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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=2.msg3030#msg3030 date=1608870785] Christmas victories: https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_486698fc-456b-11eb-b7c8-57bde572d9f2.html [quote]The bronze statue of Edward Douglass White Jr., until recently the only Louisianan ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court but one who fought for the Confederacy and upheld racial segregation laws, disappeared Wednesday from its pedestal on the steps of the state Supreme Court building in New Orleans. ... White, a Louisiana native who died in 1921, fought as a teenager for the South in the Civil War and afterward took part in the Battle of Liberty Place, an armed White supremacist uprising that in 1874 briefly wrested control of New Orleans from the Reconstruction-era government. His tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, from 1894 until his death, saw him vote in the majority in Plessy v. Ferguson and several other infamous decisions upholding Jim Crow racial segregation and stripping Black Americans of civil rights. ... White grew up in a prominent Thibodaux family of slaveholding sugar planters. His father and namesake, Edward Douglass White Sr., was governor of Louisiana from 1835 to 1839 and served nine years in Congress. ... "We're happy to see that it's no longer in public view but also disappointed they would have the temerity to put it inside to try to satisfy those who want to celebrate its White supremacist history," said Malcolm Suber, one of the leaders of the activist group Take 'Em Down NOLA. "We don't think he should be honored in any kind of way, so we will continue our fight." ... A separate statue of White in the U.S. Capitol in Washington also has also been slated for possible removal. In July, the House of Representatives voted by a wide margin to boot statues and busts of numerous prominent Confederates and other proponents of slavery — a list that included White, although the details of his military service are hazy — from the building.[/quote] I like Suber's attitude. And then there's this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nc-supreme-court-remove-portrait-143352155.html [quote]The North Carolina Supreme Court has announced plans to remove the portrait of Thomas Ruffin, a former chief justice who was a slave owner, from one of its walls. ... Ruffin, who owned slaves in the 1800s and served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1829 to 1852, firmly believed owners held absolute power over those whom they enslaved. He once wrote slave owners should not be convicted of assault or battery against their human property. ... Earlier this year, a smaller portrait of Ruffin was removed from another courthouse, as was his statue from the entrance of the state's Court of Appeals building, which was once named after him. Ruffin has been described as "particularly brutal in his ownership of slaves." During his time serving on the North Carolina high court, he overturned the conviction of a slave owner named John Mann, who shot a female slave after she refused his orders. According to the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, "In that case, in which an enslaved woman had been shot in the back after fleeing a brutal whipping, Ruffin rejected the notion that a slave owner could be guilty of assault or battery of an enslaved person, writing, 'The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect … This discipline belongs to the state of slavery.'"[/quote] Destroying Homo Hubris is what Christmas should be about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPyjZoHdVWQ [/quote]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-contractors-wouldn-t-remove-confederate-statues-so-a-black-man-did-it/ar-AA15T0tX
City and state officials said they turned to Team Henry Enterprises after a long list of bigger contractors — all White-owned — said they wanted no part of taking down Confederate statues.
For a Black man to step in carried enormous risk. Henry concealed the name of his company for a time and long shunned media interviews. He has endured death threats, seen employees walk away and been told by others in the industry that his future is ruined. He started wearing a bulletproof vest on job sites and got a permit to carry a concealed firearm for protection.
The drama interrupted Henry's careful efforts to build his business. But after removing 24 monuments in Virginia and North Carolina, Henry, 45, has grown more comfortable with his role in enabling a historic reckoning with social injustice across the South. The threats haven't let up; Henry has simply learned to live with them.
"My head's in a different place now," he said. "It's like, I'm not scared to cross the street, but I'm always going to look both ways, right? So I'm not totally oblivious to who I am and what I've done, but I'm just not letting fear kind of drive what I do."
He had come to understand that those statues — especially Lee — were like religious objects to their defenders. They had stood more than a century as totems of a powerful mythology: that slavery was somehow benign, that Southerners were the noble victims of Northern aggression, that things were better when White people presided over an orderly world. The Lost Cause.
This is why the statues must be toppled.
As the crane lowered the statue to the ground, Henry was awed by the size of the thing. The crowd surged forward; someone said they wanted to urinate on it. Henry hollered for people to stay back.
Then he noticed one African American woman looking at him with an expression of utter disgust. Henry said he felt confused; wasn't she happy at what he had just done?
"She was like, 'Why are you showing so much care to the statue? Just drop it. Just let it go. Just kick it over. Nobody cared about George Floyd, but you care about this statue?'"
Someone gets it!
The statue was hoisted off its pedestal in less than an hour after 131 years of towering over Richmond's grandest street. Henry's mother — Freda Thornton, who now lives in South Carolina — ran through the security barricade and surprised her weeping son with a big hug.
"I just kind of held him for a minute, just to let him get himself together," Thornton remembered. "I told him, 'You did it, and God's favor protected you and it's over.' I said, 'It's over, the work is completed now.'"
Actually, the work is completed only when the colonialist bloodlines are eliminated. Removing statues is merely the warmup.
Henry's mission as the man who finally drove the Confederates out of Richmond was nearly complete. He had a brief, blunt message that morning for the chilly workers as they prepared to do the unusual work that has become so familiar.
"It's the last one," he told them. "Let's do it right and get out of here."
Yes, but the Confederates are not statues, but bloodlines. Again, removing statues is merely the warmup.
The best way to know we are decolonizing is to read our enemies' complaints:
https://vdare.com/posts/ritualistic-humiliation-black-run-city-of-richmond-virginia-digs-up-remains-of-confederate-general-a-p-hill-after-tearing-down-his-statue
Our past must be destroyed. There is no honor in remembering the deeds of those who came before us, or in revering their sacrifices, even if they ultimately failed.
Humiliation. Ritualistic humiliation.
Yes. Western civilization must be destroyed. Why would there be honour in colonialism? We were the ones being sacrificed by the colonialists! It is the victims of sacrifice, not the sacrificers, who should be remembered!
The city of Richmond, Virginia, has dug up the remains of Confederate General A.P. Hill as it continues to purge Confederate symbols and monuments from public spaces.
The remains of Hill, which had been buried under a monument to the general, were located on Tuesday after two days of digging. The casket of Hill, who was reportedly buried standing up, was rotted away when workers finally found the remains using an excavator.
According to local reporter Riley Wyant, the remains of Hill were blocked from public view using a tarp before they were transferred into a body bag and wheeled away on a stretcher.
One day we will do this to the Windsors' graves too!
The remains were transferred to the general's relatives, including John Hill, the general's closest indirect descendent.
The remains should have gone straight into the sewers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x9WQ_OHkvo
Woke comments:
Roosevelt said Churchill hindered negotiations with the Chinese, who Churchill referred to as "pigtails", as he "was obsessed with the colour of their skin". Churchill wasn't just a child of the empire, he was everything colonialism represented. His treatment of our Indian allies is a huge example of his attitude to non-white people.
If anyone was interested in factual history, they would open their eyes and realise how racist Churchill was. English history in English schools is taught through fluffy rose-tinted glasses. His involvement in the intentional and deliberate enabling of counntless atrocities carried out by a militia he sent to Ireland in the 1920's, known as the 'black and tans', is very well known, except in Britain itself.
http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/mainstream-admits-churchill-was-defending-western-civilization/
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/27/us/richmond-virginia-confederate-statue-reaj-trnd/index.html
A Tuesday court ruling has cleared the way for Richmond, Virginia, to remove its last-standing Confederate statue.
