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Jesus as the Intercessor in David's census
"Let your hand be against me…but not against Your people." 1 Chron. 21:17
Read 2 Samuel 24, 1 Chronicles 21
It's a sad fact of the Christian walk that many of our greatest sins are not committed early in our walk, when we are immature in the faith, but later in life, when we should know better. We can become complacent or over-confident. But we are told in 1 Cor. 10:12 "Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall."
We see David, larger than life in the pages of Scripture, boldly facing a giant when he was only a teen, leading soldiers during his years in the wilderness, and finally becoming not only a righteous king of Israel, but a man after God's own heart.
David is known for his great moral failure in regard to Bathsheba. That is a sad story and most understand the lessons from that event quite well. But although the causes of that sin could be lust, coveting, abuse of power, and neglect of duty, it also led to other sins like adultery, murder and lying.
In this stage of David's life, he is nearing the end of his reign. The incident with Bathsheba is long past, Solomon is a grown man, and David's kingdom is well established. At this point, they have rest from their enemies.
Yet, instead of thankfulness and praise to God, we see both pride and insecurity. David orders a census of the people in his realm. Was he puffed up with hubris, forgetting that the LORD had taken him from shepherding sheep to shepherding His people? Did David think that the kingdom was his because of anything great in himself?
Or was David insecure, fearing that his army wasn't large enough? Did he forget that God did not need armies to win battles, but that He was able to save "with many, or with few"? Did he need to hear the numbers to assure himself that they would be able to withstand any attacks? He spoke of trusting the LORD, but now he trusted in the arm of man.
We don't know David's true motives in this case, but we do know that behind it all, God was judging His people. We see this in verse one of 2 Sam. 24
"Again the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, 'Go, number Israel and Judah.'"
The reason is not given, but it must have been some kind of sin. The fact that it says, 'again' tells us there had been an earlier incident. Most believe this to be Uzzah's sin in touching the ark, recorded in 2 Sam. 6:6-12. It related to the improper respect for the law of God in handling the things of God. Something similar may have been the case here. In the law of Moses, there is a regulation regarding taking a census. It is found in Exodus 30:12 which says,
"When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them."
The amount is specified in the next few verses. As far as we know, this wasn't done, so it could be the reason. This would again remind them that they needed to remember they were dealing with a holy God.
We know from Scripture that God is the First Cause of the judgment upon His people.
Yet, 1 Chronicles 21:1 says Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. Which was it? God, Satan, or David? All three, but in this order. God, the Sovereign of the universe is the First Cause, allowing events for His good purposes; Satan, once allowed by God, incites David by putting the thought in David's mind; and David, as a free moral agent, does what he wants by ordering a census.
What next? David calls a meeting of his generals, tells them what he wants, and silences their protests. They can't understand why he feels it is necessary to order this make-work project. Even his nephew, General Joab, protests. He seems to understand the wicked intent behind the order, and refuses to count the Levites or Benjamites in the total; possibly because the Levites were excluded from military service and the temple was in Gibeon, with the tribe of Benjamin. The main reason for Joab's half-hearted obedience was his general disdain towards any of David's orders with which he disagreed.
David ordered them to count all the men over the age of twenty. This was the age at which they would be eligible for military service.
Was he hoping to conscript more soldiers if he deemed there were not enough, or to increase taxes based on the population? Was David planning an offensive to take even more land than Yahweh had allotted them? We don't know, but we know that whatever his motives, God was not pleased.
Ten months later, the census is completed and the numbers reported to David. Immediately, his conscience is pricked and he recognizes the wickedness of what he has done. He sees it even before a prophet is dispatched to announce God's assessment of the situation. He repents, yet judgment still falls.
The prophet Gad is sent by God to address the king the next day. Surprising, and yet, not. This was how God communicated with the patriarchs. David must have known the news would not be good. He must have feared the approach of the prophet, as if he was bringing condemnation, just as the prophet Nathan had. Gad didn't even explain the problem, but went straight to the punishment.
"Thus says the LORD, 'I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.'"
Gulp. Would it be worse to choose your own punishment than to merely take whatever the LORD would send?
"Will three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before you are defeated by your foes, with the sword of your enemies overtaking you? Or will there be three days' plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me."
Consider the terrible options brought by the prophet; famine, enemies, or plague. These three things have been the usual punishments for disobedience for their nation from the beginning. What an impossible choice! Any of those would result in so much death, again the result of David's actions. How many would die as the result of his decisions?
"I am in great distress," David says to Gad. "Please let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man."
So, that would mean David chose the first or last option. He must've been so overwhelmingly distressed at the thought of fleeing from his enemies again, after the years in the wilderness, running from Saul, and more recently, on the run from his own son, Absalom. Some commentators speculate that there was possibly some measure of selfishness in David's choice, since the prophet said with the second option he would fall by the sword. (1 Chron. 21:12) Perhaps this old warrior-king liked the idea of dying in his bed after all.
Are those thoughts too harsh? Hadn't David learned that the LORD's mercies were indeed great, as he saw when He forgave his many sins?
The choice was made by God. The plague began that night.
The sound of anguish and loud wailing would have been heard behind almost every door. At first, people wouldn't understand what was happening, or why. People would suddenly get sick and die. They didn't know how many would die in this divine judgment. Even if their family members were fine on the first day, would it be a comfort, once they learned it would last three days? They were at the mercy of the LORD, as David had said.
It must have seemed so mystical; the way the LORD was working. They had witnessed God's supernatural power over events in the life of David so many times, but in his favor. Yet now, to be witnessing God's judgment, of this magnitude, on His own people… and they knew it would happen just as the prophet said. There would be a plague throughout the whole land. And it would last as long as God decreed. Thankfully, not a moment longer.
A plague. Like the judgments on ancient Egypt in the day of Moses, God was revealing His mighty arm. He would do as He wished in the affairs of men. He was a discerner of men's hearts. He knew what was in David's heart; what motivated him to number the people.
Yet they could be equally sure the plague would not extend beyond Israel's borders, because this time Israel was the object of God's wrath, just as the Israelites were spared when the LORD judged Egypt. This was a very specific plague; Israel only, three days only.
But why must the people suffer for the king's folly? When he took Bathsheba and murdered Uriah, God didn't strike the people. Why now? It must not have seemed fair. In his sin with Bathsheba, which was heinous, and affected many people, he was forgiven. Yet now, in this seemingly harmless incident, the judgment is severe. What's the difference?
We don't know for sure, but possibly because the incident with Bathsheba was a private sin, it resulted in private consequences, mostly within the king's own family. But this was a public sin, therefore the consequences were public. If the king was motivated by pride in the number of his people, as if the strength of Israel was the result of his leadership, rather than the blessing of God, then, perhaps the LORD was taking away from their number to show him that He alone is the cause of blessing or cursing, mercy or judgment.
But what's so wrong about a census? It's been done many times without this type of response.
Often the sins we think are small, are more offensive to God because he knows our motives. Or it could have been because of the manner in which it was done, which we mentioned earlier.
But why can't God just forgive David, if he repents, like before?
He did repent. He recognized his sin. His conscience was bothered. This was before he even knew the prophet would come to him. Perhaps there are times when we are repentant, and God forgives us, yet the consequences still come. David was forgiven for his sins against Bathsheba and Uriah, yet there were still grave consequences. Other soldiers died along with Uriah. Families were bereaved. Who can understand the judgments of God?
Couldn't he just offer some kind of sacrifice, like the one for wilful sin, and hope that God would relent?
Doubtful. When the prophet announced the judgment, it didn't come with options to avoid it. This time, the sacrifice would be the lives of his people. How many that would be, they didn't know.
Imagine yourself in the midst of this divine judgment. You'd wonder if every family would lose someone, like in the plague in Egypt, with the death of the firstborn? Would the judgment be that comprehensive?
These were probably the longest, most dreadful three days of David's life. He knew he couldn't stop the judgment of God. He must have feared moment by moment that a messenger would arrive with terrible news about someone in his family.
This was no localized event. News would arrive of thousands of dead throughout all Israel, from Dan in the north, to Beersheba in the south, all beginning on the same day. Yet the greatest number of deaths seemed to be in Jerusalem, itself, the city that bore Yahweh's name. When it was all over, seventy thousand men of Israel died. If it's the case that only men died, again it would remind David of his desire to know how many men of fighting age where in the land. It's also interesting that 1 Chon. 21:14 says not just that they died, but that these men 'fell', so the idea is that of falling in battle. The LORD was fighting, not for His people, but against them.
Their only consolation would be that the prophet said the plague would last only three days. Only three days!
All business would been suspended, as it often is in a national crisis. The whole country would be in a panic, probably hoping to flee from the plague; but they were kept in Israel, caring for the dead or dying. David and all the elders of Israel were clothed in the sackcloth of mourning.
