I've found is Gaia.
https://www.gaiagps.com/discounts/?fp_ref=bob-94
The basic app is free and then there are two levels of membership. The premium, which is discounted 20% via my affiliate link, is $32 for a year but for the number of types of maps you get, it is definitely worth it. One useful thing to using any map app is to download the map tiles you want to use beforehand (when you're out in the wilds with no signal) and you learn how to use the app. They also send interesting email updates on various outdoor activities that are very informative from outdoor experts.
Knots 3D ($4.99) (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knots-3d/id453571750
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nynix.knots3d
Tie, untie and rotate more than 100. Knots are an essential part of emergency and survival training.
Miscellaneous Apps Wild Edibles ($5.99) (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wild-edibles-full/id431504588
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.winterroot.wildedibles.full
Explore free edible plants in your backyard. The ultimate foraging guide: identify, cultivate, and prepare over 250 plants! • Identify using up to 8 images per plant (over 1,000 images in total!) • Now includes map enabled notes – privately track locations of your favorite plants * Filter by region, season, and other plant attributes • West coast specific plants • New cultivation information helps wild plants stay forgeable year after year • Identification, harvesting, preparation, and recipes. • Choose to download high resolution versions of images
Miscellaneous Apps Scanner Radio (Apple) (Android)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scanner-radio-deluxe/id498405045
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scannerradio
Listen to live audio from over 5,300 police and fire scanners, weather radios, and amateur radio repeaters from around the world. Useful for getting a feel for the level of emergency in your AO.
The Green Beret Pocket-Sized Survival Guide
Green Beret Preparation and Survival Guide.


I just realized I haven't done a giveaway in over a year! It's high time to give out a few freebies to you all! Besides, it seems like a great way to celebrate a new year. So if you've had your eye on one of our ebooks or downloads, enter the giveaway to win it!
You can enter the giveaway in the Rafflleopter box below.
I'll randomly choose 7 lucky winners on Jan. 15th 2015.
Each winner can choose any 2 downloads as their prize!
St. Nicholas and St. Lucy Felt Ornament Patterns and Printable Paper Ornament Set AND Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Felt Ornaments and Paper Ornament Set. ($2.00 value - $1.00 for each) If you want the ornament sets, you'll receive both ornament pattern sets as one of your choices.
Click on the links above to learn more about each download!
I would love to win a couple of free downloads to use with my daughter in our homeschool!
It's so hard to choose! I think I'd go with the Journey's End Game & One Nation Under God ~ Notebooking Pages. Yay! I'm so excited!!!!
What a generous giveaway! Would love to receive any of them!
I would really enjoy the 50 States Notebooking Pages and Journey with Jesus Bible Reading and Meditation ebook. Thank you for the giveaway. - Laura G.
I would choose the Journey with Jesus Bible Reading and Meditation eBook and the Journey with Jesus Bible Reading, Writing, and Drawing eWorkbook 1.
Great giveaways Jennifer! I would love to win any of them for my family! Thank you!
I love all your stuff, but I think we could really use the 50 states download for school! Thanks for doing this giveaway!
Wonderful site!! Your ideas have been wonderfully helpful and enjoyed by my 3rd grade CCD class and Children's Liturgy group. I would love the Journey With Jesus set, I think my classes and daughter would be very interested. Thank you for all you do ... God Bless!
My first pick would definitely be the Lent book - that would give us great structure this year!
Journey with Jesus Bible Reading and Meditation eBook ~ Plus Jesus Tree File and Journey Page. I love your blog and love reading the ones I get in the email too!
Thanks for this great giveaway opportunity. I would choose the Journey's End book and the Lenten meditation book. What a blessing you are to Catholic families!
I've had my eye on the Holy Name of Jesus puzzle for some time - it would be great to win it! The Journey with Jesus also sounds interesting. Thanks for hosting a giveaway - such fun!
Journey with jesus would be great!!!
I love them all but would probably like the Journey with Jesus and confession game the best!
Great Giveaway! Jouney's End-A game about why we need cofession looks like an awesome game to have!
I would love to win the confession game and the meditation ebook, but all of the prizes look great!
Would love to win! Thanks for the offer!
This would be perfect for our Religious Ed. class. Thanks for the opportunity!
Wonderful giveaway! It would be great to win one for my kids!


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Sent plasmid prep to ASU (5uL of plasmid + 1uL of 10uM M13F/R). SJW01 = M13F, SJW02 = M13R.
Top hit in the db is COX1/PGS1, and, clearly, there are differences between the two sequences confirming that we have the second isoform (COX2/PGS2). Will design more RACE primers in hopes of obtaining the full-length cDNA sequence.
The negative controls (NTC) are negative, meaning they do not cross the threshold set by the BioRad software. However, there is clearly amplification in the NTCs, but they come up late enough that they do not cross the threshold and, thus, generate a Cq value. Additionally, the melt curve reveals peaks in the NTCs that are at the same melting temperature as the product produced in the cDNA qPCR reactions. This would potentially imply some sort of contamination, as Emma has experienced.
Honestly, I do no think contamination is the problem. I believe that the "contamination" being seen in the NTCs is actually primer dimer. Increasing the annealing temperature (I'm not sure if Emma tried this during her troubleshooting) could potentially alleviate this issue. However, I'm not sure she's amplifying the target that she wants to. Based on my analysis, I think she needs to re-design primers for her 3KDS target. Read my analysis and why I came to this conclusion below.
It seems unlikely that two independent people (and multiple primer stock replacements!) would have contamination, so I looked in to things a bit further.
This result does NOT agree with what is entered in our Primer Database. As entered in our sheet, the expected PCR product would be ~102bp. However, taking in to account the BLAST results, it would be difficult to distinguish the difference between primer dimers and PCR product in a melt curve analysis.


From one downtown to the other. Stopping for a day in Copenhagen and then straight on to the next one (Swizzy voice). Fresh off the flight here are some images from a trip to Seoul. Felt like I was in that Kanye West "Stronger" video for a minutes there.
PS. Koreaboys will kill your fashion steez effortlessly ANY day – you heard it here first!


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A great family favourite
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Go Ape this summer
Suitable for all ages •Indoor 12.4 miles from Appleton Thorn
Nantwich Outdoor Brine Pool
Suitable for all ages •Indoor, Outdoor 19.4 miles from Appleton Thorn
Suitable for ages: 0-12 •Indoor 26.2 miles from Appleton Thorn
Lifestyles Peter Lloyd
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Deeside Leisure Centre
Suitable for ages: 4+ •Indoor 34.7 miles from Appleton Thorn
Wrexham Waterworld
The Quarry Swimming and Fitness Centre
Suitable for ages: 0-12 •Indoor, Outdoor 46.8 miles from Appleton Thorn
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