The statue, standing at the intersection of the city's Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue, depicts A.P. Hill, a Confederate general killed during the Third Battle of Petersburg in the American Civil War. The statue was erected on top of the general's burial site.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney celebrated the ruling in a statement shared with CNN.
"We're gratified by Judge Cheek's ruling. This is the last stand for the Lost Cause in our city," said Stoney in the statement.
https://us.yahoo.com/news/time-federal-government-goodbye-columbus-011827254.html
It's Time for the Federal Government to Say Goodbye to Columbus Day
On Monday we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States. Well, some of us do.
Across the United States, tribal, federal, states, and local governments will be closed. They are closed because Monday is a federal holiday. Of course, the federal holiday does not celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day. Instead, the federal holiday celebrates Christopher Columbus, ignoring the actual history of the man.
Growing up, I was not taught Columbus really was a lost sailor who was heading in a whole different direction than the western hemisphere.
I was also not taught Columbus actually never set foot on the land that is now known as the United States.
Nor was I taught of the atrocities that Columbus and his men perpetrated on the innocent Indigenous peoples in the western hemisphere: the raping of Indigenous women, the thievery of goods, and ultimately of the land.
No, what I was taught was a constructed false narrative that began in elementary school about how "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492" and that he discovered America.
From early childhood as a young Potawatomi boy, I began to view history from a different lens than my non-Native students. Native Americans reject the notion you can discover land where inhabitants already live.
I questioned this as a child also. I was taught that Columbus discovered the New World and encountered the local inhabitants. I trivially deduced that this implied Columbus was not the first one there, and asked the teacher why Columbus was nevertheless credited with the discovery. The idiot teacher couldn't answer it. (This was the same idiot teacher who couldn't answer my question of how Adam and Eve are said to be the first humans considering that Cain is explicitly stated to have found his wife in another land already inhabited by many more humans.)
So, Columbus Day was a federal holiday that I felt uneasy about as it approached each October. Even as a child, I felt sick for the portrayal of Columbus as a hero, knowing our country's constructed history was a hoax.
As an adult, I learned our Indigenous ancestors paid a premium price because of Columbus.
To Native Americans, Columbus is not considered a hero to be placed on a pedestal; rather, he is considered a dishonored villain. Indigenous people believe that a man who set in motion the mass genocide of this land's first people should not be honored or glorified.
For this reason, Native Americans have worked to change the celebration of Columbus Day to instead be called Indigenous Peoples' Day. In recent years, in cities and states around the country, Indigenous Peoples' Day has gained recognition.
Now, it is time for the federal government to say goodbye to Columbus and fully embrace Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Last year, in his first year in office, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day. He was the first U.S. president to do so.
Last Friday, Biden declared Monday, October 10, 2022 as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Keeping Columbus Day as a federal holiday allows the constructed hoax of Columbus discovering America to be perpetuated from one generation of Americans to the next. That needs to change.
Defend Mayor Robinson!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cxanPuJNUc
This is the correct attitude:
https://www.cltampa.com/news/florida-indigenous-groups-say-tampas-columbus-statue-will-come-down-one-way-or-another-14078990
In the lead-up to Christopher Columbus Day on Oct. 10, local Indigenous groups have told City of Tampa officials to remove a Columbus statue from the park dedicated to him on Bayshore Boulevard and W Platt Street. But even if the city refuses to remove it, the group says the statue will come down.
"One way, or another the statue of Columbus must and will be removed," the Florida Indigenous Alliance and the Florida American Indian Movement wrote in a letter addressed to the city.
There is no reason for Americans to defer to the decision of Western occupiers.
The groups want the statue removed and for the city to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day. For Natives, Columbus represents slavery, ****, genocide, torture and other atrocities that he and his companions described in their own words and in their diaries.
In the letter addressed to the city, the groups point out that Columbus even did horrific things to Native infants.
"Dominican Friar Bartolome De Las Casas recorded that Columbus hung Native people in rows of thirteen to honor Christ and his disciples, and further that Columbus had his men feed Native infants to dogs," the letter reads.
FIA says that Native Americans first asked for the statue to be removed in 1991, and spoke before council about the inhumanity that Columbus represents. But in the ensuing 31 years, the Indigenous people have only been met with resistance from the city. At a protest against the statue two years ago, Tampa Police Department officers surrounded the statue to protect it after it was covered in fake blood.
And leading up to that protest, TPD officers used taxpayer money to guard the statue morning and night after it had been tagged "BLM" and other messages during the George Floyd uprising.
In 2021, Governor Ron DeSantis passed a law making it a felony for protestors to tear down or damage historical statutes, which would include Columbus statues and confederate monuments.
Do to DeSantis and the TPD what Columbus did his victims!
FIA says that Columbus' horrific and inhumane treatment of Indigenous Peoples endures today in America as Native women are **** and murdered near camps full of men that are established for fracking operations.
And recently, thousands of Native children have been discovered in mass graves in Canada, and many are being uncovered in the United States. The children were brutalized and killed in concentration camps called "residential boarding schools" from the mid 1800s until the late 1970s.
"The celebration of Columbus's invasion of Caribe, Arawak, and Taino lands is a celebration of the subjugation of Indigenous Peoples and the theft of Indigenous lands," FIA wrote. "Continuing [to] celebrate that kind of event impairs reconciliation and understanding."
FIA said that part of ending celebrating genocide is removing monuments to the subjugation and genocide of Indigenous people. The group pointed out that in other cities, when people's patience has run out, they've taken matters into their own hands and torn down Columbus statues. But the group says it hopes the City of Tampa will hear the voice of Natives and make things right before it has to reach that point.
I hope FIA has been buying plenty of firearms.
https://youtu.be/RScMXlN51Tw
There is much work yet to be done:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-task-force-recommends-removal-214100089.html
This week, the Chicago Monuments Project finally released its long-delayed report recommending a series of new public memorials across the city and the removal of several statues that the commission flagged for honoring white supremacy or disrespecting Indigenous peoples.
Lightfoot's task force recommended taking down several other monuments that negatively depict Indigenous people. One monument that should be removed, the commission said, is a statue honoring the Supreme Court chief justice who presided over Plessy v. Ferguson, which enshrined segregation.
The commission recommended removing the "Jacques Marquette-Louis Jolliet Memorial" because it "reinforces stereotypes about American Indians and glorifies a complicated and painful history of Western expansion. It features a cowering American Indian, following submissively in the footsteps of Marquette."
A plaque honoring early Chicago settler John Kinzie should also be removed, the report said, because it "openly prioritizes whiteness and denies the existence of Native peoples, and earlier settler Jean Baptiste Point du Sable." For similar reasons, the commission said the "Jean Baptiste Beaubien Plaque" should go.
Bridge reliefs on the DuSable bridge, including "The Defense," "The Pioneers," "Discoverers" and "Regeneration" should also be taken down because they show American Indians "as merely a foil to help define the heroic acts and qualities of colonizing forces," though that would be challenging as they're built into the physical structure.
Just use a jackhammer to chip them off from the sides! As I always say, there is nothing more poetically just than using Western tools to destroy Western civilization:
The report also recommends taking down tablets dedicated to explorers De La Salle, Jolliet and Marquette. One of the plaques, it says, highlights "the first white men to pass through the Chicago River" and "explicitly voice(s) the ideology of white supremacy."
One professor, John Low, rebutted the notion that monuments simply document history.