On the evening of that third day, David goes up onto the rooftop, this time not as a restless king looking for a distraction, but as a distressed man at the mercy of God. Even from this height, the cries of mourning could be heard in the streets below. David looks out over Jerusalem, the city he loves and his heart must have ached.
1 Chron. 21:16 We don't know how this angel appeared but it may have been as if the clouds had formed into the shape of a man; with his sword drawn and outstretched over Jerusalem. The elders of Israel seemed to see it as well, and fell on their faces.
David fell to his face and cried out, "I am the one who has done evil indeed," he confessed. "Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? But these sheep," he stretched his arm out over the city in entreaty to God, interceding for his people, "what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, O LORD my God, be against me and my father's house, but not against your people."
How different this evening walk on a rooftop was from that evening long ago! To be witness to such a prayer! Although the people could rightly be angry at David that this punishment had come upon them, could they imagine that if they were in David's position, they'd wish curses on their own family in the place of others? David had already seen so much suffering in his own family as a result of his actions, and now he was willing to take on even more, to spare his people. He was truly a shepherd of the people.
Usually, in sacrifice, it was the life of an innocent animal in place of a guilty person; but now David, the guilty man, offered himself in place of his innocent sheep.
As if in a conversation with God, Himself, the prophet Gad arrived behind them on the roof. As was his usual direct approach, the prophet went straight to the message.
In response to David's prayer, the prophet told him, "The LORD has relented of the disaster and has restrained the hand of the destroying angel. Now go up, erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan, the Jebusite."
It's odd that the LORD directed David to a new place of worship, rather than the tabernacle in Gibeon, which was only six miles away from Jerusalem. But David did not question the command. Instead he hurried to observe the word of the LORD, perhaps thinking to spare even one more person if he obeyed quickly. Zadok, the priest and several other guards would have followed David as he entered his chariot and went in the direction of the vision he had seen in the sky over Jerusalem. As some citizens of Jerusalem saw the royal chariot pass by, he may have heard them exclaim, "The king! The king has come down to see our suffering!"
David must have turned away in anguish. Many would not yet know he was the cause of the plague. When they learned of it, they could well curse him instead.
When they arrived at the property of Ornan, the Jebusite, which was near Mount Moriah, the man would have looked up to see the king and his servants approaching. David wasted no time in going directly to the man. Ornan bowed before the king with his face to the ground.
"Are you Ornan, the Jebusite?" David asked.
The man nodded. "Why has my lord, the king, come to his servant?" Ornan must have asked, with trembling in his voice. The man must have feared for his life since the king came to him in person and asked for him by name.
"Grant that I might buy the threshing floor from you at full price, that I might build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people."
Ornan lifts his head, relief and surprise in his eyes, then he stands. "Let my lord the king take and offer up whatever seems good to him." He motions to a yoke of oxen nearby. "Look, here are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen for wood. All these, O king, Ornan has given to the king," then he adds with a bow, "May the LORD your God accept you."
David must have paused at Ornan's last comment.
"No, but I will surely buy it from you for full price; for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing."
Isn't that beautiful? He understood that true worship was costly. This time he would not abuse his power and take what did not belong to him.
David counted out a generous sum and paid Ornan, so it then became royal property. Their haggling was reminiscent of the purchase of Sarah's burial site by Abraham, done in front of witnesses, to make it legal.
David then set about building the altar himself, brushing away the help offered by his servants. As the king place each rock, one by one, on the growing altar, we wonder if David remembered how he wanted his people counted?
When it was built, David offered burnt offerings; in acknowledgement of the righteous judgment of God, and peace offerings; in recognition of the mercy of God. This was accomplished through Zadok, the priest, whom he had brought with him.
When the oxen had been laid on the altar, David fell to his knees and called out to God. We don't know what he prayed, but we know his prayer was heard. A moment passes. David instructs Zadok to proceed with lighting the burnt offering, but there is no need, as fire came from heaven, directly onto the altar. The guards standing nearby may have fallen backwards, some would have cried out in fear. What was happening?
David would have recognized what had happened, and it caused him to fall on his face. They would have felt the heat from the fire. When they looked up, the sacrifice had been completely consumed.
The LORD was pleased to answer David's prayer and accept the sacrifice by fire. If the plague was a supernatural occurrence, this was more so.
As David inhaled the scent of the burnt offering, he must have marvelled that God had accepted the offering. Just as all of God's judgments were just, so great was His mercy toward His people. Once His sword was sheathed, there would be no further deaths from this plague.
David was truly humbled by this event, perhaps even more so than after his sin with Bathsheba. In many ways, he had abused his power; taking another man's wife, ordering this census because of his pride, not following God's commands in how it should be done.
Now, he realized he was not greater than this poor farmer, whose land he purchased. He did not just come and demand the land and all he needed. He bought it for a generous price, and built the altar with his own hands, rather than merely ordering his servants to do it. He finally saw that true worship was costly, as his disobedience had been costly.
In spite of the horrible events of those three days, it must have been hard to feel any bitterness toward David. God's anger had been spent. The avenging angel had sheathed its sword, near the same place where Abraham's hand was stayed from killing Isaac, so long ago. It was over.
Some of the Scarlet Threads we find are revealed as contrasts, like the blood of Abel crying out for justice, versus the blood of Christ crying out for forgiveness. How is Christ pictured in this event? He is the One Who intercedes for His sheep and offers to take their punishment. In David's case, it was the guilty for the innocent; in Christ's case it is the innocent for the guilty. Jesus stands between the just wrath of God and His people. He absorbs it in Himself as the sacrifice, and even now He intercedes for us based on what He has already accomplished.
His sacrifice was complete and accepted. We know this because God the Father put His stamp of approval on it by raising Jesus from the dead. Romans 4:25 says Jesus… "who was delivered up (to die) because of our offenses, and raised because of our justification." His resurrection proved that the sacrifice was acceptable to God. Otherwise He would have stayed dead. It corroborated everything Jesus ever said and did.
It's also interesting to note that even though there was already a set place of worship, in Gibeah, six miles northeast of Jerusalem, God directs David to a new place. He then prophesied that it would be the site of the soon-to-be-built temple. (2 Chron. 22:1)
This place is in the shadow of Mount Moriah, the place where Abraham almost sacrificed his son. It remained the place where David continued to go to worship, 1 Chron. 21:30 says, because of fear. It became the site that Solomon built his temple, (2 Chron. 3:1) and the same area where Christ was sacrificed a thousand years later.
Prayer: "Oh gracious, merciful LORD. This narrative shows us how You are involved in the affairs of men, and overrule them because You are Sovereign. When we read of things like a plague being sent by Your hand to punish Your people, we tremble. Yet with You there is mercy. We also see that You are holy and we could not stand in Your presence, let alone approach You if not for the finished work of Christ on our behalf. He intercedes for us, even now, and we thank You. If we are hidden in Christ, we are safe from Your righteous judgments. Thank You for accepting His sacrifice."
Questions: How is your take on this narrative different from what you thought previously? Did you ever feel the plague was somehow an over-reaction to the census? Did you ever see Christ in this story before? Did you know about the change in location of worship? Do you ever feel you have to 'defend' God to unbelievers who would use this story to demonstrate how He appears harsh and uncaring? Did you notice that David never once complained about the judgment of God? He only ever claimed He was merciful and appealed to Him to transfer His judgment to Himself. Do you agree with the statement that many sins are committed when believers are more mature, than when they are less mature in the faith? Why do you think that is?
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As a prosecutor in Albany County, Chantelle Cleary successfully handled cases involving sex trafficking, animal cruelty and rape.
Now Cleary's work is at the center of another sex crime case – this time involving a former University at Albany student who claims Cleary was biased against him, which led to his dismissal from the school.
The former student claims Cleary was biased while in her former role as the school's Title IX coordinator investigating allegations of sexual assault. That alleged bias, the former student and his lawyers contend, led to his expulsion for violating the school's code of conduct.
And following a decision by the state's second-highest court on Thursday, the ex-student has a chance to make his case for reinstatement.
"An impartial investigation performed by bias-free investigators is the substantive foundation of the entire administrative proceeding," the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court's Third Department stated in a 4-1 ruling.
Appellate Justice Molly Reynolds Fitzgerald authored the decision, which was supported by Presiding Justice Elizabeth Garry and Justices Sharon Aarons and John Colangelo. Justice Michael Lynch dissented.
The court kicked the case back to acting Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Nichols. It reversed Nichols' decision to deny the ex-student access to evidence against him in the matter.
The ruling said the male student, who gave the only first-person account, maintains he was a passive participant in an oral sexual encounter in September 2017. But it said Clearly gave a "significantly different rendering of the event" in a notice of investigation to the male student. It portrayed him as the aggressive party and backed the allegation of Sexual Assault I in the school's code of conduct.
"It is not unreasonable to question whether Cleary changed the wording (and as such the alleged facts) to correspond with the definition of sexual assault I as found in the student code," Fitzgerald stated.
In scathing language, the justice wrote: "As to the possibility of individual bias, Cleary admittedly altered the facts as reported to her."
The ruling said the UAlbany conduct board that expelled the male student relied heavily on a summary of statements from people who watched the female student before and after her encounter with the male student. Fitzgerald noted their accounts were not in sworn affidavits, but mere statements collected by Title IX investigators.
"In that regard, Cleary freely admitted that her team 'didn't include any information that was irrelevant to a finding for the referrals,' a statement that begs the question – Who determined what was 'relevant?' Fitzgerald stated.
The dissenting Lynch argued: "The implication here is that Cleary redacted potentially exculpatory information from the witness statements.
The flaw in that thesis is that none of the witnesses actually observed the encounter between petitioner and the reporting individual. Rather, the majority of the witnesses consistently corroborated the reporting individual's contention that she was intoxicated prior to the encounter."
Lynch said the male student was afforded an impartial investigation. He said the issue of Cleary's wording was fully explored.
"However ill-conceived Cleary's rephrasing was with respect to that charge, I am satisfied that the board made its own findings of fact as to the nature of the encounter," he stated.
The ruling described the sequence of events as follows:
On a Friday night in September 2017, the male and female students "allegedly engaged in nonconsensual sexual conduct." The male student allegedly provided Xanax to the female student and two other students. (The male student said their encounter was consensual. The female student did not remember having sex. She had little memory of the night).
The next morning, the female student told the male student she could not remember the night before. Later that day, she text-messaged him: "Last night was amazing, we should do that again." She told him: "Sorry to freak you out this morning, I just don't remember anything that happened."
She sent him another text suggesting they "link up."
At dinner, the male student said his girlfriend was visiting. The male and both females were at a party in his dorm that night where the females argued. The female student remembered she was pushed outside the door of the party and fell down a stairwell. She recalled being dragged back to the room and sleeping in a common area of the male student's dorm suite. The next morning, she saw the male student and his girlfriend in bed. She threw water on them and left. Friends in her dorm told her of a rumor that she "had sex in the bathroom" at a fraternity party two nights earlier. At their advice, she got a sex assault exam and gave a statement to UAlbany police. The incident was reported to Cleary.
Cleary and three other investigators sent a report to the college's conduct board. After the hearing, the board expelled the male student. He lost his appeal, then sued the college. He filed a motion asking for discovery, alleging Cleary was biased against him. Nichols denied the request and transferred the matter to the Appellate Division.
Cleary, who worked in the special victims unit for District Attorney David Soares from 2010 to 2014, has since left UAlbany. She declined to comment on the pending litigation, according to a person at Grand River Solutions, a company where Clearly works as a senior IX consultant. A UAlbany spokesman said the college does not comment on pending litigation.
Andrew T. Miltenberg and Philip Byler, attorneys at the Manhattan-based firm of Nesenoff & Miltenberg, which represents the male student, called the ruling "an important recognition that an impartial investigation and hearing is critical in Title IX matters."
They said they plan to depose Cleary.
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Marin Breast Cancer Watch
Welcome to MBCW!
Marin Breast Cancer Watch's mission is to find the causes of breast cancer through community participation in the research process.
About Marin Breast Cancer Watch
MBCW was founded in 1995 by a group of concerned Marin County residents who wanted to know why so many of their friends were afflicted with breast cancer.
Marin Breast Cancer Watch Executive Summary
Marin Breast Cancer Watch is a non-profit organization founded in 1995 with a mission to find the causes of breast cancer.
In less than a decade, MBCW has grown from a small group of women concerned about the health of their friends and neighbors to a leader in conducting community-based research, educating and providing information to the community, and advocating on behalf of policies that will help find the causes of breast cancer and focus on creating a healthy environment.
As an organization, MBCW believes that prevention is the cure to breast cancer and that finding what causes the disease will help women make better and more informed decisions about their lives and their health care.
As part of its work, MBCW advocates for the Precautionary Principle, which says if there is a belief that products or practices are harmful to human health and the environment, action should be taken before the public is exposed rather than waiting for harm or risk to be proven.
Since its creation, MBCW has broken down barriers in an effort to accomplish its goals. When no one believed a group from the community could conduct research, members from the organization formed partnerships with scientists and worked to create research projects that included community input and participation.
MBCW believes that those people closest to the problem are best able to provide the most reliable information. Research should be conducted with community involvement and then shared with those affected and presented in an honest manner.
To that end, MBCW established some of the first community-based research projects in Marin County. With community input, the organization completed and published its first research project in 2003, the Adolescent Risk Factors Study, which looked at whether adolescent experiences and exposures are different between women who have breast cancer and those who have not. The organization has also completed two other research projects that looked at potential risk factors in the environment.
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Today, MBCW has solid partnerships, both locally and nationally, with respected researchers, elected officials, business leaders, health care officials and many other organizations. MBCW puts on educational events and community workshops, hosts an annual awards celebration for members of the community, known as Honor Thy Healer, who help heal women with breast cancer, and works with key decision-makers to advocate for policies that will help find the causes of breast cancer.
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As an organization, MBCW is committed to understanding why Marin County has one of the highest breast cancer rates in the world. MBCW is dedicated to sharing the information it receives with the community and will continue to look for answers to the many questions facing women in Marin.
MBCW is an established leader in conducting breast cancer research and searching for the causes of the disease.
Since its creation in 1995, MBCW has quickly become a recognized leader in the effort to find the causes of breast cancer. Accomplishments for the organization include:
MBCW was the first organization to inform the community that Marin County is an area with a history of high incidence and mortality rates.
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MBCW was the first organization to complete and publish in a peer-reviewed journal a Marin County Study funded by the California Breast Cancer Research Program on Adolescent Risk Factors and the Development of Breast Cancer.
MBCW co-sponsored a Town Hall meeting in October 2002 with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences titled, "Voices for a Healthy Community: Breast Cancer and the Environment."
The Town Hall meeting led to the formation of a Bay Area group comprised of researchers, scientists and community groups who came together to submit a proposal for the creation of a Bay Area research center focused on breast cancer and the environment. The Center was awarded on October 2003. MBCW will lead the community outreach portion of the Center.
This initial MBCW Adolescent Risk Factors Study spawned additional research studies and new collaborations among MBCW, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Marin County Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHS). The studies sought to:
Describe the breast cancer incidence in Marin County (DHHS)
Describe the breast cancer risk factor distributions in Marin County (LBNL)
Further study if living in Marin is a breast cancer risk factor (MBCW/UCSF)
Develop an environmental database for Marin County (MBCW)
Facilitate information exchange between breast cancer research and the community (MBCW/DHHS)
Investigate the feasibility of other projects and identify priorities for
future activities (DHHS)
Pilot the Personal Environmental Risk Factor Study (LBNL/MBCW/UCSF)
MBCW created the Adolescent Breast Cancer Prevention, Risk Reduction and Education Project in 2003 to reach out to adolescent girls in the community and motivate them to reduce future breast cancer risk by practicing healthy behaviors.
MBCW created the annual Honor Thy Healer awards ceremony in 1999 to recognize and share the stories of amazing members of the community who have helped women with breast cancer during their healing process. The event is widely seen as one of the most inspirational and moving celebrations in Marin.
MBCW created the Dipsea Hike/Run in honor of Annie Fox, a MBCW board member who lost her own battle with cancer in 2002. The event is designed to honor Annie and highlight the importance of exercise in the fight against breast cancer. The event takes place on the famed Dipsea trail on Mt. Tamalpais.
MBCW played a major role in working with the Marin County Health Department and others to advocate for state and federal breast cancer research funds to come to Marin County, including $250,000 from the state and $250,000 from the Centers for Disease Control in fiscal year 2000 and $500,000 from the federal government for 2003.
Every community needs their originators and risk takers – we are the pioneers of Community Based Research in Marin
We bring together diverse perspectives on health and social issues
We focus on how the environment affects breast cancer
We accelerate discovery by bringing together experts, resources and information
We actively pursue reducing breast cancer risk for the next generation
MBCW is committed to advocating for policies and programs that will reduce the future risk of breast cancer. Working with community leaders, elected officials at all levels, and other non-profit organizations, MBCW urges the use of the Precautionary Principle as a guideline in environmental decision-making.
What is the Precautionary Principle?
When an activity raises threats of harm to the environment or human health, precautionary measures should be taken, even if a scientific cause and effect relationship has not yet been established.