"Monuments are not innocent. We have to understand the role of monuments and other commemorative sites and activities in developing a shared narrative of the past, present and future. These commemorations can ossify memory and create and perpetuate master narratives in which one view of past events is granted legitimacy at the expense of other views," Low wrote. "They can contribute to a collective memory that all too quickly becomes accepted as truth. The Chicago Monuments Project presents the opportunity to reconsider our monuments and memorials and assess whether they fairly represent the histories and peoples of Chicago."
Spread this idea!
https://twitter.com/bennydiego/status/1543595584522690560
Mount Rushmore was way more beautiful before white men destroyed it.
Woke responses:
we can't have anything nice because of the colonists.
We ruined a mountain so folks could stop for five minutes and take a vacation photo.
Rushmore is an embarrassment. The Black Hills were beautiful, we ruined it in the most self serving and obscene way possible.
Same can be said for the whole of North America.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/23/world/new-zealand-matariki-mori-new-year-first-indigenous-holiday-intl-hnk/index.html
New Zealand celebrates Māori New Year as an official public holiday for the first time
(CNN)For the first time, New Zealanders are enjoying an official public holiday this June 24 to celebrate Matariki -- also known as Māori New Year.
Matariki is the Māori name for a cluster of stars, also known as the Pleiades, the rising of which is recognized by many of the country's Indigenous people as the start of the new year.
In a statement, the New Zealand government noted that this is "the first public holiday to recognize Te Ao Māori" or the Māori worldview. The official holiday was established in April, with the passing of the Te Kāhui o Matariki Public Holiday Act.
Māori, who make up about 15% of New Zealand's population, were dispossessed of much of their land during Britain's colonization of the country. Thousands of Māori have protested for civil and social rights in recent years, and have criticized governments for failing to address social and economic inequalities.
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern introduced a new curriculum with mandatory teaching of Māori history and British colonialism.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/05/23/in-replacing-monuments-communities-reconsider-how-the-west-was-won
PORTLAND, Ore. — In June 2020, protesters at the University of Oregon in Eugene toppled a statue called The Pioneer, which depicted a White man with a gun slung over his shoulder and a whip in his hand, and a second sculpture titled The Pioneer Mother.
Both monuments had drawn criticism from Indigenous student groups and historians for commemorating settler violence in the West.
Even as Southern states face a reckoning over Confederate monuments, communities in the Western United States are beginning to reconsider monuments that, in many locations, celebrate what dominant American culture has portrayed as the conquering of the region by Europeans.
Among them are hundreds of pioneer monuments, many of which celebrate White dominance over Indigenous people as the nation expanded west. Some were toppled or damaged during the racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd.
In Portland, protesters pulled down or damaged five statues in the summer and fall of 2020, including The Promised Land, a celebration of White westward expansion erected on the 150th anniversary of the Oregon Trail. Portland protesters also toppled monuments to Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, citing their policies and actions against Native Americans. And in Albuquerque, New Mexico, city officials removed a statue of the Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate after a shooting during a protest at the site.
Pioneer Monuments
Pioneer monuments may appear to some observers as wholesome representations of the hard-working forebears of many White Westerners, said Cynthia Prescott, a professor of history at the University of North Dakota and the author of "Pioneer Mother Monuments." When she first began documenting the effects of 200 or so pioneer mother monuments across the West, she thought of the genre as "grandma in a sun bonnet."
But the monuments' intent was far from benign.
She cites research from 2019 by University of Oregon scholar Marc Carpenter, who as a doctoral candidate looked at the speeches by donors and the intent of the sculptor when the Pioneer sculpture was installed at his university. (The same artist, Alexander Phimister Proctor, crafted the Roosevelt monument in Portland and a statue of Robert E. Lee in Dallas that was removed from public view in 2017 and now resides at a Texas golf resort.)
At the University of Oregon, it was obvious even to those who attended the installation of the statue that they were honoring not just White settlement, Carpenter suggests, but also remembering White dominance of Indigenous people. In a paper urging the University of Oregon to remove the Pioneer statue, Carpenter wrote that unlike the Confederate statues of the South, "in the West, our problematic monuments are to America's other great sin, the violent seizure of Native lands and murder of Native peoples."
"You don't have to dig very far to find out that there's a racial subtext intended here," Prescott said of pioneer memorials. "That was what donors and the people involved in their dedication are thinking about."
"It's not about Columbus, it's just about the entire eternal archetype that he represents"
Yeah that really makes us feel better about that
"It's not about Columbus, it's about Columbus"
While there have been many statues toppled since we started this topic, the following story reminds us that toppling statues is by itself not enough. So long as our enemies' bloodlines are not eliminated, they can keep putting the statues back up.
https://vdare.com/posts/nature-is-healing-whites-in-70-black-baltimore-rebuild-christopher-columbus-destroyed-in-george-floyd-riots-of-2020
BALTIMORE — After a group of protesters threw Little Italy's longtime Columbus statue into the Harbor two years ago, the statue has been recreated by a local sculptor.
sculptor Will Hemsley also dedicated himself to rebuilding the solemn, marble Christopher Columbus statue, costing him about $80,000. The new sculpture is almost identical to the original one.
The only genuinely meaningful solution is to eliminate all enemy bloodlines. Why not begin with the Hemsley bloodline?
Pica said Tuesday that the recreation of the sculpture is not necessarily about Columbus, but about what he represents as an incredible explorer who opened up the path between western Europe and the Americas.
In other words, it is about Columbus. **** your gaslighting, Western colonialist.


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At least three dead in the explosion in downtown Madrid | News from Spain
DEVELOPING HISTORY
A government official said an explosion occurred as a team of workers repaired the building's boiler.
At least three people were killed in Madrid when a building partially collapsed following a massive explosion on Wednesday caused by a gas leak.
The explosion, which occurred around 3 p.m. (2 p.m. GMT), sparked a fire inside the building.
Government representative Jose Manuel Franco told Spanish public television that the explosion happened as a team of workers were repairing the building's boiler.
Franco confirmed it was a "gas explosion" and said there were three dead and one missing, indicating that the toll could rise further.
Images and footage shared on social media showed a smoke tower emerging from the six-story building and rubble strewn across Toledo Street near the city center.
Madrid's regional emergency service said in a tweet that rescue teams, firefighters and police were working in a central area of the Spanish capital after the explosion.
Big explosion in the center of Madrid a few minutes ago. I don't know how many victims pic.twitter.com/Q4RSyCcG1J
– Steffen Lüdke (@stluedke) January 20, 2021
Emergency teams could be seen assisting several people on the ground in a video broadcast by Spain's public broadcaster TVE.
A local resident, Leire Reparaz, told The Associated Press she heard a loud explosion as she walked home near the Puerta de Toledo, a local landmark.
"We didn't know where the sound was coming from. We all thought it was school. We went up the stairs to the top of our building and we could see the structure of the building and a lot of smoke, "said the 24-year-old Madrid resident.
Lola Lopez Bravo was having lunch with her six-year-old son at their house next door when the explosion occurred, knocking down the wall of her apartment.
"We were eating, suddenly we heard a noise and the wall in front of us started falling on us," the 44-year-old told AFP news agency.
"There was a huge hole in the wall, then the rubble started to fall, so we ran out of the house and went to a neighbor's house.
Lorenzo Fomento, a 43-year-old Italian salesman who worked from home in a neighboring apartment, told AFP the noise was huge.
"The noise was really loud, very loud, really," Fomento said. "I had never heard anything so loud before."
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Delta working with Red Cross to help areas hit by Matthew
Catherine Simmons
Oct 6, 2016 8:00am
As Hurricane Matthew barrels north and the American Red Cross responds, Delta is pitching in to help its partner and the local communities the airline serves.
On Thursday, Delta began collecting money for the Red Cross. Customer donations made through a special Delta page on the Red Cross website go to providing immediate relief, including food, water, shelter, clean up, and physical and mental health needs of those affected. Employees can donate through a Delta-Red Cross microsite. Financial donations are the fastest and most effective way to help those in need, the Red Cross says.
Customers are also able to donate to the American Red Cross through SkyWish, the charitable arm of Delta's SkyMiles frequent flyer program. It allows Delta and its SkyMiles members to donate miles to charitable organizations worldwide.
The American Red Cross is Delta's longest-standing nonprofit partner, which has allowed the company, its employees and customers to help those in need for 75 years. Delta is an Annual Disaster Giving Program participant at the $1 million level, allowing the organization to be strategic in disaster response. In addition, employees participate in corporate blood drives throughout the year, making Delta the largest corporate blood donor in the Southeast and No. 3 in the U.S.
"Supporting the American Red Cross allows Delta and our employees and customers to help those who are affected by crisis around the world," said Tad Hutcheson, Managing Director – Community Affairs. "As a global airline, we are committed to investing in our local communities, lending a helping hand when it's needed the most, and partnering with organizations who are involved with disaster reliefs year round."
In 2016, Delta solicited employee contributions to relief efforts in the wake of numerous crises, including a major earthquake in Ecuador, the mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and historic flooding in Louisiana.
The organization has the largest network of humanitarian volunteers, with 13 million in 187 countries, and responds to a community disaster every eight minutes.
The American Red Cross is the U.S.' premier provider of disaster relief, blood, health and safety services. The organization provides 24-hour support to members of the military, veterans and their families at home and around the world, and trains millions of people in first aid, water safety and other lifesaving skills.
Tad Hutcheson
SkyWish
Article | Purpose
Delta recognized as one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the U.S. by Points of Light for fourth year in a row
Video | Purpose
Delta volunteers build playground as part of Trust for Public Land Community Schoolyards program


After the opening two round of fixtures, Group C looks like being the most hotly contested group in the FIBA Champions League. Only one team has won both of their games and only one team has lost both of their games. This means that there are 6 teams all bunched up in the middle of the group with a 1-1 record. This week's action should create more space in the table.
This is a game between two of these teams on a 1-1 record so both of these sides will be looking to grab the win that pushes them but also pushes a rival down. These are often the games that make a difference in the final shake-down of a group so you can expect both sides to be up for this match. The hosts will be looking towards Christian Eyenga who has delivered an average of 13.2 points per game this season, which includes the Qualifying round for the FIBA Champions League. The hosts defeated Benfica on their way to the tournament and they enjoyed a one-point win over ASVEL in the opening round of fixtures. Defeat to Neptunas in their last game brought Varese back to earth but they'll be looking to soar again in this game.
PAOK got off to a losing start in the Champions League against Rosa Radom but got back on track last week with a win against Muratbey Usak Sportif. It was a low scoring game but a 7 point winning margin is always to be celebrated. One player that has been in good form for PAOK this season so far is Darryl Bryant and he managed an average of 16 points per game this season. If Bryant is able to deliver this sort of form in Varese, the Greek side may have a lot to celebrate.
There's not going to be a lot in this game so why not take PAOK at +2, which is available at odds of 1.90. Anyone looking for the Over/Under market will find that going OVER 148.5 is a good bet and available at odds of 1.90. Bet Now!


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"The Tide of War is Receding," "We Don't Do Stupid [Stuff]," and Other Myths
Articles, Senior Fellows / August 12, 2014 / Peter Wehner
Given unfolding events in the world – the rise of ISIS, the civil war in Syria, the breaking apart of Iraq and Libya, the war between Israel and Hamas, fears of destabilization in Jordan, the radicalization and rising anti-Semitism in Turkey, the mistrust toward America by Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, the setbacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Russian invasion of Crimea and its destabilization of Ukraine, an emboldened China in the South China Sea, and strained relations with allies in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia – it might be worth calling attention to some of President Obama's statements on foreign policy and national security over the years. I've included excerpts and headlines from newspaper and magazine articles following quotes from Mr. Obama, in order to help provide context and clarify the record.
Think of this as an exercise in accountability, then; in holding Mr. Obama not to my standards but to his, to measure what he said he'd do against what he has actually done and what has come to pass.
"The tide of war is receding." – Address to the nation, June 22, 2011
"The breadth of global instability now unfolding hasn't been seen since the late 1970s… In the past month alone, the U.S. has faced twin civil wars in Iraq and Syria, renewed fighting between Israel and the Palestinians, an electoral crisis in Afghanistan and ethnic strife on the edge of Russia, in Ukraine." – "Obama Contends With Arc of Instability Unseen Since '70s", Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2014
"These long wars [in Iraq and Afghanistan] will come to a responsible end." – Address to the nation, June 22, 2011
"The crisis gripping Iraq escalated rapidly on Thursday with a re-energized Islamic State in Iraq and Syria storming new towns in the north and seizing a strategic dam as Iraq's most formidable military force, the Kurdish pesh merga, was routed in the face of the onslaught." – "Jihadists Rout Kurds in North and Seize Strategic Iraqi Dam", New York Times, August 8, 2014
"In one of the most significant coordinated assaults on the government in years, the Taliban have attacked police outposts and government facilities across several districts in northern Helmand Province, sending police and military officials scrambling to shore up defenses and heralding a troubling new chapter as coalition forces prepare to depart… With a deepening political crisis in Kabul already casting the presidential election and long-term political stability into doubt, the Taliban offensive presents a new worst-case situation for Western officials: an aggressive insurgent push that is seizing territory even before American troops have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan." – "Taliban Mount Major Assault in Afghanistan", New York Times, June 27, 2014
"The analogy we use around here sometimes [in describing ISIS], and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant. I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian." – Quoted in the New Yorker, January 27, 2014
"ISIS now controls a volume of resources and territory unmatched in the history of extremist organizations. It possesses the means to threaten its neighbors on multiple fronts, demonstrating a military effectiveness much greater than many observers expected. Should ISIS continue this pattern of consolidation and expansion, this terrorist 'army' will eventually be able to exert a destabilizing influence far beyond the immediate area." – Janine Davidson, Council on Foreign Relations, July 24, 2014
"Let's just keep in mind, Falluja is a profoundly conservative Sunni city in a country that, independent of anything we do, is deeply divided along sectarian lines. And how we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology are a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into." – Responding to a question about the fall of Falluja to ISIS, the New Yorker, January 27, 2014
"U.S. expands airstrikes against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq." – Washington Post headline, August 8, 2014
"What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision… the Iraqi government, based on its political considerations, in part because Iraqis were tired of a U.S. occupation, declined to provide us those assurances. And on that basis, we left… So let's just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq." – President Obama, asked by reporters if he had any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq, August 9, 2014
"After taking office, I announced a new strategy that would end our combat mission in Iraq and remove all of our troops by the end of 2011… So today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year. After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over." – Remarks to the press corps, October 21, 2011
"At one meeting, [Nouri al-] Maliki said that he was willing to sign an executive agreement granting the soldiers permission to stay, if he didn't have to persuade the parliament to accept immunity. The Obama Administration quickly rejected the idea. 'The American attitude was: Let's get out of here as quickly as possible,' Sami al-Askari, the Iraqi member of parliament, said." – "What We Left Behind", Dexter Filkins, the New Yorker, April 28, 2014