MBCW is often in the news, both locally and nationally, and actively works to promote and highlight important research projects, educational opportunities and events that help draw attention to Marin County's breast cancer problem.
MBCW is an established leader in conducting breast cancer research and has redefined the way community organizations can participate in scientific studies. With a commitment to look at potential environmental causes of breast cancer, MBCW has created a unique and effective approach to breast cancer research.
MBCW has a simple belief: the people who live in a particular community can be invaluable contributors to the research process. That is why MBCW created an innovative way to conduct breast cancer research:
LISTEN > PARTNER > RESEARCH > COMMUNICATE > ACTION
We LISTEN to the concerns of our community, then PARTNER with scientists and researchers from established institutions to conduct original breast cancer RESEARCH. Once scientific research is completed, we COMMUNICATE the findings back to the community to help prompt ACTION – either for more research studies or to impact public policy.
MBCW has collaborated with scientific researchers from the University of California, San Francisco; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories; Kaiser Permanente; the Marin County Health Department, and many other partners to conduct breast cancer research in Marin.
What is community-based research?
Community-based research is a process by which members of a community identify a problem, engage outside researchers in a collaborative that promotes co-learning, and achieve a balance between research and action.
Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center
In October 2003, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences funded a breast cancer research center in the Bay Area that will look at breast cancer and the environment.
The Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center is one of four research centers created by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to investigate potential environmental factors that could lead to breast cancer.
The Center is a collaborative effort among Bay Area institutions, researchers, scientists and advocacy groups to harness the expertise in the region and work together to better understand the causes of breast cancer and what can be done to prevent it.
Initially, there will be two main areas of research focus. One project will study how the developmental steps of the mammary gland and use mouse models to test the effects of exposure to potential environmental stressors. The second project will be to conduct an epidemiological study of the determinants of puberty in girls. Attention will be paid to understanding the shift toward earlier puberty among adolescent girls, the identification of environmental exposures in young girls, and the interplay between genetic polymorphisms and environmental exposures that may put them at risk for future breast cancer.
One of the strengths of the Center will be its commitment to communicate its efforts with the local community. Marin Breast Cancer Watch will lead the Community Outreach and Translational Core (COTC), which seeks to facilitate two-way communication between scientists and the community.
The effort to a secure a Center in the Bay Area started last year after Marin Breast Cancer Watch co-hosted a town hall meeting with the UC Berkeley NIEHS Center titled: "Voices for a Healthy Community: Breast Cancer and the Environment." The town hall created a dialogue between scientists and the community on breast cancer, identified areas of future breast cancer research, and created opportunities for further collaboration among cancer groups, concerned health professionals, scientists, public policy advocates, government officials and community members.
At the town hall, NIEHS Director Dr. Kenneth Olden announced the agency would award funding for centers in the coming year. A Bay Area group soon formed and began drafting a proposal. Shortly thereafter, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) helped secure a commitment from four federal health agencies to study Marin County's breast cancer rate and allocate resources for the effort.
The Research Center and the other centers in a national network supported by the NIH will focus attention on adolescence, a vulnerable period of breast development thought to play a critical role in the future development of breast cancer.
The BABCERC has a broad group of collaborators, including the University of California, San Francisco; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories; Kaiser Permanente; California DHS; Marin Breast Cancer Watch; San Francisco DHHS; the Marin County Health Department; and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
MBCW works to facilitate an active exchange of information with community members. Through workshops, forums and community education programs, MBCW translates complex research projects to make science more understandable and to promote community action.
Education Programs Include:
Workshops on conducting community-based research and understanding breast cancer research techniques.
Community forums and town hall meetings with national breast cancer researchers.
Outreach to adolescent girls to give them information to make healthy choices about their lives.
MBCW is an active partner in the community and works to include as many supporters as possible in the activities of the organization.
Honor Thy Healer
Each year, MBCW hosts an awards luncheon to recognize individuals who play the important role of supporter and healer in breast cancer treatment, either in a professional or personal way.
Dipsea Hike/Run
To promote the importance of physical fitness in the fight against breast cancer, MBCW holds an annual Dipsea Hike/Run on the famed route on Mount Tamalpais. The event is held in honor of former MBCW board member Annie Fox, who passed away in 2002 at age 35 after a fight against breast cancer.
Honor Thy Healer Celebration – Call for Nominations
The annual Honor Thy Healer Celebration will be held on Thursday April 7, 2005.
When: Thursday, April 7, 2005
When: 6:00 p.m.
Where: Peacock Gap Country Club
Do you have a story of a healthcare professional or any special individual who has played a pivotal role in helping someone in their experience with breast cancer?
Your nominee for our Honor Thy Healer Awards could be chosen for recognition at our annual celebration and serve as inspiration to countless others!
There are two community-nominated categories:
Healing Professional Award
Nominees can range from physicians and nurses to social workers, hospice workers, and complementary or alternative practitioners. We are interested in healers of every sense of the word.
Healing Partner Award
Nominees can be anyone who has helped a friend or a loved one through their experience with this disease.
Just write a brief description of the nominee's endeavors, accomplishments and attributes and deliver no later than Monday, January 31, 2005 at 5:00 pm (Please limit your narrative to 250 words or less)
Below are links to Web sites with important information on breast cancer.
California Breast Cancer Research Program
http://www.cbcrp.org
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/bcerf
Marin County Health Department
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/HH/main/index.cfm
Marin Man To Man
http://www.marin-man-to-man.org
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
http://www.niehs.nih.gov
http://www.nih.gov
Northern California Cancer Center
http://www.nccc.org
Silent Spring Institute
http://www.silentspring.org
Susan Love
http://www.susanlovemd.com
UCSF SPORE Project
http://cc.ucsf.edu/breast_spore
Become a Marin Breast Cancer Watch Volunteer!
Marin Breast Cancer Watch is looking for dedicated volunteers to assist with events, mailings, special projects and data entry. If you are interested being part of the effort to find the causes of breast cancer,
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Microsoft expands Fluid Framework to aid hybrid workplace productivity
Category: #tech By Nikita Chaurasia Date: 2021-06-23
Multinational tech giant Microsoft Corporation has reportedly expanded its Fluid Framework over a wide range of collaboration and productivity tools including OneNote, Outlook, and Whiteboard to revolutionize the traditional approach of interacting with documents.
Microsoft's 'Fluid components', touted to be 'atomic units of productivity when they were first launched two years ago, are small apps such as charts, tables, and lists designed to aid asynchronous and synchronous work for hybrid remote teams.
The Fluid Framework will focus on the creation of 'components' relevant to meetings, such as a shared agenda, with minutes automatically updated on a OneNote page and simultaneously made available on Outlook calendars and e-mail.
According to sources, Microsoft had unveiled plans to introduce the components to the Teams chat function in May this year. As an extension of those plans, the company recently revealed that Fluid components will be made available on Outlook, as well as Teams meetings, OneNote, and Whiteboard apps.
A company representative was quoted saying that Microsoft is set to commence a private preview for Fluid components in OneNote, Whiteboard, and Outlook, this fall; with the feature being made available to a wider user base early next year.
If reports are to be believed, the function will be exclusively available to Microsoft 365 commercial customers. Meanwhile, the Fluid component for Teams' chat is undergoing a private preview and is in the pipeline for a full release in August.
The launch of Fluid components to Microsoft's platforms denotes a shift of focus from individual files to a more collaborative and flexible approach to documents in Microsoft 365.
It is also worth noting that Microsoft is not the only player seeking to transform collaboration and productivity apps.
Market rival, Google LLC, recently launched its smart canvas 'building blocks' which is a similar concept that allows the flow of information between Workspace apps such as Sheets and Docs. Startups such as Coda, Quip, and Airtable are also developing similar features.
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Dan Mogford has been working as a graphic designer for over twenty years, across a variety of areas including branding and music packaging with a particular focus on design for the publishing industry. Here he explains his process for creating the cover of Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights.
This was one of those jobs where the almost perfect image was literally hanging around my studio. The illustration the cover is based on is from a French children's comic of the 1930s and has been stuck up on my wall for as long as I can remember just waiting for the perfect job to come along. It's one of those 'cut-out-and-make' type games that kids used to do on a rainy Sunday before iPads were invented, the idea being to toss balls into the gaping mouth of the hungry fella.
The first draft cover went down really well with the Faber gang and also Jay himself but there was a small request from the author to see if we could make the face a little more like his.
I set about cutting and pasting to add Jay's distinctive facial hair and simplified the colours on the type to make the whole thing more coherent and that was that, we had approval on the design across the board. Kudos to Mr Rayner for embracing a slightly less than flattering depiction of himself!