"Ben Rhodes, the U.S. deputy national-security adviser, told me that Obama believes a full withdrawal was the right decision. 'There is a risk of overstating the difference that American troops could make in the internal politics of Iraq,' he said. 'Having troops there did not allow us to dictate sectarian alliances. Iraqis are going to respond to their own political imperatives.' But U.S. diplomats and commanders argue that they played a crucial role, acting as interlocutors among the factions—and curtailing Maliki's sectarian tendencies." – "What We Left Behind", Dexter Filkins, the New Yorker, April 28, 2014
"We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation." – Remarks to the White House press corps, August 20, 2012
"US attack on Syria delayed after surprise U-turn from Obama" – the Guardian headline, August 31, 2013
"Forensic Details in U.N. Report Point to Assad's Use of [Deadly Chemical] Gas." – New York Times headlines, September 16, 2013
"With 'respect to Syria,' said the president, the notion that arming the rebels would have made a difference has 'always been a fantasy. This idea that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth, and that they were going to be able to battle not only a well-armed state but also a well-armed state backed by Russia, backed by Iran, a battle-hardened Hezbollah, that was never in the cards.'" – "Obama on the World", Thomas Friedman, New York Times, August 8, 2014
"President Obama got angry at lawmakers who suggested in a private meeting that he should have armed the Syrian rebels, calling the criticism 'horsesh*t.'" – "Obama Told Lawmakers Criticism of His Syria Policy is 'Horsesh*t'", Josh Rogan, the Daily Beast, August 11, 2014
"The White House … proposed a major program to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels, in a significant expansion of the U.S. role in a civil war that officials fear is bleeding into Iraq and across the region. The Obama administration requested $500 million—a larger amount than expected—to aid the Syrian opposition, reflecting growing U.S. alarm at the expanding strength of Islamist forces in Syria, who in recent weeks have asserted control of large parts of neighboring Iraq and now pose threats to U.S. allies in the region." – "Obama Proposes $500 Million to Aid Syrian Rebels", Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2014
"Forty-two years of tyranny was ended in six months. From Tripoli to Misurata to Benghazi — today, Libya is free… Yesterday, the leaders of a new Libya took their rightful place beside us, and this week, the United States is reopening our embassy in Tripoli. This is how the international community is supposed to work — nations standing together for the sake of peace and security, and individuals claiming their rights." – Address to the United Nations, September 21, 2011
"The United States shut down its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Tunisia under US military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli as fighting intensified between rival militias, the State Department said. 'Due to the ongoing violence resulting from clashes between Libyan militias in the immediate vicinity of the US embassy in Tripoli, we have temporarily relocated all of our personnel out of Libya,' a spokeswoman, Marie Harf, said." – "US closes embassy in Libya after militia battles in Tripoli", the Guardian, July 26, 2014
"In fact, by most measures, America has rarely been stronger relative to the rest of the world. Those who argue otherwise — who suggest that America is in decline, or has seen its global leadership slip away — are either misreading history or engaged in partisan politics." – Commencement address at West Point, May 28, 2014
"With all the talk of coming home, of nation building at home, the perception has grown increasingly around the world that the U.S. is pulling back from the global responsibilities that it has shouldered for many decades. I believe Russia and China, among others, see that void and are moving to see what advantage they can take of it." – President Obama's former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, quoted in The Huffington Post, May 21, 2014
"[Obama's is] a different definition of leadership than America is known for, and it comes from two unspoken beliefs: that the relative power of the U.S. is declining, as rivals like China rise, and that the U.S. is reviled in many parts of the world." – "The Consequentialist: How the Arab Spring remade Obama's foreign policy", Ryan Lizza, theNew Yorker, May 2, 2011
"So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. And this cycle of suspicion and discord must end. I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect…" – Remarks at Cairo University, June 4, 2009
"In a number of strategically important Muslim nations, America's image has not improved during the Obama presidency. In fact, America's already low 2008 ratings have slipped even further in Jordan and Pakistan… in the Middle East there is little enthusiasm for a second term – majorities in Egypt (76%), Jordan (73%) and Lebanon (62%) oppose Obama's re-election… There is little support for Obama, however, in the predominantly Muslim nations surveyed. Fewer than three-in-ten express confidence in him in Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey and Jordan. And … just 7% of Pakistanis have a positive view of Obama." – "Global Opinion of Obama Slips, International Policies Faulted", Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, June 13, 2012
"Here's my bottom line: America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will." – Commencement address at West Point, May 28, 2014
"Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the President's actions in Libya as 'leading from behind.' That's not a slogan designed for signs at the 2012 Democratic Convention, but it does accurately describe the balance that Obama now seems to be finding… Pursuing our interests and spreading our ideals thus requires stealth and modesty as well as military strength. 'It's so at odds with the John Wayne expectation for what America is in the world,' the adviser said. 'But it's necessary for shepherding us through this phase.'" – "The Consequentialist: How the Arab Spring remade Obama's foreign policy", Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker, May 2, 2011
President Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it's important for him to give me space… This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility."
President Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir." – Exchange between President Obama and Dmitri Medvedev, March 26, 2012
"Putin Reclaims Crimea for Russia and Bitterly Denounces the West" – New York Timesheadline, March 18, 2014
"The truth is that Mr. Putin acted out of weakness, not out of strength." – President Obama in a radio interview (KNSD) speaking about the Russian invasion of Crimea, March 20, 2014
"Putin clearly indicated [in a March 18 speech to parliament] he believes that borders drawn even earlier — right after the revolution of 1917 — can and should be redrawn. In other words, he positions contemporary Russia as the heir to the Russian Empire as it was constituted under the czars." – Masha Gessen, Russian American journalist and author, "After carving up Ukraine, where will Putin turn next?", Washington Post, May 9, 2014
"The Levada Center, a well-respected independent polling center, has also found that Putin had a 72 percent approval rating, up 7 points from January and a recent record. To put that in context on a world stage, U.S. president Barack Obama is currently at 43 percent, according to Gallup, while 79 percent of the French say theydon't approve of Francois Hollande's presidency. Putin isn't just popular, he's extraordinarily popular." – "We treat him like he's mad, but Vladimir Putin's popularity has just hit a 3-year high", Adam Taylor, Washington Post, March 13, 2014
"We don't do stupid sh*t."–President Obama describing his foreign policy doctrine in private conversations to reporters, "Obama Warns U.S. Faces Diffuse Terrorism Threats", New York Times, May 28, 2014
"The seizing of large parts of Iraq by Sunni militants — an offensive hastened by the collapse of the American-trained Iraqi Army — stunned the White House and has laid bare the limitations of a policy that depends on the cooperation of often balky and overmatched partners." – "Obama Contends With Arc of Instability Unseen Since '70s",Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2014
"Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle."–President Obama's former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic, August 10, 2014
"I mean, words mean something. You can't just make stuff up." – Barack Obama, September 6, 2008
— Peter Wehner is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
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You may be one of those who loves his car as much as your newborn son a couple of months ago, but let's face it – it sure ain't pretty when the time for repairs hits you like a punch in the face. I say that for the mere fact of the matter being that car repairs are anything but cheap. Anyone who happens to have owned a four wheeler for a substantial period of time will definitely know what I'm talking about.
Replacing the oxygen sensor: By monitoring the unburnt oxygen in the exhaust, the sensor tell you whether or not you have enough gas in your tank or not.
The problem of loose fuel caps: What you do think is the main reason why your check engine light is on? You have your answer – it's the fuel caps. A loose one will not only cost you tons of money in the long run, but can even lead to the evaporation of millions of gallons of gas.
Replacing your Catalytic Convertor: This is one of the most important as well as the most expensive repairs to boot. After all, this is what is responsible for controlling the emission system of your vehicle which tend to go bust when another such related part like a spark plug is neglected for too long.
Replacing spark plugs: Even though it may be a bit hard on your wallet (especially when you consider multiple spark plugs) replacing them is definitely worth it since they tend to considerably reduce your mileage.
Replacing your ignition coils: Now this is something a lot of us tend to neglect from time to time because we undervalue their importance as well. Ignition coils essentially tell the spark plugs to do their job and neglecting them for even a bit has the potential for wreaking some serious damage, not just to the spark plugs but the entirety of your car's ignition system. A proper diagnostic test should do the trick.
Nowadays the thing is that more and more car companies are slowly but steadily attempting to monopolise their repair business by making the diagnostic systems and parts of their cars difficult to repair by other means. Another factor is that there are a great many repairs that are avoidable if only the customers at hand had paid proper attention to the preventive maintenance requirements.
In any case, the total average repair cost in the States is a whopping 300 dollars . Now that isn't a small sum of money by any means, even if you happen to be considerably well off in most aspects. So you will need to firm eye out on both your wallet and the necessary list of repairs if you want your car to last for a considerable period of time.


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Workers must not pay price of Brexit say Prospect and TUC
General secretary Mike Clancy says that amid the uncertainty ahead, the union will remain focused on putting members first: defending jobs, pay and skills.
Following the referendum vote in favour of Britain leaving the European Union, Prospect general secretary Mike Clancy said:
"This was a close vote but the outcome must be respected. The focus of Prospect will remain unchanged – we will continue to put our members first. This means defending members' jobs, pay, and skills and promoting the industries in which they work.
"Inevitably the months ahead will be a time of great uncertainty. So it is essential that we recognise Prospect's common purpose, which transcends our party political views and affiliations and work closely together.
"We recognise that Prospect's membership has diverse views on both party politics and the EU. Indeed, our independent approach to politics is one of our great strengths. That is why we did not adopt a position on the referendum other than to promote an evidence-based debate through our EU Matters website."
Responding to the referendum result, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said:
"As the UK prepares to leave the European Union, the first priority now is to protect jobs and defend the living standards of working people.
"The government must urgently set out a plan to defend UK industry and keep British jobs. That means defending the pound and stimulating the economy.
"Working people must not pay the price for the decision to leave the EU."


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The Franchise Report: Sunsoft
Posted by Kris Randazzo on Aug 31st 2022
Welcome to The Franchise Report, where we take a look at a 3rd party game publisher and see how their biggest franchises are doing these days.
The Power of the Sun
Well, here we are. Sunsoft released their comeback video and it was… a thing. But for as weird as it was, it sort of filled me with some hope. It looks like things might turn out differently this time. Sunsoft tried this about a decade ago when they revamped their website, tossed Aero the Acrobat on Virtual Console, and shadow dropped Blaster Master Overdrive on the Wii Shop Channel to die. Their video only covered announcements for three Sunsoft properties, but there are a whole lot more in the wind. So what's going on with these guys? Let's find out.
That's right! Arcade Classic Kangaroo is actually a Sunsoft joint. Atari published it on their various home consoles back in the old days, but as far as I can tell, Kangaroo is a Sunsoft property. It's still fairly well beloved too. It doesn't hold the same luster as some of its contemporaries, but whenever Kangaroo is mentioned, there's a pretty good chance someone is going to say "Oh! I loved that game!"
Health rating: Not great
Kangaroo found a place in the CBS Saturday Supercade alongside Space Ace in the show's later seasons, and was an obviously popular coin-op game in its day, but things on the Kangaroo front have been almost completely silent since 1984. The game was ported to PS4 and Switch in 2020 as part of HAMSTER's Arcade Archives line, but that's it. With all the arcade style revivals floating around these days, I don't think we should count Kangaroo out, though. Maybe Mama Roo will hop again someday soon.
Ikki
You'd be forgiven for not knowing this game if you live outside of Japan, but it's actually got a pretty decent cult following outside of the US. Ikki is a fun little action shooter about a farmer trying to overthrow the local government. That premise alone makes it seem like a good time.
Health Rating: Great
Ikki is one of the three games Sunsoft included in their recent comeback presentation where they announced a new game in the series called Ikki Unite. Before that though, it was included on occasional classic game collections, got re-released as part of HAMSTER's Arcade Archives line, and had a moderately successful mobile version in Japan called Ikki Mobile. It's never managed to set the world on fire, but it's a solid player in the world of Sunsoft games, and that doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon.
Mystery of Atlantis
Atlantis no Nazo, or Mystery of Atlantis, isn't a great game. It was ambitious as heck when it released though, claiming to be even better than Super Mario Bros. It wasn't. But it was kind of an interesting game, which isn't nothing.
Health Rating: Hanging in there
Mystery of Atlantis never made it to the US back in the NES days, though Activision supposedly was working on a port of the game under the Pitfall banner. That never happened either, and so it's largely been a complete mystery outside of Japan. Recently it was included in Nintendo Switch Online for the Famicom, which gave folks a chance to try this weird little game out, but it didn't make a ton of waves. Still, there's promise there, and with Sunsoft back on the map, maybe we'll see some sort of revival in some form?
Blaster Master
This was the game that put Sunsoft on the map here in the US. Blaster Master is an absolute classic, and it became a much more successful game outside of Japan than its Famicom counterpart Metafight. It's one of the earliest examples of the new classic "Metroidvania" style of gameplay done right, and it stands as an all-time classic to this day.
Health Rating: Very good
Blaster Master got a bunch of sequels of varying quality, but none of them ever managed to live up to the standard set by the original. That is until Inti Creates got their hands on the license and created the excellent Blaster Master Zero Trilogy. These games took what worked about the originals, reinvented them, and expanded on them in spectacular fashion. The trilogy has concluded, but they were pretty decently successful for Inti Creates, so more Blaster Master in the future seems like a given. They're currently available on all major modern consoles.
Journey to Silius
This was a somewhat late NES gem by Sunsoft when they were still operating at the top of their game. It started life as a Terminator game, but when Sunsofrt couldn't get the license, they just used their own characters and created one heck of an awesome action platformer. It's a fairly well sought after item in the NES collectors market, and its soundtrack is legendary among fans.
Health rating: Could be better
Journey to Silius never saw a follow up, but there has been a bit of a recent resurgence in its popularity. It showed up as a part of Nintendo Switch Online, and it was mentioned during the recent Sunsoft presentation as one of the games that's getting a vinyl printing of its soundtrack. It never got any sequels, but it seems to be a name that carries some weight still, and I believe Sunsoft knows that.
Ufouria
Ufouria is a great example of one of those late NES games that never got the attention it deserves. Especially since it never saw release in North America until the Wii Virtual Console, and even then it was the PAL version playing through a NTSC emulator so the sound was all screwed up. It's actually part of a series of games called Hebereke though, and the series has created a bit of a legacy for itself. Ufouria is a platformer, but there's a puzzle game, a weird sports style game, and more.
Health rating: Good
Ufouria hitting Virtual Console was pretty great for the series. One of the later Hebereke games even came to Nintendo Switch Online in Japan too. But what makes this series truly alive is the fact that at the Sunsoft stream they announced that Ufouria is getting its first worldwide release by being ported to modern consoles next year. This is particularly great because while the Hebereke follow ups are neat, the original game is a real gem. Its soundtrack is also being released on vinyl, which is pretty cool.