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Q: How can I download images from URLs and skip those images that doesn't exists in Python? My all links are in working condition and I tested in browser still I am getting below errors while downloading images.
an error occurred while fetching: "http://epaperlokmat.in/eNewspaper/News/LOK/MULK/2020/04/29/20200429_1.jpeg"
an error occurred while fetching: "http://epaperlokmat.in/eNewspaper/News/LOK/MULK/2020/04/29/20200429_2.jpeg"
an error occurred while fetching: "http://epaperlokmat.in/eNewspaper/News/LOK/MULK/2020/04/29/20200429_3.jpeg"
an error occurred while fetching: "http://epaperlokmat.in/eNewspaper/News/LOK/MULK/2020/04/29/20200429_4.jpeg"
import urllib.request
from urllib.error import URLError # the docs say this is the base error you need to catch
import time
import datetime,time
from PIL import Image
start_time = time.time()
today=time.strftime("%Y%m%d")
m=today=time.strftime("%m")
d=today=time.strftime("%d")
Y=today=time.strftime("%Y")
A=today=time.strftime("%b")

for i in range(1,5):
    issue_id1=str(i)
    url = "http://epaperlokmat.in/eNewspaper/News/LOK/MULK/"+str(Y) +"/"+str(m)+"/"+str(d)+"/"+str(Y+m+d)+"_"+str(i)+".jpeg"
    try:
        s = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
        contents = s.read()
    except URLError:
        print('an error occurred while fetching: "{}"'.format(url))
        continue
    file = open("D:/IMAGES/"+issue_id1+".jpeg", "wb")
    file.write(contents)