If there's one Sunsoft property that has attained true cult classic status, it's Gimmick. Games like this are usually super expensive on the North American market, but still pretty affordable in their original Japanese form, but not Gimmick. Thanks to the Famicom version featuring a special sound chip, Gimmick is crazy expensive in all of its forms. Well, both of its forms. It only released in Scandinavia and Japan, and a planned North American release never came to fruition.
Gimmick is the only other game announced to be making a comeback by Sunsoft. It's being ported to modern platforms and releasing later in 2022. It's a truly wonderful game and it's great to know it's going to finally be played by more people. It never got any sequels, though in 2020 there was a remastered port made for the exA-Arcadia, a platform I know nothing about. The original Famicom one seems to be the version getting ported to consoles, and its soundtrack is being pressed onto vinyl, which is particularly great as it's a spectacular set of songs. If things go well with this re-release, Gimmick could finally see a proper followup someday.
Trip World
Trip World is one of those Game Boy games nobody's ever heard of, but the few who do know it are always happy to tell of its greatness. Trip World is a rarity in all territories because it was only released in Japan and Europe, and even then only in limited quantities. It was a 1992 release for the original Game Boy, and while it was limited to black and white, it featured some truly impressive visuals. It's a pacifictic little game, and it stands as one of the most unique and wonderful Game Boy games in existence.
Health rating: all but dead
Trip World never saw an official followup, but it has been referenced a couple of times. There was a Sunsoft fighting game in Japan where the main character appears as a boss for some reason, and there are a couple references to the game in Blaster Master Zero 2 as recently as 2019. However, nothing has been announced as far as the game itself getting any sort of remaster, re-release, or anything else of the sort. As one of the Game Boy's more technically impressive games, it wouldn't be terribly surprising to see it back in the spotlight in the not too distant future, but that's all going to hinge on how successful Sunsoft's comeback is, and even then, who knows what the game's chances are.
Aero the Acrobat
At the height of the 16-bit generation, mascot platformers were all the rage, and Sunsoft wanted in on the action. They created Aero the Acrobat, a bat who is also an acrobat, and they plastered his face on just about every game they released. Aero was meant to be the face of the company, but his success only lasted so long.
Health rating: Not so good
Aero stuck around for the rest of the 16-bit generation. He got a direct sequel and a spinoff called Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel. Then things went silent until his first adventure got ported to Game Boy Advance in 2002. 2 and Zero didn't get the same love though, and things went silent again until 2010 when the first game came to the Wii Virtual Console. This was part of an effort to revitalize the Sunsoft brand, but it didn't stick, and everything on the Aero front has been quiet since. The lack of any sort of mention of the character in Sunsoft's recent presentation doesn't paint a pretty picture for their once beloved mascot, but time will tell. He isn't dead, but things don't look so good right now.
And that just about wraps things up for Sunsoft. A few of their newer properties like Albert Odyssey and TRAG could also make appearances somewhere, but by and large Sunsoft earned its reputation from the 8 and 16-bit eras, and if they're going to make thor way back into the video game industry, it seems like that's their best bet to focus on. For a company that's been pretty small comparatively speaking, they've done a pretty remarkable job of keeping their stuff alive and appreciated. That's not nothing!
And that about wraps it up for this iteration of The Franchise Report. Join us next time when we take a look at a publisher with a rocky reputation for quality. Jaleco might not be anybody's favorite name in games, but they were responsible for bringing some real classics to the eyes of millions. Until then, go listen to some Sunsoft NES music. It's great!
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Eliminate Your Panic And Anxiety Attacks Instantly With These Proven Techniques!
There's very little in this world that is as frightening and uncomfortable as a panic attack. Once they start, panic attacks can send you spiralling out of control.
Many people who suffer from panic attacks already have several treatment options that they are using. Sometimes these treatments work very well, and sometimes they hardly work at all. Some panic sufferers have to try many different options before finding one that works reasonably well for them.
Even if you find something that works, you may have episodes where the treatment fails, or where treatment is not an option. For example: You may run out of your medication and be unable to get any more of it for a few hours or days. You may have a serious episode and be unable to get an appointment with your therapist or doctor right away.
The purpose of this report is to teach you a few key coping mechanisms that will help you deal with these terrible attacks without the aid of medication. While they may not get rid of your panic attacks, they should at least help ease them until you are able to seek proper treatment.
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For probably over a decade, I've been using Grip to rip all my audio CDs to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and (for the last few years), FLAC. I admit that it's not the easiest ripper to use these days, but its flexibility is unparalleled.
I brought home a new CD today. It might have been possible to buy it online, but I'm increasingly becoming disappointed with digital download audio purchases. Unexpected censoring/editing, poor audio quality, lack of high-quality/complete album artwork, having to rename tracks when purchasing from different online music stores to meet preferred naming convention requirements, inconsistent tag naming conventions and tag types between stores, and a price that's still very similar to the physical disc version have been steering me away from them. If I happen to be down the street near a local CD store, it's more convenient to duck in and get the real thing rather then purchasing some downloadable hacked imitation later which will also involve more work in the long run.
As soon as I arrived home, I threw the disc in my laptop's external USB DVD drive to rip it (because seriously – who uses a CD player to play music on these days?) and up pops Sound Juicer. That's normally my cue to start compiling Grip, but this time I paused – it had been a long time since I had investigated alternatives, and GStreamer is the future (which is what Sound Ripper apparently uses) so I decided I'd spend a few moments to see if I could get Sound Ripper to rip the disc in the exact way I like it.
I don't use white-space or special characters in file names (I replace them with underscores) – there's no point since getting the names exact is supposed to be what tagging information is for – and this convention is extremely easy to parse. Since track names are always in album order due to the padded track number, I can always play an album with mplayer *.flac or gst123 *.flac – which is how I generally play my music. It's also uncommon in *NIX to see upper-case in file-names, so I keep everything lower-case too for consistency. Additionally, tags should be in native FLAC format – not id3v2 or something. I only require the band, album, album release year, track name and track number tags be set, but am not fussy if others are included.
So far so good… but what about tagging information?
Grip has served me well for a long time, and given me so many fond memories of spending hours ripping my entire collection… but now it seems it's finally time to say goodbye – and hello Sound Juicer.
This entry was posted in Software and tagged audio, sound on July 16, 2011 by abolte.


This month, I will finish the article I started in the last newsletter that dealt with a review of the SERI (now NREL) technical report entitled An Analysis of the Effects of Active Solar Energy System Control Sensor Degradation on System Performance by R. B. Farrington and W. Short (SERI/TR-253-2185).
Last time I ended noting that additional operating costs could result from sensor drift that could cause a controller to keep a solar DHW system operating after it was supposed to shut down. Here the cost of the electrical energy required to collect the solar energy exceeds the value of the solar energy collected. The question now becomes, when does a negative turn-off differential temperature become significant? Certainly, if a sensor has failed, such that the controller never turns the pump(s) off, not only is electrical energy wasted running the pump 24 hours a day, but solar energy collected during the day will be extracted from the storage tank and lost to the ambient air at night. Also under very cold conditions, a catastrophic freeze up of the system could result.