A: It seems that this host where you fetch the images doesn't like the default headers shipped with urllib.
This adjusted version seems to fetch it your images correctly:
import urllib.request
from urllib.error import URLError # the docs say this is the base error you need to catch
import time
import datetime,time
from PIL import Image
start_time = time.time()
today=time.strftime("%Y%m%d")
m=today=time.strftime("%m")
d=today=time.strftime("%d")
Y=today=time.strftime("%Y")
A=today=time.strftime("%b")

fetched_images = []

for i in range(1,5):
    issue_id1=str(i)
    url = "http://epaperlokmat.in/eNewspaper/News/LOK/MULK/"+str(Y) +"/"+str(m)+"/"+str(d)+"/"+str(Y+m+d)+"_"+str(i)+".jpeg"
    try:
        # First build the request, and adjust the headers to something else.
        req = urllib.request.Request(url,
            headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.47 Safari/537.36'}
        )

        # Secondly fetch your image
        s = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
        contents = s.read()

        # Append to your image-list
        fetched_images.append(url)
    except URLError:
        print(url)
        print('an error occurred while fetching: "{}"'.format(url))
        continue
    file = open("D:/IMAGES/"+issue_id1+".jpeg", "wb")
    file.write(contents)

To clarify, firstly build your request with adjusted headers.
Only then open the url by fetching the req.
Another way to go about this is to use requests.  In your case it actually works out of the box. Before this will run you will need to get the requests package.
pip install requests
import requests
import datetime,time

start_time = time.time()
today=time.strftime("%Y%m%d")
month=today=time.strftime("%m")
day=today=time.strftime("%d")
year=today=time.strftime("%Y")

url = "http://epaperlokmat.in/eNewspaper/News/LOK/MULK/{year}/{month}/{day}/{year}{month}{day}_{issue_id}.jpeg"
path = "D:/IMAGES/{issue_id}.jpeg"

fetched_images = []

for issue_id in range(1, 5):
    try:
        # Let's create the url for the given issue.
        issue_url = url.format(
            year=year,
            month=month,
            day=day,
            issue_id=issue_id)

        # GET the url content
        req = requests.get(issue_url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.47 Safari/537.36'}))

        # Add the image to your list
        fetched_images.append(issue_url)

        # Save to file if succesful and close the file when done.
        with open(path.format(issue_id=issue_id), 'wb') as f:
            f.write(req.content)
    except Exception as e:
        # If something went wrong, just print the url and the error.
        print('Failed to fetch {url} with error {e}'.format(
            url=issue_url, e=e))

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Created by Brandon James Scott / Written by Eric Weiner
The show revolves around the adventures of Justin. In every episode, Justin encounters a real-world problem of everyday childhood (such as sharing, teamwork, or paying attention). Then Justin and his imaginary shape-shifting sidekick Squidgy solve the problems by tackling them in imaginary adventures through time and around the world. In every adventure, Justin and Squidgy meet their best friend Olive, who always lives in the place and time they are visiting, and who usually needs their help to accomplish a task. In actuality Olive, much like Squidgy, is merely a figment of Justin's imagination. Together, the three of them encounter the same problem that Justin faces in the real world, and together they solve the problem before Justin's parents call him back to the real world.
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Nominated for a 2013 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Pre-School Animated Program
Nominated for a 2013 Annie Award for Best Animated Television Production For Preschool Children
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Worldwide Distribution: Jetpack Distribution
Sales in Portugal and Portuguese Speaking Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Sao Tomé and Principe): Ypsilon Films


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Legislative Agenda2021-05-13T17:19:49-05:00
AASM Legislative and Policy Agenda
This synopsis highlights the legislative and policy priorities of the AASM as we advocate to advance sleep care and enhance sleep health to improve lives. Rather than being an exhaustive or ranked list, this agenda provides a general framework for our advocacy priorities.
Federal Initiatives
Congressional Sleep Health Caucus
We will recruit members of Congress to join the new caucus and will organize caucus meetings to help advance these advocacy priorities.
Medicare Coverage for PAP Devices
We will develop and implement a strategy to address the most problematic features of the CMS national coverage determination (NCD 240.4) and local coverage determination (LCD L33718) for positive airway pressure (PAP) for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), including the 90-day adherence rule for continued coverage, the adherence definition, the hypopnea definition, and the requirement for unnecessary repeat testing.
Physician Reimbursement for Sleep Services
We will develop and implement a strategy to demonstrate to payers the value of sleep care and the importance of adequate reimbursement for sleep services.
We will collaborate with the American Medical Association (AMA) on efforts to reform the prior authorization process, supporting legislation such as H.R.3107, and will advocate for payers to change sleep-specific prior authorization policies that ignore the clinical expertise of sleep clinicians, overrule their clinical decision-making, and force some patients with sleep disorders to receive inadequate care.
Stark Law Reform
We will continue to advocate for an exception to allow board-certified sleep medicine physicians to provide PAP therapy to Medicare patients who have OSA and will explore potential models for sleep physicians to take advantage of the new exceptions for value-based arrangements.
Expansion of Telemedicine Coverage
We will support efforts to expand coverage of telemedicine services by public and private payers, whether through regulation or legislation such as S.368, the Telehealth Modernization Act.
Elimination of Daylight Saving Time
We will support legislation, based on our position statement, that would establish permanent standard time nationwide and will urge Congress to have a hearing on the effects of daylight saving time.
Sleep Research Funding
We will join the Sleep Research Society (SRS) in advocating for more federal funding for sleep and circadian research.
We will support legislation to mandate screening, testing, and treatment for sleep disorders among commercial operators to address sleep-related safety concerns.
School Start Times
We will support efforts at a national level, such as H.R.1861, to study and promote later start times for middle schools and high schools, based on our position statement.
Student Sleep Health Week
We will continue to organize the recognition of the third week of September as National Student Sleep Health Week, which is supported by H.R.1103.
State Initiatives
We will advocate for state dental boards to adopt policies that align with the AASM position statement, "Clinical Use of a Home Sleep Apnea Test," and the AMA policy, "Appropriate Use of Objective Tests for Obstructive Sleep Apnea H-35.963."
We will support local, grassroots initiatives — based on our position statement — that urge Congress to have a hearing on the effects of daylight saving time and establish permanent standard time nationwide.
We will support legislation for later middle school and high school start times, based on our position statement, using California SB-328 as a model.
2020 Donors
Congressional Healthy Sleep Caucus
Economic Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
GME Funding
MOC Advocacy
Stark Law
Fragmenting Healthcare
Fraud & the Stark Law
Sleep & the Stark Law
Sleep Without Stark
Stark Law Exception


Most questions can be answered by visiting the Policies Page, however here are a few quick questions and answers. Please feel free to call our office if you need further assistance.
Q) Are there any additional fees that I need to know about?
Q) When are Off Peak Rates?
A) Off Peak season starts the first week in August and goes until late March and between the 2nd week in April until the Friday before Memorial Day. The exact dates change every year and are updated on the Units for Rent page.
Q) Is there a minimum stay required?
A) Yes, in the smaller units the minimum stay is 3 nights. The stick build houses the minimum stay is 7 nights. Exceptions can be made in the off peak season. Rentals in June and July are Saturday to Saturday.
Q) Can I bring my dog/cat?
A) No, pets are not allowed.
Q) Do I need to bring my own linens? How do I know the Sizes?
A) You will need to bring your own linens. We will send you a confirmation email with the bed numbers and sizes. that information is also on the webpage with your property information. You will need to provide your own towels as well.
Q) Can I make payments so that my unit is paid off before arrival?
A) Once you have paid your initial $250.00 deposit you can call us with payments or you can mail us checks as long as the final check is here 30 days prior to your arrival date. If you call in payments there is a $5.00 fee per payment. We do not accept checks on arrival.
Q) Is there handicap access for the pools?
A) Yes, there is a lift for both pools.
Q) What if I leave something behind?
A) Please make sure to check behind yourself for any personal items. We will be happy to retrieve your item and ship it to you for the cost of shipping plus $20.00 handling fee.
Q) Is there wi-fi access?
A) Several units do have wifi, check the info page for your particular home. There is wi-fi access at the Venture Out office as well as the bottom floor of the club house by the front pool. There is no password for the one at the office, the clubhouse password is 12341234.
Q) Is there a place I can check my email or surf the web?
A) There is a computer in the main office available on a first come first served basis. Only available during office hours.
Q) Can I bring my own golf cart?
A) No, Venture Out Resort will not allow golf carts to be brought in.
Q) Is there a lifeguard at the pool or beach?
A) There is NOT a lifeguard, children must have an adult with them at all times.
A) No, only licensed drivers my drive the carts. Click here for a complete list of the resorts golf cart rules.
Q) I see that you have shuffleboard, Tennis and Mini Golf, is there a fee to play?
A) It is FREE to play, Venture Out provides the equipment for shuffle board and mini golf. There is a small rental fee for tennis rackets and balls. Venture Out also has volley balls and basketballs available for use at no charge. You can pick up the equipment at the guard-house at the gate. Quiet hours are from 10PM until 8AM.
Q) We are renting a lot for our RV, can we pitch a tent also?
A) No, tents are not allowed.
Q) Do I need a fishing License to fish from the beach/pier?
A) Yes, Florida requires a fishing license, click here for Florida regulations on fishing.
Q) How many cars can I have?
A) You can have up to 2 cars, however there are additional fees for each car. Venture Out Resort charges $60.00 for the 2nd car.
Q) Can I bring my boat/wave runner?
A) Yes, There is a registration fee charged by the resort of $25.00 a day for boats and $15.00 a day for waverunners (each) plus a fee to park your trailer. Click here for a complete list of the Resorts rules.
Q) Where do I dispose of trash? What if I have too much for the can?
A) There is an in ground can at each lot, trash picks up on Monday, Wednesday & Friday during the summer and Monday and Friday the rest of the year. There is a rock on the can, rock on means empty, rock off means that the trash needs to be picked up. For additional trash there is a dumpster at the maintenance building or extra cans at the boat dock. There is a new aluminum recycling bin beside the maintenance building in the back of the resort for all of your cans and other aluminum.