Using the TRNSYS 10.0 computer program, Farrington and Short simulated a typical solar DHW system for four locations: Albuquerque , Fort Worth , Madison , and Washington , D.C. The results show a decrease in the amount of net annual collected energy to range from about 2% at Albuquerque to 14% at Washington , D.C. , for a -3°F turn-off differential temperature. At a -5°F turnoff differential temperature the net collected energy is reduced by as much as 50%. At this point, the pump runs just about 100% of the time in Fort Worth and Washington , DC . The negative impact of having a turn-off differential temperature that is too high is minimal. For instance, a +10°F turn-off differential temperature results in a net annual collected energy decrease from about 1% at Madison to about 8% at Fort Worth. From this you can conclude that it is better to have a turn-off differential temperature that is too high than too low. Since the thermistors generally degrade from exposure to high temperatures, the collector sensor, due to exposure to high temperatures, is more susceptible to degradation than the storage tank sensor. Thus, it cannot be concluded that the collector and storage sensors degrade at the same rate and therefore effectively cancel any changes in sensor response. If the drift of the collector sensor is such that the measured resistance indicates a lower than actual temperature then the pump will turn off earlier than it should. But this will not lead to the problem of continued operation of the pump. If the drift of the collector sensor is such that the measured resistance indicates a higher than actual temperature, then the pump will continue to run and may cause large losses of the collected and stored energy.
In addition to those facts stated above, the report concludes that control sensor degradation may be one of the major reliability problems as well as a prime reason why systems are delivering less energy than expected.
What follows are my recommendations, not those of the SERI report authors.
1. Replace the collector sensor on systems that have been down for at least one to two months or more.
2. If the heat collection fluid is Bray oil or a water/glycol mixture and it is greatly discolored, this is a good indication it has been exposed to high temperatures over a long period of time. Again, as above, replace the collector sensor.
3. When you buy a group of new sensors, place them together on the bench and bring out their leads so that you can measure their resistances. Place a good quality mercury thermometer with the group. Let the sensor and thermometer temperatures stabilize for at least one half hour. Measure and record the resistance of each sensor making sure you touch only the sensor leads and not the sensor itself. Based on each sensor's resistance and an appropriate temperature versus resistance chart, assign the appropriate temperature to each sensor. Then compare each sensor's temperature to the temperature reading as noted on the thermometer. If you assume the thermometer is an accurate reference point, you can then see which sensors are reading high and which are low. You may consider pairing sensors (matched pair with less than 1°F difference between them) and replacing both collector and storage sensors as a pair when either needs replacement. Without testing an old storage sensor, there is no assurance that it also hasn't degraded somewhat. Degradation can go in either direction.


It'll be the Historique Grand Prix in Monaco this weekend and wandering around photographing the beautiful old cars, I came across these two lovely dogs. They have the most beautiful eyes and I wish the photo was slightly sharper - the sun was too strong for my camera setting. Perhaps I should say my camera setting wasn't right!
The pale one of the left is Yopi, a Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen who is two and a half. The other one, a mix, is Janus and he's 10. Both were found at SPA refuges in France and they live with their very nice Dutch owners in Monaco. They told me that Yopi can get very scared - suddenly scared - and it's probably because of something that occurred in his life earlier. Hopefully he'll grow out of it. He is a beautiful dog, wagging his tail at me - you'd not realise he can be so scared at times.
What a lovely story Jilly and I do hope Yopi can calm down .


The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has urged the presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar to remain focused and not be distracted by comments from agents of opposition parties.
National President of the AYCF, Yerima Shettima, who gave the admonition while speaking to newsmen at the weekend in Kaduna said the Wazirin Adamawa has demonstrated that he is a formidable candidate as he has already been making intelligent contributions in the search for solution to the nation's present level of unprecedented hardship.
He said, "All those within the ruling APC who are attacking Atiku are trying to divert attention from the dismal performance of the APC at the Federal, State and even Local Government levels, where stagnation has taken over the dividends of democracy".
Shettima said recent reports about Atiku's plan to cut down on the price of petroleum products should be commended for addressing what would be of benefit to the common man.


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Chiropractic care is a technique that was developed over 100 years ago. It focuses on the neuromusculoskeletal system of the body; the nervous system, the muscles, and the bones. A Chiropractor performs an examination of the person and determines where the cause of the symptom is located in the spinal column. Utilizing their hands or a small instrument, an adjustment is performed to correct the problem or "subluxation". The frequency of visits is determined by the examination and the initial response to care.


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Earlier today we received confirmation from SAAB GB that SAAB Automobile AB has filed for 'voluntary reorganisation' which is effectively bankruptcy protection.
This is very sad and we've written much about SAAB's attempts to recover over the last two and a half years and commented on each new deal as it was done, reporting that this was bound to be the one that was going to secure their long term future.
However over 30 months after they first filed for bankruptcy protection, in February 2009 here they are again, back in the courts fighting to survive.
We reported in July 2009 that a deal had been done with Swedish sports car maker Koenigsegg, have signed what's referred to as a 'memorandum of understanding' with General Motors to purchase the Saab brand and that everything was going to be OK, only for the deal to later fall apart, leaving them in trouble again.
In February 2010 we reported a deal had been done with Dutch sports car manufacturer Spyker who had agreed to pay General Motors $74 million dollars to take over the ailing Swedish car maker, securing the future of the brand and the jobs of around 5,400 factory workers in Sweden and the employees of Saab Great Britain.
In April 2011 Production at the Trollhättan factory in Sweden had halted over disputes with suppliers over the doubt that the company had the ability to pay its bills. Following a deal that involved Hawtai Motor Group taking a 29% share in Spyker Cars, they have invested £110 million into the business which has enabled manufacturing to resume. Production resumed in May 2011.
Saab Automobile announced today that it has filed for voluntary reorganisation under a self-managed, Swedish court-supervised process in order to secure short-term stability while simultaneously attracting additional funding and developing a long-term solution for the company.
As part of the process, Saab Automobile, together with the court-appointed Administrator, will formulate a detailed proposal for reorganisation of its business. This will be presented at a creditors' meeting within three weeks of the filing.
Saab GB will not be affected by this announcement.
Saab GB is an independent business and a separate UK legal entity to Saab Automobile, it is wholly owned by SWAN and is NOT part of the voluntary reorganisation filing. Saab GB will continue to operate the business in the UK as normal and has sufficient funding in place to meet all creditor obligations and will continue to pay all employees, dealers and suppliers as normal.
Saab GB and its dealer network will continue to provide servicing, replacement parts and vehicle warranty facilities for Saab customers as normal.


85%59°41°Night - Partly cloudy. Winds from NNE to N. The overnight low will be 43 °F (6.1 °C).Mostly cloudy with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C) and a 60% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph).
55%47°37°Scattered thunderstorms today with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C) and a low of 37 °F (2.8 °C). There is a 55% chance of precipitation.
70%46°40°Showers today with a high of 46 °F (7.8 °C) and a low of 40 °F (4.4 °C). There is a 70% chance of precipitation.
5%62°34°Partly cloudy today with a high of 62 °F (16.7 °C) and a low of 34 °F (1.1 °C).
Tonight - Partly cloudy. Winds from NNE to N. The overnight low will be 43 °F (6.1 °C).
Today - Mostly cloudy with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C) and a 60% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph).


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är en kommun i Landkreis Elbe-Elster i förbundslandet Brandenburg i Tyskland. Kommunen bildades den 31 december 1997 genom en sammanslagning av de tidigare kommunerna Babben, Betten, Lindthal och Massen och de tidigare kommunerna Gröbitz och Ponnsdorf uppgick i  den 31 december 2001. Kommunen ingår i kommunalförbundet Amt Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz).

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