Our company offers professional home inspection and real estate inspections in Austin, TX. Magnum Property Inspections is a professional home inspection firm, whose mission is to provide unbiased professional opinions on the house you are about to purchase.
Why is that important? Because, you deserve the most honest answers to the problems lurking behind the walls. If I were to tell you to look for the problems in the house, what comes to mind? Does foundation come to mind? Are there any cracks in it? How about if the house were built on a pier-and-beam foundation? What do you look for then?
Again, if I were to ask you look for the obvious problems in the kitchen, what should you look for? Does a potential fire hazard come to mind? How about if I tell you that the range hood above the stove is not high enough, and the installation standard is not up-to-code?
I can tell you more! That's what I am trained to do. Besides looking for the obvious, I also look for other things that are hidden from the naked eye. For example, I do a carbon monoxide test to find out if the house has a potential for asphyxiation.
Safety is the magic word in my mission. I go to great lengths to find hazardous problems that could make the house unsafe to dwell in.


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Kardinal Offishall Full Circle
By Del F. Cowie
Before it was the 6ix, Toronto was the T-dot. While he didn't make up the term, no one contributed more to its popularity than Kardinal Offishall. Yet Kardinal's achievements go well beyond influencing a lexicon. As a hip-hop artist who has developed his own inimitable and versatile style, seamlessly meshing dancehall influences, lyrical dexterity and party-starting energy, Kardinal Offishall is a Toronto hip-hop pioneer.
By forging a career as a well-respected MC when Toronto's hip-hop scene wasn't in the spotlight, his determination broke down barriers. Having established himself with a relentless work ethic, whether applied to his recording output or his undeniably entertaining live shows, Kardinal has gained the respect of some of the world's most influential artists and producers. As he readies his latest album Kardi Gras: The Clash for late October, balancing the responsibilities of working as an A&R at Universal Music indicates Kardi still wants to add some more words and chapters to his story.
Kardinal Offishall is born Jason Harrow on May 12, 1976 in Scarborough. He lives in the Flemingdon Park area of Toronto as a youth and becomes very interested in his father's music collection. Harrow's mother works as a teacher and he occasionally is in a class where she is the teacher. She discovers he has an interest in rapping and she encourages him to write his first rhymes. Newly christened MC J-Ski records a demo at a Mr. Greenjeans restaurant in Toronto's Eaton Centre. He enters an anti-drug rhyme he had written in a Scadding Court community centre contest and wins. One of the prizes is to meet Maestro Fresh Wes, the pioneering Canadian hip-hop artist fresh off the success of his debut album Symphony in Effect. Maestro tells the young high school student to stay in school. J-Ski is interviewed on CBC's The Journal by Barbara Frum about the anti-drug message in his rhymes. Soon the young MC transforms into Gumby D, and is a regular performer at malls, with two friends, known as Young Black Panthers, winning money from contests. These include Harrow performing for Nelson Mandela on his first foreign trip after being released from a South African prison.
Out of Stephen Lewis' commissioned report, following a 1992 racially motivated protest in Toronto referred to as the Yonge Street rebellion, a youth jobs program called J.O.Y. (Jobs for Ontario Youth) is created. Harrow enrols in the program's first year in an arts-oriented section of the program called Fresh Elements, where youth are given income assistance to pursue their creative paths. The next year, the program is retitled Fresh Arts, and features many more students. Among those involved in the program are artists who will come to be known as Saukrates, Jully Black and video director Little X (now Director X).
While in the Fresh Arts program, Harrow (now rapping as Kool Aid) forms the Figurez of Speech (F.O.S.) hip-hop crew with other program participants. The program provides mentorship and an opportunity to intern at radio stations, among other opportunities, and leads Harrow to seriously consider a recording career. Meanwhile, under his DJ name J-Rock Ultra, Harrow sells mixtapes in school. When his Fresh Arts friend Saukrates decides to record his first single, Kool Aid is in the studio and earns a co-production credit on the recording, "Still Caught Up." The song becomes a key track in Toronto's mid-'90s hip-hop resurgence, garnering significant play on local university radio and is nominated for Best Rap Recording at the 1996 Junos.
By this time, Harrow has changed his rap moniker to Kardinal Offishall after learning about Cardinal Richelieu, the 17th century adviser to Louis XIV. One morning during school, he hears a song and some lyrics in his head. He writes the track, called "Naughty Dread," and heads to the studio that evening. Featuring a fairly prominent Bob Marley sample of "Natty Dread," the song is featured on the landmark all-Canadian rap compilation Rap Essentials Vol. 1. Kardinal also releases a twelve-inch for "Naughty Dread" featuring a song called "On Wid Da Show" on the flip side. It's on Kneedeep Records, run by Choclair's producer and manager Day. Soon Choclair's crew Paranormal and Figurez of Speech converge into one larger crew known as The Circle.
Kardinal's "Naughty Dread" is nominated for Best Rap Recording at the Junos. He signs a publishing deal from Warner Chappell and uses the money to begin recording sessions for his debut album. Kardinal drops out of York University to focus on his career. The Circle develop a reputation around Toronto for energetic and entertaining live shows. There are often ten or more extremely organized members on stage, with Kardinal acting as the de facto leader of the crew. The shows become known for the call and response interactions — every time Kardinal yells out "Clack! Clack!" the crowd responds, "Reload!" Kardinal records a more party-oriented remix of "On Wit Da Show" and releases a video that garners significant airplay on MuchMusic. However, the song's momentum is stalled when it is pulled from the air after a company complains that an extra appearing in the video is wearing his work uniform. Regardless, Kardinal releases his largely self-produced full-length, Eye & I, at the end of the year, but the record suffers patchy distribution around the country as Kardinal embarks on a national tour.
Kardinal contributes a song, featuring Y-Look from The Circle, to the Planet Mars EP, a release named "Rhyme, Shine and Buss." Vancouver hip-hop group the Rascalz collaborate with various Toronto hip-hop artists on a song entitled "Northern Touch." Featuring verses from the Rascalz as well as Thrust, Checkmate, Choclair and Kardinal Offishall on the infectiously catchy hook, the song goes on to be one of the most significant tracks in Canadian hip-hop history. "Northern Touch" goes on to win the Juno Award for the Best Rap Recording in 1999, and ushers the artists involved into the mainstream of the Canadian music scene.
Choclair becomes the first Toronto hip-hop artist in many years to sign a major record label deal, with Virgin Canada. Kardinal produces "Let's Ride," Choclair's lead single from his debut album Ice Cold. Kardinal also releases his Husslin' EP, featuring tracks like "M.I.C. Thugs" and the humorous "UR Ghetto." Around this time Kardinal's father passes away. Soon after, he signs to MCA Records in the U.S. Along with Saukrates, Kardinal remixes the Wu-Tang Clan's single "Careful (Click Click)," and produces a song for Maestro's album Ever Since. Kardinal makes acting appearances on the CBC hip-hop drama series Drop the Beat and also appears on the popular Baby Blue Sound Crew single "Money Jane," featuring pre-mainstream breakthrough Sean Paul and fellow Circle member Jully Black.
Kardinal works on an album combining previously released and new tracks to introduce him to American and international audiences. The aim is to release an all-new followup record shortly afterwards. Produced by The Circle's Solitair under his and Kardinal's production team Silverhouse and the Girl, "Bakardi Slang" is the first single from Quest for Fire: Firestarter Vol. 1. It becomes an instantly notable Canadian hip-hop single because of the way the song articulates and celebrates the presence of West Indian culture in Toronto. Kardinal records a remix of the song with Jamaican dancehall artist Bounty Killer. The album's second single "Ol' Time Killin'," produced by Mr. Attic of revered Toronto production team Da Grassroots, gains Kardinal a number of fans among artists like Missy Eliiott, Timbaland and Pharrell Williams of the production duo the Neptunes. Kardinal's former Fresh Arts colleague Little X directs the track's colourful video, which aides in the song's popularity. A remix of the song is recorded with Busta Rhymes. Kardinal also appears on Ghetto Concept's all-Canadian posse cut "Still Too Much."
Pharrell Williams invites Kardinal to appear on the remix of "Grindin'" by Clipse, and Williams also produces "Belly Dancer," slated to be the first single off Kardinal's followup MCA project Quest For Fire: Vol. 2 The F-Word Theory. Another track entitled "Sick," featuring Bounty Killer and produced by Nottz, also surfaces. However, during this time, MCA Records is being reorganized after being taken over by Geffen, and while the label initially retains Kardinal, he eventually asks to leave because of a number of album delays and creative differences.
Kardinal makes a comedic appearance in the Canadian movie Love, Sex and Eating the Bones. He records and releases a new mixtape with his newly renamed crew Black Jays, entitled Kill Bloodclott Bill in three weeks, with the Tarantino-inspired title being a thinly veiled broadside at MCA. Kardinal begins to collaborate frequently with a broad range of artists, appearing on records by Canadian R&B singer Glenn Lewis, Scottish pop group Texas, and UK grime artist Lethal Bizzle. Kardinal's high profile hip-hop collaborations include appearances on Pete Rock's Soul Survivor II album, Method Man's Tical 0: The Prequel album and Prince Paul's Politics of the Business album. He also records a song with Timbaland but the track is never released. The Black Jays production team also releases The Black Jays Album, a remixed version of Jay-Z's The Black Album.
During a live performance at Marc Ecko's Getting Up festival in Toronto, Kardinal attempts to play an acoustic guitar on stage, commenting "They say I have to play an instrument to sell some records," before smashing the instrument on stage. A review in an Toronto weekly interprets the action as a diss to k-os, who subsequently writes into the publication questioning their highlighting of the incident. However, Kardinal maintains that his point was to the music industry as a whole, and how only one or a few hip-hop stars are marketable at one time in Canada because of the music industry infrastructure. The two artists soon resolve any perceived differences.
Kardinal appears on Rihanna's debut album Music of the Sun and in the Toronto-shot, Little X-directed video for her debut single "Pon de Replay." Kardinal inks a deal with Virgin Canada and releases his third album Fire & Glory. The album features dancehall artists Spragga Benz and Vybz Kartel as well as Busta Rhymes. Its lead single "Everyday (Rudebwoy)" wins three MuchMusic Video Awards and the album features his collaboration with then-rising UK MC and singer Estelle.
Fire and Glory is nominated for Best Rap Recording at the Junos, but after the event, Kardinal says he won't attend the awards again because of the low profile for hip-hop he perceives at the show. Kardinal releases Canadian Coke, a mixtape hosted by 50 Cent's DJ Whoo Kid. Inspired by Busta Rhymes' track "New York Shit" Kardinal releases "T-Dot Shit" using the same beat, name-checking several pioneering Toronto hip-hop artists in the process. Kardinal performs as a special guest when Jay Z comes to Toronto to play a Roc La Familia party at Caribana. Jay Z offers Kardinal a deal with Roc La Familiar, but he eventually turns it down because he's also considering an offer from popular R&B/pop singer Akon to join his new label.
Kardinal collaborates with DJ Jazzy Jeff on his album The Return of the Magnificent. Kardinal signs with Akon's Kon Live label. The duo's first collaboration, "Graveyard Shift," is supported by a video featuring several clips from The Wire TV series and is featured on his Do the Right Thing mixtape hosted by DJ Clinton Sparks. Kardinal adds his own verse to a song called "City Is Mine," a track by a rising Toronto artist named Drake receiving his first significant radio airplay. However, Kardinal's version irks Drake, as it features lyrics dissing a former Black Jays affiliated artist and he feels he has been put in the middle of a beef. Drake and Kardinal resolve the issue and collaborate on "The Last Hope," a Rich Kidd-produced track from Drake's Comeback Season mixtape. Kardinal suggests to Akon that he should sign Drake, but the singer decides to pass on the opportunity.
Kardinal appears on the remix of "Just Dance," the debut single of another Kon Live artist, Lady Gaga. Kardinal releases the single "Dangerous," featuring Akon, and the song becomes a global hit. "Dangerous" is the first single by a Canadian hip-hop artist to make the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #5 on the singles chart. It's a top 10 single in various European countries and is certified triple platinum in Canada, reaching #2 on the Canadian Hot 100. After releasing his Limited Time Only mixtape in another collaboration with DJ Clinton Sparks, Kardinal releases his Not 4 Sale album featuring Rihanna, T-Pain and Clipse among others, and goes on tour with Wyclef Jean. His Clipse collaboration "Set It Off" is one of the first high-profile productions for Drake-affiliated producer Boi-1da. Surprisingly, Dr. Dre hears the track and emerges out of a long hiatus to rhyme over the beat. The Rihanna collaboration "Numba 1 (Tide Is High)" is released as a single featuring Keri Hilson.
At the 2009 Junos, Kardinal wins awards for both Best Rap Recording (Not 4 Sale) and for Single of the Year ("Dangerous"). He tours all over the world, and concert footage from shows in Asia are prominently featured in the video "Clear." Kardinal appears on Jully Black's The Black Book album as well as on the remix of K'naan's "Wavin' Flag," along with other Canadian artists, to raise funds for victims of the Haitian earthquake disaster. He also releases the singles "Body Bounce," featuring Akon, "We Gon' Go," a tribute to the artists who inspired him, and "The Anthem," a rousing dedication to the city of Toronto featuring a video with a number of Toronto media personalities. The singles are reported to be appearing on a new album called Mr. International, but the release is delayed because Kardinal is reworking his Kon Live association with his own label Black Stone Colleagues. He also appears with Shad on a remix of DJ Jazzy Jeff & Ayah's "Notorious." After taking some time off from the spotlight to focus on his family and the birth of his son, Kardinal decides to part ways with Akon's label Kon Live. He releases a 15-minute video called "The Invention of Truth" and then delivers A.M.T.R.I.M. (Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself), a free album recorded with longtime collaborator, Virginia producer Nottz, that Kardinal deemed his most personal and introspective record. It is perhaps the most underrated record in his whole discography.
Kardinal forms the Island Boy Cartel, a collective with the aim to bridge the musical gaps between the Caribbean, North America and the world. The collective releases a song featuring Raekwon called "Pretty Paper." Another Nottz collaboration "Game of Clones" surfaces online. After the death of Nelson Mandela, Kardi reveals he had named his son Dela after the South African leader. Kardinal becomes more involved with his charity work. Not only does he continue to host his annual fundraising dinner, he is helping his wife with the 30 Elephants organization, coordinating travel experiences for teenagers from low-income neighbourhoods to travel with him to help build schools in Kenya. In a video for the song "Tattoo (Rudebwoy)," Kardinal films in the area where his grandparents grew up and donates supplies, computers and clothing to a local school.
Kardinal becomes Executive Director of A&R at Universal Music Canada. In 2014, Kardinal wins a Juno Award for Best R&B recording for his contribution to JRDN's single "Can't Choose." Kardinal issues a number of different singles including new song called "Boyz II Men" featuring him alongside a heavyweight Canadian lineup of King Reign, Shad, Saukrates, Choclair and k-os briefly surfaces. The song disappears from the internet soon afterwards, but resurfaces on k-os' 2015 album Can't Fly Without Gravity. Kardinal introduces Assassin to Kendrick Lamar, who enlists the dancehall artist to appear on To Pimp A Butterfly's "The Blacker the Berry."
Kardinal continues to work on a collaborative project with renowned soca artist Bunji Garlin and Assassin, combining hip-hop, dancehall and soca, tentatively titled Suit of Black. For one day, Kardinal changes his name to Kardinal D'Offishall as he becomes a brand ambassador for Kraft Dinner's rebranded name KD. Kardinal releases a new single entitled "Baby, It's U!" ahead of a new album entitled Kardi Gras: The Clash due out October 30.
Essential Kardinal Offishall:
Eye & I (Capitol Hill, 1997)
Kardinal's largely self-produced debut, with some assistance from Saukrates, captured the energy of the organized confusion of his early live shows. Tracks like "On Wit Da Show," "Naughty Dread Pt. II" and "Friday Night" underlined why he stood out amongst Toronto's independent hip-hop boom in the mid '90s. Eye & I showed off Kardinal's sonic versatility and elements that have remained consistent in his music like his sense of humour, social commentary and West Indian influences. Featuring Saukrates, Tara Chase and Jully Black the album was also a showcase for the depth of talent present in The Circle crew.
Quest for Fire: Firestarter Vol. 1 (MCA, 2001)
Not only are "Bakardi Slang" and "Ol' Time Killin'" among the best tracks in Kardinal's voluminous canon, they rank high on any list of Canadian hip-hop songs, so this album is essential by their mere inclusion. Other highlights include the hard-hitting "Powerfulll" with Tara Chase and Jully Black, the Stagalag riddim-riding "Maxine," and the dozens-dispensing "UR Ghetto 2002." While it can be argued it's not a proper Kardinal album because of the inclusion of singles from previous albums and EPs to introduce him to an international audience, if there's an album that represents the best introduction to Kardinal Offishall, this is probably it.
Not 4 Sale (2008)
While the Akon-assisted "Dangerous" is the most recognizable song here, Not 4 Sale is notable because of how Kardinal tweaks yet retains his inimitable style while rhyming and holding his own against the wide-ranging and influential styles of artists like the Clipse and T-Pain, The-Dream and Rihanna. Despite the presence of heavy-hitting mainstream names, Kardinal's rhyming dexterity and versatility on tracks like "Burnt," and "Set It Off" and sonic experimentation on tracks like "Go Home With You" can't be overlooked.
A.M.T.R.I.M. (Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself) with Nottz (free, 2012)
As one of Kardinal Offishall's several free releases, A.M.T.R.I.M., is the release to connect with if you think Kardinal has only been doing guest verses on other artist's records for the past few years. A joint album with Virginia producer Nottz who helms the whole project with his relentlessly hard-hitting beats, A.M.T.R.I.M. features Kardinal in his usual mic wielding form while reflecting on agoraphobic tendencies, speaking out against social ills, and motivating himself to keep striving while a roll call of friends and associates, some famous, some not call in to check in. It could be a self-serving, eye-rolling affair but it gives an insightful and extended reflection to Kardinal's unfiltered musical tendencies and introspective side.
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OCTOBER ISSUE 2015
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Lee County's decision to hijack tax money voters earmarked for land preservation came home to roost this week.
Cape Coral City Council now wants to renege on a deal made with U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the county last year, saying the county should bear the cost of the jointly agreed to scrub jay mitigation plan because the Cape isn't getting its "fair share" of Conservation 20/20 tax dollars.
Since the county saw fit to pluck the estimated $26 million in revenue voters specifically approved for the purchase of land deemed environmentally sensitive and reallocate it to the county's general fund for operations, we can see why the city might eye some $800,000 of that ill-gotten gain.
At least spending 20/20 money to create habitat for an endangered species falls closer to the voters' original intention back in 1996 when they voluntarily agreed to tax themselves .5 mills - 50 cents for every $1,000 of assessed property valuation - to buy "pristine" properties and maintain them in their natural state for future generations.
However, both the city's premise that pre-platted Cape Coral is somehow owed a "fair share" of land preservation money and the county's tax grab are equally flawed - and equally wrong.
Let us say it one more time: This program, approved countywide, is narrow in scope and is intended ONLY for the purchase, preservation, maintenance and improvement of the one natural resource over which the county still has some control - environmentally sensitive paracels that remain in a natural condition. That's wetlands and marshes, hammocks and flatwoods, prairie and scrub.
Conservation 20/20 is a wonderful success story and a rare return on taxes-for-benefit promises that all too often fall into the rathole of burgeoning costs allocated to things like bloated administrative hierarchies, spiraling personnel and consultant budgets, studies and "vision plans."
Since its inception the Conservation 20/20 initiative has resulted in the acquisition of nearly 120 properties -24,040 acres among 43 preserves - countywide. That includes multiple preserve areas in Cape Coral, North Fort Myers, Pine Island, Sanibel and Captiva, Fort Myers Beach, Boca Grande and outside Lehigh Acres.
Two prime examples of the program's successful implementation here in native land dearth Cape Coral are the Yucca Pens Preserve and the Yellow Fever Creek Preserve.
The Yucca Pens Preserve is a five-parcel, 231-acre site on the east side of Burnt Store Road in the north Cape purchased for $1.65 million in 1999. The Yellow Fever Creek Preserve, a two-parcel, 240-acre site off Del Prado Boulevard, also in the north Cape, was purchased for $3.32 million in 2001.
For the city, expecting a "fair share" of 20/20 dollars - defined as getting back the amount Cape taxpayers put in - makes as much sense as expecting a "fair share" of beach renourishment money. That isn't going to happen because we don't have beaches. Or, in the case of Conservation 20/20, much in the way of "natural habitat." Developed parcels like the old golf course simply don't qualify.
Conservation 20/20 is a countywide program and Cape taxpayers benefit in much the same way we benefit from the use of tax dollars for beaches along the county's coastlines: We are able to enjoy a shared, regional resource.
As to Cape Coral City Council now trying to re-write the payment portion of the scrub jay mitigation agreement, perhaps our new board does not quite understand the benefits the Cape received from the plan the city itself proposed. In exchange for paying for the creation of scrub jay habitat on 20/20 land in south county the city gets to, well, become kind of a scrub jay free zone in Lee County.
Specifically, in addition to being able to develop some 215 acres in the area of Kismet Parkway and Nelson Boulevard purchased for the city's planned "festival park," Cape Coral gets mitigation credit city wide.
That means if the protected species is found nesting anywhere else in the Cape, neither the city nor any private property owner will have to go back through the costly and cumbersome mitigation process all over again - essentially paying to find land somewhere else that will not only remain undeveloped but will be habitat friendly to the birds that have specific nesting and food requirements.
The city thought is was getting a bargain two years ago when it agreed to contribute $788,000 between 2014-2018 to establish and maintain habitat for the threatened species in a regional mitigation area on 20/20 Conservation land in Alva.
It did. Did we mention that it would have cost the city substantially more to mitigate as required by the feds on the festival park land here in the Cape where two scrub jay families - mating pairs and their immature and adult but not-yet-mated offspring - were found? Without the additional citywide mitigation benefit thrown in?
To Cape Coral City Council we say honor the agreement, stop the "fair share" nonsense and move forward with that whole "less adversarial relationship with the county" promise touted just a few months ago.
To the Lee County Board of County Commissioners we say you reap what you sow. When you made 20/20 tax dollars "revenue" to spend as you wish, you opened the door to the our-fair-share argument. And you slammed the door in the face of voters and taxpayers who trusted you to spend the money in the manner they were promised.
Don't repeat that mistake this budget year.
- Breeze editorial
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How did Kay Longstaff survive 10 hours at sea after falling overboard?
If you are going to fall from a cruise ship into open water, there are worse places to do so than the Adriatic Sea at the height of summer. The temperature of the stretch of water that separates Italy from the Balkan peninsula is above 20C (68F) in August and minimal wind means that the sea tends to be calm.
Kay Longstaff said she fell from an aft deck on the Venice-bound Norwegian Star around midnight on Saturday and spent 10 hours in the water before she was found and pulled to safety. Had it been another time of year, or a different body of water, the story might have ended very differently. "The two big factors with falling into water are the temperature and the sea state, and they compound each other," said Prof Mike Tipton, an expert in sea survival at the University of Portsmouth.
The warmest the Adriatic gets between December and April is 15C. At that temperature, a passenger who falls overboard might only last six hours, around half the time it took to rescue Longstaff. In the even colder waters of the Channel, survival times are shorter still. In the winter and spring months the channel barely reaches 10C. It is hard to survive more than two hours without protective clothing.
One reason survival rates are so much better in warmer seas – people can last 25 hours in 20C water – is that it does not trigger the shock response that cold water induces. A plunge into cold water causes people to gasp and hyperventilate uncontrollably. That makes drowning a far greater threat than hypothermia, where the body can no longer maintain its core temperature. "The cold shock response can make people inhale the moment they fall in, and that can be two to three litres of water, more than the lethal dose for drowning," said Tipton. People who fall from a height can go so far under that they gulp in water before they have time to surface, he added.
Another big factor in Longstaff's survival was the calmness of the water. In wind and waves, people have to hold their breath, which quickly becomes tiring. "If you're in a rough, choppy sea, you have to work hard to keep your nose and mouth above the water and you become exhausted and drown. In this case it was quite calm, so you can relax in the water," Tipton said.
In Britain, drowning claims one adult life every 20 hours and a child's life every week. Among the adults, it is not uncommon for alcohol to be involved. While tests suggest that drinking does not radically alter the body's physiological responses to falling into cold water, it does raise the risk of ending up there. "It makes you do stupid things. You're more likely to end up in cold water if you've been drinking," said Tipton.
Longstaff put her survival in part down to being fit from practising yoga, and singing to herself. Physical fitness and having a positive mental attitude can certainly help, but another advantage is being female, and so having more subcutaneous body fat that helps women to float and stay warm in the water. "It's really hard to find a female that can't just float in calm water," said Tipton.
Weather conditions played another important role in Longstaff's survival. The crew of the Norwegian Star knew from CCTV footage when she went overboard and so could pinpoint her initial position in the water. The ship failed to find her when it turned back in the dark, but thanks to good visibility in the morning she was spotted by a Croatian patrol ship close to where she fell in.
A British woman has been pulled from the Adriatic Sea after falling off a cruise ship and spending 10 hours in the water.